January 13
915:
Birthdate of Al-Hakam II, the second Caliph of Cordoba from 961 to 976 whose
subjects included Hasdai ibn Shaprut and Enoch Ben Moses both of whom were leaders
of the Jewish community in Andalusia.
1151:
Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis who in 1122 was granted five houses belonging to
Jews in Tours by King Louis VI, during whose “reign jurisdiction over the Jews
(and their revenues) gradually passed from royal control to the hands of the
Church” passed away today.
1334:
Birthdate of King Henry II of Castile who “was arguably the first ruler since
the Visigothic King Ergica to utilise opposition to Jewish activities in
Iberian Peninsula as part of his policy.”
1435:
Pope Eugene IV, who would issue an edict prohibiting: building of synagogues,
money-lending for interest, holding public office, testifying against
Christians, issued “Sicut Dubum,” a bull banning the enslavement of inhabitants
of the Canary Islands who had converted to Christianity. Both measures had the same purpose – the
growth of Christianity at all costs.
1505:
Birthdate of Joachim II Hector the Elector of Brandenburg who allowed the Jews
to return to his realm after he was told that the charges of host desecration
that had led to their expulsion were false.
1546(10th
of Shevat): The responsa of Rabbi Nissim ben Reuben Gerondi were printed for
the first time in Rome
1614:
Jacob Israel Belmonte, the native of “the island of Madeira” arrived today in
Amsterdam where he joined with others including Jacob Tirado and Solomon
Palache in founding that city’s “Portuguese-Jewish Community.
1625: John Milton, author of “Paradise Lost” is
admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge at the age of 16. During Milton’s
lifetime, Jews were still officially not allowed to settle in the British
Isles. Like many Puritans living in the
England of Oliver Cromwell, Milton saw a connection between his brand of
Christianity and the Israelites. Until
his eyes weakened, he read the Hebrew Bible on a daily basis and expressed a
positive view of Mosaic Law. Milton was
a politician as well as a poet. He
served as a secretary to Oliver Cromwell and, according to one of his
biographers, was part of the group who negotiated for the return of the Jewish
community to England.
1635:
Birthdate of German Protestant theologian Philipp Jakob Spencer who differed
with Lutherans on two major points one of which was their belief that the
conversion of the Jews was a required prelude to “the triumph of the church.”
1691:
George Fox, the founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) who
probably never met a Jew but who believed that “the Jews were descendants of
the Pharisees and caused the death of Jews” passed away today.
1726:
Meyer Löw Schomberg German born physician who moved to London and had been
admitted to the Royal College of Physicians in 1722 today became a fellow of
the Royal Society, which would lead to him being admitted to the freemasons'
lodge of the Premier Grand Lodge of England at the Swan and Rummer, Finch Lane
in 1730/
1733:
James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive in Charleston, South Carolina on
their way to found the colony of Georgia.
The first Jews would arrive in Georgia with the second boatload of
colonists who will arrive in July of 1733.
1754(19th
of Tevet, 5514): Jacob Ḥayyim de Fonseca, the Hamburg born son of Joseph de
Fonseca, who earned a medical degree from Leyden University passed away today.
1773:
In Mackinac, Marie Elizabeth Louise Dubois and Ezekiel Solomons gave birth to
Sophie Solomons
1777:
During the American Revolution, Lewis Bush, a Jew from Philadelphia, was
transferred from the 6th Pennsylvania Battalion to Colonel Thomas
Hartley’s Additional Continental Regiment.
1778: In London, Rachel Kijser and Asher Aron
Goldsmid gave birth to Sir Isaac Goldsmid, a Sephardic Jew, who was a prominent
London banker, a founder of the University of London and the husband of Isabel
Goldsmid with whom he had eleven children.
1781(16th
of Tevet, 5541): Parashat Vayechi
1781(16th
of Tevet, 5541): Treinela bat Mose, the wife of Lipman ben Joseph passed away
today in the United Kingdom.
1791:
In Baden, Chaya Hirschburger and Isaac Kaufmann gave birth to Abraham Kaufman
who was married to Lea Gutkind with whom he had four children and Regina
Sinsheimer with whom he had ten children.
1797:
Birthdate of Emanuel Schwab the native of Roedelheim, Germany who married
Sophie Hirsch in 1862 and served as a rabbi for congregations in Schenectady,
New York and Bridgeport, CT.
1799(7th
of Shevat, 5559): Shlomin Moshe Jacob passed away today in the United Kingdom.
1800:
Birthdate of English native Mary A. Levy, the wife of Amsterdam native Lewis A.
Levy who eventually settled in Texas.
1803:
Birthdate of Dr. Nathan Marcus Adler, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire and one
of the most prominent Jewish clerics of the 19th century.
1807
(4th of Shevat, 5567): Reb Moshe Leib of Sassov passed away. Born in 1745, Rav
Moshe Leib was a disciple of Rabbi Shmelke of Nikolsburg, who was in turn a
disciple of the Maggid of Mezeritch. As the many stories about his life
demonstrate, Rav Moshe was committed to all three forms of love as enumerated
by the Baal Shem Tov: love of God, love of Torah and love of Israel.
1809:
“The Grand Duke Karl Friedrich von Baden. who recognized the Jews of his
country as a denomination and equated them with the Christian denominations in
religious matters, but not in terms of civic rights” issued an edict today
creating “the Oberrat of the Isaeliten” which was to be the governing body for
Jews of his realm in religious matters.
1810:
Birthdate of Ernestine Louise Polowsky, the daughter of a wealthy Polish rabbi
who gained fame as Ernestine Louise Rose, the American feminist and
abolitionist.
1814:
Birthdate of Michael H. Godefroi, the native of Amsterdam and Dutch minister of
justice who was the first of his people “to fill a cabinet position in
Holland.”
1818:
Birthdate of Abraham Stein, the Prussian born rabbi who became the leader of
the Meisel Synagogue at Prague when in 1864 “it was changed to a modern temple
with choir, organ and sermon.”
1818(6th
of Shevat, 5578): Johanna bas Abram Grunebaum, the wife of David Jacob
Felsenthal and he mother of Beier, Benjamin, Jacob, Jeannette, Abraham and
Emanual Felsenthal passed away today.
1821:
In London, an unnamed visitor came to the Exchange and reported to Mr.
Rothschild that he was the intended victim of an assassination plot, one
possibly being hatched in Austria. Rothschild gave no credence to the
threat and was prepared to let the man depart. Others insisted that he be
held. He was taken into custody, questioned by authorities and then
released. The name of the informant has not been made public.
1825:
Prior to his death Czar Alexander I expelled all the Jews from Mohilev and
Vitebsk.
1830:
When the Great Fire began in New Orleans today, the Jewish community numbered
little more than thirty members but had already formed a congregation, Shaarai
Chesed (Gates of Mercy), under the direction of Jacob Solis.
1836:
Judah Lyons married Rosetta Hart today at the Great Synagogue.
1839:
Jacob Hyam Nathan married Charlotte Benett today at the Great Synagogue.
1842:
Birthdate of Odessa native and Russian Jurist Karl Ilyich Bernstein.
1844:
Birthdate of “French journalist, writer and stage author Albert Millaud” who
wrote “under the pseudonym Oronte and who “was the son of the banker Moïse
Millaud, the founder of Le Petit Journal.”
1847:
Birthdate of Morris Rich, founder of Atlanta’s Rich’s Department Store.
1853:
Birthdate of Kingston, Jamaica native and Northwick College (London) educated
Rabbi I.P. Mendes who had served the Portuguese in Richmond, VA for four years
before becoming the spiritual leader of Mickva Israel in Savannah, GA.
1854(13th
of Tevet, 5614): Judah Touro passed away.
A native of Newport, RI, born in the same year as Lexington &
Concord, Touro spent most of his adult life in New Orleans where he was a
successful businessman and real estate investor. Touro also took part in the
city’s signature event serving as a volunteer with Andrew Jackson’s forces that
defeated the British in 1815. Touro was
one of the great philanthropists of his time.
Beneficiaries of his generosity included Touro Infirmary in New Orleans,
The Bunker Hill (MA) Monument Fund and a residential settlement and almshouse
in Jerusalem.
1858:
In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Henry Jacobs officiated at the marriage of Joseph
Heilbrun of Baltimore to Lizzie L. Sommers.
1861:
Fifty-eight-year-old Benjamin Kisch, the son of Simon Kisch and Julia Cohen and
the husband of Julia Kisch was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road)
Jewish Cemetery.”
1863:
In Poland, Louis and Rebecca Goldstein Rosenthal gave birth to Isaac Rosenthal,
the oldest of their nine children.
1865:
In Washington, D.C., Annie Graff and Sol Kahn gave birth to Hattie Kahn who became
Hattie Kahn Carb when she married realtor Isadore Carb and who lived and died
in Fort Worth, TX where she raised Gladys, Meredith and David Carb.
1866:
Birthdate of Rebecca Rosenthal Judah, the founder, in 1895, of the Louisville branch
of the National Council of Jewish Women “and vice president and treasurer of
the Kentucky Equal Rights Association.”
https://explorekyhistory.ky.gov/items/show/341
1866:
Former U.S. Senator and Confederate cabinet member Judah P. Benjamin, who had
fled the United States after the Civil War “enrolled at Lincoln’s Inn and soon
thereafter was admitted to read law.
1867(7th
of Shevat, 5627): Eighty-four-year-old Rebecca Judah, the Newport, RI born
daughter of Hillel Judah and the wife of Isaac B. Seixas passed away today in
New York.
1872:
Birthdate of Horki native Israel Joseph Zevin who gained fame as “a humorist
and pioneer of the Yiddish press in America” using the pseudonym “Tashrak.”
http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=33811
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/tashrak
1873:
It was reported today that the London Jewish Chronicle has published a
story about the murder of a Russian Jewish family. Two laborers ordered brandy from Jewish
innkeeper and then refused to pay for their drinks. They became abusive and
eventually were forced to leave the tavern. Later that night, he innkeeper, his
wife, his children and his brother were awakened by cries of “fire.” When they
ran outside they were attacked by a mob of eight people including the two
laborers. The mob ransacked the inn, set
fire to the building and then threw the Jews in. They all burned to death except for a 12 year
old boy who escaped into the woods.
1873:
It was reported today that President Grant has instructed all United States
ministers to inform the governments to which they are accredited that the U.S.
has taken a “deep interest” in the Jews of Romania and would expect these
governments to do what they can to intervene on behalf of this persecuted
minority. Benjamin Franklin Peixotto, the American-Jew who is the U.S. Consul
at Bucharest expressed his pleasure with the American government’s
intervention. [This would be another example of proof that President Grant was
an anti-Semite was bogus]
1874:
In Russia, today enactment of a lawing governing “universal military service”
in which “no special regulations concerning the Jews are mentioned” which would
lead to further modifications aimed specifically at the drafting of Jews and
the subsequent service in the Czar’s army.
1876(16th
of Tevet, 5636): Ḥayyim Löb ben Hirsch Katzenellenbogen who followed in his
father’s footsteps as the head of the rabbinical school in Vilna which closed
in 1873 leaving him destitute passed away today.1876: In Poland, Sarah and
“Srul Itzhak Gallante gave birth to Abraham Naphtali Gallant, the husband of
Etta Gallant with whom he had four children and
who “was ordained by R. Johnah Zlotnick of Plock, Poland before coming to the United States where he
served as President of the Board of Rabbis in the Bronx and was “active in
Agudath Haraonim.1877: Rustic Wedding Symphony, Op. 26 (Ländliche Hochzeit) a
symphony in E flat major by Karl Goldmark was performed for the first time in
the United States “at a New York Philharmonic Society concert.”
1877:
It was reported today that Lord Beaconsfield who celebrated his 71st
birthday on December 27 “is now utterly enfeebled and exhausted and reduced to
a condition of intellectual decrepitude
by the strains of office.”
1878:
The Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Newark, NJ, held its first meeting this
afternoon. The 172 members elected the
following officers: President – Frank Marx; Vice President – Leopold Harzfeld;
Recording Secretary – Oscar Wiener; Financial Secretary – Edward Hirschler;
Treasurer – Joseph Goetz. The members
voted to raise $2,000 by issuing 400 shares of stock at $5 a share.
1878:
It was reported today that David Rosenberg of Columbus, Ohio whom it is assumed
is a Jew “has issued a call for a national convention of all Israelites who are
now willing to accept Jesus Christ as the promised Messiah of the world.” The
Jews promptly repudiated the man and his scheme.
1878: It was reported today that The Jewish
Messenger sees the “present tendency to break down the barriers of synagognism”
and replace it with a “brotherhood of synagogues” as one of the most promising
features of the Jewish-American landscape.
1879:
In Amsterdam, Isaac Jacob Gans, the Dutch born son of Jacob and Rebecca Mozes
Gans, and his wife Vogeltje Dooseman gave birth to Jacob Gans
1879:
In Kiev, Herman Panken and Feiga Berman Panken, gave birth to Jacob Panken who
after moving to New York in 1890 eventually became an organizer of the
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, a member of the Socialist Party
and a municipal judge.
1879:
It was reported today that Thomas D. Conygham, the forger who swindled the
people of Wilkes-Barre, PA out of $250,000 before fleeing the country was in
turn the victim of a swindle perpetrated by Lazarus, a Sephardic Jew who conned
him out of $70,000 in Haiti.
1882:
The second of two articles by Joseph Jacobs which provided “an account of the
persecution of the Jews in Russia” appeared in The Times of London.
1882:
In Paris, Adolphe and Noémie Bloch gave birth to Darius Paul Bloch dit Dassault.
1882: The Young Men’s Hebrew Association, whose
members included Israel Cohen, Jacob Rosenthal, Moses Scheinfeldt and Mark Wolf
was founded today in Boston, MA.
1882:
The Louisville Courier published an
account of the final disposition “of the Confederate bullion” in which Captain
M.H. Clark that “before reaching Washington, Georgia,” he “was halted by Major
Raphael J. Moses,” the member of an old Southern Jewish family to whom he
turned over all of the wagons filled with silver bullion as order by President
Davis so that it might be used “to feed the paroled soldiers” to keep them from
stripping the area of supplies.”
1883:
De Witt J. (David) Seligman and Addie Seligman gave birth to Alma Seligman who
became Alma Hochstadter when she married Walter Hoschstadter.
1884:
In Cleveland, OH William W. and Marie Lederer Pollak gave birth to Robert M.
Pollak, the President of Pollak Brothers, Inc. a clothing manufacturing company
in Fort Wayne, IN who was the husband of Louise M. Lehman Pollak and father of
Helen Pollack
1884:
The Hebrew Technical Institute elected the following as its first slate of
officers: President- James Hoffman; Vice President – Leo Schlesinger; Treasurer
– David L. Einhorn; Secretary – M.A. Kursheedt.
1885:
In Philadelphia, PA, Moses and Carrie (Kaufman) Stern gave birth to University
of Pennsylvania and Columbia educated author Arthur K. Stern, the husband of
Henrietta Berkowitz and the President of the Jewish Chautauqua Society from
1920 to 1925.
1886:
In a small village near Minsk, Brokhe Tsharni (née Hurwitz) and Zev Volf, “a
fervent Lubavitcher” gave birth to Baruch Charney Vladeck who gained famed as
Baruch Nachman Charney, an American Jewish Labor Leader and manager of the Jewish
Daily Forward
1887:
In the Ukraine, Charles Polteil Abuza and Jennie Lenz Abuza gave birth to Sofya
“Sonya” Kalish, who gained fame as multi-talented Sophie Tucker, “the last of
the Red Hot Mommas.”
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/tucker-sophie
1890:
It was reported today that the Hebrew Technical Institute is currently 120
pupils who are supported by the efforts of 557 patrons and members.
1890:
It was reported today that Harmony Club, a Jewish social club, suffered 3,000
in damages as a result of the cyclone that recently struck St. Louis, MO.
1891(4th
of Shevat, 5651): Ninety-year-old Anton Ree the son of a Jewish banker who
served as director at the Jewish Free School who was elected to the Hamburg
Constituent Assembly where he worked as an advocate for Jewish Emancipation
passed away today.
1891:
A ship carrying five hundred Jewish men, women and children who were all from
Russia, arrived at Dover, UK
1891:
It was reported today that the Hebrew Benevolent Society and the Sanitarium for
Hebrew Children were among the charities named to receive bequests in the will
of the late Emma Abbot Wetherwall who was not Jewish.
1891:
“Objects To Working Saturday” described the objections that Judge Joseph E.
Newberger, an Orthodox Jew has raised to hearing matters on Saturday morning.
While at least one of his colleagues has agreed to cover for him, Chief Justice
Ehrlich responded by saying that Newberger should have considered this before
running for election.”
1892:
Second day of a three-day celebration marking opening of the Jewish Maternity
Association's
Facility
in Philadelphia, PA
1892:
Charles Spurgeon, a leading British Baptist minister was quoted today as
expressing his displeasure with the Russian treatment of her Jewish
citizens. “If I had all the health and
strength that could fall to the lot of man, I should be quite unable to express
my feelings on reading of Russia’ intolerance of the Jews…The Czar is greatly injuring
his own country by driving out God’s ancient people. No country can trample upon Israel with
impunity…
1892:
It was reported today that the annual expenses for the Hebrew Sheltering
Guardian Society for the fiscal year ending October 1, 1891 were in excess of
$92,000,000. The expenditures included
part of the payment for the society’s new building.
1892:
In London, Esther Goddard and Morris Solomon Corre gave birth to Henry Morris
Corre.
1893:
Birthdate of Chaim Sutin, the native of Belarus who gained fame as French
painter Cahim Soutine. He owed part of his success to the support of Paul
Guilluam, the French art dealer who championed the works of another Jewish
artist, Amedeo Modigliani.
1893(25th
of Tevet, 5653): Russian biographer Israel Tobiah Eisenstadt a descendant of
Tobiah Bacharach and Israel ben Shalom, who were executed in 1659 on charges of
“ritual murder” passed away today in St. Petersburg.
1893(25th
of Tevet, 5653): Eighty-eight-year-old Alice Aarons, the daughter of Aron
Aarons who died at the age of 78 in 1849, passed away today in the United
Kingdom.
1894:
Sixty-two-year-old Nadezhda von Meck, the widow of Karl von Meck, who joined
with Dubrovnik native Samuel Polyakov, the Jew known as “the railroad king” to
create Russia’s modern railway system, passed away today.
1894:
Sixty-seven-year-old William Waddington who as French Foreign minister in 1879
supported Laurence Oliphant’s plan for “large scale Jewish settlement in
Palestine” passed away today.
1894:
Adolph L. Sanger lost in his bid to be elected President of the Board of
Education in New York City.
1895:
English author and historian Sir John Robert Seely, author of Ecce Homo and Natural
Religion passed away. He believed that “the Hebrew Scriptures express in
poetic for…the spirit of modern science”
1896:
It was reported that a course in Hebrew will be offered by New York University
as one of its summer school offerings starting this July.
1896(27th
of Tevet, 5656): Sixty-seven-year-old businessman, philanthropist and “patron
of the arts” Seilg Meier Goldschmidt passed away today in Frankfurt,
Germany. *When his children urged Selig
Goldschmidt to retire from business, he replied "This is impossible for
me. There may well be enough to live on,
both for you and myself, but I must certainly continue to work for my poor
people, because for them I need a great deal of Maaser."
1896:
“Dr. Cohen On ‘Judaism A Force’” published today includes Dr. Cohen’s message
that “the wealthy Jewish merchants of Philadelphia…built large temples, patronized
the arts and sciences and were charitable…but was there one among them who paid
his employees liberally? In
Philadelphia, as in other cities he knew of clothing fortunes that had been
built from the blood of the poor Russian Jews…”
1897(10th
of Shevat, 5657): Forty-six-year-old Croatian-Hungarian timber merchant who was
a pioneer in the creation of the kind of airship that came to be known as a
Zeppelin passed away today today.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080120001853/http://amerisrael.com:80/article_david_schwartz_2.html
1898:
Emile Zola published "J'Accuse." This famous letter appeared in
Clemenceau's paper L'Aurore. Zola was a supporter of Alfred Dreyfus and
the letter condemned the French establishment for wrongly convicting
Dreyfus. (The Clemenceau mentioned above
is the same Clemenceau who led France to victory in World War I.)
1898:
Seventy-eight-year-old Benjamin Victor Abraham the son of Victor Abraham and
Rebecca Levy was buried today at the “Le Repentir Cemetery in Georgetown,
British Guyana.”
1898:
Auguste Scheurer-Kestner failed to convince his colleagues in the Senate to
join with him in the battle for rehabilitation of Captain Dreyfus
1898(19th
of Tevet, 5658): Eighty-one-year-old Talmudist and Biblical commentator
Yehoshua Yehudah Leib Diskin also known as the Maharil Diskin, who established
the Diskin Orphanage in Jerusalem and the Ohel Moshe (Tent of Moses) Yeishiva passed
away today.
1899:
Magistrate Sims is scheduled to hear a case in which Mrs. Esther Wallenstein,
President of the Hebrew Infant Asylum, has brought charges of trespass against
the builders working on the asylum’s building.
She is represented by Maurice Untermyer.
1899:
It was reported today that Liebler & Company are committed to producing a
dramatization of Israel Zangwill’s Children of the Ghetto which will be
produced at the Herald Square Theatre starting in October. The theatrical company has accepted the
scenario he presented and the Jewish author is now working on a multi-act
treatment.
1900(13th
of Shevat, 5660) Parashat Beshalach
1900:
It was reported today that “during his recent lecture tour here, Mr. Zangwill
told the following story of himself: ‘He was walking along the beach one day,
when he decided to rest on a bench beside a wall. On the other side of the wall were two ladies
talking. He listened because ‘he couldn’t
help it’ and because they were talking about him. One said it wonderful how Mr. Zangwill could
write as well as he did about the Ghetto.
The other replied, ‘Oh not at all! Whey shouldn’t he write well about
the Jews? He is one and has lived among
tham all his life, and ought to know them.
Look at Walter Besant: he is more wonderful to my mind. He doesn’t know anything at all of them and yet
he writes about them.”
1902:
In Chicago, “wealthy shoe manufacturer Emmanual Rosenbaum” and his wife gave
birth to bronze medal winning shot putter Maud Rosenbaum who married Baron Giacomo
Giorgio Levi in 1927 and after getting a divorce married H. Walter Blumenthal
in 1935 which led to her gaining further fame under the name Maud Blumenthal,
the champion tennis player.
1903:
Herzl begins the preparations for the meetings with the Foreign Ministry and
with Lord Rothschild.
1904:
In Baltimore, MD, “Jacob L. Zetzer and Fannie B. Zetzer gave birth to Rose
Sylvan Zeter, the University of Maryland trained attorney and reformer who was
the first woman to be admitted to the Maryland State Bar Association and the
founder of “the first all-female law firm” in the state of Maryland.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1998-04-09-1998099166-story.html
1904(25th
of Tevet, 5664): Leo Napoleon Levi, a lawyer and one of the first Jews from
Texas to gain national recognition, died of a heart attack. He was born in 1856
in Victoria, TX. “At age sixteen he
enrolled at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where he received
the medal for being the best university debater and at age twenty received his
law degree. He married Ray Bachrach, and they had six children. He settled in
Galveston and became associated with the law firm Flournoy and Scott in 1876;
later he became a partner in Scott, Levi, and Smith. Levi was a well-known
orator, and officials at the University of Texas invited him to give the
commencement address in June 1899. The Independent Order of B'nai B'rith
published this speech and others by Levi in a book in 1905. In 1887 Levi was
elected president of Temple B'nai Israel, and the next year he brought Rabbi
Henry Cohen to Texas. Levi retained the presidency for twelve years. In
Galveston he joined the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, a Jewish fraternal
organization, and was elected president of District Seven, which comprised
seven Southern states. In 1900 Levi was elected national president of the IOBB.
That same year he moved to New York City to pursue his work with B'nai B'rith.
As president of B'nai B'rith, Levi he sent a petition to Czar Nicholas II,
after the massacre at Kishinev, that demanded Russians stop abusing Jews.
Secretary of State John Hay signed the Kishinev petition, and President
Theodore Roosevelt endorsed it.
1904(N.S):
Birthdate of Nathan Mironovich Milstein) a Russian-born American virtuoso
violinist.
1904:
In New York City, Augusta and Barnett Goodman gave birth to architect Percival
Goodman the Columbia University Professor who “designed over 50 synagogues and
religious buildings including the stone-clad Fifth Avenue Synagogue at 5 East
62d Street in Manhattan; Congregation Adath Israel in the Riverdale section of
the Bronx, a strongly sculptural mass of concrete and red brick, and Shaarey
Zedek in Detroit, a building with a stark prowlike concrete roof cutting into
the sky.”
1905:
In Grand Rapids, MI, Norman and Iva (Bates) Taylor gave birth to Ruth Alice
Taylor the wife of General Paul Zuckerman and the other of Henry Zukerman who gained
famed award winning actor, producer, director and very funny guy Buck Henry
1906(16th
of Tevet, 5666): Parashat Vayehci
1906:
“The Russian Revolution” published today includes a review of The Truth About
the Tsar by Carol Joubert, the author of Russia as It Really Is which included
a large amount of information relating “to the persecution of the Jews.
1907: A new building, which resulted from the remodeling of two
townhouses opened today for the use of Congregation Orach Chaim.
1907: Fifty-five-year-old Joseph Simmons, the husband of Annie
Simmons, was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.
1908: In Manhattan, paleontologist Simon Flexner, the Kentucky
born son of European-Jewish immigrants and Helen Thomas gave birth to award
winning historian James Thomas Flexner. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1908: The Times of London published the obituary for Major General
Sir Frederic John Goldsmid who passed away yesterday without mentioning the
fact that his family was Jewish.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Times/1908/Obituary/Major-General_Sir_Frederic_John_Goldsmid
1909: “Rights For Jews In Finland” published today reported that a committee of the Senate is considering
two laws to improve the conditions of the Jews of Finland but that a allowing for “full equality for
Hebrews is not contemplated.”
1910: Birthdate of Fay Gulack “a judge at the World Gymnastics
Championships at Moscow in 1958, a manager of the 1964 Women’s Olympic
Gymnastics Team and the wife of George Gulak who won a Gold Medal at the 1932 Olympics.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/palmbeachpost/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=1548483
1911: The first issue of the Yiddishe
Baker, a Yiddish weekly appeared in New York City today.
1912: “The Psalms and Their Applications to Life” a tableau
presented “arranged and directed by Mrs. Amie Stern” was the highlight of “the
fourth regular meeting of the Chicago Association of Jewish Women held” today
“at Sinai Temple” in Chicago under the leadership of its President, Mrs. Israel
Cowen.
1912: Eduard Bernstein, a leading German social democrat whose
“Jewish parents, who were active in the Reform Temple on the Johannistrasse
where services were performed on Sunday” began serving as a “Member of the
Imperial Reichstag from Silesia.”
1912:
Centenary celebration of the birth of Dr. Liebman
Adler who began his career in Germany as a public-school teacher and cantor at
a local synagogue before moving to Detroit, Michigan in 1854 where he served as
rabbi and cantor at Congregation Bethel. Adler was the father of famed
architect Dankmar Adler. The younger
Adler’s mother died in childbirth, so the father named him “Dank” (thanks), Mar
(bitter). Liebman Adler moved to Chicago
in 1861 when he was named rabbi of Kehilath Anshe Ma'ariv Synagogue. Dankmar would build a new synagogue before
his father passed away in 1891.
1913: It was reported today that Professor Felix Weil of the City College
was chose as the representative of the Alliance Israelite Universellte to the Jews
of Many Lands Exposition being held in Cincinnati next week” and which “will include”
a variety of artifacts “depicting the lives of Jews in different countries.”
1914: “The Great Powers Courting Rumania” published reported that
Henry Green is planning on postponing the international conference “on the
Jewish Question” due to the unsettled situation in Europe; a decision which he
reached in part on “the advice of eminent European Jews such as Dr. Max
Nordeau.”
1915: Winston Churchill
presented plans for an assault on the Dardanelles. This plan would come to be known as the
ill-fated Gallipoli Campaign. If the
campaign had succeeded, Turkey would have been knocked out World War I. Russia would have been re-supplied meaning no
Russian Revolution. The stalemate on the
Western Front would have ended and World War I would have ended without the
United States joining the fray. But the
campaign failed which ironically had a positive effect on one small aspect of
Jewish history. Gallipoli consumed a
great deal of Allied manpower. In
desperation, the British were even willing to use an-all Jewish unit called the
“Zion Mule Corps.” The corps acquitted
itself with valor and honor, making it possible for the British to create an all-Jewish
combat unit that saw service under Allenby in the fight against the Turks in
Palestine.
1915:
The London Chronicle “editorially” suggested today “that America may eventually
be called upon to exercise a sort of suzerainty over Palestine.”
1915:
Hyman G. Enelow, Louis Marshall, the Chairman of the American Jewish Relief
Committee and Meyer London, “the only Socialist elected to Congress last
November” are scheduled to address a mass meeting this evening a Temple
Emanu-El where “they will tell the consequences of the war upon 7,000,000 Jews
of Europe and Palestine.
1915:
Louis Marshall, the Chairman of the American Jewish Relief Committee today
“deplored what he termed the failure of the Jews of America, particularly in
New York, t realize the terrible calamity that has overtaken the millions of
Jews whose home are in the eastern theatre of the European war.”
1916:
Birthdate of Bella Lewitzky,
founder of the internationally acclaimed Bella Lewitzky Dance Company. When she appeared before the House
Un-American Activities Committee, Lewitzky declined to testify saying, “I am a
dancer, not a singer.”
1916:
The note that accompanied violinist Mischa Elman’s check in the amount of
$5,869.94 for the Jews of Europe which was published today read “Inclosed
please find check for the receipts from the benefit concert which I had the
pleasure of giving for the Jewish war sufferers. I cannot tell you what pleasure it gives me
to able to donate this amount to this cause.”
1916:
It was reported today that President Wilson’s proclamation concerning a day set
aside for raising funds for the Jews of Europe included the announcement that
“Contributions” for that purpose “may be addressed to the American Red Cross in
Washington, D.C. which will take care of their proper distribution.”
1917:
Birthdate of New York native Morris R. “Moe” Becker the All-American Duquesne
University basketball star who played college ball from 1939 through 1941
before turning with pro staring with the Philadelphia Sphas and finishing with
NBA teams including the Boston Celtics.
1917:
An early step towards the founding of UFA, the German film production company
whose original owners included Hermann Frenkel, was taken today with the
creation of the Bild- und Filmamt (Bufa) by Germany's Supreme Army Command.
1917:
The Directors of the Montefiore Home gave a private dinner this evening at
Sherry’s in honor of banker Jacob H. Schiff who had just turned seventy during
which Samuel Sachs presented the guest of honor “with a three-quarter length
oil painting of himself” which “will hang in his home until his death, after
which it wll be hung in the Montefiore Home of which he is the President.”
1917:
“The midwinter dance of the junior workers of the New York Guild for the Jewish
Blind” is scheduled to “be held at the Plaza Hotel” this evening.
1917:
In Manhattan, The First Hungarian Congregation Ohab`Zedak offered a special
thanksgiving prayer composed by Rabbis Bernhard Drachman and Philip Klein for
the life and works of Jacob Schiff who had just turned seventy at a service
“conducted by Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt and the full choir.”
1917:
During services at Temple Israel in Harlem, Rabbi M.H. Harris “paid tribute to”
Jacob Schiff.
1917:
Leonard Keysor who had been promoted to the rank of Sergeant in the 42nd
Battalion of the 1st Australian Brigade while fighting in France in
December was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant today which would lead to
his promotion to 1st Lieutenant in July of 1917.
1918:
Final preparations were made by those participating in the campaign of the
Jewish Philanthropic Societies to raise four million dollars or more for the
year’s maintenance of Jewish welfare, relief and sociologic activities” which
is scheduled to start tomorrow under the leadership of Felix M. Warburg.
1918(29th
of Tevet, 5678): Forty-nine-year-old Albert Aschaffenburg, “a prominent New
Orleans Capitalist and Real Estate Developer who had planned to build the
Pontchartrain Hotel next door to the Orpheum Theater, who was the husband of
Elivine Schaefer Aschaffenburg and the father of Eugene Albert Aschaffenburg
passed away today, before he could begin the construction project which was “resurrected
by his son.
1918:
“Three large halls were required” tonight “to hold the outpouring of Jewish men
and women who met to lay the foundation for the Federation for the Support of
Jewish Philanthropic Societies which enter upon its campaign for 50,000
members.”
1919:
Rebecca Henriques, the daughter of Sigismund Stiebel and Eliza Jacob Mocatta
and the wife of Frederick Henriques was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road
Jewish Cemetery.”
1920:
Polish Russian Jews are fleeing at the approach of Bolshevist bands of
plunderers between Kiev and Woloczys according to adviced received today by the
State from Warsaw” which has led to 15,000 Jewish refugees gathering “at
Amerinka” living in “deplorable conditions.
1920:
The ZOA announced today “that London and Copenhagen had been selected as
centers through which the mass migration of Jews to Palestine will be
directed.”
1922:
Today, Nahum Sokolow, President of the Executive Committee of the World Zionist
organization, who is visiting the United States as the head of a European
delegation of Zionist leaders, met with U.S. President Warren G. Harding.
1923(25th
of Tevet, 5683): Parashat Shemot
1923:
As of today, there are reportedly 83, 794 Jews living in Palestine.
1924:
In Philadelphia, Sol and Rae Breslow gave birth to Lillian Breslow who gained
fame as Lillian B. Rubin, a sociologist and psychotherapist who wrote a series
of popular books about the crippling effects of gender and class norms on human
potential.” (As reported by Paul Vitello)
1925:
Today, Ha’Koach, the Vienesse Jewish football (soccer) team defeated a team of
English players in Jerusalem by a score of 4 to 2.
1926: Birthdate of author and feminist Carolyn Gold
Heilbrun.
1926:
“Arthur M. Lamport was officially installed as Chariman of the West Side for
the United Palestine Appeal” today based “based on the recommendation of Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise who is leading the drive to raise five million dollars “for the
restoration of Palestine.”
1927:
“In Germiston, a small town near Johannesburg,” Morris Brenner, a cobbler from
Lithuania and Leach (Blecher) Breener gave birth biologist Sydney Brenner who
shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz
and John Sulston. (As reported by Nicholas Wade)
1928:
“Sapiro Reviews Ford Suit” published described an address given by attorney
Aaron Sapiro entitled “Our Day In Court” during which he reviewed the suit
brought against Henry Ford and his Dearborn
Independent
1929:
Birthdate of Cleveland native Morris “Moe” Savransky the southpaw who pitched
for the Cincinnati Reds in 1954.
1929:
Wyatt Earp, Western legend, passed away. Earp was not Jewish. But his wife was and she conspired to have
him buried in a Jewish cemetery. This
gave rise to erroneous rumor that Earp had converted before his death. 1930:
Birthdate of Sidney Cole the jockey killed in 1961 “after being thrown from the saddle of a 2-year-old filly and into a guard
rail at Aqueduct.”
1931: It was reported today that “the Jewish
papers of Germany and the adjoining countries have proclaimed tomorrow” to be
“a Jewish festival” in honor of Felix M. Warburg’s sixtieth birthday.
1931:
“Allie Schukman scored eight points” and Max Posnack scored another seven “as
St. John’s beat L.I.U. for the fourth year in a row.” (As reported by Wechsler)
1935:
Germany regains control of a valuable resource as the Saar rejoins the Reich
following a plebiscite conducted by the League of Nations.
1935:
“The eighty-eight anniversary of the birth of the late Jacob H. Schiff, banker
and philanthropist, and the tenth anniversary of the dedication of the Jacob H.
Schiff Center is scheduled to be observed with special services at the center”
in the Bronx, this morning which will include “introductory remarks by Rabbi
Alexander Basel” followed by “an address by Dr. Israel Goldstein, the rabbi of
Congregation B’nai Jeshurun”
1936(18th
of Tevet, 5696): Seventy-nine old educator Sir Meyer Spielman, the son of Adam
Spielmann and the brother of Isador and Aarib
Spielmann, the president of the Keren Hayesod Committee and author of
“The Romance of Child” who was knighted in 1928 passed away today.
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw52577/Sir-Meyer-Adam-Spielman
1936:
During today’s celebration of the first anniversary of the Saar Plebiscite that
led to Nazi Germany taking control of this valuable territory, District Leader
Joseph Buerckel responded to questions by foreign correspondents by insisting
“that all Jews in the Saar still enjoyed double protection under the Rome
agreement – namely a Jews and as status quo voters” but also announced that
this protection would end on March 1 when the Jews would come under the
Nuremberg laws…”
1936(18th
of Tevet, 5696): Samuel Lionel "Roxy" Rothafel passed away. Born in 1882
at Stillwater, Minnesota “was a showman of the 1920s silent film era and the
impresario for many of the great New York movie palaces that he managed such as
the Strand, Rialto, Rivoli, Capitol, and his eponymous Roxy Theatre in New York
City He also opened Radio City Music Hall in 1932, which featured the precision
dance troupe, the "Roxyettes", later renamed the Rockettes.” Roxy
also made a name for himself on radio, where he began broadcasting in
mid-November 1922, and throughout the 1920s, his live broadcasts from the
Capitol Theatre became increasingly popular. One estimate from 1924 placed his
typical radio audience at about five million listeners, and he was said to
receive thousands of pieces of fan mail weekly. (His weekly variety show,
"Roxy and His Gang," was later heard on the NBC Blue network, by that
time broadcasting from the Roxy Theatre. Rothafel has been credited with many
movie presentation innovations, including synchronizing orchestral music to
movies (in the silent film era) and having multiple projectors to effect
seamless reel changes. The book The Best Remaining Seats by Ben Hall (1961),
gives a good overview of the movie palaces of the 1920s and, specifically, of
Roxy himself. Rothafel is buried in Linden Hill Jewish Cemetery in Queens, New
York.”
1936:
It was announced today that the annual donor luncheon of the Women’s League
will be held at the Waldorf Astoria on January 15, 1936. Proceeds from the event will be used to pay
for the completion of a facility being built in Tel Aviv for female refugees
fleeing Hitler’s Germany.
1936:
The Ministry of Public Instruction announced the closing of the University of
Vilna for the rest of the school term because of “continued anti-Semitic
demonstrations by Polish Nationalist students” who began to riot after their
demands that they be separated from the Jewish students were not met.
1937:
Speaking on behalf of the Arab High Committee, Jerusalem lawyer Auni Bey
Abdulhadi told the Peel Commission that “the Arabs will not compromise” and “they
will negotiate only with the British government, not the Jews and they will
never agree to cantonization.” (Editor’s Note – Cantonization was the pre-war
term for Partition, which is the key to the “two state solution”.)
1937:
Brooklyn Republican Assemblyman introduced “a bill to shift the date of the
primary election this year from September 14, which “is the eve of the Jewish
Day of Atonement” to September 16.
1937:
“Joseph C. Hyman, executive director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee announced” today “that late in 1936” the committee made “a $1,000
contribution for school and cultural work among the Falasha Jews of Ethiopia”
which “has been acknowledge by Professor Taamarat Emanuel, the director of the
Jewish School in Addis Ababa.
1937:
“Crooked Cross” Sally Carson’s play about “a Bavarian girl’s love for a Jewish
doctor in the early days of the Nazi revolution” opened tonight at the
Westminster Theatre in London.
1938:
The Palestine Post reported on the
opening of the Rockefeller archeological museum in Jerusalem, founded by John
Rockefeller and named in his honor. The museum's permanent exhibition revealed
the history of mankind as recorded in local archeological finds. No festive
opening ceremony took place, due to the tragic murder of archeologist John
Starkey.
1938:
The Palestine Post reported that
Jewish buses were shot at in Haifa and there were various shooting incidents in
Jerusalem.
1938:
“The fifth anniversary of Hitler’s ascension to power in Germany was made the
occasion of anti-Nazi meeting” tonight “in the Manhattan Opera House” which was
sponsored by the Joint Boycott Council of the American Jewish Congress and the
Jewish Labor Committee and where “the principal speaker, William E. Dodd, the
former United States Ambassador to Germany said the situation for the Jews in
Germany was worse than at any time in the last hundred years.”
1938:
An article in The Palestine Post
quoted extensively from the London's
Financial Times, which reviewed the hopeless position of over five million
Jews in Central and Eastern Europe, denied the means of existence or possible
emigration. The report concluded that "it seemed too much to hope in the
present state of the world that a political and economic effort will be made to
stop this tragedy."
1938(11th
of Shevat, 5698): Albert Ottinger, the former New York State Attorney General
who was the Republican candidate for governor defeated by FDR in 1928 passed
away today at the age of 59. He used his governmental positions to fight
corruption and prosecuted those responsible for perpetrating frauds in the
financial services industry. He was responsible for the introduction of voting
machines. Ottinger was also active in
Jewish communal affairs. [Many younger readers may be surprised to find out
that the Republican Party in New York had a history of using government to
protect the citizens from abuses by rapacious and/or crooked “capitalists.]
1939:
“Negotiations regarding the evacuation of Jews from Germany were resumed today
when Geroge Rublee, chairman of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees and
his aides conferred for one hour with Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the president of the
Reichsbank” in Berlin. (Editor’s note -
this has to qualify as one of the most farcical meeting in an era marked by
meetings that were pure farce.)
1939(22nd
of Tevet, 5699): Seventy-four-year-old Rabbi Isaac Alpert, the father of Sarah
Alpert and father-in-law of Nathan Kolko passed away today in Rochester, NY.
1940(3rd
of Shevat, 5700): Parashat Bo
1940:
In his sermon today at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Rabbi David de Sola
Pool said, “However much of evil and disaster the passing generation has
bequeathed to the world, religion has an unshakable faith in the power of
youthful idealism to refashion human society for the better. “
1940:
In his sermon today at the Mount Nebo Congregation, Rabbi Samuel Segal “declared
that to go forward is not a command for an attack on life but rather an order
for the civilization to advance.”
1941:
James Joyce passed away. His most famous novel, Ulysses, featured a
Jewish protagonist, Leopold Bloom.
1941:
Governor Herbert H. Lehman appointed Philip M. Kleinfeld to the New York
Supreme Court.
1942: The deportation of 10,000 Jews from
Lodz began at the rate of 700 a day. They are all sent to Chelmno to be gassed.
Nine transports of about 90 people each were buried in Chelmno. Five of the
nine men unloading the corpses were shot when the day was done.
1943: The German Foreign Minister, Ribbentrop,
warned Italians that they would permit Jews to live in areas under German rule
until March 31. After that time, "the Government won't be able to make any
exceptions." In other words,
Italian Jews would now become candidates for the Final Solution.
1943: Fifteen hundred Jews are deported from Radom,
Poland, to Treblinka.
1943: Birthdate of Brooklyn native and Brandeis alum
Eli Jay Segal the businessman and political activist who worked in campaigns
from McGovern to Clinton and who married his “college-sweetheart” Phyllis.
1944: Two United States Treasury Department
officials--Josiah DuBois and Randolph Paul--threaten to resign and make public the
report on their investigation into the State Department's scandalous activities
in regard to the Jews. The report is originally entitled "Report to the
Secretary [of the Treasury] on the Acquiescence of This Government in the
Murder of the Jews." The report indicts officials of the State Department
for their "willful attempts to prevent action from being taken to rescue
Jews from Hitler." "They have not only failed to use the governmental
machinery at their disposal to rescue Jews from Hitler but have even gone so
far as to use this governmental machinery to prevent rescue of the Jews.
1944:
“The Sosnowiec labor camp, which had been established on the site of the
Srodula ghetto was liquidated today and its prisoners sent to Auschwitz.”
1945(28th
of Tevet, 5705): Parashat Vaera
1945:
Today “The State Prosecutor demanded today that the Egyptian military court
hand down the death penalty for the two young Palestinian Jews being tried for
the political assassination of Lord Moyne, British Resident Minister in the
Middle East.”
1946:
Two days after he had passed away funeral services are scheduled to be held today
for songwriter and published Harry Von Tilzer
http://www.jewish-music.huji.ac.il/content/harry-von-tilzer
1947:
Tonight, economist Robert R. Nathan “told a conference of the United Palestine
Appeal” that “the best solution of to the Palestine problem is a joint
Anglo-American trusteeship” which if properly administered “could permit the
absorption of 600,000 to 1,000,000 Jewish immigrants in the next ten years.”
1948
(2nd of Shevat, 5708): Solomon Mikhoels was killed by the secret police under
Stalin's orders, as part of a campaign to eradicate Jewish intellectualism and
culture. Born in 1890, Mikhoels was a
leading Russian and Yiddish actor famed for his roles as Tevye and King Lear.
During the war he had tried to win support for the Russian war effort by
touring England and the United States.
1948:
In attempt to secure the road to Mt. Scopus, site of Hadassah Hospital, the
Haganah launched an attack on Sheikh Jarrah.
Having dislodged the Arab gunmen from the area, the Jews were forced to
hand it over to the British who promised not to permit armed Arabs into the
area. Within forty eight hours, the
British gave it back to the Arabs.
1948:
Twenty-four hours after several members of the “Pan York” escaped from their
British captivity on Cyprus arrived aboard a fishing boat at Caesarea.
1949:
Birthdate of television executive, Brandon Tartikoff.
http://www.biography.com/people/brandon-tartikoff-9542058
1949:
Following the War for Independence, several of the former members of the human
blockade runner “Pan York” including Avi Livney settled at Sasa, a village
“situated at a strategic crossroad between the Western and Upper Galilee, near
the Lebanese border.”
1949:
Boris Abramovich Shimelivoich the Russian poet and revolutionary who was part
of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was arrested during one of Stalin’s purges
which would lead to his execution in 1952.
1950(25th
of Tevet, 5710): Parashat Shemot
1950(25th
of Tevet, 5710): Seventy-one-year-old Rabbi David Alexander, the graduate of
the University of Cincinnati and HUC and the husband of the former Irene Schwab
with whom he raised two children – Ruth and James – passed away today in Akron
Ohio.
1950:
Los Angeles premiere of “Samson and Deliah” with a script co-authored by Jesse
Lasky, Jr. based on a work by Vladimir Jabotinsky starring Hedy Lamar as the
Biblical temptress.
1950:
“Whirlpool” the film version of Guy Endore’s Methinks the Lady, directed
and produced by Otto Preminger, with music by David Raskin and with a
screenplay co-written by Ben Hecht whose name was removed from the version
shown in Great Britain due to his militant Zionism, was released today in the
United States.
1953:
An article published today in Pravda
touched off a wave of virulent anti-Semitism throughout Russia.
1953:
As the “Doctors Plot” campaign which accussed Jewish medical professionals of
planning to kill Stalin and other officials, as well as being “agents” of the
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), an international social
welfare agency” began Pravda published “Dastardly Spies and Assassins in the
Guise of Professors and Doctors.”
1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that the
losses due to drought in the Negev topped $3 million. The heavy rain came too
late, and not a drop fell in the Migdal-Ashkelon-Safieh region, where the loss
was over IL 10m.
1954:
In Johannesburg, Joy and Godfrey Rabinowitz gave birth to Trevor Rabinowitz,
the South African native best known as a writer and guitarist for the band “Yes”
who changed his name from Rabinowitz to Rabin and was raised in a Reform
household. He grew up observing Shabbat and singing in his synagogue choir, and
despite the name change, he has never really left Judaism. In 2004, he told the
San Diego Jewish journal that it helps to be a Jew in the world of rock and
roll, because so many other musicians are also
1956:
Eighty-four-year-old “caricaturist, comic strip artists” and “expressionist
painter” Lyonel Charles Feininger who left Germany after the Nazis came to
power because his work was declared “degenerate” and because his wife was
Jewish under their racial laws passed away today.
1958(21st
of Tevet, 5718): Seventy-seven-year-old motion picture pioneer Jesse L. Laskey,
the co-founder of Paramount Pictures, the father of three children including
screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky Jr. and the brother-in-law of fellow movie mogul
Samuel Goldwyn, passed away today.
http://www.filmreference.com/Writers-and-Production-Artists-Kr-Lo/Lasky-Jesse-L.html
1958:
Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir began serving Deputy Minister of Welfare.
1961:
William Louis-Dreyfus and Julia Bowles gave birth to Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the
actress who played Elaine on the television hit “Seinfeld.”
1961(25th
of Tevet, 5721): Sixty-two-year-old “foreign securities broker” Carl Marks “the
founder of Carl Marks & Co and husband of Edith Marks with whom he had two
children and generous donor to several charities including the Federation of
Jewish Philanthropies passed away today.
1962:
After 400 performances, the curtain came down on the original Broadway
production of Jule Styne’s musical “Do Re Mi” starring Phil Silvers and
featuring Al Lewis.
1965(10th
of Shevat, 5725): Arthur “Art” Gottlieb the Rutgers University quarterback who
threw the touchdown pass in a game against in-state rival Princeton which gave
the Scarlet Knights their first victory over the Tigers since they had met for
the first time in 1869 in what was the first “modern” intercollegiate football
game.
1965:
In Philadelphia, PA, “small businessman” Robert Rosenstein and his wife Gerri
who worked as “a bookkeeper and school board gave birth to Rod Jay Rosenstein,
the Harvard Law School graduate who in April of 2017 “was the nation’s
longest-serving U.S. Attorney” at which time he became the 37th
United States Deputy Attorney General serving under Attorney General Jeff
Sessions and President Donald Trump.
1966:
In Tel Aviv, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau and his wife gave birth to Rabbi David
Baruch Lau.
1966:
Abba Eban became the third Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel.
1967:
In Moscow, Alexander and Yelena Gessen gave birth Maria Alexandrovna Gessen who
gained fame as award winning journalist and LGBT activist Masha Gessen,
1968:
At the Martin Beck Theatre after 293 performances and 22 previews the curtain
came down on the original Broadway production of “Hallelujah, Baby!, a musical
with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Adolph Green and Betty Comden, and a book
by Arthur Laurents
1969:
Samuel H. Shapiro, who was the second Jewish governor of the State of Illinois
completed his term of office today, having gained the job when his predecessor
resigned to take a federal judgeship and he moved up from being Lt. Gov.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-03-17-8701210345-story.html
1971:
“Lupo.!”, a comedy with a script by Ken Globus and Menahem Golan who also
served as director and co-producer was released today in Israel.
1972(26th
of Tevet, 5732): Seventy-four-year-old Chicago native and University of Chicago
trained attorney Edwin Louis Weisl, a company commander United States Navy,
World War I and husband of “the former Alice Todriff” who “was one President
Johnson’s closest friends and a Democratic National committeeman” from
California passed away today.
1972:
After having premiered in New York City in December of 1971, Stanley Kubrick’s
“Clockwork Orange” was released today in the United Kingdom.
1972:
“The Cowboys” directed and produced by Mark Rydell with a screenplay
co-authored by Irving Ravetch was released today in the United States by Warner
Bros. (Editor’s Note: Based on decades
of experience, in my humble opinion, this is one of the best western movies ever
made – a must see film.)
1974(19th
of Tevet, 5734): Sholom Secunda passed away. Born in 1894 at Oleksandriia, he
“was a Jewish composer, born in Ukraine and educated in the United States. He
wrote the melody for the popular song "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" in
1932. Together with Aaron Zeitlin he wrote the famous Yiddish song "Dos
kelbl (The Calf)" (also known as "Donna Donna") which was
covered by many musicians, including Donovan and Joan Baez. Along with Abraham
Ellstein, Joseph Rumshinsky, and Alexander Olshanetsky, he was one of the
"big four" composers of his era in New York City's Second Avenue
Yiddish theatre scene
1974: A Gallup poll on religious worship showed that
fewer Protestants and Roman Catholics were attending weekly services than ten
years earlier, but that attendance at Jewish worship services had increased
over the same period.
1975(1st
of Shevat, 5735): Rosh Chodesh Shevat
1975(1st
of Shevat, 5735): Seventy-four-year-old Alexander Falk, “a former State Senator
and president of the State Civil Service Commission” passed away today.
1978:
The Jerusalem Post published an
exclusive interview with President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, who agreed that Israel
needed security, but could not keep Arab land. Sadat proposed mutual security
measures for the West Bank and Sinai. He promised to build a "triple
shrine" a mosque, a synagogue and a church at the top of Jebel Musa,
Mount Sinai, where according to tradition Moses received the Ten Commandments.
1978:
Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey passed away in Waverly, Minnesota, at
age 66. As mayor of Minneapolis and
Senator from Minnesota was champion of the underdog and fighter for civil
rights. These policies made him popular
with Jewish voters. During the 1950’s
visitors to Humphrey’s office in the Senate Office Building were greeted by the
sight of a prominently displayed JNF Tree Certificate.
1979(14th
of Tevet, 5739): Parashat Vayechi
1979(14th
of Tevet, 5739): One person died and five more were injured when Palestinian
terrorists tried and failed to seize a hotel in Maalot.
1980: "King of Schnorrers" closes at the
Playhouse Theater in New York City after 63 performances. “King of Schnorrers” was a musical based on
work of the same name by Israel Zangwill.
1981:
In response to Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir’s request the Knesset voted to
remove the “parliamentary immunity” of Aharon Abuhatzira “so that he could be
charged with bribery.”
1981:
Yigal Hurvitz, who had been serving as the Minister of Finance, left the
cabinet.
1982(18th
of Tevet, 5742): Sixty-seven L.I.U basketball great Jules “Julie” Bender passed
away today in Boca Raton, FL
1982(18th
of Tevet, 5742): Just weeks before his 60th birthday, Harold William
Chase, the Worcester born son of Louis Chase and Bessie Lubin and husband of
Bernice Chase with whom he had two son -- Bryce and Eric – who was the
Princeton trained political science and decorated Marine Corps veteran who rose
to the rank of Major General passed away today.
1984(9th
of Shevat, 5744): Seventy-five-year-old Alfred Gilman, “founding chairman of
the department of pharmacology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of
Yeshiva University, in the Bronx” passed away today.
1989:
“Gleaming the Cube” a murder mystery written by Michael Tolkin was released
today in the United States.
1989:
“Unsettled Land” an Israeli drama directed by Uri Barbash was released in the
United States today.
1993(20th
of Tevet, 5753): Seventy-three University of Chicago trained archeologist and
art historian Helene J. Kantor, the daughter of Dr. Jacob Robert Kantor, who
worked at Choga Mish with Israeli archaeologist Pierre Pinchas Deloguaz passed
away today.
1994(1st
of Shevat, 5754): Rosh Chodesh Shevat
1994(1st
of Shevat, 5764: Eighty-year-old “art collector, dealer and philanthropist” “the
widow of Lester Avnet, founder of Avnet, Inc., a major distributor of electronic
components” who along with her husband assembled a collection of over 900 works,”
180 of which they donated to MOMA passed away today.
1994:
Edward P. Djerejian, a Clinton appointee, presented his credentials as U.S.
Ambassador to Israel.
1998:
Daniel Charles Kurtzer presented his credentials as U.S. Ambassador to Egypt.
(Yes an American Jew represented the United States in Cairo. Jewish diplomats representing the United
States in Moslem countries is nothing new. It dates back to the days of the
Ottoman Empire.]
1999(25th
of Tevet, 5759): Terrorists killed an Israeli soldier near Hebrwon
2000:
Steve Balmer “was officially named CEO of Microsoft” today.
2001(18th
of Tevet, 5761): Parashat Vayechi
2001:
“Early this morning, the Palestinian official, Yasir Abed Rabbo, took back his
call for Mr. Barak's indictment after the Israelis promised that they did not
have an assassination hit list of 500 Palestinians.”
2002(29th
of Tevet, 5762): Canadian born comedian
Frank Shuster, who gained fame as part of the comedy duo of Wayne and Shuster
passed away.
2002:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish author and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Public Intellectuals: A
Study of Decline by Richard
A. Posner, Henry Ford and the Jews: The
Mass Production of Hate by Neil Baldwin, two books of Al
Hirschfield’s drawings - Hirschfeld's New York and 'Hirschfeld's
Hollywood and Be My Knife by David Grossman “an Israeli,
widely known not just for his four previous novels but for two seminal books
about the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and for his -- as
the Israelis say -- dovish'' articles and editorials in major newspapers around
the world. With the exception of his first novel, however, the horrific
political life of Israel -- the real world of intifada and reprisal -- plays
virtually no role in the universe of Grossman's fiction.”
2003(10th
of Shevat, 5763): Fifty-eight-year-old Rabbi Steven Dworken, executive vice
president of the Rabbinical Council of America, a professional body serving
over 1,100 Orthodox rabbis, died suddenly at his home in Teaneck, N.J., of a
heart attack
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/19157/orthodox-rabbinical-leader-steven-dworken-dies-at-58/
2004:
“Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
raised the possibility today that the Israeli military could one day withdraw
from the Gaza Strip…’
2005: “At least three Palestinians detonated a
truck bomb and then attacked Israelis late tonight at a busy crossing point in
the Gaza Strip, in an attack coordinated with other militants who fired mortars
and automatic weapons at Israeli soldiers,
2006:
Jeffrey Pollack was appointed Commissioner of the World Series of Poker.
2006: After premiering at Los Angeles in 2005, “Hoodwinked” a
computer animated comedy film produced by Maurice Kanbar was released in the United
States today.
2006: An
exhibit of works by ceramicist Daisy Brand sponsored by the University of
Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Northern Clay
Center opened today. https://jwa.org/thisweek/jan/13/2006/daisy-brand
2007:
Mathew Freud, the great-grandson of Sigmund Freud and Elisabeth Murdoch gave
birth to their second child Samson Murdoch Freud.
2007:
Senior archaeologists have come out in harsh criticism against the Israel
Antiquities Authority (IAA) for authorizing plans for a bridge to connect the
Dung Gate in Jerusalem's Old City to the Mugrabi Gate, located next to the
Western Wall and leading to the Temple Mount.
2008:
The Sunday New York Times book
section featured a review of Bleeding Kansas by Sara Paretsky who grew
up in a small eastern Kansas town, where she and her brothers were the only
Jewish kids in school and is best known as the creator of the fictional female
detective V. I. Warshawski, Vienna Blood by Dr. Frank Tallis in which
the author returns to his previous literary landscape - fin de siècle Vienna complete with Sigmund Freud and
Austrian anti- Semitism and Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons by
Jacob Heilbrunn. As can be seen from one typical review, the book emphasizes
the Jewish nature of the Neo-Con movement. “The story of the neocons is a saga
of immigrant assimilation, whose seeds lie in the Jewish intellectual circles
of the 1930s, when communists loyal to Stalin clashed with Trotskyites over
communist theory and its applications in the real world. In tracing the
evolution of neo-conservatism (including a look at the influence of the
mysterious Leo Strauss), Heilbrunn shows how generations of Jews moved from the
margins of political and intellectual life to replace the old WASP elite and
now play a central role in determining U.S. policy in the Middle East.”
2008: The Washington Post book section
featured a review of Bleeding
Kansas
by Sara Paretsky and a biography about
Mstislav Rostropovich the renowned Baku born Jewish musician entitled Rostropovich:
The Musical Life of the Great Cellist, Teacher, and Legend by Elizabeth
Wilson
2008:
An exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, "Annie Leibovitz: A
Photographer's Life, 1990-2005 "
comes to a close in Washington, D.C.
2008: The UK's Mail on
Sunday issued a free
2008:” New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch
De Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam
2008: Leonard Cohen announced today that he would
make his first concert tour in 15 years starting in May of 2008 at New
Brunswick.
2008: “They Called Me Mayer July”, the first major
exhibition of Mayer Kirshenblatt’s work
in the United States has its final showing at the Judah L. Magnes Museum in
Berkley, California. The exhibition 65 paintings is a tribute to the 91 year
old Mayer Kirshenblatt’s distinctive imagination and sharp recollection of his
Polish Jewish home town before World War II, with images such as: the pregnant
hunchback, who stood under the wedding canopy just hours before giving birth;
the khayder teacher caught in bed with the drummer's wife; the corpse that was
shaved; and the "black wedding" in the cemetery during a cholera
epidemic.
2009:
The 92nd St Y presents an evening with newly minted Nobel Laureate,
economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.
2009:
The Governor of New York nominated Jonathan Lippman to serve as the Chief Judge
of the New York Court of Appeals.
2009:
U.S. Senator Bill Nelson revealed during Hillary Clinton's confirmation hearing
that he believes Robert Levinson is being held in a secret prison in Iran.
"The door has been closed at every turn", Nelson said during
Clinton's confirmation hearing. "We think he is being held by the
government of Iran in a secret prison. (Levinson is the only Jew in this item)
2009: Hadassah began
instituting a massive reduction in force today when it laid off 80 employees
across the country, roughly a quarter of its national staff. The cuts are
coming at all levels of the organization. Hadassah recently announced that it
had in total $40 million invested in Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scam, as well as
another $50 million the organization thought it had made in the scam. It was a
significant hit to its endowment, which now stands at $412 million.
2010: Miriam Levinson, an
expert on Jewish Cuban History is scheduled to present a lecture entitled “The
Jews of Cuba: The Road to Paradise and the Land We Called Home” at the JCC of
Northern Virginia.
2010: The 19th
annual New York Jewish Film Festival opens with a showing of “Saviors in the
Night.” 2010: In “For Some, ‘Kosher;
Equals Pure,” Kim Severson reported that “this year, for the first time, glatt
kosher food will be sold at the Super Bowl.” She then explained why “kosher”
has become so popular among the food-eating public.
2010: The 10th
annual Atlanta Jewish Film Festival opens with a showing of “Berlin ’36.”
2010: Israel’s deputy
foreign minister issued a formal apology to the Turkish ambassador today after
ostentatiously humiliating him earlier in the week and aggravating strains in a
complex and increasingly troubled relationship between Israel and Turkey, its
closest Muslim ally. 2010: According to a report made public today, the past three
years have seen a huge jump in the number and variety of courses about Israel
taught in America's top universities.
2010:
According to a report entitled "Searching for the Study of Israel"
that was released today, "the past three years have seen a huge jump in
the number and variety of courses about Israel taught in America's top
universities."
2011:
“Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness” is scheduled to have its world
premiere at the New York Jewish Film Festival.2011: “Other Desert Cities” by
Jon Robin Baitx “opened off-Broadway at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre with a
cast that included Linda Lavin
2011:
“The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground” is scheduled to have its New York premier at
the New York Jewish Film Festival.
2011:
Andrea Meislin Gallery is scheduled to host a reception in honor Naomi Leshem
to mark the opening of Between Zones, an exhibition of the work of this
acclaimed Israeli photographer.
2011: A group
of national religious youth, known as “Ra'ananim” [waking up], plans to launch
a campaign today against buying fruits, especially figs, from Turkey for the
upcoming Tu B'Shvat holiday.
2011: In an
unprecedented step, some twenty senior Israeli ambassadors sent a letter to
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today, asking him to intervene in the Foreign
Ministry workers' strike "in order to save Israel's foreign service."
2012: “The
Klezmatics: On Holy Ground” – a documentary about one of the premier klezmer
music groups – is scheduled to be shown at The Boston Jewish Film Festival.
2012: Avram Grant was named the new manager of
Partizan Belgrade
2012: “The
Last Jews of Libya” is scheduled to be shown at Temple Sinai in Springfield, MA
2012: Israel's
Counter-Terrorism Bureau warned Israeli citizens today to stay away from
Thailand's capital, following the arrest of a Hezbollah militant suspected of
planning a terrorist attack in the city.
2013: Gary
Gilson is scheduled to perform “You Don’t Have To Be Jewish…But It Couldn’t
Hurt” at the Minneapolis Jewish Humor Festival
2013:
Jonathan-Simon Sellem gave a speech at the National Convention of the CRIF on
“from anti-Zionism to anti-Semitism.
2013:
“Israel’s Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar has announced that Prof. Chava
Turniansky from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will receive the 2013 Israel
Prize. Prof. Turniansky, the Spitz Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies
(Yiddish) in the university’s Department of Yiddish, will receive the award for
her work on the Jewish language and literature.”
2013: The New
York Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to present “An Evening with the Safdie
Brothers” featuring an in-person appearance by directors Josh and Benny Safdei.
2013: The New York Times featured reviews of books
by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Zoo
Time by Howard Jacobson, The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond
and She Matters: A Life in Friendships by Susanna Sonnenberg.
2013: The
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to co-sponsor the
presentation of “Life in Stills” and “Hava Nagila” as part of the Washington
Film Festival
2013: Israeli
forces evacuated a Palestinian outpost built on a controversial strip of land
in the West Bank early this morning, less than a day after the High Court
stayed the demolition of the small tent village.
2013: Cabinet
ministers voted in favor of approving an upgrade in status for the
Jerusalem-based Shalem Center, making it a recognized institute of higher
education, and allowing it to open a program that has been widely touted as
Israel’s “first liberal arts college.”
2014:
Following “a formal mourning ceremony” which is scheduled to be held at the
Knesset and attended by national leaders, Ariel Sharon is scheduled to be laid
to rest at Shikmim Farm in the Negev next to his second wife Lily. (As reported
by Times of Israel)
2014: “The Man
with the Golden Arm” and “Bethlehem” are scheduled to be shown at the New York
Jewish Film Festival
2014:
Professor Joel Dimsdale is scheduled to deliver a lecture “Anatomy of Malice:
Rorschach Records of the Nuremberg War Criminals” at the Lawrence Family JCC.
2014: Just
after the funeral services for Ariel Sharon were completed Palestinians fired
rockets from Gaza into the area near Sycamore Ranch where the service had taken
place. A third rocket blew up on its launcher. (As reported by Yaakov Lappin)
2014: Top
Israeli tennis player Dudi Sela was eliminated from the Australian Open by
Finland’s Jarkko Nieminen today.
2014: The
Cedar Rapids Gazette “Homer” feature highlighting things that have gone right
in the last week includes WE’RE WITH YOU: University of Iowa President Sally
Mason is among academic leaders who oppose the boycott of Israeli academic
institutions, of which the American Studies Association is part. Cheers to
Mason. This is a misguided initiative that suppresses academic freedom and the
exchange of information and ideas. - See more at: http://thegazette.com/2014/01/13/homers-whats-going-right-215/#sthash.nEmiRreq.dpuf
2015:
Per the request of their families, “the victims of the terrorist attack at the
Kosher supermarket in Paris -- Yoav Hattab, 22; Yohan Cohen, 22; Philippe
Braham, 45; and François-Michel Saada, 55 --- were buried in Israel today.
2015:
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled to
host a lunch to mark the upcoming opening of the exhibition “Anne Frank: A
History for Today.”
2015:
In an example of “picture is worth a thousand words” “Newspaper in Israel Scrubs
Women From a Photo of Paris Unity Rally” published today graphically
illustrated how “the ultra-Orthodox Jewish newspaper HaMevaser removed the
images of Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and other female leaders” who
were part of the march against terrorism in the French capital.
2015:
“Senators Dean Heller (R-NV) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) ushered in the new
Congressional session by proposing legislation today to force the Obama
administration to change longstanding US policy and move the US embassy in Israel
from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.”
2015:
Stephanie Pollack was appointed Secretary of Transportation for the State of
Massachusetts today.
2016:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present a preview matinee of
“The Merchant of Venice.”
2016(3rd
of Shevat, 5776): Ninety-year-old George Washington University graduate and magazine
editor Deborah Needleman, the wife of political journalist and former editor of
Slate Jacob Weisberg, the sister-in-law of Joe Weisberg and the daughter-in-law
of Judge Bernard Weisberg and Lois Weisberg, “the first Commissioner of
Cultural Affairs for the City of Chicago” passed away today.
2016:
The New York Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to begin today.
2017(15th
of Tevet, 5777): Just a week after his 92nd birthday veteran
journalist and Jerusalem Post editor Ari Rath passed away today
2017:
Should Jews take notice of the fact that today is Friday the 13th or
should they ignore it because it is Friday, the 15th of Tevet?
http://joshuahammerman.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-friday-13th-is-lucky-day-for-jews.html
http://www.jewishtreats.org/2009/03/unlucky-13.html
http://blog.eteacherhebrew.com/jewish-religion/significance-of-13-in-judaism/
2017:
An episode of “The Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” entitled “Will Scarsdale Like Josh’s
Shayna Punim?” in which “Rebecca Bunch (show creator and star Rachel Bloom) has
to go to Westchester for a family Bar Mitzvah” which also includes the
reappearance of Tovah Feldshuh as “Rebecca’s mother” is scheduled to be
broadcast tonight.
2017(15th
of Tevet, 5777): Today,105-year-old Hilde Metzger Prins, the daughter of Louis
and Clara Metger who moved to Palestine in 1933 to escape the Nazis at the same
time she sought refuge in Amsterdam after which she moved to New York and
married Benajamin Prins in 1940 with whom she moved to Washington 1948 where
she raised their daughter Judith, the wife of Larry Lorber passed away
2017: In the United Kingdom, the Oxford University
Jewish Society is scheduled to host a Friday Night Dinner featuring “Joanne’s
chicken soup.”
2017:
“The Anti-Defamation League called on the Huffington Post’s Arabic-language
edition to remove a blog post claiming a Jewish woman poisoned the Prophet
Muhammad with arsenic.”
2018(26th
of Tevet, 5778): Parashat Va-ayrah;
2018:
The Preservation Virginia and Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation is
scheduled to host a free screening of “Rosenwald.”
2018:
In Tinton Falls, NJ, the Monmouth Reform Temple is scheduled to host two
screenings of “Rosenwald.
2019:
Seventy-nine year old Yom Kippur War veteran Motti Ashkenazi, “ whose 1973
post-war public campaign is thought to have been instrumental in bring down the
government at that time” announced today that he was going to be one of the
leaders of the Social Justice party which will be taking part in the upcoming
election campaign.
2019:
“Israel’s Air Force attacked an Iranian arms warehouse at Syria’s international
airport in Damascus over the weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
confirmed” today at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting.
2019:
The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Anne
Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation adapted by Ari Folman and illustrated
by David Polonsky, A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet
Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein and the recently released paperback
edition of King Zeno by Nathaniel Rich.
2019:
As part of the “Bearing Witness” series Bebe Forehand who “like Anne Frank was
hidden away from the Nazis in an attic” is scheduled to speak at the Breman
Museum in Atlanta.
2019:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present a concert featuring the
“Flute Musice of New York Jewish Composers” introduced by Professor Tina
Frühauf
2019:
JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “The Interpreter” that tells the tale
of “80-year-old Ali, a Slovakian-Jewish interpreter, who arrives in Vienna with
the intention of tracking down – and killing – the SS officer who shot his
parents.”
2019:
The exhibition “Stories of Survival” “that showcases more than 60 never-before-seen
personal items brought to America by Survivors of the Holocaust and genocide”
is scheduled to come to a close today at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Education Center.
2020:
San Francisco based Jewish LearningWorks is scheduled to host ““Elevate:
Inspiring New Paths In Jewish Education” a “summit devoted to elevating Jewish
education, with leaders and innovators from across the country.”
2020:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host the 1st
Sephardi Voice Town Hall where attendees will have a chance to “share their
ideas and show their solidarity for an inclusive, united Jewish future.”
2021:
In Columbus, OH, Tifireth Israel is scheduled to host The Rabbi’s Study Circle
which will include examining “essays on the weekly parasha” as well as a lunch
and learn on “Holy Hypocrisy: The case for Religious Inconsistency with Rabbi
Rami Schwartzer.”
2021:
As part of its “New Works Wednesdays” program which is an exploration of new
works of fiction the American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present Edith
Scott Saavedra as she discusses her new work, The Lamps of Albarracin.
2021:
“The Jewish Museum and Film at Lincoln Center are scheduled to present the 2021
New York Jewish Film Festival virtually starting today.
2021:
In Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Temple Judea is scheduled host via Zoom “a Noon Lunch
& Learn with Rabbi Yaron Kapitulnik: who will present “The best of the
Apocrypha – A glimpse into the books that did not make the Bible’s final cut.”
2021:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host “Second Generation Speaker
Helen Hoffenberg as she “describe how her parents were reunited after being
sent to different camps.”
2021:
“Israel's world-leading COVID-19 inoculation drive
will expand to include citizens aged 50 and over starting today after a large
shipment of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine arrived in the country, the Health
Ministry announced yesterday.” (As reported by Adir Yanko and Sivan Hillaie)
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