August 1
30 BCE:
Mark Antony died. Following the
victory of Octavian and Antony over those who had murdered Julius Caesar,
Antony became ruler of the Eastern half of the Roman Empire. Antony did name Herod as ruler of
Judaea. But when his lover Cleopatra let
it be known that she wished to recreate the Ptolemy rule over the area, Antony
partially reversed himself by giving the Queen Jericho and numerous other towns
in Judaea. None of this had anything to
do with Antony’s feelings about the Jews but rather reflected his passion for
Cleopatra. In the end none of this matter since Octavian defeated Antony and
control of the Jews passed to the man who became Caesar Augustus.
10 BCE :
Birthdate of Claudius 4th Roman emperor. Claudius reigned from 41 through 54.
Regardless of how the PBS television series portrayed, for a Roman Emperor,
Claudius was a plus for the Jews of his time. He repealed the anti-Jewish
edicts of his predecessors. He held the Samaritans responsible for the attacks
on Jews in Judea and befriended the Jewish King, Agrippa. At one time he did
exclude Jews from the city of Rome. But this appears to have been a matter of
dealing with civil unrest sparked the early Christians living in the imperial
city.]
388:
The synagogue located on the Euphrates in Callinicum was looted and burned by
Church officials. St. Ambrose (one of the four Latin doctors of the Catholic
Church) defended the action. He reprimanded Theodosius the Great for ordering
the local Bishop to pay restitution, even though expropriation was illegal
under Roman law. St. Ambrose offered to burn the synagogue in Milan on his own.
527:
Justinian I also known as Justinian the Great becomes the Byzantine
Emperor. For gentiles, Justinian might
be considered “Great” but he was an enemy of the Jews. Justinian’s celebrated code contains the
following about his policy towards his Jewish subjects. “They shall enjoy no
honors. Their status shall reflect the
baseness which in their souls they have elected and desired.” “The principle of servitus Judaeorum (‘servitude of the Jews’) was established, and
the hitherto uneven pattern of persecution was systemized for a Christian
civilization march towards its age of faith.”
Justinian banned the recitation of the Shema because its declaration of
the Oness of God was at odds with the Trinity.
In response to demands of his Bishops, Justinian banned the public
reading of the Torah. He also forbad the
observance of Passover in the years when it preceded Easter on the calendar.
1098:
Fifty-three year old Adhemar of Le Puy, the French bishop who was a leader of
the First Crusade which proved so devastating to the Jews of the Rhineland and
the Holy Land died today at Antioch.
1137:
King Louis VI passed away and is succeed by his Louis VII who will launch the
Second Crusade. Louis VII’s reign was
not “Jew friendly.” Following the logic of the time that it made no sense to go
to Palestine to fight those holding on to the Christian Holy Sites and leave
the defilers of Christianity at home alone, in 1144 Louis VII would expel all
the Jews who had converted to Christianity and then returned to Judaism. In
1171 the first Blood Libel in France took place in Blois.
1263, James I ordered the removal of passages deemed offensive from
the Talmud
1291:
The Swiss Confederation is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
The original Jews settled in what is now Switzerland during the days of the
Roman Empire. Records of the Jewish community officially date back to the 13th
century, with Jews having settled in Basel in 1213, seventy years before the
confederation was formed. Jews from France and Germany settled in Bern by 1259,
St. Gall in 1268, Zurich in 1273, Schaffhausen, Diessenhofen, and Luzerne in
1299. But anti-Semitism is almost as old as the confederation itself since
in1294 in when many Jews living in Berne of the city were executed and the
survivors expelled under the pretext of the murder of a Christian boy.
1298:
Although assisted by humane Christian citizens, the Jews of Nuremberg were
overpowered and butchered today. Among the victims was Mordecai ben Hillel, a
pupil of Jehiel ben Asher, with his wife and children.
1431:
“King Sigismund assured the Jews of Worms that all edicts annulling the
outstanding debts owed them would be declared invalid upon the payment by each
Jew of an indemnity.”
1520:
In Cracow, Poland, Sigismund I the Old and Bona Sforza of Milan, the niece of
the Holy Roman emperor Maximilian, gave birth to Sigismund II Augustus, the
Polish King who allowed “Jews to settle in Vilna without restriction” and who
issued “the ‘Magna Cara of Jewish Self-Government’’ “which permitted Jews to
elect their own chief rabbi and judges.”
1580:
Evard Mercurian, the fourth Superior General of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
passed away. The first three leaders of
the order had been Spanish and there was concern that they might be Coversos or
at least have Jewish blood. So
Mercuvian, a native of Luxemburg got the job because Pope Gregory XIII wished
to dispel an connotation of a Jewish connection.
1626:
In Izmir, Mordecai and Clara Sevi gave birth to Sabbatai Zevi, the most famous
the False Messiahs.
1658:
Coronation of Leopold I who borrowed large sums of money from banker Samuel
Oppenheimer to fight the “Great Turkish War.
1670:
As a result of a proclamation by the Emperor, as of today, all the Jews had
left Vienna.
1768: Today “approximately sixty merchants and traders signed the
Boston Non-Importation Agreement which led to most of the ports including
Philadelphia and Charleston with their comparatively significant Jewish
population in the 13 colonies to adopt
similar measures.
1714: Queen Anne of Great Britain during whose reign an “Act to
oblige Jews to maintain and provide for their Protestant children” took effect.
This act of Parliament grew out of case involving Jacob de Mendez Berta and his
daughter Mary who became a Protestant. According to one source, the father
refused to continue to support his daughter after she converted and her newly
adopted Protestant community did not want to shoulder the burden of her
support. Hence, this legislation was adopted and would stay in effect
until the middle of the 19th century.
1714: George I began his reign as King of Great Britain and Ireland
during which “an act of Parliament allowed Jews holding land to
omit the words "on the true faith of a Christian", when registering
their title.”
1753:
The Imperial Court rescinded the order confiscating copies of the prayer book
and Talmud because they were found not contain derogatory statements about
Christianity.
1776(16th
of Av, 5536): Twenty nine year old Francis Salvador, the member of a prominent
Sephardic South Carolina family and an ardent Patriot, was killed while
fighting the Tory and Indian supporters of the British.
1778(8th
of Av, 5538): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon Erev Tish’a B’Av
1787:
In the UK, Hannah Montefiore, the daughter of Moses Montefiore and Esther
Hannah Racah, married Moses Acona with whom she had five children – “Leah,
Judah, Moses Montefiore, Esther and Sarah.”
1789(9th
of Av): Rabbi Abraham Isaac Castello, the native of Ancona whose works included
"A Memorial Sermon on the Death of Francis I. of Germany", written in
Spanish, and translated by Castello's son Joseph Castello into Italian passed
away in Leghorn, Italy.
1797(9th of Av, 5557): Tish’a B’Av
1797:
Two Jews named Bromet and DeLemon were elected members of the Second National
Assembly of Holland today
1798:
The British Fleet under Nelson defeats the French Fleet in the Battle of the
Nile. Nelson’s victory left the British
in control of the Mediterranean.
Napoleon’s army had already landed before the battle. Although the French leader would score
victories in Egypt and Syria, crossing through Eretz Israel, his victories
would mean little since the French army could not be sustained. Among the lesser known consequences was the
end of promises Napoleon had made during the siege at Acre to create a Jewish
homeland.
1813:
Birthdate of Stockholm native Charles Kann, the husband of Copenhagen native
Amalia Monies and the father of Albert, Ellen, Jenny and Ellen Kann.
1819:
Birthdate of American novelist Herman Melville who was the special subject of
study of Viola Sachs who “conducted research and studies for the decoding of
Melville’s master works” and who survived the Holocaust by living in Brazil
along with her husband, economist Ignacy Sachs
1820:
Hannah Joel, a widow who had died at “Jews Hospital” was buried today at the
Brady Jewish Cemetery.
1827(8th of Av, 5587): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1830:
Today Isaac and Hannah Solomon were married at the Western Synagogue.
1833:
On a second reading a bill designed to free Jews from all civil disabilities
which would open the world of politics to them, was defeated.
1841:
Birthdate of Dr. Isidor Cohnstein the native of Gnesen and gynecologist who married Ida Cohnstein.
1844:
Birthdate of Aaron E. Greenewald, the husband of Sallie Gimbel Greenewald.
1846:
Max-Théodore Cerfberr, a colonel in the French Army and president of the
Consistoire Central Israelite de France “was reelected to the Chamber of
Deputies today.
1852:
In Brighton, Dr. Loewe, the Oriental Linguist to the Duke of Sussex and first
Principal of Jews’ College London and his wife gave birth to James H. Loewe,
the “manager of the East-end branch of the International Bank of London, Ltd.,
founder and first President of the Finsbury-park Synagogue and of the North
London Beth Hamedrash.
1852:
This afternoon, the new Jewish Synagogue in Eighth-street, between North First
and North Second-streets, was dedicated by appropriate ceremonies of the Jewish
religion. There were Hebrew chant and lectures by Rabbi, Max Lilienthal, Rabbi
Samuel M. Isaacs and Rabbi Morris Raphall. Dr. Barnard officiated as Rabbi to
the congregation. The Synagogue is to be known as the "House of
Israel." There were many Gentiles present to view the ceremonies.
1855:
Castle Garden opened as the immigrant process center in New York.
1856:
Lauritz Weidemann, one of he framers of Norway’s constitution whose opposition
to Jewish citizenship was expressed somewhat incoherently when he wrote
“"The Jewish nation's history proves, that this people always has been
rebellious and deceitful, and their religious teachings, the hope of again
arising as a nation, so often they have acquired some remarkable fortune, led
them to intrigues and to create a state within a state. It is of vital
importance to the security of the state that an absolute exception be made
about them" passed away today
1859:
The Report of Sir Moses
Montefiore to the London Committee of Deputies of the British Jews on the
subject of his mission to Rome in the Mortara Case was published today. While
Sir Moses was thankful for those who assisted in him arranging meeting with
Vatican officials, the Church refused to acknowledge any error in the
case. The conversion stands and the
Jewish child stolen from his parents will be raised as a Catholic.
1859: An editorial in the New York Times, expresses disappointment at Rome’s refusal to yield
on the issues in the “Mortara Case” while expressing relief “that such an
enormity as the abduction of the Mortara child cannot be repeated even by
Rome.” The Times also points out the
horrible conditions under which the Jews of Austria, a patron and protector of
the Pope, are living. “The case of the Israelites…bad as it is in Rome, is
still worse in Austria.” Jews are
restricted in the vocations they may pursue and are banned from “many of the
higher vocations of trade.” They are
limited in their right to move to different parts of the empire and they need a
special license if they want to leave the country altogether. In some parts of the empire, there is a limit
on the number of Jewish marriages “so that a young man must await the death of
his parent before he can enter the state of matrimony. This hideous and
demoralizing law is but one of the many horrors which Austrian persecution has
designed for the Israelites living in Austria, and who are kept by the brutal
system, in a state of ignorance which the condition of Jewish populations in
free countries proves to abnormal with that portion of the human family.” [All
of this will change with a stroke of a pen after Austria loses its war with
Prussia and is forced to reorganize as the Austro-Hungarian Empire.]
1861:
At the start of the Civil War, Joseph Benedict Greenhut “joined the 12th
Illinois Infantry and was muster in today.
1862:
In an interlude between the Siege of Corinth and the Second Battle of Corinth,
Jacob C. Cohen of the 27th Ohio Infantry wrote to the Jewish
Messenger to describe what life was like as they bivouacked at Camp Clear Creek
just outside of the Mississippi town.
1864: Birthdate of South Carolina Senator “Cotton
Ed” Smith a supporter of the immigration quota system who wanted to exempt Jews
from the quota system” because “their thrift, their economy and their love of
learning” appealed to him. (As reported by Henry L. Feingold)
1864:
Today, following the end of the Schleswig War, Prussia, under the leadership of
Bismarck who relied on his banker Gerson Bleichröder for financial advice took
possession of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.
1865(9th
of Av, 5625): Tisha B'Av
1865:
The New York Times reported that “the Israelites in this city and
throughout the world solemnized in sorrow and in sadness, in tears and in
lamentation, in fasting and in prayer, the annual fast of Ab, founded on the
destruction of the Temple, and the overthrow of the national government.
Although nearly 2,300 years have elapsed since the first Temple was destroyed,
and eighteen centuries since the construction of the second Temple, both
occurrences taking place on the same day of the month, the fast is still
continued from Monday evening to Tuesday night, in accordance with the Jewish
ritual, and in consonance with Israelitish feeling. The fast is inaugurated
with reciting the lamentations of Jeremiah, and, after the morning service,
several hours are employed in the synagogues in chanting in plaintive tones the
compositions of the saints of antiquity, and imploring the God of Israel to
remove the rod of chastisement from Israel, and again to resume the light of
other days, by the reestablishment of their Temple and restoration of their government
to its original splendor.”
1866:
In Moscow, “Andrew and Elizabeth Malkiel” gave birth to NYU trained attorney,
the secretary of the Socialist Labor Party and husband of the former Theresa
Serber, the socialist advocate for the rights of woman and workers.
1866:
Maj. Louis Alexander Gratz and Elisabeth (Lizzie) Trigg Gratz gave birth to
Frances Henrietta Gratz who became Frances Henrietta Mann when she married
Horace Attlee Mann.
1868:
In Montgomery, Alabama, “Jacob and Bella (Mayer) Jonas gave birth to banker
Nathan S. Jonas, the husband of Jennie Strauss who pre-deceased him.
1869:
Birthdate of Moishe Hillkowitz, the native of Riga, who gained famed as New
York labor lawyer and Socialist political leader, Morris Hillquit.
1870:
Birthdate of Rabbi Tuvia Geffen
who gained fame as “The Coca Cola Rabbi.”
1870: A rumor swept New York today that the
police had apprehended the murder of Benjamin Nathan – a plumber who with a
lacerated face who was caught with a stolen watch belong to the deceased.
1870: “The Jews in Romania” published today
reported that there were 176 synagogues serving 400,000 Jews in Romania.
1870: Di Post, the first Yiddish periodical
to appear in the United States was published for the first time today in New
York City
1870: Benjamin Nathan, the prominent Jewish
New York businessman who was murdered in his own home, was buried today at the
Jewish Cemetery, Shearith Israel at Cypress Hill. His brother-in-law, Rabbi
J.J. Lyons had officiated at funeral that was held at the deceased’s resident.
1871: In Kovno, Lithuania, Chaim Hillel and
Bessie (Siegel) Rosenberg gave birth to Isaiah Rosenberg, the University of
Leipzig and University of Berne educated author and editor known as Karol
Vornberg who married Kamentzky in Newark, N.J. in 1903 where pursuing a career
that included serving on the editorial staff of the Forwards, writing for the Day
and editing the Jewish Voice in
Newark.
1873: It was reported today that the last
person to see ten year old John Henry Lance was “a Jew peddler in
Williamsburg.”
1875: In London, Rebecca and Michaelis
Hallensein gave birth to Percy Hallenstein, the brother Emile and Henri
Hallenstein who changed his named to Halsted, was the husband of Enid Miriam
Gotthelf and passed away in New Zealand.
1875: “The Jews of Italy,” an article published
today described the conditions of the Jews living in this newly reunited
nation. It focused on the deplorable
conditions of many of the Jews living in the old ghetto of Rome along the
Tiber, the improved condition of Jews living outside of the capital and the
annual ceremony at St. John the Lateran set aside to baptize any Jew who has
converted during the past 12 months. However, no Jew has participated in the
ceremony in the last twenty years, despite the best efforts of the Church.
1876: Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S.
state. The largest number of Jews began
arriving in Colorado as part of the gold rush activities in 1859. Jews helped supply the miners in many of the
camps that later became small towns throughout the state. Hyman and Fred Salomon, two Jewish brothers
from Prussia, were leading members of the Denver community by the time
statehood was declared. In addition to
their business ventures, they helped organize the Colorado Pioneer Society, the
Denver Public Library and the Denver B’nai Brit Lodge.
1876(11th
of Av, 5636): Lewis Wormser, the native of Stuttgart who moved to Ireland in
1821 where he became such a successful businessman and leader of the Jewish
community that he was waiting to begin serving as Lord Mayor of Dublin when he
passed away today. Had he lived, he
would have been the first Jew to hold that position and honor that would fall
to Robert Briscoe eighty years later.
1877: Three weeks before her 40th
birthday, in the UK, Sarah Ellis, the daughter of Abraham Ellis, married fifty
year old Israel Levy.
1878:
Birthdate of Alfred W. Fleisher who would be buried in Mount Sinai Cemetery at
Philadelphia when he passed away on Christmas Day, 1928.
1878: The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Society of the
City of Brooklyn was incorporated today under the leadership of President Ernst
Nathan.
1879:
Following the Russo-Turkish War, Czar Alexander II today awarded Joshua be
Aaron Zeitlin “ a medal in recognition of his services” as “a contractor for
the victorious Russian Army
1879:
As reported in the Jewish Messenger,
"...About twenty, mostly young men, have formed themselves into a
congregation under the name of 'Orach Chaim', Path of Life, their objective
being to hold Divine service every day, morning and evening, as well as on
Sabbath and holidays on strict orthodox principles, as it has been handed down
to them by their fathers."
1880:
“A Christian Woman Becomes a Jewess” published today described the conversion
ceremony of Mrs. Morse that took place last month in Rochester, NY.
1881:
No reason was given today when it was reported that the excursion of Athletic
Society of Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Harlem has been postponed until
later this month.
1881:
Birthdate of Otto Toeplitz, the third generation German mathematician who would
seek refuge in Palestine after the rise of the Nazis.
1881:
Birthdate of Fritz Spira, the Viennese
actor who played Austrian Emperor Franz Josef in the 1926 film The Third
Squadron but whose fame did not keep him from being arrested by the Nazis and
dying ignominiously at the Ruma Concentration Camp in 1943.
1882:
Henry Robinson married Mary Pillischer today at the Brighton Synagogue.
1882:
Birthdate of Jacob Benjamin Salutsky,
the Russian immigrant who gained fame as the J.B.S. Hardman a prominent
socialist who serve as Education of Director of the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers after having left the Communist movement in apparent disgust.
1882:
As the Freight Handler’s strike continued the Russian Jews had been replaced by
Germans as workers at Pier Number 39 of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
1883:
Birthdate of Amsterdam native Isidore Goudeket the “Dutch gymnast who competed
in the 1908 Summer Olympics” was murder at Sobibor in 1943.
1885(20th
of Av, 5645): Parashat Eikev
1885:
John T. Robeson, the U.S. Consul-General in Beirut sent a telegram to the
governor-general of Syria protesting the order expelling Mordecai Yitzhak
Lubowsky and his brother. The two Jews
were American citizens and the diplomat pointed out that expelling them was a
violation of the treaty between the Porte and the United States since it
discriminated based on religion.
1885:
A well-attended memorial service in honor of the late Sir Moses Montefiore, who
was buried on Friday in Ramsgate, England, was held today at the Montefiore
Home for Chronic Invalids, on the corner of Eighty-fourth-street and Avenue A
in New York.
1887(11th
of Av, 5647): Issac Margolis, the Russo-Polish rabbi who was a descendant of
Yom Tov Lippman Heller of Prague who
came to the United States in 1884 and assumed the leadership of Congregation
Anshe-Kalvariya passed away in New York.
1887:
Today, on his 18th birthday, Morris HIllquist joined the Socialist
Labor Party of America.
1888:
Birthdate of Russian born Yiddish poet Nahum Yud, who wrote under the name
Nahum Yersualimchik who came to the United States where he wrote for Yiddish
publications until his death in 1966.
1888:
Birthdate of Rene Marx Dormoy, the friend of fellow socialist Leon Blum in
whose government he served as Minister of the Interior and defeated the attempt
of the right-wing La Cagoule to overthrow the Third Republic before WW II. Dormoy did not turn his back on Blum after
the cowardly capitulation of the French and the rise of Vichy – a loyalty that
cost him his life.
1889:
New York Mayor Hugh Grant received a letter today from Henry M. Leipziger,
Director of the Hebrew Technical Institute concerning an exhibit for the
upcoming World’s Fair.
1889:
Nine year old Samuel Ehrenstein and five year old Lazarus Ehrenstein were left
with Coroner Levy in New York. A letter
said that they were orphans and should be sent to a charitable institution for
care
1890(15th
of Av, 5650): Tu B’AV
1890:
“The British House of Commons” published today describe activities in
Parliament including Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir James
Fergusson’s reassurance that he has no proof that the Russian government plans
on enforcing any edicts aimed at reducing the rights of Russian Jews.
1890:
“In the House of Lords…the Marquis of Salisbury…said he could not confirm
reports…of any anti-Jewish edicts by the Russian government.”
1890:
New York Congressman Charles Baker asked the Committee on Foreign Affairs to
consider “a resolution protesting ‘in the name of humanity, against such
inhuman and barbarous acts as the enforcement by Russia of the edict of 1882,
against the Jews, requesting the President to transmit, through our
representatives in Russia, this protest to the Russian Government.”
1891:
It was reported today that U.S. government believes the fact that nothing has
been heard from Dr. J.M. Crawford the United States Consul General in St.
Petersburg “for a long time past” is “convincing proof” that the Russian
government is not contemplating any action to enforce the edicts aimed at
depriving the Jews of their rights.
1891:
Simon Wolf and Lewis Abraham of Washington, DC, representing the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations, wrote to the Secretary of the Treasury
concerning the immigration Russian Jews to the United States.
1891:
Secretary of Treasury Charles Foster wrote to Simon Wolf and Lewis Abraham
assuring them that the immigration laws would be enforced “efficiently” but
“humanely.
1891: Birthdate of Eliyahu Lulu, who would gain
fame as a member of the First Knesset under the name of Eliyahu Hacarmeli.
1891:
“The Czar Changes Bankers” published today attributed the Russian government’s
decision to move its accounts from the London branch of the House of Rothschild
to Messrs. C.J. Hambro & Son to that country’s “attitude toward the Jews.”
1892:
Emma Goldman was among those attending the meeting of anarchists held tonight
at 193 Bowery.
1892:
At a meeting of anarchist of Newark, NJ the speaker praised Alexander Berkman,
who had attempted to assassinate Henry Clay Frick during the Homestead Steel
Strike, by saying “I trust that in the near future we may all become
Berkmanns.”
1892:
In Chicago, “Ukrainian Jewish immigrants Annie P. (née Cohn) and Nicholas J.
Pritzker” gave birth to Harry Nicholas, partners in the firm of Pritzker and
Pritzker along with his brothers Abram and Jack, the father of the former Elna
Stone and father of Richard and Joanne Pritzker, whose family members created a
real estate empire that included the Hyatt hotel chain.
1893:
Birthdate of Rossien, Lithuania native Alexander Sachs who joined his brother
Joseph in 1904 in the United States where he was educated at CCNY, Columbia and
Harvard and became an influential economist and banker best known for
delivering the “Einstein–Szilárd letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt” in
October of 1939 which led to the Manhattan Project and the birth of the
Atomic/Nuclear Age.
1893(19th
of Av, 5653): Joseph Korman, “an educated Russian Jew” who came to the United
States about a year ago and who had been “a successful merchant at one time”
passed away today after being for six months leaving behind a destitute widow
and four children.
1893:
Today is the deadline for all the Jews living in Lifland to sell their property
and move into the Pale.
1893:
It was reported today that Archbishop Dionysius Latas, a prominent Greek
prelate, said that if the subject comes up during his visit to Chicago he
intends to express his opposition to the persecution of the Jews.
1893:
The body of 76 year old Solomon Heyman who passed away yesterday in Long Branch
will be brought to New York City today for burial.
1894:
“East Side Roof Gardens” published today described the growth of these popular
venues including one that “the young men
of the Hebrew Institute” have established at the building on East Broadway and
Jefferson Street. From 9 in the morning until 8 in the evening mothers and
their “babes in arms” can sit under the big awning on the roof in attempt to
stay cool during the summer heat.
1894:
The trial of Jeremiah J. Levy a Jewish policeman who has been charged with
bribery continued today.
1895:
Birthdate of Béla Zsolt, the native of Komárom, Hungary who survived
Bergen-Belsen, rode to freedom on the “Kasztner Train” and wrote Nine
Suitcases a Holocaust memoir that would later be turned into a one act
play.
(For
more information about the Kasztner Train see http://www.killingkasztner.com/)
1895:
“In The Real Estate Field” published today described the sale of a lot on the
southeast corner of Lexington Avenue and 77th Street by the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum Society for $87,500.
1895:
“The Clothing Industry” published today attributed the success in New York of
the “industry for manufacturing clothing” to “cheap labor.” This labor “has not been made cheap through
any effort or design of the manufactures” but is the result of vast number of
Russian and Polish Jews who have “forced down the price” of labor.
1896:
It was reported today that the Jewish Colonization Company will pay the
expenses of 800 Jews to return to Russia from Argentina because they know
nothing about farming and are not able to work on the Hirsch colonies that have
been established in that country.
1896:
Thirty year old Chaim Silberman, a Hebrew school teacher who arrived in the
United States last January told the authorities about his harrowing trip to the
United States during which 6 of his fellow passengers died of suffocation in a
case of “criminal neglect.”
1896:
Colonel Eugene Levy and thirty –six year old Marie Melanie Simikins a former
school teacher who converted from Catholicism to Judaism were married today at
the mayor’s office.
1898
Birthdate of Russian born American Conservative Rabbi, William S. Malev.
1898:
A case involving that pits the Moses Montifiore Congregation of Hoboken against
David Engler who claims to own the lot on which the synagogue sits and who is
trying to force the congregation to move its building is scheduled to be hear
in The Chancery Court in Jersey City, New Jersey today.
1898:
The body 53 year old Elias Jacobs who had passed away at his country home in
Forest, PA was brought to New York City where his funeral will be held.
1898: Birthdate of publisher William Bernard “Bill” Ziff, Sr. the
cofounder of Ziff Davis Inc and supporter of the Revisionist or Jabotinsky
Zionists who wrote The Rape of Palestine, a book highly critical of the British
Mandate.
1898(13th
of Av, 5658): Ephriam W. Sells, of Sells Brothers Circus, passed away today in
Columbus OH.
1899:
“The Jews in Babylon” by William Rainey Harpert was published in Volume 14 of
The Biblical World.
1899:
Mordecai is scheduled to run in the Sixth Race at Brighton Beach. (No word as
to Haman or Esther)
1900(6th
of Av, 5660): Forty-eight year old “German physiologist” Immanuel Munk, the
brother of Hermann Munk, passed away today in Berlin.
1900:
Rabbi Simon Isaac Finkelstein, “the son of Judah Tsvi Finkelstein and Feyge
Rive Finkelstein” and his wife Hannah Basha Finkelstein gave birth to Herman N.
Finkelstein
1901: Eighteen year old Mrs. Golda Lucas, the Bucharest widow of Emanuel Lucas who died
three months after their marriage was staying at the New York home of
mother-in-law Sarah Lacs after taking part in a ceremony yesterday that
relieved her husband’s brother of marrying her in a “levirate marriage” and
allowed her to marry anybody she wanted to after her return to Romania.
1902: “Impassioned speeches by Jewish orators of the east side and
excited applause from a throng of Jewish listeners were heard tonight at the
mass meeting held in Cooper Union to protest against the conduct of the
policemen and factory employees who participated in rioting during the funeral
procession that followed the hearse of Chief Rabbi Jacob Joseph.”
1903:
Birthdate of Helena Nordheim, one of five Jewish members of the Dutch ladies’
gymnastics team, which won the Olympic title in Amsterdam in 1928. Forty years
later, Helena Kloot- Nordheim, her husband Abraham and her 10-year old daughter
Rebecca were gassed at Sobibor.
1904:
Birthdate of Edward Satz, a native of what was then Lwow, Poland, who gained
fame as Eli Mintz who made the transition from the Yiddish Theatre to Broadway
playing “Uncle David” in “Me and Molly” and was the brother of Ludwig Satz.
1905:
In the United Kingdom, the Star published
“Jewish Literary Societies” today.
1905(29th
of Tammuz, 5665): Less than a month before his 47th birthday Leo
Abram Errera a distinguished Belgian botanist who all wrote Les Juifs Russes:
Extermination ou Emancipation?" passed away today in Brussels.
1906: It was reported today that the name of Samson A. Lachman was
one of those submitted to the Judiciary Nominators who are seeking to name a
replacement for the recently deceased Michael H. Cardozo.
1907: “To prove that the relations between Mme. Melba and himself
were not strained, Jewish showman Oscar Hammerstein showed today a latter he
had received within the last few days from the prima donna” which was written
in a strain of good-natured raillery”
1908(4th of Av, 5668): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon
observed for the last time during the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, the
Republican President who enjoyed considerable popularity among the Jewish
voters in the United States.
1909: Thanks to “the kindness of Lee Shubert and comedian Lew
Fields, a benefit for the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children is scheduled to be
held at the Arverne Pier Theatre.
1909:
In Sycamore, Illinois, “Morris and Rose (Chosid) Gitlitz” gave birth to the
character actor known as Lou Gilbert, the product of Cleveland orphanage whose stage career began in 1925 and whose
film credits including “Viva Zapata,” “Marathon Man” and “Raid on Entebbe.”
1910:
Birthdate of composer and arranger Walter Scharf, “the son of Yiddish theatre
comic Bessie Zwerling” who worked with everybody from George Gershwin, to Rudy
Valle, to Al Jolson to Elvis Presley.
1911:
Jews in Peoria, Illinois contribute one thousand dollars to Jews in Turkey
suffering from the aftermath of major fires in that country.
1912(18th
of Av, 5672): Eighty-one year old Abraham Benjamin passed away today at St.
Kilda, Melbourne.
1912:
The Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Camden, NJ was incorporated today.
1913:
A day after she had passed away, Jennie Leuria, the daughter of Bertha and
Henry Leuria, was buried today at the “Belfast Jewish Cemetery in Northern
Ireland.”
1913:
Birthdate of multi-talented composer Jerome Moross whose most famous works may
be theme music for the western television series “Wagon Train” and the big
screen western “The Big Country.”
1913:
In Buffalo, NY, “Berith Israel (Anshe Sfar) was “rededicated” today.
1914:
Germany declared war on Russia in WW I. The Jews of German fought valiantly for
the Kaiser in defense of the Fatherland. But the Iron Crosses they earned would
not save them or their progeny from the "Austrian Corporal’s Final
Solution." According to Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers by Bryan Rigg,
“About 10,000 volunteered for duty, and over 100,000 out of a total
German-Jewish population of 550,000 served during World War One. Some 78% saw
front-line duty, 12,000 died in battle, over 30,000 received decorations, and
19,000 were promoted. Approximately 2,000 Jews became military officers and
1,200 became medical officers.”
1914:
The British Ambassador to France “was to have dined with at Edmond de
Rothschild Boulogne-sur Seine villa tonight but they have to dine in Paris
instead because “all of his horses and automobiles have been appropriated” by
the government as part of the mobilization for war.
1914:
In Saint Petersburg, Russia, Alexander Govorkovski and Ester Goverkovsky gave
birth to Ella Govorkovski who became Ella Drori when she married Amnon Drori.
1915:
It was reported today that with 25,000 Jews already serving in the military,
the British War Office has made serious efforts “to meet all of their religious
requirements” including wherever possible making arrangements for them “to
return from the firing line for Passover and for the Feast of Weeks.”
1915:
Polish-born English tailor Isaac Roman, who, as Victor Jeremy Jerome became a
writer and a leader of the CPUSA arrived in New York today aboard the SS St.
Louis.
1915:
It was reported today that the officers of the “New Synagogue” the recently
formed “liberal Jewish congregation” on New York’s West Side are Morris
Rothschild, Chairman; Jerome Wile, Treasurer and J.L. Frankel, Secretary who
will be supporting a professional staff consisting of Rabbi Ephraim Frisch and
organist Clarence Adler.
1916:
In talking to the press today about the impact of Britain’s attempts to limit
food supplies coming into Germany, Filed Marshall Von Batocki, “Germany’s food
dictator” noted that “Polish Jews…who largely subsisted on fish were suffering
intensely as a result of England’s economic pressure on neutrals particularly
in the matter of dish exports to and through Germany.”
1917:
In Manhattan, Martha Schallek and Joseph S. Wallenstein gave birth to Herbert
Joseph Wallenstein, the Republic political leader who served as Assistant State
Attorney General for 20 years starting in 1959.
1917:
Harvey B. Franklin, of Stockton, CA is scheduled to begin serving as the Rabbi
of Temple Sinai, Oakland, CA.
1917:
Eighteen year old Lawrence Valenstein “borrowed $100 from his mother” and today
“opened a tiny headquarters” of which would become the Grey Advertising Agency,
“one of the country[s leading advertising companies.” (As reported by Suzanne Daley)
1917:
Based on information supplied by Ottis A. Glazebook, the U.S. Consul in
Jerusalem who left that city for Switzerland after the U.S. entered the war on
the side of the Allies, it was reported today that “there are now in Palestine
500 Jewish-American citizens” all of whom had “been given permission to leave”
but preferred “to remain” where they were.
1918:
Birthdate of Abraham Brauner, the son of timber wholesaler in Łódź, Poland, who
gained fame as movie producer Artur “Atze” Brauner, the husband of Theresa
Albert with whom he had four children and the kinsman of 49 people who died
during the Shoah including 12 murdered at Babi Yar.
1918:
During World War I, while serving in France a member of the Overseas Commission
of the Jewish Welfare Board, Dr. Hyman Gerson Enelow wrote from Beaune, France
today “that there is work for everybody
who wants to be helpful, that the Jewish soldiers “are very happy to see me”
because it makes them “feel like they are not forgotten and that in addition to
his official duties, he has spent several hours at the hospital trying to help
“our doctors and nurse who are terribly overworked” and providing comfort to
the wounded, especially those close to death.
1918:
Decree issued “securing the title of the Chestnut Street Cemetery” in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
1918:
Abraham Schrameck, begin serving as Governor-General of Madagascar.
1918:
Joseph Schlossberg, General Secretary Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
and Abraham Epstein, President Workmen's Circle were among the leaders of a
meeting of a Conference of Trade Unions, Branches of the Workmen's Circle, and
other Progressive Labor Organizations of Greater New York scheduled to be held
be held in Webster Hall, 119 East 11th Street, for the purpose of organizing
the workers into a permanent central body for aiding all persons prosecuted who
are in need of help, and of arousing public opinion against the further
suppression of constitutional rights and liberties. The Conference will be held under the
auspices of the Liberty Defense Union, and has been endorsed by the United
Hebrews Trades and the National Executive Committee of the Workmen's Circle.
1919:
As The Hungarian Soviet Republic came to an end, Bela Kun “fled as Romanian
troops approached Budapest.”
1919:
When the fascist government in Hungary limited the number of Jews in commerce,
law, medicine, and banking it defined a Jew as “all those of the Jewish
religion and also all who became members of other confession after August 1, 19 19
1919:
“The Jewess of Toledo” “a silent historical drama film directed by Otto
Kreisler an adaptation of the 1872 play The Jewess of Toledo by Franz
Grillparzer which was based on the relationship between Alfonso VIII of Castile
and Rahel la Fermosa in 12th Century Spain” was released in Austria today.
1919(5th
of Av, 5679): Seventy-one year old businessman, theater impresario and composer
Oscar Hammerstein I, the grandfather of lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, passed
away today.
1920:
Birthdate of Israeli politician Michael Dekel, the native of Pinsk who fought
with the Soviet and Polish armies during WW II before making Aliyah in 1949.
1920
The Zionist Actions Committee decided “to entrust the Jewish National Fund with
the duty of carrying out a plan for a Nordau Garden City in Palestin
1921(26th
of Tammuz, 5681): Seventy-three year old “French economist and statistician
Alfred Neymarck, the son of Mayes and Henritte Neymark, the husband of Jeanne
Neymarck and “vice-president of the International Congress of Societies for
Lawsuits and of the International Congress for Landed Property” passed away
today.
1922(7th
of Av, 5682): Sixty-three year old mechanical engineer Donát Bánki the son of a
Hungarian Jewish physician who helped to invent “the carburetor for the
stationary engine.”
1924: In Dąbrowica, Poland, Anna (Szapiro) and Maurice Charpak
gave birth to Georges Charpak, the French physicist who won the Nobel Prize for
Physics in 1992.
1924: Birthdate of Michael Stuart Rubin who as Michael Stewart was
one of stable writers who got their start writing for Sid Caesar and who went
on to became the Tony Award winning creator of “Bye Bye Birdies” and “Hello,
Dolly!”
1925:
The (Turkish) Palestine Citizenship Ordinance went into effect. It said that
any "Turkish subject" in Palestine as of August
1, 19 25
1926:
At Constantinople it was announced that the Jews of Turkey formally renounced
their rights as minorities. They would for now on be considered full citizens
with equal rights as all citizens have.
1926(21st
of Av, 5686): Israel Zangwill passed away. The Russian born, Anglo-Jewish
author, Zionist and champion of social justice is best known for two of his
works - a novel entitled Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar
People a highly successful play entitled The Melting Pot. Among those who saw and enjoyed this was
President Theodore Roosevelt.
1927:
Birthdate of German-American Ivy League (Princeton and Harvard) economist, Dr.
Otto Eckstein, the co-founder of Data Resources, Inc and the husband of
Harriett Mirkin Eckstein with whom he raised three children – Warren, Felecia
and June.
1928(15th
of Av, 5688): Tu B’Av is celebrated for the last time during the Presidency of
Calvin Coolidge.
1929:
In Manhattan, Eva and Stanley Garfinkel gave birth to Howard Morris Garfinkel
who changed the nature of basketball with his recruiting service and
instructional camps. (As reported by Vincent M. Mallozzi)
1930:
In Queens, “dress maker” Abraham Frankel and his wife gave birth to University
of Illinois graduate and garment manufacturer Jerry Frankel who went on to
become a Tony winning producer.
1930: In London, Galician Jewish immigrants Yetta (née
Darumstundler) and Morris Begleiter, a master tailor gave birth to composer
Lionel Bart, the genius who created the musical “Oliver!”
1930(7th
of Av, 5690): Forty-eight year old Jack Zuta, an accountant for mobsters in
Chicago was shot by unknown gunman while hiding out in Wisconsin.
1930:
“The Cabinet of Doctor Larifari,” a comedy with music by Franz Waxman and
filmed by cinematographer Otto Heller was released today in German.
1930:
“Grumpy” directed by George Cukor, co-starring Paul Lukas and filmed by
cinematographer David Abel was released today in the United States.
1931: “Tabu” a silent film set in the South Seas
with music by Hugo Riesenfeld was released today in the Unites States.
1931:
Birthdate of Elliott Charles Adnopoz,
who became famous as Ramblin' Jack
Elliott
1931: Eduard Strauch who would murder over 10,000
Jews from Riga in the Rumbula Forest joined the Nazi Party and the SA.
1932:
Birthdate of Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League.
1933: The Deutsche Modeamt, a
newly-formed Nazi fashion office, announces that Jewish firms will not be
permitted to exhibit in the exhibition of men's and women's wear.
1933: Fritz Rosenfelder, leader and founder of the sports club at Saanstaat, Wurtenberg, commits suicide because he was expelled from the club; in a final letter to his former club colleagues, he wrote: "I am leaving with no hatred. My only wish is that Germany should be restored to reason . . . How more beautifully could I have given my life for my Fatherland."
1933: The Commissariat for Medical Associations issues a decree prohibiting non-Jewish physicians from having any professional contact with Jewish physicians; non-Jewish medical men must not serve as consultants, and must not treat patients recommended to them by Jewish physicians.
1933:
The Dutch Society of Sculptors and Artists responds to an appeal on behalf of
Jewish refugees from Germany by donating many objects of art which will be used
in a lottery sanctioned by the Government.
1935:
In the Bronx, “Joseph Weiss, an accountant and the former Jean Bystock” gave
birth to Melvyn Irwin Weiss, the NYU trained attorney and the husband of “the
former Barbara Joan Kaplan” who was a leading class action attorney. (As
reported by Sam Roberts)
1936:
The report of the Peel Commission was discussed today in Geneva, home of the
League of Nations. Poland, Romania and other East European countries, debating
the Peel Report on the proposed partition of Palestine, demanded that Great
Britain continue to fulfill her obligations under the Mandate. The Arab
leadership argued that the rights of the people of Palestine could not be
contested and that any partition scheme was contrary to Articles 20 and 31 of
the Covenant of the League of Nations. In a contradiction of facts the Arabs
did not deny the rights of the Jewish minority in Palestine, and were even
prepared to furnish guarantees in this respect, but they unanimously opposed
the country's partition and demanded immediate, total independence. But part of
the rights of the Jewish community under the terms of the Balfour Declaration
and the Mandate was to a Jewish Homeland, not citizenship in an Arab country.
In South Africa General J.C. Smuts, vice premier and minister of justice,
expressed his grave misgivings about the partition scheme in general, and the
smallness of the proposed Jewish state in particular. A total rejection of the
partition was also the subject of letters written by Colonel J.C. Wedgwood, MP
(Member of Parliament), and addressed to the British and world press.
1936:
Following the arrival of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise in Geneva, the organizations
committee of “The World Jewish Congress” which is opening in Geneva on August 8
announced today that it “will devote one special session to the present
situation in Palestine”
1936:
In Detroit, “Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea said tonight that a chemist questioned
about a reported Black Legion typhoid epidemic plot” aimed at Jews living in
the area “has declared a high ranking legion officer inquired also how to make
hand grenades and how to kill people with poison gas and hypodermic needles.”
1936:
Birthdate of Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg of Belfast, founder of Stanley
Leisure Ltd and found and first President of the Northern Ireland Friends of
Israel
1936:
The Olympics open in Berlin.
1937:
Karl-Otto Koch, who would have the strange misfortune of being executed by the
SS for mismanaging a concentration camp, today “was given command of the
concentration camp at Buchenwald.”
1937:
Among the passengers on board the French line De Grasse which arrived in New
York today was scholar and author Dr. Joachim Prinz and his wife who are scheduled
to “tour American cities on behalf of the United Palestine appeal which is
seeking to raise $4,500,000 for the settle of Jews from Poland, Silesia and
Germany in Palestine.”
1938:
At the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans which had been purchased by Seymour Weiss
in 1934, “the Main Bar” later known as the Sazerac Bar, opened with its famous
“mahogany bar, walnut paneled walls and Paul Ninas murals.”
1938(4th
of Av, 5698): Eighty-two year old of New York native Albert Arnstein, the
graduate of Packards Business College and the holder of an LL.B from St.
Lawrence University who settled in St. Louis where he was President of the
United Jewish and Charitable Associations passed away today.
1938:
In Austria, on “rent day” another of the Nuremberg Laws went into effect under
“which it is sufficient for a single ‘Aryan’ in a block of flats to object to
Jewish tenants for the Jews to receive notices” ordering them to vacate the
premises – a move which is expected to lead to Jews being able to only live in
flats where all of the other residents of the building are Jewish.
1938:
“Virtually all Jewish-owned cafes on Vienna’s famous Ring Boulevard were
ordered today to close their doors” while all other cafes were ordered to post
signs saying “Jews Not Wanted.”
1939: In Prague, “a force of Germans in Stroopers’
brown shirts and top boot entered the popular Manes swimming pool this after
and ordered all Jews to leave” but “Jews entered the pool after the Germans’
departure.”
1940:
In Tel Aviv, journalist Theodor Loevy and his wife Elisa gave birth to
television director and writer Ram Loevy.
1940:
Antonio Origo and Iris Cutting Origo an Anglo-Irish writer who helped to save
Jewish children through the kindertransport including the painter Frank Helmut
Auerbach gave birth to their second child, and first daughter, Donata.
1940:
The Nazis begin the expulsion of the Jewish population from Cracow, Poland.
One-third would be sent to Warsaw and other Polish towns.1942: The first
"reliable report" of the Nazi plan to murder all the Jews reached the
West. The U.S. State Department suppressed the report for several weeks, until
Jews living in the United States heard about the report from other sources.
1941:
Heydrich informed Himmler, “that in the future there will be no more Jews in
the annexed Eastern Territories." Every day in every village and town,
Jews would be hunted down, molested, tortured, and executed.
1941(8th
of Av, 5701): Another 1,000 Jews were shot in the city of Kishenev.
1941:
The Nazis established The Bialystok Ghetto.
1942:
In Danbury, CT, Annette and Lazarus Heyman gave birth to Abigail Heyman “a
photographer whose stark portraits of women at work, at home and at weddings
gave a visual concreteness to feminist doctrine of the 1970s about the
oppressiveness of traditional female roles.” (As reported by Paul Vitello)
1942
(18th of Av, 5702) Rabbi Shlomo Chanoch Rabinowicz, last Rebbe of the Radomsk
dynasty, educator, a director of the Kesser Torah organization, member of the
religious council in the Warsaw ghetto was murdered with his family in the
Warsaw ghetto
1942:
Benjamin Sagalowitz, press secretary of the Swiss Federation of Jewish
Communities phoned Gerhard Riegner with information from an unimpeachable
source, a non-Jewish German industrialist, that Hitler had decided to have all
European Jews exterminated by means of poison gas by the end of the year.
1943:
In Poland the final liquidation of the Bendzin Ghetto began today as the first
batch of what would total 8,000 prisoners were deported today.
1943:
When the Nazis began their final liquidation of Bendzin Ghetto they are met
with unexpected “armed resistance in several bunkers” led by young Jews that
“hampered” the Germans forcing them to spend two weeks on this latest venture
in murderous cruelty.
1943:
Rabbi Louis Werfel, a graduate of Yeshiva College and RIETS “was sent to North
Africa, where he served as Chaplain with the 12th Air Force Service Command,
where his area of operations included Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Sicily.
1943(29th
of Tammuz, 5703): Twenty year old Lydia Litvyak a fighter pilot in the Soviet
Air Force during World War II with twelve solo victories, four shared kills
over a total of 66 combat missions, over about two years of missions, who was
the first female fighter pilot to shoot down an enemy plane, the first of two
female fighter pilots who have earned the title of fighter ace, and the holder
of the record for the greatest number of kills by a female fighter pilot was
shot down near Orel during the Battle of Kursk as she attacked a formation of
German planes today.
1943(29th
of Tammuz, 5703): Sixty-eight year old Ismar Elbogen the German rabbi and
historian who wrote Jewish Liturgy: A Comprehensive History which has
been updated many times since its first publication in 1913, passed away in New
York City.
1944:
Sixty-six year old Manuel L. Quezon, the President of the Commonwealth of the
Philippines who willing resettled Jews fleeing the killing grounds of Europe
despite local opposition which was part of the theme of the movie “An Open
Door” and for which he was posthumously honored by the Raoul Wallenberg
Foundation passed away today.
1944:
In Budapest, “György Vajna, a merchant of Jewish descent (born Weidmann) and
his wife, Klára gave birth to UCLA
trained American movie producer Andrew George Vajna
1944:
Anne Frank writes the last entry in her diary.
1944:
Rose Valland, the French art historian and member of the Resistance “learned
that the Germans were planning to ship out a last five boxcars full of art”
most of which had been looted from French Jews and notified the Resistance “who
prevented the train from leaving Paris.
1944:
Future Nobel Prize winner François Jacob who fought with Free French 2nd
Armored Division “returned to a liberated Paris.”
1944:
Fourteen months after the Warsaw Ghetto, the Polish underground rises against
the Nazis in Warsaw. Jewish fighters came of hiding to participate in the fight.
However, those who could not come to the aide of the Jews in 1943 would now
find out what it felt like. The Soviet Army waited outside the city and did not
come to their aid. Instead, they let the Nazis slaughter the Poles and then
they entered the city as liberating heroes
1945:
Birthdate of Douglas Dean Osheroff,
winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996.
His father was Jewish and his mother was Lithuanian.
1945:
Former Senator Guy M. Gillette of Iowa today announced his acceptance of the
presidency of the American League for a Free Palestine and the post of chief
political adviser to the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation.
Declaring
that he considers the "so-called Jewish problem not as a Jewish or a
Hebrew question, but as an urgent problem of the United Nations and of the
decent portion of mankind," Gillette urged that the Allied Control
Commission in Europe recognize the "Hebrew national status" and
permit "stateless or Axis Jews" to decide their own status as Hebrew
nationals, or stateless, or nationals of Germany, Rumania or Hungary. He also
recommended:
1.
Freeing of all Jews from Axis concentration camps.
2.
Extension of UNRRA relief operations to the Balkan countries where, he charged
hundreds of thousands of Jews in Rumania and Hungary, particularly, are
starving and have not yet received any UNRRA aid.
3.
Addition of Jewish representatives to the United Nations War Crimes Commission.
4.
Consideration by the Reparations Commission now meeting in Moscow of the
"claims and rights" of surviving Jews, and inclusion of compensation
for the losses of the Jewish people.
Gillette
said that every Jew in Europe should be authorized "to apply to the
nearest British consulate and receive his first papers of Palestinian
citizenship." He also suggested the creation of an Anglo-American-Russian
committee with adequate powers to effect the speediest repatriation of all such
applicants to Palestine. These steps, Gillette asserted, are "essential
for the commencement of a solution of the entire problem." Annulment by
the new British Government of "discriminatory laws against Jews in
Palestine" was likewise demanded by Gillette. (As reported by Jewish
Telegraph Agency)
1945:
The final Little Boy was assembled and so it would ready to be dropped on
Japan.
1946(4th
of Av, 5706): In Miskol, Hungry industrial workers stage a pogrom. Two Jews are
lynched. This is an example of the post-war anti-Semitic violence that led
approximately 4,000 Jews to leave Hungary for Palestine during the next two
years.
1946:
In San Jose Rodolpho Liberman and his wife gave birth to businessman Luis
Liberman Ginsburg, who became Second Vice President of his native Costa Rica.
1947(15th
of Av, 5707): Tu B’Av
1947:
In the United Kingdom, the Daily Express reported the story about two British
soldiers hung by the Irgun “prominently displaying a photograph of the bodies
which, it promised its readers, would be a “picture that will shock the world”
1948:
IAF volunteer pilot Leo Nomi took a 25 minute truck ride to Netanya where he
flew patrol in a D-114 with three other pilots including Ezer Weizman.
1948:
“Syd Antin and Red Finkel flew a pair of S-199s on patrol today, out of
Netanya.
1948:
Birthdate of Avi Arad the native of Ramat Gan, son of Holocaust survivors from
Poland and veteran of the Six Day War who “became the CEO of the company Toy
Biz in the 1990s, and soon afterward became the chief creative officer of
Marvel Entertainment, a Marvel director, and the chairman, CEO, and founder of
Marvel Studios.”
1948:
Birthdate of Aline Goldsmith, Kominsky-Crumb, the Long Beach, NY native who
“reshaped” the world of comics.
1949:
“Mr. Soft Touch” a crime movie directed by Henry Levin was released today in
the United States by Columbia Pictures.
1949:
Warner Brothers releases a spoof about the movie industry – “It’s a Great
Feeling” with a screenplay by Jack Rose and Melville Shavelson based on a story
by I.A.L. Diamond, a score by Jule Styne all of which were brought together by
producer Alex Gottlieb.
1952:
As part of a major cost reduction program at MGM studios, today is scheduled to
be the last day of work for Richard Goldstone who has produced nine pictures
for the studio over the last three years.
1952:
In Manhattan, Dr. Judith P. Sulzberger and Dr. Matthew Rosenschien, Jr. gave
birth to Daniel Hays Cohen, the adopted son of Yale educated insurance broker
Richard N. Cohen and “great-grandson of Adolph S. Ochs, the family patriarch
who bought The Times in 1896, and a first cousin of Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr.,
the company’s current chairman and publisher, and of Michael Golden, the vice
chairman. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1953:
Birthdate of British born Jewish historian Martin David Goodman who specialized
in the Roman period and whose works included The Ruling Class of Judaea: The
Origins of the Jewish Revolt Against Rome, A.D. 66-70
1954(2nd
of Av, 5714): Seventy-three year old Dr. Harry E. Isaacs, “founder of the
American Jewish Physicians Committee, an affiliate of the American Friends of
the Hebrew University and the former Chief of Surgery at Beth El Hospital
passed away today.
1954:
A group of ten raiders under the command of Meir Har-Zion returned from a raid
conducted near Jenin where they “attacked two policemen and took one of them
prisoner.”
1955:
“The Kentuckian” co-starring Walter Matthau with music by Bernard Hermann was
released in the United States today by United Artists.
1956:
The Salk Vaccine, created by Dr. Jonas Salk, becomes available to the American
public.
1956(24th
of Av, 5716): Seventy-one year old “Mrs. Lily Oppenheimer Pforzheimer, the wife
of investment banker Carl H. Pforzheimer,” “one of the original directors of
the Metropolitan Opera Guild” and a board member of the Young Men’s and Young
Women’s Hebrew Association passed away today.
1960:
Ella Fitzgerald began recording what would become an album of the songs of
Harold Arlen known as “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook.”
1957:
In Canada, the Israeli Embassy announced that “Arthur Lourie, assistant
director-general of the Israel Foreign Ministry…has been appointed Israel’s
Ambassador to Canada.” (JTA)
1958:
In Jerusalem, Michael and Shulamit Albeck gave birth to biochemist Amnon
Albeck, the grandson of Hanoch Albeck, a “professor of Talmud at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem who was one of the founders of the scientific approach
to the study of the Mishna.”
1959(26th
of Tammuz, 5719): Parsashat Matot-Masei
1960:
Today, Senator John F. Kennedy, the Democratic Presidential nominee issued a
statement “paying tribute to Philip B. Perlman, the former United States
Solicitor General who died last night” acknowledging his help in drafting “the
national platform of” the recently concluded Democratic convention in which “as
in everything in his life, he gave unstintingly of his time and effort.”
1963(11th
of Av, 5723): Sixty-six year old “Morton J. Baum” the Phi Beta Kappa graduate
of the University of Pennsylvania and WW I U.S. Navy veteran who became
“president of the Hickey-Freeman Men’s Clothing Company and the husband of
Margaret Baum with whom he had two children – Morton, Jr and Helen – died today
after suffering a fatal heart attack.
1964(23rd
of Av, 5724): Parashat Eikev
1964(23rd
of Av, 5724): Seventy-six year old Rufus Learsi (Israel Goldberg) author of
History of the Jewish People and The Jews in America: A History who with his
wife had three children – David, Arthur and Judith – passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/04/rufus-learsi-writer-of-history-of-jews-in-america-dies-at-76.html
1965:
Birthdate of English stage and film director Sam Mendes whose father was from
Trinidad and whose mother was an English Jew.
1969:
In Shaker Heights, Ohio, Nina (née Saul) and Norman
Wain gave birth to multi-talented David Benjamin Wain best known for directing
“feature films.
1970: Nobel Prize winner Otto Heinrich Warburg passed away. Warburg was part of the famed Warburg clan
but he was not Jewish. His father, Emil,
had converted to Christianity.
1970:
Ensio P.H. Siilasvuo of Finland assumes the role of Chief of Staff United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO)
1971(10th of Av, 5731): Tish’a B’Av observed
1971: “The Omega Man” a sci-fi film directed by
Boris Sagal was released in the United States today.
1971: CBS broadcast the first episode in the series
“The Six Wives of Henry VII” co-starring Wolfe Morris as the villainous “Thomas
Cromwell.”
1973: After opening on Broadway at the Uris Theatre
in March, “Seesaw,” a musical with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, music by Cy
Coleman and book re-written by Neil Simon transferred to the Mark Hellinger
Theatre.
1975: The “Final Helsinki Act” was signed in
Helsinki at the summit of 35 nations of Europe, USA and Canada
1976: Natalia
Grigoryevna Kushnir and the Russian volleyball team won a silver medal at the
1976 Olympics which closed at Montreal today.
1977(17th of Av, 5737): Seventy-seven
year old psychiatrist Mark Lewis Gerstle, Jr. “the San Franciso born son of
Hilda Alice Gerstle and Marcus ‘Mark’ Lewis Gerstle” and father of Martha,
Kathryn and Mark Gerstle passed away today in his hometown.
1979: “Melech Epstein Dead at 90” published today
provided a brief account of the life of this former Communist and Jewish
author.
1979: Alleged
violations by Egypt of its peace treaty with Israel were discussed here today
by Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and Egypt’s Defense Minister Kamal Hassan Ali
who ended his three-day visit to Israel this afternoon. Read more: http://www.jta.org/1979/08/01/archive/israel-complains-to-egypt-about-violations-of-peace-treaty#ixzz2afGP53oc
1979: “Between today and through most of 1985, few
merchants were as lavishly praised as Ed Finkelstein,” Isadore Barmash, a
former retailing reporter for The New
York Times, wrote in his 1989 book, “Macy’s for Sale.”
1979: Following her graduation from rabbinical college in
Philadelphia, Linda Joy Holtzman was appointed spiritual leader of the
Conservative Beth Israel congregation in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, making her
the first female rabbi to head a Jewish congregation in America.
1979(18th of Av, 5748): Seventy-eight year old Samuel
Augie Ratner, the son Benjamin and Rose Ratner and brother of Max and Louis
Ratner passed away today after which he was buried at the United Hebrew
Brotherhood Cemetery in Richfield, MN.
1980:
Jerusalem Storm Just One More in a Tortured History;
The Name Itself Is at Issue Easing Way for the Romans Focus of a Power Struggle
1980: “Jerusalem Storm Just One More in Tortured History”
published today described the city’s history in light of the Knesset’s vote
this week “affirming Jerusalem as a united city and the capital of Israel.”
1980: “Raise the Titanic,” an adventure film produced by Lew
Grade's ITC Entertainment “and featuring Elya Baskin was released today.
1980: “The Final Countdown” a film that combines the attack on
Pearl Harbor with science fiction starring Kirk Douglas and produced by his son
Peter was released in the United States today.
1980: Egypt said today that it would not suspend the talks with
Israel on autonomy for the occupied areas nor would it recall its Ambassador
from Israel in response to the passage of an Israeli law formalizing the
annexation of Jerusalem.
1980: Two days after the Knesset passed the Jerusalem Law, an
article entitled “Jerusalem Storm Just One More in a Tortured History” which
traced the history of the city from ancient times to the period following the
Six Days War was published. The article includes the following: “During the war
that followed Israel’s independence in 1948, Jordan seized the eastern sector
of Jerusalem…and the new state won control of the western sector. The Jordanians evicted all Jews from the Old
City; from 1948 to 1967 was off limits to Jews and most of the old synagogues
there were destroyed.” (Editor’s note –
The author, working for The New York Times, writes about an eastern sector and
a western sector of Jerusalem as well as the Old City. The term “East Jerusalem and, its concept as
a separate city, is apparently a more recent creation.)
1981(1st of Av, 5741): Rosh Chodesh Av
1981: Dr. Donald Payne, the husband of Jessica Savitch, passed
away today in Washington, DC.
1981:
Abu Daoud, a Black September commander who openly claimed to have helped plan
the Munich attack, was shot multiple times by a gunman in a Warsaw hotel cafe.
Daoud survived the attack
1981(1st of Av, 5741): Paddy Chayefsky passed away. Born in 1923,
Sydney "Paddy" Chayefsky began writing scripts for television during
its golden age of drama in the 1950’s. He switched to films where he won three
Oscar for writing "Marty", "Hospital" and
"Network." (As reported by Colin Campbell)
1985:
Birthdate of Benjamin Levin, the son of David Robert Levin
1985(14th
of Av, 5745): Ninety two year old Jules Salvador Moch, the son of Captain
Gaston Moch and the grandson of Colonel Jules Moch who fought with the Free
French at Normandy before becoming a political leader passed away in Cabris.
1986:
“Howard The Duck” a sci-fi comedy co-produced by Gloria Katz who also wrote the
script and featuring Liz Sagal as “Ronette” was released in the United States
today.
1987(6th
of Av, 5747): Parashat Devarim and Shabbat Chazon
1987(6th
of Av, 5747): Harvey Clurman passed away today and was later buried at the New
Montefiore Cemetery in Suffolk County.
1988(19th
of Elul, 5748): Sixty-seven year old Robert Tandler Mack, Jr. the Chicago born
“son of Jeanette and Robert Tandler Mack,” the husband of Doris Mack, the
“father of Robert Tandler Mack III” and author of Raising The World’s
Standard of Living passed away today in Palo Alto, CA.
1989:
Morton Abramowitz began serving as U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
1989(29th
of Tammuz, 5749): Fifty-nine year old Hungarian born Canadian director who had
survived the Holocuast passed away today.
1991:
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir accepted a formula for peace talks in the
Middle East.
1991
Publication of Jewish Life in Germany: Memoirs from Three Centuries,
edited by Monika Richarz.
1992:
In Montclair, NJ, “Stephen Rosenfield, a teacher of stand-up comedy and the
founder of the American Comedy Institute in New York City” and actress
Katherine Mathilde "Kate" Redway Rosenfield, gave birth to musician
and actor Benjamin “Ben” Rosenfield whose most notable role may be have been in
the totally amoral drama series “Boardwalk Empire.”
1992:
Thirty-four year old producer Scott Rudin “signed a deal with Tri-Star
Pictures.”
1993:
Showtime broadcast the first episode of Executive Producer Sydney Pollack’s
“Fallen Angels” produced by Steve Golin and with music by Elmer Berstein.
1996(16th
of Av, 5766): Eighty-eight year old Frank Glassman, the younger brother of
Morris Glassman and lineman who played at Wilmington and Bliss College before
spending a year in the NFL with the Buffalo Bisons passed away today.
1998(9th
of Av, 5758): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1998(9th
of Av, 5758): Eighty-two year old New York City born Soviet spy Joel Barr who
was part of the same group that included the Rosenbergs, passed away today.
1998:
Based on order by the Assassination Records Review Board (AARB) today was the
deadline from transferring the Zapruder film of JFK’s assassination from the
NARA’s film collection to the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection.
1999:
U.K. premiere of “A Price Above Rubies,” a film about Chasidic Jews directed
and written by Boaz Yankin and co-starring Julianna Marguiles.
2000:
Moshe Katsav was sworn in as President of Israel making him the first person to
be elected to a seven year term and the first person from Likud to be elected
President.
2000:
“Space Cowboys” a geriatric, galactic buddy-movie co-produced by Andrew Lazar
and with a score by Lennie Niehaus was released n he United States today.
2000:
James “Jim” Steinberg completed his service as Deputy National Security Advisor
under President Clinton.
2001:
Rita Levi-Montalcini “was appointed as Senator for Life by the President of
Italy.
2002:
Premiere of “Yossi & Jagger,” an “Israeli romantic drama film directed by
Eytan Fox.
2002:
The body Shani Ladani, 27, of Moshav Olash, shot and bound, was found west of
Tulkarem, near the Green Line, in the industrial zone where he was employed.
2002:
Dalia Rabin-Pelossof, the daughter of Yitzhak Rabin, resigned as Deputy
Minister of Defense.
2003:
Jill Abramson, the Washington bureau chief of the New York Times was one two people appointed today to serve as
managing editor of the Times. She “will
be managing editor for news gathering.”
2004:
The New York Times book section
features a review of 'Jerome Robbins': From Stravinsky to the
Sharks by Nicholas Fox Weber.
2004:
In Aspen, CO, Bernard Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot, Inc. is the headline
speaker at United Jewish Communities (UJC) eighth annual Jewish Leadership
Forum (JLF)
2004:
Lexington, KY native Jeffrey M. Lacker began serving as the President of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
2004(14th
of Av, 5764): Sidney Morgenbesser passed away at the age of 82 from complications
of ALS . Morgenbesser was the Emeritus John Dewey
Professor of Philosophy at Columbia. He attended JTS and earned a Ph.D. from
Penn. He was known for his erudition and
his wit. David Shatz of Yeshiva
University recounted the story of Morgenbesser chastising a faculty member for
hiding his Jewishness: “Oh, I see your model is Icognito, ergo sum.”
2005
(25th of Tammuz, 5765): George Forman, a longtime comptroller of the American
Civil Liberties Union, who brought fiscal discipline to a ramshackle organization
near bankruptcy in the late 1970s and later helped it develop into a powerful
civil liberties conglomerate, died today at the age of 88.(As reported by Lily
Koppel)
2005:
President George W Bush nominated Roland Arnall to become the U.S. ambassador
to the Netherlands.
2005:
A political essay written by Russian businessman and oligarch Mikhail
Khodorkovsky in his prison cell, titled "Left Turn", was published in
Vedomosti, calling for a turn to more social responsible state.
2005
(25th of Tammuz, 5765): Al Aronowitz passed away at
the age of 77. He was a pioneering
journalist who covered the Beat literary scene and engineered a meeting between
Bob Dylan and the Beatles that has passed into rock 'n' roll legend.
2005
(25th of Tammuz, 5765): George Forman, a longtime comptroller of the American
Civil Liberties Union who brought fiscal discipline to a ramshackle organization
near bankruptcy in the late 1970's and later helped it develop into a powerful
civil liberties conglomerate passed away today at the age of 88. "During the years of crisis he was more
responsible than any other single person for keeping the program afloat,"
said Ira Glazer, the executive director of the A.C.L.U. from 1978 to 2001. He
explained how Mr. Forman juggled the bills and even earned interest on a
deficit operational budget, and recalled visits from officials of Chemical Bank
who complained that although the organization was moving around millions of
dollars, its average balance was $3.79.,"He was the chewing gum and rubber
bands that held the organization together and made the high intellectual and
strategic law possible," Mr. Glazer said. When Mr. Forman arrived at the
A.C.L.U. in 1968, the organization had two lawyers, one part-time press person
and no one in charge of administration and finances, fund-raising or
development. By the time he retired in the late 1990's, the organization had a
$50 million annual income, more than $100 million in assets and staffed offices
in every state. Before joining the A.C.L.U., Mr. Forman was the comptroller of
the Noma Corporation, a large, diversified holding company; he became
unemployed when Noma merged with a predecessor of Gulf and Western. During
World War II, he was an Army officer stationed in Washington, where he fell in
love with a woman with whom he had his only daughter but felt he could not
marry because she was not Jewish. He graduated magna cum laude from New York
University in 1939 and earned a graduate degree in business administration
there.
2006(7th of Av, 5766): Sixty-two year art historian Arlene Raven
passed away today. (As reported by Elaine Woo)
2006:
A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Judge
Sweet's decision, holding 2–1 that federal prosecutors could inspect the
telephone records of Judith Miller
2006(7th of Av, 5766): Skirmishes with Hezbollah guerrillas in the
southern Lebanese village of Ayta al-Shaab left three soldiers, including an
officer, of a Paratrooper Brigade unit dead and at least another 25 wounded.
The names of the fallen have been released: St.-Sgt. Yehunatan Einhorn, 22, of
Moshav Gimzo; First Sergeant Michael Levine, 21, of Jerusalem; and Lieutenant
Ilan Gabbai, 22, of Kiryat Tivon.
2006:
A number of Jewish-owned stores in Italy had their
doors sealed with glue and the shutters nailed down overnight as a response to
Israel’s policies in Lebanon
2006: Today, Peter “Gelb became the 16th General
Manager of the Metropolitan Opera” following with he “launched…several new
productions, including Madame Butterfly, The Barber of Seville, The First
Emperor.”
2007: U.S. President George Bush imposed sanctions on Syria today
because of the role the Damascus government has played in creating regional
instability.
2007: U.S. Secretary of State Condi Rice arrives in Jerusalem.
2008: Solomon
"Momy" Levy began serving his term as Mayor of Gibraltar.
2008: Solomon Levy began serving as the Mayor of Gibraltar. 2008:
In Falls Church VA (suburban Washington, D.C.), Jewish author Benjamin Rosenbaum reads from and discusses his new collection
of SF tales, The Ant King and Other
Stories
2009: At
Temple Judah, a Triple Header:
- Shabbat Nachamu
- Rabbi Todd Thalbum
officially takes the pulpit at Temple Judah and reads the Torah portion at
his first Cedar Rapids Shabbat Morning Service
- Raoul Wallenberg
Sabbath Annual Observance of Raoul Wallenberg Memorial
Day (August 4, 2009) which has been proclaimed by the Governor of Iowa for
three years in a row.
2009(11th
of Av, 5769): A gunman shot dead two people and wounded at least thirteen
others in an attack at a central Tel Aviv gay and lesbian center tonight before
fleeing the scene.
2010:
The Skirball Cultural Center show "Monsters and Miracles: A Journey
through Jewish Picture Books," is scheduled to come to a close today.
2010:
Jake Tapper completed his service as the interim anchor of ABC’s “This Week” –
a career disappointment that would help take him to CNN.
2010:
Modern Art, Sacred Space: Motherwell, Ferber, and Gottlieb is scheduled to have
its final showing at the Jewish Museum,in New York.
2010: President Shimon Peres is scheduled to travel to
Egypt today for a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The two
are expected to meet behind closed doors to discuss advancing diplomatic
efforts between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. They are also expected to
discuss cooperation between Israel and Egypt.
2010: The New York Times featured reviews of books
by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Telling
Times:
Writing and Living, 1954-2008
by Nadine Gordimer, Running Commentary: The Contentious
Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left Into the Neoconservative Right by
Benjamin Balint, Norman Podhoretz: A Biography by Thomas L. Jeffers, High
Financer:
The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
by Niall Ferguson and Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman
2010: The Jewish Community Center in Omaha welcomed nearly
1,000 young Jewish athletes for an Olympic-style competition that will run
through August 6. This will be the third
time in 19 years that the Maccabi Games have been held at the Jewish Community
Center.
2010(21 Av, 5770): Eighty-eight year old Reginald Levy,
the airline captain who thwarted the hijacking of his Belgian airliner in 1972,
passed away.(As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
2010: “Curious George Saves the Day: The Art of Margret and H.
A. Rey” is scheduled to be shown for the last time today at the Jewish Museum
2010:
President Shimon Peres is scheduled to travel to Egypt today for a meeting
with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The two are expected to meet behind
closed doors to discuss advancing diplomatic efforts between Israel and the
Palestinian Authority. They are also expected to discuss cooperation between
Israel and Egypt.
2011: A screening of “Bobby Fischer Against the World,”
Liz Garbus’s documentary that takes us on Fischer’s journey from Jewish child
prodigy to world chess master to virulent anti-Semite, is scheduled to be shown
at the San Francisco Jewish Festival.
2011(1st day of Av, 5771): Rosh Chodesh Av
2011: Today, “just seven months after a gunman’s bullet
nearly killed her, Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords returned to the floor of the
House of Representatives” to cast her firs vote. (JWA)
2011: Today “on the 5th anniversary
("yarzheit") of Michael Levin's death according to the Gregorian
calendar, a flag was flown over the US Capitol in his memory at the request of
a man from his local area, Johnson Reynolds, who considered him both an Israeli
and American hero. (A native Pennsylvanian, Levin had been killed in action
while serving with a Paratroopers Brigaded during the Second Lebanon War.)
2011: Today, for the first time, the IDF unveiled a
special guided missile system that has been used successfully in action in
Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. Called Tamuz, the missile is based on the Spike
Long-Range Missile developed by Rafael and is operated by Meitar, an elite unit
which operates under the Artillery Corps. The missile was opened to foreign
exports last year
2011: “Kmo Kulam” (Like Everyone Else) by Elisha Banai
and the Forty Thieves was released today.
2011: "Volunticipate,"
a weeklong encounter that brings together representatives of Jewish and Roma,
or Gypsy, youth groups from eight countries begins today in Hungary. The youth
are gathering to discuss how to build partnerships, plan joint initiatives, and
exchange experiences about minority identity and grass-roots civil activism.
2011: Leaders
of the protest for affordable housing who met with President Shimon Peres today
found a champion for the cause
2011: Haaretz’s board of
directors has appointed Aluf Benn as the paper’s editor in chief, effective
today. Benn, a veteran correspondent and commentator at Haaretz, replaces Dov
Alfon, who has been editor in chief for the past three years and is leaving the
paper to establish a new digital enterprise in cooperation with the Haaretz
Group
2011: “Just seven months
after a gunman’s bullet nearly killed her, Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
returned to the floor of the House of Representatives to cast her vote in favor
of a bill to raise the nation’s debt ceiling.”
2011: A Kassam rocket was
fired at southern Israel from Gaza tonight.
2012: Ninety-two thousand
Jews are scheduled to gather in New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium for the 12th
Siyum Hashas.
2012: US
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is scheduled to arrive in Israel today to
gauge Israel’s determination to attack Iran and to try to persuade Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to give sanctions and diplomacy more time. (As
reported by Yaakov Katz)
2012: “Best of Tel Aviv,”
celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Tel Aviv University film
school, is scheduled to be shown at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2012: Rabbi Alfredo
Borodowski is scheduled to begin teaching “Simply Mordecai M. Kaplan: From
Heretic to Prophet of American Judaism” at the Skirball Center.
2012: Yemen Blues, a group
organized by Ravid Kahalani and Omer Avital, is scheduled to perform at Lincoln Center’s
Damrosch Park.
2012: In Houston, TX, brit milhah for Joseph Levy
(Yosef Label) Strauss, son of Abbie and Feivel Strauss.
2012: Barbara Berger, whose brother, David, was
on the Israeli wrestling team in 1972, wrote in Haaretz today that families of
the 11 victims of a Palestinian terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics would
continue to advocate for a formal moment of silence at the Olympics, despite
the refusal of the International Olympics Committee to allow such a moment this
year, the massacre’s 40th anniversary. (As reported by JTA and The Times of
Israel)
2012: In some respects, today was a historic
turning point for Israel — the day on which ultra-Orthodox Israelis became
officially subject to the draft along with the rest of the country’s Jewish
citizens.
2012: Yakov
Toumarkin today became only the second Israeli swimmer to reach the final of an
Olympic event by finishing fifth in the semifinal of the men's 200m backstroke
event.
2012(13th of
Av, 5772): Eighty-five year old New York Times editor Gerald Gold passed away.
(As reported by Douglas Martin)
2012(13th of
Av, 5772): Seventy-four year old Esther Kartiganer who played on the undefeated
women’s Brandies University basketball team and was a senior producer at “60
Minutes” passed away today. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
2013: “Soldier on the Roof,” a documentary
about the Jews living in Hebron, is scheduled to be shown at the San Francisco
Jewish Film Festival today.
2013: Tufts University graduate and
University of Massachusetts trained nurse Alan D. Solomon completed his service
as U.S. Ambassador to Spain.
2013: “Crossing Delancey” is scheduled to be
shown this evening at the “Only In New York Summer Film Series.”
2013: A gag order was lifted today on an
espionage indictment filed against a 46-year-old Jerusalemite member of the
anti-Zionist Neturei Karta Haredi Sect accused of offering to serve as a spy
for the Iranian regime. (As reported by Havi Rettig Gur)
2013: The 12th Annual March for
Pride and Tolerance took place this evening in Jerusalem
2013(25th of Av, 5773): Sixty-seven
year old Igal Brightman the chairman and CEO of the major local accounting firm
of Deloitte Brightman Almagor Zohar died when his plane crashed outside of
Eilat.
2013: The Los Angeles Time featured a review of
Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most
Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar Straus & Giroux by Boris Kachka
2014: The jury is scheduled to announce the
winners in the Sukkah Design contest sponsored by Oregon Jewish Museum at the
Mittleman Jewish Community Center.
2014: A weeklong workshop “The Holocaust in Eastern Europe in the Records of the International Tracing
Service Digital Archive” at the USHMM is scheduled to come to an end.
2014: Based on
announcement by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Secretary of State
John Kerry a 72-hour unconditional cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is
scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. local time today.
2014(5th
of Av, 5774): Major Benaya Sarel, 26, from Kiryat Arba and St.-Sgt. Liel
Gidoni, 20, from Jerusalem both serving with the Givati Brigade were killed
today after the cease fire had begun. At the same time 2nd Lt.
Hadar Goldin, 23, from Kfar Saba was kidnapped. On August 2, Hadar was declared
to have died in today’s attack as well. (In life they were loved and admired.
They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.)
2014: Twenty-four
year old Lt. Eitan Fund “rushed into a tunnel to try and stop the kidnapping of
Hadar Goldin who in fact had already been killed by the terrorist – an act of
heroism for which he received the Distinguished Service Medal..
2014:
Representative Eric Cantor, the Virginia Republican whose last day as House
majority leader yesterday, said today that he would resign his seat effective
Aug. 18 in hopes that his successor will be able to participate in the
lame-duck session after the November elections. Mr. Cantor’s departure means
that they are no Jewish Republicans serving in the House of Representatives.
2014: At Temple
Judah’s Friday night services, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Rabbi Todd Thalblum is
scheduled to describe his trip to Israel.
2014: Following his
defeat in his party’s primary election Eric Cantor gave up his position as
House Majority leader.
2014: Michael Bloomberg’s fellowship, the
Genesis Generation Challenge is scheduled to “go live” today.
2015(16th of Av, 5775): Parashat
Vaetchanan and Shabbat Nachamu
2015: Today “opposition leader Isaac Herzog
issued a call to action against Jewish terrorism, and demanded that Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon respond to such
acts in the same way as Israel responds to Islamist terrorism.”
2015: Lewis Black is scheduled to appear at the
Main State Pier in Portland, ME.
2015: Benjamin Levin, son of David Levin, hits
the big Three Oh!
2016: “In the wake of the stabbing attack at
the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade in which six people were injured by an
ultra-Orthodox man,” “thousands of people attended a number of anti-violence,
anti-homophobia rallies across Israel” this evening.
2016: “The Farewell Party” is scheduled to be
shown at The Hampton Synagogue Film Series which is now in its 14th
year.
2016: Dani Dayan is scheduled to take office
today “Israel’s new consul general in New York.” (As reported by Josef Federer)
2017(9th of Av, 5777): Tish’a B’Av;
(Editor’s Note:
As we read Lamentations, we will lament giving control to modern day
Herodians and Zealots?)
2017: As Jews commemorated “the Babylonian
capture and conquest of the First Temple” “new finds in the City of David” that
“confirm the biblical account” of the event were being made public. (As
reported by Amanda Borschel-Dan)
2017: The IDF is scheduled to “conduct a
24-hour exercise” that “will include a brisk movement of security and forces
and vehicles” “in the vicinity of Nitzana communities and the area of the city
of Eilat starting” today.
2017(9th of Av, 5777): Seventy-four
year old Jeff Brotman, “a founder of Costco” and the husband of “the former
Susan Thrailkill” with whom he had two children, Justin and Amanda, passed away
today.(As reported by Sam Roberts)
2017: Marvin Krislov is scheduled to begin
serving as the eighth president of Pace University in New York.
2017: In London, on Finchley Road, JW3 is
scheduled to host a screening of the “Zookeeper’s Wife.”
2017: Friends and family of Benjamin Levin, the
son of David Levin celebrate his natal day.
2018: In Atlanta, MGM is scheduled to host a
free screening of “Operation Finale,” a movie “based on the 1960 covert mission
of Mossad agent Peter Malkin as he infiltrates Argentina and captures Adolf
Eichmann, the Nazi officer who masterminded the transportation logistics that brought
millions of innocent Jews to their deaths in concentration camps.”
2018: “The Ancient Law,” a film that tells the
story of a rabbi’s son who gains fame as an actor in Vienna, is scheduled to be
shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2018: “Vienna Beef, Chicago's legendary
manufacturer of hot dogs, sausage, and other food products,” founded by
“Austrian-Hungarian immigrants Emil Reichl and Samuel Ladany” hosted a public
celebration for the community today, in honor of its 125th anniversary.
2018: Today Anna “Kaplan became the first
candidate for New York State office to be endorsed by former President Barack
Obama.
2018: “The WOW festival with super star Jason
Derulo” is scheduled to place “at Rishon Lezion
2019: The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to host screenings of “The Amazing Johnathan” and “The Humorist.”
2019: Friends and family of Benjamin Levin, the
son of David Levin, are scheduled to celebrate the start of the last full month
of summer and his natal day.
2019: This evening the Center for Jewish
History and the American Jewish Historical Society are scheduled to host the
“Ladies Mile Walking Tour with Ephemeral New York’s Esther Crain.”
2019: JW3 is scheduled to host the last two
London screenings of “Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love.”
2019: As Israelis awoke this morning, they
learned that terrorists had crossed into Israel from Gaza and wounded an IDF
officer which led to a proportionate response from the IDF.
2020: Round 1 of the “Palywrights’
Center of S.F. Playoff’s” an online competition of 10-minute plays performed as
staged readings is scheduled to feature “Why God Made Beggars,” a Jewish theme play
by Steve Koppman.
2020: The FJMC Tri-Region Virtual
Men’s Club Retreat offering Torah Study, musical havdalah and other programing
is scheduled to begin this afternoon.
2020(11th of Av, 5780):
Parashat Va-etchanan; Shabbat Nachamu; For more see
