March 7
322 BCE: Aristotle
passed away. “Aristotle was almost universally held in esteem by the Jews; at
one time for his intelligence and mental power, at another as a penitent
sinner. The following is Maimonides' verdict concerning him: "The words of
Plato, Aristotle's teacher, are obscure and figurative: they are superfluous to
the man of intelligence, inasmuch as Aristotle supplanted all his predecessors.
The thorough understanding of Aristotle is the highest achievement to which man
can attain, with the sole exception of the understanding of the Prophets."
Shem-Ṭob ben Isaac of Tortosa (1261) styles Aristotle "the master of all
philosophers." Elijah b. Eliezer of Candia, who edited the
"Logic" about the end of the fourteenth century, calls Aristotle "the
divine," because, having been endowed by nature with a sacredly superior
intellect, he could understand of himself what others could receive only from
the instruction of their teachers.”
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2019/03/7-march-aristotle.html
161: Roman
emperor Antoninus Pius passed away. He was the handpicked successor
of Hadrian. Antonious undid the anti-Jewish decrees of his
predecessor and when he died the Jewish people lost one of the few friends they
ever had sitting on the throne in Rome.
161: Marcus
Aurelius and Lucius Verus are named co-Emperors of the Roman Empire following
the death of Antonious Pius. Marcus Aurilius had little
understanding or appreciation of the Jewish people. He described
them as “stinking and tumultuous” when he traveled through Judea. He reportedly
said that he preferred the company of Germanic barbarians to that of Jews.
321:
Constantine I, the first Christian Roman Emperor decreed that the dies Solis
Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire. Thus, would
begin the conflict between the Christian Sunday and the Jewish
Saturday. Of course, the commandment says to hallow the 7th day
and Sunday is the first day of the week.
974: John
of Gorze, the monk and diplomat also known as John of Lorraine, the
representative of Otto I who so was so impressed with Hasdai ibn Shaprut when
the latter was negotiating on behalf of Caliph Abd-ar-Rahman III that he said that he had "never seen a man of such subtle
intellect as the Jew Hasdeu" passed away today.
1190(20th of
Adar, 4950): During the Lenten Fair, Crusaders filled “with passion for
crusade” and jealousy over the supposed wealth of the Jews, slaughtered them at
Stamford, England.
1236(21st
of Adar, 4996): The Jews of Narbonne began celebrating the Purim of Narbonne
after Don Aymeric, the governor, intervened to protect the Jews from marauding
Christians who had already carried off the library of Reb Meir ben Isaac
as they made their riotous way through the Jewish quarter.
1274:
Catholic theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas passed away. While no friend
of the Jews, Aquinas’ view of Jews was a little better than the average one
held by ecclesiastical and temporal leaders of his time. He opposed
conversions at the point of the sword. He opposed the murder of
Jews. He felt they should be allowed to live so they could serve as
eternal witnesses to “the truth of Christianity.” The views of this
influential Catholic theologian are best summed up in a letter to a widow who
had inherited a duchy that included what is now Belgium and the
Netherlands. “It is true, as the laws declare, that in consequence
of their sin (rejecting Jesus) Jews were destined to perpetual servitude, so
that sovereigns of state may treat Jewish goods as their own property, save for
the sole proviso that they do not deprive them of that is necessary to sustain
life.” In other words, Jews could live, but they could only live a
miserable life. Aquinas also made it respectable for Catholic nobles
to borrow from Jews and then not repay their debts.
1291:
Arghun Khan aka Argon, a devote Buddhist and “the fourth ruler of Mongol
empire’s Ilkhanate” who “was friendly with Jews and Christians” in this
predominately Moslem part of the world and whose “chief counselor was a Jew,
Sa'ad al-Daulah, a physician of Baghdad” passed away today touching off a
violent attack by Moslems on the Jews of Baghdad.
1361(30th
of Adar): Rabbi Simeon ben Zemah Duran, author of Sefer ha-Rashbaz passed away
1612 OS (13th of
Adar II, 5372): Mordecai ben Avraham Yoffe, the son of Abraham ben Joseph
passed away at Prague. Born in 1530, he was the Rosh Yeshiva in
Prague and author of “Levush Malkhut, a ten-volume codification of
Jewish law that particularly stressed the customs of the Jews of Eastern
Europe.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0011_0_09950.html
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112323/jewish/Rabbi-Mordechai-Yoffe-The-Levush.htm
1693:
Birthdate of Carlo della Torre di Rezzonico, who as Pope Clement XIII would
rule that there was no substance to the claim that Jews used blood in the
preparation of their unleavened bread. Among other things he intervened with
the Polish church and nobles and ordered the protection of Jacob Zelig, the
Jewish spokesperson that the Polish Jews had sent to Rome to plead their case.
1738:
Seckel and Levi Moses Ulf, the owner of a ribbon factory that in 1720 “was
required by the Crown Prince Frederick to supply all the royal regiments with
the necessary braid” were married today
1748:
Birthdate of William V, Prince of Orange-Nassau who “donated a considerable sum
for a new menorah” when he stayed with Benjamin Cohen in Amersfort and whose
wife gave the same community a curtain for the congregation’s Holy Ark.
1754(13th of
Adar, 5514): Ta’anit Esther and erev Purim
1788: The
Jews of the Netherlands celebrated the birthday of William V as holiday as a
sign of the support for the Prince of Orange.
1789: Today, “the authorized Superintendents of the Poor for
the synagogues of the Triple Congregation issued an appeal, in which they asked
for “generous gifts” for the poor on the occasion of the Purim holiday.
https://jewish-history-online.net/source/jgo:source-136
1789:
Birthdate of Michel Martin Drolling the French painter who counted among his
student the Alsatian Jew, Benjamin Ulmann whose works include “Sylla and Manus”
which hangs in the Luxembourg Palace.
1792(13th of
Adar, 5551): Ta’anit Esther and erev Purim
1793: In
“Phalsbourg, France Lorraine, Barcuh Gougenheim, the “son of Jacob Wolff
Guggenheim and Sara Guggenheim” and his wife Rosel Rosette Rosele Goughenheim
gave birth to Isaac Gougenheim
1793: In
Wallerstein, Germany, Regina Wassermann and Loew Isaac Weil gave birth to Gel
Weil, the wife of Isaac Jacob Bamberger whom she married in 1816 and the mother
of Sara, Elkan, David, Aaron and Moses Bamberger.
1793: Fanny
Etting, the York, PA born daughter of Elijah Etting married Robert Taylor
today.
1794: Mrs.
Emanuel Abrahams, the wife of Emanuel Abrahams, was buried in Charleston, SC
today.
1799: (30th
of Adar I, 5559): Rosh Chodesh Adar II.
1799: As Napoleon
Bonaparte fought his way across Palestine, his army defeated “a 12,000-strong
mixed force of Al Jazzar and the Mamluks” and captured the port city of Jaffa.
In one of the first examples of what would become a recurring theme, westerners
used modern technology to defeat a Muslim army. In this case,
Napoleon use of bombardments from his heavy artillery was the key to
victory. Following the victory, the French commander “set out to try
and gain political advantages from his military achievements. Letters and
proclamations were directed at the Sultan, the various communities of Palestine
and Syria and their leaders, Akhmad Jasar, the pasha of Acre and
commander-in-chief (seraskir) of the Ottoman forces at that
time. All these aimed at paving the way for the complete occupation
of the Holy Land by negotiation or by making alliances and contacts to ease
further military conquest. Among these was the contact with the Jewish
communities in Palestine and Syria, the first de facto attention to the Jews as
a potential factor in international policy in modern times.”
1799: The
Royal Institution, an organization devoted to scientific education and research
is founded in London. The Royal Institution today is led by director
Baroness Susan Greenfield, renowned scientist and the daughter of Jewish
parents.
1801: In
Huerben, Germany, Rebeka Heimann and Chaim Guggenheimer
1802(3rd of
Adar II): Rabbi Noah Chaim Zevi Berlin, author of Azei Arazim, passed away.
1803(13th of
Adar, 5563): Fast of Esther; erev Purim
1803: Fifty-year-old
Naphtali ben Benjamin was buried today at the “Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1807: On
the day before “the Great Sanhedrin presented its responses and formally ended
its proceedings, Rabbi Sinzheim delivered a short summary of its conclusions
and proclaimed them as nothing less than a ‘social pact’ between ‘the People of
God and the People of France.’”
1809:
Birthdate of Meïr Leibush ben Yehiel Michel Weiser the Russian rabbi known by
the acronym Malbim the opponent of Reform whose literary works included a
commentary on “Esther” published in 1845.
1811(11th of
Adar, 5571): Ta’anit Esther
1815: Just
south of Grenoble, Marshall Ney turned his back on King Louis XVIII and
embraced Napoleon which was a major step on his attempt to return to power
which might have nullified those reactionary forces that would re- impose the
restrictions of the ancient on the Jews of Europe.
1815: In
London, Alice and Joseph Cashmore gave birth to Michael Cashmore, the Sydney,
Australia businessman who “was the first Jewish settler of Melbourne where
he owned a haberdashery business and raised a family with his wife
“Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Solomon.”
1818:
Birthdate of German born historian, author and Rabbi David Cassel, the brother
of Selig Cassel.
1818: In
Kassel, Germany Mayer Japhet and Deborah Weinberg gave birth to Israel Meyer
Japhet who “was choir director at the Realschule (Adass Jeschurun) in Frankfurt
am Main under Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch.”
1819:
Today’s minutes of The Nidhe Israel Synagogue in Bridgetown, Barbados “record a
request from Philadelphia for assistance in building a synagogue” for which
“five hundred dollars was granted.”
1822(14th of
Adar, 5582): Purim
1822:
Turkish soldiers killed 60 Jews in Bucharest.
1824: Il
crociato in Egitto (The Crusade in Egypt), an opera in two acts by
Jewish composer Giacomo Meyerbeer, premiered at La Fenice theatre in Venice,
Italy.
1825: Birthdate
of Alfred Edersheim, English biblical scholar. Edersheim converted to
Christianity before the age of 20. He was the author of The
Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah which is considered by many
Christians to be a classic study on this topic.
1826: In
Stamford Hill, London, England, Ellen Levy and Abraham Solomon gave birth to
Catherine Solomon.
1826:
Birthday of Sara Adler who after her marriage became Sara Adler Wolf.
1826:
Birthdate of Samuel Louis, the husband of Ernestine Anspach Louis with whom he
had four children – Bertha, Ray, Augusta and Simon – before passing away in
Atlantic City
1828: One
day after he had passed away 52-year-old Nathan Nathan was buried today at the
“Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1828(21st of
Adar, 5588): Noted Talmudist Jacob Lazarus Riesser, the father of Gabriel
Riesser and “the son-in-law by Raphael b. Jekuthiel Süsskind ha-Kohen, the
incumbent of the rabbinate of Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbeck” passed away today in
Hamburg.
1828: In
London, Ellen Alice Jacobs and Gabriel Simmons gave birth to Henry Simmons who
married Hannah Harris in 1864 in Dublin, Ireland.
1829: One
day after she had passed away, 30-year-old Betsey Micholls, “the youngest
daughter of Simon and Rosey Hyam” and the wife of Meir Micholls was buried
today at the “Colby Gate Jewish Burial Ground” a Great Yarmouth.
1830: The
body of Mordecai Benet, the Moravian rabbi who had passed away in 1829 while
“taking a cure in Carlsbad,” was exhumed from “the cemetery in Lichtenstadt,
near Carlsbad and reburied in the Nikolsburg Cemetery” today.
1833(16th of
Adar I, 5593): Sixty-one-year-old Rahel Antonie Friederike (née Levin) the
German author and hostess to the leading intellectuals of her time who had an
asteroid named in her honor and who was the subject of Hannah Arendt’s 1958
biography Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess passed away today.
1836: In
New York, Hyman Levy Seixas, the New York born son of Benjamin Mendes Seixas
and Zipporah Mendes Seixas, and his wife Abigail Nunez Seixas gave birth to
Isaac Cardozo Seixas.
1837:
Birthdate of Berlin born “landscape and genre painter” Felix Possart. (Editor’s
note: to appreciate the work of this master click on the following link)
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12313-possart-felix
1837: In
Germany, Fanny and Samuel Lowenburg gave birth to wholesale grocer and mayor of
Natchez, Mississippi Isaac Lowenburg who served in the Union Army and who was
twice married – to Ophelia Lowenburg and Molice Lowenburg.
1839: In
Kassel, Meyer Bär (Moritz) Mond and Henrietta Levinsohn gave birth Dr. Ludwig
Mond a German-born British chemist and industrialist.
1841(14th of
Adar, 5601): Purim
1844:
Birthdate of French historian Gabriel Monod who in 1897 stated in a letter
published by Le Temps “his conviction that Dreyfus was
innocent and demanded that his case be reviewed, denying that it would be an
insult to the army: ‘There is no shame in an error that is consciously
committed and consciously rectified.’”
1847: In
Stuttgart, Germany, “Moriz Eichberg, Oberantor of Wurtemberg and Lenore
Seligsberg gave birth to Julie Rosewald the wife of Jacob Rosewald who for “ten
years was the solo soprano at Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco” where she sang
and recited “the parts of the service usually sung and recited by the Cantor
and served as the Professor of Vocal Music at Mills College
1849: The
Emperor Franz Joseph “promulgated his own constitution which granted equal
civic and political rights to all citizens, regardless of religious confession”
as a result of which “the Jews were emancipated by imperial fiat and not by the
popularly elected Reichstag.”
1849: One
day after he had passed away, Barnet Raphael, the husband of Leah Abraham and
the father of Abraham Raphael was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish
Cemetery.
1851: A
poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia was
discontinued.
1854:
Michael Nathan married Sarah Mitchel today at the Great Synagogue.
1854: In
California, Samuel and Ernestine Anspach Louis married Augusta Louis Ernst, the
husband of Louis M. Ernst and the mother of Milton and Irving Ernst.
1856: A
letter from the Hahambashi discusses "reforms" to institute in the
Jewish community. The Judeo-Spanish language is discussed, "As the
language taught by the Jews of the Levant is not, properly speaking, a
language, and cannot be useful to the youth, we order the creation of free
schools for the poor where Turkish, Greek, French, and Italian will be
taught."
1857: In
Berlin, attorney Siegfried Borchardt and his wife Helen gave birth to painter
Felix Richard Siegfried Borchardt.
1857:
Birthdate of Julius Wagner-Jauregg, the Austrian born physician and Nobel Prize
Winner. Apparently, he saw no conflict between the fact that he had
been a student of Salomon Stircker, the Jewish pathologist and his support of
the Nazis.
1860:
Birthdate of Austrian physicist Adler Gottlier who earned a doctorate from the
University of Vienna in 1882 and developed an expertise in the fields of
“electricity and magnetism.”
1860(13th of
Adar, 5620): Ta’anit Esther
1860(13th of
Adar, 5620): Fifty-eight-year-old Italian poet and book collector Joseph
Almanzi passed away today in Trieste.
1863:
It was reported today that almost 3,000 Jews attended the second grand ball
hosted by Purim
Association in New York members included Myer S. Isaacs, Chairman; Moses H.
Moses, Adolph L. Sanger, A. Henry Schutz, Judah H. Solomon, Herman H.
Stettheimer, Joseph A. Levy, Louis G. Schiffer, Theodore Hellman, Solomon Weill
Lionel Davies, Jacob S. Isaacs, Geo. Levy, Marcus Moses, Nathan Solomon, Emile
Jacobi, Alex. Meyer and “one lady was dressed in the height of fashion, in
garments made entirely of Frank Leslie's paper, and was decidedly a feature of
the night, as were "Joan of Arc," "Old Aunt Dinah,"
"Mehitabel Ann," "Old Mother Goose,"
"Pocahontas," "Anne Boleyn" and the "Dame aux Camelias"
1863:
“The Purim Ball. A Jewish Festival – A Great Success” published today reported
that “No one of the ancient Hebraic celebrities holds a more absolute sway in
the affections of the Jews of this day than Esther, the beautiful and pious
spouse of Ahasuerus. In commemoration of the signal service rendered by that
estimable lady to her nation, on the occasion of the timely elevation of Haman,
the envious enemy of her uncle Mordecai, whose daily place of rest was in the
neighborhood of the King's gate, the Jewish people yearly observe the Feast of
Purim. In this City, the first grand ball of the Purim Association was given
last year, with marked success, and the second was given on Thursday night, at
the Academy of Music. The building was very elegantly and tastefully decorated
and most brilliantly illuminated, the floor was laid for dancing, and the usual
magnificence of the Academy incredibly enhanced.” [Please note, this article
which showed a certain comprehension and approval for this minor Jewish holiday
appeared in a United States newspaper at a time when Jews comprised
approximately 1% of the Jewish population.]
1863:
Philip Lang completed his service with Company I of the 37th Regiment
which had begun on June 20, 1861.
1865:
Birthdate of Bertha Levy Bodenheimer, the wife of Emanuel Mahne Bodenheimer and
the daughter-in-law of Jacob Bodenheimer was believed to be the first Jewish
settle in the Shreveport area
1866(20th
of Adar, 5626): Birthdate of Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein who was
Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Knesseth Yisrael in Slabodka, Lithuania and is
recognized as having been one of the leading Talmudists of the twentieth
century.
1868(13th
of Adar, 5628): Parashat Tetzaveh; Erev Purim observed two days after the
Senate had begun the impeachment hearings designed to removed President Andrew
Johnson from office.
1869:
Birthdate of Ernst Julius Cohen “a Dutch chemist known for his work on the
allotropy of metals” who was gassed by the Nazis at Auschwitz.
1871(14th of
Adar, 5631): Purim
1871:
Receptions celebrating Purim were held at numerous New York Jewish institutions
including the Asylum for the Aged and Infirm, the Orphans Home and the
Industrial Home on west 17th Street.
1871: Henry
Cardoza and Mary Levi were married this morning by Justice Buckley in
Brooklyn’s Second District Police Court. Cardoza opted for a civil
ceremony because he could not afford a rabbi.
1872(27th
of Adar I, 5632): Jekuthiel Süsskind (Süssel) Rapoport, a leader of the Russian
Jewish community passed away today. Born in 1802, he was the son of
Rabbi Chaim ha-Koen and the great-grandson of Rabbi Chaim ha-Koen Rapoport. He
and his brother Jacob, rabbi of Ostrog, published their father's work
"Mayim Ḥayyim"
1874(13th of
Adar, 5734): Fast of Esther; Erev Purim
1874(13th of
Adar, 5734): Eighty-three-year-old Irma Shloss Mannheimer, the daughter of Max
and Rose Sheuermann Sholss, the wife of Eugene Mannheimer whom she had marred
in 1917 passed away today after which she was buried at the Emanuel Cemetery in
Des Moines, IA.
1875(30th of
Adar I, 5635): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1875: In
Ciboure, France, Marie Delouart and Pierre-Joseph Ravel gave birth to composer
Maurice Ravel, who most famous work may be “Bolero” and whom the JTA described
as being a “Jewish composer” even though both of his parents were Roman
Catholics.
https://www.jta.org/1937/12/29/archive/maurice-ravel-noted-composer-dead
1876:
Attendance at tonight’s fancy dress ball sponsored by the Purim Association is
expected to be greater than at such past events. The Association has
increased its membership, which should me more revelers will be dining and
dancing at Delmonico’s.
1876: “Ben
Israel or Under the Curse,” a 4-hour long drama about the travails of a Jewish
patriarch named Ben Israel, his granddaughter Rachel and her suitors was
described in a review published today as being “destitute of originality,
coherence and interest.”
1877: In
Warsaw, Chaskel and Gittel Gash gave birth to “one of the best-known bean and
rice importers” in the United States Abraham Gash who in 1898 came to the
United States where “he went into the dry goods business in New York under the
Name of A. Gash and Company, married Ida Cooper with whom he had three children
– Selma, Chester and Freda – and supports several institutions including “the
Chesed Shel Emes an Gmiloth Chesed of New York” and “the Zion Hospital at
Bensonshurst.”
1877: In
Minsk, Sarah Feldman and Abe Lichtman gave birth to Samuel Lichtman who is not
to be confused with Buffalo businessman Samuel Lichtman, the husband of Etta
Altman and the father of Jacob and Victor Lichtman who became partners in S.
Lichtman and Sons a successful company “devoted to the re-sale of paper and
woolen rags
1878:
Joseph Seligman was elected as one of the vice presidents of the newly formed
American Pig Lead Association at a meeting of the leading lead miners and
dealers held at St. Louis, MO.
1878:
Reverend George H. Hepworth, a Unitarian Minister will deliver a lecture
entitled “Our American Homes” to the Young Men’s Hebrew Association who are
meeting at Lyric Hall in New York City.
1879: In
New York’s Court of General Session, Judge Henry A. Gildersleeve heard evidence
before rendering a decision on the application of the Commissioners of
Charities and Correction to force Leopold, Felix and Alfred Salomon to pay six
dollars a week in support of their 70-year-old widowed mother, Fanny
Salomon. The brother’s contested the request saying that she had
rejected their offers to live with them and that she had been able to pay for a
trip to France which would indicate she was not destitute.
1879:
Birthdate movie director and muralist Hugo Ballin.
http://thejewniverse.com/2014/the-great-jewish-muralist-of-los-angeles/
1879: In
Cleveland, OH, Julius and Bertha (Federman) Benesch gave birth to Harvard
trained attorney Alfred A. Benesch, a partner in the Cleveland law firm of
Herrick, Hopkins, Stockwell and Benesch, the husband of Helen Newman and a
leader in the Jewish community who served as the treasurer of the Cleveland
Jewish Orphan Home, a trustee of the National Jewish Hospital in Denver and a
member of Tifereth Israel while authoring several articles including “The Jew
at Harvard.”
https://case.edu/ech/articles/b/benesch-alfred-abraham
1880:
Nineteen-year-old Hedwig Goldschmidt married Herman Hirsch Cramer, the son of
Jacob Cramer and Caroline Furth today.
1880: A
service was held to this afternoon at Temple Emanu-El to honor the memory of
the late Isaac Adophe Creimieux, the Frenchman who had served as President of
the Universal Israelite Alliance. When word reached New York that the 84-year-old
philanthropist and statesman had passed away, the Board of Delegates on Civil
and Religious Rights of the Union of American Hebrew congregations recommended
a city-wide service. This afternoon’s service was a collaborative
effort of 11 congregations under the leadership of Louis May.
1880:
Former U.S. Secretary of State Elihu B. Washburne was the featured speaker at
today’s memorial service in Chicago held at Temple Sinai to honor the memory of
the late Adolphe Cremieux.
1883: Herzl
withdraws from the Akademische Burschenschaft Albia. ("Ich sagte den
edlen jungen Leuten Lebewohl und fing nun an, mich ernstlich an die Arbeit zu
setzen." - "I said farewell to my noble young colleagues and
sat down seriously to my work.")
1883:
Birthdate of Chicago native Harry Salinger, the Jenner Medical College trained
physician who pursued a career a banking which led him to be Vice President of
the First National Bank of Chicago who married Ciel Gruneweald after the death
of his first wife Rae Davis.
1884:
Birthdate of Shlomo Kaplansky, the native of Bialystok who was a leader of the
World Union of Poalei Zion and an advocate of a bi-national state for the
Jewish homeland.
1887: North
Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly.
According to recent figures there are approximately 250 Jewish students among
an undergrad population of 20,000. The campus is home to a Hillel
Chapter. The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh contains a Judaic Art
Collection that includes an array of historic and contemporary pulpit, life
cycle and holiday objects.
1887: In
New York City, Julia Marx and Samuel Goetz gave birth to Norman S. Goetz the
three-time president of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York and
the husband of Mildred Blount
1888:
Twenty-three-year-old Leon Sobel, Galicia born son of Jacob and Lena (Malberg)
Sobel who at the age of 21 came to New York where “he established his own
furniture business” married Adeline Levinson before going on to become a
builder and realtor who was “one of the founders and organizers of Yeshivah
Isaac Elchanan.”
1889: At a
meeting of the Board of Trade, Jacob Schloss “agreed to support a scheme to
drive an exploratory mining shaft to demonstrate the continuing viability of
the mining district.
1890:
Abraham Sudyham, a criminal defense attorney was sentenced to five years in New
York State prison after having been convicted of grand larceny when he tried to
sell the house belonging to his aunt.
1891:
Birthdate of Meyer Streliskie, who gained gamed as European cabaret performer
Marcel Barger, the name under which he met his death at Auschwitz in 1942.
1891(27th of
Adar I, 5651): Parashat Vayakhel; Shabbat Shekalim
1891(27th of
Adar I, 5651): Moses Reines, “the author of Jewish historical materials in
Russia” and the son of Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines, “the founder of the
Mizrachi Religious Zionist Movement, passed away today.
1891:
Professor Charles A.L. Totten “the well-known military instructor” at Yale
University made a statement today in which he described his approval of the
memorial presented to President Harrison by William E. Blackstone advocating a
project for “restoring Palestine to the Jews.”
1891:
“Collector Nathan To Retire” published today described Ernst Nathan’s
repudiation of unfounded reports that he was retiring from his position or that
he would seek the office of Mayor of Brooklyn.
1892: It
was reported today that the 600 children living at the orphan asylum operated
by the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society will be returning to school next
week. They have been confined to the orphanage since January 1st due
to an outbreak of measles – a medical challenged that has been successfully
dealt with. (In an era of vaccinations, we do not appreciate the
deadly challenges of childhood illnesses)
1892: The
Hebrew Orphan Asylum Bazar, sponsored by the Ladies’ Aid Society is scheduled
to take place in Baltimore, MD. Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, the wife of
the President is scheduled to be one of the guests. Mrs. Harrison
had told Mrs. Edward Pels and Mrs. J.B. Eiseman that she will be sending a
donation of flowers from the White House for the event.
1893: It
was reported today that Russian Jews who had formed at a colony in
Chesterfield, Connecticut are returning to New York after a suffering through a
winter of hardships.
1894:
Assemblyman Ainsworth apologized to the Jews for using the term “Jew
pawnbrokers” during the debate on a bill to incorporate the “Provident Loan
Society.” The bill passed by a vote of 86 to 6 with the Jewish
members all voting no.
1894(29th
of Adar): Fifty-nine Abraham Baer the German born cantor who was author Ba’al
Tifillah, passed away today in Sweden.
1895: The
Beth Israel Hospital on East Broadway received a substantial benefit this
evening from the proceeds of the Purim charity ball an concert sponsored by the
Young Ladies and Gentlemen’s League, the purpose of which is to support the
hospital.
1895: The
last “open meeting” of the Monte Relief, “one of the best known Hebrew
charitable organizations in” New York City, “will take the form of a “Cake Walk
and Colored Jubilee.”
1895: Three
days after she had passed away, Annie Horatia Schloss, the daughter of Horatio
Joseph Montefiore and Sarah Daniel Mocatta and the husband of Leopold Schloss
was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1896: The
New York Times reports on the preparations for the upcoming
celebration of the 45th anniversary of Dr. Sabato Morais
beginning his service as the Rabbi for Congregation Mikvah Israel in
Philadelphia, PA.
1897:
Professor Felix Adler delivered a lecture “Religion of To-day” at Carnegie
Music Hall this morning.
1897: Rabbi
Gustav Gottheil spoke on “The Present Bible Controversy” today at Temple
Emanu-El.
1897: It
was reported today that August Belmont was one of the principal financial
backers of plan to unite the manufacturers of bourbon whiskey into a national
syndicate.
1897: It
was reported that Seymour Mork and Phillip Harrison won the prizes at a debate
sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.
1898(13th of
Adar, 5658): Ta’anit Esther
1898: In
the evening, the Purim “festival proper began” this evening, when the first
star was visible, for in celebrating their holidays the Jews till adhere to the
old Oriental custom of counting the day from evening to evening.”
1898: In
Boston, MA, Emily Cohen and Zarah Levin gave birth to Harvard and University of
Chicago educated linguist Lawrence Meyer Levin, the husband of Ada Mandelstam
with whom he had one child – Barbara – and the editor in chief of “The Book of
Popular Science” who taught French at the University of Chicago and the University
of South Dakota before serving as an assistant professor of modern languages
and head of the Department of Spanish at the University of the University of
Utah and was a member of B’nai B’rith in Salt Lake City.
1898:
“Tatza Jews Killed by Arabs” published today describe the pillaging of the
Moroccan city by Ghiatz Arabs who abducted the women after murdering the men.
1898:
Senator Cantor introduced a bill today that would exempt the real estate of the
Young Men’s Hebrew Association from taxation, assessment and water rates.
1898:
“Congregations to Unite” published today traces the decision of members Temple
Beth-Elhoim to consolidate with Temple Israel. Both of the
congregations are located in Brooklyn with Beth-Elhoim having 150 members and
Temple Israel having 140 members. The enlarged congregation will
have to build a new sanctuary as neither of the currently occupied edifices are
big enough to accommodate the increase in attendance.
1898: It
was reported today that the oldest resident of the Home for Aged and Infirm
Hebrews is a 99-year-old man “whose only physical ailment is deafness.”
1899(25th of
Adar, 5659): Eighty-one-year-old German native Samson J. Rothschild, the
husband of Mary Griessman Rothschild and the father of Jacob and Martin
Rothschild passed away today in Manhattan after which he was buried in the
Union Field Cemetery in Ridgewood, NY.
1900:
Birthdate of Gerald Burton Windrod, the Kansas native whose virulent
anti-Semitic views earned him the title of "the JayHawk Nazi.”
1900: The
Council of Jewish Women which was founded in 1897 continued its triennial
meeting today in Cleveland under the leadership of its president Mrs. Hannah G.
Solomon.
1900:
Birthdate of Benn Wolfe Levy the British Playwright and Labour Party MP who
clashed with his party’s Foreign Minister over the government’s pro-Arab and
anti-Jewish policies in Palestine after WW II.
1901:
Police captured the burglars who had broken into Rudolph Grossman’s fur store
on Sixth Avenue in New York City.
1901: In
New York, Justice Scott of the Supreme Court ruled that he rejected the
applications for alimony filed by Mrs. Adolph Greenblatt, “pending trial of an
action for separation.”
1902(28th of
Adar I, 5662): Isidore Cahen, French scholar and journalist born at Paris in
1826 passed aay today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0004_0_03822.html
1903: In
Athens, Ohio, newspaper editor and publisher Charles Harvey Bryson, who owned
the Athens Morning Journal and his wife gave birth to Bernarda
Bryson who married Ben Shan and gained fame in her own rights as Bernarda
Bryson Shan (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/16/arts/16shahn.html
1904: In
Paris, Baron Louis de Koenigswarter and his wife gave birth to Lt.-Col. Baron
Jules de Koenigswarter who married Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild in 1935
and fought with the Free French during WW II.
1905: In
Canada, Rebecca (Freedberg) and Emmanuel Kenen gave birth to journalist turned
American attorney Isaiah L. Kenen, the information director for the Jewish
Agency and a member of Israel’s first delegation to the United Nations who was
the father of economist Peter Kenen.
https://books.google.com/books?id=HcpZAAAAMAAJ&q=Bochner+Kenen&dq=Bochner+Kenen
https://www.amazon.com/Isaiah-L.-Kenen/e/B001KIZKTW%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/3/resources/387
1905: In
Germany, Abraham Zvi Idelson, the Latvian born son of Azriel Fishel Idelson and
Dvora Idelson and his wife Zilla Idelson gave birth to Susannah Idelson who
became Susannah Bobrow when she married Abe Bobrow.
1905(30th of
Adar I, 5665): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1905(30th of
Adar I, 5665): Sixty-three-year-old Theresa Wile, the wife of Levi Adler and
the mother of attorney Isaac Adler who served as Mayor of Rochester, NY from
1930 to 1932 passed away today.
1906: It
was reported today that forty-year-old “Morris Rosenfeld, the Yiddish poet and
author of “Songs of the Ghetto’ is ill with paralysis” which has “afflicted his
right arm and leg” but “physicians that with a year’s rest he will recover.”
1907: “To
Aid Kingston’s Destitute Jews” published today described the plans of Mrs.
Samuel d. Levy, Mrs. Hugo A. Wallenstein, Mrs. Samuel Greenfield, Mrs. Joseph
Cohen, Mrs. Alfred Pincus and Mrs. Albert Lucas to host a fund raiser at the
Waldorf Astoria to provide financial assistance to “the aged and destitute
Jewish poor and for the rebuilding of the alms houses destroyed in the Kingston
earthquake.”
1907:
Composer and musical director Zavel Zilberts, the Pinsk born son of Fanny
Eisenberg and Boruch Hersh Zilberts married Amalia Fischer today after which he
came to the United States in 1920 where he became the Musical director of the
Cantors’ Association of America and organized the Hazomir choral Society of
Newark, NJ>
1908: In
Des Moines Iowa, “community activist” and suffragette Rose Frankel Rosenfield
and Meyer Rosenfield the owner of Younkers department store gave birth to
Louise Frankel Rosenfield who became Louise Noun when she married dermatologist
Maurice “Maurie” Noun.
1909(14th of
Adar, 5669): Purim
1909:
Birthdate of director, cinematographer and alleged WW II Soviet agent Irving
Lerner who was the editor on for “Spartacus,” a movie that noted for redeeming
more than one person who had been on the Hollywood Blacklist.
www.chicagofilmsociety.org/2013/03/25/irving-lerner-a-career-in-context/
https://fredrikonfilm.blogspot.com/2017/07/irving-lerner.html
1909: On
Purim, in Paris, France Leopold and Lena Pilichowski gave birth to Thade Pilley
1910: It
was reported today that the widow of the recently deceased actor-playwright
Moses Horowitz is now living at the Home of the Daughters of Jacobs on East
Broadway.
1910:
“Mother,” “which was the first successful ply Jules Eckert Goodman, the Oregon
born so of Jenette Rothschild and S. Newman Goodman “was first performed today in
Plainfield, NJ.”
1911: In a
case of Jew versus Jew, it was reported today that Henry Siegel, the President
of Simpson-Crawford Company and the Fourteenth Street Store said that he was
“in favor of having Congress at the special session deal merely with the one
matter for which it was called, the bill for the reciprocity with Canada” while
Nathan Straus, of R. H. Macy said “that Congress should not stop with the
passage of the reciprocity measure” but it should take action that would lead
to a “downward revision of the tariff.”
1912:
Hadassah was founded by Henrietta Szold. “At a meeting at Temple
Emanu-El in New York City, Henrietta Szold, a noted scholar, teacher,
journalist, editor, social worker and pioneer Zionist, convinced the Daughters
of Zion study circle to expand its purpose and embrace “practical Zionism,”
proactive work to help meet the health needs of Palestine’s people. Because the
meeting was held around the time of Purim, the women called themselves “The
Hadassah chapter of the Daughters of Zion,” adopting the Hebrew name of Queen
Esther. Hadassah also means “myrtle,” a hardy Levantine plant with agricultural
and biblical significance. Henrietta Szold became the first president.
1912(18th
of Adar, 5672): In St. Louis, Marcus Bernheimer, the native of Liberty,
Mississippi and the son of Samuel and Henrietta Bernheimer passed away today.
1912(18th of
Adar, 5672): Seventy-two-year-old St. Louis merchant Eugene Sterne passed away
today.
1913(28th of
Adar I, 5673): In Chicago, Samuel Weil, the brother of Carrie, Josephine and
Esther Weil, passed away today.
1913(28th of
Adar I, 5673): Seventy-five-year-old Rabbi Adolf Ehrlich passed away today at
Tilsit.
1913(28th of
Adar I, 5673): Forty-year-old theatre manager Maurice Baumfeld passed away
today in New York.
1914: For
the second time in five years, Jewish welterweight Joe Hirst fought Jack
Britton to a draw, a year before Britton on the Welterweight title.
1914: Mrs.
Simon Baruch had a surprise party for twenty-one Italian children from the
Bronx at her home as part of her program to teach patriotism and American
values to the children of immigrants newly arrived in the United States.
1914:
Eighty-two-year-old “Polish born British Bible scholar and student of the
Masoretic tradition of Judaism Christian David Ginsburg who had converted to
Christianity at the age of 15 passed away today in Middlesex.
1914:
Having exhausted all of his appeals at the state court level, today, the state
set Leo Frank’s execution date for April 17, 1914.
1915: “Miss
Jane Addams spoke of ‘War and Social Service’ at the Free Synagogue at Carnegie
Hall” this “morning following the service conducted by Rabbi Stephen Wise.
1916: Mrs.
Edward Goldbeck is scheduled to speak on “America at the Crossways” this after
afternoon during the regular meeting of the Chicago Woman’s Aid at the Sinai
Social Center.
1916:
“Habits and preferences of members of the Yale senior class were disclosed
today” including that of the 325 members of the senior class, 12 of them were
Jewish.
1916: Mrs.
Edward A Aaron and Mrs. Jules E. Furth arranged the program for the sixth
regular meeting of the B’nai Sholom Temple Sisterhood on Michigan Avenue in
Chicago.
1917(13th of
Adar, 5677): Ta’anit Esther and Erev Purim
1917: “The
trial of a $50.000 libel suit brought by Maschulem F. Seidman, war
correspondent for the Warheit and other Jewish news against The Day,
another Jewish publication” which centered on whether or not it was in fact
part of “German propaganda effort to win the sympathies of Jews in America for
the Teuton cause” began today in New York.
1917:
Birthdate of Herman Fishman, the Detroit native who letter in basketball,
baseball and football and went on to play professional baseball until his
career was cut short by WW II where he served in a U.S. Navy intelligence unit.
1917: The
decision rendered in People ex rel. Mulderig v. Kaplan which held that “a
theatrical performance give in the Neighborhood Playhouse by the Henry Street
Settlement” on a Sunday “did not interrupt the repose and religious liberty of
the community in any way” which means that “a prosecution of the treasurer of
the settlement house for Sabbath-breaking should be dismissed” was reported in
today issue of the New York Law Journal.
1917: During
World War I, on the Dialah River in Mesopotamia, Private Jack White, a
signaler, during an attempt to cross the river, saw the two pontoons ahead of
him come under very heavy fire with disastrous results. When his own pontoon
had reached mid-stream, with every man except himself either dead or wounded,
and not being able, by himself, to control the boat the private tied a
telephone wire to the pontoon, jumped overboard and towed it to the shore,
thereby saving an officer's life and bringing to land the wounded and also the
rifles and equipment of all the men in the boat.
1918: The
Palestine Fund Restoration Commission announced to today that “plans have been
completed for the establishment of a great Jewish university in Jerusalem” and
“that one of the first duties of the commission, which is going to Palestine
under the auspices of the fund, would be the founding of this university” on
the site which has already been chosen and acquired.
1918: In
London, King George expressed his gratitude to Dr. Wiezmann for Zionists
“useful work during the word” today.
1918(23rd of
Adar, 5678): Fifty-seven-year-old “Schklov, Russia,” native Solomon Baroway who
came to the United States in 1883 and went to Kansas with “25 other Jewish
young men” to start an agricultural community at Lasker in Clark County before
moving on eventually settling in Baltimore where he “was the Superintendent of
the Hebrew Benevolent Society for twenty-five years passed away today.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Solomon-Baroway-1860-1918-Pioneer-Baltimore/dp/B0006WLT98
1919: The
Jewish Press Bureau in Stockholm said that the Yiddishe Morgenpost of Vienna
reported “400 families have been killed at Proskuroff in the Ukraine, east of
Lemberg” where “Jews were being massacred in large numbers.”
1920:
Birthdate of Harry Kuniansky, the native of Atlanta who played guard for the U.
of Georgia football team from 1940 through 1942 when the Bulldogs were
“declared national champion in six polls recognized by the NCAA.”
1921:
Mischa Levitzki’s “farewell recital” took place this evening at Carnegie Hall.
1921: Red
Army under Trotsky attacked sailors of Kronstadt in a move to put down “a
counter-revolutionary” plot. Soviet leaders were always putting down
“counter-revolutionary plots” both real and imagined. Stalin would
later brand Trotsky as a counter-revolutionary and drive him from the party and
the Soviet Union.
1922:
Birthdate of Los Angeles native Arthur P. Jacobs, the press agent turned
producer who played a key role in bringing the Planet of the Apes series to the
screen as well as a musical version of Good-bye Mr. Chips featuring the singing
voice of Peter O’Toole.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/06/28/103220952.html?pageNumber=50
1922:
Birthdate of Hans Eduard Ephraimson-Abt, the Berlin born Jew who became an
internationally known advocate for families of air-crash victims after the
death of his daughter on Korean Air Lines Flight 007, shot down by Soviet
fighter planes in 1983 (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1923: It
was reported today that William S. Slater’s will calls for bequests of $1,000
each to the Montefiore Home, the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, Beth
Israel Hospital and the Jewish Consumptive Relief Society of Denver and $500
each to the Home for the Aged and Infirm Hebrews, Educational Alliance and
B’nai Jeshrun in Manhattan.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1923/03/07/issue.html
1924(1st of
Adar II, 5684): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1924: “Dr.
William Armhold, Rabbi Emeritus of Keneseth Israel, Philadelphia, who passed
away in Atlantic City at the age of 96 is scheduled to be interred today at Mt.
Sinai Cemetery in Philadelphia, PA.
1925: Dr.
Chaim Weizmann is scheduled to sail for England today aboard the SS Olympic so
that he can accompany Lord Balfour to Palestine where they will take part in
the dedication of the new Hebrew University on Mt. Scopus.
1925(11th of
Adar, 5685): Shabbat Zachor
1925(11th of
Adar, 5685): Eighty-three-year-old Alfred Abraham Strauss, the Manheim, Germany
born son of Sarah and Aaron Strauss who was married to both Blum Straus and
Amelia Strauss passed away today after which he was buried in Sumter, SC.
1926:
Herbert H. Lehman sent a letter to William Fox, the chairman of the United
Jewish Campaign of New York which will officially be launched in April that
$300,000 has already been pledged by the American Joint Reconstruction
Foundation which should help in meeting the goal of raising six million
dollars.
1927: The
Institute of Jewish Studies of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem announced that
a concordance of the Talmud will be prepared by Rabbi Kossovski of Jerusalem
for the used of Talmudic students.
1927: As of
today, the Bronx Division of the United Palestine Appeal has raised $85,000 of
the $200,000 it needs to reach its quota.
1928(15th of
Adar, 5688): Shushan Purim observed for the last time during the presidency of
Calvin Coolidge.
1929: Today
in Iraq, "Jewish journalist, Anwar Shaul, published an open letter in
weekly magazine al-Hasid, addressed to the British High Commissioner and
commander-in-chief, Brigadier-General Sir Gilbert Clayton, demanding full
independence for Iraq from Britain
1930:
Birthdate of Alfred Gottschalk, the native of Germany who “as head of Reform
Judaism’s major institution of higher learning ordained the first women as
rabbis in the United States and Israel.”
1930: Chief
Justice MacDonnell and Justices Baker and Kermak heard the appeal of Simcha
Hinkis, a 22-year-old Jewish policeman accused of participating in the murder
of an Arab family at Jaffa in the August riots. Hinkis had been “found guilty
of premeditated murder and sentenced to death.” “Mordecai Eliash,
counsel for the defense, declared the conviction was based on insufficient
evidence.” The court is expected to render its judgment next
week. [It is ironic that a Jewish policeman is the one who was convicted
of murder following the murderous Arab rampage of 1929.]
1930(7th of
Adar, 5690): Sixty-nine-year-old Buffalo native A.L. (Abraham Lincoln) “Abe”
Erlanger the part of Marc Klaw in Klaw and Erlanger that gave Broadway a slew
of productions including the first Ziegfeld Follies and built several of the
theatres on the Great White Way including the News Amsterdam passed away today.
1930: The
blue liveried state luxury saloon carriage of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first
president of Czechoslovakia, which entered service today would gain an extra
measure of fame when it became part of the 2009 Winton Train – “a private
passenger train which travelled from the Czech Republic to England in September
2009, in tribute to the wartime efforts of Sir Nicholas Winton, described as
the 'British Schindler' for his part in the saving refugee children from
Czechoslovakia.”
1931(18th of
Adar, 5691): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah
1931(18th of
Adar, 5691): Fifty-year-old Romanian born German “actor director, producer and
screenwriter Lupu Pick” passed away today in Berline.
1932: Benjamin
Cardozo, the Chief Judge of the Court of appeals sent his formal resignation
today to the Secretary of State as part of the process by which he assumed the
position of the Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1933: “The
Nazis hoisted their swastika flag over a synagogue at Bochum this morning.”
1933: At
Konigsberg, a bomb which was thrown into the local synagogue “exploded near the
ark, setting fire to the curtain.”
1933: Tonight
“at an emergency executive meeting of the Greater New York American Palestine
Campaign Committee” under the leadership of “Louis Lipsky, national chairman of
the American Palestine campaign and Morris Rothenberg, president of the ZOA” it
was decided to continue the American Palestine campaign to raise money to
enable the Jewish Agency for Palestine to maintain education, immigration an
sanitation activities in the Jewish Homeland.”
1934:
Bainbridge Colby presided over the anti-Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden
where the speakers included Bernard S. Deutsch, the Reverend A.J. Brown and
Michael Williams, the Editor of the Commonweal.
1934: “The
address by Gustavus T. Kirby, former president of the Amateur Athletic Union
and of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America, on
"What Germany Must Do Before the World of Sport Will Look With Favor Upon
the Olympic Games Scheduled to Be Held in Berlin in 1936” was delivered tonight
at Madison Square Garden.
1935(2nd of
Adar II, 5675): Seventy-six-year-old Odessa native Michael Zametkin, who in
1877 “fled political persecution in his homeland” and came to the United where
he worked in the needle trades, became a leader in “the Jewish labor and
Socialist movements while becoming a contributor to several Yiddish and
Socialist newswires” including “The Jewish Daily Forward which he helped to
found” passed away today.
1936: In
Poland, those supporting a bill introduced by Mrs. Blazej Pyster, the wife of
the former Prime minister, that would prohibit kosher slaughtering practices on
grounds that it is not humane and makes meat more expensive are faced with
charges of violating the Constitution since it guarantees “to all of Poland’s
citizens freedom of faith the free execution of religious rites” and this new
law “would violate the rights of the Jewish population.”
1936:
Today’s meeting of the Reichstag “will be the first since” that body “was
convoked hurriedly in Nuremberg last September to sanction the new restrictions
on the Jews and the ordinance establishing the Nazi flag as the Reich’s
official emblem.”
1936:
According to the current issue of the American Hebrew, “the 1935 American
Hebrew Medal for outstanding service in promoting better understanding between
Christians and Jews has been awarded to Roger Williams Straus…the son of the
late Oscar Straus, United States Ambassador to Turkey” who is also co-chairman
of the National Conference of Jews and Christians, a member of the executive
committee of the American Jewish Committee and a vice president of the National
Republican Club.
1936(13th of
Adar, 5695): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim
1936(13th of
Adar, 5696): As the celebration of Purim begins tonight, the Jews are in the
words of Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson, painfully aware that “in Germany half a
million Jews are groaning under the yoke of the Nuremberg laws and are
threatened with economic and even physical annihilation.”
1936 Final
performance of Jubilee,” “a musical comedy with a book by Moss Hart which had
premiered on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre
1936: Hitler
violated Treaty of Versailles by sending troops to the Rhineland. This was
one of the early steps leading to World Word II and the Final
Solution. Hitler was running a bluff. He really lacked
sufficient military force to have made the remilitarization
stick. If France and Great Britain had acted decisively, Hitler
would have been forced to back down and he might even have been forced from
power.
1937: Fifty-four-year-old
Paul Bekker, “the former director of the Wiesbaden opera” who had been stripped
of his German citizenship by the Nazis in 1936 because “favored Jews” passed
away today in New York City.
1938: The
Palestine Post reported that members of the Russian Zionist Center in
Tel Aviv were worried by a new wave of purges and arrests in the Soviet Union.
They reported that in Moscow, Odessa and many other Russian towns, charges of
counter-revolutionary activities were trumped up against Jews and the youth was
particularly affected. Although there were hardly any Jews in Japan, the Tokyo
government launched Japan¹s first anti-Semitic campaign announcing a “worldwide
Jewish plot.” The Japanese press presented a long list of the country’s Jewish
enemies who included, among others, various international peace leagues,
socialists and even Rotary International. The charges against Rotary were later
withdrawn.
1938(4th of
Adar II, 5698): Seventy-four year old Aaron the Cincinnati, OH, born son of
Moses and Sarah Waldheim, the St. Louis furniture merchant and philanthropist
who raised two children with his wife Hattie Sommers Waldheim passed away
today.
1938: In
New York City Getrude Lipschitz and Richard Baltimore gave birth to David
Baltimore, American biologist, recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine.
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1975/baltimore-bio.html
1939: “Two
Czech Fascists named Stund and Kovarik were in Pilsen today by the explosion of
an infernal machine that they were concealing in a ceremonial hall of a Jewish
cemetery where a big funeral service was scheduled for tomorrow.”
1939(16th of
Adar, 5699): Seventy-four-year-old Ludwig Anton Salomon Fulda the poet and
playwright who was the first President of PEN of Germany and whose career
effectively came to an end when the Nazis came to power committed suicide in
Berlin today when he was denied entry into the United States. (Editor’s Note –
Germany wanted to put an end to him because he was a Jew and the United States
had no room for him for the same reason. Also there seems to be some
confusion about the date of his death)
http://snbehrman.com/library/nytimes/43.2.7.htm
1940: As
Jews continued to protest against the newly enacted British laws limiting
purchase of land in Palestine by Jews, the Chief Rabbis and leaders of the Vaad
Leumi led a protest demonstration through the streets of Jerusalem while other
Jews took part in a work stoppage in Haifa. In reaction to the
protest in Jerusalem, the British imposed an over-night curfew on the Jewish
quarter of the City of David.
1940:
Birthdate of Arlene Hannah Butter, the New York born daughter of Jewish
immigrants from Eastern Europe who gained fame as artist Hannah Wilke.
http://www.hannahwilke.com/id10.html
1941: It
was announced today, that “Dr. Israel Goldstein has been elected for his eighth
consecutive terms as president of the Jewish National fund, that Jacob Sincoff
and I.M. Kowalsky were chosen co-treasures and Louis Segal was chosen secretary
while Mendel N. Fisher will serve as Executive Direcotr.
1942:
Birthdate of Michael Eisner President of The Walt Disney Company.
1942: Lucy
Parsons the labor organizer and anarchist who addressed the striking members of
the Chicago Tailors Union most of whose members were Jewish and who clashed
with Emma Goldman passed away.
1943(30th of
Adar I, 5703): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1943: “The
third American enlisted men’s club in the Middle East” is scheduled to be open
in Tel Aviv today. The club has “sleeping quarters for 150 men and
lounge, game reading and music rooms. It is 300 yards from the
beach.” In addition, hospitality committees of the Jewish Agency arrange
sightseeing trips in the Holy Land and the Tel Aviv Hospital committee is
operating three clubs for solidiers and nurses of the Allied armies serving in
Palestine.
1944: In
Kansas City, MO, “Hilde and Alfred Rosbash, Jewish refugees from pre-war Nazi
Germany” gave birth to Nobel Prize winning “geneticist and chronobiologist”
Michael Rosbash
http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/faculty/rosbash.html
1944: The
poet David Vogel was deported from Drancy the French concentration camp and
sent to Birkenau along with another 1,500 Jews.
1944(12th of
Adar): At Birkenau, 3,860 Jews who had been living in "family
quarters", were sent to the gas chambers. Five days earlier, in their
special "family quarters", they were shown off to Red Cross
representatives (who were not allowed to see the rest of the camp.) The Jews
were told to write postcards to their Czech relatives, but postdate
them March 25, 26, and 27. The Jews would never live to see those days. Of
this group, only 37 were spared, including eleven sets of twins. They would be
sent to Dr. Mengele for medical experiments.
1944(12th of
Adar): Today, the Nazis discovered “the hideout of Emanuel Ringelblum the
historian of the Warsaw ghetto and one of the leaders of the Jewish
underground” which would lead to the execution of him and his family a few days
later.
1945:
Brigadier General Ernest Frank Benjamin began serving with the British Eighth
Army in the Faenza Area, Italy; a posting that would last until the end of
World War II in Europe. Born in 1900, Benjamin “was a British officer from
Canada of Jewish birth who commanded the Jewish Infantry Brigade during the
Second World War. Benjamin was commissioned into the Royal Engineers and served
with that service during 1941-42 before being transferred as a General Staff
Officer 1 to the Middle East Command in 1943. He served as Assistant
Quartermaster-General there until 1944 when he was appointed Deputy Director of
Military Training Middle East Command and in the autumn of the same year as the
Commanding Officer, Jewish Brigade Group. His last post with the Brigade group
was in north-west Europe as part of the VIII Corps of the British Army of the
Rhine. He passed away in 1969.
1945: The
US 9th Armored Division seized the bridge at Remagen Germany, enabling
them to cross the Rhine and enter the German heartland. This is an
amazing story of luck and unbelievable courage on the part of American soldiers
which shortened the war and help end the nightmare for European
Jewry.
1946:
Birthdate of Ronald Reider, the New Jersey native who settled in Cedar Rapids,
after earning his M.D. at the University of Iowa.
1946: “An
independent campaign to raise three million dollars for emergency relief for
Jews in Poland was announced” today “by the American Federation for Polish
Jews.”
1947: In
Brooklyn, “voice actor Allen Swift” (Ira Stadlen) and his wife gave birth to
Lewis J. Stadlen who “made his Broadway debut as Grouch Marx in the 1970
musical comedy ‘Minnie’s Boys’”
1947: Major
Beneral R.N. Gale, the British commander of “Operation Elephant” expressed
satisfaction with the results of having imposed martial law over a large area
of Palestine and that it will be able to “cut out this canker of underground
violence.”
1947: As
the British continued their efforts to pacify Palestine, 5,000 troops and
policemen surrounded Rehoveth, Nathanya and Hadera and began searching the
communities for “terrorists” and weapons. The raid netted thirty-two
detainees and a small cache of arms. Dr. Chaim Weizmann is a
resident of Rehovoth. “After the searches ended” armed masked men attacked the
police station at Rishon le Zion. As the British looked for the
attackers, they let be known that they were looking for members of the Irgun and
the Stern gang and not members of Haganah.
1948: At a
speech given tonight in Reading, MP Ian Mikardo said “Lt. Gen. G.H.A.
MacMillian, commander of the British forces in Palestine ‘forgot’ to get
evidence regarding Arabs who entered Palestine to fight Jews” which he
described as “appeasing the Arabs.”
1948: While
speaking at Temple Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Louis I. Newman said that “relations
between Christians and Jews” in the United States “will steadily deteriorate if
both do not maintain stability and common sense in attitudes toward the great
social issues of our time.”
1948: At
the opening of the annual conference of the Poale Zion of Great Britain, Ian
Mikardo revealed that a vote of "no-confidence" would be sought
against the government by some members of the British Labour Party when the
bill to terminate the Palestine Mandate had its second reading in the House of
Commons.
1948: This
afternoon speakers at a meeting of 2,000 delegates at the annual conference of
the Council of Organizations, United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York said
that “world peace and international security are dependent largely on United
Nations support of the Palestine partition plan
1949:
During Operation Uvda, “Golani forces conquered the village Ein Harouf.
1949(6th of
Adar, 5709): Two days before his 79th birthday Sol Bloom the
music publisher turned politician passed while serving his 14th term
as a Member of the House of Representatives representing the 19th and
then 20th Congressional District from New York.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000565
1949:
During Operation Uvda, “the Alexandroni Brigade moved from Beersheba through
Mamshit towards Sodom and then made an amphibious landing near Ein Gedi through
the Dead Sea.”
1949: The
IDF established a based Ayn Husb at the junction of the Beersheba-Sodom and
Sodom-Eilat tracks
1950(18th
of Adar, 5710): Daniel Frisch, the President of the Zionist Organization of
America, passed away today at the age of 52 following a surgical procedure that
had been performed yesterday. Born in Palestine, Frisch was the son
of Rabbi Eliezer and Haia Landau Frisch. His family moved to
Roumania when Frisch was one year old. Frisch came to the United
States in 1921 and settled in Indianapolis where he operated a successful
salvage yard. Frisch who had been active in the Zionist movement
since childhood, founded the Indianapolis Zionist District, served as President
of the Ohio Valley Zionist Region and was elected to the ZOA Administrative
Council in 1934. He retired from business five years ago and moved
to New York so he could devote himself to the Zionist cause. Frisch
reportedly made at least 14 trips to Israel and worked tirelessly to raise
funding for a projects for the infant Jewish state.
1950: In
what has to be one of the all-time great whoppers of history, the Soviet Union
issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy days after
he had been found guilty by a British court. Fuchs testified that
Harry Gold was his courier for getting information to the
Soviets. Harry Gold led to David Greenglass that led to the
Rosenbergs.
1950: “The
Communist newspaper Kol Ha’am charged today that Israel has
instituted an anti-Communist campaign and inquirty to similar to those that it
said had been launched by President Truman in all countries under American
protection.” The paper charged that America was pulling the strings
of anti-Communism in Israel just as it was in England. [This charge came at the
same time when many right-wing Americans were warning of the Jewish Communist
conspiracy.]
1951: Lillian
Hellman's "Autumn Garden" premiered in New York City.
1951(29th of
Adar I, 5711): Nineteen-year-old PFC Leonard M. Kravitz, the Brooklyn son of
“Jean (Kaufman) and Joseph Kravitz was killed today during the Korean War while
voluntarily manning a machine so that he Army comrades could escape even though
he knew it would mean his death – action that would earn him the Congressional
Medal of Honor.
1951: In
one of those incidents that undermine stability in the Middle East and thus
prove worrisome to Israel, the Prime Minister of Iran was shot and killed by an
Islamic fundamentalist.
1952: Dr.
Alexander Marx, director of libraries and the Jacob H. Schiff Professor at JTS
is scheduled to leave for Israel today. This is his first trip to
the new Jewish state during which he plans to establish closer working
relationships between JTS and libraries in Israel.
1953(20th of
Adar, 5713): Maksymilian Apolinary Hartglas passed away in Tel
Aviv. Born in 1883, he was a lawyer, Zionist and a politician in
pre-war Poland who courageously escaped from Warsaw and finally settled in
Jerusalem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apolinary_Hartglas
1954(2nd of
Adar II, 5714): Jacob Isaac Segal the Canadian Jewish poet and husband of Elke
Shtaiman who had been born Yaakov Yitzchak Skolar in Slobkovitz who worked as a
tailor in the garment industry and a teacher at the Jewish People’s School
after immigrating to Montreal in 1911 whose 12 volumes of poetry including
Sefer Idish (The Book of Yiddish) passed away today after which he was buried
at the Baron de Hirsch Cemetery in Montreal.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1sq5vks
1954: Rabbi
Eliezer Silver of Cincinnati is scheduled to be “the guest of honor at the
thirty-second annual dinner of Agudath Israel of America today at the Roosevelt
Hotel” where “Michael J. Treis, the administrative president, will present” him
with a bronze plaque “in tributed to his fifty years of work for Judaism.”
1955: NBC
presented “Peter Pan,” a musical version of the 1904 play of the same time with
music by Mark Charlap and Jule Styne, and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden
and Adolph Green as part of its Producers Showcase anthology series.
1956(24th
of Adar, 5716): Seventy-eight-year-old Cecile Meyer Pilpel (Mrs Emanuel Pilpel)
a native of Wissembourg, France, “a leader in parent education for more than
thirty years an executive of the Child Study Association of America” passed
away today in Hartford, CT.
1957(4th of
Adar II, 5717): Seventy-eight-year-old Dr. Eugene Jacob Asnis who served on the
faculty of Temple University and reached the rank of Major while serving in the
Army during WW I passed away today after which he was buried in the military
cemetery in Beverly, NJ.
1958(15th of
Adar, 5718): Shushan Purim
1959(27th of
Adar I, 5719): Parashat Vayakhel; Shabbat Shekalim
1960:
“Volpone” co-starring Lou Jacobi as “Corvino” was broadcast today at the Play
of the Week.
1961(19th of
Adar, 5721): Seventy-two-year- Dr. Max Augustus Cohn D.D.S. the Texas born son,
Josephine Walker and Frank Cohn and the husband of Nina Edna
Fleshman who served during WW I as a “1st Lt Dental Corps, 36th Division at the
US Army Base Hospital, 84th Med Corps passed away today after which he was
buried in Cleveland, TX.
1964:
Seventy-year-old Sir Alexander Knox Helm, the United Kingdom’s first ambassador
to Israel passed away today.
1965: On
Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, group of 600 civil rights marchers are
violently prevented from marching to the state capital in
Montgomery. Two weeks later a group of marchers would successfully
begin the march from Selma to Montgomery. Included among them would
be Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel who said he was “voting with his feet.”
1965:
Release date for “The Train” a film based on Le front de l'art by
Rose Valland, which tells the story of a successful attempt to keep a train
filled with looted French art from reaching Germany. In reality, the
boxcar doors were opened by Free French forces under the command of Lt.
Alexandre Rosenberg who had no trouble identifying the masterpieces since man
of have them had been hanging in the Paris home of his father Paul Rosenberg
1966(15th of
Adar, 5726): Shushan Purim
1967:
“You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown” premiered off-Broadway today with Bob Balaban
as Linus.
1967: Alice
B. Tolkas passed away. Born Jewish in 1877, the San Francisco she gained fame
as confidante, lover, cook, secretary, muse, editor, critic, and general
organizer for another famous Jewess, Gertrude Stein. Before her
death, Tolkas converted to Roman Catholicism.
1969: The
Central committee of the Labor Party voted to nominate Golda Meir as Prime
Minister.
1970(29th of
Adar I, 5730): Parashat Vayakhel; Shabbat Shekalim
1970: In
Westminster, London, George Weisz, an inventor from Hungary and Edith Ruth (née
Teich), a teacher-turned-psychotherapist from Vienna, Austria Rachel Hannah
Craig (née Weisz) who gained fame as British actress Rachel Weisz.
1971(10th
of Adar, 5731): Eight-three-year-old movie mogul Barney Balaban, the long
serving head of Paramount pictures passed away today.
http://www.balabanandkatzfoundation.com/
http://www.thewaldorfconference.com/balaban.html
1971: Two
days after he had passed away, “a funeral service” is scheduled to be held this
afternoon for the Society for the Advancement of Judaism” for “sixty-seven year
old Wharton graduate James Felt, the son of real estate developer Abraham Felt,
who followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather when he went into
to the real estate business instead of becoming a Rabbi and went on to become
the Chairman of the City Planning Commission.”
1971:
Birthdate of British-born Academy Award winning actress Rachel
Weisz. Her father was a Hungarian Jewish inventor who fled to
England to escape the Nazis. Her mother is described as Catholic
with Jewish ancestry. Weisz has appeared in films with Keanu Reeves and Hugh
Grant.
1971: Egypt
refused to renew the Suez ceasefire during an outbreak violence that presaged
the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
1972(21st of
Adar, 5732): Sixty-eight-year-old Aubrey Louis Goodman the tackle who led
Baylor University and the University of Chicago to conference championships
before turning professional and play for the Chicago Bulls and for the NFL
Chicago Cardinals passed away today.
1973:
“Slither” a crime move directed by Howard Zieff and starring James Caan, Louise
Lasser and Allen Garfield was released today in the United States.
1973: U.S.
premiere of “The Long Goodbye” starring Elliot Gould and featuring Mark Rydell
and Warren Berlinger.
1974(13th of
Adar, 5734): Ta’anit Esther and erev Purim
1974(13th of
Adar, 5734): Eighty-three-year-old Irma Shloss Mannheimer, the daughter of Max
and Rose Shloss and the wife of Eugene Mannheimer passed away today after which
she was interred at the Emanuel Cemetery in Des Moines, IA.
1974:
“Jewish activists Miron Dorfman, Mark Abramovich, Yacov Schwartzman (Kishinev),
Leonid Bendersky (Tiraspol) and Sender Levinson (Bendery),” who were “serving
15 day sentences for staging a hunger strike outside the Central Post office in
Kishinev, celebrated Purim by declaring a 48 hour hunger strike” today.
1974:
“Yankel Kantas was released from prison today” a month before he would leave
for Israel.
1974:
“David Rockefeller, the Chairman of the Manhattan Bank criticized the Jackson
Amendment” because, “concern for Jewish emigration and human rights must not
jeopardize US – Soviet trade relations.” (Editor’s Note – really
learned a lot from the Holocaust experience)
1975(24th
of Adar, 5735): Canadian born comedian Ben Blue passed away at the age of
73. Blue never achieved the fame of some his contemporaries like
George Burns or Milton Berle. But he was good enough to have his own
life variety show in the early days of television.
1976(5th of
Adar II, 5736): Sixty-seven-year-old Dr. Solomon Maranov, the husband of Belle
Maranov and the father of John and David Maranov passed away today.
1977: Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin met President Carter. Most people remember
Rabin as the Prime Minister of Peace from the 1990's. But Rabin was first
Prime Minister back in the 1970's. It was at this time that he and the
Labor Party were rocked by a scandal dating from Rabin's days as Israel's
Ambassador to the United States. The scandal drove him from
power. It resulted in the rise to power of Likud and the
election of Menachem Begin as Prime Minister. In other words, Rabin's
financial indiscretions ended Labor's control of the Israeli
government which dated back to the founding of the state in 1948 and changed
the political landscape of Israel.
1977(17th of
Adar, 5737): Almost exactly ten years after her husband Louis Gottlieb passed
away, eighty-year Clara Gottlieb, the mother of Lillian, Florence and Harvey
Gottlieb passed away today after which she was buried at Be Olam Cemetery, in
Beachwood, OH.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that the representatives of
the Ministry of Finance and the Histadrut met to discuss the current wave of
strikes which for more than seven weeks paralyzed the merchant marine,
disrupted El Al flights and TV, radio and other communications.
1978: The
Jerusalem Post reported that In Iran the shah warned that he might
impose an oil embargo on Israel to make it more flexible in negotiations with
Egypt.
1979:
President Carter is scheduled to leave Washington this after for meetings with
President Anwar Sadat in Egypt and Premiere Menachem Begin in Jeruslaem.
1979:
Twelve people were injured when a bus was detonated on a bus at the Plaza
hotel, while nobody was injured when a second bomb was detonated on another bus
in Tel Aviv.
1980(19th of
Adar, 5740): Rabbi Yitzchok Isaac Tendler passed away today.
https://kevarim.com/rabbi-yitzchok-isaac-tendler/
1981: As
Soviet authorities “put pressure on Hebrew teacher, “Yuli Kosharovsky and Pavel
Abramovich were threatened with arrest.”
1982(12th of
Adar, 5742): Fifty-six year old the movie director Konrad Wolf, the younger
brother of Stasi spymaster Markus Wolf passed away in the German Democratic
Republic (Communist East Germany) today.
https://eastgermancinema.com/category/konrad-wolf/
1985(14th of
Adar, 5745): Purim
1985(14th of
Adar. 5745)” Seventy-six-year-old Sophie M. Friendly, the Philadelphia born
daughter of Henrietta and Horace Stern and the wife of Henry Friendly passed
away today in New York City.
1986:
Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean
floor. The crew included Judith Resnik, the first Jewish American astronaut and
the first Jewish woman to go into space.
1986(26th
of Adar I, 5746): Former Senator from New York, Jacob K Javits passed away in
Palm Beach FL at the age of 81. Javits was a political anomaly for his
time. At a time when most Jews were Democrats, he was a Republican.
True, he was part of the liberal wing of the Republican Party, but he was
a Republican, nonetheless. Javits was a champion of Civil Rights and
stood against the right-wing tide that swept his party in the 1960's. A
lot of Jews were critical of Javits for supporting President Eisenhower in
1956. Ike and his Republican Administration sided with
Egypt during the Suez Crisis and threatened Israel with crippling economic
sanctions unless she bowed to the will of the Americans.
1987: In
his “Jerusalem Journal,’ Francis X. Clines described the newly Ophel Garden
which is “a magnificent ascending honeycomb of history at the southern foot of
the Temple Mount that allows passing mortals to meander across 3,000 years of
history, from the First Temple time of Solomon in the 10th century B.C. to the
Ottoman extravagances of the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, 2,500 years
later.”
1990: Means
of Ascent, the second book in Robert Caro’s trilogy on Lyndon Johnson
was released today. (Caro was Jewish. Johnson was not but he did
have several interesting with the Jewish community beginning with his days in
the Hill Country)
1992: NBC
broadcast the first episode of “The Powers That Be” a sitcom created by David
Crane and Marta Kauffman, produced by Norman Lear and with music by Marvin
Hamlisch.
1993(14th of
Adar, 5753): Purim observed for the first time under President Bill Clinton.
1893: NBC
broadcast the final episode of “Square Pegs” a sitcom starring Sarah Jessica
Parker and created by Anne Beatts.
1996: The
Third Way was formed today “towards the end of the thirteenth Knesset's term
when two MKs, Avigdor Kahalani and Emanuel Zisman, broke away from the Labour
Party.”
1996: MK
Efraim Gur left Likud.
1997:
“Jungle 2 Jungle” a comedy featuring Leelee Sobieski was released today in the
United States.
1997(28th
of Adar I, 5757): Rabbi Emanuel H. Bronner passed
away. Born in 1908, Emanuel H. Bronner was the eccentric maker
of Dr. Bronner's castile soap, a concentrated liquid notable for the
vast amount of lather produced from a few drops and the vast amount of tiny
text on its packaging. Although his parents were killed in the Holocaust, Rabbi
Bronner believed in the goodness and unity of humanity. He was born in
Heilbronn, Germany to the Heilbronner family of soap makers. He emigrated to
the United States in 1929, dropping "Heil" from his name to protest
the rise of Hitler. He pleaded with his parents to emigrate with him for fear
of the Nazis, but they refused. His last contact with his parents was in the
form of a postcard saying, "You were right. —Your loving father." He
started his business making products by hand in his home. The product labels
were crowded with statements of Bronner's philosophy, which he called
"All-One-God-Faith" and the "Moral ABCs". Many of Bronner's
references came from Jewish and Christian sources, such as the Shema and the
Beatitudes; others from poets such as Rudyard Kipling. Sometimes they contained
unusual product statements, for example suggesting a contraceptive use for the
soap. They became famous for their idiosyncratic style, including hyphens to
join long strings of words and the liberal use of exclamation marks. In 1947,
while promoting his "Moral ABC's" at the University of Chicago,
Bronner was arrested and committed to a mental hospital from which he escaped.
Eventually his operation grew into a small factory in Escondido, California. At
his death in 1997, it produced over a million bottles of soap and other
products a year but was still not mechanized. The firm did no advertising but
has been the subject of many published articles. It supported many charitable
causes. After Bronner's death, his family continued the business. They have
said the labels he wrote will not change except when required by government
regulations.
1999(19th
of Adar, 5759): Sidney Gottlieb passed away. Born in
1918, Sidney Gottlieb was an American chemist probably best-known for his
involvement with the Central Intelligence Agency mind control program
(MKULTRA). Sidney was born in the Bronx under the name Joseph Schneider.
He received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology.
Despite the fact that he was a stutterer since childhood, Sidney got a master's
degree in speech therapy. He also had a club foot, but this did not stop him
from practicing folk dancing, a lifelong passion. In 1951, Sidney Gottlieb
joined the Central Intelligence Agency. As a poison expert, he headed the
chemical division of the Technical Services Staff (TSS). Sidney became known as
the "Black Sorcerer" and the "Dirty Trickster". He
supervised preparations of lethal poisons and experiments in mind control.
1999(19th
of Adar, 5759): Movie director Stanley Kubrick passed away at the age of
70. Some of his more memorable films included “Spartacus,” “2001-A
Space Odyssey” and “Dr. Strangelove.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1966/11/12/how-about-a-little-game
https://www.theguardian.com/film/stanleykubrick
1999: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or
special interest to Jewish readers including The Times of My Life: And
My Life With The Times by Max Frankel, A Return to Modesty:
Discovering the Lost Virtue by Wendy Shalit, Hirschfeld On
Line by Al Hirschfeld and P.S.: The Autobiography of Paul
Simon by Paul Simon
2000:
Second showing of ‘The Life of the Jews in Palestine'' at the Museum of Modern
Art..
2001:
Gesher pulled out of the coalition as a result of Ehud Barak’s participation in
the Camp David Smmit.
2001: Ehud
Barak completed his services as Israel’s tenth Prime Minister.
2001: Airel
Sharon was sworn in as Prime Minister of Israel today.
2001:
Shlomo Ben Ami completed his service as Israel’s Foreign Minister.
2001:
Binyamin Be-Eliezer replaced Ehud Barak as Defense Minister.
2001: Dalia
Rabin-Pelossof replaced Efraim Sneah as Deputy Minister of Defense.
2001:
Shimon Peres begins serving as Israel’s Foreign Minister.
2001: Reuven
Rivlin replaced Binyamin Ben-Eliezer as Communications Minister.
2001: Asher
Ohana replaced Yossi Beilin as Minister of Religion
2001:
Avigdor Lieberman replaced Avraham Shochat as the National Infrastructure
Minister
2001: Natan
Sharansky began serving as Minister of Housing and Construction.
2001: Uzi
Landau replaced Shlomo Ben-Ami as Minister of Public Security.
2001:
Gideon Ezra began serving as Deputy Minister of Public Security
2001:
President Bush met with 25 leaders from the Jewish community in the White House
Roosevelt Room.
2002:
Fifteen people were injured in the hotel lobby bombing at Ariel for which the
PFLP terrorists took credit.
2003(3rd of
Adar II, 5763): Two Israelis were killed and five were wounded when armed
terrorists infiltrated the community of Kiryat Arba and attacked during
Shabbat. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
2003: “In
an advertisement placed in” today’s edition of The Jewish Press, The Union of
Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada declared that ...Agudas
Horabonim cannot approve of a call to attend a Reform or Conservative temple on
Friday night, or any time.
2003: A
celebration of actress Ruth Kobart’s life is scheduled to be held this evening
at the Geary Theatre in San Francisco.
2004: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
interest to Jewish readers including The Prisoner of Vandam Street by
Kinky Friedman and the recently released paperback edition of Trains of
Thought: From Paris to Omaha Beach: Memories of a Wartime Youth, by
Victor Brombert in which the renowned literary scholar recalls his bourgeois
Jewish childhood in Europe and his stateless youth: his parents escaped from
France to the United States in 1941, and after joining the Army he returned to
Europe to fight in the Normandy campaign and the Battle of the Bulge.
2004(14th of
Adar, 5764): Purim
2004 (14th of
Adar, 5764): Ninety-two-year-old painter Elise Asher, the wife of poet laureate
Stanley Kunitz passed away today. (As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)
2005: After
considering Hiram Bingham's deeds during the war years in Marseille for a
number years, Israel's memorial Yad Vashem ("Holocaust Martyrs' and
Heroes' Remembrance Authority") issued the Bingham family a letter of
appreciation
2006: The Jerusalem Post reported that Saudi Arabia has
continued to participate in the boycott against Israeli goods in violation of
promises the Saudis had made to the United States and the international economic
community.
2006: The
Cedar Rapids Gazette announced that it would no longer carry the
column by Mitch Albom because he was not reliable. Apparently,
the Gazette could tolerate his fictional columns, not just the
fact that he could not be trusted to get his work to the paper once a week as
promised.
2007: The
Ministry for the Development of the Negev and Galilee decided to move the
national archive of Israel from Jerusalem to Arad,
2007: At
the Skirball Cultural Center, a screening of Black Book in
which “a beautiful chanteuse (Carice van Houten) joins the Dutch resistance in
1944 to track down the Nazis who killed her family and becomes embroiled in a
web of seduction, betrayal, and revenge.
2007: The
Israel Air Force began incorporating the new "Shoval" drone, which
according to the Israel Defense Forces has an improved ability to identify the
launch of projectile rockets such as Katyushas and Qassams.
2007: An
exhibition entitled “Superheroes and Schlemiels: Jewish Memory in Comic
Strip Art” opens at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam. “Superman, Maus, The
Rabbi’s Cat and many other heroes and anti-heroes from the art of
comics feature in this exhibition of comics and graphic novels by Jewish
artists. Leading comic artists present their vision of a Jewish past in
original drawings, printed matter and film material. The artists include Will
Eisner, Joe Kubert, Ben Katchor and Rutu Modan. The exhibition, with comics
from 1910 to the present day, is a co-production by the JHM and the Musée d’art
et d’histoire du Judaïsme in Paris.”
2007(17th of
Adar, 5767): Eighty-year old journalist and novelist Charles Einstein, the
author of The Bloody Spur passed away today in Michigan City, Indiana.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Charles-Einstein-S-F-sportswriter-and-2571360.php
2008(30
Adar I, 5768: Rosh Chodesh Adar II
2008:
“College Road Trip,” a comedy featuring Molly Ephraim was released today in the
United States.
2008 (30
Adar I, 5768): The eight victims of the attack on Mercaz Harav yeshiva in
Jerusalem were buried this afternoon, each with Torah scrolls stained with
their blood, in accordance with the Halakhic decision ruled by former Chief
Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu. The victims included American student Avraham David
Moses, aged 16, Doron Maharata, 26 the oldest of those killed whose family
immigrated to Israel as part of Operation Moses when he was eight years old,
Yochai Lipschitz, 18, of Jerusalem; Yonatan Yitzchak Eldar, 16, of Shiloh;
Yonadav Chaim Hirschfeld, 19, of Kochav Hashahar; Neriah Cohen, 15, of
Jerusalem; Roey Roth, 18, of Elkana; and Segev Pniel Avihayil, 15, of Neveh
Daniel
2008:
Roland E. Arnall completed his term as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands.
2008: “The
Other Boleyn Girl” starring Natalie Portman premiered in the United Kingdom
2008: Today
a state historical marker was erected by the Georgia Historical Society, the
Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, and Temple Kol Emeth, near
the building at 1200 Roswell Road, Marietta where Leo Frank was
lynched. The memorial reads:
Near this
location on August 17, 1915, Leo M. Frank, the Jewish superintendent of the
National Pencil Company in Atlanta, was lynched for the murder of
thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory employee. A highly controversial trial
fueled by societal tensions and anti-Semitism resulted in a guilty verdict in
1913. After Governor John M. Slaton commuted his sentence from death to life in
prison, Frank was kidnapped from the state prison in Milledgeville and taken to
Phagan's hometown of Marietta where he was hanged before a local crowd. Without
addressing guilt or innocence, and in recognition of the state's failure to
either protect Frank or bring his killers to justice, he was granted a
posthumous pardon in 1986.
2009: In
“The Perfect Hamantaschen” published today Deborah Gardner attempts to settle
the dispute between those who prefer prune and those who munch on “mun.”
http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/the-perfect-hamantaschen/
2009:
Journalist David Plotz, the editor of Slate, discusses and
signs Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and
Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible at
Politics and Prose Bookstore, 202-364-1919.
2009:
Israeli illustrator and artist David Polonsky discusses and
signs his new graphic novel, Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story (created
with Ari Folman, whose animated film of the same name inspired the book), at
Busboys and Poets (D.C.)
2009:
Shabbat Zachor 5769
2009: With
demonstrators clashing with the police outside a near-empty stadium, Sweden won
a doubles match to take a 2-1 lead against Israel in the Davis Cup series in
Malmo, Sweden
2009: In
case involving Dead Sea Scrolls scholars, The Chicago Tribune reported
that New York City authorities this week charged the son of University of
Chicago professor Norman Golb with identity theft, criminal impersonation and
harassment in connection with a campaign to smear opponents of his father's
scholarly theories.
2010: The
Jewish Women's Archive’s tour of Santa Fe is scheduled to come to an end today.
2010: “The
Splendor of the House of Camondo: From Constatinople to Paris, 1806-1845” which
opened at the Museum of Jewish Art and History in Paris on November 6, 2009 is
scheduled to close today.
2010: The
121st annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis opened in
San Francisco.
2010: The
Twentieth Annual KOACH Kallah is scheduled to come to an end. KOACH is the
college program of The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.
2010: After
a year-and-a-half of careful restoration work by the Egyptian authorities, the
Maimonides Synagogue in Cairo is scheduled to be rededicated today.
2010: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readings including The Ask by
Michael Lipstye
2010(21
Adar, 5770): Ninety-seven-year-old Arnold Forster, an American Jewish
leader, lawyer and writer who was a longtime executive of the Anti-Defamation
League of B’nai B’rith, passed away today in the Bronx at the Hebrew Home for
the Aged in Riverdale.
2011:
Israeli choreographer Michal Samama is scheduled to perform ‘Still Life with
Seven Stones’ in New York City.
2011: Israeli
violinist Misha Keylin, Seymour Lipkin and the Jupiter musicians are scheduled
to perform at the Good Shepherd Church in New York City.
2011: On
the day before Mardi Gras, Jews in the Crescent City have the opportunity to
participate in Breakfast with Maimonides during which Rabbi Zelig Rivkin is
scheduled to lead a study of the writings of the Rambam
2011: (1
Adar II 5771): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
2011: (1
Adar II 5771) Yahrzeit for the passengers killed on Egged Bus #53 8 years ago
in Tel Aviv:
· Kmer
Abu Khamed, 12, from Daliyat al Karmel
· Yuval
Mendelevitch, 13, from Haifa
· Smadar
Firstatter, 17, from Haifa
· Avigail Lietel,
14, from Haifa
· Asaf Tzur, 16,
from Haifa
· Daniel Harush, 16
, from Safed
· Tom Hershko, 16,
from Haifa, and his father-
· Motti Hershko,
41, from Haifa
· Tal Kehrmann, 17,
from Haifa
· Elizabeth (Liz)
Katzman, 17, from Haifa
· Meital Katav, 20,
from Haifa
· Moran Shushan,
20, from Haifa
· Anatoly Biryakov,
20, from Haifa
· Be'eri Ovad, 21 ,
from Rosh Pina
· Eliyahu Laham,
22, from Haifa
· Miriam Atar, 27,
from Haifa
· Mark Takash, 54,
from Haifa
2011: Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has ordered the state to demolish all
illegal West Bank outposts built on private Palestinian land by the end of
2011, Cabinet Secretary Zvi Hauser announced today.
2011:
Publication of “Jewish Texts Lost in War Are Surfacing in New York”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/nyregion/08books.html?_r=2&hpwm
2012: “Nicholas
Winton: The Power of Good” is scheduled to be shown at the Pittsburgh Jewish
Film Festival in Pittsburgh, PA.
2012: The
junior faculty at the University of Haifa is scheduled to go on strike as part
of “an ongoing dispute with the Committee of University Presidents over work
conditions.”
2012:
Friends and family of Dr. Ron Reider join together to celebrate his natal
day. Besides being a crack physician, Reider is an avid wrestling
fan, a pillar of the Jewish community and a loyal supporter of the Traditional
Minyan. In addition to which, he is one of only two people in Cedar Rapids who
wraps his tefillin around his right arm.
2012(13th of
Adar, 5772): Fast of Esther
2012: As
part of their Fast of Esther observance, the 9th graders at
Temple Judah have agreed to take part in “Say No To Lashon Hara
Day.” Purim is a holiday that reminds us of the evil consequences of
the Evil Tongue. Traditionally, on the day before Purim, we give up food and
drink to show our solidarity with Esther. They are going to avoid Lashon Hara,
both in its literal and figurative meaning, on the day before Purim to show
that modern world would be better off without it just as the Jews of Shushan
would have benefited from its absence.
2012:
Education Minister Gideon Saar announced today that Rabbi Chaim Druckman will
receive the Israel Price for his contributions to society and educatio
2012:
Thirteen Israelis made this year’s list of billionaires which totaled 1,226
people. Idan Ofer, director of Ofer Group, leads the list of Israeli
billionaires in the 161st spot, with an estimated fortune of $6.2 billion. Beny
Steinmetz of Steinmetz Business Group ranked eight spots bellow Ofer, with a
net worth of $5.9 billion. Another Ofer brother, Eyal, came in 173rd on the
list, with $5.8 billion. Iscar founder Stef Wertheimer and his
family ranked 255th with some $4.2 billion, while Bank Hapoalim's Shari Arison
was placed in the 288th spot with $3.9 billion. Other Israelis included on the
list were film producer Arnon Milchan (290th, $3.8 billion); Kazakh-Israeli
tycoon Alexander Machkevich (418th, $2.8 billion); Check Point founder Gil
Shwed (683, $1.9 billion); Delek Group owner Yitzhak Tshuva (683, $1.9
billion);Lev Leviev (764, $1.7 billion); Marius Nacht (1015, $1.2 billion);
Teddy Sagi (1015, $1.2 billion) and Moris Kahn (1153, $1 billion). (As reported
by Y Net)
2013:
Center for Jewish History and American Jewish Historical Society are scheduled
to present a discussion of the soon-to-be published book FDR and the
Jews.
2013:
Helaine and Isaac Heller donated one million dollars as an unrestricted gift to
Cooper Union’s Annual Fund.
2013: In
Cedar Rapids, the family and friends of Dr. Ronald Reider, a pillar of the
Jewish community and an ardent supporter of the Shabbat Minyan, celebrate his
natal day. Dr. Reider is one of two men in Cedar Rapids who uses
“left-handed’ tefillin.
2013(25th of
Adar, 5773): Ninety-eight-year-old Jacques Torczyner, the Belgian born former
president of the ZOA passed away today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/zionist-leader-jacques-torczyner-dies/
2013:”
British Fascism, Anti-Fascism and Jewish Defence,” a one day conference
co-sponsored by the Board of Deputies of British Jewish is scheduled to take
place at the Wiener Library.
2014: JW3
is scheduled to host a “100% Shabbat friendly” Friday Night Supper Club in
London.
2014:
Following funeral services this afternoon, Francis Calisch Rothenberg, the
granddaughter of Edward N. Calisch the rabbi at Richmond’s Temple Beth Ahabah,
is scheduled to be interred at the Hebrew Cemetery in Richmond.
2014: The
Library of Congress is scheduled to screen “Sukkah City,” Jason Hutt’s
documentary that “explores the artistic process of architects and documents how
an ancient building was reinvented for the 21st century.”
2014: In
Coralville, Iowa, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host Shabbat Across America.
2014:
Following a congregation spaghetti dinner, the 9th grade class
is scheduled to lead Friday night services at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa.
2014: The
third bi-annual LimmudFest New Orleans is scheduled to open this evening with
registration at Temple Sinai on St. Charles Avenue.
2014: Nine
Ukrainian Jews injured by gunfire during fighting in Kiev were flown to Israel
today afternoon to receive crucial medical treatment. (As reported by Yoel
Goldman)
2014:
“Israeli jets scrambled to its Northern border with Syria today after Syrian
aircraft were spotted in the area. The Syrians, who were apparently
attacking rebel positions, pulled back from the border when they spotted the
IAF. (As reported by Times of Israel)
2014:
“Closer to the Moon” a movie based on the Ioanid Gang (a group of Jewish
Romanians who allegedly stole a huge amount of money from an armored car) was
released in Romania today.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/07/2015/wa-release-worldwide-hit-habib-galbi
2015:
As Jews in Cedar Rapids come together for the Traditional Shabbat minyan they
are bathed in a veritable Upper Mid-West Heat Wave as temperatures go above
freezing for the second day in a row.
2015: The
band A-WA released its first song “Habib Galbi” (“Love of My Heart”), a modern
take on a Yemeni folk song of the same name.
2015: The
Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host a Paint Your
Own Passover Pottery party this evening.
2015(16th of
Adar, 5775): Eighty-eight-year-old businessman and philanthropist Isaac Heller
passed away today.
2015: Tom
Morton-Smith’s “Oppenheimer” which takes him “from a left-wing academic in
Berkeley, California, to a military scientist in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where
he headed the top-secret Manhattan Project” is scheduled to be performed for
the last time at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon
2015:
At the New Orleans Hyatt Hotel, the Jewish Children’s Regional Service (JCRS),
the first and oldest Jewish children’s agency in the United States, will host a
160th anniversary, featuring some of New Orleans finest musical talent, and
honoring families who have made programs on behalf of Jewish children a
centerpiece of their philanthropy. (Editor’s Note – speaking from personal
experience, this is an organization worthy of financial support)
2015: “Yoav
Galant, a former IDF general running for Knesset with the centrist Kulanu
party, charged today that the government led by Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu largely ignored the tunnel threat posed by Hamas in the Gaza Strip
until Operation Protective Edge last summer.
2015: “An
estimated 40,000 demonstrators filled Rabin Square this evening “to take part
in a rally calling for a change in government” where they herard former Mossa
chief Meir Dagan say that Netanyahu “is dragging us down to a bi-national state
and to the end of the Zionist dream.”
2016:
“Phoenix” and “Apples from the Desert” are scheduled to shown at the Houston
(TX) Jewish Film Festival.
2017: “War
Paint,” a musical based on the rivalry between Elizabeth Arden and Helena
Rubinstein, the Jewish cosmetics entrepreneur, premiered on Broadway at the
Nederlander Theatre today.
2017: It
was announced today that “beginning in 2017, the National Jewish Book Award for
Holocaust studies and narratives will be named to honor the memory and legacy
of the late Ernest W. Michel” who was “deported from his hometown of Manheim,
Germany by the Gestapo at 16 years old, “Ernie” Michel escaped seven years
later after the death march from Auschwitz to Buchenwald and dedicated the rest
of his life to Jewish life and Holocaust remembrance.
2017: In
Memphis, TN, Temple Israel is scheduled to host its annual Purimspiel, “an
original production…inspired by a collection of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock
tunes.”
2017: In
France, the court is scheduled to render a verdict after hearing evidence in a
case where “French Jewish scholar Georges Bensoussan is being sued by Muslim
anti-racism groups for saying in a radio debate: ‘In French Arab families,
babies suckle antisemitism with their mothers’ milk.’”
2017: The
YIVO Institute is scheduled to sponsor a lecture by Jack Jacobs on the
“Political Thinkers Of East European Jewry” where he “will focus on the ideas
of Dubnow, Zhitlowsky, Pinsker, Ahad Ha’am, Syrkin, Borochov, Scherer, and
Jabotinsky.”
2017: “As
of midday today, threats had been reported at Jewish institutions in Wisconsin,
Maryland, Oregon, Florida, Alabama and at least two community centers in New
York, according to Secure Community Network, the security arm of the Jewish
Federations of North America” while “two threats were directed toward Canadian
JCCs, in Toronto and London, Ontario.”
2018: “Why
Do They Hate Us?” a documentary that examines anti-Semitism in France is
scheduled to be shown at the 21st NY Sephardic Jewish Film
Festival.
2018:
Zachary Truboff, the senior rabbi at Oheb Zedek-Cedar Sinai Synagogue in
Lyndhurst, OH announced today that he was resigning so he could pursue his
dream of returning to Jerusalem.
2018: Tony
Blair, the former British Prime Minister is scheduled to be the keynote speaker
at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center’s 2018 Humanitarian
Awards Dinner.
2018: Dr.
Mark W. Weisstuch is scheduled to lead two sessions on “The Ten Commandments:
Ambiguities and Misconceptions” at the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.
2018: The
National Jewish Book Award is scheduled to take place at the Lander College for
Women – The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School in Manhattan.
2018: Rabbi
Lawrence of the Kinloss United Synagogue and an Oxford alumnus, is scheduled to
discuss issues of confidentiality and cover-ups in Halacha at the Old Law
Library at the Magdalen College.
2019: At
the Center for Jewish History, curator Ilona Moradof is scheduled to a lead a
four of “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: In
San Francisco, the Jewish Library is scheduled to host a screening of “Shimon
Returns,” about Holocaust survivor who returns to the lands of his childhood.
2019: In
Palo Alto, CA the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host an evening with Dr.
Nathan Szajnberg, the German born American author of Jacob and Joseph,
Judaism's Architects and Birth of the Ego Ideal in a discussion of
father and son relationships in the world of Judaism and the Bible.
2019: On
the same day when Democrats in Congress can’t seem to get it together with an unambiguous
condemnation of ant-Semitism, the San Jose Sharks of the NHL are scheduled to
host Jewish Heritage Night.
2019: The
Wandering Israeli Performance is scheduled to take place today in Tel Aviv
https://www.touristisrael.com/the-wandering-israeli-performance-tel-aviv-israel/25527/
2019: JW3
is scheduled to host a screening of “Foxtrot,” the “winner of the Silver
Lion at the 2017 Venice Film Festival,” directed by Samuel Maoz.
2019: The
Jewish Book Festival is scheduled to host authors Jodie Ginsberg, Jane Haynes,
Keith Kahn-Harris, Mark Levene and James Libson as they discuss “Is Humanity in
Denial?”
http://jewishbookweek.com/event/is-humanity-in-denial/
2019(30th of
Adar I, 5779): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
2020: The
Philadelphia Israeli Film Festival is scheduled to open this evening with a
screening of “Incitement.”
2020: The
JCC Chicago Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The Mamboniks
that tells the “story of how Jewish people fell in love with the music and
dance of Cuba during the exciting 1950s mambo era.”
2020: The
East Bay International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of
“A Matter of Size” and “The Harmonists.”
2020: In Louisiana, “Scholar-in-Residence Tanya Farber” is scheduled to deliver
a drosh on “Hidden and Revealed Light” during the Shabbaton hosted by
Congregation Beth Israel..
2020: In
San Francisco, Yeashore Community and Maggid Raja Anderson are scheduled to
lead a Havdalah service, followed by a sing-along on historic ship.
2020: In
Boston, SEIU 32BJ is scheduled to host “Gragger 5780, a “raucous and radical
Party Party, “ featuring the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass
Band..
2020: On
this Shabbat when the world is dealing with the outbreak of coronavirus, Jews
prayer for a refuah shelaymah (perfect healing) for all who are suffering from
any affliction including Reuven Fink, the rabbi of Young Israel in New
Rochelle, NY and the family of Lawrence Garbuz.
2020(11th of
Adar, 5780): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor
2021: The
Jewish Community Library and Mechanics’ Institute are scheduled to present
co-editors Barbara Cantalupo and Lori Harrison-Kahan as they talk about Emma
Wolf, the author of Heirs of Yesterday and their journey to
resuscitate her work.
https://thejewishnews.com/2020/12/13/review-heirs-of-yesterday-by-emma-wolf/
2021: The
JCC Literary Consortium and JCCs across the nation are scheduled to present
“author and businessman Mark Gerson as he talks about his nonfiction
book “The Telling: How Judaism’s Essential Book Reveals the Meaning of Life”
and the importance of haggadahs.
2021: The
Contra Costa JCC is scheduled to present a program about Israel-UAE-Dubai
relations and business ties as part of its Faces of Israel series” with UAE
business leader Thani Al Shirawi, Knesset member Michal Cotler-Wunsh and
international human rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky.
2021: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Ticking Clock: Behind the
Scenes at “60 Minutes” by Ira Rosen and Mike Nichols: A Life by
Mark Harris.
2021: Film
director Nurith Aviv and UC Berkeley professor Chana Kronfeld are scheduled to
lead a discussion about the 2020 documentary “Yiddish.”
2021: In
Waltham, MA, Temple Beth Israel is scheduled to present online a
“Yiddish/Klezmer Dance Workshop.”
2022: The
Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth is scheduled to host a virtual tour of the
Novogrudok Jewish Resistance Museum.
2022:
Deadline for apply JWA’s Twersky Education Fellowship.
2022: The
National Library of Israel is scheduled to host a lecture by Professor Rachel
Elior, Yigal Zalmon and Caron Sethiil on Micha Ullman’s “Letters of Light”
which will stand in the southern portion of the new National Library of Israel
campus in Jerusalem, at a prominent crossroads between the Israel Museum and
the Knesset.
2023(14th of
Adar, 5783): Purim
2023: YIVO
is scheduled to offer a lecture by Ronald Robboy via ZOOM on “Molly Picon As
Lyricist.”
2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Jeremy Rosen on “Purim:
Fact and Fiction.”
2023: Based
on previous published information Justice Minister Yariv Levin, Finance
Minister Bezalel Smotrich and MK Simcha Rothman, head of the Knesset
Constitution, Law and Justice Committee are prepared to meet for compromise
talks about judicial reform tonight under the auspices of President Isaac
Herzog.
2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a virtual lecture by Trudy Gold on
“Jews In Bismarck’s Germany, Part 1.”
2023: The
Humanitarian Awards Dinner, one of the largest fundraising events in the city
of Chicago which is a high-profile evening that pays tribute to Holocaust
Survivors as well as civic, community, and business leaders is scheduled to
take place tonight under the co-sponsorship of the Illinois Holocaust Museum.
2023: A
double simcha – celebration of Purim and the birthdate of Dr. Ron Reider.
2024: The
second and final day of Never Now, “the world’s largest summit on antisemitism
and hate” is scheduled to come to an end today.
2024: The
Museum of Southern Jewish Experience is scheduled to host an “Author Event”
during which “author Stephanie Deutsch will present on her book, You Need a
Schoolhouse, which dives into the historical partnership between Booker T.
Washington and Julius Rosenwald, two dynamos who shared an ethos of pragmatism
and a progressive vision that led to the Rosenwald schools and ultimately
changed the fate of thousands of Black students across the South in the Jim
Crow era.”
2024: As
the 80th anniversary of the Normandy Invasion approaches, the Sir
Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled the last lecture by Allen Packwood
on “Churchill’s D-Day.”
2024: “In
the spirit of the Talmudic teaching of Eilu v’Eilu, principled disagreement,
Rabbi David Saperstein, a Reform Jewish leader and former Obama appointee, and
Dr. Tevi Troy, an Orthodox Jew who served in the Bush administration, will
model the type of respectful discord all too uncommon in these contentious
times . . . and explore how we might forge a Jewish path to greater bipartisan
cooperation and tolerance the Streicker Center is scheduled to host a
discussion of “Jewish Values and American Politics.”
2024: Dr.
Doris Bergen, J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence, United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of
Holocaust Studies in the Department of History and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre
for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto is scheduled to deliver a lecture on
“A Priest in a Nazi Collar: German Military Chaplains and the Holocaust.”
https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/mashapirolec0324
2024: The
Illinois Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host an on-site and online
program “A Time for Action: Rising Hate Crimes and Antisemitism.
2024: Dr.
Dalal Saeb Iriqat, a columnist and associate professor at Arab American
University Palestine, who “has made statements downplaying the Hamas attack on
Israel and blaming the Israeli government for the bloodshed on October 7, when
1,200 people were killed after Hamas terrorists infiltrated the country” is scheduled to speak at the Harvard Kennedy
School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs today for a
seminar series called "Middle East Dialogues."
2024: The
JWA book talk is scheduled to Emily Bowen Cohen, the author of Two Tribes.
2024: As
part of International Women’s Day, The Weitzman National Museum of American
Jewish History is scheduled to a screening of “Rose,” a French and Yiddish film
with English subtitles.
2024:
Funeral services ae scheduled to be held this morning at Agudas Achim in
Coralville, IA for David Caplan Z”L, the husband of Joni Caplan, the father of
Benjamin Caplan and Shoshannah (Joseph) Egers followed by interment in the
congregation’s cemetery.
2024: As March
7th begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin
day 153 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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