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70:
According to sources, this is the date on the secular calendar when the Second
Temple was destroyed.
117:
Start of the reign of Hadrian as Roman Emperor. At first Hadrian seemed to be a friend of
the Jews. He executed the anti-Jewish governor of Judea and promised to
rebuild Jerusalem as a Jewish city. For some unknown reason, he
turned against the Jews banning circumcision throughout the Empire
and announcing the decision to build a major temple to Jupiter in
Jerusalem. The Jews responded with what has become known as Bar Kochba's
Rebellion. The fighting was intense on both sides and resulted in the
complete desolation of the land by the Romans. Hadrian banned Jews
from Jerusalem and renamed the city Aelia Capitolina. He even had a copy
of the Torah burned on the Temple Mount. Antonius Pius, Hadrian's
successor repealed many of Hadrian's anti-Jewish decrees including the bans on
Torah study and circumcision. But it was too late to save the Jewish
community of the Promised Land.
1002:
“Shortly after gain the support of the Saxons” Henry II, the Holy Roman Emperor
whose expulsion of the Jews from Mayence was lamented in dirges composed by the
poet Simon ben Isaac and of which Gershom ben Yehuda said, “Thou hast made
those who despise They Law to have dominion over Thy people…” “arranged for
Archbishop Willigist to crown his wife…as Queen of Germany” today “in
Paderborn.”
1267:
Birthdate of King James II of Aragon. James would prove to show greater
toleration towards his Jewish subjects than his grandfather James I had. . He permitted Jewish refugees from France to
settle in Barcelona. In recognition of Jewish financial support for his
equipping his fleet, the King released many Jewish communities from paying
their taxes for a period of several years.
James also protected the Jews from popular anti-Semitic uprisings. In
Barcelona in 1285, Berenguer Oller, announced that he planned to kill the local
nobles and the Jews following which he would plunder their homes. The King intervened to prevent the
violence. Whether he was more concerned
about the well-being of the nobility, or the Jews is unknown.
1284: Today, Phillip IV who “in 1306 he expelled
all Jews from France, seizing their property and confiscating the monies owed
to them” began his reign as King of Navarre.
1391:
The anti-Semitic rioting came to an end with Barcelona with an untold number of
Jews converting at the point of the proverbial sword.
1391:
Massacre of the Jews in Gerona, Spain.
1397:
Birthdate of Albert II, who as Holy Roman Emperor Agreed to accept 900 gulden
from the city of Augsburg in return for allowing them to expel their Jews.
1466:
Birthdate of Francesco II Gonzaga the ruler of the Italian city of Mantua who
“stated in a grida (proclamation) on March 2, 1515 that the recent popular
uprising against the Jews of Mantua greatly displeased him” passed away today.
1492:
A large group of Jews from Spain, thousands strong, arrived in the Port of
Naples. Jews from Sardinia soon joined them.
1623:
According to an entry in the register of burials for in the Jewish cemetery in
Amsterdam “a daughter of an English was interred behind the board of the Bet
Haim cemetery on the footing of a German because her mother had not yet bathed”
which probably is a reference to the wife of “Abraham the Proselyte” who had
not formally coverted.
1675:
The Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in Amsterdam.
1724:
Birthdate of Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, Elijah Etting who in 1758 came to
America, became a merchant, married Shinah Solomon in 1759 and was living in
York, PA at the time of his death in 1778.
1751:
Birthdate of Frankfort-en-Main native Elijah Etting, the York, PA merchant and
husband of “Shinah Solomon.
1762:Moses
Vita-Haim Montefiore Medina, the Italian born son of Sarah and Judah Moses
Raphael Montefiore and his wife Esther Hannah Magood Montefiore gave birth to Joshua
Montefiore, an English lawyer, soldier, and journalist who would eventually
move to the United States where he “edited Men
and Measures, a weekly political journal” before finally settling in St.
Albans, Vt.
1771(30th
Av,5531): Rosh Chodesh Elul; Pararshat Shoftim
1775,
Col. William Thomson and his SC 3rd Regiment of Rangers including Lt. Abraham
Alexander, Sr. were ordered to send three companies of the Rangers to
Orangeburgh
1778:
Gotthold Lessing, while having trouble sleeping, comes up with the inspiration
for his play, “Nathan the Wise.”
1778:
Birthdate of Aaron Lopez Isaacs, the Norwalk, CT born son of Moses Isaacs who
died in infancy.
1779:
In Montreal, Aaron Hart, a prominent Trois-Riveres merchant and Dorthea Judah
gave birth to Benjamin Hart, the husband of Judith Hart, the son-in-law of
stockbroker Ephraim Hart who fought with the Canadians in what Americans call
the War of 1812 who eventually moved to New York City where he passed away.
https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/hart_benjamin_8E.html
1780(9th
of Av, 5540): Tish’a B’Av
1791(10th
of Av, 5551): Just nineteen days before his first birthday, Sampson Isaacs, the
son of Joshua Isaacs died in New York City.
1792:
Today, during the French Revolution, Paris born attorney and French
revolutionary Adrien Francois Dupont who in 1791 “proposed that the Jews be
accorded all the privileges of citizenship in France” was arrested today.
1792:
As the French Revolution, which would eventually bring the rights of
citizenship to French Jews, intensified, Louis XVI was imprisoned today.
1793(2nd
of Elul, 5553): Parashat Shoftim
1793:
On the first anniversary of the end of the Louvre, which among other things
contains “4,000 engravings, 3,000 drawings, and 500 illustrated books” donated
by Baron Edmond de Rothschild in 1935, was opened to the public for the first
time as a museum.
1793(2nd
of Elul, 5553): Thirty-four-year-old Jacob Aaron (Kopel ben Aaron Berstat)
passed away today in London.
1794:
In Detmold, Germany, ‘Talmud scholar Immanuel Menachem Zunz and Hendel Behrens,
the daughter of Dov Beer,] an assistant cantor of the Detmold community” gave
birth to Leopold Zunz also known as Yom
Tov Lipmann Tzuntz, "the German Reform rabbi and writer who was the
founder of what has been termed the "Science of Judaism"
(Wissenschaft des Judentums), the critical investigation of Jewish literature,
hymnology and ritual.
1796(6th
of Av, 5556): “Tobacconist, distiller, and merchant Abraham Isaac Abrahams the son of Isaac
Abrahams and husband of Elkaly Esther Lousada who was a constable in New York
City, a mohel and from 1762 to 1775 taught at Congregation Shearith Israel in
New York.
1805(15th
of Av, 5565): Parashat Vaetchanan; Tu’B’Av
1805:
Bella Hart, the London born daughter of Mary and Mordecai Levy and her husband
Daniel Hart gave birth to Samuel Hart,
Sr. the husband Esther Eudora Hart.
1806:
In Bavaria, Moses Bruell, the German born son of Sara and Samuel Brull and his
wife Hanna Bruell, gave birth to Babbette Bruell, the “wife of Emanuel-Mandlein
Bruell and m other of Karoline Kromwell; Helene (Hanna) Michaelis; Karl Bruell;
Martin Moritz Bruell; Minna Hahn; Betty Bertha Lerchenthal; David Bruell; Rosa
Ehrmann and Maria Simon.”
1807:
In Fürth, Marcus and Jeannette Königswarter gave birth to Jonas Königswarter,
the husband of Josephine Königswarter who was a leading member of the financial
community in Vienna whom Emperor Francis Joseph “decorated with the Order of
the Iron Crown of the third class, elevated to the knighthood, and raised to
the baronetage.
1808:
Emanuel Lazarus married Sophia Simmons today at the Great Synagogue.
1808:
Isaac ben Uri married Reizecha bat Judah
Leib today at the Western Synagogue.
1810:
Birthdate of Count Camillo di Cavour, the Italian statesman who was part of the
triumvirate that created the modern Italian state. Cavour worked with Baron James de Rothschild
who secretly provided the funds with which the Piedmont nobleman was able to
fight the Austrian. Cavour enjoyed good
working relations with members of the Jewish community, including “Isaac Arton,
his confidential secretary and ‘faithful lieutenant’.”
1815:
In an attempt to attract non-Hispanic Europeans to Cuba and Puerto Rico, the
Spanish government issued the Royal Decree of Graces which allowed
non-Spaniards to own land on the islands.
While Jews did settle in the islands, the decree really did not work to
their advantage since only Catholics were allowed to own land.
1816(16th
of Av, 5576): Parashat Vaetchanan; Shabbat Nachamu observed for the last time
during the Presidency of James Madison who appointed Mordechai Noah to one of
the first diplomatic posts held by a Jew in the early days of the republic.
1818:
In Bavaria, Suesel Schloss and his wife gave birth to Moses Schloss who would
move to New and become a successful dry goods merchant.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=92825224
1819:
Anti-Semitic riots continue for a second day in Frankfort.
1819:
Birthdate of Julius Landsberger, the native of Upper Silesia who was the rabbi
at Darmstadt for thirty year and who with his wife Pauline gave birth to
Richard Landsberger, a pioneer in the field “biological dentistry.”
1820(30th
Av, 5580): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1821:
Missouri becomes the 24th state to join the Union. Jewish immigrants, many from Germany, had
settled in the area since its territorial days.
The first known Jew settled in St. Louis in 1807. The first Jewish lawyer settled in St. Louis
in 1817.
1824:
Under Czar Alexander I, all foreign Jews were prohibited from settling in
Russia. Alexander I, after an initial period of liberalism, reverted to the
anti-Jewish proclamations of his predecessors. It began with forbidding Jews to
have Christian servants. After that came the prohibition of settlement. The
culmination of his policies came just before when all Jews were banished from
the larger villages in the Mohilev and Vitbesk districts.
1828:
In Saarland, Germany, Salomon
and Johanna Cahn Oppenheimer gave birth
to Mayer Oppenheimer, the husband of Babette Kuhn Oppenhiemer whom he married
in 1855 and the father Harriet, Solomon, Arthur, Benjamin, Moses, Edgar, Leon,
and Oscar Oppenheimer who was buried in the Home of Peace Cemetery and Emanu-El
Mausoleum after he died in San Francisco at the age of 75.
1832:
In Creswell, PA, Anna and Isaac Kauffman gave birth to Rudolph H. Kauffman, the
husband of Frances Kauffman and Anna Kauffman.
1832:
Philip Minis, a Savannah physician and the son of Judge Isaac Minis shot and
killed James Stark after the latter had called him a “damn Jew,” “a coward” and
had pulled a gun on him in the City Hotel at Savannah.
http://americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/PDF/1955_07_01_00_doc_minis.pdf
1835(15th
of Av, 5595): Tu B’Av
1835:
Frederick David Goldsmid, MP and his wife gave birth to their oldest daughter
Helen who as the wife of Lionel Lucas whom she married in 1855 was active in
the Anglo-Jewish community as can be seen by her service as the President of
the Workrooms Committee of the Jewish Board of Guardians, Treasurer of the
Jewish Ladies’ West End Charity and Patroness of the City of London Benevolent
Society for Assisting Widows of the Jewish Faith.
1837(9th
of Av, 5597): Tish’a B’Av observed for the first time under President Martin
Van Buren.
1839(30th
of Av, 5599): Parashat Re’eh and Rosh Chodesh Elul
1839(30th
of Av,5599) : Isaac B. Seixas a son of Benjamin Mendez Seixas who became rabbi
of the Congregation Shearith Israel, New York city, in 1828, in succession to
Moses L. M. Peixotto passed away today in New York City.
1840:
In Berlin, Mortiz Michael Eulenburg and his wife gave birth to universities of
Bonn, Zurich and Berline educated “German neuropathist and electrotherapist, Dr.Albert
Eulenberg, “an authority on nervous diseases and the holder of “the Iron Cross
for noncombatants which he received for serving as an army surgeon “in the campaigns
of 1866 and 1870-71.”
1841:
In Jaroslaw, Poland, Hersz Rubinstein and Ida Itta Rubinstein gave birth to
Iacob Jacques Rubinstein, the “husband of Henriette Rubinstein and father of
Caroline Friederike Landau; Heinrich Rubinstein; Fanny Hornstein; Helene Kux;
Charlotte Lotte Pick; Artur Rubinstein; Alfred Rubinstein; Max Rubinstein and
Louise Hess” who passed away in Vienna at the age of 70.
1843:
Sixty-nine-year-old anti-Semite Jakob Friedrich Fries passed away. “ In 1816 he
wrote Über die Gefährdung des Wohlstandes und des Charakters der Deutschen
durch die Juden ("On the Danger Posed by the Jews to German Well-Being and
Character"), advocating among other things a distinct sign on the dress of
Jews to distinguish them from the general population, and encouraging their
emigration from German lands. He blamed the Jews for the ascendant role of
money in society and called for Judaism to be "extirpated root and
branch" from German society.”
1844:
Jeanetta Mallan and Joseph Davis gave birth to Lionel Cartwright Davis
1845:
Two days after he had passed away, Lambert Ellis, the husband of Sarah Ellis
with whom he had six children – Asher, Abraham, Esther, Jonas, Anna and Moses –
was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1845:
Birthdate of German physician Mortiz Litten, the son-in-law of pathologist
Ludwig Traube who was the son of a Jewish wine merchant.
1846:
President James K. Polk signed the Smithsonian Institution Act into law” which
created the museum known as the Smithsonian Institution of which the National
Museum of American Jewish History would eventually become an affiliate
institution.
1851:
Eighty-nine-year-old German theologian Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus, the
anti-Semite who authored "The Jewish National Separation: Its Origin,
Consequences, and the Means of its Correction" passed away today.
1854:
The Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau opened today.
1855:
In Missouri, United Hebrew Congregation bought a 48 by 90 feet (15 by 27 m) lot
near the corner of Sixth and St. Charles for $6,240 (equivalent to $196,000 in
2022) at a time when the “United Hebrew Congregation not only had a cantor but
it also employed a shohet to slaughter animals in accordance with kashrut so
that local Jewish families would have kosher meat available to eat.”
1856(9th
of Av, Tish’a B’Av
1856:
In Stuttgart, Dr. Friedrich Heimerdinger and his wife gave birth to General
Erwin von Heimerdinger the father of Gertrude von Heimerdinger who “was
employed in the German Foreign Office as assistant Chief of the Diplomatic
Courier Section. An anti-Nazi, she secretly arranged for special passes to
enable diplomat Fritz Kolbe (the main Allied source of intelligence) to make
frequent trips to Switzerland to pass on information to Allen Dulles, head of
American O.S.S.” (Jewish Virtual Library)
1857:
In Richmond, VA. Rebecca and Naphtali Judah Ezekiel gave birth to Jacob Levy Ezekiel,
the “husband of Rachel Ezekiel (Brill) and father of Walter Naphtali Ezekiel;
Bertha Brill Ezekiel; Raphael B. Ezekiel and Mordecai Joseph Brill Ezekiel” who
was buried at the Hebrew Cemetery in Richmond, VA after he passed away in 1931
at the age of 73.
1858(30th
of Av, 5618): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1858:
In Wilkes-Barre, PA, Rabbi Herman Rubin and Jeanette (Long) Rubin gave birth to
Joseph Herman Rubin, the watchmaker and traveling salesman who by 1918 had
become a director of Peoples Trust Company of Philadelphia and president of
Members Building and Loan Association while serving as director of Keneseth
Israel and being married to Clara Kaufman.
1859: The New York Times reported that “there
has recently arrived in this City an eminent Jewish traveler, a Mr. Benjamin,
the object of whose life hitherto has been to explore the interior of the
Asiatic and African continents for the purpose of ascertaining the condition,
occupations, hopes, of his Hebrew
brethren.”
1860(22nd
of Av, 5620): Seventy-seven-year-old Baron David Denis Moses Samuel, the “son of
Moses Samuel Pulvermacher and Rachel Pulvermacher, husband of Amelia
FitzMaurice and father of Louise (Louisa) Esther de Worms; Baron Arthur Denis
Samuel de Vahl and Frank Denis Samuel” passed away today in England.
1861(4th
of Elul, 5621): Parashat Shoftim
1861:
Fifty-nine-year-old Frederick Julius Stahl, the German lawyer and political
leader who converted to Christianity when he was baptized as a Lutheran at the
age of 17 passed away today.
1861:
The New York Times reported that “The past week Mr. J.J. Benjamin, a
Moldavian traveler and Jew, has been in this city from California. This
gentleman's ruling passion appears to be to find out the "Ten Lost
Tribes," to accomplish which purpose, he states that he has already
traveled over a great portion of the civilized and the uncivilized world. He
thinks he has discovered a clue to those missing tribes in Northern Africa and
in Asia. Whether or not any such clue exists in this Great Basin, the world
will, perhaps, be informed of in due time.”
[Editor’s
Note: Mr. Benjamin and J.J. Benjamin are the same person. J.J. Benjamin was a Rumanian born Jewish
businessman who became historian.
Reportedly he modeled himself as modern day version of Benjamin of
Tudela, the famous twelfth century Jewish traveler. He signed many of his
writing as Benjamin II.]
1861:
Forty-year-old Samuel (Isaac) Henry Gluckstein a cigar maker from Dusseldorf
became a naturalized citizen of the United Kingdom today.
1861:
Philadelphian Nathan Rosenfelt who was later wounded at the Battle of Antietam,
began serving with company A of the 72nd Regiment.
1861:
Henry Isaacs “enlisted with Company M” of the 72nd Regiment today.
1861:
Joshua Pickering enlisted in the Cameron Dragoons a “largely Jewish regiment”
that was “the first completed regiment of cavalry ever enlisted in the United
States during” the Civil War.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9801E1D71338E033A25755C2A96F9C94659FD7CF
1861:
Philadelphian James Comelien began serving in the 5th Cavalry where
he reached the rank of Lieutenant.
1862:
In New Orleans, LA, Henrietta Joseph, the daughter of Catherine and Elias
Abrahams and her husband Lizar Horace Jospeh gave birth to future Alabamian
Avery S. Joseph, the husband of Adele Joseph and the father of Henrietta
Lucille Nathan.
1862:
In a letter written to President Lincoln today, August Belmont persisted in his
advocacy of a negotiated peace with the Confederates.
http://www.mrlincolnandnewyork.org/inside.asp?ID=70&subjectID=3
1863:
In Mohilev, Russia, Selman Radnitz and his wife gave Russian trained cantor
Samuel Radnitz who was a solo singer at the Metropolitan Opera House and the
Chazan at Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn.
1864(8th
of Av, 5624): Erev Tish’a B’Av observed as the Army of the Potomac continues
the siege of Petersburg that has been going on for almost two months.
1865:
In Philadelphia, Cornelia Rhine and Jules A. Menken gave birth to Columbia
University trained attorney Percival S. Menken, the husband of Gertrud Micholl
Davies who was dean of the Kent Law School, Secretary of the Jewish Theological
Seminary Association and auditor of the West End Synagogue, Shaaray Tefila.
1868(22nd
of Av, 5628): Approximately three months after her last performance, Adah
Isaacs Menken passed away while living in Paris. The cause of death was most
likely peritonitis, tuberculosis, or the combined ravages of both. She was
buried in the Jewish section of the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/may/30/1868/adah-isaacs-menken
1868:In
Hamburg, Germany Moritz and Charlotte Esther (Oppenheim) Warburg gave birth to Paul
M Warburg, the scion of a German banking family and husband of Nina J. Loeb who
came to New York and became a partner in
Kuhn, Loeb & Company and an advocate of a “central bank” that took form as
the Federal Reserve Board for which her served as a member from 1914 to 1918; a
decision that led him to resign from all of his financial organizations prior
to accepting the position
1870(13th
of Av, 5630): Fifty-nine-year-old Samuel Lyons Moss, the Philadelphia born son
of Rebecca Lyons and John Moss who were married in 1797 and the husband of
Isabelle Harris whom he married at New Orleans in 1838 and with whom he had
seven children passed away today in Ontario, Canada.
1872(6th
of Av, 5632): Shabbat Chazon; Parashat Devarim read for the last time during
the Presidency of U.S. Grant.
1873:
A group of Jewish teachers met at #142 East 40th Street in New York
today and formed a committee to develop an organizational plan for a Jewish
Teacher’s Association. The plan will be
submitted at a future meeting the time of which has not been established.
1873: It was reported today that Anshey Chesed has
decided to hire Dr. Isaac M. Wise of Cincinnati to serve as it rabbi. The congregation has just completed the
building of a sanctuary on the corner of Lexington and 63rd at cost
of $250,000.
1873:
In Cleveland, Ohio, William Hocking and Julia Pratt gave birth to William
Ernest Hocking the Harvard professor who in 1936 expressed his opposition to
Jewish settlement in Palestine because it “lacks rainfall” and it is “the
immediate” cause “for turbulence on the part of the Arabs” while attacking the
Pro-Palestine Federation led by its President, Charles Edward Russell.
1874: Herbert Hoover, future President of the
United States, was born in West Branch, Iowa. Hoover is best remembered by Jews
as the President who nominated Benjamin Cardozo to the Supreme Court in 1932. In his memoirs, Hoover makes only a brief
reference to the appointment. There is
no mention about the fact that he was Jewish.
Hoover was concerned that there might be opposition because appointing
Cardozo would mean that there would be two New Yorkers sitting on the High
Court. His Congressional supporters
advised him that this would not be a problem.
So, thanks to a Quaker from Iowa, the Supreme Court found itself with
two Jewish Justices (Frankfurter being the other) at a time when anti-Semitism
was on the rise in the United States and Europe.
1874:
Queen Victoria allowed Solomon Benedict de Worms to use his Austrian title of
Baron in Great Britain.
1874:
Sherrif Honscheidt of McClean County, Illinois, wrote a letter today addressed
to George Walling, the Superintendent of the Police in New York City containing
information about the murder Benjamin Nathan.
According to the Sherriff, a German Jew named Levy came to his house and
confessed that he had killed Nathan. He
gave the address of the crime; described the murder weapon; and claimed that
the motive was robbery. Levy says he had
an accomplice whose name he will only reveal once he is back in New York. He claims that he has confessed because “he
has had no rest nor peace of mind since he committed the crime.” The Sheriff is not sure if Levy is telling
the truth if he is just some “humbug” looking for a free trip to New York.
(Nathan was a prominent Jewish member of the business community. His shocking murder provided a great deal of
scandal, but never produced a perpetrator)
1875(9th
of Av, 5635): Tish'a B'Av
1875(9th
of Av, 5635: Fifty-three-year-old Moses Eschner, the Bohemian born son of Sara
and Abraham Eschner and the husband of Caroline “Lottie” Caroline Eschner
passed away today in Philadelphia.
1875:
The New York Times reported that “the anniversary of the destruction of
the Temple of Jerusalem will be celebrated throughout the world to-day by the
conservative Jews, as a day of mourning.”
1876:
Rabbi Juilus (Yoel) Klein, the Hungarian born son of Lena and Abraham Klein and
his wife Deborah Klein gave birth to Edward Klein the future resident of
Cleveland, OH and the husband of Betti Klein.
1876:
In Cincinnati, OH, Sarah Samuels and Morris A. Hirschberg gave birth to
University of Cincinnati graduate and HUC ordained minister Rabbi Abram
Hirschberg, the leader, staring in 1898 of Temple Shalom who was also President
of the Chicago Rabbinical Association and editor of the Chicago Jewish
Sentinel.
1877(1st
of Elul, 5637): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1877:
In New York City, Alexander Sender Jarmulowsky, the Polish born son of Moszko
Jarmulowski and Feiga Jarmulowski who was a founder of the Eldridge Street
Synagogue and his wife Rebecca Jarmulowsky gave birth to Harry Jarmulowsky, the
“husband of Ruth Jarmulowsky and father of Alvin Sender Jarmel.”
https://www.eldridgestreet.org/history/sender-jarmulowsky-a-synagogue-founders-story/
1878(11th
of Av, 5638) Parashat Vaetchanan; Shabbat Nachamu
1878:
Birthdate of San Francisco native and U.C. Berkley undergrad, Saul Epsteen,
noted mathematician and author.
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bams/1183416909
1878:
In Stettin master tailor Max Döblin and his wife Sophie gave birth to prolific
author Bruno Alfred Döblin who would convert to Catholicism while living the
life of a refugee in Los Angeles during WW II.
1879:
In Dresden, “Gustav and Amalie Pinthus” gave birth to Dora Pinthus who married
Oskar Michael Blumenthal and became Dora Blumenthal the name under which she
was murdered at Theresiendstadt Ghetto.
1879:
Two days after she had passed away, Catherine (Elisa) Levy, the wife of Lewis
Levy with whom she had had seven children – Esther, Jane, Abraham, Amelia,
Frances, Samuel and Philip – was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road)
Jewish Cemetery.
1879:
According to reports published today, there were eight societies in Great
Britain devoted to converting Jews to Christianity and a dozen more in
continental Europe devoted to the same purpose.
Together, these organizations have a half million dollars to spend and
employ 250 in this work. The London
Society for the Propagation of Christianity Among the Jews is the oldest and
most prominent of these groups headquartered in London. The society has 34 offices encompassing those
cities in Europe, along the Mediterranean and in Abyssinia that have large
Jewish populations. [These societies had little success. Based on anecdotal evidence, most conversions
took place in Western Europe and Britain for purposes of social and economic
progress.]
1879: It was reported today that the Jews play an
activity role in the philanthropic activities in London since the synagogues of
that city have given $3,460 to the hospital fund which is supported by
donations from all denominations, “except perhaps the Catholics.”
1879:
As various hotels and resorts began excluding Jews one merchant published an ad
today designed to further their inclusion. “Although the Jews have been
excluded from Manhattan Beach, they are not prohibited on account of their
religious principles from buying Humphrey’s Parisian Diamonds. They are for sale only at Humphrey’s Jewelry
Store…Price list sent free.”
1880:
In Romania, Abraham and Vera Landesco gave birth to Alexander A. Landesco, the
graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School and director of “relief work
in East Europe for the Joint Distribution Committee” after World War I who
spent 25 years with Lazard Freres and Company was the husband of Olga Spiegel
Landesco.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/09/05/82146327.pdf
1881:
Over 2,500 people attended the corner-stone laying ceremony for the Home for
the Aged and Infirmed in Yonkers. Joseph
E. Newberger gave the opening remarks on behalf of the B’nai B’rith and was
followed by Norton Otis, the May of Yonkers
1882:
Forty-two-year-old Edward Henry Palmer the English orientalist and explorer
whose work was supported by the Palestine Exploration Fund was led into an
ambush and murdered today while working to prevent the Arab sheikhs from
joining the Egyptian rebels and to secure their non-interference with the Suez
Canal.
1883:
“The Outrages in Hungary” published today described the violent anti-Semitic
reaction to the acquittal of Jews who have been standing trial at Nyireghyhaza
on charges of ritual murder i.e. killing a young Christian girl. Joseph Scharf, the father of Moritz Scharf,
has been attacked several times because his son’s testimony during the
trial. There have been several outbreaks
of arson aimed at the Jewish population of the town in which the dead girl
lived.
1883:
August Rholing, notorious slanderer of Jews and the Talmud brought charges of
defamation against Rabbi Joseph Samuel Bloch of Vienna
1883:
The escape by Theodore Hoffman, who was convicted of murdering Zife Marks, a
Jewish peddler, was thwarted today.
1884:
It was reported today that Jews in England are seeking to have their government
intervene on behalf of their co-religionists in Romania who have been harmed by
“the new hawking law.”
1884:
It was reported today that Novoje Vremya,
“the chief Jew-baiting organ in Russia” has received a warning from the
authorities to cease its attacks on Jews.
1884
During today’s Earthquake in New York City, Jews living on Ludlow Street threw
their furniture out of their windows and fearfully ran out of their houses
carrying trunks, valises and mattresses.
1885:
Fifty-three-year-old Posen born Mormon convert Morris David Rosenbaum, the
owner operated of the Hotel Brigham in Brigham City, UT, the husband Abigail
Snow and a Mormon missionary who was imprisoned for preaching in Berlin passed
away today.
1885:
Birthdate of Cincinnati native and Harvard Law School graduate who was a WW I
veteran and a director of Big Brothers in Chicago.
1886(9th
of Av, 5646): Tish’a B’Av
1886:
“The Fast of AB” published today described “the fast of Ab or ‘black fast,’ as
it is it is sometimes called among the Jews”
which “is one of the most solemn occasions in the Hebrew worship and
scrupulously observed by orthodox Jews” because “it commemorates the
destruction of the two temples of Judea.”
1886(9th
of Av, 5646): Sixty-six-year-old Schwegenheim, Germany native and “dealer in
groceries, liquors and dry goods” Marx Baer, the husband of Mariane Drefyuss
Baer with whom he had six children – Anna, Stella, Fannie , Hattie, Leon and
Maurice – and the great grandfather of actress Kitty Carlisle, the wife of
playwright Moss Hart, passed away today after which he was buried at the Hebrew
Rest Cemetery in Shreveport, LA.
1887:
Abe Furst and Dr. Charles H. Rosenthal both of Cincinnati, Ohio, each donated
$10 to the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
1887:
The Sanitarium for Hebrew Children are providing another free excursion today
for the poor children of the Lower East Side.
1888:
In Columbus, OH, Amelia and Max Gunersheimer gave birth to Allen Gundersheimer,
the wife of Francis Gundesheimer the father of Robert and Allen Gundersheimer,
Jr who provided an oral history about his family,
https://columbusjewishhistory.org/oral_histories/allen-gundersheimer-jr/
1889:
In Bellaire, OH, “Bernard and Anna (Levy) Bloom” gave birth to Columbia
graduate Irving Mortimer Bloom the HUC trained Reform Rabbi who led the “Hebrew
Tabernacle in New York City” and used “radio talks, articles, sermons and
lecturers” to advocate for closer relations “between Liberal Jews and Liberal
non-Jews.”
1889:
In Brooklyn, “Mary (Miriam) Natelson and Samson Nateslon” gave birth to Ethiel
Weiner who married Dr. Meyer Weiner and gained fame as Ethel Weiner, the
Brooklyn school teacher, “vice president of the Jewish Teachers Association”
and “a sister of the Rachel Natelson… who collaborated with Henrietta Szold in
founding Hadassah.”
1890;
“Dr. Cyrus Adler” delivered the sixth in a series of lectures sponsored by the
Jewish Theological Seminary at Cooper Union entitled “The Bible and Modern
Discoveries with Special Reference to the Geography of Egypt and Palestine”
which was attended by a large number of people including several ladies.
1890:
“Waiting for A,B,C” published today relied on information that first appeared
in the Edinburgh to traces the history of written alphabets including a listing
of ancient inscriptions, one of which is “the Hebrew text…known as the Siloam
inscription” which “is very clearly of
the age of Hezekiah” approximately 700 BCE.
1890:
Birthdate of Solomon Rosenthal, the native of Vilnius who became a chess
master.
1890
It has been determined that the Polish Jews who fell ill yesterday were not
victims of food poisoning. They had all
drank coffee deliberately poisoned by Mrs. Levy, the wife of a second-hand
clothing proprietor. No reason has been
given for her action. As to the victims, Jacob Schmidt and Jacob Levenson will
recover but two of the mothers and their daughters are still in danger. The
mass poisoning was made possible by the fact these Jews cook and eat a communal
meal at the Sabbath.
1891:
“A Rabbi At Chautauqua” published today described the incredulity of some
Christians that Rabbi Gustav Gottheil is scheduled to speak before this
organization.
1891:
“Caring For Jewish Immigrants” published today described plans that leaders of
the Jewish Alliance of America have to
help their co-religionists arriving in this country including helping them to
settle in several states, find work for those “who are skilled mechanics or
laborers” and “to purchase cheap arable lands for those” who want to farm.
1892:
The SS Kehrwider sailed from Hamburg
today bound for New York carrying a significant number of passengers who were
poor Jews fleeing Poland and Russia.
1893:
James O’Mara and William Davison sole the pack of a Jewish peddler went he
entered Patrick Devitt’s saloon in Brooklyn.
Two policemen arrived and arrested the thieves.
1893:
In St. Louis, MO, Dora Becker and Samuel Noel Leventhal gave birth to Frank
Levnethal, “a pioneer researcher in animated cartoon and three-dimensional
motion picture techniques, the husband of Elizabeth Leventhal and the father of
Doris Leventhal
1893(28th
of Av, 5653): Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin passed away today in Warsaw. Born
in Mir, Russia, in 1816, he “was also known as Reb Hirsch Leib Berlin, and
commonly known by the acronym Netziv.” Berlin “was…dean of the Volozhin Yeshiva
and author of several works of rabbinic literature in Lithuania.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naftali_Zvi_Yehuda_Berlin
ttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Naphtali-Zevi-Judah-Berlin
1895:
“A score of charitable” people from Brooklyn who are spending the summer at
Tannersville, NY, hosted a fund raiser for the benefit of the Hebrew
Sanitarium.
1895:
Lucian Sanial spoke first tonight at the mass meeting in Union Square sponsored
by several Jewish organizations held “express sympathy with the locked-out hat
and cap makers.”
1895:
During the mass meeting at Walhalla Hall on Orchard Street, it was announced
that the strike by the tailors, most of whom are Jewish has come to an end.
1895:
In Cincinnati, OH, Russian Jewish immigrants Katie Golder and Henry Reichman
gave birth to Harold Reichman, who at the age of 18 changed his name to Harry
Richman – the name under which he carved out a career as “a singer, actor,
dancer, comedian, pianist, songwriter, bandleader, and night club performer”
who began his film career in the classic “Putting on the Ritz.”
1896(1st
of Elul, 5656): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1896:
Birthdate Pediatrician Dorothy Wilkes Weiss, the wife of Charles Wilkes who was
active in Hadassah while living in San Francisco.
https://academic.oup.com/jid/article-abstract/38/4/281/885795?redirectedFrom=fulltext
1896:
In New Haven, CT, “Jacob and Sonya (Secoll) Sobol gave birth to WW I veteran
Louis Sobol, the “Broadway Columnist” who married Pearl Antman Sobol after the
death of his first wife Leah Helen Cantor Sobol with whom he had had one child
– Natalie Muriel Sobol Spritzler.
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/10/obituaries/louis-sobol-90-dies-broadway-columnist.html
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1986-02-11-8601090630-story.html
1896:
“Education in Germany” published today provided a statistical analysis by
religion of the Germans “attending the universities and other higher
educational institutions. For every
10,000 Protestants, 50 of them are students; for every 10,000 Roman Catholics,
32 are students: for every 10,000 Jews, 333 are students. “These figures
testify to the extreme value set on a university education by Jews in Germany
and explain how it is that young Hebrews are pressing into all the learned
professions in far greater proportion than their ratio to the entire population
of the country would warrant.” (While the Jews may have been elated about this,
many Germans thought the progress of the Jews had to be part of some evil plot
which, however irrationally, fueled the flames of anti-Semitism)
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0710FF355E10738DDDA90994D0405B8685F0D3
1897(12th
of Av, 5657): Moses Schloss, a native of Bavaria who has been a successful
merchant in New York for the past 50 years passed away today which was his 79th
birthday.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F60A1EFE3B5D11738DDDA80994D0405B8785F0D3
1898:
Edward David Tausig, the son of Austrian Jewish immigrants Abba Abeles and wool
broker Charles Tausig was promoted to the rank of commander ask he became the
skipper of the gunboat USS Bennington.
1898:
In Wellington, Nevada, the sheriff is about to close down the Occidental Colony
Company which was organized and operated by Jewish immigrants from Russia.
1898:
Birthdate of Russia native Harry Louis Kava, the NYU trained gynecologist and
obstetrician
1898:
One day after she had passed away. Phoebe Winkel, the “wife of Israel J.
Winkel” with she had five children – Joseph, Solomon, Kate, Sarah and Leah –
was buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.
https://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/content/moshe-nathanson
1899:
Birthdate of Magarete Heyman, who gained famed as Grete Marks, the “German
ceramic artist who founded the Haël Workshops for Artistic Ceramics at Marwitz”
and who, after the rise of Hitler, moved to Jerusalem where she continued her
artistic endeavors/
http://objekte.jmberlin.de/person/jmb-pers-233306
1900(15th
of Av, 5660): Tu B’Av
1900:
Birthdate of Philip Levine, the Russian born American pioneer in the research
“of serums and antibodies who discovered the Rh factor in human blood.” (As
reported by Peter B. Flint)
1901(25th
of Av, 5661): Parashat Re’eh
1901:
“Andrew Lang” published today provides a lengthy review his latest book Magic
and Religion which includes a lengthy attack on James Frazier’s theories
about the origins of the stories about the “last days of Christ” which Frazier
say can be found in the rites and rituals
of other religions including the Purim feast of the Jews.
1901:
The Rogers Brothers and their company, under the direction of Klaw and Erlanger
are scheduled to appear at an “entertainment for the benefit of the Seaside
Sanitarium for Sick Hebrew Children” to be held at Rockaway Park, L.I. today.
1901:
It was reported today, that as part of the “Sermon Seed Series” two volumes
will be published next month including “Sermons on the Psalms” and “Sermons on
Isaiah.’
1902:
Birthdate of Canadian Oscar winning actress Norma Shearer who converted to
Judaism in 1927 when she married movie mogul Irving Thalberg.
1902:
in Podgorze, Kraków's Jewish quarter, Rosa Philippine (née Blum) and Ignatz
Siodmak, a devout Hasidic scholar gave birth to Kurt Siodmak who gained fame as
“novelist and screenwriter” Curt Siodmak.
1903:
The New York Times featured a review of a compendium of the writings of
Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler entitled Studies in Jewish Literature.
1904:
Judge Alton B. Parker accepted the Democratic Party nomination for President
with a speech deemed as a fiasco by historians in which he was highly critical
of the very popular incumbent Teddy Roosevelt who enjoyed overwhelming support
among Jewish voters for several reasons starting with his handling of a German
anti-Semite who had come to New York while he Police Commissioner to his
response to Russian Pogroms.
1905(9th
of Av, 5665): Tish’a B’Av
1905: The Russians and the Japanese begin peace
talks at Portsmouth under the watchful eye of President Theodore
Roosevelt. The talks would bring an end
to the Russo-Japanese War. The Russians
were humiliated by the defeat. The Czar
did make some half-hearted attempts at democratic reform which was encouraging
to the Jews in the emerging Russian middle class. At the same time, the Slavophiles, extreme
Russian nationalists also sought power; trying to convince Nicholas II that
Russia would only find greatness when it had rid itself of all Western and
foreign (i.e. Jewish) influences. In the
end, nothing changed for the better and the Communists would come to power
thirteen years later. Russian anti-Semitism gave the Japanese an edge in
fighting the war. The Russian government
had refused to take responsibility for pogrom. It had blocked American attempts
to investigate the treatment of the Russian Jews. When war broke between the
Russians and the Japanese, several American Jewish financiers were instrumental
in insuring that Japanese war underwritten which meant that the Japanese would
have money to fight the war.
1906:
Birthdate of Abie Bain, the native of St. Petersburg, Russia who reportedly
began his boxing career in the United States at the age of 12 as a flyweight
but boxed as middleweight for most of his career except when he stepped up to
Light Heavyweight class to fight Maxie Rosenbloom.
1907:
At Cowes, Lord Rothschild is one of the notable guests aboard the famed yacht
Margaritta one of only two vessels of interest at this fabled nautical event.
1908:
It was reported today, that thanks to the efforts of Deputy Police Commissioner
Frederick H. Burgher, Sigmund Schwartz, President of the United Citizens
Peddlers’ Association, can assure his members that they can sell their wares in
a six block area on Park Avenue “from 110th to 116th
Streets” with two flocks for the Italians, two blocks for the Jews and two
blocks for the Greeks” because “it would never do to mix them” since “ a riot
would break out in no time.”
1909:
“New Shubert Theatre” published today described the plans of Thirty-ninth
Street Company “of which Lee Shubert is the head” to build a new theatre
“opposite the Casino Theater” which will have two balconies, cost approximately
$125,000 and “be called the Shubert Theatre.”
1910:
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that two valuable silver cups had been
stolen from the Sons of Israel Synagogue in Camden, NJ.
1910:
Birthdate of Veit Klein, who in 1942 was transported from Prague to Ujazdow
where he was murdered.
1910(5th
of Av, 5670): Portland, OR, banker Benjamin Cohen passed away today.
1911:
Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, headed a
delegation of men interested in labor publications who appeared before the
Congressional commission on second-class mail matter to protest against the
raise in the rates.
1911:
According to an announcement made tonight, Al Hayman who “for more than twenty
years has bee on of the big men of the theatrical business men of the
theatrical business in America” “has decided to make his home in Europe.. and
will retire from the theatrical field” leaving his brother Alf Hayman to manage
“all of his theatrical interests.”
1911:
Birthdate of American playwright Jerome Chodorov, the New York native who is
the brother of playwright Edward Chodorov.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0DE6DB1030F937A2575AC0A9629C8B63
1912(27th
of Av, 5672): Parashat Re’eh
1912: Approximately 75
people attended services at the Social Hall of the Forest House in
Kennebunkport, Maine, led by Rabbi Bernard. G. Ehrenreich of Montgomery,
Alabama.
1912:
Pitcher Barney Pely “known as ‘the Yiddish Curver’” appeared in his last major
league as a member of the Washington Senators of the American League
1913:
The Second Balkan War comes to an end with the signing of the Treaty of
Bucharest. As a result of the war, the final boundaries for the modern Greek
state were finally established. This led
to an end of the “protected status” many Balkan Jews had enjoyed under Ottoman
rule as they became citizens of Greece.
1913:
One day after he had passed away, Myer Friedland, the husband of Eva Friedland
with whom he had two children – Martha and Annie – was buried today at “the
Belfast Jewish Cemetery in Northern Ireland.”
1913:
The treaty ending the Second Balkan War signed today gave the town of Monastir,
which had been home to a Jewish community since Roman times became part of
Serbia and was renamed Bitola although the local Jews continued to refer to it
by its Ottoman name.
1914:
Today, following the outbreak of WW I when the German battle cruiser Goeben and
light cruiser Breslau were trying to avoid capture by the British “a small
Italian steamer whose passengers
including the American Ambassador
Henry Morgenthau, his daughter son-in-law and three grandchildren one of whom
was historian Barbara Tuchman had witnessed the HMS Gloucester's action against
Goeben and Breslau arrived in Constantinople.
1914:
During WW on the Eastern Front, the Russian Army reached Tilsit.
https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/sovetsk/Tilsit_Jews.html
1914:
Isaac and Annie Muss gave birth to “Jewish community leader and builder” Louis
Muss who built houses, apartments and shopping centers in Brooklyn, Queens,
Chicago and St. Louis” and who was an active alum of Yishiva University while
raising three children – Henry, Elizabeth and Dorothy – with his wife, “the
former Rita Lane.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/05/17/140560962.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1914:
Samuel Prince, a former Assemblyman from the east side and a labor agitator
passed away and includes a bequest of fifty dollars to Samuel Gompers for use
in supporting strikers in Colorado.
1915:
During the Gallipoli campaign, which saw the appearance of the Zion Mule Corps,
forces under Mustfa Kemal (who would gain fame as Ataturk)) defeated the Allies
during the Battle of Sari Bair.
1916:
Oscar S. Straus and Henry Morgenthau, the two previous U.S. Ambassadors to
Turkey were sitting at the speakers table with Abram I. Elkus, the latest
appointee to the position at a dinner at the Fruendschaft Society where the
attendees expressed “satisfaction and pride in the service rendered to the
nation by the Jews.”
1916:
Chief Rabbi of Salonica received a telegram from the Minister of Interior
stating the government has taken steps to ensure tranquility for the Jews on
Corfu, after a blood libel accusation arose.
1916:
It was reported today that in Warsaw which is now under German rule “death from
starvation” is so prevalent among the Jews, “that Jewish mothers feel happy to
see their nursing babies die” because it puts an end to their suffering and
that even the “wealthiest” Jews “cut off their daughters’ hair and sell it to
be able to buy indispensable thing like bread for their dying children.”
1916:
It was reported today that a commission has been to Switzerland to seek help in
maintaining the soup kitchens for the Jews in Warsaw, but that the real hope is
that American Jews will send aid because “should America not aid” them, the
Jews of Warsaw “will be lost.”
1917:
Dr. Reuben Blank sent a telegram today from Petrograd to Lucien Wolf in London
that “in the press and proclamations” the “extreme Russian reactionaries, the
extreme revolutionaries and the Black Hundreds” “go so far as to throw upon the
Jews the entire responsibility for the war and for the obstacles in the way of
a peace with Germany”
1917:
The Central Committee of Council of Workmen and Soldiers” having learned “of
the revival of anti-Semitic activity in the northwestern and southwestern
provinces” dispatched “fifteen delegates to the affect districts to counteract
the agitation.”
1917:
“Professor Felix Frankfurter of Harvard, the assistant to the Secretary of War,
who went abroad recently as a member of a semi-official commission” that sought
to determine “the condition of the Jews of Palestine” returned to Washington,
D.C.
1917:
In Berlin, “five orthodox representatives of the Jewish community resigned
because of the appointment of a radical reformer, Dr. Benzion Kellerman, as a
rabbi of the synagogue of the South-eastern district.
1918:
During the Battle of Amiens for which General John Monash was the commanding
field officer, the French re-took the town of Montdidier.
1918:
Russia born, West Point graduate Captain (brevet) Myer L. Casman began serving
at the Engineer Officers’ Training School at Camp Humphreys, VA.
1919(14th of Av, 5679): The Ukrainian National
Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine
1919:
Today, twenty-year-old New York native Barnett Robert Brickner who would serve
as the rabbi at Anshe Chesed for 33 years, “married Rebbeca Ena Aronson, a
co-worker at the Bureau of Jewish Education” with whom he had two children –
“Joy Marion and Arthur James Balfour Brickner.”
1920:
The Turkish government renounced its sovereignty over Eretz Yisrael and
recognized the British mandate.
1920:
“Dr. Otis A Glazebrook, the United States Consul in Jerusalem,” who arrived in
the United States today on a leave of absence “said that the British Government
had a difficult problem to handle in its mandate over Palestine and the
restoration of the country to the Jews.”
1920: Birthdate of Basketball coach William Red
Holzman When he retired, Red Holzman was the second winingnest coach in NBA
history with 696 victories in regular season play, mostly with the New
York Knickerbockers. His Knick teams won NBA championships in l970 and l973.
Red was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach in 1986.
Incidentally, the only man ahead of Holzman on the all-time win list was
another Jew, Red Auerbach of the Boston Celtics.
1920:
In London “Eight-year-old Jewish chess wonder” Samuel Rzeschewski “played
simultaneous games against twenty strong amateur player at the Gambit Chess
rooms” his evening and won 18 of he games and having two end in a draw.
1920(26th
of Av, 5680): Eighty-four-year-old pioneer physician Adam Politzer and a
founder of otology passed away today.
http://www.politzersociety.org/content.php?conid=687
1921:
Eight days she had passed away, Rebecca Linneweil, the wife of Salomon
Linneweil and the mother of Henriette Linneweil was buried today at London’s
Edmonton Adath Yisroel Jewish Cemetery.
1921:
In Wichita, KS, Harry Weinstein, a sales manager and the former Bess Brodach,
an actress gave birth to Brooklyn raise Jack Bertand, the husband of Evelyn
Horowitz, who was a U.S. Navy Lieutenant during WW II and a graduate of
Columbia Law School best known for being “a legal scholar and famously
independent federal judge in Brooklyn who led the legal system into an era of
mass tort litigation, changing the way huge classes of people claiming injuries
from toxins, pollutants and faulty products could get redress in the courts…”
(As reported by Laura Mansnerus)
1922:
“Forty Jews, sentenced for various political offenses were executed by the
Rumanian military authorities despite the recent amnesty decree by the King,
say a report today by the local Magyar Orszag.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/08/11/99054950.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1922:
Columbia graduate and JTS ordained rabbi, Harry Cohen who led several
congregations including Rodef Shalom in Newport News, VA married Basya Katz
today.
1923:
In Carslbad, Dr. Glickson, a delegate to the Thirteenth Zionist Congress
denounced the policy of the British administration in Palestine toward the Jews
of the country and toward the Zionist movement. He declared that "the
Government hinders the upbuilding of the Jewish national home."
1923:
The American delegation to the Thirteenth Zionist Congress cabled the newly
installed U.S. President, Calvin Coolidge, “a message of greeting” including
wishes for a “successful administration. The Zionists…recalled that the President has
on various occasions expressed his admiration of the effort to re-establish
Palestine as the Jewish homeland.
1923:
JTA does not publish its daily news bulletin today because it is the National
Day of Mourning in memory of President Warren G. Harding.
1924(10th
of Av, 5684): Tish’a B’Ab (observed)
1925:
More than 30,000 members of the ILGWU held a rally today at Yankee
Stadium. The Union was dominated by
Jewish members and leaders including Morris Sigman the president from 1923 to
1928 who battled communists and bosses to improve the lot the working men and
women of America.
1926(30th
of Av, 5686): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1927: Today it
was discovered that Matt Shortt of the Brooklyn Wanders had broken a bone in
the last game played by the Palestine Maccabees in the tour of the United
States.
1928: Joseph
J. Boris , the editor of “Who’s Who in Colored America” received a letter from
W.E.B Du Bois.
1928:
In Brooklyn, “businessman” Herman Sabin and pharmacist turned homemaker “Rachel
(Davidson) Sabin” gave birth to drummer Ira Sabin, the founder of JazzTimes magazine. (As reported by
Richard Sandomir)
1928:
In Philadelphia, PA, Gitte (later Katherine "Katie" Winokur; 1) and
Joseph Tisch gave birth to Edwin John Fisher who gained fame as Eddie Fisher,
the “crooner” and teen-age heartthrob in
the 1950’s who dumped Debbie Reynolds to marry Elizabeth Taylor who in turn
dumped him to marry Richard Burton.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/arts/25fisher.html
1929(4th
of Av, 5689): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon
1929(4th
of Av, 5689): Seventy-five-year-old Aletta Jacobs, the female trailblazer who
followed in her father’s footsteps and became a physician and was an active
suffragette passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jacobs-aletta-henri-x00eb-tte
1929(4th
of Ave, 5689): Seventy-five-year-old Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs “the first woman
to attend a Dutch University officially and the first female physician in the
Netherlands” passed away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/jacobs-aletta-henriette
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jacobs-aletta-henri-x00eb-tte
1929:
Two days before his 17th birthday, historian Max Dimont who had
sailed to the United States in steerage aboard the SS Berengaria was discharged
from the hospital on Ellis Island and begin the trip to his new home in
Cleveland, Ohio with the rest of his family.
1929:
“The Awful Truth” a comedy filmed by cinematographer David Abel was released
today in the United States.
1930:
The fourth world congress of the Zionist Revisionists opened in Prague today
under the presidency of Vladimir Jabotinsky. The Revisionists constitute the
Opposition in the World Zionist Organization.
1931:
“Protest against the spiritual depression in American religious life was voiced
at the convention of the Rabbinical Association of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan
Theological Seminary and Yeshiva College which began” today at the Hotel
Pennsylvania in New York.
1932(8th
of Av, 5692): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1932:
In today’s diary entry, 18-year-old Hermann Pressman, who would survive the
Holocaust” described spending his Sunday evening with friends at a Berlin café.
1932:
“Horse Feathers” staring the Marx Brothers was release today in the United
States.
1932:
In Berlin “conductor and composer Walter Goehr” and wife gave birth to “British
composer and professor Peter Alexander Goehr.
https://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/directory/alexander-goehr
1933:
In Amsterdam, 225 German-Jewish children, chiefly from the Rhine region,
arrived to stay with Dutch Jewish families.
1933:
Eighteen-year-old Heddy Lamarr married “Austrian military arms merchant and
munitions manufacturer” Friedrich Mandl who “was reputed to be the third
richest man in Austria.
1933:
Der Ernes, the Yiddish language newspaper published in the Soviet
Unon, reported that a farmer named Leiser Kabakoff, had been expelled from his
collective in the Crimea for his efforts to get other farmers to refrain from
working on the Sabbath.
1934(29th
of Av,5694): Forty-three-year-old University of Pennsylvania trained attorney
Benjamin L Rubinsohn, the president of the Foster Home for Jewish Orphans and
chairman of the United Palestine Appeal Region 4 passed away today in
Philadelphia at the Jewish Hospital.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/08/11/95490734.html?pageNumber=13
1935(11th
of Av, 5695): Shabbat Nachamu on the same day that Pierre Laval, the future
French Nazi collaborator “warned that a dictatorship in France was not unlikely
if his economic measures failed to be enforced.”
1936:
At Geneva, “the Polish delegation to the World Jewish Congress charged early
today in a statement present at the third day’s session that Poland’s 3,500,000
Jews were being terrorized and made paupers. (Editor’s note – the rising tide
of Polish anti-Semitism during the 1930’s might help to explain the ease with
which her Jewish population was all but wiped in the Shoah)
1936:
It was reported today that economist Jacob Lesthiesky estimated that “Nazism
has reduced 20 to 22 per cent of All Germans to dependence on relief and 20 per
cent of the Jews have already liquidated their affairs in preparation for
emigration” and that Polish economist Dr. Arjeh Tartakower estimated that
200,000 Jews in world are being compelled to emigrate due to “economic or
political pressure.”
1937: The Weizmann
policy on the partition of Palestine took textual form today in the draft of a
resolution submitted to the political resolutions committee of the World
Zionist Congress here. This body, elected today, started what promises to be an
all-night secret debate on this resolution, particularly on the last two and
most crucial points.
1937(3rd of
Elul, sixty-eight-year-old Russian born opera singer Aaron Kaplan who “had sung
at Covent Garden in London, the Opera Comique in Paris and the Metropolitan in
New York: and who for “twenty years
served as cantor for Temple Judea passed away today leaving behind a widow,
four daughters and two sons.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/08/11/94411017.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1937(3rd of Elul, 5697): Seventy-four-year-old
Sarah Nathan, the Philadelphia born daughter of “Elvira S. and David Hays
Solis,” the wife of Edgar Joshua Nathan and mother of Edgar Jr., Rosalie and
Emily Nathan passed away today in Mamaroneck, NY.
1938:
A group of Arabs carried out a daring day time robbery of the Barclays Bank at
Nablus. The proceeds of the action are
thought to be a source of funding for the on-going wave of Arab terror and
violence which claimed more Jewish victims today when a car filled with Jewish
workers approaching an orange grove near Hadera struck a land mine and a Jewish
cart driver was wounded by sniper fire as he drove along the road from Tel Aviv
to Jerusalem.
1938:
Three Hebrew language dailies, including Davar, published editorials
condemning violence that was traced back to the Revisionists wing of the
Zionist movement.
1938:
Nuremberg Synagogue is burnt down.
1939:
Bernhard Maissner (also known as Bejrich Bernhard Majzner) was forced to move
to Bentschen, Poland before being shipped to Treblinka where “later he was
declared to have perished.”
1940(6th
of Av, 5700) Shabbat Chazon
1940:
The government of Rumania passed anti-Jewish racial laws.
1941:
As of today, “approximately 14,000 Jews had been deported from Hungary to
German-controlled territory” after which “the Hungarian authorities transferred
another 4,000 Jews later in the month and then “once in German hands, the Jews,
often still in family units, were forced to march from Kolomyja to
Kamenets-Podolsk.
1941:
The Red Army counterattacked invading Nazi forces near Yelnya, a city in which
almost three hundred Jews were living in 1939.
1942(27th
of Av, 5702): Twenty-seven-year-old Berta Samuel who had been shipped to
Auschwitz from Drancy died at the Nazi death camp today.
1942: This was the first of thirteen days when over 40,000 Jews were shipped
from Lvov to the death camp at Belzec.
By the end of the month, another 36,000 Jews from Lvov and its
surrounding area would be shipped to Belzec where they would meet a similar
fate.
1943(9th
of Av, 5703): Tish'a B'Av
1943(9th
of Av, 5703): Twenty-seven more Jews were found in the ‘Aryan' portion of the
ghetto in Warsaw and were shot.
1943(9th
of Av, 5703): Seventy-five year old Boston merchant and credit union pioneer
Felix Vorenberg, the Chairman of the Board of the Gilchrist Company and who
with fellow merchant Edward A. Filene, the founder of the Massachusetts Credit
Union, “the first of its kind” in the United States and who was the husband of
the former Rose Frankenstein the father Frank Vorenberg, the President of the
Gilchrist Company passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/08/11/87422916.html?pageNumber=19
1944:
In Manhattan, “Dr. Abraham Leff, a psychiatrist, and the former Rose Levy, a
pharmacist” gave birth to Eugene Joel Leff, the lawyer who got justice for the
victims of Love Canal. (As reported by
Sam Roberts)
1945(1st of Elul, 5705): Rosh
Chodesh Elul
1945: A day after the
United States dropped the Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki, the Japanese government sent
word through diplomatic channels that it would accept the terms of the Potsdam
Conference which meant that WW II was close to coming a close.
1945(1st of
Elul, 5705): Staff Sargent Jack Winer, he “only son of a Jewish immigrant
mother from Russia” and “a navigator for the 345th Bombardment Group, was
killed during an air raid today days before the surrender of Japan” after which
he was reinterred at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in 1949 and
erroneously “ended up with a cross on his headstone instead of the Star of
David.”
1946:
Kitty “Carlisle married playwright and theatrical producer Moss Hart today.
1947(25th
of Av, 5707): “Members of an armed band wearing Arab dress opened an unprovoked
attack tonight in a Jewish cafe on the bank of the Yarkon River at Tel Aviv,
killing four Jews and wounding ten, seven of them seriously/”
1948(5th
of Av, 5708): Sixty-five-year-old Viennese native Nathan Eibschutz, the “son of
Rabbi Rahmiel Eibschutz,” “a founder of Israel Zion Hospital,” the President
and Treasurer of the Night and Day Press printing house and the husband of
Ceclia Friedman Eibschutz, of blessed memory and the former Monya W. Tepperman,
passed away today in Manhattan.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/08/11/85304588.pdf
1948: In another example of how a Jew helped to
create American pop culture, Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debuted on
1948:
A concert was held in Tel Aviv attended by Ben Gurion, Golda Meir and Moshe
Sharett.
1949(15th
of Av, 5709): Tu B’Av
1949:
“Yes Sir, That’s My Baby directed by George Sherman and produced by Leonard
Goldstein premiered today in Chicago, Illinois.
1949(15th
of Av, 5709): Yiddish author and Belarus native, Yosef or Joseph Tunkel who
used “he pen name Der Tunkler” passed away today and was then “buried in the
New Mount Carmel Cemetery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Tunkel
1950:
“Sunset Boulevard” a film noir set in Hollywood directed by Billy Wilder who
also co-authored the script, with music by Franz Waxman and co-starring Erich
von Stroheim was released in the United States by Paramount Pictures.
1952:
Birthdate of Chicago native, Northwestern University graduate and JTS ordained
rabbi, Jack Moline, the director the National Jewish Democratic Council, the
spiritual leader Agudas Achim in Alexandria, VA and executive director of the
the Interfaith Alliance.
1952(19th
of Av, 5712): Fifty-nine-year-old Bialystok born “Yiddish journalist, historian
and “editor Freie ArbeiterStimme” passed away today.
https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/1695/Frank-Herman-December-18-1892-August-10-1952
1953:
“The Caddy” a Martin and Lewis comedy directed by Norman Taurog and a script
co-authored by Danny Arnold was released in the United States today.
1954:
“The Beacomber,” with music by the engineer student turned composer, Francis Chagrin,
the Jewish native of Bucharest was released today in the United Kingdom.
1954:
Today, Dr. Joseph Alexander, “a specialist in the study and treatment of lung diseases” who played
college football at Syracuse and who in 1925 “ was the first player to sign
with the New York Giants football team when it was awarded an NFL franchise
“was elected to the National Football Hall of Fame…”
1955:
Director Stanley Donenm the Columbia SC born son of dress-shop manager Mordecai
Moses Donen and the former Helen Cohen and Maron Marshall gave birth to move
producer Joshua Donen.
1957(13th
of Av, 5717): Parashat Vaetchanan; Shabbat Nachamu
1957:
“The Rising of the Moon,” an Irish anthology film featuring Harold Golblatt in
“A Minute’s Wait” was released in Ireland today by Warner Bros.
1957:
Birthdate of Vienna native Danielle Spera, the journalist who brought new life
to the Jewish Museum of Vienna when she began serving as director Vienna in
2010 and who had converted to Judaism (her father was Jewish but her mother was
Catholic), married “psychoanalyst Martin Gilbert” with whom she is raising
“three children – Samuel, Rachel and Deborah – in a traditional Jewish home.
1959: In New York City, Brenda Olivia “Mardi” Nowak
and Lewis Arquette gave birth Emmy nominated actress Rosanna Lisa Arquette who
proved she could work “behind” the camera when directed the documentary
“Searching of Debra Winger
1959:
Today, the World Jewish Congress was told that “Premiere Nikita S. Khrushchev
has indicated a willingness to discuss the condition of Jews in the Soviet
Union when visits the United States next month.”
1960:
Sander Levin and
Vicki Schlafer gave birth to Michigan congressman Andrew “Andy” Levin the
husband of Mary Freeman
1960:
In East Bergholt, Suffolk, “screenwriter, novelist and journalist” Frederic
Raphael gave birth to English artist Sarah Natasha Raphael.
1960:
The original “Ocean’s 11” directed and produced by Lewis Milestone, co-staring
Sammy Davis, Jr. and Joey Bishop and featuring Norman Fell was released in the
United States today.
1961:
In Paris, France, German-Jewish art collector and dealer Heinz Berggruen and
his Albanian Catholic wife gave birth to NYU educated Nicolas Berggruen “US-based
billionaire investor and philanthropist who is the founder and president of
Berggruen Holdings, a private investment company and the co-founder and
chairman of the Berggruen Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan think tank that
works to address global governance issues.”
1962:
President Kennedy's Secretary of State Dean Rusk criticized Daniel Schorr's
actions in a diplomatic cable today for a checkbook journalism story in which,
“Schorr involved himself in a matter which was far beyond his private or
journalistic responsibilities and proceeded amateurishly in a matter filled
with greatest danger for all concerned.” (This was neither the first time nor
the last time that Schorr would draw the ire of a government official including
those in Washington and Moscow.
1963:
Today, Lex Wexner, the Dayton,OH born son of Russian-Jewish immigrant Harry
Louis Wexner and Brooklyn born Jew Bella Cabakoff, the “co-founder and CEO of
Bath and Body Works opened his first store today “in the Kingsdale Shopping
Center in Upper Arlington, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus” after having borrowed
five thousand dollars from his aunt.
1964:
The Five Towns chapter of Brandeis University's national women's committee which
was started seven years ago and whose president is Mrs. Harold Hofflin is
scheduled to hold its Bring‐a‐New‐Member
luncheon today at the home of Mrs. Robert Englander in Lawrence, L. I.
1964:
Alaska Democrat Ernest Gruening was one of only two Senators to vote against
the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. The two senators saw the resolution as
“unconstitutional because it was ‘a pre-dated declaration of war power’
reserved to Congress. This vote cost Gruening his seat in the Senate; a fate
that many of the johnny-come-lately opponents such as the anti-Semite J.
William Fulbright were spared.
1965(12th
of Av, 5725): Eighty-eight-year-old “specialist in criminal law and a founder
of the doctrine of international criminal law” Emil Stanisław Rappaport passed
away today.
http://www.bornglorious.com/person/?pi=/m/09v85c4
1966:
“The Idol,” produced by Joseph E. Levine and written by Patterson NJ native and
West Virginia football player Millard Lampell the blacklisted television and
movie screenwriter whose first brush with social protest appears to have come
from songwriting with Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie was released today in the
United States.
1969(26th
of Av, 5729): Seventy-two year old Arthur J
“Art” Strauss also known as Dutch Strauss the fullback and running back
for Phillips College before turning pro with the Toledo Marrons and the Kansas
City Blues passed away today.
1970(8th
of Av, 5730): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1970(8th
of Ave, 5730): Eighty-two- year-old Russian born Benjamin S. Snyder, the
husband of Clara Rose Lazarus Snyder with whom he had three children – Sylvia,
Ruth and Milton – passed away today in Gloucester County, NJ after which he was
buried at the Montefiore Cemetery in Abington Township, PA.
1970:
“Diary of a Mad Housewife,” the film version of the novel by Sue Kaufman,
starring Richard Benjamin was released in the United States today by Universal
Pictures.
1972(30th
of Av, 5732): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1972(30th
of Av, 5732): Eighty-year-old Doris Epstein Unterberg Powell, the New
York born daughter of Israel and Bella E. Epstein Unterberg and the husband of
Milton J. Powell passed away today after which she was buried at the Beth Olom
Cemetry in Ridgewood, NY.
1972: In “Who Speaks for The Jewish Leaders”
published today Rabbi David Greenberg of the Scarsdale Synagogue takes issue
with three Jewish leaders who support President Nixon because of his policy on
Israel, saying that “it is erroneous to assume that Jews vote on the basis of
Middle East Policy alone” and that “the Government of Israel nor the
self-styled American Jewish leaders direct Jewish citizens when they enter the
voting booth” because Jews “are directed by their own moral convictions about
what is right for America and for the world.”
1973:
It was reported today that the “national commander of the Jewish War Veterans”
has described “the Watergate episode as the culmination of a decade of moral
delinquency in the United States.” (JTA)
1976:
In Toronto, the Paralympic Games in which volleyball player Hagai Zamier earned
a Gold Medal, came to a close.
1976(14th
of Av, 5736): Fifty-five-year-old Chicago born and University of Chicago and
Northwestern Miriam Albert the executive director of B’nai B’rith Women and
daughter of Blanche Albert passed away today in Washington, D.C.
1977:
“The Kentucky Fried Movie,” a comedy written by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and
Jerry Zucker was released in the United States today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/08/11/archives/miriam-albert.html?searchResultPosition=2
1977:
NBC broadcast “The Anonymous Hero” the last episode of “Kingston Confidential” which
was written by David Jacobs, the Baltimore born son of Ruth Levenson and Melvin
Jacobs, who was best known as the creator of the nighttime soap opera “Dallas”
and its sequel “Knots Landing.”
1979:
“Americathon” a comedy produced by Joe Roth and starring Harvey Korman and
Peter Riegert was released today in the United States today.
1980(28th
of Av, 5740): Seventy-four-year-old Karl Wolf, a native of Austria who was the
husband of Margit Wolf passed away today in Haifa.
1981(10th
of Av, 5741): Seventy-five-year-old Yeruham Cohen, an Arabic-speaker of Yemeni
origin who was “an early Israeli undercover soldier” passed away today. He was
a top aide to the commander of Israel's underground forces during the country's
war for independence in 1948 and also belonged to a unit whose members
disguised themselves as Arabs to infiltrate enemy lines. Mr. Cohen is most famous for his acquaintance
with Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, whom he met in 1948 during the Israeli war
for independence while Israeli forces encircled Egyptian troops the southern
Negev. According to historical accounts, Mr. Cohen saw the future President
while watching the Egyptians retreat, shouted and ran toward him, and they
shook hands warmly.
1981:
Pitcher Bob Tufts made his major league debut with the San Francisco Giants.
1982:
Today President Ronald Reagan nominated UCLA trained attorney Alex, Kozinski,
the Bucharest born son of Holocaust survivors to serve on the United States
Claims Court.
1982:
Today, as Israeli forces were working to dislodge the PLO from Beirut during
the Lebanese Civil War, American envoy
Philip Habib “submitted a draft agreement to Israel” while Ariel Sharon was
ordering a “saturation bombing” which led to President Regan calling Prime
Minister Begin and demanding an end to the bombing which was immediately
halted.
1983(1st
of Elul, 5743): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1983:
“Jewish husbands who refuse to grant their wives divorces under Jewish
religious law will be barred from obtaining civil divorces under a measure
signed today by Governor Cuomo.”
1986:
A Broadway revival of “Me and My Girl” featuring George S. Irving in “his Tony
nominated performance as Sir John” opened today at the Marquis Theatre.
1988: After opening in Australia, “Crimes of the
Future,” “a Canadian sci-fi film” directed by, produced by, written by, filmed
by and edited by David Conenberg was release today in the United States.
1989(9th
of Av, 5749): Tish’a B’Av
1989:
Birthdate of Ben Sahar, Israeli born football (soccer) star.
1990:
“Flaterliners” a sci-fi thriller directed by Joel Schumacher, the son of
Swedish Jewess, was released throughout the United States today by Columbia
Pictures.
1990:
Eighty-two-year-old Martha Dodd Stern, the daughter of William Dodd, FDR’s
first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany, who became an anti-Nazi, passed away
today. (As reported by Glenn Fowler)
1991(30th
of Av, 5751): Shabbat and Rosh Chodesh Elul
1991(30th
of Av, 5751): Eighty-five-year-old Hans Jacob Polostky, the native of Zurich
and German educated orientalist who made Aliyah in 1935 to escape the Nazis and
became an award-winning Professor at Hebrew University passed away today.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13173/medilangrevi.8.1994.0001?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
1992(11th
of Av, 5752): Eighty-five-year-old University of Chicago Law School graduate,
Shimon Agranat, the Louisville, KY born son of Russian Jewish immigrants Polya
Schnitzer and Aaron Joseph Agranat, the husband of Carmel Friedlander and
son-in-law of Rabbi Israel Friedlander who made Aliyah in 1930 who became the
President of the Supreme Court of Israel passed away today.
https://www.jta.org/archive/shimon-agranat-dead-at-86-was-prominent-israeli-jurist
1993:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme
court.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/10/1993/ruth-bader-ginsburg
1994(3rd
of Elul, 5754): Paul Grossman, who had been married to Shirley Gorssman and was
a member of Larchmont Temple in Larmchont, NY passed away today
1994:
Today, exactly 19 years before her death University of Michigan trained
attorney Rosemary Shankman Pooler who had been serving as a Justice for the
Fifth Judicial District Court of the Supreme Court of New York, began serving
as Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District odf New
York.
1997:
The New York Times book section
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Secret
Channels: The Inside Story of Arab-Israeli Peace Negotiations by
Mohamed Heikal and Faith or Fear:
How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America by Elliott Abrams
1997(7th
of Av, 5757): Sixty-three-year-old Professor George Zames “known for his
fundamental contributions to the theory of robust control” and who was one of
the Jews saved by Japanese Consul Senpo Sugihara passed away today.
http://www.autsubmit.com/editorials/ed34_3.html
1999:
“At around 10:50 a.m. white supremacist Buford O. Furrow, Jr. walked into the
lobby of the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills and opened
fire with a semi-automatic weapon, firing 70 shots into the complex wounding five people: three children, a teenage
counselor, and an office worker after which he murdered a mail carrier, fled
the state, and finally surrendered to authorities.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=94305&page=1
2000(9th
of Av, 5760): Tish’a B’Av
2000(9th
of Av, 5760): Pauline (Leibner) Kelein, the widow of Philip Klein with whom she
had three children – Estelle, Doris and Harold – passed away today.
2000:
Today at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials in Indianapolis, Indiana, Dara
Torres who is a member of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame swam the
100-meter butterfly in a time of 57.86.
2001:
“American Pie 2” a sequel to “American Pie” with a story by David H. Steinberg
and Adam Herz who also wrote the screenplay and co-starring Eugene Levy was
released in the United States today by Universal Studios.
2002(2nd of Elul, 5762): Parashat
Shoftim
2002: Thirty-one-year-old
Yafit Herenstein was shot in her home by members of the Al-Aqsa Brigades
2003:
“Shattered Glass” a biopic based on the fraudulent journalistic career of
Stephen Glass premiered today at the Toronto International Film Festival today.
2003:
The Sunday New York Times book
section includes reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including When the Chickens Went on Strike: A Rosh
Hashanah Tale, Erica Silverman’s adaption of a story by Sholom Aleichem illustrated by Matthew
Trueman, Lay Back the Darkness, a
collection of poems by Edward Hirsch
a Midwestern man with a Jewish
heritage and Ronit Matalon's novel Bliss
translated by Jessica Cohen that “focuses on Israel's two pains: the kind
it suffers and the kind it inflicts”
2003(12th
of Av, 5763): Sixteen-year-old Haviv Dadon was “killed by shrapnel from an
anti-aircraft shell fired from Lebanon.”
2004(23rd
of Av, 5764): Eighty-eight-year-old Floryne Eleanor Gorov, the Baltimore born
daughter of Hattie Rose Cohn and Abraham Benjamin Cohn and the wife of Jack
gorov passed away to day in Farmington, Michigan, after which she was buried in
Ferndale, Michigan.
2004:
Today, President Jacques Chirac condemned the desecration of 60 Jewish graves
in the city of Lyon, the latest in a wave of attacks on Jewish and Muslim
cemeteries in France.”
2004:
In “Resolutions by Exchanges Of (Ooof! Kapow!) Ideas” published today, Neil
Genzlinger reviews “Blue Collar,” “a pair of Israel Horovitz plays.
2005: “Escape:
Human Cargo,” co-starring Sasson Gabai was broadcast for the first time in
Hungary.
2005:
“In his first speech before the Knesset following his resignation, Netanyahu
spoke of the necessity for Knesset members to oppose the proposed
disengagement” from Gaza.
2006(16th
of Av, 5766): IDF Staff Sergeant Kobi Idan, 26, from Eilat was killed and at
least 16 other soldiers were wounded, nine of them seriously, in the clashes
with Hezbollah.
2006:
In “Party No. 3” published today David Brooks “imagined a moderate
McCain-Lieberman Party in opposition to both major parties, which he perceived
as polarized and beholden to special interests.
2006:
Twenty-four-year-old Angelo Frammartino, from Monte Rotondo, Italy was stabbed
to death by an Arab terrorist in Jerusalem.
2006:
During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, Israeli authors, David Grossman, Amos
Oz and A.B. Yehoshua spoke at a press conference calling upon the government to
agree to a ceasefire as a basis for talks toward a negotiated solution,
describing further military action as "dangerous and
counterproductive" and expressing particular concern for the Lebanese
government. [Editor’s note - Two days later, Grossman’s 20-year-old son Uri, a
staff sergeant in an armored unit, was killed by an anti-tank missile during an
IDF operation in southern Lebanon shortly before the ceasefire.]
2007:
The Indianapolis Colts placed tight end Mike Seidman on the injured reserve
list
2007:
Colonel Giora "Hawkeye" Epstein “was the primary subject of the
"Desert Aces" episode of The History Channel series Dogfights that
aired for the first time tonight.”
2007
(26th of Av): On the secular calendar commemoration of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson’s, the third
Rebbe of the Chabad dynasty, popularly known as the "Tzemach Tzedek,"
departure from Petersburg after having successfully prevented the government's
disruption of traditional Jewish life.
2008(9th of Av, 5768): Tish'a B'Av
2008:
The New York Times book section featured reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or about topics of Jewish interest including The
Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over
Presidential Power by Jonathan Mahler, My Sister, My Love by Joyce
Carol Oates, American Priestess: The
Extraordinary Story of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalem
by Jane Fletcher Geniesse and Kingmakers:The Invention of the Modern
Middle East by Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac.
2008: The Jerusalem
Post reported that the Jewish Agency has released a statement that some 200
Jews living near the town Gori, on the South Ossetia border, were advised to
evacuate to the Georgian capital after the outbreak of hostilities with Russia
two days ago.
2008(9th
of Av, 5768): Howard G. Minsky, a
former Hollywood talent agent and the producer of the movie “Love Story,”
passed away today at the age of 94. Mr. Minsky began his career during the
silent-film era and sold reels of film door to door before breaking into the
Hollywood scene. He worked as an executive for 20th Century Fox and Paramount
Pictures and as a talent agent for the William Morris Agency. In the 1960s he
left the agency to produce the romantic drama “Love Story,” written by one of
his clients, Erich Segal. Released in 1970, it became a blockbuster, winning
five Golden Globes, including best picture, and an Academy Award for music.
2009: The
exhibit, Bagels & Barbeque: The Jewish Experience in Tennessee which
documents the history of Jewish immigration to Tennessee opened at Chattanooga
State, the College on the River.
2009: Opening of the Tzfat [Safed] Klezmer Festival
2009 (20th of Av): On the Jewish
calendar, Yahrzeit of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, father of the seventh and
last Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. A brave and
educated soul, he after being imprisoned by the Soviets for thwarting the Communists
attempts to wipe out Jewish civilization.
2009: Israeli aircraft bombed tunnels early today
along the Gaza Strip border with Egypt, Hamas officials and witnesses said.
2010(30th of Av, 5770): David L. Wolper, an award-winning movie and
television producer best known for the groundbreaking mini-series “Roots,”
passed away today at the age of 82. Mr.
Wolper produced hundreds of films and television shows, including the hit 1983
mini-series “The Thorn Birds,” a romantic drama set in Australia, with Richard
Chamberlain and Rachel Ward. But the work with which he was most closely
associated was “Roots,” shown in eight parts on ABC in 1977. The saga of an African-American
family’s journey from Africa to slavery and emancipation, based on the
best-selling book by Alex Haley, “Roots,” with a cast including LeVar Burton,
Ben Vereen and many others, was not the first mini-series, but it was the first
to have a major influence not just in the ratings but in American culture. One
of the highest-rated entertainment programs in television history, it went on
to win nine Emmy Awards and ignited a lively national discussion about
race. Another of Mr. Wolper’s
productions, “The Hellstrom Chronicle” (1971), a film concerned with mankind’s
real and imagined difficulties with insects, won an Academy Award. Mr. Wolper was also a tireless showman and a
flamboyant organizer of major events. He oversaw the opening and closing
ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, replete with sky
divers, break dancers and 84 pianists playing music by George Gershwin. He
again dazzled an international television audience when he choreographed a
celebration in New York Harbor on July 4, 1986, to observe the 100th
anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty, in which several
thousand rockets were set off amid a backdrop of hundreds of tall ships gracing
the harbor around the statue. Mr. Wolper initially made his mark as a producer
of documentaries and later focused on fictionalized accounts of historical
events. He drew his share of criticism: it was sometimes suggested that his
documentaries were not sufficiently probing, that his so-called docudramas took
too many liberties with the facts, that he was more showman than historian. In
1966 Jack Gould, the television critic of The New York Times, noted that some
financiers and government officials had been permitted an advance look at Mr.
Wolper’s CBS documentary “Wall Street: Where the Money Is.” “Wolper is
incredibly naïve if he fails to understand the consequences of allowing
participants in a controversial news story to have the right of advance
approval,” Mr. Gould wrote. Mr. Wolper admitted that he had let the officials
see the film or read his script before it was broadcast, but insisted he had
made no deletions and was not asked to make any. Critics were also cool to many
of his big-screen productions, which included “If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be
Belgium” (1969), “I Love My Wife” (1970) and “One Is a Lonely Number” (1972),
although he received good reviews for some, notably “Willy Wonka & the
Chocolate Factory” (1971) and “L.A. Confidential” (1997), which won two Oscars.
“The Bridge at Remagen” (1969), about a World War II battle in Germany, was
probably the Wolper movie that attracted the most attention — not for what was
on the screen, but because his production company was run out of Czechoslovakia
when the Soviet Army invaded. Mr. Wolper scored an early success in 1963 with
the television documentary “The Making of the President 1960,” based on
Theodore H. White’s best-selling book about John F. Kennedy’s quest for the
White House. It won four Emmys, including program of the year. Other noteworthy
television projects in the 1960s included the series “Biography,” “Hollywood
and the Stars” and “The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.” In the 1970s he
branched out into sitcoms, producing “Chico and the Man” and “Welcome Back,
Kotter” with James Komack. David Wolper (he had no middle name, but used the
middle initial L to distinguish himself from an uncle also named David Wolper)
was born on the East Side of Manhattan on Jan. 11, 1928, the only child of
Irving S. Wolper, a businessman, and the former Anna Fass. As a teenager he spent
a lot of time watching movies, and people noticed that he had a knack for
selling things. Upon graduation from Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School,
he entered Drake University in Des Moines, remained there a year, then
transferred to the University of Southern California for two more years. He
left the university at the end of his junior year because he thought he could
make money by purchasing old movies and selling them to television stations all
over the country. He was right.
In 1958, sensing that the footage shot of the Soviet
satellite Sputnik would be worth something, he purchased 6,000 feet of it from
Artkino, the official Soviet distributor, and used it as the basis for a
documentary, “The Race for Space,” which he sold to more than 100 stations in
the United States after all three networks turned it down. Making documentaries
for television, he soon learned, was not easy. The networks had large news and
public affairs departments staffed by seasoned journalists, and network
executives tended to be wary of documentaries produced by outsiders. Undaunted,
Mr. Wolper began Wolper Productions on a shoestring. The company’s early
projects included “The Rafer Johnson Story” (1961), “Hollywood: The Golden
Years” (1961) and “D-Day” (1962). Reviews were mixed, but viewers were
receptive. By the mid-1970s Wolper Productions had grown from two people in a
one-room office to more than 200 employees using 40 cutting rooms. In 1971 Mr.
Wolper produced “Appointment With Destiny,” a series that mixed historical
footage with dramatic re-enactments. John J. O’Connor, writing in The Times,
criticized it as “pure fiction cleverly masquerading as reality.” Mr. Wolper
responded in a letter to the editor: “How else can we approach the past? Shall we
leave it, defeated and ignorant, because we cannot fully reconstruct it any
more than we can relive it?” Mr. Wolper remained active as a producer of
mini-series and documentaries well into the 1990s. Besides “The Thorn Birds,”
his noteworthy later productions included “North and South” (1985). In 2002 he
revisited his most famous production with the television special “Roots:
Celebrating 25 Years.” Mr. Wolper was inducted into the Academy of Television
Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame in 1989. In 2003 he published his
autobiography, written with David Fisher. Its title was “Producer.” (As reported by Richard Severo)
2010(30th of Av,
5770): Rosh Chodesh Elul
2010(30th
of Av, 5770): Ninety-year-old author Nancy Freedman passed away.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/22/local/la-me-nancy-freedman-20100822
2010(30th of Av,
5770): Eighty-two-year-old David L. Wolper, who changed America’s view of race
and slavery with “Roots”, passed away today. (As reported by Richard Severo)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/arts/12wolper.html
2010: Paul Hunt began
serving as Canada’s Ambassador to Israel.
2010: The first
public screening of “A Film Unfinished” is scheduled to take place at the
Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.
2010: While
testifying before the Turkel Committee today, Defense Minister Ehud Barak
“placed the blame” for the botched flotilla raid “on the IDF, which he said was
responsible for warning the government if ‘the mission cannot be carried out.’
In the case of the flotilla the IDF did not warn, Barak said.
2010: “The Human
Resources Manager” the movie version of the A.B. Yehoshua novel by the same
name directed by Eran Riklis and starring Mark Ivanir was released today in
Israel.
2011: The International Master Course for Violinists
which has been taking place amid the scenic mountains of the western Galilee at
Kibbutz Eilon is scheduled to come to an end today.
2011: The DC Premiere “Maya” is scheduled to take place at this evening’s
WJFF (Washington Jewish Film Festival)
Friend-raiser Screener and Party
2011: Philip Levine was named tody as the new poet
laureate of the United States. Levine has an MFA through the University of Iowa
Writer's Workshop. His works include a "continuous examination of his
Jewish immigrant inheritance.
2011The Romanian Academy said today that it
will change its definition of an anti-Semitic slur in a dictionary to make it
clear the word is pejorative.
2011: The
International Master Course for Violinists which is taking place at Kibbutz
Eilon is scheduled to come to an end.
2012: Rookie right tackle Mitchell Schwartz
is scheduled to start in the Detroit Lions’ first exhibition pro-football game.
2012: The Russian Olympic basketball team
coached by Israeli-American David Blatt is scheduled to play Spain today in the
semifinals.
2012: Victor Lieberman is scheduled to lead
Shabbat eve services at B’nai Israel in Grand Forks, ND
2012: Ben Sarasin will help lead Shabbat eve
services at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as part of his “Bar Mitzvah
Weekend.”
2012: Shai Wosner is scheduled to perform at
Lincoln Center
2012: New Zealand
Jewish sailor Jo Aleh and her partner Polly Powrie won the gold medal in the
women’s 470 regatta. Aleh, 26, whose parents are dual Israeli-New Zealand
citizens, skippered the pair into the lead from the start of the gold medal
race today at the London Olympic Games
2012: Israeli rhythmic gymnast Neta Rivkin leapt to
the finals after her ribbon routine in the individual qualifiers today at the
London Games.
2012: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense
Minister Ehud Barak have “almost finally” decided on an Israeli strike at
Iran’s nuclear facilities this fall, and a final decision will be taken “soon,”
Israel’s main TV news broadcast reported this evening.
2013: “Dancing in Jaffa” and “Gideon’s Army” are
scheduled to be shown at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2013: Kol HaOt is scheduled to sponsor “The Sounds
of Elul” featuring Yehuda Katz.
2013: An al-Qaeda-linked group active in the Sinai
Peninsula said today that its fighters were the target of a reported Israeli
drone strike into Egyptian territory, a rare operation that could indicate
increased Egyptian-Israeli security cooperation against militants in the
lawless border zone. (As reported by Maamoun Youssef)
2013: “Israeli tennis star Shahar Pe'er won her
first tournament in four years today, defeating unseeded Zheng Saisai 6:2, 2:6,
6:3 in the final of the Suzhou Ladies Open in Suzhou China.”
2014: The New
York Times featured books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel written and
illustrated by Anya Ulinich, Becoming Freud:
The
Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips, Lucky Us by Amy Bloom and Strange
Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Charles Marsh.
2014:
Congregation HarTzeon – Agudath Achim is scheduled to host a trip to NYC see
the off-Broadway musical “Atomic” about the Manhattan Project.
2014:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host a
“conversation with Holocaust survivor Steen Metz.”
2014:
“Rocket fire from the Gaza Strip continued today, with over nine rockets being
shot at Israel throughout the day. Six hit the Eshkol Regional Council in the
early hours, while two others slammed into Sderot, starting a small fire. Two
more rockets were intercepted about the city.” (As reported by Ilana Curiel)
2014:”
Air raid sirens sounded in Ashdod at 10 pm, two hours before the start of an
Egyptian-brokered temporary truce.”(As reported by Matan Tzuri)
2014:
The Miami Herald reported today that “the Jewish community of Miami is offering
$50,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the two suspects in
the death of Rabbi Joseph Raksin” who was murdered while walking to services on
Shabbat.
2014:
Rabbi Joseph Raskin who was murdered in Florida yesterday as he walked to
Shabbat services is scheduled to be buried today.
2014:
For King and Country? a major new exhibition exploring the Jewish experience of
the First World War is scheduled to come to a close today at the Jewish Museum
in London.
http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/kingandcountry
2015:
YIVO and the Congress for Jewish Culture are scheduled to present “Night of the
Murdered Poets” during which Ala Zuskin Perelman, daughter of Soviet Yiddish
actor, Benjamin Zuskin will discuss her recent biography, The Travels of
Benjamin Zuskin about her father’s tragic life and work as an actor and
artistic director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater.
2015:
Thanks to the efforts of New York State Assembly member Todd Kaminsky, the
nephew of Mel Brooks, the emergency room at the Long Beach Community Center
that had been closed since Hurricane Sandy reopened today.
2015:
The 2015 AIPAC Iowa Annual Event is scheduled to take place this evening in Des
Moines.
2015:
“I’m convinced that Fiamma Nirenstein” whose appointment as Israel’s ambassador
to Rome has rattled the Italian Jewish community “will bring with her to the
position lots of diplomatic and political experience, and will succeed in
deepening the relationship between Israel and Italy, our close friends, and act
for diplomatic, economic, cultural and security cooperation,” Netanyahu said in
a statement today
2015:
“A disaster at Ben Gurion International Airport was narrowly averted today when
a drone came dangerously close to an incoming plane, forcing the aircraft to
adjust its course.”
2015:
Just days before his death, Kate Edgar, “the longtime personal assistant” of
Dr. Oliver Sacks “who described herself as his ‘collaborator, friend,
researcher and editor’ wrote in an email ‘He is still writing with great
clarity. We are pretty sure he will go
with fountain pen in hand.’”
2015:
“The Obama administration, citing the potential for economic and political harm
to the Palestinian Authority and the broader peace process, asked a judge today
to “carefully consider” the size of the bond he requires for the authority to
appeal a huge damages award for its role in six terrorist attacks in Israel
that killed and injured Americans.
2016:
William Korn is scheduled to lecture on “Pioneer Jews of Leadville, Colorado,
1878-1914” and David McDonald is scheduled to lecture on “A Gentile in the
Tribe: Using Christian Church Records” at the 36th IAJGCS
International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Seattle.
2016:
Today Luciana Berger was not selected by the “Labor Party candidate for the
position of Metro Mayor of Liverpool.”
2016:
“Deli Man” a film that paints a portrait of the rapidly disappearing
delicatessens in the United States” is scheduled to be shown in London
tonight.
2017:
In Weimar, YSW is scheduled to host both a Dance Orchestra Workshop and Dance
Workshop followed in the evening by a series of Yiddish music jam sessions.
2017:
“Ballet Pécs, the first contemporary ballet company of Hungary,” is scheduled
to present “Carmen” as part of the dance festival in Tel Aviv.
2017:
In light of terrorist tunnel attacks, an Israeli military official said “that
the army does not believe Hamas has any justification to prevent Israeli from
building a protective barrier” and “therefore it will tolerate an attempts by
the terror group to interfere with its construction.”
2018:
Seventy years and one day after fifty year old Chaim Soutine died in Paris
while trying to avoid capture by the Gestapo, the Jewish Museum is scheduled to
host a tour of the exhibition “Chaim Soutine: Flesh” featuring thirty of
picture painted by the French expressionist.
2018:
“Classical Bridge, an international music festival, academy and conference
designed to build bridges through the music” featuring violinist Pinchas
Zuckerman and clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein is scheduled to continue today
in New York.
2018:
As Israelis awaken, the question on everybody’s mind is will the truce with
Hamas that was supposed to go into effect last night hold or will the rockets
and flammable kites return.
2019:
In Pittsburgh, PA, the Manor Theatre is scheduled to host a screening of “The
Spy Behind Home Plate” that “among the dedications at the end of the Film is
the Tree of Life Congregation” which was attacked by a gunman in October of
2018.
2019:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center are scheduled to host a book
signing with Steve Schapiro, “the photojournalist behind” the museum’s
“Activists and Icons” exhibit.
2019(9th
of Av, 5779): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av;
2019(9th
of Av, 5779): Sixty-six-year-old financier and sex offender Jeffrey Edward
Epstein died today while in jail, reportedly by hanging himself.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-suicide.html
2020:
The IAJGS 40th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, a
virtual event, is scheduled to begin today.
2020:
The Jewish Arts Collaborative is scheduled to present, online, “JLive Art” with
glass artist Sidney Hutter.
2020:
LSJS is scheduled to host “What is and isn’t ‘work’ – and why?” during which
Rabbi Miachael Pollak and Jacqueline Nicholls provide “a unique summery of the
Talmud on Shabbat.”
2020:
The Albuquerque Virtual Jewish Film fest is scheduled to host a screening of
“Incitment.”
2020:
On Facebook Live and YouTube, the YIVO Institute is scheduled to present the
instrumeanl and vacl chamber ensemble Cana Profana as it performs “Gustav
Mahler’s epic song symphony, Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) in
Arnold Schoenberg and Rainer Riehn’s chamber orchestra arrangement.”
2020:
As part of its virtual webinar series, the Streicker Center is scheduled to
host Ambassadors Dennis Ross and Martin Indyk as they discuss “Is There Any
Light Left at the End of the Middle East Tunnel?”
2020:
Part 1 of “The Obscene, Indecent and Offensive in Hollywood an “East Bay
International Jewish Film Festival event with director Riva Gambert talking
about pre-1934 film censorship and pre-World War II films that failed to
capture what was occurring in Nazi Germany” is scheduled to take place online
today
2020:
As Israelis awake this morning, they are confronted with the fact that as of
last night the national COVED death toll has reached 600.
2021:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Exploring Nine Centuries of Jewish
Life,” a tour led by Yoram Bitton and Dr. Jordan Finkin.
2021:
In Palm Beach Gardens, FL, members of Temple Judea are scheduled to “Help Feed
the Hungry” by donating sandwiches to benefit the St. George’s Soup Kitchen.
2021:
Based on information released yesterday, Israelis awaken this morning to the
possibility that their country “may see over 1,200 severely ill coronavirus
patients by the end of August if it doesn't take tougher measures to battle the
surge of COVID-19.” (As reported by Alexandra Lukash and Nir Cohen)
2021:
William Burns, the head of the C.I.A. is scheduled to begin a three day visit
to Israel today.
2022:
The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County is scheduled to host a talk by
Rabbi Dr. Brooks Susman on zoom and in-person on 21st Century Jews… How we got
to believe what we believe. And do we all agree?
2022:
The National Library of Israel is scheduled to host a lecture by Khrystyna
Semeryn, a Ukrainian independent researcher, journalist, and writer on “The
Jewish World in Ukrainian Short Fiction of the Late 19th and Early 20th
Centuries.”
2022:
The New York Jewish Agenda, the Forward, Jewish Community Relations Council,
Lincoln Square Synagogue, Marlene Meyerson JCC and Temple Emanu-El are
scheduled to present a debate between Jerry Nadler, representing the West Side
of Manhattan, and Carolyn Maloney, representing the East Side who are facing
off in a rare incumbent-vs-incumbent primary.
2023:
The Jewish Climate Action Network, with the support of Temple B’nai B’rith and
the Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action, is scheduled to host an online
“presentation on three key climate bills in the Massachusetts legislature.”
2023:
The S.F. Black and Jewish Unity Coalition and Congregation Sha’ar Zahav are
scheduled to present an “Update on State Task Force on Reparations.”
2023:
Yeshiva University Museum’s Director Gabriel Goldstein is scheduled to host a
guided tour of “Rhe Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries,”
illuminating the life and impact of the multifaceted luminary and great Jewish
sage across continents and cultures through rare manuscripts and books.
2023:
In Brookline, MA, Congregation Kehillath Israel is scheduled to present a
concert by The Ariel Quartet which will perform “Beethoven and Mendelssohn
quartets as well as music by Israeli composers Matan Borat and Paul Ben Ham.”
2023:
This evening, in Cedar Rapids, a minyan will gather to mark the Yahrzeit Deb
Levin who passed away on the 24th of Av, 5779.
2024;
Israelis are reportedly taking extra precautions in the wake of threats from
Iran to launch a major attack.
2024:
In Palo Alto, CA, the Rinconada Library is scheduled to host J. columnist Janet
Silver Ghent discusses her memoir, Love Atop a Keyboard, which
chronicles her experience finding the love of her life after divorce at 55.
2024:Protestors
are scheduled to gather in Tel Aviv after Shabbat for what have become weekly
events calling for an end to the policies of the Netanyahu government that have
failed to keep its promise to destroy Hamas and bring home the hostages.
2024(6th
of Av, 5784): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2024:
As August 10th begins in Israel, an
unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling
for Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps the
United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 309 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.
2025:
Three Greek pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel groups are planning a “Day of Action” today
against Israeli tourists, vowing that the country will not become a “refuge”
for “genocidal people.”
2025:
Congregation Beth El of the Sudbury Valley is scheduled to host “Star Wars
Sunday,” where attendees can build their “own lightsaber, meet characters,
visit the Star Wars Museum, and learn about the many intersections between Star
Wars and Jewish traditions.”
2025:
National S’mores Day; https://www.amazon.com/Only-Kosher-Candy-Chocolate-Smores/dp/B08NXWNSN6
2025:
“An Officer and a Spy,” Roman Polanski’s award-winning film about the Dreyfus
Affair is scheduled to be shown for a third day at the New York Film Forum.
2025:
As August 10th begins in Israel, the remaining Hamas held hostages begin day 674 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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