September 8
70: On the secular
calendar, Jerusalem is sacked by the 60,000 troops of Titus' Roman army after a
six-month siege. Over a million Jewish citizens perished in the siege and,
following the city's capture, another 97,000 were sold into slavery. This event
is commemorated on The Arch of Titus in Rome. [Date variations of one day,
depend on the source.]
1100: “Antipope Clement
III” “who protested strongly when Emperor Henry IV permitted Jews who had
become converted to Christianity during the anti-Jewish riots of the First
Crusade to revert to Judaism” passed away today. (Jewish Virtual Library)
1140: While traveling to Palestine, Judah
Halevi arrived in Alexandria (Egypt) where “he was enthusiastically greeted by
friends and admirers.” He went on to
Cairo where he turned down requests that he settle in the Egyptian city because
he was determined to complete his journey to Jerusalem.
1157: Birthdate of King Richard I, the
Lionhearted who decreed that the Jews of England should be left to live in
peace. Unfortunately, he spent most of his time on Crusades or fighting in
France which left the Jews to suffer at the hands of the Church and
anti-Semitic nobles.
1207: Birthdate of King Sancho II of Portugal.
Sancho II continued the struggle with the Church that had begun under his
father Alfonso II which proved beneficial to the Jews. Sancho II ignored the
Church’s prohibition against hiring Jews for positions of powers and appointed
Jews as tax-farmers. “Probably it was he who appointed Don Joseph ibn Yaḥya as almoxarife; he also permitted him to
build a magnificent synagogue in Lisbon.”
1264: The General Charter of Jewish Liberties
known as the Statute of Kalisz was issued by the Duke of Greater Poland
Boleslaus the Pious today in Kalisz. The statute served as the basis for the
legal position of Jews in Poland and led to creation of a Yiddish-speaking
autonomous Jewish "nation within a nation", which lasted until the
Third Partition of Poland in 1795. The statute granted exclusive jurisdiction
over Jewish matters to Jewish courts and established a separate tribunal for
matters involving Christians and Jews. Additionally, it guaranteed safety and
personal liberties for Jews such as freedom of religion, trade, and travel. The
statute was ratified by subsequent Polish Kings: Casimir III of Poland in 1334,
Casimir IV of Poland in 1453, and Sigismund I of Poland in 1539.
1425: King Charles III of Navarre passed away.
Under his reign, the conditions of the Jews of improved over what they had been
under his predecessor Charles II., who died in 1387. Soon after Charles II came
to power, “the Jews presented him with 3,000 livres. In return he granted them
several privileges, influenced, doubtless, by the fact that his court physician
was Chief Rabbi Joseph Orabuena, whose son Judah was also a member of the royal
retinue. During the king's journey to Paris in 1397 he was accompanied by four
Jews—two physicians, a surgeon, and an astrologer. The Jewish residents of
Navarre were so impoverished that they could no longer pay taxes; hence the
king, while continuing a rigid collection from the Jews in Pamplona, who formed
the richest community in the country, exempted their coreligionists of Tudela
from the obligation to furnish beds, etc., during his stay in that city.”
1425: Bianica I, who in 1415 expelled the Jews
from Vizzini began her tenure as Queen of Navarre.
1486: Joseph Günzenhäuser printed Hagiographa
Variorum in Naples, Italy. [This probably was one of the first annotated copies
of the section of the TaNaCh known as Ketuvim or Writings.]
1498: Torquemada died. Torquemada was descended
from a family of Marranos which makes his role in history all the more ironic
Torquemada is popularly known as the head of the Spanish Inquisition. In fact,
he was not the first one to head the Inquisition; an act of evil that had the
full support and control of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. According to
some, the Queen was a stronger supporter of this activity than the King. More
importantly, they let the Pope know that they and not he would control the Inquisition.
After all, the monarchs had empty coffers to fill as well as souls to save.
1504: Michelangelo's David is unveiled in
Florence. The naked statue of Israel’s greatest king has a flaw – David is
uncircumcised. So did Michelangelo sculpt the likeness of a nude Florentine boy
and call it David so as not to offend the sensibilities of Christian Italians?
Considering that Moses is portrayed with Horns, anatomically and or texturally
correct art was not the strong point of Renaissance artists.
1514: : In a bull issued today, Pope Leo X,
“expressed his desire that the rights of the Jews should be respected, and
repealed the edict of the Bishop of Carpentras, who had prescribed a special
badge to be worn by the Jews of Avignon, Carpentras, and Venaissin”
1600: “Jack Drum’s Entertainment” by on John
Marston one of a series of dramas created during the Elizabethan that contained
Jewish characters when no Jews lived in England was “entered into the
Stationer’s Register” today. (Editor’s
note – apparently the English theatre goers, many of whom were “groundlings”
did not need to have Jews around to know about Jews.)
1628: During the Eighty Years War, the Battle
of Matanzas came to an end with Dutch defeating the Spanish and seizing their
treasure fleet as spoils. Among those helping the Dutch was Moses Cohen
Henriques a pirate whose family had been Sephardim from Portugal. Henriques
moved to Brazil from the Caribbean when the Dutch captured it from the
Portuguese. When the Portuguese recaptured Brazil, Henriques continued his
pirating ways hooking up with the notorious Henry Morgan.
1636: New College is established in
Massachusetts. Three years later it would change its name to Harvard in honor
of clergy man John Harvard, one of the school’s earliest and most generous
benefactors. Harvard has had an uneven history in terms of the Jewish people.
At one time Harvard and its academic community were supporters of a quotas
designed to limit Jewish enrollment. At the same time, Harvard boast numerous
Jewish alumnae and faculty members. Today Harvard has approximately 2000
undergraduate students out of a population of almost 7,000 undergrads. There
are 2,500 graduate students among Harvard’s approximately 11,000 grad students.
1663: Yorkshire borne Philosemitic “Hebrew and rabbinical scholar”
Henry Jessey, the author of “an account of the 1655 conference at Whitehall, at
which Manasseh ben Israel put a case to the Parliamentary government of Oliver
Cromwell, to lift the restrictions on Jews living in England” and “An
Information Concerning the Present State of the Jewish Nation in Europe and
Judea” who lobbied for the right of the Jews to return to England and raised
“money impoverished Jews living in” Eretz Israel passed away today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jessey
1664: The Dutch colony of New Amsterdam was
surrendered to the British who renamed it New York in 1669. Now you know how a
handful of Dutch Jews became the first “New York Jews.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/15250-zeror-raphael-jedidiah-solomon-ben-jeshua
1685: Today, in Berlin, “the great elector…ordered
that every Jew should give bonds to the amount of 1,000 thalers.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3083
1729: Congregation Shearith Israel laid the
foundation stone of the first building specifically to be used as a synagogue
on Mill Street in New York City.
1748: Abraham De Leon and his wife gave birth
to Rebecca De Leon
1750: Isaac and Sarah De La Motta gave birth to
Isaac De La Motta, the husband of Sarah Canter with whom he had three children.
1759(16th of Elul, 5519): Parashat
Ki Tavo
1759(16th of Elul, 5519): Rebecca
Tema Ansel passed away today in the United Kingdom.
1760: First official reports of Jews having
settled in Canada.
1764: Birthdate of Emanuel Deutz, the native of
Koblenz who married Judith Berman and served as Chief Rabbi of France from 1810
until he passed away in 1842.
1770(18th of Elul, 5530): Parashat
Ki Tavo read on the same day that “the Townshend Acts which were partially repealed by Parliament, with
all taxes on imported British goods removed except for the tax on tea, a
response to the colonial boycott.”
1771(29th of Elul, 5532): Erev Rosh
Hashanah celebrated on the same day that “Franciscan priests Angel Somero and
Pedro Cambon established Mission San Gabriel Arcángel near what would
become Los Angeles” a city with one of the largest Jewish populations in the
United States.
1787: Abraham Gerstle and his wife gave birth
to Isak Michael Gerstle, the husband of Sofie Weil with whom he had seven
children.
1790(29th of Elul, 5550): Erev Rosh
Hashanah
1790(29th of Elul, 5550): Forty-four-year-old
Esther Hays, the Philadelphia born son Rachel and Asher Etting and the wife of
David Barrack Hays passed away today.
1792(21st of Elul, 5552): Parashat
Ki Tavo; Leil Selichot
1793(2nd of Tishrei, 5554): Second
Day of Rosh Hashanah
1793(2nd of Tishrei, 5554): Mrs.
Hannah Jacobs passed away today in the United Kingdom.
1804(3rd of Tishrei 5564): Parashat
Ha’azinu and Shabbat Shavua
1801(1st of Tishrei, 5562): Rosh
Hashana celebrated for the first time during the Presidency of Thomas Jefferson
one of the many of the founding fathers who believed in separation of church
and state.
1811: In Georgia, Moses and Elkali Bush
Sheftall gave birth to Perla Sheftall Solomons the spouse of Lizar Solomons.
1812(2nd of Tishrei, 5573): Second
Day of Rosh Hashanah
1812: Birthdate of Rebekah Gumpert Hyneman, a
Jew by choice who was a successful authoress.
1814: “The most important institution connected
with” “Israel ben Solomon Wahrmann, the first officially recognize rabbi of
Pest Hungary” an elementary school called the Nationalschule which “was an
important factor in raising the intellectual status of the community” was
dedicated today.
1817(27th of Elul, 5577): Hirsch
Hurwitz, the “author of several haggadic and halakick works” and the son of
Phone Hurwitz passed away today.
1820(29th of Elul, 5580): Erev Rosh
Hashanah observed on the same that former President John Adams who signed a
treaty that stated the United States was not a Christian country wrote to his
son John Quincy Adams the future President who was supporter of “Jewish State
in the Holy Land.”
1821(11th of Elul, 5581): Parashat
Ki Teitzei read on the same day that the United States and Spain signed a
treaty wherein the U.S. purchased Florida, which would come to have one of the
largest Jewish populations in the United States, for $5 million, and Spain
ceded its territories in North America.”
1828(29th of Elul, 5588): Erev Rosh
Chodesh.
1828: Abraham de Leon and his wife gave birth
to Rebecca de Leon.
1828: In Turnov, Fania and Joachim Weil gave
birth to Leopold Weil the husband of Matilda Weil and father of Gertrude
Lindenthal; Robert L. Weil; Clara Anna Zuckerman; Frederick Weil; Arnold C
Weil; Herbert Weil; Amy Weil; Alice May Weil; Dr. Richard Weil, Sr. and Walter
Weil
1830: Benjamin Phineas Moses Spiers married
Sara Wolf in Rotterdam today.
1830: Two days after she had passed away, 78
years old “Sarah Simmons, the wife of Nathan Simmons” was buried today at the
Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1831(1st of Tishrei, 5592): Rosh
Hashanah
1831: In the United Kingdom Coronation of King
William IV
1835: Sara Gunzburger, the German born daughter
of Karolina and Benjamin Levi and her husband Lob Gunzburger gave birth to
Judith Weil, the wife of Judas Julius Leopold Weil and mother of Jedidja Weil
1838(18th of Elul, 5598): Parashat
Ki Tavo
1838(18th of Elul, 5598): Judah
Mordechai Cohen, the Amsterdam born son of Mordechai Levie Cohen and Rachel
Coenraad Blits and
husband of Grace Cohen passed away to in London
after which he was buried in the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1839(29th of Elul, 5599): Erev Rosh
Hashanah; as Jews prepare to celebrate the New Year, future President James K.
Polk visited Huntsville, Alabama.
1839: In Liverpool, England, Esther Sewill and
Saul Moss gave birth to Barnet Moss.
1840: In London, the will of John Aaron, the
husband of Charlotte Aaron, with whom he had had four children – Thomas, Mary,
Ann and Catherine – was probated today. (As reported by David Alexander)
1841(22nd of
Elul, 5601): Seventy-two-year-old Sara de Leon, the daughter of Abraham de Leon
and wife of Aaron Correa passed away today in New York City.
1841: Josiah Solomon married Bella Hart at the
New Synagogue today.
1841: In Charleston, SC, J. Cohen, Jr.,
Esquire, married Phila Moise, the daughter of Aaron Moise.
1843: Birthdate Annie Florence, the wife of
Nathaniel Harris.
1847: In Philadelphia, PA, Rodef Shalom, one of
the first German congregations organized in the United States moved to its new
building on Julianna Street. Rodef
Shalom had been formed in 1801 by Ashkenazic Jews who were not comfortable
attending Mickvah Israel, a Sephardic congregation.
1847: Today, Jefferson H. Nones, a Second
Lieutenant om the Second United States Artillery and “the son of Captain Henry
Nones was detailed to Puebla to the command of twenty-nine men to effect a
recovery of mules stolen by Mexican guerrileros” which resulted a fight with
“Mexican lancers” that resulted in ten Americans being killed and four being
wounded including Lt. Nones who was wounded by a lance.
1848: Two days after he had passed away,
Benjamin Chapman, the husband of Hannah Chapman, was buried today at the
Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.
1848: In Berlin, “trader and cotton printer
Jacques Meyer” and his wife Bertha gave birth to Viktor Meyer, a German chemist
who contributed greatly to knowledge of both organic and inorganic chemistry
and invented an apparatus for determining vapor densities (and hence molecular
weights), now named after him. In 1871, Meyer experimentally proved Avogadro's
hypothesis by measuring the vapor densities of volatile substances (molecular
weight, or relative molecular mass, is twice the vapor density). He went on to
determine the vapor densities of inorganic substances at high temperatures.
From benzene obtained from petroleum, Meyer in 1883 isolated thiophene, a
heterocyclic compound containing sulfur, which much later was to become an
important component of various synthetic drugs. He passed away in 1897.
1849(21st of Elul, 5609): Leil Selicht
observed during the final months of the Hungarian Revolution and the California
Gold Rush
1850(2nd of Tishrei, 5611): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1850: In Hamburg, Germany, Moritz Adolph Unna
and his wife gave birth physician and dermatologist and Franco-Prussian War
Veteran Paul Gerson Unna.
https://www.beiersdorf.com/about-us/our-history/personalities/paul-gerson-unna
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14595-unna-paul-gerson
1852: Birthdate of Henri Moissan, the Parisian
who became the second Jew to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/moissan.html
1852: In Charleston, SC, at the Wentworth
Street Synagogue, Rabbi Lyons officiated at the wedding Rachel Sampson, the
only daughter of the late Samuel Sampson and Mr. Hendricks from Texas.
1852: Forty-two-year-old “Ernestine L. Rose”
“the daughter of an Orthodox Polish rabbi who had married William Rose while
living in England and who came to the United States in 1836” and “Jewish
champion of women’s rights addressed the National Women’s Right Convention in
Syracuse.”
1853: In “Marleybone, London,” “Jacob and
Matilda Waley gave birth Julia Matilda Waley who became Julia Matilda Cohen
when she married Nathan Louis Cohen with whom she had seven children.
1855(25th of Elul, 5615): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech;
Leil Selichot observed on the day during the Crimean War that the Allies began
their final attack on Sevastopol which led to the surrender of the Russians.
1855(25th of Elul, 5615):
Seventy-three-year-old Abigail Isaacs, the Newport born daughter of Moses
Isaacs passed away today in New York City.
1856(25th of Elul, 5615): Leil
Selichot
1856: “A Jewish society was organized today in
Grass Valley, CA
1858(29th of Elul, 5618): Erev Rosh Hashanah
observed one week before the third of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
1860(21st of Elul, 5620): Parashat
Ki Tavo; Leil Selichot observed for the last time during the Presidency of
James Buchannan.
1861(4th of Tishrei, 5622): Because
the 3rd of Tishrei fell on a Saturday, the Tzom Gedaliah is observed
today.
1862: Today, one day after
“Florian Moss, a son of Joseph L. Moss of Philadelphia had been appointed
Captain’s Clerk on the United States Ship ‘Vermont’ which was attached to the
South Blockading Squadron” he was named “Commander’s Clerk on the same vessel.”
1862(13th of Elul, 5622): Seventy-five-year-old
Michael Lazarus, the son of Marks and Rachel Lazarus who was a leader of the
Reform movement in Charleston, SC and who “opened steam navigation between
Charleston and Augusta” passed away today after which he was buried in the
Coming Street Cemetery in Charleston.
1862: Sergeant Levi Arnold began serving his three-year
enlistment by joining Company F of the 143rd Regiment, before
transferring to the Veteran Reserve Corps in 1863.
1865: Birthdate of Philadelphia native Harry
Clay Adler, the husband of Tennessee native Ada Ochs and father of Maj. Gen.
Julius Ochs Adler who was the general manager of the Chattanooga Times, the first block in the publishing empire of the New York Times.
1866(28th of Elul, 5676): Parashat
Nitzavim; last Shabat of 5676
1867: Birthdate of Russian socialist Russian
Aleksandr Izrail Lazarevich Gelfand who become famous as Alexander Israel
Helphand, the man who negotiated with the Germans during World War I to gain
Lenin’s return to Russia from Switzerland which brought about the Communist
Revolution and took Russia out of World War I.
1867: Birthdate of Maximilian Hirsch who lived
in Prague before being taken to Terezin in 942 where he was murdered.
1871: Adath Israel (Congregation of Israel)
dedicated its new home, a brick structure on 57th Street between
First and Second avenues in Manhattan. As part of the ceremony, Dr. Wasserman
delivered a talk in German and Vidaver delivered a speech in English that
explained the purpose of the various objects in the synagogue.
1872:
Birthdate of Clare Castel, nee Sammer one of the last nine Jewish residents of
Kleinsteinach all of whom were killed at either Theresienstadt or Isbica.
1873:
The Wandering Jew is scheduled to be performed at the Grand Opera House as part
of the "fall season" in NYC.
1873:
In Heilbronn, Germany, Fanny Ottenheimer and Elias Marx gave birth to Louis
Marx, the husband of Hanchen Rothschile and the father of Irma, Herbert and
Martin Marx
1876:
Birthdate of Israel Friedlander, the Polish born rabbi, educator and biblical
scholar who co-founded the Young Israel movement with Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan.
1877(1st of
Tishrei, 5638): Rosh Hashanah
1877: Rabbi Gottheil
and Lewis May, President of the Congregation, led services this morning at
Temple Emanu-El in New York City.
Services for the Reform temple began at 10 o’clock while services at the
city’s orthodox synagogues “began much earlier in the day.
1877: The Jewish
inmates at Sing Sing Prison will celebrate the Rosh Hashanah this evening. Services will be led by a chaplain who has
been specially appointed for this purpose.
Mr. Gratz Nathan of the 19th Street Synagogue and Mr. Adolph
Levy of the 44th Street Synagogue will provide the funds for the
service.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B0DEFD6133FE63BBC4053DFBF66838C669FDE
1878: In Wiesbaden, Germany, Rabbi Leo Lippman Elieser Kahn and Sarea Kahn
gave birth to Rosa Wyler the wife of Louis Wyler and the mother of Medical Doctor
Josef Wyler, Dr. of Jurisprudence Veit Wyler, Isaak Wyler and Berthold Wyler.
1878: In La Crosse, WI, the Hebrew Benevolent
Society became Congregation Anshe Chesed today.
https://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives;view=reslist;subview=standard;didno=lcpl-mss071;focusrgn=bioghist;cc=wiarchives;byte=1689750
1879: “Beth Israel” published today described
the “reconstruction of the Boerum Place Synagogue.”
1879: It was reported today that Vasile
Boerescui, the Romanian Foreign Minister has been “partially successful” in
getting the France and Germany to agree to a compromise that would delay the
promised emancipation of the Jews living in his country. After a meeting with
Count Andrassy, it appears that Austria agrees as well.
1881: It was reported today New York Jewish
wholesale liquor dealer Henry Lezinskye was arraigned before Justice Brimley in
Long Branch on charges of having swindled John J. Wheeler out of $775. Chances of conviction would seem to be slim
since the alleged offense took place more than seven years ago.
1881: Two days after he had passed away,
Bavarian native Joseph Strauss who was “naturalized in 1864” and was the
husband of Rosa Strauss was buried at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery
today.
1881: A committee that has been formed to
provide relief Russian Jewish immigrants who are expected to arrive in the next
few days will have its first meeting this evening at the offices of the Young
Men’s Hebrew Association. Judge Myer S.
Isaacs presided over the meeting
1882: In Voronezh, Russian
Empire, pianist Michael Hambourg and his wife gave birth to violinist Jan
Hambourg, the brother of pianist Mark Hambourg and cellist Boris Hambourg and
husnd of Isabelle McClung who was a co-director of the Hambourg
Conservatory of Music.
1883: In Cincinnati, OH, Bernhard and Rebecca
(Swope) Steinharter gave birth to MIT graduate and Harvard trained surgeon and
gynecologist and WWI veteran Edgard C. Steinharter who was the gynecologist for
the United Jewish Social Agencies in Cincinnati and the Jewish Hospital in
Cincinnati.
1883: Isaac Ottenberg, the Bavaria born son of
Maier and Rosa Ottenberg and his wife gave birth to District of Columbia
resident Bertha Pressler.
1884: “Democratic Reform Work” published today
described the rebellion in New Orleans’ First Congressional District where
Colonel Adolph Meyer, a Jewish wealthy cotton merchant, is seeking the
nomination.
1884: Birthdate of New York Law School graduate
and Democratic member of the NY State Assembly, David C. Lewis, who served as
“on the Domestic Relations bench” and served on the board of “the Young Men’s
and Young Women’s Hebrew Association of Washington Heights and Inwood while
raising three children – Hope, Rosalee and Roger.
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/08/archives/david-c-lewis-dies-a-lawyer-here-90.html
1885(28th of Elul, 5645): Eighty-nine-year-old
Kingston, Jamaica native Joseph Gutteres Henriques, the son of Sarah and Jacob
Bueno Henriques and the husband of Eliza Henriques with whom he had two
children, passed away today in London.
1886: Birthdate of poet and author Siegfried
Sassoon. Sassoon’s father was Jewish, but his mother was not. Alfred Sassoon,
Siegfried’s father was a member of the well-to-do Sassoon family of merchants.
However, among English Jews, wealth was not an excuse of assimilation and
Alfred was disinherited for marrying a Christian, even she did belong to one of
England’s leading family of sculptors. Whether out of spite, or just plain
insensitivity, Theresa Sassoon named her son for a leading character in a
Wagner opera. His middle name was taken from that of a Christian clergyman with
whom she was friendly.
1887(19th of Elul, 5647): Thirty-four-year-old Rosa Hammerslough, the
Baltimore born “daughter of Elkan Bamberger and Theresa Bamberger the wife of
Isadore Hammerslough and mother of Carrie Heims and Stella Schaap” passed away
today
1888(3rd of Tishrei, 5649): Shabbat
Shuva observed on the same day that Ann Chapman was killed by “Jack the
Ripper.”
1889: Rabbi Eugene Harfeld officiated at the
wedding of his brother David Harfeld, and Sarah Marx. This marriage would
figure in Harfeld’s later trial on charges of bigamy.
1890: During the services which “marked the
opening of the new synagogue in Hammersmith declared that he had received
unquestionable confirmation of recent statements in the newspapers about the
persecution of the Jews in Russia.”
1890: Birthdate of Philadelphia native David J.
Gaiter, the editor of the Jewish
Exponents for twenty years while writing columns “under the pseudonym
Baruch Haba” who was the President of the Jewish Book council of Philadelphia
and the husband of Minnie Gaiter, with whom he had two daughters.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/10/31/97628283.pdf
1890: “How The Jews Were Scattered” published
today provided a detailed review of The Jews Under Roman Rule by W.D.
Morrison.
http://www.heritage-history.com/?c=read&author=morrison&book=romanjew&story=_front
1891: One hundred Russian Jews arrived in
Montreal today.
1891: In Newburg, NY, Rabbi A. N. Coleman
officiated at the dedication of Temple Beth Jacob
1892: “Aizenstat’s Murder A Plot” published
today described the status of the police investigation into the murder of
Lazarus Aizenstat, a Jewish immigrant from Odessa who was probably killed after
an assailant so far only identified as Solomon and his confederates robbed him
of the 35,000 rubles he was carrying which was to be used to buy a farm in
Connecticut.
1893(27th of Elul, 5653): William
Mordecai passed away
1893(27th of Elul, 5653): Seventy-seven-year-old
journalist and champion of the Haskalah (Enlightenment) Aleksander Zederbaum
who was the founder of Ha-Meliz the first Hebrew newspaper published in Russia,
passed away today.
1893(27th of Elul, 5653): Ninety-year-old
merchant and financier Joseph Barrow Montefiore, the London born son of Eliezer
and Judith (Barrow) Montefiore and husband of the former Rebecca Mocatta who
made his fortune in Australia passed away today in Brighton, England.
(According to some sources he passed away on September 4)
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/montefiore-joseph-barrow-2472
1893: Herman Appel announced that he was a
candidate for Grand Master of the Independent Order of Ahavus Israel, a
position that had been held by Bernard Weinberg, the disgraced banker
1894(7th of Elul, 5654): Mrs.
Abraham Greenspan of 117 Siegel Street, Williamsburg passed away after being
hospitalized.
1894: In New York City, Jacob and Jennie (Reis)
Davidson gave birth to NYU graduate Louis R. Davidson, the Bellevue Hospital
Medical College trained surgeon.
1896(1st of Tishrei, 5657): As
Williams Jennings Bryan and William McKinley compete for the Presidency Jews
observed the first day of Rosh Hashanah
1896: Birthdate of New York City native and
Columbia University alum Howard Deitz, the prolific songwriter and WW I Navy
veteran.
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/01/obituaries/howard-dietz-songwriter-dies-at-86.html
1896: Birthdate of Asonia, CT. Herman Broday,
the Harvard trained surgical and WW I veteran who practiced in Springfield, MA.
1896: “The Fourth Assembly District Tammany
Convention to elect delegates was not held tonight as in other districts
because of” Rosh Hashanah. Most of the
members of the 4th District organization are Jewish “and they would
allow politics to interfere with the…observance of the occasion.”
1897: Rabbi Isaac M. Wise, the leader of the
Reform movement wrote from Cincinnati on the impossibility and impracticality
of a Jewish state describing the recently held Congress in Basel as “a novelty,
a gathering of visionary and impracticable dreams who conceived and acted a
romantic drama and applauded it all by themselves.”
1898: In Bessarabia, Israel and Sarah (Droll)
Gold gave birth Benjamin “Ben” Gold, husband of the former Sadie Algus, who in
1910 came to the United States where he served as the president of the
International Fur Workers Union, and after having organized the leather workers
folded them into what became the International Fur and Leather Workers Union.
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/25/nyregion/ben-gold.html?searchResultPosition=1
1899: While visiting the New York State Fair,
Governor Theodore Roosevelt delivered an address that covered several topics
including the Dreyfus Case, saying that such an episode could not happen in
this country because justice is applied equally to all be they Jew, Gentile,
Irishman and or “those whose ancestors landed…at Plymouth Rock.”
1899: Baron Russell of Killowen, the Lord Chief
Justice of England was among those who attended the trial of Captain Dreyfus
which is in the fifth day of the fifth week.
1899: Birthdate of World War I veteran George
M. “Chick” Feigin the 1922 graduate of City College “where he won four varsity
letters and was captain of the basketball” after which he graduated from
Fordham Law School in 1924 and founded Camp Chopee for Boys in Pennsylvania.
1899: “Jews Appeal To The Kaiser” published
today described a telegram sent by the Jews of Memphis, TN asking Kaiser
Wilhelm to allow German officials with knowledge that is germane to the Dreyfus
to testify at the trial now being held at Rennes.
1899: In Washington, DC, Abraham Reingold, a
young Jew from New York was discharged from Georgetown University Hospital even
though he was “partly paralyzed” – a condition that seems to be related to the
depression he is suffering as a result of a failed love affair.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9404E1DF133DE633A2575AC0A96F9C94689ED7CF
1900: The deadliest hurricane in U.S. history
which killed between 6,000 and 8,000 people and caused over $20 million in
damage struck Galveston, TX taking its toll on a Jewish community whose leaders
included Rabbi Henry Cohen of B’nai Israel, Rabbi Leo N. Levi, a supporter of
the so-called Galveston Plan and I.H. Kempner who gave “interest free loans to
local churches, the library, and the local orphans home to help them get back
on their feet after the storm and who became Galveston’s first finance commissioner
with the goal of helping the city regain its economic footing.
1900: Birthdate of Romanian native Isadore Blumenfeld a Jewish-American organized crime figure
based in Minneapolis, Minnesota known as Kid Cann.
1901: It was reported that a list of the
charities in New York filled “seventy-two closely printed pages” and included
“the immigrant aid societies for every race that comes to these shore” many of
which are for Jewish people.
1902: The US state of Maine, whose population
includes approximately five thousand Jews, held its election for the House of
Representatives.
1903: Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky also known as
Ridvaz or Ridbaz was elected chief rabbi of the Russian-American congregations
in Chicago after having been as the zekan haRabbanim (elder rabbi) of the
United Orthodox Rabbis of America at their annual meeting in August of 1903
1903: Louis and Sarah Miller Fishbein gave
birth to Nathan S. Fisbein, the husband of his dancing partner, Evelyn L.
Goldberg Fishbein.
1904: As of today, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum is
reported to be providing services to almost 1,000 children.
1905: “Headgear in Church: The Jewish View of
Covering the Head” was published today in Judaicus.
1906: A three-day pogrom that would result in
the death of more than 32 Jews and negatively impacted “1,530 families” began
today in Siedice, a town in the Polish part of the Russian Empire.
1906: Hyman Gerson Enelow attended the second
day of dedication exercises celebrating the opening of the new Temple in
Louisville, KY.
1907(29th of Elul, 5667): Erev Rosh
Hashanah
1907: Dr. Joseph Silverman “and his associate
Rabbi J. L. Magnes conducted services a Temple Emanu-El” which included
congregational singing and singing by the choir.
1907: Dr. Stephen Wise, the rabbi at the Free
Synagogue delivered an address on “The Call to the Higher Life” in which he
that “the chief fault today of the members of the Jewish race…is that they are
imitators instead of originators.
1907: Services were held at Ellis Island for
the “Jewish immigrants who have been detained there.”
1908: In Wilmington, DE, University of
Pennsylvania trained physician and National Guard Captain Herman Trager, the
Russian born son of David and Zena (Weiss) Trager gave birth to University of
Pennsylvania trained physician and National Guard Captain Herman Trager, who
was a member of Beth El-Rothschild in Philadelphia, married Bertha Grossman.
1908: “After a conference which Oscar
Hammerstein had to-day with Andrew Wheeler, Jr., and G. Heide Norris, the
Jewish impresario announced that a list of the applicants for grand tier boxes
for the approaching operatic season at the Philadelphia Opera House would be
made public in a few days.”
1909: Jews in Aleppo telegraph the Hahambashi
requesting he intervene with the government respecting taxes for exemption for
military service, on account of their precarious financial situation. The
Hahambashi prevailed and the Minister of Finance telegraphed the Aleppo
authorities to collect only 20% of debt Jews owed, and to release prisoners
from prison who could not pay.
1909: Today “Vitascope-Theater GmbH changed its
name to Deutsche Vitascope GmbH, with Jules Greenbaum as the owner and managing
director.”
1910: “The Council of Ministers today approved
a plan to extend to the Jews the right of residence in eight towns in the
Provinces of Vitobsk, Wolhynia, Mohileff, Polatava and Kherson” which will now
be presented to Czar for “imperial sanction.”
1911: The German Emperor confers the Order of
Red Eagle, Second Class, on Professor Hugo Munsterberg who has been serving as
Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. “The Order of the Red Eagle was
an order of chivalry that the Kingdom of Prussia awarded to both military
personnel and civilians, to recognize valor in combat, excellence in military
leadership, long and faithful service to the kingdom, or other achievements.”
World War I flying ace Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, is probably the most
famous recipient of the award. Hugo Münsterberg was an early leader in the
fields of applied and industrial psychology. He died suddenly in December, 1916
while giving a lecture at Harvard.
1911: Monsieur Levy, Advocate-General at the
Court of Appeals in Indo-China is appointed Procureur General and Chielf of
Judicial Service in French Guiana.
1911: F.C. Hollander was re-elected Mayor of
Durban, South Africa
1911: The cornerstone of the first synagogue in
Alberta, Canada was laid.
1911: In Omaha, Nebraska, dedication of “Beth
Hamedrosh Hagodol today.
1911(15th of Elul, 5671): Mrs. Chawe
Mosche Chait passed away today.
1911(15th of Elul, 5671): David
Rueben Hurwitz passed away today.
1911(15th of Elul, 5671): Lithuanian
Rabbi Shlomo-Zalman Traub who was born in 1830 and succeeded his father, Rabbi
Abraham Simon, as the rabbi of Keidan, passed away today.
1912: It was reported today that Rosh Hashanah
services “have been organized for the Jewish inmates at the tuberculosis camp
at Westfield.
1912: In Malden, Massachusetts, founding of
Agudas Achim.
1912: In Jersey City, NJ, founding of the
Hebrew Free School.
1912: In Brooklyn, founding of the Machzikei
Talmud Torah of Borough Park.
1912: In Philadelphia, founding of Adath
Jeshurun Synagogue.
1912: The strike by furriers in New York, many
of whom were Jewish, was settled today.
1913: In Boston, Victor H. Elsas, the Atlanta
born son of Jacob Elisas and Clara Stahl and his wife Bertha Elsas gave birth
to Jason Morse Elsas/
1913: In New York City, Minnie and Sender
Alexander Frankel gave birth to Moe Frankel.
1914: The Turkish government canceled
capitulation measures, according to which foreign nationals were subject only
to their consuls and not to the governments of the country in which they live
leaving thousands of Jews in Palestine with foreign citizenship to worry about
their fate.
1914: During the Battle of the Marne, German on
attacks at Nancy “tapered off” thanks in no small part of Joffre countermanding
General Castelnau to withdraw from this critical position.
1914: Eighty-seven-year-old attorney Gustave
Ferdinand Hertz, the Hamburg native known as David Gustav Hertz who became a
Lutheran when he married Anna Elisabeth Pfefferkorn and father of physicist
Heinrich Hert passeawa today.
1915(29th of Elul, 5675): Erev Rosh
Hashana
1915: In the evening Rosh Hashanah services are
held for the first time at the recently organized “The New Synagogue” a liberal
congregation founded on New York’s West Side by Rabbi Ephraim Frisch.
1915: At the Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall,
Dr. Stephen Wise “delivered a Rosh Hashanah sermon in which he discussed some
of the issues inspired by Germany’s attitude toward submarine warfare.
1915: “On the eve of the Jewish holidays”
approximately $1,000,000 has been raised in response “to the appeal of the
American Jewish Relief Committee made to Jews throughout the United States in
behalf of those suffering in Europe.”
1916: “Life’s Whirlpool” starring Fania
Marinoff, the Odessa born daughter of Mayer and Leah Marinoff who was raised in
a Jewish home
1916(10th of Elul, 5676): Seventy-five-year-old
Joseph Poznanski, the second born son of Esther G. Poznanski and Gustavus
Poznanski, the “shochet and chazzan of New York’s Congregation Shearith Israel”
who began serving Congregation Beth Elohim in 1836 after which he advocated
such “Reform” measures as holding the service in English, observing only one
day of each holiday and including organ music.
1916: Salonica government declares compulsory
military service is now required and that all Jews over 21 cannot leave from
its newly acquired provinces.
1916:”The Confessions of the Green Mask”
directed by Max Mack, produced by Jules Greenbaum, starring Reinhold Schunzel
and filmed by cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum was released today in Germany.
1916: Following the failure during the Taft
administration of “a movement to have the Government establish a university as
a memorial to Hyyam Solomon to be maintained by the interest on the money owed
to Hyyam Solomon by the United States government, it was reported today that
the heirs of Solomon, “who gave George Washington $660 to help finance the
American revolution will petition to restore the money” which an earlier
Congress had acknowledged was owed to him.
1917(21st of Elul, 5677): Seventy-six-year
Talmudic scholar Israel Lewy, the author of Ueber
Einige Fragmente aus der Mischna des Abba Saul passed away today.
1918(2nd of Tishrei, 5679): Second
Day of Rosh Hashanah
1918: Jewish soldiers and sailors are able to
observe the Jewish New York thanks to the Secretaries of War and the Navy
having ordered that furloughs be granted for that purpose.
1919: After the Actors’ Equity strike was
settled, “La La Lucille,” a George Gershwin musical reported today at the
Criterion Theatre.
1919: In “France Is Pledged To Jewish Freedom”
published today “Marcel Knecht, the Director of the Official Bureau of French
Information in the United States is quoted as paying “official tribute to the
patriotic services of the Jews in America and elsewhere” during World War I
including the contributions of “Ambassadors Elkus, Henry Morgenthau and Oscar
Straus, Justice Louis Brandeis, Bernard Baruch, Julius Rosenwald, Mortimer
Schiff and Colonel Harry Cutler whose names are greatly cherished” in France.
1920(25th Elul, 5680): Seventy-seven-year-old
German Jewish publisher and philanthropist Rudolf Mosse who established one of
the first advertising agencies in Berlin, when that “industry” was all but
unknown passed away today.
1920: The first day of examinations for those
wishing to attend the Teachers Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary.
1920: Registration began today for all former
and new pupils at The Hebrew School of Congregation of Petach Tikvah in
Brooklyn
1920(25th of Elul, 5680): In
Cleveland, Ohio, “communal worker” Ilennan Peskind pass away today.
1921: Birthdate of Lou Goldstein, the native of
Warsaw whose career became synonymous with Borscht Belt humor (As reported by
Joseph Berger)
1922: In Yonkers, NY, Max Ziser and his wife Ida (née Raphael gave birth to the
youngest of their three sons Isaac Sidney Caesar who gained fame as comedian
Sid Caesar whose greatest fame came in the 1950's when he starred in the weekly
Sunday night, "Your Show of Shows."
http://www.timesofisrael.com/sid-caesar-comic-genius-of-1950s-television-dies-at-91/
1923(27th of Elul, 5683): Parashat
Nitzavim observed as Jews read “Anti-Jewish Fictions – International Moratorium
of Hate Needed” written by Dr. Stephen S. Wise which was published in
yesterday’s issue of The American Hebrew.
1924: “Opposed to Jews Settling in Mexico”
published described “opposition to efforts to settle Jews in the Crimea and
Mexico which was expressed by the Zionist Organization of America at its
National Executive Committee's meeting in the Hotel Pennsylvania”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1924/09/08/issue.html
1925: Outfielder Si Rosenthal made his major
league debut with the Boston Red Sox.
1926(29th of Elul, 5686): Erev Rosh
Hashanah
1926: As the year 5687 begins, “sermons will be
preached in more than four hundred synagogues in New York and vicinity in
connection with Rosh ha-Shanah, which begins at sundown today, on the
rebuilding of Palestine as a Jewish national homeland.”
1926: “Queen High,” produced by Laurence Schwab
opened at the Ambassador Theatre which owned by operated by Lee and JJ Shubert
head of the Shubert Theatre Corporation.
1927: The funeral of Marcus Loew is scheduled
to be held this morning at his estate in Glen Cove. Burial will be at
Maimonides Cemetery, Cypress Hills. “No estimate was obtainable of the size of
Mr. Loew's fortune, but the extent of his interests and operations indicate it
is a very large one. In 1924, Mr. Loew bought "Pembroke," the late
Captain Joseph R. de Lamar estate for an announced price of $1,000,000 and he
is said to have spent several millions more on it since. In February of this
year he was reported to be carrying life insurance of $5,000,000, being one of
the nine men in the country insured for that much or more. His holdings are
said to be concentrated in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation and
Loew's, Inc.”
1928(23rd of Elul, 5688): Parashat
Nitzavim-Vayeilch; Leil Selichot
1928: It was reported today that Governor
Alfred E. Smith issued his annual message on the occasion of the Jewish high
holy days in which he expressed his wish to his Jewish fellow-citizens a good
and prosperous New Year and in which he asserted that “the separation of Church
and State is a fundamental American principle.”
1929: Rothschild is in Yugoslavia where the
London banker is believed to have discussed the possibilities of a loan with
King Alexander I.
1930: Birthdate of Sanford “Sandy” C. Sigoloff,
a corporate turnaround expert who called himself the Skillful Scapel. (As
reported by Mary Williams Walsh)
1930: Public schools in New York City began
teaching classes in Hebrew.
1931: Birthdate of Jack Morris Rosenthal CBE,
an English playwright, who wrote 129 early episodes of the ITV soap opera
Coronation Street and over 150 screenplays, including original TV plays,
feature films, and adaptations
1932(7th of Elul, 5692): Seventy-four-year-old
Jette Eppenheim, the Brandenburg, Germany born daughter of Louis Eppenheim and
Marianne Steinhardt, the wife of Frederik de Jong and the mother of Leon and
Salomon de Jong passed away today in The Hague.
1932: After spending part of the summer in
Palestine Rabbi Israel Goldstein, the spiritual leader of Congregation B’Nai
Jershurun and the President of the Jewish Conciliation court report returned to
the United States yesterday on board the SS Europa and reported that Jewish
life was developing a sense of strength and permanence. He also noted that the
major building activities have changed the complexion of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv
and Haifa.
1933: Birthdate of Detroit native Paul Fleiss,
the California doctor best known as the father of Heidi Fleiss.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-paul-fleiss-20140720-story.html
1933: The Second World Jewish Congress met in
Geneva and votes to organize a world-wide boycott of German goods in response
to the actions of the Hitler government.
1933: Following the death today of King Faisal
of Iraq, Ghazi bin Faisal began his reign during which he “fell under the sway
of Dr. Fritz Grobba, Hitler’s ambassador to Iraq/”
1933: “One Man’s Journey” a doctor story
produced by Pandro S. Berman was released in the United States by RKO.
1934(28th of Elul, 5694): Parashat
Nitzavim
1934(28th of Elul, 5694): Eighty-year-old
Yiddish author Tsvi-Nisn Golomb the Lithuanian born son of R. Aba-Elyahu and
gather of Emanuel Golomb with whom he “compiled a biographical handbook in
Hebrew, entitled Ḥemdat yisrael (Treasury of Israel)” passed away today.
1934: Appeals for the relief of distressed Jews
in Germany and other foreign lands were issued today by Jewish organizations
and leaders while more than 700 synagogues and other places of worship
completed preparations for the annual observance of Rosh ha-Shanah, the Jewish
New Year, ushering in the year 5695 in the Hebrew calendar tomorrow evening at
sundown.
1935: “Benjamin Winter, president of the
American Federation of Polish Jews, was elected chairman today of the world
congress of nineteen federations of communities of Polish Jews outside Poland.”
1936: Economist Karl Pribram and his wife Edith
set sail today from New York aboard the Italian liner Saturnia today on trip to
the Mediterranean.
1936: Following a greeting sent by President
Roosevelt last week to American Jews on the occasion of the celebration of
their upcoming holy days, “similar messages from two other Presidential
candidates were announced today by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
1936: A preliminary conference of Christian and
Jews organized by the Pro-Palestine Federation of America which is trying to
mobilize and encourage Christian interest in the right of the Jews to establish
a national home in Palestine took place in the Hotel Pennsylvania which was
presided over by Franklyn Hudgings who said “We Christians stand on the side of
God if we help the Jews.”
1936: “Arab Terrorism Answered” published today
which included a summary of the British response to the last five months of
Arab violence and plans for future moves to quell the uprising end with the
conclusion that “For peace and cooperation between Jew and Arab in the common
task of rebuilding Palestine depend on Britain’s showing unmistakably its
determination to maintain its obligations under the Balfour Declaration.”
1936: In a three minute speech at Nuremberg’s
City Hall, “Chancellor Adolf Hitler…proclaimed his restoration of ‘full arms
sovereignty’ to the German national during the last year.”
1936: A preliminary conference of Christian and
Jews organized by the Pro-Palestine Federation of America which is trying to
mobilize and encourage Christian interest in the right of the Jews to establish
a national home in Palestine is scheduled to take place in the Hotel
Pennsylvania
1937: Nathaniel Shilkret conducted “An American
Paris” during the George Gershwin Memorial Concert which was broadcast from the
Hollywood Bowl.
1937: In Dayton, OH, “Bella (née Cabakoff) and
Harry Wexner” gave birth to OSU alum and CEO of L Brands, Leslie H. Wexner,
“the billionaire businessman, philanthropist and major Republican Party donor”
who is the husband of attorney Abigail S. Koppel and father of Harry, Hannah,
David and Sarah Koppel.
1937: A memorial concert was held at the
Hollywood Bowl today, at which Otto Klemperer conducted his own orchestration
of the second of Gershwin's Three Preludes
1938: Baron Louis Rothschild continues to be
“detained at secret police headquarters” in Vienna “where he is not permitted
to receive visitors.
1938: In Rome, “an authoritative source said
today that Guido Serge, Italy’s Consul General in Boston has been recalled
because he was Jewish while an official at the Italian Embassy took issue with
that report because he claimed the decision to recall Serge had been made
“prior to Mussolini’s announcement of the decree banning Jews from public
posts.”
1939: Two hundred Jews were forced into the
synagogue in Bedzin, Poland after which the building was set on fire.
1939: Jews in Germany were ordered to mark all
businesses with a Star of David
1940: “Dr. Max Artz a member of the faculty of
the Jewish Theological Seminary addressed a peace service this afternoon at the
seminary’s synagogue” in which “he said Jews would cease to be a religious
people if they gave up hope for peace.”
1940: “Strike at Jews in Maine” published today
“the first demonstration of racial conflict” when varnish was found smeared
over the store fronts and windows of the eight Jewish owned establishments in
Bath ME, where Sam Prawer, a wholesale produce dealer found that all of the tires on his truck had been
slashed.
1941: One and half year-old Joseph Brodsky and
his family were among those trapped in Leningrad when the siege of that
Russian, which would last for almost two and a half years, began today.
1941: The requirement Jews wear a yellow badge
was annulled after five days by an order Romanian dictator Ion Antonesu issued
today.
1942: In the House of Commons, Winston
Churchill referred to the deportation of French Jews. No mention was made of
the fate of rest of the Jews of Europe. This silence was not for lack of
information available to the Allied governments.
1942: Composer, conductor and pianist Viktor
Ullman whose “list of works had reached 41 opus numbers and contained an
additional three piano sonatas, song cycles on texts by various poets, operas,
and the piano concerto Op. 25” was deported to Theresienstadt concentration
camp
1943: On the day that Eisenhower announced that
Italy had surrendered unconditionally, "six battalions of German
paratroopers" marched into Rome causing panic among the citizenry
including a report that "The Jews are in a panic and trying to leave the
city.
1943: The five thousand Jews deported from the
Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia Ghetto arrive at Auschwitz.
1943: In Croatia, the German Army occupied
Dubrovnik which had been home to 250 Jews before the war and which is home to
what is now the “oldest Sefardic synagogue still in use today.”
1943: Italian insurance executive and
university professor Piero Scaerdoti took “refuge in Switzerland with his wife
Ilse, his son Giorgio and his parents” to avoid further persecution by the
Nazis who were now exercising greater control following Italy’s withdrawal from
the Axis cause.
1944: Jermie Adler returned to Liege after it
was liberated by U.S. troops today.
Adler was a Hungarian Jew who moved with his family to Liege before WW
II. The Nazis would kill them all except
for one of his daughters.
1944: There were more reprisals in reaction to
the Slovakia Uprisings. Einsatzkommando broke into Jewish homes and deported
the Jewish population of Topolcany, Slovakia
1945(1st of Tishrei,
5706): Rosh Hashanah
1945: “Thousands of
Jewish immigrants only recently freed from Nazi concentration camps celebrated
the Jewish New Year in the Holy Land” where “Hebrew newspapers expressed the
hope that the New Year would bring aid to all Jewish survivors of the Nazi plague
in Europe including the 110,000 men, women and children now in Allied caps in
occupied Germany.”
1945: In Vienna,
General W. Mark W. Clark’s headquarters announced that all units were issuing twenty-four
hour passes so they could “join with the remnants of Austria’s Jewish
population in the first open observance of the Jewish holy days in Austria
since the Anschluss in 1938
1945: In Vienna “3,500
Jews remaining from a pre-war Jewish population of 180,000 gathered in the
ancient Stadt Temple for Rosh Hashanah Services.
1945: In his sermon
today, Rabbi William F. Rosenblum of Temple Israel called “for a gathering of
the world’s religious leaders a sequel to the San Francisco Conference” that
created the United Nations.
1945: Rabbi J. Howard
Ralberg of Congregation Ohav Shalom told worshippers that “we were now in an
era of vigilance, work and enlightenment” and called “for continuous alertness
against the recurrence of another catastrophe.”
1945” Rabbi David de
Sola Pool of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue delivered a sermon on “The
New Era of Peace.”
1945: At Temple Rodeph
Shalom, Rabbi Louis I. Newman told his congregants “that in the midst of all
discussions of a new age and new ways, we must remember that it is the heart
and will of man which must be reconstructed.
1945: In a sermon
delivered at the West Side Institutional Synagogue Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein
“said that the religious of reconversion is at least as important as the
material aspect.”
1945: In his sermon
Rabbi Zev Zahavy of Congregation Ohab Zedek “compared the scientific strides
made during the war to the great task still ahead of moving toward a higher
level in the sphere of human relations.”
1945(1st of
Tishrei,5706): Lt. Col. Louis Geffen, a judge advocate in the US Army conducted
“improvised High Holiday services” on board his ship which was sailing across
the Pacific from California to the Philippines.
1945: On Rosh Hashanah, 5706, Bess Myerson was
the first (and only) Jew to be crowned Miss America. Miss Myerson went on to
enjoy a successful modeling and television career before take an active role in
New York City politics.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/sep/08/1945/bess-myerson
1946: “Declaring that Palestine alone could not
offer a solution to the problem of the Jewish refugees of Europe, fifty-nine
prominent persons have urged, in a letter to President Truman, that the United
States and all other nations open their doors to a number of immigrants.”
1946: Following the settlement of the strike at
the D. Emil Klein Company which manufactures cigars, the only issue left to be
settled as of today is whether or not “the Food and Tobacco, Agricultural and
Allied Workers of the CIO should act as the bargaining agent” for the company’s
plant at Trenton, NJ.
1947: The refugee ship Exodus is returned to
Hamburg and its cargo of 4500 holocaust survivors removed by force. Some claim
that this act more than any other helped force international public opinion
against British policy. Others would contend that this is a slightly
romanticized view of the outcome of this episode. The saga of the Exodus did
supply the opening scenes, and title for, Leon Uris' epic novel Exodus
1948: “Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, Chairman of the
American Section of the World Zionist Organization said today that while the
people and the army of Israel were strong ‘and their strength is increasing’
they were restive under the current truce in the Holy Land.”
1948: “New York will formally observe the
establishment of the Republic of Israel on September 15th as part of the celebration of the city's
Golden Anniversary, it was announced today
1949: “Under Capricorn,” the film version of
the novel by the same name co-produced by Sidney Bernstein and with music
directed by Louis Levy was released today in the United Kingdom.
1950: In Passaic, NJ, Edna Kronman and English
teacher Morris Goldberger gave birth to Pulitzer Prize wining Yale educated
author and architecture critic Paul Jess Goldberger, the husband of Susan L.
Solomon Z”L and the father of David, Adam and Benjamin Goldberger who has served
as the Dean of Parsons The New School for Design, an art and design college of
The New School and the Joseph Urban Professor of Design at the institution
1950: In a letter to the editor published on
this date in the New York Times, Alfred Wener is critical of those who think
removing Dr. Bernard (Dov) Josepher as Minister of Supply and Rationing will
solve Israel’s economic crisis. He reminds the readers that Israel was created
a year ago as a result of a long, expensive war and that it has been absorbing
tens of thousands of immigrants most of whom are indigent. Part of the solution
to the crisis could be found in massive financial aid and assistance from “the
world at large.”
1951(7th of Elul,5711): Parashat
Shoftim
1951(7th of Elul, 5711): After
having suffered a heart attack on September 6, seventy-year-old Russian born
Alexander L. Luira, the head of Luria Brothers and Co. of Philadelphia, the
largest scrap metal business in the United was founded by Hirsh Luria passed away
today in Atlantic City.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/09/09/84861880.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1951: It was announced today that Israel's
acceptance of the United Nation's Palestine Conciliation Commission's
invitation to a conference in Paris next week to discuss possible settlement of
outstanding Israeli-Arab problems will be delivered to the commission tomorrow
or Monday.
1952(18th of Elul, 5712): Seventy-one year old
Rabbi Eugene M. Mannheimer who had married Irma Shloss Mannheimer in 1917
passed away after which he was buried at Emanuel Cemetery in Des Moines, IA.
1952: Israel agreed to accept reparation money
from West Germany. The issue of accepting reparation money from West Germany
was the cause of much acrimonious debate. Many in Israel did not want to take
the money because they felt that no amount of funds could "buy"
forgiveness for the Holocaust.
1952: Leonard Bernstein becomes a father with
the birth of his daughter, Jamie Anne Maria.
1952: Birthdate of Israeli political leader Eli
Aflalo, the native of Casablanca who made Aliyah in 1962.
1953: Birthdate of Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor,
the “Russian businessman and philanthropist” with ties to Vladimir Putin “the President
of the European Jewish Congress, President of the World Holocaust Forum
Foundation (WHF), Chairman of the European Jewish Fund (EJF), and Chairman of
the World Jewish Congress (WJC) Policy Council.
1955: In Los Angeles, Genna Sue Ervin and
Julian Hammer gave birth to Michael Arman Hammer, the son of Julian Armand
Hammer and the “grandson of industrialist Armand Hammer” was a Ukrainian Jewish
immigrant.
https://people.com/movies/armie-hammer-dad-michael-armand-hammer-dead-from-cancer/
1956(3rd of Tishrei, 5717): Shabbat
Shuva
1956(3rd of Tishrei, 5717): Fifty-one-year-old
Fargo, ND born University of Arkansas and George Washington University trained
pediatrician who founded Bound Brook Hospital in Bound Brook, NJ with his
brothers Benjamin and Maurice passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/09/10/86697470.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1956(3rd of Tishrei, 5717): Sixty-two-year-old
historian, translator and author Jacob Levy whose works included “the
translation of four of French-Jewish philosopher Henri Bergson's books into
Hebrew” as well a series of history textbooks based on his belief “that
studying historical dates is less important that learning the processes that
led to historical events.” (Editor’s note – MY KIND OF GUY)
1956(3rd of Tishrei, 5717): Fifty-nine-year-old
Sam Ash, the Jewish immigrant from the Austro-Hungarian Empire who founded “Sam
Ash Music Corp., the largest family-owned
chain of musical instrument stores in the United States “ passed away today.
http://samashmusic.com/portal/
1957: A
group of 62 American and Canadian athletes who are to compete in the 5th
world Maccabiah Games is scheduled to land in Israel today.
1958: After
an emergency meeting of
the Appeal's national campaign cabinet at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, “the
United Jewish Appeal opened a campaign today to raise $40,000,000 in cash by
the end of the year to aid its overseas programs.
1959:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held at The Riverside, for Nathan
Hollander, the husband of Hannah Hollender and a member of Temple Israel at
Lake Peekskill, NY,
1960(16th
of Elul, 5720): Russian born Leah Shifter Ronder, the wife of Aaron Ronder and
the mother of Rose and Ruben Ronder passed away in Cleveland after which she
was buried in the Bet Olam Cemetery in Beachwood, OH
1961(27th of Elul, 5721): Seventy-one-year-old
Maxwell Parnes, the son of Louis and Clara Parnes and the husband of Sarah
Blumberg Parnes, passed away today after which he was buried at Mount Hebron
Cemetery in Flushing, NY.
1962: Having gained its independence from
France, Algerians voted to adopt a new constitution. “When Algeria attained
independence in 1962, legislation granted Algerian citizenship only to those
residents whose father or paternal grandfather were Muslims. Moreover, the
Supreme Court of Justice of Algeria declared that the Jews were no longer under
the protection of the Law. Most of Algeria's 140,000 Jews left the country for
France together with the pied-noirs; only about 10,000 stayed, a number that would
rapidly decrease.” When the issue of “Palestinian refugee” is discussed, facts
like these are never mentioned.
1963(19th of Elul, 5723): Eighty-two-year-old
Polish born Hyman Goldstein, the Chicago tailor turned real estate agent who
married Rebecca Goldstein after the death of his first wife Bella, passed away
today.
1963(19th of Elul, 5723): Eighty-four-year-old
Hungarian born Rabbi Morris David Waldman, the “professional head of the
American Jewish Committee, the President of the National Conference of Jewish
Communal Service and “executive of the United Hebrew Charities of New York”
passed away today.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0023/ms0023.html
1963: “Dr. Emanuel
Neumann, chairman of the American section of the Jewish Agency and the
President of the World Confederation of General Zionists asserted today that
the response of the American Jews community for assistance to meet the barest
minimum required for the absorption and settlement of the increased wave of
incoming refugees arriving in Israel by the scores of thousands ‘has been
inadequate and disappointing.’” (As reported by JTA)
1963: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held today for eighty-one-year- NYU trained attorney Isidor
Wels, the New York City born son of Tillie Roth and Simon Wels and
the husband of Belle Hoffman and senior part of the law firm of Moss, Wels and
Marcus who belonged to Temple B’nai Israel and the American Jewish Committee.
1964(2nd of Tishrei, 5725): Second
Day of Rosh Hashanah
1964: Birthdate of professional wrestler Scott
Levy.
1965: Martin and Ruth Bader Ginsberg gave birth
to American record producer James Steven Ginsburg
1965(11th of Elul, 5725): Joshua Lionel Cowen
passed away. Born in 1880, he was the American inventor of electric model
trains who founded the Lionel Corporation (1901), which became the largest U.S.
toy train manufacturer. At age 18, he had invented a fuse to ignite the
magnesium powder for flash photography, which the Navy Department bought from
him to be a fuse to detonate submarine mines. He designed an early battery tube
light, but without practical application. (His partner, Conrad Hubert, to whom
he gave the rights improved it and founded the Eveready Flashlight Company.) At
age 22, he created a battery-powered train engine intended only as an
eye-catcher for other goods in a store window. To his surprise, many customers
wanted to purchase the toy train. Thus he started a model railroad company
1965: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Martin Ginsburg
gave birth to record producer James Steven Ginsburg.
1966(23rd of Elul, 5726): Seventy-two-year-old
Willard Hotel manager and long-time member of the United States Olympic
Committee, Charles Lewis Manager who worked on physical fitness programs for
the U.S. Army, helped to create the Maccabiah Games and was married first to
the former Anne Bernstein, and then after she passed way, to the former Aletha
Marlott passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/09/09/82903958.pdf
1966: “Kaleidoscope” a British film produced by
Elliot Kastner and Jerry Gershwin premiered today in London.
1966: “A television
series pilot known as Star Trek” whose two leading characters – William Shatner
and Leonard Nimoy were Jewish- was introduced on American television.
1967: “The Rockwell-Standard Cor- portion, a
major diversified industrial corporation, has sold its executive jet aircraft
business to the Government of Israel for $25-million, the company's chairman
said today.
1968: This afternoon Vice President Hubert
Humphrey is scheduled to address the Triennial Convention of the B’nai B’rith
followed by former Vice President and Republican Presidential candidate Richard
Nixon who will address the meeting tonight.
1969: Two Arabs recruited by Al Fatah lobbed
hand grenades at the El Al office in Brussels.
1969: In a case of “Jew plus Jew” Yaphet Kotto
began playing the part of “Jack Johnson” in the Howard Sackler’s prize-winning
play, “The Great White Hope.”
1970(7th of Elul, 5730): Sixty-eight-year-old
Bessarabia born American Yiddish author and poet Henekh Akerman who wrote under the
pseudonyms: A. Malinitser, H. Atlas, H. Akosta, and H. Libes” passed away
today.
https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/6821/Akerman,%20Henekh%20(October%206,%201901%E2%80%93September%208,%201970)
1971: In Washington, DC, the John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated with the opening feature being
the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass. Yes, only in America would a civic
opera house feature a Catholic themed musical creation written by a Jewish
citizen.
1972(29th of Elul, 5732): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1972: “Chancellor Willy Brandt said today that
his government wanted a “frank” and “ruthless” inquiry into the killings
touched off by an Arab terrorist raid on the Israeli Olympic team…
1972: “Special prayers will be recited in
synagogue and temples at sundown today for the slain Israeli Olympic athletes
as the observance of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year of 5773 begins” this
evening.
1972: In his sermon this evening at the Fifth
Avenue Synagogue, Rabbi Emanuel Rackmen said the Munich Massacre “was only one
manifestation of the abandonment of reason by lunatics.”
1972: In his annual High Holiday message
published today, “Rabbi Louis Bernstein, president of the Rabbinical Council of
America asserted that Rosh Hashanah represented the ‘struggle between the
spiritual and material for the possession of the hearts and minds of mankind”
and “in a reference to the Munich Massacre called on all nations “to put an end
to these wanton acts of murder.”
1972: In his annual High Holiday message,
“Rabbi Irving Lehrman, president of the Synagogue Council of America” which “is
the representative body of Reform, Conservative and Orthodox Congregations”
“called on the American Jewish community not to neglect its own religious and
culture needs.”
1972: “Rabbi Louis Bernstein, president of the
Rabbinical Council of America said at the Young Israel of Windsor Park” in
Queens, “that the council’s affiliated Orthodox rabbis through the country
should memorialize the victims” of the Munich Massacre.
1972: “Condemning the Arab terror in Munich”
Dr. Edward E. Klein, the senior rabbi of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue said
that the attack “indicated the barbaric lengths to which Arab terrorism will
go.
1972: In his annual High Holiday message which
comes just weeks before the Presidential elections, “Rabbi Judah Nadich,
president of the Rabbinical Assembly voiced the prayer that those ‘who aspire
to high office in our country will speak and act in a manner which reflects the
demands of Justice for all tempered by the demands of compassion for all.”
1972: It was reported today that while some
claim that Black September which considered Jordan to be one of its
enemies has about 300 members, Israeli
military sources say that the number is more in the thousands, that that
terrorist group “has received support from leftist organization in Europe
including the Bader-Meinhoff group as well as governments like Libya and that
this terrorist group received the “$5 million ransom that the German government
paid last winter for a hijacked Lufthansa jet.”
1973(3rd of Tishrei, 5717): Shabbat
Shuvah
1975: As the Soviets continue to work to cement
their relationships with their Arab client states, President Assad began a
visit to Czechoslovakia.
1975: David Bloomberg completed two years of
services Mayor of Cape Town, SA.
1976: It was reported today that Uganda’s
National Defense Council warned President Amin against attacking Kenya because
it would suffer the same economic dislocation it experienced after it
threatened its neighbor last summer following “the Israeli raid to free the
hostages at the Entebbe airport.
1977: In a case of Jew versus Jew, Roy M.
Goodman defeated Barry Farber in today’s New York City Republican Mayoral
Primary
1977:
Edward I. Koch won a plurality of the vote in today’s New York City
Democratic Mayoral Primary running against a field that included incumbent
Abraham Beame and Bella Abzug.
1977: Sir Arnold Wesker”s “The Merchant” (later
renamed “Shylock” had it first out of town performance in Philadelphia, PA with
Zero Mostel in the role of Shylock.
1977: Seventy-seven-year-old Friedrich Mandl,
the Austrian arms dealer who flirted with fascism and tried to deal with
Goering despite the fact that his father was Jewish and who was the husband of
Hedy Lamar passed away today.
1977(25th of Elul, 5737): Zero Mostel whose
most famous role came as Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof" passed away.
http://www.biography.com/people/zero-mostel-9416421#synopsis
1978: “I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses” a murder
mystery directed and produced by Murray Markowitz who also wrote the script and
featuring music by Howard Shore was released today in Canada.”
1978: “Almost Summer” a “youth” movie produced
by Rob Cohen and featuring Didi Conn was released today in the United States.
1979(16th of Elul, 5739): Parashat
Ki Tavo
1981: ''Ya'acobi and Leidental,'' a comedy by
the Israeli playwright Hanoch Levine, will begin a two-week American premiere
engagement tonight at the La Mama Annex, 74A East Fourth Street. The play,about
three unhappy people who have let life slip by, will be performed in English by
the Cameri Theater of Tel Aviv, regarded as the national theater of Israel. The
actors, Zaharirah Charifai, Albert Cohen and Joseph Carmon, were also featured
in the original Tel Aviv production in 1972. Mr. Levine, winner of Israel's
highest artistic award, the President's Prize, has directed the production,
which features music by Alex Cagan.
1982: In Books of the Times published today
David Margolick provides a detailed review of The Day Is Short: An
Autobiography by Morris Abram which “records the story of a small-town Southern
Jew who grew to become a fighter for civil and human rights, a successful New
York lawyer, university president and leader of the American Jewish community.
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/08/books/books-of-the-times-135183.html
1983(1st of Tishrei, 5744): Rosh
Hashanah
1984(11th of Elul, 5744): Parashat
Ki Tavo
1985(22nd of Elul, 5745): Joseph B. Levin,
former Assistant General Counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission,
attorney at law and the most demanding teacher I ever had at Adas Israel
Religious School passed away. Husband of Deborah and father of Judy, Mitchell
and David Levin amongst other things he predicted that “someday somebody will
pay you to write a simple declarative sentence.” Much to my surprise, he turned
out to be right in a way he never could have imagined.
1986: Dr. Arthur M. Sackler “participated in
ground-breaking ceremonies for the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and
Archaeology at Peking University and the Jill Sackler Sculpture Court and
Garden.”
1986(4th of Elul, 5746):Seventy-year-old
Dr. Nathan Aronoff, the Cincinnati born so of Isaac ad Mary Ida Yachna Aronoff,
and husband of Rose Wasserman Arnoff and Lucille Hodesh Aronoff passed away today after which he was buried
at the Price Hill United Jewish Cemetery in Price Hill, OH
1987: Birthdate of Danielle Frenkel, “the
Israeli high jumper who was the first Israel to clear 1.90 meters.”
http://www.jpost.com/Sports/Frenkels-star-continues-to-rise-one-centimeter-at-a-time
1987: As employers search for qualified workers
in the Northeast, the New York Times
reports on the creative ways that employers are dealing with the labor shortage
seeking including that of a small-business executive Brian Waxler, vice
president of Bruegers Bagel Bakery, a chain of four profitable bagel-and-coffee
shops in downtown Boston. For several weeks this summer, signs in the shops
offered a dozen free bagels ''for any information leading to the hiring of a
bookkeeper.'' A customer finally won the bagels by providing the name of a man
who was hired for $21,000 a year, Mr. Waxler said. ''If he had wanted much more
money, we would have gotten by without a bookkeeper,'' Mr. Waxler added.
1988: “Earth Girls Are Easy,” musical sci-fi
comedy starring Jeff Goldblum premiered at the Toronto International Film
Festival.
1990(18th of Elul, 5750): Parashat
Ki Tavo
1990(18th of Elul, 5750):
Eighty-two-year-old Solomon (Shlomo) haKoen Meisels the Oblast born son of
Rabbi Shmuel haKohen Misels and Feige Meisels and the husband of Ida Ruth
Meisels passed away today in North Miami, FL.
1991(29th of Elul, 5751): Erev Rosh
Hashanah
1991(29th of Elul, 5751): Eighty-year-old
Oscar nominated composer, Chester, PA, native, Alex North (Isadore Soifer)
passed away today in Los Angeles.
(Personal note: Author of this blog lived in Chester for three years at
a time when the sign said “What Chester makes, makes Chester” referring to
Baldwin locomotive works and Scott Toilet Paper)
1992(10th of Elul, 5752):
Eighty-seven-year-old Mildred Weiss Tarshish, the Johnstown, OH born daughter
of Morris and Ricky Frankel Weiss and the wife of Allan Tarshis whom she
married in 1930 passed away today in Bexley, OH after which she was buried in
Columbus, OH.
1993: New York State Attorney General announced
his resignation today saying that it would take effect on the last day of 1993.
1994: Premiere of “Whale Music” a comedy drama
starring Maury Chaykin.
1995(13th of Elul, 5755): Eighty-nine-year-old
Israeli historian and archeologist Benjamin Mazar passed away. (As reported by
Joel Greenberg)
1995: Poile Zedek Synagogue a historic
synagogue at 145 Neilson Street in New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey
was designated placed on the New Jersy
Register of Historic Places.
1995: “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything!
Julie Newmar,” a comedy film directed by Beeban Kidron was released today in
the United States.
1995: Olga Vsevolodovna Ivinskaya the long-time
lover of Jewish author Boris Pasternak and the inspiration for the character
“Lara” passed away today.
1996: Alfred H. Moses, the United States
Ambassador to Romania, described the impact of his Jewish heritage on his
career and his life.
http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=873557&ct=1126715
1996: Moses Montefiore, who made a fortune in
the 19th century as an associate of the banking house of Rothschild, is the
subject of an exhibition at Temple Israel in New Rochelle that opens with a
reception today. “Montefiore, for whom the hospital in the Bronx is named, was
born in Italy in 1784, but acquired his wealth and reputation as a diplomat and
international advocate for Jews in his adopted country, England, where he lived
for most of his 100 years. In 1837 he was knighted by Queen Victoria for his
diplomatic work on behalf of the British Government, and in ameliorating the
suffering of persecuted Jews in Russia, Syria and Morocco. He attained the rank
of baronet in the 1840's and continued to travel around the world on diplomatic
missions until he was 93, ceasing only because he was restrained by family and
doctors.”
1997: "Valentine" a song co-written and performed by American
recording artist Jim Brickman was released today.
1997(6th of Elul, 5757): Seventy-nine-year-old
Maurice Levine, the “founder of the 92nd Street Y’s Lyrics and
Lyricist Series, the husband of Bobbi Baird and father of Tedra, Michael,
Whitney and Sigmund Levine, passed away today.
http://www.playbill.com/article/lyrics-lyricists-leader-levine-dead-at-79-com-71440
1998: Pitcher Keith Glauber made his major
league debut with the Cincinnati Reds.
1998: “The Rounders” a dark film about the
world of high-stakes poker with a script by David Levien and Brian Koppelman
and co-starring Martin Landau was featured at the Deauville Film Festival.
1999(27th of Elul, 5759): Eighty-eight-year-old
Louise Levin, the Pittsburgh, PA born daughter of “Oscar William Oppenheimer
and Claude Siesel and the sister of
James Siesel Oppenheimer passed away today in Charlottesville, VA.
1999: Future Academy Award winner “American
Beauty,” directed by Sam Mendes whose mother was “an English Jew,” produced by
Bruce Cohen and with music by Thomas Newman, the son of Alfred Newman was
screened for the first time at Grauman’s Theatre in Los Angeles.
2000: A large group of influential Jewish
scholars and rabbis have signed a theological statement called ''Dabru Emet''
-- which means ''speak truth'' in Hebrew – which calls on Jews to relinquish
their fear and mistrust of Christianity and to acknowledge church efforts in
the decades since the Holocaust to amend Christian teaching about Judaism.
2001: “Michael
R. Bloomberg, the Republican businessman running for mayor, was confronted today
with allegations of sexism, racism and homophobia based on revelations about a
birthday present he received 11 years ago.”
2002 Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel said
today that even though he had authorized high-level talks with Yasir Arafat to
try bringing about a cease-fire in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he doubted
they would amount to anything because the Palestinian Authority is ''a kingdom
of terror.'' (As reported by Clyde Haberman)
2002: A production of “Pacific Overtures,” “a
musical written by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman” set in Japan when the
Americans were arriving in 1853 came to a close at the Kennedy Center’s
Eisenhower Theatre.
2002: After more than forty-five years, Mell
Lazarus’s “Miss Peach,” a comic strip whose title character was a teacher” was
printed for the last time in its original format.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Peach#/media/File:Misspeach52960.jpg
2002: The New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest
including Longitudes and Attitudes Exploring the World After September 11
by Thomas L. Friedman, The Fall of Berlin: 1945 by Antony Beevor and Bronx
Boy: A Memoir by Jerome Charyn.
2002: The first season of “The Wire” a gritty
crime show set in Baltimore created by David Simon.
2003: On MSNBC’s “Scarborough Country” Alan
Dershowitz said "I will give $10,000 to the PLO... if you can find a
historical fact in my book (The Case For Israel) that you can prove to
be false."
2003(11th of Elul, 5763): Canadian actress
Jaclyn Michelle Linetsky passed away at the age of 17.
2004: Full of pride and
joy, members and friends of Congregation Chasam Sopher celebrated the completed
first phase of the restoration of the 150-year-old synagogue at 6 Clinton St.
today and the beginning of a 12-month writing of a new Torah scroll..(As
reported by Albert Amateau)
2004: Terrorists from
the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade failed to kill or injure anybody when they
launched an attack at the Baka al-Sharkiyeh checkpoint attack.
2004: “Paperclips,” a
documentary about middle school class in Tennessee that began a project
designed to collect six million paperclips as a way of studying the Holocaust
was released in the United States today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65lh41YMklk
2005: Today Robert Magnus began serving as the
30th Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
2005(4th of Elul, 5765): Seventy-nine-year-old
“independent music publisher” Fred Alhert, Jr., the son of songwriter Fred Emil
Ahlert passed away today in San Francisco.
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=fred-e-ahlert&pid=15092878
2005: New Jersey state senator Byron Baer
resigns from the New Jersey State Senate for reasons of health. “Shortly before
he retired from the Senate, the New Jersey Association of Jewish Federations
presented Baer with the Shem Tov and Distinguished Service awards. Jeffrey
Maas, then executive director of the association, said Baer was responsible for
making sure Jewish community centers, nursing homes, and social service
agencies received extensive state funding.”
2005: In one of the most monumentally stupid
remarks ever made by a Jewish leader (or anybody else for that matter) “Rabbi
Ovadia Yosef, a former chief rabbi and the spiritual leader of the
ultra-Orthodox Shas movement, said today that Hurricane Katrina was God's
punishment for U.S. President George W. Bush's support for Israel's Gaza
pullout.”
2006(15th of Elul, 5766): Ninety-one-year Hilda
Bernstein an anti-apartheid activist and author whose husband was tried for
treason alongside Nelson Mandela passed away today.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/sep/18/guardianobituaries.southafrica
2007: Ruth Messinger speaks at Durham's Judea
Reform Congregation on "Jews as Global Citizens." Messinger
challenging Jews to increase their commitment to solving world crises
2007: In Jerusalem the sixth and the closing
concert of Jewish Music Days is held at the Beit Avi Chai. This last concert,
closest to Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is aptly entitled Song and
Prayer. The focus of this concert is a contemporary look at Spanish and
Ethiopian poets of the Middle Ages combined with jazz and Jewish soul music.
2007(25th of Elul, 5767): In the evening,
Selichot.
2008: The Yeshiva University Museum and the
Center for Jewish History in cooperation with The Consulate General of the
Federal Republic of Germany and the German National Tourist Office hosts a
reception for a program styled, “Erfurt: Jewish Treasures from Medieval
Ashkenaz
2008: The American Israeli Paper Mills Group
(AIPM; Niyar Hadera) showed President Shimon Peres their newest invention,
pipes made of paper fibers and plastic. They are so strong, CEO Avi Brener told
Peres, they are almost as tough as steel.
2008: “Before his final game as an Astro today
the team paid tribute to Brad Ausmus with a humorous video” which may have been
the inspiration for the 2-run home run
he it in the 3rd inning of the game.
2009: Journalist and videographer Max
Blumenthal discussed and signed Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement
that Shattered the Party at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington D.C.
2009: The Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem's
Old City, hosts a nighttime concert of some of the best cantors, or hazzanim,
around, singing those very songs that make the High Holiday services so long,
yet special, and throwing in a few other "hits" as well.
2009: The British military announced today that
it has installed its first-ever Jewish Civilian Chaplain to the armed forces.
Rabbi Arnold Saunders will be responsible for the spiritual and pastoral care
of serving Jewish personnel in all three services - army, navy and air force.
2010(29th of Elul, 5770): Erev Rosh Hashanah
2010: A mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip
this morning landed near several children’s' school buildings in a Sha'ar
Hanegev regional council kibbutz, some 30 minutes prior to the students'
scheduled arrival.
2010(29th of Elul, 5770): Major General Israel
Tal, “who helped lay the foundations for the IDF” and played a key role in the
Merkava, Israel’s premier battle tank, passed away today in Rehovet. (As reported by Ethan Bronner)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/world/middleeast/09tal.html?pagewanted=print
2010: Canadian actress Jessalyn Sarah Gilsig
filed for divorce from Bobby Salomon today.
2010(29th of Elul, 5770): Eighty-four-year-old
the literary magazine maven Thomas Guinzburg who founded The Paris Review,
passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/arts/10guinzburg.html?pagewanted=print
2010(29th of Elul, 5770): Eighty-four-year-old
folk music maven Irwin Silber passed away. (As reported by William Grimes)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/arts/music/11silber.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
2011: A unique concert featuring the stirring
words of Holocaust survivors is scheduled to take today place at Yad Vashem in
Jerusalem. It will be performed by the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and
soloists and choirs from Israel and the United States.
2011: “Fallen Empires,”
the second solo exhibition by Shai Kremer, is scheduled to open at the Julie
Saul Gallery in New York City.
2011: An exhibition of
new photography by Tal Shochat, “In Praise of a Dream” is scheduled to open at
The Andrea Meislin Gallery in New York.
2011: Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
are scheduled to appear at the 6th & I Historic Synagogue where
they will promote In That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the
World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
another in a series of books by Mr. Friedman that offer the roadmap to
save the world.
2011: This evening the Tel Aviv District Court
issued a temporary injunction preventing the removal of the protest tents on
Rothschild Boulevard, pending a response to a petition filed by protesters.
2011: A French court handed out a 6,000 euro
($8,421) suspended fine to John Galliano today after finding him guilty of
anti-Semitic behavior, marking the end in a fall from grace for the former head
designer of fashion house Dior.
2011: Noam Shalit told a news conference today
that he came to New York to meet with diplomats from many countries and UN
officials to press for his son's release ahead of expected Palestinian moves
seeking UN recognition later this month.
2011: The pro-Israel organization J Street decided to
reject the Palestinian statehood bid in its new position paper, aligning with
the Obama administration's position to oppose the unilateral move.
2012: Kandi Abelson & David Kilimnick are scheduled to
perform in Jerusalem at the Off the Wall Comey Basement
2012: An evening of Jerusalem Folk Music featuring Caanan
Country and The Heeby Gee Bees is scheduled to take place Motzei Shabbat at
Beit Yehudit.
2012: In the evening, Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
is scheduled to observe Selichot with its annual Changing of the Torah Covers
ceremony, services and study session. In the “heartland,” am yisroel chai.
2012: Iran accused Canada on Saturday of "hostile
behavior" under Israeli and British influence after Ottawa cut diplomatic
relations, and it raised the prospect of swift retaliation.
2012: Egypt and Israel are coordinating on Cairo's biggest
security sweep in decades against militants in Sinai, in which 32 people have
been killed, an army spokesman said today, the first clear statement on
communication between the neighbors.
2013: The New York
Times features reviews of books by Jewish writers and or of special
interest to Jewish readers including Dissident Gardens by Jonathan
Latham and examination of the question by Zoe Heller and Adam Kirsch “Are
Novelists Too Wary of Criticizing Other Novelists?”
2013: The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is
scheduled to sponsor its 4th Annual Cycle Fest.
2013: Peter Shurman “was removed from the position” of PC
Caucus Finance Critic “after a heated exchange with” his party leader “in which
he refused to repay a housing allowance he had received for a Toronto
apartment.”
2013: The Alexandria Kleztet is scheduled to perform at the
Five Star Premier Residences in Chevy Chase, MD.
2013: “Fire In My Heart: The Story of Hannah Senesh” is
scheduled to come to an at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education
Center.
http://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/pages/special_exhibitions/21.php
2013: Israel complained to the US regarding Palestinian
officials leaking classified details about ongoing peace negotiations, an
Israeli government official said today. (As reported by Aaron Kalman)
2013: The Air Force set up an Iron dome missile defense
battery in the Jerusalem area on Sunday, as the United States lobbied for
domestic and international support for military strikes against Syria. The
decision was made after situation assessments by the IDF. (As reported by Yoav
Zitun)
2013: “The Jews of
Egypt,” “a documentary on Egypt’s Jewish community” directed by Amir Ramses
“won an award for ‘best documentary’ at the Malmo film festival in Sweden.”
(Times of Israel)
2014: “The UN Permanent
Mission of Palau and the Engr Aja Eze Foundation are scheduled to sponsor a
conference on “Global Anti-Semitism: A Threat to International Peace and
Security” at the United Nations Headquarters facility in New York City (As
reported by Arutz Sheva)
2014: “Right-wing
Israeli politicians came out in support of a reported Egytian-propsed deal to
cede land in the Sinai to a future Palestinian state as a means of resolving
the refugee issue.”
2014: “A Special Film
Viewing of Rare Archival Footage from a Century of the American Joint
Distribution Committee (JDC” is scheduled to take place this afternoon at the
Center for Jewish History
2014: Indian security
officials warned that the “likelihood of attacks traveling in India Has
increased” “citing al-Qaeda’s recent public announcement of expansion into the
Asian sub-continent.”
2014(13th of
Elul, 5774): Eighty-eight-year-old health economist Rashi Fein who played a key
role in the creation of Medicare passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/us/rashi-fein-economist-who-urged-medicare-dies-at-88.html
2014(13th of
Elul, 5774): Ninety-four-year-old impresario Tibor Rudas who was shipped to
Begen-Belsen because his father was Jewish passed away today. (As reported by
Douglas Martin)
2015: In Falls Church,
VA, Rodef Shalom is scheduled to help its congregants prepare for the holiday
season by offering a 10% discount tonight when it keeps its Gift Shop open for
a special evening sale.
2015: The Jewish
Historical Society of England is scheduled to host a lecture by Professor
Michael Spiro on “The Story of Penicillin.”
2015: At a time when
his power had not been dimmed charges of sexual misconduct, this even Les
Moonves appeared on the premiere of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”
“operating a large switch which he could use to switch back to reruns of ‘The
Mentalist’ if he was unhappy with” this new late night venture.
2015(24th of
Elul, 5776): Eighty-five-year-old real estate developer and television producer
Merv Adelson passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
2015: Barry Freundal,
the “rabbi who went to jail for installing secret cameras in the
mikvah…adjacent to his synagogue wrote a letter of apology today in which he
said, “I am sorry, beyond measure, for my heinous behavior and the perverse
mindset that provoked by actions.”
2015: Under the
leadership of Manford Levy, Post 436 of the Jewish War Veterans are scheduled
to have their luncheon meeting in Maumelle, AR.
2016: “Five Arabs from
northern Israel were sentenced to multiple-year jail terms” today “for joining
the Islamic State and planning to carry out attacks in Israel in the terror
group’s name.”
2016: As students
return to the University of Iowa, Hillel is scheduled to host an evening of
Bowling with AEPi fraternity.
2016: Thirty-two-year-old
billionaire Dustin Moskovitz wrote about the 20 million dollars he is donating
to defeat Donald Trump in a posting tonight on the website Medium.
2016: The Illinois
Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host “Holocaust
Reparations and Restitutions” where attorney William R. Marks, “a
nationally-recognized expert in the field of German reparations and restitution
will share his experiences.”
2016(5th of
Elul, 5776): Ninety-two year Greta Zimmer Friedman, the Jewish refugee whose
Times Square kiss from a sailor on the day World War II ended became an iconic
photo passed away today.
For more see
2016: JW3, also known
as Jewish Community Centre London is scheduled to host a final screening of
“Rabin, The Last Day.”
2016: “The Kremlin
announced today that Israeli and Palestinian leaders have agreed ‘in principle’
to resume peace talks in Moscow.”
2016: As part of year’s
Jerusalem Season of Culture, or Mekudeshet, “a nighttime of sounds, voices and
music around a bonfire” is scheduled to take place in the Jerusalem Forest.
2017: Today, “House Republicans hissed and booed senior
Trump administration officials” including Secretary of the Treasury Steven
Mnuchin “as they pitched the President’s deal with Democrats to increase” the
debt limit.
2017: The Pittsburgh
Steelers released Safety Jordan Dangerfield, a member of the Ethiopian Jewish
community.
2017: A hearing is
scheduled to be held concerning a temporary restraining order that has been to
block the demolition of the Chevra Anshei Lubavitch Synagogue “which is housed
in a structure built in 1906 and is the oldest operating synagogue in Borough
Park.”
2017: Tony Levine, the
special team’s coordinator is scheduled to take the field as Purdue plays its
second game against Ohio University.
2017: The Stephen Wise
Free Synagogue is scheduled to a “celebration of Shabbat for families with
children of all ages featuring a cater dinner with wine, back-to-school-themed
crafts and games, cookie decorating, and more.
2017: In Tel Aviv, the
Israeli Society for Dance Research in collaboration with Diver Festival and
with the Israeli Dance Archive Beit Ariela is scheduled to host “Retrospective
– Body, material, object.”
2017: As Floridians
await the scheduled arrival of Hurricane Irma, the Jewish community is making
preparations including Temple Sinai in North Miami Beach where Rabbi Alan
Litwak said “his synagogue has already cancelled programs that might coincide
with the flood and Bet Shira Congregation where Rabbi Mark Kula has made
arrangements to wrap the Torah scrolls “in two layers of plastic, put them in
van and take them to a local banks where they are placed on table in a
walk-vault built to sustain storms and floods.”
2017: “Israel’s
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced today that he intends to indict
Mrs Netanyahu for fraud for allegedly diverting some NIS 360,000 ($102,000) of
shekels in public funds for her own use.” (As reported by Raoul Wootliff)
2017: In Memphis,
Temple Israel is scheduled to celebrate a “Musical Shabbat.”
2018: The three day
Meteor Music Festival is scheduled to come to an end.
https://meteorfestival.com/experience/
2018: Beit Avi Chai is
scheduled to host “Shabbat-themed games, stories and performances” for family
members 3 years of age and older.
2018(27th of
Elul, 5778): Last Shabbat of 5778;
Parashat Nitzavim;
2019: The New York
Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution by Shlomo
Avineri, Learnng From the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman,
Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television and the Fracturing of America by
James Poniewozik and the recently released paperback editions of The Chosen
Wars: How Judaism Became an American Religion by Steven R. Weisman
2019: In Coralville,
IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to Darryl Heller speaking on “Black and Jewish
Relations in Historical Perspective.”
2019: In Jerusalem, the
Off the Wall Comedy Theatre is scheduled to host “David Kilimnick’s
Rabbinically Approved Comedy Special” this evening
2019: In Washington,
DC, this afternoon,The Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum is
scheduled to host “I Dissent: Kids
Taking a Stand” which will feature readings of I Dissent by Debbie Levy,
a display of white lace collars worn by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a
discussion of attendees “might dissent.”
2019: The Jewish Museum
exhibition “Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything” is scheduled to come to an
end today.
https://nypost.com/2019/05/08/exhibit-explores-how-leonard-cohen-embraced-buddhism-judaism-and-wit/
2019: The Jewish
Historical Society of Hong Kong is scheduled to host a “Jewish Cemetery Tour”
led by Howard Elias who “will share the stories of some of the cemetery’s more
notable residents, which includes members of the Kadoorie, Belilios, Sassoon,
Odell and Weill families…”
2020: The American
Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host on Zoom “Live from the Archives:
Rosh Hashanah Recipes.”
2020: The Jewish
Community Library and SFSU Jewish studies are scheduled to present a talk by
Eva Mroczek, director of Jewish studies at UC Davis and an expert on ancient
Jewish texts on “Myths of Meritocracy in the Hebrew Bible.”
2020: “Shloshim for
Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz z"l
2020: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host “Noshes and Soups” during Joan Nathan, author of King
Solomon’s Table cooks “delicious appetizers and soups.”
2020: 18Doors Boston is
scheduled to join Sara Gardner for a Rosh Hashanah cook-along during which she
“will be cooking Sephardic Rosh Hashanah dishes from her very own cookbook.”
2020: The Virtual
Sephardic Film Festival is scheduled to host the final screening of “Leona” and
the first screening of “Sammy Davis, Jr., I’ve gotta be me.”
2020: B’nai Jeshurun
Congregation is scheduled to hostThe How & Why of Jewish Ritual With Cantor
Aaron Shifman” during which he will discuss kaddish, mikvah, tallit and tzizit,
brit milah, Shabbat and havdallah to name a few using Medrashim and Talmudic
resources.
2020: During “Shuk and
Cook,” Israeli chef Einat Abramovitch Partin is scheduled to teach a virtual
class on how to make Israeli market and street food.
2020: During the first
virtual session of “Freud, Frankel and Kol Nidre,” Rabbi Yossi Marcus will talk
“about psychology and Judaism’s secret to reinvention.”
2020: “As part of a new
series of JRB Conversations with leading writers and thinkers on Zoom,” Abraham
Socher, the editor of the Jewish Review of Books is scheduled to talk with
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks about his latest work, Morality: Restoring the
Common Good in Divided Times.
2021(2nd day
of Tishrei, 5782): Second Day of
Rosh Hashanah; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2021: Chochmat HaLev is
scheduled to host “Tashlich, Klezmer and a Picnic” complete “with music from
Saul Goodman’s Klezmer Band, dancing, singing and pebbles provided for
tashlich.”
2021: This evening the
Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, CA is scheduled to host “Birth Stories in
Hebrew” during which a “panel of three women who recently gave birth at
different hospitals in Silicon Valley share their insights and experiences” in
a program designed “for Hebrew-speaking expectant moms.”
2021: In addition to
having deal with incendiary balloons from Gaza and the pandemic, based on
previously published reports seven million Israelis have deal with the fact
that their personal information is for sale on the internet following a hack by
“Sangkacil” of CIT4U, “the website serving Israeli municipalities.”
2022: “Bless: Design
for Good,” an exhibit that features graphic design works by contemporary
Israeli designers selected by the Shenkar Research Center to Israeli Design” is
scheduled to open today.
2022: The JDC is
scheduled to host a webinar with Dr. Joseph Schwartz lecturing on based on
Professor Tuvia Friling’s forthcoming book The Web Spinner
2022: East Bay
International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to present the 2019 documentary
“After Munich” about the Palestinian terrorist attack on Israeli athletes-staff
at 1972 Olympics followed by a lecture by SFSU professor Eran Kaplan.
2022: In Berkely, Ca,
the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies is scheduled to present GTU
scholar-in-residence Daniel C. Matt discusses his new book, Becoming Elijah:
Prophet of Transformation which explores Elijah and how the
zealot-turned–compassionate hero transformed over the years from the Bible to
Rabbinic Judaism to Kabbalah and to Christianity and Islam.
2022: The Illinois
Holocaust Museum’s Women’ Leadership Committee is scheduled to host a
fundraising “Soiree” at the Chicago Botanic Garden.
2022: The YIVO
institute is scheduled to present a Toni Bentley discussing his new book, Serenade:
A Balanchine Story.
2023: The Museum at
Eldridge Street is scheduled a Walking Tour “The Jewish Gangsters at Lower
Manhattan.”
2023: Tel Aviv braces
for another day of protests centering around the city’s light rail system.
2023: The Army Show
featuring Israeli artists Carl Freedman Gallery (booth #409): Navot Miller; Michael
Kohn Gallery (215): Nir Hod ; Tim Van Laere Gallery (221): Tal R ;Yancey
Richardson Gallery (334): Ori Gersht ;Yossi Milo (229): Orit Hofshi is
scheduled to open today at the Javits Center.
2023: (22nd
of Elul): Yarhrzeit Joseph B. Levin, husband of Deborah Levin z”tzl, father of
Judy z”tzl, Mitchell and David without whom literally, this blog would never
exist and who prophetically told me that someday somebody would pay me write “a
simple declarative sentence.”
2023: Based on
previously published information, due to the political chaos in Israel over
judicial reform, the shekel is at its lowest level in three years. (As reported
by Sharon Wrobel)
2024: The Jewish
Federation of Greater New Orleans Board retreat is scheduled to take place.
2024: The Illinois
Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host Holocaust Survivor Ellen Glass as she
shares her story, including her memories of "Kristallnacht," the
Night of Broken Glass, an infamous turning point in Nazi Germany's persecution
of Jews.”
2024: The Israel
Academy of Film and the Tel Aviv Cinematheque are scheduled to host screening of “Daniel Auerbach” directed by
David Wallach.
2024: “Congregation
Shaare Tefilla in Dallas, TX is scheduled to host the lecture “Jews Who Drink:
The Surprising and Intimate Story of Jews and Booze.”
2024: The Center for
Jewish History is scheduled to present a lecture by Ira Rezak on “Forms Servig
Functions; Coins and Medals As Judaica.”
2024: Liat Cohen Raviv
is scheduled to lecture on the current situation in Northern Israel and its
impact on community resilience and leadership. It will explore adaptive
leadership strategies and practical
approaches to building a strong, cohesive community during times of pressure
and uncertainty.
2024: Touro University
is scheduled to host a lecture by Yossi Klein Halevi on Jewish Resilience and
Vulnerability After October 7th
2024: The New York
Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jews including Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner and Vertigo:
The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany, by Harald Jähner.
2024: As September 8th 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 338 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)
2025: National Star
Trek Day celebrating the first broadcast an episode of the television saga starring
two Jews – William Shatner, the Canadian born Jewish son of Ann Garmaise and
clothing manufacturer Joseph Shatner as Captain Kirk and Leonard Nimoy, the son
of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine as Mr. Spock.
2025: In New Orleans,
the Chabad Center is scheduled to host “An evening with hostage Omer Shemtov.”
2025: The Technion UK
Solidarity Trip to Israel is scheduled to begin today.
2025: Philos Latino,
Yeshiva University's Arthur Schneier Program for International Affairs, &
the American Sephardi Federation are scheduled to present: “Nosotros@YU: A
Celebration of Judeo-Latino Art & Music”
2025: The Streicker
Cultural Center is scheduled to host “Anti-Semitism in the United States – Jew Hating
Then, Now…and Tomorrow?”
2025: The Jewish Museum
is scheduled to host “Director's Talk -- James S. Snyder in Conversation with
Joel Mesler and Jacqueline Gourevitch.”
2025: The Leo Baeck Institute New York and the
Thomas Mann House are scheduled to present a “keynote lecture by German Studies
scholar and literary critic Kai Sina on Thomas Mann’s political activism during
his exile in the U.S., including his strong support for Zionism.”
2025: As a testament to
the vitality of Judaism in America’s Heartland, High Holiday Choir rehearsal is
scheduled to take place at Temple Judah
2025: As September 8th
begins in Israel, the remaining Hamas held hostages begin day 703 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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