Saturday, January 13, 2024

This Day, January 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

January 14

83 BCE: Birthdate of Marcus Antonius, who is better known as Mark Antony (often pronounced Anthony).  Mark Antony is credited by some with recognizing Herod as a Jewish leader and elevating him accordingly.  Later, he would side with Cleopatra in her attempts to claim some of Eretz Israel for her own.

1129:  Formal approval of the Order of the Templar at the Council of Troyes. Troyes was the home town of the great Jewish commentator Rashi who died there a quarter of a century before the council was held.  At the time of the meeting, Rabbinu Tam, the most famous of Rashi’s grandson was 29 years old and living at the village of Ramerupt, which was just outside of Troyes.  The term “Templar” refers to the Temple of Solomon.  In its early days, the Order saw itself as a protector of Jerusalem and Solomon’s Temple.  When it broadened its activity the members of the order learned about banking from the Jews.  Unlike others related to crusading activities, the Templars did not engage in the wholesale slaughter of Jews.

1163: King Ladislaus II brief reign, during which nothing appeared to have been done to diminish the rights of Jews established by King Coleman a half century earlier, came to an end.

 1301:  Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Arpad dynasty in Hungary. While his predecessor on the Hungarian throne had approved a variety of ant-Jewish rules and regulations, Andrew took a different tact “when, in the privilegium granted by him to the community of Posonium (Bratislava), that the Jews in that city should enjoy all the liberties of citizens.” Things went downhill for the Jews of Hungary after Andrew’s death and they were expelled from the kingdom in 1349 under the belief that the Jews were responsible for the Black Death.

1484: The first printed edition of Ibn Gabirol’s Mivhar ha-Peninm was published today.

1514: Pope Leo X issued a papal bull against slavery.  This is the same Pope Leo who clashed with Martin Luther and who offered protection to the Jews at various times including when he reconfirmed the privileges of French Jews despite opposite from the local bishops and banned the wearing of the Jew badge in France.

1589: Anglican clergyman “Francis Kett was burned alive by the Church for inferring that the Jews would one day return to the Promised Land, an opinion derived from reading the Bible” and for his heretical belief that Jesus was not divine.

 1601: The Church burned Hebrew books and manuscripts in Rome.  These book burnings destroyed priceless parts of the Jewish heritage.  One of the puzzling questions is why do Christians have this almost pathological fear of Jewish books.

 1639: The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut. “No Jew, however, was recorded in colonial Connecticut until 1659 when ‘David, the Jew’, was mentioned in the Hartford legislative records.” Hartford was one of the four cities that were covered by The Fundamental orders.

1664: Birthdate of Frankfurt am Main native Johann Jakob Schudt a gentile who wrote ‘a preface to Grünhut's edition of David Ḳimḥi's Commentary on the Psalms in 1712 and published the Purim play of the Frankfurt and Prague Jews with a High German translation 1716” but who also published Judæus Christicida, in which he attempted “to prove that Jews deserved corporal as well as spiritual punishment for the crucifixion” and Jüdische Merkwürdigkeiten  which “is full of prejudice, and repeats many of the fables and ridiculous items published by Johann Andreas Eisenmenger; but  also contains details of contemporary Jewish life, a source for the history of the Jews, particularly those of Frankfurt.”

1690: The clarinet is invented in Germany.  No, the Jews did not invent the clarinet.  But from Benny Goodman, to Artie Shaw to the Kings of Klezmer, can you imagine the clarinet without Jews or Jews without the “licorice stick.”

 1711: One of the largest fires that ever occurred in Frankfurt broke out in the Judengasse  (Jews Alley). The fire started at about 8 p.m. in the House Eichel (German: Acorn) owned by the senior Rabbi Naphtali Cohen.

 1745: Birthdate of Gershom Mendez Seixas, the son of Isaac Mendez Seixas) and Rachel Levy, daughter of Moses Levy, an early New York merchant who gained fame as an American rabbi and fervent supporter of the American Revolution.

1740: The will of Uriah Hyman was “proved” today named Mordecai Gomez as executor.

1745: Rachel Levy, the daughter of Moses Levy and her Lisbon born husband and New York City merchant Isaac Mendez Seixas gave birth to their son Gersom today, making him the fourth of their children.

1750: Elias Levy, who had been born in 1702 and was the son of Benjamin Levy passed away today in the United Kingdom

1758: Birthdate of Jacob de Castro, the son of a London rabbi whose career as a comedian included performances at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden and the Haymarket Theatre where he led a group of players known as “Astley’s Jews.”

1761: In New York Judah Barred and his wife gave birth to a baby daughter.

 1765: Birthdate of Seckel Isaac Fränkel, the German rabbi who led the new Reform Temple in Hamburg when it opened in 1818.

1768: Aaron Hart, who is considered to be the father of Canadian Jewry, wed his cousin Dorothea Catherine Judah in Portsmouth, England. After the marriage, Uriah and Samuel Judah who were both his cousins and brothers-in-law emigrated to Trois-Rivières, Canada. The large family included four sons: Moses, Ezekiel, Benjamin, and Alexander (Asher), and five daughters, the latter educated by the Ursuline Catholic sisters in Trois-Rivières. One daughter, Chavah, married a Judah and two others, Sarah and Charlotte, married Samuel and Moses David respectively, sons of Montreal's Lazarus David. Seventeen sixty-eight was also the same year in which Hart joined with others for found Shearith Israel in Montreal.

1781: A day after she passed away yesterday, Mrs Treinela bat Moses wife of Lipman ben Joseph was buried today at the Alderney Road Jewish Cemetery.

1788: Birthdate of Bavaria born Leb Hamburger, the son of Seligman Hamburg and the husband of Vogel Mannaseh with whom he had ten children.

1792(19th of Tevet, 5552): Parashat Shemot

1792(19th of Tevet, 5552): Six-month old Benjamin Samson, the infant son of Michael and Judith Samson passed way today in the United Kingdom.

1792: In Holland, Hendrina Hartog Abrahams and Joseph Frankfort gave birth to Kaatje Joseph Frankfort.

1794(13th of Shevat, 5554): Judah Leib ben Isaac passed away today after which he was married at the Alderney Road Jewish Cemetery.

 1798: In Amsterdam an aristocratic Sephardic Portuguese Jew, Daniel da Costa, a relative of Uriel Acosta and a prominent merchant in the city of Amsterdam” and “Rebecca Ricardo,a sister of the English political economist David Ricardo gave birth to Daniel da Costa, poet and writer who converted to Christianity, oddly enough, counted a work on Jewish history entitled Israel and the Gentiles as one of his major ventures into the world of prose.

1799: In Bavaria, Rosa Thurnauer and Meyer Fechheimer gave birth to Koppel Fechheimer, the husband of Eleanore Freund with whom he had nine children.

1799: One day after he had passed away, “Shlomin Moshe Jacob” was buried at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”

1803: Birthdate of Eduard Munk, who taught at the Royal Wilhelmsschule at Breslau and at the gymnasium of Glogau but whose academic career was stifled because he was Jewish.

1804: Bella Hart, the London born daughter of Mary and Mordecai Levy, and her husband Daniel Hart gave birth to Henrietta Hart who lived to the age of 97.

1808: In London, Hannah Samuel and Solomon Cohen gave birth to Abraham Cohen.

1811: Birthdate of Starokonstantiov (which is now part of Ukraine) native Avrom Ber Gotlober, the son of a chazan and thrice married Haskalah “poet, playwright, historian and journalist” who wrote under “the pen names ‘Abag’ and ‘Mahalael’.”

https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Gottlober_Avraham_Ber

1814:  Under the Treaty of Kiel which was concluded today, Denmark gave up all its rights to Norway to the king of Sweden which helped to lead to the convening of “a constituent assembly in Eidsvoll” which turned back the clock on the acceptance of Jews that had recently taken place in Denmark and continued the exclusion of Jews from Norway “as part of the clause that made Lutheranism the official state religion, though with free exercise of religion as the general rule.”

1820: Birthdate of Wilna native and Talmudist Bezalel B. Moses Ha-Kohen who “was in reality – at least from 1860 to 1878 – the spiritual head of the large community in Wilna.”

1821: Birthdate of Salomon Hermann Mosenthal, the native of Kassel, whose operatic works included “Die Maccaber” or “The Maccabees” which he created with Anton Rubinstein.

1825(24th of Tevet, 5585): Sixty-three-year-old Catherine Bush, the Philadelphia born daughter of Tabitha Mears and Mathias Bush, the wife of Meyer S. Solomon and the mother of Joseph, Samuel Arabella, Matthias, Alexander, Sarah and Henry Solomon passed away today in her hometown

1828: In Newington, Louis Levy, the son of Woolf and Martha Levy was circumcised today.

1830: In Bavaria, Hannah Bachman Butzel and Moses Leo Butzel gave birth to Detroit resident Magnus Butzel, the husband of Henrietta Hess Butzel with whom he had six children and whom in 1852 came to the United States where he was in the clothing business, active in the Republican party and was a member of B’nai B’rith.

1831: The Scottish poet and lawyer Henry MacKenzie who “speculated that the high incidence of biblical place names around the village of Morningside near Edinburgh might have originated from Jews settling in the area during the Middle Ages” passed away today.

1842: In Vienna, Leopold Bruer and his wife gave birth to Dr. Josef Bruer the mentor of Sigmund Freud.

1842: According to the Jewish Chronicle, at this time Woolwich “had barely a minyan of Jews, consisting of five or six families” who employed their own Shochet.  They had held services for this time on Rosh Hashanah, 5601(1840).

1845: In New Orleans, Cecilia and Joseph Hart Marks gave birth to Katherine Mordecai, the wife of Allen Louis Mordecai with whom she had four children – Benjamin, Cecilia, Robert and Clara.

1850: Rebecca Cohen Hart, the New York born daughter of Catherine and Sampson Mears Isaacks and her husband Abraham Hart, the publisher, gave birth to Clarence Hart.

1851: In Cayuga County, NY, the prosecution rested its case during the trial of John Baham who is charged with having murdered Nathan Adler, an industrious and well-liked Jewish peddler from Syracuse.

1853: In a letter published today, Dr.  George Bethune described the conditions of the seven or eight thousand Jews living in Rome under “shockingly oppressed” conditions. At that time, as he pointed out, the government of Rome was under the control of the Vatican.

1854: At Albany, NY, Theresa Bloch Wise and Dr. Isaac M. Wise gave birth Ohio Female College graduate Ida Wise Bernheim, the wife of Henry Bernhim and mother of five children.

1857: Henry Eliezer Symons married Emma Myers at the Great Synagogue today.

1858: In Chicago, Sarah (Spiegel) and Michael Greenebaum, a successful merchant gave birth to Hannah Greenbaum Solomon, the founder and first president of the National Council of Jewish Women.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/solomon-hannah-greenebaum

1859(7th of Shevat, 5619): Fifty-nine-year-old Zerline “Lina” Beyfus, the wife of Meyer Levin Beyfus passed away at Frankfurt am Main

1859: Three days after she had passed away, Emily S. Raphael, the daughter of Lewis Raphael and Rachel Mocatta, was buried at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery” today.

1859: Birthdate of Santo Domingo native Francisco Hilario Henriquez y Carvajal, the descendant of “Sephardic Jews who had immigrated in the 19th century from Curaco,” and  the husband of Salome Urena with whom he had four children – Pedro, Francisco, Max and Camila – “who served as president just prior to the US occupation of his country. 

1859: In New York, Catharine and Isaak Benjamin Kleinart gave birth to Deborah Janowitz, the wife Julius Janowitz and the mother of Ethel Gruen.

1860(19th of Tevet, 5620): Parashat Shemot

 1860: It was reported today that two Jewish businessmen named Magnus and Guedalla challenged one another to single combat during a heated dispute over who should control a company called the Great Eastern 

1861: Birthdate of Mehmed VI the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.  He came to the throne in the closing days of World War I.  His representatives signed the Treaty of Sèvres, the peace treaty marking the end of the war for the Ottoman Empire.  In signing the treaty, the Turkish sultan recognized the mandates that ended the empire including the British mandate over Palestine that was a key step on the path to creation of the state of Israel.  The sultan lost his throne to Turkish revolutionaries who were angered by the signing of the treaty. 

1862: Amsterdam native Michael Waas, the son of Henry and Miriam Waas, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1863: In Romania, R' Moshe Paneth, Daszer Rebbe, the son of R' Menahem Mendel Paneth (פנט), (Maglei Tzedek) and Raisel Paneth and his wife Malka Paneth gave birth to R' Yitzchak Yechiel Paneth, of Daish, the husband of Matil Lea Paneth.

1866: In Switzerland, Jewish rights were ratified. Switzerland had been the scene of some of the worst massacres during the Black Plague and a hotbed of anti-Jewish edicts. This legislation was only passed after the United States, Britain and France refused to sign treaties until their anti-Jewish cantons were repealed.

1867: Birthdate of Philadelphia pitcher William “Bill” Kling who was mistakenly identified as being Jewish because his brother Johnny had married a Jew and had never denied claims that he was also Jewish.

1868: In Cincinnati, OH, Bernhard and Matilda (Wald) Bettman gave birth to University of Cincinnati Graduate and Medical College of Ohio trained physician Henry Wald Bettman, the chief of medical service at the Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati and the husband of Rose Grace Kauffman.

1871: In Hamburg, Germany Charlotte Esther Oppenheim Warburg and Moritz Moses Warburg to Felix Warburg who came to the United States in 1894 where he became a partner at Kuhn, Loeb and Co. as well as a leading member of the American Jewish community.

http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0457/ms0457.html

1873: In Cincinnati, OH, Elizabeth Seinsheimer and Harris Kempner gave birth to Washington and Lee University alum Isaac Herbert Kempner, the husband of Henrietta Blum whom he married in 1902 and the father of Harris Leon Kempner, Isaac Herbert Kempner Jr., Cecile, Lyda, and Leonora who was the Treasurer of Galveston, TX and its mayor from 1917 to 1919. (Some sources show his birthdate as 1874)

1876: In California, Joseph Naphthaly, the Prussian born son of Samuel and Julia Naphthaly and the former Sarah Schmitt, the daughter of Blaize and Pauline Schmitt gave birth to Gertrude Naphthaly the younger sister of Samuel Leon Naphthaly.

1878: Among the payments made from the New York City Treasury today was on of $7,976.66 to the Hebrew Benevolent Orphan Society.

http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0457/ms0457.html

1878: In Austria, Faega Liberman and Naftali Thumin gave birth to Rabbi Joseph Thumin, the husband of Sabena Rottenberg and son-in-law “of the famous banker, Talmudist and scientist Solomon Rottenberg, who in 1914 came to the United States where he severed as the leader of Congregation Anshe Austria in Boston and Congregation Adath Israel in New York before taking the pulpit at Beth Abraham Congregation at Detroit in 1916.

1880: Birthdate of Cardinal Pierre-Marie Gerlier who was posthumously awarded the title Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1981 for his efforts to save Jews from the Vichy Government of Petain and Laval as well as their Nazi allies.

1881: In Lodz, “Zelman Salomonowicz and Hinda Salomonowicz Zylberberg” gave birth to Abram Bejnysz Artur Salvin Salomonowicz, the husband “of Helena Salvin Salomonowicz”

1881: As of today, the price of l'Union Générale had fallen to 2,800 francs marking a loss of 140 francs a share in a week which helped to cause the Bourse to crash – an event that many claim was the cause of a sharp rise in French anti-Semitism that would find its fullest expression at Drancy in WW II.

1882: Birthdate of Austrian native Charles M. Landsman, the graduate of CCNY and NYU trained attorney who taught “public school math” before becoming a principal.

1882: In Baltimore, MD, 52-year-old Louis Ottenheim and 41-year-old Rachel Feldenheimer gave birth to Jacob “Jack” Louis Ottenheimer the husband of Clara Bussy who moved to New York in 1928.

1884(14th of Tevet, 5644): Seventy-six-year-old Philip Phillips a native of Charleston, SC, who practiced law in Mobile and served in the state legislature and the U.S. House Representatives passed away today.  The husband of Eugenia Levy, he was a Union sympathizer who lived in several Southern cities including Washington, D.C.

1886: In Baltimore, MD, Benjamin and Fannie (Kahn) Strouse gave birth to Goucher College grad Clara Strouse who used the pen name Clara Beranger to become a leading silent screen film writer.

https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/clara-beranger/

https://ourcommunitynow.com/local-culture/our-marylanders-then-screenwriter-clara-beranger

1886: In Williamsport, PA, Ella Lewis and Hiram H. Ulman gave birth Lehigh University trained chemical engineer Malcom Ulman, the “assistant to the chief engineer of tests of the Pennsylvania State High Department who married Rose Vale Heims after the death of his first wife Helen Lyon.

1887: In Poland, Adolph and Natalia Lieberman gave birth to Sigismund Lieberman, the “husband of Mary S. Lieberman” with whom he had two children – George and Norma.”

1888(1st of Shevat, 5648): Rosh Chodesh Shevat.

1888: In New York City, Jacob and Fredericka (Block) Weisl, gave birth to the CCNY educated investment banker and member of the New York Stock Exchange Edwin Weisl, the husband of Edna Kraus and member of Central Synagogue.

1889: Webster Hall, which is owned by Charles Goldstein, is scheduled to host the third annual reception of the Hoffman House Barkeepers.

1890: Ninety-year-old Father Ignaz von Döllinger author of "The Jews in Europe" passed away today.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_21/June_1882/The_Jews_in_Europe_I

 1891: “Russian Jews For America” published today described the arrival of about 500 hundred Russian Jewish men, women and children who plan to go on to the United States.

1892: In Lippstadt, Heinrich Niemöller and his wife Pauline (née Müller), gave birth to Martin Niemöller, the Lutheran minister whose anti-Nazi views slowly evolved and whose view about Jews was “a mixed bag” at best.

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392

1892: The annual convention of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association of America opened this morning at the Lindell Hotel in St. Louis, MO.

1892: Mrs. J.B. Eiseman, Mrs. Edward Pels and Mrs. G. Eiseman, of Baltimore, MD, met with Caroline Harrison, the wife of President Benjamin Harrison in Washington, DC at which time they invited her to attend upcoming Hebrew Orphan Asylum Bazar.  Mrs. Harrison said that if possible she would attend.  In any event, she would “send a donation of flowers from the White House Conservatories.”  (President Harrison was engaged in a re-election campaign which might have been the reason she met with the Jewish ladies.  In fairness, her refusal to commit to coming may have reflected her weakened condition that came from her battle with Tuberculosis which would take her life in October)

 1892: The three days of ceremonies marking the opening of the Jewish Maternity’s facility in Philadelphia, PA, came to a close today.

1892: It was reported today that Adolph L. Sanger’s failure to gain election as the President of the Board of Education had nothing to do with the fact that he was Jewish.  Rather it was a case that the Tammany “machine” had decided it wanted to the incumbent to retain the position.

1893: Birthdate of Tiengen, Germany native Dr. Hugo Hahn, who fled to the United States with his family after Kristallnacht, founded and was the first rabbi for Congregation Habonim whose wife “died in 1955 when the Israeli airline on which she was a passenger was shot down over Bulgaria.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/11/08/87371861.html?pageNumber=40

1894: It was reported today that Dr. Joseph Krauskopf, one of the leading rabbis in Philadelphia, is coming to New York City to deliver an address sponsored by the Young Men’s Association of Ahawath Chesed

1894: President James H. Hoffman presided over the tenth annual meeting of the Hebrew Technical Institute which was held this morning in New York City.

1895: In Port Royal, SC, Minna Goetz and Morris Epstein gave birth to Harvard Law School trained attorney and officer in the Naval Reserve during WW I Henry Epstein, who married Ethel Maxwell Steuer, the mother of Alan and Eric Steurer  and who was a member of Temple Israel in Rockaway, NY and a member of the Intercollegiate Menorah Association

1895: Benjamin Oppenheimer, one of the Republican delegates from the 22nd Assembly District was so upset when he heard that reports circulated by those opposing William Brookfield’s continued service as Republican County Chairman because Jews were against him due to his membership in the Union League Club that he has started to campaign among his co-religionist  to gain support for Brookfield (The Union League Club had blackballed Joseph Seligman’s son because he was Jewish and the fact that it no longer had any Jewish members was bone of contention among “uptown Jews..”)

1896: Birthdate of Hans J. Salter, Viennese trained composer who came to the United Sates in 1937 where he began a thirty-year career of creating music for the movies.

1896: Four days after he had passed away, “Frank Mozley, the only son of Rosetta and Lewin Barnet Mozely” was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemtery.”

1896: The inaugural event of this social season hosted by the Young Folks’ League of the Hebrew Asylum is scheduled to take place this evening at the Lexington Assembly Rooms in NYC.

1897(11th of Shevat, 5657): Seventy-eight-year-old Leon Sternberger, the “cantor emeritus of Temple Beth-El” passed away today. Born in Bavaria in 1810, he “was a pupil of Solomon Sulzer, the father of modern Jewish religious music.” After serving as a cantor in Warsaw, he came to the United States in 1849, where he first served Anshe Chesed,

1897: It was reported today that in Austria, Christian and Jewish witnesses swear the same oath before testifying.  However, Christian witnesses take the oath “before a crucifix between two lighted candles” while Jews take the oath with their right hands on a Bible open to the Ten Commandments.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0D10F6385D11738DDDAD0994D9405B8785F0D3

1898(20th of Tevet, 5658): Eighty-nine-year-old Lazarus Straus, “the senior member of L. Straus & Sons” passed away today. Born in Bavaria in 1809 to a prominent Jewish family, he came to the United States after the failure of the Revolutions of 1848 in which he supported the liberals He arrived in Talbotton, GA in 1853 and, after a series of business ventures in the South moved to New York City 1865. The crowning point of his business career came when his firm acquired controlling interest in R.H. Macy & Co.  A generous philanthropist, he was a leader of the Jewish community who actually lit the Eternal Light at Temple Beth-El during the sanctuary’s dedication.  His proudest accomplishment may be his family which include his sons Isidor, Nathan who is the President of the Board of Health and Oscar who served as U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.

1898: As the Dreyfus Affair continues to inflame France, a group of law students demonstrated in front of the offices of the Aurore protesting the writings of Emile Zola.

1899: It was reported today that Magistrate Sims has resolved the trespass charge brought by Mrs. Esther Wallenstein, President of the Hebrew Infant Asylum.  The Magistrate agreed that the watchmen employed by the builders who had been hired to remodel the asylum’s building  “had no legal right to be on the premises” he only fined the one dollar because they had every reason to believe they had such a right.  In other words, they were innocent pawns in a struggle between Mrs. Wallenstein and the builders, John Webber & Sons.

1899: Temple Isaiah, a Reform congregation in Chicago, Illinois, dedicated a school building.  The structure was attached to the synagogue which had been designed by Dankmar Adler.

1900: Today’s Manila Tribune published “the official report” describing the “famous expedition from San Nicolas to Appani, through the heart of Northern Luzon” included mention of Assistant Surgeon Joseph M. Heller who was complimented “for his qualities of perseverance, patience and fidelity to duty” while showing “great courage in ministering to the wounded under fire.”

1900: In Germany, Dr. of Jurisprudence Ernst Oppenheimer, the Hanover born son of Ana and Louis Oppenheimer and his wife Clara Amalie Oppenheimer gave birth to New York resident Helene Edith Eisner, the wife of George F. Eisner.

1900(14th of Shevat, 5660): Fifty-seven-year-old Abraham Baer Dobsewitch, the Pinsk native known for his commentaries and Hebrew writing passed away today in New York.

http://research.omicsgroup.org/index.php/Abraham_Baer_Dobsewitch

1901(23rd of Tevet, 5561): Smallpox victim Benjamin Trauaofski, a Russian Jew, fifty-four years old, who lived at 31 Boerum Street with his wife and two children died today in Brooklyn in what may a an epidemic of the disease.

https://www.nytimes.com/1901/01/15/archives/smallpox-death-in-brooklyn-authorities-after-a-doctor-who-failed-to.html?searchResultPosition=1

1902: As part of attempts to curb Jewish immigration to the United Kingdom, “A great public demonstration under the auspices of the British Brothers’ League which is in favor of restricting further immigration of destitute foreigners into this country” is scheduled to be held today at “The People’s Palace” under the chairmanship of Major Evans Gordon, MP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Brothers%27_League

1902: Oscar Straus “was named a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague to fill the place left vacant by the death of ex-President Benjamin Harrison.”

1902: Daniel Joseph Jaffé “became associate member of the Institute of Civil Engineers (A.M.I.C.E.)” following which me moved to Hong Kong where among other things, he would build what was, at its time, the largest dam in the Far East.

1902: Three days after he had passed away, 79-year-old Moss Myers was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1903: In San Francisco, prominent socialites Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stettheimer gave birth to Barbara Stettheimer who gained fame as Barbara Ochs Adler, the wife of Julius Ochs Adler.

1904: In South Carolina, Rabbi J.J. Simenhoff officiated at the marriage of Abram Pearlstine and Sadie B. Livingston.

1904: Birthdate of Dallas, TX native Evelyn Asinof, who moved to New York where she served on the women’s auxiliary board of Mt. Sinai Hospital and Campaign Chairman for the Volunteer Placement Service of the New York Federation of Jewish Philanthropies.

1904: In Hampstead, London, “Ernest Walter Hard Beady, a prosperous timber merchant and Etty Sisson to the multi-talented award-winning Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton who, in 1938, publisher Conde Nast had the courage to fire because of “a drawing contributed by Mr. Beaton to the February 1 issue of Vogue” in which “there appeared comments that were critical of the Jewish race.” (Editor – while the rest of the world turned a blind eye to Hitler and many Englishmen flirted with fascism, Nast gets high marks for doing his bit to “change the world.”)

1905(8th of Shevat, 5665): Parashat Bo

1905: “Fantana,” Sam Shubert’s first original production” “premiered at the Lyric Theatre” today.

1905: In St. Louis, “Isaac Newton Hahn, a dry goods salesman, and Hannah Hahn, a free-spirited suffragette” gave birth to journalist and novelist Emily Hahn who most memorable work came while she was writing from China from 1935 to 1941.

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/19/arts/emily-hahn-chronicler-of-her-own-exploits-dies-at-92.html

1906: The plans for a bazaar and ball in the Grand Central Palace featuring “professional vaudeville performers” and “the brand from the Hebrew Orphan Asylum” that will raise fund “for the assistance of the Jews of Russia” sponsored by the Women Workers for the Self Protection of Jews in Russia” were announced today.

1906: The Board of the Berlin Congregation discussed “the admission of proselytes.”

1907: Abraham Sincioff, the Russian born son of Mordecai and Ida Hudel Sincoff, and his wife Frances Shaprior gave birth to Laurene Nathanial Sincoff.

1907: The Earthquake that struck Jamaica today destroyed the synagogue there which was part of “one of the earliest Jewish settlements in the Western Hemisphere.

1908: Professor Paul Milyukoff, the leader of the Constitutional Democrats in the Duma who “believes I equal rights for all, including Jews” gave a speech tonight at Carnegie Hall.

1908: “The Extraordinary Sales” today Abraham and Straus included “15 Fine, Irish Linen Parasols” for $9.98 and “Boys’ $6 Long Overcoats” for $3.95.

1909: In Goldfield, Nevada, Abe Attel retained his world featherweight title when he knocked out his opponent in the tenth round. (As reported by Bob Wechsler)

1911: “Forty Jewish families are scheduled tol be expelled today  from Moscow because “they do not come with the provisions of the new law recently passed by the Czar permitting Jewish merchants of the first guild and their families  to reside in the city and province of Moscow.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/12/18/104957280.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1910: Elias Zepnich, who had deserted his family an according to a Jewish Society in St. Louis had become a tailor worth at least $5,000 and had refused several appeals made through the Educational Alliance to support his wife and eight children, was fined one thousand dollars and sentence to not less than one year and not more than one year and nine months in Sing Sing today by a New York Judge.

1911: “A concert was given in Carnegie Hall this evening by the New York Symphony Orchestra under Mr. Walter Damrosch for the benefit of the philanthropies of the New York section of the Council of Jewish Women.”

1911: Forty Jewish families are scheduled to “be expelled from Moscow” today because “they do no coe within the provisions of the law recently approved by the Czar, permitting Jewish merchants of the first guild and their families to reside in the city and Province of Moscow.”

1912(24th of Tevet, 5672): Eighty-year-old German philologist Salomon Lefmann passed away today at Heidelberg.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/12/18/104957280.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1912: In Chicago, at the Auditorium Hotel, Isaac M. Bernstein married Pearl Graff, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Barnett Graff today.

1912: The funeral of “Bessie Richmond, nee Abrahams, the wife of Albert Richmond and the mother of Leroy and Wilford Richmond took place today at the Free Sons’ Cemetery, Waldheim.

1912: In Chicago, at the Metropole Hotel, Rabbi Stolz officiated at the marriage of Casril H. Barnard and Bessie Schumacher.

1913: It was announced at the meeting of the Council of the United Synagogue that the selection committee had decided to submit to the Electoral College the names of two candidates only, Joseph H. Hertz of New York and Dr. Hyamson of London, for the office of chief rabbi, coupling with this resolution a strong recommendation in favor of Dr. Hertz.

1914: In Camden, NJ, the Hebrew Ladies’ Aid Society is scheduled to host its tenth annual reception and ball at Turner Hall tonight.

1915: The Industrial Removal Office which was organized in 1900 held it fourteenth annual meeting today in New York City under the leadership of Chairman Reuben Arkush.

1915:  In Sacramento, CA, Russian-Jewish immigrants Abraham Ellis and Fannie Goodson gave birth to U.C. graduate turned game show producer Mark Goodson.

http://www.biography.com/people/mark-goodson-9542303

1915(28th of Tevet, 5675): Seventy-eight-year-old Henrietta Francisca Sichel, the daughter of Fanny and Salomon Bernard Sichel and the wife of Joseph Mayer Montefiore passed away today in Sussex.

1915(28th of Tevet, 5675): Fifty-four-year Abraham Dantzig passed away today after which he was buried at the Sheffield Cemetery in Kansas City, MO.

1915: (28th of Tevet, 5675): Seventy-one-year-old Simon Yondorf, the husband of Minnie Yondorf with whom he had three children passed away today in Chicago.

1915: The Red Cross Fund of which Jacob H. Schiff is treasurer increased by $395.75 which included a donation from the Ladies’ Aid Hebrew Temple of Fort Gibson, Mississippi and brought the total to $438, 791.33.

1915: The list published today of contributors to the American Jewish Relief Committee for Suffers from the War included Chesed Shel Emes, Springfield, Ohio, Temple Beth-El, South Bend, Michigan, Ahavas Chesed Ladies, Mobile, Alabama, Congregation Agudas Achim, Shreveport, Louisiana and Mrs. S. Stern of Des Moines, Iowa.

1916: The text of the telegram sent by the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War seeking to gain the interest of Rabbis in supporting the day designated by President Wilson to collect funds for the cause was published today including a request that the sermons on the Shabbat before the event include a plea for support.

1916: In San Francisco, Samuel Veprin and his wife gave birth to William “Billy” Veprin, the husband of “Tootsie” Veprin with whom he had three children – Harvey, Helene and Susie – and the entrepreneur whose ventures included “starting the first dry-cleaners on Guam” and “own the landmark restaurant Tommy’s Joynt in San Francisco who supported a variety of worthwhile causes including “the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Foundation, the Jewish Home for the Aging and Cedars-Sinai.”

1916: It was announced today that the Clothing Jobbers’ League under the leadership of Chairman Emanuel Neuman and Secretary Samuel J. Klein has pledged $1,200 to be sent to the committee collecting funds to aid the suffering Jews of war-torn Europe and Palestine.

1917(20th of Tevet, 5677): Eighty-six-year-old “Solomon Ullmann, President of the Western Synagogue and one time treasurer of the Plymouth Hebrew congregation passed away today.

1917: “At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the National Jewish Home for Consumptives, Dr. Adolf Meyer of New York said that unless necessary precautions were taken there was a great danger of tuberculosis being increased in this country by immigration after the war.”

1917: “The women’s Proclamation Committee, a national organization for war relief, of which Mrs. Samuel Elkeles is Chairman will send today to the Joint Distribution Committee its check for $5,000 which was pledged toward the 1917 $10,000,000 fund for the relief of Jewish war suffers at the recent meeting in Carnegie Hall.”

1917: “Leon Trotsky, a Russian journalist and Socialist, his wife and his two sons, Leon, 11 and Serge, arrived” today in New York “on the Spanish liner Montserrat after having been expelled from Europe for preaching peace.”  (Yes, the number two man in the Russian Revolution found refuge in the United States months before the Communists came to power.)

1917: “At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the National Jewish Home for Consumptives held this afternoon, Dr. Adolf Meyer of New York said that unless necessary precautions were taken there was great danger of tuberculosis being increased in the United States by immigration after the war.”

1917: It was announced today that “preparations for a ‘Week of Mercy’ to be held through the United States” later this month “are being made by the Central Committee for the Relief of the Jews Suffering through the War.”

1917: Among the appeals the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society received form persons in the wars zones asking that relatives or friends in the United States be located was one for “J. Pomerantz, 124 Street, Des Moines, Iowa.

1918: The Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies started its campaign today to raise $4,000,000 or more for the year’s maintenance of Jewish welfare, relief and sociological activities.”

1919: “The largest single item on” the budget of the ZOA which was made public today was “one million dollars that will be used through the Jewish Colonial Trust and the Anglo-Palestine Company for construction and reconstruction work.”

1920: Birthdate of Brooklyn native Danny Bartfield who fought as a featherweight during the 1940’s before fighting a couple of bouts in 1945 and 1947 as a lightweight.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/books/abraham-rothberg-who-wrote-of-golem-and-stalin-dies-at-89.html

1920: Fifty-seven-year-old Rabbi Reuben Marks, the Polish born son of Abraham Jacob and Rebecca (Levine) Marks, who in 1884 came to the United States where he organized the first Hebrew School in Des Moines in 1892 married Rachel M. Barnett today.

1921: The “Jewish Flying Squad, the transcontinental tour made by the squadron to raise a $3,500,000 fund for religious and educational purposes among the Jewish people” is scheduled to come to an end today in Cincinnati, OH with a three-day holiday that will include special service held in commemoration of the late Jacob Schiff.

1922: In Brooklyn, Louis Rothberg “a garment who had emigrated from Russia” and Lottie Rothberg, an Austrian born clerical worker gave birth to author Abraham Rothberg, the holder of a masters in literature from the University of Iowa whose works included The Sword of Golem and the autobiographical novel The Song of David Freed and the husband of Esther Conwell passed away today. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/books/abraham-rothberg-who-wrote-of-golem-and-stalin-dies-at-89.html

1922: In New York Sarah Rachel Korobchinsky and Litman Eliezer gave birth to Rabbi Emmanuel Applebaum the husband of Jaqueline Applebaum with whom he had three children – Geela, David and Avrom who held degrees from Brooklyn College, NYU and Yeshiva University and who taught in Manitoba and Detroit before becoming a professor in Jerusalem.

1923: It was reported today that “George Barsky, proprietor of the Hotel Allenby located just outside of the Jaffe Gate in Jerusalem” has arrived in New York for a month long stay during which he plans to raise funds to build a new, modern hotel in Jerusalem that will have 500 rooms with 200 baths, a hot water heating system and all of the other amenities that Westerners connect with a first-class hostelry including a restaurant, billiard room and ballroom for dancing.  Barsky sees Jerusalem and Palestine as prime travel destinations and has high hopes for the development of the tourist industry in “the holy land.”

1924: Today the Conference of the Home Mission Council and Council Women for Home Missions meeting in Atlantic City issued a statement recommending the “enactment of new legislation on immigration along humane lines that stated, “the prevailing anti-Semitism in many European countries and the evidence of the spirit here and there in America makes it incumbent on the churches to oppose all propaganda directed against the Jews as un-American and alien to the spirit of Christ.”

1925: It was reported today that Chaim Weizmann had said that “the Jewish immigration into Palestine is the largest in Jewish history to any country” and that “behind the 2,000 Jews immigrating monthly stand 10,000 desiring to immigrate.”

1926: After losing his last three fights in 1925, featherweight Wilburn Cohen won his first bout of 1926 by a knockout.

1927: Birthdate of Zuzana Ruzickova who “endured three concentration camps in World War Two, including Auschwitz, was persecuted by the Communists in Czechoslovakia in the years that followed and who persevered “to become one of the world's leading harpsichordists.” (As reported by Rebecca Jones)

http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/acclaimed-harpsichordist-and-shoah-survivor-zuzana-ruzickova-dies-aged-90/

1928: In the Bronx, Jewish immigrants Bertha and Abraham Winogrand gave birth to U.S. Army Air Force veteran and CCNY, Columbia University and The New School of Social research trained “Street Photographer” Garry Winogrand who was the husband of Eileen Hale, Judy Teller and Adreinne Lubeau.

https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/garry-winogrand?all/all/all/all/0

https://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/garry-winogran

1928: U.S. premiere of “Love and Learn” a six-reel silent film produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky with a script co-authored by Herman J. Mankiewicz.

1929: “Morris Eisenman, the treasurer of the downtown United Palestine Appeal and a member of the administrative committee of the ZOA was the guest of honor at a testimonial dinner” tonight “at the Hotel Astor given by 150 leaders in Jewish communal affairs in recognition of his twenty-five years of service to Zionism and charitable causes.”

1930: Fifty-seven-year-old German Egyptologist Émile Brugsch who in 1881 “discovered the tomb at Deir el Bahir” which included the mummy of Ramses II, the Pharaoh of the Exodus passed away today.

1930: Rutgers defeated Drexel today thanks to a 26 point performance by Jack Grossman. (As reported by Wechsler)

1930(14th of Tevet, 5690): Forty-seven-year-old Harvard graduate and member of the Seventh regiment of the NY National Guard Herbert Spencer Martin, the New York born son of Max and Matilda Martin and   the husband of the former Madeline Straus with whom he had three sons – Herbert, Jr, Stuart and John- who worked in his father business before becoming Vice President of S.W. Straus and Company, investment bankers while serving as honorary secretary of the Montefiore Hospital passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1930/01/15/92060815.html?pageNumber=27

1931: Jewish papers in Germany have given up “the greater part of its space today to the publication of biographical material” about Felix M. Warburg who is celebrating his sixtieth birthday today.

1932: A special correspondent who was sent to Soroca on the border with Russia to investigate the shooting of six young Jews by a Rumanian frontier patrol reported that the victims described in the communique as “six young men” really were three boys and three girls.

https://www.nytimes.com/1932/01/15/archives/rumanians-accused-of-killing-children-paper-says-agent-provocateur.html?searchResultPosition=1

1933(16th of Tevet, 5693): Parahsat Vayechi

1933: A conflict between the senate of the University of Breslau and Professor Cohn which was the result of protests by anti-Semitic Nazi students against the professor was settled today and he will resume his lectures on January 16th.

1933: In New York, Zelda Karabok and Leibish Gluck, an unemployed jeweler gave birth to Rena Joan Gluck “a dancer, choreographer and educator who helped bring modern dance to Israel, and who was instrumental in creating the Batsheva Dance Company, the country’s pre-eminent dance troupe…” (As reported by Brian Schaefer)

https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/gluck-rena-1933

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/arts/dance/rena-gluck-dead.html

1933: In New York, Zelda Karabok and Leibish Gluck, an unemployed jeweler gave birth to math teacher Milton Gluck, the twin brother of famed dancer and choreographer Rena Joan Gluck.

1934: Birthdate of Tunisian native Pierre Darmon, the French tennis player who “was a member of France’s Davis Cup Team from 1956–67, winning 44 of the 68 matches in which he participated.”

http://www.worldtennismagazine.com/archives/11880

1935: Julius L. Meir completed his term as the 20th Governor of Oregon today.

1936: Reports published today describing the decision of Conductor Wilhelm Furtwaegler, who relies on the Third Reich for much of his work to drop a performance of works by Mendelssohn, who is considered “Jewish” from a performance of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Budapest.

1936: In Bucharest, police arrested 71 anti-Semites after the “anti-Semitic supports of Professor A.C. Cuza kidnapped and beat several leaders of the National Peasant party” as they drove to a meeting in Bukovina Province. (Editor’s Note:  There has been tendency in the last fifty years to concentrate on the Holocaust and the Nazis which has resulted in a failure to appreciate the wave of anti-Semitism that was sweeping Europe during the 1930’s in a wide variety of counties that included the majority of European Jews.)

1937: Despite “a pouring rain” Jews from Haifa to Jerusalem “gave an enthusiastic welcome to the new Chief Rabbi, Dr. J.A. Herzog”, the replacement for the late Rabbi Kook,  who arrived today from Ireland where he had served as chief rabbi

1937: Birthdate of Leo Philip Kadanoff, the native of New York who became an award winning physicist known for his contribution to “the fields of statistical physics, chaos theory, and theoretical condensed matter physics.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/02/science/leo-p-kadanoff-physicist-of-phase-transitions-dies-at-78.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1

 

1938: In Berlin, Harold and Lily Wolkowitz Kartiganer gave birth to Esther Kartiganer who came to United States at the age of one where she eventually became the senior producer for “60 Minutes” who “became entangled in a controversy over a program that raised questions about President George W. Bush’s military service during the Vietnam War” (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)

1938: The Palestine Post reported that one Arab constable was shot and another wounded by Arab bandits during a search at Tulkarm and Kalkilya. Arms and ammunition were found and a number of Arabs were brought before the newly established Military Court in Jerusalem and sentenced. According to the Jerusalem correspondent of the Egyptian press, a special committee was appointed by the British government to study the question of the Jewish settlement in Transjordan. Mr. H. St. John ("Hai Abdullah") Philby, the noted British Muslim who resided at Jedda, told the Arab press that he laments the recent growth of hostility between the Jewish and Muslim peoples, despite their common Semitic origin and their friendly relations in the past. He recommended the abolition of the Mandate and the creation of a National Government in Palestine which should permit Jewish immigration, in accordance with the economic and public needs of the country. St. John Philby was the father of the notorious spy, Kim Philby.

1939(23rd of Tevet, 5699): Parashat Shemot

1939: At Temple Emanu-El Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “What Does Believing in God Mean?”

1939: At Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Louis I. Newman is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Shall Jews ‘Play Safe’ or Follow Their Conscience?”

1939: At the West End Synagogue Rabbi Nathan Stern is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “What’s in a Name?”

1939: At the Temple of the Covenant, Rabbi Harold H. Mashioff is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Sacred Fire That Does Not Consume.”

1939: In Philadelphia, Edward Fishman, an account and Gerturde Fisher-Fishman, an artists gave birth to Louise Edith Fishman, “a widely exhibited artist who imbued her Abstract Expressionist paintings and other works with elements of feminism and gay and Jewish identity” and the niece of artist Razel Kapustin passed away today. (As reported by Neil Genzinger)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/03/arts/louise-fishman-who-gave-abstract-expressionism-a-new-tone-dies-at-82.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

1939: “Joseph Baratz of Palestine” is scheduled to be one of the speakers at conference on Palestine beginning today in Washington under the leadership of Rabbi Hillel Silver of Cleveland.

1939: Master teacher and pianist Rosina Lhévinne performed in a two-piano recital with her husband to mark the 40th anniversary of both their marriage and their professional collaboration.

https://jwa.org/thisweek/jan/14/1939/rosina-lhevinne

1940: In “Season In Palestine” published today Dr. Peter Gradenwitz, described recent musical events in the Holy Land including a series of concerts at the Jerusalem “Bezalel National Museum,” the presentation of a full program by the Palestine Symphony Orchestra without a conductor in Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and a performance of Smetana’s “Tabor” by the Radio Orchestra which was introduced by Dr. Kadlec, the Jerusalem consul General of Czechoslovakia.  The latter took on special significance because of the fate of the Czechs at the hand of the Nazis and Smetana’s relationship to “Hatikvah.”

1940: Of 880 Jewish Polish taken prisoner, 100 were shot on the march to prison. The next day approximately 400 more killed while 40 escaped. The day after, almost 150 more were murdered.

1941: In Manhattan, attorney Jacob Goldsmith and fourth grade school teacher Dorothy Markowitz gave birth to Susan Jane Goldsmith who gained fame as “Susan J. Tolchin, a political scientist who explored the workings of political patronage, women in politics and, most presciently, the electoral power of voter anger in several popular books, most of them written with her husband, Martin Tolchin” (As reported by William Grimes)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/books/susan-tolchin-political-scientist-who-foresaw-tide-of-voter-anger-dies-at-75.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

1941(13th of Tevet, 5701): Sixty-year-old Austrian entertainer and art collector Fritz Grunbaum died during his second imprisonment at Dachau after having spent time in Buchenwald.

http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/camps/music-early-camps/dachau/grnbaumfritz/

 http://artstolenfromfritzgrunbaum.wordpress.com/

http://artstolenfromfritzgrunbaum.wordpress.com/the-collection/

 1942(25th of Tevet, 5702): Sixty-six-year-old German born American songwriter whose hits included “Peg O’ My Heart” and “Come Josephine in My Flying Machine” passed away today

1942: The Nazis ordered 1,600 Jews from Ixbica Kujawska, in western Poland to report to a public place of assembly. The Jewish council warned the citizens about what was happening. The Germans shot the entire council. The rest were taken to Chelmno and gassed by the SS, local gendarmes, and Gestapo. Ten transports of about 80 people each were gassed and buried at Chelmno

1943: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and United States President Franklin Roosevelt met at Casablanca, Morocco, to discuss the future Allied invasion of Western Europe. News of the meeting buoys the spirits of Jews, who hope the war may soon be over. Roosevelt, though, proposes to French North African official General Noguès and later to a leader of the Free French Forces, General Giraud that the French government in North Africa should discriminate against local Jews just as Hitler did in the 1930s. Roosevelt specifically states, twice--once to Noguès and separately to Giraud--that "the number of Jews engaged in the practice of the professions...should be definitely limited to the percentage that the Jewish population in North Africa bears to the whole of the North African population." President Roosevelt adds that limiting the number of Jews in the professions "would further eliminate the specific and understandable complaints which the Germans bore toward the Jews in Germany...."

1943: Rabbi Menachem Zemba, “called on the Jews of Warsaw to revolt” saying that "we must resist the enemy on all fronts". He also warned that "we are prohibited by Jewish law from betraying others...” Zemba was killed (19 Nissan) a few days after the revolt began. He had refused the offer of Catholic priests to help him and flee with another two rabbis, believing that he must remain until the end with his fellow Jews. Zemba had published over 20 manuscripts. Many others were destroyed in the ghetto.”

1943: The Jewish Council members in Lomza, refused to take part in the selection process. The Germans were forced to select for themselves those Jews who should be taken away.

 1943: When the Jewish Council and Jewish police in Lomza, Poland, refuse to provide the Gestapo with 40 Jews, Gestapo agents make the selections, and include two Council members. A further 8000 Lomza Jews are deported to Auschwitz.

 1943: Birthdate of Dr. Ralph Marvin Steinman, the native of Montreal, who became a noted American cell biologist and Noble Prize winner for his work on the human immune response. (As reported by William Grimes.)

 1944: In New York, violinist Roman Totenberg and real estate broker Melanie Shroder Totenberg gave birth to NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg.

1945: Ninety-one-year-old Gerald Balfour, the brother of Arthur Balfour of “Balfour Declaration” fame who in 1906 “failed to get a vote of confidence from his constituents” because he strongly supported the passage of a bill that effectively excluded Russian Jews from immigrating to England, passed away today.

 1945: The SS evacuates the remaining prisoners from the concentration camp at Plaszów, Poland.

1946: According to an announcement by Arthur M. Lowe, the president of Loew’s International Corporation, Morton A. Spring has been promoted from vice president to first vice president.

1946(12th of Shevat): Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz who had served as Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom since 1913 passed away. A native of Hungary he earned a BA from Columbia and earned his Rabbinic designation at JTS, the American flagship training entity of the Conservative movement.

http://www.jta.org/1946/01/15/archive/chief-rabbi-joseph-h-hertz-of-britain-dies-in-london-was-educated-in-new-york

http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-Features/Tradition-Today-Remembering-Chief-Rabbi-Hertz

1947: It was reported today that Henry Morgenthau, Jr. the general chairman of the UJA campaign whose goal is to raise $170,000,000 has “announced that the drive would begin officially on a nationwide scale at conference in Washington in February.

1947: University of South Carolina trained attorney, Solomon Blatt, the Blackville, SC born son or Russian Jewish immigrants Molly and Nathan Blatt completed ten years of service as the Speaker of the Sourth Carolina House of Representatives.

1948: Anna "Ans" van Dike a Dutch Jewish Nazi-collaborator was executed at the age of 42.(I cannot find any details about this.  If any of you know about this person, please forward the information to me.  Thanks.)

1948: “A report came in this evening “Arabs were massing in the hills around Kfar Etzion.”

1948: A postal delivery truck filled with explosives manned by pro-Arab volunteers was driven into the center of Haifa where it exploded. These volunteers included recently released German POW’s and deserters from the British Army.

1948: Department store pioneer Beatrice Auerbach, longtime proprietor at G. Fox and Co. in Hartford, CT, received the Tobe Award for outstanding contributions to public service in the retail field

1949: In Miami, FL, Sylvia Sarah and Clarence Norman Kasdan gave birth to Lawrence Edward Kasdan the writer, director and producer who has given us some marvelous films including “The Big Chill” and some not so marvelous including several episodes of “Star Wars.”

1949: Dr. Edwin J. Cohn of the Harvard Medical School is scheduled to deliver the Julius Stieglitz Memorial Lecture today at the University of Chicago.

1950: The Andrews Sisters version of “I Can Dream, Can’t I?,” “a popular song written by Sammy Fain with lyrics by Irving Kahal became the U.S. Billboard Best Sellers in Stores number-one single.”

1950(25th of Tevet, 5710): Parashat Shemot

1950(25th of Tevet, 5710): Seventy-one-year-old David Alexander, the Brooklyn “son of Harris Baruch Alexander and the former Betsy Harris” and the husband of the former Irene Schwab with whom he had had two children who was a graduate of HUC and the University of Cincinnati who had been the “rabbi of the Akron, Ohio Hebrew Congregation since 1919” passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/01/15/121627134.pdf

1950 “A memorial service for Dr. Stephen S. Wise, the founder and international president of the American World Jewish Congress was held tonight at the opening of the 25th convention of the New England division of the American Jewish Congress.

1951(7th of Shevat, 5711): Three people were killed and twenty more were injured when “someone tossed an army hand grenade in the crowded Mas’uda Shemtov synagogue in Baghdad” forcing the Israeli government to implement Operation Ezra and Nehemiah which brought 120,000 Iraqi Jew to Israel in the space of a year.

1951(7th of Shevat, 5711): Seventy-four-year-old Joseph W. Pincus the Russian born American agricultural expert who directed the Jewish Agricultural Society and editor of the Jewish Farmer passed away today.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9D0DE1DB1339E13BBC4D52DFB766838A649EDE

1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Soviet Union told the world that nine leading doctors ­ five of them Jewish ­ had "confessed" to the murder of Andrei Zhdanov, the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and Alexander Shcherbakov, the secretary of the Moscow Committee, and possibly other Soviet leaders. One of the accused was the chief medical officer at the Kremlin. This announcement was understood as the so-called "Doctors' Plot," a crude attack on Soviet Jewry by Stalin. Fears were expressed that such "revelations" would lead to an anti-Jewish purge and hysteria, and a possible forced "resettlement" of Soviet Jews in outlying areas. While Izvestia had already demanded "a special status for Jews," the free world and Jewish press described the charges as false, "fantastic" and completely unsubstantiated.

1954:  Marilyn Monroe married Joe DiMaggio.  Ms. Monroe would later convert to Judaism and marry playwright Arthur Miller.

1955: “Stockholders of D. Emil Klein Company, cigar makers, at a special meeting here today, voted to sell a substantial part of the company's assets to Waitt Bond, Inc., which also makes cigars

1956(1st of Shevat, 5716): Parashat Vaera; Rosh Chodesh Shevat

1956: While Rabbi Joseph El Rackovsky was conducting services this morning at Beth Tfilah Congregation in Miam Beach, he was being “picketed by wives and children of kosher butchers in the latest incident in Greater Miami’s chaotic kashrut situation.”

1958(15th of Tevet, 5718): Eighty-year-old Chasidic Rabbi Shulem Moskovitz, the Shotzer Rebbe and Romanian born son of Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Moshe of Sulitza who “emigrated to London before World War, settling in Stamford London” where “he established a Beis Medrash affiliated to the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations.”

1959(5th of Shevat, 5719): Seventy-one-year-old attorney Hyman Busch, the husband of Margaret Busch, who “served as counsel or the New Jersey Esso Employees Association for twenty years” passed away today in Newark, NJ.

1960: Birthdate of Eric Alterman, the creator of the political weblog “Altercation”

1961: Ella Fitzgerald completed the recording of the “Harold Arlen Songbook” today which included sounds Broadway classics as “That Old Black Magic,” “It’s Only a Paper Moon” and “Over the Rainbow” which is popularly known as “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”

1962(9th of Shevat, 5722): Eighty-four-year-old Washingtonian and Georgetown University trained attorney, Milton Dammann “a partner in the law firm of Dammann, Roche and Goldberg” and the husband of “the former Reta Weil” with whom he had two children and the lawyer “who helped arrange the merger of the American Safety Razor Corporation” of which he became President, passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/01/16/81779689.pdf

1962(9th of Shevat, 5722): Seventy-three-year-old Mir, Russia native Leon Cooper, the 1910 graduate of CCNY, “president of the Cooper Safety Razor Corporation in Brooklyn and husband of Lucy Price Cooper with whom he had two children – George W. Cooper and Mrs. Arthur Kimelfield – passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/01/15/80379386.pdf

1964(29th of Tevet, 5724): Seventy-two-year-old Barney Sedran, the “Mighty Mite” who played for CCNY from 1909 to 1911 and then played for a series of pro teams into the 1920’s passed away today.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Sedran.html

1965(11th of Shevat, 5725): Eighty-four-year-old Moscow born NYU trained physician Albert Arthur Epstein who had been affiliated with Beth Israel Hospital since 1931 passed away today.

1967: At the Alvin Theatre, after 127 performances, the curtain came on the Broadway revival of “Dinner at Eight” written by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber.

1969(24th of Tevet, 5729): Eighty-three-year-old Soviet spy Arthur Adams, the son of Swedish mother and a Russian Jewish father passed away today.

1969: Israel’s Musicians’ Festival, which was “proclaimed by New York Mayor John V. Lindsay is scheduled to begin today.

1971(17th of Tevet, 5731): Seventy-three-year-old Russian born Abraham Gribetz, the husband of Ida Heller, the father of attorney Judah Gribetz, the grandfather of Bruce and Arthur Gribetz and the “executive vice president of the Hebrew Loan Society an institution “founded in 1892 to help need immigrants” to which he had devoted 53 years of his life passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/01/16/archives/abraham-gribetz-73-executive-of-hebrew-loan-society-dies.html

1971: Operation Bardas 20 took place today, to neutralize a guerrilla base in Lebanon, near Sidon, where about two dozen terrorists were training as frogmen. During the course of the raid, the commandos discovered a house with several women in it, and decided not to blow it up

1971: This evening 325 guests attended a dinner honoring Judge Esther Untermann, the widow of William Untermann  for her “75th birthday and 50th year of service to B’nai B’rith.”

1972: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today in Hackensack, NJ for seventy-five year old Russian born WW I veteran and Yale graduate Benjamin Labov the “founder and president of the Ink Company and treasurer of Standard Coating Corporation:” who was “a mbmeber of the national and Jew Jersey Cabinets  of the United Jewish Appeal” and who was the husband of the former Rhea White with whom he had two sons, William and Richard.

1973: “Mossad found out today about the plan to assassinate Golda Meir, when a sayan, or local volunteer, informed Mossad that he had handled two telephone calls from a payphone in an apartment block where PLO members sometimes stayed.”

1973: After 14 performances at the Felt Forum, the curtain came down on “The Grand Music Hall of Israel” a revue in two acts starring Shoshana Damari.

1975: The Soviet Union repudiates 1972 trade agreement with the U.S. in response to passage of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment.

1975(2nd of Shevat, 5735): Seventy-nine-year-old Blanche Dworsky Ratner, the daughter Bertha Dworsky, the founder of the Daughters of Jacob who was the president of the Daughters of Jacob Geriatric Center, passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/01/16/archives/blanche-dworsky-ratner-aided-jewish-aged-here.html

1978(6th of Shevat, 5738): British athlete Harold Abrahams passed away.  Born in 1899, Abrahams gained prominence as an Olympic runner during the 1920 and 1924 games.  He gained a wide measure of fame when his youthful accomplishments were featured in the film “Chariots of Fire.”

http://www.academia.edu/716562/_Too_Semitic_or_thoroughly_Anglicised_The_Life_and_Career_of_Harold_Abrahams

 

1979: In Brooklyn, NPR broadcaster Robert Siegel and Jane Siegel gave birth to songwriter who commercial for the Topsy Foundation was a Clio Award.

1981: “Scanners,” is a science-fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg was released today in the United States.

1982(19th of Tevet, 5742): Fifty-three-year-old Czech born and HUC trained rabbi, Martin Bernard, the holder of doctorate from the University of Illinois who in 1934 came to the United States where he served as a Chaplain in the U.S. Army and held successive pulpits Sinai Temple in Champaign, Temple Sinai in Chicago and Mount Zion Temple in St. Paul passed away today.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/martin-bernard

1982: Today, “an old Jew” who was serving as a night watchman was “beaten up” by those who broke into the Leningrad Synagogue and stole “silver ornaments and breastplates for Torah scrolls, a Kiddush cup and money from a collection box.

1984(10th of Shevat, 5744):  Paul Ben Haim, prominent Israeli composer, passed away at the age of 86.  http://www.milkenarchive.org/people/view/all/591/Ben-Haim,+Paul

1985(21st of Tevet, 5745): Ninety-three-year-old Dutch born American silent era film actress Jetta Goudal passed away today.

http://articles.latimes.com/1985-01-16/news/mn-8507_1_jetta-goudal

1986: S. Simcha Goldman v. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense, et al in which a Jewish Air Force officer sought to have the right to wear a yarmulke when in uniform was argued before the U.S. Supreme Courtn

1987: Ida G. Ruben who had been serving as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates began her twenty years of service as a Member of the Maryland State Senate from the 20th District.

1987: Israeli warplanes attacked Palestinian targets near the Syrian border today in the fourth raid on Lebanon in 10 days. The raid came hours after an attack by Lebanese guerrillas on a position manned by the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army militia east of Sidon in which three people were reported killed and 10 wounded. ''Air force planes attacked buildings used as command posts for a Palestinian terrorist group and tents,'' a spokesman for the Tel Aviv command said. ''All planes returned safely to base.'' The raid today was only the second in eastern Lebanon since October 1985. A month after that attack Israeli planes shot down two Syrian warplanes and Syria retaliated by deploying surface-to-air missiles along its border with Lebanon.

1988: Today an Israeli builder who is directly affected by the loss of his Arab workers sat in a trailer on a nearly abandoned construction site, grumbling about the workers from Gaza who did not show up for work for the 10th day in a row. ''I guess they couldn't get out of the Gaza Strip,'' he said.

1990: At the Lincoln Center theatre, the curtain is scheduled to come down on the Broadway revival of Paddy Chayefsky’s “The Tenth Man.”

1990: Ninety-two-year-old Douglas Geoffrey, the chief assistant to, and official successor of Theodore Hardeen, the younger brother of Harry Houdini, who performed as Hardeen, Jr. after his patron’s death, passed away today.

 1992: John Herbert Adler began serving as a member of the New Jersey Senate from the 6th district.

 1992: In “Scuds Are Gone, but the Israelis' Fears Linger” Clyde Haberman describes the condition of the Israeli psyche a year after what became known as Gulf War I.

1994(2nd of Shevat, 5754): Grigory Ivanov was stabbed to death by a terrorist in the industrial zone at the Erez junction, near the Gaza Strip. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack. 

1995(13th of Shevat, 5755): Seventy-eight-year-old attorney Albert Hessberg II the Yale football player who was the first member of Skull and Bones passed away toda.

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/26/obituaries/albert-hessberg-2d-albany-lawyer-78.html

1998: In “A Jew Stalin Killed Now Symbolizes Rebirth” Alessandra Stanley described the festival being held in Moscow in memory of “the great Yiddish actor and theater director Solomon Mikhoels was slain by Stalin's secret police, spelling the death of the Jewish theater in the Soviet Union.”  Stanley provides a full description of the role of Mikhoels in Russian life, the attack by Stalin and the conditions of Jewry in today’s post-Communist Russia.

1999: Today, Jerry Falwell said "the Anti-Christ is probably alive today and is a male Jew." In his speech, he continued: "Is he alive and here today? Probably, because when he appears during the Tribulation period, he will be a full-grown counterfeit of Christ. Of course, he'll be Jewish. Of course, he'll pretend to be Christ. And if in fact the Lord is coming soon, and he'll be an adult at the presentation of himself, he must be alive somewhere today."

2000: Guitarist Marty Friedman performed for the last time with “Megadeth.”

2001: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History by James Carroll.

2002(1st of Shevat, 5762): Rosh Chodesh Shevat

2002: A terrorist, named Raed al-Karmi, the 27-year-old leader of a local Palestinian militia, was killed by a bomb hidden beside a cemetery wall near his house.

2002: Herb Gray completed his term as Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and retired from Parliament.

2003: Thirty-one-year-old Mark Cukierwar, a Jew who dressed “as an Orthodox Jews and who had burglarized nine synagogues since December 28 has been arrested authorities said today.

2004: Former Enron finance chief, Andrew Fastow, pled guilty to conspiracy as he accepted a 10-year prison sentence.

2004(20th of Tevet, 5764): A young Palestinian mother, feigning a limp and requesting medical help, blew herself up today at the entrance to a security inspection center for Palestinian workers, killing four Israeli security personnel and wounding seven people, the Israeli military said. The bomber, Reem al-Reyashi, 22, said in video released after her attack that ''it was always my wish to turn my body into deadly shrapnel against the Zionists and to knock on the doors of heaven with the skulls of Zionists.''

2005: “Ayelet S. Cohen, the junior rabbi at Congregation Beth Simchat Torah” “who has officiated at the marriage of gay and lesbian couples has been threatened with expulsion from the Conservative movement's rabbinical association, though movement officials say it is not her activism that is at issue but her repeated defiance of the movement's rules.”

 2006(14th of Tevet, 5766): Academy Award winning actress Shelly Winters passed away.

http://www.biography.com/people/shelley-winters-9534774

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/14/AR2006011400648_pf.html

2006: Skater Sasha Cohen won her first national gold medal at the U.S. Championships Saturday night in St. Louis.

2007: The Sunday New York Times book section featured a review of About Alice by Calvin Trillin, a memoir about his wife Alice Trillin who died at the age of 63 after twenty-five year battle with lung cancer. The Times also featured a review of Heist: Superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, His Republican Allies, and the Buying of Washington by Peter Stone.

2007: The front page of the Sunday Chicago Tribune featured an article by Ron Grossman entitled “Echoes of history: Holocaust voices resurface at IIT” that recounted the story of Professor David Boder who went to Europe in 1946 and electronically recorded the experiences of Holocaust survivors. 

2008: In Washington, D.C. Journalist Charles Enderlin, the Jerusalem bureau chief for channel France 2, discusses and signs The Lost Years: Radical Islam, Intifada, and Wars in the Middle East.

2008: Sports Illustrated reported that “Will Bynum ex-Georgia Tech basketball player is in hot water in Israel where he plays for Maccabi Tel Aviv.  He was arrested after allegedly driving into some outside a bar.  The victim survived.  Bynum says he’s innocent.”  In a departure from the tolerance Americans show for such behavior an official of Maccabi Tel Aviv told the media that “Bynum will no longer wear a Maccabi shirt.” The same magazine also published a column entitled “A Changeup for Bud’s Boys” advocating the purchase of the Chicago Cubs by Mark Cuban, the multi-millionaire grandson of Jewish immigrants from Russia.

2008: “Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie” co-produced by Ruth Reichl was broadcast for the first time on PBS.

2009: The Leo Baeck Institute and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research present a screening of “What If? The Helena Mayer Story” followed by a discussion led by filmmaker Semyon Pinkhasov and James Traub, a journalist specializing in the responsibility of nations toward their citizens.

2009:  The Jewish film festival season kicks off with the opening of the 9th Atlanta Jewish Film Festival and 18th annual New York Jewish Film Festival

2009: Israel Radio reported that the IDF was turning up the heat on Hamas this morning, with ground forces progressing slowly to prevent civilian casualties. The IAF had attacked some sixty targets in the Gaza Strip overnight, Israel Radio reported. The targets included 30 terrorists smuggling tunnels, weapons storage facilities and rocket launch squads.

2009: Palestinian terrorists continued to attack Israeli civilian areas today, firing 18 projectiles by late afternoon, including a phosphorous mortar shell that hit the Eshkol region.

2009: The New York Times featured a review of Never Tell A Lie by Hallie Ephron.

2009: Gottschalks, which founded by German Jewish immigrant Emil Gottschalk in 1904 as a dry goods store in downtown Fresno, California, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

2009: The Museum of Memory and Welcome was inaugurated today near Nardo, in southern Italy. Israel's ambassador to Italy and Rome's chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni, joined local officials for the ceremony. The museum, commemorating Jewish Holocaust refugees, opened near the Italian town that gave them shelter on their way to Palestine. Between 1943 and 1947, as many as 150,000 Jews fleeing Europe for Palestine, then still under British control, found shelter in and around Nardo, in the heel Italy's boot.

2009: The first stage adaptation of My Name Is Asher Lev “debuts on professional stage in Philadelphia, PA.”

2009: Three rockets were fired into Israel from Lebanon

2009: In “Gentlemen and Scholars” published today Dan Laor describes the relationship between Shelomo Dov Goitein and Shmuel Yosef Agnon.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/gentlemen-and-scholars-1.268136

2010: At the New York Jewish Film Festival, the U.S. premiere of a “Ahead of Time,” a documentary that tells the story of Ruth Gerber. “Born in Brooklyn in 1911, Ruth Gruber had an extraordinary career as a foreign correspondent and photojournalist spanning seven decades. The first journalist to enter the Soviet Arctic (in 1935), she escorted Holocaust refugees to America in ’44, covered the Nuremberg trials in ’46, and reported on the plight of the ship Exodus in ’47.”

2010: The 10th annual Atlanta Jewish Festival features a screening of “Breaking Upwards,” an anti-romantic indie comedy described as an Annie Hall for Generation Y that examines a stifled twenty-something New York Jewish couple who, battling codependency, decide to engineer the dismantling of their relationship.

2010: Today, Silvyo Ovadya, the president of the Musevi Cemaati, or Jewish community, said the 23,000-member community has no immediate fear, but further tensions could "turn into anti-Semitism."

2010: A bomb exploded near a small convoy of vehicles belonging to Israel's embassy in Jordan this afternoon. No one was hurt in the incident, which occurred some 20 kilometers from the border crossing at Allenby Bridge,

2010 Members of the IDF medical teams preparing to spend two weeks in Haiti following a devastating earthquake received vaccinations today to prepare them for the stay in the country which is known for its poor medical infrastructure, Ash said.

2010: The ZAKA delegation arrived in Haiti today after taking part in rescue operations, collection of bodies and identification at another disaster scene – the site of the helicopter crash in Mexico in which Jewish financier and philanthropist Moshe Saba was killed.

2010: Goel Ratzon, an Israeli polygamist was arrested today on suspicion of enslavement, sexual abuse and rape.  Reportedly he lives with 17 women and has fathered as many as 89 children.

2010: The man who shot up the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle building in July 2006 was sentenced to life in prison. One woman died and five were wounded when Naveed Haq attacked the Jewish agency. In an address to the court during his sentencing, Haq apologized for the shooting rampage "from the depth of my being," according to the Seattle Times.

2011: Shabbat Tzedek celebrating 50 years in pursuit of justice with the Religious Action Center (RAC) is scheduled to begin.

2011: Limmud NY 2011 is scheduled to begin at The Hudson Valley Resort in Kerhonkson, NY.

2011: The head of the Labor Party’s internal court, attorney Amnon Zihroni, decided today to give Labor chairman Ehud Barak and two ministers who seek to replace him until Wednesday to reach a compromise on an agreed date for a key Labor convention that will decide whether to leave Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition and advance the next Labor leadership race.

2011: “The Dilemma” a comedy produced by Brian Grazer, with a script by Allan Loeb, co-starring Winona Ryder and music by Hans Zimmer was released today in the United States.

 2011: As the dispute over conversion bills and the definition of who is a Jew escalates, Pashkevilim were pasted in Jerusalem today that slam “those who promote fraudulent conversions without accepting the yoke of Torah and Mitzvot.” They were signed by most of the senior haredi Ashkenazi rabbis.

 2012: In an interview with the German newspaper Der Tagesspiel Hungarian born pianist and conductor András Schiff accused the Viktor Orbán government of racism, anti-Semitism and neo-fascism, and declared that he would never set foot in Hungary again

 2012: “Dear Mr. Waldman” is scheduled to be shown at Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck, MA.

 2012: “Bachelor Days Are Over” – featuring Sarah Adler - and “Mary Lou” - directed by Eytan Fox – are scheduled to have their New York Premiers at the New York Jewish Film Festival.

2012: Today the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. has stepped up contingency planning in case Israel launches a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. According to the report, U.S. defense officials are becoming increasingly concerned that Israel is preparing to carry out such a strike.

2012: The 3rd round of the Jordanian-sponsored talks between Israelis and Palestinians resumed tonight in Amman.

2013: Jason Kander completed his service as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives and began serving as the 39th Secretary of State of Missouri.

2013: “SENSO” is scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival.

2013: “Numbered,” a “film that examines the…relationships of three Auschwitz survivors” is scheduled to be shown at the New York Jewish Film Festival

2013: The National Council of Jewish Women is a co-sponsor of today’s screening of “The Invisible War” which is scheduled to take place at Temple Judea in Tarzana.

2013: The Florida Department of Corrections agreed to serve kosher food to Jewish inmates, ending a five-year struggle that saw the US Justice Department file a lawsuit against the state

2013: During 2011, Israel’s population grew by 1.8 percent, increasing the population by some 141,500 people to a total of 7,836,600 by the end of the year, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics report released today.

2013: “Israeli soldiers discovered the opening of a large tunnel in Israeli territory dug from the Gaza strip which officials believe is intended for use in terror activity.” (JTA)

2014: “For A Woman” is scheduled to be shown at the New York Jewish Film Festival.

2014: The state of Israel is scheduled today to name “an Arrow anti-missile facility for the late Daniel Inouye the longtime Hawaii senator who championed Israel in the US Senate.” (As reported by JTA and the Times of Israel)

2014(13th of Shevat): Yahrzeit for Kaufmann Kohler, one of the leading Reform Rabbis of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

2014(13th of Shevat, 5774): Eighty-six-year-old producer Richard “Dick” Shepherd who changed his name to avoid the stigma of being Jewish passed away today.

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-richard-shepherd-20140116-story.html#axzz2qhGPobF0

http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/producer-richard-shepherd-founder-of-artists-agency-dies-at-86-1201059800/

 2014: JTA informed is readers and supporters that “the board of directors has voted to move forward with final steps of a merger with MyJewishLearning.

2014: “A right-wing Israeli civil rights organization today petitioned the High Court of Justice demanding that Justice Minister Tzipi Livni be made to respond to a New York court’s request for information in a landmark case filed by families of victims of Palestinian suicide bombings.” (As reported by Lazar Berman)

2015: “Mayor de Blasio and Rabbis Near Accord on New Circumcision Rule” published today described attempts by New York City to regulate “metzitzah b’peh.”

2015: Addressing a vocal crowd of activists and supporters, Isaac Herzog, the leader of the Labor-Hatnua party, this evening touted the newly elected lineup of his party as “the future leaders of Israel.”

2015: The Argentinean prosecutor investigating the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center today accused Argentina’s president and foreign minister of covering up Iran’s involvement in the attack.

2015: Marisa Scheinfeld is scheduled to explain the process she used to create “Echoes of the Borscht Belt” a photographic record of the “degradation of some of the most famous Borscht Belt Hotels

2015: “Like Brothers” and “The Muses of Isaac Bashevis Singer” are scheduled to be shown at the New York Jewish Film Festival.

2015: The London Jewish Museum is scheduled to host “Teachers’ Evening: Teaching the Holocaust.”

2015: “Life Sucks (Or the Present Ridiculous) written and directed by Aaron Posner is scheduled to open at Theatre J in Washington, DC.

2015: “Man Seeking Woman, a television comedy series from Simon Rich, based on his The Last Girlfriend on Earth, premiered on FXX.”

2015: An exhibition “Anne Frank: A History for Today” is scheduled to open at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.

2015(23rd of Tevet, 5775): Seventy-one-year-old Mordechai Shumel Ashkenazi, Chief Rabbi of Kfar Chabad passed away today in Israel.

http://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/2827815/jewish/Rabbi-Mordechai-Shmuel-Ashkenazi-71-Chief-Rabbi-of-Kfar-Chabad-Israel.htm

2016: “Art of the Heart: The World of Isaiah Sheffer” is scheduled to be shown at the New York Jewish Film Festival.

https://www.filmlinc.org/films/art-and-heart-the-world-of-isaiah-sheffer/

2016(4th of Shevat, 5776): Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yisrael Abuchatzeira, the great Sephardic sage and kabbalist known as the Baba Sali

http://www.aish.com/dijh/Shevat_4.html

https://www.facebook.com/RabbiYosefMizrachi/posts/10152172152619248

2007(16th of Tevet, 5777): Parashat Vayechi; Completion of the reading of the final portion of Bereshit (Genesis).  For more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/

2017: The chaplains of The Oxford University Jewish Society are scheduled to host the Seudah this evening with a shiur given by Barcuh Zev Galinsky.

2017: “The Women’s Balcony” and “Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?” are scheduled to be shown at the New York Jewish Film Festival.

2017: The Conference of JOFA (Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance) is scheduled to begin this evening at the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life.

2017: The Paz Band is scheduled to perform on the final night of the Fourth Annual Winter Edition of the Tel Aviv Blues Festival.

2018: “Speaking in Arabic to US-based satellite TV station Alhurra, Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai said” that “the Israeli military, helped by the “Jewish brain,” had devised a solution that would see all of Hamas’s cross-border tunnels into Israel destroyed.” (As reported by Tamar Pileggi)

2018: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touched down in New Delhi this afternoon, warmly embracing his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, in a surprise ceremony at the airport, and celebrating a close personal bond that the two are hoping to parlay into further cooperation between their two countries.” (As reported by Joshua Davidovich)

2018: In Atlanta, GA, the Bremen is scheduled to host a presentation by Hershel Greenblat, a Ukrainian who “survived because of the resourcefulness and determination of his parents in evading the Nazis.

2018: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Ruined House by Ruby Namdar and Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife by Pamela Bannos

2018: The 3rd Annual Jewish Review of Books Conference featuring Jeffrey Rosen, Daniel Gordis, Ruth R. Wisse, Peter Berkowitz, Deborah E. Lipstadt, Amos Yadlin and Elliot Abrams is scheduled to take place today at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.

2018: In Wyoming, the Jackson Hole Jewish Community is scheduled to host two screenings of “Rosenwald.”

2018: In Jaffrey, NH, The Park Theatre is scheduled to host two screenings of Aviv Kempner’s “Rosenwald.”

2019: Curator Ilona Moradof is scheduled to lead a tour of the exhibition “Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War” which illuminates the organized rescue efforts that brought thousands of children from Nazi Europe to Great Britain in the late 1930s.

2019: “Seder Masochism” is scheduled to be shown at the New York Jewish Film Festival.

2019: Today, J.B. Pritzker is scheduled to begin serving as the Governor of Illinois making him the third Jew to serve in the position.

2020: Four days after she had passed away funeral services are scheduled today in Iowa City for Susan Strauss, the husband of Stephen Strauss, followed burial at the Agudas Achim Cemetery.

2020: The Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture, is scheduled to host “Hyman Bloom: The Beauty of All Things” which is an exploration of “the history and life of former West Ender and Vilna Shul congregant and painter Hyman Bloom…”

2020” In Newton Centre, the Hebrew College is scheduled to host “Spiraling Through Time: Radically Rethinking Our Relationship to Land.”

2020: In Boston, Congregation Kehillath Israel is scheduled to present “Conversation About Covering” that explores the world of Kippot, Yarmulkes, Wigs, Lace Doilies and a whole lot more.

2020: American Oligarchs: The Kushners, The Trumps and the Marriage of Money and Power by Andrea Bernstein is scheduled to go on sale today.

2021: HaMaqom | The Place is scheduled to “present an introduction to Bay Area Community Talmud Circles, with educator Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan leading a session that will skim the surface of revealing, explaining and demystifying the Jewish literary tradition.”

2021: The Contemporary Jewish Museum is scheduled to present an online screening of “American Jerusalem” a “2013 documentary about how immigrant Jews of the 1800s and early 1900s helped transform San Francisco into a vibrant city.”

2021: In Cedar Rapids, IA, the Hadassah Book Club is scheduled to host a ZOOM discussion of The History of Love by Nicole Krauss.

2021: The JCC Film Festival and the Illinois Holocaust Museum are scheduled to host a screening of “A Call To Spy” followed by a discussion

2021: The ADL, the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, and the New York Board of Rabbis are scheduled to host an important discussion via Zoom about both the challenge of extremism today and the opportunities to push back via civil society, government regulation, and reforms by social media companies.

2021: Brandeis University’s Hebrew Program, The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, The Jewish Studies Program at Colby College, Middlebury College School of Hebrew, Hebrew College and Northeastern University Hillel are scheduled to co-host Gilv Hovav, lecturing on “My Great-Grandfather, the Prophet, the second in a four-part series “How to Revive a Dead Language in 100 Years” presented online by the Consulate General of Israel to New England.

2021: The Leo Baeck Institute is scheduled to present Michael A. Meyer discussing Rabbi Leo Baeck: Living A Religious Imperative in Troubled Time, his new biography which “affirms Baeck's place in history as a courageous community leader and as one of the most significant Jewish religious thinkers of the twentieth century, comparable to such better-known figures as Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and Abraham Joshua Heschel.”

2021: Jewish News, SERET and JW3 are scheduled to present the exclusive UK premiere of Shtiisel 3.

2021: National Pastrami Day

https://forward.com/culture/329884/how-pastrami-helped-to-create-american-jewish-culture/

https://www.seriouseats.com/2018/07/guide-to-jewish-deli-food.html

https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-03-31/pastrami-rye-full-length-history-new-york-jewish-deli

2021(1st of Shevat, 5781): Rosh Chodesh Shevat,

2022: Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to present online “Shabbat Tzedek (Justice) with Rachel Rollins, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.”

2022: Kan Kol Hamusika is scheduled to broad a live Young Arts Concert featuring Alon Kariv, Itamar Feinberg and Tomer Rubinstein, “the winders of the 2021-2022 ‘Kan Voice of Music’ Young Artists Competion.”

2022: “According to the Meterological Service’s forecast, a winter storm that began yesterday will continue to batter Israel today and on into the weekend.

2022: The “Opening reception for JCCSF exhibit on the dangers California’s natural habitats face from climate change” is scheduled to take place at the Katz Snyder Gallery in San Francisco.

2023: Under the artistic direction of Noa Wertheim, the internationally acclaimed Israeli modern dance company Vertigo is scheduled to perform “Pardes” for the last time at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.

2023: The Eden Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a performance of The Ben Haim Trio with violist Yuval Gotlibovich.

2023: Rallies are scheduled to be held this evening in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv’s Habima Square to protest Prime Minister Netanyahu’s “plans to overhaul Israel’s judicial system.”

2023(21st of Tevet, 5783): Shemot (“Names”)

2024:  After a winter break, Religious School is scheduled to begin again at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids.

2024: “Stand With Israel,” “a solidarity event in support of Israel” is scheduled to take place today in London marking 100 days since the 7th October Hamas terror massacre.”

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/thousands-expected-at-we-stand-with-israel-rally-in-central-london-on-sunday/

2024: YIVO is scheduled to present “A Medium For The Masses: The Yiddish Press and the Shaping of American Jewish Culture,” a symposium that looks “on more than 150 years of the Yiddish press in the United States, examining its role as a vehicle of acculturation, a forum for political and ideological debates, and a seedbed for the growth of a mass culture among Jews worldwide.”

2024: The “Annual Winter Jewish Film Festival at JHMOMC is scheduled to host a screening of “Last Transport,” a Dutch film about the fate of hundreds of Jewish being transported on a trained that “gets stranded near a small German village occupied by the Red Army.”

2024: The New York Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the New York premiere of “The Goldman Case.”

https://www.filmlinc.org/films/the-goldman-case/

2024: The Miami Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the world premiere of “The Catskills.”

https://miamijewishfilmfestival.org/events/the-catskills-2

2024: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Judge Dennis Davis on “Aaron Copland: The American Composer Whom Leonard Bernstein Said is the Best We Have.”

2024: The Breman and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgia are scheduled to present a “Genealogy Mentoring Meeting” today.

2024: The New York Times reviews books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Maria Hummel’s novel Goldenseal featuring “Lacey Weber Crane” who has kept her Jewish identity from her childhood best friend.

 2024: As January 14th begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day 100 in captivity.  (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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