404: Emperors Arcadius and Honorius limit the opportunities of
Jews to serve the Empire when they issue the following: "We decree that the Jews and Samaritans
who flatter themselves with the privilege of being in the secret service will
be deprived of all employment with imperial service." [CTh 16.8.16]
1073: Pope Gregory VII
begins his twelve-year reign. While
history may remember him for his role as a reformer and for his “battles” with
the Henry IV, the Holy Roman Emperor, others may also remember him as “The
Jewish Pope” since he was reportedly “descended from an Italian Jew named
Baruch” who started a bank in Rome and converted to Christianity in 1030
1213: Pope Innocent III issued the papal bull Quia maior, calling
all of Christendom to join what became the Fifth Crusade. The Crusades were a
period of intermittent disaster for the Jews of Europe and Palestine.
1391: King Wenceslaus issued an edict affording protection to the
Jews of Worms.
1451: Birthdate of
Isabella I of Castile, the queen who played a key role in the destruction of a
seven century old civilization when she cruelly expelled the Jews from
Spain
1488(11th of
Iyar, 5248): Almost a year after publishing Perush Rashi al ha-Torah (Rashi’s
commentary on the Torah, Joshua Soncino finished printing “a complete Biblia
Hebraica” (Hebrew Bible.
1490(1st of Iyar): Leo,
Jewish court physician to Grand Duke Ivan II, was executed today.
1500: Portuguese
explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral, accompanied by Gaspar da Gama, a Polish born Jew
whose slave name had been Yusuf ‘Adil before being forcibly converted to
Christianity, sighted the mainland of Brazil for the first time today.
1509: Henry VIII
ascended the English throne following the death of his father, Henry VII. While Jews were officially banned from living
in England, evidence exists that a small congregation of Marranos had settled
in London by 1540. Henry’s contact with
Jews and Judaism was indirect but somewhat pivotal in the events surrounding
his various wives. Henry’s older brother
had married Catherine of Aragon in a state marriage designed to guarantee
peaceful relations between England and Spain.
When Henry’s older brother died, the English sought to keep the amicable
relations alive by arranging a marriage between Henry and Catherine. The English got the Pope to approve of the
marriage by invoking the Biblical law concerning the Levirate Marriage. Years later, Henry sought to have the
marriage annulled so that he could marry Anne Boleyn. He claimed that the marriage was a nullity
because he had coveted his late brother’s wife and their marriage was a product
of sin. Henry sought support from those
most learned in these matters, a group of Italian rabbis. Regardless of the Halacha involved, the
Italian rabbis were loath to anger the Pope who was their “neighbor” in a clash
with a monarch living in a distant land in which Jews were forbidden to live.
1585(23rd of Nisan or 3rd
of Iyar 5345): Rabbi Moses (Trani) of Safed, author of “Kiryat Sefer” passed
away today.
1593: The first group of Marranos led by Jacob
Tirado arrived in Amsterdam, Holland. This group was the first Jews to settle
in Amsterdam after the Spanish Expulsion. Moses Uri Halevi soon joined them and
helped arrange for prayer services.
1610: Birthdate
Alexander VIII. During his papacy,
Alexander was confronted with an unusual request. Instead of demanding that Jews be banished
from their town, the priors of Perugia appealed to Alexander to overrule Pope
Innocent X and allow Jews to return to their city. The absence of Jews from the
city’s fairs was a having a negative impact on the area’s economy.
1619: Oliver St. John
who as Chief Justice of Common Pleas was part of the St. John Mission “was
instructed to study the Jewish Question and in all probability entered to
negotiations with the leading Jews of Amsterdam” was admitted at Lincoln’s Inn
today.
1625: Urban VIII issued
“Sedes apostolica,” a papal bull concerning “heretical Portuguese Jews.”
1710(3rd of
Iyar, 5470): Amsterdam native Francisco Lopes Suasso, second Baron d'Avernas le
Gras a banker and financier of the Dutch Republic” “also known within the Sephardic Jewish
community as Abraham Israel Suasso” the eldest son of “merchant banker Antonio
Lopes Susasso, the husband of Leonora da Costa whom he married after the death
of first wife Judit Francisco Teixeira of Hamburg and the father of ten
children – Antonio, Alvaro, Manuel, Pedro, Jeronimo, David, Francisco, Leonora,
Sara and Hannah – who provided financial support to William of Orange when he invaded
England, passed away today after which “he was buried in the Portuguese-Jewish
cemetery called Ets Haim at Ouderkerk aan de Amstel” and “ succeeded in his
business and as Baron d'Avernas le Gras by his eldest son, Antonio Lopes Suasso
the Younger, alias Isaac Lopes Suasso.”
1724: Birthdate of German
philosopher Immanuel Kant. Kant may have been one of the giants of the
Enlightenment, but from a Jewish point of view, he was an intellectual pygmy.
As Michael Mack of Hebrew University wrote, “Kant consistently equated Jewish identity with a host of undesirable
traits, including superstition, dishonesty, worldliness and even cowardliness.
‘Every coward is a liar; Jews for
example, not only in business, but also in common life,’ Kant noted in a
lecture on practical philosophy… All the positive traits of Kantian philosophy
(freedom, autonomy, reason) are formed by being contrasted with a negative
image of unenlightened humanity, usually taking the form of an anti-Semitic or
some other racist caricature. For Kant, motives could
only be good if they were not aimed at any material benefit. He saw Judaism as
an inherently materialist religion, based upon a quid pro quo between God and
His chosen people .In order to fully define the formal structures
of his philosophy (autonomy, reason, morality and freedom), Kant almost unconsciously fantasized about the Jews as it’s
opposite. He posited Judaism as an
abstract principle that does nothing else but, paradoxically, desire the
consumption of material goods."
1756(22nd of Nisan, 5516) Eighth Day of Pesach and Yizkor
1758(14th of Nisan, 5518): Parashat Achrei-Mot; erev Pesach
1761(18th of Nisan, 5521): Fourth Day of Pesach
1762(29th of Nisan, 5522): Johann Phillip, the director of the
Prussia mints to whom Veitel Ephraim, the son of Nathan Veitel Ephraim and senior elder of the
Berlin Jewry “delivered silver in 1752 and 1754” passed away today.
1762: In Prague, Jonas Jeiteles and his wife gave birth to Talmudist
Baruch Ben Jacob Benedict Jeitles, the father of Ignaz Jeiteles.
1764(20th of Nisan, 5524): Sixth Day of Pesach
1769(15th of Nisan, 5529): First Day of Pesach
1770(17th of Nisan): Israel Ben Moses
Zamsoc of Brody, author of “Nezah Yisrael” passed away today.
1772(19th of Nisan, 5532):
Fifth Day of Pesach
1775(22nd of Nisan, 5535):
Eighth Day of Pesach and Shabbat; Yizkor is recited as more American minuteman
arrive in Boston to seal the city in what became the siege of Boston.
1777(15th of Nisan, 5537): Celebration begins of the first Pesach in the
recently declared independent United States of America.
1783(20th of Nisan, 5543): Sixth Day of Pesach
1783: The Jews sent a petition to Emperor Joseph II which “expressed
their gratitude…for his favors and reminding him of his principle that religion
should not be interfered with, asked permission to wear beards.
1785: One day after he had passed away, Zvi ben Naphtali was buried today
at the “Alderney Road (Globe Rd.) Jewish Cemetery.
1786(24th of Nisan, 5546): Parashat Achrei Mot
1786: In New York, Reyna Ley and Isaac Moses gave birth to Lavinia Moses.
1787: Birthdate of German native Michael Seligman Dettelbacher, the son
of Mendel Dettelbacher, the husband of Hindle Rothschild and the father of Marx
Hirsch Dettelbacher.
1792: In Philadelphia, PA, Rachel Phillips a descendant from the Nunez
family that arrived in Charleston in 1733 and Michael Levy gave birth to Uriah
Phillips Levy, the husband of Jamaica native Virginia Lopes and the first Jewish Commodore in the US. Navy
who was instrumental in ending whipping of sailors in the U.S. Navy and who was
the “savior of Monticello” the estate of founding father Thomas Jefferson.
https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/uriah-phillips-levy
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/uriah-phillips-levy
1794(22nd of Pesach, 5554): Eighth Day of Pesach; Yizkor
1794: In Vilnius, a city with a large Jewish population that is home to
the Vilna Gaon, Polish and Lithuanian forces rose up against the Russians in
what became known as “The Vilnius Uprising of 1794)
1796(14th of Nisan, 5556): Fast of the First Born; Erev of
Pesach; Erev Shabbat
1796: In Charleston, SC, Kingston, Jamaica native Hannah de Pass, the
daughter of Ralph de Pass married Benjamin, Milhado today.
1799(17th of Nisan, 5559): Third Day of Pesach; Chol Hamoed
Pesach begins for the last time in the 18th century.
1801: Eleanor Moses Hart and Solomon Cohen were married in Charleston in
1797 gave birth to Isaac S Cohen, the husband of Virginia Jane Davis whom he
married at Petersburg, VA in 1840 and with whom he had eleven children all of
whom were born in South Carolina.
1803(30th of Nisan, 5563): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1809(6th of Iyar, 5569): Parashat Tazria-Metzoria
1809(6th of Iyar, 5569: Breslau born “Talmudist and Rabbi,” Aryeh
Lob Ben Hayyim who was living in Rotterdam when the French army invaded Holland
passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3684-breslau-aryeh-lob-ben-hayyim
1813(22nd of Pesach, 5573) Eighth Day of Pesach; Yizkor
1813: As Jews munched matzah, during the War of 1812, the American naval
squadron that was to take part on the attack on York, Ontario was preparing to
leave Sackets Harbor.
1818(16th of Nisan, 5578): Second Day of Pesach; 1st
day of Omer
1818: In Livermore, Martha Benjamin and Israel Washburn burn gave birth
to Cadwallader Colden Washburn, the Wisconsin political leader and businessman
who founded what became General Mills, one of the companies operating in
Judea-Samaria and the brother of Elihu B. Wasburne, the Illinois Congressman
who defended U.S. Grant against charges of anti-Semitism.
1821(20th of Nisan, 5581): Sixth Day of Pesach
1822(1st of Iyar, 5582): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1822: Shmuel ben Azreal married Fegele bat Yehuda at the Great Synagogue
today.
1826(15th of Nisan, 5586): First Day of Pesach
1833: One day after she had passed away, Sarah (Abrahams) Leigh, the
husband of Joseph Leigh was buried today in the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”
1834:
Dr. Albert Moses Levy and his wife moved back to Virginia after he had
completed his medical training at the University of Pennsylvania. After his
wife’s death. Levy would make his way to Texas where he participate in the
rebellion against Mexico and become a leading member of the new republic
1837:
On Staten Island, Henry Benjamin Nones, the Philadlephia born son of Miriam and
Abraham Nones, and his wife Anna M.
Nones gave birth to Samuel Smith Nones
1839(8th
of Iyar, 5599): Hannah Montefiore Anconca, the mother of Moses Montefiore
Aconca and the wife of Judah Moses Ancona whom she had married in 1887 passed
away today after she was buried in the Exeter Jewish Cemetery.
1839:
In Stuttgart German, “Leonore (née Seligsberg) and Moritz Eichbergm, who served
as a cantor in that city” gave birth pianist and music teacher Pauline Weiller,
the wife of Alexander Weiller of Baltimore whose career was advanced Aton
Rubinstein, composer and conductor Giacomo Meyerbeer and piano professor Ignaz
Moscheles, each of whom was Jewish.
1840(19th
of Nisan, 5600) Fifth Day of Pesach
1841:
Birthdate of Versailles native and French jurist Edgar Demange, who served as
co-counsel during the two trials of Alfred Dreyfus.
1842:
Birthdate of Alexander Kohut the Hungarian born American rabbi and orientalist.
1843(22nd
of Nisan, 5603): Eighth Day of Pesach and Yizkor
1844:
Former U.S President John Q. Adams who had expressed his support for a Jewish
homeland in the land of Israel. In a letter to Mordecai Manuel Noah, one
of the most prominent Jews in pre-Civil War America, Adams wrote that he
believed in the “rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation” begam serving as
the “14th Dean of the U.S. House Representatives” today.
1845(15th
of Nisan, 5606): Pesach
1845(15th
of Nisan, 5606): Nine-year old Ezra Bierman, the son of David and Catherine
Pick Bierman passed away today.
1845:
Birthdate of Rabbi Jakob Guttmann the native of Beuthen who became the Chief
Rabbi at Hildesheim who was the father of Rabbi Julius Guttmann.
1847:
“Charles Vi,” a grand opera with music composed by Fromental Halevy was
performed in New Orleans for the first time.
1848(19th
of Nisan, 5608) Shabbat Shel Pesach
1849(30th
of Nisan, 5609): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1850: Birthdate of anatomist and embryologist Gustav Born who was the
father of Max Born.
1851(20th of Nisan, 5611): Sixth day of Pesach
1851: Birthdate of Gustav Jacob Born “the German histologist and author
whose first wife was Gretchen Kauffman, with whom he had one son – Nobel Prize
winning physicist Max Born.
1853(14th of Nisan, 5613): Ta’anit Bechorot; erev Pesach
1853: In the House of Commons,
following a third reading, the bill removing Jewish disabilities was carried by
a majority of 58.
1854: In Maitland, Australia, Julia
Solomon and Lewis W. Levy gave birth so Samuel Eleazer Lewis who was also known
as Eliot S Levy.
1857: In New York, Jacob Levy Seixas,
the New York born son of Judith and Moses Benjamin Seixas and his wife
Hortensia Seixas gave birth to Katherine Seixas.
1859(18th of Nisan, 5619):
Fourth Day of Pesach
1859: Three days before his own
birthday, Mortimer M. Hendricks, the son of Montague M. Hendricks and Rachel
Seixas Nathan, and his wife Jessie Justina Brandly Hendricks gave birth to
Walter Hendricks who tragically passed away at the age of nine.
1860(30th of Nisan, 5620):
Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1860: Dr. George B. Cheever delivered
an anti-slavery speech tonight at The Church of the Puritans in which he
compared slaveholders to the anti-Semitic King John of England who “who, to
extort money from a Jew, pulled a tooth every day from out the Hebrew's head
until he complied with his demands.”
1861: Philadelphian Abraham who would
rise to the rank of Corporal began serving in Company H of the 35th
Regiment.
1862(22nd of Nisan, 5622):
Eighth Day of Pesach observed as General McClellan’s Army of the Potomac slowly
makes its way up the peninsula in what would be an aborted attempt to take
Richmond while Union Forces future Admiral David Farragut prepare to
successfully take the forts that will lead to the surrender of New Orleans.
1863(3rd of Iyar, 5623):
Fifty-seven-year-old Gabriel Riesser the first Jewish judge in Germany and an
advocate of the emancipation of the Jews in Germany passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/gabriel-riesser
http://jhom.com/personalities/riesser/index.htm
1863(3rd of Iyar, 5623: Soro Chano
Szatan, the mother of Chanokh Heynekh Lewin (Rebbe Reb Heynekh of Aleksander)
passed away. Born in 1779, her husband
was Pinchas Lewin who passed away in 1837.
1864(16th of Nisan, 5624): Second day of Pesach; 1st
day of the Omer
1864: Captain Ezekiel Levy, his brother Isaac J. Levy and other Jews
serving with the 46th Virginia Infantry observed Pesach at their
camp in Adams Run, South Carolina, outside of Charleston. On the first day of
the holiday, they feasted on a “fine vegetable soup” which contained “new
onions, parsley, carrots turnips and a young cauliflower … a pound and a half
of fresh [kosher] beef, the latter article sells for four dollars per pound in
Charleston.”
1865: In Philadelphia, 16 German boys reportedly beat a Jewish named
Bernadotte Glischman. Following the
beating, the boys took Glischman to his room where they stuck him with
pins. Glischman said the boys did this
to him because he was Jewish, and they said that the Jews had killed Christ.
1867(17th of Nisan, 5627): Third Day of Pesach
1867: Eve Lipman was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish
Cemetery.”
1868: Birthdate of Friedrich Münzer the “German classical scholar” known
“for his demonstrations of how family relationships in ancient Rome connected
to political struggles.”
1868: Birthdate of Miles Poindexter, the Senator from Tennessee who was
one of only three Republicans to vote for the confirmation of Louis Brandeis as
an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Coutr.
1868: Woolf Elias of Camden, SC, married Emily Weinberg of Charleston,
SC.
1869: Birthdate of Brest
-Litovsk native Rabbi Julius T. Loeb who retired from the rabbinate in 1939
after 40 years after which he “had been appointed executive secretary of a new
council to co-ordinate financial activities of Jewish institutions” in the
District of Columbia.
1869: Josef Kahn, the Czech born son Jacob Kohn and Franziska Kahn and
his wife Julie Kahn gave birth to Mathilde Kahn, who became Mathilda Fanta
which he married Doctor of Jurisprudence Emil Fanta
1870: Birthdate of Vladimir Lenin, who led the Bolshevik Revolution. Contrary to popular misconception, Lenin was
not Jewish. Also, Lenin and the Communists did bring down the Czar. They overthrew the Kerensky government, the
democratic socialists, who had actually ended the three hundred years of
Romanov rule. Many people who were born Jews were followers of Lenin. The most famous was Trotsky. But Lenin’s impact on the Jewish people far
transcended the presence of these individuals. History would prove that
Communist Russia was no more hospitable for those who wanted to practice their
Judaism than Czarist Russia had been.
1871(1st of Iyar, 5631): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1871:
Bavaria grants equal rights to its Jewish citizens completing the process of
emancipation in the German Empire.
1871:
Clara Levine, the New York born daughter of Elizabeth a Moses S. Cohn and her
husband Julius Levine gave birth to Manhattan resident Rebecca E. Guggenheimer,
the wife of Alfred S. Guggenheimer and the mother of Claire Guggenheimer
Schlesinger Friend and Robert A. Guggenheimer
1872: Jews of Bavaria were granted equality
1872(14th of Nisan,
5632): Ta'anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach
1872(14th of Nisan,
5632): “The Feast of Passover: Celebration of Israel’s Delivery From Bondage –
Jewish Traditions and Observances” published today states that “At sundown
today the people of Israel, wheresoever dispersed over the fact of the earth
will begin the celebration of the feast of Pesach or the Passover, one of the
most important festivals in the Jewish Calendar.”
1875(17th of
Nisan, 5635): Third Day of Pesach
1876 In Vienna, “Maria
(née Hock), the daughter of a scientist, and Ignác Bárány” a banker who was the
son of an Hungarian Jew gave birth to Robert Bárány, who won the Noble Prize
for Medicine in 1914.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/barany.html
1878(19th of
Nisan, 5638): Fifth Day of Pesach
1880: In Leadville, CO,
the Bush-Trimble Building collapsed. The
building Kaskel & Co, clothing business co-owned by Caesar J. Kaskel and
Jacob Michaelis of New York City and managed by Julius W. Kaskel one of the
first Jews to settle in Leadville.
1881: It was reported
today that an anonymous Jewish donor had sent a basket of flowers to Reverend
William A. Barltett of Indianapolis’ Second Presbyterian Church as a token of
appreciation for the speech he gave on “the Jewish question.”
1881: Birthdate of
Alexander Kerensky, the most prominent leader of the Provisional Government
that replaced the government of the Czars.
Kerensky was not Jewish but the failure of the democratic forces that he
led certainly had a major impact on the Jews of what would become the Soviet
Union. This short guide does not provide
the space for further comment on this major episode in Jewish History.
1881: Visitors at the
Hebrew Cemetery at Cypress Hills on Long Island heard shots emanating from the
house of the groundskeeper, Max Blecker.
Further investigation led to the discovery of Blocker’s body which had a
large wound on the right side of his head, and a revolver grasped tightly in
his hand. Reportedly, he had been in ill
health and he “told his friends that he would be better off dead.”
1881: It was reported
today that Tunisia with a population of about 2 million is of little financial
value to the French who seem determined to annex the territory. The little commercial activity that does
exist is primarily in the hands of the 25,000 Jews who make up about a fifth of
the population of Tunis.
1882: Birthdate of
Jaques Hanak who was deported from Prague to the death camps where he was
murdered at the age of 60.
1882: It was reported
today, that in Berlin, a committee composed of leading citizens belonging to
all religious denominations has raised 100,000 marks to provided assistance for
Jews seeking to leave Russia.
1882: It was reported
today that reports have reached Vienna confirming the attacks on Jews in towns
near Odessa. In Balta, the riots lasted
for two days leaving at least 2,000 Jewish families in ruin. “The riots almost assumed the character of a
struggle for the annihilation of the Jews…”
1883(15th of Nisan,
5643): On the first day of Pesach an article entitled “The Feast of the
Passover” published today reported that “the morning services at” the Jewish
“places of worship…will be peculiarly interesting.”
1884: In Nashville, TN,
John Schoffner made a full confession to police concerning the murder of Meyer
Friedman, a Jew living in Nashville.
According to Schoffner, Meyer Morris organized the killing and that Mrs.
Friedman wanted her husband dead because “she did not love him” and he “treated
her badly.”
1884: Birthdate of Vienna native Otto Rosenfeld who gained fame as psychoanalyst,
Otto Rank who wrote the first psychoanalytic book by a disciple of Freud and moved to the United States in the 1930’s
where died at the age of 55, one month after Freud passed away.
1884: New York dentist and founding member of B’nai Israel Dr. Lyon
Berhard was laid to rest at Cypress Hill this morning.
1885: Birthdate of “Lumzer, Russia native and Holyoke, MA businessman
Charles Belsky, a partner in the wholesale junk company of Belsky and Goldberg
and the husband of Esther Cohen with whom he had three children.
1885: Ninety-six-year-old Reverend
Leonard Withington, the oldest Congregational Clergyman in the United States
passed away today. Withington was a
scholar well versed in Hebrew who had written a book entitled “Solomon Songs.” He was a prime example of the reality that in
19th century America some of the people who were the most
knowledgeable about Hebrew as a language were Protestant ministers.
1886: Jess Seligman presided over tonight’s celebration of the second
anniversary of the Hebrew Technical Institute which was held at Temple Emanu-El
in New York City. Among the dignitaries
attending the event was Carl Schurz, the famous German-American journalist and
social reformer who gave the evening’s main address. (The school would remain
open until 1939)
1887: It was reported today that two Englishman carrying an American flag
recently imprisoned a Jewish merchant from Alcazar Morocco on charges of not
paying a debt. The prisoner was paraded
through various towns in chains as hje was taken to Tangier. The event, which took place during Passover,
has been condemned by the leading Jews of Tangier who have sought the aid of
the local British, French and Portuguese Consuls
1888: In Chicago, Iowa native Fannie Jacobson and realtor Morris Jacobson
gave birth to Dr. Edmund Jacobson, a specialist in tension control.
1889: In Terre Haute, Indiana, “Max and Theresa (Ravitch) Blumberg gave
birth to DePauw University graduate and University of Chicago trained attorney
gave birth to Benjamin Blumberg the husband of Fannie Louise Burgheimer who
served as an officer realty and investment companies while being a member of
Temple Israel and the Temple Israel Men’s Cub.
1889: The Literary Notes column reported that “The Jew in English
Fiction” by Rabbi David Philipson will soon be issued by Robert Clarke & Co
of Cincinnati, Ohio. Among the
characters discussed are Marlowe’s Jew of Malta, Shakespeare’s Shylock,
Cumberland’s Jew, Scott’s Jew in “Ivanhoe”, Dickens’ Jew in “Oliver Twist’ and
“Our Mutual Friend”, Disraeli’s in “Coningsby” and “Tancred and George Eliot’s
“Daniel Deronda”. (At the time,
Philipson was a young Reform rabbi from Wabash, Indiana)
1889: At high noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Run of 1889.
Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with
populations of at least 10,000. ‘Jewish settlers began coming to Oklahoma and
Indian Territory as early as 1875. The Jewish population grew as Oklahoma
blossomed into a boom area, after the famous Land Run of 1889 and statehood in
1907. The early settlers came as peddlers and salesmen and later became
shopkeepers and retail merchants. According to the American Jewish Year Book,
there were 1,000 Jews in Oklahoma Territory in 1901.” (Courtesy of the Jewish
Federation of Greater Oklahoma City)
1890: In the UK, Sir Marcus Samuel, the future Sheriff of the City of
London and Lord Mayor of London and the former Fanny Elizabeth Benjamin gave
birth to their fourth child and second daughter Ida Marie.
1891(14th of Nisan, 5651): “The Festival of Pesach: It will begin at
Sunset To-Night and Last For A Week” published today reported that “all the
reform temples and orthodox synagogues will be open for services this
evening…and appropriate sermons will be delivered by the spiritual heads of the
communities.
1891: Birthdate of Nettie Yaniger who became Nettie Panitz when she
married Ezekiel Panitz and who was the David H. Panitz who served as the rabbi
at Adas Israel in Washington, D.C. during the late 1950’s.
1892: In Brooklyn, Adolph and Deborah (Spaine) Dannenberg gave birth to
Oscar Asahel Halevy Dannenberg, the Yale alum and lawyer who served as a
Sheriff in Bridgeport, CT.
1893(6th of Iyar, 5653): Marx Mordechai Pfaelzer, the son of
Feis Moses or Uri Pfaelzer; Fanny Pfaelzer and Hanna (Pfaelzer) Marx, the husband
of Karoline / Gitel Pfaelzer and the father of Fannie Kind; Simon Pfaelzer;
Sarah Schweizer; Morris Moses Pfaelzer; Lina Strouss; Clara Pfaelzer; Emilie
Pfaelzer; Regina Pfaelzer; Fred Pfaelzer; Fredricke Pfaelzer and Adelheld
Pfaelzer passed away today after which he was buried at Hemsbach, Germany.
1893(6th of Iyar, 5653): Chaim Aronson passed away at the age of 77. Born
in Lithuania in 1825 when it was part of Russia, Aaronson was a gifted linguist
(Hebrew, German, and Russian) with a penchant for invention who went from being
a clockmaker to developing a variety of machines including one for making
cigarettes and one that was a prototype for a movie camera. Aronson was a better scholar and engineer
than he was a businessman since none of his work brought him commercial
success. His most long-lasting
contribution was a literary work entitled A Jewish Life under the Tsars: The
Autobiography of Chaim Aronson, 1825-1888 that provides a picture of life
in the final century of Czarist Russia.
1893: Rabbi Raphael Benjamin delivered a sermon this morning on the
subject of the recent blackballing of Theodore Seligman by the Union League.
1893: “Max Judd Objected To” published today described the reasons that
the government of Austria provided for refusing to recognize the appointment of
Max Judd as Consul General for the United States at Vienna. The Austrians claim that the refusal is based
on that fact the Judd had been born in Austria and “is engaged in the
emigration business.” The Austrians claim that the objection has nothing to do
with Judd’s religion which is just as well because the U.S. government has said
that Mr. Judd’s replacement will not be of Austrian descent, but he will be
Jewish.
1894(16th of Nisan, 5654): Second Day of Pesach; 1st
day of the Omer
1894: Hyman Blumenthal was arrested on charges that he had deliberately
tried to burn down the tenement at 28 East Broadway.
1894(16th of Nisan, 5654): Brooklyn born Jacob Hamburger, the
father the successful manufacturer of
robes and dresses Benjamin Hamburger and had he lived long enough, the
father-in-law of Ray Marks and the grandfather of Sideny Hamburger passed away
today.
1894: Birthdate of Max Weinreich, the Russian born American linguist and a
founder of the Yiddish Institue (YIVO) and author who was “the father of the
linguist Uriel Weinreich, who edited the Modern Yiddish-English
English-Yiddish Dictionary.”
1894: Rabbi Joseph Silverman delivered a lecture at Temple Emanu-El in
New York entitled “The Jewish Passover and Its Modern Message to Jews and
Christians” in which he described that observing Passover was “the celebration
of the anniversary of the Jewish Independence Day.”
1894: “The Babylonian Element” published today included Professor
Archibald Sayce’s comparison of the narratives found on Babylonian Tablets and
those found in Genesis which “assume an entirely different complexion in the
hands of the Biblical writers” who strip them of their polytheism, accommodate
them to the Hebrew point of view and “make them the vehicle of profound
religious truths.
1895: It was reported today that the Hebrew Orphan Asylum is providing
housing for 700 children at its building at 137th Street and
Amsterdam Avenue. Trustees Theodore
Seligman, Edward Lauterbach and Emanuel Leyman are considering a proposal to
raise $250,000 to expand the facility in order to meet increased demand for its
services.
1895: “Object To The McCall Bill” published today described the “vigorous
protest” of “the American Anti-Semite Association” to the passage of the McCall
Educational Test bill and “recommends the passage of the Stone Consular
Certificate bill” that “considers as desirable immigrants only those who for
five years previous have been actively engaged in agricultural pursuits with
their own manual labor.”
1896 (9th of Iyar, 5656): Gustave May passed away today in New York
City. Born in Paris in 1845, he served
as Quartermaster General with the forces fighting to protect the Commune at the
end of the Franco-Prussian War. When the
Commune forces were defeated he fled to America with his brother where they
started May Brothers, a firm of commission merchants that “was the first to
import cigarette papers into the United States. Although born Jewish May saw
himself as a “Freethinker” and was active in the French Exile community. His brother Elie had served as a General in
the forces of the Commune.
1896: Cassie Ritter Weil and Adolphus Weil gave birth to Adolphus Leo
Weil, Jr who lived at Pennsylvania at the time of his death.
1896: Herzl began a two-day journey to Karlsruhe where he was received in
audience by Grossherzog (Grand Duke) Friedrich of Baden. Herzl was heartened by the meeting saying ("Jedenfalls
nahm der Grossherzog meine Staatbildung von Anfang an vollkommen ernst." -
"In any case, the Grand Duke took my proposed formation of a state quite
seriously from the beginning.")
1896: Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, cut short his state visit to Russia
and left St. Petersburg for Paris so he could attend the funeral of his friend
Baron Hirsch.
1896: “Strong Tribute To His Memory” published today provided
reminiscences by Oscar S. Straus about the late Baron de Hirsh saying that “it
was my good fortune to enjoy the personal acquaintance of Baron de Hirsch” whom
he said gave away $25,000,000 to provide relief for Russian Jews which the
Baron considered to be the most oppressed people in the world.
1897(20th of Nisan, 5657): Sixth Day of Pesach
1897(20th of Nisan, 5657): Sixty-seven-year-old Simon Alexander passed
away today having lost his 9 month long battle with asthma and heart
sickness. He was an editorial writer for
The Hebrew Journal and member of
Temple Emanu-El
1897: In New York City, the world's
largest Jewish daily newspaper, "The Forward," was first published.
Abraham Cahan, 43, one of its founders, became editor of the paper in 1903,
remaining until his death in 1951. The Forward began as a Yiddish
paper. By the 1930's it was one of the nation's leading dailies with a
readership of 275,000 supplemented by a radio audience listening to WVED.
One of its most famous features was the Bintel Briefs, a Yiddish Dear
Abby. The paper shifted its formant and became English weekly in the
1980's. Later it added a Russian language edition for the new wave of
Jewish immigrants. For more information see http://www.forward.com/.
1898(30th of Nisan,
5658): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1898(30th of Nisan,
5658): Simon Kayserling passed away. Kayserling was a German born teacher and
author. He was the brother of Meyer
Kayserling. Both brothers were
historians. But Meyer also pursued
career in the Rabbinate while Simon followed a more secular career serving on
the faculty of the Jewish Free School while writing or translating books about
the history of Poland and the history of the Jews living in Spain and Portugal.
1898: N.S. Roenau of
the United Hebrew Charities was one of the speakers who addressed a group of Yale
University students studying Sociology under the direction of Professor William
T. Blackman who visited New York City today.
1899: The sixth annual
reunion banquet of the Hebrew Technical Institute Alumni Association was held
this evening at the Broadway Central Hotel.
1899: Minnie Jacobs and
her lawyer Joseph Moss appeared before William J. Youngs, Secretary to the
Governor of New York to plead for a pardon for her father, Saul Jacobs.
1900(23rd of
Nisan): Author Louis Bein passed away.
1900: District Grand
Lodge No. 7 of B’nai Birth which includes the states of Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas with over 1,700 members
opened its 27 convention today in New Orleans.
1900: “Mysterious
Murder Leads to Jew Baiting in Prussia” published today described how “the
anti-Semites have succeeded in provoking an outbreak of Jew-baiting by
exploiting the mysterious murder of Ernst Winter at Konitz as a so-called
ritual crime” because as one Berlin newspaper said “the crime is the work Jews
who require Christian blood.”
1900: Twenty four year
old Jacob Mack married 22 year old Bertha “Birdie” Ronsheim, a native of
Cincinnati, Ohio.
1900: “In Memory of Dr.
Wise” published today described plans for a public service that will be held in
memory of Dr. I. M. Wise on April 29 under the directions of New York Board of
Jewish Ministers.
1901: “Assemblyman
Charles Adler of New York City called on Governor Odell today and appealed to
him to have the law closing the butcher shops on Sundays so amended as to
permit Jewish butchers who close on the Sabbath to open for a few hours on
Sundays.
1901: Twenty-five-year-old
Cornell trained physician Jacob Gutman, the Riga born son of Abraham and Sarah
(Gator) Gutman and member of Temple Israel married Rebecca Dogin today in New
York City.
1902(15th of Nisan,
5662): On the first day of Passover The New York Times took exception to
a letter that Mayor Seth Low had sent to Police Commissioner John N. Partridge
advising him not to enforce “blue laws” on Sunday April 20 because Jews needed
to shop and conduct such activities as killing chickens as they prepared for their
holiday which would begin on Monday evening, April 21. The Times said that the Mayor’s ruling “was
uncalled for” and “was wrong in principle and conclusion. [Editor’s Note: Those
of us living in the 21st century with its 24/7 schedule probably
have difficulty that power of Sunday closing laws; laws that were enforced well
into the closing decades of the 20th century.”
1902: Birthdate of
Madeline Samuel, the daughter of Julius Juda Dukas and the wife of Jacob A.
Samuel.
1903: Herzl met Lord Rothschild who told him that Edmond de Rothschild is
delighted with his plan.
1903: Birthdate of
Marcus Polak, the native of Goor who would be murdered at Bergen Belsen.
1903: Minna Schafer,
the daughter of Samuel Schafer and Sophie Schwab married Charles S.
Guggenheimer today after which they had, two sons who died at the age of four
months and Randolph and two girls –
Elizabeth, Sophie and
1904: Birthdate of
Robert J. Oppenheimer. Born in New York, Oppenheimer was the son of
a prosperous German-Jewish textile importer and an artistic Baltimore Jewess
who died when Oppenheimer was a child. A renowned physicist, Oppenheimer bordered
on the brilliant and enjoyed a wide range of intellectual pursuits. His
claim to fame is the Manhattan Project. He was the scientific overlord of
the American race to develop and build the Atomic Bomb. After the war,
Oppenheimer had reservations about additional military uses of
science. He opposed the building of the Hydrogen Bomb, a project
that was brought to a successful conclusion by yet another Jewish
scientist, Edward Teller. Oppenheimer fell victim to the post-War Red
Scare and lost his security clearance. Oppenheimer's security clearance
was regained during the Kennedy years and his reputation was publicly
rehabilitated. He passed away in 1967 at the age of 62.
As to the Jewish influence in his life, consider the following. Prior to the
1930's, Oppenheimer had led the cloistered life of the privileged and the
scientist in his ivory tower. During the 1930's Oppenheimer became
involved in liberal and social justice causes. According to him, the
change came about, in part became, "I had had a continuing smoldering fury
about the treatment of Jews in Germany, I had relatives there, and was later to
help in extricating them and bringing them to this country...I began to
participate more fully in the life of the community."
1905(17th of
Nisan, 5665): Third Day of Pesach and Shabbat
1905: “The Doukala,
Chiadma and M’touga tribes are in full revolt near Mogador,” also known as
Suira which “is a seaport on the west coast of Morocco” that “has a population
of 19,000, 8,000 of whom are Jews.”
1906: In Montreal, Shlomo
Chaim Caplan and Chaya Bluma Routtenberg gave birth to Jonah Ephraim Caplan the
Yeshiva University graduate who had come to the United States in 1924 served as
the rabbi at several congregations including one Astoria, NY and was “active in
the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations.
1907: Abram Biju did
not marry Angelita Wertheim today as planned because the groom’s father Isaac
Bijur had passed away on the previous Saturday.
1907: A bill introduced
tonight in the New York State Legislature designed to regulate pushcart
peddlers in New York City that allow for “special temporary licenses to be
issued for Jewish and Italian holidays” for a fee less than the standard charge
of $10.
1907: It was reported
today that Ida Highwood, driven by Nathan Strauss “was almost invincible” when
she faced competitors as the Speedway. (Editor’s note – Ida Highwood was a
trotter.
1908: In Glasgow,
Scotland, Leah Levine and Max Shapiro gave birth to Leonard Schapiro, “who spent his childhood in Riga and St. Petersburg but
returned to Britain with his parents in 1920 where he carved out a career in
economics and political studies that led to his being named Professor of
Political Science at the London School of Economics.
1908: Birthdate of New
York native and award-winning authority on providing health care of the aged
and chronically ill, William Adelman the long-time executive director of Beth
Abraham Hospital in the Bronx and husband of the former Doris Mensch with whom
he had three sons – Richard, Mark and Robert.
1909(1st of
Iyar, 5669): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1909: Twenty-eight-year-old
Benjamin Winter, Sr., the Lodz born son of Michael and Beatrice Oshner Winter,
who in 1901 came to the United States where he went from painting apartment
buildings to becoming a real estate mogul who lost forty million dollars while
going bankrupt during the Depression and then making it all back and more just
before his death, today married Dora Nissel with whom he hadour children – Marvin,
Beatrice, Ethel and Natalie.
1909: In Turin, Italy, Adamo
Levi, an engineer, and Adele Montalcini, a painter, both Italian Jews who
traced their roots to the Roman Empire gave birth to Rita Levi-Montalcini,
winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. (As reported by
Benedict Carey)
1910: Today Rabbi Haim
(Henry) Pereira Méndez, President of the Union of Orthodox Congregations wrote
a letter to New York Mayor William Gaynor on behalf of the Orthodox
congregations in the United States and Canada thanking him for his letter
rejecting the request of Rev. Thomas M Chalmers for a license to “preach for
the conversion Jews” on street corners in some of the city’s most heavily
“Jewish” communities. Mendez expressed
his appreciation for the tone of the letter which was sympathetic to the Jewish
people and said that he would work with the Christian ministers to lift the
level of modern society to a level closer to that expressed by Judaism and
Christianity.
1910: Rabbi Hyman
Gerson Enelow completed his service as The
Temple “Louisville, Kentucky Jewish weekly that firs appeared in July of
1909.
1911(24th of
Nisan, 5671): Parashat Shimini
1911: The Jewish
World to-day published an interview with Herman Bernstein, the author and
translator, who passed through London on his way to Russia during which he said
“that since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem the Jes have not had a
better home than they have in the United and that Jewish immigrants become
Americanized more rapidly than the immigrants of other creeds and languages” but
“there seems to be a policy for the restriction of immigration which sometimes
goes byon the law and which turns the misery of the immigrant into tragedy.”
1912: The Wage Earner's
League for Woman Suffrage, whose co-founders included Clara Lemlichand Rose
Schneiderman held a major rally at New York's Cooper Union.
1912: In London, those
attending a “meeting of the East End Jewish shopkeepers” passed a “resolution
petitioning the local Borough Council to grant Jewish East End traders an
exemption under the Shops Act.”
1912: The Eastern
Council of Reform Rabbis, whose purpose was “to offer a reaffirmation of the
member’s faith in the permanent character and value to Israel and to the world
of Liberal or Reform Judaism” was organized today.
1913(15th of
Nisan, 5673): Pesach
1913(15th of
Nisan, 5673): Seventy-four-year-old “manufacturer” Gabriel Hirsch passed away
today in Philadelphia.
1913: Rabbi Tobias
Schanfarber is scheduled to lead Passover services this morning at K.A.M.
Temple in Chicago, Illinois
1913: Founding of Beth
Aaron Synagogue in Minneapolis, MN.
1913: Jacob Adler and
Sara Adler are scheduled to begin a weeklong run at the Haymarket Theatre where
he will perform “Style” by Abraham Shomer.
1914: In the
Netherlands, Professor Arnold Hendrik and Lucretia de Hartog gave birth to
author Jan de Hartog who wrote “Skipper Next to God” in which Wolfe Barzell’s
performance provided the inspiration for his nephew Emanuel “Manny” Azenberg to
become interested in theatre; an interest that would lead to a thirty-three
relationship with playwright Neil Simon.
1915:” An
application for a commutation of Leo Frank's death sentence was submitted to a
three-person Prison Commission in Georgia.”
1915: During WW I, at
Ypres, the Germans used gas for the first time on the battlefield.
1915(8th of
Iyar, 5675): David S. Lehman, the native of Portsmouth, Ohio, the husband of
the former Alma Schlesinger, the son-in-law or Rabbi Max Schlesinger of Albany,
NY and the Vice President of the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives died
in Denver today “form intestinal trouble after several months’ of illness.
1915: “Seventy Jews”
who are seeking to emigrate to America or Australia arrived in Alexandria today
from Jerusalem and described the “terrible economic situation” with flour
costing fifteen dollars a sack, potatoes being sold for “six times the ordinary
cost” and the appearance of huge swarms of locusts.
1916(19th of
Nisan, 5676): Fifth day of Pesach; Shabbat
1916: It was reported
today that Dr. Straus a native of Germany now living in New York provided the
$25,000 to start the Alpha and Omega Publishing Company which will publish The
American Jewish Chronicle, a weekly publication that will serve as an
advocate for the rights of European Jews after the World War comes to an end.
1916: In New York, Marutha Sher and Moshe Menuhin
gave birth to Yehudi Menuhin famed violin virtuoso and conductor.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yehudi-Menuhin
1917(30th of
Nisan, 5677) Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1917: Rabbi Samuel
Schulman is scheduled deliver a talk on “The War and Religion” at Temple
Beth-El.
1917: At Carnegie Hall,
the Free Synagogue is scheduled to host “Tenth Anniversary Exercise” that will
include a sermon by Rabbi Wise on “Is the Free Synagogue Worthwhile?”
1917: Dr. Silverman is
scheduled to deliver a talk on “What the Jews Have Done for the World” at
Temple Emanu-El.
1917: “Students from
Adelphi College, College of the City of New York, Columbia University, Hunter
College and New York University” attended “the second annual dinner of the
Menorah Society in Greater New York” which was held this evening at the Hotel
Netherland in New York City
1917: In Cardiff,
Wales, “solicitor and cinema owner” Rudolf Abse gave birth to Leo Abse, the
husband of Marjorie Davis with whom he had two children – Tobias and Bathsheba
– who was a lawyer and a 30 Welsh Labour Member of Parliament who promoted laws
to liberalize divorce and decriminalize homosexual behavior.
1917: Professor Philip
Boas of Whitman University delivered a speech entitled “Youth and Judaism” at
the Spring Assembly of the Eastern Council of Reform Rabbis at Temple Emanu-El
this evening in which he “said that he did not believe that Jewish youths were
deserting the synagogue.” “He asserted
there were signs of greater consciousness of Judaism among the young than there
were ten years ago, but the youth wanted to see resulted and wanted to see how
religion was benefiting the world.”
1917: “The American
Jewish Historical Society began its 25th convention today at the
Hotel Ansonia.
1917: Max J. Kohler,
the son of the President the Hebrew Union College, presented a paper on “Jewish
Rights at the Congress of Vienna” today.
1917: Dr. Cyrus Adler,
Oscar S. Straus, Dr. Jacob H. Hollander and Daniel P. Hayes spoke at this
evening’s reception hosted by the Judean Society under the leadership of its
President, Dr. Henry M. Leipziger for members of the American Jewish Historical
Society.
1917: Jacob H. Schiff,
a long-time opponent of creating a “Jewish nation in Palestine” delivered a
speech at a meeting of the League of the Jewish Youth of America at the Century
Theatre in which expressed his support for the creation of a “center for Jewish
culture” in Palestine because he believed “in the Jewish people, in the mission
of the Jewish people” and in the need for a place where “Jewish culture might
be further and developed, unhampered by the materialism of the world.”
1918: Austrian native
Nettie Kinsbruner, the daughter of Shmuel Meyer Stettner and Rachel Stettner
and her husband David (Aubie) Kinsbruner gave birth to Beatrice, the sister of
American college basketball star Mac Kinsbrunner.
1918: Birthdate of
Solomon Aaron Berson, the New York born physician who worked with Rosalyn
Yallow on “major advances in clinical biochemistry.”
1919(22nd of
Nisan, 5679): Eighth Day of Pesach
1919: In one of those
great calendar coincidences, today in New York, Frederick and Margareten, part
of the matzah empire, gave birth to Muriel V. Margareten who became Muriel V.
Nusbaum which she married Goodwin Nusbaum
1919: I. Edwin
Goldwasser, the executive director of the Federation for the support of Jewish
Philanthropic Societies is scheduled to lecture on “Co-ordination in Jewish
Philanthropy” at this evening’s meeting of the Council of Jewish Women at the
Sinai Center in Chicago.
1919: Jacob H. Schiff,
Abram I.Elkus and Dr. Stephen S. are scheduled to speak at the reception for
the Earl of Reading sponsored by the Judaeans which will be presided over by
President Samson Lachman
1920: During the San
Remo Conference, Chaim Weizmann has a private meeting with Lloyd George and
Lord Balfour during which he presses the British leaders “for a civil
administration in Palestine, run by the British under a League of Nations
mandate. This stood in stark contrast
with the French leaders who did not want the Balfour Declaration to be part of
the peace treaty with the Ottomans.
1920: In Washington,
the Tacoma News Tribune reported that Leach Cross (born Louis Charles
Wallach” whose boxing nickname was “The Fighting Dentist” “had signed with
Universal Pictures in Los Angeles to appear in an 18-episode serial entitle
“The Vanishing Dagger.”
1921(14th of
Nisan, 5681):Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach
1921: Today, an
Englishman who “believed in the Jewish origin of the British Royal Family”
considered Saeki Yoshiro’s theory of the Jewish origins of the Japanese people,
Israel’s Messenger carried a letter
from former lady-in-waiting Elizabeth A. Gordon.
1921: In Manhattan,
Minna (Harlib) Koenig and Judge Morris Koenig gave birth to Dartmouth
undergraduate and Columbia Law School trained attorney Julian Norman Koenig the
WW II Army veteran and creative advertising man credit with coming up with the
campaign for the Volkswagen Beetle and Earth Day, which was first celebrated
for the first time on his 49th birthday. (As reported by William
Yardley)
1922: Birthdate of
American microbiologist Wolf Vladimir Vishniac, the Berlin born son of
photographer Roman Vishniac, husband of Helen Vishniac and the father of
astronomer Ethan Vishniac.
1923: In Nuremberg
Jewish businessman Gustav Kahn and the former Beatrice Freudenthal (both of
whom were murdered in the Holocaust gave birth to Robert Ludwig Kahn, who
survived the Holocaust because of the Kindertransport and went on to became a
Professor of German at Rice University in Houston while raised two children,
Peter and Beatrice, with his wife, poet Lieselotte Maragrete Kupfer.
1922: The national
board of Hadassah voted "no confidence" in the leadership of ZOA
President Louis Lipsky.
1923: In Manhattan,
novelist Paul Hervey Fox and “the former Elsie de Sola” gave birth to novelist
Paula Fox.
1923(6th of
Iyar, 5683): Fifty-seven-year-old Charleston SC born Baltimore attorney Louis
H. Levin the “Executive Secretary of the Association of Jewish Charities,” “the
second editor of Jewish Comment,” the husband of Bertha Szold with whom he had
five children – Benjamin, Marcus, Harriet, Sarah and Eva – and the
brother-in-law of Henrietta Szold, the founder of Hadassah, passed away today
in Baltimore.
1924: “Arguing that
this Government and others had made costly mistakes in dealing with Oriental
peoples because they did not know enough about them, and intimating his belief
that the United States was on the verge of committing another similar blunder
with relation to the Japanese for the same reason, Dr. Cyrus Adler, President
of Dropsie College, appealed today for a change in the viewpoint with which the
Western nations looked at those in the East,”
1925: In Sosnowiec,
Poland, Herschel Krysztal, an accountant and the former Dora Grossman gave
birth to Henyek Krysztal who gained famed as psychiatrist Dr. Henry Krystal.
(As reported by Sam Roberts)
1926: In Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, “Russian Jewish immigrants Esther (née Ottenstein), who was a
childhood friend of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, and Meyer Lubotsky, a
retail tire business owner gave birth to Charlotte Rae Lubotsky who gained fame
as Emmy nominated actress Charlotte Rae and the mother of Larry Straus who
co-authored her autobiography The Facts of My Life.
1927(20th of
Nisan, 5687):Sixth Day of Pesach
1928: In Dallas Texas, David Sperling, “a tailor
who had changed his surname from Spurling to Spelling” and his wife Pearl Wald,
both of whom were Russian Jewish immigrants gave birth to SMU graduate “Aaron
Spelling, the TV executive producer who gave us “Charlie's Angels.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/24/arts/television/24spelling.html
1928: In the Hell’s
Kitchen section of New York Polish
Jewish immigrants Anna and Isaac “Ira” Nussbaum” gave birth to Estelle Nussbaum
who gained fame as Estelle Harris the actress best known for her role “as
Estelle Costanza the mother Seinfeld sidekick George Costanza” who raised three
children – Eric, Glen and Taryn – with her husband Sy Harris.
1928: Banker Jacques
Stern who had run “on the Left Republic List” began serving as a deputy for the
Dinge “district of Bassess-Alpes” today.
1928: Following
Hadassah President Irma Levy Lindheim’s recent declaration that the
administration of the ZOA was "not an effective instrument for the
achievement of world Zionist aims for the up-building of Palestine" today
the National Board of Hadassah registered a vote of no confidence in the
leadership of ZOA President Louis Lipsky.
1929(12th of Nisan,
5689): Sixty-nine-year-old Cleveland clothing manufacturer John Ainsfeld, the
Vienna born son of Israel and Amelia (Geldwerth) Ainsfeld who married Edith
Karolyn after his first wife, Daniela Guttenberg had passed away and who was
President of Mt. Sinai Hospital and the Jewish Infant Orphan’s Home as well as
a member of the Hebrew Free Loan Association and the treasurer of the of
Federation for Jewish Charities, passed away.
https://case.edu/ech/articles/a/anisfield-john
1930: In Brooklyn,
Jacob Goetz who “lost his men’s clothing store during the Great Depression and
then sold ties on street corners until his death in 1943” and Rose Feldman who
“worked at the store and, after her husband’s death, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
during World War II” gave birth to WW II Army veteran and CCNY graduate Martin
Alvin Goetz “who joined the computer industry in its infancy in the mid-1950s
as a programmer working on Univac mainframes and who later received the first
U.S. patent for software…” (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/technology/martin-goetz-dead.html
1930: Release date for
the all-star revue “Paramount on Parade” written by Joseph Mankiewicz and
co-produced by Jesse Lasky, Adolph Zucker, Albert S. Kaufman and B.P.
Schulberg.
1930: In Manhattan, The
Warner Bros. Hollywood Theatre, which was later re-named The Mark Hellinger
Theatre, opened today.
1931: A charity dinner
is scheduled to be held at the Hotel Biltmore today “under the auspices of the
New York Campaign for the Relief of Jews in Eastern Europe” which is trying to
raise one million dollars.
1931: JBI International was founded as the Jewish Braille
Institute of America
1932(16th of
Nisan, 5692): Second Day of Pesach; first day of the Omer is observed for the
last time during the Presidency of Herbert Hoover, who without fanfare or
controversy, appointed the second Jewish Supreme Court Associate Justice.
1933(26th of
Nisan, 5693): Parashat Shmini
1933(26th of Nisan,
5693): A Jewish merchant, Salomon
Rosenstrauch was shot dead in Wiesbaden, Germany.
1933: In Nazi Germany,
the government adopted measures excluding Jewish students from school.
1933: “A conference of
executive directors of Y.M.H.A.’s, Y.W H.A’s and Jewish Community Centers” is
scheduled to begin this evening at the 92nd Street Y.
1933(26th of
Nisan, 5693): Fifty-nine-year-old Sándor Ferenczi, the “son of Baruch - Bernát
Ferenczi and Róza Frenkel” and “husband of Gizella Palos – Propper” passed away
today.
1934: Cleveland E.
Dodge, President of the of the Greater New York Y.M.C.A. and Judge Irving
Lehman, President of the Jewish Welfare Board are scheduled to two of the
speakers at the is evening’s dinner at the Hotel Commodore at the anniversary
dinner of the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association of the Bronx.
1935: In Los Angeles,
the premier of “Bride of Frankenstein,” the sci-fi thriller” produced by Carl
Laemmle, Jr and filmed by cinematographer Franz Waxman.
1936(30th of Nisan,
5696): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1936: “As the racial
rioting stormed in its third week, a communique issued by the (British) police
declared that masses of Arabs were still attacking Jewish settlements”
including at “Hatikvah Settlemet” and “Shechunath Areyh, midway between Tel
Aviv and Petach Tikvah” were “Jews successfully defended the settlement until
police arrived and beat off the invaders.”
1936: “At Jenin, on the
main highway to Jerusalem, a large crowd of Arab villagers help up and stone
Jewish buses, wounding two passengers.”
1936: Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise, national chairman of the United Palestine Appeal announced today that the
Palestine Foundation Fund and the Jewish National Fund had sent $100,000 to
Palestine” from funds that were being collecting in the United States for the
settlement of Jews from German, Poland and countries in Palestine.
1936: “At 5 o’clock
this morning a Jewish-owned cardboard factory near Tel Aviv was burned by
Arabs.”
1936: “A Jewish
merchant in the old city of Jerusalem who tried to open his shop was beaten by
young Arab agitators and forced to close.”
1937(11th of
Iyar, 5697): Ninety-four-year-old Albany, NY native Simon Wolfe Rosendale the
New York State Attorney General who was the first Jew elected to a state-wide
office in “the Empire State” and who was active in Jewish communal affairs even
though he was an anti-Zionist passed away today.
http://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/10075964
1937(11th of
Iyar, 5697): Sixty-seven-year-old Mrs. Marcus M. Marks (Esther Friedman), the
“widow of the Borough President of Manhattan” who was also called by some “the
father of day-light saving plans” passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9502E7D6133AE23ABC4B51DFB266838C629EDE
1938(21st of
Nisan, 5698): Seventh Day of Pesach.
1938: “Nazis prohibit
Aryan 'front-ownership' of Jewish businesses.”
1938: It was reported
today that a “lawyer’s group” to raise funds for the American Ort Foundation
“was formed at meeting in the office former Judge Grossman” and a “dentists’
group” was formed at offices on offices at 212 Fifth Avenue where “Dr. John L.
Kaufman was elected chairman.”
1939: Birthdate of Uri
Orr, the native of Kfar Haim who rose to the rank of general in the IDF before
pursuing a political career that included serving as an MK and Deputy Minister
of Defense.
1939: “Dark Victory,” a
melodrama produced by David Lewis, with music by Max Steiner was released today
in the United States.
1939: “The Greek
cattleboat Assimi which attempted to land 263 illegal Jewish immigrants” in
Palestine “twelve days ago was ordered to leave Haifa tonight.” When the police announced the decision,
“the passengers tore off their clothing and screamed that they would rather be
killed than be sent back to sea. Some prayed and recited psalms. When the
Jewish residents of Haifa heard the screams and prayers aboard the Assimi” they
spontaneously proclaimed a strike that took hold throughout the city. Protesters carried signs reading ‘Open the
gates to the Jewish illegals’ and ‘Down with the barbaric attitude toward
illegals. The captain had been fined and imprisoned for his role in bringing
the Jews to Palestine. To add insult to injury the captain had been fined and
imprisoned for his role in bringing the Jews to Palestine.
1940(14th of Nisan,
5700): The Sommer family sits down to their first Seder in Liechtenstein. How this family of German Jewish refugees
from Munich came to be there was chronicled by Susi Pugatsch-Sommer in an
article entitled “A Pesach Miracle in Nazi Germany.”
My family - my parents
Binyamin and Friedl Sommer, myself (13) my sister Ella (10), my brother Alfred
(7), and my grandmother, Rachel - lived in temporary quarters in Munich, after
our home had been confiscated by the Nazi daily newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter
in 1939. My father had been arrested and incarcerated in the Dachau Camp in
1938 for a short time. Once he was released, he realized that he and the family
had to leave Germany as quickly as possible, but he could not find a way to get
out. In November 1939, my father left home for a few days, and hid the forest
near Munich, since he was informed that the Nazis would arrest all male Jews
again and send them to a concentration camp. By chance, he met a man in the
forest who identified himself only as an engineer. This man told him that he
could arrange an entry permit into neutral Liechtenstein only if he had enough
money to open a building materials factory and pay salaries to 100 workers,
since unemployment was high in Liechtenstein. My father agreed immediately,
since he had no other option to save our lives. Miraculously, we received visas
for Liechtenstein in the beginning of April 1940, in the middle of World War
II, our passes to relative safety. We had 14 days to leave Germany, and each
person was allowed to take one suitcase and 10 reichmarks. We boarded the train
in Munich three days before Pessah. We were frisked at the German border and
after the Nazis didn't find anything forbidden, were allowed to cross the
border to Liechtenstein on foot. We were completely exhausted when we arrived
in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, and went to sleep in a simple hotel. We did not know
if there were any Jewish families in Liechtenstein, and we had no idea how we
would keep Pessah properly and buy matzot. Then our next miracle happened. The
following morning, as we wandered around town, a young girl stopped us and
asked if we were Jewish and if she could help us. Immediately, she introduced
us to her parents and some other Jewish families. The Schönwalder family invited
us into their home, to their Seder and we continued to have all our meals and
prayers there during the week of Pessah. We continued to reside in
Liechtenstein for 10 years. At this time, only 40 to 50 Jews lived there. I met
with the Schönwalders' daughter, Edith, almost every day, and she is still a
very good friend of mine. Today, we both live in Israel. I'll never forget the
miracle that happened to us - my father's chance meeting with the engineer, an
emigration visa in the midst of the war, and the wonderful families who helped
us celebrate Pessah as religious Jews.
1940: SS official Odilo Globocnik announced a plan
to increase the use of Jewish forced labor and to establish separate work camps
for Jewish men and women.
1940: Detroit Tigers
Pitcher Dick Conger appeared in his first major league baseball game.
1940: Ten members of
the staff of Ben Shemen Youth village, including the director are sentenced to
serve prison terms of up to seven years. The British had raided Ben Shemen in
January and found weapons belonging to the Haganah. The prison sentences were
for their role in hiding the weapons.
1941(25th of Nisan, 5701): Fifty-nine-year-old Struchin,
Russia native and social worker Elias Trotzkey who in 1912 came to the United
States where he served as supervisor at the Marks Nathan Jewish Orphan Home and
wrote several books passed away today.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Trotzkey%2C%20Elias%20L%2E
1941: Birthdate of
Israeli Amir Pnueli an Israeli scientist who developed a “critical technique
for verifying the reliability of computers.”
1941: “The Lady from
Louisiana,” produced and directed by Bernard Vorhaus son of an American “lawyer
of Jewish-Austrian extraction” was released today in the United States.
1942(5th of
Iyar, 5702): Fifty-nine-year-old Romanian born Isadore Wexler, the thirty-year
resident of Toledo, HO where he owned the Wexler Ice company and the husband of
Yetta Leffner Wexler with whom he had eight children -- Louis, Joseph, Ralph,
David, Morris, Oscar, Max and William A. Wexler – passed away today.
1942: U.S. premiere of
“Saboteur,” a WW II spy thriller with a screenplay co-authored by Peter Viertel
and Dorothy Parker.
1943(17th of
Nisan, 5703) Third Day of Pesach
1943: “We Will Never
Die” was performed in Philadelphia's Convention Hall, with guest stars Claude
Rains and Edward G. Arnold in the lead roles. More than 15,000 people
attended--it was the largest Jewish public event in the city in many years —
and it received extensive coverage in the local press.
(As reported by Jewish
Virtual Library)
1943: The Nazis deported the Jews of Amersfoort, Holland.
1943: Day four of the
Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
1943: In New York City, Daniel Gluck, the inventor,
along with his brother-in-law Sundel Doniger, of the X-Acto Knife and his wife
gave birth to Louise Elisabeth Gluck the American Pulitzer Prize winning poet
who “was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of
Congress in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three
years prior in 2000.”
1944: It was reported
today that Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr. has announced that
“principles on which a program for world currency stabilization can be based
have been agreed on by most of the experts of some thirty Allied and associated
nations” marking a major step forward in creating a stable economic for a
post-war world which will be critical to “winning the peace.”
1945: The Big Red One, whose members included
Samuel Fuller, “finished clearing the Harz Mountains” before turning south to
join up with the U.S. Third Army.
1945: Sidney
Bernstein, a cinema entrepreneur, had been an advisor to the Ministry of
Information since 1940 who producing “German Concentration Camps Factual
Survey,” “the official British documentary film on the Nazi Concentration
Camps” “visited the Bergen
Belsen concentration camp today a week after it was liberated by British
forces.”
1945: Six hundred of the remaining inmates at
Jasenovac Concentration Camp rose up against their Croatian killers.
The Croatians killed over five hundred of them. This camp was
located in a breakaway republic from Yugoslavia called Coratia. The
Croatians ran the camp for their Axis allies and were responsible for the
deaths of tens of thousands of Jews. For those of you who remember
the fighting in the 1990's in Yugoslavia, you will now understand that genocide
is no stranger to the Balkans. Only a thousand Jews and Serbs remained.
Tens of thousands of them were killed over the past five years. Six hundred
rose in revolt. The Germans killed 520 of them.
1945: The Soviet Army liberated the Concentration
Camp at Sachsenhausen in Germany. The camp was about 35 kilometers from
Berlin and was established in 1938. Approximately thirty to thirty-five
thousands people including Jews perished in the camp.
1945: Birthdate of
Donald E. Graham, the grandson of Eugene Meyer and the son of Katherine Graham
1946(21st of
Nisan, 5706) Seventh Day of Pesach
1946: Opening of
Kibbutz Beitar in Bruna.
1946: Associate Justice
Felix Frankfurter joined the Chief Justice and another Associate Justice in
dissenting in Girouard v. United States – a case involving the application of a
pacifist for naturalization.
1946: Composer Ezra Laderman was discharged
from the U.S. Army today. He then studied composition under Stefan Wolpe of New
York and Miriam Gideon of Brooklyn College where he earned his B.A.in 1950. He
then went on to study under Otto Luening of Columbia University where he earned
his M.A. in 1952.
1947:
Another 769 illegal Jewish immigrants arriving on board the Galata in Eretz
Israel were trans-shipped to Cyprus.
1948(13th
of Nisan, 5708): Sixty-six year old San Luis Obispo, CA native and Harvard
Ph.D. Barry Cerf, the husband of Emily Cerf with whom he raised three children
including “Edward Owen Cerf, an editor of Time magazine” and who has been a
Professor of Literature at Reed College since 1921 where he wrote “his best
known work, Anatole France,” passed away today in Portland.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/04/24/84536103.html?pageNumber=15
1948: Operation
Misparayim (scissors) was launched by the Haganah as part of the Yishuv’s
attempt to assume control of Haifa after British withdrawal and attacks had
been made by Arab forces to control this port city.
1949: Writing
in Haaretz, Arye Gelblum described immigrants from North Africa as
dirty, disease ridden and prone to drunkenness and prostitution.
1949: It
was reported that Berta Gersten will be starring in the title role of “The
Silent Woman,” a dramatization of Louis Frieman’s new Jewish radio play of the
same which will open on April 25 at the Parkway Theatre in Brooklyn.
1949: The
NBC Television Network broadcast the final episode of the panel show “Stop Me
If You’ve Hear this One” on which Morey Amsterdam, Lew Lehr and Benny Rubin
appeared as regular panelists.
1949:
Hebrew University reopened in temporary quarters in west Jerusalem
1950:
Tonight, after the end of Shabbat, Israel began the celebration of her second
year of independence. In his address to
the nation, President Weizmann called upon Israelis “to celebrate in joy and
happiness the great salvation wrought to our people after centuries of exile
and affliction.” In Jerusalem, Joseph
Sprinzak, Speaker of the Knesset, lit a torch on Mt. Herzl which lit from fire
provided by veterans of the Masada Battalion which had defended Jerusalem from
attacks by Egyptians and Arab Irregulars during the dark days of the siege of
the City of David. Similar festivities took place throughout the country
including open air performances, torch light parades and the sounding of sirens
by ships of many nations docked in Israel’s major ports.
1950: In
Germany, Holocaust survivors Joseph and Elizabeth Wilf gave birth to real
estate developer Zygmunt “Zygi” Wilf who bought the Minnesota Vikings football
team in 2005
1951(16th
of Nisan, 5711): Second Day of Pesach
1951: NBC
radio broadcast the last episode of Information Please created by Clifton
Fadiman and for which columnist Franklin
Pierce Adams, the Chicago born son of “Moses and Clara Schlossberg Adams “was
the designated expert on poetry, old barroom songs and Gilbert and Sullivan,
which he always referred to as Sullivan and Gilbert”
1951:
Philadelphia Athletics first baseman Lou Limmer played in his first major
league baseball game.
1952(27th
of Nisan, 5712): Yom HaShoah
1952(27th
of Nisan, 5712): Forty-nine-year-old Jakob Rosenfeld the Lemberg born Jewish
doctor who survived Dachau and Buchenwald and gained fame as General Luo, the
Minister of Health under Chairman Mao, passed away today. (Editor’s note – an
exciting life like is certainly worthy of a biography and a NETFLIX series)
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=302
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3330950,00.html
1953: The Jerusalem Post
reported that the "past seven days was the bloodiest week along Israeli
borders for a long time." Two Israelis were murdered at Mevuot Betar, the
marauders were active in the South, in Galilee and Jerusalem. There was a
general outcry when General Bennet L. de Ridder, the U.N. Chairman of the
Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission refused to comply with the Israeli
request to call an emergency meeting of the Commission to discuss the latest
developments and, in particular, the murder of Zvi Genauer and his niece,
Dvora, in Jerusalem. This incomprehensible U.N. decision was taken despite the
fact that the tracks of the three marauders, responsible for this murder, were
discovered by an U.N. observer and an Israeli officer who noted that they led
to the Jordanian-occupied village of Beit Iksa. The General claimed that it was
not the duty of his Commission to deal with incidents "of this type."
1953: In New York, Sylvia
and John Katzman gave birth to Columbia and Harvard alum and Yale Law School
trained attorney and jurist Robert Allen Katzman who was Senior Judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at the time of his death
in 2021.
1953: The Jerusalem Post
reported that Israel's three-years-long land survey, conducted by the Ministry
of Agriculture, had almost been completed.
1953: Herman Pekarsky,
the director of the Jewish Community Council of Essex County, NJ, was among the
speakers at the 25th birthday celebration held at the Park Sheraton,
honoring The Welcome Wagon organization.
1953: Birthdate of
Steve Bond, the native of Haifa who gained fame while appearing in the soap
opera General Hospital.
1953: “It Happens Every
Thursday” a comedy directed by Joseph Pevney, produced by Leonard Goldstein and
with music by Herman Stein was released today in the United States.
1954(19th of
Nisan, 5714): Fifth Day of Pesach
1954(19th of
Nisan, 5714: Sixty-nine-year-old Congressman, NY State Supreme Court Justice
and accused Soviet Spy, Samuel Dickstein, the Vilna born son “Rabbi Israel
Dickstein and Slata B. Gordon” passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/samuel-dickstein
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0008/ms0008.html
https://spartacus-educational.com/Samuel_Dickstein.htm
1954: Leo Lerman, the
Jewish editor and writer for such glossy fashion magazines as Vogue, Mademoiselle and Vanity Fair
met famed American author William Faulkner for the first time.
1954: The so-called Army-McCarthy Hearings began.
These hearings, which helped bring an end to McCarthy’s abuse of power was
triggered by two of his Jewish supporters.
One was the powerful Roy Cohn, the McCarthy Committee’s chief
counsel. The other was Cohn’s close
friend, G. David Schine.
1955(30th
of Nisan, 5715): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1955(30th
of Nisan, 5715): Sixty-five-year-old Columbia alum and Rochester School of
Optometry Dr. Joseph Irving Pascal, the son of Lithuanian rabbi Chaim Hochstein
and Celia Rubinson passed away today.
https://www.ajo.com/article/0002-9394(55)92142-5/pdf
1955: ABC
broadcast the final episode of “Where’s Raymond,” the sit-com produced by
Stanley Shapiro.
1956: While
speaking at a ground-breaking ceremony for the Birchwood Jewish Ceremony, State
Controller Arthur Levitt today urged monetary and moral support for Israel in
her ‘trying times.’”
1956: “Israeli
Premier David Ben-Gurion said today the cease-fire with Egypt negotiated by Dag
Hammarskjold "does not reduce in the slightest" the danger of war.”
1957(21st
of Nisan, 5717): Seventh Day of Pesach
1957:
Today, “in his sermon at Congregation Zichron Ephraim, Rabbi Zev Zahavy said
that individuals and nations were in need of redemptions.”
1957: On
Long Island, Rabbi Samuel M. Silver who is the director of public information
for Union of American Hebrew Congregations “voiced criticism of the State
Department” saying that its “agreement to bar Jewish service men from Saudi
Arabia was a concession to bigotry.
1958:
“Jordanian soldiers shot and kill two fishermen near Aqaba.”
1959(14th
of Nisan, 5719): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach
1960: In
Quebec, Dr. Harry J. Stern led the services dedicating the new home of Temple
Emanu-El-Beth Sholom, the oldest Reform or Liberal congregation in Canada.
1961:
Lucille Ball collapsed while performing in “Wildcast” the musical with lyrics
by Carolyn Leigh and music by Cy Coleman.
1961: "
Carnival of Freedom" will be the theme of the first April-in-Israel Ball
-- celebrating that nation's thirteenth anniversary -- which is scheduled to be
held today in the Grand Ballroom of the Astor.
1963(28th
of Nisan, 5723): Yom HaShoah
1965(20th
of Nisan, 5725): Sixth Day of Pesach
1965: Phillips Talbot, United States Assistant
Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, is scheduled to
meet with Premier Levi Eshkol and Foreign Minister Golda Meir today in Jerusalem
1967(12th
of Nisan, 5727): Shabbat HaGadol
1967(12th of Nisan, 5727): Eighty-four-year-old Ukraine
born agricultural economist and statistician Dr. Naum Jasny, “a specialist in
the study of the Soviet economy” passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jasny-naum
1969(4th
of Iyar, 5729): Yom HaZikaron
1969: “Samuel
Dalsimer, a New York advertising executive was national chairman of the
Anti-Defamation League at the ADL’s 56th annual meeting in
Washington, while playwright and producer Dore Schary became honorary chairman.
1970(16th
of Nisan, 5730): Second Day of Pesach
1970:
Arthur Krock “was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President
Richard Nixon.”
1971(27th
of Nisan, 5731): Yom HaShoah
1971(27th
of Nisan, 5731): Seventy-two-year-old Joseph Ginsburg the father of French
entertainer Serge Gainsbourg passed away today.
1972(8th
of Iyar, 5732): Parashat Achrei Mot-Kedoshim
1972: The Technion,
Israel's Institute of Technology, reported that the United States Air Force has
granted almost SI‐million in
the last seven years for aeronautical research
1973:
Birthdate of Ofer Talker, the
native of Ashdod who gained fame playing football for several teams the last of
which was Hapoel Kfar Saba from which he retired in 2009.
1973:
Birthdate of Delmar, NY native Anita Lynn Kaplan, the 6’5” center on the
Stanford University Basketball team who played professionally for the San Jose
Laser and Chicago Condors and was released by the WNBA Cleveland Rockers before
league play began.
1974:
Birthdate of Israeli Arab MK Mansour Abbas, the leader of Ra’am, or United Arab
List.
1974:
Israeli political leader Amir Peretz was severely injured in accident at the
Mitla Pass.
1975:
Barbara Walters signed a five-year $5 million contract with the American
Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), becoming the highest paid television
newsperson.
1975: Eighty-two-year-old Sir Godfrey
Rolles Driver the Old Testament scholar who was a Professor of Semitic
Philology at Oxford whose expertise included a knowledge of the Semitic
languages of the Biblical period passed away today.
http://www.theologicalstudies.org.uk/article_driver_bruce.html
1976(22nd of
Nisan, 5736): Eighth Day of Pesach observed for the last time during the
Presidency of Gerald Ford.
1977: Shimon Peres became premier of Israel.
1977: “The Late Show,” a mystery
co-starring Bill Macy was released today in the United States.
1978:
In Paris, France, Izhar Cohen & Alphabeta won the twenty-third
Eurovision Song Contest for Israel by singing "A-ba-ni-bi".
1978: The
Jerusalem Post reported that an agreement was reached to end the
18-days-long El Al lockout which had already cost the national airline more
than IL100m, and the tourist industry hundreds of millions more.
1978: The
Jerusalem Post reported that Israel won the Eurovision Song Contest for the
first time with an entry called "A-Ba-Ni-Bi". Israel scored 157
points, Belgium 121 and France 119.
1978: After six
seasons, CBS broadcast the final episode of “Maude” a sitcom created by Norman
Lear and starring Beatrice Arthur in the title role.
1979: The President’s
Commission on the Holocaust has set today as the first day of the week entitled
“Days of Remembrance” for honoring the victims of Nazism.
1979(25th of
Nisan, 5739): Seventy-seven-year-old Kiev born and Birkbeck College trained
solicitor Sir Leon Bagrit who led “Elliot-Automation Ltd” one of the world
largest computer manufacturers pass away today.
1979(25th of Nisan,
5739): Shamir Kuntar was part of a cell that raided the northern Israeli town
of Nahariya, fatally shooting a civilian, Danny Haran, while his daughter
Einat, 4, watched, then smashing the girl’s head, killing her as well. Mr.
Haran’s wife, Smadar, hid with their 2-year-old daughter, accidentally suffocating
her in an effort to stop her from crying out.
1981(18th of
Nisan, 5741): Fourth Day of Pesach
1981: Birthdate of
Parisian native and baritone opera singer David Serero who was responsible for
creating a version “Cyrano De Bergerac,” that features “Sephardi and jazz
standards.”
1982(29th of
Nisan, 5742): Aaron Ronder, the husband Lea Shifter Ronder with whom he had two
children – Ruben and Rose – passed away today after which he was buried Bet
Olam Cemetery in Beachwood, OH.
1982(29th of
Nisan, 5742): Eighty-two-year-old Irish film director and actor Harold
Goldblatt passed away today.
1982(29th of
Nisan, 5742): Seventy-nine-year-old Gertrude Nadler Perlman, the daughter of
Abraham and Shaindel Buchalter Nadler and wife of Harry Perlman who she married
in 1929 passed away today after which she was buried at the Baron de Hirsch
Cemetery in Montreal.
1982: “Six refuseniks
in Odessa joined the hunger strike begun by Kiev refuseniks on March 15th.”
1983: “The Hunger,” a
horror story filmed by South African born Jewish Cinematographer Stephen
Goldblatt was released in the United
States today.
1984: In Israel Al
HaMishmar published the first report of allegations that the hijackers of Bus
300 had been shot after being captured.
1985: According to
Israeli businessman Yaacov Nimrodi, today was the day when a chartered merchant
ship, the Westline, was scheduled to leave Eilat filled with weaponry for Iran
as part of a deal that Americans would come to know as Iran-Contra.
1985: Birthdate of Chicago
native and Stanford University drop-out Samuel Harris Altman “an American
entrepreneur and investor best known as the CEO of OpenAI since 2019…”
1985: The United States
Trade Representative and the Israeli Minister of Industry and Trade signed a
Free Trade Agreement today that “eliminated all duties and virtually all other
restrictions on trade in goods between” their two respective countries.
1986: In Chicago, Connie
Gibstine, a dermatologist and Jerry Altman, a real estate broker, both of whom
were Jewish gave birth to Stanford University dropout Samuel Harris “Sam”
Altman, the sibling of Ann, Max and Jack Altman who, starting in 2019, began
serving as the chief executive officer
(CEO) of the AI company OpenAI.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/veLhW
1988: U. S. premiere of
“White Mischief” directed by Michael Radford who co-authored the screenplay.
1988: “Permanent
Record,” the highly praised drama directed by Marisa Silver was released today
in the United States.
1988: “Two Moon
Junctions,” directed by Zalman King who co-authored the screenplay was released
today in the United States.
1989(17th of
Nisan, 5749): Third Day of Pesach
1989(17th of
Nisan, 5749): Eighty-four-year-old Emilio Gino Segrè the Italian refugee who
was part of the Manhattan Project and who was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Physics in 1989 passed away today.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1959/segre-bio.html
1990: At the Royale
Theatre, after 476 performances the curtain came down on the original Broadway
of “Lend Me a Tenor" produced by Jerry Zaks and featuring Tova Feldshuh
and Victor Garber
1991(8th of
Iyar, 5751): Eighty-one-year-old Judah Bergman, the London born boxer known was
Jack Kid Berg “who became the World Light Welterweight Champion in 1930” passed
away today in his hometown.
1991: Shalom America (Jewish cable network) was
launched in Brooklyn & Queens.
1993: The
Holocaust Memorial Museum was dedicated in Washington, D.C. There is
no way to do this justice. For more information see http://www.ushmm.org/.
1993(1st of
Iyar 5753): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1993(1st of
Iyar, 5753): Miles Lerhman served as chairman of the Holocaust Memorial Museum
from its opening today until 2000, eight years before his death in 2008 at the
age of 88.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/obituaries/24lerman.html?_r=0
1994: “Chasers” a
comedy featuring Betty Schram as “Flo” was released in the United States today.
1994: “The Inkwell,” a
romantic comedy produced by Irving Azoff was released today in the United
States
1994(11th of
Iyar, 5754): Dr. Lewis Barth, Professor of Midrash and Related Literature at
HUC-JIR in Los Angeles delivered the 1994 Rabbi Max Nussbaum Memorial Lecture.
http://bcf.usc.edu/~lbarth/nussbaum/nussbaum.html
1994: Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United
States passed away. Nixon's relations with Jews and the Jewish community
ranged from uneven to stormy. In his first campaign for the U.S. Senate,
Nixon supporters smeared his opponent with the tar brush of
anti-Semitism. Nixon did have Jews working on White House Staff.
He was frustrated by is inability to
gain support among Jewish voters and some of his comments on the White House
tapes about Jews are, to be charitable, less than complimentary. At the
same time, in 1973, he came through for Israel. Thanks to Nixon, the
Americans conducted a mammoth airlift of supplies that enabled the IDF to turn
the tide after the Arab sneak attack and gain a military victory in the Yom
Kippur War.
1995: Yagil Amir, who had sworn to kill Prime
Minister Rabin, unsuccessfully tried to enter a hall in Jerusalem where Rabin
was present as the guest of honor.
1995(22nd of
Nisan, 5755): 8th Day of Pesach
1995(22nd of
Nisan, 5755): Ninety-two-year-old Sir Horace Kadoorie, scion of the Kadoorie
family that migrated from Baghdad to Mumbai to Hong Kong and the son of Laura
Kadoorie and Sir Eleazer "Elly" Silas Kadoorie passed
away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/26/obituaries/horace-kadoorie-philanthropist-92.html
1997(15th of Nisan, 5757): Pesach
1997: ‘Déjà Vu,” an “American dramatic romance film directed by Henry
Jaglom” was released in the United States today.
1998: Five days after premiering in the United States, “Paulie” a fantasy
film co-starring Hallie Eisenberg was released in Germany today.
1999(6th of Iyar, 5759): Seventy-one-year-old Matthew A.
Margolis the Akron, OH born son of Elias H. Margolis and Dora Margolis passed
away today in his hometown.
1999: In Manhattan, jurors awarded a patient of Dr. Pamela Lipkin, an
East Side plastic surgeon $600,000 in damages.
2000(17th of Nisan, 5760): Third day of Pesach
2000(17th of Nisan, 5760): Seventy-nine-year-old theatrical
producer Alexander H. Cohen passed away today. (As reported by Alex Witchel)
http://archives.nypl.org/the/21770
2001: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish
authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Country
Matters: The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving From a Big City to an Old
Country Farmhouse by Michael Korda, Teacha!: Stories From a Yeshiva by
Gerry Albarelli and Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra
by
Shareen Blair Brysac.
2001(29th of Nisan, 5761): Dr. Mario Goldin, 53, of Kfar
Sava, was killed when a terrorist detonated a powerful bomb he was carrying
near a group of people waiting at a bus stop on the corner of Weizman and
Tchernichovsky streets. About 60 people were injured in the blast. Hamas claimed
responsibility.
2001: The National Football League Draft ended today with Iowa State
University Quarterback Sage Rosenthal becoming a Washington Redskin.
2002: During Operation “Defensive Shield,” IDF ended the curfew at Nablus
which had begun on April 4.
2002 “Mideast Turmoil: American Jews; Unusually Unified in Solidarity
With Israel, but Also Unusually Unnerved” published today describes the
feelings an action of the Jewish community in the wake of attacks on Israel and
anti-Semitism in the United States.
2002(10th of Iyar, 5762): Ninety-three year old Victor Frederick
Weisskopf’ an Austrian-born Jewish American theoretical physicist, passed away
today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/25/obituaries/25WEIS.html
2002(10th of
Iyar, 5762): Twenty-two-year-old Sgt. Mag. Nir Kirchmann of Hadera was killed
when the IDF entered a village north of Nablus to arrest Hamas terrorists.
2003: Charles “Krauthammer
predicted that the President would have a "credibility problem" if
weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq within the next five months.”
2004: In North Korea, a
freight train exploded killing technicians from Syria who had come the country
to take possession of fissionable material which they were to take home as part
of nuclear program that could lead to the creation of warheads for the Assad
regime
2004: The Roundabout
Theatre Company’s Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Assassins” opened today
2005: After premiering
in Israel yesterday, “A Lot Like Love” co-starring Amanda Peet was released in
the United States today. today
2005: “The Interpreter”
a complex mystery set at the UN directed by Sydney Pollack who also made a
cameo appearance was released in the United State today.
2005: Jews of Omaha,
Nebraska celebrated Israel’s 59th year of Independence as the Jewish Community
Center hosts the Jewish Arts Festival and Yom Ha’Atzmaut activities designed for
the whole family. This year’s Yom Ha’Atzmaut celebration is a unique and
exciting compilation of an Arts Festival with more than 25 vendors, plus the
usual exciting assortment of carnival games, first-class entertainment, and
delicious foods from a variety of Omaha restaurants.
2006: On Shabbat, thousands
of police were positioned around the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in east
Jerusalem on Holy Saturday, hoping to prevent confrontations between various groups
of worshippers making their way to the church on Saturday afternoon..
2007: At the Yeshiva
University Museum, the exhibition entitled “Reuben Kadish’s Holocaust Sculpture” comes to an end.
2007: Yom Hazikaron
begins tonight in Israel with a special memorial ceremony at Mt. Herzl in
Jerusalem.
2007: The Sunday New York Times Book Section
featured reviews of The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman, edited by Stephen Pascal, Positively American: Winning Back the
Middle-Class Majority One Family at a Time by Chuck Schumer (the Jewish Senator from New York) with
Daniel Squadron, Black and White a novel by Jewish author Dani Shapiro and The Lady Upstairs: Dorothy Schiff and
The New York Post by Marilyn Nissenson. Schiff was the granddaughter
of the German Jewish banking magnate Jacob H. Schiff.
2007: The Sunday Washington Post
Book Section featured a review of The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein by Martin
Duberman. This “rich and revelatory biography of one of the crucial cultural
figures of the twentieth century” provides another example of an American Jew
who has had a major impact on our culture.
2008: Earth Day; Third Day of Pesach – suggested date for Street Seders
designed to address the Global Climate Crisis.
2008: The Jerusalem Cinematheque presents “Refusenik” the first
retrospective documentary to chronicle the thirty-year movement to free Soviet
Jewry between the early 60s and the fall of the Iron Curtain
2009: At Yale Hagai El-Ad, Israeli civil rights activist,
founding director of Jerusalem Open House and director of the Association for
Civil Rights in Israel, delivers a talk entitled “Civil Rights in Israel.”
2009: The Tribeca Film Festival opens with the world premiere of Woody Allen’s “Whatever Works.”
2009: Holocaust
Survivor Irene Furst speaks at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa and Coe
College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2009: In Cedar Falls,
Iowa, Holocaust scholar Michael Berenbaum presents “The Holocaust and
Contemporary Ethics: Legal, Religious, Political and Medical Ethical
Implications of the Holocaust,” the inaugural address for the Norman Cohn
Family Holocaust Remembrance and Education Lecture Series at the University of
Northern Iowa.
2009: “Author Jared
Diamond Sued for Libel” published today described the litigation face by the
Pulitzer-Prize winning author.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090422/us-jared-diamond-lawsuit/
2009: Rome’s city hall
was the site for the Nobel Laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini’s 100th
birthday party.
2009: Five hundred Jews
who were making their monthly visit to Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus arrived at the
shrine this evening and found that it had been subjected to anti-Semitic
vandalism including being painted with swastikas. According to the Oslo Accords, the tomb is
under Israeli control, but that has been rendered as nothing more than a legal
fiction since the outbreak of Arab violence in 2000.
2010: Professor Jason Rosenblatt, author of Renaissance
England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden is scheduled to speak at the Washington
DCJCC as part of the
Distinguished Scholar
Series
2010: The Jewish
Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host the reception
marking the opening of the Annual NoVa International Jewish Film Festival.
2011: On the 41st annual Earth Day and the first anniversary of
the BP oil spill Reform congregations and their rabbis are scheduled to
implement “tried-and-true Earth Day ideas, innovative programs in education and
advocacy, and ways to continue our service and commitment to the Gulf Coast”
some of which had been presented in a workshop that featured Margo Wolfson of
Temple Shalom, Aberdeen, NJ (a GreenFaith Pilot Program congregation), Stephen
Fox of Temple Isaiah, Los Angeles, CA, Rabbi Andy Koren, Temple Emanuel,
Greensboro and Rabbi Daniel Swartz, Temple Hesed, Scranton, PA.”
2011: The Maccabee Queen is scheduled to be performed 12 noon at
Beit Avi Chai in Jerusalem. “Written and directed by Lauri Donahue, the play
chronicles the rule of the last queen of Judea.”
2011: The Beit Yisrael synagogue in Netanya has been pelted with
rocks, allegedly by ultra-Orthodox youths waging a battle to scare the
congregants into leaving.
2012: Amy Irving, star
of “Crossing Delancey” is scheduled to take part in a Q&A following a
showing of this Jewish romantic comedy featuring “Sam, the pickleman” at the
Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2012: The Iowa Jewish Historical Society and the Jewish
Federation of Greater Des Moines are scheduled to host a special event to
recognize and honor Iowa’s Jewish men and women who serve and have served in
all branches of the United States military, during times of both war and peace.
2012: Ambassador Stuart
Eizenstat is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Northern
Virginia’s 2012 Holocaust Observance at Gesher Jewish Day School
2012(30th of
Nisan, 5772): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
2013: Fifty-three years
after its founding the Canadian Jewish News “issued termination notices to its
50 staff and announced that it will cease printing with its June 20 edition due
to financial constraints.”
2013: The American Jewish Historical Society and Yeshiva
University Museum are scheduled to present a performance by The Momenta Quartet
featuring the music of Stefan Wolpe, Aaron Copland and Darius Milhaud.
2013: “Portrait of
Wally” and “A Bottle in the Gaza Sea” are scheduled to be shown at the Northern
Virginia Jewish Film Festival.
2013:” Dressing
America: Tales from the Garment Center” is scheduled to be shown at the
Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2013: Daniel Mendelsohn,
author of the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six
Million, is scheduled to join award- winning journalist Leslie Maitland,
author of Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Love Story of War, Exile and
Love Reclaimed in a discussion of their true stories of lives and loves
lost in the Holocaust at the Washington DCJCC.
2013: Twentieth
anniversary of the dedication of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
2013: The Histadrut
labor federation today threatened to shut down Ben-Gurion International Airport
as a show of solidarity with Israeli airline employees, who are striking
against Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz's Open Skies agreement with the
European Union that was approved by the cabinet yesterday
2013: Jordan has
allowed Israel to fly military drones over the country en route to Syria in
order to monitor the situation there and, should the need arise, target
chemical weapons caches in the civil war-torn country, the French daily Le
Figaro reported today.
2014: In New York,
Temple Shaaray Tefila is scheduled to host the Yom HaShoah Screening of “No
Place On Earth.”
2014(22nd of
Nisan, 5774): 8th day of Pesach – Yizkor
2014: In Serbia,
Holocaust Remembrance Day
2014(22nd of Nisan):
Circumcision of Isaac (Rosh Ha-Shannah 10b)
2015: Shoah survivor
Marcel Drimer is scheduled to speak at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
2015: Yeshiva
University Museum is scheduled to host a tour “Modeling the Synagogue – From
Dura to Touro.” http://www.yumuseum.org/programs/2015/04/22/curators-tour-modeling-the-synagogue-from-dura-to-touro-4
2015: “Belle and
Sebastian” and “Famous Nathan” are scheduled to be shown at the Westchester
Jewish Film Festival.
2015(3rd of
Iyar, 5775): Seventy-eight-year-old
performer Lois Lilienstein passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
2015: Rabbi Lance J.
Sussman is scheduled to teach the second session “Jews, Judaism and American
Law” in Philadelphia, PA.
2015: Today, another official memorial ceremony is scheduled to
be held at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem and will be attended
by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, as well as senior Israel Defense
Forces officers and politicians followed by a separate commemoration for
Israel’s terror victims will take place at Mount Herzl.(As reported by Times of
Israel)
2015: Memorial Day is
scheduled to end at sundown today with the start of Independence Day,
traditionally ushered in with fireworks and street celebrations nationwide. (As
reported by Times of Israel)
2016(14th of
Nisan, 5776): Ta’anit Berchorot; Erev Pesach and Erev Shabbat
2016(14th of
Nisan): Yahrzeit for the thirty people murdered by terrorists at a Seder at the
Park Hotel in Netanya in 2002 and this does not include the 140 who were
wounded.
2016(14th of
Nisan, 5776): 99th anniversary of the United States entry into World
War I. As Jews were fasting for the
first born, searching for chametz and getting ready for their first Seder,
Congress was declaring war on Germany.
This would usher in a three-year period of dynamic change and growth for
the American Jewish community.
2016; “Mr. Church,” an
underappreciated cinematic gem film by cinematography by Sharone Meir premiered
today at the Tribeca Film Festival.
2017(26th of
Nisan, 5777): Parashat Shemini; Start of Pirke Avot Cycle – Read Chapter One;
2017(26th of
Nisan, 5777): Eighty-seven-year-old Professor of Philosophy Hubert Lederer
Dreyfus passed away today in Berkeley.
https://philosophy.berkeley.edu/people/detail/12
https://philosophy.fas.harvard.edu/news/memoriam-hubert-l-dreyfus-1929-2017
2017: The Oxford
University Jewish Society is scheduled to provide a full day of events
including lunch following Shachrit and Mussaf capped off by a Seduah an before
the end of Shabbat
2017: The Jerusalem Opera Festival is scheduled to
continue its opening week events with another concert dedicated to Enrico
Caruso.
2018: The American
Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present the final performance of “Cyrano De
Bergerac” starring David Serero in the title role.
2018: “The entire Twin
Cities Jewish Community” is scheduled to celebrate “Israel@70” at the
Minneapolis Event Center this evening in an event featuring the singing of
Abbie Strauss.
2018: The Center for
Jewish History is scheduled to host a presentation by “Jeffrey Shandler,
Rutgers University Professor of Jewish Studies, which will examine the USC
Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive as a major project of public memory
situated in a series of contexts: Jewish ethnographies, public memory projects
at the turn of the millennium, and the different media used to document the Holocaust.”
2018: In Coralville,
IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host the “8th Annual Concert of
Commemoration.”
2018: The New York Times published reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
Bible of Dirty Jokes by Eileen Pollack and Who We Are and How We Got
Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past by David Reich
2019: The Center for
Jewish History, ALL*ARTS, YIVO and Burke Cohen Entertainment are scheduled to
present “award winning actors Ed Asner and Tovah Feldshuh star in a concert
reading of The Soap Myth, a powerful play about survival, memory, and truth”
which is set more than fifty years after WWII, when a young Jewish reporter
grapples with different versions of the same story - did the Nazis make soap
from the corpses of murdered Jews?”
2019: The Temple
Emanu-El Streicker is scheduled to present “Modern Matters -- Ancient Jewish
Wisdom with Rabbi David Wolpe
2019: Earth Day 2019
http://www.arcworld.org/faiths.asp?pageID=81
https://www.jewishboston.com/whats-jewish-about-earth-day/
2019(17th of
Nissan, 5779): Third Day of Pesach; Second Day of the Omer;
2020: In Coralville, IA
it will take more than a pandemic stop the quest for learning since the Agudas
Achim Wednesday Book Group is scheduled to meet via Zoom this afternoon.
2020: One day after Yom
HaShoah the celebration of Earth Day is scheduled to take place which was first
celebrated on the 49th birthday of Julian Koenig, the creator of the
original advertising event for this event.
2020: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host Dr. Michael Berenbaum as he leads a virtual
presentation on “Not Your Father’s Anti-Semitism.”
2020: Live via Zoom,
the Center for Jewish History and Fordham University’s Center for Jewish
Studies are scheduled to host “Epidemics, Disease and Plagues in Jewish History
and Memory.”
2020: As Israel’s death
toll from Covid-19 moves past 180, it was reported that Ran Saar, the CEO of
Maccabi Helathcare Services, an HMO, has said that “the economic crisis
stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic will more people than the virus itself.
2020: As Israelis
contend with the Pandemic and unprecedented period of political deadlock they
will be considering whether to follow the words of Yair Lapid who “slammed”
Benny Gantz “for going back on all of his election promises and allying himself
with Prime Minister Netanyahu or to accept the explanation of Gantz that he
made the deal because “he felt compelled to bring out Israel of the political
deadlock of the past year in order to tackle the immense challenges ahead”
specifically those presented by the coronavirus epidemic.
2021: Graduate Theological Union is scheduled to present a
conversation with U. of Chicago professor Michael Fishbane, a scholar of modern
Jewish thought, Jewish mysticism, Biblical studies and other areas.
2021: The Jewish
Community Library is scheduled to present educator Ilan Vitemberg talking about
Yehuda Amichai’s poetry in general, and specifically how it influenced a
generation of songwriters who turned it into popular Israeli songs.
2021: Chabad of North
Peninsula. Is scheduled to present “Escape from Cairo,” during Cairo-born
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour will about how the Egyptian government persecuted,
harassed and jailed him for his studies of Israel and how he got asylum.
2021: JCC East Bay and
Reboot are scheduled to present a program that reflects on how climate change
is causing grief, over issues such as “new normal” wildfires and the loss of
biodiversity that will include a meditation led by Rabbi Dorothy Richman and an
art project.
2021: The Temple
Emanu-El Streicker is scheduled to host Jerald Walker talking about his latest
book How to Make A Slave and Other Essays.
2021: In preparation for Lag B’Omer, today, the Jewish Studio
Project in Berkeley is scheduled to lead a class for making art that explores
uncertainty and the countdown between Passover and Shavuot.
2021: The JCC Contra
Costa is scheduled to present “Music As Midrash: Behind the Music of Prayer”
During which Rabbi Josh
Warshawsky will provide a lesson about the text and stories of the traditional
Jewish songs we sing, with a song session.
2021: Based on reports
published yesterday, Israelis are confronting a new trend that “seems to be
gaining momentum among Arab youths in Jerusalem, who videotape themselves
harassing ultra-Orthodox Jews in the capital as a "challenge", which
they then upload to the social media platform TikTok.” (As reported by Nir
Cohen,Alexandra Lukash)
2021: Despite the fact
that “Spring has Sprung,” in Columbus, OH, Congregation Tifterth Israel will
not be holding its outdoor minyan today “due to cold temperatures.”
2022(21st of
Nisan, 5782): Seventh Day of Pesach and Earth Day 2022
https://www.jewishboston.com/whats-jewish-about-earth-day/
2022: The International Conferences on
Metallurgy, Technology and Materials is scheduled to begin today in Tel Aviv.
2022: As they await to
if “Palestinian protesters” who have been egged on by terrorist leaders in Gaza
will throw stones while at the Al Aqsa Mosque as they did last Friday, Israeli
security forces remain on high alert.
2023: Israel braces for
the possibility of another round of Saturday night protest by those opposed to
the proposed reform judicial legislation.
2023: The exhibition
“Two Grains of Wheat” that includes the work of Hinda Weiss is scheduled to
open at 601 Artspace.
2023: In Coralville,
IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host the religious school's special, musical,
intergenerational service.
2023: The exhibition
“This Place We Once Remembered” that includes the work of Dana Levy is
scheduled to open today.
2023(1st of
Iyar, 5783): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
2024: 120th
anniversary of the birth of J. Robert Oppenheimer who was the subject of the
biopic “Oppenheimer” which strangely enough won the best picture Oscar in a
time of rising anti-Semitism and growing anti-intellectualism.
2024: This afternoon,
JCCSF is scheduled to present ““J. Robert Oppenheimer: From Hero to Outcast”
during which Attorney Oak Dowling will discuss the life and work of “Father of
the Atomic Bomb,” with clips from a 2009 PBS documentary.
2024: As Jews prepare
to celebrate Pesach, the nonprofit Security Community Network (SCN) which is the
“official homeland security and safety initiative of the organized Jewish
community in North America,” hosted a call from FBI director warning of
increased threats including those from “lone actors who could target large
gatherings, high profile events or symbolic or religious locations for violence…”
2024: The Seder Seat
for a Hostage campaign sponsored by “the leading Jewish organization in the
United Kingdom” is scheduled to begin tonight.”
2024: As April 22nd
begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day 199
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: During a Yom
HaShoah Service at Chapel of Mercy, Mount Mercy University: 1330 Elmhurst Dr.
NE, Cedar Rapids, Dutch Holocaust survivor Rodi Glass is scheduled to speak in
on narrow escapes from Nazi internment camps.
2025: The ADL is
scheduled to host a special briefing on the latest data on anti-Semitic
incidents in the United States.
2025: The Maltz Museum
is scheduled to present the first in a series of lectures on “How Jews
Transformed Modern Art.”
2025: YIVO and the
American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present an “Evening of Sephardic
Art Zone” that feature Zoe Johnstone Stewart on guitar and Andrew Stewart on
piano.
2025:Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite on “The Age of
Expulsions and Massacres: Medieval England and France” and Charles Landau on
“The Blood Libel.”
2025: As April 22nd
begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of ant-Semitism sweeps across the globe
that includes the fire-bombing of the mansion housing the family of Governor
Josh Shapiro on Pesach, the reality is that the remaining Hamas held hostages
begin day 564 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)
2026(5th of
Iyar, 5786): Yom HaAtzma’ut
2026: Beit S.Y. Agnon
in Jerusalem is scheduled to open its doors on Independence Day for “a literary
happening for the whole family” that
will provide “a day full of children's plays, creative workshops, stories,
mysterious characters and a variety of other surprises.”
2026: Lockdown
University if scheduled to host a lecture by Jeremy Rosen on Jeremy Rosen “The
Biblical Prophets: Isaiah Chapter 1, and What Went Wrong
2026: A meeting of the
Tulane Hillel Board of Directors is scheduled to take place in New Orleans.
2026: Based on
previously published reports Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, the first
Jewish president of that country said is
demanding an exploration “over what U.S.
and Mexican officials were doing in northern Chihuahua when they died in an
accident over the weekend, noting that any joint collaborations between the
local government and the U.S. without federal permission would be a violation
of Mexican law.”
2026: The Iowa City Public
Library is scheduled to host a meeting the “Big Ideas In Jewish Books Club”
which will be discussing Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora by David
Kraemer.
2026: Technion UK is scheduled
to host “a gala show to Celebrate Israel’s 78th Anniversary” that
will tell “the story of the Technion and Israel since 1948.”
2026: Based on an invitation
tendered by Minister of Education Yoav Kisch last February today was supposed
to have been the day that Donald Trump
was to attend the Israel Prize Award Ceremony
in Jerusalem where he was to be “awarded the Israel Prize for Lifetime
Special Contribution to the State of Israel and the Jewish people”
2026: As April 22nd
begins in Israel, the citizenry awaits to see how the government will respond to
Hezbollah’s rocket attack on Israeli troops, which is a violation of the cease-fire.
(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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