February 27
272: Birthdate of
Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor from 306 to
337. Constantine adopted Christianity as the state religion for
the Roman Empire which marked a turning point (negative) for the Jews of
Europe.[ There is plenty of agreement that Constantine was born on February 27
but there is not agreement on the year. It ranges from 272 to 289]
380: Theodosius I,
Gratian, and Valentinian II jointly issued The Edict of Thessalonica which made
Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire.
1514: King Sigismund I
appointed Michael Yosefovich “senior” of all Lithuanian Jews
1562: Pius IV issued
Dudum e felicis recordationis, a papal bull that confirmed the papal bulls of
Paul IV including those that put restrictions on where Jews could live and how
they could earn a living.
1670: Leopold I
ordered the Jews expelled from Austria.
1680: Seventy-nine year
old Puritan theologian Thomas Goodwin the author of Moses and Aaron: Civil
and Ecclesiastical Rites, Used by the Ancient Hebrews passed away today.
https://archive.org/details/mosesandaaronci00goodgoog
1717: Birthdate of
German bible scholar Johann David Michaelis one of whose “dissertations was a
defense of the antiquity and divine authority of the vowel points in Hebrew.”
1719: In London, Moses
Raphael Levy, a native of Germany and Grace Mears, a native of Jamaica gave
birth to Rachel Franks Levy, the wife of Isaac Mendes Seixas.
1755: Birthdate of
Shalom Ullman, the Hungarian born rabbi and Talmudist whose son and grandson
followed in his footsteps by serving as rabbis at Lackenbach.
1771: “Mr. Isaac De
Peza presented the Synagogue in Barbados with 6 Silver Purim Cups.
1790: Birthdate of Sara
Ballin who was buried at the Hosens Jewish Cemetery in Denmark when she passed
away in 1876.
1799: Birthdate of
Frederick Catherwood the English artist architect. In 1833, he made
a detailed survey of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. He probably was
the first westerner since the days of the crusades to have access to this
shrine which is located on the Temple Mount. Catherwood was one of a
veritable army of English visitors to “the holy land” who helped to excavate
and map the area in the 19th century.
1801: Pursuant to the
District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the
jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress. “The first recorded Jewish resident of the
city was Isaac Polock. He arrived in 1795. Polock, a grandson of a founder of
the Newport, Rhode Island synagogue, was a small time real estate developer. He
built a number of fine homes along present day Pennsylvania Ave. An early
renter of one of Polock's houses and his neighbor was James Madison, a later
President.” Major Alfred Mordecai was another of D.C.’s first Jewish
residents. The North Carolina native entered West Point at the age of 15 and
was in the first graduating class when he completed his studies in 1823.
Mordecai came to Washington in 1828 where he served as the commander of the Washington
Arsenal. Washington Hebrew Congregation founded in 1852 was the city’s first
Jewish Congregation. Adas Israel, which was originally founded as an
Orthodox synagogue in 1869 received a donation from President Grant for its
building fund. The congregation later switched to the Conservative
movement. Today the downtown location of Adas Israel is remembered as the
Historic 6th& amp; I Synagogue. For me, the synagogue at 6th
& I was the place in the late 1940’s and 1950’s where I went for my
first Simchat Torah Services, my first Megillah readings and a whole lot
more. The synagogue at 5th& amp; I was famous because Al
Jolson’s father had been its cantor and Jolson sang their as a little
boy. Adas Israel moved to its Connecticut and Porter where it remains
today. During the 1950’s Ambassador Eban spoke from its pulpit on more than one
occasion much to the congregation’s joy and delight. For more about the
history of the Jewish community in Washington you might want to look at the
website of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington.
1805(28th of Adar I,
5565): Naphtali Herz (Hartwig) Wessely passed away. Born in Hamburg in 1725, he
“was a 18th-century German Jewish Hebraist and educationist born at Hamburg.”
1807: In Portland,
Maine Zilpah Wadsworth Longfellow and Stephen Longfellow gave birth to Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow the poet famed for such famous poetic works as “Paul
Revere’s Ride” and “Evangeline” as well as “Judas Maccabaeus” an 1872
five-act verse tragedy a Hebrew version of which was published in 1900.
1811: In Charleston,
SC, Mr. Solomon Hyams officiated at the wedding of Montague Jackson to Hannah
Hyams.
1821: Birthdate of
Selig Cassel, the brother of Jewish historian and author David Cassel, who
converted and became Paulus Stephanus Cassel who was then able to further his
academic career as well as taking on the role of being a missionary trying to
convert other Jews.
1827(30th of
Shevat, 5587): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1827(30th of
Shevat, 5587): Samuel Marx, the chief rabbi of Trier and an uncle of Karl Marx
passed away today.
1831(14th of
Adar, 5591): Purim
1831(14th of
Adar, 5591): “Austrian historian and educator” Adolf Beer passed away today.
1841: In the
Netherlands Eliezer Eduard Hirschel Kann and Hyacintha Kann gave birth to Livia
Amalia Kann.
1844: The Dominican
Republic (then known as Santa Domingo) on the island of Hispaniola gained its
independence from Haiti. During the 16th and 17th
century Sephardic merchants settled on the island, many of them coming from
Curaco. “The oldest Jewish grave (on the island) is dated 1826.” Jews of
this period assimilated into the general population and lost their
identity. In the 1930’s the Dominican Republic became a haven for Jews
escaping Hitler’s Europe and most of today’s vibrant Jewish community traces
its origins to this period.
1844: Birthdate of
Moses Ha-Levi Horowitz, the Romanian born Yiddish actor and playwright who came
to the United States in 1882 where he was known as the famous Morris Horowitz.
1845: A “Reise-Pass”
was issued to Bernhard Behrend today which he was required to carry with him at
all times as he traveled “from his native Rodenberg to Frankfurt
1846; “In Darmstadt-Eberstadt,
Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, Emanuel Bamberger and the former Helen Fleisch gave
birth to Simon Bamberger, “the fourth
Governor of the state of Utah who was the first non-Mormon, the first Democrat
and the first (and so far only) Jew to hold this post.
1847: Birthdate of
English actress Ellen Terry, whose portrayal of Portia in the Merchant of Venice
was one of her signature role. She performed with Sir Henry Irving whose
greatest dramatic success came with his performances in “The Bells.”
1852: Benjamin Disraeli
began serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer for the first of three times which also meant that
he was the leader of the Tories in the House of Commons
1853(19th of Adar I,
5613): Sixty-eight year old Jacob Aaron passed away in London.
1855: A concert
designed to raise funds for the Hebrew Benevolent Society is scheduled to be
held today.
1856: Estra (Therese)
Wiesner and Rabbi Jonas Wiesner gave birth to Emilie Wiesner.
1856: Adolphe Salomon
married Esther Russell today in the United Kingdom.
1859: Birthdate of
Bertha Pappenheim “the founder of the Jüdischer Frauenbund (League of Jewish
Women).”
1861(17th of Adar):
Rabbi David Tevele ben Moses of Minks author of Bet David passed away today
1861: In Frankfurt,
Selig Meir Goldschmidt and Clementine Fuld, the daughter of Herz Salomon Fuld
and Caroline Schuster gave birth to Hedwig Goldschmidt who after her marriage
was known as Hedwig Cramer.
1864(20th of Adar I,
5624): Chaia Basia, the daughter of Rabbi Yehoshua Usher Rabinowicz of Parysow
passed away.
1865(1st of Adar,
5625): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1865: Birthdate of
Jacques Mieses, the native of Leipzig who became a journalist and world-class
chess champion.
1865: Birthdate of
Armand Bloch, the native of Strasbourg who was the grandson of Rabbi Moses
Bloch known as of 'Hokhom (the Wise) of Uttenheim, who served in a variety of
rabbinic and communal roles in France and Algeria. In 1931, the French
government named him as Chevialier of the Legion of Honor in recognition of his
service to his co-religionists and his country.
1868: Benjamin Disraeli
begins serving as Prime Minister for the first time.
1870: In New York City,
James (Jacob) Seligman, the son of Fanny and David Seligman, and Rosa Seligman
gave birth to Fleurette Guggenheim, the future wife of Wife of Benjamin
Guggenheim
1870: The Chicago
Tribune reported that the Constitutional Convention will not be amending the
Illinois State Convention mandating a day of the week for observing the
Sabbath. The Jews and the Seventh Day Adventists had petitioned the
convention include a provision making the 7th day of the week the
Sabbath. Since this would be based on the 4th commandment of
the Decalogue, the biblical source would make it more likely that the populace
would enjoy a day of rest. Other groups wanted to disregard the literal
biblical reading and follow the first day of rest practice. Rather than
offend any group, the committee hearing the matter decided the convention
should take no action.
1871: In Newark, NJ,
the Ladies’ Temple Association opened a grand fair at Turn Hall. The fair
is scheduled to be open for the next four nights and is a fund-raiser for the
Temple on Washington Street.
1873: A national
convention of those who want to amend the U.S. Constitution so that it will
state that the United States is a Christian nation met today in Pittsburgh,
PA. There were 500 people at the opening session and more than a thousand
attending the evening session. Attendees claim that their move is part of
a fight against atheism, something that Catholics and Jews of the time might
have found difficult to believe.
1873: In New York,
Isaac and Adeline Phillips gave birth to portrait painter J. Campbell Phillips
whose last work was a portrait of his cousin Bernard Baruch completed just two
months before his death in 1948.
1874: It was reported
today that the annual Purim reception at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews
in New York will be held on March 1st and 2nd.
1874: Birthdate of Dr.
David Nunes Nabarro, the son of London merchant who became President of the
Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases, President of the
Association of Clinical Pathologists and President of the London Jewish
Hospital Medical Society.
1877(14th of Adar,
5637): Purim
1877: The Young Men’s
Hebrew Association hosted a Purim Ball this evening at Cooper Hall in Jersey
City, New Jersey.
1877: Birthdate of
Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski “the head of the Council of Eldgers in the Lodz
Ghetto who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1944.
1878: The parents of
Lucy Shereck, a young Jewess, “wept bitterly” as they watched the baptism of
their daughter at the Marcey Avenue Baptist Church.
1879: Constantine
Fahlberg discovered the artificial sweetener saccharine which Ellen Glotz
described in The Accidental Epicure.
1880(15th of Adar,
5640): Shushan Purim
1880: Over 4,000 people
attended the fancy dress ball given by the Purim Association at the Academy of
Music. This year’s annual event raised an estimated $18,000 for Mount Sinai
Hospital.
1880: It was reported
today that “the war which has for some time raged in Germany between the
natives and the Jews, seems to increase rather than to diminish…The crime of
the Jews appears to be…their financial prosperity.” “If the Jews in Germany
were poor, they would not be attacked.” But many of them are very rich
“and this is their offense.” [Editor’s note – this is fifty years before Hitler
came to power]
1881: It was reported
today that the second edition of the “History of Egypt Under the Pharaohs” by
Dr. Henry Brugsch-Bey is now available. The description of the Exodus
presented in this edition is one of the many improvements made in this edition.
In a special preface to the new volume, Brugsh-Gey claims that he bases his
description of the change in direction taken by the Jews on “contemporary
records and the evidence of the Egyptian monuments” to establish “the veracity
of the scriptural record.” He also co-authored “The True Story of the
Exodus of Israel: Together with a Brief Review of the History of Monumental
Egypt” with Francis Henry Underwood.
1882: In Hudson, Mass.,
Mary Elizabeth Rice (née Tyler) and Asa Leonard Wheeler, gave birth to Burton
K. Wheeler, the U.S. Senator from Montana who in 1936 “said that anti-Semitism
has not only gained a foothold in European countries like Germany, Poland,
Rumania, Austria and Hungary, but has been imported in the Western Hemisphere
by Mexico, Brazil and Ecuador” and that the “capacity for persecution” as
embodied in anti-Semitism is not “foreign to American soil.”
1882: A review of “The
Electorate and the Legislature” by Spencer Walpole, one of a series of books on
the rights and responsibilities of an English Citizen, published today notes
that “The House of commons kept one of the members elected for the city of
London out of his seat for 11 years because he was a Jew.” This was based on
the “historic intolerance and prejudice” of the Commons and its members which
has not been fully overcome.
1883: Oscar Hammerstein patented the 1st cigar-rolling
machine
1883(20th of
Adar I, 5643): Sixty-two year old Julius Stern co-founder of the Stern
Conservatory and conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra from 1869 to 1871
passed away today.
1885: In Dublin
“Maurice Solomons, an optician who practice is mentioned in Ulysses and his
wife gave birth to Dr. Bethel Solomons who played rugby for Ireland was a
“supporter of the 1916 Rising.”
1888: In Xenia, Ohio,
Bernhard Schlesinger, a Prussian Jew and Kate Feurle, an Austrian Catholic gave
birth to historian Arthur Meir Schlesinger, the Harvard professor who was the
father of historian and Kennedy aficionado Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1888: Birthdate of
Lotte Lehman German opera star who eventually moved to the United States and
became known for the foundation in her name. Lehman was not Jewish.
But her stepchildren (on their mother’s side) were Jewish. When Hitler
marched into Austria, Lehman got the children out, moved them to Paris and
eventually brought all of them to the United States.
1889: In Soroki,
Bessarabia, Mindel and Yechiel Bronfman gave birth to Samuel Bonfaman founder
of Distillers Corporation Limited which was renamed Seagram Co., Ltd whose
products included Dewars scotch and a leader of the Canadian Jewish committee.
1891: Birthdate of
David Sarnoff. Born in Russia, Sarnoff became the head of R.C.A. and
N.B.C.
1891: It was reported
today that the Purim Association raised $15,000 at its annual ball which it
will donate to the United Hebrew Charities.
1892(30th of
Shevat, 5652): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1892(30th of
Shevat, 5652): Seventy-three year old Chazan Moritz German passed away in
Bresalua
1893: “Coming Exodus of
Russian Jews” published today compared the doubling of the Jewish population in
the United Kingdom over the last twenty years to the projected redoubling of
that number in only another five years because of the mass migration of Jews
from the lands of the Czar due to their cruel treatment.
1895: “Elsie Leslie’s
Little Guests” published today described an afternoon at the theatre enjoyed by
several hundred Jewish children who saw “The Prince and the Pauper” who were
there as guest of the famous child actress. As a sign of their
appreciation they gave her an a bag which was elegantly embroidered with her
initials – “E.L.L.”
1895: A debate opened
in the Reichstag today over a motion to restrict the immigration of Jews from
Russia and Austria.
1895: A large number of
prominent Jewish citizens attended “the third reception for the season of the
Young Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s League of the Montefiore Home took place this
evening at Carnegie Hall.
1895: Rabbi Joseph
Silverman of Temple Emanu-El delivered a speech tonight entitled “Charity” in
which he said that charity was “the language of the heart…the very poetry
religion.” “The Jewish sages of old had said that the world existed on
three pillars – education, religion and charity. Some might be willing to
strike of education, others would be willing to strike of religion and even
some would go so far as to strike off both religion and education, but where is
the man who would be willing to strike off the pillar of charity?”
1897: A visit to “the
Hebrew theatres” was included in the tour of the Lower East Side slums by a
group of Yale University divinity students which was followed by a symposium on
the methods of organized charities that included Nathaniel S. Rosenthal of the
United Hebrew Charities.
1898: “Jews Defended In
Reichstag” described the debate during which “deprecated the promotion of Jews
to the rank of officers and surgeons, on the ground of their ‘un-soldier like
spirit.’” Herr Eugene “Richter vigorously repudiate this” He said that during
the war with France in 1870,83 Jewish soldiers received the Iron Cross and 36
of the 70 Jewish surgeons received the same decoration. General Heinrich
von Gossler, the Minister of War, defended the Jews against the false
accusation that they had sold defective rifles to the government.
1899: “A Bible Story Up
To Date” published today described Abraham Gruber’s updated version of the
Purim story which equated the behavior of Haman with anti-Dreyfus forces in
France and the European bigots who falsely claim that Jews have their own laws
which makes them disloyal of whatever country they are living in.
1899: In his on-going
attempt to create a Jewish homeland, Herzl meets with Grossherzog Friedrich of
Baden in Karlsruhe. He offers the Grossherzog the protectorate over the land
company and requests another audience with the Kaiser. Herzl receives a
recommendation to the Deutsche Bank in Berlin to act as a subscription agency
for the Jewish Colonial Bank.
1902: In London, a
group of Zionists formed the Anglo Palestine Company which became the Bank
Leumi.
1903: In Pruzhany,
Rabbi Moshe Soloveichik and Pesya Feinstein, the daughter of Rabbi Elihyahu
Feinstein gave birth to Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik.
1906: As the Russian
rulers issued an “imperial ukase” calling for the first meeting a Russian
Parliament, some Jewish leaders have decided to form a political party and
participate in the elections for members of this National Assembly.
1907: Jockey Walter
Miller, the native of Brooklyn born in 1890 who rode his first race at the age
of 14 and passed away in 1959 after having rode 1,094 winners, today road
“winners in all vie races at Oakland Race Course.”
1908: Zionist leader
Arthur Ruppin delivered an address to the Jewish Colonization of Vienna.
1911: Twenty-four
year old Matt Wells fought a twenty round bout at the National Sporting Club in
London “to win the lightweight championship of Great Britain and take home the
Lonsdale Belt.”
1913: In Brooklyn, “hat-trimming
salesman” William Shamforoff and his wife Rose gave birth to Irwin Gilbert Shamorfoff
who gained fame as author Irwin Shaw two of whose most famous works were The Young Lions, a
novel about World War II that became a popular movie and Rich Man, Poor Man,
a saga about department store tycoon that provided the basis for a television
mini-series of the same name.
1916: “Dr. Stephen S.
Wise spoke at the Free Synagogue” this morning on ‘Marriage and After,’ the
fourth of his series of addresses on the deeper things of life”
1916: “The twenty-fifth
anniversary of the founding of the Temple Israel Sisterhood of Personal Service
was formally observed” this evening.
1916: Prior to Mark
“Sykes’s departure to meet the Russian Foreign Minister in Petrograd today, Sir
Herbert Samuel approached Sykes with “a plan in the form of a memorandum”
concerning Palestine which later led Sykes to write to Samuel “suggesting that
if Belgium should assume the administration of Palestine it might be more
acceptable to France as an alternative to the international administration
which France wanted and the Zionists did not.
1916: “E.M. Newman of
Chicago delivered he first of his illustrated lectures for the current season
at Carnegie Hall” tonight.
1916: The Morris Loeb
Memorial Building and the Joseph B. Bloomingdale Memorial Auditorium were
formally dedicated today during “the annual meeting of the Hebrew Technical
Institute.
1916: During his speech this afternoon at the
annual meeting of the Young Women’s Hebrew Association, Dr. Cyrus Adler “said
he did not altogether approve of young women soliciting for the relief funds on
the street in the manner exhibited” during “tag day.”
1916: At today’s annual
meeting of The Widowed Mothers’ Fund Association, Mrs. William Einstein, the
President “made a plea against ‘machine ready’ charity.”
1916: “The new Hebrew
Technical Institute” was dedicated today in New York
1916: This afternoon,
“at the annual meeting of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid
Society…President Sanders announced that Jacob H. Schiff had donated $25,000 to
the organization as the nucleus of a fund with which to erect a new building”
to help the society meet its increased needs.
1917: The Russian Revolution
broke out in Petrograd. After three years of ruinous war the old regime
collapsed. By March a provisional government under Kerensky was set up. During
the ensuing revolution, the Jews were caught in the middle. Much of the
conflict centered around the south and west where over 3 million Jews lived. It
is estimated that over 2000 pogroms took place, especially in the Ukraine,
leading to the death of 100,000-200,000 Jews within the next 3 years.
1917: Three days after
defeating the Ottomans at Kut, the British forces under Frederick Stanley Maude
arrived at Aziziyah on their way to Baghdad with all that this will mean to
creation of what we have come to call the modern “Middle East.”
1917: Assemblyman
Nathan D. Pearlman sponsored a bill today in the New York State legislature to
allow New York City “to buy and sell food” “as an emergency measure” to relieve
shortages,
1918: “A dinner,”
attended by “officers of the British Recruiting Mission and many rabbis” “for
the 150 Jewish soldiers in the battalion recruited for service in Palestine was
given at the Hotel Imperial tonight by the Zionist Lunch Club.”
1918: Morris Weinberg,
the publisher of the Day announced
that in the future, the Day and the Warheit would appear as one publication,
Day-Warheit.
1919: During the
Versailles Peace Conference, today the Dr. Weizmann, Nahum Sokolow, Professor
Sylvain Levi of the College of France, Andre Spire of the French Zionist
organization and Mr. Syzsyahkin representing the Jews of Russia presented their
case before the Supreme Council which at a “minimum” called for the “establishment
of communities Palestine and guarantee of special rights and sovereignty for
these communities” and which at a “maximum” called :for the creation of a
Jewish state in order that the Jews may have a national home where they can
live in peace.”
1921: “On a farm in
Calgary, Alberta, Samuel and Zelda Cohen gave birth to “Morton Cohen, a scholar
of Victorian literature.” (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
1922: Psychoanalyst
Ernest Jones and his wife gave birth to Mervyn Jones the British author whose
works included Joseph, a fictional tale based on the life of Stalin.
1925: Birthdate
of Sam Dash. The Georgetown Law Professor would gain fame as the Chief
Counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate Scandal.
1926(13th of
Adar, 5686): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim
1926: Young Judea Clubs
throughout the United States presented Purim plays.
1926: “The Einstein
Theory of Relativity is not valid under a strict mathematical analysis
according to a statement made” today by Charles Lane Poor, the Professor of
Celestial Mechanics at Columbia University who attacked the mathematics of
theory and “criticized Einstein for his errors in logic saying that he would
prove the laws of logic false in order to make his theory hold.”
1927: In Detroit, MI, Abraham
and Ruth Jaroff gave birth to Leon Morton Jaroff, “a science writer and editor
who persuaded Time Inc. to start Discover magazine in 1980, became its top
editor and for many years wrote the popular Skeptical Eye column challenging
pseudo-sciences…” (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
1927: Birthdate of
Ariel Sharon, Israeli soldier and political leader.
1927: “Nearly 271 years
after Baruch Spinoza…was excommunicated by the Jewish community of Amsterdam,
the ban was revoked when Dr. Joseph Klausner of the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem uttered the formula of release at” today’s meeting of the university
faculty.
1928: Abie Bain, the
St. Petersburg born Jewish-American middleweight Abie Bain was knocked out in
the fifth round by “KO” Phil Kapla.
1930: In Los Angeles,
silent film writer and producer John Stone and the former Hilda Ness gave birth
to Peter Hess Stone, the writer who won an Oscar, and Emmy and a Tony
1932: Today, “Chef
Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo summoned the Court of Appeals to meet in special
session in Albany” on March 3rd which has led many to believe that a
decision has been reached in a case regarding the investigation of the
government of New York City by a joint state legislative committee.
1932: In Hampstead
Garden Suburb, London “art dealer Francis Lenn Taylor” and retired actress Sara
Sothern gave birth to American actress Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor who converted
to Judaism in 1959, had two Jewish husbands (producer Mike Todd and crooner
Eddie Fisher) and was such an ardent supporter of Israel and Jewish causes such
as the right of Soviet Jews to emigrate, that her films were “were banned by
Muslim countries throughout the Middle East and Africa.”
1933: As a result of
the Reichstag Fire which he saw as the confirmation of the Nazis rise to power,
Walter Benjamin left Germany.
1933: Along with all
the Jewish and leftist actors, Wolfgag Heinz (David Hirsch) was dismissed from
his work mark the start of an exile that would lead him from Holland to Britain
and finally to Switzerland.
1935: Lazar Kaganovich
began serving his first term as People’s Commissar for Transport.
1935: In the Bronx,
Jeanette Efron and Sol Fineman gave birth to Eleanor Fineman, an “American
photographer, author, and artist” whose works included “Vilna Nights” with
dealt with lost Jewish culture.
1935: Harry Hoffman,
who works at the Curb Exchange, is scheduled to compete in the 400-meter run at
tryouts for the American Maccabi Team being held at the 102nd
Engineers Armory today. The “Jewish Olympics” are scheduled to be held in
Tel Aviv starting on April 2 and finishing on April 7.
1935: Birthdate of Uri
Shulevitz American author and illustrator. Born in Poland, he survived the
bombing of Warsaw in 1939 and moved with his family first to Paris and finally
to Israel, in 1949. During the Sinai War in 1956, Mr. Shulevitz joined the
Israeli Army. Later, he joined the Ein Gedi kibbutz. He moved to New York City
in 1959, studying painting at Brooklyn Museum Art School and working as an
illustrator for a Hebrew children's book publisher. In 1962, an editor at
Harper & Row saw his freelance portfolio and suggested he write
children's book. He won the Caldecott Medal in 1969 for his illustration of The
Fool of the World and the Flying Ship. He created his first picture book, The
Moon in My Room, in 1963.
1936: U.S.
premiere of Liebelei a German film directed by Max Ophüls which was based
on a play of the same name (Liebelei (de)) by Arthur Schnitzler, the Austrian
playwright was the son of laryngologist Johann Schnitzler.
1936: “The Goes ‘Round”
a musical comedy with a script co-authored Jo Swerling and starring Harry
Richman was released in the United States today.
1936: Mathematician Issai Schur returned from Switzerland via
Karlsruhe, where his sister lived, to Berlin.
1936: “The plight of
the Christian men and women who fled from Germany because of Nazi persecution
and terrorism was described this afternoon and evening at a conference and
dinner under the auspices of the American Christian Committee for German
Refugees at the Hotel Astor.”
1936: “A street fight
broke out today in front of a Warsaw synagogue when a group of Jews tried to
prevent a number of Jewish tradesmen, who they alleged were continuing to
import German goods, from entering the synagogue.”
1936: During a press
conference today Count Henri de Baillet-Latour of Belgium, president of the
International Olympic Committee sportswriters asked if Germany had lived up to
all her promises and agreements to which he answered, “In every respect, the
International Olympic Committee had not fault to find. There Jews on the teams, among the officials
and among the spectators. There were no
signs of discrimination.”
1937: New York Times
columnist Arthur Krock had an award winning “exclusive interview with the
President of the United States.
1937: In Rumania, thirty
people were hospitalized after having been injured today “when members of an
anti-Semitic Nazi party sought to prevent Jews from voting in municipal
elections” while another thirty-five people suffered injuries that were not
serious enough to require hospitalization.
1938: The Palestine
Post reported that during his last day in Palestine, the departing High
Commissioner, Sir Arthur Wauchope, laid the foundation stone of the Andrews
Memorial Hospital in Netanya, and visited Pardess Hana, Hadera and Haifa.
1938: The Palestine
Post reported that In New York the Joint Distribution Committee announced
that the Soviet government's firm opposition to the immigration of Jews from
outside of the Soviet Union to Birobidjan ended the practical prospect of the
development, if not of the entire existence, of what was expected to become an
autonomous Soviet Jewish republic. The report mentioned that out of some 27,000
foreign Jews who immigrated to Birobijan, 20,000 had later left the area.
1939: Birthdate
American Formula One driver Peter Revson, who won the 1973 British and Canadian
Grand Prix events and was runner-up at the 1971 Indianapolis 500. He was killed
during a practice run in 1974.
1939: As the multi-year
Arab wave of violence continues, 32 people were killed today and another fifty
persons were wounded in a series of explosions and shootings throughout
Palestine today.
1940: Jewish scientists
Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered carbon-14, the critical material for the
method known as “carbon dating.”
1940: The Land Transfer
Regulations aimed at ending Jewish property acquisition in Palestine were put
into effect by the British government.
1941: “So Ends Our
Night” the movie version of the novel by the same name featuring Erich von
Stroheim, Alexander Granach and Ernst Deutsch with music by Louis Gruenberg was
released in the United States today.
1941: The Nazis
completed the suppression of “the February Strike,” the first even if
unsuccessful direct action taken against the “treatment of Jews in Europe.”
1941: In retaliation
for an innocent incident in Amsterdam, the Germans arrested 425 Jewish men,
beat them and deported 389 of them to Buchenwald concentration camp. Two months
later 364 of them were transferred to Mauthausen concentration camp. Ten of
them committed suicide. By autumn, none of the men were alive.
1942: In Kovno, the
German issued an order stipulating “that the Jews were to submit all books in
their possession” – which resulted in the confiscation of over 100,000 books.
(Yad VaShem_
1942: The
first transport of French Jews was sent to Nazi-Germany
1942: A group of Aryan
women staged a protest in Berlin against the arrest of their Jewish husbands
whom the government was planning to ship off to concentration camps.
1943: Birthdate of
Jonathan Rosenbuam, the native of Florence, Alabama whose “childhood home was
the Rosenbaum House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright” who “was the head film
critic for the Chicago Reader from 1987 until 2008.”
1943: Work orders were
increased in the Lodz Ghetto increased, easing tensions within the ghetto since
more Jews would be needed to work and less would be exposed to deportation.
1943 (22nd of Adar I,
5703): On Shabbat, Rabbi Avraham Duber Shapiro, Chief Rabbi of Kovno, died in
the Kovno Ghetto. Shapiro was a famous Talmudic scholar. He had
been Chief Rabbi of Kovno since before World War I. At the outbreak of
World War II he was in Switzerland under a doctor’s care. He insisted on
returning to Kovno in Lithuania and revisited one of his son’s efforts to join
in him in the United States. Shapiro stayed with his fellow Jews.
When he died, the Nazis forbade any public demonstrations. Thousands of
Jews defied the decree and showed their affection by attending his funeral on
the next day.
1943: U.S. premiere of
“The Hard Way” “a musical drama directed by Vincent Sherman,” produced by Jerry
Wald with a screenplay by Daniel Fuchs and Peter Viertel.
1944: This morning,
there were reports of explosions at the income tax office in Jerusalem, Tel
Aviv and Haifa. There were no reports of casualties. The Irgun Zvai
Leumi is thought to have set off the devices that caused the explosions.
1945: During “The
Hunting Season,” “Yaakov Tavi who was in charge of Irgun’s intelligence service
was kidnapped at 11 a.m. at the corner of Dizengoff and Yirimiyahu streets.”
1945(14th of
Adar, 5705): Final Purim celebrated during World War II.
1947: Louis B. “Mayer
auctioned of his horses” today after having thrown Mendel Silberberg and “a
gaggle of Jewish Leaders” when they “suggested that Mayer give up his
involvement in horse racing because it was bad for the image of the Hollywood
Jew.”
1948: The International
Agriculture Institute which had been co-founded by David Lubin in 1908 “to help
farmers share knowledge, produce systematically, establish a cooperative system
of rural credit, and have control over the marketing of their products” was
dissolved today.
1950: In the UK, Walter
and Liesel (Alice) Schwab gave birth to Julia Schwab, the wife of Professor
Anthony Neuberger, who gained fame as Rabbi Julia Babette Sarah Neuberger,
Baroness Neuberger, the first female rabbi to have her own congregation (South
London Liberal Synagogue) and the “full-time Senior Rabb at the West London
Synagogue.”
1951: Three years after
having been released in Sweden. “The Little Ballerina” a British drama
featuring Anthony Newley was released in the United States today.
1953: The Jerusalem
Post reported that an Israeli soldier was killed when Jordanians opened fire
on an Israeli patrol in the frequently infiltrated Beit Guvrin area.
1953: The Jerusalem
Post reported that A Nahal group established a settlement at Ein Gedi, on
the shores of the Dead Sea.
1953: The Jerusalem
Post reported that A festive meeting celebrated the establishment of the
first local council of Ashkelon, the Afridar housing suburb near Migdal
Ashkelon.
1956: Final broadcast
on NBC of “The Tony Martin Show,” a 15 minute musical variety hosted by Tony
Martin and produced by Bud Yorkin.
1957: Lazar Kaganovich
completed his final term as a “Full Member” of the Politburo.
1958(6th of Adar,
5718): Harry Cohn, CEO of Columbia Pictures passed away after
suffering a heart attack. Con was one of several Jewish movie moguls who
shaped Hollywood and the entertainment business.
1964, Steve Lawrence
opened at the 54th Street Theatre in a Broadway musical version of “What Makes
Sammy Run?” which ran for 540 performances
1970: Birthdate
of science fiction writer Michael A. Burstein. According to some,
Burstein is not unique because he is a Jewish science fiction writer. He
is unique because he is a practicing Jew who writes science fiction. “Burstein
appears at a number of science fiction conventions throughout the year, which
can be a problem because they are inevitably held on weekends. “It can be
difficult, but it is manageable," he said. He and his wife Nomi either
bring kosher meals or arrange to have them delivered to the hotel. Other issues
are more complicated. "One of the biggest problems is that a lot of hotels
use electronic key cards," he explained. Burstein arranges with a non-Jewish
friend to handle unlocking his room during Shabbat, when such usage might not
be deemed appropriate. There are a number of Shabbat-observant fans at local
science fiction conventions, and they often congregate in Burstein's room for a
festive Friday night meal, complete with wine and challah. As for his science
fiction, Burstein said there's been nothing particularly Jewish about it... so
far. Although there are many Jews who have made it big in science fiction,
including Robert Silverberg, Harlan Ellison, and Asimov himself, Burstein is
one of the few who has succeeded in the genre who takes his religious
obligations as seriously as his scientific ones.”
1971(2nd of
Adar, 5731): Parashat Terumah
1971(2nd of
Adar, 5731): Seventy year old Russian born American producer Oscar Serlin whose
most famous play was “Life With Father” pass away today.
1975(16th of
Adar, 5735): One day before his 86th birthday, Hyman Levy passed
away in Wimbeldon.
1976: The World
Sephardi Federation headed by Nessim Gaon met with King Juan Carlos of Spain.
The WSF goal of helping to normalize relations with Israel and Spain did not
come to fruition immediately, but over time a relationship developed and
eventually the two countries recognized each other.
1978: After premiering at
The São Paulo International Film in 1977, Lucio
Flaviom a Brazilian film directed by Héctor Babenco was released in Brazil
today.
1978: The Jerusalem
Post reported that the cabinet had agreed on a new settlement policy which
apparently implied a virtual moratorium on new settlements in the administered
territories. The cabinet, however, actually failed to make this statement
official. At the same time the cabinet rejected any phrasing of the Palestine
question in the declaration of principles, now being discussed with Egypt,
which would go significantly further than the West Bank and Gaza autonomy
scheme, already proposed to Egypt and the US by Israel.
1980: Egypt and Israel
exchanged ambassadors for the first time.
1980(9th of Adar,
5740): Seventy-eight year old character actor George Tobias passed away.
Despite a long career that included performing in such hit movies as “Yankee
Doodle Dandy” and “Sergeant York” most Americans will remember him as Abner
Kravitz, the husband of the busybody neighbor Alice Kravitz on the television
sitcom “Bewitched.”
1980: Birthdate of
Israeli MK Bazalel Yoel Smotrich, the conservative attorney who opposed the
disengagement from Gaza and organized anti-LGBT events.
1981 (22nd of Adar I,
5741): Former New York Congressman Jacob Gilbert passed away at the age of
60. Gilbert served in Congress from 1960 to 1971.
1983(14th of
Adar, 5743): Purim
1984: ABC broadcast the
second and final episode of “Lace” featuring June Brown as “Mrs. Trelowney.”
1987: The Israeli
Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres, announced today that he had agreed with
Egyptian officials that there should be an international conference on Middle
East peace this year. The agreement, reached after two meetings here with
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, reaffirmed in writing a call the two men made
in Alexandria last fall, when Mr. Peres was the Israeli Prime Minister. Mr.
Peres's commitment, announced at the end of a three-day visit here, was
expected to provoke strong reaction from the current Israeli Prime Minister,
Yitzhak Shamir, who vehemently opposes such a conference.
1988(9th of
Adar, 5748): Shabbat Zachor
1988(9th of
Adar, 5748): Seventy-six year old economist Moe Frankel who earned his
doctorate from Rutgers University passed away today.
1988: Today, “TV
presenter Esther Rantzen announced live on air that the people in the audience
sitting around Nicky Winton were some of the children he had saved” which “was
an overwhelming, unexpected and emotional moment and became the catalyst for an
outpouring of written material tributes and accolades, including a knighthood
in 2003…”
1989: U.S. premiere of
“A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors” with a script by Bruce Wagner.
1990(1st of
Adar, 5750: Rosh Chodesh Adar
1990(1st of
Adar, 5750): Eighty-two year old Brooklyn born NYU Law School graduate Samuel
Perlman, the husband of the former Lucille Rabinowitz and “chief executive of
L.M. Rabinowitz and Company” passed away today.
1990 (1st of Adar,
5750): Nahum N. Glatzer passed away. Born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and
educated in Germany, Glatzer moved to the United States in 1938 where he
furthered his reputation as a literary scholar, theologian, and editor. A list
of his works includes The Schocken Passover Haggadah, The Complete
Stories of Franz Kafka and Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought
1991(13th of
Adar, 5751): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim
1991(13th of
Adar, 5751): Eighty-five year old Nathan Perilman who served as the rabbi at
Manhattan’s Temple Emanu-El passed away today.
1995: Uzi Baram
replaced Yithak Rabin as Minister of the Interior
1995(27th of
Adar I, 5756): Sixty-seven year old financier Bernard “Bernie” Cornfeld passed
away today.
1997: Funeral services
were held in Manhattan today for 97 year old May W. Hartman, the widow of Judge
Gustave Hartman and mother of Kenneth Hartman and Alicia Ashe who was “founder of
the Gustave Hartman YM-YWHA and for 25 years she was President of the Gustave
Hartman Home for Children.
1997: Eighty-one year
old Scottish painter William Gear who worked for the Monuments, Fine Arts and
Archives section, making him one of the Monuments Men who play a major role in
returning looted art, much of it taken by the Nazis from the Jews, to the
rightful owners or their heirs.
1998: U.S. premiere of
“Dark City” a sci-fi cinema with a script co-authored by David S. Goyer.
1998: The 25th European
Athletics Indoor Championships in which Aleksandr Averbukh placed sixth in the
Heptathlon opened today at Valencia.
2000: The opening ceremony of the temporary exhibition of
photographs and artifacts, “The Jewish Community of Volos” took place, at the
Jewish Museum of Greece.
2000: The European Indoor Championships during which Aleksandr Averbukh placed first in the Pole vault came to an end today in Ghent, Belgium.
2000: The New York
Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Stroheim by Arthur
Lennig.
2002: Thirty-four year
old Gad Rejwan was shot by a Fatah terrorist north of Jeruslaem.
2003(25th of Adar I,
5763): Eighty-nine year old Rabbi Noah Golinkin, the former spiritual
leader of a Columbia synagogue who earned a national reputation for programs that
taught Hebrew literacy to more than 150,000 Jewish adults, passed away
today at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center & Hospital of complications
after surgery. .His one-day Hebrew Reading Marathon and its forerunner, the
Hebrew Literacy Campaign, is credited with quickly giving adults enough
knowledge of the language to follow the Hebrew prayer book. He wrote textbooks
widely used to teach adults because he could not find any suitable for his
programs. He is best known for his crash course, an eight-hour program that
uses familiar Hebrew words, repetition, exercise, humor and encouragement to
bring Hebrew reading familiarity to those who did not learn it as children.
2004: Today, in a case
of a Jew honoring a Jew, actress Lauren Bacall, spoke at the posthumous
induction of screenwriter Peter Stone into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
2005: The New
York Times included reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including The Orientalist: Solving the
Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life by Tom Reiss
2006: The Harlem
Globetrotters, the creation of Abe Saperstein, extended their overall record to
22,000 wins.
2006: The
Jerusalem Post reported that a new Israeli tourism campaign will take
center stage at Emirates Stadium, the London home of English soccer giants
Arsenal, starting in August.
2007: Holocaust
survivors from around the world gather in Warsaw to urge the Polish government
to compensate them for property confiscated by the former communist regime.
2007: Ninety-three year
old Hitler aide Baron Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven passed away today.
2007: Israel got its
first Arab President. Acting President Dalia Itzik left for a weeklong
trip to the United States. During that time, Jajallie Whbee, a Druse who
had attained the rank of Lt. Colonel before retiring from the IDF, served in
the largely ceremonial post.
2007: Commander Mark
Polansky visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to meet Sophie
Turner-Zaretsky. He presented the replica of the bear called Refugee that
had comforted Sophie during the Holocaust and a photo of an orphan from
war-torn Dafur -- along with NASA space travel certificates -- to U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum chief of staff Bill Parsons, who said the Museum
wanted to provide something that would be a timely reminder of history’s
relevance. "Although we can send people into space, we still can’t seem to
stop them from hating and killing one another. A child’s stuffed toy from the
Holocaust and a photograph of a refugee from the genocide today in Darfur
remind us the lessons of the Holocaust have yet to be learned."
2007: David Bromberg
released “Try Me One More Time,” the first new studio album he had recorded
since 1990.
2007: Teapacks
performed four songs in a TV special, and the song "Push The Button"
was chosen as the Israeli entry for the 2007 Eurovision Contest by popular vote
2008: The Finalist
Grand Prize portion of The Second Annual Simply Manischewitz Cook-Off takes
place in New York City.
2008 (21 Adar I 5768):
Anthony Bernard Blond passed away. The British publisher and author’s
mother was a Sephardic Jew from Manchester and he was the cousin of Harold
Laski, the noted British socialist and Laborite.
2008(21 Adar I): Myron
Cope, "the voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers" passed away.
2008 (21 Adar I 5768): Approximately 50 Palestinian rockets hit the western Negev
today, with one of them slamming into Sapir College near Sderot, killing a 47-year-old student. Another exploded on the
helipad of Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, while the hospital was treating
casualties from Sderot. The deceased, Roni Yechiah from the town of Btecha in
the western Negev, was inside his car in Sapir's parking lot. He died of
shrapnel wounds to the chest. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Yechiah is survived by his wife, Esther, and four children: Niv, who is
currently serving in the Israel Defense Forces, Lital, a 17-year-old high
school pupil, her 14-year-old sister Coral and 8-year-old brother Idan.
2009: Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip continued their
attacks on Israeli civilian areas early this morning when they fired a Kassam
that hit an open area in the Sdot Negev region.
2009: Rick
Recht returns to Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for another incomparable
Musical Shabbat. Rick is joined by the talented Abbe Silber, daughter of
Dr. Bob & Laurie Silber, pillars of the Jewish community.
2009: Robert M.
Morgenthau, the long-serving Manhattan district attorney and an institution in
New York City politics, will not run for re-election this year. Outside New
York, Mr. Morgenthau is most well-known as the model for the original district
attorney, Adam Schiff, on the television show “Law & Order.” Mr.
Morgenthau had a cameo on the show, portraying a judge.
2009:
Former Iowa State University quarterback Sage “Rosenfels was acquired from the
Texans by the Minnesota Vikings.”
2010: An
Egyptian court overturned a lower court ruling today that called for a halt to
natural gas exports to Israel, saying the deliveries should continue
unhindered.
2010: An Israeli Arab rights committee sent a petition to the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) today opposing the
addition of Israel to the organization. After two years of official talks, the
OECD will vote in May on whether to admit Israel.
2010:
Shabbat Zachor!
2010:
In the evening, Purim and the reading of the Megillah.
2010: Glass falling from the atrium roof of the Sony Building
in New York interrupted a Purim party. Ice reportedly broke through the glass
roof of the midtown Manhattan building after 11 p.m. Saturday, injuring at
least 10 of the 300 guests, according to reports.The party, reportedly given by
Aish Hatorah, was attended by "Sex and the City" actor Chris Noth, as
well as reality show "Jersey Shore" cast members Nicole
"Snooki" Polizzi and Vinny Guadagnino. "Omg roof just
collapsed!" Polizzi Tweeted from the party."I think me and @sn00ki
felt the wrath for not being Jewish," Guadagnino Tweeted.The actors were
not injured.
2010(Adar
13, 5770):
Eighty-nine year old Hank Rosenstein, who played in
what is considered the National Basketball Association’s first game, in 1946,
as an original member of the New York Knicks, died today in Boca Raton,
FL. (As reported by Vincent M. Mallozzi)
2010:
Opening of Jewish Book Week in London, UK.
2011(27th
of Adar I, 5771): Eighty-nine year old Philip Burgher, a World War II Army
veteran passed away in Buffalo Grove, Illinois.
2011(27th
of Adar I, 5771):
Brazilian born author Moacyr Scliar, whose “The
Centaur in the Garden,” was included among the 100 Greatest Works of Modern
Jewish Literature by The National Yiddish Book Center, passed away today. (As
reported by William Grimes)
2011: The
Prince of Kosher Gospel, Joshua Nelson, is scheduled to perform at Temple Judah
in Cedar Rapids, IA.
2011:
Closing night of the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival.
2011:
Closing night of The “Voices From a Changing Middle East” festival.
2011: The
Los Angeles Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Modigliani: A Life by
Meryle Secrest and Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall — From
America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness by Frank Brady
2011: Among
the Jewish winners are tonight’s Oscar ceremonies were:
Israel-born
Natalie Portman for her portrayal of a tortured ballerina in “Black Swan”
Emile
Sherman one of the co-producers of “The King’s Speech” which was named best
picture
David
Seidler of “King’s Speech” winning for original screenplay
Aaron
Sorkin of “The Social Network” for adapted screenplay
Danish
director-writer Susanne Bier, took the best foreign-language film statuette for
“In a Better World,”
American filmmakers
Kirk Simon and Karen Goodman won in the short documentary category for
“Strangers No More” - a film based on the work of the Bialik-Rogozin
School in south Tel
Director-writer
Lee Unkrich accepted the award for his animated feature “Toy Story 3,”
Randy
Newman won for his song “We Belong Together.”
Lora
Hirschberg was one of the co-winners for the work of sound-mixing for
“Inception.”
(As
reported by JTA)
2012: Anna Kantar is
scheduled to give a reading of poems by Leah Goldberg at the Stern College for
Women in New York City.
2012: Open Women’s Mic
Night featuring Poetry, Music, Comedy, whatever you do to entertain the ladies
at David Lilimnick’s Off the Wall Comedy Club in Jerusalem
2012: The Tal Law
cannot be extended by even one hour, and any attempt to ignore the issue is a
mistake, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said at a press conference in the
Knesset today (As reported by Lahav Harkov)
2012: Workers at the
Haifa, Ashdod and Eilat ports who had held a one-day strike over
pension-related demands yesterday will return to work today after a truce was
reached at a late-night National Labor Court meeting.
2012: Nurses across
Israel went on a 24-hour strike this morning, after overnight negotiations
between the Finance Ministry and the chairman of the national nurses’ union
failed to reach an agreement to prevent the strike.
2013: L'Chaim Kosher
Vodka is scheduled to sponsor the reception that follows The SHUFFLE Concert
that will feature performances by Eliran Avni, piano, Moran Katz, clarinet,
Linor Katz, cello, Hassan Anderson, oboe, Francisco Fullana, violin, and
soprano Ariadne Greif
2013: “The Mexican
Suitcase” Rediscovered Spanish Civil War Negatives by Capa, Taro and Chim is
scheduled to open at the Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme
2013: The Weiner
Library is scheduled to sponsor a lecture by Mary Fulbrook, author of A Small
Town Near Auschwitz
2013: In Portland, the
Oregon Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a reception marking the opening of
“Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photographs of Jewish Partisan Faye
Schulman.”
2013: A panel of judges
at the International Convention Center Haifa awarded the title of Miss Israel
to 21 year old Yityish Aynaw “the young and gorgeous model, who came to
Israel only about a decade ago from Ethiopia.” (As reported by Yori Yanover)
2014: The Consulate
General of Israel in New York, the Jewish Community Relations Council of New
York and the Jewish National Fund are scheduled to honor Dr. Clarence B. Jones,
co-author of the “I Have A Dream Speech” at the annual commemoration of
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2014: Eric Schmidt and
Jared Cohen are scheduled to discuss their bestseller The New Digital Age
at the Historic 6th & I Synagogue.
2014: “In the wake of
an alleged attack by Israel on a Hezbollah arms convoy, the organization’s
chief, Hassan Nasrallah, warned key military personnel of the possibility of
war with the Jewish state, a Lebanese journalist with close ties to the
organization said today. (As reported by Spencer Ho and Elhanan Miller)
2014: Soldiers are
searching for the two Palestinian Arab men who robbed and stabbed an Israeli
cab driver this evening near Ariel junction. (As reported by Maayana Miskin)
2015: In London, Jewish
Book Week at the Jewish Museum is scheduled to come to an end.
2015: “A Happy End” by
Iddo Netanayahu, the younger brother of Benjamin and Yonatan Netanyahu is
scheduled to be performed at Abingdon Theatre.
2015: “Deli Man” “Erik
Greenberg Anjou’s forthcoming documentary about the dying (but perhaps reviving)
culture of Jewish delicatessens is a meal with many courses” is scheduled to
being “its theatrical run in Florida and Arizona” today.
2015(17th of
Shevat, 5775): Eighty-three year old Leonard Nimoy passed away today. (As
reported Virginia Heffernan)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=0
2016: Shabbat Ki Tissa; for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=0
2016: Shabbat Ki Tissa; for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2016: “Einstein in the
Holy Land” and “One in a Lifetime” are scheduled to be shown at the Washington
Jewish Film Festival.
2016: In North
Carolina, “Apples from the Desert” is scheduled to be shown at the Charlotte
Jewish Film Festival. (A reminder that
there are thriving Jewish communities all over the United States)
2017(1st of
Adar, 5777): Rosh Chodesh Adar
2017: “Through the
Wall” a melodrama starring Noa Koller is scheduled to be shown at JW3 in
London.
2017: “More than 200
Israelis attended the funeral of a complete stranger,” Holocaust survivor Hilde
Nathan “from the Canary Islands who fulfilled a final wish to be buried in
Israel alongside her mother.”
2017:
The Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to host “Nuclear Weapons in the Trump Era.”
2017:
The J Street annual convention is scheduled to continue for a third day at the
Washington Convention Center.
2017:
In Paris, “The State of Deception,” an exhibition that examines the Nazis use
of “propaganda to win broad voter support, implement radical programs, and
justify war and mass murder” is scheduled to come to an end today.
2017:
Yiddish folk singer Cindy Paley is scheduled to lead a sing-along of Yiddish
love songs at the Beverly Hills House Concert.
2018:
The Temple
Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host a presentation by Rabbi Joy
Levitt and Rabbi Michael Strassfeld on “Wife and Husband: Ruth and Boaz”
2018:
In Washington, D.C., the Tabard Inn is scheduled to host a screening of
“Rosenwald” followed by “further readings and discussion with poet E. Ethelbert
Miller and director, producer and writer Aviva Kempner.
2018:
In Des Moines, Temple B’nai Jeshusrun is scheduled to host Shayna Steinger
speaking “about her professional experiences with Palestinian President Mahmud
Abbas.”
2018:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a Hamantashen
Bake-Off followed by a sale of the pastries for the benefit of the Oxford Food
Bank.
2018:
2018: JW3 is scheduled to host the penultimate screening of “Shalom Bollywood:
The Untold Story of Indian Cinema.”
2018:
The Hillel Jewish Leadership Council at the University of Virginia is scheduled
to host an evening of “Hamantaschen Making: Bake Action Against Gun Violence.”
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