tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61061853551836038442024-03-28T21:29:28.319-06:00This Day ... In Jewish HistoryA collection of Jewish history and current Jewish events, in date format, updated daily in this Jewish history blog.melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.comBlogger366125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-29210215432708969662024-03-28T16:04:00.000-06:002024-03-28T16:04:31.774-06:00This Day, March 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p></p><p><em><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">March 29</span></span></b></em></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">835 BCE (1st
of Nisan, 2926): According to some Joash assumed the throne as King of Judah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1188: Emperor
Frederick was convinced (both diplomatically and financially) by Moses bar
Joseph Hakohen of Mayence to issue a decree declaring “that anyone who wounds a
Jew shall have his arm cut off, he who slays a Jew shall die. This decree
succeeded in preventing most of the excesses of the pervious crusades in the
third crusade soon to follow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1244(11th of
Nisan, 5004): Rabbi Meir Abulafia Halevi (Ramah), noted Talmudist, masorete,
and poet passed away today at Toledo, Spain at the age of 74. (As reported by
Abraham Bloch)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1349: Emperor
Charles IV “declared that the city of Speyer had no blame for” the riots in
January, 1349 during which “the Jewish community was totally wiped out.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1366:
Coronation of Henry II as King of Castile and Leon. Henry denigrated his rival
Peter by portraying him as a friend of the Jews; a portrayal that including
calling him “King of the Jews.” Henry exploited Castilian animosity towards
Jews by instigating pogroms and forcing them to convert to Christianity. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1516: Today,
the government created the Venetian Ghetto which according to some was the
oldest ghetto in the world and would survive until the arrival of Napoleon at
the end of the 18<sup>th</sup> century.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/mar/30/500-years-venetian-ghetto-jewish-italian-history"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/mar/30/500-years-venetian-ghetto-jewish-italian-history</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1519: Francesco
II Gonzaga the ruler of the Italian city of Mantua who “stated in a grida
(proclomiation) on March 2, 1515, that the recent popular uprising against the
Jews of Mantua greatly displeased him” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1559: Polish
King Sigismund II granted the Jews a charter despite opposition of the local
authorities at Przemysl.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1602: In
Stoke-on-Trent, Vicar Thomas Lightfoot and his wife gave birth to clergyman
John Lightfoot who authored several books on the Old Testament and its positive
relationship to Jesus as well as such works as <u>A Handful of Gleanings out of
the Book of Exodus<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1601-1700/john-lightfoot-theologian-and-hebrew-scholar-11630049.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1601-1700/john-lightfoot-theologian-and-hebrew-scholar-11630049.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1614(29th of
Nisan, 5374): Rabbi Joshua Falk ben Alexander Katz of Lemberg author of Sefer Me’irat
Einayim, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5994-falk-foreignchars-v05p332001-jpg-foreignchars-joshua-ben-alexander-ha-kohen"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5994-falk-foreignchars-v05p332001-jpg-foreignchars-joshua-ben-alexander-ha-kohen</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1629:
Birthdate of Alexis Mikhailovich, the second of the Romanov Czars. He reigned
during the period marked by the Chmelnicki Uprising that decimated eastern
European Jewry and the appearance of Sabbati Zvi. Considering the fact that we
have records of the Czar ordering sharpshooters to protect Jews on their
travels, sending Jewish merchants abroad to purchase wine and allowing Jews
living in territory he acquired under the Treaty of Andrussev to continue
living there as Russian citizens, he is considered to have been “kindly
disposed toward the Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1632: The
Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the
English had seized it in 1629. Return of the city to French control would keep
Jews from settling in Quebec for another 130 years. The French gave up Canada
to the British in 1763 at the end of the Seven Years War, known in America as
The French and Indian War. Once the British were in control, Jews began to
openly settle in the former French colony.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1632: A proclamation
was issued in Amsterdam today that said Jews could not be members of the gilds”
and this prohibition “was never abolished.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1664:
Consecration of Giulio Rospigliosi to whom apostate Jew Giovanni Battista Jona,
dedicated a Hebrew translation of the New Testament when he became Pope Clement
IX<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1714(13th of Nisan):
Rabbi David ben Solomon Altaras, author of Kelalei ha-Dikduk passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1719(9th of
Nisan): In Venice, Rabbi Jacob Pardo of Ragusa and his wife gave birth to David
Pardo who accepted the position of Chief Rabbi at Sarajevo in 1764 and passed
away in Jerusalem in 1792.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1734(4<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5494): Rachel, the wife of David Cohen Delmonte and the mother of
Isaac, Abigail, Grace and Hannah Delmonte passed away today in Savannah, GA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1744(16th of
Nisan): Rabbi Hayyim ben Jacob Abulafia of Smyrna, author of Ez ha-Hayyim
passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1766(19<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5526): Pesach shel Shabbat<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1771(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5531): Ta’anit Bechorot; erev Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1772:
Birthdate of German native Rivka Mosheim, the wife of Itzig Behr and the father
of Kussel, Bernhard and Abraham Behnrend.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1773: Pope
Clement XIV confirmed the bull issued by Clement VII concerning “Jus Gazaka”
which the Jews viewed positively since it dealt with their right to rent houses
in the ghetto of Rome. “Another token of Pope Clement XIV’s benevolence toward
the Jews was the confirmation today of the bull of Clement VIII concerning the
Jus Gazaka, which was of very great importance to the Roman Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1774(17<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5534): Third Day of Pesach observed two days before King George III
signs the so-called “Intolerable Acts” which were meant to punish the people of
Boston for their disobedience to the Crown. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1781: In
Philadelphia, Leah Nathan and Jacob Naphtali Hart gave birth to Jacob Hart who
passed a way in New Orleans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1789: In
Franklin Tree, Alice Alexander and Jacob Aaron gave birth to Miriam (Ann)
Aaron, the wife of Abraham Franklin with whom she had twelve children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1790(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5550): Ta'anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1790(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5550): Sixty-seven-year-old Mathias Bush, the native of Prague whose
sons served with the American Army during the Revolution passed away today in
Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1792: Gustav
III of Sweden, during whose reign “the Jews of Stockholm invited Levi Hirsch”
to serve as their rabbi was assassinated today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1793: In a
decree issued today, the restriction on Austrian Jews “farming rural property”
was modified to allow for it on “the estates of noblemen” “and even then
hereditary tenancy or acquisition was prohibited.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1797(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Nisan, 5557): Mrs. Rachel Marks, the wife of Levy Marks passed away today in
New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1800(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Nisan, 5660): Parashat Viykra is read for the first time in the 19<sup>th</sup>
century and for the last time during the Presidency of John Adams.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1801(15th of
Nisan, 5561): Pesach is observed for the first time during the Presidency of
Thomas Jefferson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1804(17<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5564): Third Day of Pesach observed on the same day that Lewis and
Clark endure wintery conditions at their camp at the Wood River “across from the
mouth of the Missouri River.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1806: Francis
Isaacs and Harmon Henricks gave birth to Joshua Hendricks who was buried in the
first cemetery of Congregation Shearith Israel when he passed away when he was
twenty-five months old.o<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1812(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5572): Second Day of Pesach; first day of the Omer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1812(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5572): Seventy-six-year-old Esther Hannah Magood Montefiore, the
Livorno, Italy born daughter of Massahod (Modjesta) Raccah-Racha, a “Moorish
merchant,’ and wife of Moses Vita-Haim Montefiore<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1814: The King
of Denmark officially allowed Jews to find employment in all professions and
makes racial and religious discrimination punishable by law.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1819: In
Moravia, Rabbi Leo Wise, a schoolteacher and his wife gave birth to Rabbi Isaac
Mayer Wise, one of America's most influential Jewish leaders during the 19th
Century. His major achievements were the establishment of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations in 1873 and the creation of Central Conference of American
Rabbis in 1889. This brief summary can in no way do justice to the life a man
who had such an impact on the American Jewish community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/isaac-mayer-wise"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/isaac-mayer-wise</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1819: In
Larraine, France Simon and Pauline Levy gave birth to Kalmus Calmann Levy, “the
founder of Calmann-Lévy, one of the oldest French publishing houses.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1821:
Birthdate of engraver and publisher Frank Leslie whose Illustrated Newspaper
carried pictures of Jewish events including a Hebrew Purim Ball and Chanukah
Celebration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.israeldailypicture.com/2014/03/a-purim-treat-from-archives-of-library.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IsraelsHistory-APictureADaybeta+%28Israel%27s+History+-+a+Picture+a+Day+%28Beta%29%29"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.israeldailypicture.com/2014/03/a-purim-treat-from-archives-of-library.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IsraelsHistory-APictureADaybeta+%28Israel%27s+History+-+a+Picture+a+Day+%28Beta%29%29</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1824:
Birthdate of Amsterdam native David Zacharias Baruch, the son of Zacharias
Baruch, the husband of Lea Nabarro and the father of Gratia, Rebecca, Clara,
Izaak and Abraham Baruch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1829: Six days
after he had passed away, 43 year old Joel Abrahams was buried today at the
“Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1832:
Birthdate of Austrian philosopher Theodore Gomperz, the native of Brno, who
“was elected a member of the Academy of Science, received the degree of Doctor
of Philosophy honoris causa from the university of Königsberg, and Doctor of
Literature from the universities of Dublin and Cambridge.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1832:
Birthdate of Offenbach native Leopold Oppenheim, the husband of Josephine
Barrow Montefiore.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1833: As a
result of the damage sustained to its building in 1831 during a hurricane, a
new synagogue was consecrated by Kaal Koadosh Nidhl Israel on Barbados.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1840: In
Essingen, Germany, Sarah Adler and Rabbi Joseph Gabriel Adler gave birth to
Rabbi Immanuel Manchem Adler, the husband of Judith Adler and father of Pinchas
Adler.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1842(18<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5602): Fourth day of Pesach celebrated one day after the Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra had performed its first concert.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><a name="_Hlk162359465"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847:
Birthdate of Woolwich native and City of London School and Cambridge educated “barrister
and journalist David Israel, “the first Jew to win an open entrance scholarship
to either of these two ancient universities.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk162359465;"></span>
</span><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848: In Great
Britain, Samuel Joseph Rubinstein married a daughter of David Moses Dyte, a
London quill merchant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848: A decree
issued today granted civil rights to the Jews of Alessandria, Italy which
allowed to serve in the army and hold government jobs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1849: Adolphus
Alexander married Violet Abrahams today at the Pilgrim Street Synagogue in
Liverpool, England.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1849: Lewis
Nathan married Regina Kisch today at the Great Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1850(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5610): Second Day of Pesach as California prepares to enter the Union
following the adoption of the Compromise of 1850.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852(9<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5612): Eighty-four-year-old Catherine Manuel, the London born
daughter of David Manuel and the wife of Levy Solomons whom she married in 1801
passed away today in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853:
Birthdate of Moravia native Moritz Gunwald who passed away in London after
which he was buried at the Edmonton Federation Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5613): Eighty-year-old “Italian physician and Hebraist Solomon
Hayyim Vita Della Volta, the resident of Mantua who “was the owner of a large
Hebrew library, which, together with its 131 manuscripts, came into the
possession of Marco Mortara” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1854: Emanuel
Dreifuss, the German born son of Breunia and Aron Dreifus and his wife Friederika
Dreifuss gave birth to Sara Dreifus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855: In what
became the Czech Republic, Josef Pick, he son of “Markus and Elisabeth Pick”
and Eleanor Pick gave birth to Siegfried Pick<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858(14th of
Nisan): Jews who had served in the Russian army received the right of residence
in the province of Abo-Bjorneborg, Finland upon its annexation today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859: In New
Orleans Jacob Osoro DeCastro and Hannah Haim DeSola DeCastro gave birth to
Zippporah Alice DeCastro Lazaron, the husband of Atlanta, GA native Samuel
Louis Lazaron and the mother of Savannah, GA native Samuel Lazaron, the Reform
Rabbi who led Baltimore Hebrew Congregation for three decades who eventually
gave up his post because of anti-Zionist views.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859: A new lodge
of the Sons of Israel which was the first one outside of New York City was
“instituted” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860: Todays
"Personal" column reported that “The Cincinnati papers notice the
arrival in that city of Mr. Israel J. Benjamin, author of Eight Years in Asia
and Africa -- a Jew, who is making the tour of North America to examine the
condition of his race. His design is to cross the Plains, spend a short time in
the Rocky Mountains, and thence proceed through California to Asia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860: In
Donaldsonville, LA, Michael Blum and Louise Meyer gave birth to Sam Blum, a
product of the New Orleans public school and businessman who was President of
the Young Men’s Hebrew Association for six years and “trustee of the Touro
Synagogue for several years.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861(18<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5621): Fourth Day of Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861: Opening
night at the Winter Garden for “The Hebrew Son” a play designed to appeal to
the Jews in the audience.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862: “After
the repeal of the majority legal restrictions on Jewish citizens, today the
Israelitische Kultusverein (literal: Israelite Cultus Society) was founded by
12 members.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862:
Birthdate of Swiss born American portrait painter whose work includes a
painting of Isaac Newton Seligman that has disappeared and one of his five year
old son Joseph L. Seligman which was done in 1891 and first exhibited in
January of 1892.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863: A column
published today entitled “New From Fortress Monroe” reported that two Jews were
arrested while on board the SS Thomas A. Morgan which was making her trip from
this Fortress Monroe, VA to Yorktown, VA. The Jews had “a lot of contraband
goods” in their possession. [The implication of the article is that the Jews
were trading with the Rebel forces further upriver.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1863:</span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> The New York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that Colonel
Crane and a group of Union soldiers captured a schooner towing a lighter filled
with cotton in Florida. Of the 12 men aboard the schooner, 10 were rebels while
the others were a man named Titus from Rhode Island and “a Jew from New York
named J. Cohen.” [The correspondent does not say how he ascertained that Cohen
was a Jew or why his was the only one whose religion was mentioned.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864: Today, Julius
Oppenheimer, “the rabbi of the Berlin Reform Congregation” and his wife gave
birth to the University of Freiburg and University of Berlin trained medical
doctor Franz Oppenheim who went from being a specialist in “diseases of the throat
and nose” to becoming an author whose principal fields of interest were “political
economy and sociology.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11739-oppenheimer-franz">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11739-oppenheimer-franz</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864: In
Alsfeld, German Marianne Stern and Abraham Rothschild gave birth to Henriette
Rothschild, the wife of Joseph Weihl and the mother of Adolf and Ernst Weihl. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866(22nd of
Adar II, 5646): Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch passed away. Born in 1789,
Rabbi Menachem Mendel was the grandson of the first Chabad Rebbe and was the
third Chabad Lubavitch Rebbe. "He was also known as the Tzemach Tzedek
(Righteous Sprout), the name for a voluminous compendium of Jewish halachah
that he authored. He also authored Derech Mitzvotecha (Way of Your
Commandments), a mystical exposition of Jewish law." According to some
sources, the seventh Lubavitch Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson was named in
honor his illustrious predecessor. This brief summary can in no way do justice
to the life and writing of this illustrious sage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1867: “Affairs
In Illinois” published today reported on the victimization of the insurance
companies by a series of fraudulent claims. The article concludes by stating
“And the fire insurance companies have been so frequently victimized by Jews
practicing arson, that many of them are declining Israelitish risks.’ The
article does not contain any details about these Jewish arsons.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1867: “The
Purim Ball” published today reported that this event is different from the
other balls that make up the New York Social Season. Unlike the other
festivities, the Purim Ball is rooted in the national traditions of the Jews
and calls for form of costume and masquerade that makes it a unique event.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868:
Birthdate of Nova Scotia native and Congressman from New Jersey’s 5<sup>th</sup>
District Charles Aubrey who during his career as minister and evangelist had
delivered a sermon on “The New American” said “The Jews have got your theatres
and most of your banks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will soon
hold you in the hollow of their hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Most have no religion at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What can we do with them? I say, let them come to the Madison Avenue
Baptist Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was one Jew would
have received here – Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
was another – Paul.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868: Baron
Ferdinand de Rothschild having laid the cornerstone on December 24, 1867, the
North London Synagogue whose “first minister was Rabbi Morris Joseph” was consecrated
today by Dr. N.M. Adler.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869(17<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5629): Third Day of Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870: Philip
Magnus married Kate Emanuel today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873(1st of
Nisan, 5633): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1874: Goldsmid
delivered a lecture today on </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #202122;">"What girls should
learn, what mothers should practice, and how husbands should help them.”</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875: Two days
after she had passed away, the former Caroline Simon, a native of Jamaica and
the wife of Phineas Abraham with whom she had had eight children was buried
today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875: It was
reported today that there is a dispute among the members of New York’s Beth-El
congregation over how to deal with the remains of those buried at the two
cemeteries owned by the congregation. Beth-El was formed by a merger of Anshei
Chesed (Norfolk Street Synagogue) and Adas Jeshurun which is why Beth-El has
two cemeteries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877(15th of
Nissan, 5637): First Day of Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878:
Birthdate of Albert Gumm, the Indiana native who gained fame as a songwriter
under the name of Albert Von Tilzer, the author of “Take Me Out To The
Ballgame.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878(24<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5638): Sixty-six-year-old Wolf Trost, the husband of Hannah Kahn
Trost and the father of Bella, Samuel and Jacob Trost passed away today after which
he was buried in the Walnut Hills Jewish Cemetery in Evanston, OH.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880: Myer Stern
represented the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society at today’s meeting
of the New York State Board of Charities meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880(17<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5640): Third Day of Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880(17<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5640): Sixty-year-old Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim, the scion of a
Jewish banking family who served as editor of the liberal <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Die Reform</i> (The Reform) who served in the German Reichstag.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880:
Birthdate of pianist Rosina Lhévinne whom Juilliard president Peter Mennin
called "quite simply one of the greatest teachers of this century."
Born in Kiev, she began her piano studies at age six and entered the Moscow
Conservatory at age nine. Over the next nine years, she perfected her piano
technique, graduating in 1898 with the school's gold medal. Among her
classmates at the Conservatory were Sergei Rachmaninoff and Josef Lhévinne,
whom Rosina married after her graduation. After getting married, Lhévinne
abandoned her fledging solo performance career in order to keep her husband,
also an accomplished pianist, in the spotlight. However, she did not abandon
the performance circuit, often playing two-piano concerts with her husband. The
Lhévinnes toured the U.S. for the first time in 1907, and moved permanently to
New York immediately after World War I. In 1924, they joined the faculty of the
newly established Juilliard Graduate School, where they shared a studio. After
Josef Lhévinne's death in 1944, Rosina continued to teach at Juilliard, where
her students included such promising musicians as Van Cliburn, David Bar-Ilan,
James Levine, and Arthur Gold. As her students made their mark in national and
international piano competitions, Lhévinne's fame grew. However, it was only in
1956, at the age of seventy-six, that Lhévinne resumed her own solo piano
career. Her first concert was with the Aspen Festival Orchestra; she went on to
perform with orchestras around the country. In 1963, she appeared in four
performances with the New York Philharmonic, under Leonard Bernstein's
direction. Despite a busy performance schedule, Lhévinne continued to teach at
Juilliard until she passed her ninety-sixth birthday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880: In
Kempen, Rabbi Adolph Moses Radin and his wife gave birth to American legal
scholar Max Radin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb9g5008vb&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00006&toc.id"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb9g5008vb&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00006&toc.id</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif">=<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: In
Leadville, CO a fire broke out in the Pioneer Salon which spread to the next
door liquor business owned by the Schloss family.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882:
Birthdate of Riga native and NYU trained attorney Dr. Joseph Kahn, the high
school teacher, lecturer on philosophy and partner in the firm of Kahn and
Zorn, who was New York State Supreme Court referee, author of books on
accounting and flying and mountain climbing enthusiast. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882: A
two-day Pogrom in the largely Jewish town of Balta (Russia) comes to an end
leaving nearly half of the homes and shops in ruins.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882: “Near
Bolanda, Mississippi,” the former Venola Rutledge and Thomas Braxton Rankin
gave birth to sixteen term Mississippi Congressman John Elliott Rankin the
noted bigot who accused Einstein of being a Communist and while speaking on the
floor of the House called Walter Winchell “the little kike.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Editor’s note - his record against Blacks
was far worse)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883: In
Cleveland, OH, Emma Scheuer and Henry Blahd gave birth to Cornell, Western
Reserved and University of Strasburg trained physician and surgeon Moses Emmett
Blahd, the husband of Rae Lichtenstader and a Captain in the Medical Corps of
the U.S. Arym who was the chief surgeon of Mt. Sinai Hospital in Cleveland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884: Mrs. Max
Rosenberg claimed that on this day her husband forced her to pack her trunk,
leave their New York apartment and stopped providing her with financial
support. (Rosenberg would subsequently deny these claims, citing proof that she
left of her own volition, that he continued to support her, that she still
loved him and that the cause of their problems was that he was Jewish – a fact
resented by her gentile father.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886: In New
York City, Mary Pomerantz and Leopold Herzberg gave birth to Columbia College
graduate and the 1906 “winner of the H.C. Bunner Gold Medal in American
Literature Max J. Herzer, the husband of Edna M. Newman and the Head of the English
Department at Central High School in Newark, NJ who was the literary editor of
the of the Newark Evening News who contributed to numerous publications including
the Maccabean, the American Hebrew and the New York Times <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>while serving as Treasurer of the Jewish Free
Library.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886:
Birthdate of Newark, NJ native and NYU trained journalist Morris Kramer an
officer of the Jewish Aid Society in Brooklyn and member of the editorial staff
of the Jewish Daily News.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: In
Leadville, CO, Simon Schloss “was a member the committee of arrangements for
the eighth annual Purim Masque Ball held at the Tabor Opera House today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5648): Second Day of Pesach; 1<sup>st</sup> day of the Omer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888: Five
days after he had passed away, Abraham Hammond Solomon was buried today at the
“Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5648): Seventy-four-year-old composer and pianist Charles-Valentin
Alkan whose “Op. 31 set of Préludes includes a number of pieces based on Jewish
subjects, including some titled Prière (Prayer), one preceded by a quote from
the Song of Songs, and another titled Ancienne mélodie de la synagogue (Old
synagogue melody)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Alkan-Charles.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Alkan-Charles.htm</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890(8th of
Nisan, 5650): Shabbat HaGadol<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890:
Birthdate of daughter Pauline Herzl, daughter of Theodor Herzl who passed away
in 1930.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: “Emanuel
Bernheimer” published today listed the philanthropies and charities supported
by the founder Lion Brewery including Mount Sinai Hospital, the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum and the Montefiore Home for the Chronic Invalids.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: It was
reported today that in St. Petersburg, university students have presented
Professor Menelieff with demands that entrance fees be reduced and the
restrictions against Jewish admission be removed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890(8th of
Nisan, 5650): Forty-five-year-old Morris Eising, a Jewish immigrant from German
was found dead in his boarding house at West 24<sup>th</sup> Street.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891:
Following the appointment of the Grand Duke Sergei as Governor of Moscow, the
Jews found out today about the plan to expel 20,000 of them from the city.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: The
Russian government published the edict that expelled 14,000 Jews from Moscow.
Two thirds of Moscow’s Jewry were disposed and violently removed to the Pale of
Settlement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892(1st of
Nisan 5652): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: Three
days after she had passed away, the former Emily Bethiah Meikleham, the widow
of Joseph Cohen was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892(1st of
Nisan 5652): Rabbi Elimelech Szapira of Grodzhisk passed away. Born in 1832, he
“was the leading Hasidic rebbe of his time in Poland. He was a chosid
(follower) of the Rizhiner Rebbe. After the death of his father, the Sorof of
Mogelnica, he assumed leadership of the chasidim, who eventually numbered ten
thousand. His sons-in-law were the Kozhnitser Rebbe and Rebbe Osher the Second
of Stolin-Karlin.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: In
Boston, Judge Ely dismissed charges against Tavia Angus, the defendant charged
by the police with illegally possessing wine and liquor which his
co-religionists from Adat Israel claimed he was holding for them and which
would be distributed prior to Passover which begins at sundown on March 31. The
Jews will now be able to get their wine and brandy back from the police in time
for the first Seder.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: “New
Immigration Commissioner” published today described Secretary of Treasury John
G. Carlisle’s appointment of Joseph H. Senner as the Commissioner of
Immigration at New York. (Carlisle was not Jewish; Senner was)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894:
Birthdate of Bohemia born painter turned photographer Franz F. Planer the Oscar
award nominated cinematographer whose works spanned from the big outdoor
western “The Big Country” to the Manhattan stylishness of “Breakfast at
Tiffany’s”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.cinematographers.nl/GreatDoPh/planer.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.cinematographers.nl/GreatDoPh/planer.htm</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.filmreference.com/Writers-and-Production-Artists-Ni-Po/Planer-Franz.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.filmreference.com/Writers-and-Production-Artists-Ni-Po/Planer-Franz.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: In
Russia <span style="color: black;">Abraham Issac and Bluma (Ruchel) Wisenberg
gave birth to Mercer University graduate and member of the Georgia bar Solomon
Louis Wisenberg, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the husband of Bessie Mindel whom he married
in 1917 and who taught Hebrew in Macon GA, practiced law in Georgia and
served as the treasurer of the Mississippi Wholesale Company in Laurel,
Mississippi.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=uWrXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA209&lpg=PA209&dq=Abraham+Goldforb&source=bl&ots=vGiEk-am47&sig=ACfU3U2DFfBvGIwmsvm-pD3qkAQOCkcpDw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAkKzVjMPoAhVEXM0KHVsnBsYQ6AEwBnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=Abraham%20Goldforb&f=false">https://books.google.com/books?id=uWrXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA209&lpg=PA209&dq=Abraham+Goldforb&source=bl&ots=vGiEk-am47&sig=ACfU3U2DFfBvGIwmsvm-pD3qkAQOCkcpDw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAkKzVjMPoAhVEXM0KHVsnBsYQ6AEwBnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=Abraham%20Goldforb&f=false</a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: “Grand
Cake Walk For Charity” published today described the fund raiser sponsored by
the Monte Relief Society which began with an address by the founder and
President Sofia Monte-Loebinger. The society which is named for its founder was
founded by a handful of Jewesses and provides financial aid to the city’s
destitute.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895(4th
of Nisan, 5655): Bernhard Bernhard, a benefactor to many Jewish charities
including the Hebrew Benevolent Association, passed away today at his home on
East 62<sup>nd</sup> Street in New York leaving behind two children<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896(15th of
Nisan, 5656): First Day of Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1896(15th of
Nisan, 5656): </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
New York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported
that “Pesach, or the Feast of the Passover, with which the Israelites celebrate
the deliverance of the Jews from bondage in Egypt, was inaugurated at sundown
yesterday. The feast continues eight consecutive days and will close with the
setting of the sun next Saturday.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30917F63C5415738DDDA00A94DB405B8685F0D3"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30917F63C5415738DDDA00A94DB405B8685F0D3</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896(15<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5656): Fifty-two-year-old Hungarian born revolutionary Leó Frankel
who took part in the Paris Commune of 1871 passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: In
Amsterdam, “Abraham Jessurun Cardozo and Marie Serlui, gave birth David Abraham
Jessurun Cardoza, the assistant rabbi at New York’s Spanish and Portuguese
Synagogue and senior rabbi at Philadelphia’s Congregation Mikveh Israel who in
1953 became the first rabbi to publicly hold High Holiday services in Spain
since the expulsion in 1492,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/05/archives/rabbi-cardozo-dies-a-sephardic-leader.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/05/archives/rabbi-cardozo-dies-a-sephardic-leader.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: It was
reported today that Lucien L. Bonheur is chairman of the committee planning the
19<sup>th</sup> annual Strawberry Festival sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew
Association. He is being assisted by Isaac Newton Lewis, Falk Younker, Levi
Hershfield, Edwin M. Schwartz and Dr. Louis S. Rosenthal. Percival S. Menken is
President of the Association.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897:
“Millions For Charity” published today described a “stupendous project” to be
underwritten by the Baron de Hirsch Fund that will “relieve the congested
district of” New York’s “east side by building homes and establishing
industries in the suburbs.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5657): Sixty-six year old David Weinberg, a retired furrier, passed
away at his home leaving behind a widow and four children in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5657): Forty-nine-year-old Louis Israel, “proprietor of the one of
the largest livery stables in Brooklyn” passed away today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A native of Brooklyn, he was President of the
Hebrew Benevolent Society and a member of the Independent Order of the Free
Sons of Israel, the King Solomon Lodge and the B’nai Sholom Benefit Society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898(6th of
Nisan, 5658): Rabbi Emanuel Schwab who was 101 years old passed away today in
New York City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A native of Frankfort on
Main he came to the United States 53 years ago where he served as rabbi of
congregations at Schenectady, NY and Bridgeport, Conn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was preceded in death by his wife the
former Miss Sophie Hirsch whom he had married in 1862. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: Baroness
Hirsch the widow of the late Jewish philanthropist is reportedly to be
critically ill.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: The
Jewish Colonial Bank in London begins to accept subscriptions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/jct.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/jct.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The American Israelite</i> announced the
death of Isaac Mayer Wise.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: In
Belfast, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Elliot “gave birth” to a “stillborn” child today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: The
United Mine Workers, whose predecessors had included The National Federation of
Miners led by its President Samuel Gompers, “obtained recognition by the
anthracite mines in Pennsylvania and called off a strike that had been planned
for April 1.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5662): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: “Call
for Information” published today described a resolution introduced in the House
of Representatives directing the Secretary of State “to inform this House
whether American citizens of the Jewish religious faith, holding passports
issued by” the United States “government are barred or excluded from entering
the territory of the Empire Russia and whether the Russian Government has made
or is making any discrimination between citizens of the United States, of
different religious faith or persuasion visiting or attempting to visit
Russia…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: Herzl
meets with the Belgian born barrister Leon Constant Ghislain Carton de Wiart
now living in Egypt. Herzl tells him that “We will give up the word 'Charter'
but not the thing itself."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903:
Birthdate of Russian born American and Radcliffe trained political scientist
who worked for such luminaries as Governor Herbert H. Lehman and General Lucius
D. Clay.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/12/archives/vera-mictieles-dean-69dies-international-a-flairs-specialist.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/12/archives/vera-mictieles-dean-69dies-international-a-flairs-specialist.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/schlesinger-newsletter/vera-micheles-dean-expert-in-international-relations"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/schlesinger-newsletter/vera-micheles-dean-expert-in-international-relations</span></a><u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: Alfred
Decker, the Bavarian born son of Johanna Reub and Abraham Decker <span style="color: black;">who at the age of 13 came to Chicago where he founded
“Alfred Decker and Cohn Company which became Society Brand Clothes, Inc. one
largest manufacturers of men’s wear in the United States and was a member of
both Temple Sholem and Temple Emanuel married Raye Hexter today.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904:
Eleven-year-old Harry Serkin was given five cents by an unknown man to
delivere a parcel to the office of the Jewish Morning Journal at 228 Madison
Street which turned out to be a box filled with kerosene soaked sawdust and a
piece of zinc piping filled with powdered carbon and with a smoldering fuse all
of which was taken to the Madison Street Police Station.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/03/30/118944620.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/03/30/118944620.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: At 07:00
today Dorothy Levitt “departed from the De-Dion showroom in Great Marlborough
Street London and arrived at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool at 18:10, having
completed the 205 miles in 11 hours” thus establishing “a new record for the
longest drive achieved by a lady driver.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: As of
today, Attorney General Julius M. Mayer is President of the Jewish Protectory
and Aid Society, Jesse Straus is the Secretary and Henry Solomon and Mortimer
L. Schiff are Vice Presidents.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907(14th of
Nisan, 5667): On Ellis Island, Rabbi Adolph Radin joined 180 Jewish immigrants
in a Seder this evening which marked their first Passover in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: “A
meeting convened by Zionists was held” today “at the Hotel Continental in
Vienna to protest” the “atrocities” being committed against the Jews in
Romania.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: As of
today, 140,000 soldiers had been recruited to help quell the Romanian Peasant
Revolt. The peasants were revolting against the Christian nobles who were the
landowners responsible for their exploitation. An untold number of Jews fell
victim to the peasants because they were the one who collected the rents. Once
again, a dispute between groups of Christians results in dead Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: Late
tonight, the New York City Police expressed the opinion that “Selig Silverstein
(also known as Selig Cohen), a Russian-born cloak maker and anarchist living on
Van Brunt Street in Brooklyn, who was attending the Socialist Conference of the
Unemployed and who had thrown “a bomb into a group in in Union Square” was
acting alone in the manner of “a sickly fanatic” and not as a participate in “a
deliberate plot.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909:
Birthdate of Alfred A. Tananbaum, one of three brothers who built Yonkers
Raceway into a leading harness track<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: It was
reported today that the turnout for the election of the Executive Committee
which “will look after all Jewish community interests” was so heavy that it
took two days to count the ballots and that the “Orthodox and liberal elements
are both represented on the committee of twenty-five.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910:
Eugène-Melchior, vicomte de Vogüé a 19<sup>th</sup> century French
archaeologist and author “who is known for his architectural studies of
Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and the surrounding areas. (For more see <u>Digging
Through The Bible</u> by Richard A. Freund)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911:
Birthdate of Paris native and Sorbonne attendee Dr. Nathan Edlemean, the CCNY
undergrad and hold of a Ph.D. from Columbia, who taught French at two colleges
and <u>wrote Attitudes of 17<sup>th</sup> Century France Toward the Middle Ages</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/16/archives/nathanedelman-iexpertohfrehgh-teacher-at-oolumba-dead-wrte-major.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/16/archives/nathanedelman-iexpertohfrehgh-teacher-at-oolumba-dead-wrte-major.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5671): Ephraim Kagnousky, the husband of Beth-Sheba Cohen with whom he
had six children – Abraha, Rose Ann, Marion, Sumner, Nathan and Jacob – passed away
today after which he was buried in the Montefiore Cemetery in Woburn, MA<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: By
decree of the King of Italy, Jews in Tripoli can now organize as a community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: Painter
and Professor Max Liebermann received an honorary Doctor Philosophy degree for
the University of Berlin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912(11<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5672): Sixty-eight-year-old “communal worker,” Tobias Weinschenker
passed away today in Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912(11<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5672): Fifty-seven-year-old merchant Jacques Loeb passed away in
Montgomery, Alabama.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
Birthdate of Fivel Feldman, the Brooklyn native gained fames as comedian Phil
Foster who gained lasting fame as Frank De Fazio on the 1970’s sitcom “Laverne
and Shirley.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: It was
reported today that “there was a debate concerning Shechitah” “in the Landtag
of Darmstadt, the capital city of the Duchy of Hesse” where, as expected the
anti-Semites attacked the Jewish form of slaughter as being inhumane but
unexpectedly defenders of the practice “were found in the Catholic party.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5673): Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5673): New York “communal worker” David H. Lieberman passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
Birthdate of Hyman Bloom. Born into an orthodox Jewish family in southern he
emigrated to the United States with his family in 1920, at the age of seven. He
lived for most of his life in Boston, Massachusetts and at a young age planned
to become a rabbi, but his family could not find a suitable teacher. Bloom and
Jack Levine, another Jewish painter from Boston, received scholarships in the
fine arts given by the famous Harvard art professor Denman Ross. Bloom, along
with Levine and another painter, Karl Zerbe, eventually became associated with
a style named Boston Expressionism. He passed away in 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Nisan, 5674): Fifty-seven-year-old Rosa Stix, the Cincinnati born daughter
of Yetta Hackes and Louis Stix nd the wife of Carl Iglauer with whom he had two
children – Zilah and Florence—passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: In
Mulhouse, Baruch Kahn and Constance Kenendel Lang gave birth to Louis Joseph
Kahn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5675): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: Emanuel
Beckerman, an interpreter in the Bronx Municipal Court was pleased to learn
today that the ten pounds of matzoth that he had shipped to Rabbi Bernard
Pressen for his Seder in Berlin had arrived in Amsterdam and should have made
it to Berlin in time for the Seder. Beckerman had met Pressen in 1907 and did
not want his co-religionist to go without unleavened bread because the Kaiser’s
government had banned using wheat to make matzoth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: “More
than 300 Jewish soldiers and sailors along with Admiral Charles Sigsbee who had
commanded the Battleship Maine, were the guests tonight at a Seder hosted by
the Army and Navy Y.M.H.A. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915(14th of Nisan,
5675): Ninety men and one hundred and five women ranging in age from 67 to 110
held a Seder at the Home of the Daughters of Jacob in New York City. Nissen
Rosen, 105 years old, will sit at one end of the table where he will face 110-year-old
Ethel Rosenstein. It will be a double celebration for Hannah Perlaeur who was
born on the night of the Seder 95 years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915(14th of
Nisan, 5675): One hundred Jews who had recently arrived from Jerusalem were
among those who participated at a Seder at the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant
Aid Society’s home on Broadway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915(14th of
Nisan, 5675): Dr. M.J. Leff conducted a Seder for the staff at the Beth Israel
Hospital in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: As Jews
ran their last errands in preparation for the Seder at Ostrolenka, Russia,
German planes began bombing the city with what appeared to be a decision by
“the enemy to raze the city to its foundations.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: It was
reported today that Judge Nathaniel E. Harris, the governor-elect of Georgia
believes “the bitterness against Leo Frank has largely passed away and there
are now many who take the view that his conviction was a miscarriage of
justice” while “on the other hand, there are plenty of them who do not.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: Alexsei
Brusilov, who as the Chief of Staff approved the appointment of Jewish
Chaplains to serve in the Russian Army “was given command of the Southwest
Front.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: Bronx
Borough President Douglas Mathewson and Bronx County Register were among the
thousands of people who attended “Bronx Night” at the Jewish Bazar being held
at the Grand Central Palace.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: Three
days after he had passed away, 25-year-old Corporal George Jessel Issacs, the
“son of Harry and Mria Isaacs” was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish
Cemetery” in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Jacob
Schiff, Adolph Lewisohn and Oscar S. Straus are expected to attend the meeting
of the Jewish League of American Patriots at the Broadway offices of Samuel
Untermyer where plans will be made “to spread the movement” throughout the
United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917:
“Hadassah…announced” today “that $30,000 has been raised for a medical until
which it” will “establish in Palestine at the earliest possible moment to
combat typhus and other plagues now reported to be prevalent in that country.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: “The
Independent Order of Free Sons of Israel” which has eighty-one lodges
throughout the United States is scheduled to “hold a patriotic mass meeting”
tonight at the Floral Garden so “that the Jews of Greater New York may give
joint public expression of their loyalty and devotion to the flag.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917:
“President Wilson sent a telegram to Julius Rosenwald today endorsing the
raising of a $10,000,000 fund for the relief of Jewish war sufferers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5678): Second Day of Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Captain
Albala of the Serbian Commission to the United States, Professor Mordecai M.
Kaplan, Sol M. Sroock and Colonel Maurice Simmons are scheduled to be speakers
tonight at “a public celebration of Passover” at the Hebrew Technical School
for Girls to which young Jewish service men have been invited <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: In The
Hague, “the Central Jewish Aid Committee sent 540,000 marks to Poland for the
relief of Jewish communities and institutions.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5678): Second day of Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5678):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eighty-year-old Assur
Henry Moses the Secretary of the Assoication for the Oral Instruction of the
Deaf and Dumb from 1870 to 1915 and the father of singer Alice Moses who used
the stage name Alice Mandeville passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: “The
centenary of the birth of the late Dr. Isaac M. Wise” is scheduled to “be
celebrated by the Jews of America” today according to Rabbi Joseph Silverman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: The
celebration of the ceremony of Conferring Rabbinical Degrees on five students
at The Yeshiva began today with services being held in orthodox synagogues
throughout Greater New York under the direction of the Union of Orthodox
Rabbis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: In the
House of Commons, “Lieut.-Colonel Malone asked the Home Secretary whether his
attention has been called to an anonymous booklet recently issued called
"The Jewish Peril"; whether he is aware that this pamphlet is a
mutilation of an original Russian anti-Semitic document produced with a view to
injuring the entente with Great Britain; that as now published it is intended
to arouse anti-Semitic feeling in this country; and whether he will take steps
to procure the suppression of this publication?” to which the Home Secretary,
Edward Shortt,replied “I understand that the booklet "The Jewish
Peril" is an English translation of a book published in Russian in 1905 by
Serge Nilus. This book went through three or four editions. I am not aware that
the pamphlet is a mutilation of the book nor do I know what the object of Serge
Nilus was in publishing his work. I fear that the law confers no powers upon me
to procure the suppression of the publication.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921:
Birthdate of Bronx native Abraham H. Baum, who would lead the raid commanded by
Blood and Guts Patton to rescue his son-in-law from a German POW camp.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Winston
Churchill, British Colonial Secretary, is greeted by 10,000 Jews on Mt. Scopus
in Palestine. Both the Chief Sephardic and Ashkenazic Rabbis were in
attendance. They gave him a Sefer Torah. Churchill planted a tree on the future
site of Hebrew University and spoke in support of the Zionist endeavors in
Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921:
Birthdate of Howard “Howie” Leonard and Lenny Rader, twin brothers who played
basketball for LIU and then went to careers with the pros.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.basketball-reference.com/nbl/players/r/raderho01n.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.basketball-reference.com/nbl/players/r/raderho01n.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: It was
reported today that the late Julia Wormser Seligman was a native of San
Francisco who was the only daughter of the late Isidore Wormser from whom she
inherited two million dollars.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1922:</span> <span face="Arial, sans-serif">Edwin J. O'Malley,
Commissioner of the Department of Public Markets, said today in a statement
that "it is an outrage the prices that are not charged by the retail
kosher butchers or fresh killed poultry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923(12th of
Nisan, 5683): Fast of the First Born observed because the 14th of Nisan falls
on Shabbat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: Birthdate
of Jack David Dunitz the Glasgow born British chemist and widely known chemical
crystallographer who was a Professor of Chemical Crystallography at the ETH
Zurich from 1957 until his official retirement in 1990 and is the husband of
Barbara Steuer as well as the father of Marguerite and Julia Gabrielle Steuer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar II, 5684) Parashat Shmini; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: “"
Temple Topics of 1924," the musical revue of the Junior Society of Temple
Emanu-El, given for charity, was received with much enthusiasm tonight by an
audience that filled the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria. Howard J. Green
wrote the book and lyrics, and the music was by Nelson Greenhut, Angus Raphael
and Donald Samuels. Miss May Leslie directed the production.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1924/03/30/archives/dancing-abounds-in-temple-topics-annual-musical-show-of-temple.html?searchResultPosition=7"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1924/03/30/archives/dancing-abounds-in-temple-topics-annual-musical-show-of-temple.html?searchResultPosition=7</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: Joel
Teitelbaum “appointed chief rabbi of Carei.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: While
visiting Palestine, Lord Balfour, of Balfour Declaration fame, “reads the
lessons in the Anglican Cathedral of St. George.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5686): Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: An
exhibit of “valuable literary material” including a letter signed by Moses
Maimonides, a little booklet that is the “only known fragment of the great Book
Precepts of Yaliach” and “a wealth of material relating to the synagogue at Kai
Fung-fu” that illustrates “Jewish life in Oriental countries” opened today at
the New York Public Library where Dr. Joshua Block is chief of the Jewish
Division.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: In
Kecskemét, Hungary, Solomon and Margaret Sandberg who were murdered in 1944
gave birth to Gusztáv Sandberg who gained fame as Dachau survivor and Israeli
economist Moshe Sanbar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: Rabbis
from more than fifty congregations throughout New York City that included
representatives of liberal, reform, conservative and orthodox synagogues “have
joined in signing a proclamation calling upon the Jews of New York to do their
share toward answering the call of suffering millions of their destitute
co-religions in Eastern Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927:
Birthdate of Martin Fleischmann. A chemist at the University of Utah,
Fleischmann (and his partner Stanley Pons) claimed to have discovered Cold
Fusion in 1989.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927(25th of
Adar II, 5687): Eight-six-year-old Luigi Luzzatti, the second Jew to serve as
Prime Minister of Italy passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: “Several
thousand Jews, selected because of their poverty to receive enough free
matzoths for the coming Passover holidays, obtained their gifts the unleavened
today thanks to the generosity of the Stuhmer Baking Company of Brooklyn which
donated 20,000 pounds of food products to the poor Jews of” New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1928: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #202122;">The old split in the ranks of the Zionists, whose purpose is
to rehabilitate Palestine as the Jewish National Home, broke wide open again today
when the resignation of Dr. Stephen S. Wise and two other Zionists from the
Administrative Committee of the Zionist Organization in America was announced.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5689): Thirty-six-year-old Abraham Mandel, the Russian born son of
Rebecca and Joseph David Mandel, the husband of both Edith Mandel and Goldie
Mandel passed away today in Denver.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5689): Fifty-six-year-old Samuel S. Schwarz, the Erie, PA born son
of Julius and Hannah J. Schwartz, the husband of Harriet Hattie Heitler Schwarz
and the father of Adele Lehman Schlafer; Eleanor Lehman Sloman and Corinne
Lehman Marlowe passed away today after which he was buried at the B’nai Jacob
Cemetery in Pueblo, CO.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5690): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: As part
of ceremonies to mark the 111<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the birth of Dr.
Isaac M. Wise, Judge Irving Lehman is schedule to preside at the Temple
Emanu-El services at which Dr. Johan B. Wise of Central Synagogue who will
speak on the memories of his father…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: The
first American convention of the promoters and adherents of the Yiddish
language, literature and culture opened this evening at the Irving Plaza Hall
in New York City. Eight hundred people from the United States and Canada
attended the opening session of a convention working to foster Yiddish Culture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931:
Birthdate of Evelyn de Rothschild. Rothschild headed the English branch of the
family and its banking business for twenty-one years. In 2003, the English and
French branches merged and Baron David de Rothschild, head of the French branch
assumed the new leadership position. The Rothschilds continue to be "one
of the world's largest private banking dynasties."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar II, 5692): Sixty-one-year-old poetess Ida Goldsmith Morris, the
daughter of Lambert and Frances Goldsmith and the wife of Herman Morris passed
way today after which she was buried at Temple Cemetery in Louisville, KY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: At the
first Jewish Olympic Games, officially known as the Maccabiah, American Sybil
Koff of New York, finished first in the semi-final of the 100 meter race while
the American team finished second in the semi-final of the relay race. The
opening contests in which American Jews played a prominent part took place “in
the newly built stadium situated at the junction of the Yarkon River and the
Mediterranean Sea” before a crowd estimated to exceed the venue’s 25,000 seat
capacity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: Jack
Benny debuted on radio. This legendary Jewish entertainer moved from vaudeville
to the electronic medium - radio, the movies and finally television.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: The
front page of the Nazi newspaper, Volkisher Beobachter, stated "Let Jewry
Know Against Who It Has Declared War".<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: “In an
act of anticipatory obedience to the Nazi regime, the management of UFA, a
leading German motion picture production company, decided to fire several
Jewish employees.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934):
Sixty-nine-year-old Russian born Louis Zuro, the younger brother of textile
Aron Surasky, the father of the late Josiah Zuro, the music direct at Pathe
motion picture studio and the husband of Leah Zuro, who began working on
productions of Hammerstein’s grand operas in 1910 and organizing free Sunday
concerts in 1924 was buried today at Mount Lebanon Cemetery one day after his
death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934(13th of
Nisan, 5694): Sixty-seven-year-old Otto Hermann Kahn passed away. Born in
Germany in 1867, this noted banker, collector, philanthropist and patron of the
arts moved to the United States in 1893. He joined the banking firm of Kuhn,
Loeb and Company and continued to add to his fortune. He was a founder and
President of the Metropolitan Opera Company. He bankrolled numerous artists
including Hart Crane, George Gershwin and Arturo Toscanini. Kahn uttered the
following warning, “The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty
frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof.” To work “it demands self-restraint, a sane
and clear recognition of the practical and attainable, and of the fact that
there are laws of nature which are beyond our power to change.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934:
Birthdate of Ehud Netzer, the native of Haifa who became a leading Israeli
archeologist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-me-ehud-netzer-20101106-story.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-me-ehud-netzer-20101106-story.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: In
Brooklyn, Abraham M. and Belle Lindenbaum gave birth to Samuel H. Lindenbaum,
who was widely considered New York City’s top zoning lawyer and who was
credited with doing as much as any of the powerful developers among his clients
to shape the modern skyline of Manhattan…” (As reported by David W. Dunalp)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: The SS
guard formations were renamed SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-Death's Head Units).
They provided guards for concentration camps.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: In St.
Louis, MO, “Prince Hubertus zu Loewenstein said “While there are so many
visitors in Germany because of the games, Hitler is on his good behavior so far
as internal policies are concerned but almost certainly there will be a new
reign of terror for the Jews and other oppressed groups after the Olympics are
concluded.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: In
Poland, the Jews opposed the new law that gives the minister of agriculture
control over the Polish Dairy industry “on the ground that it menaces the
Jewish milk trade.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937:
Birthdate of Moacyr Jaime Scliar a Brazilian writer and physician who passed
away in 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: It was
announced today that the Zionist General Council that was to be held in London
on April 13 will be held on April 17 in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1937: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Palestine Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that the body
of Jacob Zwanger, an engineer who had disappeared some 18 days earlier, was
found near Rehovot. He was apparently strangled. A Jew and his Arab partner
were arrested, both suspected of Zwanger's murder.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1937: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Palestine Post</span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> reported that Arab
brigands held up and robbed drivers near Jenin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1937:</span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> The Palestine Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that a plea
was made in the House of Commons to reduce the British tariff on Palestine
oranges which was devised to protect the South African citrus industry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: A total
of $20,000 was contributed tonight to the Youth Aliyah (immigration) fund of
Hadassah to remove children from Austria as well as Germany and Poland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1938: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The New York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that Dr.
Sigmund Freud has been denied a passport so that he cannot leave Vienna for the
Netherlands. A delegation that included Princess Marie Bonaparte had gone to
Vienna to make Freud aware of the warm welcome that would await him in what would
be his new Dutch home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938(26<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5698): Benjamin M. Jerome, the composer, arranger, lyricist,
songwriter, pianist, and conductor” popularly known Ben Jerome who contributed
two songs to the 1902 musical version of “The Wizard of Oz” and wrote the music
for the 1926 hit “Yes, Yes, Yvette” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/109507/Jerome_Benjamin_M?Matrix_page=100000">https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/109507/Jerome_Benjamin_M?Matrix_page=100000</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
Birthdate of Roland Arnall, the French native who became a successful American
businessman, diplomat and financial contributor to the well-being of
Chabad-Lubavitch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: The
Soviet NKVD secret police arrested Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, the father
of the late Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson for his
outspoken efforts against the Communist Party’s efforts to eradicate Jewish
learning and practice in the Soviet Union. After more than a year of torture
and interrogations in Stalin's prisons, he was sentenced to exile to the
interior of Russia. He died there in 1944. Rabbi Schneerson was a distinguished
Kabbalist. Some of his writings have been published under the name Likkutei
Levi Yitzchak. Most of it, however, was burned or confiscated by the Soviet
authorities and has yet to be returned to the Chabad movement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: NBC
Radio, broadcast the final episode of “I Love a Mystery” which was sponsored by
Fleischmann’s Yeast founded by Charles Louis Fleischman in 1868.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: In
France, establishment of the Commissariat of Jewish Affairs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: SS
Captain Dieter Wislicey wants $50,000 in cash as the price for stopping the
deportations of Slovakian Jews to the death camps. He will get the money, but
the deportations will continue<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
Founder's Day in honor of Isaac Mayer Wise, founder of Reform Judaism, was
observed this afternoon in the Central Synagogue, with a special service under
the auspices of the Greater New York City Alumni of the Hebrew Union College<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: In
Philadelphia, Mark and Lillian Shapiro gave birth to Harvard Law School Ronald
M. Shapiro, a leading sports agent, author and co-founder of the Shapiro
Negotiations Institute.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.shapironegotiations.com/ron-shapiro/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.shapironegotiations.com/ron-shapiro/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: Third
and final shipment of Macedonian Jews from Skopje to Treblinka.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of the 7,144 Jews shipped there over three
days only about 200 survived the war,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: “Hans
Neumann, Leo Drabant, his wife along with eight other anti- Nazi resistance
members were arrested by the Gestapo” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Anne
Frank mentions in her diary that Gerrit Bolkestein, Education Minister of the
Dutch Government in exile, delivered a radio message from London urging his
war-weary countrymen to collect "vast quantities of simple, everyday
material" as part of the historical record of the Nazi occupation and
writes "Ten years after the war people would find it very amusing to read
how we lived, what we ate and what we talked about as Jews in hiding."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: During
WW II, “No. 294 Squadron RAF “air search and rescue (ASR) squadron active under
RAF Middle East Command” “equipped with Vickers Wellington and Supermarine Walrus”
began operations at the Lydda Airport at Tel Aviv today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Tel Aviv
was declared off limits to all military personnel today, including those who
have family living in the city. The ban was in response to attacks on police
stations in Haifa, Jaffa, and Jerusalem for which the Irgun has taken public
credit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945(15th of
Nisan, 5705: First Day of Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945(15th of
Nisan, 5705): On the first day of Pesach at least 58 Jews were murdered in a
forest near the Austrian village of Deutsch Shuetzen, in what would come to be
called the Deutsch Shuetzen Massacre. SS sergeant Adolf Storms SS sergeant
Adolf Storms was among the perpetrators of the killing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: In the
evening, members of the Jewish Infantry Brigade of the British 8<sup>th</sup>
Army serving in Italy took part in a Seder at Faenza.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945:
Birthdate of Yehuda Ezekiel Berkowit, the Netanya native who gained fame as
Yehuda Barkan, the “Israeli actor, film producer, film director and
screenwriter.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/289730"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/289730</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: The
ill-fated and ill-conceived mission ordered by General Patton to rescue his
son-in-law John K. Waters under the command of Captain Abraham Baum came to an
ignominious end with Baum who had been shot in the groin joining the wounded
Walters in a German hospital for POWS.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946:
Birthdate of Miami native Bruce Weber, the noted fashion photographer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.bruceweber.com/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.bruceweber.com/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: “The
main problem to be solved during the next few years by the Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies of New York…is how to assure ‘full dollar’s value’ for the
community’s charitable funds in this inflationary era Norman S. Goetz,
president of the organization declared” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: U.S.
premiere of “Night Editor” directed by Henry Levin<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Clifton
Daniel interviewed Jewish refugees at Caraolos, a British run displaced persons
camp outside of Famagusta, Cyprus. “An appeal for the outside world to consider
their plight was the first and only formal proposal addressed” to him by these
immigrants. Currently, there are 11,000 Jews living in camps like this all
across Cyprus. If the British stick to their policy of releasing 750 Jews a
month to go to Palestine, it will take at least fourteen months to empty these
camps.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: “A ship
carrying 1,600 Jewish unauthorized refugees was intercepted tonight off the
northern coast of Palestine by the Royal Navy.” The ship which was known as the
Patria or Moledeth was taken to the harbor at Haifa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Slaih
Jabir, who in 1950 would introduce the “Supplement to Decree 62 of 1933 which
effectively forced Jews to leave all their property behind and go to Israel”
began serving as Prime Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: At a
mass meeting in Tel Aviv, Golda Meyerson, the head of the Jewish Agency’s
political department “assailed the underground extremists’ warfare today in
these words: ‘Terrorism is assisting Palestine’s British administration it has
put Palestine Jewry on the defensive, whereas but for terrorism the Zionists
could have pursued a more vigorous line in their political efforts…we don ot
want to embark on internal warfare, but if it be thrust upon us we shall finish
with the terrorists, although without cooperating with the Government in doing
so.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: Today
“Dr. Hussein el-Khalidi, secretary of the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine, rejected
proposals for a truce in Jerusalem, for an international force to pro tect the
city and for a trusteeship for the Holy Land.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: In a
meeting with Zionist leaders in New York, former Prime Minister Winston
Churchill offers assurance that his commitment to the Jewish state is as solid
as it has ever been.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: “The
Set-up” a boxing film written by Art Cohn, co-starring George Tobias and
featuring a cameo appearance by photographer Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig was
released in the United States today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: The
United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine issued a memorandum
designed to “meet the Israeli demands for direct negotiations and the Arab
desire that the commission act as mediator.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: The
“first contingent of ‘hard core’ cases from the refugee camps in German and
Austria arrive in Israel” three days before Pesach. “These unfortunates, the
halt, the lame and the blind were brought in by the combined efforts of the
international relief organizations, the Jewish Agency for Palestine and the
Israeli Government.” Their arrival is an example of David Ben Gurion’s belief
that Israel is the home for all Jews regardless of their condition.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: Judy
Holliday, born Judy Tuvim, won the Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of
Billie Dawn in the film “Born Yesterday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: Julius
and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage. The prosecutor in the case and
the judge who would pronounce the death sentence were also Jewish. However,
right-wing politicians would overlook this and use the Rosenberg case as
further proof that the Jews were part of the Communist Conspiracy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953:
Birthdate of Samuel Elliott Chwat founder of the Sam Chwat Speech Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953: While
serving with the First Marine Division during the Korean War, Jewish chaplain
Samuel Sobel who had been “commissioned by the U.S. Navy in 1945” “was hit by
shrapnel today in the battle of Vegas” which would lead to him being sent back
to Paris Island, SC and being awarded a Purple Heart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954: In
“Massacre at Scorpion’s Pass” published today the Time correspondent described
the terror attack that took place south of Beersheba. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,819663,00.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,819663,00.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955: At the
Terrace Room of the Plaza, Dr. Robert Serebrenik, the senior rabbi at Temple
Ramath Orah officiated at the wedding of Henryka Judyth Korngold to Dr. Jacob
Haberman, the assistant rabbi at Temple Ramath Orah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956: Syria
returned 4 Israeli soldiers who had been held captive for fifteen months in
return for an the prisoners the Israelis had taken during Operation Olive
Leaves.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956: Be'er
Sheva or Beersheba was linked to Israel's railway system. Yes, this is the
ancient city mentioned connection with Abraham and Isaac. This is just one
example of how the young state of Israel was developing its economy and
infrastructure while confronting on-going threats of Arab attacks as well as
the reality of cross-border raids by fedayin (the name given to the terrorists
of those days.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958(8<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5718): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959:
Birthdate of Nouriel Roubini, the Turkish born son of Iranian Jews who became a
leading American advisor on economics and the chairman of Roubini Global
Economics. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roubini_Global_Economics"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roubini_Global_Economics</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5719): Yiddish author and playwright David Pinski’s wife Adele
(Hodel) passed away five months before he passed away in August.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959:
Birthdate of Perry Farrell, lead singer of Jane’s Addiction<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959: Release
date for “Some Like It Hot” a great comedy film directed, produced and
co-authored by Billy Wilder.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959:
Birthdate of Nouiel Roubini, the Turkish born son of Iranian Jews who spent
part of his youth living in Israel, who would gain fame as the economist who
predicted the financial crisis that would engulf the world’s economy starting
in the fourth quarter of 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959: Today
“on Easter Sunday in 1959, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. rose in the pulpit
of his Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, to deliver a sermon
that focused on his just-completed visit, with his wife, Coretta, to Jerusalem
and its holy sites.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960:
Birthdate of Bronx native and Spring Valley raised Princeton graduate Stephen
Andrew “Steve” Feinberg, the billionaire co-founder and chief executive officer
(CEO) of Cerberus Capital Management and supporter of Donald Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1963: “Miracle
of the White Stallions” directed by Arthur Hiller was released today in the
United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: In the
United Kingdom, premiere of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music” with
a script by Ernest Lehman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5725): Fifty-five-year-old Stanley Irving Posner, the Massachusetts
born “son of Benjamin and Fanny (Libby) Posner, the Harvard trained attorney
holding degrees from Amherst and the University of Chicago who was the husband
of Lillian Kahn and the father of James, Elizabeth and Lawrence Posner passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://prabook.com/web/stanley_irving.posner/1048947"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://prabook.com/web/stanley_irving.posner/1048947</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5725): Seventy-five-year-old realtor suffered a fatal heart attack
today in Point Pleasant, N.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965:
Birthdate of Elisheva Greenbaum. In June of 2003, at the Metulla Festival of
Poetry, Ellisheva was awarded the prestigious "Tevah" prize in
poetry. Earlier, in 2002, Elisheva was awarded The Prime Minister's prize for poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966: “It's A
Bird... It's A Plane... It's Superman is a musical with music by Charles
Strouse” which “is based on the comic book character Superman created by Jerry
Siegel and Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics” “opened on Broadway” today
“at the Alvin Theatre.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967(17th of
Adar II, 5727): Israeli author, Isaac Dov Berkowitz passed away. Born in
Belarus in 1885 he made aliyah in 1928. The son-in-law of Sholom Aleichim, he
was a two-time winner of the Bialik Prize and a winner of the Israel Prize for
literature in 1958.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967: A new
divisional merchandise for Bloomingdale’s men’s clothing, sportswear and
outerwear, University shop hats and shoes, boy’s wear and other departments has
been named today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968(15<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5724): First Day of Pesach and Shabbat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968:
“Madigan” a police movie directed by Don Siegel, with a script co-authored by
Abraham Polonsky was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969: The
original production of “Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?” produced by Philip Rose
came to a close today at the Belasco Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: One day
after he had passed away funeral services were held at the Talmud Torah of
Flatbush under the leadership of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein for Rabbi Nissen
Telushkin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/03/archives/rabbi-telushkin-88-orthodox-scholar.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/03/archives/rabbi-telushkin-88-orthodox-scholar.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970:
Eighty-four-year-old Anna Louise Strong, the American born journalist best
known for her support of Communism in the USSR and China who was the wife and
political sole mate of Joel Shubin, the Jewish agronomist and journalist who
served for a time the Deputy Minister of Agriculture in the USSR.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: Eighty-four-year-old
Heinrich Brüning, the Chancellor of Germany who tried to save the Weimar
Republic in the wake of the anarchy created by the Communists and the Nazis and
sought to thwart Hitler’s rise to power passed a way today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/82225/Heinrich-Bruning"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/82225/Heinrich-Bruning</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5732): Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5732): Ivan Salomon who with his wife Sophie was a“Yeshiva University
Guardian who helped to established YU’s Sephardic Studies Program” and was the
father of Professor Herman Salomon, “the former editor of The American
Sephardic Journal” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973(25th of
Adar II, 5733): Ida Cohen Rosenthal, the woman who created the modern brassiere
industry passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jwa.org/thisweek/jan/09/1886/ida-cohen-rosenthal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://jwa.org/thisweek/jan/09/1886/ida-cohen-rosenthal</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/doodles/innov_rosenthal.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/doodles/innov_rosenthal.htm</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/197610">http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/197610</a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974(6<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5734): Sixty-four-year-old University of Baltimore Law School graduate
Samuel Grover Kling, the New York City born son of Mary Schilling and Morris
Kling, a “book reviewer for the New York Herald Tribune, Harvard Law Review,
New York Times and Saturday Review of Literature” and “director of the radio
program Crime Clinic on the Mutual Broadcasting System” who married Rena Levine
after having divorced his first wife Esther Beierfeld passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974: Four
months after premiering in France, “The Three Musketeers” directed by Richard
Lester and co-produced by Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind was released today
in the U.S. and the U.K.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(17<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5735): Shabbat Chol Hamoed; Third Day of Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(17<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5735): Seventy-three-year-old former University of Chicago Professor
of Archaeology<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pinhas Pierre Dlougaz,
the Ukrainian born son of Simon and Zipporah Silverman who conducted
excavations several sites in Turkey and Persia and Beth Yerah in Israel passed
away today in Iran<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/delougaz-pierre-pinchas"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/delougaz-pierre-pinchas</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/delougaz"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/delougaz</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977: Robert
Strauss began serving as United States Trade Representative.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1977:</span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> The Jerusalem Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that the
Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko, said that he would allow the early
reconvening of the Geneva Peace Conference without PLO participation. The
conference might later decide on the PLO's eventual participation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1977: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that the Egged
management threatened to withdraw public transport service to and from Lod due
to hooliganism, personal attacks, theft and other difficult conditions at the
Lod Central Bus Station.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978: In
Southfield, Michigan, funeral services are scheduled to be held this morning at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek for fifty-nine-year-old United States District Judge
and “Michigan Veteran of the Year” Lawrence Gutow, “the’ first man named to be
an honorary member of, the Women's Army Corps who raised a son and two
daughters with his wife of 30 years Estelle after which he will buried in
Clover Hill Park Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979: Real
Life” the first feature film directed by Albert Brooks who co-authored the
script and co-starred in the picture along with Charles Grodin was released
today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980(12<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5740): Parashat Tzav and Shabbat Gadol<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980(12<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5740): Ten days after his 68<sup>th</sup> birthday, New York born,
Columbia trained attorney Joseph Walker an executive with S. Klein Department
Stores, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://forgotten-ny.com/2016/03/s-klein-stores/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://forgotten-ny.com/2016/03/s-klein-stores/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1981: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The New York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reviews "The
Geneva Crisis" by Matti Golan, an Israeli diplomat writing about a
fictional attempt by idealistic Jews who are duped when they attempt to work
for peace with Palestinian rebels.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981: The
Broadway production of “Woman of the Year” a musical with a book by Peter Stone
and starring Lauren Bacall opened today at the Palace Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981(23rd of
Adar II, 5741): Forty-nine-year-old Jerusalem born Joseph A. Eliash passed away
today in Oberlin, OH after which he was buried at the Salem Jewish Cemetery in
Sheffield, OH.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982:
Birthdate of “Russian born Israeli entrepreneur who with his brother Dmitry
“founded online gaming company Playrix. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983(15<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5743): 1984: In Amsterdam, the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison
Committee met for the last time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984: Arthur
Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” starring Dustin Hoffman as Will Loman opened this
evening to “rave reviews,”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1985:</span> <span face="Arial, sans-serif">Police Academy 2: Their
First Assignment starring Steve Guttenberg was released today in the United
States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5746): Seventy-eight-year-old Harry Ritz, one of the famous three
Ritz Brothers passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987: Yitzhak
Shamir was re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party. Born in Poland in
1915, Shamir moved to Palestine in 1935. While attending Hebrew University he
joined the Irgun. He later left the Irgun and joStern Gang. Shamir would later
rise above what some people might think of a rather dubious past to become
Prime Minister in 1988. To his credit, in May 1991, Shamir ordered the airlift
rescue of thousands of Ethiopian Jewry, codenamed "Operation
Solomon." In September, Shamir provided living proof that people can
change, when he represented Israel at the Madrid Peace Conference which brought
about direct negotiations with Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and the Palestinians.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987: Tonight,
Colonel Aviem Sella, the Israeli Air Force who was indicted earlier this month
in the United States for his role in recruiting Jonathan Pollard as a spy, said
that he was giving up his recent promotion to the rank of general because of
“the problems it had caused between the United States and Israel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987: An
American Rabbi, Arthur Schneier, said that “that the Soviet Union has agreed
that future Jewish émigrés will be sent to Israel by way of Rumania.” In the
past, those Jews who were allowed to leave the Soviet Union traveled through
Vienna where many of them obtained visas for the United States even though they
had said they were leaving to go to Israel. Schneier hopes the change will lead
to an increase in the number of Jews who are allowed to leave the Soviet Union.
The Rumanians have asked that the transit cite in their country not be
identified so that it will not become a target for terrorists.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989: ABC
broadcast the 61<sup>st</sup> Academy Awards this evening produced by Allan
Carr and directed by Jeff Margolis during which “Rain Man” directed by Barry
Levinson and co-starring by Dustin Hoffman won the Oscar for Best Picture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1990:</span> <span face="Arial, sans-serif">The B'nai Abraham
Synagogue “an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Brenham, Texas, in the United that
was organized in 1885 was placed on the U.S. National Register of Historic
Places today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.texasescapes.com/TOWNS/Brenham/Bnai-Abraham-Synagogue.htm#google_vignette">http://www.texasescapes.com/TOWNS/Brenham/Bnai-Abraham-Synagogue.htm#google_vignette</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5751): Fast of Esther; erev Pesah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991(14th of
Nisan, 5751): The Kesim celebrated the last Pesach for their community at the
Israeli embassy in Addas Abba, Ethiopia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: In “To
Newark, With Love. Philip Roth” published today Mervyn Rothstein connects the
Jewish author the city of origin. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/29/books/to-newark-with-love-philip-roth.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/29/books/to-newark-with-love-philip-roth.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: “The
Unborn” a horror film directed by Rodman Flender and co-starring Lisa Kudrow
was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993: Billy
Crystal served as host at the 65<sup>th</sup> Academy Awards Ceremony in Los
Angeles. Elizabeth Taylor was co-winner of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993: Simone
Veil began serving as Minister of Health in France<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993: Jack
Lang completed his first term in office as Education Minister of France.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994(17th of
Nisan, 5754): During Chol Hamoed Pesach, Yitzhak Rothenberg, age 70, of Petah
Tikva, was attacked on a construction site by two residents of Khan Yunis by
axe blows to the head. He died several days later of his wounds.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995(27th of Adar II, 5755: Police
Insp. Nitzan Cohen, 22, of Jerusalem and Sgt.-Maj. Jamal Suwitat from Makr
village in Western Galilee were killed when a Palestinian driver rammed his
truck into their jeep in a convoy east of the Netzarim junction in Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996(9<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5756): Ninety-four-year-old Louis B. Flexner, the Kentucky born the
“founding director of the Institute of Neurological Sciences at the University
of Pennsylvania” passed away today. (As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/03/us/louis-b-flexner-94-researcher-into-the-biochemistry-of-memory.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/03/us/louis-b-flexner-94-researcher-into-the-biochemistry-of-memory.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996: Actress
Rebecca “Schaeffer's life and death became the topic of the first E! True
Hollywood Story episode, which originally aired” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5757): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5757): Seventy-nine-year-old geneticist Ruth Sager passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2004/11/ruth-sager/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2004/11/ruth-sager/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/thisweek/feb/07/1918/ruth-sager"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://jwa.org/thisweek/feb/07/1918/ruth-sager</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2004/11/ruth-sager/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2004/11/ruth-sager/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/04/us/dr-ruth-sager-79-researcher-on-location-of-genetic-material.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/04/us/dr-ruth-sager-79-researcher-on-location-of-genetic-material.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998: The 27th
Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship was played today. The namesake of this
major LPGA event was born Frances Rose Shore in Winchester, Tenn. in 1917. She
adopted the name Dinah from a hit 1930's tune of the same name that was her
signature song in the early days of her career.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1998: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The New York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including
“Diplomacy for the Next Century” by Abba Eban, “Clement Greenberg: A Life” by
Florence Rubenfeld,” The Castle: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text”
by Franz Kafka; translated by Mark Harman and “Getting Away With Murder: How
Politics Is Destroying the Criminal Justice System” by Susan Estrich.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998: Famed
basketball player Henry "Hank" Rosenstein Rosenstein was inducted
into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999: In the
ever-changing revolving door of Israeli party politics, Eliezer Sandberg”s
HaTzeirim faction joined Shinui.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999: Emanuel
Zisman left the Third Way political party and served the rest of his term as an
independent MK.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: Israel's
high court orders that about 700 Palestinians be allowed to return to their
traditional homes in caves in the southern West Bank.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: Funeral
services are scheduled to take place to at the Plaza Memorial Chapel for Samuel
Lipman “husband of and the late Roberta Lipman.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000(22nd of
Adar II, 5760): Ninety-year old choreographer Anna Sokolow passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/30/arts/anna-sokolow-a-modern-choreographer-known-for-studies-in-alienation-dies-at-90.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/30/arts/anna-sokolow-a-modern-choreographer-known-for-studies-in-alienation-dies-at-90.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: “A group
of men from a reclusive Hasidic community in the Hudson Valley were indicted
today on federal charges that they ran a criminal organization that defrauded
people, banks, insurance companies and the government of millions of dollars
over several years.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: Lawyers
representing some Holocaust victims said today that they planned to drop a
lawsuit that contends that American executives who ran International Business
Machines during the 1930's and 1940's played a role in equipping the Nazi
regime in Germany to pursue its goals of persecuting Jews and other minorities
that they had filed in federal court in Brooklyn against I.B.M. last month
because “the lawyers said the State Department had advised them that the
litigation could delay compensation payments to more than a million slave
laborers and other victims of Nazi policies.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5762): Second Day of Pesach and 1<sup>st</sup> day of the Omer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5762): “Tuvia Wisner, 79, of Petah Tikva and Michael Orlinsky, 70, of
Tel-Aviv were killed Friday morning, when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated
the Neztarim settlement in the Gaza Strip.” (Jewish Virtual Library)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5762): Rachel Levy, 17, and Haim Smadar, 55, the security guard, both
of Jerusalem, were killed and 28 people were injured, two seriously, when a
female suicide bomber blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in
Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the
attack. (Jewish Virtual Library)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5762): Lt. Boaz Pomerantz, 22, of Kiryat Shmona and St.-Sgt. Roman
Shliapstein, 22, of Ma'ale Efraim were killed in the course of the IDF
anti-terrorist action in Ramallah (Operation Defensive Shield. (Jewish Virtual
Library)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002: In
response to the suicide bombing at a Seder in the Park Hotel that claimed the
lives of 30, the IDF launched Operation Defensive Shield.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002: U.S.
premiere of “Clockstoppers” a “science fiction comedy film” with a script
co-authored by David N. Weiss.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002: U.S.
premiere of “Teddy Bears’ Picnic” a comedy directed by Harry Shearer who also
wrote the script.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002: “Death
to Smoochy” a comedy written by Adam Resnick and co-starring Jon Stewart and
Harvey Fierstein was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002: In the
U.K. premiere of “Invincible” a drama based loosely on the life of Jewish
vaudeville strongman and circus performer Siegmund “Zishe” Breitbart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: In her
presidential installation sermon on Rabbi Janet Marder spoke about the need to
develop and sustain progressive Judaism in Israel, and about "developing
an inner life — about personal prayer, about seeking the Holy One, and quiet
hours inside a book, and the solitude that is essential for a life of clarity
and integrity."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004: “The New
York Police Department will step up security around the city for Passover,
which begins at sundown on April 5, Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004: Today,
New York Police Commissioner said “the Department of Consumer Affairs is
turning its attention to retailers who price-gouge on kosher items” and advised
New Yorkers who suspect such overcharging to call 311. (As reported by Jennifer
Steinhauer)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2005: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The New York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that “as
Columbia University awaits a report on charges of intimidation of Jewish
students in classes in Middle East studies, a group of graduate students began
circulating a petition calling for the resignation of Columbia’s president, Lee
Co. Bollinger, because he ‘failed to defend our faculty, thereby nurturing an
environment of fear and intimidation throughout the university.’” Columbia’s
faculty has been divided about Mr. Bollinger’s performance ever since the
showing of a videotape last fall that demonstrated some professors of Middle
East studies intimidating Jewish students in classes and on campus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: Shlomo
Benizri “was charged by the State Prosecutor's Office with accepting bribes and
breaching the public trust.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: With 95
percent of the ballots counted, the election results for the 17th Knesset
appeared as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Kadima: 28
Knesset seats<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Labor: 20<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Shas: 13<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Likud: 11<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Israel
Beitenu: 12<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">NRP / NU: 9<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Pensioners: 7<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">United Torah
Judaism: 6<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Meretz: 4<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Balad: 3<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Hadash: 3<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">United Arab
List: 4<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">While it
appears that Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s Kadima Party gained the
largest number of seats, it was fewer than had been estimated in earlier polls.
Once the results are final, Olmert will probably be asked to form a government.
If the total holds at or around thirty seats, Kadima will have to gather
another 31 seats to gain the 61 seats necessary to control the Knesset and
govern the country.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: The Tel
Aviv Museum of Art presents, for the first time in Israel, a retrospective
selection of works by Mark Rothko, one of the pillars of the New York School
artists, identified in the late 1940s and early ‘50s as the painters of
Abstract Expressionism. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: Montreal
native and Harvard Ph.D Bernard Jack Shapiro completed a three year term as
“the first Ethics Commissioner of Canada” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: Three
days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held at
K.K. Beth Elohim in Charleston, SC for Leon Banov, Jr. the Charleston born son
of Minnie and Dr. Leon Banov and the Medical College of South Carolina trained
proctologist who was the husband of Rita Landesman Banov and father of Jane and
Alan Banov.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/charleston/obituary.aspx?n=leon-banov&pid=86978509&fhid=6051">http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/charleston/obituary.aspx?n=leon-banov&pid=86978509&fhid=6051</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Shabbat
Parah, 5768<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: The 92nd
Street Y presents “Gershwin Brothers’ Dream of a Great American Opera: Porgy
and Bess and beyond” the third lecture in a series entitled “Music as Melting
Pot Mosaic: The Gershwins.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: In the
2nd of a four-part lecture series marking this special year of Hakhel Rabbi
Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of England a noted author and lecturer delivers a
talk on Unity and Redemption - Celebrating Freedom Together.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: MAD
Magazine posted “Happy 80<sup>th</sup> Birthday, Mort Drucker” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.tomrichmond.com/2009/03/29/happy-80th-birthday-mort-drucker/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.tomrichmond.com/2009/03/29/happy-80th-birthday-mort-drucker/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Model
Matzah Baker takes place at Lubavitch Chabad of Northbrook with participants
learning about Passover and enjoying the thrill of baking their own Matzah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2009: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Chicago Tribune </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reviews “The Kindly
Ones” a Holocaust novel by Jonathan Littell which the reviewer calls a
“helpless narrative” and “missed opportunity.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2009: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Times of London</span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> reported today that
the Israel Air Force used unmanned drones to attack secret Iranian convoys in
Sudan that were trying to smuggle weapons to Palestinian militant organizations
in the Gaza Strip. Defense officials were quoted as saying that the trucks were
carrying missiles capable of striking as far as Tel Aviv and the nuclear
reactor in Dimona.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009(4<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5769): Ninety-five-year-old American photographer Helen Levitt passed
away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/arts/design/30levitt.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1427511695-KVhjlQzyQlYzOLiARUxbMg"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/arts/design/30levitt.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1427511695-KVhjlQzyQlYzOLiARUxbMg</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-helen-levitt1-2009apr01-story.html#page=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-helen-levitt1-2009apr01-story.html#page=1</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/apr/03/helen-levitt-obituary"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/apr/03/helen-levitt-obituary</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010:
Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted a performance in London by the acclaimed
Jerusalem Quartet. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: In New
York, a weeklong program entitled The New Israeli Cuisine is scheduled to come
to an end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010(14th of
Nisan, 5770): Fast of the First Born<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010(14th of
Nisan, 5770): In the evening, Jews around the world sit down to the Seder. Have
a zissen Pesach!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2010(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5770): Seventy-five-year-old author Alan Isler whose works included </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN">The Prince of West End Avenue, a novel “set in a
Jewish old person’s home” which won the National Jewish Book Award and the
Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize passed away.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: “Nora’s
Will” and “Precious Life” are scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish
Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
President Obama nominated Daniel B. Shapiro to serve as the Ambassador of the
United States of America to the state of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Center
for Jewish History and Leo Baeck Institute presented “Romantic Piano Trios:
Schumann and Rachmaninoff.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The Andy
Statman Trio (Andy on mandolin and clarinet, Jim Whitney on bass, Larry Eagle
on drums & percussion) is scheduled to wrap up the season at the Charles
Street Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Al
Munzer is scheduled to moderate “Spinoza, Superstar of the millennium?” as part
of Theatre J’s backstage program.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Senator
Gary Peters delivered a speech in honor of Joel E. Jacob, Chairman of the Board
of MAZON.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://capitolwords.org/date/2012/03/29/E508-2_to-honor-the-leadership-of-joel-jacob-as-chairman-/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://capitolwords.org/date/2012/03/29/E508-2_to-honor-the-leadership-of-joel-jacob-as-chairman-/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Jon
Lebowitz was confirmed for a second term as Chairman of the Federal Trade
Commission.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
“Footnote” is among the films scheduled to be shown today at the Westchester
Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(6<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5772): Seventy-four-year-old “Kenneth Libo, a historian of Jewish
immigration who, as a graduate student working for Irving Howe in the 1960s and
’70s, unearthed historical documentation that informed and shaped <u>World of
Our Fathers</u>, Mr. Howe’s landmark 1976 history of the East European Jewish
migration to America” passed away today. (As reported by Paul Vitello)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/books/kenneth-libo-historian-of-jewish-immigration-dies-at-74.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/books/kenneth-libo-historian-of-jewish-immigration-dies-at-74.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The
Ruach Minyan at Adas Israel in Washington, D.C. is scheduled to host a Pesach
Shabbat dinner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The
Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a concert “Passion and Fire in the
20<sup>th</sup> Century.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013(18<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5773): Ninety-one-year-old linguist John H. Gumperz passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/education/john-j-gumperz-linguist-of-cultural-interchange-dies-at-91.html?hpw&_r=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/education/john-j-gumperz-linguist-of-cultural-interchange-dies-at-91.html?hpw&_r=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Gumperz"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Gumperz</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The 23<sup>rd</sup>
annual Haifa International Children’s Theatre Festival is scheduled to come to
an end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The
Bernard and Irene Schwartz Classic Film Series is scheduled to present “That
Hamilton Woman” the classic directed by Michael Korda.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: “The
Jewish Cardinal,” a “French television film directed by Ilan Duran Cohen was
broadcast today on Arte.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Forty-year-old
Michael Steinberg, a SAC Capital Advisors portfolio manager who had worked for
discredited billionaire Steven Cohen, was arrested by federal agents today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/sac-capital-manager-arrested-on-insider-trading-charges/?hp"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/sac-capital-manager-arrested-on-insider-trading-charges/?hp</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: A man
claiming to represent the hackers behind one of the biggest attacks in Internet
history made anti-Jewish statements. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Fountains of the Deep: Visions of Noah and the Flood” is scheduled to be shown
for the last time in a pop art space at 462 West Broadway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Labor and Race in Modern Germany,” co-sponsored by the Pears Institute for the
Study of Anti-Semitism is scheduled to come to a close today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“The Zigzag Kid” is scheduled to be shown at the Northern Virginia Jewish Film
Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“A Jewish woman and her partner were among the first same-sex couple ever to be
officially married in Britain today, after a law authorizing same-sex marriages
went into effect throughout the country. Twenty-nine-year-old Nikki Pettit, who
is Jewish, married Tania Ward, 28, in a Jewish ceremony in Brighton, on
Britain’s south coast.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Trebilinka: Hitler’s Killing Machine is scheduled to air tonight on the
Smithsonian Channel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/194995/uncovering-the-remains-of-treblinka/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Arts&utm_campaign=Arts%20Newsletter%202014-03-27"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/194995/uncovering-the-remains-of-treblinka/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Arts&utm_campaign=Arts%20Newsletter%202014-03-27</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/179065#.Uzil8JtOWpo"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/179065#.Uzil8JtOWpo</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Israel did not conduct the fourth stage of the prisoner release tonight,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: “New
Jersey Gov. Chris Christie apologized to Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson
today for using the controversial term "occupied territories," saying
he "misspoke" during his speech to a Republican Jewish Coalition
event, Politico and CNN reported.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: “Rabbi
Yousef Hamadani Cohen, chief rabbi of Iran since 1994, who passed away over the
weekend was laid to rest” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-chief-rabbi-yousef-hamadani-cohen-dies/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-chief-rabbi-yousef-hamadani-cohen-dies/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: Illinois
Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host a screening of
“Defiance.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including <u>The Country of Ice Cream Star</u>
by Sandra Newman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Suite Française</i> a film “based on the
best-selling book by Irène Némirovsky, written by her during the Nazi
occupation and before she was sent to Auschwitz is scheduled to be shown today
as part of the UK Jewish Film Festival<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“A Happy End” by Iddo Netanyahu is scheduled to be performed for the last time
at the June Havoc Theatre in Manhattan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The 64<sup>th</sup> Annual Israel Folk Dance Festival and Festival of the Arts
is scheduled to take place in NYC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://israelidanceinstitute.org/general/festival-64/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://israelidanceinstitute.org/general/festival-64/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Professor Derek J. Penslar is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “1948 as a
Jewish World War” in Miami Beach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jewishstudies.fiu.edu/events/2015/1948-as-jewish-world-war/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://jewishstudies.fiu.edu/events/2015/1948-as-jewish-world-war/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
Today, “Israeli Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef walked back his statement
that non-Jews should not live in Israel, calling the comment “theoretical.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Stolen Heart: The Theft of Jewish Property in Berlin’s Historic Center, 1933 –
1945” an exhibition that explores the critical issue of the state-sponsored
“Aryanization” and plundering of Berlin’s Mitte (city center) and the murder of
many of its former property owners is scheduled to open today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Hitler’s Commando Lt. Col. Otto Skorzeny ‘Worked as an Assassin for Israeli
Intelligence” published today described Mossad’s employment with a notorious
Nazi.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/29/hitlers-commando-lt-col-otto-skorzeny-worked-as-an-assassin-for/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/29/hitlers-commando-lt-col-otto-skorzeny-worked-as-an-assassin-for/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Following a public backlash,” “Israeli Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef
walked back his statement that non-Jews should not live in Israel, calling the
comment “theoretical.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
The Skirball Center is scheduled to host Lord George Carey, Archbishop of
Canterbury (Ret.), as he presents a Christian perspective on anti-Semitism, its
root causes and the current situation in Europe and the UK as well as the BDS
movement and its attempts to delegitimize Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The Seattle Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host “Ave Maria” a film in
which “a Jewish family asks Palestinian nuns to break their vow of silence to
help them on Shabbat.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
As part of the observance of Women’s History Month, Lauren B. Strauss, Scholar
in Residence at American University and Executive Director of the Foundation
for Jewish Studies is scheduled to “discuss her role in the Civil Rights
movement and how her early experiences shaped her later life” with Holocaust
survivor<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marione Ingram, the author of <u>The
Hands of Peace</u>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The Vice President of the United States administered the office to “bankruptcy
attorney David Friedman, the new U.S. Ambassador to Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
“A telegram from senior Nazi Heinrich Himmler to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem,
Haj Amin al-Husseini, probably dating to 1943,” which “contains a promise to
support the Mufti in his fight to control Palestine, was published today on
website of Israel’s National Library,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Dr. Michael Bornstein, “one of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust” is
scheduled to return to the University of Iowa where he earned his Ph.D. and
“worked in pharmaceutical research and development for more than 40 years” to
share his life story and discuss his new memoir, <u>Survivors Club</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to “a concert of piano music
presented by the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble celebrating the music of Oxana
Yablonskaya.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Rona Kenan is scheduled to return to Zappa Tel Aviv with the band for a
performance this evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The Westchester Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end at the
Jacob Burns Film Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Two days after his 87<sup>th</sup> birthday, Judge Stephen Reinhardt, the Yale
trained attorney and husband of Ramona Ripston with whom he had had three
children – Mark Justin and Dana – passed away today. (As reported by Sam
Roberts)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/obituaries/stephen-reinhardt-liberal-lion-of-federal-court-dies-at-87.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/obituaries/stephen-reinhardt-liberal-lion-of-federal-court-dies-at-87.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Today, the online store of “Toys R US, the chain founded by Charles Lazarus”
“shut down today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Holocaust survivor Louise Lawrence Israels is scheduled to tell her first
person story of survival at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
After having premiered in Los Angeles earlier this month, “Dumbo,” the timeless
tale of elephant co-starring Alan Arkin and with music by Danny Elfman is
scheduled to be released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
“Great British Jews: A Celebration” an exhibition that examines the
contributions Jews have made to the United Kingdom, including “fish and chips”
and “Marks and Spence” is scheduled to open today at the Jewish Museum in
London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
As part of its Shabbat observance, in New York, Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to
host eight students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of the
Valentine’s Day massacre who will “perform ‘Shine,’ their tribute to the
friends they lost and to speak about their experience and how activism, music
and the arts are helping them to heal.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
“Believe,” the latest album by Neshama Carlebach is scheduled to be released
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jta.org/2019/03/07/culture/neshama-carlebach-is-figuring-out-how-to-both-love-and-not-love-her-father?utm_source=JTA%20Maropost&utm_campaign=JTA&utm_medium=email&mpweb=1161-9441-39206"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.jta.org/2019/03/07/culture/neshama-carlebach-is-figuring-out-how-to-both-love-and-not-love-her-father?utm_source=JTA%20Maropost&utm_campaign=JTA&utm_medium=email&mpweb=1161-9441-39206</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New
York Times</i> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including <u>MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin
Salman</u> by Ben Hubbard, which provides insight into a major player in
Israel’s backyard<u>, Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us
About Our Past and Future</u> by James Shapiro and the recently published
paperback edition of <u>Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents and a
Dinner Table (A Memoir With Recipes)</u> by Boris Fishman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
“The first-ever Limmud eFestival featuring “dozens of presenters teaching on
the most interesting and important Jewish ideas” is scheduled to begin today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
In San Rafael, CA, trivia maven Howard Rachelson is scheduled to the virtual
version of “Rodef Shalom Trivia.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
“The 2nd Jewish Africa Conference & Morocco Trip” scheduled to end today
was canceled due to the Pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
Adrienne Usher, Director at the Shapell Roster, first-ever comprehensive data
archive documenting the Jewish soldiers who served in the American Civil War’
is scheduled to present the project’s history and future, as well as research
methodology related specifically to the Confederacy in a Webinar hosted by the
Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The screening of “My Polish Honeymoon” scheduled for today has been canceled
due to the pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 57801): Second Day of Pesach; First Day of the Omer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Three Jewish Federation initiatives - the Goldring Center for
Jewish-Multicultural Affairs, JP NOLA, and the Leventhal Center for Interfaith
Families - are scheduled to partner with Temple Sinai to host a virtual seder
on Monday, March 29 for the LGBTQ community and the allies who love and support
them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
New England Yachad is scheduled to present online the YAYA Movie Club.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Israelis should be able to find greater enjoyment in celebrating the rest of
Pesach since “the coronavirus pandemic in Israel continued its decline over the
weekend” according to the Health Ministry <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Romanian police were scheduled to continue investigating death threats made
against award-winning film and theatre star Maia Morgenstern and her children
at the start of Passover celebrations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022(26<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5782):A 27-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank methodically
gunned down people in the central town of Bnei Brak, killing five.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/world/middleeast/israel-terrorism-attack.html?searchResultPosition=2"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/world/middleeast/israel-terrorism-attack.html?searchResultPosition=2</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
In the wake of recent terrorist attacks and with the coming of the “Holiday Season”
for all three major religions, Israel security forces are reportedly on
heightened alert.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
“Peace talks” between Russia and Ukraine whose resistance is being led by its
Jewish president took place today in Istanbul with no apparent progress being
made to end the conflict.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
A second round of talks between delegations of Likud, Yesh Atid and National
Unity led by President Isaac Herzog designed to deal with the proposed
“overhaul” of the judicial system are scheduled to be held today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present live or on Zoom
“Interpreting Your Jewish DNA Result” during which Adina Newman and Jennifer
Mendelsohn will walk you through how to decipher your results without getting
tripped up by common mistakes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Center is scheduled to host a lecture by Allen
Packwood on <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The
Politics of War: The making and breaking of the coalition government the fourth
in a four part course on “Sir Winston Churchill and the Second World War.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
JDC Archives is scheduled to present a webinar with Dr. Michael Rom lecturing
on “From the Nile to the Tietê: Egyptian Jewish Immigration to Brazil, 1956-61.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2023:
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #3f3f3f;">Based
in Jerusalem, <b>c.a.t.a.m.o.n</b> a collaborative dance group and cultural
organization is scheduled to perform at the Marlene Meyerson JCC in Manhattan.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
<span style="color: #4c4c4c;">Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman, one of the
co-authors of <u>The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival
and Hope </u>is scheduled to speak today at Mt. Mercy University in Cedar
Rapids, IA.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The
annual Red Sarachek tournament the country's most prestigious tournament for
Jewish high school basketball teams. Is scheduled to continue for a second day
at Yeshiva University.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
In Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host a “Tot Shabbat” followed
by a “free congregation-wide Shabbat Dinner.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
In Providence, RI, Temple Beth-El is scheduled to host the opening session of
the NFTY Northeast Spring Conlcavette.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Rabbi Shippel on Parashat
Tzav.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
29th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 175 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p><br /><p></p>melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-53927706396739763052024-03-27T09:53:00.002-06:002024-03-27T16:02:07.783-06:00This Day, March 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p></p><p><em><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">March 28</span></span></b></em></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">364: Roman
Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor dividing
the Roman Empire between two rulers. Valens, The Emperor of the East “was an
Arian and had suffered too severely from the powerful Catholic party to be interplant
himself. He protected the Jews and bestowed honors and distinction upon them.
Valentinian, who was Emperor of the West, also “chose the policy of tolerance
in the struggle between Catholics and Arians, and permitted the profession of
either religion without political disadvantage…” He extended this level of
toleration to his Jewish subjects as well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1038(20th of
Nisan): Ravi Hai Gaon passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112498/jewish/Rav-Hai-Gaon.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112498/jewish/Rav-Hai-Gaon.htm</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1193: On his
way back from the Crusades, King Richard I of England becomes the prisoner of
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor. When it came time to pay his ransom, the Jewish
community was forced to contribute 5,000 marks to the total.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was more than three times the amount
contributed by the entire City of London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1285: Pope
Martin IV passed away. “In 1281, Pope Martin IV” reminded “inquisitors that
Jews should not be accused of encouraging converts to return to Judaism if all
that was known that the Jews and converts had been engaged in conversations.”
(For more see <u>Between Christian and Jew</u> by Paola Tartakoff)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1482: Lucrezia
Tornabuoni the wife of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici passed away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was doubly unusual for a woman of her
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First because she wrote poetry
that was published and second because one of the subjects of her sonnets was
Jewish – the Biblical figure of Esther.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1487: In
Naples, Joseph Günzenhäuser printed “Psalms” with a commentary by Kimhi<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1515: In
Spain, in an example of how the Jews were treated,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alonso Sánchez de Cepeda whose father
“Juanito de Hernandez, was a marrano (Jewish convert to Christianity) and was
condemned by the Spanish Inquisition for allegedly returning to the Jewish
faith” and his wife gave birth to Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada the future St.
Teresa of Ávila<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1537(16th of
Nisan): King Sigismund I of Poland issued a decree granting a monopoly of
importation and publication of Hebrew books to the Helitz brothers who had
established the first Hebrew printing press in Poland. The Jews resisted the
edit since the Helitz brothers had converted to Christianity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1592:
Birthdate of Czech educational reformer John Comenius. Three hundred years
later, the imperial government would thwart plans by Czech nationalists to
celebrate his birth which would lead to mob violence that would eventually be
directed against the Jewish quarter of Prague.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1610(4th of
Nisan): Rabbi Ben-Zion Zarfati of Venice passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1744: In New
York City, Isaac Mendes Seixas and Rachel Franks Levy gave birth to Moses
Mendes Seixas, the husband of Jochabed Levy with whom he had nine children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1730(21<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5490): The new synagogue which had been erected to “take the place of
the rame building which had been for a long time in on Mill Street” and for which
Moses Levy contributed funds to build “was consecrated today “at which time Mr.
Moses was the Parnas.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a name="_Hlk64443464"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1737:
Joseph Suess Openheimer (Jud Suess), former confidential adviser to Karl
Alexander, duke of Wuerttemgerg, was interrogated for the first time by a
judicial examiner preparing an indictment on charges of high treason, violation
of the constitution, and oppression of religion.” Although the charges were
totally bogus, he would be convicted and hung. He died a proud Jew reciting the
Shema as he climbed the scaffold to his death. (As reported by Abraham P.
Bloch)</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1763: In
Philadelphia, Tabitha and Mathias Bush gave birth to Isaiah Bush.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1766(17<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5526): Third Day of Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1767(27<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5527): Parashat Tazria; Shabbat HaChodesh.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1772(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar II, 5532): Parashat Shimini; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1774(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5534): Second Day of Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1781: Sara
Sarzedas and Colonel David Maysor gave birth to Rebecca Maysor who became
Rebecca Hyams the wife of David Hyams with whom she had five children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1781: Twenty-eight-year-old
Brandy Lazarus, the daughter of Sampson Lazarus married Joshua Isaacs today in
Lancaster, PA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1783:
Philadelphia native Leah Nathan and Bavarian born Jacob Naphtali Hart gave
birth to Moses Hart who passed away in Paris.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1788: In
Germany, Frommet Ottenheimer and Herz Marx Rothschild gave birth to Hindle
Rothschild, the husband of Michael Seligman Dettlebacher with whom she had six
children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1795: As part
of the Third Partition of Poland, the Polish Duchy of Courland ceased to exist
when it became part of Imperial Russia. From 1772 until 1795 there were three
successive partitions of the land that included Poland and Lithuania. The
partitioning powers were Prussia, Austria and Hungary. Russia had gone to great
lengths to limit its Jewish population. However, when it acquired its portion
of Poland, it acquired a large Jewish population that it greeted with
increasingly vicious anti-Semitism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1797(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5557): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1797(1st of
Nisan): Rabbi Saul Shiskes of Vilna, author of Shevil ha-Yashar passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1797: In
German, Rehle (Sarah) Jonathan and Moses Faist Rosenheim gave birth to
Johnathan Rosenehim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1797: Rachel
Gratz and Solomon Etting, the Baltimore attorney who led the fight to get
Maryland to change the law barring non-Christians from holding public office
and Rebecca Gratz who were married in 1791 gave birth to Rebecca Etting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">(some sources
show her birthdate as 1798)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1801(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5561): Parashat Tzav; erev Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1803: Samuel
Myers, the New York City born son of Myer and Elkaleh Myers and his wife Judith
Moses Myers gave birth to Rebecca Hays Myers who never wed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1804(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5564): Second Day of Pesach; First Day of the Omer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1807: In
London, Soloman and Sarah Polack gave birth to Joel Samuel Polack, the first
Jew to settle in New Zealand (1830).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1p18/polack-joel-samuel"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1p18/polack-joel-samuel</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1812(15<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5572): Pesach celebrated for the last time before the start of the
War of 1812.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1817:
Birthdate of Vilhemine Meyer, the wife of Schaltiel Isaac Cohn, who was buried
in Denmark when she passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1818:
Birthdate of Wade Hampton III the Confederate General and governor of South
Carolina with whom Edwin Warren Moise served during the war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1876, Moise supported Hampton in his run
for governor and ran successfully for the position of adjutant general on
Hampton’s ticket. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1820:
Birthdate of Italian author Moses Soave, the native of Venice who wrote
biographies on 16<sup>th</sup> century Jewish poet Sara Copia Sullam, 16<sup>th</sup>
century Portuguese physician Amatus Lusitanus, 16<sup>th</sup> century Italian
physician Abraham de Balmes, 10<sup>th</sup> century Italian physician
Shabbethai Donnolo and 16<sup>th</sup> century French born Italian scholar Leon
de Modena.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1824: In
Nachod, Bohemia, Joseph and Sulamith Mautner gave birth to Isaac Mautner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1824(28<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5584): Ninety-five-year-old Solomon Pinto, the Yale graduate,
soldier in the American Revolution and member of the Society of Cincinnati who
was the son of Jacob and Thankful Pinto and the husband of Clarissa Pinto
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1825(9th of
Nisan): Rabbi Jacob Zevi Yales, author of Melo ha-Roim, passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1826(19th of
Adar II): Rabbi Jacob Kahana of Vilna, author of Ge’on Ya’akov passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827: In
Mayence, Germany, Rabbi Samuel and Sophie Bondi gave birth to Hugo Bondi<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1832(26th of
Adar II, 5592): Sixty-nine-year-old mathematician Lazarus Bendavid passed away
today in Berlin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_International_Encyclop%C3%A6dia/Bendavid,_Lazarus"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_International_Encyclop%C3%A6dia/Bendavid,_Lazarus</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1832: In
Mlečice (modern day Czech Republic) Marcus and Maria Lobl gave birth to Jacob
Lobl.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1840:
Birthdate of Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer the German born Jewish doctor
who converted to Islam and gain fame as Mehmed Emin Pasha, a prominent leader
of the Ottoman Empire who served as governor of Egypt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During his service, he would be captured by
rebels and the international Emin Pasha Relief Expedition led by the famous
explorer Henry Morton Stanley would come to his rescue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1842(17<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5602): Third Day of Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1843: In
Heidingsfeld, Germany, Joseph and Nanny Rosenheim gave birth to Julius
Rosenheim, the husband of Ida Rosenheim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1844(8<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5604): Fifty-five-year-old <span style="color: black;">Eleazar S.
Lazarus a “city official in New York” who according to one source was the
“editor of the first Hebrew prayer book published in North America, an
accomplishment usually credited to Isaac Pinto, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://ufspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2019/10/09/isaac-pinto-first-jewish-prayer-book-published-america-ufsasc/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://ufspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2019/10/09/isaac-pinto-first-jewish-prayer-book-published-america-ufsasc/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1846: Birthdate
of “Russia-American editor and publisher” Hirsch Bernstein who in 1870 came to
the United States settled in New York where he founded "The Post,"
the first Judæo-German or Yiddish periodical in America as well as the
"Ha-Ẓofeh be'Ereẓ ha-Ḥadashah," the first publication in the
Neo-Hebraic language in America while contributing to Ha-Maggid,"
"Ha-Lebanon," and "Ha-Karmel.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3139-bernstein-hirsch">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3139-bernstein-hirsch</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1846: In
London, Lydia and Mark Collins gave birth to Amelia Collins.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847:
Birthdate of “Hungarian mathematician and physicist” Gyula (Julius) Farkas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6027-farkas-gyula-julius">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6027-farkas-gyula-julius</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">1849:
Edward Salamon and Henrietta Levien gave birth to their daughter Florence Matilda,
the sister of New South Wales native Montague Levien.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1849:
Birthdate of French orientalist James Darmester<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4906-darmesteter-james"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4906-darmesteter-james</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1850(15<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5610): Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851: In
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Nathaniel de Rothschild and Charlotte de Rothschild (née de
Rothschild) gave birth to Baron Arthur de Rothschild who bequeathed his
artworks to the Louvre and “provided the prize money for the America’s Cup.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(This date is provided by the Jewish
Encyclopedia which conflicts with other sources. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853: Frances
Phillips and Jacob Hyman gave birth to Henry Morris (Imano), known “for his
magnificent bass voice” and appearance in the Dyoyley Carte Opera Company’s
production of ‘The Mikado’” who was he husband of Miriam Isabel Davis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1854: Great
Britain and France declared war on Russia marking the start of the Crimean War.
The Paris Treaty of 1858, concluding the war, granted Jews and Christians the
right to settle in Palestine, forced upon the Ottoman Turks by the British for
their assistance in the war effort. This decision opened the doors for Jewish
immigration to Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1854: In
Pleasantville, NY, Judith S. Peixotto, “the daughter of medical author Dr.
D.L.M. Peixotto” and her husband David Hats gave birth to CCNY graduate and
Columbia trained attorney Daniel P. Hays, the secretary of the Jewish
Theological Seminary, a member of the Board of Trustee of the Jewish
Publication Society and a member of the Harlem Democratic Club.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jta.org/archive/daniel-p-hays-prominent-beneractor-dead">https://www.jta.org/archive/daniel-p-hays-prominent-beneractor-dead</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1854: Two days
after she had passed away, Hannah (Woolf) Falcke, the wife of Jacob Falcke with
whom she had had ten children was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road)
Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1857:
According to reports published today, the Jews Hospital in New York has enough
beds to care for 170 patients. Currently, approximately 50 of those beds are in
use.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858:
Birthdate of Imar Boas, he native of Exin, Prussia, a specialist in abdominal
medicine who also authored several works on the topic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859: In
Philadelphia, Abraham Kahn and Rebecca Ezekiel gave birth to Eva Coons, the
wife of Isidor Coons and “Member of the Board of Directors of the Hebrew
Education Society, Jewish Chautauqua Society, Jewish Foster Home and Orphan
Asylum, and the Philadelphia Branch of JTS.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861(17<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5621) Third Day of Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861:
"The Hebrew Son" is scheduled to be performed at the Winter Garden in
NYC, “for the special delectation of our Judaic brethren.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863: During
the U.S. Civil War, two Jews were arrested today on the Thomas A. Morgan while
she was sailing from Fortress Monroe to Yorktown, on charges that they had a
load of contraband goods in their possession<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863:
Birthdate of Parisian born “orientalist and Indologist” Sylvain Lev, the author
of <i><u><span style="background: white; color: #202122;">Théâtre Indien </span></u></i><span style="background: white; color: #202122;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvain_L%C3%A9vi"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvain_L%C3%A9vi</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864: In New
York, the Assembly adopted a bill “authorizing the conveyance of property to
the Hebrew Benevolent Society.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864: Medal of
Honor Abraham Cohn who had enlisted as a “private in company E, of the 6<sup>th</sup>
NH Volunteers in Campton, NH on January 5, 1864 was promoted to the rank of
Sergeant-Major today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5625): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865:
Thirty-four-year-old Philadelphia native Myer Asch who had been serving with
the Union Army since September of 1861 “was honorably discharged and mustered
out with the rank of brevet Colonel of United States Volunteers” after spending
most of the war with cavalry units of the Army of the Potomac except for the
six months he spent as a prisoner in several Confederate prisons.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5625): Sixty-eight-year-old Leopold "Löbl Jünger" Strakosch
the husband of Julia Strakosch passed away in Brno, Moravia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866: In
Detroit, MI, Bertha (Tobias) and William Bendix gave birth to violinist and
concert master Max Bendix, the conductor of Hammerstein’s Manhattan Opera and
Metropolitan Opera who was the uncle of actor William Bendix, best known for
his starring role in the sit-com “Life of Riley.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866:
Birthdate of Leon Kahn who was interred in the Jewish cemetery at Morgan City,
LA when he passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1867: In
Columbus, GA, Rosetta Moses, the daughter of Joseph Jonas and Martha Jonas and
her husband Dr. Montefiore Moses gave birth to Montrose J. Moses who died in
New York at the age of 6.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1867: A
meeting was held today in Richmond, VA where the participants expressed their
indignation at the decision by the insurance companies “to take no more ‘Jew
Risks.’” Those in attendance, many of whom were Jews, adopted resolutions
stating that they would not do business with any company that took such action.
The Mayor of Richmond, Joseph C. Mayo, told the meeting that he had been in the
insurance business for several years and had most of his dealings with Jews
whom he described as upright and “honest in their conduct.” While serving as
prosecuting attorney, he could only think of three Jews who had been brought
before and while sitting with them while serving in the City Council “he had
found them trustworthy.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868:
In Chicago, Charles and “Fanny Louise (Powers) Hapgood” gave birth to Norman
Hapgood, the author of <u>The Inside Story of Henry Ford’s Jew-Mania</u> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/inside-story-Henry-Fords-Jew-mania/dp/B00085Q0DI"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.amazon.com/inside-story-Henry-Fords-Jew-mania/dp/B00085Q0DI</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868:
Birthdate of Simon Oscar Pollock, the native of Minsk who was forced to flee
the United States in 1890 because of his political activities along with his
wife Julia Moschowitz where he pursued a career as a lawyer, author and counsel
to the Political Refugees Defense League.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869(16th of
Nisan, 5629): Second Day of Pesach <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869:
Birthdate of Turin native and Socialist Claudio Treves who was forced into
exile when Mussolini and the fascists came to power.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Italy/World-War-I-and-fascism#ref929657"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.britannica.com/place/Italy/World-War-I-and-fascism#ref929657</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873: After
accusations of ritual murder surfaced in Turkey, letters were sent to the
Christians leader in Marmara, Gallipoli, Bursa, Salonica, Smyrna, Manisa,
Chios, Adrianople, Janina, Silistria and other cities to warn of this behavior.
The letters were formulated by the Turkish Jewish leadership in conjunction
with the Greek Patriarch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873: Three
days after he had “died at Matlock Bath Derbyshire,” Abraham Mocatta, the son
of Daniel Mocatta and wife of Evelina Mocatta was buried today at the “Balls
Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875: It was
reported today that Rabbi Brettenheim of Baltimore’s Howard Street Congregation
recently officiated at the wedding of Rosa Stern, daughter of the later
Bernhard Stern and Mr. Solomon Hochschild.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875: In
Austin, TX, Marie Stern and David Weinberger gave birth to New Orleans resident
Charles Weinberger, an executive with the Fruit Dispatch Company and husband of
Rose Marx with whom he had one daughter, Amelia Kate Weinberger was a member of
Temple Sinai, the leading Reform congregation in New Orleans, “a director of
the Young Men’s Hebrew Association and a Vice President of the Federation of
Jewish Charities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876(3rd of
Nisan, 5636): Eighty-year-old Hungarian born violinist Joseph Böhm “who was a
member of the string quartet, which premiered Beethoven's 12th String Quartet”
and “a director of the Vienna Conservatory” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876: In New
York City, “wealthy German Jews,” Sophia and Julia Beer gave birth to Columbia graduate
and College of Physician and Surgeons trained urologist and surgeon Dr. Edwin
Beer, the husband of Elise Beer with whom he had three daughters – Isabel, Phyllis
and Elizabeth --<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and the recipient of “the
first gold medal of International Society of Urology “for his original work on
the application of high frequency current for the curing of intra-vesicular
diseases” who had served as a Lt. Colonel in the Army Medical Corps during World
War I and who “was the treasurer of a group of New York physicians and surgeons
organized in 1933 to assist colleagues who suffered hardships as a result of
the Hitler regime I Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/08/15/98178849.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/08/15/98178849.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1391419/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1391419/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877(14th of
Nisan, 5637): Fast of the First Born<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878: In New
York City, “Babetta (née Newgass) and German-born immigrant Mayer Lehman, one
of the three brothers who cofounded the Lehman Brothers investment banking
firm” gave birth to Herbert Henry Lehman who served as Lt. Gov., Gov. and U.S.
Senator from New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml/units/lehman/biography.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml/units/lehman/biography.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/nyregion/herbert-lehman-biography.html?_r=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/nyregion/herbert-lehman-biography.html?_r=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878:
Birthdate of Abraham Walkowitz, the Siberian born “American painter grouped in
with early American Modernists.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://rogallery.com/Walkowitz_Abraham/Walkowitz-bio.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://rogallery.com/Walkowitz_Abraham/Walkowitz-bio.htm</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.askart.com/artist/Abraham_Walkowitz/30115/Abraham_Walkowitz.aspx"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.askart.com/artist/Abraham_Walkowitz/30115/Abraham_Walkowitz.aspx#</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Walkowitz#/media/File:Brooklyn_Museum_-_Isadora_Duncan_29_-_Abraham_Walkowitz.jpg"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Walkowitz#/media/File:Brooklyn_Museum_-_Isadora_Duncan_29_-_Abraham_Walkowitz.jpg</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880(16th of
Nisan, 5640): Second day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880:
Birthdate of Louis Wolheim the multi-lingual Cornell football player who was
fluent in Yiddish who gained fame as an actor in silent films, Broadway and
finally in talkies including “All Quiet on the Western Front.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880: It was
reported today that in Tula, Orel, and Kharkoff , the Russian government has
“ruthlessly expelled” the Jews who have established businesses over the last
several years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880: It was
reported today that instead of improving the conditions of his Jewish subjects,
the Czar has begun treating them with “increased severity.” The Jews have been
forced to claim that they are Protestants to avoid be expelled from St.
Petersburg by the police.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880: It was
reported today that an international conference is going to be held at Madrid
aimed at adopting measures to protect the Jews of Morocco.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880: It was
reported today that the Jewish Messenger has expressed its gratitude for the
influence the United States has exerted on behalf of the Jews of Morocco. The
paper views the United States diplomat serving in Morocco as “the best and most
powerful friend the Jews of that country have.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: Rabbi
Nachum Levison of Safed, Palestine, and his wife gave birth to Sir Leon
Levison, “the first chairman of the board of directors of the publishing house
of Marshall, Morgan and Scott, the founder of relief funds for Russian Jews and
Palestine Jews and the first President of the International Hebrew Christian
Alliance who in 1908 married Kate Barnes, the daughter of John Barnes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881:
Birthdate of Safed native Judah Leib Levison, the son of Rabbi Nahum Levison of
Galicia who gained fame as Edinburgh resident Leon Levison, the convert to the
United Free Church of Scotland, the first President of the International Hebrew
Christian Alliance and “fierce opponent of the Nazis” who was knighted in 1919
for raising hundreds of thousands of pounds for the suffering Jews of Russia
and who had two brothers, one of whom was “a Christian minister in Edinburgh”
and the other, Alexander Levison, the loyal Jew and leader of the Independent
Congregation in Edinburgh. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.lcje.net/High%20Leigh/Sunday,%20August%207/2%20Sir%20Leon%20Levison%20at%20High%20Leigh%201931%20by%20kai-kjaer%20hansen.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.lcje.net/High%20Leigh/Sunday,%20August%207/2%20Sir%20Leon%20Levison%20at%20High%20Leigh%201931%20by%20kai-kjaer%20hansen.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882: A pogrom
begins in the largely Jewish town of Balta, in Podolia, Russia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5643): Sixty-three-year-old “Guy’s Hospital trained physician and
Justice of the Peace Nathaniel Mayer Montefiore, the English born son of Sir
Abraham Montefiore, of Stamford Hill and Henriette Montefiore, the husband of
Emma Montefiore and father of Leonard Abraham Montefiore; Charlotte Rosalind
McIver and Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883: Jennie
E. Lyman, a young gentile girl from Cleveland, Ohio, married Max Rosenberg
while studying in New York City unbeknownst to her parents. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5643): Esther Hart Lyons, the Columbia, SC born daughter of Louisa
Elizabeth Lyons and Jacob Cohen Lyons passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884: Samuel
Shrimski completed his term as a member of the New Zealand Parliament of
Oamaru.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885(12<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5645): Parashat Tzav and Shabbat HaGadol. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886:
Birthdate of Ukraine native and blacklisted American garment worker Clara
Lemlich, “a leader of the Uprising of 20,000” a member of the CPUSA and labor
organizer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/shavelson-clara-lemlich"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/shavelson-clara-lemlich</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886: In Dembica,
Austria, Joseph and Rose B. Friedman gave birth to Brooklyn Law School graduate
and Republican Party leader Jacob Arthur Freedman, the husband of Lillia Adler,
an “officer and director of several real estate corporations and a law partner of
William Godnick who was also active I the work of the Brooklyn Federation of
Charities ad the East Midwood Jewish Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5648): Second Day of Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888: In
Suwalki, Poland Celia Rubinson and Chaim Hochstein gave birth to Joseph Irving
Pascal, the author The Optometrist’s Handbook of Eye Diseases who married
Charlotte Pascal after having been married to Rose Pascal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/optometrists-handbook-eye-diseases/dp/B0007F2VUA"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.amazon.com/optometrists-handbook-eye-diseases/dp/B0007F2VUA</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889:
Birthdate of Russian native Harry Cassman the prominent Atlantic City lawyer
and “longtime leader of Beth Israel “who, in late 1923, founded what is now
Jewish Federation of Atlantic & Cape May Counties with a group of local
Jewish leaders and who was the husband of Celia Cassman and the father of
Elaine Cassman McGee.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvoicesnj.org/news/2015-09-16/Voice_at_the_Shore/I_will_always_have_sand_in_my_shoes.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jewishvoicesnj.org/news/2015-09-16/Voice_at_the_Shore/I_will_always_have_sand_in_my_shoes.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889: In
Poland, Minnie Zalkind and Rabbi Abraham I. Orlian gave birth to Cooper Union
trained Civil Engineer Israel Orlian the husband of Sophie Smilow wo began his
career as a “steel detailer, draftsan and surveyor in 1909.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890:
Birthdate of Joseph Irving Pascal the native of Kovno who came to New York City
in 1901 where he earned two degrees at Columbia before graduating from the
Rochester School of Optometry. (Some sources show his birthday as 1888)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.ajo.com/article/0002-9394(55)92142-5/pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.ajo.com/article/0002-9394(55)92142-5/pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: Rabbi
Gottheil will officiate at the funeral of Emanuel Bernheimer one of the oldest
members of Temple Emanu-El and Rabbi Silverman will officiate at the graveside
services when the deceased is interred in the Salem Field Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: Edward
Lawrence Levy of England won the first World Weightlifting Championship which
had been organized by the International Weightlifting Federation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: The
newly elected officers of the Jewish Theological Seminary Association are
Joseph Blumenthal, President; M.I. Asch of Philadelphia, Vice President; Simon
Heizig, Vice President; Daniel P. Hays and Jacob Singer of Philadelphia,
Secretaries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">L'Osservatore cattolico</i>, reported that a
leading German anti-Semite has thanked them and their extensive reporting on
the crimes of the Jews "for having furnished him with such good scientific
material" to him and his conservative political party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://skepticism.org/timeline/march-history/3406-milan-catholic-newspaper-praised-for-reporting-jewish-crimes.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://skepticism.org/timeline/march-history/3406-milan-catholic-newspaper-praised-for-reporting-jewish-crimes.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: Joseph
H. Senner was appointed Commissioner of Immigration at New York which means he
will be charge in Ellis Island, the entry point for tens of thousands of
eastern European Jews – a position formerly filled by Colonel Weber.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893:
Birthdate of Arnold Rice Rich, the native of Birmingham, Alabama, graduate of
U. Va. And Johns Hopkins Medical School who served as Chairman of the
Department of Pathology and pathologist-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital
from 1944 to 1958 during which time he was married to “pianist and composer
Helen Jones with whom he had two children – Adrienne and Cynthia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: The
Monte Relief Society hosted a grand cakewalk at the Terrace Garden tonight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nissan, 5656): Shabbat HaGadol; In the evening, the first Seder<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: Over 150
poor Jewish immigrants from a variety of European countries took part in a
Seder at the Hebrew Sheltering House on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. There was
no charge for the Seder. The Hebrew Sheltering House also provided meals
throughout the holiday at no charge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: Rabbi
Gustav Gottheil conducted Passover services this evening at Temple Emanu-El.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: Herzl
took part in the Seder of the Zionist student association "Unitas".<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: “Mll.
Marsy’s Testimony” published today described the appearance of one of the key
witnesses in the case brought by the state against ten conspirators including
Armand Rosenthal to blackmail Max Lebaudy, the son of a wealthy sugar refiner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before his arrest, Rosenthal used the pen
name Jacques Saint Cere in his role as correspondent for Le Figaro and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Herald.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: M.S.
Isaacs, the President of the Board of the Baron de Hirsch Fund presided over a
meeting held at Temple Emanu El in New York which was also attended by Emanuel
Lehman (Tea surer), Julius Goldman (Secretary), Henry Rich, James Hoffman,
William B. Hackenberg and Judge Myer Sulzberger of Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: “Mucha’s
famous Sarah Bernhardt cartoon” is among the works that will be shown at the
poster exhibit sponsored by the Albany Club that is opening today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897:
Birthdate of Lewis Coleman Cohen a “Labour councilor on the Brighton Borough
Council”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: “The
United Brothers,” a Jewish fraternal organization, celebrated its 50<sup>th</sup>
anniversary “at the Grand Central Palace…with a reception this afternoon and a
banquet followed by a ball this evening.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Among the speakers were Marks Fishel, George Hahn, Judge Joseph E.
Newburger and Jacob Marks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: Three
days after she had passed away, Dinah Solomons, the widow of Morris Solomons
was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899(17<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5659): Third Day of Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: “Boys
Call On The Mayor” published today described an unscheduled visit six Jewish
boys paid on the Mayor of New York. The boys were members of the City History
Club of the Educational Alliance and they hold “his honor” that they were
studying the history of the city and they thought they “would like to meet its
ruler.” The mayor gave them each an autograph and then had a policeman give
them an escorted tour of city hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900(29th of
Adar II, 5660: Mendel Hirsch, the eldest son of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch
passed away. Born in 1833, he Bible teacher and commentator as well as a poet.
After receiving his PhD in 1854, he taught at a school founded by his father.
Several of his articles were published in the monthly magazine Jeshrun. His
daughter Rachel Hirsch was the first woman to be appointed as a professor of
Medicine in Prussia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: Joseph
Solomon, the “Deal, Kent” born son of Moses and Sarah Solomon was buried today
at the “Canterbury Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901(8th of
Nisan, 5661): Eighty-three-year-old German physician turned poet and dramatist
Max Ring who “in 1856 married Elvira Heymann, the daughter of publisher Karl
Heymann passed away today in Berlin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901:
Birthdate of Charles E. Smith, a Russian immigrant who became a successful real
estate developer in Rockville, MD where he is philanthropies included the
Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902:
Birthdate of violinist Paul Godwin. Born Pinchas Goldfein in Poland, Godwin
first gained fame playing under that name in his native country. He moved to
the Netherlands where his career flourished under the name of Godwin. Godwin
miraculously survived the Holocaust. A virtuoso in his day, his works are
largely unknown to modern audiences.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: As part
of another meeting with the Commission, Herzl, Goldsmid and Stephens visit Lord
Cromer. He states that the Zionists should now demand the concession from the
Egyptian government. He recommends that they engage lawyer named Carton de
Wiart, to assist in this endeavor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: In
Bohemia, which at that time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Mordko
Serkin and his wife gave birth to pianist Rudolf Serkin who first performed in
the United States in 1933 before making it his permanent home in 1939<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/10/obituaries/rudolf-serkin-88-concert-pianist-dies.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/10/obituaries/rudolf-serkin-88-concert-pianist-dies.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904(12th of
Nisan, 5664): Dr. Abraham B. Arnold, a graduate of Washington University School
of Medicine who was “granted a certificate to practice in California in 1890”
passed away today in San Francisco<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905:
Birthdate of Baltimore native Eli Baer, the University of Maryland trained
attorney who was active in the Democrat Party, B’nai B’rith and the National
Conference of Jews who lived to the age of 99.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: In
Pittsburgh, PA, Henry Berman who served as a general manager at Universal
Pictures and his wife Julie gave birth to producer Pandro Samuel Berman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-pandro-s-berman-1329133.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-pandro-s-berman-1329133.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.geni.com/people/Pandro-Berman/6000000009487972908"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.geni.com/people/Pandro-Berman/6000000009487972908</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: “Judge
Cohen Tells Jews of Their Weaknesses” published today included a warning from
the New York jurist that “rich Jews…can get to be a pretty arrogant sort of
person” who need to avoid being “purse proud” while Oscar Straus countered that
Jews are sometimes mistaken as being materialistic because they “have been so
hard-pressed and have had to struggle so hard” to make a living when in fact
“the Jew was remarkable for his high ideals.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906:
Birthdate of Stanley “Tex” Rosen, the captain of the Rutgers University
football team and tailback for Buffalo Bisons in the embryonic days of the NFL
who went on to coach at Perth Amboy, NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: Jews on
the Lower East Side sponsored a benefit performance in a Bowery theatre this
evening with the funds to go to starving people in China. Local Chinese had
raised thousands of dollars to relieve the suffering of Russian Jews and the
Jews were responding in kind. The turnout was less than expected because many
of the Jews were preparing for Passover which begins tomorrow night and since
the performance was in Yiddish, Chinese patrons would not have been able to
understand the performance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: As
violence bordering on revolution continues in Romania, the peasants in Northern
Moldavia are reportedly prepared to renew their plundering and pillaging at the
start of Passover, if the government does not fulfill all of its promises. This
does not give the government much time to act since Passover begins tomorrow
evening, March 29, 1907.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Ein Walzertraum </i>(A Waltz Dream) an
operetta by Oscar Straus opened at the Hicks Theatre in London today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5668): Parashat Shimini; Shabbat HaChodesh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1908:
Birthdate of </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN">Isaak Kikoin the physicist who won both the Stalin and
Lenin prizes and who played a key role in the development of the Soviet atomic
program. He was born at Žagarė the same town that was the birthplace of Rabbi
Israel Salanter and American labor leader Sidney Hillman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909:
Birthdate of Hynek Abraham who was deported from Prague to Terezin in 1942 and
in 1944 from there to Auschwitz where he was murdered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909(6<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5669): Eighty-four-year-old David Bamberg, the German born son of
Isaac Jacob Bamberger and his third wife Gela Weil and the husband of Johannah
Adler with whom he had seven children passed away today in Baltimore, the
hometown of all his children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37014882/obituary-for-david-bamberger/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37014882/obituary-for-david-bamberger/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> (According to this
account he died in 1895. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: In
Detroit, Michigan, Goldie (née Kalisher) and Gerson Abraham gave birth to
Nelson Ahlgren Abraham who was raised in Chicago where he gained fame as author
Nelson Algren.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/books/review/nelson-algren-biography-mary-wisniewski.html?ref=headline&nl=bookreview&emc=edit_bk_20161111&_r=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/books/review/nelson-algren-biography-mary-wisniewski.html?ref=headline&nl=bookreview&emc=edit_bk_20161111&_r=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: It was
reported today that the officers of the newly formed Conciliation Committee
formed by the Executive Committee of the Jewish Community in New York are,
“Rabbi M.Z. Margolies of Kahal Israel, William Fischman, a merchant and
attorney Abraham S. Schomer.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: Jacob Z.
Lauterbach was “elected” as a Professor of Talmud at Hebrew Union College.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0186/ms0186.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0186/ms0186.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: New York
Podiatrist Morris Jay Chanin, the London born son of Sophia Lippmann and
Emanuel Chanin married Fay Beatrice Rosenberg today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: Max
Florin’s black and white photo was printed in thumbnail size, along with a
one-paragraph story” published today under the headline, “His Friends Think He
Was Rescued.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912:
Birthdate of Josy Zinnen who died at Mauthausen in 1945<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912:
Constantin C. Arion, who as the Rumanian Minister of Foreign Affairs would say
that his “Government would grant rights to the Jews in accordance with the
peace treat” and that the Government “would completely abolish Article 7 of the
Rumanian Constitution” which states that “Jews in Rumania are aliens and that
naturalization is only possible for them individually” began serving as
Minister of Administration and Interior of Romania today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5673): Thirty-eight-year Viennese born pianist and composer Erich
Wolf passed away in New York City today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5673): Forty-four-year-old Rudolphn Beck, a Professor of Surgical
Anatomy at the Chicago College of Dental Surgery passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914:
Birthdate of Oscar winning screen writer Edward Anhalt <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914:
Birthdate of Philadelphia native and NYU undergrad Samuel J. Gelman, “the
executive vice president of the Jewish Hospital and Medical Center of Brooklyn
who had “received his medical degree from Anderson College in Glasgow,” served
and in the British military during WWII and raised three children – Leonard,
Sheila and Joyce – with his wife, “the former Judith Fabian Brieger.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/03/archives/samuel-gelman-hospital-official-vice-president-of-jewish-medical.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/03/archives/samuel-gelman-hospital-official-vice-president-of-jewish-medical.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
Birthdate of Jacob Harold Levison, the native of McDonald, PA, who gained fame
as Oscar winning song writer Jay Livingston.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: During
World War I, The Holland-America liner Maastendyk arrived in Amsterdam today
from New York carrying ten pounds of Matzoth which were to be shipped to Rabbi
Bernard Pressen in Berlin. As part of the laws adopted to conserve resources
for the war effort, the German government had issued an order banning the use
of wheat for making Matzah, so the Rabbi was depending on this shipment from
the United States for his Seder. At this point in the war, both the Netherlands
and the United States were neutral, so no laws were being violated by sending
goods to Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: Judge
Nathaniel E. Harris, who will become Governor of Georgia on May 1<sup>st</sup>
commented on the Leo Frank case saying, “the Supreme Court will not be through
with the case until some days after I take office and it is quite possible that
I may never be asked to pardon Frank.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: The
American Jewish Relief Committee issued a special appeal for funds needed to
alleviate the suffering of Jews caught in war-torn Europe. With Passover
starting tomorrow evening, the committee invoked holiday motifs in its appeal.
Responding to the appeal would be a fitting response to the words of the
Haggadah, “let all who are hungry come and eat; let all al that are needy come
and celebrate the Passover.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: In
“Russia of Today and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” published today French author Jean
Finot presents a portrait of a “civilized Russia” that has been erroneously
portrayed as Cossack barbarians by Germans – a portrait that includes the
statement that “Jews, Moslems and Christians live together in harmony” and that
“Jews” among others “should feel convinced that their martyrdom will cease when
normal life is resumed and Germany decisively defeated” – statements that stand
at odds with those who know a different reality of the Russian Jewish
experience.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: In South
Africa, Nathan Adelstein and Rosie Cohen gave birth to Dr. Abraham Manie “Abe”
Adelstein “who became the Chief Medical Statistician of the United Kingdom.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/31"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/31</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: “Only
one young man took the competitive exam today for the appointment to United
States Naval Academy from Representative Isaac Siegel’s Congressional District”
which is a bit unusual because in the past there have been six or seven
candidates to take the exam.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: “Relics
from Palestine” and several European art works were on sale at tonight’s
sessions of the Jewish relief bazar which has raise $100,000 as of tonight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: As the
British forces advanced in Palestine, the Jews of Tel Aviv and Jaffa were
expelled by the Turks. The Turks were sure that the Jews were secret (and not
so secret) allies of the British Army. Tel Aviv had been founded by Jews eight
years earlier and was truly the only all Jewish city in existence at the time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Leo
Motzkin of Kiev, “one of the leading Zionists publicists and the head of the
international press bureau” which played a key role in gaining an acquittal of
Mendel Bellis said today in New York “that he was confident that the Russian
Revolution would mean the ultimate liberation of the Jews and unprecedented
progress for the Zionist movement.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Dr. B.E.
Shatzky told a group of American businessmen “at a luncheon give under the
auspices of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce at the Hotel Biltmore”
“aroused great enthusiasm when he declared that ‘through a glorious bloodless
reconstruction all class and racial barriers, including discriminations again
the Jews in Russia had disappeared forever at one blow. The Jewish question is
now settled by Russian democracy, once and forever.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: The
second concert of the Schola Cantorum given tonight at the Carnegie Hall
included “two traditional Yiddish songs” – “Auram” and “Eili,” an “incantation
sung by Russian, Polish and New York Jews based on” synagogue melodies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: “The
Times Riga correspondent wrote today, “I am grieved to state that the Jews are
not behaving well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have become
citizens of free Russia, but they do not display a sense of responsibility
befitting their new positions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Similar
complaints had reached me at Petrograd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hotheaded, hysterical Jewish youths are playing into the hands of worse
than demagogues and Russia’s external enemies….If anarchy comes to Russia,
there bound to be reaction in which the Jews will be the first sufferers.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918(15<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5678): The last Pesach of World War I<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: While
serving with the 1<sup>st</sup> Australian Infantry Brigade, thirty-two-year-old
Leonard Maurice Keysor who had already earned a Victoria Cross was wounded was
wounded today during fighting on the defensive Méricourt-Sailly-Le-Sec line and
temporarily evacuated<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: During
World War I, as Jews begin to observe Passover they will have to deal with food
shortages brought about the food conservation rules of the United States
Administration which means that there is a thirty percent reduction in the
amount of matzoth and increase in the cost of mutton which has risen from six
to seven cents a pound in 1917 to 11 to 12 cents per pound this year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Based on
information supplied by the Jewish Welfare Board, “Jewish families in the
vicinity of army and navy cantonments” are scheduled to act as hosts for Jewish
soldiers and sailors” for a second day so they may observe Passover.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: At
Temple Israel of Harlem, Rabbi M.H. Harris delivered a sermon “Passover and the
Present Crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native and CCNY grad Harry Minkoff, the veteran of the
Battle of the Bulge, founder of Gift-Pax and husband of Ruth Minkoff with whom
he raised three children – Jane, Larry and George – and who was an active
member of Temple Beth El in Great Neck and the UJA Federation of New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: During
Passover services today at Ohab Zedek Synagogue, Rabbi Bernard Drachman
“appealed to the Jews of America to give their adopted land their assistance
and full cooperation.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919:
Birthdate of composer Jacob Avshalomov. Born in Tsingtao China, Avshalomov, was
the son of the famous Russian composer Aaron Avshalomov. Avshalomov moved to
the United States in 1937 where he pursued his musical career. He also provided
a haven in the United States for his more famous father after World War II.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: Today,
Captain J. M. Loughborough, a member of the committee preparing for the return
of the 77<sup>th</sup> Division, “praised the record made by Jewish boys from
the east side whose deeds…had been rewarded by official recognition in many
cases from their divisional commander and General Pershing” and “declared that
New York should be proud of the 14,006 Jewish boys in the Metropolitan
Division.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: “The
Greater New York Appeal for Jewish Sufferers from the War learned from the
Commissioner of Immigration” today “that about seventy-five Jewish immigrants
arrived” at the port of New York “in the last two weeks” and that all of those
who arrive “tell the same stories of starvation in Poland and Central Poland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921(18th of
Adar II, 5681): Fifty-two-year-old Julia Wormser Seligman the former of wife of
Jefferson Seligman from whom she had been divorced for several years, and daughter
of Isidore and Carrie Wormser passed away today in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: In
Chelsea, Massachusetts, “Abraham Fradkin, who came from Russia, and the former
Eva Steinberg, from Poland” gave birth to their seventh and young child Irving
Fradkin the optometrist who founded the Dollars for Scholars Program. (As
reported by Sam Roberts)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/us/irving-fradkin-died-scholarship-america.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/us/irving-fradkin-died-scholarship-america.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: In
Hanover, Germany, Sendel and Riva Grynszpan gave birth to Herschel Grynszpan
the alleged assassin of Ernst vom Rath whose death was the pretext for
Kristallnacht.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921:
Birthdate of Jerzy Bielecki the Polish member of the resistance who was named a
righteous gentile by Yad Vashem. (As reported Dennis Hevesi)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: In
Jerusalem, Churchill met with Abdullah ruler of Transjordan who sought to have
an Arab Emir (himself) appointed to rule Palestine saying that this was the
best way to avoid violence between Arabs and Jews. Churchill sought to reassure
the Abdullah, that his fears were groundless. He told him that if Abdullah
would not oppose Jewish settlement west of the Jordan, he would not have to
worry about Jewish settlements east of the Jordan in Transjordan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: “A
petition favoring the claims of the Jewish people to Palestine as a national
homeland” which was signed by Dr. Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Hard
and Attorney General J. Weston Allen “was presented to the Joint Rules
Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature today by Representative Coleman
Silbert of Boston.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923(11<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5683): Sixty-three-year-old New York native Leon Tanenbaum, “the head
of the real estate firm of Tanenbaum, L. Strauss and Company and, for
twenty-six years, a Director and Trustee of the Hebrew Technical School for
Girls passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: It was reported
today that “plans have adopted by the Rabbi Isaac Elchman Theological Seminary
to build a series of four buildings on an entire city block in uptown New York
at a cost of $3,000,000” according to an announcement by New York realtor
Samuel Greenstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924:
“Arguments in support of legislation to grant to the President authority to
mobilize the industries of the United States in case of war or threatened war
were made before the House Committee on Military Affairs today by Bernard
Baruch of New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Nisan, 5685): Parashat Vayikra<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: Based on
a decision made at a meeting of the New York Board of Jewish Ministers on March
5, Rabbis are scheduled to “deliver pulpit messages regarding” Hebrew
University which will be opening in Jerusalem on April 1.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: “Jews of
Poland Again Face Periods of Want” published today described the “adverse
economic condition that have undone much the past relief work which has left
one million people in need of aid that can only met by charitable giving from
the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: Six
years before the Nazis came to power Fraud Ludendorff, the wife Erick
Ludendorff, the Quartermaster General of the Kaiser’s army in WW I took the
lecture platform in Berlin where she declared that “Freemasonry and Jesuitism
are aiding the Jewish race to subdue and enslave the Germans and all the Nordic
races.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: The
Presidium of the General Executive Committee of the USSR passed the decree
"On the attaching for Komzet of free territory near the Amur River in the
Far East for settlement of the working Jews." The decree meant "a
possibility of establishment of a Jewish administrative territorial unit on the
territory of the called region.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928(6th of
Nisan): Rabbi Dan Plotzki, author Kelei Hemdah, passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: In the
Bronx, Irving and Bea Kunkin gave birth Bronx High School of science graduate
Arthur Glick Kunkin, the Socialist journalist and founder of the underground
Los Angeles Free Press. (As reported by Neil Ganzlinger)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/obituaries/art-kunkin-dead.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/obituaries/art-kunkin-dead.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: In
Berlin, Johanna "Hanka" Grothendieck, Johanna "Hanka"
Grothendieck, the Chassi turned anarchist gave birth to French mathematician
Alexander Grothendieck. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/math-great-grothendieck-son-of-jewish-nazi-victim-dies-at-86/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.timesofisrael.com/math-great-grothendieck-son-of-jewish-nazi-victim-dies-at-86/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/world/europe/alexander-grothendieck-math-enigma-dies-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/world/europe/alexander-grothendieck-math-enigma-dies-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: “More
than 800 people, representing cultural organizations in various parts of the
United States and Canada” attended the opening session of “the first American
convention of the promoters and adherents of the Yiddish language, literature
and culture” which opened tonight at the Irving Plaza Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: In
Paris, “English political activist Marion Cave and Carlo Rosselli, the scion of
“a wealthy Tuscan Jewish family” and “anti-fascist activist” gave birth to poet
Amelia Rosselli, the granddaughter of Amelia Pincherle Rosselli, a Venetian
Jewish feminist, playwright, and translator from a family prominent in the
Italian Risorgimento, the movement for independence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Chicago, Russian Jewish immigrants Lillian
Warsaw and Selig Friedman, “a sewing machine salesman gave birth to Jerome
Isaac Friedman, the physicist who co- discovered the quark and won the Nobel
Prize in Physics in 1990.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930:
Birthdate of Albert S. Ruddy, the native of Montreal who was raised in New York
and began work in film and television only after finding out that a career in
architecture and construction was not for him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931(10<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5691): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: “The
life of the Rev. Dr. Isaac Mayer Wise, founder of the Hebrew Union College,
pioneer of Reform Judaism in America, a militant liberal and stanch
Jeffersonian Democrat in the stormy days just before the Civil War, was
extolled” in Cincinnati “today by Dr. Jacob R. Marcus at the Founder’s Day
exercises of Hebrew Union College honoring the 112<sup>th</sup> anniversary of
Dr. Wise’s birth.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: The
first Maccabiah athletic games took place in Tel Aviv with representatives from
14 countries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: The
German Bishops' Conference bestowed a new level of acceptance of Hitler and the
Nazis when the church leaders “conditionally revised prohibition of Nazi Party
membership.”]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934(12<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5694): Sixty-nine-year-old Russian born Louis Zuro, the younger
brother of textile Aron Surasky, the father of the late Josiah Zuro, the music
direct at Pathe motion picture studio and the husband of Leah Zuro, who began
working on productions of Hammerstein’s grand operas in 1910 and organizing
free Sunday concerts in 1924 passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/03/29/95038244.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/03/29/95038244.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934(12<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5694): Eighty-four-year-old Pine Bluff, AR businessman Isaac Dreyfus,
the New Orleans born son of Rosina Meyer Dreyfus, the husband of Bertha Simon
Dreyfus and father of Ruth, Hugo, H. Artie, Jerome and David Dreyfus passed
away after which he was buried at the Congregation Anshe Emeth Cemetery in Pine
Bluff, AR.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: Word of
“Boycott Day” leaks out causing prices on the Berlin Stock Exchange to drop.
Responding to economic reality Hitler decides that Boycott Day will go forward
but will last only for one day instead of serving as the kickoff day for an
on-going boycott of Jewish businesses and professionals designed to destroy the
economic well-being of Germany’s Jewish population.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: Rogers
and Effie D. Pinner sold their house at 39 Riggs Place in South Orange, NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: Today,
Galicia native Mex Kletter who appeared in the Yiddish film “Dave” and “Song of
Songs” by Anshel Schorr was “taken in as a member of the Yiddish (Hebrew)
Actors Union.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/K/kletter-max.htm">https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/K/kletter-max.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://savethemusic.com/artist/max-kletter/">https://savethemusic.com/artist/max-kletter/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: Mayor
Fiorello La Guardia attended the formal opening of Reuben’s Restaurant and
Delicatessen on East 58th Street in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “The
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee estimated” today that “the number
of refugees from Germany to various European countries since the beginning of
the Hitler regime totaled 58,837” of which 25,000 went to France and 5,837 went
to Holland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “Poland
Passes Meat Act” published today described the passage by the Polish Senate of
a government bill designed “to break a Jewish monopoly in meat butchering” by
permitting “the ritual slaughtering of animals to the extent of the amount
necessary for Jews.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Editor’s note –
considering the blatant anti-Semitism of the Polish government including their
attempts to ‘deport’ their Jewish population the motives of this bill expressed
by the government are disingenuous to say the least.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “The
high-geared Nazi party machine has undertaken” measures “to compel every
eligible voter…to go the polls” tomorrow where only “yes” votes will be
counted.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937(16th of
Nisan, 5697): Second Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937:
Twenty-six Polish Jews who was been arrested “for communistic activities” were
sent to concentration camps today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: “Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise of New York, the President of the American Jewish Congress and
Canon Anson Phelps Stokes of Washington Cathedral…agreed tonight in a panel
discussion at the Town Hall of Washington that knowledge and faith were the
great requisites for combating religious persecution.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: In
“Birobidjan Called Place of Promise” Jacob M. Budish “one of the founders of
Ambijan, an organization supporting the settlement of Jews in Biro-Bidjan, in
eastern Siberia” described progress being made in this region where American
Jewish organizations have received permission to settle one thousand
families.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Editor’s note – This Jewish
region was an attempt by the Soviets to compete with the establishment of the
Jewish home in Palestine and came before Stalin returned to the anti-Semitism
of Czarist Russia.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: Reuben's
Restaurant and Delicatessen had a formal opening at 6 East 58th Street which
was attended by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in attendance. It stayed at this
location for three more decades until it was sold in the mid-1960s, afterwards
moving to a location at 38th Street and Madison Avenue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Arnold Reuben,
a German immigrant, had first opened the restaurant in 1908 on Park Avenue
Eight years later, the restaurant moved Broadway and in 1918 it moved again,
this time Madison Avenue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: Today,
on his 62<sup>nd</sup> birthday pioneering urologist Dr. Edwin Beer who in 1933
help to found a group that would provide colleagues who had suffered because of
Hitler’s rise to power, retired as chief of the urological service at Mount Sinai”
at which time, the staff of the hospital gave him “a memorial volume contained
articles on medical topics leading physicians” in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:
Birthdate of businessman Leonard Stern former owner of the Village Voice and
head of Hartz Pet Supply.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5698): Six Jewish passengers were killed by Arabs while traveling
from Haifa to Safed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:
Bronislaw Huberman leaves The Hague as he prepares to move to Tel Aviv where he
will conduct the newly formed Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: It was
reported today that “two Jews were killed and two wounded in various incidents
in Haifa, Tiberius and Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: It was
reported today that British forces have killed Abdul Rahim, the
Commander-in-Chief of the Arab Revolutionary Forces in Palestine as he
attempted “to break through a military cordon around a Samarian village in the
North.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: It was
reported today that Councilmen George Backer addressed the luncheon at the
Roosevelt Hotel which marked the start of the New York Campaign of the American
Ort Federation which provides “vocational education in Poland, Rumania,
Lithuania, Latvia, Bulgaria, France and Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: It was
reported today that “an order issued by the ‘Gouvernement-General’ of Poland”
(the name of the German occupation of conquered Poland) “forbid the emigration
of Jews from its emigration of Jews from its territory for an indefinite”
because “there are enough occupations in Poland for any Jews desiring work.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5700): Vintner and violinist Shmuel Cohen, an early settler of Rish
Lezion and the husband of Minya Papirmeister who created Israel’s national
anthem Hatikvah by providing a musical voice for the words of Naftali Herz
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-second-death-of-shmuel-cohen-the-hatikvahs-composer/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-second-death-of-shmuel-cohen-the-hatikvahs-composer/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.naxos.com/person/Shmuel_Cohen/19081.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.naxos.com/person/Shmuel_Cohen/19081.htm</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941:
Birthdate of Jacques Masson, a French Mizrahi Sephardic Jew of Bukharian
ancestry, and Diana (Dina) Zeiger the product of an Ashkenazi family gave birth
to Jeffrey Masson, the author of <u>The Assault on Truth</u>, a controversial
book about Freud and psychoanalysis. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942(10<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan 5702): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: The
first transport of French Jews to Auschwitz began. This represented one of the first
transports of Western Jews to the Death Camps. The Jews were from Paris and
were rounded up with the help of the French Police. One of the popular myths of
World War II was that the French people were united in the Resistance to the
Nazi occupation. In truth, there plenty of collaborators both in Vichy and the
German occupied zones. This had tragic consequences for the Jews of France as
well as Jews from other parts of Europe who had sought refuge there before the
outbreak of the war.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: In San
Francisco, Huntington Sanders Gruening, the son of Ernest Gruening, and his
wife gave birth to Alaska politician Clark S. Gruening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: Major
Paul Alfred Cullen, who had changed his name from Cohen to Cullen while serving
in the Middle East in 1941, arrived in Ceylon today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: Anne
Frank wrote a poem today that began<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">If you did not finish your work
properly,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And lost precious time,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Then once again take up your task<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And try harder than before.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">If others have reproached you<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">For what you have done wrong,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Then be sure to amend your mistake.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">That is the best memory one can make.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: “The
Yeshiva Synagogue Council representing 600 synagogues in the United States and
Canada adopted a resolution” today “at its seventh annual conference, held at
Yeshiva College, urging all synagogues to place themselves at the disposal of
the armed forces as a ‘spiritual abode’ and to continue cooperation with the
United Service Organizations, Red Cross and worthy welfare groups in raising
funds and sale of war bonds.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: “The
victory for which the United Nations are fighting has for its purpose not only
the preservation, but the extension of freedom, Alben W. Barkley, majority
leader of the Senate, declared tonight in an address to 1,000 persons at the
thirty-fifth anniversary dinner of the Order Sons of Zion, in the Hotel Astor.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: Two days
after he had passed away funeral services are scheduled to be held at Rodeph
Shalom for Columbia trained attorney Irving J. Joseph, the husband of the late
Blanche Lewy Joseph with whom he had two children, Marjorie and Stephen, who
was counsel for the Home of the Daughters of Jacob and director of the Jewish
probation Society. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944(4th of
Nisan, 5704): Rabbi Chayyim Most, Maggid of Kovono, was killed by the Nazis. Apparently,
Rabbi Most was a leader of outstanding character although there is little about
him in the official records that I have found so far. He appears to have not
been killed with most of the other Jews of Kovno; but met death at the same
time that the remaining youngsters of the ghetto were slaughtered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Anne
Frank and her family hear Gerrit Bolkestein, Education Minister of the Dutch
Government in exile; deliver a radio message from London urging his war-weary
countrymen to collect "vast quantities of simple, everyday material"
as part of the historical record of the Nazi occupation. "History cannot
be written on the basis of official decisions and documents alone," he
said. "If our descendants are to understand fully what we as a nation have
had to endure and overcome during these years, then what we really need are
ordinary documents -- a diary, letters."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: The
Irgun issued a statement today claiming credit for the attacks on police
stations in Haifa, Jerusalem and Haifa. It also claimed that it had called
ahead and left warnings about the impending attacks. The Irgun denied
responsibility for shootings in Tel Aviv and blamed those on the Stern Gang.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Colonel
Paul Alfred Cullen, who would eventually reach the rank of Major General, today
returned to Cairns where he was attached to the Headquarters of the New Guinea
Force.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945(14th of
Nisan): Fast of the first born<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan): While serving with the Middlesex Regiment, Lt. Basil Seymour
Cornell, the brother of Sgt. Michael Cornell of blessed memory, was “killed in
action” while fighting in Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: After
having sustained a nighttime attack by a superior German force, Captain Baum
and the remnants of his ill-fated task force suffered further losses as they
tried and failed to make their towards American lines.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945:
Birthdate of Israeli law professor Ruth Gaviszon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: Members
of the Jewish Infantry Brigade of the British 8<sup>th</sup> Army celebrated a
Seder in Faenza, Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: Members
of the Jewish Brigade's First Camouflage (PAL) Royal Engineers celebrated
Pesach in Libya using” a specially designed haggadah of their very own. The
cover page of the soldiers' haggada bears their unit's emblem - a long-tailed
wolf, outstretched in the center of a Magen David, the tail protruding between
a couple of the star's corners. On either side of the insignia is written the
unit's name, in English on one side and in Hebrew on the other, the letters
sitting in what looks like fluttering ribbons.” (As reported by Lydia
Aisenberg)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: “The
State Department released the so-called Acheson-Lilienthal Report which was
co-authored by David Lilenthal, the Illinois born son of Jewish immigrants who
was head of the TVA that “outlined a plan for international control of atomic
energy.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: As
Jerusalem prepared for its 17th night under a twelve-hour curfew, Haim Salomon
and Dr. Jacob Thon, representing the Jewish Community Council, met with
Brigadier General J.F. Bedford-Roberts in attempt to get him to lift the ban on
Jewish movement and commerce.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: An
explosion and fire rocked the Iraq Oil Pipeline near its terminal in Haifa Bay
today. Five youths dressed as Arabs whom authorities believe were really Jews
are assumed to be responsible for the attack.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Lt. Gen
Sir Alan G. Cunningham, High Commissioner for Palestine and LT. Gen. G.H.
Macmillan, commander of the British troops in Palestine, left London for
Palestine this morning after having conferred with Prime Minister Atlee on a
new “get tough” policy for Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: In
Minsk, Genia and Hayim Wohlberg gave birth to Yosef Nezer Wholberg who made
Aliyah in 1957 and perished aboard the INS Dakar at the age of 21.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: An
announcement was made today that the United States has given its approval for a
special session of the United Nations General Assembly to deal with the issue
of Palestine. U.N. officials think that the session could take place sometime
during the month of May.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5708): “Twenty-five Jews were killed and twenty-four were wounded
in a thirty-hour fight” when 3,000 Arabs ambushed their convoy “south of
Bethlehem in the Solomon’s Pools area”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5708): This afternoon “250 Arabs” armed “with two-inch mortars and
light machine guns…ambushed a convoy of five truck and an armored car killing
45 Jews “at Kabriri, a village each of Nahariya.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: In a
refugee camp at Prague, Samuel Freilich, a lawyer and rabbi from Munkács, in
the Carpathian Ruthenia and Ella (Wieder) Freilich, who along with her husband
had survived both Auschwitz and Dachau gave birth to Hadassah Freilich who
gained fame as Hadassah Lieberman, the wife of Connecticut Senator Joe
Lieberman who ran for Vice President on the ticket with Al Gore.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: On his
radio show, Jack Benny hits the laughter jackpot with the immortal “Your money
or your life” bit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: James
Grover McDonald, the first United States Ambassador to Israel presented his
credentials today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950(10<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5710): Sixty-year-old Mathematician Ernst David Hellinger, the
Silesian born son of Emil and Julie Hellinger who was rescued from Dachau and
fortunate enough to join the faculty of Northwestern University in suburban
Chicago passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095929484"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095929484</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950(10th of
Nisan, 5710): Fifty-seven-year-old WW I Veteran and American Diplomat Laurence
Adolph Steinhardt died in a plane crash today while serving as U.S. Ambassador
to Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/lasteinh.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/lasteinh.htm</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951(7<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5718): Sixty-five-year-old Bloomington native and 1908 graduate of
the University of Indiana Howard Kahn, the “crusading editor in St. Paul who
“received the Cosmopolitan International’s Distinguish Service Medal” for his
work in ending the corruption in that city” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/03/30/89785885.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/03/30/89785885.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5716): Second Day of Pesach; 1<sup>st</sup> day of the Omer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953(12<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5713): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol observed for the first time
during the Presidency of Ike Eisenhower.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5716): Sixty-seven-year-old Tilly Newman, the wife of Joseph Newman
passed away today and was buried in the Ella Street Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958: “Satan’s
Satellites” a film version of the 1952 serial “Zombies of the Stratosphere”
which featured Leonard Nimoy in one of his first cinematic roles was released
today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959: “Davy
Jones’ Locker” a musical with lyrics by Mary Rogers opened on Broadway at the
Morosco Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960:
Birthdate of Uri Orbach, the native of Petah Tikva who became an author and
politician who served as Pensioner Affairs Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-jewish-home-minister-uri-orbach-dies-at-54/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-jewish-home-minister-uri-orbach-dies-at-54/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960: The
Philadelphia Inquirer described the presentation of a Kiddush Cup to Rabbi
Harry B Kellman by congregation president Morris E. Albert marking the 40<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of Congregation Beth El in Camden, NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961: In
Paisley, Scotland, Shirley a Dr. Werner Susskin gave birth University of
Glasgow trained attorney and Oxford Ph.D Richard Susskind “the IT adviser to
the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales” and husband of Michelle Latter
with whom he had three children – Daniel Jamie and Alexander --<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and the co-author of <u>The Future of the
Professions, <o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961: “Funeral
services were held today for Brooklyn born Jewish communal leader Mitchell who
“served in Congress in 1899 to 1901” and who was also a justice of the New York
State Supreme Court.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962: “In a
speech at the Golden Anniversary Banquet of the Institute of Radio Engineers at
the Waldorf Astoria,” “David Sarnoff, chairman of the board of the Radio
Corporation of America urged…that the West organize what he called a free world
community of science to meet and defeat the challenge of Communist bloc
technology.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961: The
parents of Jean Lynne Lazarus have announced the engagement of their daughter
to Eugene W. Kalkin, an alumnus of the University of Virginia who “did graduate
work at the Bernard Baruch School of Business.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1963: “The
first Broadway production of ‘Mother Courage,’” a play written “in response to
the invasion of Poland in 1939” directed by Jerome Robbins and featuring Gene
Wilder opened today at the Martin Beck Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1963(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Nisan, 5723): Eighty-four-year-old Odessa native and Menshevik leader Lydia
Dan, the sister Julius Martov and the wife of Fyodor Dan who fell afoul of
Lenin’s Bolsheviks and went into exile in 1923, which given the purges of the
1930’s probably saved her life passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964(15<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5724): Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964(15<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan): Eighty-four-year-old Jake Cohen, the Lithuanian born son of Azlman
Gan and husband of Dora Bursk passed away today in Memphis, TN.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: One day
after he had passed away, “a funeral service is scheduled to be held this
afternoon at the Jewish Memorial Chapel in Hackensack” New Jersey for sixty-year-old
New Jersey born, Columbia Ph.D. “Israel E. Drabkin, chairman of the department
of classical languages and Hebrew City College who married Miriam Frideman
after his first wife Norma Lowenstein had died.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/03/28/97189720.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/03/28/97189720.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966:
Birthdate of James Douglas Bennet, an American journalist whose mother was
Jewish and who became editor-in-chief of the Atlantic in 2006.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966(7<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5726): Sixty-four-year-old actress Helen Menken, the first wife of
Humphrey Bogart, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967: In New
York, Elain and Bernard Dov Troy gave birth to Cornell and University of Texas
educated historian Tevi David Troy the brother of Dan Troy and presidential
historian Gil Troy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and the husband of
Kami Pliskow whose Republican Party affiliation led to him serving as United
States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services under President George W.
Bush.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://rudermanfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Jewish-Vote-Ruderman-Program.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://rudermanfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Jewish-Vote-Ruderman-Program.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5727): Dr. Samuel W. Boorstein, the NYU trained orthopedist and
member of the faculty passed away today in Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(9th of
Nisan, 5729): Rabbi Aryeh Levin passed away. Born in 1895, Reb Aryeh, was an
Orthodox rabbi dubbed the "Father of Prisoners" for his visits to
members of the Jewish underground imprisoned in the Central Prison of Jerusalem
in the Russian Compound during the British Mandate. He was also known as the
"Tzadik ("saint") of Jerusalem" for his work on behalf of
the poor and the sick.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969:
President Dwight D Eisenhower died in Washington DC at the age of 78.
Eisenhower was President during the Suez Crisis of October, 1956. In a rare of
Cold War harmony, Ike sided with the Soviets. He allowed the Russians to
threaten the British and the French with atomic attack if they did not withdraw
from Suez in effect supporting the Nasser, the Egyptian dictator. After the
fighting ended, he threatened the Israelis with economic destruction if they
did not withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza. Gaza was a base from which
Egyptian supported terrorists attacked Israel. The Israelis wanted to trade
withdrawal from the Sinai for and to the Egyptians illegally barring Israeli
vessels or vessels that stopped at Israeli ports from using the Canal. None of
this seemed to matter to Eisenhower. Instead he chose to take actions that
bolstered Nasser who repaid Ike’s kindness with an even more virulent
anti-Western, pro-Soviet policy. At the same time, it should be noted that
Eisenhower was horrified by what American troops found when they liberated the
concentration camps during World War II and insisted that all of it be filmed
immediately so that nobody could ever denied what had happened.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969: In Miami
Beach Marsha Pratts and Ronald Ratner gave birth to director Bret Ratner who
was raised by restaurateur Alvin Malnik <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5730): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5730): Eighty-eight-year-old Nissen Telushkin, the long rabbi at
Congregation B’nai Yitzchok and leader of the Orthodox rabbinate passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/03/archives/rabbi-telushkin-88-orthodox-scholar.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/03/archives/rabbi-telushkin-88-orthodox-scholar.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970(20th of
Adar II, 5730): Natan Alterman “an Israeli poet, playwright, journalist, and
translator who - though never holding any elected office - was highly
influential in Socialist Zionist politics, both before and after the formation
of the state of Israel” passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/natan-alterman"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/natan-alterman</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972(13<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5732): Seventy-seven-year-old Percy Peixotto Morningstar, the New
York born son of Judith Eugenia Salzedo Peixotto Morningstar, “daughter of the
late Benjamin F. Peixotto, who was United States Consul at Lyons and Josepha
Illava Morningstar, the husband of Edith Long Morningstar who had passed away
in 1967 and the father of Joe Barry, Richard and Helen Morningstar passed away
today after which he was interred in Palo Alto, CA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974: Isaac
Poltinikov, the “retired military ophthalmologist who was deprived of pension
and rank following an application for exit visa for Israel two years ago and
threatened by KGB with a trial on charge of parasitism” appealed to the
American Congress of Ophthalmologist’s.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974(5th of
Nisan, 5734): Sixty-eight year old Dorothy Fields “one of the great Broadway
lyricists, who wrote popular songs for revues, films and shows for nearly 50
years” passed away<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.dorothyfields.org/home.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.dorothyfields.org/home.htm</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974: For
English MP’s of the All-Party Parliamentary Committee for the Relief of Soviet
Jewry today refused visas to Russia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(16th of
Nisan, 5735): Second day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975: Two bus
bombing in Jerusalem resulted in 13 casualties in one case and none in the
other as terrorists struck on that was holy to Christians and Jews – Good
Friday and Pesach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(16th of
Nisan, 5735): German born political scientist Ernst Frankel passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977:
Birthdate of Lauren Weisberger, the native of Scranton, PA author of <u>The
Devil Wears Prada </u>which was later made into a successful movie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(A book about a Jewess in the clothing
industry – how novel a novel)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977: The
annual meeting of the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee opened
today in Venice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978: The PLO
leadership finally ordered a ceasefire today, after a meeting between UNIFIL
commander General Emmanual Erskine and Yasser Arafat in Beirut<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980: The
Eldridge Street Synagogue was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic
Places<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980: U.S.
premiere of “When Time Ran Out,” a disaster epic produced by Irwin Allen, with
a script co-authored by Carl Foreman, with music by Lalo Schifrin and
co-starring Paul Newman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar II, 5741): Parashat Shmini; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar II, 5741): Seventy-five year old Isaiah Trunk, the Polish born award
winning author and “chief archivist of YIVO” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/01/obituaries/isaiah-trunk-author-of-a-history-of-jews-during-the-nazi-era.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/01/obituaries/isaiah-trunk-author-of-a-history-of-jews-during-the-nazi-era.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar II, 5741): Fifty-nine year old Polish born and Boston University
trained psychiatrist Dr. Jacob Swartz, the U.S. Army veteran and husband of
Elinor Swartz with whom he raised four children – Marvin, Howard, Carol and
Leslie – passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/01/obituaries/jacob-swartz-psychiatrist-dies-professor-wrote-widely-in-field.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/01/obituaries/jacob-swartz-psychiatrist-dies-professor-wrote-widely-in-field.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982(4<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5742): Seventy-one-year-old Cornell University trained civil engineer
Harold Uris, the American born son of Sadie Copland and “Harris Uris, founder
of an ornamental factory who with his brother Percy co-founded the Uris
Building Corporation and raised four daughters – Judith, Susan, Linda and Jane
– with his wife Ruth Chinitz passed away today in Palm Beach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984: Judith
Baum, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Baum of Antwerp, Belgium, was married
today to Dr. Neil A. Halpern, a son of Rabbi and Mrs. David Halpern of Brooklyn
in ceremony performed by the bridegroom's father, rabbi of the Flatbush Park
Jewish Center in Brooklyn at Congregation Beth Sholom in Lawrence, L.I. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984: “The
Last American Virgin” directed by Boaz Davidson and produced by Yoram Globus
and Menahem Golan was released in Norway today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985: Neil
Simon's "Biloxi Blues" premiered in New York. The Jewish author wrote
a hit play (and later successful movie) based on the clichéd collision between
New York Jews and the U.S. Army during World War II.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985(6th of
Nisan, 5745): Marc Chagall passed away. Born on July 7, 1887 in Vitebsk, Russia
(now Belarus), Chagall studied in St. Petersburg and then moved to Paris before
World War I. He returned to Russia where he served for a time during the 1920's
as art director for the Moscow Jewish Theatre. He left the Soviet Union in 1923
and moved back to France. Distinguished for his surrealistic inventiveness, he
is recognized as one of the most significant painters and graphic artists of
the 20th century. Many of his paintings draw upon his life as a Jew and use
Jewish themes of which the Praying Jew is one of the most famous. His twelve
stained glass windows at the Hadassah Hospital-Hebrew University Medical Center
are another example of Chagall's open identification with his Jewish heritage.
There are numerous cites where you can find out more about him and view his
works. I cannot do justice to him in this limited space.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/chagall.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/chagall.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.artnet.com/artists/marc-chagall/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.artnet.com/artists/marc-chagall/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Marc-Chagall-1887-1985-6891"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Marc-Chagall-1887-1985-6891</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986: 20<sup>th</sup>
Century Fox releases Lucas an “American teen tragicomedy film directed by David
Seltzer and starring Corey Haim.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988: In
Northridge, Los Angeles, Steven and Eileen Plata Kalish gave birth to major
league outfielder Ryan Michael Kalish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishbaseballnews.com/players/ryan-kalish/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jewishbaseballnews.com/players/ryan-kalish/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994(16th of
Nisan, 5754): Second Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994(16th of
Nisan, 5754): Russian born Playwright Eugene Ionesco passed away in Paris. Two
of his more noted works were the Bald Soprano and The Rhinoceros.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995(26th of
Adar II, 5755): Eighty-six-year-old Sidney “Sid” Goldin the star basketball and
tennis player at Georgia Tech and WW II Bronze Star winning Naval Officer “was
a member of both the Georgia Tech Athletic and Georgia Tech Engineering Halls
of Fame” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996: The
Shamgar commission, the official Commission of Inquiry set up to investigate
the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, submitted its
findings today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998: Arab
Israeli politician, Haj Yahia entered the Knesset today as a replacement for
Moshe Shahal. Upon taking his seat, he resigned his position as mayor of
Tayibe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1999: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The New York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
recently released paperback editions of "Unfinished Journey: Twenty Years
Later" by Yehudi Menuhin and "Barney Polan's Game: A Novel of the 1951
College Basketball Scandals" by Charley Rosen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999: “The
Devil’s Arithmetic,” a cinematic treatment of Jane Yolen’s novel of the same
name that was turned into a screenplay by Robert J. Arech produced by Murray
Schisgal and Fred Weintrub with an introduction by Dustin Hoffman was shown on
Showtime for the first time this evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: Two days
after she had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to held at Mt.
Lebanon Cemetery for Selma Friedman, the wife of Theodore Friedman, mother
of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Patricia Koepple and Andrew Friedman
and a member of Tempe Israel in Lawrence, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: The
police recommend filing corruption charges against former Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: Canadian
born Jazz musician and composer Moe Koffman passed away. He was accomplished on
at least three woodwind instruments including flute, saxophone and clarinet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001(4th of
Nisan, 5761): Itzhak Mr. Yaakov, known as the father of the Israeli technology
industry, was quietly taken into custody by a special security division of the
Defense Ministry<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001(4<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5761): Fifteen-year-old Eliran Rosenberg-Zayat and 13 year old
Naftali Lanskorn were murdered by Hamas during a bombing at Mifgash HaShalom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002(15<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5762): Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002(15<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5762): “Rachel and David Gavish, 50, their son Avraham Gavish, 20,
and Rachel's father Yitzhak Kanner, 83, were killed when a terrorist
infiltrated the community of Elon Moreh in Samaria, entered their home and
opened fire on its inhabitants. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: As Ehud
Olmert, the minister of industry and trade, ordered an indefinite suspension of
the government inspections that enforce laws banning work on the Sabbath,
“Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new coalition was facing its first mini-crisis
today over the sensitive question of working on the Jewish Sabbath, an issue
that splits many secular and religious Israelis.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2004: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The New York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of interest to Jewish readers including
"Bobby Fischer Goes To War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary
Chess Match of All Time" by David Edmonds and "John Eidinow and
Hirschfeld’s Harlem with Illustrations" by Al Hirschfeld.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: “The
Knesset again rejected a bill to delay the implementation of the disengagement
plan by a vote of 72 to 39. The bill was introduced by a group of Likud MKs who
wanted to force a referendum on the issue.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: Delta
Airlines launched a route from Ben-Gurion International Airport to Atlanta and
is also competing on the Tel Aviv-Newark route with El Al and Continental
Airlines.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006:
Publication of the paperback edition of Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a
French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany by Marthe Cohn whose sister was sent to
Auschwitz and who was a decorated member of the “Intelligence Service of the
French 1<sup>st</sup> Army.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Enemy-Lines-French-Germany/dp/0307335909"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Enemy-Lines-French-Germany/dp/0307335909</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: Shai
Agassi resigned his position as President of the Products and Technology Group
(PTG) at SAP AG. to pursue interests in alternative energy and climate change.
In October 2007 would found a company named Project Better Place, focusing on a
green transportation infrastructure based on electric cars as an alternative to
the current fossil fuel technology<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: In
Jerusalem, The Bible Lands Museum in conjunction with the Rubin Academy of
Music present Hot Slavic Winter – The Passion of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and
more, as part of the Opera in the Morning series.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: With a
theme of “Shake it up on Shabbat with your Shabbat Egg Shakers!” Temple Judah
in Cedar Rapids, Iowa sponsors its second Musical Shabbat. This is a testimony
to the vitality of this small but vibrant outpost of the “whole house of
Israel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: “21” a
crime film based on <u>Bringing Down the House</u> by Ben Mezrich with a
screenplay by Allan Loeb was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Three
Kassam rockets were fired at Israel from the northern Gaza Strip, one of them
hitting the outer wall of a preschool in one of the kibbutzim in the Sha'ar
Hanegev region moments after the children were taken inside by their teacher.
The teacher and a parent of one of the children suffered shock and the building
was damaged. Two other Kassam rockets that were fired at the western Negev
landed in open areas and caused no wounded or damage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Nisan, 5769): Eighty-eight-year-old Janet Rosenberg Jagan, the wife and
political partner of Cheddi Jagan who held numerous political offices in Gyuana
including the presidency passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/world/americas/30jagan.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/world/americas/30jagan.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/30/janet-jagan-guyana-america-marxist"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/30/janet-jagan-guyana-america-marxist</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Jews all
over the world begin reading the Book of Vayikra (Leviticus)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: In Iowa
City, the U of I Hillel sponsors “Blintzes, Bubbly &amp; Bingo” an
enjoyable evening of food, drink, good company...and fabulous prizes!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2009: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Chicago Tribune </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reviews “Levittown: Two
Families, One Tycoon and the Fight for Civil Rights in America’s Legendary
Suburb” by David Kushner<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: An
episode of the “Simpsons” titled "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed," is
scheduled to be shown this evening. The episode includes scenes of Homer and
Bart at the Western Wall with their Israeli tour guide, who will be voiced by
British comedian Sascha Baron Cohen, of Borat and Bruno fame. In the episode,
Homer gets "Jerusalem Syndrome" and believes that he is the Messiah.
Also, the tour guide bickers and exchanges political barbs with Marge. In one
scene, tour guide Jacob (Baron Cohen) presses the Simpsons for positive marks
on a comment card. When Marge accuses him of being “pushy,” he snaps back, “Try
living next to Syria for two months and see how laid back you are.”Ned
Flanders, the Simpsons’ neighbor who has taken it upon himself to redeem Homer,
is the one who invited the Simpsons on a Christian tour of the Holy
Land.“[Flanders] feels that when Homer sees the sacred sites that he’ll become
a good person,” Jean said in a phone interview. When the family visits the
Western Wall, Bart reads some of the notes and responds, “Nope, not gonna
happen.” At the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Homer’s behavior gets Flanders
banned for life. It is the Israeli hotel’s opulent breakfast buffet that
appeals most to Homer. In the end, Producer Al Jean said, “Homer tries to unite
the faiths through a message of peace and chicken because everybody eats
chicken, no matter what religion they’re in.” “The Simpsons” have delved into
Jewish subject matter in the past, including an adult bar mitzvah for Krusty
the Clown (nee Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofski) and a 2006
“Treehouse of Horrors” segment titled “You Gotta Know When to Golem.”
"This is an episode that people from all three religions will be equally
offended by," said Simpsons producer Al Jean.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Kathe
Goldstein, “the musical voice” of Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa is
scheduled to hold a piano recital for the enjoyment of the senior citizens
living at Meth-Wick House who would otherwise be bereft of such cultural
pleasure.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2010: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The New York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
"The Sabbath World" by Judith Shulevitz and "The Living Fire:
New and Selected Poems, 1975-2010" by Edward Hirsch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The
second and final day of The Legacy of the Shoah Film Festival is scheduled to
take place at John Jay College in New York City featuring “Forgotten
Transports: Family Stories – Latvia,” “Forgotten Transports: Men’s Stories –
Belarus,” “Forgotten Transports: Fighting to Survive - Poland” and “Distant
Journeys” by Alfred Radok<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Two
Israeli soldiers killed in a firefight with Palestinian terrorists in the
southern Gaza Strip were buried in separate ceremonies today. Thousands
attended the funeral for Maj. Eliraz Peretz, who was on Mount Herzl in
Jerusalem. He is the father of four young children. His brother was killed in
action in 1998. Staff Sgt. Ilan Sviatkovsky of the Golani Brigade, Staff Sgt.
Ilan Sviatkovsky of the Golani Brigade, was buried later in the day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar II, 5771): Eighty-nine-year-old born author Abraham Rothberg, the
holder of a masters in literature from the University of Iowa whose works
included <u>The Sword of Golem</u> and the autobiographical novel <u>The Song
of David Freed</u> and the husband of Esther Conwell passed away today. (As
reported by Dennis Hevesi)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/books/abraham-rothberg-who-wrote-of-golem-and-stalin-dies-at-89.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/books/abraham-rothberg-who-wrote-of-golem-and-stalin-dies-at-89.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: “The
Simon Wiesenthal Center posthumously awarded Hiram Bingham IV their Medal of
Valor in New York City with a film tribute” that showed how US Vice-Consul
Bingham saved lives as the Nazis marched across western Europe. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2011: A ruckus broke out in the lobby of the
Supreme Court on today when right-wing activists Itamar Ben-Gvir and Baruch
Marzel hurled insults at Balad MK Haneen Zoabi as she came out of the
courtroom. The judges had been debating the legality of a Knesset decision to
strip her of some of her parliamentary rights.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
Evergreen is scheduled to perform a concert “Enchanted Celtic Music from
Israel” sponsored by The Embassy of Israel, the Jewish Community Relations
Council of Greater Washington and Sixth &amp; I Historic Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: “An
Article of Hope” is scheduled to be shown at the Hartford Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: “Grace
Paley: Collected Shorts” and “Eichmann’s End: Love, Betrayal, Death” are
scheduled to be shown at The Westchester Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Under
legislation approved unanimously today by the Maryland House of Delegates, SNCF
must catalog and put online records relating to its transportation of 76,000
Jews and other prisoners from the suburbs of Paris to the German border from
1942 to 1944. (As reported by JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: The
Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation is scheduled to host a lecture by Michael
O’Hanlon entitled “The Limits of Foreign Policy: Reconsidering the Future Role
of the U.S. In World Affairs<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Jennifer
Laszlo Mizrahi, founder and President of The Israel Project, is scheduled to
discuss "The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli
Leadership" with its author, Ambassador Yehuda Avner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: In New
York City, The Center for Traditional Music and Dance's An-sky Institute for
Jewish Culture is scheduled to present the year's first installment of the
Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance Party series, as part of the Sixth Street Community
Synagogue's klezmer series.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(5<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5772): Eighty-two-year-old “Irving Louis Horowitz, an eminent
sociologist and prolific author who started a leading journal in his field but
who came to fear that his discipline risked being captured by left-wing
ideologues” passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/nyregion/irving-louis-horowitz-sociologist-dies-at-82.html?_r=1&hpw"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/nyregion/irving-louis-horowitz-sociologist-dies-at-82.html?_r=1&hpw</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present Boris
Sandler's Film "Yosef Kerler" <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The Bernard
and Irene Schwartz Distinguished Speakers Series is scheduled to present “Those
Angry Days’ Roosevelt, Lindberg, and America’s Fight Over World War II”
featuring Lynn Olson and Tom Brokaw.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Artists Ben Schacter and Yona Verwer are scheduled to lead a discussion of
“It's a Thin Line: The Eruv and Jewish Community in New York and Beyond´ at the
Yeshiva University Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
“Jewish dead lie forgotten in East L.A. graves” published today” described a
snapshot of a forgotten world as seen through Mt. Zion Cemetery<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/columnone/la-me-jewish-cemetery-html-20130328-dto,0,4355412.htmlstory#axzz2x0xYWSrK"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.latimes.com/news/columnone/la-me-jewish-cemetery-html-20130328-dto,0,4355412.htmlstory#axzz2x0xYWSrK</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
The traditional Birkat Kohanim mass priestly blessing took place this morning
at the Kotel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/166617"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/166617</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-gather-at-western-wall-for-priestly-blessing/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=81b3756a5d-2013_03_28&utm_medium=email"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-gather-at-western-wall-for-priestly-blessing/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=81b3756a5d-2013_03_28&utm_medium=email</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
The escalation of Palestinian violence in the West Bank is reminiscent of the
second intifada, but has not yet turned into a third one, Judea Brigade
Commander Col. Avi Baluth told The Jerusalem Post today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Finding Vivian Maier” a documentary about the photographer “executive produced
by Jeff <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Garlin”
and co-starring Joel Meyerowitz which had premiered at the Toronto
International Film Festival was released today in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
In Chile, “an art school that promotes Nazi ideology scheduled to open today in
the southern island of Chiloé.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Paramount is scheduled release the biblically based epic film “Noah” to the
general movie-going public.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Israel told the Palestinians it will not free the final batch of prisoners they
had been expecting alongside US-brokered peace talks, a senior Palestinian
official said today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
This afternoon, “Under the Same Sun” is scheduled to be shown at the Northern
Virginia Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015(8<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5775): Shabbat Hagadol<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
In a speech given today the Grand Synagogue in Jerusalem, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
used language that led to accusations that he had compared President Obama to
“Haman” – a comparison that did not negatively affect his career since three
months later his “term as Chief Rabbi of Erfat was extended by five years.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
In keeping with its annual tradition Congregation Agudas Achim is scheduled to
hold Shabbat morning services at the home of Joseph and Kineret Zabner, to
honor the Torah scroll which is a long-time family possession.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Lewis Black is scheduled to perform at the Garden of Laughs Benefit in NYC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“The Green Prince” and “Magic Men” are scheduled to be shown at the Northern
Virginia Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Sonia Kaplan, author of <u>My Endless War</u>, is scheduled her experiences
during the Shoah at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015(8<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5775): Shabbat Hagadol <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015(8<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5775): Ninety-three-year-old Tony Award winning director Gene Saks
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/30/theater/gene-saks-actor-and-director-of-stage-and-film-dies-at-93.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/30/theater/gene-saks-actor-and-director-of-stage-and-film-dies-at-93.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://variety.com/2015/film/news/gene-saks-dead-neil-simon-director-1201462211/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://variety.com/2015/film/news/gene-saks-dead-neil-simon-director-1201462211/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
Today, “American Jewish comedian Roseanne Barr is scheduled to participate in a
conference in Jerusalem about fighting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions,
or BDS, movement.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
Center for Jewish History, American Sephardi Federation, Yeshiva University
Museum and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research are scheduled to host a screening
of “Watching the Moon at Night” a “documentary inspired by the historian Walter
Laqueur explores the causes and consequences of terrorism and anti-Semitism
around the globe.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5777): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, “the leader of the so-called Jewish Faction, spoke
during a rally in Jerusalem against the draft of the ultra-Orthodox community
today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The Jewish Women’s Archive sponsored “Good Girls and Nasty Women: Gender in
American Jewish History” featuring Bonnie S. Anderson Lynn Povich, Rebecca
Traister and moderator Bari Weis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The YIVO Institute sponsored a lecture by Jack Jacobs on the “Political
Thinkers Of East European Jewry” where he “will focus on the ideas of Dubnow,
Zhitlowsky, Pinsker, Ahad Ha’am, Syrkin, Borochov, Scherer, and Jabotinsky.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The Seattle Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of the
Women’s Balcony, a film about “a close-knit congregation that fractures along
gender lines” in a “battle of the sexes.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Holocaust survivor Fritz Gluckstein is scheduled to tell “his story” at the US
Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Semitism: Being
Jewish in America in the Age of Trump.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018(12<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5778): Ninety-nine-year-old Budapest born Peter Munk, “the Canadian
who built the world’s largest gold-mining company, passed away today. (As
reported by Ian Austen)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/obituaries/peter-munk-90-dies-built-worlds-biggest-gold-mining-company.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/obituaries/peter-munk-90-dies-built-worlds-biggest-gold-mining-company.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
David Shulkin completed his service as the 9<sup>th</sup> United States
Secretary of Veterans Affairs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“Broadway Chicken – A Performance from the World’s Greatest Musical” is
scheduled to open at the Bascula arts center in Tel Aviv this evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“Beneath the Cortex – The Human Theatre” is scheduled to premier this evening
at Yung Yidish TLV.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
William “Kristol, founder and editor at large of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Weekly Standard</i>, is scheduled to discuss “American Politics In
the Age of Trump” this evening in the Kimmel Theatre at Cornell College which
marks what he described as his first springtime visit to Iowa since he usually
comes for the January Presidential Caucuses<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar II, 5779): Eighty-five year old novelist Jonathan Baumbach, the
Brooklyn born son of Harold Baumbach a noted painter, and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ida Baumbach, a school teacher, whose works
included <u>Separate Hours</u> and <u>Reruns</u> passed away today. (As
reported by Neil Genzlinger)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/obituaries/jonathan-baumbach-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/obituaries/jonathan-baumbach-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host Susan Warsing
and Martin Weiss as part of their “First Person” series.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the final two screenings of “Driver,” that
tells the tale of an ultra-Orthodox acting as a single parent to his daughter
after his wife leaves him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The Yehsiva University Museum is scheduled to present a performance by “the
Ensemble-in-Residence of Stern College for Women” “of the 20<sup>th</sup>
century and contemporary Jewish composers” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
As Major League Baseball opens its 2019 season today, Jews might be taking an
interest in teams with Jewish owners, executives and or managers including the
Chicago Cubs, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Los Angeles Angels and the New York
Yankees.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Nisan, 5780):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parashat Vayikra<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The appearance of Sharon Pitluk Silver as part of the Illinois Holocaust
Museum’s Survivor Speaker program scheduled for today has been canceled due to
the Pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
In the midst of the darkness of the Pandemic, the glow of Shabbat burns a
little brighter for the friends and family of Feivel Strauss as they celebrate
his natal day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
Havurah on the Hill and the Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture is
scheduled to host a Virtual Havdalah service this evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The Riverway Project is scheduled to present the “Virtual Bagel Brunch:
Passover Edition” this morning.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
Anne Germanacos of S.F. indie Jewish community The Kitchen is scheduled to host
a casual discussion on Zoom on the events of the day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021(15<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5781): Pesach (Calendar Coincidence – Palm Sunday is also celebrated
today which means Holy Week and Pesach track together)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Compared to where things were a year ago for the first Pandemic Pesach things
are much improved since “Israel has fully vaccinated over half its population
of 9.3 million, and as coronavirus infections have plummeted, authorities have
allowed restaurants, hotels, museums and theaters to re-open while allowing to
20 people can now gather indoors.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Rabbi Bridget and the Jewish Gateways community are scheduled to host online
“the second night Passover Seder of Connection and Community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
For the second year in a row, Congregation Beth El of the Sudbury River Valley
is scheduled to present the Second Night Seder via Zoom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
<i>The New York Times</i> reviews books by Jewish authors or of special
interest to Jewish readers including <u>The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a
Holocaust Massacre Revealed</u> by Wendy Lowe and <u>The Zoologist’s Guide to
the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens — and Ourselves </u>by
Arik Kershenbaum<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Rabbis Mordecai Miller and Joshua Weisberg are scheduled to lead a seder
featuring the Israeli-Ethiopian story, with music by Cantor Lisa Iskin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
The two-day historic summit hosted by Israel and attended by the top diplomats
from the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Bahrain” is
scheduled to come to an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett tested positive for COVID-19 today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
Tonight Rabbi Steve Z. Leder is scheduled to facilitate a virtual program, “The
Upside of the Downside.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2022(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5728):</span> <span face="Arial, sans-serif">Jewish
disability activist Sheryl Grossman died at the age of 46.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/28/2022/death-jewish-disability-activist-sheryl-grossman"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/28/2022/death-jewish-disability-activist-sheryl-grossman</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
“At a groundbreaking summit in Israel today, the top diplomats of Israel, the
United States and four Arab countries discussed how to coordinate against
Iran.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
As part of its Jewish Dynasties series, the Streicker Center is scheduled to
host a presentation on Edmond Safra by Daniel Gross, author of <u>A Banker’s
Journey</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host “A Passover Seminar: How
Many Years Were We Slaves in Egypt?” a study session with Rabbi Aviad Bodner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman, one of the co-authors of The Daughter of
Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope is scheduled to speak
today at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Mark Levene on “The
Donme, the Followers of Shabtai Tzvi: The ‘Other’ Jews of Salonika.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
LBI is scheduled to present a screening of “Heimat Is a Space in Time” in <span style="background: white; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">German filmmaker
Thomas Heise shares the stories of three generations of his family, in their
own words.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">2023: Lockdown University is
scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold on “Munich: Hitler’s City?”</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: YIVO is
scheduled to Celebrate the release of “in a dark blue night”, the follow-up to
Alex Weiser’s Pulitzer Prize nominated debut album “and all the days were
purple.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The
annual Red Sarachek tournament the country's most prestigious tournament for
Jewish high school basketball teams is scheduled to begin at Yeshiva
University.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: In Cincinnati, OH, a huge Mazel Tov to Rabbi Todd Thalblum of Temple Judah is who is receiving an honorary doctorate from Hebrew Union College to mark his quarter of centurary in the rabbinate.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://yivo-institute.myshopify.com/products/alex-weiser-and-all-the-days-were-purple-signed-copy"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://yivo-institute.myshopify.com/products/alex-weiser-and-all-the-days-were-purple-signed-copy</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by Dr. Giora Goodman on “At a Turning
Point? The United States and Israel in the 21st Century.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2024: The
Jewish Book Council is scheduled to host “</span><strong><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">Wandering Jews: Two Diasporic Journeys</span></strong><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><br />
</span></b><strong><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">Out of the Ottoman Empire,” “</span></strong><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">an
in-person conversation about Mizrachi and Sephardic diasporic journeys,
both in fiction and real-life, with authors Jordan Salama and Elizabeth
Graver, winner of this year's National Jewish Book Award for Sephardic
Culture.”</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: Fresh
from her national anthem singing gig at the ballpark, Cantor Abbie Strauss is
scheduled to lead the morning minyan at Temple Judea.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: Hadassah
of the Plains is scheduled to host “Beyond the Maxwell House Haggadah: So Many
Choices,”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: In
Philadelphia, the Weitzman Museum is scheduled to host a book release during
which philosopher and educator Rabbi Shai Held and host emeritus of Radiolab,
Robert Krulwich, have a freewheeling conversation on just how and why <u>Judaism
Is About Love</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As is
part of the JCC’s 2024 cultural arts season featuring writers, musicians and
other creatives Benyamin Cohen, author of <u>The Einstein Effect</u> is
scheduled to “speak about Einstein’s enduring impact at the Oshman Family JCC
in Palo Alto this evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jweekly.com/2024/03/22/i-live-and-breathe-einstein-author-to-speak-in-palo-alto-about-worlds-favorite-genius/?utm_source=J.+The+Jewish+News+of+Northern+California&utm_campaign=13c0de0e6a-sunday-032424&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93a945700b-13c0de0e6a-216724560"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://jweekly.com/2024/03/22/i-live-and-breathe-einstein-author-to-speak-in-palo-alto-about-worlds-favorite-genius/?utm_source=J.+The+Jewish+News+of+Northern+California&utm_campaign=13c0de0e6a-sunday-032424&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93a945700b-13c0de0e6a-216724560</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The
Illinois Holocaust Museum’s presentation of <i>Shtetl in the Sun: Andy Sweet’s
South Beach 1977-1980</i> is scheduled to take place today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
28th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 174 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p><br /><p></p>melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-7193755615294961712024-03-25T16:17:00.004-06:002024-03-26T16:03:00.903-06:00This Day, March 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levi Z"L<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><em><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">March 27</span></b></em></span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">347: Traditional birthdate for Jerome, the priest and theologian best
known for the creation of the Vulgate Bible, the Latin translation of the text
and the author of correspondence with Augustine of Hippo that frequently
mentioned the Jews living in Africa.</span></span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">538 BCE: Cyrus was
crowned “King of Babylonia and King of All Lands.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cyrus was the King who made it possible for
the Jews to return to Judea marking the end of the Babylonian exile.</span></em><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">196 BCE:
Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt. Ptolemy was one of the Greco-Egyptian
rulers who fought with Antiochus for the control of Judea.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">972: In
Orleans, “Hugh Capet and Adelaide of Aquitaine” gave birth to Robert II who
“conspired with his vassals to destroy all of the Jews who would not accept
baptism” and who “inspired mob violence against the Jews including the learned
Rabbi Senor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1188: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I
Barbarossa, who was comparatively protective of his Jewish subject “took up the
Cross” and joined what would become the Third Crusade.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1191: Pope
Clement III who was one of the Popes locked in a power struggle with the Holy
Roman Emperor, Henry IV in which the Jews were mere pawns, passed away today.
Henry considered the Jews to be his subjects and beyond the control of the
Church. During the First Crusade, the hordes going through Germany killed and
robbed the Jews. At the same time, many Jews were forced to convert. Henry was
in Italy and much to the dismay of the Pope, when he heard what was going on in
Germany, the Emperor set about punishing those of the perpetrators who were
still around including at least one archbishop. He also ordered that any Jew
who had converted under duress should be allowed to return to the faith of
their fathers. Clement over-ruled the Emperor on this one. He did not how
people were brought to Jesus, but once they were there, there was no going
back.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1309: Pope
Clement V, who in 1305 became the first pope to threaten Jews with an economic
boycott in an attempt to force them to stop charging Christians interest on
loans, excommunicated Venice and all its population.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1378: Gregory
XI, the last of the Avignon Popes, passed away. In 1375 Gregory had issued an
order “to compel” Jews to hear sermons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The order would later be vacated and replaced by the older formula
allowing one to “exhort” the Jews to listen. (For more see <u>Popes, Church and
Jews in the Middle Ages</u> by Kenneth Stow)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1625(OS): The
reign of King James I of England, Ireland and Kings James VI of Scotland who
had Henry Finch arrested because a work he had published “predicted in the near
future, the restoration of the temporal dominion to the Jews” and who was
responsible for the King James Bible came to an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1639: In Rome,
a child is forcibly baptized after his father jokingly remarked that he would
not mind it, on the condition that the Pope acted as godfather. The Jews rioted
and were violently crushed. As a result, two of his children were taken, one a
baby, and were carried in a ceremony by the Pope.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1766(17<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5526): Third Day of Pesach observed on the same day that friends in
London wrote to George Washington congratulating him “and all our friends in
America” on the repeal of the Stamp Act.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1753: In
London, “Elizabeth Crowcher, daughter of a wealthy merchant from Wapping” and
Ralph Schomberg, the physician and Anglican convert who was the son of German
Jewish physician Meyer Low Schomberg, gave birth to controversial British naval
officer and historian Isaac Schomberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1774(15<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5534): Pesach was celebrated as Parliament debated what became known
as the Boston Port Act, London’s reaction to the Boston Tea Party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1775(25th of
Adar): Rabbi Chaim Ben David Abulafia, author of Nishmat Chaim passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1775:
Elizabeth Ezekiel married Samuel Judah today in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1786: Jacob
Louzada, a loyalist who owned 88 acres at Bound Brook, NJ made a second, and
unsuccessful claim for indemnification after his property had been confiscated
and sold “by order the State Legislature of New Jersey.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1786(27th of
Adar, 5546): Based on tombstone found in the original Jewish cemetery in Ghent,
date on which an unnamed Jew passed away. This unknown Jew or Jewess was the
first Israelite to be legally buried in the city under the reign of Joseph II.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6652-ghent"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6652-ghent</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1791: In
Savannah, GA, Shankey Hartand Abraham Jacobs gave birth to Georgianna (Judith)
Jacobs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1793: In Grove
Germany, Rivka Mosheim and Itzig Behr gave birth to Bernhard Benrend, the
husband of Eliese Heine with whom had fourteen children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1797: In
Essingen, Germany, Bunle Babette Isaac and Emanuel Natahn Scharff gave birth to
Aaron Emanuel Scharff, who married Magdelanna Roos with whom he had seven
children after having first been married to Apollonia Nathan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1798: Today,
“Moses Myers, the consignee of four and half hogsheads of brandy lost his case
in” United States District Court after which “permission was granted to him to
petition the Secretary of Treasury for a reversal of the decision” as long as
Myers paid the costs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1800(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5560): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1800: On the
same day that the Jews were uttering additional prayers for the celebration of
the New Moon, the United States Senate was citing editor William Duane Contempt
in their fight to muzzle a journalist who was critical of the Federalist Party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Senate_Holds_Editor_in_Contempt.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Senate_Holds_Editor_in_Contempt.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1802: Raphael
Nathan Bischoffsheim and his wife Helene, the daughter of Herz Moses Cassel,
gave birth to their daughter Amalie who married was married in August 1818 at
Mayence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1804(15<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5564): Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1812(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5572): Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach observed for the last time
before the outbreak of war between the United States and Great Britain, known
as the War of 1812.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1816: Gabriel
Gabriel married Rebecca Marks today at the Great Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1820: In
Baghdad, David Sassoon and Hannah Joseph gave birth to businessman Elias David
Sassoon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1820: Woolf
Davis married Rachel Meyer at the Seel Street Synagogue in Liverpool, England.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827(28th of
Adar): Rabbi Samuel ben Nathan Ha-Levi author of Mahat-zit ha Shekel passed
away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827:
Birthdate of Wolf Frankenburger, the native of Obbach who became a successful
lawyer and represented the Constituency of Middle Franconia in the Reichstag. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1830(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Nisan, 5590): Parashat Vayikra read as the Chinese tried to end the Opium
trade which would lead to the “Opium War.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1834(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5594): Before reaching the age of two, Levin Lev, the Hamburg born
son of Hannchen and Moses Nathan Levy passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1835:
Birthdate of Alton, Germany native Bernhard Cohen who settled in England where
he was bured at the Scholemoor Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1836: In
Kecskemét, Hungary, Maria (nee Hacker) and Samuel Goldstein gave birth to
cantor and composer Josef Goldstein who “was chief cantor at the Leopoldstädter
Tempel in Vienna, Austria from <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1857 until his
death” in 1899.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847:
Birthdate of Nanette Adeline Kilian, the wife of German born Max Tutuer and
mother of Walter and Josephine Tuteur both of whom were born in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1836: During
the Texas Revolution, an untold number of Jews died when Antonio López de Santa
Anna ordered the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POW's who had fought
under James Fannin at Goliad, Texas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1839 (12th of
Nisan, 5569): On March 27, 32 Jews living in Meshed, Persia were massacred, and
the remaining 100 families were forced to convert to Islam.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1839(12<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan): The Jews were forced to convert in Meshed, Iran. Influenced by other
anti-Jewish riots under the Kajar Dynasty in Iran, the local community attacked
the Jewish quarter. The Synagogue was destroyed, over 30 Jews killed, and the
rest of the community threatened with annihilation. Moslem leaders offered to
prevent further riots on condition that the Jews convert, which they did. The
Jews became known as Jadid al-Islam or New Moslems thus ending the presence of
the Jewish community. They continued to practice their Judaism in secret and
fled the city with their families whenever an opportunity for escape presented
itself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1840(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar II, 5600): Abraham J De Lyon, the Savannah, GA born son of Abraham and
Sarah Sheftall D’Lyon and the brother of Isaac, Rina Levi Joseph and Mordecail
Sheftall De Lyon passed away in Savannah after which he was buried at the Levi
Sheftall Cemetery in Savanah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1842(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5602): Second Day of Pesach celebrated on the birthdate of Alexandre
Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, the author of <i>Mission des Juifs</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which was favorable to Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/MISSION-JEWS-ANTIQUITY-JUDEO-CHRISTIAN-LEGACY/dp/0983710279"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.amazon.com/MISSION-JEWS-ANTIQUITY-JUDEO-CHRISTIAN-LEGACY/dp/0983710279</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847:
Birthdate of German born chemist Otto Wallach. In 1910, he won the Nobel Prize
for Chemistry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848: In
Meseritz, Prussia, Neuman and Johanna Arnfeld Tuholske gave birth to Herman
Tuholske, the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Missouri Medical College
trained physician, surgeon and medical school professor who co-founded he St.
Louis Post-Graduate School of Medicine in 1882 and established the St. Louis
Surgical and Gynecological Hospital in 1890 and had three children with his
wife Sophie Epstein Tuholske.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://beckerarchives.wustl.edu/FC059"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://beckerarchives.wustl.edu/FC059</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1849(27<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5609): Jonas Alexandre Aron, the Lorraine born son of Alexandre
Sender Nathan Aron and Antoinette Judelen (Judlen, Yitele, Judle) Aron, the husband
of Sara Zerlé Simon Aron and<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">father of
Nathan Aron; Judith Ytel Aron; Joseph Cerf Aron; Simon Aron; Esther Cahn -
Lazard; David Aron; Lazare Jonas Aron; Arnold Aron; Alexandre Aron; Sophie
Weill; Isaac Aron; Rosalie Loeb and Hélène Elise Salomon passed away today In
Phalsbourg, France.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1850(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5610): Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1850: In
Rotterdam, Dunkirk, France native Sara Wolf and Hampshire born Benjamin Pinheas
Moses gave birth to Henry Moses Spier who died before he had reached the second
month of his life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1850(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5610): Fifty three year old banker and astronomer Wilhelm Wolff Beer
for whom the crater Beers on Mars is named and who is the brother of Giacomo
Meybeer<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860:
Birthdate of Eugene C. Kahn, one of the first, if not the first, Jewish child
to be born in Morgan City, a port city on the Atchafalaya. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5621): Second Day of Pesach; First Day of the Omer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1861: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The New York Times </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reports a drop in the
sale of livestock this week due to Lent and the observance of Passover.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861: Charles
August Lauff, the German native and California businessman, and his wife, Maris
J. Sebran, the daughter of Gregorio and Ramono Briones, gave birth to Charles
A. Lauff.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862: Captain
Nathan Davis Menken, a merchant from Cincinnati who was serving with Company A,
1<sup>st</sup> Ohio Cavalry in the Union Army served with distinction today at
the Battle of Kernstown in Virginia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863: In
response to the “recommendation by the President of the Confederacy” that this
be a Day of Prayer, Rabbi M. J. Michelbacher, of the German synagogue Bayth
Ahabah in Richmond, Virginia, preached a sermon, "to which he added a
prayer for the Confederate States of America "to crown our independence
with lasting honor and prosperity," and for its president, Jefferson
Davis, "grant speedy success to his endeavors to free our country from the
presence of its foes." [On a personal note, it never ceases to amaze me
that Jews could support slavery. How does one go to a Seder after reciting such
a prayer?]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868: Lazar
Schorstein, the Vienna born son of Yithak Schorstein, and his wife Clara
Schorstein gave brith to Bertha Victoria Shostein (who may have changed her
last name to Shorstone who lived in the United Kingdom with her siblings,
Gustave Isidore Schrstein and Therese Alice Schorstein, the wife of Claude
Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1869: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The New York Times </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reported that “At
sundown last evening the Jewish Feast of Passover commenced. It was instituted
in commemoration of the deliverance of God's chosen people from Egypt, in
bondage, and the passing over by the destroying angel of those families the
doors of whose dwellings were marked with the blood of the Paschal Lamb.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869(15th of
Nisan, 5629): First Day of Pesach; in the evening count the Omer for the first
time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869(15th of
Nisan, 5629): In New York Temple Emanuel and the Nineteenth-street synagogue
were among the Jewish houses of worship holding services on the first day of
Passover.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875:
Birthdate of NYC native and CCNY and Pratt trained architect Charles B. Meyers
whose creations included 44 Union Square which was opened on July 4, 1929.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Charles_B._Meyers"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Charles_B._Meyers</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876: The
Young Men’s Hebrew Association moved from its temporary quarters to the Harvard
Rooms at Forty-Second Street and Sixth Avenue in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876: In
Austria, Sarah Risefeld and Max Blatteis gave birth to Bellevue Medical College
trained medical doctor Simon R. Blatteis the husband of Minnie Levin and
consultant pathologist and attending physician at the Jewish Hospital of
Brooklyn who was the consulting physician at the Brooklyn Hebrew Home and
Hospital for the Aged and a member of the Union Temple in Brooklyn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: In New
York City, “Sigmund and Pauline Ullman gave birth award winning impressionist
painter Eugene Paul Ullman whose son Paul was shot and killed by the Gestapo
while secretly working for the Allies in WW II and for which Eugene “accepted
France’s Corix de Guerre on Paul’s behalf.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://library.newschool.edu/archives/findingaids/KA0042.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://library.newschool.edu/archives/findingaids/KA0042.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=QbGaXMbtN5KvjwSB04a4Aw&q=Eugene+Paul+Ullman&btnK=Google+Search&oq=Eugene+Paul+Ullman&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i22i30l2.2384.7798..10440...0.0..0.143.1307.15j3......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0i131j0j0i10j0i22i10i30.GbJY-u-CKik"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=QbGaXMbtN5KvjwSB04a4Aw&q=Eugene+Paul+Ullman&btnK=Google+Search&oq=Eugene+Paul+Ullman&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i22i30l2.2384.7798..10440...0.0..0.143.1307.15j3......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0i131j0j0i10j0i22i10i30.GbJY-u-CKik</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: In New
York City, Justice Murray dismissed charges filed against Henry Sollinger for
having obtained money under false pretense from Mrs. Jane Ferguson. Sollinger
was born Jewish but claimed to have converted to Christianity at which time he
began using the alias Frederick E. Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878: In
Cleveland Ohio, Falk Vidaver, the son of Nathan Vidaver and his wife Anna gave
birth to Ruth Vidaver who became Ruth Dodge when she married Dr. Henry
Washington Dodge, Sr.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879: It was
reported today that the Hebrew Free School Association has received $10,
840.60. The money was raised by the Purim Association at its dress ball that
had been held on March 6th.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880(15th of
Nisan, 5640): First Day of Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880: It was
reported today that Baron James de Rothschild is President of the newly formed
society established in Paris to promote Jewish studies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: In
Albany, NY, Joseph and Matilda Anker gave birth to Edward R. Anker, the
long-time newspaper editor and husband of Frances Freund Anker<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/12/08/113173280.pd"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/12/08/113173280.pd</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882: In New
York, Benjamin Arnheim, the son of Walter and Sophia Arnheim and his wife
Henrietta Arnheim gave birth to Walter B. Arnheim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1883: In
Teplitz, Rabbi </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Adolf Aharon Rosenzweig and his wife gave birth to Rabbi
Arthur Rosenzweig who passed away in Prague in 1935.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1883: In Paris, France, Benjamin and Miriam Manilla gave
birth to Western Reserve University educated Cleveland, OH Jewish activist and
Democratic Party Member Sarah M. Lewis the wife of Max J. Lewis and member of
Tiftereth Israel Congregation whose many activities including serving as a
regional director of Hadassah for Ohio, serving on the executive board<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of the Council of Jewish and serving as
Democratic Party ward leader.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884(1st of
Nisan, 5644): Rosh Chodesh Nisan observed on the same day “the first
long-distance telephone line between New York and Boston was activated, using
copper for the very first time,”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: “The
first organized effort on the part of” Jews in Brooklyn “to tender a public
tribute to the late Henry Ward Beecher too place” today” at the Kane Street
Temple where…a large number of prominent Israelites met ‘in order to co-operate
with other creeds and societies in raising a fund for a statue and free library
to perpetuate the memory of the great friend of humanity and champion of
religious liberty --- Henry Ward Beecher.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888(15<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5648): Pesach observed for what was thought to be at the time, the
last time the Presidency of Grover Cleveland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889: In
Rheinhessen, Germany, Abraham Beckhardt and his wife gave birth WW I ace Fritz
Beckhardt who scored 17 kills while flying for the “Fatherland” which later
attempted to erase his record when the Nazis came to power.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890(6<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5650): Emanuel Berhnheimer a native of Germany who came to the United
States in 1844 and formed a partnership with August Schmid that led to
formation of Lion Brewery, passed away today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891:
Birthdate of Russian native and Columbia trained “neurologist and psychiatrist”
Dr. Irving J. Sands, the author and leading medical educator who was the
husband New York City Board of Education member Cecile Ruth Humbert Sands and
the father of Drs. William L and Richard H Sands.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: The
Citation for First Sergeant Jacob Trautman Medal of Honor was issued today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5652): Sixty-eight-year-old German native and winemaker Samuel
Lachman, the founder of Samuel Lachman & Sons, the husband of Henriette
Lachman and father of Albert Lachman; Rebecca W. Metzger and Henry Lachman was
laid to rest today in Colma, CA, three days after he had passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jmaw.org/lachman-jewish-wine-california/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jmaw.org/lachman-jewish-wine-california/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: The
Biennial Convention of the Jewish Theological Seminary Association was held at
the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: The
Bowery Amphitheater “reopened as a Hebrew theatre under the management of
Sigmund Magulesko, Isidore Lindeman and Joseph Levy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893:
Birthdate of sociologist Karl Mannheim, author of "Ideology and
Utopia." Born in Hungary, he passed away in London in 1947.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893(10th of
Nisan, 5653): Solomon Beyfus, the son of Hamburg born language professor Gotz
Philip Beyfus and Plymouth born Cippy Beyfus and the husband of Charlotte
Abrahams, “the daughter of Esther and Henry Abrahams, a jeweler of Bevis Marks
in the City of London” with whom he had ten children passed away today “leaving
£81,326” and tribe of children who became successful in the law and theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: “Jews
and Intermarriage” published today contains a refutation by Rabbi Mendes of the
Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of previously published sermons that Jewish
law does not prohibit intermarriage between a Jew and his earnest request that
further discussion of this topic be limited to the Jewish press.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: Birthday
of Israel B. Padway, the native of Leeds, England who came to the United States
in 1906 where he graduated from Marquette Law School and began practicing law
as well as serving as President of the Board of Jewish Education.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
Professor Felix Adler delivered a lecture tonight at the Hebrew Institute on
“The Influences of Organized Labor.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: The
Excelsior Club which meets every Sunday and whose members include William
Weinbeck, Ben Harvey, Frank Eggelton, Harry Hartman, Edgar Rosenthal and Jack
Lipschutz was founded today in Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: “In
Algeria the sixth paper devoted to anti-Semitism, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">L'Anti-Juif Algérien</i>, appeared, with an illustrated supplement.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898:
“Austro-Hungarian Polity” published today described the some of the cause of
that have led to unrest in certain agrarian districts including “a marked
contempt and dislike for commerce and trade” among Hungarians, “so that the
industry of this country is to a large extent, in the hands of the Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5659) Second Day of Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: New York
Mayor Van Wyck met with six boys from the Hebrew Institute at Jefferson and
East Broadway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899:
Birthdate of Polish born physician Hyman Edward Canter, who moved to Pittsburg
in 1913 where he practiced obstetrics. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: Herzl
had a meeting with Prime Minister Ernest von Koerber about sanctioning the
Viennese electoral reform. He requests that the “Neue Freie Presse” should not
oppose the reform too massively.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901:
Anti-Jewish riots began in Smyrna, Turkey. The riots were triggered by the
reports of the disappearance of a child who was said to have been slaughtered
by the Jews for 'ritual murder.' Though the riots continued for four days, the
child was eventually found and paraded through the streets to show he was
indeed alive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901(7<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5661): Seventy-seven-year-old “German manufacturer and
philanthropist” Heinrich Blumenthal was “for a quarter of a century Blumenthal
was a member of the city council, and for more than two decades the president
of the Jewish community of Darmstadt” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902:
Birthdate of screenwriter Sidney Robert Buchman, the native of Duluth,
Minnesota and Columbia University graduate who served as President of the
Screen Writers Guild of America who ended up on the infamous Hollywood
Blacklist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://zenithcity.com/thisday/august-23-1975-death-of-duluth-screenwriter-sidney-buchman/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://zenithcity.com/thisday/august-23-1975-death-of-duluth-screenwriter-sidney-buchman/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: It was
reported today that President Theodore Roosevelt had sent a letter of regret
expressing his disappointment at not being able to attend the dedication of the
Lucas A. Steinam School of Metal Working which is new addition to the Hebrew
Technical Institute in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: The
Zionist Commission met Herzl in Cairo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904(11<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5664): Colonel Albert Edward Goldsmid the distinguished British
officer who founded the Jewish Lads’ Brigade and the Maccabaeans passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: The Pall
Mall Gazette published “The Truth About the East End” by Meyer Jack (MJ) Landa
the native of Leeds who worked as journalist in London where he also wrote
plays including “The Shylock Myth.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905:
Birthdate of Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff a German military officer
who played a role in two unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Hitler, and who,
thanks to the bravery of his tortured comrades remained undiscovered and thus
survived the war.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: At the
insistence of the Chief Rabbi of Bulgaria, the Minister of the Interior of
Bulgaria issues a circular to his governors to take every form of precaution
against anti-Semitism over Easter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: Oscar S.
Straus and former state Supreme Court Justice William N. Cohen, who spoke on
“The Function of the Synagogue in America” were among those who addressed the
first meeting of the Temple Beth-El Club which was held at the sanctuary on 5<sup>th</sup>
Avenue and 76<sup>th</sup> Street.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906(1st of
Nisan): First publication of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Der
Yiddisher Kemfer</i>, a publication American Labor Zionism<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: It was
reported today that the Rumanian Central Relief Committee in New York is
sending $5,000 to Rumania for the relief of the Jews, including the four
hundred destitute families who had escaped from the attacks in Bucowina as well
Jews living at Gabatz and Jassy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: It was
reported today that Oscar Hammerstein is planning on breaking ground next week
in Philadelphia for an Opera House that should be ready to open on November 15<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908:
According to a letter today by Joel Benton what was described as “The Easter
Lily” “was really a large and glorified anemone, which grows in great profusion
in Palestine” and which has “very rich velvet-colored petals.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: In
Munich, author Thomas Mann and his Jewish wife Katia gave birth to their third
child, Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann who gained fame as historian Golo Mann.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/09/obituaries/golo-mann-85-historian-dies-was-2d-son-of-thomas-mann.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/09/obituaries/golo-mann-85-historian-dies-was-2d-son-of-thomas-mann.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5670): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1910(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5670): Twenty-two days after celebrating his 66<sup>th</sup>
birthday, Hungarian born “rabbi and historian” Markus Horovitz, the holder of
doctorate from Tubingen who moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1878 where “</span><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">he organized two model religious schools,” where he “was
given authority over the entire community's religious institution, and he<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>promoted coexistence between the Orthodox and
Reform factions maintaining that it was possible for a unified community to
exist while both sides exercised autonomy over their own institutions while
raising “German Orientalist Josef Horovitz passed away today after which he was
buried at the Old Jewish Cemetery.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: “The
Executive Committee of the Jewish community, which represents 690
organizations” in New York City “has appointed a Conciliation Committee to act
as a sort of arbitration body to adjust amicably differences arising in Jews
congregations, societies lodges of New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: Hundreds
of organizations, as well as “wealthy men and well-to-do businessmen sent
checks” and “liberal contributions” as well as “notes of sympathy” to offices
of the Mayor and Jacob H. Schiff, the Treasurer of the National Red Cross
Relief Committee to help the victims and the families of those who died or were
injured in what we now call the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: In
Lisbon, the Colonial Committee is considering a scheme to encourage Jews “of
all nationalities” to settle in Angola.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: A Jew,
for the first time, receives an appointment as an officer in the Ottoman
Turkish Army upon graduation from the Imperial Military Academy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: This
evening Dr. Dave de Sola Pola Pool of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue is
scheduled to deliver a lecture on the “The Jews Of England” at Clinton Hall
sponsored by Young Israel<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
Birthdate of SS Captain Theodore Dannecker, one of Eichman’s underlings who was
a “ruthless” participate in the Final Solution.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: Today
Hunter College graduate and lyric soprano Hulda Lashanska the New York City
born daughter of Babette Born and Henry Lashanska became Hulda Lashanska
Rosenbaum when she married Harold A. Rosenbaum after which made her debut
concert at Detroit in 1916 and give her first New York recital in 1917. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: In New
York City B.P. Schulberg and Adeline (née Jaffe) Schulberg, who founded a
talent agency taken over by her brother, agent/film producer Sam Jaffe gave
birth to Seymour Wilson Schulberg who gained fame as Budd Schulberg, the
novelist and screenwriter whose credits include “What Makes Sammy Run” and “On
the Waterfront.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/movies/06schulberg.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/movies/06schulberg.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915(12<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan 5676): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: Starting
today, Dr. Nathan Blaustein will accept applications at his office from 3 to 6
pm for those who wish to adopt the three-month-old daughter of Sadie Mager who
died while giving birth to the child. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: Rabbi
Joseph Silverman delivered a sermon at Temple Emanu-El this morning “choosing
as his text ‘And Abraham bowed down to the people of the land’” in preparation
of the celebration of the centenary of the birth of Dr. Isaac Meyer Wise, the
found of Hebrew Union College and the driving force behind the Reform Movement
in America.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: As the
celebration of Passover approaches, the American Jewish Relief Committee for
the Suffers from the European War sent out a special appeal to American Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: In
Philadelphia, at the Hotel Walton, the conference that is making plans for the
convening of the first American Jewish Congress, which is being attended by
more than 400 delegates from the United States entered its second day<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
Approximately 15,000 people attended the third day of the bazaar sponsored by
the People’s Relief Committee for the Relief of the Jewish War Suffers at the
Grand Central Palace which was capped off by Russian Night and resulted in an
additional $20,000 being added to the fund which now totaled $75,000.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: Three
hundred people including New York Governor Whitman attended a dinner tonight at
the Savoy Hotel “where nearly $75,000 was collected for a home for aged, blind
and crippled Jews” which is to be erected by the Daughters of Jacob in the
Bronx.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917(4th of
Nisan, 5677): Seventy-two-year-old Civil War veteran and sculpture Moses Jacob
Ezekiel passed away in Rome, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/ezekiel.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/ezekiel.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/mezekiel.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/mezekiel.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Now that
all “absolute equality” has been granted to the Jews in Russia, it was reported
that “there will be no further restrictions upon the issue of passports to
Russian or American Jews who desire to visit Russia than those common to other
persons.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917:
According to telegrams received in Copenhagen today Maxim Vinaver and Oscar
Gruzenberg have been appointed to the Russian Senate and Supreme Court making
them the first Jews “who ever obtained a seat in a Russian tribunal.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: The Army
and Navy Bulletin of the Young Men’s Hebrew and Kindred Associations stated
that during the upcoming Passover festival “Jewish soldiers will be able to
participate in Seder and synagogue services” and that plans are being made for
all those serving on “every one of the big vessels” in the Navy including the
battleships Missouri and New York to have the same opportunity. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: “Leo
Motzkin of Kiev, one of the leading Zionist publicists and the head of the
international press bureau which had much to do with the acquittal of Mendel
Bellis of the charge of ritual murder” said in New York today “that he was
confident that the Russian revolution would mean the ultimate liberation of the
Jews and unprecedented progress for the Zionist movement.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: The
editors and publishers reported today to have attended the recent meeting at
the home of Samuel Untermeyer where it was decided to form the Jewish League of
American Patriots which would “enlist the moral and physical support of every
loyal American Jew in the event of war” included Israel Friedlkin publisher and
Peter Wiernick, editor the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jewish Morning
Journal</i>; Morris Weinberg publisher and William Edlin, editor of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Day</i>; Herman Paley, publisher and
Isidore Conikman, editor of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>Warheit</u></i>;
Leon Kamaliki publisher and Odalia Bublick, editor of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jewish Daily News</i> and Judge Aaron J. Levy also of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Warheit</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Henry
Adams passed away. To many he was part of the last generation of the
distinguished Adams family. For Jews he was that and a little more or should I
say a little less. In 1894, Henry Adams organized the Immigration Restriction
League to limit the admission to America of "unhealthy elements" --
Jews being first among these. In his famous book, <u>The Education of Henry
Adams</u>, he wrote about those he was trying to keep out of America: "Not
a Polish Jew fresh from Warsaw or Cracow - not a furtive Jacob or Isaac still
reeking of the Ghetto, snarling a weird Yiddish to the officers of the
customs..." He found many supporters for his cause, but he did not win.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918(14th of
Nisan, 5678): Ta’anit Bechorot; erev Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Based on
information supplied by the Jewish Welfare Board, “Jewish families in the
vicinity of army and navy cantonments” are scheduled to act as hosts for Jewish
soldiers and sailors” who will have leaves so they may observe Passover.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: “Jewish
Soldiers in the British army held a Seder at” Beit Yehudayoff, known as the
‘palace’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Rabbi
Barnet Siegel and John L. Bernstein presided over the Seder sponsored by the
Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Society which was attended by 1,000 people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: For what
may have been the first time in history a Seder was conducted at Yokohama,
Japan for Jewish immigrants most of whom were women and children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Having
secured the territory around Jerusalem, the British moved across the Jordan and
began what was the opening of the First Battle of Aman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: It was
announced today the Continental Headquarters in Paris that “the approximately
60,000 Jewish soldiers in the American Expeditionary Force will receive an
average of five to six pounds of Matzos from the Jewish Welfare Board so they
can observe Passover. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920(8<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5680): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: During
his fact finding visit to Palestine, Winston Churchill went to the British
Military Cemetery on the Mount of Olives to attend a service of dedication
honoring the sacrifice of Allied soldiers who had fought against the Turks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: In San
Francisco, Joseph and Lillian Kurzman gave birth to military historian Daniel
Halperin Kurzman whose works included include Ben-Gurion: Prophet of Fire. (As
reported by Daniel Slontnik)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: The
daily noon service at Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to begin at 12:30.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923:
Birthdate of British impresario Victor Hochhauser who, along with his wife,
promoted numerous events including those for the Israeli Philharmonic
Orchestra.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: Lord
Grey, who “had been the foreign secretary during the McMahon-Hussein
negotiations”, addressed the House of Lords today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During his speech, “he made it clear that he
entertained serious doubts as to the validity of the British government's
interpretation of the pledges which he, as foreign secretary, had caused to be
given to Hussein in 1915.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923(10<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5683): Sixty-seven-year-old Felix Daus, “the inventor of the Daus
duplicator and hectograph” who had founded the Felix F. Daus Duplicator Company
in 1880, died suddenly this afternoon while visiting his lawyer Herman Brasch
and was buried later at the Mt. Zion Cemetery in Queens.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1923/03/28/105105033.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1923/03/28/105105033.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://mycompanies.fandom.com/wiki/Felix_F._Daus_Duplicator_Company"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://mycompanies.fandom.com/wiki/Felix_F._Daus_Duplicator_Company</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: Sidney
and Helen Livingston Weinberg gave birth to Sidney J. Weinberg, Jr. who would
become a senior director at Goldman-Sachs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923:
Birthdate of Prof. Nahum M. Sarna, z"l the father of Jonathan Sarna and a
noted scholar in his own right<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www2.bc.edu/~langerr/NMSarna/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www2.bc.edu/~langerr/NMSarna/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924(27<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5684): Ninety-one-year-old Abraham Berliner, the son of Franziska
and Baruch Benjamin Berliner, the husband of Henriette Berliner and father of
Flora, Selma, Max and Paul Berliner, who should not be confused with the
German-Jewish historian of the same name, passed away today in Berlin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: In Tel
Aviv Lord Balfour delivered a speech today in which he said “that the rebuilt
Jewish community of Palestine will make new, important contributions toward the
culture and civilization of the world.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: “For
Jewish Students in the City” published today described plans by the Women’s
Branch of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations to provide home
hospitality for during Passover for Jewish students attending colleges in New
York which “is not charity or philanthropy” but is an expression of a “deeper
love” that come when opens their doors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: Banker
and philanthropist Nathan Jonas was the guest of honor at a banquet tonight at
the Hotel Biltmore where 1,000 guests gathered to “mark the completion of his
three decades of service on behalf of Brooklyn Jewish Charities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: In New
York City, Kassel Lewis and Sylvia Surut gave birth to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i> correspondent Anthony Lewis, the author of <u>Gideon’s
Triumph<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: “Out of
the Mist” a silent film produced by Karl Fruend was released in Germany
Deutsche Fox, the German subsidiary of the William Fox’s film company<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: “Mr.
Antin Write a Stark Book on State Politics published today provides a review of
The Gentlemen From The Twenty-Second: An Autobiography by Benjamin Antin which
is described as “an autobiography you could waltz to.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9A04E4D81538E13ABC4F51DFB566838C639EDE"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9A04E4D81538E13ABC4F51DFB566838C639EDE</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: It was
reported today that Cellist Gdal Saleski, the author of <u>Famous Musicians of
Jewish Origins</u> has performed a concert at Steinway Hall that included
Joseph “Achron’s ‘Fragment Mystique’ which “is based on a Hebrew theme.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928(6th of
Nisan): Rabbi Meir Dan Plotzki, son of Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Ber Plotzker of
Kutno, the President of Kollel Polen and a prolific author whose works included
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chemdas Yisrael</i> on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sefer ha-Mitzvot </i>passed away today. When
Rabbi Meir Dan Plotzki visited America, he “pronounced Manischewtiz matzah to
be thoroughly reliable – ‘there is none more faithful to be found’ – citing
“constant supervision of one of the sages of Jerusalem,” Rabbi Mendel M. Hochstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=kOQwPXh2xZIC&pg=PA282&lpg=PA282&dq=Rabbi+Meir+Dan+Plotzki&source=bl&ots=iHW35wJsTf&sig=OxNCzfyOTDL510RUUarrnYdn3Tc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YV4zU8XsLo3YyAHOkoDgDw&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Rabbi%20Meir%20Dan%20Plotzki&f=false"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://books.google.com/books?id=kOQwPXh2xZIC&pg=PA282&lpg=PA282&dq=Rabbi+Meir+Dan+Plotzki&source=bl&ots=iHW35wJsTf&sig=OxNCzfyOTDL510RUUarrnYdn3Tc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YV4zU8XsLo3YyAHOkoDgDw&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Rabbi%20Meir%20Dan%20Plotzki&f=false</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5689): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: This
afternoon The New York Chapter of Hadassah celebrated the Feast of Purim and
the seventeenth anniversary of the founding of Hadassah at the Central
Synagogue Community in Manhattan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930:
Birthdate of actor David Janssen. Born David Meyer, Jansen gained fame playing
the lead in the long running TV drama, “The Fugitive.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930:
Flyweight Moe Mizler fought his 39<sup>th</sup> bout at Whitechapel, London, UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: “The
meeting of the Administrative Committee of the Jewish Agency ended this morning
after a short session with Felix M. Warburg, chairman, and Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
president of the Agency, expressing their satisfaction with the work that had
been accomplished. There was a general feeling among the participants that the
meeting had been fruitful of practical results for Palestine, and there was
particular gratification that the complete budget of three and a half million
dollars was confirmed.” (As reported by JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>English novelist Arnold Bennett, the
confidant and advisor of Anglo-Jewish pianist and advocate for refugees from
Nazi Germany Harriet Cohen whom she described as my “dear friend and mentor of
my youth” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: “A
demand for greater unity among Zionist fund-raising bodies was expressed by the
New York Zionist Region today in a resolution unanimously adopted at the fourth
annual convention of the organization at the Hotel Pennsylvania.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: Charlie
Chaplin received France's distinguished Legion of Honor.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: It was
reported today that Chief Judge Cuthbert W. Pound of the New York Court of
Appeals will preside at the regional finals of the National Oratorical Contest,
replacing Benjamin Cardozo, the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court who was
his predecessor as the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: A
gigantic anti-Nazi protest rally, organized by the American Jewish Congress,
was held in New York City. 55,000 people attended and threatened to boycott
German goods if the Germans carried out their planned permanent boycott of
Jewish-owned stores and businesses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: Rabbi
M.S. Margolis, the President of the of the Orthodox Jewish Congregations
delivered a speech “at a mass demonstration in Madison Square to protest again
the Nazi persecution of German Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa8388"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa8388</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: In
“Germany: Scared To Death,” Time reported that “To say that most German
statesmen and politicians outside the Government's charmed circle were scared
to death last week, would be understatement. Panic made cowards of the bravest
of brave German Socialists and Communists. Even Catholics trembled—except Dr.
Hans Luther. It was accurately said that in less than two weeks Chancellor
Hitler has reduced his opponents to a lower level of groveling fear than did
Premier Mussolini in the two years after the March on Rome, Oct. 30, 1922.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: In
Brooklyn, NY, Mr. and Mrs. Simon Adler gave birth to Dr. Joel B. Adler, the
graduate of Yale and the University of Downstate Medical State Center and
husband of Flora Adler with whom he had two children, Douglas and Allison.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar II, 5695): Sixty-one-year-old Croatian architect Rudolf Lubiniski who
designed the Croatian State Archives, passed away today in Zagreb.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Lubinski#/media/File:Sove_HDA_2_1009.jpg"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Lubinski#/media/File:Sove_HDA_2_1009.jpg</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: From
Windsor, Ontario, novelist and critic Dr. Ludwig Lewisohn named “the ten
greatest living Jews” who are Professor Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, French
philosopher Henri Bergson, Martin Buber, Chaim Wiesmann, gynecologist Dr.
Bernard Zondek, author Scholom Asch, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Justice Louis D.
Brandeis and composer Arnold Schoenberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: It was
reported today that Eddie Cantor warned, that based on “information he had
received recently, ‘a pogrom will follow the Olympic Games in Germany’” and
that “he and members of his family had been threatened” which led to his belief
that it is “necessary for Jews to have some form of unity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936(4<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5696): Albert A. Brager, the Alexandria born son Joseph Brager, the
founder of Brager’s Department Store who married Blanche Krause after the death
of his first wife Blema Friedenwald was the father of A. Stanley Merla, Bessie
and Joseph Brager passed away today in Baltimore.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937(15th of
Nisan, 5697): First Day of Pesach, Shabbat Shel Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: In New
York, at Shaarey Tefilah “two fires occurred simultaneously in the basement of
the synagogue and caused minor damage. Later that same morning, at 10 o'clock,
700 persons assembled to celebrate the second Seder of the Passover. A few
hours after the congregation had gone, a third fire was reported at 3:15
o'clock. This fire damaged the Ark of the Covenant and destroyed 18
hand-illuminated Torah kept in the Tabernacle. The $25,000 pipe organ was badly
damaged and the entire south end of the synagogue was wrecked by flames, smoke
and the axes of the firemen. After investigations by the Fire Marshall, it was
discovered that the incendiary fires had been set by the synagogue's caretaker.
The synagogue was reconstructed and remodeled to designs of S. Brian Baylinson,
and a four-story synagogue house was added.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: The
Joint Distribution Committee announced today that France, Belgium, England
Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland had ratified the Geneva agreement granting
German citizens (including Jewish refugees from the Nazis) who were in foreign
countries prior to July 4, 1936 refugee certificates “good for one year” which
meant they had “the right of residence.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: It was
reported to that “Mrs. Justine Waterman Wise Tulin, a justice of the Domestic
Relations Court of this city and the widow of Professor Leon Arthur Tulin, was
married to Isadore Polier, New York attorney, at noon yesterday at the home of
her parents, the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Wise of 340 West Fifty-seventh
Street.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938 After
meeting him while performing with the Phil Harris orchestra, Leah Ray married
MCA executive and future Jets owner Sonny Werblin with whom she had three sons
during their fifty year marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938(24<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5698): Sixty-six-year-old William Louis Stern, the Berlin born son
of Joseph Stern and “husband of Clara Joseph” who fled the Nazis and continued
his work in the field of psychology at Duke University passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060319004052/http:/www.bh.org.il/Names/POW/Stern.asp"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://web.archive.org/web/20060319004052/http://www.bh.org.il/Names/POW/Stern.asp</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: Miss
Henrietta Szold, 77-year-old founder of Hadassah, the Woman's Zionist
Organization of America sent a cable from Jerusalem to Hadassah headquarters in
New York describing her efforts to arrange for the transfer of Jewish children
from Austria to Palestine. “The change is described as vital and as being the
only hope for the youngsters to ever lead normal lives.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Dr. Max
Danzis, the chief of medical staff, appealed to Newark Beth Israel’s board at
their meeting today “to exerts all possible influence on behalf of “refugee
physicians fleeing Nazi Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5700): Seventy-four-year-old Philadelphia native Harry Clay Adler,
the husband of Tennessee native Ada Ochs and father of Maj. Gen. Julius Ochs
Adler who was the general manager of the Chattanooga Times, the first block in
the publishing empire of the New York Times passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: Himmler
ordered the building of Auschwitz concentration Camp in southern Poland<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941(28<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5701): Forty-five-year-old Russian born David Alper who married Minnie
“Manya” Isiomin after he had been married to Frieda Alper passed away today
after which he was buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, Queens, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: A
Yugoslav government that was sympathetic to the Nazis “was toppled by an
anti-German military coup” which led to a Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia and
Greece in April.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This would prove to be
disastrous for the Jews of the Balkans since it would bring them into the grasp
of the Final Solution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ironically, the
long-term effect of this would lead to the ultimate defeat of the Germans in WW
II.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The invasion of the Balkans delayed
the German invasion of Russia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
delay meant the German army would be mired in the Russian Winter, which was a
major factor in handing the Nazi war machine its first defeats on the eastern
front.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: On day
after the start of the deportation of Slovokian Jews, Slovakia’s Chief Rabbi
Micahel Weissmand and the Slovokian Zionist leader Gisi Fleischann sent a
message of SS Captain Dieter Wisliceny offering him a bribe stop the shipment
of the Jews to the death camps.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: Goebbels
described in his diary, Belzec and the cremation of the Jews, "The
procedure is pretty barbaric, one not to be described here most definitely. Not
much will remain of the Jews. . . fully deserved by them."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: “Blue
Ribbon Town” featuring Jewish comedian Groucho Marx was heard for the first
time on CBS Radio<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: The CKC
resistance movement including Jewish cellist Frieda Belinfante “organized and
executed the bombing of the population registry in Amsterdam today, which
destroyed thousands of files and hindered Nazi attempts to compare forged
documents with documents in the registry.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Several
of the leaders of the Yishuv including executives of the Jewish Agency and
General Council of Palestine Jews, Tel Aviv Mayor Israel Rokach and the
municipal councilors of Tel Aviv and Mayor Joseph Saphir of Petak Tikvah met in
Jerusalem this morning to deal with the latest outbreak violence by “the small
terrorist group whose sabotage activities have led to a new and grave
situation.” Among those calling for action to end the violence were chief
Rabbis Isaac Herzog and Bension Uziel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: In A
Children’s Aktion, the Nazis collected all of the Jewish children of Lovno.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944(3rd of
Nisan, 5704): Forty Jewish policemen were shot by the Gestapo in the Riga
Ghetto.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944(3rd of
Nisan, 5704): Two thousand Jews were murdered in Kaunas Lithuania<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: One
thousand Jews left the Drancy Concentration Camp in France for Auschwitz
Concentration Camp<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944(3rd of
Nisan, 5704): Resistance fighter Abraham Geleman, born in Lodz was killed in
Belgium.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Nazi
troops started their occupation of Kolozsvár, Hungary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: As the
Red Army approached Riga, Kovno and Vilna, Germany picked up the pace with
actions against the surviving inhabitants of the ghettos. Children everywhere
were being seized and driven off to their death. "The Children's
Action" in Kovno resulted in the death of thousands of children under the
age of 17. Most of them were shot. In order to spare their children from such
horrors, some parents poisoned them. In Lodz, a mother killed her severely
handicapped boy with a lead pipe across the head instead of allowing him to
meet his fate with the Germans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: Task
Force Baum, the unit under the command of Captain Abraham Baum that had been
sent behind enemy lines to liberate camp OFLAG XIII-B, near Hammelburg whose
POW’s included the son-in-law of General Patton broke through the bridgehead at
Aschaffenburg and “arrived in sight of the camp” by the afternoon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945(13th of
Nisan, 5705): Jacob S. Kahn, the president of the Refrigeration Maintenance
Company passed away today at the age of 62. Kahn had been a builder during the
1920’s, who erected the Hyde Park Hotel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945(13<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5705): Seventeen-year-old Lily Freedman, the daughter of Ray and
Simon Freeman, was “killed by enemy action” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945(13th of
Nisan, 5705): Sixty-five-year-old Moshe Avigdor Amiel, the Chief Rabbi of Tel
Aviv passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~szwetch/Stamps.of.Israel/6.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www-personal.umich.edu/~szwetch/Stamps.of.Israel/6.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: USCGC
Northland (WPG-49), a cruising class of gunboat especially designed for Arctic
operations that served in World War II was decommissioned today by the U.S.
Coast Guard which would lead to its eventual acquisition by a Jewish group who
would renamed it Jewish State and use it to transport refugees to Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: Today
“the steamer Tel Hai, carrying 736 passengers, was intercepted by the destroyer
HMS Chequers 140 miles out at sea as it approached Palestine.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: In
Cleveland, Dr. and Mrs. Gittelson celebrated their 40<sup>th</sup> wedding
anniversary today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: A.H.
Weaghorn, a British police sergeant who is an expert on Jewish political
affairs was attacked by three men outside of Tel Aviv’s central police station.
Two of the men opened fire and one threw a bomb. The sergeant, who was wounded,
returned fire along with several of his comrades.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: “Current
high costs of plywood to consumers are a source of embarrassment rather than
profit to plywood manufacturers, Lawrence Ottinger, president of United States
Plywood Corporation, declared today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948:
Twenty-two-year-old Algerian Avraham Abarzel, the son of Albert and Diamantine
Abarzel, who had survived the Nazi occupation of France arrived in Israel today
and “immediately joined the IDF” which later transferred him “to the French
Commando Company of the Palmach Hanegev’s 9<sup>th</sup> battalion.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949(26th of
Adar): Russian born Hebrew poetess Elisheva Bikhowsky passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: The
Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace, co-sponsored by Herbert
Aptheker came to a close today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950(9th of
Nisan, 5710): Sixty-four-year-old Harvard graduate and founder of Wertheim and
Co., Maurice Wertheim, the son of Jacob and Hanna Wertheim and the husband of
Cecile J. Seiberling passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/courses/2016/HUM11c/exhibits/show/cultural-space/maurice-wertheim--investment-b"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/courses/2016/HUM11c/exhibits/show/cultural-space/maurice-wertheim--investment-b</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: After
having been "rebuffed" by Levi Eshkol, the Treasurer of the Jewish
Agency, Shlomo Hillel, "one of the Israeli organizers of the Iraqi Jewish
emigration" "went to see Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion who
was totally supportive of the mass emigration from Iraq.’Tell them to come
quickly,' Ben-Gurion said to Hillel...'What if the Iraqis change their minds
and rescind the law? go and bring them quickly.'" Hillel would return to
Iraq and try to expedite matters but the Jewish Agency "held the purse
strings" and insisted on slowing down the immigration movement to what it
considered were more manageable numbers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: Dr.
Serge Koussevitzky, the 75-year-old conduct emeritus conductor of the Boston
Symphony is scheduled to leave for Europe today after having conducted 16
concerts in Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950:
Anglo-Israeli financial negotiations on problems dating from the days of the
mandate are scheduled to come to a successful conclusion today with the planned
signing of an agreement in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1950: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The New York Times </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">publishes a picture of
Charlotte Johnson, The American Red Cross representative in Israel, watching as
Jewish children who have arrived in Tel Aviv from Europe receive clothes made
from textiles donated by the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: An
adaptation of “The Man Who Came to Dinner” a comedy written by George S.
Kaufman and Moss Hart was broadcast on the Lux Radio Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951:
“Odette,” a biopic about British agent who was not executed at Ravesnbruck
filmed by cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum was released today in the United
States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952(1st of
Nisan, 5712: Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1952: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jerusalem Post </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reported that the
Jewish Agency decided to send 100 disgruntled immigrants from India, who had
been squatting outside the agency's offices in Tel Aviv, back to where they
came from, announcing that this should not serve as a future precedent insofar
as other immigrants were concerned.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1952: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jerusalem Post </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reported that The
Ministry of Health had announced that every Israeli between the ages of four
and 60 would be inoculated against typhoid.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1952: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jerusalem Post </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reported that at The
Hague the German delegation to the Reparations Conference expressed surprise at
the extent of the Jewish request of the sum of $500 million, to be paid within
five years. They expected a smaller sum, but agreed to recognize all claims as
"urgent" and had "shown willingness" to meet them. Jewish
delegates pointed out that they didn’t want to wait until all the Nazi victims
were dead but intended to help the living.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1952: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jerusalem Post </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reported that the
Israeli delegation in London held extensive talks on possible oil deliveries
and economic cooperation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952: New York
premiere of “Singin’ in the Rain,” a musical comedy directed by Stanley Doenen
written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955:
Birthdate of Susan Neiman, the Atlanta, GA, high school dropout and Ph.D.
recipient from Harvard whose memoir <u>Slow Fire</u> described “her life as a
Jewish woman in Berlin” during the 1980’s.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.susan-neiman.de/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.susan-neiman.de/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956:
“Patterns” a film noire co-produced by Jed Harris (Jacob Hirsch Horowitz) was
released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957: Funeral
services were held this afternoon for eighty-year-old English born Cleveland
realtor David J. Cohen, the husband of Katie Fisher Cohen with whom he had
three daughters --Eleanor, Dean and Miriam – after which he was interred at the
Mayfield Cemetery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958: A less
than laudatory review Edna Ferber’s <u>Ice Palace </u>published today described
“her story as too repetitious and disorderly to win a prize in the world of
literature” but then mockingly said it might provide immeasurable help in the
campaign “to win statehood for Alaska.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958: “Carl
Foreman said today that he wrote the screenplay for “The Bridge Over the River
Kwai” the day after Pierre Boulle was given an Oscar for writing the script.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958: “Run
Silent, Run Deep,” a WW II submarine thriller with music by Franz Waxman and
featuring Don Rickles in a non-comedic role was released today in the United
States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959:
Twenty-seven-year-old "Elizabeth Taylor took the Hebrew name Elisheba
Rachel and converted to Judaism."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960: ABC
broadcast “Fair Game,” an episode of “The Rebel” directed by Irvin Kershner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961(10th of
Nisan, 5721): Eighty-seven-year-old Moshe Novomeysky the Siberian native and
engineer who developed the Palestine Potash Company passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/this-day-in-jewish-history/.premium-1.711008"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/this-day-in-jewish-history/.premium-1.711008</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar II 5722): Ostrow, Poland native Israel I. Blumenfeld, a survivor of the
Warsaw Ghetto who in 1952 arrived in the United where he served as the
executive director of the western region of Histadrut passed away today in Los
Angeles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5724): Erev Pesach; first seder celebrated for the first time during
the Presidency of Lydon Johnson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar II, 5725): Parashat Shmini; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar II, 5725): Sixty-year-old New Jersey born, Columbia Ph.D. “Israel E.
Drabkin, chairman of the department of classical languages and Hebrew City
College who married Miriam Frideman after his first wife Norma Lowenstein died
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/03/28/97189720.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/03/28/97189720.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=c1maXPe-IsX8jwTjkpDoAQ&q=Israel+Edward+Drabkin&btnK=Google+Search&oq=Israel+Edward+Drabkin&gs_l=psy-ab.3...6331.13506..14045...0.0..1.315.2227.21j2j0j1......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0i131j0j0i22i30j33i22i29i30j33i160.Jfv9Ic0QgmE"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=c1maXPe-IsX8jwTjkpDoAQ&q=Israel+Edward+Drabkin&btnK=Google+Search&oq=Israel+Edward+Drabkin&gs_l=psy-ab.3...6331.13506..14045...0.0..1.315.2227.21j2j0j1......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0i131j0j0i22i30j33i22i29i30j33i160.Jfv9Ic0QgmE</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966: <span style="color: black;">László Jenő Ocskay of Ocskó and Felsődubován a Hungarian
army officer, captain of the Royal Hungarian Army who saved approximately 2500
Jews in Budapest in 1944–45, thus being one of those Hungarians who saved the
most Jews during the Holocaust” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h13kskds9?utm_source=Taboola_internal&utm_medium=organic"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h13kskds9?utm_source=Taboola_internal&utm_medium=organic</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5727): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968(27<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5728): Eighty-four-year-old Baltimore native University of Virginia
trained attorney “Louis J. Shapiro, founder and president of the Los Angeles
Processing Equipment Company and the father of children’s book author Charlotte
Zolotow whose husband Maurice Zolotow is also an author passed away today at
the Midway Hospital in Los Angeles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/03/28/77082207.html?pageNumber=47"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/03/28/77082207.html?pageNumber=47</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5730): Seventy-nine-year-old thrice married medium and author Viola
Brothers Shore the eldest child of Abram and Minnie Epstein and one of the many
called as witness by HUAC passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Shore-Viola-Brothers"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Shore-Viola-Brothers</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974: “Mame” a
cinematic version of Jerome Lawrence Broadway musical directed by Gene Sakes
with music by Jerry Herman and co-starring Bea Arthur was released today in the
United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974:
“Concrack,” a marvelous adaption of The Water is Wide directed by Martin Ritt
and with a screenplay co-authored by Irving Ravetch was released today in the
United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(15<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5735): Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977: In
Allentown, PA, Donald and Melina Kohn gave birth to Sally Rebecca Kohn founder
and chief education officer of the Movement Vision Lab, a contributor to Fox
News and “a distinguished Vaid Fellow at the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force Policy Institute.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1977: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jerusalem Post </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reported that the
week-long port workers’ go-slow strike continued, and ships were loaded at half
the normal rate. Angry citrus farmers called on the government to allow them to
load their fruit by themselves. The Bank Leumi strike ended and its 300 branches
opened for business. The hospital doctors’ strike was called off at the last
moment. But radio and TV broadcasts were halted for seven hours as the result
of a strike by the Broadcasting Authority administrative staff.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Jerusalem Post</i> reported that in New
York US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance promised Jewish leaders that during his
forthcoming visit to Moscow he would discuss the problems of Soviet Jewry at
the Kremlin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979(28<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5739): Jamaica, NY native and Columbia and Princeton University
trained physicist Melville Saul Green, the husband of Vivian Grossman passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2995682"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2995682</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979(28th of
Adar, 5739): One person was killed and 14 were injured during a terrorist
bombing in downtown Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980: The
Louisville Free Public Library which had been co-designed by William G. Tachau
who designed buildings for Congregation Mike Israel, Graz College and Dropsie
College was placed on the National Register of Historic Places today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981: “Thief,”
a crime film directed by Michael Mann who also produced and wrote the script,
produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and starring James Caan was released in the
United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982: ABC
broadcast the last episode of “Bosom Buddies” costarring Wendie Jo Sperber and
featuring Billy Joel’s “My Life” as its opening theme.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983: “The
neo-Nazi National Democratic Party will not be able to use “a city-owned public
hall” for its party congress which is scheduled to open today in Frankfurt
thanks to a change announced by the mayor of the German city that came about
because of protests that came from several groups include the Social Democratic
Party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984:
“Terrible Joe Moran” a made-for-television film co-starring Ellen Barkin and
featuring New York political leader Edward I. Koch as “Moe” was released today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986:
Birthdate of Vania Heymann, the native of Jerusalem who creates novel video
including commercials for PepsiMax. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5750) Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5750): Ninety-two-year-old Morris Holman the captain of the 1918 CCNY
basketball team and the brother of Nat Holman who coached CCNY in 1920 passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990: “Rent
Collection” a “genre piece” by David Monies was sold by Sotheby’s London today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: Isaiah
Berlin met with author Lewis M. Dabney, a professor of English at the
University of Wyoming in London at the Athenaeum Club. Dabney was editing
Edmund Wilson's last journal, ''The Sixties,'' and had begun a biography.
Dabney wanted Berlin to fill out the account of Wilson he had begun in a short
memoir published a few years earlier. In the course of their conversation,
Berlin told Dabney two “funny stories” about Wilson’s visit to Israel. Wilson
“went to Jordan and when he came back he had to pass through the Mandelbaum
Gate. The Israeli passport officer looked at his passport, noticed it was
Edmund Wilson, then said: ''I think your dating of the Dead Sea Scrolls is not
quite right. I think it should have been 50 years before.'' And Edmund answered,
and the chief officer said: ''Stamp Mr. Wilson's passport. You can't discuss
the scrolls here, not on the Government's time.'' He talked to me about that
afterward, saying, 'Only in Israel would I find a passport officer who wished
to question the date of the scrolls.'’ That amused him. It pleased him. Then he
went to see the man he most admired in Israel, who was a scholar called Flusser
(David Flusser) in Jerusalem, who talked to him about the Bible and the
scrolls. Edmund asked him what he thought of Israel. Flusser said: 'Israel est
un tres petit pays. Et je ne suis pas patriote.’ He was delighted with that.
Anybody who said he wasn't a patriot went straight to his heart.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994(15th of
Nisan, 5754): First Day of Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1996: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The New York Times </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">featured a review of <u>Hitler’s
Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust </u>by Daniel Jonah
Goldhagen<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996: Final
broadcast of “Dream On,” the HBO sitcom created by Marta Kaufmann and David
Crane.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998: After
meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai in the U.S. today U.S.
Defense Secretary William Cohen indicated that Washington has agreed to expand
the joint Arrow anti-missile project and provide $45 million in funding for a
third battery of missiles for Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1998: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Times of London </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">included a review of
John Murray’s biography of Edmund de Rothschild entitled "A Gilt-Edged
Life."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999(10<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5759): Parashat Tav; Shabbat HaGadol observed for the last time in
the 20<sup>th</sup> century<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak urges Israel to return the annexed Golan Heights to
Syria.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: U.S.
premiere of “The Audrey Hepburn Story?” in which “Emmy Rossum appears during
early scenes of the film playing Hepburn in her early teens.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: Jack
Lang began serving as Education Minister of France for a second time today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: Islamic
Jihad took credit for a bombing in the Talipot industrial zone in which 7
people were injured.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: Hamas
took credit for the bombing an Egged bus at French Hill in which 28 were
injured in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002 (14th of
Nisan, 5762): A suicide bomber killed 29 Israelis during a Passover Seder in
Netanya, Israel. The stark statement speaks for itself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/1389228/Hotel-blast-survivors-relive-the-Passover-massacre.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/1389228/Hotel-blast-survivors-relive-the-Passover-massacre.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002 (14th of
Nisan, 5762): Milton Berle passed away. Born Mendel Berlinger on July 12, 1908,
Berle's career began at the age of five when he modeled as Buster Brown. He
starred in a variety of entertainment mediums. But he gained his greatest fame
as Uncle Miltie, star of the Texaco Milton Berle Show. The show began airing in
1948. It was the first national television hit and became a must see every
Tuesday night. Berle was also one of the first to learn that television was a
devouring medium that used you up and spit you out. Although his career would
last for another half century, he would never know the success he gained with
his Tuesday night television triumph. Berle died at the age of 93, smoking
cigars and stealing other people's material almost to his last day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/28/arts/milton-berle-tv-s-first-star-as-uncle-miltie-dies-at-93.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/28/arts/milton-berle-tv-s-first-star-as-uncle-miltie-dies-at-93.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002(14th of
Nisan, 5762): Director Billy Wilder passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/29/us/billy-wilder-master-of-caustic-films-dies-at-95.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/29/us/billy-wilder-master-of-caustic-films-dies-at-95.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/mar/30/guardianobituaries"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/mar/30/guardianobituaries</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: In
Memoirs of a Queen, Middle East Perspective” published today Jane Maslin
provides a review of Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen
Noor, who considers “1948, the year the State of Israel was founded, as the
''year of the catastrophe,'' and who “assails Zionism, the building of Israeli
settlements and the perceived power of American Jews in influencing these
matters” while having come to “the realization that many studio executives were
Jewish, ''deeply loyal to Israel and Israeli politics, right or wrong.''<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004:
Eighty-one-year-old Dr. Sabina Zimering sat in the audience at the Great
American History Theatre in Saint Paul, MN and watched the remarkable story of
her own survival in Nazi Europe unfold on stage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/27/2004/sabina-zimering"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/27/2004/sabina-zimering</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2005: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The New York Times </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of topics of special interest to Jewish readers
including "Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the
Ages" by Jaroslav Pelikan and the recently released paperback edition of "Someone
to Run With" by Israeli novelist David Grossman; translated by Vered Almog
and Maya Gurantz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006(27th of
Adar, 5766): Eighty-one-year-old Rudolf Vrba, who as a young man escaped from
Auschwitz and provided the first eyewitness evidence not only of the magnitude
of the tragedy unfolding at the death camp but also of the exact mechanics of
Nazi mass extermination passed away at a hospital in Vancouver, British
Columbia today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/07/world/europe/07vrba.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/07/world/europe/07vrba.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: Ehud
“Banai sang a duet with David D'Or on D'Or's CD, Kmo HaRuach ("Like the
Wind"), which was released” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: The New
Yorker published “Allice Off the Page” an essay in which Calvin Trillin
“discusses his late wife.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007(8th of
Nisan, 5767): Ninety-nine-year-old Berlin native Axel Gerhardt Rosin, the
long-time president of the Book-of the-Month club, note philanthropist and
husband Katherine Scherman passed away today. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/obituaries/28rosin.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/obituaries/28rosin.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: “The
Lemon Tree,” an Israeli film directed, produced and written by Eran Riklis was
released today in Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Sammy
Ofer donated £20 million to London's National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, as
part of a £35 million program of expansion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: The 92nd
Street Y presents a lecture by Professor Robert Seltzer a professor of history
at Hunter College and Director of the Hunter Interdisciplinary Program in
Jewish Studies who answers the questions “Why was the State of Israel needed?
What were the reasons behind its establishment by the Jewish Diaspora?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2008:</span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Haaretz </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reported that two of
its writers Shmuel Rosner and Or Kashti were recently named winners of the
B'nai B'rith World Center Award for Journalism for 2007 on the basis of their
work for the paper.."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: As
President Georgi Parvanov of Bulgaria’s visit to Israel came to an end,
Bulgaria accepted responsibility for the genocide of more than 11,000 Jews in
its jurisdiction during World War II. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: In
Baltimore, Maryland B’nai Israel Synagogue presented a Friday night event
featuring Philip J. Tulkoff, President, Tulkoff Food Products who delivered a
talk entitled “Memories of Horseradish Lane and the Growth of Tulkoff Foods” in
which he reminisced about “the good old days.” Thanks to the efforts of Lena
and Harry Tulkoff that began in the 1920’s Tulkoff Horseradish Products Company
became one of the nation's largest manufacturers of prepared horseradish
products.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009(2 Nisan,
5769): Eighty-six-year-old Irving R. Levine whose ever-present bow tie was his
unique visual signature while he covered business and the economy for NBC News
passed away. Unlike the blowhards and blow dried talking heads who read this
news beat today, Levine understood the subject matter and conveyed it a low
keyed professional manner. (As reported by Bruce Weber)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/business/28levine.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/business/28levine.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Shabbat
HaGadol<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Sidney
Ferris Rosenberg, the radio personality who is the cousin of former Minnesota
Senator Norm Coleman “returned to WFAN hosting a show in Port St. Lucie before
the New York Mets faced the Washington Nationals.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: the
Jewish Ensemble Theatre is scheduled to present Wendy Kesselman’s newly adapted
version of The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich &amp; Albert Hackett
at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, MI<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Opening
of the “Legacy of the Shoah Film Festival” at John Jay College in New York
City. The opening night features Forgotten Transports: Women’s Stories –
Estonia, Children of the Night by Marion Wiesel and a discussion with the
award-winning director Lukas Pribyl.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011 Dr. Jane
Katz “was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in Commack, New
York for her pioneering athletic contributions to the field of aquatics.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The New York Times </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest including “Great Soul
Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India” by Joseph Lelyveld and the recently
released paperback edition of” Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good
Enough” by Lori Gottlieb <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: YU
Center for Israel Studies, Yeshiva University Museum, YU Bernard Revel Graduate
School of Jewish Studies presented Talmuda de-Eretz Israel: Archaeology and the
Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: “Norman
Gorbaty: To Honor My People,” exhibition at the Walsh Art Gallery is scheduled
to come to a close at Fairfield University, Fairfield, Conn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: “The
Chosen” is scheduled to be performed at the Arena Stage in Washington, DC under
the sponsorship of Theatre J.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: The
Harry Houdini Exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York is scheduled to come
to an end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: The
second annual Limmud Conference is scheduled to take place in Chicago,
Illinois.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: The
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to sponsor A
Walking Tour of Old Jewish Alexandria.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Jews and
Baseball: An American Love Story and God &amp; Co.are two of the films
scheduled to be shown at the Hartford Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: “The
Infidel” and “The Human Resources Manager” are scheduled to be shown at the
Westchester Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: “The
Whipping Man,” featuring a Seder on the first night of Pesach as its dramatic
hook, is scheduled to have its last performance at the City Center State in New
York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Six
gunmen in Sinai targeted the pipeline that carries natural gas from Egypt to
Israel and Jordan today, overpowering a guard and planting an explosive device
before fleeing, The Associated Press reported.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Bank
Leumi and Hashava – The Company for Location and Restitution of Holocaust
Victims’ Assets ended months of arbitration by signing an agreement in which
the bank will pay the company NIS 130.8 million, the two sides announced today.
The money will go to heirs of Holocaust victims and toward projects that help
Israeli Holocaust survivors – more than a quarter of whom live under the
poverty line, according to government estimates.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(21st of
Adar II, 5771): Ninety-five-year-old Bernard B. Roth; founder of South
Gate-based World Oil Corporation passed away today. (As reported by Shan Li)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/31/local/la-me-bernard-roth-20110331"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/31/local/la-me-bernard-roth-20110331</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The 16th
Annual Hartford Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end with a
reception and a tango party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The Andy
Statman Trio is scheduled to perform klezmer music at the Charles Street
Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(4<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5772): Eighty-two-year-old Baltimore born poet Adrienne Rich, whose
father was a Jewish doctor passed away today (As reported by Margalit Fox)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/books/adrienne-rich-feminist-poet-and-author-dies-at-82.html?_r=2&hp"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/books/adrienne-rich-feminist-poet-and-author-dies-at-82.html?_r=2&hp</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Peter Guber
became a minority owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers through his affiliation with
Guggenheim Baseball Management LLC<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan): Second Day of Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5773): Ninety-five-year-old screenwriter Fay Kanin, the partner and
wife of Michael Kanin, both of whom were blacklisted, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/arts/fay-kanin-95-writer-for-movies-and-tv.html?_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/arts/fay-kanin-95-writer-for-movies-and-tv.html?_r=0</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/mar/31/fay-kanin"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/mar/31/fay-kanin</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: “Jews of
Egypt” a “controversial documentary on Egypt’s expulsion of its long-resident
Jewish population opened” to at three movie theatres in Cairo and Alexandria
“despite an initial effort by the Egyptian government to block its release.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The 23<sup>rd</sup>
annual Haifa International Children’s Theatre Festival is scheduled to open at
the Haifa Municipal Festival Theatre Complex.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Bulgaria
will provide more evidence that Hezbollah planned the airport bus bombing that
killed five Israelis in Burgas last year, and to use that proof to pressure the
European Union to formally label the Iran-backed Islamist group a terrorist
organization, Reuters reported today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Some of
Israel’s most sensitive computer information is stored on servers in a building
above ground in the south of the country, acutely vulnerable to attack or
natural disaster, a TV investigative report said today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Aftermath” is scheduled to be shown at the Northern Virginia Jewish Film
Festival. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
In Boston, attendees of the Keshet Cabaret are scheduled to have the
opportunity to bid on a personal voicemail from Sarah Silverman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“For the first time since 1993, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is scheduled
to perform at Jones Hall in Houston.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Malmö police arrest two teenagers, out of a gang of five, who attempted to
break into the local Jewish community center. When they were stopped by
security at the gate, they voiced anti-Semitic slurs, according to the police.
They were also seen filming and taking pictures of the building before their
arrest.” (As reported by Yair Rosenberg)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College and the music director and
principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra for whom he is scheduled
to conduct Max Bruch’s ‘Moses’ at Carnegie Hall<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism in partnership with the
Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London
and The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide is scheduled
to host “No Stab in the Back!” Race, Labour and the National Socialist Regime
under the Bombs, 1940-45”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“The Israel Anti-Fraud Unit said today that it is investigating former Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert, who is suspected of obstructing justice and witness
tampering.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The IDF Northern Command announced today that it was changing its orders
regarding opening fire in areas along the Golan border fence. Anyone from the
Syrian side who comes near the fence should expect to be shot, the IDF said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Pears Institute for the study of Anti-Semitism in partnership with the
Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London
and The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide is scheduled
to host the opening session of “Labour and Race in Modern German History.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
In commemoration of “the 70<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the beginning of the
nationwide mass deportations in Hungary, the Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to host a screen of “Free Fall” a documentary that “explores the
unique circumstances of the Holocaust in southern Hungary.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“The Outrageous Sophie Tucker” is scheduled to be shown at the Northern
Virginia Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“Cupcakes” a film “set in contemporary Tel Aviv” is scheduled to open at the
Quad Cinema in NYC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Lewis Black is scheduled to appear in Westhampton Beach, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“The European Union kept Hamas on its terrorism blacklist today despite a
controversial court decision ordering Brussels to remove the Palestinian
Islamist group from the register.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015(7<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5775): Ninety-two-year-old George Spitz who made the New York
Marathon what it is today passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/nyregion/george-spitz-civic-gadfly-helped-transform-marathon-dies-at-92.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/nyregion/george-spitz-civic-gadfly-helped-transform-marathon-dies-at-92.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host “New World Haggadah: A
Passover Story for a Diverse America” featuring Ilan Stavans “one of today’s
foremost interpreters of Jewish and Ladino cultures.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“A Tale of Love and Darkness” a cinematic adaptation of Amos Oz’s
autobiographical novel is scheduled to be shown at the 20<sup>th</sup> annual
Israeli Film Festival in Philadelphia, PA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
Tal Nitzán, “an Israeli award winning poet, writer, editor and a major
translator of Hispanic literature” and “author of six poetry books, one novel
and four children's book, and editor of three poetry anthologies, among them
the ground-breaking anthology <u>With an Iron pen": Hebrew Protest Poetry</u>”
is scheduled to appear at a bilingual poetry reading at the Cornelia Street
Café.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including <u>The Best Place on Earth: Stories</u> by Ayelet Tsabari, <u>Rightful
Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America</u> by Douglas Brinkley
and <u>Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape </u>by Peggy
Orenstein. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
JTS is scheduled to host “Wondering Jews: Abigail Pogrebin and Joseph Telushkin
in Conversation.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
“Almost a decade after losing billions of his clients’ money in Bernie Madoff’s
Ponzi scheme, hedge fund financier Charles Murphy leaped to his death today
from the twentieth floor of Midtown Manhattan’s luxury Sofitel Hotel, in what
is being described as a suicide” proving that the evil of this ultimate con man
never seems to end. (As reported by Daniel J. Solomon)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The Seattle Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Shalom
Italia” a film about “Italians brothers who reunite in the Tuscan mountains
searching for the cave that save their lives.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
In New York, “Re’ut Ben-Ze’ev, mezzo soprano, and the Beatrice Diener
Ensemble-in-Residence at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University are
scheduled to perform the work of Jewish composers with music by Martin
Boykan, Edward Jacobs and the world premiere of Concertino No. 1 for
Guitar and Chamber Ensemble by YU faculty composer David Glaser.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to present for talk by
“Efrat Yerday on the contemporary parallel struggles of Ethiopian Jews in
Israel/Palestine and Black Lives Matter in the US and on the struggles of black
people against racism from a transnational perspective” entitled “Between Yosef
Slamsa and Martin Luther King” The Ethiopian Jewish Struggle in Comparative
Perspective.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Columbia Professor Todd Gitlin is scheduled to present “A 50-Year Perspective
on the American Left” as part of the History Matters lecture series at the
Center for Jewish History. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“Bye Bye Germany” and “1945” are scheduled to be shown at the Jacob Burns Film
Center as part of the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the leader was
taken to hospital on Tuesday for tests following an illness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The Streicker Center is scheduled host a presentation by Rabbi Jerome K.
Davidson and Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson on “All In The Family” which examines the
relationship between Abraham and Isaac.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
From Israel to Iowa friends and family of Giora Neta celebrate the birthday of
this staunch Zionist and a person of uncompromising beliefs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://crgazette.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1550467&CategoryID=52778"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://crgazette.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1550467&CategoryID=52778</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The Yeshiva University Museum is scheduled to present curator Jacob<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wisse as he leads “a tour of ‘Lost and
Found,’” which explores “the remarkable story of a pre-war family photo album
that was owned by a woman who was deported from the Kovno Ghetto in 1943.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to “a book launch of <u>Avrom
Goldfaden and the Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theatre”</u> featuring a talk by
author Alyssa Quint.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://yivo.org/Avrom-Goldfaden"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://yivo.org/Avrom-Goldfaden</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
Robert Kraft and his attorney are scheduled to make a court appearance today in
connections with charges with two charges of solicitation that allegedly took
place in a Florida massage parlor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
Following yesterday’s assault of incendiary balloons, Israelis are preparing to
face another day of what is now a two-pronged threat of violence from Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
In Boston, Havurah on the Hill is scheduled to host a Virtual Shabbat Dinner
starting with “a community Shabbat candle-lighting.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to offer a virtual presentation by Rabbi Amy
Ehrlich on “Forging Ahead – Bruria as a Model of Resilience.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
Rabbi Heath Watenmaker of Beth Am in Los Altos are scheduled to offer stories,
a bedtime Shema and Shabbat blessings for kids on Zoom or by phone<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
This afternoon, the Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture is scheduled
to host a “Virtual Challah Bake.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
Ninety-three-year-old U.C.L.A. graduate Harriet Glickman the Sioux City, IA
born daughter of Russian Jewish grocery store owners Harry and Tone (Merlin)
Ratner and wife of Richard Glickman who in 1968 persuaded Charles M. Schulz,
the creator of “Peanuts,” to add an African-American character to his roster of
Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the gang, passed away today. (As reported
by Daniel Slotnik)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://schulzmuseum.org/remembering-harriet-glickman/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://schulzmuseum.org/remembering-harriet-glickman/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/arts/harriet-glickman-dead-peanuts.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/arts/harriet-glickman-dead-peanuts.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
Rabbi Zac Kamenetz of the JCCSF is scheduled to lead a virtual Shabbat service
on Facebook that includes his guitar and reflections on these times.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 4781): Shabbat Hagadol<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to presents a socially distanced outdoor seder
for adults and older children at the Freidenrich Community Park Palo Alto, CA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5781): This evening, the Maccabeats will finish your seder.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">:
</span><a href="https://www.kveller.com/the-maccabeats-new-passover-medley-will-help-you-finish-your-seder/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.kveller.com/the-maccabeats-new-passover-medley-will-help-you-finish-your-seder/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
JewBelong’s Virtual Passover seder “Burning Man-ischewitz” is scheduled to take
place this evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Congregation Shir Hadash is scheduled to present a virtual, intergenerational
seder led by Rabbi Ted Riter, Cantor Devorah Felder-Levy and Rabbi PJ Schwartz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
For the first time in history, the Jews of Bahrain are scheduled to celebrate
Passover with the Jewish communities of the Gulf i.e., Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,
Saudi Arabia and the U.A.R.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
Starting today, “Israel will host a historic summit this weekend with the top
diplomats from the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and
Bahrain, a sign of how quickly the realignment of Middle Eastern powers is
accelerating as Israelis and some Arab governments find common cause not only
over Iran but in navigating the new global realities created by the Ukraine
war.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
The Jewish Heritage Alliance is scheduled present “The Golden Age of Sefarad
and The Abraham Accord” which is a <span style="color: #4c4c4c;">global online
event that celebrates and connects today's growing rapprochement between Israel
and Arab countries with the medieval Golden Age of Spain, highlighting the
timeless benefits of peaceful tolerance and coexistence between Jews, Muslims,
and Christians</span> <span style="color: #4c4c4c;">global online event which
celebrates and connects today's growing rapprochement between Israel and Arab
countries with the medieval Golden Age of Spain, highlighting the timeless
benefits of peaceful tolerance and coexistence between Jews, Muslims, and
Christians.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story remake is up for seven
statues at the Oscars tonight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: Temple Judea celebrated the installation of Feivel Strauss
as its Assistant Rabbi.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: Rabbi Yakov Raskin is scheduled a virtual tour of the
Middle East, Far East and Caribbean as part of the Chabad Zooming around the
World.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: The JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come
to an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: A “week of paralysis” is scheduled to continue today in
with “targeted demonstrations against ministers and MKs…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: A special meeting of the members of Congregation B’nai
Israel is scheduled to be held this evening to discuss the decision of the
Central Conference of America Rabbis Ethics Committee concerning a former
spiritual leader of the congregation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman, one of the co-authors of
<u>The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope </u>is
scheduled to speak today at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, IA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host a
discussion about James Gray's critically acclaimed film, Armageddon Time with
film critic Stephanie Zacharek <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: The Center For Jewish History is scheduled to an
interactive book discussion of <u>The Thread Collectors</u>, co-written by
internationally bestselling author Alyson Richman and debut author Shaunna J.
Edwards, who have come together to collaborate on a rich historical novel set
during the Civil War.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023(5th
of Nisan, 5783): <span style="color: #1f497d;">On the Jewish calendar Yahrzeit
for f</span>ifty-four-year-old Amy Barnum, the wife of Joel Barnum with whom
she raised three daughters – Emma, Sasha and Gail – and daughter Jack and Bette
Kozlen of Omaha who was a pillar, in the truest sense of that term, of the
Jewish community in Cedar Rapids and a driving force behind the Traditional
Services at Temple Judah <span style="color: #1f497d;">whose untimely passing can</span>
only be described as a tragic loss for all of us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.cedarmemorial.com/Obituary/2017/Apr/Amy-M-Barnum/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.cedarmemorial.com/Obituary/2017/Apr/Amy-M-Barnum/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The JTA Jewish Film Club is scheduled to host its last session with a screening
of “Minyan.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a webinar by Jeremy Rosen on “Making Sense of
the Bible: Can its Ancient Text be Relevant Today? Numbers 14:17, Back into the
Desert.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: HULU is
scheduled to scree the first episode of “We Were the Lucky Ones,” ‘a limited
series inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at
the start of WWII.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: YIVO is
scheduled to lecture by Barbara E. Mann on “Yiddish and Hebrew Little Magazine
in the Weimar Republic.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The
Wiener Holocaust Library is scheduled to a “Hybrid Exhibition Talk: Sinjar
Destroyed: Photographs and stories of the aftermath of ISIS genocide in
northern Iraq.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The
Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to a virtual seminar on “Our Remarkable
Lower East Side Women” centering on portraits, created by artist Adrienne
Ottenberg, which “are printed on silk or cotton include a tableau of street
maps depicting the Lower East Side places where these women worked and lived.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The
American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled a book talk with Daniel
Schulman author of <u>The Money Kings.</u><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: <span style="color: black;">Jewish Book Council and Touro University are scheduled
to host an interactive panel discussion on Jewish literature with some
of the 73rd National Jewish Book Award winners.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
27th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 173 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p><br /><p></p>melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-90394281516026428612024-03-25T11:14:00.001-06:002024-03-25T16:00:41.851-06:00This Day, March 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><em><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;">March 26</span></b></em><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
1027: Coronation of Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor, whose court was the site
of religious disputation between Bishop Wazon “the overlord of” Liege and an
unnamed Jewish physician. (As reported by the Jewish Virtual Library)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1147: Jews of
Cologne, Germany, fasted to commemorate anti-Jewish violence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1369: King
Pedro of Castile who employed Abraham ibn Zaral as his physician was beheaded
by his rival and brother, Henry of Trastamara marking the end of their civil
war for control of the kingdom. . Henry “was as hostile to the Jews as Pedro
had been friendly. His long-cherished hatred of his brother burst forth when a
Jew named Jacob, an intimate of the king, praised the latter excessively to
Henry. In his fury he stabbed the Jew with a dagger. Pedro would have revenged
himself on Henry forthwith, but his courtiers restrained him by force. Henry
saved himself by a hasty flight. This was the immediate cause of the civil war
which brought untold suffering upon the Jews of the country. . He was as
hostile to the Jews as Pedro had been friendly. His long-cherished hatred of
his brother burst forth when a Jew named Jacob, an intimate of the king,
praised the latter excessively to Henry. In his fury he stabbed the Jew with a
dagger. Pedro would have revenged himself on Henry forthwith, but his courtiers
restrained him by force. Henry saved himself by a hasty flight. This was the
immediate cause of the civil war which brought untold suffering upon the Jews
of the country. During their struggle for control, Henry continuously depicted
Peter as "King of the Jews," and had some success in taking advantage
of popular Castilian resentment towards the Jews. During his reign, “Henry of
Trastamara instigated pogroms beginning a period of anti-Jewish riots and
forced conversion] in Castile that lasted approximately from 1370 to 1390.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1481:
“Seventeen Marranos perished at the stake on the Quemadero (place of burning)
in Seville, Spain followed by enough other similar killings that by the end of
November, “300 had perished at the stake” while another 79 were spared but
sentenced to life imprisonment. (As reported by Abraham Bloch)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1488: The
orders for expulsion from Milan “came after a heated trial beginning today in
which Vicenzo, a Jew who had converted to Christianity accused 38 Jews of
interesting anti-Christian statements in several Jewish texts, including the
Talmud and the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1656: Sir
Christopher Packe, who had disappointed Cromwell by joining the militant
exclusionist faction opposing the admission of Jews to England who had been
Lord Mayor of London began serving as “Protector” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1671(15th of
Nisan 5431): In Amsterdam, the Great Synagogue was consecrated on the first day
of Pesach (Passover).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1692(9th of
Nissan, 5452): The Jewish community of Carpentras, France escaped from a
rioting mob causing this date to be celebrated as a Private Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1758(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5518): Purim Meshulash<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1766(16<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5526): Second Day of Pesach <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1774(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5534): Parashat Tzav; erev Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1774: In
Germany, Getta Sender and Moses Mack gave birth to Alexander Mack, the husband
of Sara Aub whom he married in 1802 and the father of Wolfgang Mack.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1775(24th of
Adar II, 5535): David Lopez passed away in Newport, RI.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1780:
Birthdate of Isaac Elias Itzig, who as Julius Eduard Hitzig served Prussia as a
civil servant before gaining fame as a German author.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1796: Carel
Asser was among those who signed a petition to the States General seeking the
emancipation of the Dutch Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1801(12th of
Nissan, 5561): Fast of the First Born observed since the 14th falls on Shabbat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1804(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5564): Fast of the First Born and erev Peasach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1806: Today,
in Savannah, GA, Sarah de Leon, the daughter Abraham de Lyon married Samuel
Russel<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1807: West
Indies native Leach Rachel De Leon and Abraham Quixano Henriques gave birth to
Leah Henriques.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1808:
Sephardic Jewish leader and MP Ralph Bernal and his wife Ann Elizabeth gave
birth to Ralph Bernal Osborne.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1816(26<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5576): Sixty-year-old Moses Gould, the Plymouth bon son of Hanna an
Joseph Gould Jr. an the husband of Anne Adams passed away today in Lisbon, ME.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1816:
Philadelphia native Benjamin Jonas Phillips and Abigail Seixas gave birth to
Israel Benjamin Phillips, the husband of Harriet Jackson whom he married in New
York in 1837 and the father of New York City native Benjamin Phillips.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1817: In
London, Dinah Judah Botibl and Moses Acris gave birth to Joseph Moses Acris.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1825(17<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5585): Parashat Vayikra read for the first time during the Presidency
of John Quincy Adams who had taken the oath of office 22 days ago,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1831: Rabbi
David de Aaron de Sola preached the first sermon in English at Bevis Marks
Synagogue in London. Born in Amsterdam in 1796, de Sola was the son of Aaron de
Sola. He began serving at Bevis Marks in 1818. A prolific author he published
his first work, The Blessings, in 1829 followed by his six-volume translation
The Forms of Prayer According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
in 1836. De Sola was also a musician whose accomplishments included musical
rendition of Adon Olam which is still used in both Sephardi and Ashkenazi
synagogues in the United Kingdom. He passed away in 1860.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1832:
Birthdate of Michel Jules Alfred Bréal, the native of Bavria who became a
leading French philologist and “is identified as the father of modern
semantics. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0004_0_03483.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0004_0_03483.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1839: In
Bavaria, Babette Treu and Isaac Jacob Bamberger gave birth to Clara Bamberger,
the wife of Leo Friedlander whom she married at Baltimore in 1863 and with whom
she had four children – Sylvan, Julian, Irvin and Ray Friedlander.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1840:
Birthdate of George Smith, the Englishman who provided some of the first and
most meaningful investigation into the civilization of ancient Mesopotamia,
with an emphasis on Assyria. His work provided historic context for, and proof
of, the ancient Israelites including his discovery in 1866 of the date when
Jehu, king of Israel, made a tribute payment to Assyrian King Shalmaneser III.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1842(15<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5602): Shabbat Shel Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1845:
Birthdate of Anna Madeline Graff Kahn the native of Germany and wife Solomon
Kahn with whom she had four children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848:
Magdalena Madel Dukas, the Sulzburg, Germany born daughter of Leopold and Lea
Kahn and her husband Leopold Dukas gave birth to Lea Lena Kahn, the wife of
Mortiz Marx Kahn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851: Louis
Kyezor married Julia Joseph today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851:
Birthdate of “German art historian” Julius Langbehn who attacked “Jews as
corrupters of German culture” saying that they “no place in Germany” – a
position that would later be part of the Nazi movement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852: In
Eiger, Hungary, Eduard and Josefine Zeisler gave birth to Rabbi Joseph Zeisler
whose congregation included B’nai Zion in Danville, PA where he served from
September of 1905 to August of 1906.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852: It was
reported today that an Imperial Ukase has been issued in Russia that classifies
Jews into two categories, “those who have a fixed residence and a trade and
those who have neither. The latter are to be employed in the public mines and
fortresses.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852: In a
sign of the crumbling power of the Sultan and the commensurate growth of
European power, in Palestine, it was reported today that the Ottomans had
agreed to grant France the right to build a church in a suburb of Bethlehem and
to allow Catholic priests the right to repair their church in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852: The
congregation of Ohabei Shalom dedicated its own synagogue building on Warren
Street, the first synagogue in Boston and the second in New England.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853:
Birthdate of Hugo Rheinhold the Prussian born businessman turned sculptor whose
most famous work maybe “Ape with Skull.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affe_mit_Sch%C3%A4del#/media/File:Affe_mit_Sch%C3%A4del.jpg"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affe_mit_Sch%C3%A4del#/media/File:Affe_mit_Sch%C3%A4del.jpg</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1854:
Birthdate of Krakow native Salomea Eisenbach, the wife of Nachman Freduman and
the mother of composer and pianist Ignaz Friedman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855:
Birthdate of Salomon Kahn, who was buried in the Freudenberg Cemetery when he
passed away in 1924.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855: Nahum
Steiner, a Jew who converted to Christianity, delivered a speech at the
Knickerbocker Hall in New York entitled “Our Present Christianity Compared With
Primitive Discipleship or Judaism Again.” During his presentation he attempted
to answer questions regarding the destiny of the United States when compared to
Jewish History.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859: In
Hildesheim, Hanover, Elise Wertheimer and Salomon Hurwritz gave birth to
mathematician Adolf Hurwitz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.numbertheory.org/obituaries/LMS/hurwitz/page1.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.numbertheory.org/obituaries/LMS/hurwitz/page1.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860: The U.S.
House of Representatives adopted a resolution offered by Ohio Congressman
Clement Vallandigham “calling for the correspondence relative to the Swiss
Treaty” including the limitations that this treaty placed “upon Hebrew citizens
of the United States.” This is the same Congressman Vallandgiham who would be
labeled as a Copperhead during the Civil War. The issue of the discriminatory
nature of the Swiss treaty as it affected the Jews was one of the first times
that the civil society moved to protect its Jewish citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861(15<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5621): Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1861(15th of
Nisan, 5621): </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
New York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported
that “The Jewish Passover, a festival commemorative of the deliverance of the
children of Israel from Egyptian bondage, commenced last evening, and will
continue for eight days. The origin of the festival is given in the 12th
Chapter of Exodus, and the Bible prediction that it should be forever observed
by the Israelites throughout the world, has this far been strikingly fulfilled.
The duties imposed upon the Jews during the Passover are, total abstinence from
all kinds of leaven and leavened bread attendance of the males at the
Tabernacle, and cessation of business on the first two and last two days of the
festival. On the evenings of the first two days, the reading of the Seder takes
place in every Jewish family, the members, meanwhile, sitting round a table, on
which are placed the bone of a lamb, representing the sacrifice of the
"paschal lamb," and some bitter herbs, symbolical of the bitterness
of the Egyptian bondage. After the reading of the Seder, the family chants a
service reciting their bondage and deliverance. Previous to the Passover, every
Jewish household undergoes a thorough renovation, corresponding to the
house-cleaning process customary among Christians.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861:
Birthdate of Uchimura Kanzō, the philo-Semitic Japanese minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/nfile/4136"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/nfile/4136</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862: In New
York, Henriette and Isaac David Walter gave birth to cotton-goods manufacturer
and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Columbia graduate William Israel Walter, the
husband of the former Florence Bernheimer with whom he raised two children –
Marjorie and Florence – who supported such worthy causes as the “children’s
clinic at Mt. Sinai Hospital and the History Department at Bryn Mawr College<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862(20th of
Adar II, 5622): Uriah Phillips Levy, Commodore of the United States Navy,
passed away in Philadelphia. Levy was a descendant of the original 23 Jews who
settled in New Amsterdam in 1654. He was buried in the Cypress Hill Cemetery in
the Congregation Shearith Israel portion. On his stone was written, "He
was the father of the law for the abolition of the barbarous practice of
corporal punishment in the United States Navy."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.fau.edu/library/brody8.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.fau.edu/library/brody8.htm</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5624): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864: As Jews
observed Shabbat Parah, Union General James McPherson took command of the Army
of the Tennessee as part of the plans for the year-long offensive that would
bring victory to the Union and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>former
Senator Archibald Dixon, Governor Thomas E. Bramlette, and Albert G. Hodges,
editor of the Frankfort, Kentucky, Commonwealth, met with Lincoln to discuss
the recruitment of slaves as soldiers in Kentucky during which Lincoln
explained to them the benefit of allowing those who had been classified as “runaway
slaves” to gain their freedom by severing in the Union Army.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863:
According to a report published today, during the month of February, there 7
Jewish children staying at the Howard Mission and Home for Little Wanderers in
New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866: “On the
initiative” of fifty-three-year-old “Dutch physician and economist” Samuel
Sarphati “the Amstel Hostel was built today in the street later named after
him.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1867: In
Opava, Czech Republic, Charlotte and Samuel David Kaluber gave birth to Dr.
Arnold Klauber<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868: The
Orphans' Guardians or Familien Waisen Erziehungs Verein was organized in
Philadelphia “chiefly through the efforts of R. Samuel Hirsch of the
Congregation Keneseth Israel. Instead of keeping the children together in one
institution, this society endeavored to find homes for them among respectable
Jewish families.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869(14th of
Nisan, 5629): Erev Pesach observed for the first time during the Presidency of
U.S. Grant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870:
Birthdate of Isaac Elias Itzig as Julius Eduard Hitzig worked as a civil
servant and author in Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871: Leó
Frankel “was elected as a member of the Paris Commune.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872: In
Chicago, Abraham and Ernestina (Leopold) Strauss gave birth to University of
Michigan trained English Professor Dr. Louis A Strauss, the Phi Beta Kappa
scholar and husband of Elsa Riegelman who rose to be chairman of the English
Department at his alma mater.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872: In New
York, Hirsh Bernstein came to the D.A.’s office where he posted bail after
having been indicted on charges of libeling Rabbi Ahrenson. The dispute
revolves around a dispute about the sale of wine which may or not be considered
“kosher.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873: William
F. Nast and he former Esther A. Benoist gave birth to Conde Nast, who while
serving as publisher of Vogue in 1938 forced British photographer Cecil Beaton
to resign because of comments made by him “that were critical of the Jewish
race.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873: While in
Arizona, Civil War veteran Herman Bendell, the Albany born son of Hannah Stern
and Elias Bendell resigned his position as an Indian Agent today<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>after which he “received a consular
appointment to Elsinore, Denamrk.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875: In
Danzig, Moritz Abraham and Selma Moritzsohn gave birth to German physicist, Max
Abraham <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875: E.G.
Holland delivered his lecture on “The Hebrew Race” this evening at a meeting of
the Liberal Club in Plimpton Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876(1st of
Nisan, 5636): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876: In
Cuyahoga County, OH, William and Marie Lederer Pollak gave birth to Herman H.
Pollack.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: In
Grodno, Russia, Judah Judson and Hannah Rosenberg gave birth to New York
resident Solomon Judson the editor of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Me’et
Le’et</i> and author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>Agadot
ve-Dimyonot</u></i> who married Minnie Shapiro,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878: In
Kalvarija, Poland, Hyman Goldenson and Fanny Leah Frankel gave birth to
University of Cincinnati grad and HUC ordained rabbi who led Congregation Adath
Israel in Lexington, Kentucky from 1904 to 1906, Congregation Beth Emeth in
Albany, New York from 1906 to 1918, and Rodef Shalom Congregation in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1918 to 1934.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880(14th of
Nissan, 5640): Ta’anit Bechorot, Erev Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880:
Birthdate of Freeport, Illinois native “newspaper reporter, editor, publicity
man, screen writer, author, Collector of Customs in Los Angles and President of
the Los Angeles Commission, Alfred A. Cohen “who wrote the “The Jazz Singer,”
the first full length talking motion picture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882: In
Denver, CO, John and Winona Edson gave birth to press agent Elie Edson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/22/archives/elie-edson-89-dies-stage-press-agent.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/22/archives/elie-edson-89-dies-stage-press-agent.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882: In Black
Hawk, CO, Isaac Shwayder and his wife Rahel gave birth Jesse Shwayder, the
founder of Samsonite<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1970/07/25/archives/jesse-shwayder-of-samsonite-dies-founder-of-luggage-firm-in-denver.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1970/07/25/archives/jesse-shwayder-of-samsonite-dies-founder-of-luggage-firm-in-denver.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jmaw.org/shwayder-jewish-samsonite-denver/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jmaw.org/shwayder-jewish-samsonite-denver/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882(6<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5642): Seventy-nine-year-old German born dramatist Leopold Feldman
passed away today in Vienna.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884: Two days
after she had passed away, 73-year-old Caroline Woolf, the widow of Lewis Woolf
and the mother of Emily Francis Woolf was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road
Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884: Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph C. Bloch were married today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885:
Birthdate of Rosamond May Rawlins, the wife of <span style="color: black;">University
of Pennsylvania trained attorney Samuel Rawlins Rosenbaum and vice president of
Albert M. Greenfield and Company who served as an assistant Judge Advocate
General in the U.S. Army during World War.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886: <span style="color: black;">Cleveland “clothing manufacturer, real estate executive and
civic leader John Anisfield married Daniela Guttenberg, his first wife who was
the mother of Edith Karolyn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">1888(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5648): Fast of the first born; erev Pesach</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888(14th of
Nisan, 5648): <i>The New York Times</i> reported that “the Jewish feast of
Pesach, or the Passover, will begin at sunset this evening, and continue for
eight days. This feast was ordained to commemorate the departure of the
Children of Israel from Egypt, under the leadership of Moses after they had
been held in bondage for upward of 400 years…There is a peculiar observance
connected with the first evening of the festival on which occasion the head of
the household gathers about him at the table all the members of the family,
including servants if they be Hebrews, and with ancient rites and ceremonies he
recounts the story of the deliverance of his forefathers from the bondage under
which they had been held by the Egyptian Pharaohs for so many years.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: It was
reported today that Joseph Abrahamson had changed his name to Joseph Abraham
Edson because he was getting ready to marry a young Christian girl “and that
both…were desirous that his surname should have every semblance of a Jewish
named removed.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: In Poland,
Boris Schiff and Helen Katzhandler gave birth to Mary Schiff Daily, the wife of
Texas resident Sam Daily and mother of Helene, Lorraine and Selma Daily.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: The
Brooklyn Chess Club will host Willliam Steinitz, the Prague born Jewish chess
champion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: The
Oratorio Society presented the Biblical opera “Samson and Delilah” under the
direction of Walter Damrosch the German born conductor whose paternal
grandfather was Jewish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: Arthur
Reichow of New York notified Louis Hahn that a check for $800 would be sent to
him to meet the needs of the Jews living in Chesterfield, Connecticut. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: The
Central Union of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith was organized today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: “Suffers
in Russia” published today described the worsening conditions of the Jews
living in the Pale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They cannot find
work in the Pale and the government will not allow them to leave the Pale to
find jobs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only the charity of English
Jews has prevented a larger number of deaths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Minister of the Interior is waiting for a report from the Governor
of the Pale on the possibility of further Jewish immigration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(This is further evident of the infamous 1/3,
1/3, 1/3 Policy of the Czarist governments)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: Members
of the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York heard a presentation by
Reverand Hermann Warazawiak on the origins, customs and practices of Passover.
Warazawiak spoke with an air of authority since he had been raised as an
Orthodox Jew in Poland before converting in 1889.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: “Of The
Jews and Their State” published today provided a detailed review of <u>The
Jewish question and the Mission of the Jews</u>, an anonymous work published by
Harper & Brothers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894:
Birthdate of Marc Slonim, “the Russian born American critic and author who
enjoyed an international reputation as an expert on European literature who was
the Nogorod born son of Leo and Indian Aikhevald Slonim and “the youngest
member of the Russian Constituent Assembly” during the Russian revolution (As
reported by Albin Krebs)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1976/05/13/archives/marc-slonim-82-is-dead-europeanletters-critic.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1976/05/13/archives/marc-slonim-82-is-dead-europeanletters-critic.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
“Russia’s New Business Rules” published today described the additional
restrictions placed on “Foreign commercial travelers of the Jewish persuasion”
which do not apply to non-Jewish businessmen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: Four
days after she had passed away, 55-year-old Sarah Barnett, the daughter of
Morris and Fanny Barnett was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896(12th of
Nisan, 5656): Fast of the First Born observed since the 14th of Nisan falls on
Shabbat<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: The
"Sion" society in Sofia adopts an enthusiastic resolution proclaiming
Herzl as their leader.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896(12<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5656): Fifty-two-year-old Hungarian communist Leó Frankel passed away
today in Paris.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: Among
the books on art sold by Bangs & Co in New York was <u>The Gentile and the
Jew</u>, a two volume work by J.J. Dollinger published in London in 1862 that
included 113 engravings by Bartolozzie which cost $10.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: In
“Persecution Under Nero” published today L.D. Burdick questions the reliability
of the Roman historian Seutonius who incorrectly identified Chrestus, who had
been crucified in Judea by Tiberius as the leader of rebellion by the Jews of
Rome that took place later of who was a leader of the New Christians.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897:
Birthdate of Polish-born, French movie director Jean Epstein<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898:
Birthdate of Henri Palacci who was deported from Istanbul to France in 1942.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: Isaac
Blond went to the Barge Office to greet his wife Liebe and their four children
who arrived today aboard the SS St. Paul but was told by authorities that he
could not see them and that they would probably be sent back to Europe because
“two of the children had a contagious disease and could not land.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: In
Albany, New York, the Assembly passed a bill introduced by Senator Cantor that
exempted the real estate of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association from assessments
and water rates.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: New York
State Senator Jacob A. Cantor addressed a meeting organized by the Merchant’s
Association of New York where he spoke against transferring the control of the
canal system of the State to the Federal Government and in favor of a passage
of the seven million dollar appropriation bill, known as the Cantor-Hill bill,
which would preserve the states control over its canal properties which are
estimated to exceed a hundred million dollars in value,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899(15th of
Nisan, 5659): Last Pesach of the 19<sup>th</sup> century.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: It was
reported today that Ferdinand Blumenthal “recently described to the Academie
des Sciences of Paris a process of making sugar from albumen which throw light
on the obscure disease known as diabetes.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1899: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The New York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that “the
Jewish Feast of the Passover began with sundown last evening. Services were
held in all synagogues and also many private residences the festival will last
one week, during which time services will be held daily.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900(25th of
Adar II, 5660): Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise passed away at the age of 80. The German
born Wise is remembered as the father of Reform Judaism in the United States.
He was instrumental in founding the three-basic organization of the movement:
Union of American Hebrew Congregations in 1873, Hebrew Union College in 1875
and the Central Conference of American Rabbis in1889.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/IWise.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/IWise.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: Today’s
passing of Rabbi Wise marked “the beginning” of a drive “to raise an Isaac M.
Wise Memorial Fund” in the amount $500,000 “to endow the Hebrew Union college
and the other activities of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901:
Christian, Jew, and the believer in the teachings of Confucius met on equal
terms last night at Calvary Baptist Church, West Fifty-Seventh Street, between
Sixth and Seventh Avenues, to discuss the Golden Rule at a meeting held under
the auspices of the Baron and Baroness de Hirsch Monument Association.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: Zalman
Shapira and Rosa Krupnik gave birth to Israeli political leader Haim-Moshe
Shapira<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: The
Rumanian government prohibited Jews from engaging in handicrafts or trade.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: “Mayor
Low, Borough President Cantor and Jacob H. Schiff spoke” tonight” at the
dedication exercises of the Luas A. Steinam School of Metal Working, at 225
East Ninth Street which has been erected for the Hebrew Technical Institute by
Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Steinam in memory of their son Lucas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1903: Today
Saks and Company, which had been founded Andrew Saks, the Baltimore born son
of German Jewish immigrants </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #202122;">Helena and William Saks
advertised “A Sale of Models of Tailor-Made Suits for Women” which come in sizes
from 34 to 38 and offered at a special price of $29.50.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: “The
Rev. Dr. Kaufman Kohler of Temple Beth-El, the newly elected President of the
Hebrew Union College at Cincinnati, was the guest of honor tonight at a banquet
given by the Judaeans at the Tuxedo. Assembled at the dinner were nearly all
the leading teachers and expounders of Judaism in New York.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: Funk and
Wagnalls published the sixth volume of the Jewish Encyclopedia, a compendium of
knowledge that will eventually consist of twelve volumes. The volume includes
articles ranging from “God” to “Istria.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1904: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The New York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">featured a review of
"The Seder Service" a new Haggadah by Lillie Goldsmith Cowen which
was published by her husband Philip Cowen. This edition of the Haggadah
contains the Hebrew text, a revised English translation and notes by Dr.
Solomon Schechter, the President of the Jewish Theological Seminary. The
Haggadah is decorated with reproduction of pages from older Haggadot some which
were printed four hundred years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: Eveline
Bethsabée Lattès ép. Mayrargue the daughter of Israël-Vita Lattès and Marie ép.
Lattès and her husband Henri Danie Marague gave birth to Jeanne Mayrargue ép.
Kunian<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905:
Birthdate of Viktor E. Frankl, famed psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor and
author of one of the greatest books ever written, Man’s Search For Meaning.
What makes Frankl’s work and philosophy so powerful is that he took them with
him into the camps and came out with his philosophy intact. There would be no
better way to celebrate this centennial than read or re-read this slender tome.
Viktor Frankl in his own words: “The best of us did not return.” “Life is like
being at the dentist. You always think that the worst is still to come, and yet
it is over already.” Quoting Nietzsche he wrote, “He who has a why to live for
can bear with almost any how.” “Man, however is able to live and even to die
for the sake of his ideals and values!” “Man needs something for the sake of
which to live. The first goal of most people “was finding a purpose and meaning
to their lives.” “Don’t aim at success – the more you aim at it and make it a
target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot
be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of
one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product
of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and
the same holds for success; you have to let it happen by not caring about
it…Success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/frankl.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/frankl.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: As
unrest gripped Russia, it was reported that “Count Witte’s steadfast friendship
for the Jews has subjected him to constant attacks” including accusations that
he was a Jew and/or “bought by the Jews”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: It was
reported today that in Russia, “the Government cannot assume responsibility for
promulgating a law of equality” and that it must be left to Parliament to
“decide the question of the status of the Jews.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: It was
reported today that Count Witte, who is serving as Premier, is taking every
precaution from not allowing “anti-Semitic manifestations this Easter” turned
to violent attacks on the Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: Today
marked the last day of this year’s distribution of free Matzoth and Matzah
flour by the East Side Business Men’s Protective Business Association the poor
Jews of the lower east side.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: Colonel
Ernest Albert Rose married Julia Eda Lewis the daughter of Annette and Samuel
Eleazer Lewis were married today at the Princess Road Synagogue in Liverpool,
England.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: At the
close of the third act of “Louise” which was being performed at the Academy of
Music in Philadelphia, “Oscar Hammerstein went before the curtain and announced
that he would break ground next week for his Opera House at Broad and Popular
Streets.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908:
Birthdate of Samuel Bronshtein, the Bessarabian born nephew of Leon Trotsky who
gained fame movie producer Samuel Bronston.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: Harry
Fischel, one of the best-known Jewish philanthropists with connections to over
twenty Jewish intuitions and a knowledge of a feeling of those living on the
Lower East Side expressed his opposition to “the proposal to erect a gallery on
the Arsenal site in Central Park” saying that it is only at Central Park can
the Jews living on the Lower East “get free, open air and plenty of space to
breathe” and Dr. A.A. Haimovich, the Treasurer of the Educational League
expressed his opposition saying that “it is absurd to say that the people care
for Central Park…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5670): Parashat Tzav<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: It was
reported today that a fued between “two prominent Jewish charitable
organizations” – the United Hebrew Charities and the Widowed Mothers’ Fund
Association – has come to an end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911:
Birthdate of Sir Bernard Katz who shared in the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: In
London, two actions are to be heard before Justice Darling in a libel suit
"in which Baron de Forest, adopted son of the late Baron Hirsch and Lady
Gerard are principals."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: Clara
and Dr. Henry William Frauenthal were married today after which they set sail
on the Titanic for a honeymoon trip; a trip they both survived but resulted in
mental health problems for each of them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: Osip
Brik married Lila Kagan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5673): Forty-seven-year-old Rabbi Joseph Chuckrow passed away in
Troy, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: In
Budapest, Jewish mathematics teachers Anna and Lajos Erdős (formerly Engländer)
gave birth to mathematician Paul Erdos who was one of the century's greatest
mathematicians, who posed and solved thorny problems in number theory and other
areas and who founded the field of discrete mathematics, which is the
foundation of computer science. He was also one of the most prolific
mathematicians in history, with more than 1,500 papers to his name. And, his
friends say, he was also one of the most unusual.”. “Never, mathematicians say,
has there been an individual like Paul Erdös.” (I make no claim to understand
anything about any of his work.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: On the
Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City Nathan and Sophie Riesel gave
birth to crusading journalist Victor Riesel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/05/obituaries/victor-riesel-81-columnist-blinded-by-acid-attack-dies.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/05/obituaries/victor-riesel-81-columnist-blinded-by-acid-attack-dies.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: Birthdate of New
York native and George Washington University trained attorney Arthur Weissman,
“a prominent authority on medical economics where he served as a senior
executive of the Kaiser-Permanente Medical Program” who two sons, Ronald and
David, with his wife Louise, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/10/14/111300139.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/10/14/111300139.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: The
siege of Adrianople which had begun in October, 1913, came to an end. Both poor
and middle-class Jews were affected with three thousand seeking shelter in
schools and 9,200 being left “completely helpless.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: Rabbi
N.G. Rosenfeld of Yemin Moshe, Jerusalem and his wife gave birth Rabbi Avraham
Isaac Jacob Rosenfeld who came to the U.K. in 1934 where he served as the
chazan at the Walford Road Synagogue and later the Finchley Synagogue before
leading the Wellington Jewish Congregation in New Zealand while raising a son
Rabbi Lionel Rosenfeld who “served as chazan of Edgware Adath Yisroel
Congregation, London (1968-1973) and Western Marble Arch Synagogue, London
(1988-1997), then as minister of Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation (2001-2005).”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to reports published today the
Russian forces that have taken the town of Przemysl from the Austrians are
calling up the “panic-stricken Jews” who have fled the town to return and are reassuring
the civilian population that remained, most of whom were Jews, that they have
nothing to fear.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
“Ex-President Taft delivered a lecture before members of the National
Geographic Society in Washington on the subject of his mission to the Vatican
in 1902” where he conducted delicate negotiaons with Leo XIII, the Pope whose
papers in France and the Vatican assured readers that Dreyfus was guilty
because he was Jewish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: The
Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the officers of Congregation Ahev Zedak in
Camden, NJ were Bernard Levin, President; Jacob Tarter, Vice President; Louis
Levin, Secretary and Max Greenberg, Treasurer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: Dr.
Nathan Blaustein who delivered the infant of Mrs. Sadie Mager, a widow who died
of a heart attack last December is now seeking a family to adopt the girl
saying tonight “that the only thing he demanded was those who would adopt her
would prove to him they were in a position to give her a good home and that
they should be Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
Birthdate of Christian Anfinsen winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Chemistry<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: In New
York, 20,000 people attended the great bazar that opened tonight “in the Grand
Central Palace” which was a fund raiser sponsored by the People’s Relief
Committee for Jewish War Sufferers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: In
Johannesburg, Eva, née Kirkel and Israel Rabinowitz gave birth to composer and
conductor Harry Rabinowitz whose most famous score may be the one he wrote for
“Chariots of Fire.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
Birthdate of bandleader Vic Schoen. There is no evidence that Schoen was Jewish
but he played a key role in the creation of the era of Yiddish Swing. Schoen
was the bandleader whose featured singers were the Andrews Sisters. Lyricist
Sammy Cahn gave the Yiddish song “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen” English lyrics and
turned it over to the singing sisters. Schoen had a notion of how to swing it.
The Andrews Sisters' debut 78 rpm for the Decca label hit almost immediately.
The era of Yiddish swing had begun.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
Birthdate of Mort Abrahams who gained famed as the producer of Dr. Doolittle
and Planet of the Apes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916 In St.
Louis Fred Zadek Salomon, the son of Adolph and Matilda Salomon, and his wife
Helen gave birth to Fred Zadek Salomon, Jr. the longtime manager of the Famous
Barr Department store and the husband of Darlane Salomon with whom he raised
two daughter – Edith and Candace.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: Louis D.
Brandeis is scheduled to speak on “Jewish Rights and Congress at the opening
session today of the American Jewish Congress in Philadelphia, PA whose
delegates included Rabbi Wolf Gold, Samuel Lippman and Henry Eiser.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
According to “advices received at the Russian Embassy” in Washington, DC,
“absolute equality of Jews in Russia with all others to own property, to reside
in any place, to serve in the army and navy, to participate in educational
advantages and at the polls has been officially proclaimed” by the new
government.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Abraham
Isaac "Abe" Shiplacoff, a Socialist New York assemblyman won a
temporary victory when he objected, on procedural grounds, to a resolution that
had been introduced “urging the United States Congress to a pass a measure
known as the Chamberlain bill, requiring the United States to prepare for entry
into” the World War.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Plans
for the upcoming patriotic mass meeting of the Independent Order of Free Sons,
which “has plans for raising a regiment in case of war” were published today.’
(Editor’s note – this outburst of patriotism came at a time when the United
States was strongly considering entering WW I on the side of the Allies;
something that would become a reality in less than a month.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: It was
reported today that Harriet Cohen is engaged to Sidney Benny, Myrtle Straus is
engaged to Rudolph Hut and Etta Seligman is engaged to Abraham Seidel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: One of
the advantages of the Russian Revolution was seen today when it was reported
that the publication of the second volume of Simon Dubnow’s <u>History of the
Jews in Russia and Poland</u> would soon be a reality that to the disappearance
of the censors who had been part of the Czar’s government. (The brilliant mind
of Dubnow would perish in 1941 when he was murdered by the Nazi in Riga. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yidn, shraybt un farshraybt </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Jews, write and record’)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: In World
War I, British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks blocked their advance at
the First Battle of Gaza. The setback would prove to be temporary, and the
British would later resume their drive to take Palestine from the Ottomans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: “A
message from the representatives of the Jewish colonies in Palestine was
received at the Zionist headquarters” in New York today which “said that the
Jewish Administrative Commission organized by the International Zionist
Organization” were expected to arrive in Palestine this week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: In Cedar
Rapids, Rose and David Padzensky gave birth to Ruth Lillian Feder, the wife of
Iz Feder and mother of Ron, Neil and Steven Feder who was a strong-willed
business woman and pillar of the Jewish Community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.cedarmemorial.com/Obituary/2019/Jun/Ruth-L-Feder/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.cedarmemorial.com/Obituary/2019/Jun/Ruth-L-Feder/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: Eugen
Schiffer who had become a Protestant in 1896 but who was forced to move to a
Jewish Ghetto in Berlin after the Nazis came to power completed his term as
Minister of Justice in Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: In Vienna,
the Jewish community made a “public appeal for help” in re-building “the
communal synagogue in Leopold Strasse” which had been destroyed by fire two
years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: In
Göttingen, Germany, mathematician Richard Courant and Nerina Runge Courant gave
birth to American physicist Ernest Courant<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/bulletin/2007/bb051807.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/bulletin/2007/bb051807.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920:
Shabelsky-Bork, a “supporter” of the "Protocols of the Elders of
Zion" tried to assassinate Pavel Milyukov (former leader of the Cadets,
who fled Russia in 1918) at a meeting of Russian refugees. Instead, he killed
Vladimir Nabokov and was sentenced to fourteen years in prison. After only
staying in prison for a short time, he was released and befriended by Alfred
Rosenberg, the "Nazi philosopher".<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5681): Parashat Tzav<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: In the
Bronx, the Montefiore hosted a “Purim entertainment” that included a Purim play
and a Hebrew sketch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: At
Temple Emanu-El, in a time when Reform congregations were experimenting with
moving Shabbat observance from Saturday to Sunday, Dr. Alexander Lyons of
Brooklyn is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Does God Hear?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: Dr.
Krass is scheduled to delivers a sermon “George Bernard Shaw” at services at
the Central Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923(9th of
Nisan, 5683): Actress Sarah Bernhardt passed away. She was born in Paris as
Henriette Rosine Bernard, the eldest surviving illegitimate daughter of Judith
van Hard, a Dutch Jewish courtesan known as "Youle."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.wetcanvas.com/Museum/Posters/Entertainers/Bernhardt/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.wetcanvas.com/Museum/Posters/Entertainers/Bernhardt/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: “Oscar
S. Straus, formerly American Ambassador to Turkey, returned to Jerusalem today
from Amman, where he conferred with King Hussein.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925(1st of
Nisan, 5685): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: Lord
Balfour visited Rishon L”Zion where he said “he rejoiced at this opportunity to
visit the oldest Jewish settlement in Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: Today
when Harvard announced plans for the incoming freshman class it issued a denial
that religion or race would be a considered which “was in answer to a report
that members of recent entering classes at Harvard were 25 per cent Jewish” and
150 Jews “would not be admitted to Harvard in the three years who otherwise
would have been enrolled…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926(11<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5686): Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin passed away today after which he was
buried at the Clover Hill Park Cemetery in Birmingham, MI.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://kevarim.com/rabbi-judah-leib-levin/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://kevarim.com/rabbi-judah-leib-levin/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: Premiere
of “The Fiddler of Florence,” a German silent film directed and written by Paul
Czinner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: Colonel
Herbert H. Lehman, the acting chairman of the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee announced today that “the Jewish community of Salonica,
Greece has issued an appeal for relief” that was sent to Dr. Bernard Khan, the
European Director of the Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: On New
York’s Lower East Side, Philip and Pola Young “Jewish immigrants from Poland”
gave birth to Israel Goodman Young who gained famed as Greenwich Village
folklorist Izzy Young, the man responsible for Bob Dylan’s first New York
concert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(As reported by Margalit Fox)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/obituaries/izzy-young-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/obituaries/izzy-young-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: Cellist
Gdal Saleski, the author of Famous Musicians of Jewish Origins performed a
concert at Steinway Hall that included Joseph “Achron’s ‘Fragment Mystique’
which “is based on a Hebrew theme.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5689): Last Purim before the Great Depression<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: The
dirigible Graf Zeppelin appeared over three cities in Palestine. At five in the
afternoon, it circled Jaffa where the large colony of German settlers waved
flags of welcome. At six, the airship appeared over Tel Aviv where it became a
welcome partner in the city’s Purim celebrations. As night descended the German
craft circled Jerusalem for an hour before heading north towards Syria.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: In
London, Lord Melchett, Chaim Weizmann, Oscar Wasserman, Felix Warburg and Max
Warburg will meet this afternoon in an “attempt to reach a settlement regarding
the functions of the Administrative Committee and the Jewish Agency's
Executive, the immediate raising of an internal loan of $5,000,000, and Lord
Melchett's demand that before any larger colonization scheme be undertaken in
Palestine, the 1,500 Chalutzim in Palestine for many years be settled on the
land.” (As reported by JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: In
Boston, MA, Dora (née Spinner) and Max Nimoy gave birth to Leonard Simon
Nimony, Mr. Spock of Star Trek fame. Do you remember the hand gesture that went
with the Vulcan credo - Live long and prosper? In case you missed it, it is the
same gesture as that made by the High Priest when giving his benediction. And
now you know why.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=1</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: Arab
leaders in Palestine urged Moslems not to participate in the celebration Maier
Dizengoff’s seventieth birthday. Dizengooff is the Mayor of Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932(18<sup>th
</sup>of Adar II, 5692): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932:
“Juvenile Court Judge Joseph Siegler, chairman of a committee named by Jewish
organizations to investigate charges of discrimination again Jews at Rutgers
announced today that the matter had been closed to the committee’s
satisfaction.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/03/27/100703416.html?pageNumber=5"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/03/27/100703416.html?pageNumber=5</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: “The
Jewish Board of Deputies, representing 300,000 Jews in Britain, passed a
unanimous resolution today demanding that Germany accord equal "freedom
and justice" to Jewish and non-Jewish citizens.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: Twenty-eight-year-old
Nathan N. Rosen was officially installed as the Rabbi at Temple Petach Tikva in
Brooklyn. (As reported by JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: Hitler
agreed to a nationwide boycott of Jewish businessmen and professionals to be
known as “Boycott Day” which would take place on April 1. The boycott is
designed to last indefinitely or until the Jews have been completely eliminated
from the German economy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: In
Brooklyn Beatrice (Wortis) and David I. Arkin gave birth to actor Alan Arkin
who has played a myriad of roles during his long career including the lead in
the famed anti-establishment film “Catch-22.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/alan-arkin-dead-little-miss-sunshine-1235526918/">https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/alan-arkin-dead-little-miss-sunshine-1235526918/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: Pianist
Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra “was in
the Henry Ford Hospital tonight undergoing treatment for what was described as
‘acute intestinal complications.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
According to reports published today of the 61,541 Jews who entered Palestine
in 1935, 27,291 came from Poland; 3,596 came from Rumania; 2,122 came from
Greece, 1,967 from Lithuania; 1,638 from the United States; 1,425 from
Southwestern Arabia; 1,397 from Czechoslovakia; 1,042 from Latvia; 1, 021 from
France; 961 from Austria, 764 from Turkey and 7,747 from Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: In
Warsaw, “the Senate enacted today a law prohibiting Jews from selling
vegetables and dairy products” which had been passed by the Sejm (lower house)
last week.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: In New
York, at a luncheon of the New York chapter of Hadassah, Eddie Cantor
“announced that if the members of Hadassah would raise sufficient funds to
provide for five hundred children” who were refugees from journey and part of
the Youth Aliyah movement “he would provide for an equal number.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: In
Poland, “the Jewish community’s offices in the town of Nowysacz were bombed
today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: In
Poland, a synagogue was damaged at Wilno as anti-Semitic disorders gripped the
country.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5697): Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: Rabbi
Stephen Wise officiated at the wedding of Mrs. Justine Waterman Wise Tulin, a
justice of the Domestic Relations Court of New York City and Professor Isadore
Polier.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1937: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Palestine Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that a Jewish
Ghaffir (supernumerary policeman) was wounded, an Arab brigand killed and a
number of Arabs taken prisoner during a battle with a terrorist gang which
attacked Jewish settlers plowing their fields at the foot of Mount Tabor.
Jewish settlers were assisted by police reinforcements which arrived from Afula
and Nazareth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:
“Archaeological discoveries expected to shed light on the life, customs and
general history of the Holy Land of 2,000 years ago were listed today by Edward
M. M. Warburg of the executive committee of the American Friends of the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem” “in a report prepared in connection with the
thirteenth anniversary of the founding of Hebrew University” which “cites the
finding of the long missing Third Wall of Jerusalem and…certain important
Jewish cemeteries.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar II, 5689): Parashat Shmini; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar II, 5689): Sixty-five-year-old Laurence Bendann, “a son of David Bendannn,
a well-known art connoisseur who died in 1915” and “the eldest member of the firm
of the Bendann Art Gallery…known throughout the world as a connoisseur of fine
prints” passed away today in Baltimore.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://battlecreekenquirer.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-laurence-bendann-death/99309200/">https://battlecreekenquirer.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-laurence-bendann-death/99309200/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:
“Speaking at the opening session of the second annual convention of the United
Galician Jews of America at Mecca Temple,” “May La Guardia told 3,000 Jews of
Eastern European origin tonight that recent events in Europe had brought more
misery than civilization had ever previously experienced.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: At
Atlantic City, NJ, “Reginald T. Kennedy, the executive director of the New York
roundtable of the National Christians and Jews today declared that all
religions must cooperate in teaching faith in democracy and present a united
front to propagandists who are attempting to align one against the other” and
who are trying to convince the public that “a Catholic is probably a Fascist, a
Jew is a Communist” and “that the Protestant majority is indifferent to the
minority rights” of Jews and Catholics.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Dr.
Samuel Goldenson is scheduled to lecture on “Racialism and Humanity” at Temple
Emanu-El.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Louis
Lipsky, Robert Szold, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Dr. Solomon Goldman, the
president of the ZOA are scheduled to lecture on “The Jewish National Home: Is
the London Palestine Conference Ended?” at the Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: In the
Bronx the former Sophie Falkenstein and Arthur Caan, refugees from Nazi Germany
gave birth to James Langston Michael Caan known to American audiences as the
movie and television actor James Caan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.biography.com/people/james-caan-9542410"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.biography.com/people/james-caan-9542410</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: “The
German Army High Command gives approval to RSHA and Heydrich on the tasks of SS
murder squads (Einsatzgruppen) in occupied Poland.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942(8<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5702): At Jungfernhof concentration camp, Rudolf Seck, the commander
sent 1,840 to be “resettled” today which meant they were shot to death at the
Bikernieki forest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942(8<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5702): Fifty-nine-year-old Rabbi Joseph Hirsch Carlbach was murdered
near Riga today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jci.co.il/?cmd=aboutus"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jci.co.il/?cmd=aboutus</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Carlebach#/media/File:Carlebach_in_Altona.jpeg"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Carlebach#/media/File:Carlebach_in_Altona.jpeg</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
The Second Dünamünde Action, part of a murderous assault designed “to execute
Jews who had recently been deported to Latvia from Germany, Austria, Bohemia
and Moravia” conducted by the Nazis and their Latvian collaborators began today
in the Biķernieki forest, near Riga, Latvia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
Birthdate of Erica Jong, author of <u>Fear of Flying</u><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: The
first "Eichmann transport" began moving to the camps at Auschwitz and
Birkenau<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: The
first of 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reached the concentration camp at
Belzec<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942 The first
Jewish transportation arrived at Auschwitz under the command of Rudolf Hoss,
containing 1000 Jews from Slovakia and 1000 women from Ravensbruk. According to
a conservative estimate from March 1942 until the liberation on January 27,
1945, over 750,000 Jews were gassed within its gates. Hoss himself estimated it
at 1,135,000.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: Wilfrid
B. Israel, a German born Jew and ardent Zionist departed London for Lisbon.
Once in Portugal he stayed in the Iberian Peninsula for two months, where he
found over 1,500 stateless Jews in Spain. He issued 200 of them certificates to
go live in Palestine and did what he could to intervene on the other's behalf.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: The
twenty-third Beth El Ball was held this evening at the Walt Whitman Hotel in
Camden, NJ. It was dedicated "to our fighting allies".<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1944: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The New York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">includes a review of
"Dangling Man" by Saul Bellow<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: General
Patton sent 307 officers and men in tanks, half-tracks and support vehicles
under the command of Captain Abraham J. Baum on a mission to liberate
approximately 1,300 POWS being held at a camp near Hammelburg, Germany. The
group of POWs included Patton’s son-in-law who had been captured during
fighting in North Africa. In the words of historian Stanley Weintraub, “Nine
GIs in Baum’s small column were killed and 31 others were wounded and captured
– a hairy business for Baum as his dog tag identified him as Jewish.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: Today
twenty-year old Berlin born American screenwriter Don Mankiewicz married his
first wife Ilene Korsen with whom he had two children – Jane and screenwriter
John Mankiewicz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946:
“Millionaire businessman and philanthropist Sir Charles Clore and the former
Francine Halphen gave birth to philanthropist Dame Vivien Louise Duffield, the
sister of Alan Evelyn Clore and the wife of ‘British financier John Duffield”
with whom she had “two children, Arabella and George.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/meet-dame-vivien-duffield-londons-super-philanthropist-and-step-granny-to-that-wild-beauty-cara-8699777.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/meet-dame-vivien-duffield-londons-super-philanthropist-and-step-granny-to-that-wild-beauty-cara-8699777.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: In
Cleveland, Judge and Mrs. Joseph C. Bloch celebrated their 62nd wedding
anniversary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar II, 5706): “Phineas Horowitz, veteran Zionist leader, and
vice-president of the British Zionist Federation, passed away today in London.”
(As reported by JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: “Forty
Jewish tenant farmers, half of whom are WW II veterans” and each of whom
“received a lease of four acres from the Jewish National began farming on land
“near Raanana in the Plain of Sharon” where they will engage in truck and
flower gardening”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: It was
announced today that author and attorney “Louis Nizer has been named chariman
of the national speakers bureau of the $170,000,000 campaign of the United
Jewish Appeal for the relief, rehabilitation and resettlement of Europe’s
Jewish survivors.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5708): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948:
“Alleging that the Arabs intended to try to seize Jerusalem after the British
withdrawal, spokesman for the Jewish Agency for Palestine confirmed today that
the Agency had proposed that 10,000 Norwegian and Danish troops be brought from
Germany to maintain order in the city.” (Considering the fact that the city was
already under siege with Arabs blocking convoys from the coast and attacking
the Old City, this was not Paranoia but a response to a real threat.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: Before
leaving the United States today with his wife Lou, Austrian born composer Hanns
Eisler who had fallen afoul of HUAC read a statement that included: “I leave
this country not without bitterness and infuriation. I could well understand it
when in 1933 the Hitler bandits put a price on my head and drove me out. They
were the evil of the period; I was proud at being driven out. But I feel
heart-broken over being driven out of this beautiful country in this ridiculous
way.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949:
Birthdate of Helene Middleweek who as Valerie Hayman, Baroness Hayman, became
the Lord Speaker of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950:
Lafayette College in Easton, PA announced that its round the world student tour
this summer which is designed to increase their “intellectual, cultural and
spiritual horizons” will include a stop in Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: It was
reported today that the government of Israel is using the Israel Institute of
Applied Social Research under the direction of Dr. Uriel G. Foa to deal with a
variety of problems facing the infant Jewish state including assisting
immigrants in adjusting to life in “their new homeland.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: Final
broadcast of the ABC panel show “Can You Top This?” co-starring Harry
Hershfield.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1952: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that the
anti-reparations demonstration in Tel Aviv, organized by the Herut political
party, lasted two hours and passed off quietly after a week of general tension.
At The Hague the Conference on Reparations started discussing the respective Jewish
claims on Germany. The German delegation contested the Jewish claim for $500
million as "exaggerated," while the Jewish delegation claimed that
the sum was "only a fraction" of the heirless property actually
remaining in German hands.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1952: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that The
Knesset debated the final reading of the Nationality Bill and the principle of
dual nationality, held by a number of Israeli citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1952: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that The
Israeli-Jordanian Mixed Armistice Commission reaffirmed the Israel-Jordan
demarcation line in the Kalkilya area. The line was marked by a deep ditch, dug
by a tractor to prevent further infiltration and other incidents.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953: “The
Story of Three Loves,” a romantic anthology film with a script co-authored by
George Froeschel and co-starring Kirk Douglas was released in the United States
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar II, 5714): Ninety-one-year-old Flora “Flo” Isaacs Strauss, the St.
Louis born daughter of Jonas and Bertha Heller Isaacs, the wife of Julius
Caesar Strauss and the mother of Benjamin, Charles and Irving Strauss passed
away after which she was buried New Mount Sinai Cemetery and Mausoleum in
Affton, MO.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Nisan, 5715): Parashat Vayikra<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955(3rd of
Nisan 5715): Fifty-year-old Ralph Kahn Uhry, the Plaquemine, LA born son of
Hippolyte and Dora Kahn Uhry and the husband of Alene Fox Uhry with whom head
two children, Pulitzer prize winning playwright Alfred Uhry and author Ann Uhry
Abrams passed away today after which he was buried in Atlanta, GA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956: In
Sweden, premiere of “The Rose Tatoo” with a script adapted by Hal Kanter and
directed by Daniel Mann.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar II, 5717): Fifty-four-year-old Max Ophüls, the German Jewish movie
director who spent the war in France and the United States passed away today in
Hamburg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://biography.yourdictionary.com/max-ophuls"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://biography.yourdictionary.com/max-ophuls</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar II, 5717): Sixty-six year old London born American munitions maker and
convicted war profiteer Murray Garsson died today “penniless and homeless in a
Bellevue Hospital ward today” after suffering a brain hemorrhage following a
fall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/03/28/84909966.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/03/28/84909966.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958: Today at
the 30<sup>th</sup> Academy Award B.B. Kahane received an Academy Honorary
Award in recognition of his "distinguished service to the motion picture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959: It was
reported today that Isaac Charchat, the President of the International
Synagogue presented Rabbi A. Alan Steinbach, the retiring president the New
York Board of Rabbis with a silver bible.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960: In
Manhattan, Academy Award winning actor and stage star Joel Grey and his wife Jo
Wilder gave birth to actress Jennifer Gray, the star of “Dirty Dancing” who
isthe granddaughter of comedian and musician Mickey Katz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960(27<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5720): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei and Shabbat HaChodesh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960(27<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5720): Eighty-two-year-old Russian born Rabbi Leon Album, the
University of Chicago and Stanford University alum who was the husband of
Amelia Album with whom he raised two children – Selma and Manuel – passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/03/27/119099940.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/03/27/119099940.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960:
Birthdate of Steve Feinberg the Princeton graduate who is the co-founder of
Cerberus Capital Management.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961: “The
Hoodlum Priest” directed by Irvin Kershner and filmed by cinematographer
Haskell Wexler was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961:
Birthdate of Mitchell Simpson, who gained fame as Amanda Simpson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/amanda-simpson-test-pilot-mitchell-simpson-senior-post-commerce-department-article-1.460198"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/amanda-simpson-test-pilot-mitchell-simpson-senior-post-commerce-department-article-1.460198</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961: “Dondi”
a movie based on the comic strip co-created by Irwin Hansen was released in the
United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/arts/irwin-hasen-comic-book-artist-and-dondi-illustrator-dies-at-96.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/arts/irwin-hasen-comic-book-artist-and-dondi-illustrator-dies-at-96.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964:
Birthdate of comedian Todd Barry<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.toddbarry.com/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.toddbarry.com/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964: Two days
after opening in the UK, “Fall of the Roman Empire” produced by Samuel
Bronston, with a script co-authored by Philip Yordan and music by Dimitri
Tiomkin was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964:
"Funny Girl" with Barbra Streisand opens at Winter Garden Theater in
New York City for the first of 1,348 performances<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5727): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967:
Production of “Ciao! Manhattan” co-directed, produced and written by David
Weisman began today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967(14th of
Adar II, 5727): Joseph Jacobs, president and founder of Joseph Jacobs
Organization, a merchandizing and advertising organization that specializes in
the Jewish mark and “has been credited with being responsible for the wide
currency of kosher symbols on food labels” passed away today at the age of 75.
A 1911 graduate of City College, Mr. Jacobs taught school while doing graduate
work at Columbia before going to work as an advertising salesman for the Daily
Forward in 1919, the same year that he founded his own company. Mr. Jacobs’
most lasting contribution to American Jewry is the famous Maxwell House
Hagaddah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(7<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5729): Fifty-nine-year-old New York City born lawyer “Seymour Barkin,
the assistant director of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York” passed
away today “after emergency surger at Roosevelt Hospital.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/03/28/90078888.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/03/28/90078888.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970:
"Minnie's Boys" opened at the Imperial Theater. Minnie’s boys were
better known as the Marx Brothers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5730): Seventy-seven-year-old artist Fritz Ascher passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/if-not-for-the-nazis-he-may-have-been-the-next-leonardo/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.timesofisrael.com/if-not-for-the-nazis-he-may-have-been-the-next-leonardo/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5730): Seventy-six-year-old Brooklyn born Columbia trained
physician WWI veteran Dr. Frederic D. Zeman the geriatric specialist and
husband of “the former Madeleine Arnold” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/27/archives/frederic-zeman-geriatrist-dies-headed-medical-services-at-jewish.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/27/archives/frederic-zeman-geriatrist-dies-headed-medical-services-at-jewish.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971: NBC
aired “Gideon,” a play by Paddy Chayefsky based on the Biblical Judge with
Peter Ustinov in the title role.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971: Outbreak
of the nine-month long Bangladesh Liberation War. A Jewish military leader,
Lieutenant General JFR (Jacob-Farj-Rafael) Jacob gained fame in his homeland
when he headed the Indian armed forces that vanquished the Pakistani army in
the war that broke out between the two countries over East Pakistan which after
the war became the independent state of Bangladesh).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973: It was
reported today that Arthur Hertzberg, “head of the American Jewish Congress”
had called “for providing American Jews with a basic Jewish education and a
deep sense of identification with the Jewish People.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973: In East
Lansing, Michigan Dr. Carl Page and Computer Professor Gloria Page, who was
Jewish, gave birth to Lawrence “Larry” Page who along with Sergey Brin
co-founded Google.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974:
Birthdate of Rockford, Illinois actress and comedian Natasha Leggro, the
graduate of the Stella Adler Conservatory who “converted to Judaism as an
adult.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5735): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5735) Seventy-eight-year-old Columbia University graduate and WW I
Navy veteran, Herbert Posner, the past president of the Dr. Posner Shoe Company
that had been founded by his father Abraham Posner passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1976: In
Chicago, the Dearborn Station, which has been designed by Cyrus L.W. Eidlitz was
listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5738): United States District Court Judge fifty-nine-year-old
University of Michigan trained lawyer and WW II Army veteran Lawrence Gubow the
husband of Estelle Gubow with whom he had “one son and two daughters” passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979: Nineteen
people were injured today during a terrorist bombing in a market at Lod.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979: Prime
Minister Menachem Begin of Israel and President Anwar Sadat signed a peace
treaty at the White House. This historic event ended three decades of fighting
including three major wars. It took Sadat to break the “Gordian Knot” and come
to Jerusalem. It took Begin to gamble that the Egyptians would keep their word
and not turn the Sinai into a springboard for another war. And it took Carter's
tenacity to keep the talks on track. All Arabs are not the same. Likud, right
wingers, are willing to make peace. And American Presidents can provide the
leverage for agreement. Critics say it has been a cold peace. But the border
between the two has comparatively remained tranquil and the armed forces of the
two nations have not clashed in a quarter of century. Hatikvah - hope.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982: “I Ought
To Be In Pictures” a film based on the Neil Simon play of the same name
directed and produced by Herbert Ross, starring Walter Matthau and with music
by Marvin Hamlisch was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar II, 5744): Seventy-one-year-old Bora Laskin passed away while serving
as the 14<sup>th</sup> Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.ottawajewishbulletin.com/2017/04/canada-150-bora-laskin/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.ottawajewishbulletin.com/2017/04/canada-150-bora-laskin/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.cjnews.com/culture/canada-150/remembering-bora-laskin-giant-supreme-court"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.cjnews.com/culture/canada-150/remembering-bora-laskin-giant-supreme-court</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985: “Anna
Karenina,” a made-for-television adaption of the famous novel with a script by
James Goldman was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5746): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5746): Seventy-four-year-old CCNY trained CPA and NYU trained
entertainment lawyer Morris Stoller, the New York born son of Gussie Popick and
David Stoller and the husband of Gertrude Stoller who had succumbed to cancer
was buried today in Los Angeles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986: Temple
Adath Israel a synagogue in Owensboro, Kentucky whose building was built in
1887 was added to National Register of Historic Places today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987: U.S.
President Jimmy Carter visited Jerusalem. Former Prime Minister Begin who has
been living in virtual seclusion for years declined Carter’s request for a
meeting. Begin did visit with the President by phone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: David
Wolfson who as knighted in 1984 was “created a life peer with the title Baron
Wolfson of Sunningdale, of Trevose in the County of Cornwall” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993(4<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5753): Seventy-nine-year-old psychologist and chess champion Reuben
Fine passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/27/obituaries/reuben-fine-american-chess-giant-dead-at-79.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/27/obituaries/reuben-fine-american-chess-giant-dead-at-79.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5754): Parashat Tzav; erev Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including <u>The
Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture, 1880-1950</u> by Jenna Weissman
Joselit and <u>Jews and the New America Scene</u> by Seymour Martin Lipset and
Earl Raab.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996(6<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5756): Seventy-nine-year-old Maurice J. Sabes, the of Eva and Abraham
Sabeswitz pass today after which he was buried in the United Hebrew Brotherhood
Cemetery in Richfield, MN.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997: In
Stockholm, Budapest native Eva Löwenthal was interviewed by the USC Shoah
Foundation Institute.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997: A week
after premiering in New York, “The Devil’s Own,” a film that pits two Irish
institutions – the IRA and the Boston Police Department -- against themselves
directed by Alan J. Pakula was released today in the rest of the United
States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: U.S.
President Bill Clinton meets with Syrian President Hafez Assad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: Pope
John Paul II ended his trip to Israel by visiting the Western Wall and, in
keeping with a centuries-old tradition left a message in one of its cracks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: The New
York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or special interest
to Jewish readers including <u>The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and
Sells the New Hollywood</u> by Tom King and <u>The Genesis of Justice: Ten
Stories of Biblical Injustice That Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Law</u>
by Alan M. Dershowitz<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: “Palestinians
fired three mortar shells at Mora.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: Dalia
Rabin-Pelossof became the only member of New Way to remain in the Knesset when
two other New Members resigned from the Israeli Parliament.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: Three
days after she had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held for
eighty-seven-year-old Janice Levin, the art collector and philanthropist whose
husband attorney Philip J. Levin passed away in 1971.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/27/nyregion/janice-levin-87-philanthropist-of-the-arts.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/27/nyregion/janice-levin-87-philanthropist-of-the-arts.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/25/classified/paid-notice-deaths-levin-janice-h.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/25/classified/paid-notice-deaths-levin-janice-h.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1f497d;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Nisan, 5761): Ten-month-old Shalevet Pass was murder this afternoon by a
Palestinian sniper belong to the Tanzim terrorist group while sitting in his
stroller.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Shalhevet_Pass#/media/File:Shalhevet_Pass.jpg"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Shalhevet_Pass#/media/File:Shalhevet_Pass.jpg</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002(12th of
Nisan, 5762): Chaike Belchatowska Spiegel, one of the last surviving combatants
of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis, died in Montreal at the
age of 81. She had been hospitalized for about two years, her family said.
Probably no more than 10 other combatants from the uprising are still alive,
said her son-in-law, Eugene Orenstein, who teaches modern Jewish history at
McGill University in Montreal. In January 1943, Chaike Belchatowska joined the
Jewish Fighting Organization, known by its Polish acronym ZOB, which had been
formed the previous year to resist the deportation of Jews from the ghetto to
the Treblinka extermination camp by the Nazi forces that had overrun Poland in
1939. On April 19, the first night of the Jewish feast of Passover on the
secular calendar, a Nazi force, equipped with tanks and artillery and under the
command of Col.Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg, entered the ghetto to resume
the deportations, which had been suspended in January after running into stiff resistance.
This time the Nazis were repulsed from the ghetto altogether, suffering heavy
losses at the hands of the ZOB and other resistance groups, all of them poorly
armed with only a few smuggled guns, little ammunition and homemade gasoline
bombs. Colonel Sammern-Frankenegg was relieved of his command and replaced by
Gen. Jürgen Stroop, who attacked again. But the Nazi forces found themselves
blocked once more by fierce Jewish resistance after several days of vicious
street fighting. The Germans then changed tactics and, using flame throwers,
began systematically burning down the houses of the ghetto. The ZOB
headquarters fell on May 8, but sporadic resistance continued into June and
July. Meanwhile, Ms. Belchatowska, together with her husband-to-be, Boruch
Spiegel, the leader of a ZOB fighting unit, and some 50 other Jewish resistance
fighters, managed to escape from the ghetto to the forests outside Warsaw; from
there, they continued to harass the Germans until the end of the war. After the
Germans were driven from Poland by Soviet troops, Ms. Belchatowska and Mr.
Spiegel moved to Sweden, where they married and where their son Chil, or
Julius, was born. In late 1948 they went to Montreal after failing to obtain a
visa for the United States. Chaike Belchatowska Spiegel, who was often known in
English as Helen, was born in Warsaw. Her parents separated shortly afterward,
and she was raised by her mother, who was an active Jewish socialist. She
inherited much of her mother's political philosophy, becoming a member of the
Jewish Labor Bund, an organization founded in Czarist Russia to promote a brand
of Marxist socialism that would provide cultural autonomy for Jews. After the
first mass deportations from the Warsaw ghetto in the summer of 1942, she
encouraged Jews to resist being moved by every means possible. She helped
circulate a Yiddish-language paper warning that their real destination would be
Treblinka and that the Nazis were lying when they encouraged volunteers by
promising them more food and greater freedom. In November of that year, she
herself was herded onto a train bound for Treblinka but managed to break out of
a cattle car and escape back to the ghetto. After moving to Montreal, Mrs.
Spiegel and her husband ran a business making purses and other leather goods.
She is survived by her husband; their son, Julius, who is the Brooklyn parks
commissioner, and their daughter, Mindy Spiegel of Montreal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002:
Marc-André Hamelin, who has recorded Leo Ornstein's work, is scheduled perform
several Ornstein pieces at the Miller Theater in what is a memorial concert for
the Russian-born Jewish composer and pianist who passed away on February 27.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/05/arts/leo-ornstein-108-pianist-and-avant-garde-composer.html?searchResultPosition=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/05/arts/leo-ornstein-108-pianist-and-avant-garde-composer.html?searchResultPosition=1</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: Rabbi
Janet Marder was named president of the Reform Movement's Central Conference of
American Rabbis. This meant that she had become the first woman to lead a major
rabbinical organization.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004: “Israeli
officials expressed growing confidence today that Hamas” terrorists “would not
manage to fulfill their threats of extraordinary retaliation for Israel's
killing of their…leader, Sheik Ahmed Yassin.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: Robert
Iger reassigned Peter Murphy, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Disney’s
chief strategic officer, and pledged to disband the company's strategic
planning division. Iger also vowed to restore much of the decision-making
authority that the division had assumed to the company's individual business
units.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2006: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that The
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) strongly condemned the Mayor of London, Ken
Livingstone, for remarks urging two leading Jewish property developers to
"go back to Iran and try their luck with the ayatollahs, if they don't
like the planning regime or my approach." The two property developers,
brothers Simon and David Reuben, are of Iraqi Jewish origin and were born in
India. Both are British citizens. Mr. Livingstone has refused calls for an
apology. Instead, he stated: "I would offer a complete apology to the
people of Iran to the suggestion that they may be linked in any way to the
Reuben brothers. I wasn't meaning to be offensive to the people of Iran."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2006: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The New York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">featured a review of
"My Father is a Book: A Memoir of Bernard Malamud" by Janna Malamud
Smith.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007(7<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5767): Ninety-two year old Leon Banov, Jr. the Charleston born son of
Minnie and Dr. Leon Banov and the Medical College of South Carolina trained
proctologist who was the husband of Rita Landesman Banov and father of Jane and
Alan Banov passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/charleston/obituary.aspx?n=leon-banov&pid=86978509&fhid=6051"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/charleston/obituary.aspx?n=leon-banov&pid=86978509&fhid=6051</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: In
Jerusalem, The Bible Lands Museum English lecture series presents: "The
Classical Islamic Attitude to Jerusalem," by Professor Moshe Sharon of
Hebrew University<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2008: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Haaretz</span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> reported that in a
rare departure from government practice, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah is
planning to convene an interfaith conference for Muslims, Christians and Jews,
according to the Saudi-owned Al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Two
people were lightly wounded and nine were in shock after Palestinians fired a
volley of Kassam rockets at Sderot. Six rockets were lobbed at Sderot, two of
them landing inside the town. Security forces were trying to locate the other
four rockets.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Richard
Anderson Falk began serving as “a United Nations Special Rapporteur on
"the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied
since 1967."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: The
Israel Defense Forces captured a senior Hamas terrorist who helped mastermind
the 2002 suicide bombing at a Passover Seder at Park Hotel in Netanya, in which
29 people were killed and nearly 150 others wounded. Omar Jabar, who headed
Hamas' military wing in the West Bank city of Tul Karm, was among seven wanted
Palestinians already detained by the IDF. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Students
at Haifa University expressed their anger today after the university decided to
schedule tests on the Holocaust Memorial Day, some during the siren that marks
a moment of silence. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Double
Sextet" a composition by Steve Reich was performed for the time in
Richmond.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009 (1st of
Nisan 5769): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Israeli
culinary writer Janna Gur gave a lecture on the Cuisine of Israel at the
College of Technology in New York City accompanied by a cooking demonstration
by students<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Keren
Ann Zeidel is scheduled to perform at The City Winery in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: In
Washington, D.C., Robyn Helzner, one of the leading interpreters of world
Jewish music, and Cantor Larry Paul are scheduled to lead a Carlebach-inspired
service at the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010(11th of
Nisan,5770): Major Eliraz Peretz 31, from Kiryat Arba, who was the deputy
commander of the Golani battalion and Staff Sergeant Ilan Sviatkovsky, 21, from
Rishon Letzion were killed during fighting on the Gaza border today. Peretz’s
brother had been killed while fighting in Lebanon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: In
Rockville, MD, Tikvat Israel Congregation is scheduled to sponsor an old
fashioned Sock Hop.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: “The
Infidel” and “Vidal Sasoon: The Movie” are scheduled to be shown at the
Westchester Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: “Berlin
'36” is scheduled to be shown on opening night of the Hartford Jewish Film
Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(20th of
Adar II): Eighty-six-year-old “Stanley Bleifeld, a figurative sculptor whose
bronzes adorn the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the Navy Memorial in
Washington and museums including the Museum of the City of New York” passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/arts/design/stanley-bleifeld-sculptor-for-navy-and-baseball-hall-of-fame-dies-at-86.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/arts/design/stanley-bleifeld-sculptor-for-navy-and-baseball-hall-of-fame-dies-at-86.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(20th of
Adar II): Ninety-four-year-old internet pioneer Paul Baran passed away. (As
reported by Katie Hafner)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/technology/28baran.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Paul%20Baran&st=cse"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/technology/28baran.html?_r=1&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=Paul%20Baran&amp;st=cse</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The 16th
Annual Hartford Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a “Book and Film”
event commemorating the Kindertransport.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Publication of “Three Roses for Women’s History Month.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jewishmuseummd.org/2012/03/three-roses-for-women's-history-month/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://jewishmuseummd.org/2012/03/three-roses-for-women’s-history-month/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Today
the Supreme Court reversed the lower court decision in the case of Zivotofsky
v. Clinton with Chief Justice Roberts writing for the majority that “The
federal courts are not being asked to supplant a foreign policy decision of the
political branches with the courts’ own unmoored determination of what United
States policy toward Jerusalem should be. Instead, Zivotofsky requests that the
courts enforce a specific statutory right. To resolve his claim, the Judiciary
must decide if Zivotofsky's interpretation of the statute is correct, and
whether the statute is constitutional. This is a familiar judicial exercise.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013(15<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5773): First Day of Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: “At dawn
this morning, a large group gathered on a mountain in the Negev desert to
reenact the moments leading up to the Israelites exodus from Egypt.” (As
reported by Andrew Esentein)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/african-hebrew-israelites-reenact-exodus-in-passover-tradition.premium-1.512309?trailingPath=2.169%2C2.212%2C2.214%2C"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/african-hebrew-israelites-reenact-exodus-in-passover-tradition.premium-1.512309?trailingPath=2.169%2C2.212%2C2.214%2C</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: In the
evening numerous congregations are scheduled to host community Seders including
Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Agudas Achim in Iowa City and Kol Ami in
Arlington, VA<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Bahrain’s lawmakers voted today to label the Lebanese militia Hezbollah a
terrorist organization, the Lebanon-based news outlet Now Lebanon reported.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s telephone conversation with Turkish Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was the start of the process of improving
Israeli-Turkish ties, not the end of it, a government official said today. The
official’s comments came as Erdogan continued boasting of Israel’s apology, and
as the Ankara Municipality erected billboards thanking Erdogan for upholding
Turkish pride.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
In Fairfax, VA, Gesher Jewish Day School is scheduled to open its 6th annual
Used Book Sale.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Igor and the Cranes' Journey” is scheduled to be shown a the Northern Virginia
Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
In Portland, the Oregon Jewish Museum is scheduled to host “Night of the
Maggidim” when real life becomes a Chassidic Tale.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Bowing to pressure from Arab states UN Human Rights Council President Remigiusz
Henczel rejected the candidacy of Georgetown Law lecturer Christina Cerna as
the of UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories
choosing instead Indonesian Makarim Wibisono, “an outspoken critic of Israel.”
(As reported by Times of Israel)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The Israeli Navy fired on two Palestinian boats this morning and a third one
tonight that were thought to be involved in smuggling operations between Egypt
and Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
In Turkey, the Grand Synagogue of Edrine which had first been used Erev Pesach,
1909 and which was abandoned in 1983 “after most of the Jewish community left
the city, emigrating to Israel, Europe, or North America” was re-opened under
the leadership of Rabbi David Azuz who oversaw the “celebration and a
Shacharit, morning prayer service, attended by a large number of Jews including
Ishak Ibrahimzadeh, leader of the Jewish Community in Turkey, Rav Naftali
Haleva, deputy to Hakham Bashi (Chief Rabbi) Ishak Haleva, Bülent Arınç, Deputy
Prime Minister of Turkey, and some other Turkish high officials.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Synagogue_of_Edirne#/media/File:GrandSynagogueEdirne_(2).JPG"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Synagogue_of_Edirne#/media/File:GrandSynagogueEdirne_(2).JPG</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Holocaust survivor Halina Peabody is scheduled to speak at the Unites States Holocaust
Memorial Museum today as part of its “First Person Series.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“The human rights group Amnesty International said in a report issued today
that armed Palestinian organizations committed war crimes during the 2014
Gaza-Israel conflict, by killing both Israeli and Palestinian civilians using
indiscriminate projectiles.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015(6<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5775): Naomi Weisstein whose "Kuche, Kirche, Kinder: Psychology
Constructions the Female" is part of the Women's Liberation canon as was
her path- breaking research on visual perception” passed away today and is
mourned by “loving husband Jesse Lemisch” and the members of “History in
Action, an intergenerational network of feminist writers and activists.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jwa.org/people/weisstein-naomi"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://jwa.org/people/weisstein-naomi</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The Jewish Film Festival of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host a screening
of “24 Days” which “offers a gripping and carefully-plotted thriller that tells
the true story of the kidnapping of Ilan Halimi in a Paris suburb by The Gang
of Barbarians, who expect a huge ransom as they assume that all Jews have
money.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
In New York, Eléonore Biezunski is scheduled to deliver a lecture on Creating
Songs in Boiberik: Singing Peace at "Felker Yontev" in which she
“examines the structure of these pageants and how they continue to impact the
music scene in Yiddish today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Tikkun” a prizewinning film at the Jerusalem and Locarno Film Festivals
directed by Avishai Sivan is scheduled to be shown at the Museum of Modern Art
this evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
The Jews in the American South is scheduled to come to an end in Savannah,
Georgia where the Jewish community dates at back to 1733.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
During his weekly Saturday night lecture, “Israel Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak
Yosef “said non-Jews could live in Israel only if they observe the seven
Noahide Laws, which include prohibitions against idolatry, blaspheming
God, murder, forbidden sexual relations, stealing and eating the limb off a
live animal, and which proscribe the establishment of a legal system” and that
“Non-Jews, Yosef are in Israel only to serve Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Baba Joon” is scheduled to be shown at the 20<sup>th</sup> annual Israeli Film
Festival in Philadelphia, PA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The Seattle Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a brunch featuring Matzoh
Momma's delicious spread of Jewish soul food, klezmer music by The Klez Katz!,
and coffee by Batdorf & Bronson Coffee Roasters of Olympia before a
screening of the “Last Laugh.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The AIPAC Policy Conference is scheduled to begin today in Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
“Hundreds of teen singers from the U.S. and Israel” are scheduled to perform on
the stage of the “Metropolitan Opera House when HaZamir holds its gala concert.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Friends and family send best birthday wishes to Joan Thaler, one of the grand
ladies of the Cedar Rapids Jewish community is contributions are too numerous
to recount.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host a
performance of Chilean-American writer and human rights activist Ariel
Dorfman's “Speak Truth to Power: Voices from Beyond the Dark.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The Center for Jewish History, Jewish Studies Program of Cornell University and
American Jewish Historical Society are scheduled to host the “Triangle Fire:
See You in the Streets” featuring Cornell University Professor Nick Salvatore
and author/artist Ruth Sergel in a lively discussion of the 1911 Triangle
Shirtwaist Factory Fire<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “An Wit Chef Alon Shaya” the Tel
Aviv-born, Philly-raised chef moved to New Orleans and won the James Beard
Award for Best New Restaurant in America.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“Red Trees” and “In the Land of Pomegranates” are scheduled to be shown at the
Jacob Burns Film Center during the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“Bal Ej: the hidden Jews of Ethiopia” is scheduled to be shown at the Eli Cohen
Center in Nahariya, Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018(10<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5778): On the Hebrew Calendar, observance of “Aliyah Day,” “an
official day of national celebration in which Jewish immigration to Israel is
honored and noteworthy immigrants are recognized for their contributions to the
nation.” (As reported by Debra Kamin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
Prime Minister Netanyahu will not be making his scheduled speech at the meeting
of AIPAC because he was flying back to Israel to deal with the rocket attacks
“from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip” which have struck to areas north of Tel
Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
In the wake of rocket attacks from Gaza, schools under the control of the
Regional Council of Chof Ashkelon are scheduled to be closed today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present “At the Crossroads of
Sephardic, Mizrahi, and Russian-Speaking Worlds: A Three-Part Learning and
Cultural Series on the Greater Sephardic Communities of the Former Soviet
Union.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
Public shelters in Tel Aviv and Be’er Sheva are scheduled to be open today <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
Friends and family of Joan Thaler, the most gracious and modest of Eishes
Chayils prepare to wish her the happiest of birthdays.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5780): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
“<span style="color: black;">From Day To Day: One Man’s Diary of Survival in Nazi
Concentration Camps” scheduled for today at the Illinois Holocaust Museum has
been canceled due to the Pandemic.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
At 9:00 pm, Addison-Penzak JCC’s Rabbi Laurie Matzkin is scheduled to lead a
“circle of song” on Zoom featuring Hebrew words and music to inspire and quiet
the mind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
This evening, Streicker Center is scheduled to host Rabbi David Wolpe on-line
as he offers “Lessons of Resilience from the Torah.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
Hillel@Home is scheduled to host the virtual “Why Is This Passover Different
Than All Others?” during which “Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks offers a message of
hope…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to present “Leaving Egypt: Passover Prep”
with Rabbi Jen Gubitz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Temple Emanu El is scheduled to host a wine and cheese reception prior to the
special Refugee Shabbat Friday night service.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Congregation B’nai Torah of Sudbury’s Rabbi Dr. Lisa Eiduson and cantorial
soloist Jodi Blankstein are scheduled to present a special “Taste of Pesach:
Short and Sweet Shabbat Service.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
B’nai Jeshurun Congregation in Pepper Pike, OH is scheduled to a host a virtual
Kinder Shabbat service.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
In Brooklyn, Union Temple merged with Congregation Beth Elohim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Following yesterday’s report by Israel’s election commission that with 100% of
votes counted, Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party and his natural allies have
won 52 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, Israel’s parliament” and “an
ideologically diverse array of parties committed to ousting him won 57 seats”
“party leaders have already begun negotiations that are expected to drag on for
weeks” in an attempt to assemble a majority of at least 61 seats thus avoiding
a fifth election in two years. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Jewish Arts Collaborative is scheduled to present JLive Art with Julie Weitz
who, Passover 2021 “has created ‘Golem v. Golem,’ a a hybrid digital-public
art-physical installation for Passover…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar II, 5782): Parashat Shimini; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host a concert featuring “great piano
trios and piano quartets.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The National Library of Israel is scheduled to present via Zoom a lecture by
Gabriel Said Reynolds, the Crowley Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology at
the University of Notre Dame on “Sin an Repentance in Quran.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The Museum of Jewish Heritage in Lower Manhattan is scheduled to host New
York-born composer Josh Waletzky and playwright Jeyn Levison’s new Yiddish
theatrical concert—“Pleytem tsuzamen / פּליטים צוזאַמען/ Refugees Together”—
which is a call for solidarity with those who are most threatened. Confronting
our current reality, the songs present a dynamic fusion of traditional forms
with the social, political, and personal challenges posed by the world today —
and they embody the power of music to foster the courage we need to “link arms
and take to the streets together against bloodshed and hatred.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
In Israel, “a nationwide ‘week of paralysis’” that is in response to
Netanyahu’s announcement that the government would pass a core tenet of the
legislation — giving the coalition near-complete control over judicial
appointments — in the coming days” is scheduled to begin today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Yom HaShoah service is scheduled to take
place at Coe College, Sinclair Auditorium which will feature Yom HaShoah Guest
Speaker, Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman and her grandson, Noah Goodman thanks
to the support of the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thaler Holocaust
Remembrance Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.newspressnow.com/st_joe_live/national_entertainment/holocaust-survivor-recalls-childhood-years-in-auschwitz/article_90ce1385-b779-514b-af51-892828dcbdc4.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.newspressnow.com/st_joe_live/national_entertainment/holocaust-survivor-recalls-childhood-years-in-auschwitz/article_90ce1385-b779-514b-af51-892828dcbdc4.html</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The Lillian
and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a symposium on “This
Moment on Campus: Challenges and Opportunities” with panelists “Jason
Benkendorf, Executive Director at American University Hillel, Professor Ilai
Saltzman, Director of the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies at the
University of Maryland, Gershon Stein, Georgetown University Student and Colin
Powell Leadership Program Intern at the U.S. Department of State Office of
Israeli and Palestinian Affairs, and Allison Stone, George Washington
University student and member of Hillel International’s student cabinet.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: La'aretz
Foundation at Eden Gallery, Soho, NYC is scheduled to “The Women Behind the
Reserves Project” that “honors the contribution of Israeli women in war and on
the homefront of IDF Air Force Unit 669.:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As part
of the “Women on the Move” series, the Streicker Center is scheduled hold host
an appearance by Sandra Fox, author of the new book <u>The Jews of Summer.</u><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: In a new
online lecture series with Prof. Michael Gluzman, starting today attendees are
scheduled to “discuss Bialik's writing following the pogrom, his mission to
Kishinev on behalf of the Historical Committee, during which he wrote survivor
testimonies, and the emotional twists he experienced while processing the
events and writing a monumental poem documenting his mourning work.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The “73rd
National Jewish Book Awards Celebration” is scheduled to take place in the <br />
Bohemian National Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/73rd-national-jewish-book-awards-celebration-tickets-805813709497?aff=oddtdtcreator">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/73rd-national-jewish-book-awards-celebration-tickets-805813709497?aff=oddtdtcreator</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
26th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 172 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p><br /><p></p>melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-4306410165569428962024-03-23T17:52:00.000-06:002024-03-24T16:01:07.701-06:00This Day, March 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p><a name="_Hlk67415169"><em><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">March 25</span></span></b></em></a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">972:</span> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sviatoslav I who had
conquered the Khazarian kingdom in 969 after which <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Khazar Jewish population may have
assimilated or migrated in part passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1271: King Jaime (Kings
James I of Aragon) freed all the Jews in Murviedro, a city in Valencia of debts
from Christians. It should be noted this came after the Christians burned down
a synagogue, and then were forced to rebuild it themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1303(7th of Nisan):
Massacre of the Jews of Weissensse, Germany <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1488: Obadiah ben
Abraham of Bertinoro “a 15th-century Italian rabbi best known for his popular
commentary on the Mishnah, commonly known as "The Bartenura" arrived
in Jerusalem where he rejuvenated the moribund Jewish community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1510: Birthdate of
Normandy native Guillaume Postel the linguist, diplomat and Cabbalist who
“became the first scholar to recognize the inscriptions on Judean coins from
the period of the Great Jewish Revolt as Hebrew written in the ancient
"Samaritan" character” and who collected Latin translations of the
Zohar, the Sefer Yetzirah, and the Sefer ha-Bahir, the fundamental works of
Jewish Kabbalah” as well as other Cabbalistic texts, such as his own commentary
on the Cabbalistic significance of the Menorah, which he published in 1548 in
Latin and subsequently in Hebrew.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1525: Three years after
the fall of Rhodes, the janissaries revolted against Suleymann, ransacking the
palace of Ibrahim Pasha and looting the Jewish Quarter of Constantinople.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1541: Birthdate of
Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany whose son would turn Tuscany into
a haven for Sephardic Jews fleeing the Inquisition. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1584: “Queen Elizabeth
I granted Sir Walter Raleigh a charter for the colonization of an area in North
America” that would lead him to recruit Joachim Gans to join the expedition
which make Gans “the first recorded Jew in Colonial America.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1597(6<sup>th</sup> of
Nisan, 5357): Rabbi Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen, known as “Samuel Judah of
Padua, the son of Rabbi Meir ben Isaac Katzenellenbogen and the father of Saul
Wahl passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1601(21<sup>st</sup> of
Adar II, 5361): Doña Mariana was tried and put to death at an auto-da-fé held
in Mexico City today. She was one of the two surviving daughters of Doña
Francisca, who had been put to death earlier. The entire family had been found
guilty of the same crime – relapsing from Catholicism to Judaism. Only the
youngest daughter would escape death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1601: More than 100
people appeared in the sanbenito at the auto de fe in Mexico today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1735: For the year
beginning today, Jews accounted for 13 of the entries in the journal recording
maritime trade for the port of New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1737: In New York City,
Hanna Mears and Abraham Isaacks gave birth to Moses Isaacks, the husband of
Rachel Mears with whom he had fourteen children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1748: “For the quarter
beginning today there were seven Jewish entries”. “Jacob Rivera had three
entries and Mordecai Gomez, Jacob Franks, Samuel Naphtali and Abraham Hart had
one each.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1758(15<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5518): Parashat Tzav; Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1762: In Philadelphia,
PA, Prague native Mathias Bush and Tabitha Bush gave birth to David F. Bush.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1766(15<sup>th</sup> of
Nisan 5526): Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1769(16<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5529): Parashat Tzav<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1769: Birthdate of
Wurttemberg native Levi Abrahams, the husband of Roseanna Linderman and father
of Hester and Maria Abrahams, both of whom were born in Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1790: In North
Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Madel-Mathilda Cohen, the “daughter of Isaac Jacob
Gans and Pesse Pauline Leah Gans” and her husband Abraham Herz Cohen gave birth
to Philip Abraham Feibusch-Cohen<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1795: Birthdate of Zvi
Hirsch Kalischer, a German born Orthodox Rabbi who supported the Zionist ideal
before it officially became a movement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/zevi-hirsch-kalischer"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/zevi-hirsch-kalischer</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1796(15<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5556): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1798: In Baltimore, MD,
Philadelphia native Frances Gratz and Reuben Etting gave birth to Benjamin
Etting, the husband of Harriet Marx whom he married in 1830 at Richmond, VA and
with whom he had six children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1801: In Padua, Baruch
Hayyim Almanzi, a wealthy merchant and his wife gave birth to Joseph Almanzi
“an Italian Jewish bibliophile and poet.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1807(15th of Adar II,
5567): Shushan Purim on the same day that in the United Kingdom, the Slave
Trade Act received Royal Assent.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1809: In Groningen,
Holland, Elizabeth Speyer and Benjamin Moses Van Praagh gave birth to Morris,
Van Praagh, the husband Sarah Boam the father of Rebecca and Lawrence Van
Praagh and the President of The Hambro Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1810(19<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5570): Jochem (Jochanan) David de Mets-Maarsen who had been born in
Amsterdam in 1728 and married Marianne Abraham passed away today in the
Netherlands.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><a name="_Hlk162098232"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1813:
In North Carolina, Isaac D. Mordecai, the Philadelphia bon so of Moses and
Esther Whitlock Mordecai and Zipporah "Russell" Mordecai the Baltimore
born daughter of Philip Moses Russell and Esther Mordecai gave birth to future Alabama
resident John Mordecai, the husband of Jane “Steward” York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk162098232;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1813: Birthdate of Leopold von Kaulla the “attorney at the
supreme court of Bavaria” and “director of the Hofbank at Stuttgart” who “reorganized
some of the institutions founded by his family, transferring them to Stuttgart,
where they were incorporated under the name of "Kaulla'sche
Familien-Stiftung" by King William I. of Württemberg on March 18, 1856.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk162098232;"></span></span></span><a href="https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9248-kaulla"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk162098232;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9248-kaulla</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk162098232;"></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk162098232;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk162098232;"></span>
</span><p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1817: Tsar Alexander I
recommended formation of Society of Israeli Christians, whose primary function
was to convert Jews to Christianity. It failed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1822: In Stockholm,
Beata Levin and Salomon Josephson gave birth August Abraham Josephson, the
husband of Augusta Hortensia Jacobbson with whom he had three children and who
may be have been a relative of the painter Ernst Josephson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1828: Shaare Chesed,
which was re-named Touro Synagogue, the first congregation formed in New
Orleans was incorporated today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1829: In York Place
Queens Elm, Sophia and Nathaniel Levy gave birth to Maria Levy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1830(1<sup>st</sup> of
Nisan, 5590): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1830(1<sup>st</sup> of
Nisan, 5590): On the Jewish Calendar, Yahrzeit of Rabbi Saul Shiskes of Vilna <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1831: “The Colonial Act
of William IV which passed the Legislature “today” removed any restraint or
disabilities under which persons professing the Hebrew religion” in Barbados
“then labored and subjected them like other persons to fines and penalties for
the non-performance of duties.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1835: In London, Esther
and John Nathan gave birth to Samuel Nathan<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1835: Birthdate of
Amsterdam native Phoebe Neuburger, the wife of Levy Duis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1838: In Albany
founding of Congregation Beth-El which in 1885 joined with Anshe Emeth to form
Congregation Beth Emth whose members included Julius Laventall, Henry W. Lipman
and Isaac Brilleman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1838: In Jamaica,
Hannah and Isaac Kursheedt gave birth to Edwin Israel Kursheedt<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1839: Birthdate of
Solomon Hirsch, “one of the early leaders of Portland, Oregon’s Jewish
Community who “with Jacob Mayer and Louis Fleischner, Hirsch was one of the
founders of Fleischner, Mayer and Co., the largest wholesale dry goods company
on the West Coast” and the “Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to
the Ottoman Empire from 1889–1892”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1840: During the
Damascus Affair, Adophe Cremieux, vice president of the Central Consistorie of
French Israelites, hears the appeals Jews from the Syrian community seeking
relief for the Jews who have wrongly been imprisoned. A future member of the
Chamber of Deputies, this Sephardic lawyer, takes up the cause of his
co-religionists enlisting the support of no less than Adolphe Thiers, the
French Prime Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841: Louis Lowe who
had been praised by the Board of Jewish Deputies “for his efficient assistance
to Sir Moses Montefiore “was presented to Her Majesty, Queen Victoria” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1842(14<sup>th</sup> of
Nisan, 5602): Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1843(23<sup>rd</sup> of
Adar II, 5603): Parashat Shimini; Shabbat Parah observed as the Great Comet
begins to move away from the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1844: In Mannheim,
Grandy Duchy of Baden, Jacob Abraham Cohen and his second wife Friederike
Ettlinger gave birth to Ferdinand Cohen-Blind, the brother of Mathilde Blind
who committed suicide after his failed attempt to assassinate Otto Von Bismark.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="https://academicinfluence.com/people/ferdinand-cohenblind"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://academicinfluence.com/people/ferdinand-cohenblind</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1845(16<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5606): Fifty-seven-year-old Isaac Russell, the son of Philip and
Esther Russell and the husband of Perla Sheftall Russell passed away today
after which he was interred in the Mordecai Sheftall Museum in Savannah, GA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1846: Sir Walter
Charles James, 1st Baron Northbourne and “Sarah Caroline, the daughter of
Cuthbert Ellison” gave birth to Walter James, 2nd Baron Northbourne the Liberal
political leader who in 1906 called on the British government to make public
“any consular or other reports concerning the anti-Jewish outrages in Russia”
because “he thought the publication of any such reports might indirectly have
some effect in inducing the Russian Government to do its best to remedy
conditions that outraged the civilization of the twentieth century.” (Editor’s
note - I have not been able to find a reason why this member of the British
aristocracy spoke out on behalf of the Jews during the Pogroms in Russia.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848: In Germany Marx
Mordechai Pfaelzer and Karoline/Gitel Pfaelzer gave birth to Morris Moses
Pfaelzer, the Philadelphia jeweler who married Sophie Pfaelzer with whom he had
two children – Frank Pfaelzer and Henrietta Stern<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852: In Russia, Elias
Rogoff and his wife gave birth to Odessa and Konigsberg trained cantor Moses
Rogoff the cantor at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Detorit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860: Austrian banker
Jonas Freiherr von Königswarter was knighted today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861(14<sup>th</sup> of
Nisan, 5621): As the storm clouds of secession roll across America, Jews on
both sides of the Mason-Dixon line sit down to the Seder tonight on the first
night of Pesach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861:
Thirty-one-year-old Henry Straus, a native of Alsace living in Jackson, MS
enlisted in the Confederate Army today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863: Barcuh Castello
married Sophia Woolf today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863: In Louisville,
KY, “Moritz (Morris) Flexner, an immigrant from Neumark, Bohemia, via several
years in Strasbourg, France; and his wife Esther from Roden, Germany” gave
birth to Simon Flexner a fighter against all diseases. He probed and pushed to
find the causes and cures for human ailments. As a result of his work, he
became the director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. His
brother Bernard became a famous lawyer and an ardent Zionist. Another brother,
Abraham, was the first director at the Institute for the Advanced Study at
Princeton. Simon went to the University of Louisville to study medicine and
received his M.D. in 1889. Finding that the laboratories at the school had very
few supplies, he acquired a microscope and taught himself how to use it. He
then went to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore to study pathology. He soon
began to publish papers on pathology and in 1892. He became an associate in
pathology in the newly opened Johns Hopkins Medical School. He became involved
with many epidemics, including one of cerebrospinal meningitis in western
Maryland in 1893. In 1899, he was in Manila where he found the strain of
dysentery bacillus that became known as the Flexner type. In 1901, the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was created and he was chosen to be
one of seven members on the board of scientific directors. He was asked to
organize and direct the laboratories on medical research. This concept of
research was new to America and it was financially secure through the
Rockefellers' endorsements. In 1905, New York City was hit with a severe
epidemic of cerebrospinal meningitis, which Flexner had encountered 12 years
before. He experimented with monkeys until he found a serum to conquer the
disease. In 1907, he found himself trying to fight an epidemic of poliomyelitis
which had spread through the eastern states. He was able to isolate the
infectious agent but he couldn't find a cure, since the disease was caused by a
filterable virus rather than a bacterial organism. His discovery laid the basis
for others to find polio vaccines some 40 Years later. Simon was the only
editor of the Journal of Experimental Medicine for 19 years. During this time
he wrote many articles on public health, research and education. In World War
I, he was commissioned a lieutenant colonel in the Army Medical Corps and went
to Europe to inspect and establish the medical facilities of the expeditionary
forces. After the war, his role in the Rockefeller Institute became greater,
and now included involvement in the animal pathology department at Princeton.
Flexner was active in many organizations and became an officer of quite a few.
He retired from the Rockefeller Institute in 1935 and a year after was
appointed an Eastman Professor at Oxford University. He died in 1946, leaving
behind a legacy in the field of pathology.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1864: </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jewish Chronicle </span></em></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">published the following
description of the death of famed musician Isaac Nathan who had died in January
of that year. Mr. Nathan was a passenger by No. 2 tramway car […] [he] alighted
from the car at the southern end, but before he got clear of the rails the car
moved onwards […] he was thus whirled round by the sudden motion of the
carriage and his body was brought under the front wheel. “The horse-drawn tram
was the first in Sydney: Nathan was Australia's (indeed the southern hemisphere's)
first tram fatality.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865: Captain Leopold
Meyer of Philadelphia completed his three year enlistment as a member of
Company C of the 113<sup>th</sup> Regiment – Twelfth Cavalry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866: Two days after
she had passed away, the former Rebecca Arrobas, the wife of David Hyams and
the mother of Rachel and Abrahm Hyams was buried today at the West Ham Jewish
Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1867: In Saxe-Weimar,
Germany, Nathan Riesman and Sophie Eisman gave birth University of Michigan and
University of Pennsylvania educated doctor David Riesman, the professor of
Clinical Medicine at the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in
Medicine and visiting physician at the Philadelphia General Hospital and Jewish
Hospital who edited the American Text-Book of Pathology and was the father of
sociologist David Riesman, the author of the best-selling <u>The Lonely Crowd.<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869(13th of Nisan,
5629):Ta'anit Bechorot<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869: “The Jewish
Passover” published today reported that “tomorrow evening at sundown the feast
of the Passover will be commenced by Israelites everywhere, in commemoration of
their ancestors having remained intact on the night when all of their oppressors,
the Egyptians, were smitten by the angel of death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1869: </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The New York Times </span></em></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reports that “To-morrow
evening at sundown, the feast of the Passover will be commenced by Israelites
everywhere, in commemoration of their ancestors having remained intact, on the
night when all the first-born in the families of their oppressors. the Egyptians,
were smitten by the angel of death. The feat will continue eight days, during
which but unleavened bread will be eaten…On the first and second evenings
various commemorative rites will be indulged in in every household including
the recital of Scriptural and legendary narratives, and familiar conversations
on the subject of the deliverance. Appropriate psalms will also be chanted.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870: It was reported
today that the ladies of the B’nai Jeshrun Benevolent Society in New York have
established an Industrial Home for impoverished Jewish Women.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870: In Bohemia,
Joachim and Barbara (Eisenschimmel) Sabath, gave birth to Judge Joseph Sabath,
who in 1885 came to the United States where he studied law in Chicago with his
brother Congressman Adolph J. Sabath and lived with his wife Regina
Mayer.Sabath.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871: In the Suwałki
Governorate of Congress Poland, a part of the Russian Empire Duvvid Schubart
and Katrina Helwitzin gave birth to Levi Schubart who gained fame as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lee Shubert, the “American theatre
owner/operator and producer and the eldest of seven siblings of the theatrical
Shubert family.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.shubertfoundation.org/about/brothers.asp"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.shubertfoundation.org/about/brothers.asp</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872(15th of Adar II,
5632): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872: Today, “the Royal
Navy launched its first armour-cased iron vessel, the ironclad H.M.S. Thunder”
which had “been built by Samuda Brothers, Jewish marine engineers and ship
builders.” MG 108<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873: Birthdate of
agronomist Selig Suskin, a native of the Crimea who was one of the founders of
Be’er Tuvia, and a delegate to the Sixth Zionist Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874(7<sup>th</sup> of
Nisan, 5634): Leading Hungarian tobacco merchant Simon Wolf Schossberger De
Torna, “who in 1862 became the first Hungarian Jews elevated to the nobility by
Emperor Francis Joseph I” and whose son “Sigmund von Schossberger was the first
Jew to be created a Baron in Hungary” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874: Birthdate of
Russian born American chazzan Zevulun "Zavel" Kwartin<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875:<span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>La Périchole,</i>
“an opéra bouffe in three acts by Jacques Offenbach” was part of a triple bill
that opened today at the Royalty Theatre in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1875: In
Aldershot, Portsmouth native Julia Phillips and Russian born Mayer Woolfson
gave birth toe Lionel Woolfson.</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: In Alpena,
Michigan, the Hebrew Benevolent Society met today and decided that their
meeting room would “be used for holding ‘prayer meeting on the following Holy
Days despite the fact that a dispute had broken out over a “divergence” between
Orthodox and Reform beliefs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: Birthdate of
Milton Moses Portis, the native of Riceville, Canada who came to the U.S. in
1880 where he earned a B.S. from the University of Chicago and an M.D. from
Rush Medical College.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="https://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/luna/servlet/detail/NLMNLM~1~1~101439778~192222:-Milton-M--Portis-"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/luna/servlet/detail/NLMNLM~1~1~101439778~192222:-Milton-M--Portis-</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878: Birthdate of
Samuel Goldstein, the native of Odessa who gained fame as Sidney M. Goldin “an
American Jewish silent film director as well as a prominent writer, actor and
producer for Yiddish theater during the early 20th century” who worked with such
luminaries as “Molly Picon, Maurice Schwartz and Ludwig Satz.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878: Rabbi Abram
Isaacs is scheduled to deliver a lecture tonight on “A Hero of the Synagogue”
at the 34th Street Synagogue in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879(1st of Nisan,
5639): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880: In an article
explaining the origins of Easter Eggs, the New York Times reports that “the old
Jews introduced eggs at the feast of Passover…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880(13<sup>th</sup> of
Nisan, 5640): Fifty-nine-year-old Ludmilla Assing German-born Italian author,
the daughter of Dr. David Assing and Rose Marria Assing passed away today in
Florence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880: Miss Emita Wolf
and Mr. Lewis May were married this evening at the home of Mr. Charles Wolf,
the prominent New York banker who is the brother of the bride. The groom is
President of Temple Emanu-El and “the head of a large banking house at No. 33 Broad
Street in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: Among the winners
of the Grave Prize Essays at Williams College was Austin B. Bassett of Albany,
NY who wrote on “Ancient and Modern Jew.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: Rabbi Nahum
Levison of Safed and his wife gave birth to Sir Leon Levison, a convert who
became the “first president of the International Hebrew Christian Alliance,”
founded “the Russian Jews Relief Fund” and the “Palestine Jews Relief Fund” and
married Kate Barnes, the daughter of John Barnes, with whom he had four
children and made his home in Edinburgh.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.lcje.net/High%20Leigh/Sunday,%20August%207/2%20Sir%20Leon%20Levison%20at%20High%20Leigh%201931%20by%20kai-kjaer%20hansen.pdf"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.lcje.net/High%20Leigh/Sunday,%20August%207/2%20Sir%20Leon%20Levison%20at%20High%20Leigh%201931%20by%20kai-kjaer%20hansen.pdf</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/11/26/85439276.pdf"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/11/26/85439276.pdf</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882: A fire broke out
at nine o’clock tonight at a tenement house located at 159 Attorney Street in
New York destroying a supply of Matzah which a baker named Louis Schoenthal had
stored on the building’s first floor. Schoenthal claims that the Matzah which
he had prepared for the upcoming holiday of Passover was worth $6,000.
Fortunately, he has insurance which should cover the loss.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883(16th of Adar II,
5643): Shushan Purim observed since the 15th of Adar fell on Shabbat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883(16<sup>th </sup>of
Adar II, 5643): Pressburg, Hungary born Austrian rabbi, Simon Schreiber, “the
foremost leader of the Orthodox Jews in Galicia in religious as well as worldly
matters” who was elected to the Austrian Parliament in 1879 passed away today
at Cracow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883(16th of Adar II):
Rabbi Simeon Sofer of Galicia, founder of Mahazikei ha-Dat passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884: In New York City,
Moses and Amelia Ottinger gave birth to Lawrence Ottinger, the founder of the
United States Plywood Corporation, the brother of realtor Leon Ottinger, State
Supreme Court Justice Nathan Ottinger and New York State Attorney General
Albert Ottinger, and husband of “former Louise Lowenstein” with whom he had two
children, Richard and Patricia Ottinger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886: University of
California trained engineer and George Washington University trained attorney
Morris Bien, the New York City born son of Theresa Leipold and Joseph Bien and
future resident of Takoma Park, married Lilla Virginia Hart today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: In Lithuania,
Rosa Feinberg gave birth University of Pennsylvania graduate and Yeshiva
Mishkan Yistrole trained Rabbi Louis Finberg, the spiritual leader of the
“Adath Israel Congregation” and husband of Rosa Rauneker Feinberg with whom he
raised two daughters and one son, Mordecai Feinberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888: In New York, Mrs.
Mary Isaacs, the mother of six, was the first of over eight hundred poor Jews
who received meat orders courtesy of funds raised by Mrs. M. Rosendorff. This
was part of an annual project to provide food for the city’s poor Jews so that
they can celebrate Passover.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888: In Russia, Sam
and Bella Hamburg gav birth to St. Louis businessman Sam Hamburg, Jr., the husband
of Dora Hamburg and President of the Hamburg Realty and Investment Company who
was a director of the Federation Jewish Charities of St. Louis, president of
the Orthodox Old Folks Home in St. Louis and a member of B’nai Amoona
Congregation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888: Birthdate of New
York City native and WW I Jacob Julian Aper, the Columbia trained dentist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><a name="_Hlk130559200"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889:
Birthdate of Ida Weinstein Posner, the wife of Isidor Posner and the mother of
Rhoda and Irving Posner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130559200;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889: Birthdate of Bazar, Russia native Philip Kravitz, Dayton,
OH, businessman who was president of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beth Abraham Synagogue who passed away in April
of 1966<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130559200;"></span></span></span><a href="https://www.bethabrahamdayton.org/welcome/bas-story/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130559200;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.bethabrahamdayton.org/welcome/bas-story/</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130559200;"></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130559200;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130559200;"></span></span></span><a href="https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=CJP19660128-01.1.14&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN----------"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130559200;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=CJP19660128-01.1.14&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN----------</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130559200;"></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130559200;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130559200;"></span>
</span><p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: Zadoc Kahn was
inducted as Chief Rabbi of France, a position to which he had been elected in
1899 following the death of Chief Rabbi Isidor. Kahn “then entered upon a
period of many-sided philanthropic activity. He organized the relief movement
in behalf of the Jews expelled from Russia, and gave much of his time to the
work of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, which elected him honorary
president in recognition of his services. He aided in establishing many private
charitable institutions, including the Refuge du Plessis-Piquet, near Paris, an
agricultural school for abandoned children, and the Maison de Retraite at
Neuilly-sur-Seine, for young girls. He was appointed Chevalier of the Legion of
Honor in 1879 and Officer in 1901. He was also Officer of Public Instruction.
He was one of the founders, the first vice-president, and, soon after,
president, of the Société des Études Juives (1879). He was considered a
brilliant orator, and one of his most noteworthy addresses was delivered on the
centenary of the French Revolution — "La Révolution Française et le
Judaïsme".<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: T. H. French and
Frank Daniels have purchased tickets so that all of the children attending the
Industrial School supported by the United Hebrew Charities can attend this
afternoon’s performance of “Little Puck” at the Grand Opera House. (Frank Daniels
was a stage actor who would pursue a film career in the early days of
cinema.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was not Jewish – just
generous)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: In the Court of
Common Pleas, Joseph Abrahamson, a wealthy young Jew, changed his his name to
Joseph Abraham Edison.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: Two days after
she had passed away, the former Cecilia Samuels, the wife of Phillip Joseph
Salomons with whom she had had five children before marrying Sir David
Salomons, MP was buried today at the Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: “Russian Hatred
of Jews” published today described yet another manifestation of anti-Semitism
in the Czar’s Empire where “grain speculators and merchants” are forming “a new
produce exchange from which Jews will be excluded.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: In New York City,
Frederick Fred Margareten, the Hungarian born Son of Rabbi Yoel/Joel Margareten
and Julia Yetta Margareten and his wife Regina Margareten gave birth to Julia
Ellenbogen, the wife of Louis Ellenbogen and the Mother of Esther Helen Gelber;
Joseph Ellenbogen and Regina Selma Mitouer<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: As the United
States copes with an economic depression, the Finance Committee of the 6-15-99
Club, a businessmen’s funded relief organization allocated $1,600 to various
charities including $100 to the United Hebrew Charities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: In San Francisco,
Isadore and Jennie Baruh Zellerbach gave birth Harold Lionel Zellerbach, the
graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, who was a senior executive with the
Crown Zellerbach Corporation, patron of the arts and husband of “the former
Doris Joseph a daughter, Mrs. Stephen N. Loew Jr.” with whom he had two sons,
Stephen and William.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1978/01/31/archives/harold-lionel-zellerbach-83-dies-an-industrialist-and-patron-of.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1978/01/31/archives/harold-lionel-zellerbach-83-dies-an-industrialist-and-patron-of.html</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: In Lithuania,
Bessie and Rabbi Ber Boruchoff<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gave
birth Boston University trained attorney Raphael Phillip Boruchoff, the husband
of Celia H. Boruchoff who 1905 came to Malden, MA where he was a member of the City
Council and President of the YMHA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: In Austria,
Israel and Chaie Sarah Ashkenas gave birth to future Cleveland resident Bertha
(Ashkenas) Feierman the husband of Samuel Feierman with whom she had two
daughers, Frances and Lois.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, II, 5746): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896:<span style="color: black;"> Reverend Henry Yates Saterlee, who in 1903 delivered a
sermon in which he said, “</span>The Jews are preserving the home and family
better than we Christians are doing” and that while “I do not know how to
account for this, but I do know it to be fact” was consecrated today as the
First Episcopal Bishop of Washington.<span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: The Monte Relief
Society which was started by former opera star Sofia Nueberger who is now known
as Sofia Monte Loebinger and 16 women in 1893 now has 350 members. Mrs.
Monte-Loebinger continues to serve as President.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other officers including Louise Simon – Vice
President; Mollie Teschner Recording Secretary; Emma Marx – Financial
Secretary; Carrie Heyman – Treasurer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: “Vaudeville for
Poor Children” published today described a vaudeville show performed by members
of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society for the
benefit youngsters under the care of the society and the Montefiore Home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899(14<sup>th </sup>of
Nisan, 5659): Parashat Tzav; Erev Peach<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899 (14th of Nisan,
5659): This evening, as Jews begin the observance of Pesach, services are held
at New York’s Temple Emanu-El conducted by Rabbi Joseph Silverman and Dr.
Gustav Gottheil with Mr. Sparger serving as Cantor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: “The Hebrew
Passover At Hand” published today described the observance of the holiday that
“s the anniversary of the going of the Children of Israel out of Egypt and
their freedom from bondage under Pharaoh.” “During the feast no leaven is
eaten” but “with the more radical Jews the feast is not now closely observed,
and the unleavened bread is not eaten, but a quantity is kept at the table…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: Today Rabbi Henry
S. Morais of Newport offered the opening prayer at the “seventh biennial
convention of the Jewish Theological Seminary Association” which “was held at
the Baron de Hirsch School under the leadership of its President, former Assemblyman
Joseph Blumentha.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: Birthdate of
British anthropologist Camillia Wedgwood, the daughter of Josiah Wegwood, the
British leader who spoke out against appeasement and supported the settlement
of Jews in Palestine in opposition to the White Paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“From 1937 she was secretary of the German
Emergency Fellowship Committee, which included Max Lemberg and Sydney Morris.
She pleaded the cause of Jewish and non-Aryan Christian victims of Nazi
persecution before (Sir) John McEwen, minister for the interior. In close
contact with her father, she raised money for refugee passages to Australia,
but confided to her sister Helen that she felt like 'a mouse nibbling at a
mountain'. She publicly protested against the treatment of the internees in the
Dunera and the refugees in the Strouma which sank in the Black Sea.” (As
reported by David Wetherell)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: Herzl is informed
that the Sultan studied his plan. Herzl is asked what plans he has for the
regulation of the Turkish debts under more favorable conditions than those
submitted by the French.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: Among the
earliest arrivals this afternoon at the Speedway “was Nathan Straus behind his
favorite trotting Cobwebs who was in fine form and at his top speed” which made
“it somewhat difficult to find a driver who was willing to risk defeat by starting
with him.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: Herzl met Lord
Cromer and Boutros Ghali in Cairo. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: In London, “Rosa
Enoyce and George Barnes” gave birth to Gertrude Maud Barnes, the actress known
as “Binnie Barnes.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/30/arts/binnie-barnes-95-actress-known-for-her-feisty-roles.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/30/arts/binnie-barnes-95-actress-known-for-her-feisty-roles.html</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: The Zionist
Commission led by Leopold Kessler and including Selig Soskin, Dr. Hillel Yaffe,
and Colonel Albert Goldsmid returned to Suez.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: The Jewish
quarter of Port Said, Egypt was invaded and looted by Arabs in consequence of
an earlier ritual murder charge that took place on September 17, 1902.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: Anatole Leroy
Beaulieu visited Hebrew Union College.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: University of
Pittsburgh trained medical doctor Luba Robin Goldsmith, the Ukrainian born
daughter of Beatrice Malamud and Nathaniel Goldsmith married Dr. Milton
Goldsmith today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1905: </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The New York Times </span></em></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reviews “Volume 9,” the
newest volume of The Jewish Encyclopedia to be published. Eventually there will
be a total of 12 volumes. “Volume Nine” opens “with a record of the Marawezyk
family of Polish scholars that flourished during the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries, and closes with the Philippson family, a family of German authors
and scientists, who rose to fame in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: In Pleschen,
Ruschka and Alfred Pinczower gave birth Dr. Kurt Pine, the refugee from
Hitler’s German who earned an M.A. and Ph.D from Yale while developing into a
noted social worker and raising a family with his wife Bessie Miriam Pine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/05/21/94102891.pdf"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/05/21/94102891.pdf</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: The East Side
Business Men’s Protective Business Association continued their annual
distribution Matzoth and Matzah flour to the poor Jews<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: It was reported
today that Ethel Levy will begin to appear at Keith Proctor’s vaudeville next
month.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: “The Majesty of
Birth, “a comedy…under the direction of Cohan and Harris” which “deals with the
intermarriage of Jews and Gentiles” opened today in Trenton, NJ. (Harris was
Jewish, Cohan was not)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: In Denver, CO,
Dora Lazarus and Same Levinson gave birth to Jerry Levinson who gained fame as
American songwriter Jerry Levingston, the husband of Ruth Schwarz and the father
of Gary Livingston who helped to write "It's the Talk of the Town",
"Under a Blanket of Blue", "Blue and Sentimental",
"Close to You", "Mairzy Doats", "Wake the Town and
Tell the People", "The Twelfth of Never", and "Young
Emotions".<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5670): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: Birthdate of
Benzion Mileikowsky, the native of Warsaw who gained fame as Benzion Netanyahu,
a leading Jewish historian whose son Benjamin became Prime Minister of Israel.
(As reported by Douglas Martin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: Birthdate of “the
deaf Jewish artist, David Ludwig Bloch <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who was one of the 10,911 Jewish men interned
at the Dachau Concentration Camp after "Kristallnacht", or the Night
of Broken Glass, in November, 1938” and who after his release was able to
emigrate to China. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="https://www.lbi.org/exhibitions/art-exile/david-ludwig-bloch"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.lbi.org/exhibitions/art-exile/david-ludwig-bloch</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: Birthdate of Jack
Ruby, the man who killed Lee Harvey Oswald.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: The discovery of
the mutilated body of Andrei Yishinsky, near Kiev, Russia, led to the infamous
trial of Mendel Beilis on ritual-murder charges<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911(25<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5671): In New York City, 146 garment workers died in the Triangle
Shirtwaist Company Fire in a time when there were no effective pesky
regulations regarding the health, welfare and safety of workers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of the victims were young immigrant
Jewish girls working in the sweatshop environment of the garment industry. The
first helped spur the formation of the International Ladies Garment Workers
Union. Approximately 500 workers were sewing shirtwaists in the Triangle
Shirtwaist Company's sweatshop near Washington Square in Manhattan when a fire
broke out. The building lacked adequate fire escapes, firefighting equipment
was unable to reach the top floors, and — most tragically — exit doors had been
locked to prevent unauthorized breaks. Some women, unable to reach an exit,
jumped from ninth- and tenth-floor windows in a vain effort to save themselves.
The fire did its work within twenty minutes. In the end, 146 died and many more
were injured. Most of the dead were recent immigrant Jewish and Italian women
between the ages of sixteen and twenty-three. Just two years before, the Jewish
owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company had been among the targets of the
strike known as the uprising of the 20,000, which had sought union recognition
through the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU). Though the
strike had forced some firms to settle with their workers, Triangle had fired
union members there and remained an anti-union shop. In the wake of the fire,
the Jewish community and leading women in the labor movement sprang into
action. The Women's Trade Union League (WTUL), a cross-class coalition that
worked as an ally of the ILGWU, organized a public meeting at the Metropolitan
Opera House on April 2. There, Rose Schneiderman, the leader of the 1909
strike, called upon all working people to take action. Three days later,
500,000 people turned out for the funerals of seven unidentified victims of the
fire. Under pressure from the ILGWU, the WTUL, and others, New York State
established a Committee on Safety in the wake of the fire. In addition, the
state legislature set up a Factory Investigating Committee, which drafted new
legislation designed to protect workers. Their recommendations included
automatic sprinkler systems and occupancy limits tied to the dimensions of exit
staircases. Thirty-six labor and safety laws were passed in the three years
after the fire, thanks to the agitation of working people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Even as these
regulations went into effect, the site of the Triangle fire remained a rallying
point for labor organizing. Some survivors, galvanized by their experience,
went on to lifetimes of labor activism. Frances Perkins, who witnessed the
fire, later became Secretary of Labor under Franklin Roosevelt. She said that
the Triangle Fire was what motivated her to devote her career to helping
workers. The last survivor of the fire, Rose Rosenfeld Freedman, died in 2001
at age 107.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: Louis Waldman was
a shocked member of the crowd on the street that witnessed the catastrophic
Triangle Waist Company fire of 1911, an event which clearly always remained
with him and served as one of the landmarks of his life. Waldman described the
grim scene in his 1944 memoirs:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"One Saturday
afternoon in March of that year — March 25, to be precise — I was sitting at
one of the reading tables in the old Astor Library... It was a raw, unpleasant
day and the comfortable reading room seemed a delightful place to spend the remaining
few hours until the library closed. I was deeply engrossed in my book when I
became aware of fire engines racing past the building. By this time I was
sufficiently Americanized to be fascinated by the sound of fire engines. Along
with several others in the library, I ran out to see what was happening, and
followed crowds of people to the scene of the fire.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"A few blocks
away, the Asch Building at the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street was
ablaze. When we arrived at the scene, the police had thrown up a cordon around
the area and the firemen were helplessly fighting the blaze. The eighth, ninth,
and tenth stories of the building were now an enormous roaring cornice of
flames."Word had spread through the East Side, by some magic of terror,
that the plant of the Triangle Waist Company was on fire and that several
hundred workers were trapped. Horrified and helpless, the crowds — I among them
— looked up at the burning building, saw girl after girl appear at the reddened
windows, pause for a terrified moment, and then leap to the pavement below, to
land as mangled, bloody pulp. This went on for what seemed a ghastly eternity.
Occasionally a girl who had hesitated too long was licked by pursuing flames
and, screaming with clothing and hair ablaze, plunged like a living torch to
the street. Life nets held by the firemen were torn by the impact of the falling
bodies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"The emotions of
the crowd were indescribable. Women were hysterical, scores fainted; men wept
as, in paroxysms of frenzy, they hurled themselves against the police
lines."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911(25<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5671): Seventeen-year-old Tillie Kuperschmidt died in the Triangle
Shirtwaist Factory Fire. Along with many others, her tombstone is still
standing at the Hebrew Free Burial Association's Mount Richmond Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: Birthdate of
Louis Pollock, the husband of Marian Pollock, who passed away at the age of 90,
just a month after his wife had passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912:
Thirty-one-year-old Benjamin Berenson, the Russian born son of Charles and
Dorothy Berenson Shapiro who in 1899 arrived in New York City where he went
from being a carpenter, to being a general contractor to being a bank vice
president while joining serving as board member for the Shield of Abraham, the
Beth Abraham Home for Incurables and the Montefiore Hospital married Frances
Shapiro today. Shapiro who in 1899 arrived in New York City where he went from
being a carpenter, to being a general contractor to being a bank vice president
while joining serving as board member for the Shield of Abraham, the Beth
Abraham Home for Incurables and the Montefiore Hospital <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: It was reported
today, that starting on March 27, Young Israel will begin hosting “a series of
lectures illustrated by stereopticon views, showing the condition of Jews in
various countries in the world.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914:
Sixty-seven-year-old Theodore Samson Samuel, the London born son of Isaac
Samuel and Fanny Heilbronner was buried today at the “Pere Lachaise Cemetery”
in Paris. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: Professor H.L.
Sabsovich, the General Agent of the Baron De Hirsch Fund and the First Mayor of
the Jewish Colony at Woodbine, is scheduled to be buried today at Woodbine, NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: In Camden, NJ,
Rabbis Brenner and Friedman of Philadelphia, PA officiated at the dedication of
a new synagogue at 419 Arch Street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
officers of this reform congregation included Barnard Levin, President; Jacob
Tarter, Vice President; Louis Levin, Secretary and Max Greenberg, Treasurer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: As The Great War
rages across Europe, Albert Einstein wrote from Berlin to the French writer and
pacifist, Romain Rolland “When posterity recounts the achievements of Europe,
shall we let men say that three centuries of painstaking cultural effort
carried us no farther than from religious fanaticism to the insanity of
nationalism? In both camps today even scholars behave as though eight months
ago they suddenly lost their heads.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: As the Gallipoli
Campaign gave rise to all kinds of flights of political fancy, “The British
Colonial Secretary, Lewis Harcourt, sent the members of the War Council a
memorandum headed ‘The Spoils’ in which he suggested that, on the defeat of
Turkey, Britain…should offer the Holy Places (in Palestine) as mandate to the
United States” (How different History might have been had the United States
been an active participant in the settling of the Jewish homeland immediately
after WW I.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: The largest
segment of the civilian population of Prezemysl which has just been occupied by
the Russians was composed of a few thousand Jews who had remained after the
general evacuation of the town last October.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: It was reported
today that Europeans, Ottomans and the Jews are fleeing the Turkish capital
because of fear of the Russians<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: After two and
half years, “Mortche” Goldberg is scheduled to be arraigned today in General
Sessions where he will face an indictment charging that he, along with his wife
Rosie Goldberg, Louis Barusch and Gussie Cohen were the officials of the Vice
Trust which maintained forty “resorts” in New York City which divided nearly
$1,250,000 a year in profits and $400,000 yearly for protection to the police.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: “Judge Leonard S.
Roan of the Court of Appeals of Georgia who sentenced Leo Frank to death in
1913 is scheduled to be buried at the Fairburn Cemetery in Fairburn, GA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: A bazaar
organized by the People’s Relief Committee to raised fund for Jews suffering in
the war zones is scheduled to begin today at the Grand Central Palace where
attendees will have a chance to purchase items valued at more than $100,000.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: A preliminary
conference where plans for the proposed Jewish Congress will be discussed is
scheduled to begin today in Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: “Editors and
publishers of Jewish daily newspapers” published in New York City “met at the
Summer home of Samuel Untermyer at Greystone, on the Hudson, this afternoon
“and organized the Jewish League of American Patriots.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: In Philadelphia
at the 29<sup>th</sup> annual meeting of the Jewish Publication Society,
President Simon Miller, officially announced the “publication of a new Jewish
Bible” which will appear in two editions – “a popular edition designed for
congregations and Sabbath schools and an India paper edition, interleaved with
blank pages for the use of scholars and students.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Today, the formal
pledge of loyalty adopted by the Mayor’s Committee was sent to the membership
of The Independent Order of Israel so it can be recited at “a patriotic mass
meeting which will be held at the Floral Garden so “that the Jews of Greater
New York may give joint public expression of their loyalty and devotion to the
flag.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: The Central
Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War of which Harry
Fischel is the Treasurer received contributions from committees in Cincinnati
($400), Meridian, Mississippi (391), Salt Lake City ($101) and San Francisco
($1,500).<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: A review of The
Chosen People by Sidney L. Nyburg was published today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t0tq5rk8z;view=1up;seq=7"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t0tq5rk8z;view=1up;seq=7</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Today “a
cpmferemce was held in the rooms of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association” “for
the purpose of securing for Richmond proper representation in the congress to
be held in Washing which will consider how the religions and political rights
of the Jews in the warring nations of Europe can be best procured” which marked
the first that delegates “from all three congregations” in Richmond, VA,
participated in the same meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Lucien Millevoye
the French right-wing anti-Semitic politician who delivered numerous public
attacks on Dreyfus during the 1890’s passed away today in Paris.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: It was reported
today “that the unleavened bread obtained for the Jewish soldiers here during
the Passover season cannot be used because” it was “handled by those of another
faith” so “it will be made into pudding” while the Quartermaster Department
will be the expense of obtaining a new supply.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: In Winston-Salem,
NC, Isidore Cohen and Nellie Rosenthal Cohen gave birth to Howard Cosell, a
Brooklyn trained lawyer who gained fame as a sportscaster and was part of the
trio of on-air talent that made Monday Night Football a national event. As to
being Jewish, Cosell once said he remembered "going to school in the
morning, a Jewish boy. I remember having to climb a back fence and run because
the kids from St. Theresa's parish were after me. My drive, in a sense, relates
to being Jewish and living in an age of Hitler. I think these things create
insecurities in you that live forever, and your desire to offset them is a
drive to accumulate economic security."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: The Committee of
Jewish Delegations is formed during the Peace Conference at Versailles <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: Grigori
Yakovlevich Sokolnikov completed his second term as a full member of the
Politburo<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920(6<sup>th</sup> of
Nisan, 5680): Seventy-year-old Mathilda Ochs, the Mount Washington, KY born
daughter of Agatha Schwab and Maier Ochs and the wife of Louis Tachu whom she
married I Louisville, KY in 1871 passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: It was reported
today that the State Department has authorized the Joint Distribution Committee
for Jewish Relief in New York City to serve as a recipient for private funds
for transmission to Jews in Poland which can be transmitted at no cost to the
sender.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921(15<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5681): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Arab
demonstrations begin in Haifa protesting Jewish immigration. Following police
action designed to break up the gatherings, anti-Jewish riots broke out “during
which ten Jews and five policemen were injured” by the rioters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: It was reported
today that “Eugene Meyer, Jr. of New York” has been “elected Managing Director
of the War Finance Corporation” which “will be an important factor in promoting
foreign trade” during the administration of President Warren Harding.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922(25<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5682): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekdui<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: Rabbi Maurice H.
Harris is scheduled to give a sermon “Life” at services this morning at Temple
Emanu-El.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: At Temple Israel
in Manhattan, Rabbi Newman is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Spiritual
Revival.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: Dr. Krass is
scheduled to lead Saturday morning services at Central Synagogue in Manhattan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923:<span style="color: #222222;"> Sir Herbert Samuel, High Commissioner of Palestine
denied the demands of the Arab Executive <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sir
Herbert Samuel, High Commissioner of Palestine,</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “<span style="color: #222222;">that those arrested in the demonstration of March 14th to
celebrate the success of the Arab boycott of the Legislative Council elections
be released and that the Jerusalem chief of police be placed on trial for
causing their arrest.” (As reported by JTA)</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: Birthdate of
Murray Klein, the driving force behind making Zabar’s Delicatessen into a New
York institution.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: “In
Thomashefsky's National Theatre there was staged with Lebedeff in the title
role, "Mendel in Japan, an operetta by Rakow and Rosenberg, lyrics by
Gilrod, music by Peretz Sandler."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: Bantamweight
Herman “Kid” Silvers” (Herman Silverberg) fought his 8<sup>th</sup> bout which
resulted in his second professional loss.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: On a visit to
Palestine, Lord Balfour of Balfour Declaration Fame, who is still a supporter
of the Zionist cause, drives from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem stopping to visit with
Jewish settlers and Arab Sheiks, “who told him they lived quite happily in proximity
with their Jewish neighbors.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: Dr. David de Sola
Pool, rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue addressed a dinner of the
Jewish Education Association at the Hotel Astor in New York City. He strongly
supported the need “for Jewish religious education entirely free from the public
schools. He voiced his support for the public schools remaining non-sectarian
while calling for an improvement in the quality of Jewish education which will
ensure the teaching of Jewish values, culture and character.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: In a speech
delivered at the City College of New York, Rabbi Stephen Wise called on Jews
all over the world to contribute to the support of the newly created Hebrew
University which will officially be inaugurated on April 1.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: It was reported
today that “a committee of presidents of the Jewish women’s organizations” in
New York City are scheduled to “meet at Temple Emanu-El to discuss plans to
raise the $500,000 quota of the women’s division the United Jewish Campaign<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: Rabbi Jonah B.
Wise, the son of the late Rabbi Isaac M Wise and Dr. Nathan Krass, the rabbi at
Temple Emanu-El delivered ‘the principle addresses” at services tonight marking
the observance of the 80<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the found of The Central
Synagogue at Lexington and 55<sup>th</sup> Street.1929: Montefiore Hospital for
Chronic Diseases decided today to seek a fund of $1,200,000 to provide more
modern facilities for wheelchair custodial cases. S.R. Guggenheim donates
$50,000 and intends to given a similar sum when an additional $1,150,000 has
been raised from other sources.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: In Sheboygan, WI
Rabbi Rub is scheduled to officiate at the funeral and burial of
forty-four-year-old grocery store owner John Peykel who came to Sheboygan, WI
thirty years ago and who was a member of Ahavas Sholum congregation and of
Davis Lodge, B’nai B’rith<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: Der rote Kreis
(The Crimson Circle) a British-German crime film directed by Frederic Zelnik
and starring Otto Walberg was released in Berlin today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5689): Fast of Esther <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: George J.
Feldman, of Boston, for a number of years the secretary to Senator David I.
Walsh, of Massachusetts, has resigned to accept appointment as special attorney
of the Federal Trade Commission, with the New York office of the Commission.
(As reported by JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><a name="_Hlk130564390"></a><a name="_Hlk130564322"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130564390;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1931:
“The gist of a proclamation issued tonight by the Palestine Arab Executive” was
“that the Arabs definitely do not intend negotiating with </span></span></a></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130564390;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Dr. Chaim Weizmann or in initiating peace talks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130564390;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: “British policies in Palestine” were “assailed in a
statement issued” today “by the executive committee of the World Union of
Zionist-Revisionist” by Joseph Samler, a member of the organization.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130564390;"></span>
</span><p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: “Along with
Julius Brodnitz, Heinrich Stahl, Kurt Blumenfeld and Martin Rosenblüth, Max
Naumann was one of the Jewish activists who were summoned to a meeting with
Hermann Göring” today where the Number 2 Nazi tried to enlist their help in
preventing a rally against Nazi antisemitism which was planned in New York City
for 27 March.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: “Daring
Daughters,” based on a story by Sam Mintz was released today in the United
States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934(9<sup>th</sup> of
Nisan, 5694): Sixty-six-year-old George Joseph Stern, the son of Pinkus and Ida
Stern and the wife Husband of Bertha Elisabeth Stern passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: Birthdate of
feminist writer and activist Gloria Steinem creator of Ms Magazine. Born into a
dysfunctional family in Toledo, Ohio, she loved to watch Shirley Temple movies,
hoping to be rescued miraculously from poverty, just like the little girl on
the screen. Her first book, <u>Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (</u>1983)
wasn't published until she was almost fifty. Steinem said, "A woman
without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.gloriasteinem.com/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.gloriasteinem.com/</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: Birthdate of
Rabbi Berel Wein There is no way to do justice to this eminent, literate,
Jewish scholar. For those interested in finding out more about him, you might
begin at<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.rabbiwein.com/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.rabbiwein.com/</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: Reynaldo Hahn's three
act French opera “Le marchand de Venise” based on “The Merchant of Venice” was
first performed at the Paris Opéra,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935(20th of Adar II,
5695):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poet and translator Alice Julia
Lucas - the sister of C.G. Montefiore, the wife of barrister Henry Lucas and
the sister-in-law of Sir Arthur Lewis – who was the founder and President of the
Jewish Study Society whose works included Translations from the German Poets of
the 18<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> Centuries, published in 1876 and
Talmudic Legends, Hymns and Paraphrases published in 1908, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Funeral services
for Mrs. Alice Davis Menken, “whose efforts did much to establish a more humane
trend in the field of penology” and the widow of New York attorney Mortimer M.
Menken are scheduled to be held at the Riverside Memorial chapel followed by
“burial in the Spanish and Portuguese Cemetery at Ridgewood, Queens.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “Jews from almost
forty countries found homes in Palestine during 1935, according to a report
made public” today “by the United Palestine Appeals which seeks $3,500,000 for
settlement work this year.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “An explanation
of the Slaughter Reform Bill and a defense of the attitude of the Polish
Government…were included in a letter to Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of the
American Jewish Committee made public today by the Polish Embassy” in
Washington, D.C. (Editor’s note – Jews in Poland saw this bill as an attack on
Kosher slaughtering and another manifestation of the anti-Semitism gripping
parts of that country.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: In the U.S.
premiere of “Ever of “Everybody’s Woman,” the only Italian film directed by Max
Ophuls. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: Mr. and Mrs.
Hyman Werner of 20 East Seventy-sixth Street announced the engagement of their
daughter, Miss Jean Werner, to Leonard L. Katz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gustav W.
Katz of Baltimore.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1937: </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Palestine Post</span></em></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> reported that Petah
Tikva had become Palestine’s second purely Jewish town and had been granted
municipal status. The newly formed municipal council was to consist of 15
councilors, of whom one was to be mayor and another deputy mayor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1937: </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Palestine Post</span></em></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> reported that Mr.
Ormsby-Gore, the Colonial Secretary, told the House of Commons that many
arrests had been made in Northern Palestine, but the security situation in the
South was better. Meanwhile Rehovot police fought a short battle with Negev
Bedouin, searched their encampments and made some arrests.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: “The Seventh
Heaven” starring Simone Simon, whose father would die in a concentration camp
and featuring Gregory Ratoff and J. Edward Romberg was released today in the
United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: Birthdate of
Decatur, AL, native and Auburn University graduate Alan Goodman Koch, the right-handed
pitcher with the Washington Senators and Detroit Tigers who perused a legal
career after the Major Leagues.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kochal01.shtml"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kochal01.shtml</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: In Poland, after
several attempts, the Seym outlawed the ritual slaughter of meat. The bill was
never enforced because the Seym dissolved in September during the Czech crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939(5<sup>th</sup> of
Nisan, 5699): Parsahat Vayikra<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Rabbi Samuel H.
Goldenson is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Self-Preservation and the Moral”
at Temple Emanu-El.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Rabbi Jonah B.
Wise is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Life of Isaac M. Wise” at the
Central Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Rabbi Hyman Judah
Schachtel is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Judaism and Democracy” at the
West End Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: “Blackwell’s
Island” a crime thriller starring John Garfield was released by Warner Brothers
today<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Birthdate of
Carolyn Goldmark Goodman the Bryn Mawr College graduate who married Oscar
Goodman whom she followed as Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: Birthdate of
Susan Fromberg who became famous as Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, a novelist with a
gift for evoking complex characters in the grip of extreme psychological stress
and physical suffering, notably in “The Madness of a Seduced Woman” and the
Vietnam War novel “Buffalo Afternoon.” (As reported by William Grimes)1940:
Birthdate of “Larry Rosen, the music producer and digital-audio entrepreneur
who was best known as a founder of the pop-jazz record label GRP…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/arts/music/larry-rosen-digital-audio-pioneer-dies-at-75.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/arts/music/larry-rosen-digital-audio-pioneer-dies-at-75.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: Today’s agreement
by Prince Paul of Yugoslavia to join forces with Germany led to a coup
thwarting the alliance which triggered an invasion of Yugoslavia. (from “The
History of the Jewish People”)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941(27th of Adar,
5701): Dr. Froim Ephym Syrkin, the brother of the Zionist leader Nachum Syrkin
(of blessed memory) passed away today at the age of 52. For the last five
years, Dr. Syrkin has been serving as the superintendent of Beth Moses Hospital
in Brooklyn. Born in Russia in 1889, Dr. Syrkin served with the Russian Army
Medical Corps during World War I before starting a medical practice in post-war
Warsaw where he also served as regional director for the American Joint
Distribution Committee. Syrkin came to the United States in 1920 and worked at
the Beth Abraham Home and Hospital for Incurables in the Bronx and the
Bronxwood Sanitarium before going to work for Beth Moses in 1936. Syrkin was a
bachelor who was survived by his mother and three sisters, two of whom are
doctors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: The government of
the Slovak Republic began to deport its Jewish citizens today. The Slovak
Republic was one of the countries to agree to deport its Jews as part of the
Nazi Final Solution. Originally, the Slovak government tried to make a deal
with Germany in October 1941 to deport its Jews as a substitute for providing
Slovak workers to help the war effort. After the Wannsee Conference, the
Germans agreed to the Slovak proposal, and a deal was reached where the Slovak
Republic would pay for each Jew deported, and, in return, Germany promised that
the Jews would never return to the republic. The initial terms were for
"20,000 young, strong Jews", but the Slovak government quickly agreed
to a German proposal to deport the entire population for "evacuation to
territories in the east". The willing deportation was only the latest in a
series of anti-Semitic actions taken by the government. Soon after gaining its
“independence,” the Slovak Republic began a series of measures aimed against
the Jews in the country. The Hlinka's Guard began to attack Jews, and the
"Jewish Code" was passed in September 1941. Resembling the Nuremberg
Laws, the Code required that Jews wear a yellow armband, banned intermarriage
and denied Jews the opportunity to hold a variety of jobs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: Seven hundred
Jews from Polish Lvov-district reached Belzec Concentration camp<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: The second wave
of deportations of the Jews of Laupheim took placed today when “a large number
of them were transported to Poland.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: Lazar Kaganovich
completed his second term as People’s Commissar for Transport.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: Birthdate of
William H. Ginsburg, the Philadelphia-born California lawyer best known for
representing Monica Lewinsky.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: A second group of
Macedonian Jews who had been imprisoned in tobacco warehouses in Skopje was
shipped to the Treblinka Death Camp.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: In a surprise
move, 97% of all Dutch physicians went on strike against Nazi registration<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: One thousand Jews
are deported from Marseilles, France, to the Sobibór death camp.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943(18th of Adar II,
5703): The Jewish community from Zólkiew, Poland, was marched to the Borek
Forest and executed. [Ed. Note – Who says Kaddish for these people?]<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: An anonymous
letter written by a non-Jewish German citizen, critical of Nazi
ghetto-liquidation techniques, was forwarded to Hitler's Chancellery. There is
no record of the author’s name or his/or her fate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: In the Ukraine,
the Ghetto at Bar was liberated.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: The Germans plan
to start deporting the Jews of Volvos today were thwarted thanks to a warning
received by the town’s Archbishop, Joachim Alexopoulos who work with the chief
rabbi, Moshe Pessah “to find sanctuary for the city’s Jews in the mountainous
villages of Pelion.” (As reported by Amanda Borschel-Dan)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: After weeks of
political wrangling and German invasion, official word came that Hungary was
ready to deal with its Jewish "problem".<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: In response to
last night’s attacks by members of the Stern Gang, the government imposed a
curfew on the Jewish sections of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Hadar Hacarmel in
Haifa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: After 87
performances, the two-act musical composed by Arthur Gershwin “A Lad y Says
Yes” closed at the Broadhurst Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: Leopold Prince
served as conductor of the City Amateur Symphony during the concert this
afternoon at the Museum of Natural History in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: The
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry heard testimony from twelve witnesses today
in Jerusalem. Among those testifying were Golda Meyerson representing the
General Federation of Jewish Labor in Palestine, Sami Taha representing the
Arab Worker’s Society who “called Zionism a trick of British Imperialism” and
E.A. Ghory who “said that Palestine Arabs were supported against Zionism by the
entire Moslem world.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: “A shipload of
illegal immigrant arrived” off the coast of Tel Aviv tonight. Several of the
immigrants evaded capture by the British and reportedly “found shelter” in the
homes of Jews living in Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: In the first
outbreak of its kind since the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry arrived in
Palestine, unidentified attackers stuck the Saronoa police camp.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Meir Feinstein, a
British army veteran, Daniel Azulai, Massoud Bouton and Moshe Horowitz appeared
before a three-man military tribunal to answer charges that they were
responsible for the bombing of a Jerusalem railway station last October
resulting in the death of a British constable. The quartet will face the death
penalty if they are found guilty.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: A bank in Tel
Aviv was robbed today in broad daylight by a gang believed to belong to the
Irgun.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: In what appears
to be another example of an on-going conflict among Arabs over the sale of land
to Jews, gunmen attacked the home of Fakhri Eddine, a prominent Arab living in
Beisan, seriously wounding five men and a girl.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: Birthdate of
Eliezer Kalina who lost his leg during the Yom Kippur War and went on to be a
Gold Medal Winning Paralympic Champion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 4.55in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/search.php?sport=all&games=all&medal=all&npc=all&gender=all&name=kalina&fname"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/search.php?sport=all&games=all&medal=all&npc=all&gender=all&name=kalina&fname</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 4.55in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5708): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5708): Sixty-four year old
<span style="color: black;">German native Richard B. Feibelmann the holder of a
Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Munich who went from teaching
to research chemist to chemical company manager before, in 1935, coming to the
United States where “he developed starch solubilization processes for use in
the textile and paper finishing industries” while raising his daughter with his
wife Carla passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: “Two mines
exploded under an unescorted Jewish convoy north of Gaza,” killing one
unidentified Jew.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: As fighting
continued today “along the Jaffa-Tel Aviv border” ten Jews were wounded when
“four mortar shells fired by Arabs fell in southern Tel Aviv and “squads of the
Haganah resumed shellfire at dawn” aimed “at Arab positions.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: The Scientific
and Cultural Conference for World Peace arranged by a CPUSA front organization
and sponsored by Herbert Aptheker opened today in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950(7<sup>th</sup> of
Nisan, 5710): Parashat Vayikra<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950(7<sup>th</sup> of
Nisan, 5710): Fifty-six-year-old Sorrey, Russia born rabbi and lawyer Jacob
Katz who served as chaplain at Sing Sing Prison and the spiritual leader the
Pelham Parkway Jewish Center passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: Young Judeans
from East Chicago attended an Oneg Shabbat at the B’nai B’rith Club Rooms in
Gary, Indiana where the community has just announced to settle ten “displaced
families.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: The United
States, Great Britain and France issue a joint declaration promising to “take
action against any aggression “designed to alter the frontiers in the Middle
East.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: “Rawhide” a
western featuring George Tobias and with a music by Sol Kaplan and Lionel
Newman was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1952: </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jerusalem Post </span></em></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reported from The Hague
that the Israeli delegation to the reparations talks feared that there was
little hope of attaining early substantial grants and had asked for a detailed
clarification of the opening statements made by the West German delegation. The
atmosphere at the talks continued to be formal. In Israel the police and
Histadrut pickets stood by while Herut was making final preparations for a huge
mass demonstration against German reparations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1952: </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jerusalem Post </span></em></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reported that three
Arab infiltrators were killed in the Sharon; a fourth escaped<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952(28<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5712): Seventy-four-year-old University
of Pittsburgh trained attorney Charles Harry Sachs, the father of three
children and an executive with the Washington Trust Company who was the
Lithuanian born son of Libbie and Hyman David Sachs passed away today in
Pittsburgh.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953: Four days after
she had passed away in Miami Beach, funeral services are scheduled to be held
in Brooklyn for Lena Shapiro, the wife of Karl Shapiro, Director of the Infants
Home of Brooklyn and mother of Solomon A. Shapiro and Yetta Sultan, a member of
the Sea Group of Hadassah. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953: Dedication of a
new road leading to Sodom, Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953: Pearl Edelman
LaPorte, the wife of Jacob LaPorte whom she had married in 1904 in Chicago
passed away today after which she was buried at Waldheim Cemetery in Forest
Park, Illinois.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955: “Interrupted
Melody,” a musical biopic directed by Curtis Bernhardt, with a screenplay by
Sonya Levien and filmed by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg was released in
the United States toda.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955: “Strategic Air
Command” a Cold War paean to SAC produced by Samuel J. Briskin was released
today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955: “The Big Combo” a
film noire directed by Joseph H. Lewis, with a screenplay by Philip Yordan and
featuring Michael Mark had a special screening in New York City today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956(13<sup>th</sup> of
Nisan, 5716): Seventy-four-year-old of Vilna native Arthur Lyon Malkenson, who
in 1896 came to the United States in 1896 where he graduated from CCNY and
earned a laws degree from NYU after which he pursued a care in journalism which
led to him serving as “president and publisher of “The Jewish Morning Journal”
while raising a family of five children with his wife “Freda Friedkin Malenson”
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1957(22nd of Adar II,
5717): Max Ophuls passed away. </span></span></span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0649097/bio"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0649097/bio</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958: In Los Angeles,
CA, Barbara and Anthony H. Pascall gave birth to American movie executive Amy
Pascal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/can-amy-pascals-career-survive-sony-cyberattack/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/can-amy-pascals-career-survive-sony-cyberattack/\</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959: “Tributes were
paid” today “to Rabbi A. Alan Steinbach, the spiritual leader of Temple Ahavath
Sholem in Brookly and “the retiring president of the New York Board of Rabbis’
at the board’s headquarters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960: The head of the
Jewish Labor Committee called on the State Department and other Federal
agencies today to cease what he termed discrimination against potential
employees of the Jewish faith.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1961: After 702 performances
the original production of “Gypsy” the award winning musical produced b David
Merick and starring David Winters (AKA David Weiser the London born </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">son of Jewish parents Sadie and Samuel Weizer) as Yonkers
closed today on Broadway.</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961: Seventy-five-year-old
Dr. Abraham Josevich “a Russian-born medical doctor, community organizer and
Zionist who helped protect some tens of thousands of Jews seeking safe-haven in
East Asia from Nazi atrocities during World War II” and who “as a consequence
of his contacts with Japanese authorities during World War II and the Second
Sino-Japanese War was kidnapped, arrested and imprisoned by Soviet authorities
immediately after the war, and was interned in a Soviet Gulag penal labor camp
from 1945 to 1956” emigrated to Israel today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1963: The Supreme Court
of Nevada rendered a decision in the matters related to the divorce of Harles
Hyman and Jane Lazarus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="https://casetext.com/case/hyman-v-lazarus"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://casetext.com/case/hyman-v-lazarus</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1963: At a surprise
meeting with David Ben Gurion, Meir Amit was ordered to take over Mossad
following the resignation of Isser Harel ("Little Isser"). Amit was
forced to double as the director of military intelligence and head of Mossad.
(As reported by the Telegraph of London)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: Birthdate of
actress Sarah Jessica Parker.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: The opera “Lizzie
Borden,” with mezzo-soprano Brenda Lewis singing the lead premiered today in
New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: The Bundestag
voted to extend the statutory deadline on war crimes prosecutions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968(25<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5728): Sixty-seven-year-old Chicago native and University of Chicago
graduate Alex L. Hillmen “publisher, investment executive, art collector” and
husband the former Rita Kanarek and father of Kent Hillman who “in 1953
established a fund at the Museum of Modern Art that enabled the museum to
purchase a cubist Picasso, four works by Franz Kupka, large canvas by Francis
Picabia and a painting by the Italian futurist Balla” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Alex+L.+Hillman&ei=xAEiY7L3Do2ZptQPiP-huAo&ved=0ahUKEwiy6dK72pT6AhWNjIkEHYh_CKcQ4dUDCA4&uact=5&oq=Alex+L.+Hillman&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQghEKABOgoIABBHENYEELADOgcILhDUAhANOgQIABANOggIABAeEAgQBzoGCAAQHhANOgUIABCiBDoHCAAQHhCiBEoECEEYAEoECEYYAFD4CFirD2D6I2gBcAF4AIABjAGIAeQDkgEDMC40mAEAoAEByAEFwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.google.com/search?q=Alex+L.+Hillman&ei=xAEiY7L3Do2ZptQPiP-huAo&ved=0ahUKEwiy6dK72pT6AhWNjIkEHYh_CKcQ4dUDCA4&uact=5&oq=Alex+L.+Hillman&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQghEKABOgoIABBHENYEELADOgcILhDUAhANOgQIABANOggIABAeEAgQBzoGCAAQHhANOgUIABCiBDoHCAAQHhCiBEoECEEYAEoECEYYAFD4CFirD2D6I2gBcAF4AIABjAGIAeQDkgEDMC40mAEAoAEByAEFwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971(28<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5731): Eighty-five-year-old Dr. Abraham Josevich “a Russian-born medical
doctor, community organizer and Zionist who helped protect some tens of
thousands of Jews seeking safe-haven in East Asia from Nazi atrocities during
World War II” and who “as a consequence of his contacts with Japanese
authorities during World War II and the Second Sino-Japanese War was kidnapped,
arrested and imprisoned by Soviet authorities immediately after the war, and
was interned in a Soviet Gulag penal labor camp from 1945 to 1956” but thanks
to “Israeli authorities he was able to to Israel, where he was able to resume
his medical practice” passed away today in Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974(2<sup>nd</sup> of
Nisan, 5734): Seventy-five-year-old Dr. Arthur Frederick Abt passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974: Barbra Streisand
recorded the album "Butterfly."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975: King Faisal of
Saudi Arabia was shot at point-blank range and killed by his half-brother's
son, Faisal bin Musa'id, who had just come back from the United States. It is a
commonly held, but so far unsubstantiated popular belief in Saudi Arabia and
the Arab and Muslim world that Faisal's oil boycott was the real cause of his
assassination, via a Western conspiracy. [For once Israel and the Jews were not
blamed for something gone wrong in the Middle East. The event is a yet another
reminder that Israeli is not the cause of murder and mayhem in that part of the
world as the anti-Semites would have us believe.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1977: </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jerusalem Post </span></em></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reported that port
workers returned slowly to work under Labor Court orders. But the workers of
the Land Registry went on a wildcat strike unauthorized by the Histadrut.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1977: </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jerusalem Post </span></em></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reported that a
terrorist cell of 16 members, preparing a car bomb, was caught at Jenin. A
number of dentists were put on trial for income tax evasion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1977: </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jerusalem Post </span></em></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reported Israeli
scientists concluded that some of the trees of the Gethsemane area in Jerusalem
were at least 1,600 years old.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978: During Operation
Litani, the PLO ordered a ceasefire in its fight with the IDF.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979: Six-year-old Etan
Patz, a Jewish child living in Manhattan, disappeared as he walked to the bus
stop for the first time by himself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://forward.com/articles/156788/clerk-lured-etan-patz-with-cold-soda/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Weekly%20%2B%20Daily&utm_campaign=Weekly_Newsletter_Friday%202012-05-25"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://forward.com/articles/156788/clerk-lured-etan-patz-with-cold-soda/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Weekly%20%2B%20Daily&utm_campaign=Weekly_Newsletter_Friday%202012-05-25</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981(19th of Adar II,
5741): Seventy-two year old Uriel Shelach, the Israeli poet who wrote under the
pen name of Yonatan Ratosh passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/modern_judaism/v019/19.2rabin.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/modern_judaism/v019/19.2rabin.html</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981(19th of Adar II,
5741): Ninety-year-old chess champion Edward Lasker passed away today. (As
reported by Thomas W. Ennis)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/26/obituaries/dr-edward-lasker-is-dead-at-95-5-time-us-open-chess-winner.html?pagewanted=print"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/26/obituaries/dr-edward-lasker-is-dead-at-95-5-time-us-open-chess-winner.html?pagewanted=print</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982:
Eighty-three-year-old Goodman Ace (born Goodman Aiskowitz) known as “Goody” the
husband of Jane Ace and the creator of “Easy Aces” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/27/obituaries/goodman-ace-humorist-dead-co-star-of-easy-aces-on-radio.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/27/obituaries/goodman-ace-humorist-dead-co-star-of-easy-aces-on-radio.html</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982: Rabbi Ronald
Sobel officiated at the wedding of Joan Treble Sutton, a columnist for the
Toronto Sun and Oscar S. Straus, a former career Foreign Service officer and
the grandson of Oscar Straus who served under President Teddy Roosevelt, in his
study at Temple Emanu-El.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982: CBS broadcast the
first episode of “Cagney and Lacey” a ground-breaking cop-buddy television
series produced by Barney Rosenzweig and co-starring Al Waxman “as Cagney and
Lacey's good-natured and sometimes blustery supervisor, Lt. Bert Samuels.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983: “Bad Boys,” a coming-of-age
movie directed by Rick Rosenthal was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984: “Glengarry Glenn
Ross,” a Pulitzer Prize winning play written by David Mamet, opened today on
Broadway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984(21<sup>st</sup> of
Adar II, 5744): Fifty-year old American psychiatrist Edward Joel Sachar, the
son of historian Abram L. Sachar and Thelma Sachar, and the brother of
historian Howard Sachar and gastroenterologist David B. Sachar passed away today.
(As reported by Walter H. Waggoner)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/28/obituaries/dr-ej-sachar-psychiatrist-and-hormone-expert-dead.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/28/obituaries/dr-ej-sachar-psychiatrist-and-hormone-expert-dead.html</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986: 'The Arthur Frank
Collection of Scientific Instruments' which had been created by his father
Charles Frank, a Lithuanian born resident of Glasgow who was an optical and
scientific instrument maker, was sold today at Sotheby's Auction House<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986: The ILGU will
host a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986: The U.S. Supreme
Court rules in Goldman v. Weinberg a “case in which a Jewish Air Force officer
was denied the right to wear a yarmulke when in uniform on the grounds that the
Free Exercise Clause applies less strictly to the military than to ordinary
citizens.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/475/503"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/475/503</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/Military_Law_Review/pdf-files/275075~1.pdf"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/Military_Law_Review/pdf-files/275075~1.pdf</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988: “A New Life” a
comedy produced by Martin Bregman and co-starring Hal Linden was released in
the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988: “The Fox and the
Hound” an animated film version of the novel by the same name featuring the
voice of Jack Albertson, Paul Winchell and Corey Feldman was re-released in the
United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989: At Park Avenue
Synagogue, Rabbi Benjamin Wykansky, a grandfather of the bridegroom, and Rabbi
Raphael Adler, the bridegroom's brother, officiated at the wedding of Boston
University graduate Michele Horowitz, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace
Horowitz of Forest Hills, Queens and Baruch College graduate Seth Adler.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: At a meeting with
prominent Jews President Lech Walesa of Poland repeatedly made explicit
statements denouncing anti-Semitism and vowed to fight bigotry in his country<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1992(20<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5752): Seventy-nine year old Max I. Dimont, the native of Helsinki who
enjoyed a 35 year career in public relations with Edison Brothers and is best
remembered for writing several books on the history of the Jews the best known
of which was <u>Jews, God and History</u>, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=36887302"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=36887302</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://thehobophilosopher.blogspot.com/2010/08/jews-god-and-history-by-max-i.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://thehobophilosopher.blogspot.com/2010/08/jews-god-and-history-by-max-i.html</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/jews-god-and-history-by-max-i-dimont/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/jews-god-and-history-by-max-i-dimont/</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994: In Albuquerque,
NM, Sam and Jackie Bregman, both of whom are lawyers gave to Houston Astros
infielder Alex Bregman who was part of long line of Baseball Buffs including
his grandfather Stan Bregman, the general manager of the Washington Senators and
his uncle Ben Bregamn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994: “D2: The Mighty
Ducks” the second in this hockey comedic trilogy directed by Brandeis graduate
Sam Weisman was released in the United States today<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995(23<sup>rd</sup> of
Adar II, 5755): Parashat Shimini; Parashat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995(23<sup>rd</sup> of
Adar II, 5755): Eighty-six-year-old Swarthmore College grad and Oxford attendee
Elizabeth Flexner, the Georgetown, KY born daughter of playwright of Anne
Crawford Flexner and reformer Abraham Flexner, known for her championing the
field of women’s rights and studies passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997: It was reported
today that “a furor is erupting over the use of pigskin in the treatment of
Orthodox Jewish children with serious burns in New York’s pre- eminent
pediatric burn center,” the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center’s burn
center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998(27<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5758): Fifty-one-year-old Congressman Steve Schiff passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.anomalies.net/archive/cni-news/CNI.0999.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.anomalies.net/archive/cni-news/CNI.0999.html</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998: U.S. premiere of
“A Price Above Rubies,” directed and written by Boaz Yakin<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999: Raik Haj Yahia,
Amir Peretz and Adisu Massala broke away from the Labor Party to form One
Nation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000(18<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5760): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: As he prepared to
meet with Pope John Paul II in Jerusalem tomorrow, Sheik Ikrima Sabri, the
Chief Islamic cleric in Jerusalem “said today that he believed that the number
of 6 million Holocaust victims is exaggerated” and that Israel “considers its
pain more important than anyone else’s.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001(1<sup>st</sup> of
Nisan, 5761): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001(1<sup>st</sup> of
Nisan, 5761): Ninety-one year old “Canadian businessman and philanthropist”
Jack Diamond passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.orderofbc.gov.bc.ca/members/1991-jack-diamond/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.orderofbc.gov.bc.ca/members/1991-jack-diamond/</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: “Into the Arms of
Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport” won the Oscar tonight for the “Best
Documentary Feature.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including
Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century by Laura Shapiro
and Faithless: Tales of Transgression by Joyce Carol Oates.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: Dick Schapp is
honored by The National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><a name="_Hlk130565472"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002:
“Shooter, Finding Surprises” published today provides a review of Revenge by
Laura Blumenfeld whose father New York Rabbi David Blumenfeld was shot in
Jerusalem in 1986 by the Aba Musa gang.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130565472;"></span></span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/25/books/books-of-the-times-seeking-a-shooter-finding-surprises.html?searchResultPosition=7"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130565472;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/25/books/books-of-the-times-seeking-a-shooter-finding-surprises.html?searchResultPosition=7</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130565472;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130565472;"></span>
</span><p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003(21st of Adar II,
5763): Eighty-nine-year-old Eddie Jaffe, a legendary New York press agent,
passed away today. (As reported by Ralph Blumenthal)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/theater/eddie-jaffe-the-press-agent-of-broadway-is-dead-at-89.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/theater/eddie-jaffe-the-press-agent-of-broadway-is-dead-at-89.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2004: </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Times of London</span></em></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> reports that the
chairman of Signature Restaurants, which owns celebrity eateries in London such
as The Ivy and Belgo, is backing plans by the Giraffe’s owners, Jewish businesspeople
Russel and Juliette Joffe, to double the size of the business to 16 sites over
the next two to three years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004: NBC broadcast the
last episode of “Good Morning, Miami” a sitcom created by David Kohan and Max
Mutchnick and starring Mark Feuerstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5765): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006(25<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5766): Parashat Vaykhel-Pekudi; Shabbat Hachodesh.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: Rabbi Harold S.
White officiated at the marriage of Sarah Elizabeth Ackerstin, “an assistant
attorney general in the attorney general’s office for the District of Columiba”
and Israel Shai Klein, the communications director, based in Washington, for
Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: According to his
report published today, Steve Erlanger believes that “nearly three months after
Mr. Sharon's major stroke on Jan. 4, his spirit hangs over this Israeli
election, as the country prepares to give its verdict on March 28 on Kadima, the
centrist party he created.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: “International
Jewish Artists of the Year Awards” begins at Christies Auctions House, in
London, England (UK).<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held this morning in Chevy Chase, MD for eighty-one-year-old
“L. Leonard Ruben, one of Montgomery County's best-known judges and the husband
of former Maryland state senator Ida G. Ruben,” who had passed away after he
collapsed outside the district courthouse in downtown Silver Spring.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/21/AR2007032102169.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/21/AR2007032102169.html</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: The YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research is holding an academic symposium in commemoration
of the fortieth anniversary of the death of Uriel Weinreich, an exploration of
the legacy of this premier scholar of Yiddish linguistics in America.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: The curtain came
down today on a production of “The Farnsworth Invention” a play by Aaron Sorkin
that examines how David Sarnoff’s relationship to the “invention of television
signal at the La Jolla Playhouse.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: The 92nd Street Y
presents “The Secret U.S.-German Collaboration to End World War II” a lecture
by Maria (Maki) Haberfeld and Sigrid MacRae who offer startling facts about the
war with Hitler’s Germany and the way we might want to think about the resurgent
anti-Semitism in Germany today. What were Roosevelt’s real responses to Hitler?
How did the United States end up inadvertently strengthening the resistance of
the Germans and the Swiss to a Holocaust? <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Israeli artist
Sigalit Landau opens a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The MOMA exhibition, which was conceived in the wake of a recent show she did
at the KW Gallery in Berlin, includes works from the "Dead Sea" series,
and a selection of old and new video works.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Israel's UN
ambassador, Dan Gillerman, slammed the "trend" of equating the
"lawful actions" of a state defending its citizens with the
"violence of terrorists," in a bitter exchange at the Security
Council's monthly session on the Middle East. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008(18th of Adar II,
5768): Eighty-three-year-old Abby Mann, the American film writer and producer
who wrote the screenplay for “Judgment at Nuremberg”, passed away, one day
after Richard Widmark who starred in this epic died. (As reported by Douglas
Martin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/movies/28mann2.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/movies/28mann2.html</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: At New Jersey’s
Atlantic Cape Community College Janna Gur Israeli culinary delivers the second
of four lectures on the cuisine of Israel and Tel Aviv in particular entitled
“Celebrating the Food of Tel Aviv.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: The government of
Israel hosts a public celebration marking the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian
peace treaty 30 years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: The Palestinian
youths from a tough West Bank refugee camp stood facing the elderly Holocaust
survivors today, appearing somewhat defiant in a teenage sort of way. Then they
began to sing. The choir burst into songs for peace, bringing surprised smiles
from the audience. But the event had another twist: Most of the Holocaust
survivors did not know the youths were Palestinians from the West Bank, a rare
sight in Israel these days. And the youths had no idea they were performing for
people who lived through Nazi genocide - or even what the Holocaust was.
"I feel sympathy for them," said Ali Zeid, an 18-year-old keyboard
player, who added that he was shocked by what he learned about the Holocaust,
in which the Nazis killed 6 million Jews in their campaign to wipe out European
Jewry. "Only people who have been through suffering understand each
other," said Zeid, who said his grandparents were Palestinian refugees
forced to flee the northern city of Haifa during the war that followed Israel's
creation in 1948. The 13 musicians, aged 11 to 18, belong to Strings of
Freedom, a modest orchestra from the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West
Bank, the scene of a deadly 2002 battle between Palestinian militants and
Israeli soldiers. The event, held at the Holocaust Survivors Center in this
tree-lined central Israeli town, was part of Good Deeds Day, an annual event
run by an organization connected to billionaire Shari Arison, Israel's richest
woman. The two-hour meeting starkly highlighted how distant Palestinians and
Israelis have become after more than eight years of bloody Palestinian militant
attacks and deadly Israeli military reprisals. Most of the Palestinian youths
had not seen an Israeli civilian before - only gun-toting soldiers in military
uniforms manning checkpoints, conducting arrest raids of wanted Palestinians or
during army operations."They don't look like us," said Ahed Salameh,
12, who wore a black head scarf woven with silver. Most of the elderly Israelis
wore pants and T-shirts, with women sporting a smear of lipstick. "Old
people look different where we come from," Salameh said. She said she was
shocked to hear about the Nazi genocide against Jews. Ignorance and even denial
of the Holocaust is widespread in Palestinian society. Amnon Beeri of the
Abraham Fund, which supports coexistence between Jews and Arabs, said most of
the region's residents have no real idea about the other. The youths said their
feisty conductor, Wafa Younis, 50, tried to explain to them who the elderly
people were, but chaos on the bus prevented them from listening. The elderly
audience said they assumed Arab children were from a nearby village - not from
the refugee camp where 23 Israeli soldiers were killed, alongside 53
Palestinian militants and civilians, in several days of battle in April 2002.
Some 30 elderly survivors gathered in the center's hall as teenage boys and
girls filed in 30 minutes late - delayed at an Israeli military checkpoint
outside their town, they later explained. Some of the young women wore Muslim
head scarves - but also sunglasses and school ties. As a host announced in
Hebrew that the youths were from the Jenin refugee camp, there were gasps and
muttering from the crowd. "Jenin?" one woman asked in jaw-dropped
surprise. Younis, from the Arab village of Ara in Israel, then explained in
fluent Hebrew that the youths would sing for peace, prompting the audience to
burst into applause. "Inshallah," said Sarah Glickman, 68, using the
Arabic term for God willing. The encounter began with an Arabic song, "We
sing for peace," and was followed by two musical pieces with violins and
Arabic drums, as well as an impromptu song in Hebrew by two in the audience.
Glickman, whose family moved to the newly created Jewish state in 1949 after
fleeing to Siberia to escape the Nazis, said she had no illusions the encounter
would make the children understand the Holocaust. But she said it might make a
small difference. "They think we are strangers, because we came from
abroad," Glickman said. "I agree: It's their land, also. But there
was no other option for us after the Holocaust." Later, she tapped her
feet in tune as the teenagers played a catchy Mideast drum beat. After the
event, some of the elderly Israelis chatted with students and took pictures
together. The encounter was not absent of politics. Younis dedicated a song to
an Israeli soldier held captive by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip -
and also criticized Israel's occupation of the West Bank. But she said the main
mission of the orchestra, formed seven years ago to help Palestinian children
overcome war trauma, was to bring people together. "I'm here to raise
spirits," Younis said. "These are poor, old people."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The Annual
Downtown Seder is scheduled to be celebrated tonight at the City Winery in New
York. The City Winery is “the brainchild” of Michael Dorf, a well-known Jewish
entrepreneur. “The Seder brings together an eclectic mix of artists, political figures,
thinkers, and comedians to offer a one-of-a-kind interpretation of the ancient
Passover Story.” It is celebrated 4 days before Passover starts, so that
attendees can bring many of these important messages to their own Seder. The
Seder meal is described as “vegetarian” with the “exception for chicken Matzah
ball soup. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Moshe Peretz <span style="color: #222222;">won the prize פרס אקו"ם for "Best achievement
in music".</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The Jerusalem
Municipality finance committee approved a plan for the construction of a new
cinema complex in the Haleom parking lot opposite the Supreme Court, on
condition that it closes during Shabbat, Israel Radio reported today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: “Monkey Business
in a World of Evil” published today described the Curious George exhibition at
the Jewish Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/Military_Law_Review/pdf-files/275075~1.pdf"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/Military_Law_Review/pdf-files/275075~1.pdf</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(19<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5771): Ninety-six-year-old “Irving J. Shulman, who founded the Daffy’s
clothing store chain and brought discount fashion to Fifth Avenue through
quirky marketing and a promise of “clothing bargains for millionaires,” passed
away today. (As reported by Christine Hauser)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/business/30shulman.html?_r=0"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/business/30shulman.html?_r=0</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(19<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5771): Eighty-one-year-old Thomas Eisner the “groundbreaking authority
on insects whose research revealed the complex chemistry that they use to repel
predators, attract mates and protect their young” passed away today. (As
reported by Kenneth Chang)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/science/earth/31eisner.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/science/earth/31eisner.html</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: “Last Folio”
which has only been exhibited in Cambridge, England is scheduled for display at
the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York in 2011, starting today” a date which
“marks the 68th anniversary of the first ever transport to Auschwitz — of young
Jewish Slovak girls. As the first inmates there, they were responsible for
establishing the routines that would keep them alive, and many became the
dreaded and despised kapos, or prisoner-guards.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: In Albany, NY,
The Reform Congregations of the Capital District are scheduled to begin the
celebration of Founder Day’s.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: A Netanya
Conservative and Reform house of worship became the target of stone-throwing
attacks during Shabbat evening prayers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(19th of Adar II,
5771): Ninety-one-year-old Dr. Thomas Eisner, “who cracked the chemistry of
bugs” passed away today. (As reported by Kenneth Change)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/science/earth/31eisner.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/science/earth/31eisner.html</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: The Jerusalem
Marathon ended in some confusion as the three leading runners apparently took a
wrong turn and arrived at the wrong finish line.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: U.S. release date
for “Peep World,” a comedy narrated by Lewis Black and co-starring Ron Rifkin,
Ben Schwarts and Sarah Silverman among others.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: New York City
Marks the 100<sup>th</sup> Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/42273592/ns/business-us_business/#.VvSgeo-cF9B"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nbcnews.com/id/42273592/ns/business-us_business/#.VvSgeo-cF9B</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: “White Balance is
scheduled to be shown tonight at the 16th Annual Hartford Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: As part of a
month-long national conversation about Spinoza's impact and legacy, Theatre J
in Washington, DC is scheduled to sponsor “Spinoza: A University Debate.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: “The Radical
Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936–1951” which has been on display at The
Jewish Museum New York is scheduled to close today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/144903/#ixzz1cnoqvT00"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.forward.com/articles/144903/#ixzz1cnoqvT00</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The Wiener Library is scheduled to host Compliant or
Confrontational?: The Protestant Church and the Holocaust,”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a program that “will examine the role of the
Protestant Church during the Second World War and the impact and legacy of the
Holocaust upon the Protestant Church in post-war Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013(14<sup>th</sup> of Nisan, 5773): Fast of the First
Born; Erev Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2013(14<sup>th</sup> of Nisan): On the Jewish calendar
today marks the seventieth anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Erev of Pesach 5703 (April 19, 1943), the
German forces began their final drive to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto. When the
SS entered the ghetto they were met with armed resistance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much to everybody’s surprises a handful of
fighters armed with a few pistols, rifles and Molotov Cocktails inflicted
casualties on the tank led German troops. At the end of the day, the Jewish
“fighters felt that the day was theirs. They had taken on heavily armed and
trained units and inflicted losses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
could not win or even hold out, but they would die avenging the silenced
dead.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would take the Germans more
than a month to subdue the Jewish fighters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When you consider that the French surrendered to the Germans after only
six weeks of fighting, the valor of the Jewish men and women is even more
impressive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are several sites that
are calling attention to this anniversary including </span></span></span><a href="http://rhapsodyinbooks.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/april-19-1943-anniversary-of-the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://rhapsodyinbooks.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/april-19-1943-anniversary-of-the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising/</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> and </span></span></span><a href="http://www.juf.org/news/thinking_torah.aspx?id=419902"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.juf.org/news/thinking_torah.aspx?id=419902</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">For those of you who would like to add a reading to your
Seder to mark the moment you might want to consider the one below.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is an eyewitness description of what the
fighters saw as they set up a new position in a rabbi’s apartment at 4 Kuzia
Street on the night of the first Seder.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="Style" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .15in; margin-right: .2pt; margin-top: 7.85pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">The apartment was
in a state of chaos [a youth observed]. Bed linens were spread all around</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">, </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">chairs
were turned upside down</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">, </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">various household item</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">s </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">were
strewn on the floor</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">, a</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">nd all the window panes were smashed into little bits.
During the daytime, while the members of the family had sought shelter in th</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">e </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">bunker,
the house had become </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">a </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">me</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">s</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">s</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #3e3e3e;">; </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">onl</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">y </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">th</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">e </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">t</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">a</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">bl</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">e </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">in th</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">e </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">middle of the room stood</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #3e3e3e;">: </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">festi</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">v</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">e</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">, </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">as if
a thing apart from the other furniture</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #3e3e3e;">. </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">The
redness of the wine in the glasses which were on the t</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">a</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">ble w</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">a</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">s a reminder of the
blood of the J</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">e</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">ws who had perished on the e</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">v</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">e of the holiday</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">. </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">The
Hagada was recited while in the background incessant burst</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">s </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">of
bombing and shooting, one after the </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">o</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">th</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">e</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">r</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">, </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">pounded
throughout the night</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">. </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">The scarlet reflection from the burning houses nearb</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">y </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">illumin</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">a</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">ted the faces of
those around the table in the darkened room. When the rabbi reached the
passage, "Shofoch Ch</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">a</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">m</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">a</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">tch</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">a</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">" ["Pour out Your wrath on the nations who have
not wished to know You</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">"</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">], he and his family broke down and cried bitterly. I had
the feeling that it was the weeping of people condemned to death, people who, outwardl</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">y, </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">had
re- sign</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">e</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">d themsel</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">v</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">es to the ide</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">a </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">of
their deaths</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">, ye</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">t w</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">e</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">re terrified wh</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">e</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">n th</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">e </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">moment
ne</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #292928;">a</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;">red. The rabbi lamented those who had not lived to
celebrate this Seder</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">. </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #070607;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;">From <u>The Holocaust</u> by Nora
Levin<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: This evening, President Barak Obama is scheduled to
host his annual White House Seder.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://forward.com/articles/173508/how-is-the-white-house-seder-different-from-all-ot/?p=all"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://forward.com/articles/173508/how-is-the-white-house-seder-different-from-all-ot/?p=all</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu announced today that he would resume the routine transfer of tax
revenues collected for the Palestinian Authority, ending a freeze that began in
December 2012 following the Palestinian bid for upgraded status at the UN in
late November.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2013:</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Two leaders that have been in the limelight
this month sent their thoughts to world Jewry today, as both Pope Francis and
US President Barack Obama wished their respective communities a happy Passover.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013(14<sup>th</sup> of Nisan,
5773): Eighty-five-year-old two-time Pulitzer prize winning New York Times
columnist Anthony Lewis of whom “Nicholas B. Lemann, the dean of Columbia
University School of Journalism, said: "At a liberal moment in American
history, he was one of the defining liberal voices” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/us/anthony-lewis-pulitzer-prize-winning-columnist-dies-at-85.html?hp"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/us/anthony-lewis-pulitzer-prize-winning-columnist-dies-at-85.html?hp</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: “Two Sided Story” is
scheduled to be shown at the Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: “The Rolling Stones
confirmed today that they will perform in Tel Aviv on June 4 as part of their
“14 On Fire” world tour.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar II,
5774): Eighty-eight-year-old sculptor Mon Levinson passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/arts/design/mon-levinson-88-op-art-sculptor-dies.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=0"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/arts/design/mon-levinson-88-op-art-sculptor-dies.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=0</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar II,
5774): Seventy-year-old journalist Robert Slater passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/business/media/robert-slater-journalist-and-author-dies-at-70.html?hpw&rref=obituaries"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/business/media/robert-slater-journalist-and-author-dies-at-70.html?hpw&rref=obituaries</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2014:</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A strike by Israeli diplomats over salaries
has foiled preparations in Nepal for what coordinators say is the world’s
biggest celebration of the Jewish Passover holiday, organizers announced
today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: “The Beginning” and “Among
Believers” the opening episodes of “The Story of the Jews” with Simon Schama
are scheduled to be shown this evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.iptv.org/series.cfm/23708/story_jews_with_simon/ep:101"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.iptv.org/series.cfm/23708/story_jews_with_simon/ep:101</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.jta.org/2014/03/18/arts-entertainment/with-the-story-of-the-jews-simon-schama-returns-to-his-roots"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jta.org/2014/03/18/arts-entertainment/with-the-story-of-the-jews-simon-schama-returns-to-his-roots</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.iptv.org/series.cfm/23708/story_jews_with_simon/ep:101"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.iptv.org/series.cfm/23708/story_jews_with_simon/ep:101</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: Sol Levinson & Bros. Funeral Home and Jewish
Community Services are scheduled to present “The Empty Place at the Table:
Coping with Loss During the Holidays.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: Publication of “From A Woman’s Thoughts to Welcoming
the Ladies”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://jewishmuseummd.org/2015/03/from-a-womans-thoughts-to-welcoming-the-ladies-a-few-thoughts-for-the-end-of-womens-history-month/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://jewishmuseummd.org/2015/03/from-a-womans-thoughts-to-welcoming-the-ladies-a-few-thoughts-for-the-end-of-womens-history-month/</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington
is scheduled to host a “Workshop: Help Make a Museum” as part of the planning
process to create “a new regional Jewish museum.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: Auschwitz Museum spokesman Pawel Sawicki told the AP
today “that historians have no doubt that” a list “of 15 Polish and Jewish
inmates of the Nazi death camp” that had been “found last inside a 1923 Polish
book on the history of warfare” was authentic. (As reported by Monika
Scislowska)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: National Museum of American Jewish History is
scheduled to host the “3rd Annual Freedom Seder Revisited.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: The Hadassah Book Club is scheduled to meet in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: Thomas Barton is scheduled to deliver a lecture on
“The Battle Over Jews in Medieval Spain” in Coronado, CA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5776): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5776): On the day after
his 47<sup>th</sup> birthday Brigadier General Muni Amar “died in a plane
crash” this afternoon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4783182,00.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4783182,00.html</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: As the Jews in the America South reaches Savannah,
GA, “local expert Harriet Meyerhoff is scheduled to lead a tour that will
include to Mickve Israel, one of the nation’s oldest congregations and its
museum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: One-hundred fifth anniversary of the Triangle
Shirtwaist Factory Fire.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/triangle-intro/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/triangle-intro/</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/triangle-shirtwaist-fire"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/triangle-shirtwaist-fire</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: The Seattle Jewish Film
Festival is scheduled to begin today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: “Memory Unearthed: The Lodz
Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross,” which was organized by the Art Gallery of
Ontario, is scheduled opened today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/memory-unearthed"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/memory-unearthed</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017(27<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5777):
TRIPLE HEADER SABBATH<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shabbat HaChodesh; Complete reading the Book
of Exodus; </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2018: The Yeshiva University Museum is
scheduled to present “Pomegranates and Palm Trees For Passover.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: The American Society for Jewish
Music, The American Jewish Historical Society and the American Sephardi
Federation are scheduled to host “Songs of Devotion and Desire” which examines
“the music heritage of Jewish Spain.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: JNOLA and Jewish Community Day
School are scheduled to host their 3rd annual Chocolate Seder<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">2018(9<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5778): One day after his 90<sup>th</sup> birthday,</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Bronx native and Iowa Hawkeye alum Melvin “Mel” Rosen who
went from being a successful collegiate middle-distance runner to being the
highly successful track coach at Auburn University while raising two daughters
– Laurie and Karen – with his wife, “the former Joan Kinstler, passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="http://www.usatf.org/halloffame/TF/showBio.asp?HOFIDs=140"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.usatf.org/halloffame/TF/showBio.asp?HOFIDs=140</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/sports/mel-rosen-coach-of-powerful-92-olympics-track-team-dies-at-90.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/sports/mel-rosen-coach-of-powerful-92-olympics-track-team-dies-at-90.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: The funeral for Belle Lipsky is
scheduled take place today followed by internment at Eben Israel Cemetery in
Cedar Rapids, IA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: The World Premiere of “Hero
Among Us, that tells the story concentration camp liberator John Gaultier is
scheduled to take place in his hometown of Vinton, IA this afternoon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: The 18<sup>th</sup> Annual New
Jersey Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">2018: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including That’s What She Said:</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">What Men Need to
Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together by Joanne Lipman and
American Innovations by Rivka Galchen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The Center for Jewish History,
the American Jewish Historical Society and MALA are scheduled to host a
screening of “RBG,” the documentary about Justice Ginsburg followed by a
discussion with RBG director Julie Cohen and associate producer Nadine Natour. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In “Museums Cut Ties With
Sacklers as Outrage Over Opiod Crisis Grows” published today, Alex Marshall
described how the world of art and culture are being impacted by the behavior
of this pharmaceutical family.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/arts/design/sackler-museums-donations-oxycontin.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/arts/design/sackler-museums-donations-oxycontin.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019(18<sup>th</sup> of Adar II,
5779): Eighty-five-year-old University of Chicago and Columbia trained
anthropologist Dr. Sydel Silverman, the Chicago born daughter of Elizabeth
Bassman and Rabbi Joseph Finer whose works included The Beast on the Table
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/obituaries/sydel-silverman-dead.html<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Driver,” a tale of
an ultra-Orthodox father raising his daughter as single parent after his wife
leaves him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The annual AIPAC Conference is
scheduled to continue meeting for a second day in Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: Today is the deadline the
Supreme Court in Israel has set for Yuli Edelstein to convene the Knesset so
that a new speaker can be elected.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: The Streicker Center is
scheduled to host an online session with Leah Koenig as she talks about “The
History of Jewish Cookbooks in America.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: Boston Jewish Film is scheduled
to present an online screening of “To Be of Service.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: “Israel’s Chief Rabbi David
Lau, in a public letter, called on Jews to refrain from eating or speaking
unnecessarily today in light of the coronavirus pandemic” since “abstinence
from food and speech is a Jewish spiritual practice designed to encourage
self-reflection on the personal and communal level.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: Observance of National Medal of
Honor Day as designed by the United States Congress in 1990 which provides us
with a chance to remember all America’s heroes including Abraham Cohn, Leopold
Karpeles, Benjamin Levy and David Urbansky, veterans of the Civil War who were
among the first Jews to have been awarded the Congressional Medal of honor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-medal-of-honor-recipients"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-medal-of-honor-recipients</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="https://nmajmh.org/exhibitions/permanent-exhibitions/hall-of-heroes/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://nmajmh.org/exhibitions/permanent-exhibitions/hall-of-heroes/</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="https://www.aish.com/j/f/We_Jews_Medal_of_Honor_Winners.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.aish.com/j/f/We_Jews_Medal_of_Honor_Winners.html</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span></span><a href="https://www.geni.com/projects/Medal-of-Honor-Recipients-Jewish/4987"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.geni.com/projects/Medal-of-Honor-Recipients-Jewish/4987</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67415169;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: The Contemporary
Jewish Museum is scheduled to present online Kristin Eriko Posner, founder of
Nourish, a lifestyle company, and social worker Faye Chao Sofaer sharing
recipes for Jewish Asian Passover recipes, stories and traditions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: Temple Israel of
Boston is scheduled to present online “Passover Cooking Across the Diaspora
with culinary historian Sara Gardner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: As part of the
Marshall Weinberg Sprig 2021 Classical Music Season, the 92<sup>nd</sup> Street
Y is scheduled to host on cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Inon Barnatan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: The Jewish Studio
Project is to present “Have You Made Art About It Yet? Passover Edition”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a virtual class for
making art that explores moving from narrow places to expansive joy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: The Boston
Synagogue is scheduled to present online a “Passover Party with Ezekiel’s
Wheels Klezmer Band.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: Based on reports
published yesterday that the Chinese government plans to invite Israelis and
Palestinians to hold talks in China, as of today there is a new player in the
long-running, inconclusive game of Middle East Peace Talk<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: Based on reports
published yesterday, Prime Minister Netanyahu will not be able to form a
government with Gideon Saar because the leader of New Hope has rejected
proposals that he hold coalition talks with Bibi.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: The Americans and
the Holocaust traveling exhibition is scheduled to open at Marshalltown Public
Library (Marshalltown, IA),<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">University Libraries,
Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) and Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library
(Bismarck, ND).<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: It was reported
today that Israel will host a historic summit this weekend with the top
diplomats from the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and
Bahrain, a sign of how quickly the realignment of Middle Eastern powers is
accelerating as Israelis and some Arab governments find common cause not only
over Iran but in navigating the new global realities created by the Ukraine
war.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: ♪ Live broadcast
on Kan Kol Hamusika of the Young Artists in Concert" featuring "The
Joshua Tuttenauer Choir”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: “Shtisel “which
tells the story of a Haredi family living in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of
Jerusalem, is planned to be removed by Netflix today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: Amid protests by
Jewish groups, Prime Minister Netanyahu is scheduled to continue his visit the
United Kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: Israel braces for
another round Saturday night demonstrations by those opposed to the package of
“judicial reform” legislation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130563619;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2023(3<sup>rd</sup> of
Nisan, 5783): Parashat Vayikra</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host the second class “Femme Fatale for
Fierce Woman Warrior” taught by feminist Torah scholar and soon-to-be rabbi,
Sivan Rotholz is the Education Director for Achayot.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a “Purim
Family Day” during visitors will “join Washington Revels and the Seth Kibel
Trio for an afternoon of Klezmer music, a Purim spiel (Purim comedy), and
costumes.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host “Paul Shapiro’s Purim <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Shpil!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
YIVO is scheduled to host a lecture by historians Benny Morris and Jeffrey Herf
on “Colonialism, Racism and the Arab Israeli War of 1948.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
JTA is scheduled to host the first session of “How to research and construct
your Jewish family tee with Jennnifer Mendelsohn “a sought-after genealogist
who specializes in helping Eastern European Jewish families shattered by the
Holocaust reclaim their history.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
25th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 171 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p>melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-37292476754675695612024-03-23T16:24:00.000-06:002024-03-23T16:24:10.878-06:00This Day, March 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <em><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;">March 24</span></b></em></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">809: Harun
al-Rashid (Aaron the Upright, Aaron the Just), fifth caliph of the Abbasid
Empire who had issued a decree that Jews wear a yellow belt in 807, passed
away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1244(18th of
Nisan): Rabbi Meir Abulafya Ha-Levi (Ramah) an opponent of Maimonides and
author of Yad Ramah passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1267: The
government of Barcelona gave the Jews permission to repair their synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1267: Louis
IX, IX who at the request of the Pope Gregory burned “24 cartload of Jewish
books in 1242, made plans to expel the Jews after confiscating their property
and ordered them to wear a “Jew’s badge” and “to listen to missionary sermons”
and his three sons “took up the Cross” for what was to be the 8<sup>th</sup>
Crusade.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1284: Hugues
de Lusignan the son of Henry of Antioch and Isabelle de Lusignan, the daughter
of king Hugh I of Cyprus, who, in one of those minor ironies of history, was
the King of Jerusalem even though the Christian Crusaders had lost control of
the city at the end of the 12<sup>th</sup> century, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1488(13th of
Nisan): Rabbi Obadiah Bertinoro, author of a popular Mishnah commentary arrived
in Jerusalem<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1564: The Pope
authorized the printing of the Talmud in Mantua on condition that the word
Talmud would be omitted from the text. From the opening years of the sixteenth
century, Mantua was a leading center of Jewish printing. A husband and wife
duo, Abraham and Estellina Conat shared equally in printing and promoting
Jewish texts. By the seventeenth century, the situation of the Jews of Mantua
had worsened as they, like Italian Jews in many other cities, were forced to
live behind Ghetto Walls.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1564: The
index of Pius IV. of Trent, which appeared today permitted the Jews to use
Hebrew and even Talmudic books, provided they were printed without the word
"Talmud," and were purged from vituperations against the Christian
religion. The expurgation of Hebrew books, thus expressly declared admissible,
was henceforth regularly undertaken before printing, either by the Jews
themselves or by Christian correctors; and this accounts for the more or less
mutilated state of reprints since the middle of the sixteenth century.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1575(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Nisan, 5335): Joseph Caro, author of the <u>Shulchan Aruch, </u>passed away
today at Safed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Caro.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Caro.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1603: Queen
Elizabeth I passed away at the age of 69, having ruled since 1558. Although
Elizabethan England was supposedly Jew-free, there were several small Marrano
communities in the British Isles. In 1588, Dr. Hector Nunes, one of these
secret Jews provided the English leaders with the invaluable intelligence that
the Spanish Armada had reached Lisbon which was its first stop as it headed
north to attack England. On the other hand, Dr. Roerigo Lopez was Elizabeth’s
physician in 1586 and he ended being accused of being part of a plot to kill
the Queen. While the evidence was flimsy, it was thought better to execute him
given the many threats against her life. The fate of Lopez gave rise to
Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta. This in turn inspired Marlowe’s competitor, William
Shakespeare to write The Merchant of Venice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1630(11th of
Nisan, 5390): Isaiah Horowitz, Shelah ha-Kadosh (the holy Shelah) passed away
in Tiberias.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://shl2gur.tripod.com/shla.htm"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://shl2gur.tripod.com/shla.htm</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112346/jewish/Rabbi-Isaiah-Halevi-Horowitz-The-Sheloh.htm"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112346/jewish/Rabbi-Isaiah-Halevi-Horowitz-The-Sheloh.htm</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1648(27<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5408): Seventy-six-year-old Leon of Modena a Jewish scholar, born in
Venice in 1571, of a notable French family which had migrated to Italy after
the expulsion of the Jews from France passed away today. He was a precocious
child, but, as Graetz points out, his lack of stable character prevented his
gifts from maturing. "He pursued all sorts of occupations to support
himself, viz. those of preacher, teacher of Jews and Christians, reader of
prayers, interpreter, writer, proof-reader, bookseller, broker, merchant,
rabbi, musician, matchmaker and manufacturer of amulets." Though he failed
to rise to real distinction he earned a place by his criticism of the Talmud
among those who prepared the way for the new learning in Judaism. One of Leon's
most effective works was his attack on the Kabbala, Ari Nohem, first published
in 1840, for in it he demonstrated that the "Bible of the
Kabbalists", the Zohar, was a modern composition by Moses de Leon. He
became best known, however, as the interpreter of Judaism to the Christian world.
At the instance of an English nobleman he prepared an account of the religious
customs of the Synagogue, Riti Ebraici (1637). This book was widely read by
Christians; it was rendered into various languages, and in 1650 was translated
into English by Edward Chilmead. At the time the Jewish question was coming to
the fore in London, and Leon of Modena's book did much to stimulate popular
interest. He died at Venice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9766-leon-judah-aryeh-of-modena"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9766-leon-judah-aryeh-of-modena</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1656: A group
of Marrano merchants “presented a petition to Cromwell asking for his
protection and for his permission in writing to meet for private Jewish worship
their houses without fear of molestation.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1656: After
the outbreak of war between England and Spain, Jews living in England
petitioned Cromwell to stay insisting that they were not Spaniards but rather
Marranos. Although Cromwell chose not to officially reply to today’s request,
he permitted the community to establish a Jewish Cemetery, and for protection
during prayers. His unwritten agreement was conditioned on there being no
public Jewish worship. This is considered by many to mark the official end of
the expulsion of the Jews from England.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1664: Roger
Williams was granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island. Unlike Massachusetts,
Rhode Island was not governed as a theocracy. Rhode Island helped create the
atmosphere of toleration that would become the American model thus making the
United States a unique place for Jews to live.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1696(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5456): Rosh Chodesh Nisa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1696(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5456): Jüttel Schulhof, the daughter of Jokel Glogau, the wife of
Samuel Schulhoff<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mother of
Esther Samuel Liebmann; Anschel Schulhoff and Joseph Samuel Schulhoff passed
away today Berlin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1733:
Birthdate of British theologian Joseph Priestly who 1786 published “Letter to
the Jews” in which he urged them to convert that elicited a length answer from
David Levin which led to the publication of his three volume <u>Dissertation on
the Prophecies of the Old Testament</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1743(28th of
Adar): Rabbi Raphael Immanuel Ricchi author of Mishnat Hasidim passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1755: In
Binswagen, Germany, Lazarus Liebermann Baldauf and Leopold Loeb Baldauf gave
birth to Nathan Baldauf.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1756:
Bordeaux, France native Daniel Nones and Ester Alvares gave birth to Sara
Nones.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1758(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5518): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1764(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5524): Parashat Shimini; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1766(14<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5526): Ta’anit Berchorot; erev Pesach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1769(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5529) Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1769: On the
same day that Jews are reveling in holiday celebrating their deliverance from
Haman, the Spanish Inquisition gained new ground as the first two parties set
out to build Spanish settlements in Alta California, an area which includes
what is now California, Nevada, Utah and portions of four other western states.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1776: In
London, Aaron Gomes Da Costa, the Portuguese born Son of Abran Gomes da Costa
and Abigail Gomes da Costa and his wife Miriam De Solomon Gomes Da Costa gave
birth to Grace Cohen, the wife of Judah Mordechai Cohen <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1788: In New
York, Hannah Isaacks and Jacob Phillips who were married at Newport, RI in 1785
gave birth to Abraham Phillips.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1794: Start of
the Kościuszko Uprising. Tadeusz Kościuszko, a veteran of the American
Revolutionary War, announced the general uprising against the Russian occupiers
and assumed the powers of the Commander in Chief of all of the Polish forces.
Jews, in a Jewish regiment led by Berek Joselewicz, took part in the failed
uprising which led to the third and final partition of Poland in 1795.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1795:
Birthdate of Zvi (Zwi) Hirsch Kalischer “an Orthodox rabbi and one of Zionism's
early pioneers in Germany.” .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Born in
the Polish town of Lissa that had just become part of Germany, Kalisher was
unique because he was an Orthodox Rabbi who believed that Jews develop a
practical program for returning to Eretz Israel instead of just waiting for the
coming of the Messiah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1860, he
published Derishat Tziyyon , his blueprint for the return to the Holy
Land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Almost forty years before the
advent of Herzl and Zionism he called for a systematic purchase of land, the
development of agriculture, the development of a self-defense force and the
need to develop viable businesses to replace the charitable institutions that
traditionally supported the Jews in Palestine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Reform opposed Kalisher because of the nationalist content of the
proposal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Orthodox saw it as a form
of blasphemy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the practical
results of his work was the establishment of Mikveh Israel, a school located
near Jaffa, designed to teach the new generation of pioneers the scientific
agricultural skills that would enable them to reclaim the land.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/zevi-hirsch-kalischer"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/zevi-hirsch-kalischer</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1796(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5556): Purim observed for the last time during the Presidency of
George Washington.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1801:
Alexander I became Czar of the Russian Empire. He ruled until his death in
1825. His treated his Jewish subjects poorly at the beginning and at the end of
his reign. In the middle years which were marked by the wars with Napoleon,
Alexander was impressed by the loyalty of his Jewish subjects in the fight
against the French. He received unexpected help from the head of the Chabad
Chassidim. Like other Christian leaders, Alexander sought to convert the Jews
which was the source of any beneficence he might have shown them. When “killing
them with kindness” failed, he went back to killing them with starvation,
misery and impoverishment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1807(14th of
Adar II, 5567): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1807:
Birthdate of Newhuas, Germany native and New Orleans diamond and jewelry
salesman Louis Rose who traveled by wagon train through Texax before settling
in Sand Diego where he married Matilda Newman, the widows of Jacob Newman and
was known for his skill as brickmaker and tanner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://cbisd.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/150th_book_chapter1.pdf"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://cbisd.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/150th_book_chapter1.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1813: In
Argentina, the inquisition was officially abolished. Two months later the
Assembly passes regulations allowing freedom of practicing religion if it is
observed in one’s home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1816: Sampson
ben Abraham married Pescha bat Shermari Solomon at the Western Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1817: Leah and
Solomons and Aaron Jacobs gave birth to Edward Jacobs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1817(7<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5577): Rebecca Judah, the daughter of Baruch Judah and the wife of
Isaac Hays passed away today in Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1818: American
statesman Henry Clay wrote: 'All religions united with government are more or
less inimical to liberty. All separated from government are compatible with
liberty.' No, Henry Clay was not Jewish. But his statement on the relationship
between government and organized religion provides a clue as to why Jews have
flourished in America and how wrong some modern politicians are in their
statements about separation of church and state.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1820:
Birthdate of Elizabeth Rachel Felix, who gained fame as Mademoiselle Rachel,
the great French Tragedienne<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1820: First
public performance of Marche Funebre et De Profundis en Hebreu, a funeral march
composed by Jacques Fromenthal Halevy that had been commissioned by the
Consistoire Israélite du Départment de la Seine, for a public service in memory
of the Duke de Berry, in the Jewish community's temple. This liturgical
composition which helped launch Halevy’s career was meant to be performed by a
vocal trio and orchestra. On its engraved title page, Halevy was described as a
member of the Royal Institute of Music and a recipient of the patronage of the
King of France at the Academy of Rome. One of France's greatest composers,
Jacques Fromenthal Halevy (1799-1862), was also the son of a cantor. His
father, Elie Halfon Halevy was the secretary of the Jewish community of Paris
and a Hebrew teacher and writer as well. Musically gifted, Jacques was accepted
as a student by the Paris Conservatory at age ten and subsequently became a
member of its faculty, rising to the rank of professor in 1833. His lasting
fame was assured by his grand opera La Juive which premiered in 1835.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1822:
Birthdate of Solomon Cohn, the native of Zülz, Prussian Silesia who followed in
the footsteps of his grandfather Meshuallam Solomon Cohn of Furth and served as
a rabbi of several congregations in Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1824: George
Aarons married Elizabeth Davis at the Western Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1825(5<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5585): Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heshel of Apt, the son of Chaya Sara
and R Shmuel of Neustadt and the founder of the Mezhbizh/Zinkover rabbinic
dynasty passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1829: In
Hoorn, Holland, Ribca Eliezer Abendana and Mozes Aron Senior Coronel gave birth
to cigar maker Aaron Senior Coronel, the husband of Rebecca “Kitty” Coelho and
the father of Rebecca, Moses, Rachael, Samuel, Eleazer and Jacob Coronel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1830: Joseph
ben Moses HaLevi married Esther bat Eliyakum Goetshlik HaCohen at the New
Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1830:
Thirty-nine-year Bavarian native Jesajas Simon Schulein married twenty-nine-year-old
Ann Seuchtwanger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841: “Another
important step for emancipation was the law adopted today, for Galicia, which
promised certain improvements for the Jews of that province who should dress in
European costume and acquire a knowledge of either German or Polish,”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1843:
Birthdate of Sigmund Salfeld, the 1870 graduate of the University of Berlin who
in 1880 began serving as a rabbi in Mainz where he passed away in 1926 at the
age of 83.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1845(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5605) Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1845: Rebecca
Cohen Hart, the New York born daughter of Catherine and Sampson Mears Isaacks,
and her husband Abraham Hart gave birth to Catherine (Kate) Hart<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847: In
London, Rabbi D.A. De Sola delivered a sermon at the Spanish and Portuguese
Synagogue, Bevis Marks, on the subject of the Irish Potato Famine which began
with the following statement, “"For devastation has gone forth through the
land, Death stalks around, with disease in its train...."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1850(11<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5610): Frances Marks, the English born wife of Humphrey Mordecai
Marks and the mother of Alexander, Elia, Frederick and Isaac Marks passed away
today after which was buried in the Hebrew Benevolent Society Cemetery in
Columbia, SC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852: Selig
Salomon Philipp married Eveline Albu today in Berlin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853: In
Jerusalem, English missionaries ended up fighting instead of praying on Good
Friday. First, they “were turned out of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher
because they behaved in an unseemly manner when the Procession of the Host”
passed by. Then “a missionary named Crawford preached a sermon outside the
Synagogue while the service was going on…and indulged in invectives against the
Talmud. One of the Children of Israel incensed this, hurled a dead cat” in his
face. A fight then broke out between the Protestant missionaries and the Jews
during which “it rained mud and rocks.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1857: Boston
physician John Warren Gorham who had been nominated by President Franklin
Pierce as “the first American consul to serve in Jerusalem” arrived in that
city today after which “he set up the consulate in a rented building on Mount
Zion near the Jaffa Gate.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859: In
Savannah, GA, Johanna Peyser became Johanna Wessolowsky when she married
Charles Wessolowsky <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859: In
Laupheim, Germany, Samuel Heilbronner and Emilie Einstein gave birth to Pauline
Heilbronner who became Pauline Heilbronner Hirschfeld when she married Leopold
Hirschfeld with she had two children—Laura and Bella.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5620): Parashat Vayikra; Rosh Chodesh Nisan; Shabbat HaChoedsh.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860: In New
York, the Supreme Court granted an “order of the payment of surplus in the case
of Hebrew Mutual Benefit Society vs. Fitzpatrick.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860: An
editorial published today that reviewed the current debate over the death
penalty stated that the legislature should refrain from discussing “What the
law of Moses says on the subject, or how far that law is binding on modern
communities; questions which they are not competent to decide” and should stick
to the question at hand – should life imprisonment replace hanging as a
punishment for murder.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861:
Birthdate of Pyzdry, Poland native Shaina (Jane) Hyman the wife of Samuel
Hyman, the son of Mordechai Yitzchak Yam and Rose Haym, with whom she had seven
children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862: Judah P.
Benjamin completed his service as Secretary of War for the CSA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862: The
Purim Association of the City of New York was organized for the purpose of
arranging annual Purim balls. Meyer S. Isaacs, prominent New York Lawyer, civic
leader and Jewish activist, was one of the founders of the Purim Association
which lasted until 1906.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868: In
Chicago, Therese and David Abraham Kohn gave birth to Dr. Alfred David Kohn,
the husband Esther Loeb Kohn and a member of the Chicago Board of Education.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869:
Birthdate of Turin native and Italian politician and journalist Claudio Treves
who was forced into exile in the 1920’s. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><a name="_Hlk130396074"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870:
In Chicago, Ricka Dinkelspiel and Samuel Cole gave birth to Los Angeles
businessman Louis Maurice Cole the husband of Frida Hellman and Treasurer of
the wholesale produce concern Simon Levy Company who was a trustee of B’nai
B’rith Congregation in Los Angeles, a Republican Presidential elector in 1924
and one of the first to important pimento seeds from Sapin which lead to the
establishment of an American industry canning that vegetable.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130396074;"></span>
</span><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872(14th of
Adar II, 5632): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872: In New
York City, Jacob and Rosalie (Lebrecht) Wiener gave birth Joseph Wiener
Columbia University trained surgeon and author Joseph Wiener who was affiliated
with several hospital including German Hospital and Mt. Sinai Hospital and who
was the husband of Gertrude Strauss.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872: Hyman
Israel, one of the wealthiest members of Beth Israel Bikur Cholim in New York
City hosted a Purim Open house at his home on 25th Street. The party included a
large number of masked young men and women including the host’s daughter, Miss
Annie Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873: Some
sources claim that today marked the birth of Georgy Rosenbloom who gained fame
as super-spy Sidney Reilly<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873:
Following a speech by Benjamin Disraeli, the government of Prime Minister
Gladstone was defeated on the issue of the Irish University Bill. Disraeli, who
was seen as a “Jew” and Gladstone alternated as leaders of British governments
during the middle decades of the 19th century.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874: “According
to a Soviet secret police dossier compiled in 1925,” super-spy Sidney Reilly “was
perhaps born Zigmund Markovich Rozenblum today in Odessa” and “his father
Markus was a doctor and shipping agent, according to this dossier, while his
mother came from an impoverished noble family.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874:
According to a third source, Pauline and Gregory Rosenblum “members of a
wealthy Polish-Jewish family with an estate at Bielsk in the Grodno Governorate
of Imperial Russia” gave birth to Sigmund Georgievich Rosenblum who gained fame
as Sidney George Reilly MC known as the "Ace of Spies", who was a “secret
agent employed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and later by the Foreign
Section of the British Secret Service Bureau.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874:
Birthdate of New York native and builder Joseph Gilbert, “who erected more than
18 skyscrapers in Manhattan before 1925 and who raised two children – Victor
and Helen – with his wife <a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/04/19/81989007.pdf"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/04/19/81989007.pdf</span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874: In
Budapest Cecilia Stein and Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weisz gave birth to Eric Weisz
who gained fame as contortionist, acrobat and escape artist Harry Houdini.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.thegreatharryhoudini.com/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.thegreatharryhoudini.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h3711.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h3711.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878: Proving
that Jews can be found all over the world, it was reported today that Parva, a
Brazilian city deep in the heart of the Amazon on the Equator has a population
of 35,000 that “includes a few Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878: The
Young Men’s Hebrew Union hosted an evening of culture at the Norfolk Street
Synagogue this evening that included a lecture by A. Oakly Hall on “The Great
Pertersham Will Case” followed by a musical program that included a violin solo
David Bimberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878:
Birthdate of Moissaye Joseph Olgin “a Russian-born writer, journalist, and
translator” who was active in the first three decades 20th century<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878:
Birthdate of Moissaye Joseph Olgin, a Russian-born writer, journalist, and
translator in the early 20th century who founded the Morgen Freiheit, a New
York City Yiddish Newspaper affiliated with the Communist Party, among whose
stated aims was the promotion of the Jewish labor movement and the defeat of
racism in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883: In
“Kiviska, Russia, Hersh and Brucha Schriber gave birth to Mordechai “Max”
Yohlin, the husband of Esther Pressie with whom he had six children – Betty,
Mary Rose, Harry and Sylvia – with whom, in 1925 he “immigrated to Philadelphia
where he began serving as a congregational rabbi and cantor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://library.temple.edu/scrc/mordechai-yohlin-family-papers"><span style="color: red; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://library.temple.edu/scrc/mordechai-yohlin-family-papers</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885: Jefferson
Medical College trained medical doctor Solomon Solis Cohen, the Philadelphia
bons ons of Judith Simiah da Silva Solis and Myer Cohen married Emily Grace Nathan
da Silva Solis today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886(8<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5626): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887:
President Grover Cleveland appointed Oscar Solomon Strauss ambassador to
Turkey. Strauss was the first American Jew to serve as an ambassador. In 1906,
President Theodore Roosevelt would appoint Strauss Secretary of Commerce and
Labor, making him the first American Jew to hold a cabinet post in the
government of the United States. The year 1887 was a busy one for the Strauss
family. That was the year that Oscar's brothers, Nathan and Isidor bought
Macy’s Department Store.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887:
Birthdate of Prague native Karl Arnstein the aeronautical engineer best known
for being the chief designer for the lighter than air air-craft<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>USS Akron and USS Macon<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889: Meier
Selig Goldschmidt Selma Cramer the daughter of Salomon Cramer and Therese
(Röschen) Oppenheimer today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889: Twenty-three-year-old
Frankfurt, Germany native Meir Selig Goldschmidt married Selma Cramer, the daughter
of Salomon Cramer and Therese (Röschen) Oppenheimer.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891(14th of
Adar II, 5651): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: In South
Carolina, Joseph F. Brannon married Rebecca Cecilia Wolfe today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5652): Fifty-four-year-old Moses Mehrbach, a native of Bavaria and the
husband of Carolyn Meyer passed away today in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5652): Sixty-eight-year-old German native and winemaker Samuel Lachman,
the founder of Samuel Lachman & Sons, the husband of Henriette Lachman and
father of Albert Lachman; Rebecca W. Metzger and Henry Lachman passed away
today in San Francisco.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jmaw.org/lachman-jewish-wine-california/">https://www.jmaw.org/lachman-jewish-wine-california/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native Dr. Frederic D. Zeman the Columbia trained
physician and WWI veteran who was a geriatric specialist and husband of “the
former Madeleine Arnold.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/27/archives/frederic-zeman-geriatrist-dies-headed-medical-services-at-jewish.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/27/archives/frederic-zeman-geriatrist-dies-headed-medical-services-at-jewish.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: The Don
Quixote Club will give a benefit performance tonight at the Manhattan Athletic
Club Theatre to raise funds for the United Hebrew Charities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: “Rights
of Foreign Jews in Russia” published today described an order issued by the
Russian Minister of the Interior to the police that they are not to interfere
with activities of foreign Jews who have “proper passports” in their
possession. The order was issued in response to pressure from various
governments whose Jewish citizens have complaint about ill-treatment and
expulsion by the Czarist government.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1894: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The New York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">stated erroneously that
on Friday, March 23, “with the setting of the sun the Hebrew Feast of the
Passover began.” (The first Seder would not come until the evening of April 20,
with the first day of the holiday falling on April 21.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895(28th of
Adar, 5655): Babet Karl, the aunt of wealthy real estate lawyer Abraham Stern
passed away today in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
Professor Felix Adler delivered a lecture this morning at the Carnegie Music
Hall entitled “The New View of Childhood and Its Effects on Education.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896:
Birthdate of Lower East Side native Moses Polakoff, the WW I Navy veteran and
NYU trained attorney who worked in the United States Attorney’s office before
going into private practice where some of his most notorious clients were Lucky
Luciano and Meyer Lansky.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/14/obituaries/moses-polakoff-is-dead-at-age-97-was-lawyer-for-lucky-luciano.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/14/obituaries/moses-polakoff-is-dead-at-age-97-was-lawyer-for-lucky-luciano.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: It was
reported today that during the month of February the United Hebrew Charities
had received 3,306 applications for assistance on behalf of 11,020 people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jobs were found for 611 people and 466 people
were seen by either doctors or nurses. The charity raised $19,253.40 during
February and spent $11,736.53.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897:
Birthdate of Wilhelm Reich. He was a Jewish-Austrian psychiatrist,
psychoanalyst, and author, who was trained in Vienna by Sigmund Freud. He
passed away in 1957.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897:
“Theatrical Notes” published today described Oscar Hammerstein’s decision
revamp his production of “Greater New York.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: Hertig
and Seamon have donated the use of the Harlem Music Hall to the Ladies’
Auxiliary of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society for tonight’s charity event
that will benefit the Society and the Montefiore Home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: It was
reported today that Rabbi Joseph Silverman attributes “the long life and
freedom from epidemics enjoyed” by the Jews “to their Mosaic laws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“To the Jew his religion is a philosophy of
life” and the Jew “is the only real cosmopolitan” who “can live in any country
and enjoy health in every climate.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1899: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jewish Messenger </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that
Congregation Orach Chaim opened its new sanctuary. "An ornament to
Manhattan in general and to the inhabitants of E. 51st in particular, is the
handsome new edifice of this synagogue. The only thing that mars the beauty of
the structure is the $15,000 mortgage. It would be, indeed, permissible even
for the most ultra-orthodox to learn from Roman Catholic neighbors not to
dedicate a place of worship in the presence of a mortgage."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar II, 5660): Sixty-eight-year-old “Austrian scholar and author Solomon
Joachim Chayim Halberstam, the son of Isaac Halbestram, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: After a
half of a dozen speakers including attorney Clarence Darrow and social worker
Jane Adams addressed a meeting that heard about the outbreak of anti-Semitic
attacks in Chicago, “the Chicago Protective League was organized” today “to
demand that the police protect the Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5662): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5662): Poet and author Salomon Mandelkern who was born at Mlynov,
Volhynian Governorate in 1846 passed away today in Vienna. Mandelkern, whose
son Israel lived in New York, had translated the works of several American
writers including Henry W. Longfellow into English.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0013_0_13144.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0013_0_13144.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Mandelkern%2C%20Solomon%2C%201846-1902"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Mandelkern%2C%20Solomon%2C%201846-1902</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10351-mandelkern-solomon-b-simhah-dob"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10351-mandelkern-solomon-b-simhah-dob</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: Sarah
Alexander, the daughter of Henry Woolf and Sarah Jane Asher and the wife of
Oscar Alexander with whom she had had nine children was buried today at the
Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903:
Birthdate of “Polish novelist and educator Igor Newerly” who was imprisoned by
the Nazis for his efforts to rescue Jews – efforts which earned him
commendation from Yad Vashem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://db.yadvashem.org/righteous/family.html?language=en&itemId=4044056"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://db.yadvashem.org/righteous/family.html?language=en&itemId=4044056</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: It was
reported today that referee Hamilton Odell has selected the Hebrew Technical
Institute will receive the residue of the $600,000 the estate of lace importer
Simon Goldenberg following the death of his widow Mary Golden, in part because
Goldenberg had consider making a revision of his will so he could leave the
institute a large amount of money.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: The
Constitution Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith ended its
weeklong meeting in New Orleans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: <u>In</u>
Brooklyn, Yollie and Nathan Prichip gave birth to CCNY graduate Jack Stanley
Prichep, the NYU trained dentist who was active in the ZOA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906(27<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5666): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudi<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: It was
reported today that a private funeral is scheduled to be held for 8-year-old
Julius C. Morgenthau, Jr. the son of Julius C. Morgenthau and Regina L. Rose.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: It was
reported today that seventy-seven-year-old Edward Bloch who had passed away on
March 22 is scheduled to buried tomorrow at the United Jewish Cemetery in
Cincinnati, OH.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><a name="_Hlk162019863"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907:
In London, Jewish immigrants from Russia gave birth to Abraham Belsie who gained
fame as Glasgow raised sculptor Abram Belski, the namesake for the Belskie
Museum of Arts and Science in Closter, New Jersey which “was founded by the
Closter Lions Club to preserve, house and exhibit the works of Abram Belskie.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk162019863;"></span><a href="https://www.belskiemuseum.com/Abram-Belskie.asp"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk162019863;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.belskiemuseum.com/Abram-Belskie.asp</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk162019863;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk162019863;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk162019863;"></span><a href="https://americanart.si.edu/artist/abram-belskie-332"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk162019863;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://americanart.si.edu/artist/abram-belskie-332</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk162019863;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk162019863;"></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: A
meeting of the Executive Board of the Romanian Central Relief Committee was
followed today by two mass meetings in synagogues of the east side at which it
was decided to request President Roosevelt to take action to relieve the
situation in Moldavia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: Albert
Lowy, the husband of Gertrude Lindenthal with whom he had had eight children
was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Nisan 5669): Sixty-two-year-old Bavarian born, Virginia raised political
leader Herman Myers, the Mayor of Savannah, GA passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Nisan, 5669): Fifty-five-year-old German architect Alfred Messel whose most
famous work was the Wertheim Department store on Leipziger Platz and who became
a Protestant in 1899 passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910:
Birthdate of Gyula Ortutay, the anti-fascist political leader who while serving
as the country’s Minister of Religion and Education in 1947 “visited Jewish
grammar schools and in a brief address to the students, expressed sympathy and
understanding for the sufferings of the Jews under previous pro-Nazi regimes,
but pleaded for “forgiveness and cooperation in the reconstruction of Hungary.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911:
Birthdate of Tyler Kent, the anti-Semitic son of an American diplomat who used
his position as cypher clerk to steal and share secret documents the
anti-Semitic Right Club, that if exposed would have helped destroy efforts by
FDR and Churchill to fight the Nazis before America entered WW II.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: Reports
reached the West of the massacre and looting of Moroccan Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: Harry
Lapidus, the president of the Omaha (Neb) Fixture Supply Company and Minnie K.
Kooler Lapidus gave birth to Earl A. Lapidus, the U.S. Naval Graduate who rose to the rank of
Lieutenant before dying in the South Pacific during WW II.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: The
Jewish Theological Seminary of America held its “Thirteenth Biennial Meeting”
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912:
Birthdate of Isaac Edward Lending, the son of Bronx owner of a textile
trimmings business who reversed the order of his name to Edward Issac Lending –
the name he used as a journalist and a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5673): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5673): Forty-six year old Viennese native Dr. Maximilian Max Reiner
the son of Agnes and Dr. Michael Reiner and husband of Paula Reiner passed away
today in Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: Today,
Morris Gintzler, the Hungarian born son of Emil and Saly Gintzler, and his wife
Rose Gintzler gave birth to Dorothy Helen Gintzler who became Dorothy Helen
Perlberg when she married Charles Perlberg with whom she had two daughters –
Rose and Jane.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: In Lynn,
MA, Ann and Israel Sack gave birth to Albert Milton Sack the “prominent New
York antiques dealer and the author of a guidebook to early American furniture
that became the bible for a generation of weekend antiquers and a standard for
professional collectors.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: Among
those listed today as contributors to the fund of the American Jewish Relief
Committee were the Calgary, Alberta, Jewish Relief Committee, Congregation
House of Israel, Hot Springs, AR; the Sunday School of the Hebrew Bible Class
Association, Newport News, VA and the Ladies Temple Sisterhood of B’nai
Jeshurun, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: An
eyewitness account of the Austrian surrender of Przemsyl to the Russians sent
from Petrograd to London today described the destruction of fortification but
reported that except for the outskirts, “town itself” most of whose occupants
were Jews who had stayed during the fight was “intact.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Editor’s note – The Jews stayed because they
had not place to go and they were subject to anti-Semitic outburst by those on
both sides of the fight.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: The Jews
are among the many groups fleeing Constantinople today based on a fear of
Russian invasion of the Ottoman capital.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: Final
arrangements were completed today “for the bazaar for the benefit of the Jewish
war sufferers of Europe” which opens tomorrow in the Grand Central Palace” and
“is one of the largest undertakings yet attempted by the Jews of New York to
raise funds for the relief of their suffering co-religionists in Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: In New
York, “The Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War”
received word today that a successful meeting had been held last night at B’nai
Emuno Synagogue in St. Louis where “many wept when Rabbi Masliansky and Rabbi
Abranowitz described “the sufferings of the Jews in the war zones.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Based on
reports that the political and religious emancipation of the Jews are about to
be removed along with “the passport restrictions which have rendered it
impossible for American Jews to travel in Russia” the U.S. “State Department
has already received a number of applications from American Jews” wishing to go
to Russia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: In an
interview given today, Dr. Israel Friedlaender, the Professor of Biblical
Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary predicted that as a result of the
Russian Revolution there would be a “great diminution in the volume of Jewish
emigration from Russia to the United States and the return of many thousands of
recent emigrants” to Russia “which now offers them the liberty in search of
which they had fled” to the United States and “Russian-American Jews” would
“play a great part in the industrial upbuilding of their native land.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917:
According to a letter from Oscar S. Straus published today, “Now that the
magnificent uprising of democracy in Russia appears to have opened a new and
glorious future for that country with equal rights for the oppressed
nationalities, Jewish sentiment in America in favor of the Allied cause may be
safely counted upon to become unanimous.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917:
Birthdate of Brooklynite Alex Steinweiss, the son of women’s shoe designer and
a seamstress, who as “an art director and graphic designer…brought custom
artwork to record album covers and invented the first packaging for
long-playing records.” (As reported by Steven Heller)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: At the
Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall, Dr. Wise is scheduled to speak on “Vies and
uses, Right and Wrong, of Friendship and Love.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Samuel
Bayer was elected President today “at a special meeting of the Board of
Directors of the Uptown Talmud Torah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918:
Congressman Julius Kahn is scheduled to address the Institutional Synagogue
meeting at Mt. Morris Theatre on “American In and After the War.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918:
“Resolutions were adopted” today at the annual meeting of the Trustees of Mt.
Sinai Hospital “complimenting Geroge Blumenthal, the President, on the
successful execution of the duties of the various offices he has held with that
institution during the last twenty-five years.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: In
Chicago, Ida and Abe "Melech" Levin give birth to Joseph B. Levin.</span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: On the
Upper West Side of Manhattan, North Carolina native Louis Heilbroner, the
founder of a successful “chain of men’s clothing stores” and Helen Heilbroner
gave birth to American economist Robert Heilbroner, the author of some twenty
books, best known for <u>The Worldly Philosophers</u> published in 1953, which
is a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably Adam
Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/obituaries/robert-heilbroner-writer-and-economist-dies-at-85.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/obituaries/robert-heilbroner-writer-and-economist-dies-at-85.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://s-usih.org/2014/05/marginalized-economists-revisiting-robert-heilbroner-guest-post-by-rachel-m-cohen/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://s-usih.org/2014/05/marginalized-economists-revisiting-robert-heilbroner-guest-post-by-rachel-m-cohen/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: Alvey A.
Adee, the Second Assistant Secretary wrote to Dr. Pierre Siegelstein, the
President of the Rumanian Hebrew Aid Society that the State Department had
“received a message…from the Union of Native Jews of Rumania” in Bucharest
asking that Rumanian Jews in America do everything in their power to “send
money, food, underwear, clothing and shoes” because “misery is very great with
all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920:
Birthdate of Cracow native Mieczyslaw Pemper, the concentration camp inmate who
actually compiled what came to be known as “Schindler’s List.” (As reported by
Douglas Martin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/world/europe/19pemper.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/world/europe/19pemper.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8578020/Mietek-Pemper.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8578020/Mietek-Pemper.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: The
annual convention of Sigma Epsilon Delta Fraternity whose member incuded Samuel
Hess, Ben Horn, and Milton Bermas to place today in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5681): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: The
Chief Rabbinate of Palestine was established under the British Mandate. The
first Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Palestine was the scholar and sage, Rabbi
Abraham Isaac Kook Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook was one of the leading intellectual
and religious leaders during the Yishuv period.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: “The
Palestine Bazar” organized by the Manchester Branch of the Jewish National Fund
Commission for England for which Winston Churchill, MP acted as patron was
scheduled to come to an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Winston
Churchill’s train arrived in Gaza, the first large town he would visit on his
trip to Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: “Ludwig
II” a silent biopic directed by Otto Kreisler was released today in Austria.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: In
Bradford, Yorkshire, Eava Samuel and Abraham Ludman gave birth to Jeffrey
Ludman who passed away before he reached the age of three months.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: In an
attempt to calm Arab fears over Jewish immigration to Palestine, Churchill
“approved a proposal from Sir Herbert Samuel that Jewish immigration would be
limited by the ‘economic capacity’ of Palestine to absorb newcomers.” Of
course, Churchill saw that Palestine would have a growing economic capacity
given the improvements brought about the Jewish settlers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: In
Baltimore, MD, Robert Debuskey, “a wine salesman” and “Freda (Blaustein)
Debuskey gave birth to Basil Merle Debuskey the press agent who was a major
influence on the productions of Joseph Papp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(As reported by Neil Genzlinger)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/obituaries/merle-debuskey-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/obituaries/merle-debuskey-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: In
Cincinnati, OH, Goldie and James S. Auer gave birth to Rita Claire Weil, the
wife of Gordon A. Weil, Jr. with whom she had three children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: In
Philadelphia, Samuel Feld and Edna Rosenfeld gave birth to Norman Noah Feld,
the native of Philadelphia and WW II veteran who gained fame as actor Norman
Fell whose most lasting role came as Mr. Roper in the television hit “3’s
Company.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/16/nyregion/norman-fell-74-actor-known-for-tv-role.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/16/nyregion/norman-fell-74-actor-known-for-tv-role.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-norman-fell-1191859.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-norman-fell-1191859.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924:
Birthdate of Michael Hamburger the native of Berlin whose family settled in the
United Kingdom in 1933 where he attended Oxford, served in the British Army
during WW II after he which he pursued an academic career which was noted for
his translation of the works of several authors from German into English.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jun/11/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jun/11/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: Today “the
Central Education Committee (Tsentrale Bildungs Komitet or TSBK), the Vilna
branch of the Central Yiddish School Organization (Tsentrale Yidishe Shul
Organizatsye or TSYSHO) and the Vilna Education Society (Vilner Bildungs
Gezelshaft or VILBIG) met to discuss Nochum Shtif’s memorandum,” “in which he
outlined and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a plan for an academic
Yiddish institute and library” which they approved in a brochure entitled, Di
organizatsye fun der yidisher visnshaft (The Organization of Yiddish Scholarship,
Vilna, April 1925).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: “The New
York Board of Jewish Ministers” under the leadership of Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach
met at Temple Emanu-El today and “endorsed the appeal to raise $50,000 for the
New York Public Library” where “a collection of rare material depicting the
history of Jews in Oriental countries” is about to go on display.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: Mrs.
Joffe of the Women’s Branch of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of
America wrote a letter today to arrange for out of town students studying in
New York to be placed in homes at no charge where they will “be furnished all
meals during the coming Passover holidays.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: “Out of
the Mist” a silent film produced by Karl Freund and featuring Vladimir Sokoloff
as “Poleto” was released today in Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: The
“campaign workers for the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities” met at the
Unity Club on Bedford Avenue where “Supreme Court Justice Mitchell May,
President of the Federation” said “that a recent influx of Jews into Brooklyn
had increased the demands on the Federation” and it as announced that so far
$125,000 had been raised in the drive to raise $2,500,000.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928:
Birthdate of Bronx native and Iowa Hawkeye alum Melvin “Mel” Rosen who went
from being a successful collegiate middle-distance runner to being the highly
successful track coach at Auburn University.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.usatf.org/halloffame/TF/showBio.asp?HOFIDs=140"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.usatf.org/halloffame/TF/showBio.asp?HOFIDs=140</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/sports/mel-rosen-coach-of-powerful-92-olympics-track-team-dies-at-90.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/sports/mel-rosen-coach-of-powerful-92-olympics-track-team-dies-at-90.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: “Purposes
of the Ort campaign, for industrial reconstruction among Jews in Russia and
Eastern Europe were outlined and the means of raising a $1,000,000 fund for
this work discussed at a meeting this afternoon in the home of Felix Warburg,
1,109 Fifth Avenue”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: The
administrative committee of the Jewish Agency met today in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: It was
reported today that the 111<sup>th</sup> of the birth of Dr. Isaac W. Wise,
founder of the Reform Judaism in America will be honored by simulations
exercises in New York on March 29 which is Shabbat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: “The
eleventh annual session of the New Jersey Conference of the National Council of
Jewish Women end today” in Asbury Park, NJ, “with installation of Mrs. Wilbur
Spiro of Hoboken as president.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932:
Birthdate of New York native and Yale graduate Lawrence Jerome Schniderman, the
Harvard trained physician and husband of pianist Barbara Goldman with whom he
had four children –Rob, Claudia Heidi and Tanya.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: “The
Enabling Act (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz) an amendment to the Weimar
Constitution that gave the German Cabinet – in effect, Chancellor Adolf Hitler
– the power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichsta passed in
both the Reichstag and Reichsrat today and was signed by President Paul von
Hindenburg later that day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: Three
weeks after premiering in New York City, “King Kong” with music by Max Steiner
premiered on the West Coast today in Los Angeles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: “Once to
Every Woman” a movie version of short story by the same name with a script
co-authored by Jo Swerling was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: In
“Maimonides Holds a Message” published today R.L. Duffus says that “out of a
century remembered chiefly for its wars, its cruelties and its men of blood and
iron came on the great religious thinkers of all time” Moses ben Maion, better
known as Maimonides, the Jew who was born eight hundred years ago in Spain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: Edward
M.M. Warburg, the son of Felix M. Warburg and William Rosenwald of
Philadelphia, one of the co-chairmen of the UJA addressed “a dinner tonight at
which the Jews of Boston began to raise one hundred thousand dollars toward the
$3, 250,000 sought by the United Jewish Appeal for the relief of European
Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936(1st of
Nisan, 5696): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Polish
Charge d’Affaires Wladyslaw wrote a letter to Dr. Cyrus Adler explaining that
his country’s newly adopted Slaughter Reform Bill, which put an end to kosher
slaughtering was really just a way to “adjust the abnormal conditions existing
in the Polish cattle meat industry” which are caused by the differences in the
way Christians and Jews consumer meat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Mrs. Leo
Sulzberger is scheduled to president over today’s open meeting of the New York
section of the National Council of Jewish Women is being held in the synagogue
at Welfare Island.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nissan, 5696): Sixty-five-year-old Maryville, MD native Hattie Kahn, the
wife of Adolph Kahn and a national director of the National Council of Jewish
Women passed away today in Miami Beach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: The
House of Commons discussed a proposal for setting up a Legislative Council in
Palestine that would give the Arabs control over the future of Jewish
immigration into Palestine i.e. the end of such immigration and the Zionist
dream. Churchill delivered a stirring speech against the proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1937: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Palestine Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that in London
the Secretary for the Colonies, Mr. Ormsby-Gore, was asked in the House of
Commons what steps had been taken to prevent any future Arab disturbances and
why Palestinian Jews were not allowed the same right of self-defense as enjoyed
by the British people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: “The
work of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem may help to bring about a better
understanding between the two racial groups of the Palestine Population,
Professor Hugo Bergman,” the chair of the modern philosophy department and
rector of the university “declared” tonight “at a dinner given in his honor by
the American friends of the Hebrew University at the Waldorf-Astoria” in NYC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1937:</span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> The Palestine Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that The High
Commissioner, Sir Arthur Wauchope, visited the Jezreel Valley and discussed
matters of security at Merhavia and Balfouria. An announcement was later made
that over 700 supernumerary constables would be re-enlisted for service in the
north of the country.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: “More
than 450 persons attended a luncheon today at the Hotel Astor marking the
opening of the Greater New York campaign of the United Palestine Appeal, the
$4,500,000 national campaign for the settlement in Palestine of Jews of
Germany, Austria, Poland, Rumania and other lands.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: “Joseph
Buerckel, Nazi leader from the Saar, who is in charge of the Anschluss
plebiscite in Austria, April 10, opened the plebiscite campaign tonight with a
speech delivered, at the Vienna Konzerthaus” which consisted mainly of an
“incitement against the terrorized Austrian Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
“Wuthering Heights” the movie version of the novel by the same name directed by
William Wyler, produced by William Wyler, with a script co-authored by Ben
Hecht and music by Alfred Newman premiered in Hollywood tonight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: New York
Governor Lehman praised Young Judaea “on its thirty-first anniversary
celebration” taking place this month.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: In
response to “Britain’s threat to stop land purchases by Jews in Palestine,”
“Hadassah…contributed $25,000 today to the Jewish National Fund ‘to assure the
immediate purchase of land areas now held under option in the Jewish National
Home.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: An
hour-long production of “June Moon” co-authored by George S. Kaufman
co-starring Jack Benny and Benny Rubin was presented today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: After
receiving a transit visa from the United States, poet Anna Seghers, her
husband, László Radványi and their children left France where they could no
longer stay because of the Nazi occupation for America today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: In
Chicago, Ester Huff and William Masser gave birth to Michael William Masser,
the Chicago born stockbroker turned popular music composer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: “In
order to make more space for the incomings transports” to Izbica ghetto, today “2,200
local Jews were sent to the Belzec death camp…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: “To the
Shores of Tripoli” a paean to Patriotism featuring Max “Slapsie Maxie”
Rosenbloom with music by Alfred Newman was released in the United States today.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942(6th of
Nisan, 5702): Agronomist and journalist Joel Shubin, who was “an alleged
Communist International representative to the American Communist Party” and the
Soviet Deputy Minister of Agriculture” passed away today either from “lung
disease” or as the victim of a political liquidation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943:
Deportation of the Jews from the pre-war territories of Bulgaria to Treblinka.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: In
Berne, “a well-informed said today” that “the Vichy regime has resumed the
shipment of Jews to Eastern Europe” as can be seen by “a contingent of 2,500
foreign Jews” having been placed in cattle cars without food for the five or
six day trip from “a camp near Lourdes” to Poland<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: “The
annual national service ward of Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity for work essential to
Jewish life in America was given today to former New York Governor Lehman who
hos is the director of the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation
Operations.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944(28th of
Adar, 5704): In Markowa, a patrol of German police came to the house of
Wiktoria and Józef Ulm, where they found 8 Jews, members of the Szall and
Goldman families. First the Germans executed all the Jews. Then they shot down
pregnant Wiktoria and her husband. When the 6 children began to scream at the
scene of dead bodies of their parents, Jozef Kokott, a German policeman (killed
them. Markowa was a Polish village near Lancut. During World War II many
families hid their Jewish neighbors to help them survive the Holocaust. It is
estimated that at least 17 Jews survived the war in Markowa. Seven members of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Weltz family were hidden in a barn of
Dorota and Antoni Szylar. Jakub Einhorn was hidden by Jan and Weronika
Przybylak and the Jakub Lorbenfeld family was hidden by Michal Bar. Two girls
from Reisenbach family were initially hidden by Stanislaw Kielar, before
joining the rest of 5 members of the family in the house of Julia and Józef
Bar. Righteous Gentiles came in all shapes and sizes. Some were industrialists
called Oksar and others were simple peasants who showed real courage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: An
unidentified Turkish Jew who was an eyewitness to the event, reported to the
United States government that on this date the Germans had deported all the
registered Jews of Athens.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944:
Following the refusal of Elias Barzilai, the Chief Rabbi of Athens, to provide
the Germans with a list of Jews, “the Germans lured Jews into Beth Shalom
Synagogue” today with an offer of “free matzoth for Pesach.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Shlomo
Venezia and his family were deported from Thessaloniki to Athens before being
shipped to Auschwitz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: In
occupied Rome, the Nazis executed more than 300 civilians in the Ardeantine
Caves Massacre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: As the
Nazis assert control over Hungary, President Roosevelt warns the Hungarians “to
refrain from anti-Jewish measures.” (As reported by the Jewish Virtual Library)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Two
British constables were killed in Tel Aviv and three others were killed in
Haifa when a bomb exploded at the Criminal Investigation Department
headquarters in Haifa. These and other attacks conducted tonight were believed
to be the work of the Stern Gang and were condemned by The Tel Aviv Municipal
Council and the Federation of Jewish Labor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: A train
carrying 200 Jewish women, exhausted from a death march from Neusalz, Poland,
arrived at Bergen-Belsen, Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: The
Arabs held protest demonstrations at the same time that their leaders rejected
a compromise that would have rotated the position of Mayor of Jerusalem among
members of the Jewish, Arab and British communities. The Jews had agreed to the
compromise even though 61 per cent of the city’s population was Jewish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: New
York’s “Governor Dewey gave his full support” today “to the current $35,000,000
campaign of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York in a special message
telephone from Albany to a meeting of the UJA’s Council of Organizations at the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
Birthdate of Minneapolis native and Northwestern University-trained journalist
Alan Wiseman, the husband of sculptor Beckie Kravetz. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Dr.
Nahum Goldman is scheduled to leave Palestine today for London and New York so
that he can begin planning for the upcoming meeting of the special sessions of
the United Nations that has been called to deal with the problem of Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5708): Ta’anit Esther and Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948:
Seventy-four year old Russian philosopher and author Nikolai Berdyaev whose <u>The
Meaning of History </u>“credits the Jews with being the first people to
contribute the concept of ‘historical’ to world history thereby discharging
‘the essence of their specific mission’” and further contended that Jews did
not merely grasp “the significance of the past and present” but “were also the
first people to link these up with the future” as can be seen in The Book of
Daniel which “is one of the first well-defined expressions of the true
philosophy of history.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: It was
announced today the Israel “Rogosin, president of the Beaunit Mills, Inc., has
been appointed chairman of the $600,000 fund raising campaign of the American
Memorial to Six Million Jews of Europe, Inc.” which plans to erect “a memorial
as a symbol of brotherhood and peace on Riverside Drive, in New York City.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: It was
reported in Tel Aviv today that “possession of four or five ancient Hebrew
scrolls believed to date back to the pre-Christian era may be a point at issue
in the Syrian-Israeli armistice talks…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: Today,
“the Israeli Foreign Ministry is making a determined bid to convince the Soviet
bloc countries that recent restrictions on the departure of Jews to Israel are
incompatible with their strong support for the new state in the United Nations.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950(6th of
Nisan, 5710): Harold Joseph Laski an “English political theorist, economist,
author, and lecturer, who served as the chairman of the Labour Party during
1945-1946” passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950(6<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5710): Thirty-four-year-old Brooklyn born NYU basketball star Simon
Boardman who was appointed “director of physical education at the Atlantic City
Technical High School after his service in WW II passed away today, leaving his
wife Harriet and his mother Rose to mourn his passing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: An
Israeli government official “said today that Jordan suddenly broke off
negotiations on a five-year non-aggression pact” between the two countries
which was close to completion. “Earlier today, a high diplomatic source in
Beirut reported the break in negotiations had been forced by the resignation
last week of Jordan’s Premier Tewfik Abul Huda.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952(26<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5712): Stella Kaufmann Mundheim, the Pittsburgh born daughter of
Morris and Betty Wolf Kaufmann, the wife of Samuel Mundheim, the president of
Stern Brothers Department Store whom she married in 1905 and the mother of
Louis Mundheim </span></span><span style="font-size: xx-large;">Gerstenfeld
and the mother-in-law of Reform Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld passed away today
after which she was buried in the Washington Hebrew Congregation Cemetery.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1952: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post</span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> reported that the
atmosphere at the opening of the Hague reparations talks between world Jewry
and West Germany was "official, cool and tense." The German
delegation claimed that their willingness to make reparations was restricted by
Allied legislation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1952: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post</span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> reported that in
Jerusalem a man who escaped from a mental home was shot and killed by an Arab
Legion sentry near the Jaffa Gate. Infiltrators murdered Mordecai Harkabi, a
watchman from Hadera.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953(8<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5713): Archie L. Cohn, the husband of Edith Cohn passed away today in
New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954:
Birthdate of actress Donna Pescow, the Brooklyn native who played “Annette” in
the disco classic “Saturday Night Fever.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5715): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5715): Eighty-year-old Polisn native Martha Esther Cahn, the daughter
of Rachel and Moses Isaac Binon and the wife of Edward Cahn passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955: “Man
Without A Star” a movie version of a novel by the same name produced by Aaron
Rosenberg and starring Kirk Douglas was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955: Eighty-year-old
Martha Esther Cahn, the daughter of Rachel and Moses Isaac Binion and the wife
of Edward Cahn<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5715): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5715): Terrorists threw hand grenades and opened fire on a crowd at a
wedding in the farming community of Patish, in the Negev, killing a young woman
and wounding 18 others. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955: United
States Customs officials seize copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl"
because it was obscene.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5715): Three days after celebrating her 80<sup>th</sup> birthday,
Martha Esther Cahn, the daughter of Rachel and Moses Isaac Binion and wife of
Edward Cahn with whom she had three children – Alma, Ruth and Joshua – passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956: In
Brattleboro, VT, Kitty Prins Shmulin and “George J. Shumlin, a third generation
American who was Jewish, and descended from Russian immigrants” gave birth to
Peter Elliott Shumlin, the 81<sup>st</sup> Governor of Vermont.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956: Actress
Rita Gam, to Yale Graduate and WW II Marine Corps veteran “Thomas H. Guinzburg,
the son of Harold K. Guinzburg, publisher of the Viking Press” began their
“European wedding trip.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956: In
Detroit, Frederic Henry Ballmer, the Swiss born “manager at the Ford Motor
Company” and Beatrice Dworkin, whose Jewish family had come from Belarus gave
birth to Steve Ballmer, Vice President of Microsoft.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar II, 5717): Seventy-six-year-old Lithuanian born author Bernard
Abrahams, aka Avrom-Be Shmuolvits, who spent two years in London before moving
to South Africa in 1901 where he wrote Mayne zibetsik yor, oytobyografye (My
seventy years, autobiography) passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958: Seventy-eight-year-old
Seumas O’Sullivan the husband of Irish artist Estella Francis Solomons the
daughter of Maurice Solomons “an optician whose practice in 19 Nassau St.,
Dublin, is mentioned in <u>Ulysses</u>” and the brother-in-law of Bethel
Solomons, a physicians who was a supporter of the 1916 Easter Rising.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5719) Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960: An
English production of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s “Flower Drum
Song” opened today in London’s Palace Theatre where it “ran for 464
performances.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961(7<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5721): Ninety-year-old Brooklyn born Columbia law school grad
Mitchell May whose political career included serving as a member of the House
of Representatives and serving 18 years as a Justice of the New York Supreme
Court.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=M000276"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=M000276</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961:
Birthdate of Jamaica, Queens NY native and Yale University Ph.D. Jeffrey I.
Herbst, the former President of Colgate University and President of the
American Jewish University in Los Angeles who is the husband of Sharon
Polansky, the father of Matthew, Spence and Alna Herbst and the brother of
Susan Herbst, the 15<sup>th</sup> President of the University of Connecticut
and the first women to hold that position.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961: “Town
Without Pity” starring Kirk Douglas and with music by Dimitri Tiomkin was
released in West Germany today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961(7<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5721): Fifty-six-year-old New York born Harvard graduate Manfred I.
Behrens, Jr., the husband of the former Marjorie Wortman, with whom he had two
children – Jill and Manfred, 3<sup>rd</sup> – who was one of the country’s
leading authorities on retailing” and a trustee of the Jewish Board of
Guardians passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/03/25/118030498.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/03/25/118030498.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964: “The
Fall of the Roman Empire” produced by Samuel Bronston and with a score by
Dimitri Tiomkin was released today in the United Kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: In
Chicago, “Lynn Straus and news anchor Walter Jacobson gave birth to Brown
University trained actor Peter Jacobs best known for his portrayal of “Dr.
Chris Taub.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: “The
Sucker” a comedy directed by Gérard Oury was released in France today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965:
Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir began serving as Deputy Minister of Health.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: Rabbi
Saul Leeman of Cranston and Rabbi William G. Braude were among those marching
from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jwa.org/media/what-i-learned-in-alabama-about-yarmulkes"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://jwa.org/media/what-i-learned-in-alabama-about-yarmulkes</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968: This
afternoon Suzie Burger, a 7 1/2-year-old artist, helped dedicate the new Henry
Kaufmann Building at the 92d Street Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew
Association.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(5<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5729): Seventy-eight-year-old Neville Laski, the British jurist who
was the brother of Harold Laski passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969:
Birthdate of Munir Amar, the Druze general and Head of the IDF Civil
Adminsitration whose life was cut short at the age of 47 in a tragic plane
crash.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: “King: A
Filmed Record... Montgomery To Memphis” a documentary produced by Ely Landau
and Richard J. Kaplan, directed by Sidney Lumet and Joseph L. Mankiewicz and
co-starring Paul Newman was released today in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: “It
Takes A Thief” which had co-starred Malachi Thorne in its first two seasons
completed its run in prime time television.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971: ABC
broadcast the final episode of “The Young Lawyers” a legal drama starring Lee
J. Cobb and with music by Lalo Schifrin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972: An
estimated 50,000 mourners accompanied Rabbi Chaim Meir Hager’s aron to its
final resting place. He had been revered as Vizhnitzer Rebbe for 35 years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972: Nine
days after premiering in New York City, “The Godfather” produced by Albert S.
Ruddy and co-starring James Caan and featuring Abe Vigoda was released across
the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973(20th of
Adar II, 5733): Seventy-four-year-old award-winning Israeli novelist Haim Hazaz
passed away. A native of the Ukraine, he made Aliyah in 1931. His only son,
Nahum died during the War of Independence. Hazaz spent the last decade of his
life in Talbiya.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5734): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974: Henry
Kissinger arrived in Moscow for a four-day visit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5734): Seventy-eight-year-old Alexander Raymond Katz, the Hungarian
born “painter and muralist’ who in 1910 came to the United States where he
studied at the Art Institute in Chicago and gained fame as being “among the
first Jewish artists to receive the approval of Orthodox rabbis for his
interpretive handling of such subjects as the Ten Commandments” while raising
two children, Joan and Donald, with his wife “the former Elsie Engel” passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1974/03/26/archives/a-raymond-katz-78-muralist-and-religiousart-painter-dies.html?searchResultPosition=1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nytimes.com/1974/03/26/archives/a-raymond-katz-78-muralist-and-religiousart-painter-dies.html?searchResultPosition=1</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.artsy.net/artwork/alexander-raymond-katz-shabbat"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.artsy.net/artwork/alexander-raymond-katz-shabbat</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975: Eliyahu
Moyal replaced Jabr Muadi as Deputy Minister of Communications.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1976(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar II, 5736): Just 22 days after his 79<sup>th</sup> birthday, Vienna born
Dr. Ignaz Maybaum, a WW I veteran of the Austrian Army and former rabbi at Frankfurt-on-the-Oder,
Bingen and Berlin who “came to Britain in 1939 with his wife and children” and
served as Assistant Minister at West London Synagogue in 1958 and the first
rabbi of Edgware and District Reform Synagogue” while lecturing in Comparative
Religion at the Leo Baeck College passed away today <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1977: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post</span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> reported that a Haifa
Labor Court ordered the striking Haifa and Ashdod port workers to return to
work, but they were still debating whether to respond to the court's orders.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1977: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that five
hundred and eleven out of 566 members of the Herat's Central Committee voted
for Menachem Begin to head the party's list for the forthcoming Knesset
elections.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1977: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that leading
Israeli scientists gathered at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot to protest
against the latest wave of Soviet persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5739): Shabbat HaChodesh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5739): Eighty-year-old Sir Jacob Edward Cohen, founder of the Tesco
supermarket chain passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5739): Sixty-three-year-old British actress Yvonne Mitchell passed
away today in London<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5739): One person was killed, and 13 people were injured, most of them
lightly, when an explosive charge blew up in a trash can in Zion Square in
Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980: During
the Presidential campaign, “Regan on Israel” by William Safire published today
provided a snapshot of the Republican presidential nominee’s view on that
subject.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/03/24/issue.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/03/24/issue.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5741): Eighty-four-year-old Nathaniel Lawrence Goldstein who served
as New York State Attorney General from 1943 to 1954 passed away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Republican, he teamed with Thomas E. Dewey
to break the Democratic hold on Albany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981: Today
Saudi Arabia rejected a suggestion by the Israeli opposition leader Shimon
Peres that he would try to explore the possibility of peace with the Saudis if
his Labor Party wins the Israeli general elections on June 30. The official
Saudi press agency quoted Information Minister Mohammed Abdo Yamani as saying
the nation ''rejects allegations in the enemy's press to implicate the kingdom
in positions contrary to its present and future policies.'' Mr. Abdo Yamani
said the remarks were meant for local consumption in Israel during the
campaign. ''The peace we want is not that which Peres and Begin want,'' he
said, referring to Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel. ''The peace we
support is based on rights, justice, international law and the resolutions of
the United Nations.''<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981: In “About
Education; Nature vs. Nature: Psychologist Urges Active Intervention,” published
today Dr. Reuven Feuerstein the clinical psychologist seving as director of the
Youth Aliyah Research Insitute, professor of psychology at Tel Aviv University
and adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University, explains his unique views on
mental health including the concept of intelligence. “Heredity, shemeredity!
You have to do something” is his answer to the endless argument over whether
disadvantaged children do poorly in school because of inherited traits or
because of their environment. The human organism is an open system, very
plastic. It can be changed and modified. The question is whether educators have
the will, the confidence to do something.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983: “The
City Council committee on consumer affairs held today the second hearing in
City Council history on kosher food prices and recommended that the city’s
Department of Consumer Affairs and State Attorney General Robert Abrams
investigate widespread charges of price fixing in Kosher-for-Passover products.
(JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984(20th of
Adar II, 5744): Ninety-three-year-old Sam Jaffe who performed with Cary Grant
in Gunga Din, with Marilyn Monroe in Asphalt Jungle and Charlton Heston in Ben
Hur (amongst other accomplishments) passed way.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.mtv.com/artists/sam-jaffe/biography/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.mtv.com/artists/sam-jaffe/biography/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2506&dat=19840325&id=SXhJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SgsNAAAAIBAJ&pg=885,7539643"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2506&dat=19840325&id=SXhJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SgsNAAAAIBAJ&pg=885,7539643</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19840326&id=mr4yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S-8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4470,3041652"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19840326&id=mr4yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S-8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4470,3041652</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5744): Seventy-one-year-old Judah Cahn, “the founding rabbi of the
Metropolitan Synagogue of New York and past president of the New York Board of
Rabbis” passed away today. (As reported by David Bird)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/26/obituaries/judah-cahn-founding-rabbiof-metropolitan-synagogue.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/26/obituaries/judah-cahn-founding-rabbiof-metropolitan-synagogue.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985: Today’s
New and Noteworthy list of books includes several tomes by Jewish authors and/or
o special interest to Jewish readers: <u>Femineity</u> by Susan Brownmiller; <u>The
March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam</u>, by Barbara W. Tuchman; <u>The
Zimmerman Telegram</u> by Barbara Tuchman; <u>Freud and His <br />
Followers</u> by Paul Roazen<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986(13th of
Adar II, 5746): Reb Moshe Feinstein, a leading expert on Halachah, passed away
21 days after celebrating his 91st birthday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987: In New
Haven, CT, Dr. Ira and Karen Zeid gave birth to major league pitcher Joshua
Alexander ("Josh") Zeid who played college ball at Tulane University
where majored in English.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988(6<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5748): Fifty-six-year-old artist Mary Ellen Mendes, the daughter of
Milton and Muriel Rosenbluth and the wife of Jonathan de Sola Mende with whom
she had two children passed away today in Bethesda, MD after which she was
buried in Kings County, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.maryellenart.com/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.maryellenart.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989: A
videotape version of the 1960 production of “Peter Pan” a musical by Mark
"Moose" Charlap, with additional music by Jule Styne, and most of the
lyrics written by Carolyn Leigh, with additional lyrics by Betty Comden and
Adolph Green was broadcast today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: Rabi
Laurence Kotok officiated at the wedding of Nancy Anne Stein and David Mark
Woolf at the North Country Reform Temple.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991(9<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5751): Ninety-eight-year-old Mildred Guckenheimer Abrahams Kuhr, the
Savannah, GA born daughter Abe Simon Guckenheimer and Fannie Dub Guckenheimer
who married Paul T. Khur after the death of Edmun Hezekial Abrams and the
mother of Marion Cecile Abrahams Mendel passed away today after which she was
buried at Laurel Grove Cemetery North.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Witchel of Scarsdale N.Y. have announced the engagement of their
daughter Alexandra Rachelle Witchel to Frank Hart Rich Jr.., a son of Mr. Rich
and Mrs. Joel Fisher, both of Washington. A June wedding is planned. Ms.
Witchel, 33 years old and known as Alex, is a reporter in the news department
of The New York Times. She writes the "On Stage, and Off" column. Mr.
Rich, 41, has been the chief drama critic of The Times since 1980.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1992: “Jakes
Women” written by Neil Simon and directed by Gene Saks opened at the Neil Simon
Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993: Award
winning author John Hersey passed away. While most of the world remembers the
non-Jewish Hersey for his writings about Hiroshima, many Jews remember him for
his epic novel, The Wall. It was one of the first and finest books to be
written about events during the Holocaust. In this case, <u>The Wall</u>,
portrayed the events leading up to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993: Ezer
Weizman was elected President of Israel. The nephew of Chaim Weizman enjoyed a
distinguished military career before entering politics. He flew for the RAF
during World War II and was one of the founders of what would become the
Israeli Air Force. He played an instrumental role in developing it into one of
the finest military units of its kind in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994(12th of
Nisan, 5754): Fast of the First Born observed since the 14th Nisan is on
Shabbat<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996: In “The
Jew Who Fought to Stay German” published today famed Israeli author Amos Elon
uses the recent publication of Victor Klemperer’s "Diaries 1933-1945"
to review this unique literary work and to examine the world in which this
“disenfranchised German Jew” struggled to survive as he came to grips with the
reality the “real” Germany despites his best efforts to deny that reality.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998: Today
Howard Epstein “was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for the New
Democratic Party representing the provincial riding of Halifax Chebucto.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: Pope
John Paul’s visit to “the Holy Land which included a trip to Yad Vashem “where
he bowed his…in a long silence that filled the cold dark Hall of Remembrance”
continued today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: “Inherit
The Wind” the controversial play co-authored by Jerome Lawrence is scheduled to
have its final performance at the Sheffel Theatre of the Topeka (Kansas) Civic
Theatre & Academy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002(11<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5762): Seventy-four-year-old Noble prize winner Cesar Milstein and
husband of Celia Prilleltensky passed away today in Cambridge, England.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1984/milstein-bio.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1984/milstein-bio.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2002: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The New York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">included a review of <u>The
Good, The Bad &The Difference: How to Tell Right from Wrong in Everyday
Situations</u> by Randy Cohn, a Jewish author born in Charleston, South
Carolina.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5763): Eighty-eight-year-old Academy award winning screenwriter
Philip Yordan passed away today in La Jolla, CA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/apr/09/guardianobituaries.film"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/apr/09/guardianobituaries.film</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Nisan, 5764): Eighty –three-year-old former Congressman Joshua Eilberg
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2004/mar/27/local/me-eilberg27"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://articles.latimes.com/2004/mar/27/local/me-eilberg27</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: Paula Abdul
“was fined US$900 and given 24 months of informal probation after pleading no
contest to misdemeanor hit-and-run driving in Los Angeles.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005:
Broadcast of a re-union episode of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Krovim
Krovim </i>an Israeli television sitcom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: The
Japanese Foreign Ministry “issued a position paper” today “that there was no
evidence the Ministry imposed disciplinary action on Chiune Sugihara, the
Japanese diplomat who defied his government while serving in Lithuania by
issuing thousands of transit visas to Jews enabling them to escape the Nazis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: Lily
Elstein held the first concert at the former Mivtahim Inn in Zichron Yaakov
which she purchased January of 2006. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: Hazel
Josephine Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove, completed her service as a Senator of the
College of Justice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: In Reich
Star published today reviewed biographies of Leni Reifensthal written
respectively by Juregen Trimborn and Steven Bach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/books/review/James.t.html?searchResultPosition=2"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/books/review/James.t.html?searchResultPosition=2</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: The
United Nations said today that Saudi Arabia had barred entry to a
Washington-based Israeli journalist Orly Azoulay, traveling with Secretary
General Ban Ki-moon despite assurances the Saudi mission in New York gave the
United Nations last week. (As reported by Warren Hoge)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2008: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Time</span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> features an article
entitled “Israel’s Secret War” which describes the “invisible battle being
waged in the West Bank as Israel uses a mailed fist and a network of
Palestinian informers to stop suicide bombers before they can reach their
targets.” As one IDF officer said, “Our people sleep comfortably because the
IDF is putting in a huge effort in the West Bank to prevent terror.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: The New
Yorker published “The Region of Unlikeness” by Rivka Galchen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/03/24/the-region-of-unlikeness"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/03/24/the-region-of-unlikeness</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: The 92nd
Street Y presents “A Festival of Hebrew Literature,” with David Grossman, Etgar
Keret, Meir Shalev and Zeruya Shalev. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Edmund
“Levy was elected by the Supreme Court justices to serve on the Judicial
Selection Committee in place of the court's Vice-President Eliezer Rivlin.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: The
Princeton Program on Judaic Studies presents “A Celebration of Tel Aviv at 100”
featuring talks by Todd Hasak-Lowy (University of Florida) on “Tel Aviv's
Accelerated History,” and Alona Nitzan-Shiftan (Technion) on “Architecture from
the Sand” and a ‘screening of the first two installments of the new Israeli
documentary "Tel Aviv," with creators Modi Bar-On and Anat Zeltser.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: In an
event co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel, Israeli writer and filmmaker Etgar
Keret, author of the short story collections “The Nimrod Flipout” and “The Bus
Driver Who Wanted To Be God and Other Stories,” as well as creator of the
award-winning film "Malka Red-Heart," discusses the relationship
between the short story and film as part of the Nextbook series at the D.C.
Jewish Community Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: An
effort to auction off bankrupt Agriprocessors has been continued to next week
after two days of bidding failed to yield an offer acceptable to the largest
creditor. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Senior
Labor minister Isaac Herzog announced his support for party leader Ehud Barak's
bid to bring the center-left Labor into a coalition headed by Prime
Minister-Designate Benjamin Netanyahu<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The
Knesset's State Control Committee is scheduled to hold a special hearing today
to discuss the cabinet's decision to delay proceeding on a rocket-resistant
emergency room for Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon while a new location is sought
to avoid tampering with old graves. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “From Black Market to Dinner
Table: International Clandestine Aid and Its Hungarian Jewish Recipients in the
1950s” as part of its graduate seminar program.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Israel
will continue building in all of its Jerusalem municipality and a construction
plan that raised questions during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's current
trip to Washington is nothing new, Netanyahu's spokesman said in a statement
today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2010: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Washington Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">featured a review of a
memoir entitled "Devotion" by Dani Shapiro, a successful writer
who’grew up with difficult parents: a father whose devotion to Judaism was the
only sustaining force in a disappointing life, and a bitter, angry mother.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010(9th of
Nisan, 5770): Ninety-three-year-old pharmaceutical executive and patron of the
arts Mortimer D. Sackler passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/business/01sackler.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/business/01sackler.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Prof
Mandy Merck, Royal Holloway, University of London is scheduled to deliver a
talk entitled “Charlotte loves Harry – Ethnic stereotypes and Jewish jokes in
Sex and the City” at the Wiener Library,in the UK.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: “The
Book of Mormon” the musical that earned Josh Gad a Tony Award nomination as
best leading actor in a musical opened at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Ely
Levine is scheduled to give a lecture at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
entitled "Building in the Bible:From Babel to Bathsheba." Levine, a
visiting professor at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, "will discuss how
the study of ancient architecture has shed light on biblical mysteries."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not leave for Russia today as planned due to
the terrorist attack in Jerusalem yesterday. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research and American Society for Jewish Music presented
“The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: The
British Foreign Office confirmed today that a UK national, Mary Jane Gardner,
died in yesterday's terrorist attack at a Jerusalem bus stop, the Associated
Press reported. The 59-year-old woman was critically injured in the blast and
succumbed to her wounds the same day at Haddasah-Ein Kerem Medical Center.
Thirty-nine others were injured in the attack; two are still in serious
condition.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: The
Israeli Air Force struck targets in the Gaza Strip in the early hours today, a
day after Palestinian militants fired about a dozen rockets and mortars across
the border.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Ricky
Ullman’s final performance “as the character Alex in the New Group's production
of "Russian Transport" Off-Broadway in New York.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Shabbat
of the “Sabbath Manifesto” is scheduled to end this evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.myjewishlearning.com/practices/Ritual/Shabbat_The_Sabbath/Themes_and_Theology/sabbath-manifesto.shtml"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.myjewishlearning.com/practices/Ritual/Shabbat_The_Sabbath/Themes_and_Theology/sabbath-manifesto.shtml</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: “The
Syrian Bride” is scheduled to be shown this evening at Tifereth Israel’s
Israeli Movie Night in Washington, DC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: “The
Flood” is scheduled to be shown at the 16TH Annual Hartford Jewish Film
Festival<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Join
Beyhan Cagri Trock, author of <u>The Ottoman Turk and the Pretty Jewish Girl:
Real Turkish Cooking </u>is scheduled to teach a class featuring “authentic,
delicious Sephardic and Turkish family recipes” at the Lorinda
"Annie" Hooks Demo Kitchen<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The Trio
Sefardi is scheduled to provide an afternoon of music that focuses on the
traditions of Pesach at the Abraham Lincoln Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The
Jewish Cardinal, a French television film directed by Ilan Duran Cohen was broadcast
for the first time today on RTS Deux<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Visitors
to the Weiner Library in London will have the opportunity to view the
exhibition Wit's End: The Satirical Cartoons of Stephen Roth', a compilation of
the works of the “Czech Jewish artist whose cartoons lampooned fascist
dictators and put a wry spin on political events during the Second World War.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: IDF
soldiers fired a Tammuz missile at a Syrian army position in Tel Fares, from
which shots were fired both that day and the previous day across the border
into the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Ben
Zygier, the alleged Mossad agent also known as Prisoner X who committed suicide
in Ayalon Prison in 2010, was arrested for passing sensitive information to
Hezbollah that led to the arrests of two informants within the ranks of the
Shi’ite organization, Der Spiegel reported on today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Reform Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman, the Barbara and Stephen Friedman Professor of
Liturgy, Worship and Ritual at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion in New York, is scheduled to speak on “Christianity and Judaism: God’s
Double Helix Through Time” at Loyola University in New Orleans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Dancing in Jaffa” is scheduled to be shown at the Northern Virginia Jewish
Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Maestro Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra are scheduled to
present a benefit performance at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in
Palm Beach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
<u>Majn Alef Bejs</u>, “a book on Yiddish published by a Polish Jewish group
has won first prize in the non-fiction category of the Bologna Children’s Book
Fair which is scheduled to open today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: “For the
second time in as many weeks, Economy and Religious Affairs Minister Naftali
Bennett came under fire today over an accusation that he has been using his
position to funnel money to associates.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: The
results of a new survey of anti-Semitic attidues presented at a news conference
today organized by the Action and Protection Foundation headquarters “showed up
to 40 percent of respondents accepted some anti-Semitic attitudes. (As reported
by JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Today “a
woman complained that Silvan Shalom had sexually harassed her at work more than
15 years before” which led to an investigation that was closed because the
statute of limitations had been reached even though other women came forward with
similar charges<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: In La
Jolla, CA, the Lawrence Family JCC is scheduled to host “Turning Inward: Jews
and American Life, 1965-Presentish.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: “London-based
attorney Christopher Marinello, who works for the Rosenberg family,” “a Jewish
family trying to retrieve a long-lost Matisse painting (Seated Woman) looted by
the Nazis said” today that “a deal had been signed with the German government
for its restitution.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: The 5<sup>th</sup>
J Street National Conference is scheduled to come to an end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
William Brumfield is scheduled to deliver at lecture on the “The Jewish Moment
in Russia” at Tulane University.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The 16<sup>th</sup> Street Book Club is scheduled to discuss <u>A Pigeon and a
Boy</u> by Meir Shalev, translated by Evan Fallenberg<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Today, at a Simon Wiesenthal Center Dinner, Harvey Weinstein, the co-founder of
Miramax “urged Jews in the fight against anti-Semitism to “stand up and kick
these guys in the ass.” (JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015(4<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5775): Eighty-six-year-old Israeli diplomat and ministerial adviser
Yehuda Avner passed away today in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/world/middleeast/yehuda-avner-diplomat-and-aide-to-israeli-leaders-dies-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/world/middleeast/yehuda-avner-diplomat-and-aide-to-israeli-leaders-dies-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
Ninety-eighth anniversary of the birth of Joseph B. Levin aka Yosef Dov ben
Avraham Elimelech without whom, literally, this blog would not exist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host “The
Music and Life of Irving Berlin.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
The Jews in the American South is scheduled to be in Beaufort, South Carolina
visiting with Mayor Billy Keyserling, “the grandson of Lithuanian immigrants”
who escaped from Czarist Russia and graudate of Brandies University who has
been active in state politics for several decades.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5776): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5776): Sixty-six-year-old television comedy writer Garry Shandling
who was best known for “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/garry-shandling-who-parodied-tvs-conventions-in-two-hit-comedy-shows-dies-at-66/2016/03/24/cc268cde-f1ff-11e5-85a6-2132cf446d0a_story.html?utm_term=.c6d8ca6d4a8f"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/garry-shandling-who-parodied-tvs-conventions-in-two-hit-comedy-shows-dies-at-66/2016/03/24/cc268cde-f1ff-11e5-85a6-2132cf446d0a_story.html?utm_term=.c6d8ca6d4a8f</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/arts/television/28stei.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/arts/television/28stei.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
Ninety-four year old former MK Esther Herlitz, the native of Berlin who was
Israel’s first female ambassador passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-first-female-ambassador-passes-away-at-94/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-first-female-ambassador-passes-away-at-94/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017(26<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5777): Seventy three year old Columbia University grad Paul Novograd,
“the son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe” who had reluctantly closed
the Claremont Riding Academy ten years ago passed away today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(As reported by Sam Roberts)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/nyregion/paul-novograd-dead-ran-claremont-riding-academy-in-manhattan.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/nyregion/paul-novograd-dead-ran-claremont-riding-academy-in-manhattan.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
In Memphis, TN, Temple Israel is scheduled to turn Shabbat into a family affair
with a Ruach Preneg followed a by a “L’dor Vador Shabbat Service.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Former Penn State President Graham Spanier was convicted today for his role in
“hushing up the suspected child sex abuse” by a Penn St assistant football
coach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Approximately 5,000 “Israelis and foreigners got filthy and battled through
miles of obstacles” today took part in Israel’s first “Mud Day” race in Tel
Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Kibbutz Beit Oren is scheduled to host “Believe Fairy Festival,” Israel’s first
“fairy festival.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Iowa City author and photographer Ina Loewenberg is scheduled to sign copies today
of her new memoir <u>A Life à la Carte </u>at Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa
City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“The Chop” and “The Cousin” are scheduled to be shown at the New Jersey Jewish
Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The 92<sup>nd</sup> Street Y is scheduled to host a performance this evening of
“Irving Berlin: American.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Members of USY are scheduled to follow in the footsteps of Rabbi Abraham Joshua
Heschel by “praying with their feet” as participants in the #MarchForOurLives
rally in Washington, DC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
One hundredth anniversary of the birth of Joseph B. Levin, who in one of those
calendar coincidences was Bar Mitzvahed on Shabbat HaGadol which is observed
today in 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018(8<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5778):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parashat Tzav and
Shabbat HaGadol; <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Spies of No Country: Secret Lives
at the Birth of Israel by Matti Friedman and Savage Feast: Three Generations,
Two Continents and a Dinner Table (A Memoir with Recipes) by Boris Fishman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The AIPAC Policy Conference, where the self-important gather, is scheduled to
open today in Washington, DC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
For the first time since the arrest of Robert Kraft, Pats owner, the NFL owners
are scheduled to begin their annual meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
In the midst of the darkness of the pandemic, friends and family of Ilan Caplan
prepare celebrate that consummate physician and sweet singer of song, Dr. Ilan
Caplan who has brought light to so many.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
Bidud Beyachad: The London School of Jewish Studies Torah Show with Rabbi Dr.
Raphael Zarum is scheduled to begin on line today at noon<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to present on line this evening Martin
Kaufman’s discussion of Nachman of Breslov.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
Warren Klein (Currator of the Bernard Museum of Judaica at Temple Emanu-El)
takes is scheduled to host a virtual tour of the Barbra Streisand Exhibition
and answers questions along the way... via Zoom Video Conferencing<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
Boston Jewish Film is scheduled to present an on-line screening of “Code of the
Freaks” this evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
“The San Francisco Freedom Seder,” the “24th annual multicultural seder hosted
by JCRC, JCCSF and Congregation Emanu-El” scheduled for this evening has been
canceled due to the Pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today Israelis should get some idea of how
Yuli Edelstein will respond to the ruling by the Supreme Court that he “must
hold by tomorrow to elect a speaker of the Knesset.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
JCCSF is scheduled to present chef and cookbook author Jake Cohen demonstrating
his recipe for matzo tiramisu and offering Passover tips, followed by optional
30-minute conversation for 20- and 30-somethings, with loneliness/connection
expert Kyla Sokoll-Ward.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Jason Harris of the podcast “Jew Oughta Know” and director of Osher Marin JCC’s
Taube Center for Jewish Peoplehood is scheduled to talk, virtually, about
whether the Exodus from Egypt is myth or grounded in historical fact.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
As par of the Jewish Gateway’s”Torah for Everyone” series, Rabbi Bridget Wynne
is scheduled to explain virtually “how and why the traditional Haggadah story
differs from the Exodus story.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to present Rabbi Josh Warshawsky
leading “Music as Midrash; Exploring Passover Through Song.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston is scheduled to
present online “Israeli Society and the Holocaust: A Work in Progress” which is
“led by Rachel Korazim, will explore the development of the Holocaust narrative
in Israel from the early days, still under British Mandate all the way to
recent years.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
If the exit polls taken by Israel’s three main television channels are
harbinger’s of realty, as of today<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Benjamin
Netanyahu is on course to form the next government - if he can persuade his
former ally Naftali Bennett to join his coalition.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Oshman Family JCC and Bina are scheduled to present Tova Birnbaum and Zoe
Fertik leading a learning seder to familiarize people with the texts and
rituals. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Boston Jewish Film is scheduled to present, online, a screening of “Rain in Her
Eyes.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
“After weeks of grinding war” a senior Russian general appeared to be admitting
today that it had failed in its attempt to conquer Ukraine which is led by its
Jewish president Volodymy Zelenskyy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
Runners, including Ukrainian refugee Valentyna Vereteska, prepared to run in
tomorrow’s Jerusalem Marathon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
Terrorists attacked a bus near Ofra today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Based on previous announcement effective today, American Airlines is scheduled
to discontinue its Miami to Tel Aviv service.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
A demonstration organized by the Defend Israeli Democracy London group which is
“being staged to show opposition to the policies of the coalition government of
Benjamin Netanyahu who is visiting the United Kingdom is scheduled to “place
from 8am until 6pm in central London…” (As reported by Lee Harpin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
At two o’clock this morning, Israelis are scheduled to move their clocks
forward one hour.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
According to a notice posted by Netflix, today is the last day to watch the “popular
Hebrew-language series Shtisel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
One hundred and fifth anniversary of Joseph B. Levin Z”L without whom this blog
would not have been possible.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The Vilna Shul, Boston's Center for Jewish Culture is scheduled to host “Charosets
Around the World Shabbat Dinner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5784): Purim; for more see <a href="https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/">https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a webinar featuring David Peimer and
Ollie Anisfeld on “Purim Debate: What is the Key to Jewish Survival?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host “The Glorious Sound of the Piano,”
featuring the Jerusalem Piano Duo of Shir Semmel and Dror Semmel<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
Jessica Solomon, the Executive Director of the Jewish Heritage Museum of
Monmouth County, NJ is scheduled to host the Jewish Block of the Garden State
Film Festival today which include screenings of “East,” “The Name of Things”
and a documentary “The Film-Make-Her The Lisa Azuelos Story.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
Museum of Jewish Heritage and SHAI are scheduled to present a “Spring Equinox
Festival: A Celebration of Persian Culture During Purim & Nowruz.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host a conversation “with <u>The
Counterfeit Countess’</u> authors, Dr. Joanna Sliwa and Dr. Elizabeth B. White,
as they discuss this riveting tale, challenging the traditional perspective on
Polish-Jewish wartime relations and highlighting the unique experiences of
non-Jewish Poles during World War II.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to take “a trip to the literary
Lower East Side” which <br />
“follows in the footsteps of Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertie, the
beloved sisters depicted in Sydney Taylor’s children’s classic All-of-a-Kind
Family.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
24th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 170 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p>melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-46026839380308946732024-03-22T16:11:00.001-06:002024-03-22T16:14:53.520-06:00This Day, March 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p><em><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">March 23</span></span></b></em></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1369: King
Pedro of Castile who employed Abraham ibn Zaral as his physician was beheaded
by his rival and brother, Henry of Trastamara marking the end of their civil
war for control of the kingdom. Henry “was as hostile to the Jews as Pedro had
been friendly. His long-cherished hatred of his brother burst forth when a Jew
named Jacob, an intimate of the king, praised the latter excessively to Henry.
In his fury he stabbed the Jew with a dagger. Pedro would have revenged himself
on Henry forthwith, but his courtiers restrained him by force. Henry saved
himself by a hasty flight. This was the immediate cause of the civil war which
brought untold suffering upon the Jews of the country. . He was as hostile to
the Jews as Pedro had been friendly. His long-cherished hatred of his brother
burst forth when a Jew named Jacob, an intimate of the king, praised the latter
excessively to Henry. In his fury he stabbed the Jew with a dagger. Pedro would
have revenged himself on Henry forthwith, but his courtiers restrained him by
force. Henry saved himself by a hasty flight. This was the immediate cause of
the civil war which brought untold suffering upon the Jews of the country.
During their struggle for control, Henry continuously depicted Peter as
"King of the Jews," and had some success in taking advantage of
popular Castilian resentment towards the Jews. During his reign, “Henry of
Trastamara instigated pogroms beginning a period of anti-Jewish riots and
forced conversion] in Castile that lasted approximately from 1370 to 1390.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1475: Trent
(Italy) was the scene of one of the more notorious ritual murder libels. A
Franciscan monk, Bernardinus of Feltre, had recently arrived and began
preaching Lent sermons against the Jews. A week before Easter a boy by the name
of Simon drowned in the river Adige. The monk charged the Jews with using the
body for its blood. The body washed up a few days later near the house of a Jew
who brought it to the Bishop Honderbach. Seventeen Jews were tortured for over
two weeks. Some confessed while being tortured and 6 Jews were burnt. Two more
were strangled. A temporary hiatus was called by Pope Sixtus IV, but after five
years the trial was reopened, and 5 more Jews were executed. The papal inquest
agreed with the trial, Simon was beatified, and all Jews were expelled for 300
years. The trial served as the basis for anti-Semitic writings for hundreds of
years. Only in 1965 was Simon de –beatified<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1490: The
first dated edition of Maimonides' “Mishneh Torah” was published. Maimonides
was born in Cordova, Spain in 1135. His family fled as one group of Moslem
rulers replaced another. Eventually he settled in Egypt where he was a
distinguished physician for the ruling Moslems as well as head of the Egyptian
community. According to one source he provided medical advice for both Saladin
and Richard the Lionhearted. He died in 1204 and is buried in Tiberias in
Israel. Simply put, the Mishneh Torah was "an orderly restructuring of the
entire legal literature of the Talmud." The Mishneh Torah (Repetition of
the Law) is "one of the most distinguished codes of Jewish law...”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1555: Pope
Julius III passed away. Despite opposition, Julius allowed Jewish refugees from
Spain settle in Ancona in northeast Italy. He spoke out against the blood libel
and opposed baptism of Jewish children without the approval of their parents.
At the same time, he was unable to stand up to the power of the Inquisitor
General from the Holy Office and he acquiesced in the burning of numerous
copies of the Talmud and other Jewish books.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1556: Paul IV
issued the Papal Bull “Dudum postquam”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1712(15th of
Adar II): Rabbi Zevi Hirsch Koidonover, the Wilna born “son of Rabbi Aaron
Samuel Kaidanover and a pupil of Rabbi Joseph ben Judah Jeidel” who “with his
whole family, was thrown into prison on account of a base denunciation, and was
forced to languish in chains for years until he was pardoned” after which he
moved to Frankfurt where he authored of Kav ha-Yashar passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9132-kaidanover-zebi-hirsch"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9132-kaidanover-zebi-hirsch</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1714: Duke
Ferdinand expelled the Jews from Courland<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1732: In
Niederwiesen, Germany, Hindle and Moses Levi gave birth to Philip Moses Faist
Rosenheim the husband of Dreile Schwiezer and the father of Samuel, Moses,
Simon, Hindle and Abraham Rosenheim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1766: In Lower
Saxony, Germany, wealthy tobacco merchant and philanthropist Isaac Jacob Gans,
the “son of Jacob Salomon Gans and Freude Katz Gans and his wife Pesse Pauline
Leah Gans gave birth to Abraham Isaak Gans,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1758(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5518): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1769(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5529) Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1777(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5537) Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1780:
Birthdate of German native Loeb Feigenbaum, the husband of Ida Bach with whom
he had nine children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1784: Reverend
Gershom Mendes Seixas returned to New York City from Connecticut and took up
his position as “Minister.” He returned while New York City was evacuated by
the British, and most of the members of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
were in the safety of Connecticut and Philadelphia. Seixas was very patriotic,
and was thanked by President George Washington at one time. Seixas instituted a
recital of a prayer for the government in English, it having been always read
in Spanish prior to this time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1796(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5556): Fast of Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1796: In
Jebenhausen, Germany, Marget Isaac and Aron Abraham Arnold gave birth to Joseph
Aron Arnold, the husand of Therese Kaufman with whom he had seven children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, Parashat Tzav<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1801: Tsar
Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled
to death in his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle. Paul’s reign was a
comparatively short one, starting in 1796 with the death of his mother
Catherine the Great. The shortness of his time on the throne was a good thing
for the Jews of Russia. In 1799, Paul sent one of his closest advisors, Gabriel
Derhavin to Belorssia. Derhavin decided that the problems in that part of the
realm, as well as the rest of Russia were caused by the Jews “who were
irredeemably corrupt.” He was planning on urging the Czar to move most of the
Jews to the “frontier territories or drive them from the empire altogether.”
These and other harsh measures would have become the law of the land if Paul
had not been killed and replaced by his comparatively more enlightened son,
Alexander I.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1806: Rachel
and Moses David Friedman gave birth to Zanwel Friedman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1807(13th of
Adar II, 5567): Ta’anit Esther is observed as Parliament is acting to abolish
the Atlantic slave trade.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1811:
Birthdate of German medical doctor Carl Friedrich Stahl.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1814: Sarah
Mayes, the daughter of Esther Etting and David Barrack Hays married Benjamin
Etting Hays today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1816(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5576): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei; Shabbat Parah observed as the 14<sup>th</sup>
Congress of the United States was meeting during its first session.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1818: In
Charleston, SC, Isaac and Rachel Mordecai Harby gave birth Dr. Samuel Harby,
the editor of the New Orleans Bee, husband of Frances Levy Harby and the father
of Octavia Rachel Harby Pollock.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1819: Today “the
liberal Burschenschaft student Karl Ludwig Sand murdered the conservative
writer August von Kotzebue” which provided the excuse for Metternich to call
for a meeting of Austrian ministers which led to the passage of the “Carlsbad
Decrees,” a package of reactionary rules which were passed during<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The Hep-Hep riots <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which were pogroms against Ashkenazi Jews, that
began in the Kingdom of Bavaria, during the period of Jewish emancipation in
the German Confederation.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1820: Abraham
Wiesel Gompertz, the father of Harriet Gompertz was buried today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1826: In
Philadelphia, PA, Abraham Arnold, the German born son of Marget Isaac and Aron Abraham
Arnold married Maria Abrahams, the daughter of Roseanna Linderman and Levi
Abrahams,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827: Marcus
De Vries married Kaat Van Rook<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827: Rabbi
David Aaron de Sola, the Amsterdam born son of Rafael Aron (v. Haim David) de
Sola and Sara v. Isaac Namias Torres who was the first rabbi to preach a sermon
in English at Bevis Marks Synagogue and his wife Rebecca de Sola gave birth to
Isaac de Sola<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1830: One day
after he had passed away, Trespole Myers was buried today at the “Brompton
(Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1831:
Eighty-eight-year-old Christian-Hebraist Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi passed
away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12896-rossi-giovanni-bernardo-de"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12896-rossi-giovanni-bernardo-de</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1833(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Nisan, 5593): Vayikra<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1836:
Birthdate of German native Gertrude Hyman Felsenthal, the wife of Herman
Felsenthal with whom she had six children – Eli, Judith, Flora, Hannah and
Emily.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1837: Birthdate
of Joseph Wieniawski, Russian pianist and composer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1845(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5605): Purim is observed for the first time during the presidency of
James K. Polk.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1846: In New
York, Moses and Esther Lazarus gave birth to Josephine Lazarus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847: Samuel
Joans married Esther Cashmore, the daughter of Moshe Kashman at the Great
Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848: In
Manchester, UK, Charles Sydney Grundy and his wife gave birth to English
dramatist Sydney Grundy who combined with Edward Solomon to produce two comic
operas – “The Vicar of Bray” and “Pochoantas” - and produced “An Old Jew” at
the Garrick in 1894, five years before Zangwill’s “Children of the Ghetto.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1849(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5609): Fifty-four-year-old Hananeel de Castro, the husband of Deborah
de Jacob Mendes da Costa who was the President of the Board of Deputies of
British Jews at the time of the Damascus Blood Libel in 1840 passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853: In
Pribram, Bohemia, Markus Saphir, the Bohemian born son of Joseph Saphir and his
wife Anna Saphir gave birth to Theresia Saphir<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853: While
delivering a speech welcoming Father Gavazzi, the celebrated Roman patriot and
orator to the United States, Reverend Dowling pointed out a peculiarity of the
American experience. “This government, alone of all others, never persecuted or
endeavored to persecute Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1854: In
Louisville, KY, Adolph and Frederick Brandeis gave birth to Alfred Brandeis,
the husband of Jennie Brandeis and brother to Louis D. Brandeis, the first
Jewish Justice to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855:
Birthdate of Sherman, CT native and Columbia University Professor Sociology
Franklin Henry Giddings who 1907 told a group attending a lecture at the
People’s Institute in Cooper Union that he favors “the recent movement by the
Jews to keep Christian ceremonies out of the public schools” and that while “he
favored the Zionist movement, he feared that could it not be made attractive to
the Jews to be successful.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1856(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5616): Purim Meshulash <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1856: In
Philadelphia, Isaac and Henriette Kohn gave birth to Sophie Kohn who became
Sophie Pfaelzer when she married Philadelphia jeweler Morris Moses Pfaelzer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859: In New
York City, Kathie Steinhardt and Solomon J. Spiegelberg gave birth to civil
engineer turned stockbroker Isaac Newton Spiegelberg, the husband of Stella
Friedlander and member of the NYSE and the brokerage firm of Chase and
Seligsberg who was a member of Temple Eamnu-El in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861: “The
Hebrew Son” is scheduled to be performed at the Winter Garden Theatre in NYC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862: In
Hungary, “Pauline and Dr. Jacob Jacques Heinrich Hirschfeld” gave birth to
Adele Amalie Hirschfeld who became Adele Amalie Schmidt when she married August
Schmidt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862: During
the American Civil War, Judah P. Benjamin completed his short stint as “acting”
Secretary War. Benjamin continued to serve as Secretary of State.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862:
Eighty-one-year-old Count Karl Robert Nesselrode, the Russian foreign minister
who successfully thwarted the plan of Jacques Isaac Altaras to settle 40,000
Russian-Jewish families in Algeria passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863:
According to “The Books of the Week” column published today, Scribner’s has
published "Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church, -- Part 1,
Abraham to Samuel" by Arthur Penryn Stanley, D.D., Regius Professor of
Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford, and Canon of Christ Church.
According to this Stanley “the roots of the Jewish Church must be sought deep
in the Patriarchal Age, its prelude commencing with the Call of Abraham, then
from the time it takes determinate shape and recognized status with the Exodus,
the first great period extends to the absorption of the ancient and primitive
constitution in the new institutions of the Monarchy. This “period is generally
called by the name of the Theocracy; its great characters are Abraham, Moses
and Samuel. It embraces the first revelation of the Mosaic Religion, and the
first foundation of the Jewish Church and polity." Two future volumes will
continue to describe the history of the Jews up to Roman times. The second
volume will describe the period of the Monarchy. The third will describe the
period “from the Captivity to the destruction of the Jewish Capital and State
by the Emperor Titus.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864(15th of
Adar II, 5624): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864: “Purim:
Our Jewish Citizens in Their Glory” published today reported that Purim
Association has given their “third Grand Fancy Dress Ball, at the Academy of
Music. The Association was formed in 1862 by nine young men of the Jewish
faith, its first ball was given at Irving Hall in 1862, its second at the
Academy of Music in 1863, and its third at the same hall last evening. The
festival of Purim is one of the oldest and most important festivals recognized
by the Jews, commemorating, as it does, one of the most important events in
their history as a nation. It was instituted by Queen Esther and by Mordecai
about the year 510 B.C., and commemorates the remarkable deliverance of the
children of Israel from the tyranny and machinations of Haman, who was Prime
Minister to King Ahasuerus, who reigned from India unto Ethiopia, over a
hundred and twenty-seven provinces. Mordecai had been carried captive from
Jerusalem, and with him the fair and beautiful maiden Hadassah or Esther, whom
Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Esther being exceedingly beautiful and pleasing found favor in the eyes of King
Ahasuerus, who married her and made her his Queen. About this time Haman was
appointed to the high position of Prime Minister to the King, and he demanded
and received homage from all except the Jew Mordecai, who not only refused to
pay homage, but also refused to give any reason why he would not. Haman, highly
incensed at the conduct of Mordecai, ordered made a gallows of extraordinary
height, on which to hang him for the insult be had offered to one in high
office and favored by the King. Queen Esther, hearing of this, informed the
King of the relation which existed between her and Mordecai, and also of the
great benefit Mordecai had done the King some time previous in informing of two
men in his confidence, Bigthana and Teresh, who sought to lay violent hands
upon the King and kill him. The King remembering all these things and the
iniquity, or Haman, ordered him hanged upon the gallows erected for Mordecai,
placed Mordecai in the position held by Haman, made him chief over the house of
Haman, and released the children of Israel from bondage. This was celebrated by
great rejoicing all over the land and, in every way the joy and happinees of
the people was exhibited. From that to the present the festival of this
deliverance of the Jews has been celebrated by the most extravagant expressions
of happiness, calling upon each other at their houses, in every dress and guise
which could possibly add merriment or joy to the occasion, and using every
means they could devise for the utmost enjoyment and celebration of this great
and happy event. Of late years their number has so increased that time would
not allow them to visit all the friends they wished, nor would their houses
hold all the friends they wished to entertain. To obviate this difficulty, nine
young gentlemen on the Jewish faith, in the year 1862, organized the
"Purim Association," the object of which was to collect all the parties
together for the general enjoyment of the festival, and that all friends might
meet. Thus far they have been particularly fortunate nothing has occurred to
mar their pleasure, and they have also by this means been enabled to do a great
deal of good. Last year they presented to the Orphan Asylum and other
charitable institutions a handsome sum, and this year they intend, first, to
present to the Sanitary Fair a good round sum, and then take care of the
charitable institutions, as is their custom. The officers of the association,
who have been and are working hard and steadily for the promotion of this
society and its good influence, and to whom, in a great measure, the success of
the ball is due, are as follows: M.H. Moses, President; Jos. A. Levy, Vice-President;
A.H. Schutz, Treasurer. The hall was crowded with a most brilliant assemblage,
who entered into the enjoyments of the occasion with a zest seldom equaled; the
costumes were very rich and beautiful; the diamonds worn by the ladies
magnificent and in brilliancy almost rivaled the bright eyes of their fail
owners. Among the best of the characters represented were those of Mrs.
Partington, Lucretia Borgia, Penobscot Squaw, Chippewa Chief, and Joan of Arc,
several beauties of the Court of Charles H., the Duke of Buckingham, Faust, a
Priest, and several Jewish maidens. Merriment reigned supreme within the hall.
Wives, well-disguised, teased their liege lords almost to distraction;
sweethearts by sly winks and actions, drove their devoted lovers almost frantic;
husbands thinking they were not known or noticed, paid sweet compliments to
fair maidens only to be rapped over the knuckles for not reserving them for
their wives, and staid old bachelors and maidens entered into the spirit of the
fun in a manner which fairly astonished themselves. Two Bands gave constant
music, to which the feet of the merry dancers kept time. At twelve o'clock they
unmasked and then what surprise was created. Husbands found they had been
flirting all the evening with their own wives; lovers had been confidentially
extolling the beauties of their sweethearts to their-sweethearts themselves;
old maids had been telling old bachelors how disagreeable they thought that
class of men to be, and old bachelors had been sympathizing, perhaps, with the
old maids themselves, upon the unhappy condition of these unfortunate ladies.
The mistakes, however, were speedily and amicably settled, and after the
excellent supper prepared by the caterer, M.S. Cohen, had been fully enjoyed,
were entirely forgotten.” New York Mayor Charles Gunther was among the
dignitaries who attended the event.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865: In
Philadelphia, Joseph and Louisa Berg gave birth to Hart O. Berg, “a pioneer in
the manufacture of machine guns, submarines, automobiles and airplanes” who
married the former Lena Willets and was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
by France in 1901.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865:
Birthdate of Posen born, and Columbia trained physician Henry Heiman who had
come to the United States in 1880.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866: James
Disraeli who resided in Cromwell Place wrote his will today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1867:
Birthdate of Arthur Bornstein, the native of Breslau, Germany who was a dentist
by training but whose real passion was writing as can be seen by the volumes of
short stories he published starting in 1894.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1867: In
Vienna, Dr. Michael Reiner and Agnes Reiner gave birth to Dr. Maximilian Max
Reiner, the husband of Paula Reiner and the father of Herbert and Heinrich
Reiner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1867: In Zabno
Galicia, Solomon and Rosa Malter gave birth to Henry Malter, the husband of
Bertha Freund and the holder of Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg who was
the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>professor of medieval philosophy and
Arabic at the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, rabbi of the Sheerith Israel
Congregation of Cincinnati and Professor of Rabbinical Literature at Dropsie
College<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1925/04/06/archives/dr-malter-dies-a-lqotf-scholar-professor-of-rabbinical-literature-a.html?searchResultPosition=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1925/04/06/archives/dr-malter-dies-a-lqotf-scholar-professor-of-rabbinical-literature-a.html?searchResultPosition=1</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868(15th of
Adar II, 5624): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868: In
Cardiff, Esther Lyons, “18 year old Jewess” who was running away from her
family “knocked on the door of Croome Villa, Roath, the home of the Reverend
Nathanial Thomas, minister of the Baptist Tabernacle” in what would be the
first act of a cause celeb that would sour relations between Jews and Baptists
in South Wales “for years to come.{ <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868: The
University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act
is signed into law. Today the University of California at Berkley has
approximately 3000 Jewish students out of a student population totaling
approximately 24,000. The school offers ten Jewish studies courses and a Major
in the field.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869: In New
York City, Henry and Clara (Mayer) Hahn gave birth to German and Bohemian
trained violinist and composer Frederick E. Hahn the first violinist with the
Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1892 to 1896, the founder and leader of the Hahn
String Quartet and the founder and director of the Hahn Conservatory of Music
who was a member of Mikveh Israel Congregation in Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869: In Pila,
Sieradz, Poland, Szaja Pilichowski and his wife gave birth to painter Leopold
Pilichowski.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0016_0_15770.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0016_0_15770.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Pilichowski_Leopold"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Pilichowski_Leopold</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869: Rosetta
Moses, the daughter of Martha and Joseph Jonas and the husband Dr. Montefiore
Moses gave birth to Walter Jonas Moses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870: Jay
Gould appeared before the New York State Senate Railroad Committee and said
that his opponents were being financed by “Jewish bankers” from London.
(“Robber Baron” Jay Gould was attempting to use anti-British and anti-Jewish
prejudice to deflect attacks on his unscrupulous business tactics when dealing
with the Erie Railroad.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870: Herman
W. Hellman, who in 1866 sold out his interest in a book and stationary business
and then went into business for himself “sold his entire stock and fixtures to
Harris and Jacoby” and left for a trip to Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871(1st of
Nisan, 5631): Rosh Chodesh Nisan observed on the same day that President “Grant
formally requested legislative action “to deal with the menace of KKK “in a
special message to Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872:
“Persecution of Jews In Romania” published today the reporter compared the
attacks on the Jews with the suffering “in England in the days of Isaac of
York” and calls upon the European Powers to intervene on behalf of the Jews if
the government of Romania will not stop the attacks on its Jewish citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872: This
evening, as Jews celebrated Purim, synagogues in New York “were all crowded” as
they listened to the unique musical narrative of the story of Esther. “In
the…strictly Orthodox synagogues such as those on Chrystie and Allen Streets,
the audience stamped their feet or struck the ground with the heavy sticks
whenever the detested name of Haman was pronounced.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1873: In Ibbenbüren,
Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany,</span> <span face="Arial, sans-serif">Johanna Rosenthal, the German born daughter of
Abraham Bendix Weinberg and Frieda Sophia Weinberg and her husband Leffmann
Rosenthal gave birth to Alfred Rosenthal who passed away during the same month
that Hiter came to power.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876: The
Young Men’s Hebrew Association will host its final “entertainment of the
season” this evening at the Standard Hall in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: Isaac
Artom “was elected senator of the kingdom” today making him “the first Jew to
sit in the Italian legislative body.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878: In
Monaco Jewish court photographer Ignaz Schrecker and his wife Eleonore von
Clossmann gave birth to Austrian composer and conductor Franz Schreker. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879: It was
reported today 800,000 Philadelphians are served by 564 houses of worship
including 9 synagogues.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879: Dr.
Henry S. Jacobs will deliver a lecture this evening at the Norfolk Street
Synagogue sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Union.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880: In
Russia an editorial entitled “The Yid is Coming” is published in the
anti-Semitic journal <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Novoe Vermie.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881:
Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Lubny, Russia. This would not be the first or
the last time that death would strike the Jews of Lubny which is actually
located in the Ukraine, In 1648 during the horror known as the Chmielnicki
Massacres, thousands of Jews died at Lubny and other nearby towns. In October
of 1941, the Nazis massacred the Jewish population as the German armies swept
across the Ukraine. The rioting in 1881 probably was a mini-pogrom sparked by
the killing of Czar Alexander II "at the hand of revolutionary bomb
throwers." They presaged a series of such riots that would sweep much of
Russia during the Spring and Summer of 1881.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882: In
Erlangen, Bavaria, mathematician Max Noether and Ida Amalia Kaufman gave birth
to mathematician Amalie Emmy Noether.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/noether.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/noether.htm</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882: In Papa
Hungary, the former Sophie Hirsch, the youngest daughter of Rabbi Shamshon
Raphael Hirsch and “Rabbi Shlomo (Solomon) Zalman a talmid of the Ksav Sofer”
gave birth to Joseph Bruer, the husband of Rika Eisenmann of Antwerp,
granddaughter of Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins, the Rosh Yeshiva of Torah
Lenranstalt, the rabbi of the Klaus Synagogue in Frankfurt, and after fleeing
the Nazis, the founder and leader of Khal Adath Yeshurun, the Washington
Heights congregation established to meet the needs of the large German-Jewish
community that had been created due to the rise of Hitler.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883(14th of
Adar II, 5643): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5646): Eighty-two-year-old Bina Oppenheimer, the daughter of David
and Schiele Kahn and the wife of Lob Oppenheimer passed away today in New York
City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886:
Birthdate of Austrian native Benjamin Waxelbaum and the husband of Dorothy
Waxelbaum who in 1893 came to the United States where he became a “publishers’
representative with offices at 180 East Broadway in New York, worked for 14
years as the advertising manager of New York Jewish Morning Journal and became
a founding partner in Keilson and Waxelbaum <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=BCzwbV-L7D4C&pg=RA2-PA98&lpg=RA2-PA98&dq=Benjamin+Waxelbaum&source=bl&ots=CdFNA2WdM8&sig=ACfU3U3NZrxVxW0pp-thRD86VrKfr9UKHA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDy9Ws9ZbhAhVM0YMKHTbECjEQ6AEwC3oECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=Benjamin%20Waxelbaum&f=false"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://books.google.com/books?id=BCzwbV-L7D4C&pg=RA2-PA98&lpg=RA2-PA98&dq=Benjamin+Waxelbaum&source=bl&ots=CdFNA2WdM8&sig=ACfU3U3NZrxVxW0pp-thRD86VrKfr9UKHA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDy9Ws9ZbhAhVM0YMKHTbECjEQ6AEwC3oECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=Benjamin%20Waxelbaum&f=false</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886:
Secretary Taylor of the American Yacht Club called the members together in a
special meeting this evening to listen to a lecture by the popular Sephardic
raconteur Mr. R.J. de Cordova on "The New York Stock Exchange."
Instead of of lecture, Mr. de Cordova amused the "twoscore members"
of the club humorous rhyming story about a stock broker in search of a rich
wife, the daughter of a Pennsylvania farmer made rich by the discovery of
petroleum on his farm and "a rejected bucolic lover" who happily
marries the maiden after she loses her fortune while pursuing an extravagant
urban lifestyle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887:
Birthdate of Sidney Hillman. Sidney Hillman was a major figure in the American
labor movement and became a leading advisor to President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt. He was President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, one
of the two major unions in the garment industry from 1915 until his death in
1946. An untiring champion of the working class and the underprivileged,
Hillman was a founder of the Congress of Industrial Organization, the CIO.
Unfortunately, with the passage of time, we have lost a sense of appreciation
for the improvement in the American way of life wrought by Hillman and similar
giants of the American labor movement, many of whom were Jewish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887(27th of
Adar): Seventy-year-old Posen born Rabbi Eliezer Landshuth, author of Amudei
ha-Avodah passed away today at Berlin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://newspaperslibrary.org/articles/eng/Leser_Landshuth"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://newspaperslibrary.org/articles/eng/Leser_Landshuth</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.virtualjudaica.com/Listing/Details/639179/Siddur-R-Hirsch-Edelmann-Eliezer-Leser-Landshuth-Koenigsberg-1845"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.virtualjudaica.com/Listing/Details/639179/Siddur-R-Hirsch-Edelmann-Eliezer-Leser-Landshuth-Koenigsberg-1845</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889:
Birthdate of Lithuanian native Florence R. Dolowitz, the Hunter College
graduate and mathematics teacher who founded the Women’s American ORT while
raising two children – Grace and David – with her husband Alexander Dolowitz,
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/25/obituaries/florence-dolowitz-who-founded-ort-in-america-is-dead.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/25/obituaries/florence-dolowitz-who-founded-ort-in-america-is-dead.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/dolowitz-florence"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/dolowitz-florence</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: “Art
Notes” published today described the ten illustrations of “The Merchant of
Venice” by Edwin Abbey that will appear in the April edition of Harper
magazine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They include “the figure of
Portia exhorting the Jew” to show mercy and a “frontpiece” showing the Ducal
Palace “with the Jew demonstrating why he does not love Christians.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: The late
Solomon Adler bequeathed $500 to both the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Mount Sinai
Hospital and $250 to each of the following: Montefiore Home for Chronic
Invalids, the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews and the Hebrew Sheltering
Guardian Society of New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5651): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: Alice
Goldmark, the niece of composer Karl Goldmark, married Louis Brandeis at her
parent’s home in New York City and the moved “ to Boston’s Beacon Hill
district” where their two daughters – Susan and Elizabeth – were born.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: “The
Baron de Hirsch Club” published today described the accomplishments of the
newly formed social club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among the
seventy-five charter members are Dr. Leon Sherurg, Elias Gluskin, Morton
Britton, John W. Jacobus, William Bellamy, Louis Henderson and M.J. Rosinski<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892:
Twenty-four-year-old Abraham Gussow, the Russian born of son of Herman Gossow,
was the founder of A. Gussow and Company, on of “the largest manufacturers of
women’s underwear in New York and a president of the Cotton Garment Association
today married Emma Iserlson with whom he had five children – Pansy, Minnie,
Anna, Isidore and Alfred.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: It was
reported today that after the claim of Adolf Grube for 1,600,000 rubles has
been satisfied J.E. Guenxburg will only have 14 million rubles in his accounts
with which to satisfy the rest of his creditors. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893(6<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5653): Seventy-six-year-old Adolf Fischoff, the doctor turned
Austrian political leader and author passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6153-fischhof-adolf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6153-fischhof-adolf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: Max Judd
of Missouri has been nominated to serve as Consul General at Vienna. Judd, a
native of Austria, came to the United States as a child and has lived in St.
Louis for the last twenty-five years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
man of “well and fine education” “his appointment is the result of the almost
universal request of the people of” St. Louis which speaks well of Judd and the
regard in which the Jews of Missouri are held by the general population.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: W.H.
Helm of Dumfries and his wife gave birth Sir Alexander Knox Helm, the United
Kingdom’s first ambassador to Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: A case
involving the seizure by police of liquor which members of Boston’s Adath
Israel’s congregation claimed was intended for use on Passover began making its
way through the court system. The Jews claim that the vice president of the
congregation was holding the liquor for his co-religionists which he will be
distributing during Passover. The police claim that this is a ruse and is
merely a way for the Jews to get around local liquor ordinances.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: Kosher
slaughtering was prohibited in Saxony, which is in a part of Germany that
Martin Luther had dominated during his rise to power. Some claim that the ban
was part of the anti-cruelty to animal movement, but this claim has a very
hollow sound to it considering what else was going on in the society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: Edwin
Einstein, a New York Republican, was appointed to serve as Dock Commissioner
today by a mayor who was a Democrat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: It was
reported today that the bazaar held recently by the ladies of Temple Emanuel in
Birmingham raised nearly one thousand dollars.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: In
Budapest, the House of Magnates rejected the clause of the Religious Freedom
Bill that gave Jews equal rights with the Christians by a vote of 117 to 111.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896:
Birthdate of Jacob “Jake” Friedman, the native of Bridgeport, CT who in 1926
played “end” in three games for the Hartford Blues, an NFL team that existed
for only year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896:
Congregation B’nai Shalom which held services on “Sabbath and holidays,”
included a Ladies Hebrew Association as an “auxiliary society” and was served
by Rabbi Max Lewinthal was founded in Brookhaven, Mississippi today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: In
Lithuania, Rose Fiensinger and Louis Sachs gave birth to Chicago clothing
manufacturer Morris Benard Sachs, the father of Rhoda, Zenia and Morris Sachs
and founder of the Amateur Hour radio show<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: “What Is
A Christian Nation?” published today described the views of Dr. Gustav Gottheil
who “claims that the so-called Christian nations are not so in fact and that
the Jews are, from the ethical standpoint, the true Christian nation.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Christian nation would make the Sermon on
the Mount the basis for its Constitution entailing “the returning of good for
evil, the breathing of a blessing upon those who curse us, the rendering of
good for evil.” (Editor’s note –This view should provide food for thought for
those who claim the U.S. is a “Christian nation.”)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: Mrs.
Rebecca Kohut gave a talk today on “The Training of Children in Reverence in
Jewish Homes” at the Manhattan Congregational Church.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897:
Birthdate of Jackson, MS native and Millsap College graduate Julian B.
Feibelman, the Hebrew Union College trained rabbi who was the long-time leader
of Temple Sinai in New Orleans where he could be seen striding up St. Charles
Avenue in spats sometimes accompanied by his wife, the former May Anna Fellman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: Oscar S.
Straus, the former U.S. Minister to Turkey who has just returned to the United
States said that he had met with Baroness de Hirsch while in Europe but did not
care to discuss the details of continued financial assistance for immigrants
from Europe who will be settling in the Western Hemisphere.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: One day
after he had passed away, 36-year-old Julius Pearl, the son of Haskel and
Miriam Pearl was buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899:
Birthdate of Russian native and Washington, DC automobile dealer Joseph Cherner
the husband of Ruth Cherner who was a major financial contributor to Israel
during the early days of the Jewish State,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/04/18/84884426.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/04/18/84884426.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899(12<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5659): Fast of the First Born<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: Dr.
Joseph Silverman delivered a lecture on the “Longevity of the Hebrews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899(12<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5659): Twenty-eight-year-old Sergeant Morris J. Cohen, the New Jersey
resident serving with the 20<sup>th</sup> Kansas Regiment “was killed today in
an engagement at Calcoocan, Philippine Islands.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: It was
reported today that during the month of February the United Hebrew Charities
had received 2,815 applications for assistance which covered 9,377
individuals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jobs were found for 477
applicants while over 1,800 people were seen by either a doctor or a nurse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The charity raised over $17,000 during
February and spent almost $13,000 in providing aid to the needy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900:
Birthdate of Erich Seligman Fromm, the German born American psychoanalyst <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell9.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell9.htm</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.erichfromm.net/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.erichfromm.net/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Nisan, 5661): Parashat Vayikra<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: It was
reported today that General Louis Botha, the leader of the Boers, was
“generally in favor of the terms of the settlement” he was “greatly concerned
about the position Jewish capitalist would occupy in the country and” he “was
told that Jews and Christians would enjoy equal rights,” with “no distinction
being made in the matter of concessions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: The
former Annie Pauline Alberts and Phillip Sihisky who were married by Rabbi
David Shane at the Sons of Israel Synagogue in Camden are “on a bridal tour”
after which they will return to Camden, the home of the bride’s father Isaac
Alberts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902(14th of
Adar II, 5662): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: Russian
native and Philadelphian Dora (Weinstein) Aronoff and her husband Isaac Aronoff
gave birth to Ida Aronoff<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903:
According to a report filed today by the St. Petersburg correspondent of the
London Times, “the four points on which reforms are required in Russia –
education, local government, peasant’s rights and finances – the Czar’s
manifesto is worthless” and “and the manifesto obviously did not apply to the
Jews…”1904: “Hamilton Odell, the referee appointed to determine what
institution should be paid the reside of the estate of the late Simon
Goldenberg upon the death of his widow Mary Goldenberg reported to the Supreme
Court” in New York today “in favor of the Hebrew Technical Institute.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: It was
reported today that Dr. Joseph Silverman of Temple Emanu-El had said that “it
is certainly high time that a more liberal form of government should be
inaugurated in Russia, the land of ignorance and poverty, of political
corruption and bribery, of social religious oppression and persecution, of
intolerance and bigotry, the land where it has been said that more deaths have
occurred in recent years than in all Napoleonic wars.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904:
“Hamilton Odell, the referee appointed to determine to what institution should
be paid the residue of the estate of the late Simon Goldenberg upon the death
of the widow, Mary Goldenberg, reported to the Supreme today in favor of the
Hebrew Technical Institute.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905:
Penultimate session of the convention of the Constitution Grand Lodge of the
Independent Order of B’nai B’rith meeting in New Orleans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: Julius
Loeb, the Frankfurt-on-Main bon son of Minna Cahn and Adolf Loeb and Vice
President and Treasurer of the American Metal Company who was a trustee of the
Hebrew Orphan Asylum and the Central Synagouge married Hilda Neuberger today in
New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: In New
York, Carrie Wasserman gave birth to Edith Lee Wasserman who became Edith Lee
Kamsler when she married Charles Albert Kamsler.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: In New
York this evening, enough poor Jews presented their tickets which could be
exchanged for 10 pounds of Matzoth and 5 pounds of floor to the store on
Attorney Street, that 20,000 pounds of matzoth and 10,000 pounds of Matzah
floor were needed to meet the demand.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907(8<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5667): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907:
Birthdate of Solomon “Sol” Furth, the Brooklyn born track star nicknamed
“Happy” who competed in the 1932 Olympics.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: Today,
in Paris, Dr. Max Nordau told a meeting of French Zionists “that it was
necessary to immediately prepare for the next Zionist Congress” and that they
need “to organize the plans for the future of the Zionist movement.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907:
Birthdate of Latvia native Moses Cyrus Weiler, the HUC trained rabbi referred
to as “an unsung hero of the struggle for black emancipation in South Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.unitedsisterhood.org.za/index.php/about-us/rabbi-moses-cyrus-weiler"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.unitedsisterhood.org.za/index.php/about-us/rabbi-moses-cyrus-weiler</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0215/ms0215.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0215/ms0215.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: When “a
small boy with red brick hair” presented his ticket entitling him to 10 pounds
of Matzah and 5 pounds of Matzah flour, he was told that “these matzoth are
only provided for person of true Hebraic faith.” The lad replied, “Me name is
Mickey O’Brien, but sure me mother needs the matzoth. We’re most starving and if
it’ll do any good I’ll be an Irish Hebrew.” The lad got his matzoth and flour.
[It was not unusual for non-Jews to show up for when free food was passed out
at Passover time. The Jews did not seem to mind apparently remembering the
words of the Haggadah inviting the poor to come and join us in eating at the
Seder.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908(20th of
Adar II, 5668): Seventy-two-year-old Nathan Stix, the German born son of
Deborah Cohen and Solomon Stix who in 1861 at Cincinnati, OH married Ricka
Iglauer with whom who had six children, passed away today after which he was
buried at the Walnut Hills Jewish Cemetery in Evanston, OH.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: It was
reported today that “for the ninth time in two months” an attempt has been made
by unfriendly Chinese tongs to burn the tenement at 42 Division Street which is
occupied by Jews as well as Chinese.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: “The
unions of Jewish choristers, musicians, ushers and bill posters in the east
side theatres order a strike” today “of their members in the Thalia Theatre,
involving about eighty persons against a notice of a reduction in wages.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910:
Birthdate of Avraham Givelber, the secretary of the Polish branch of HeHalutz
(The Pioneer), “Jewish youth movement that trained young people for
agricultural work in Israel” who joined Kibbutz Afek when he made Aliyah in
1941 and “who was appointed Deputy Speaker of the Knesset while serving as an
MK from 1974 to 1977.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://main.knesset.gov.il/en/MK/APPS/mk/mk-personal-details/337"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://main.knesset.gov.il/en/MK/APPS/mk/mk-personal-details/337</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5670): Hume, Germany native Joseph Brandestein, the San Francisco
tobacco and cigar merchant and leader in the Jewish community as can be seen by
his service to the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Mt. Zion Hospital Association
and Congregation Emanu-El who married Jane Rosenbaum with whom he had eleven
children including Max, Manfred and Edward passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jmaw.org/brandenstein-jewish-san-francisco/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jmaw.org/brandenstein-jewish-san-francisco/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911(23rd of
Adar, 5671): Daniel Abramovich Chwolson passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2009/05/08/the-israeli-health-ministry-and-the-rehabilitation-of-daniel-chwolson/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2009/05/08/the-israeli-health-ministry-and-the-rehabilitation-of-daniel-chwolson/</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912(5<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5672): Ninety-year-old communal worker Hezekiah Kohn passed away
today in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5673): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
Eighty-year-old Civil War veteran Adam Mayer passed away today in New Orleans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: Dr.
George Gershon Jacob Gordon, the Minneapolis born on of Abraham Bear Gordon and
Sarah Beulah (Shub) Beulah Gordon and his wife Sophie Gordon gave birth Bonny
Selz, the wife of Joseph Selz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914:
Birthdate of Spencer Bernard Witty, the native of Waccabuc, NY who with his
four brothers Frederic, Ephraim and Arthur, and a cousin, Irving expanded the
business created by their grandfather David Witty into a “chain” of six store
that sold classy, high-end clothing for men.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1914: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;">It was reported</span></em><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">from St. Petersburg
“that as …Passover approaches more blood ritual allegations are being
circulated.” In Uman, in the Ukraine, reports are circulating “that a Christian
boy, Anton Zummer, who was working in a bakery at a machine for making
matzoth…had his hand thrust in the machinery by the Jewish boys and lost a
large quantity of blood which went to the making of the bread…Another report
speaks of the finding of an 8-year old boy’s body under a railway bridged at
Kovel…with the head, neck and chest pierced with wounds.” [This is the same
Uman that is the burial site of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov which Jews visit each
year at Rosh Hashanah.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: The
United Hebrew Community has sent out an appeal for more funds to so it can
distribute matzoth and other food to the poor Jews of the Lower East Side
before the beginning of Passover. Moses H. Phillips, President of the Hebrew
Community said that the demand is greater this year than in years past and at
least 90,000 pounds of food will be needed to feed the needy. The United Hebrew
Community is only one of several Jewish organizations that will be distributing
food at Passover time to their less fortunate co-religionists.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: Adelphi
College and NYU alum Milton M. Adler, the New York City born son of Rebecca
Bamberger and David Adler and Treasurer and General Manager of the Essex
Specialty Company as well as the executive director of the Williamsburg
Y.M.H.A. married Florine Wolf today in Newark, NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: The fund
of the American Jewish Relief Committee has collected $579,996. 53 as of today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: The Zion
Mule Corps, consisting of Jewish volunteers from Palestine, was formed to serve
with the British Army. This was the first Palestinian Jewish military unit
attached to a regular army in the modern times. The unit was organized under
the command of Joseph Trumpeldor, an early military hero of the future state of
Israel and Vladimir Jabotinsky who would become leader of what was known as the
Revisionist Movement, forerunner of today's Likud part. The united fought
against the Turks who were allies of the British. The success of the Zion Mule
Corps paved the way for the Jewish Legion which was formed in 1918.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
Sixty-six-year-old “Judge Leonard S. Roan of the Court of Appeals of Georgia
before whom Leo M. Franks was convicted and by whom he was sentenced to death
on August 16, 1913 for the murder of…Mary Phagan” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
According to family legend, today, in Brooklyn “Louis and Sarah Rabinowitz,
Yiddish-speaking immigrants from Russia” gave birth to Jacob Rabinowitz who
gained fame as producer and talent-maven Jack Rollins. (As reported by Robert
D. McFadden)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/obituaries/jack-rollins-dies-at-100-sharpened-talent-like-woody-allens.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/obituaries/jack-rollins-dies-at-100-sharpened-talent-like-woody-allens.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: In St.
Louis, at Rabbi Masliansky and Rabbi Abranowitz told those attending “a relief
meeting” at “B’nai Emuno Synagogue” about “the sufferings of the Jews in the
war zones” “more than $1,000 was raised through the sale of certificates
bearing the recent proclamation of President Wilson naming a Jewish Relief
Day.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5676): Seventy-two year old Colonel Felix Rosenberg, the Civil War
veteran who “came to Cleveland after the Civil War, was a brevet colonel in the
Spanish-American War” and the “editor of Town Topics, a weekly publication
devoted to local high society news” passed away today in Cleveland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917(29<sup>th
</sup>of Adar, 5677): Fred Lazarus, the Wurtenburg, Germany born son of Amelia
and Simon Lazarus, and husband of Rose Eichberg who with was the “F” in F. and
R. Lazarus Company passed away today in Columbus, OH.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.columbusmonthly.com/news/20190603/from-archives-end-of-lazarus-dynasty"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.columbusmonthly.com/news/20190603/from-archives-end-of-lazarus-dynasty</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: As of
today, it was reported that the People’s and Central Relief Committees are
raising funds for the relief of Jews in war-torn Europe along with the American
Jewish Relief Committee led by Henry Morgenthau, Louis Marshall and Herbert
Lehman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: The
United States Ambassador to Russia today sent a cablegram to the State
Department stating, “that the new Russian Government had taken its first
important step toward the emancipation of the Jews by removing the education
restrictions previously imposed under the old regime.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: In a
letter to the British and French Ambassadors to the United States, Oscar
Straus, Chairman of the Public Service Commission expressed the opinion that
“the great majority of the Jewish citizens of the United States are pro-Ally
and not pro-German.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917:
Birthdate of Yevgeny Khaldei the Soviet born Jewish World War II combat
photographer whose work included one of the most famous of that genre showing a
Soviet soldier raising a flag over the Reichstag as the Red Army triumphed in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Battle of Berlin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to some reports Khaldei patterned
the picture after the one of the flag raising over Iowa Jima, another iconic WW
II photo taken by a Jewish photographer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reichstag_flag_original.jpg"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reichstag_flag_original.jpg</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918(10<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5678): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918:
Fifty-eight-year-old Clara Mitnick Massell, the Russian born wife of Raphael M.
Massell and the mother of Benjamin, Levi, Samuel, Rebie and Jacob Massell
passed away today after which she was buried in the Oakland Cemetery in
Atlanta, GA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Rabbi
Samuel Schulman is scheduled to deliver the sermon this morning at Temple
Beth-El on-5th Avenue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Rabbi
Krass is scheduled to deliver a sermon “A Lesson from The Copperhead” at
Central Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Rabbi
Enelow is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Basic Doctrines of Reform
Judaism” at Temple Emanu-El.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Rabbi
M.H. Harris is scheduled to deliver a sermon “The Great Sabbath” this morning
at Temple Israel of Harlem<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Today’s
issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Publisher’s Weekly</i>
included <u>Jewish Fairy Stories</u> by Gerald Friedlander and illustrated by
Beatrice Hirschfeld among its listings.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Fairy-Tales-Gerald-Friedlander/dp/0486419827"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Fairy-Tales-Gerald-Friedlander/dp/0486419827</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: Benito
Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy. The ashes of
the First World War were not even cool yet when the seeds for World War II and
the Holocaust were being planted.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919:
Birthdate of Marvin “Mickey” Rottner the Chicago native who played guard for
the Loyola University basketball team from 1939 to 1942 after which he played
professional basketball from 1945 to 1948.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919:
Birthdate of Henry Foner, the native of Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood
who was a decorated veteran of the United States Army whose labor organizing
activity included serving as president of the Joint Board of Fur, Leather and
Machine Workers Union.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_254/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_254/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://ilgwu.ilr.cornell.edu/archives/oralhistories/henryfoner.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://ilgwu.ilr.cornell.edu/archives/oralhistories/henryfoner.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: “Poster
displayed at Damascus, where the Syrian Congress proclaimed the independence of
that country declared: ‘In spite of himself the Moslem is brother to the
Christian and the Jew.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: It was
reported today that Henry Morgenthau, the former Ambassador to Turkey and ally
of President Wilson, is the leading candidate to become the Ambassador to
Mexico.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5681): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Today is
the second day of “The Palestine Bazar” organized by the Manchester Branch of
the Jewish National Fund Commission for England <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: The
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary held commencement ceremonies today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: KH-UIA
was registered as a British limited company, whose members, together with the
Chairman of the Board of Directors, were chosen by the WZO's Executive Board.
KH-UIA's founders included such luminaries as Chaim Weizmann, Aharon, and Isaac
Naidich. The first Directors were Barth Berthold Feiwel, Georg Halpern,
Vladimir Jabotinsky, Shlomo Kaplansky, Shemaryahu Levin, Issac Naidich, Israel
M. Sieff (later Lord Sieff) and Hillel Zlatopolsky.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921:
Accompanied by Sir Herbert Samuel and T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
Winston Churchill left Egypt for Palestine to begin his projected four week
long fact finding tour.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5682): Eighty-one-year-old Harav Moshe Nachum Wallenstein who was born
in Pupa, Hungary, in 1841 and moved to Israel in 1864 where he served the
community as a rabbi passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: In
Pittsburgh, PA, Louis and Elsie Alpern gave birth to Morton Alpern who gained
fame as comedian Marty Allen. (As reported by Peter Keepnews)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/obituaries/marty-allen-wild-eyed-comedy-star-is-dead-at-95.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/obituaries/marty-allen-wild-eyed-comedy-star-is-dead-at-95.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923:
Yorkshire native Gertrude Berger and Albert Halson gave birth to Dennis Charles
Halson who passed away before he reached the age of two months.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: “Louis
Marshall was the guest of honor at a dinner given by the Brooklyn Federation of
Jewish Charities at which campaign plans of the Charities were discussed.” (As
reported by JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924(17th of
Adar II, 5684): Moses Cattaui Pashe, President of the Jewish Kehillah of Cairo,
Egypt passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: It was
reported today that the newly elected officers of the New York branch of the
United Synagogue of America are President Sol Mutterperl; Vice Presidents, Leo
J. Goldberger, Alfred Goldfarb, Jacob Monsky, Hyman J. Reit, Albert Rosenblatt,
Morris Stern and Harris Sussman; Secretary, Rabbi Samuel M. Cohn; and
Treasurer, Joseph Durst.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: Mrs.
Jacob H. Schiff, the Honorary Chairman of the Women’s Division of the United
Jewish Campaign of New York hosted a tea at her Fifth Avenue home for “the
women who are organizing teams of workers for the campaign to raise six million
dollars that will start in April.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
Birthdate of Norman Clifford ‘Norm” Mager whose accomplishments with the CCNY
and the Baltimore Bullets of the NBA were over-shadowed by his involvement in
the point shaving scandal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/sports/ncaabasketball/norman-mager-78-player-tarnished-by-gambling-scandal-dies.html?_r=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/sports/ncaabasketball/norman-mager-78-player-tarnished-by-gambling-scandal-dies.html?_r=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: In
Detroit, anti-Semite and automobile manufacturer Henry Ford and his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dearborn Independent</i> was an important
point today in the trial of Aaron Sapiro’s libel suit…when Judge Raymond banned
a series of letters” that proved Mr. Ford and his weekly newspaper had been
warned of the “falsity of the articles which are the basis for this trial.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Nisan, 5688): Forty-four-year-old grocery store owner John Peykel who came
to Sheboygan, WI thirty years ago and who was a member of Ahavas Sholum
congregation and of Davis Lodge, B’nai B’rith passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928:
Birthdate of Mortimier H. Rydell, the multi-talented New York known as Mark
Rydell whose accomplishments including directing one of the greatest westerns
ever made – The Cowboys in which John Wayne actually acts instead of just
portraying John Wayne. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5689): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: A week
after being “named to the three-man Secretariat at the helm of the Communist
Party and assuming the post of Executive Secretary.” Benjamin Gitlow, the son
of Katherine and Lewis Albert Gitlow who were Jewish immigrants to the United
States from the Russian Empire, “boarded an ocean liner for Moscow as part of a
10-person delegation seeking to appeal the Comintern's decision to expel Jay
Lovestone , the son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants Emma Liebstein and Barnet
Libstein, a rabbi turned “shammas,” from the Communist Party.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929:
Birthdate of author James Maxwell whose works include “The Night Everything Was
Simple” in which “Zionist plans for Palestine are viewed with approval” and
“Village Incident” and “Strictly From the Mississippi” in which “the Jewish
characters are presented sympathetically.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/03/25/94941819.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/03/25/94941819.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: ““The
Administrative Committee of the enlarged Jewish Agency is meeting in London
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The front page of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the New York Times</i> sports section featured a picture of Penn State
Boxer David Stoop knocking out his opponent as Penn State University
successfully defended its intercollegiate title.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://images.rarenewspapers.com/ebayimgs/3.90.2015/image078.jpg"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://images.rarenewspapers.com/ebayimgs/3.90.2015/image078.jpg</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: In
Warsaw, Mordechai Bernstein, a journalist and “the former Zelda Goldin, a
seamstress and Spanish teacher” gave birth to Masha Bernstein who survived the
Holocaust and Siberia to gain fame as Masha Leon, “the society columnist for
The Forward.” (As reported by Sam Roberts)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/nyregion/masha-leon-dead-society-columnist-for-the-forward.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/nyregion/masha-leon-dead-society-columnist-for-the-forward.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5692): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5692): Sixty-five-year-old Boris Schatz, the Lithuanian born
sculptor who became known as the "father of Israeli art," founded the
Bezalel School in Jerusalem passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.schatz.co.il/en/boris"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.schatz.co.il/en/boris</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: Hitler
“told the Reichstag today that Positive Christianity was the "unshakeable
foundation of the moral and ethical life of our people", and promised not
to threaten the churches or the institutions of the Republic if granted plenary
powers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: The
Jewish War Veterans (JWS) launched a boycott of German goods in the United
States today making it the first organization in the U.S. to launch such an
economic action<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933:
Birthdate of Shlomo Ofek the native of Poland who perished aboard the Submarine
Dakar in 1968.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933:
Birthdate of Abraham “Abe” Cohen who after playing football and wrestling at
the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga went to play professional football for
the CFL Hamilton Tiger Cats and one season for the newly minted AFL Boston
Patriots in 1960.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934(6<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5694): Birthdate of Chappaqua, NY native Victor Guinzburg, the
“developer of a formula for treating rubber for gas masks.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: In what
has to be one of the biggest lies of this period, “Hans Frank, the Nazi
Commissioner said at a police meeting today” that “overzealous anti-Semites
will be relentlessly curbed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: It was
reported today “that a number ‘non-Christian’ doctors have been informed” that
their contracts will not be renewed which is consistent with the anti-Semitic
government in Vienna to reduce the number of Jewish doctors and to impoverish
the Jewish community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5695) Parashat Ki Tisa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: The
lower house voted to accept the New Constitution which Jewish leaders
complained about because “Jews will be left without representation in the next
parliament if the proportional vote is not restored.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: Speaking
before the Union of American Hebrew Congregation, Jacob W. Mack of Cincinnati
said that “Jewish unity and self-help: were the “only present strength and
future hope” of the Jewish people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Darius
Paul Dassault was promoted to the rank of Division General (général de
division) in the French Army.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: In
Hackensack, NJ, “the Board of Education voted unanimously at its meeting
tonight not ban the ‘Merchant of Venice’ from the second year high school
English course because of complaints” voiced “by Rabbi Irving Silman of the
Hackensack Hebrew Institute.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Jack
Singer and Harry Kovner were elected co-captains of next year's City College
basketball team, according to an announcement made today by the, faculty
athletic manager.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “David
J. Schweitzer, vice chairman of the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee outlined the problems facing the committee which is engaged in a
$3,500,000 drive in this county, $1,500,000 of which” is supposed to come from
New York,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: Two days
after he had passed away funeral services were held today for
sixty-four-year-old British born historian and Zionist leader Jacob De Haas in
his home where per his request Rabbi David De Sola Pool of the Spanish and
Portuguese Synagogue officiated at a simple, private ceremony followed by
burial at Cypress Hills Cemetery in Queens, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/History-Of-Palestine-Thousand-Years/dp/1406709301"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.amazon.com/History-Of-Palestine-Thousand-Years/dp/1406709301</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/03/22/94345411.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/03/22/94345411.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: It was
reported today that sixty-four-year-old Jacob de Haas one of the last surviving
founding fathers of the Zionist movement had passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: The
French Fascist, led by “La Cagoule” were thwarted in their attempt to overthrow
the Third Republic when Leon Blum’s Popular Front government avoided a vote of
“no confidence.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: In New
York, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland delivered his first address as
national chairman of the United Palestine Appeal. After being introduced by
Louis Nizer, associate chairman of the division and chairman of the Film Board
of Trade, Rabbi Silver asked a luncheon meeting of more than 100 theatrical and
motion picture executives to support the drive to raise $4,500,000 to support
Zionist activities. He gave a glowing account of the progress that had been in
creating a Jewish Homeland. He spoke specifically about the challenges created
by the worsening situation in Europe and the efforts that have been to settle
refugees, especially those from Germany, in Eretz Israel. Silver equated the
Zionist work in Palestine with the fight against the rise of totalitarianism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938. Rabbi
Abba Hillel Silver spoke to a meeting of the Long Island Conference for
Palestine at the Jamaica Jewish Center this evening. The more than 1,000
attendees representing thirty-four communities in Queens, Nassau and Suffolk
counties adopted a resolution agreeing to raise $75,000 for the United
Palestine Appeal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:
“Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife,” a romantic comedy directed and produced by Ernst
Lubitsch and a screenplay co-authored by William Wilder was released today in
the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: In
Paris, Adam and Pauline Kaufman gave birth to Michael Kaufman a “foreign
correspondent, reporter and columnist for The New York Times who chronicled
despotic regimes in Europe and Africa, the fall of Communism and the changing
American scene for four decades.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: “The
Swing Mikado,” an adaptation of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera “The Mikado”
starring Bill “Bojangles” Robinson produced by Mike Todd, the son of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Chaim Goldbogen (an Orthodox rabbi), and
Sophia Hellerman, both of whom were Polish Jewish immigrants” opened on
Broadway today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Erich
Maria Remarque, the author of <u>All Quiet on the Western Front</u> whose books
were burned by the Nazis arrived in New York today and “said he had come here
to study America, learn the language and write a book dealing with the
persecution of the Jews”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: “Eleven
members of the old and prosperous Italian Fornari family,” including forty year
old Raffaele, his wife Celesete and their two children Vitoria and Alberto,
“that traces its history in Rome back for 300 years arrived yesterday on the
Italian liner Rex as refugees from the recent anti-Semitic edicts of the
Fascist party.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: The
All-India-Muslim League called for a Muslim homeland in the Indian
sub-continent. The British response would be to partition India into a Hindu
state of India and a Moslem state, Pakistan. The demands of the by the Muslims
living in India were part of a wave of Muslim nationalism that had been
sweeping the lands of North Africa and the Middle East since the start of the
20th century. The conflict in Palestine should be viewed within that context.
The similarity of the British response in Palestine and India (Partition) is
also worth noting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: David
Samuel Margoliouth, the Oxford University Professor whose father Ezekiel had
converted from Judaism to Anglicanism passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: “An
elaborate German "show trial," to be held after the war in an effort
to reveal a world-wide Jewish-Masonic plot to kill many high Nazi leaders, is
being organized by Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Gestapo [secret police], it
was reported in Vichy tonight.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: It was
announced today that “representatives of Jewish organizations in forty-eight
cities and twenty-six states have associated themselves with the Jewish section
of the Interfaith Committee for Aid to Democracies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: Of the
approximately 4,000 remaining Jews in Lublin, Poland 2,500 were massacred and
the rest of them were deported to Majdanek for extermination. At the start of
the war, 40,000 of the 125,000 inhabitants of Lublin had been Jewish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
Birthdate of Yevhen Lapinsky who played on the Soviet Union Volleyball Team
that won the Gold Medal at the Olympics in 1968.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943 (16th of
Adar II, 5703): Twenty-nine Jewish orphans at La Rose Orphanage in Les Accates,
France, as well as Alice Salomon, the guardian who refused to leave them two
months before, were gassed at the Sobibor death camp. The Alice Salomon
mentioned here is not to be confused with the famed German intellectual who
fled Nazi Germany before World War II and passed away in New York in 1948. At
the same time, one must wonder who says Kaddish for this otherwise unknown
brave soul and the 29 youngsters who were in her care.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: The
Gestapo arrested Henri Krasucki, his mother and other members of the French
resistance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: In
France, 4000 Jews were deported from Marseilles, interned briefly at Drancy,
France, and then deported to Sobibór<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: The
Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple stood up in front of the House of Lords
in London and pleaded with the British government to help the Jews of Europe.
"We at this moment have upon us a tremendous responsibility," he
said. "We stand at the bar of history, of humanity, and of God." Ever
since news of Hitler's plan to annihilate the Jews of Europe reached the public
in late 1942, British church leaders and members of Parliament had been
agitating for something to be done. Temple's plea marked the culmination of the
clamoring.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: British
Major-General Orde Wingate died in airplane crash while fighting the Japanese
in Burma during World War II. “Wingate was an unconventional person in many
respects. Among his other unique qualities was that he was an officer in the
British Army, who, while serving in Palestine during the 1930's supported the
Jewish cause. Then Captain Wingate served in Israel from 1936 until 1939. Born
in 1903 to a religious Christian family and a firm believer in the Bible, Orde
Wingate passionately embraced the prophetic vision of Jewish redemption and the
Jews' ultimate return to Eretz Yisrael. During his service in Eretz Yisrael, he
worked to help realize that ideal. The son of a British officer, Wingate was
born in India, received a military education, and was commissioned in 1923. He
served in India and then in the Sudan, where he studied Arabic and Semitics,
and acquired a familiarity with the Middle East. Wingate was recognized as a
talented officer, and by 1936 he had earned the rank of captain. That same year
he was transferred to Eretz Yisrael and served there for the next three years.
Wingate arrived in Eretz Yisrael as an intelligence officer at a time when
small bands of Arab rioters were regularly attacking both the British and the
Jews. To counter this offensive, Wingate organized and trained “Special Night
Squads,” comprised primarily of Haganah fighters, which were successfully
employed throughout the Yishuv. Their tactics were based on the strategic
principles of surprise, mobility, and night attacks and they served effectively
both as defensive and offensive units, successfully pre-empting and resisting
Arab attacks. Wingate maintained good contacts with the heads of the Yishuv and
the Haganah. He learned Hebrew, and he demonstrated his ardent belief that the
Jews were entitled to their homeland in Eretz Yisrael. He also recognized the
need for a working military force, and he dreamed of heading the army of the
future Jewish state. Because of his efforts and support, he was called in the
Yishuv “ha-yedid,” the friend. Wingate's intense support for the Zionist
viewpoint, however, was controversial, and in 1939 the British succumbed to
Arab pressure and transferred Wingate from Eretz Yisrael. His passport was
stamped with the restriction that he not be allowed to re-enter the country.
His personal involvement with the Zionist cause was thus curtailed, but many of
those he trained became heads of the Palmach and, later, the Israel Defense
Forces Wingate returned briefly to Great Britain, but, recognized for his
military talent, he was transferred to further active duty. In 1941 he led the
force in Ethiopia against the Italians and was a major figure in liberating the
country. He then worked in Burma, organizing and training the Chindits, a
special jungle unit that operated behind Japanese lines. Wingate was killed in
an airplane crash in Burma in 1944 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery
in Virginia. Wingate's friendship for the Yishuv and his contributions to its
defense has been recognized through the several places in Israel named for him,
including the College of Physical Education near Netanya."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/wingate.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/wingate.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.zionism-israel.com/bio/Charles_Orde_Wingate.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.zionism-israel.com/bio/Charles_Orde_Wingate.htm</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: At
Ioannina in Greece, 1,860 Jews were seized by the Nazis and deported to
Auschwitz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944:
Birthdate of Michael Laurence Nyman the native Stratford, London the
multi-talented musician who has done it all from concert pianist, to composing
movie scores and to the creation of operas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: In
Buffalo, Elmer and Mollie Milch gave birth to Yale Phi Beta Kappa graduate
David Sanford Milch the husband of Rita Stern, the screenwriter and television
producer who created “NYPD Blue” with Steven Bocho.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945:
Forty-three-year-old Elisabeth de Rothschild, the Catholic wife of Baron
Philippe de Rothschild was murdered today at Ravensbruck concentration camp.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: It was
reported that the police and the District Attorney's office are still seeking <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to solve the mystery surrounding the fatal
stabbing of Samuel Zuckerman, 50 years old, outside the doorway of his sixth
floor home in the Euclid Apartments, 2345 Broadway, early yesterday, when he
was summoned to answer a telephone call and that the police had questioned
45-year-old Dorothy Zuckerman his wife of six months, his daughter Helen Meyer,
her husband Private Leo Myer and his brother Leo Zuckerman about the murder
without gaining any additional information.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5706): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: The
American Joint Distribution Committee announced today in Paris that it “has
arranged to prove 1,866,000 pounds of unleavened bread to Jewish communities in
nearly every country” in Euopre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: The
executive committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine ended its deliberations
today. The committee has been meeting in Jerusalem to plan tactics for the
upcoming special session of the United Nations being held to deal with the
issue of Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
Birthdate of classical pianist Kaplinsky, the native of Tel Aviv who became a
professor of music at Julliard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: “The
Search” a “film directed by Fred Zinnemann which tells the story of a young
Auschwitz survivor and his mother who search for each other across post-World
War II Europe” was released today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: David
Ben-Gurion “cabled the United States State Department a warning that he and his
colleagues would with all of their strength oppose any postponement of Jewish
independence.” The U.S. State Department, the body that had done so much to
keep Jews from getting to the United States during the Hitler period, was busy
trying to sabotage President Truman’s support of partition and the creation of
a Jewish state.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar,5709): Rabbi Louis M. Epstein the Lithuanian bon son of Rebecca Mehle
and Rabbi Ezriel Epstein, the husband of Minnie Hannah Winner, the holder of
earned degrees from JTS, Columbia and Harvard and President of JTS from 1921 to
1925 who began leading Kehillath Israel in 1925 and was the author of “The
Jewish Marriage Contract” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jta.org/archive/rabbi-louis-epstein-authority-on-jewish-law-dies-was-cited-for-scholarship"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.jta.org/archive/rabbi-louis-epstein-authority-on-jewish-law-dies-was-cited-for-scholarship</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949:
“Detective Story” a three act play by Sidney Kingsley opened on Broadway at the
Hudson Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: Israel
and Lebanon signed an armistice agreement. Israeli troops withdrew from border
towns they had occupied during the fighting. Lebanon would not become a major
area of operations until decades later when the PLO was thrown out of Jordan
and took refuge in Lebanon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: In an
attempt to break the deadlock between Israel and Transjordan over the shape of
the border between the two states, Yigael Yadin, Walter Eytan, Moshe Dayan and
Yehoshafat Harkabi (future director of Israeli Military Intelligence) went to
meet King Abdullah at his villa in Shuneh Yigal. Yadin’s flawless recitation of
a poem in Arabic served as an icebreaker. Despite initial setbacks, the two
sides would reach an understanding that night.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: “The new
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Msgr. Alberto Gori, paid his first official visit
to Israel today. He met the diplomatic corps and senior officers of the Foreign
Affairs, Interior and Religious Affairs Ministries at a reception in Jaffa.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5711): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951(15th of
Adar II, 5711): Michael H. Cardozo Jr. of 163 East Eighty-first Street, veteran
attorney, passed away today in his office at 115 Broadway at the age 70. He was
a cousin of the late Associate Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo of the United States
Supreme Court.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: After
premiering in New York City and Los Angeles, “Royal Wedding, the Alan Jay
Lerner musical comedy directed by Stanley Donen was released throughout the
rest of the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954:
Mathematician Jacob Bronowski, the father of Lisa Jardine, “delivered his own
Conway Memorial Lecture today.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956(11<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5716):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cantor and composer
Isaac Hirshow, (aka Yitzak Gershov, the Russian born son of Simon Gershov )
“the first person to obtain a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of
Glasgow and of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the cantor at the Chevra
Kadisha synagogue in the Gorbals area of Glasgow” before moving to Garnethill
Synagogue in 1925, where he served for the next thirty years passed away today
after which he “was interred at Garnethill Hebrew Burial Ground.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956: New York
State Supreme Court Justice Henry Epstein officiated at the wedding of actress
Rita Gam, to Yale Graduate and WW II Marine Corps veteran “Thomas H. Guinzburg,
the son of Harold K. Guinzburg, publisher of the Viking Press” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957: The
University of North Carolina led by Lennie Rosenbluth won the NCCA Men’s
Division I Basketball Tournament in Kansas City, MO.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5719): Fast Esther; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5719): Sixty-seven Sam Born, the Russian born American “candyman”
who founded Just Born Company, maker of such sweet treats as Peeps passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.justborn.com/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.justborn.com/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960:
Seventy-eight-year-old Franklin Pierce Adams, the Chicago born son of Moses and
Clara Schlossberg Adams and writer known simply as F.P.A. who was a member of
the famous Algonquin Round Table passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/03/25/105423068.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/03/25/105423068.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962: Abraham
Ellstein’s only opera, “The Golem” which he created with his wife Sylvia Regan
premiered today at the New York City Opera a year and a day before he passed
away under the baton of Julius Rudel who had fled his native Austria when the
Nazis took over.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962: Arthur
Fiedler and his wife visited the Marshal Space Flight Center today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1962: In its
review of the Broadway musical “I Can Get It for You Wholesale,” </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The New York Times</span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> proclaimed "The
evening's find is Barbara Streisand, a girl with an oafish expression, a loud
irascible voice and an arpeggiated laugh. Miss Streisand is a natural
comedienne" By the time Streisand made her Broadway debut in “I Can Get It
for You Wholesale,” she had already developed a loyal following as a singer. In
performances at the Lion Club, one of New York City's premier gay clubs, and in
other clubs around the country, the young Streisand developed her trademark
outsider persona, impromptu one-liners, and theatrical delivery that brought
audiences to their feet. Streisand's performance as Miss Marmelstein in I Can
Get It for You Wholesale was so successful that the role was expanded for her,
with new songs added. Despite national acclaim for her performance, she was
considered too Jewish, too eccentric, too unattractive, and too marked by her
Brooklyn upbringing for a record contract. When Columbia Records finally
released The Barbra Streisand Album in 1964, however, it remained on the charts
for eighteen months. Streisand's movie debut in Funny Girl four years later, in
the Oscar-winning role of comedian Fanny Brice, cemented her place among the
stars of American theatre and film.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1963: Duke’s
Art Heyman was named the outstanding player at the 1963 NCC Men’s Division I
Basketball tournament which came to a close today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1963: Rolf
Hochhuth's "Der Stellvertreter" (The Deputy), premiered in Berlin.
The Catholic Church was outraged at the portrayal of Pius XII as being
complicit in the murder of the Jews of Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964(10th of
Nisan, 5724): Actor Peter Lorre passed away passed away at the age of 59. Born
Ladislav (László) Löwenstein in what was then the Hungarian part of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, Lorre gained fame as a character actor with parts in
such films as Casablanca and Arsenic and Old Lace. In the 1930’s he played the
title character the Mr. Motto detective films.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/wiki/The_Times_(25/Mar/1964)_-_Obituary:_Peter_Lorre"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/wiki/The_Times_(25/Mar/1964)_-_Obituary:_Peter_Lorre</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5728) Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudi<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969:
Birthdate of Donte Phillip Spector, one of three children adopted by Phil
Spector and his second wife.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5730): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970:
Birthdate of Justin Craig Duberman, the native of New Haven who after growing
up in Highland Park Illinois went on to play ice hockey for the University of
North Dakota and made it to the NFL as a right wing for the Pittsburgh
Penguins.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today for seventy-two-year-old Cornell
University Phi Beta Kappa graduate<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Murray Graham, the husband of the former Eleanor Kahn who rose from
being a sales clerk at Macy’s to be being a senior vice president for the
retail giant and who “was suporter of the Conference of Christians and Jews,
the Greater New York Fund, the United Jewish Appeal, the Red Cross, the
Salvation Army and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971: NBC
broadcast the final episode of “Julia,” the ground-breaking sitcom created by
Savannah native Hal Kanter, co-starring Ezra Stone and with music by Elmer
Bernstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972 (8th of
Nisan, 5732): Rabbi Chaim Meir Hager, who had been revered as Vizhnitzer Rebbe
for 35 years, passed away in Israel tonight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972: In
Paris, “a psychoanalyst whose parents were Holocaust survivors from Poland and
Russia” and his wife, a child therapist gave birth to author and actress Judith
Godreche, the wife of French actor Danny Boon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973: CBS
broadcast the last episode of daytime soap opera “Love Is a Many Splendored
Thing” created by Chicago native Irna Phillips.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974: Senator
Ted Kennedy arrived in Moscow today where he spoke with Brezhnev about the
Middle East and immigration, two topics of importance to Jews in the United
States and Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974: “Leonid
Zabelishensky was released from prison today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975: In
“Major Book on Holocaust” published today, Gerald F. Lieberman described the
negotiations that are “under way between Israel and an American company for the
publication of The Diary of Adam Czerniakow,” a document that a leading Jewish
scholar in Brooklyn College termed of major importance in understanding the
near destruction of European Jewry under the Nazis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978: The
first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue
Line. The Blue Line was a demarcation between Israeli and PLO forces.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979(24th of
Adar, 5739): One person was murdered and 13 more injured in a terrorist bombing
at Zion Square in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979: Abraham
David Sofaer began serving as Judge of the United States District Court for the
Southern District of New York,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980: In “The
Two Faces of Israel’s Masada: Glory and Tragedy,” published today Carmia Borek
describes the varying view of this famous Jewish landmark.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FB061EFA395C11728DDDAA0A94DB405B8084F1D3"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FB061EFA395C11728DDDAA0A94DB405B8084F1D3</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980:
Birthdate of Asaf Avidan an Israeli folk/rock musician known for his
breakthrough debut album, "The Reckoning", which was created with a
group of backup musicians under the name "Asaf Avidan and the Mojos".
The album received positive critical reviews and earned Avidan a nomination for
Best Israeli Artist at the upcoming MTV Europe Awards.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980: Release
date in the United States for “Christ Stopped at Eboli” (Italian: Cristo si è
fermato a Eboli), a 1979 film adaptation of the book of the same name by Carlo
Levi.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5741): Ninety-five-year-old German born American Chess champion
Edward Lasker who had been trained as an engineer and was a close friend of
fellow chess champion and distant relative Emanuel Lasker passed away today in
New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/26/obituaries/dr-edward-lasker-is-dead-at-95-5-time-us-open-chess-winner.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/26/obituaries/dr-edward-lasker-is-dead-at-95-5-time-us-open-chess-winner.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://worldchesshof.org/hof-inductee/edward-lasker"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://worldchesshof.org/hof-inductee/edward-lasker</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981: Shimon
Peres said in Tel Aviv today his party would make an effort to negotiate the
future status of Jerusalem with Saudi Arabia and would look seriously at the
possibility of peace with the Saudis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983(9<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5743): Eighty-four-year-old Rabbi Saul Lieberman passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.joshyuter.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Saul-Lieberman-and-the-Orthodox-31.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.joshyuter.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Saul-Lieberman-and-the-Orthodox-31.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/slieberman.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/slieberman.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985: Jewish
singer Billy Joel wed supermodel Christie Brinkley<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986(12th of
Adar II, 5746): Twenty days after celebrating his 91<sup>st</sup> birthday, Rabbi
Moshe Feinstein passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/feinstein-rabbi-moses"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/feinstein-rabbi-moses</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/25/obituaries/thousands-mourn-talmudic-scholar.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/25/obituaries/thousands-mourn-talmudic-scholar.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar, 5747): Eighty-five-year-old Morton Minsky, the last of the Minsky
brothers, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/24/obituaries/morton-minky-is-dead-at-85-last-of-a-burlesque-dynasty.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/24/obituaries/morton-minky-is-dead-at-85-last-of-a-burlesque-dynasty.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987: CBS
broadcast the first episode of the long running soap opera “The Bold and the
Beautiful” which would feature Tracey E. Bregman in the role of “Lauren
Fenmore.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988: In
Wellington, NZ, Israel national football team defeated Chinese Taipei, nine to
nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988(5th of
Nisan, 5748): Fifty-eight-year-old “Jim Jacobs, a boxing historian and a
co-manager of Mike Tyson, the heavyweight champion” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/24/obituaries/jim-jacobs-tyson-s-co-manager-and-handball-titlist-dies-at-58.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/24/obituaries/jim-jacobs-tyson-s-co-manager-and-handball-titlist-dies-at-58.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989: In
Philadelphia, Dr. Richard Cohen, who played tennis for the University of
Pennsylvania and played professional tennis for two years and his wife gave
birth to professional tennis player Julia Cohen, the sister of All-American
tennis player Josh Cohen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989: Stanley
Pons and Martin Fleischmann (who was a Jewish refugee from Nazi Europe)
announced that they had unlocked the mystery of cold fusion at the University
of Utah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991(8<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5751): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: It was
reported today that “Israel's foreign debt rose by $260 million in 1990, to
$24.1 billion, reversing a decline since 1987…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991:
“Congress today approved but modified the revocation of $55 million in aid to
Jordan and a ban on military sales to allies who failed to fulfill their
pledges of financial assistance for the Persian Gulf war.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990: Release
date of “Pretty Woman” the comedy filmed under executive produce Laura Ziskin
and co-starring Jason Alexander (born Jay Scott Greenspan).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1992:
“Broadway Bound” a made for television movie based on Neil Simon’s play
co-starring Jonathan Silverman, featuring Jerry Orbach and Michele Lee and with
music by David Shire was broadcast for the first time tonight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993: Judith
Kaye began serving as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993: A third
revival of “3 Men On A Horse” a play co-authored by George Abbott with a cast
that included Tony Randall, Jack Klugman and Jerry Stiller began previews at
the Lyceum Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994(11th of
Nisan, 5754): Victor Lashchiver, employed as a guard at the Income Tax offices
in East Jerusalem, was shot and killed by terrorists near Damascus Gate on his
way to work. The Popular Front claimed responsibility for the attack.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994: “Above
the Rim,” “a sports film co-written, stored and directed by Jeff Pollack” was
released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995(21st of
Adar II, 5755): Author and screenwriter Irving Shulman passed away at the age
of 81. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1995-03-28/news/mn-47894_1_irving-shulman"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://articles.latimes.com/1995-03-28/news/mn-47894_1_irving-shulman</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997(14th of
Adar II, 5757): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1997: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The New York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
"The Vulnerable Observer Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart" by Ruth
Behar and "The Journey Home Jewish Women and the American Century" by
Joyce Antler. Among the more than 50 Jewish women chronicled in this tome are:
Sonya Abuza, an overweight immigrant in Hartford who had been deserted by her
husband, later became famous as a ''Gypsy of the footlights'' named Sophie
Tucker. Henrietta Szold, the eldest of five daughters of a distinguished
Baltimore rabbi, established Hadassah, the largest women's Zionist group in the
world, in 1912. Ruth Gruber, who at 20 was declared the youngest person in the
world to hold a doctorate, flew a secret mission for President Franklin D.
Roosevelt during World War II to help 1,000 refugees find asylum in Oswego,
N.Y. Goldie Mabovich Meyerson was born in Kiev, was raised and married in
Milwaukee, then moved to Palestine in 1921, where, known as Golda Meir, she
became Prime Minister of Israel. In this unique volume, Joyce Antler, who
teaches American studies at Brandeis University, blends history, anecdote and
biography to emphasize the achievement of these women, who attempted to satisfy
family, God and their own dreams at the same time. The book illuminates their
struggles for identity as well as the sexism and anti-Semitism they
encountered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5758): Eighty-one-year-old American poet Hilda Morely and cousin of
Isaiah Berlin passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/hilda-morley"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/hilda-morley</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999: Emanuel
Zisman left The Third Way and continued serving as independent MK.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999(6<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5759): Sculptor and “resident artist” artist and teacher at Reed
College in Oregon Martha Gold Littman, the daughter of Austrian writer, theatre
critic, journalist, art collector, and dealer Alfred Gold and the former
Margarethe Zadek and the estranged wife of Frederick Littman with whom “she had
her first solo show in 1940” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: During
his meeting with President Ezer Weizman, Pope John Paul II “blessed the state
of Israel” after which he visited Yad Vashem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/events/pope/john_paul/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/events/pope/john_paul/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/events/pope/john_paul/speech.asp"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/events/pope/john_paul/speech.asp</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/events/pope/john_paul/portrait.asp"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/events/pope/john_paul/portrait.asp</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001(28<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5761): Eighty-seven-year-old Janice Levin, the art collector and
philanthropist whose husband attorney Philip J. Levin passed away in 1971,
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/27/nyregion/janice-levin-87-philanthropist-of-the-arts.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/27/nyregion/janice-levin-87-philanthropist-of-the-arts.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002(10<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5762): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002(10<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5762): Seventy-three-year-old Oscar Winning set designer Richard
Sylbert passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/30/movies/richard-sylbert-73-designer-of-oscar-winning-film-sets.html?scp=1&sq=richard%20sylbert&st=cse/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/30/movies/richard-sylbert-73-designer-of-oscar-winning-film-sets.html?scp=1&sq=richard%20sylbert&st=cse/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003(19th of
Adar II, 5763): Fritz Spiegl the Austrian-born musician, journalist,
broadcaster, humorist and collector who fled to England in 1939 to escape the
Nazis passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2003: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The New York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of interest to Jewish readers including
Regarding "The Pain of Others" by Susan Sontag and "Ending the
Vietnam War: A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication From the
Vietnam War" by Henry Kissinger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004: Police
Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said the New York Department had increased
uniformed and plainclothes patrols at synagogues and in predominately Jewish
neighborhoods following an attack on Sheik Ahmed Yasssin, a founder of Hamas,
in Gaza City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: March
Madness, the popular name for the national American collegiate basketball
champion competition took on a Jewish twist. A sixteen-year-old feud was
reignited by comments made by Deon Thomas a professional basketball player for
Maccabi Tel Aviv about University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Coach Bruce Pearl,
whose skill at bringing his unheralded hoopsters to the Sweet Sixteen may mark
him as the next Red Auerbach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: The
Ensemble for the Romantic Century presented Fanny Mendelssohn: Out of Her
Brother’s Shadow, a theatrical concert featuring the music of Fanny Mendelssohn
at the Jewish Museum in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5765): Seventy-three-year-old Naftali Halberstam “the grand rabbi
of the Bobov Chasidic Sect” passed away today.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/25/obituaries/naftali-halberstam-dies-at-74-bobov-hasidims-grand-rabbi.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/25/obituaries/naftali-halberstam-dies-at-74-bobov-hasidims-grand-rabbi.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5765): Eighty-five-year-old award winning British actor David
Kossoff passed away today in Hatfield, Hertforshire, England.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1486283/David-Kossoff.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1486283/David-Kossoff.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: Judith
Martin, known professionally as “Miss Manners” today “was a special guest
correspondent on The Colbert Report, giving her analysis of the manners with
which the White House Press Corps spoke to the President.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007(4th of
Nisan, 5767: Paul J. Cohen, American mathematician, and winner of the Fields
Medal, passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://paulcohen.org/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://paulcohen.org/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: Tal
Friedman sang with “The Krayot” band in Tel Aiv today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tal_Friedman_23032007.jpg"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tal_Friedman_23032007.jpg</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: An
international conference for Jewish theater professionals, artists, and
aficionados hosted by The Association for Jewish Theatre in conjunction with
the Jewish Theatre of Austria comes to an end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: An
exhibition organized by guest curator Murray Zimiles entitled “Gilded Lions and
Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel has its last showing at the
American Folk Art Museum. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2008: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Sunday New York
Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">book
section featured a review of "Liberty Of Conscience: In Defense of
America’s Tradition of Religious Equality" by Martha C. Nussbaum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2008: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Washington Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">book section featured a
review of Mark Evanier’s "Kirby: King of Comics" that describes the
life and times of Jack Kirby, the son of Austrian Jewish immigrants who had
such an impact on the comic book genre including the creation of The Fantastic
Four, The Hulk and Captain America.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008(7<sup>th</sup>
of Nissan, 5778): In Paris, 85-year-old Holocaust survivor was murdered
allegedly by Yacine Mihoub and Alex Carrimbacus who shouted “Allah Akbar” as
they stabbed her.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: As
pilots began undergoing tests for cancer, a team of technical personnel from
the Israel Air Force flew to Fort Worth, Texas, for consultations with their
American counterparts and Lockheed Martin concerning the recent discovery of
carcinogenic material in an Israeli F-16I..<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2008(16th of
Adar II, 5768): Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum, an ultra-Orthodox educator and innovator
who created a series of dial-in phone lines with lectures on sacred texts, died
today at the age of 68 </span><a href="http://forward.com/articles/13039/rabbi-eli-teitelbaum-dial-a-daf-creator--/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://forward.com/articles/13039/rabbi-eli-teitelbaum-dial-a-daf-creator--/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: At
Rutgers University, Professor Martin Bunzl, director of the Program in Jewish
Culture and Society, University of Illinois at Urbana delivers a lecture on
Israel, Islamophobia, and the Right Wing in Europe entitled “The New
Philo-Semitism.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2009: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Sports Illustrated </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">magazine reported on
the recent death of 86 year old Bill Davidson who amassed a fortune in the
glass business owner the Detroit Pistons for 35 years and free spending
philanthropists. The magazine also noted that Davidson had run track at
Michigan and “was a charter member of the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: The Aviv
String Quartet, founded in Israel in 1997, performs at Cornell College in Mount
Vernon, Iowa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: In the
on-going saga of what was once the country’s leading kosher slaughtering
operation four companies bid for the assets of Agriprocessors in an auction
that began today. The bidding ended this evening night with offers reaching as
high as $5.5 million.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The
AIPAC Policy Conference comes to a close.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The New
York Times Knowledge Network and the Israeli Consulate are scheduled to team up
together to present the opening night of a weeklong event entitled The New
Israeli Cuisine in which participants will take a tour through the fascinating
evolution of Israel's culinary scene. A melting pot of more than 60 different
ethnicities - from India to Morocco to Argentina - Israeli cuisine is one of
the world's fastest emerging kitchens.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The
Temple Mount Human Rights Group has scheduled a gathering for today in front of
the Mashbir department store in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The
President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Israel met this
evening in Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The UK
expelled an Israeli diplomat owing to claims that an embassy official from that
country forged passports, and David Miliband gave a public warning against
travel to Israel because of identity theft concerns<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: As
German authorities pursue suspected Nazi war criminals to the last, a court in
Aachen convicted an 88-year-old former SS soldier today on charges of killing
three Dutch civilians in reprisal for attacks by Dutch resistance fighters in
1944. The case against the former soldier, Heinrich Boere, who is now a
stateless person, was depicted by German analysts as one of the last major war
crimes trials. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The
ex-convict who killed a Canadian Jewish leader in Barbados last year was
sentenced to 10 years in prison. Curtis Joel Foster, 25, was sentenced today in
a Barbados court for killing Terry Schwarzfeld, who had just started her term
as president of Canadian Hadassah WIZO and was executive director of Ottawa's
largest synagogue, Agudath Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: The
75-minute dramatic oratorio, “From the Fire,” is scheduled to be presented in
New York City to mark the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
and bring attention to contemporary examples of unsafe working conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Kathryn
Gleason, a professor of Archaeology and Landscape Architecture at Cornell, who
has excavated at Herod's tomb and other sites in Israel is scheduled to deliver
a lecture at the 92nd St Y entitled “Archaeology In Israel: Herod's World.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Today a
committee of the Knesset is scheduled to debate whether J Street is
sufficiently "committed" to Israel to be called a pro-Israel
organization.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: “Two
rockets exploded in Beersheba this morning, and ten mortar shells fell in the
Sha'ar Hanegev and Eshkol Regional Councils..”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Seventy-nine-year-old
actress Elizabeth Taylor who converted to Judaism in 1959, had two Jewish
husbands (producer Mike Todd and crooner Eddie Fisher) and was such an ardent
supporter of Israel and Jewish causes such as the right of Soviet Jews to
emigrate, that her films were “were banned by Muslim countries throughout the
Middle East and Africa” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/23/local/la-me-elizabeth-taylorlong-20110324"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/23/local/la-me-elizabeth-taylorlong-20110324</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/mar/23/elizabeth-taylor-obituary"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/mar/23/elizabeth-taylor-obituary</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(17, Adar
II, 5771): “One woman died and 50 were injured after an explosion took place at
a bus station in central Jerusalem this afternoon. Police said that a bomb
exploded outside Egged bus number 74 at a station opposite the Jerusalem
Conference Center (Binyanei Ha'uma) in the center of town. Fifty people were
injured in the attack. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: It was
reported today that “The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is trying to identify
more than 1,000 children in photos that date from when they were scattered
across Europe at the end of World War II and taken in by relief agencies. The
museum’s “Remember Me” project seeks the public’s help in identifying 1,100
children among tens of thousands who were uprooted by the war. The museum is
posting the pictures, which are part of its collections, online and plans to
publish many of the images in newspapers and online forums. Museum officials
hope to learn who the children are, what happened to them and help reconnect
them to relatives who may also have been scattered. The museum says the number
of Holocaust survivors is dwindling with time.” (Associated Press)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5771): Famed defense attorney Leonard I. Weinglass passed away
today at the age of 77. (As reported by Bruce Weber)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/us/25weinglass.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/us/25weinglass.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
“Gripsholm,” a movie about Berlin cabaret life in the inter-war years featuring
the life of a German-Jewish publisher as the leading character, is scheduled to
be shown in Atlanta, GA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
“Remembrance and “Ahead of Time” are schedule to be shown at the NoVA
International Jewish Film Festival in Fairfax, VA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: As a
part of the movement started by National Day of Unplugging Jews will begin a
weekend complying with the Sabbath Manifesto.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.myjewishlearning.com/practices/Ritual/Shabbat_The_Sabbath/Themes_and_Theology/sabbath-manifesto.shtml"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.myjewishlearning.com/practices/Ritual/Shabbat_The_Sabbath/Themes_and_Theology/sabbath-manifesto.shtml</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Barak Obama is scheduled to return to the United States after completing his
first trip to Israel since being elected President.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Violinist Vadim Gluzman and pianist Agnela Yoffe are scheduled to perform at
the High School of Fashion Industries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013(12<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5773): Shabbat HaGadol<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
“After the Houston Astros put him on waivers,” today “the Oakland A’s picked up
Nate Freiman, “the 26-year-old first baseman, who dominated opposing pitchers
during Team Israel’s World Baseball Classic bid last year and who hit .278 for
Houston during Spring Training, with 1 HR, two doubles, no walks and 7 whiffs
in 36 at-bats.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013(12<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5773): Ninety-three-year-old Canadian born American bodybuilder Joe
Weider who along with his brother carved a special niche in the world
competitive bodybuilding passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/sports/joe-weider-founder-of-a-bodybuilding-empire-dies-at-93.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/sports/joe-weider-founder-of-a-bodybuilding-empire-dies-at-93.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
The worsening crisis in Syria necessitated restoring relations with Turkey,
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu wrote on his Facebook page this evening,
explaining the reasoning to his apology to Ankara over the death of nine
Turkish activists on board a Gaza-bound flotilla.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2013: US Secretary of State John Kerry began
nitty-gritty efforts at re-starting talks between Israel and the Palestinians
with a late-night meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
An IDF jeep on patrol near the Syrian border was hit by gunfire this evening.
The IDF said the shots were fired from Syria, and that it was "checking
the circumstances surrounding the incident."<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Maestro Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra are scheduled to
return to Miami, for a concert featuring Bruckner’s Symphony No.8 in C minor
which is being dedicated in memory of Dr. Shulamit Katzman, who was a devoted
supporter of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
A youth center in Jönköping in southern Sweden is vandalized with anti-Semitic
slurs, including “Jewish pigs,” “you’ll burn in hell,” and swastikas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Billionaire diamond magnate Lev Leviev” one of the “most successful Bukharian
Jews” and “Israeli philanthropist” was photographed today “writing in a Torah
scroll wit Rabbi Eliyahu Yaakov and defense minister Moshe Yaalon.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman is scheduled to perform his only New York
recital at 8 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “Jewish Poetry Now:
Celebrating the Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
In New Orleans, the Jewish Children’s Regional Service (one of America’s
premiere provider of social services for the Jewish community) is scheduled to
hold its Annual Meeting this morning at the Uptown Jewish Community Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
In Springfield,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>VA, Congregation Adat
Reyim is scheduled to host Robert H. Gillette, author of The Virginia Plan that
described the plan of department store own William B. Thalhiemer’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>plan to rescue the students of Gross Breesen
Institute and create “a safe haven on Burkeville, VA<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>farm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“The Jewish Cardinal” with “Moses on the Mesa” are scheduled to be shown at the
Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“The Zigzag Kid” is scheduled to be the last picture shown at this year’s
Houston Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The Tulane University Jewish Studies Department under the Chair of Professor
Brian Horowitz is scheduled to host a lecture “Tortosa” presented by David
Goldstein<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“The mystery of where Islamist hackers got phone numbers and email addresses to
send threatening text and email messages grew today, when it emerged that a
database belonging to the Israel Defense magazine and web site had been hacked
over the weekend.” (As reported by David Shamah) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“The Foreign Ministry’s Workers Union today declared a full-blown general
strike, shutting down the ministry’s headquarters in Jerusalem and all Israeli
embassies and consulates across the world.´(As reported by Raphael Ahren)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Art Spiegelman’s Co-Mix: A Retrospective,” is scheduled to come to a close at
The Jewish Museum in New York City<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/art-spiegelman?utm_source=forwards.com%20&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=Spiegelman%20Final%20Weeks&utm_campaign=Spiegelman%20Final%20Weeks%20Forwards.com"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/art-spiegelman?utm_source=forwards.com%20&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=Spiegelman%20Final%20Weeks&utm_campaign=Spiegelman%20Final%20Weeks%20Forwards.com</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“Touchdown Israel – Tackle Football in the Holyland” is scheduled to be sown at
the Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Dr. Tom Barton is scheduled to deliver a lecture on the Battle Over Jews in
Medieval Spain” in Carlsbad, CA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
The Jews in the American South is scheduled to stop in Beaufort, South
Carolina, for a visit to Beth Israel Congregation – formerly Orthodox, now
“all-inclusive” – to talk with community members about maintaining religious
traditions and Jewish identity in a small town.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to present “France, Jewish
Identity and the Holocaust: Yellow Stars of Tolerance and Cojot.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
YIVO is scheduled to present “Mixed-Sex Dancing in Yiddish Culture.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
Hadassah Humanitarian Mission to Cuba is scheduled to begin today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Next Stop” a “play that follows two Israelis humorously navigating the
confusion of dating life in New York City” is scheduled to open at the Broadway
Comedy Club.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5776): Fast of Esther; in the evening read the Megillah – for more
see <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The ten-day Israel Culinary Trip to Israel sponsored by the Streicker Center is
scheduled to begin today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
“A months long wave of bomb threats against Jewish institutions in the United
States that prompted evacuations, heightened security and fears of rising
anti-Semitism gave way to an unexpected twist” today when a Jewish 18 year old
who holds dual Israeli and American citizenship who reported has a brain tumor
was arrested and “His father was ordered held for eight days on suspicion that
he might have been aware of the threats…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Today “The Republican-led Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's pick to be
U.S. ambassador to Israel, ignoring objections from Democrats that David
Friedman lacked the temperament for such an important diplomatic post.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The American Society for Jewish Music is scheduled to present “Your New House:
Wedding Songs, Gender and Memory in an Indian Jewish Community.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The Leo Baeck Institute is scheduled to host George Prochnik speaking on
“Stranger in a Strange Land – Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018(7<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5778): Eighty-six-year-old Lawrence K. Grossman, the former President
of PB and head of NBC news passed away today. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/obituaries/lawrence-k-grossman-head-of-pbs-and-then-nbc-news-dies-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/obituaries/lawrence-k-grossman-head-of-pbs-and-then-nbc-news-dies-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Daylight saving time begins at 2:00 A.M in Israel<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
A Hebrew language performance of the Israeli play “Scoop” is scheduled to take
place this evening at the Roy Arias Theatre in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Liquidation sales of “Toys R Us; the chain founded by Charles Lazarus began
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
This morning, the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a
screening of “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2018: BowTie theatres in Hartford and New
Haven, CT. are scheduled to host screenings of “Itzhak,” a film about the life
of violinist Itzhak Perlman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5779):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parashat Tzav; <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5779): Eighty-two-year-old Larry Cohen, the Manhattan born son
realtor Irving Cohen and Carolyn Cohen, the prolific movie and television
director, producer and screenwriter (as reported by Neil Genzlinger) passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/obituaries/larry-cohen-dead.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/obituaries/larry-cohen-dead.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the “East Coast US
premiere” of “The Bird Catcher” which tells the tale of Jews fleeing the Nazis
in Norway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
In Jerusalem, the Bible Lands Museum is scheduled to host the last day of its
special gallery displays designed to celebrate Purim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The Bloomfield Science Museum is scheduled to host the final day of “Mirror
Image – A Purim of Mirrors and Reflections.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is schedule to host “Running
Breathless: An Untold Story of WWII and the Holocaust.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/MAMTAKOGUL0319"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/MAMTAKOGUL0319</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
Tikvah is scheduled to host Webcast with Caroline Glick on “The New Arab Bloc
and the Future of Israeli Sovereignty.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tikvahfund.org/glick/?utm_source=jrb_list&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jrb_glick_announcement"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://tikvahfund.org/glick/?utm_source=jrb_list&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jrb_glick_announcement</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to host an on-line version of
“Explaining Exodus: Building a House of God – with Rabbi Joseph Dweck.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020):
27<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5780): Eighty-eighty-year-old Yale trained attorney
and “legal crusader” Stanley Sporkin, the Philadelphia born of the former Ethel
Weiner and Court of Common Pleas Judges Maurice Sporkin and the husband of Judy
Imber with whom he had three children “who, as the chief enforcement officer at
the Securities and Exchange Commission, held American corporations accountable
for making illicit campaign contributions in the United States and for bribing
public officials abroad,” passed away today in Rockville, MD (As reported by
Sam Roberts)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/business/stanley-sporkin-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/business/stanley-sporkin-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The 2<sup>nd</sup> Jewish Africa Conference and Morocco Trip which was
scheduled to begin today has been canceled due to the Pandemic. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
“#inthistogether: Jewish Unity in History With Natan Sharansky” is scheduled to
be presented on-line today at noon, eastern time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishboston.com/events/inthistogether-jewish-unity-in-history-with-natan-sharansky/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.jewishboston.com/events/inthistogether-jewish-unity-in-history-with-natan-sharansky/</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to present online “Leaving Egypt: Passover
Prep.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The Boston-Area Jewish Education Program is scheduled to present online, the
“Great BJEP Matazah Bake” during which attendees will “learn the history of
this 18-minute bake as they return to their roots like the Israelites in Egypt,
now with running water and electricity, to say the very least.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “One Night At A Time”
during which <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Arianna
Huffington and Marina Khidekel will discuss the insights gained while writing <u>Your
Time to Thrive</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The Jewish Community Center of the North Shore is scheduled to present online
“Nafshi Yeshovev: What Lifts My Spirit – An Exploration of Text, Poetry, Music
and More” with Rabbi Michael Ragozin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Paul George Feinman, the Columbia grad and University of Minnesota trained
attorney compled his service as an Associate Judge of the New York Court of
Appeals.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
As Israelis go to the polls for the fourth time in two years, Prime Minister
Netanyahu will see if he can “remain in power while on trial on corruption
charges.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2022:</span>
<span face="Arial, sans-serif">“Today we express
Iowa’s enduring support for the State of Israel and our categorical rejection
of anti-Semitism,” Reynolds said in a statement as she signed a bill that “builds
on an existing section of the state code that prohibited it from investing in
“companies that boycott Israel,” by expanding the definition of a “company” to
include subsidiaries and parent companies.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
UK Jewish Film is scheduled to host a screening of “Cinema Sabaya,” the winner
of Best Israeli First Feature at The Jerusalem Film Festival in 2021<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
Governor Reynolds of Iowa signed a bill that “calls for the state to adopt the
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism in
discrimination and anti-bias training.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Prime Minister Netanyahu is scheduled to begin his visit to the United Kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
YIVO is scheduled to host “an evening of Yiddish music celebrating the memory
of Musicologist, song collector, and writer Chana Mlotek, the longtime YIVO
Music Archivist, who played a key role in crafting the historical memory of
Yiddish songs in our time.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Rabbi Uri Pilichowski, the Zionist Education Initiative Senior Educator, Nefesh
B’Nefesh, is scheduled to deliver the final lecture on “Zionism Today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah is scheduled to hold its monthly Board
Meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The Jewish Museum in London is scheduled to host its Virtual Teachers CPD that
explores what it really means to be Jewish and how best to teach an authentic
and inclusive Judaism in your classrooms.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
In Coralville, IA, Congregation Agudas Achim is scheduled to host a seniors
get-together including a presentation from Alan Weinstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
JWA Booktalk is scheduled to host Loolwa Khazzoom, editor of <u>The Flying
Camel</u>, a book of essays on identity by women of North African and Middle
Eastern Jewish heritage, recently reissued celebrating the book's 20th
anniversary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The Belzberg Program in Israel Studies at the University of Calgary and the
Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University in collaboration with
the American Sefardi Federation, Centro Sefarad Israel, and the International
Network for Jewish Thought present “How Do Judeo-Spanish Proverbs and Tales
Communicate with Us and How Do We Communicate With Them?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
At 2 a.m. tomorrow morning Israelis are scheduled to move their clocks forward
by one hour.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5783): Rosh Chodesh Nisan <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by David Herman on “Jewish
Writers and the Holocaust: '60s and '70s.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
Temple Emanu-El scheduled is to host a “Mardi Gras Masquerade Purim Party where
the celebrations of Shushan meet the revelry of the French Quarter!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
Temple Judea, is scheduled to “celebrate Havdalah with Rabbi David Azoulay –
from Congregation Yozma in Modi’in Israel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
In Columbus, OH, Jacob Levin, the world’s greatest grandson and a real mensch,
is scheduled to daven Kriyat Hatorah at Tifereth Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The LGBTQIA+ group is scheduled to host a queer Purim party on Saturday, at
9:30 p.m. (after the Megillah reading) at Studio 13 in Iowa City<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled a Toscanini Quartet, Ensemble in Residence
and Friends<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2024(13th
of Adar II, 5784): Shabbat Zachor; For more see </span><a href="https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5784) In the evening read the Megillah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">For
more see </span><a href="https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
In Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah is scheduled to host an in-person only Purim
Service and Megillah Reading for which “costumes are encouraged.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
23rd begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 169 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p>melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-70903372930754060742024-03-21T08:15:00.000-06:002024-03-21T16:04:34.332-06:00This Day, March 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p><em><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">March 22</span></span></b></em></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1144: This
date marks the first ritual murder libel which took place in in Norwich,
England. It set the pattern for subsequent accusations that would be made into
the 20th century all across Europe. A 12-year-old boy, William, was found dead
on Easter Eve, and the Jews were accused of killing him in a mock crucifixion.
They were not, however, accused of using his blood for the making of matzos,
although this would become a standard feature of later libels. It was later
presumed by scholars that the boy died during a cataleptic fit or else he was
killed by a sexual pervert. After Easter, a synod convened and summoned the
Jews to the Church court. The Jews refused on the grounds that only the king
had jurisdiction over them and they feared that they would be subjected to
"trial by ordeal." William was regarded as a martyred saint and a
shrine was erected in his memory. In spite of this episode, there was no
immediate violence against the Jews. Over the years, despite denunciations by
various popes, ritual murder libels continued. Possession of a saint's shrine
bestowed great economic benefits on a town because sacred relics drew pilgrims
who spent money on offerings, board, and lodging. For bones to be considered
sacred relics they had to be killed by a heretic (i.e. a Jew). Such charges
were used as an excuse to murder Jews as late as 1900.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1190: In
England, King Richard angered by the riots and the loss of crown property
(since the Jews belonged to the crown) renewed a general charter in favor of
the Jews first issued by Henry II. Chancellor Longchamp instituted heavy fines
against the Pudsey and Percy families thus at the same time enriching the
treasury and hurting his political opponents. Only three people who were also
accused of destroying Christian property were executed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1349: The
townspeople of Fulda Germany massacred the Jews because they blamed them for
the Black Death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1369: In
France, Charles V sought to force Jews to attend church services by issuing an
order that included a penalty for defiance. Unless they complied "the Jews
might suffer great bodily harm".<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1457: The
Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book. The printing revolution would
soon reach the world of Jewish literature. Thanks to Gutenberg's remarkable
invention, books would soon be much more readily available to the People of the
Book.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1500: A huge
fleet under the command of 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 reached Cape Verde,
a Portuguese colony on Africa’s West Coast as it made its way towards India.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1503: After 8
years of exile, Jews are allowed to return to Lithuania<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1510: The Jews
were expelled from Colmar Germany. Jews had been living in this town in Upper
Alsac for at least three centuries prior to their expulsion for which no reason
is given.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1549:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1564: In
Mantua, Italy, David Provensalo and his son Abraham asked the Jewish notables
to help him create a Jewish College. The idea was to allow Jews to learn
languages and science while also receiving a “Jewish education.” Although they
did establish a Talmudic academy they were opposed by the local Church and did
not succeed in opening the College.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1599:
Birthdate of Antwerp native and “English court painter” Anthony van Dyck whose
“Portrait of Adriaen Moens” was stolen from the Jewish art dealer Jacques
Goudstikker by the Nazis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/dr-oetker-restitutes-van-dyck-831605"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://news.artnet.com/art-world/dr-oetker-restitutes-van-dyck-831605</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1609: In
Mexico, “a bailiff of the Holy Office carried a statue of Jorge de Almeida in a
procession and the bailiff tied the effigy to a stake” and publicly burned
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Almeda was the wife of Donna Lenor
“a Jewess” and escaped the Inquisition when he was charged with Judaizing so he
was tried in absentia which meant that his effigy could not suffer auto de fe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1704: The Lord
Mayor of London “and the Worshipful Court of Aldermen issued an order today “That
the said Synagogue being of a Large Extent adjoining to the Church Yard, very
near the said Parish Church, will, if Continued to be a great nuisance to the
Parishioners who Inhabit near the said Synagogue by bringing Numbers of Jews
into the Alley which is a Thoroughfare not Exceeding three foot in width, will
in a great measure block up that passage” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishgen.org/JCR-UK/susser/roth/chnine.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.jewishgen.org/JCR-UK/susser/roth/chnine.htm</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1749:
“Solomon,” an oratorio by George Handel based on the biblical stories about
King Solomon had its final performance at the Theatre Royal in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1753(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5513): David Israel Athias, who had served as “Hakam of the
Portuguese community at Amsterdam” since 1728, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1759: “The
Double Disappointment,” produced by Moses Mendes was revived at Covent Garden
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1769(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5529): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1770: In
Buchau, Germany, Judith Mayer Hill and Samuel Obernauer gave birth to Rebecka
Obernauer, the wife of Ruppert Einstein and the mother of Hirsch, Judith,
Samuel, Raphael, Abraham and David Einstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1773: In
Amsterdam, Branca Levie Duijts and Simon Isaac Frankfort gave birth to Levie
Frankfort.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1777(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5337): Parashat Vayikra; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1781(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5541): Fifty-eight-year-old Samson Levy, the son of Moses Raphael Levy
and Grace Mears passed away today in Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1787: London born,
and Montreal raised Eliza Chapman, the widow of “frontiersman” and trader
Abraham Chapman married Moses Myers after which in July she sail on the
Sincerity for Norfolk where gave birth to 12 children and became a hostess of
note.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://chrysler.org/historic-houses/the-moses-myers-house/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://chrysler.org/historic-houses/the-moses-myers-house/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1797:
Birthdate of German-Jewish jurist Eduard Gans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1798(5<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5558): Isaac Jacob Gans , the Lower Saxony born son of Jacob and
Ferude Katz Gans and husband of Pesse Pauline Leah Gans who became a wealthy
tobacco merchant and note philanthropist passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://thejewishmuseum.org/collection/3701"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://thejewishmuseum.org/collection/3701</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1797:
Birthdate of Kaiser Wilhelm I German whose reign lasted from 1871 to 1888. The
Prussian monarch became the first ruler over a united Germany. In 1869, the
emancipation process for the Jews of Germany was completed. “All still existing
limitations of the…civil rights which are rooted in differences of religious
faith are hereby annulled.” Jews rose rapidly during his reign. Guided by
Chancellor Bismarck, the German government actually became champion of the less
fortunate Jews living to the East.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1798
Aarau, the city in which Albert Einstein “attended the Argovian cantonal school
(gymnasium) in 1895 and 1896 to complete his secondary schooling” was declared
the capital of the Helvetic Republic making it “the first capital of a unified
Switzerland” and another site for a failed attempt to effect the emancipation
of the Jews in that country.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799(15th of
Adar II, 5559): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1800(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5560): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei; Shabbat HaChodesh observed for the
last time during the Presidency of John Adams, the last Federalist President.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1805:
Birthdate of Kassel native and convert to Christianity Franz Ferdinand Benary,
the orientalist and University Berlin associate professor of Old Testament
exegis who “was the older brother of classical philologist Agathon Benary.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1809:
Georgetown, SC native Divinah Cohen and Isaac Minis who were married in 1803
gave birth to Eliza Minis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1814: In
Dresden, Naftali and Bertha Nachod gave birth to “German banker and
philanthropist Jacob Nachod.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1815: Napoleon
reached Paris. Soon King Louis has fled, and all Europe has become mobilized.
In June, after a number of victories by Napoleon, the stock exchange in London
goes through a panic, and rumors circulate that it may close. To prevent the
closing, which would mean the collapse of English credit, Nathan stubbornly
continues to buy amid rumors of Wellington's defeat, until the war ends with
Wellington's victory at Waterloo. Sometime later, Julie and Fitzroy are
reunited, and Nathan is made a baron by the King of England, who expresses the
country's gratitude to this "adopted" son whose generosity and
courage brought victory and peace to England<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1817: In
Charleston, SC, David Nunes Carvalho and Sarah Carvalho gave birth to Emanuel
Nunes Carvalho<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1818(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5578): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1822: In
Vejle, Joseph Joel Ballin and Hanne Behrend gave birth to Danish engraver John
Ballin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827:
Birthdate of William Lafayette Strong, the last Mayor of New York City elected
prior to its modern consolidation. As befitted a Mayor of New York, Strong
spoke positively of his Jewish constituents of whom he said, “The Jews take
care their own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are taught to be
self-supporting.” He expressed the view that while he had seen many
applications for public assistance, he did not “one single application came
from a Hebrew.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1832: German
writer J W Goethe passed away at the age of 82. The creator of Fuast admitted
to being ant-Semite from his earliest days. His attitude towards Jews changed
when he came to realize that they were the same people who had authored the
Bible, especially the Songs of Songs, a book for which he had a special
affection. While Goethe could admire the Jews from an historic point of view he
was an opponent of Jewish emancipation in the Fatherland. Goethe was not the
first or the last intellectual who loved Jews, so long as they were dead Jews. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1833(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Nisan, 5593): Thirty-two-year-old poet Michael Beer, the brother of composer
Giacomo Meyerbeer and astronomer Wilhelm Beer, passed away today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1834: In New
York City, Henry Benjamin Nones, the Philadelphia born son of Abraham Benjamin
Nones and Miriam Marks de Nones, and his wife Anna M. Nones gave birth to John
McInnis Nones<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1834: In
London, Esther and John Nathan gave birth to Charlotte Nathan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1835:
Birthdate of Munsterberg,Silesia native “wool and grain merchant” Julius
Schottlander, the brother-in-law of Louis Pakally and veteran of Prussia’s wars
with Austria and France who retired from the world of business in 1890 after
which “devoted himself to agriculture having acquired a large tract of farm
land in Silesia.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1837(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5597): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1837: Phillip
Levy married Elizabeth Davis at the Great Synagogue today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1838: Joseph
“Perl wrote a letter suggesting that the government censor Jewish libraries,
prohibit meetings in Jewish ritual baths and close traditional Jewish schools,
which he called "a place of refuge for vagabonds, thieves . . . a nest of
demoralization and of . . . nefarious, scandalous deeds."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1842: Isaac
Sanguinetti married Harriet Nathan today at the Great Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1840: In St.
Martin in the Fields, London, Anne Solomons and Alexander Davis gave birth to
Montague Davis<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1845:
Birthdate of Father Theodor Kohn whose appointment as Archbishop of Olomouc
drew a great deal of opposition because his grandfather was born Jewish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1845: In
Liverpool, “John R. Isaac, one of the Liverpool Commissioners of the 1851 and
the engraver to” to Prince Albert and his wife gave birth to Benjamin Yates’
great-grandson Percy Lewis Isaac, the “naval architect marine engineer” who in
1867 was “appointed to supervise work in connection with the ‘Great Eastern’
steamship” and was the “author of Historical Notes on Shipping which contains
references to early Anglo-Jewish history.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848:
Birthdate of German historian Harry Breslau under whose chairmanship “the
Historical Commission for the History of the Jews in Germany was founded by the
Union of German-Jewish Congregations.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5611): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5611): Philadelphia native Mordecai Manuel, the husband of Rebeca
Esther Jackson whom he married in 1827 in New York City passed away in New York
City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853: James
(Jacob) Seligman and Rosa Seligman gave birth to De Witt J. (David) Seligman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853:
Birthdate of German native and future Missouri resident Marie Morgenstern Drey,
the husband of Albert Drey, the mother of Alice, Leo, Blanche and Bertie Drey
who in 1912 was “killed, along with her daughter, Blanche Sommers, and 2
grandchildren, when the auto they were riding in slipped in a pool of oil and
water, sending the vehicle over an almost perpendicular 15 foot embankment at
Olive Street Road and Creve Coeur Mill Road.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853:
Birthdate of Isidor Kaufman, the Hungarian born painter whose works include
“Portrait of a Yeshiva Boy” and “Day of Atonement.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kaufmann_Day_of_Atonement.jpg"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kaufmann_Day_of_Atonement.jpg</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Isidor_Kaufmann_Portrait_of_a_Yeshiva_Boy.jpg"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Isidor_Kaufmann_Portrait_of_a_Yeshiva_Boy.jpg</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1854: In
London, Elizabeth Waley and Spanish Town, Jamaica native Jacob Zuixano
Henriques,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gave birth to their Daughter
Alice Rache Henriques.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1856(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5616): Parashat Tzav; Shushan Purim celebrated for the last time
during the Presidency of Franklin Pierce. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861: Jacob
and Amalia Freud gave birth to Maria “Mitzi” Freud<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862: During
the American Civil War, as Union forces under the command of General McClellan
moved up the peninsula in an attempt to take the Rebel capital of Richmond, an
articled entitled "Clippings From Rebel Papers” Conditions of Richmond”
published today reported that only soldiers returning to their regiments were
being issued permits to leave the city. At the same time “The Jews have packed
up their goods, and gold and silver ornaments, and are in great tribulation and
ferment that their flight has been stopped.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864: In
Albany, NY, the Assembly passed a bill “authorizing the New-York City
authorities to convey to the Hebrew Benevolent Society certain real estate.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864(14th of
Adar II, 5624): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864: “The
Jewish festival of Purim will be celebrated this evening, by a grand, fancy
dress ball, at the Academy of Music. It is recognized as one of the most
important of Jewish festivals, as it commemorates the deliverance of the Jews
from the tyranny of Haman, who was prime minister to King Ahasuerus. The
arrangements for the ball are very extensive, and the ornaments appropriate and
beautiful. But one thousand tickets have been issued, and these only to be
obtained by personal introduction to a member of the committee, the party
introducing being held strictly accountable for the character and conduct of
the persons introduced. With such strict rules and such liberal preparations,
the ball cannot fail to be one of the best of the season.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865: Joseph
Magnus married Louisa Eve Finsterer today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865: In
Natchez, Mississippi, the Hebrew Ladies’ Aid Association was founded today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866: Three
days after he had passed away, fifty-four-year-old Frederick David Goldsmid,
the son Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid and Isabel Goldsmid, the husband of the former
Caroline Samuel with whom he had had nine children was buried today at the
Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868:
Birthdate of Vilmos Vázsonyi the Hungarian political leader who served as
Minister of Justice and was beaten to death by “a notorious anti-Semite.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868:
Elizabeth and George Joseph Emanuel gave birth to Blanche Emanuel who became
Blanche Abrahams when she married Samuel Abrahams.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869: In
Philadelphia, PA, Adam Gimbel who founded the first Gimbel store in
Indiana<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Fridoline Kahnweiler Gimbel
gave birth to Benedict Gimbel, the Philadelphia merchant, the husband of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Birdie Loeb Gimbel and father of Benedict
Gimbel, Jr. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873: It was
reported today that of 11,859 people committed to New York’s public lunatic
asylums since 1847, 402 of them were Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874; The
Young Men's Hebrew Association was founded in New York City. It was the first
of several such organizations found in cities across the United States intended
to provide for the “mental, moral, social, and physical improvement of Jewish
young men.” In part the YMHA was a Jewish response to the YMCA. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875: Sixty-two-year-old
Hezekiah Linthicum Bateman, the American theatrical manager known as H.L.
Bateman passed away. Bateman was responsible for bringing Henry Irving so that
he could star in The Bells, the play based on “Le Juif Polonias” (The Polish
Jew)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875: Samuel
Alexander, the famed Australian-born British philosopher who was the first
Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college “matriculated at the University of
Melbourne where he entered an arts course.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875: It was
reported today that the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews in New York had raised
$17,455.08 in the past year, spent $13,345.96 leaving a balance of $4,109.12.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: Albert
von Rothschild and Baroness Bettina Caroline de Rothschild gave birth to their
first child, Georg Anselm Alphonse.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878: In
Frankfurt Flora Goldschmidt married Emil Schwarzschild the son of Emanuel
Schwarzschild and Rachel Fraenkel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880:
Birthdate of Honesdale, PA, native Abraham Julius Dimond, “the head of
Neumeyer, Dimond and Company, a New York specialty steel products concern and
husband of the former Rose Seidenman whom he married in 1904 who “was one of
the founder of the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Association of Newark” and
starting in 1916, a member of the American Jewish Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/08/05/305912352.html?pageNumber=76"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/08/05/305912352.html?pageNumber=76</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883(13th of
Adar II, 5643): Fast of Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883:
Seligman, MO, a town which had been named in honor of financier Joseph Seligman
shortly after his death, suffered its second major fire of the year when “the
stables of the Seligman and Eureka Springs Stage Coach Company burned down”
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883: In New
York City, Rudolph and Virginia (Kohlberg) Sampter gave birth to Jessie Ethel
Sampter “poet, Zionist thinker and educator, social reformer, and pacifist” who
“was a member of the inner circle of Henrietta Szold’s female friends in
Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s.” (As reported by Baila R. Shargel)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884: Jeanne
Franko, the New Orleans born daughter Helene Bergman and Herman Franko “performed
a concert at Steinway Hall in which she played virtuoso piano works by Liszt
and Chopin and difficult violin works by Wieniawski and Vieuxtemps.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/franko-jeanne"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/franko-jeanne</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885: In
London, Meyer Adam Spielman, the son of Adam and Marian Spielman and his wife
Gertrude gave birth to Edgar Raphael Meyer Spielman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885: In Orla,
near Bialystok, Binyamin Benish and Ethel Levin gave birth to Reb Aryeh Levin,
the husband of Tzipora Hannah who was the daughter Rabbi Shapira, ahd who was
known as the Tzadik of Jerusalem for his many humane acts including visiting
Jewish prisoners held at the Central Prison during the days of hte Mandate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5646): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: In
Manhatten, Same and Minnie Schoenberg Marx gave birth to Leonard Joseph Marx,
knowns as Chico Marx, one of the famous Marx Brothers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: In
Minsk, Leah Starobinetz and Solomon Cohon gave birth to University of Chicago
and University of Cincinnati alum Samuel S. Cohon the HUC trained rabbi Samuel
S. Cohon, the husband of Irma Reinhart who in 1923 left Temple Mizpah in
Chicago to begin serving as a professor at HUC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889: The
former Anna Finestone and Israel<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saidel
gave birth to Harvard educated attorney, Myer Saidel, the WW I Army veteran who
in 1916 had begun practicing law in Manchester, NH where he was active in civic
affairs. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: The will
of Solomon Adler was filed for probate today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: Harold
Nathan will deliver a lecture tonight on “The Use of a Library” at the downtown
branch of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association. (The public libraries of the
United States were “the poor man’s university, especially for the immigrant
population that came to the United States at the turn of the century.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: Colonel
Jacob E. Bloom, a New York attorney “is suing James M. Seymour and Francis J.
Patton to establish an interest in Patten’s electrical inventions and to
recover $200,000. (Bloom would serve as Superintendent of the Baron de Hirsch
Industrial School) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: It was
reported today that the Jews were the first to feel the effects of the
resurgence of “semi-savage orthodoxy throughout the Muscovite Empire” although
they no longer have a monopoly “on the pains of persecution” since the
Protestants are now under government surveillance. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: In
Lithuania, Abraham Jacob Sanditen and Dina Glike Sanditen gave birth to Maurice
Sanditen the husband of Myrtle I. Sanditen<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and father of Stanley Leon Sanditen<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: It was
reported today that “the proposal of Baron Hirsch to” settle 300,000 Russian
Jews in Argentina, “which was at first very favorably received by the
government” has now been rejected as a result of objections “stirred up in the
press.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The government of Uruguay has
also rejected the proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: The
creditors of the Jewish banker J.E. Guenzburg met in St. Petersburg today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: In
London, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Times </i>reported that
“after the death of his father Samson Wertheimer, Ashe Wertheimer took over his
Bond-street premises” and operated his business “from this address until his
death in 1918.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/21424"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/21424</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: The New
York City Health Department received information today that the SS Massilia,
the ship that had brought a large number of Jewish immigrants infected with
typhus on its last trip to New York was on its way back to the city with
another load of immigrants.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893:
Thousands of people gathered outside of the Reichstag waiting to hear the
details of Hermann Ahlwardt’s proof that while Bismarck was Chancellor
“fraudulent contracts” had been entered to with Jewish financiers resulting in
“the loss of vast sums of money belonging to the State” Ahlwardt was a high
school president, who ironically, had been extricated from his financial
problems by Jewish friends before turning on them to pursue a career as an
anti-Semitic agitator. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: Dr.
Louis Fischer will deliver a lecture “Cholera – What It Is and How To Cure It”
at the Hebrew Institute.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: Banker,
philanthropist and leader of the Jewish community Maurice J.Mandelbaum, the
Cleveland born son of “Jacob and Amelia (Lehman) Mandelbaum took the first of
his three trips to the alter today when he married Amanda Mayer today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: Arabs
attack Jews at Rehovot<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: Senda
Berenson, the "Mother of Women's Basketball", officiated at the first
women's basketball game at Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts. Born
in Lithuania and raised in Boston, Berenson was weak and delicate as a child.
An athletic career would have seemed unlikely for the woman whose poor health
rendered her unable to complete her training at the Boston Conservatory of
Music. But in 1890, she entered the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, in a
bid to improve her strength and health. There, she trained in anatomy,
physiology, and hygiene, and was hired by Smith College upon her graduation in
1892. Berenson, the director of the physical education department at Smith,
first heard about a new game called "Basket Ball" soon after her
arrival in Northampton. Invented as a class exercise for boys, the game — like
most team sports — was considered too strenuous for girls, who were instead
encouraged to participate in individual sports like swimming, archery, and
horseback riding. Berenson observed the game being played in Springfield, and
met its inventor, Dr. James Naismith, who encouraged her to adopt the game as
exercise for her female students. At the first basketball game on March 22,
1893 (some sources cite March 21), Smith freshmen were pitted against Smith
sophomores, with no male spectators allowed. With rules intended to avoid the
roughness of the men's game, the new game became a hit, and soon swept the
country. By 1895, there were hundreds of women's basketball teams, and these
teams helped open the door to other team sports programs for women. Berenson
wrote the first official rulebook for women's college basketball, as well as a
number of articles on the new sport. She continued to edit the rules until the
1916-17 season, and many of the rules she developed remained standard until the
1980s. Berenson died in 1954. Over thirty years later, in 1985, she was the
first woman to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5654): Purim celebrated on the day “the first championship series
Lord Stanley’s Cup (the Stanley Cup) was played in Montreal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: The will
of the late Dr. Bernard Grunhut was filed for probate following the end of the
challenge brought by the two children of the descendant. The judge’s ruling
that enough evidence had been presented that their father’s marriage was valid,
“even if he was not of sound mind” at the time of the ceremony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means that the Hebrew Benevolent Society
and Mount Sinai Hospital will each receive bequests of $25,000 with the widow
receiving the residual of the estate with the exception of $25,000 that had
been bequeathed to a baby that reportedly died fifteen days after it was born.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: Operatic
soprano Selma Kurz was first heard in Vienna at a student concert of Ress
pupils<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: “Easter
Cookery” published today included a description of Chad Gad Ya, “The Kid of
Passover,” which it compared to “The House That Jack Built.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: Dr.
Gustav Gottheil delivered the second in a series of sermons on “What Is a
Christian Nation” at Temple Emanu-El in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: In
Vienna, Erna (née Weinstein) and stage (and later motion picture) actor Rudolph
Schildkraut to American actor Joseph Schildkraut.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: Four days
after she had died, 32-year-old Julia Fisher was buried today at the Plashet
Jewish Cemetery in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: Rabbi
Ignatz Grossman, who passed away two days ago in New York, will be buried in
Detroit, Michigan where his son Dr. Louis Grossman serves as a rabbi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two of his other sons, Julius and Rudolph,
are also rabbis while his fourth son Adolph is a businessman in Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: Two days
after he had passed away, 20 year old Moses Levy, the son of Aaron and Miriam
Levy was buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: “The
Austrian Elections” published today described the various factions competing
for seats in the Reichsrath that meets in Vienna including “the anti-Semites,
the Jews baiters of Vienna and Lower Austria” who are “closely connected with
the Clericals.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Schiff were unable to attend the Purim Ball at the Montefiore Home
for Chronic Invalids because they were in Frankfort-on-the-Main.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Schiff is President of the Montefiore Home
and he sent a telegram from Germany expressing his regrets.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: “Home
For Aged Hebrews” published today included a history of the organization which
“is an outgrowth of the B’nai Jeshurun Ladies’ Benevolent Society.” In 1870, a
young men’s organization, the Benevolent, Dramatic and Musical Association,
gave the women $3,500 as seed money and the home was incorporated in 1872. The
home was designed to serve those over the age of sixty who are “entirely
dependent on themselves for support and unable to support themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: Dr. S.N.
Leo is the director of the pharmacy at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews in
New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: It was
reported today that 300 children from the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society
and the New York Orphan Asylum are going to attend the upcoming show at the
Harlem Music Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: Seventy-eight-year-old
Beila Geitel Felber was buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: Rabbi
Gottheil is among the speakers scheduled to address a meeting of workers at the
Hebrew <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Institute<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: The
“liberal synagogue” was dedicated in Cologne.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: It was
reported today that the Dreyfus brothers, the New York tobacco wholesalers
facing charges of defrauding their customers out of $50,000 have been arrested
in Chicago are planning on fighting extradition back to New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: While it
was stated today that General Louis Botha, the leader of the Boers, was
“generally in favor of the terms of the settlement” he was “greatly concerned
about the position Jewish capitalist would occupy in the country and” he “was
told that Jews and Christians would enjoy equal rights,” with “no distinction
being made in the matter of concessions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: In
Camden, NJ, Rabbi David Shane, with the assistance of Rabbi Banet Leventhal of
Philadelphia officiated at the wedding of Annie Pauline Alberts, the daughter
of Isaac Alberts to Philip Sihisky at the Sons of Israel synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902:
Birthdate of French actress Madeleine Milhaud.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/madeleine-milhaud-actress-wife-of-the-composer-776120.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/madeleine-milhaud-actress-wife-of-the-composer-776120.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: In
Brooklyn “Louis and Lena (Betz) Pomerantz gave birth to Brooklyn Law School
trained attorney <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Abraham Louis
Pomerantz,, the husband of Phyllis Cohen and father of Dan and Charlotte Cohen
who served as deputy chief counsel at the Nuremburg Trials.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: In
Cherkassy, Russia, Max and Bessie (Leshinsky) Olanovsky gave birth to Lemel
Olanovsky who gained fame as Levi Arthur Olan whose accomplishments including
serving as the Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El of Dallas, Texas from 1949 to 1970.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0181/ms0181.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0181/ms0181.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904:
Birthdate of Isaac Goldberg, the native of Poland, who gained fame as “Itche
Goldberg, a champion of Yiddish who wrote and edited and taught his beloved
language in the face of all those who said keeping Yiddish alive was a lost
cause.” (As reported by Ari L. Goodman)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/obituaries/03goldberg.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/obituaries/03goldberg.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5665): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: In
Hoboken, NJ, two Austrian immigrants gave birth Columbia trained attorney
Burton A Zorn, a labor lawyer, partner in the prestigious law firm of
Proskauer, Rose, Goetz and Mendelsohn and “chairman of the American Jewish
Committee’s civil rights section who raised two children – Stephen and Karen –
with his wife Fay.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/02/23/77172613.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/02/23/77172613.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905:
Birthdate of Nathaniel “Nate” Weinstock who “played tackle at Western Maryland
College from 1925 to 1927” and whose breakout game came against Holy Cross in
1926 when he was a junior.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: In New
Orleans, during an executive session of the Constitution Grand Lodge of the
Independent Order of B’nai B’rith, Jacob Singer of Philadelphia “maintained
that time was not ripe for taking the step” of “abolishing the secrecy of the
Order.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: It was
reported today that “Jewish merchants and their families are leaving” Moscow
“in haste owing to fears of a massacre at Easter time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: It was
reported today that “the first appearance of anti-Jewish disorders” have been
“reported from Theodosia, in the Crimea, where a crowd broke into a synagogue
and destroyed the altar, religious emblems and pictures.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: In
Petach Tikva, Moshe Dov Bear Margalit and Taube (Yona) Margalit, the Bialystok
born daughter of Elijah and Sarah Golda Bloch gave birth to Avraham Margalit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: It was
reported today that Nicolas Notovitch, a Jewish newspaper editor has been
imprisoned “for one year in a fortress for the publication of articles against
the” Czar and the army.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: As the
violent attacks continue in Northern Moldavia, as of today there at least
“10,000 Jews without homes,” most of whom were not able to save anything,
“escaping only with their lives.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907:
“Authorities are now making every effort to assist” the four thousand Jews who
have fled to Bucharest” but the reality is that most of them are forced “to
sleep in the open air.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: In
London, “Sir Oscar Emanuel Warburg, businessman and later chairman of the
London County Council, and his wife, Catherine née Byrne” gave birth to
“English botanist Edmund Frederick (E.F) Warburg. The husband of Primrose
Barrett.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Great first name for the wife
of a botanist)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909:
Birthdate of Brooklynite Nathan Rosen, the MIT graduate who gained fame as an
American-Israeli physicist working with Albert Einstein.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among other things he is known for the “The
Einstein–Rosen Bridge, later named the wormhole, which was a theory of Nathan
Rosen.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only person I know who
understands any of this is Dr. Joe Rosen, the son of Nathan Rosen, a prominent
physicist in his own right and a son of which his father would be proud.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909:
Jefferson Seligman wrote to the NYT about “the friendly controversy between
Professor Morris Loeb and Mr. James Speyer in reference to the Federation of
Charities.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: Eugene
Foss who would be one of the leaders in the fight to save the life of Leo
Frank, began serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from
Massachusetts’s 14<sup>th</sup> Congressional District. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910:
“Impresario” Max Rabinoff married his first wife, singer Marie La Salle, today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: It was
reported today that Samuel Untermeyer who had come to Albany in with litigation
before the Court of Appeals denied having any interest in filling the United <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">States Senate
seat which the state legislature was seeking to fill. (This was in the days
before the direct election of U.S. Senators)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912:
Birthdate of Eliyanu Kitov the native of Poland who made Aliyah in 1936 and in
1954 established Aleph Institute Publications. His works include Is U’Veito
which was translated into English as A Jew and his Home by Rabbi Nachman Bulman
the New York born son of Rabbi Meir and Etil Bulman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912(4<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5672): Sixty-three-year-old Mark Arnheim, a “clothing merchant” in
New York passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: In
Dusseldorf, Gustav Cohn, the German born son of Sophie and Seligman Lazarus
Cohn, and his wife Henriette Cohn gave birth to Karlo Alfons Cohn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912:
Dedication ceremonies for Anshe Chesed’s new temple on Euclid Avenue in
Cleveland, Ohio began.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5673): Parsashat Tzav; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: Rabbi
Julius Rappaport led services at Beth El Temple in Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: Rabbi
Felix A. Levy led services at Temple Emanuel today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
Louis-Lucien Klotz completed his service as Minister of Finance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: In
Cleveland Ohio, Isaac Wasserman and Minnie Chernick gave birth to Lewis Robert
“Lew Wasserman, the MCA chairman who was a true “tinsel town” mogul.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/04/business/lew-wasserman-89-is-dead-last-of-hollywood-s-moguls.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/04/business/lew-wasserman-89-is-dead-last-of-hollywood-s-moguls.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
Louis-Lucien Klotz began serving as Minster of the Interior.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: “Under
the leadership of Mrs. Minna Solomon and Mrs. Grete Hirsch” the women of
Emanuel Congregation enjoyed an afternoon of entertainment at the Kaiser Garten
in Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: The
United Synagogues of America, an organization of Conservative Congregations,
held its second annual convention in New York City. During his address to the
convention, Professor Solomon Schechter, President of the Jewish Theological
Seminary, called for worship services to be conducted in Hebrew with English
replacing Yiddish as the language in which the sermons were to be given.
Schechter also refused to serve another term as President of the organization
and Dr. Cyrus Adler of Dropsie College was elected to serve in his place. Among
the other highlights of the convention was a presentation by Rabbi Mordechai
Kaplan, Chairman of the Education Committee in which he outline an aggressive
program to upgrade and modern the Jewish educational opportunities in a manner
consistent with the challenges of modern day America.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: It was
reported today that Just Gustave Hartman of the Municipal Court, President of
the Israel Orphan Asylum has expressed “some objections” to plans for building
a second home for Jewish orphans in the Bronx sponsored by the Hebrew National
Orphan Asylum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: It was
reported today that “more than 7,000 persons come to the building housing the
Educational Alliance daily” most of whom come to study and that the Alliance
spends “upward of $110,000 annually” to support its educational work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1915(7th of Nisan, 5675): Fifty-five-year-old
“Professor H.L. Sabsovich, General Agent of the Baron De Hirsh Fund and the
first mayor of the Jewish Agricultural Colony at Woodbine, NJ” who was well
known for his social work among the Jews passed away tonight in New York. A
native of Russia, where he gained famed as a chemists and “manager of estates,”
he organized the Committee of Safety during the Pogrom of 1881 and help found
the Society of Am Olam. He came to the United States in 1888 and worked as an
agricultural chemist for Colorado State before joining the Woodbine Colony and
joining the Baron de Hirsch Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40F16F9395C13738DDDAD0A94DB405B858DF1D3"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40F16F9395C13738DDDAD0A94DB405B858DF1D3</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sabsovich-h-l">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sabsovich-h-l</a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: The Army
and Navy Young Men’s Hebrew Association issued an appeal to the New York Jewish
community asking that its members open their homes to serviceman for the first
Seder on March 29 and the second Seder on March 30. According to the
Association, “there are 300” Jewish serviceman in the New York area “who have
no friends or relatives here.” The Association will provide lodgings at a local
hotel and the servicemen will attend services at the synagogue or temple of
their choice. Those who cannot offer hospitality are urged to send a
contribution to support the group’s efforts to Joseph S. Marcus, the
association’s treasurer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: British
Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson backed by Major-General Alexander
Godley was appointed commander of the force he was to recruit, with Captain
Trumpeldor as Second-in-Command after which they left Cairo for Alexandria
where there was a large Jewish refugee community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: The
majority of the Palestine Refugees' Committee under the encouragement of Joseph
Trompledor and Vladimir Jabotinsky endorsed a resolution calling for the
formation of a “Jewish Legion" and propose to England its utilization in
Palestine. Within a few days about 500 enlisted.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
Birthdate of New York City native Bernard Weissman who gained famed as American
composer and band leader George Wyle, the author of theme music for the sitcom
“Gilligan’s Island” and the grandfather of musician Adam Levy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: During
on World War I, on the Western Front, the first British tree observation post
was put up today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The camouflages for
these posts was developed and produced by a unit under the command of Lt. Col.
Solomon Joseph Solomon, the artist who had been hand-picked by the British
General Staff to fill this role.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Today,
“Julius Rosenwald, President of Sears, Roebuck and Co. of Chicago” sent a
telegraph “to the American Jewish Relief Committee” in New York City saying
“that he would contribute $100,000 for each $1,000,000 collected by the
committee in its campaign to raise $10,000,000 by June 1 for the benefit of
Jews suffering from the war.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: “It was
announced that the State Department had given assurance that in the event of
war between” the United States and “the Central powers, American diplomats in
neutral countries would carry on interruptedly the work of feeding Jewish
noncombatants” using fund raised by the American Jewish Relief Committee which
is expecting a fresh impetus to its activities that’s to the Russian
Revolution.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: In Lodz,
the “municipality” has agreed “to maintain a college for Jewish teachers” where
Hebrew will “be the language of instruction for Jewish subjects” and Polish
will be the language of instruction for all other subjects.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918(9<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5678): Private Solomon Ellis, the Hull, UK born son Jane and Harry
Ellis was killed in action today during WW I while serving with the Yorkshire Regiment,
2<sup>nd</sup> Battalion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918(9<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5678): Second Lieutenant Crispian Asabel de Pass who was at Wellington
College before the war died today while serving with the Tank Corps.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5769): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: It was reported
today that Israel Cohen, the secretary of the World Zionist Organization,
currently serving as its special commissioner in Eastern Europe has said that
“The Jewish situation in Poland and Lithuania is so tragic that thousands are
starving and tens of thousands are clamoring for permission to join their
relatives in the United States.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: It was
reported today that General Allenby, “the commander of allied forces in
Palestine” and the liberator of Jerusalem during the World War is now also
serving as the High Commissioner for Egypt and Sudan due to the outbreaks of
violence that “have spread through the whole Nile Valley.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: In
Cologne, German, conductor Otto Klemperer and soprano Johanna Geisler gave
birth to actor Werner Klemperer who played Colonel Klink on Hogan’s Heroes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920:
Birthdate of Dame Fanny Waterman, DBE, the daughter <span style="background: white; color: #222222;">Myer Waterman, a Russian Jew who had emigrated to England to
work as a jeweler</span> who gained fame as “a piano teacher, and the founder,
Chairman and Artistic Director of the Leeds International Pianoforte
Competition.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: In, Ústí
nad Labem, Czech Republic, “Erwin Schwenk, an organic chemist and the former
Rascha Shapiro, a pediatrician” gave birth to Lili Schwenk who gained fame as
Lili Horning, the holder of a Ph.D. from Harvard who played a significant role
in the Manhattan project and was the wife of fellow scientist Donald Hornig.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/obituaries/lilli-hornig-96-dies-a-bomb-researcher-lobbied-for-women-in-science.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=region&region=region&WT.nav=region&_r=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/obituaries/lilli-hornig-96-dies-a-bomb-researcher-lobbied-for-women-in-science.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=region&region=region&WT.nav=region&_r=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Birthdate of screenwriter Stewart Henry
Stern, the New York native and nephew Adolph Zukor whose most famous script was
the one he wrote for cult classic “Rebel Without a Cause.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/movies/stewart-stern-92-screenwriter-of-rebel-without-a-cause-dies.html?_r=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/movies/stewart-stern-92-screenwriter-of-rebel-without-a-cause-dies.html?_r=1</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: “Ludwig
II” a biopic about the Bavarian king directed by Otto Kreisler and written by
Alfred Deutsch-German was released today in Austria.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: In
Manhattan, “Morris Neuman and the former Ida Mitnistky gave birth to Charlotte
Sandra Neuman who gained fame as “Charlotte Spiegel, a civic leader and
Democratic politician from the Lower East Side who created New York’s
pioneering and lifesaving window guard program in the 1970s.” (As reported by
Sam Roberts)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/04/nyregion/charlotte-spiegel-politician-who-safeguarded-new-yorks-windows-dies-at-92.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/04/nyregion/charlotte-spiegel-politician-who-safeguarded-new-yorks-windows-dies-at-92.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: “The
Hungarian Princess” whose cast included Martin Herzberg premiered in Germany
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923:
Birthdate of Eva Kleinova who in 1942 was transported from Prague to Ujazdow
where she was murdered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923(5th of
Nisan, 5683): Max Nordau, early Zionist leader, passed away at the age of 73.
Born in 1849 in the city that would later be known as Budapest, Hungary (then
part of the Austrian Empire), Nordau’s life followed a conventional pattern for
many Jews of his time and social class. Raised with a traditional Jewish
background, he drifted away from Judaism finding fame and fortune as a writer
and physician. As the 19th century came to a close, Nordau was alarmed by the
rise of anti-Semitism and became an early supporter of another Austrian Jew,
Theodore Herzl. When Herzl died, Nordau was asked to take his place. He
declined offering to serve as an advisor to David Wolffsohn. Nordau drifted
away from the formal organization as Zionism changed from Herzl's grand
political approach to a more practical approach. After World War I, Nordau
advocated the immediate immigration of half a million Jews to Palestine. Nobody
heeded his advice. He died in Paris, far from the limelight, an almost
forgotten figure who had believed in the cause of the Jewish state when most
said it was an impractical dream or the scheme of lunatics.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: In
Strasbourg, France “Ann Werzberg and Charles Mangel, a kosher butcher” gave
birth to Marcel Mangel, who gained fame as mime Marcel Marceau. After having
seen Charlie Chaplin, he became interested in acting. At 15, his Jewish family
was forced to flee their home as France entered the Second World War. He later
joined Charles De Gaulle’s Free French Forces and, because of his excellent
English, worked as a liaison officer with General Patton's army. He began
studying acting at the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre in Paris in 1946.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/24/local/me-marceau24"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/24/local/me-marceau24</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924:
Birthdate of Solomon “Solly” Cornbleet “missing presumed killed 3rd Aug 1944
whilst serving aboard H.M.S. Quorn as a telegraph operator.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924:
Birthdate of Michael Hamburger, the Berlin native who moved with his family to
Great Britain in 1933 where he became a “translator, poet, critic, memoirist
and academic.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jun/11/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jun/11/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: “The
government is said to have warned troops,” include the Ninth (Queen’s) Royal
Lancers “to be ready to come to Jerusalem” because as today “both the Arab
Executive and the National Party” are continuing “to publish strike
publications in the local press” just days before the visit of Lord Balfour. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: “By
unanimous vote the New York branch of the United Synagogue of America at its
fifth annual meeting at the Hotel Astor today went on record as opposed to any
move which in any way might link religious education with the public schools.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: The
funeral for 77-year-old Dr. Philip Klein who has been the rabbi of the First
Hungarian Congregation Ohab Zedek for the past 35 years is scheduled to take
place this afternoon at the family home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: Chairman
William Fox announced that the United Jewish Campaign had received a $30,000
contribution from Paul Baerwald and a $50,000 contribution from Louis Marshall
who attached a letter “in which he described the misery now” being endured by
Jews in Europe and urging “the Jews of New York City to give unstinted support”
to the fund-raising drive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: “Spider,”
co-staring Anton Ascher as “Dick” opened today on Broadway at Chanin’s 46<sup>th</sup>
Street Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927:
Approximately nine hundred people, including Zionists and non-Zionists attended
a dinner at the Hotel Biltmore this evening that had been arranged by Judge
Irving Lehman to celebrate “the accord which now exists” among most Jewish
factions regarding “the up-building of Palestine.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: In
Detroit, the libel case brought by Aaron Sapiro against Henry Ford, Stewart
Handley, a member of the Ford legal staff testified that stories published in
Ford’s Dearborn Independent from 1920 to 1922 “cast aspersions on the whole
Jewish race.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928(1st of
Nisan, 5688): Rosh Chodesh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5688): Sixty-six-year-old Canadian tobacco mogul Sir Mortimer Barnett
Davis, the Montreal born son Samuel and Minnie Falk Davis a member of Temple
Emanu-El in Quebec and “a key force in building the Mount Sinai Sanatorium” who
in 1924 divorced his first wife Henriette Marie Meye to marry Eleanor Curran.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jgh.ca/about-us/jgh-archives/finding-aids-and-glossary-temp/sir-mortimer-b-davis/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.jgh.ca/about-us/jgh-archives/finding-aids-and-glossary-temp/sir-mortimer-b-davis/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/davis-mortimer-b"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/davis-mortimer-b</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: “Spione”
(Spies in English) directed and written by Fritz Lang was released today in
Germany<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: The
month-long celebration of the 20th anniversary of the founding of Tel Aviv
began with a Purim Carnival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: “Diary
of a Coquette” silent drama directed by Constantin J. David and produced by
Seymour Nebenzal was released in Germany today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: In New
York City, the former Etta Janet “Foxy” Fox, a dress designer and Herbert
Sondheim, who “manufactured dresses designed by his wife” gave birth to
composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim who, at the age of ten began studying
lyric writing with Oscar Hammerstein a family friend and went on to compose his
own music and lyrics for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962),
Follies (1971), Sweeney Todd (1979) and Sunday in the Park with George (1984)
to name just a few of his accomplishments.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.biography.com/musician/stephen-sondheim"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.biography.com/musician/stephen-sondheim</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.sondheim.com/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.sondheim.com/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/theater/stephen-sondheim-composer.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/theater/stephen-sondheim-composer.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: “In the
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood of Montréal, Québec, Canada Ann (née
Garmaise) and Joseph Shatner, a clothing manufacture” gave birth to William
Shatner best known as Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise. (Editor’s note –
Kirk and Spock never talked about their bar mitzvahs in any of the episodes I
ever saw) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: In
Brooklyn “Fanny (Pollack) and Abraham Richter, a textile worker” gave birth
Nobel Prize winner in Physics and the “director of the Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/obituaries/burton-richter-a-nobel-winner-for-plumbing-matter-dies-at-87.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/obituaries/burton-richter-a-nobel-winner-for-plumbing-matter-dies-at-87.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931:
Moghannam Elias Moghannam, a member of the Palestine Arab Executive declared
that “it was totally untrue that certain Arab politicians had met Jewish
representatives I Palestine into to establish the preliminary basis of a peace
parley.” The Arab leader was especially critical of any Arab who was willing to
meet with Dr. Chaim Weizmann who had arrived in Tel Aviv in an attempt to reach
a modus Vivendi that would restore peace to Palestine. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931:
“Marshall Letter Won $500,000 Gift” tells the hitherto unknown story of how a
letter from Louis Marshall to Julius Rosenwald resulted in the latter’s
decision to make a major donation to the Jewish Theological Seminary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, II, 5692): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: In
Germany, premiere of “Peter Voss, Thief of Millions” with a script co-authored
by Bruno Frank and directed by Ewald André Dupont for whom this would be his
penultimate film in Germany before being forced to flee due to the rise of the
Nazis even though he was not Jewish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: “One
Hour With You” a musical comedy directed by George Cukor and Ernst Lubitsch who
also produced the film which was written by Samson Raphaelson and with music by
Oscar Straus was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: “The
Concentration Camp at Dachau was opened today with the arrival of about 200
prisoners from Stadelheim Prison in Munich and the Landsberg fortress.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to the official press statement
(yes the Nazis issued a press release for this) on March 22, “Wednesday the
first concentration camp is to be opened in Dachau with an accommodation for
5000 people. 'All Communists and—where necessary—Reichsbanner and Social
Democratic functionaries who endanger state security are to be concentrated
here, as in the long run it is not possible to keep individual functionaries in
the state prisons without overburdening these prisons, and on the other hand
these people cannot be released because attempts have shown that they persist
in their efforts to agitate and organize as soon as they are released.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: Today,
Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld married Louis Mundheim, the daughter of the former
Stella Kaufman, and Samuel Mundheim, the “president of the Stern Brothers
Department store on West 42<sup>nd</sup> Street in Manhattan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: In
Camden, NJ, Rabbi Philip Lipis addressed Congregation Beth El during its search
for a new spiritual leader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In April,
the congregation offered him the position which he accepted.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: It was
reported today. that a spring fair in Tel Aviv will attract large crowds “from
overseas and Near Eastern cities.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “The
Polish Government was charged with ‘deliberate violations of its pledges made
in the treaty of June, 191 in which the Jews, together with other minority
groups, were assured full equality of rights and status’ by an emergency
conference at the Hotel Edison today attended by delegates from nearly 500
Jewish organizations.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: At the
Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall, Lewis Browne is scheduled to speak on “What
Makes A Jew?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
Professor Louis Finkelstein is scheduled to deliver an address on “The Jewish
Problem in the Perspective of History.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: At
Temple Rodeph Shalom, Rabbi Louis I Newman is scheduled to deliver a message on
“Women’s Grievances Against Men and Men’s Grievances Against Women.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Rabbi
Morris Lichtenstein is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “When the Heart is
Hungry” at the Jewish Science Society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: A letter
from President Roosevelt in which he commended Rabbi B. Leon Hurwitz as a
leader in Brooklyn interfaith activities was read this afternoon at the Ninth
Street Temple during the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of Congregation B’nai Shalom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Sir
Oswald Mosley, Britain’s leading fascist delivered a speech to a packed house
at Albert Hall where he delivered a speech calling for peace between Germany
and Britain while deliver “one of the most violent denunciations of the Jews”
that he has made to date.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><a name="_Hlk67237946"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
In Manhattan, William and Rose Rosenweig gave birth to Aaron Rosenweig who
gained fame as photographer Aaron Rose “that rarest of artists” one who doesn’t
chase after gallery shows or sales to deep-pocketed collectors.” (As reported
by Neil Genzlinger)<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67237946;"></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/arts/aaron-rose-photographer-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67237946;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/arts/aaron-rose-photographer-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67237946;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk67237946;"></span>
</span><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937(10th of
Nisan, 5697): Dr. Henry J. Wolfe, a general practitioner who “had also done
extensive work in neurology and psychiatry” passed away today at the age of 75.
A graduate of City College, Wolf earned his M.D. at Heidelberg University in
1884. One of his daughters, Mrs. Prsscilla Litavsky has made Aliyah and lives
in Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1937: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Palestine Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that Dov
Zemel, a lorry driver, was shot at an ambush near Kfar Saba and was in critical
condition.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1937: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Palestine Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that British
troops captured two terrorists in a battle with an Arab gang near Acre. There
were sporadic shooting accidents in Jerusalem and Safed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1937: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Palestine Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that Six Arab
prisoners sentenced to death had their sentences commuted to penal servitude
for life by the High Commissioner, Sir Arthur Wauchope.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1937:</span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> The Palestine Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that Two
cooperative groups settled on the Jewish National Fund land, allocated by the
Arlosoroff Memorial Fund in the Jordan Valley. Important archaeological finds
were discovered near Afula.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:
“Following the annexation of Austria, journalist and author Heinrich Eduard
Jacob was arrested today and eventually shipped to Dachau.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: In
Marylebone, London, Rosalie Fromson and Marcus Sieff, Baro Sieff of Brimpton
gave birth to their only son “The Honorable Sir David Daniel Sieff,” the
husband of Jennifer Walton with whom he had two sons, Simon and Jonathan and “a
director of retailers Marks and Spencer” which was founded by his
great-grandfather Michael Maks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/10170259/Marks-and-Spencer-lost-its-way-says-founding-family-member-Sir-David-Sieff.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/10170259/Marks-and-Spencer-lost-its-way-says-founding-family-member-Sir-David-Sieff.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: The
German army occupied Memel and the region around the Lithuanian town. By that
time about 21,000 people had left the city, most of them Lithuanians as well as
a small number of Jews, the majority of the latter having left beforehand. The
Nazis confiscated private and public Jewish property valued at tens of millions
Litas. Jews had lived in Memel since the 14th century.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: “Horse
Fever,” produced by Alexander Yokel opened on Broadway at the Mansfield
Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: “In a
Good Friday interlude to his campaign for the Republican Presidential
nomination, Senator Robert of Ohio lashed out at religion intolerance and
assailed those who deliberately try to spread that kind of prejudice in the
United States” while telling a cheering crowd of more than a thousand people
that “any man born in the United States can be elected to any office whether he
be Protestant, Catholic or Jew provided only that his political views meet the
approval of a majority of the electorate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5701): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudi; Shabbat Pareah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: It was
“disclosed” today that Colonel Morris J. Mendelsohn, chairman of the National
Council of the New Zionist Organization of America had telegraphed “an appeal
to President Roosevelt to ask the French Government for guarantees that will
abolish anti-Semitic laws and practices before” he gives “consent to food
shipments” being sent to France.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: The
National Jewish Welfare board announced to that “preparations for the
observance of Passover by Jewish soldiers and sailors at twenty-one oversea
based have been completed and approved by the War and Navy Departents.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942 “The
National Council of Young Israel celebrated its 30<sup>th</sup> anniversary”
tonight” at the Hotel Commodore.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: The
first group of Macedonian Jews were shipped from Skopje to Treblinka.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While flying with a group of six Yak
fighters, Lydia Litvyak shot down a Junker 88 bomber and a Messerschmitt
fighter and then, after having been wounded, managed to land safely despite
being in severe pain and suffering significant loss of blood.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: The
first of four new crematoriums at Auschwitz was ready for use and began
operation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5703): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5703): Seventy-seven-year-old Dr. Lucian Mayer Langbank died today
at Theresienstadt Ghetto.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1943: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Time</span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> magazine reported on
speech by Henri Honoré Giraud in which the High Commissioner of North Africa
disavowed the conditions of the German armistice and the subsequent decrees of
Vichy ("promulgated without the participation of the French people,and
directed against them"). He said that Vichy's anti-Jewish laws "no
longer exist," promised to hold municipal elections in North Africa. He
also revoked the Cremieux Decree of 1870, which granted French citizenship en
bloc to Jews in Algeria, but excluded the Arabs. Henceforth, Moslems and Jews
must complement each other economically, "the latter working in his shop,
the former in the desert, without either having advantage over the other,
France assuring both security and tranquility."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1944: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Washington Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported "Poles
Report Nazis Slay 10,000 Daily." (Jewish Virtual Library)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Shlomo
Venezia and his family who were living in Thessaloniki were deported to Athens,
the first leg of a trip that would take them Auschwitz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: In
Poland, at the Koldzyczewo Work Camp Shlomo Kushnir succeeded in leading almost
all the Jewish inmates who were still alive out of the camp after killing ten
Nazi guards. Kushnir committed suicide when he was caught with twenty-five
others. The others joined the partisans in the forests.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: In New
York City, “Miriam "Mimi", a teacher, studio executive, and radio
writer, and Leon Roth, a university teacher and film producer” gave birth to
Eric Roth who “won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest
Gump” in 1994.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: The
headline in today’s edition of The Sentinel read “Soviet Jews Join World Jewry
in Mourning,” Rabbinate Calls For Opening of Gates of Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blog.nli.org.il/en/lbh-the-original-holocaust-memorial-day-1945/?_atscid=3_2269_208004503_10110639_0_Txtatteftwshuhhw2hc&utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%20English%20Newsletter%20-%2026.01.2021"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://blog.nli.org.il/en/lbh-the-original-holocaust-memorial-day-1945/?_atscid=3_2269_208004503_10110639_0_Txtatteftwshuhhw2hc&utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%20English%20Newsletter%20-%2026.01.2021</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: The
police and the District Attorney's office still sought tonight to solve the
mystery surrounding the fatal stabbing of Samuel Zuckerman, 50 years old,
outside the doorway of his sixth floor home in the Euclid Apartments, 2345
Broadway, early today, when he was summoned to answer a telephone call.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: The Arab
League was formed today in Cairo. "The League's first resolutions included
a restriction on Egyptian Muslim contact with those who were call 'supporters
of Zionism,' that is, all Egyptian Jews."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: Gotthil
Wagner was killed by as yet unidentified gunmen today outside of Tel Aviv.
Wagner was a German national who had been detained by the British as an enemy
alien. The British were permitting Wagner to engage in his various business
interests. Reportedly several younger Jews were not happy with Wagner and other
Germans to return to a normal life in Palestine because they had openly
sympathized with Nazi policies before the war “and openly voice anti-Jewish
sentiments.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946:
“Gotthilf Wagner, former mayor of the German colony of Sarona, near Tel Aviv,”
a pre-war S.S. Group Leader “and one of the leading Palestine Nazis, was today
shot to death as he journeyed from Sarona to Wilhelma, another German
community.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jta.org/1946/03/24/archive/sarona-mayor-prominent-palestine-nazi-and-s-s-leader-shot-to-death-near-tel-aviv"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.jta.org/1946/03/24/archive/sarona-mayor-prominent-palestine-nazi-and-s-s-leader-shot-to-death-near-tel-aviv</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946:
Birthdate of Tel Aviv native Rivka Golani, the daughter of Holocaust survivors
who became a world class viola player.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.naxos.com/person/Rivka_Golani/249.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.naxos.com/person/Rivka_Golani/249.htm</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: For the
first time in eight days, all 12 members of the Anglo-American Committee of
Inquiry on Palestine were at the hearing in Jerusalem where a variety of
Christian leaders described their view (and needs) of the current conflict
between Arabs and Jews. The Anglican Bishop in Jersualem described the conflict
as one of “differing civilizations and different tempos of progress.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: “Mr. and
Mrs. Bert Adler” of Woodmere, LI, “announced the engagement of their daughter
Joan,” a graduate of Goucher College “to Norman A. Lish the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Lish” who is studying at Hobart College.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Sigmund
Menkes was award the Corcoran Gold Medal and the first W.A. Clark Prize for his
entry “Day’s End, 1946” in the Twentieth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary
Painitings sponsored by the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Thirty-two year old Jack
Levine of Boston won the Bronze Medal for his entry “Apteka” making him the
youngest of the winners.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
“Hagannah posted pamphlets in Tel Avi” today “accusing the Irgun…of being
deserters from the Zionist struggle and of wasting their efforts in murder
while Haganah strove to rescue Jews from Europe. As the principal organizer of
illegal immigration Haganah charged the Irgun with neglecting that primary
function.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Dr.
Nahum Goldman addressed the Tel Aviv Journalists Associate today telling them
that “the historical alliance between Britian and Jewry is nearing its end.
That alliance has existed since 1917 when the Balfour Declaration gave Zionists
their first legal claim on Palestine as a national home. Its virtual
dissolution obviously brings the Zionist movement to an hour of decision. It
must ovtain a new international guarantee, another protector among the great
powers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: “Twenty
Jews…were reported killed today in two battles at Nitzanim, near the
Mediterranian coast in the land of the ancient Philistines.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948:
“Referring to the new American proposal for an international trusteeship,” “the
Moscow radio charged today that ‘neither Britain nor America ever intended that
the U.N. partition decision on Palestine should be carried out.’” (JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: Today,
while introducing “a joint resolution to authorize the shipment of arms and
munitions to Jews in Palestine,” Representative Jacob K. Javits “argued that
failure to ship arms would leave 700,000 Jews in Palestine defenseless and ripe
for slaughter by the thousands of Arab fanatics who are being armed and
supplied, as all the world knows, by the surrounding Arab States.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: In
Augusburg, Germany, Holocaust survivors Cesia Blitzer (née Zylberfuden), a
homemaker, and David Blitzer, a home builder gave birth to Wolf Blitzer the
graduate of the University of Buffalo (NY) who is best known for his work on
CNN.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948:
Birthdate of Australian author Dr. Stephen Skinner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/240084/was-the-author-of-the-voynich-manuscript-the-literary-worlds-greatest-mystery-a-jew?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=0050ff72bf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-0050ff72bf-206644398"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/240084/was-the-author-of-the-voynich-manuscript-the-literary-worlds-greatest-mystery-a-jew?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=0050ff72bf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-0050ff72bf-206644398</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif">’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949:
Holocaust survivors Moryc Brajtbart (later Morris Breitbart) and Lucy Gliklich
“married in the Rosenheim displaced persons camp today and immigrated to the
United States the following December.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1950:
According to </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">New
York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">correspondent
C.L. Sulzberger, the future of Israel depends on its ability to make peace with
the surrounding Arab nations and developing normal commercial relations with
them while receiving continued political support from the the United Kingdom
and the United States and getting additional American aid so that it can meet
is “grandiose economic development plans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5711): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951:
Celebration of Purim assumes “a carnival air today” in New York, “particularly
ths afternoon when children in Jewish religious enact principal roles of the
Purim story in pageants, plays and dances.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: “The
Government of Israel asked the United States today for $150,000,000 in
grant-in-aid for the period of July 1, 1951, to June 30, 1952, Abba S. Eban,
Israel's Ambassador to Washington announced<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5712): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudi<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952(25th of
Adar, 5712: Sixty-three-year-old attorney Elihu David Stone, the son of Elhanah
Stone and Channah Leba Libby Stone, the husband of Esther Stone and father of
Judah Meir Stone and Elchanan Stone who “was president of the Zionist Organization
of New England” passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://digital.americanancestors.org/digital/collection/p15869coll4/id/18221/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Elihu
David Stone Papers - Family and Individual Papers - American Ancestors Digital
Library & Archives</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952: “The
World Jewish Congress estimated today that the Jewish population of the
Americas had risen from 1,200,000 in 1900 to 6,000,000 in 1951, while that of Europe
had fallen from 8,900,000 to 2,700,000 in the same period<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952: “Scores
of limbless or blind persons took part in a demonstration” in Tel Aviv tonight
where “survivors of the Nazi persecution” protested “against the reparations
talks with West Germany” that started in the Hague yesterday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953: Arthur
Miller's "Crucible" premiered in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954: In San
Antonio, TX, Clarice Lerner and restauranteur Aaron Golden gave birth to
Marilyn Golden, the “companion of Rabbi David J. Cooper” and advocate for the
disabled who played a played a key role in the passage of he American With
Disabilities Act. (As reported by Sam Roberts)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/us/marilyn-golden-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/us/marilyn-golden-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955:
“Yellowneck,” a film set in the Everglades of 1863 with music by Laurence
Rosenthal was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955: Twenty-nine-year-old
Max “Slats” Zaslofsky playing in his second to the last season with the Fort
Wayne Pistons providing the winning margin in the playoff game with the Lakers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956: In
London, Royal World Premiere of “Alexander the Great” a Hollywood “epic”
directed, produced and written by Robert Rossen and co-starring Claire Bloom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956: The
Broadway production of “Mr. Wonderful” a musical starring Sammy Davis, Jr with
music and lyrics by Jerry Bock and George David Weiss and a book co-authored by
Joseph Stein opened today at The Broadway Theatre today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957: Israeli
forces withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula as part of the peace process following
the Suez Crisis of 1956. Failure of the international community and United
Nations to honor its guarantees will lead to further crisis that will boil over
into the Six Day War of 1967.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5717): Sixty-one-year-old Geoffrey Joel, the son of Woolf Joel, and
husband of Edith Joel passed away in Johannesburg<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958(1st of
Nisan, 5718): Rosh Chodesh Nisan;Shabbat HaChodesh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5718): Forty-eight-year-old Art Cohn, the husband of Marta Cohn and
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oakland Tribune</i> sports journalist
who wrote the column “The Cohn-ing Tower” died today in the same plane crash
that claimed the life of Mike Todd.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://tribunegogetters.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_26.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://tribunegogetters.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_26.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958(1st of
Nisan, 5718): Movie producer Michael Todd died in an airplane crash in New
Mexico. Born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen in 1909, Todd won an Academy Award for Best
Picture in 1956 for producing Around the World in Eighty Days. At the time of
his death, he was married to Elizabeth Taylor who would later marry Jewish
crooner, Eddie Fisher. Along the way, Ms. Taylor would convert to Judaism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeoJFUT6m28#aid=P7JYwcjLtNA"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeoJFUT6m28#aid=P7JYwcjLtNA</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://documents.latimes.com/mike-todd-plane-crash/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://documents.latimes.com/mike-todd-plane-crash/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0865239/bio"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0865239/bio</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959: In New
York, Yaakov Moshe Friedman, “an administrator at the United Lubavitcher
Yishiva in Crown Heights” and his wife gave birth to Avraham Shabsi Hakohen
Friedman “better known by his stage name Avraham Fried.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5720): Fifty-seven-year-old Simon Levy, the director of security for
the New Yorker Hotel in New York and a former inspector for the State Boxing
Commission of New York who had two daughters with his wife fanny passed away
tonight in Long Beach, L.I.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/03/24/105187533.html?pageNumber=33"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/03/24/105187533.html?pageNumber=33</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960: Arthur
Leonard Schawlow whose father was a Jewish immigrant from Latvia and Charles
Hard Townes receives the first patent for a laser.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961(5<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan 5721): Eighty-eight-year-old Frederick Z. “Fred” Salomon, the Greeley,
CO, born son of Adolph and Mathilde Salomon, the husband of Helen Salomon and
the father of Fred, Jr who helped to create what is now the Famous Barr Co.
passed away today in St. Louis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.geni.com/people/Frederick-Salomon/6000000078555675279"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.geni.com/people/Frederick-Salomon/6000000078555675279</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962: In
another reminder of the depth of Jewish involvement in the world of the
Broadway Musical “ I Can Get It For You Wholesale” premiered at the Schubert
Theatre. It was based on the novel by Jerome Weidman who wrote the script, with
music and lyrics by Harold Rome, directed by Arthur Laurens, starring Elliot
Gould and introducing Barbra Streisand as “Miss Marmelstein.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1963(26<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5723): Fifty-five-year-old composer Abraham “Abe” Ellstein passed
away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.milkenarchive.org/people/view/all/511/Abraham+Ellstein"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.milkenarchive.org/people/view/all/511/Abraham+Ellstein</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5725): Eighty-four-year-old University of West Virginia tackle who
“during several games away from home heard he cry of ‘Kill the Jew’” and who
went on to a career in law and politics which took him to U.S. House of
Representatives passed away today in Cleveland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/benjamin-louis-rosenbloom"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/benjamin-louis-rosenbloom</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000441"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000441</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: Yitzhak
Rafael completed his service as Deputy Minister of Health.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: More
than 400 persons paid tribute tonight to Dr. David de Sola Pool, rabbi emeritus
of Congregation Shearith Israel–the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue–in honor
of the rabbi’s 80th birthday. (JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: Bob
Dylan "goes electric," releasing his first album featuring electric
instruments, Bringing It All Back Home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5726): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5726): Sixty-one-year-old Austrian born and Prague trained award
winning biochemist Heinrich B. Waelsach, a professor at Columbia’s Collee of
Physicians and Surgeon and the husband of Dr. Salome G. Waelsch, a professor at
Albert Einstein College of Medicine with whom he raised two children – Peter
and Naomi – passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/03/23/79985075.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/03/23/79985075.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967: “Thunder
Alley” produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff and co-starring Jan Murray was released in
the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968: In
Paris, the so-called “Movement of 22 March” during which George “Wolinski
co-founded the satirical magazine <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">L'Enragé”</i>
began today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Nisan, 5729): Begin the Book of Vayikra<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(3rd of
Nisan, 5729): Eighty-one-year-old Ms. Anna Nikolayvena Dymow, the widow of Ossip
Dymow who wrote for the Yiddish theater for forty years, passed away today and
she is survived by “a stepdaughter, Mrs. Isabel Sakier. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969: Three
days after he had passed away, memorial services are scheduled to be held at
the Princeton University Chapel for 31-year-old Sociology Professor Dr. Ian
Weinberg, the son of Mrs. Golda Weinberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/03/19/90071779.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/03/19/90071779.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Nisan, 5729): Seventy-eight-year-old Ernst Deutsch, the Austrian actor, who
spent the war in the United States ironically playing “Nazi and German
officers” and who is best known for his role in the classic spy film “The Third
Man” passed away today in Berlin after which he was interred in that city’s
Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5730): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5730): Forty-six Robert Ludwig Kahn, the Nuremberg born son of
Jewish businessman Gustav Kahn and the former Beatrice Freudenthal (both of
whom were murdered in the Holocaust) who survived because of he 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 passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1972: In an
aritcle in the </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Jerusalem
Post</span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">,
Walter Eytan, who has served as Ambassador to France and Chairman of the Israel
Broadcasting Authority, wrote that he was sure Israelis would vote
overwhelmingly in a favor of a move to leave the West Bank if that departure
would guarantee peace. He was equally sure that Israelis would reject a call
for withdrawal just for the sake of withdrawal that was not part of a
guaranteed peace.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973: Lyndon B
Johnson President died at his Texas Ranch at the age of 64. As a young member
of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1930’s, Johnson intervened to help
bring Jews from Hitler’s Europe to the United. In 1945, he visited
concentration camps in Germany where he was visibility moved by the suffering
inflicted on the Jewish people. At the time of the 1956 Suez Crisis, As a U.S.
Senator in 1956 and 1957, Johnson opposed the Eisenhower Administration's
pressure on Israel and supported her position. During the crisis that led to
the Six Day War in 1967, President Johnson urged the Israelis to act with
caution. Pre-occupied with the Vietnam War, Johnson attempted to organize an
International Flotilla that would enter the Straits of Tiran and break the
Egyptian Blockade of Elath. His attempts failed. Based on his intelligence
reports, Johnson assured the Israelis that he knew they would emerge
victorious. As the war came to a close, the Soviets attempted to repeat their
1956 diplomatic rescue of their Arab allies. The Soviets threatened military
action unless the Israelis immediately withdrew. Unlike Eisenhower, Johnson did
not cave into the threat. Instead he mobilized the Sixth Fleet and sent into
the eastern Mediterranean. The Soviets got the message. After the war, Johnson
saw to it that America filled the void left by France's new anti-Israel policy
and the United States became the main arms supplier for the IDF. Thanks to
Johnson’s efforts, the 1964 Civil Rights Act became law which, among other
things, banned discrimination against religion. Last but not least, one of
Johnson’s favorite lines was from Isaiah, “Come let us reason together;” a line
when uttered was a sure sign that an opponent was about to get “The Treatment”
intended to turn foe into political friend.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1973(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5733):</span> <span face="Arial, sans-serif">Seventy-nine-year-old
Hilda Geiringer, the Vienna born daughter of Ludwig Geiringer and the former
Martha Weltheimer who overcame religious prejudice and sexism to become a world
class mathematician passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/geiringer-hilda">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/geiringer-hilda</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191031-hilda-geiringer-mathematician-who-fled-the-nazis">https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191031-hilda-geiringer-mathematician-who-fled-the-nazis</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=vMJvX4K9JdLatQa4ybIY&q=hilda+geiringer&gs_ssp=eJzj4tLP1TcwMjM1LTIxYPTiz8jMSUlUSE_NLMrMS08tAgB1swjw&oq=Hilda+Geir&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQARgAMgUILhCTAjICCAAyBggAEBYQHjIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB4yBggAEBYQHjIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB4yBggAEBYQHjIGCAAQFhAeOg4ILhCxAxDHARCjAhCTAjoICC4QxwEQowI6CwguELEDEMcBEKMCOggIABCxAxCDAToFCAAQsQM6CwguEMcBEKMCEJMCOgUILhCxAzoECAAQAzoICC4QsQMQgwE6AgguOggILhDHARCvAToICC4QsQMQkwI6BAguEApQpldYpHtgl6YBaABwAHgAgAFgiAGtBpIBAjEwmAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpeg&sclient=psy-ab">https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=vMJvX4K9JdLatQa4ybIY&q=hilda+geiringer&gs_ssp=eJzj4tLP1TcwMjM1LTIxYPTiz8jMSUlUSE_NLMrMS08tAgB1swjw&oq=Hilda+Geir&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQARgAMgUILhCTAjICCAAyBggAEBYQHjIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB4yBggAEBYQHjIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB4yBggAEBYQHjIGCAAQFhAeOg4ILhCxAxDHARCjAhCTAjoICC4QxwEQowI6CwguELEDEMcBEKMCOggIABCxAxCDAToFCAAQsQM6CwguEMcBEKMCEJMCOgUILhCxAzoECAAQAzoICC4QsQMQgwE6AgguOggILhDHARCvAToICC4QsQMQkwI6BAguEApQpldYpHtgl6YBaABwAHgAgAFgiAGtBpIBAjEwmAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpeg&sclient=psy-ab</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977: The
second season of “One Day At A Time” starring Bonnie Franklin comes to an end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Nisan, 5737): Seventy-six-year-old Henry Calechman, the “son of Joseph
Calechman” and the husband of Gertrude Calechman passed away today after which
he was buried at B’nai Jacob Memorial Park in New Haven, CT.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1977: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that the 4,500
employees of the country's three ports went on a general strike to back up
their demands for an increase of IL 600 per month. Only passenger ships were
exempted.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1977: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported that the
Supreme Court set a precedent in declaring an Israeli citizen extraditable. An
Israeli businessman who was wanted by the Swiss government on charges of
defrauding a bank was declared extraditable in a precedent-setting ruling.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978: Harold
Herman Greene, the refugee from Hitler’s Germany and WW II Army veteran who
graduated from George Washington University Law School was nominated to a seat
on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979: The West
End production of “Ain’t Misbehavin’” a musical with a “book” co-authored by
Murray Horwitz opened today at Her Majesty’s Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979: The
Israeli Parliament approved the peace treaty with Egypt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981(16th of
Adar II, 5741): Purim Meshulash observed for the first time during the
Presidency of Ronald Reagan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983: Chaim
Herzog was elected President of Israel today by the Knesset defeating Menachem
Elon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5744): Fifty-six-year-old Harvard and Princeton trained economist
Otto Eckstein, the German born son of Hugo and Hedwig Eckstein, best known as
the co-founder of Data Resources Inc. passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/23/obituaries/otto-ecktein-educator-who-led-in-economic-forecasting.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/23/obituaries/otto-ecktein-educator-who-led-in-economic-forecasting.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.hetwebsite.net/het/profiles/eckstein.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.hetwebsite.net/het/profiles/eckstein.htm</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1987: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The New York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reviews "The
Messiah of Stockholm" by Cynthia Ozick, a novel that is dedicated to
Philip Roth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5749): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II,5749): Julian M. Sieroty, the Los Angles born so of Adolph and Maye
M. Brown Sieroty and the husband of Jean Sommer Sieroty passed away today after
which he was interred at the Home of Peace Memorial Park in East Los Angeles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990:
“Ambulance,” an off-beat comedy written by Larry Cohn who also produced and
directed the film co-starring Red Buttons was released in the United States
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: “Delta
Force 3: The Killing Game” directed by Sam Firstenberg with a script
co-authored by Boaz Davidson was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1992:
The original Broadway production of “Conversations With My Father,” a play that
“presents the saga of a first generation of American Jews who came of age in
the Depression and were assimilated at a high price during and after World War
II” opened at the Royale Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993: The
third round of talks comes to an end at Oslo, Norway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994(10<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5754): Ninety-year-old Ruth Spiegel who in 1929 had been married “in
the Crystal Room of the Ritz-Carlton” by Rabbi William Fineshriber of
Philadelphia to attorney Sylvan Hobson Hirsch who passed away in 1945 and then
married Frederick William Spiegel in 1949 passed away today in Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995: Hilary
Koprowski was awarded the title of Commander of the Order of the Lion of
Finland by the President of the Republic of Finland. 1995: Hillary Koprowski
was awarded the title of Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland by the
President of the Republic of Finland. A native of Poland, Koprowski is an
American virologist and immunologist, and inventor of the world's first
effective live polio vaccine. He was one of three Jews – the other two being
Salk and Sabin – who played a leading role in developing a Polio Vaccine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998: “Escape:
Human Cargo,” co-starring Sasson Gabai was broadcast for the first time in the
U.S. on Showtime television network.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1998: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The New York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including
Laughing Matters: On Writing ''M*A*S*H,'' ''Tootsie,'' ''Oh, God!,'' and a Few
Other Funny Things by Larry Gelbart, A March to Madness: The View From the Floor
in the Atlantic Coast Conference by John Feinstein and Spin Cyle: Inside the
Clinton Propaganda Machine by Howard Kurtz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999: Eliezer
Sandberg left the Israel in the Centre party to establish HaTzeirim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999(5th of
Nisan, 5759): Eighty-five-year-old British historian Max Beloff, passed away.
In addition to his academic accomplishments, Beloff served as governor of the
University of Haifa and as Baron Beloff served as an active member of the House
of Lords. According to the Unbroken Chain, the Beloff’s family lineage traces
back “to the House of David as descendants of Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen, the
Maharam of Padua.” For about Beloff see his autobiography <u>An Historian in
the Twentieth Century.<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: In “A
Victim's Sang-Froid in Very Coldblooded Times,” published today Richard
Bernstein not only reviews <u>I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years,
1942-1945</u> by Victor Klemperer; translated and with a preface by Martin
Chalmers but provides a valuable picture of the privation faced by this hidden
Jew.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: It was
reported today that An Internet photo contest that included a picture of
Muhammad al-Durrah, who was shot to death in September in a battle between
Israeli and Palestinian security forces in the Gaza Strip and that had become a
test of wills over the Middle East was pulled from the Web because its sponsor,
MSNBC.com, said it had determined that a sizable number of votes had been
rigged.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002(9<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5762): Seventy-nine-year-old Josef von Stroheim, the son of director
Erich von Stroheim passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2002/mar/30/local/me-vonstroheim30"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://articles.latimes.com/2002/mar/30/local/me-vonstroheim30</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: “Leaders
of the Palestinian group Hamas urged Iraqis to use suicide as a weapon against
invading troops.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/22/world/french-jews-tell-of-a-new-and-threatening-wave-of-anti-semitism.html?searchResultPosition=6"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/22/world/french-jews-tell-of-a-new-and-threatening-wave-of-anti-semitism.html?searchResultPosition=6</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: “French
Jews Tell of a New and Threatening Wave of Anti-Semitism” published today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004: Ahmed
Yassin, co-founder and leader of Hamas, and his bodyguards are killed in the
Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: The
New-York Historical Society opened an exhibit entitled "First Ladies of
New York and the Nation." Among the unusual items on display in the
exhibit were four handbags created by Judith Lieber.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/22/2005/judith-leiber"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/22/2005/judith-leiber</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: Rabbi
Joseph Telushkin delivers a speech on "A Code of Jewish Ethics",
followed by a book signing at Barnes and Noble Bookstore in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: A new
production of “Shenandoah,” a musical with a book co-authored by Philip Rose
opened at Ford Theatre in Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: In
Seville, Spain, the Second World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for peace came to
a close.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2006: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Haaretz</span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> reported that a string
of anti-Semitic incidents in the aftermath of the torture and murder of a young
Jewish vendor is fueling concerns that anti-Jewish feelings are spreading in
France's black community. The incidents - three physical attacks allegedly
committed by blacks of Muslim descent - occurred in recent days, following the
extradition from Ivory Coast of Youssouf Fofana, the alleged leader of the gang
that kidnapped and murdered 21-year-old Ilan Halimi. The alleged involvement of
blacks has added a new twist to the wave of anti-Semitic incidents in recent
years, which mostly were the work of young Muslims of North African descent
responding to the Palestinian intifada.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: Ira
Glass and company began airing a television version of This American Life as
half-hour episodes on the Showtime network.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: In a
move opposed by the family of Bess Houdini, Harry “Houdini's grand-nephew (the
grandson of his brother Theo), George Hardeen, announced that the courts would
be asked to allow exhumation of Houdini's body, to investigate the possibility
of Houdini being murdered by spiritualists, as suggested in the biography <u>The
Secret Life of Houdini.</u><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Shushan
Purim, 5768<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: As part
of the Israel at 60, the 92nd Street Y presents Danny Sanderson, Israeli
lyricist and pop icon. Sanderson, a singer-songwriter legend whose album, Kongo
Blues, was voted January 06 album of the month in Israel, performs some of
Israel's best known and most beloved songs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008:
Publication of selected writings of Pfc. Daniel Agami, of blessed memory. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/us/4000agami.web.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/us/4000agami.web.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: An
exhibition featuring the works of Israeli born photographer Shai Kremer at the
Metropolitan Museum comes to a close.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: The YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research presents a speech by Dr. David Fishman of the
Jewish Theological Seminary on the topic "The Problem of Religion and
Secularism among Secular Yiddishists in Eastern Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2009: </span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The New York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
the recently published paperback edition of “Now You See Him” by Eli Gotlieb.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: At
Temple Sinai in Los Angeles, New York Times columnist Roger Cohen “faced off
against some 400 Iranian Jews and Bahais” who took exception to his recent
columns describing the plight of Jews living in Iran.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The 14th
Annual Hartford Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to present “Tribute:
Observations on Survival and Spirit - Lessons from the Holocaust” featuring
eight short films including “Holding Leah,” “Pigeon,” “Sarah and Hayah,” “The
Next Harvest,” “The Wall,” “Torte Bluma,” “Toyland” and “Waiting for Dachau.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Shots
were fired at an Israeli army patrol this evening next to Aduraim in the
southern Hevron Hills. No injuries or damage were reported. Additional troops
were sent to search the scene.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010(7th of
Nisan, 5760): Rabbi Zachary Heller, past president of the World Council of
Masorti Synagogues and a congregational rabbi for nearly 30 years died today
after a long battle with cancer. He was 71. He served as senior rabbi of Temple
Emanu-El, a Conservative congregation in Bayonne, N.J., for 29 years, and was
considered "a rabbi's rabbi," according to a death notice in The New
York Times. Heller worked as the associate director of the National Center for
Jewish Policy Studies for 12 years from 1997. As president of the World Council
of Masorti Synagogues from 1989 to 1994, he lectured and taught in 22 countries
and mentored rabbis in many communities. The Masorti movement in Israel is
affiliated with Conservative Judaism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today in Covina, CA for actor Al Israel, Jr.
who was survived by his children Kathleen and John and his grandchildren Johnny
and Lizzy<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Tony
Kushner’s latest play, “The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and
Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures,” is scheduled to open today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Moshe
Katsav was sentenced to seven years in prison and two years’ probation for
rape, indecent acts, sexual harassment and obstruction of justice, becoming the
first former President of Israel to be sentenced to prison. In addition, he was
ordered to pay one of the women compensation totaling 100,000 NIS and another a
sum of 25,000 NIS<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: “James’
Journey to Jerusalem” is scheduled to be shown in Iowa City as part of the
Hillel Film Series.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(16h of
Adar II): On this date on the Hebrew Calendar the rebuilding of the walls of
Jerusalem began under King Agrippa I.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: The
three major film schools in Manhattan-- Columbia University School of Arts, The
School of Visual Arts Film School and NYU Tisch School of the Arts--, are
scheduled to host the opening night of a three day salute to the achievements
of the Sam Spiegel Film School. “Over the last decade The Sam Spiegel Film
School played a pivotal role in the film renaissance of Israeli cinema by
virtue of its distinctive focus on a personal and sensitive dialogue with the
audience.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
Thirty-five congregations including shuls from cities as large as Phoenix and
Las Vegas, and as small as Chesterfield, Mo. and Norfolk, VA have registered
for the 3rd annual Emerging Communities Conference sponsored by the Orthodox
Union which is scheduled to begin today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Today,
the Tel Aviv District Court sentenced former president Moshe Katsav to seven
years in prison and two years’ probation for rape and sexual harassment, which
he was convicted of in December. Judges George Karra, Judith Shevach and Miriam
Sokolov also ruled that Katsav pay NIS 100,000 to victim "Aleph" from
the Tourism Ministry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: The IDF
spokesperson said that following the launch of Kassam rockets, that the IDF
fired mortar shells at the Kassam launch site. Apparently, innocent civilians
were hit in the strike. The spokesperson stressed, however, that Hamas was
responsible for firing Kassams from within densely populated civilian areas. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Knesset
Speaker Reuven Rivlin slammed the “dangerous” military conversion bill, while
calling on the rabbinate to increase and enhance its conversion efforts as a
countermeasure to the massive assimilation taking place in Israel. (As reported
by Isaac Harari)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: A Grad
rocket fired from Gaza exploded south of Ashdod today after a day of escalation
along the border. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: The
opening of the exhibition by artist Sharon Poliakine and painter Oren Eliav,
takes place at The Tel Aviv Museum of Art<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: In “New
edition out for Maxwell House Haggadah, part of Passover tradition for many
American Jews” that “From the White House to the Schein house, Passover is good
to the last drop thanks to the Maxwell House Haggadah, lovingly passed down
through generations, red wine splotches and gravy smears marking nearly 80
years of service at American Seder tables. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.startribune.com/templates/Print_This_Story?sid=118438959"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.startribune.com/templates/Print_This_Story?sid=118438959</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Spokane
Jewish Cultural Cultural Film Festival is scheduled to open in Spokane,
Washington<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The 16th
Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to a close.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The
Jewish Music Festival is scheduled to present the Bustan Quartet in Berkley,
CA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Julius
Genachowski announced that he would be leaving the FCC which he had been
chairing since June of 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: “The
Gang’s All Here” which features Benny Goodman playing himself is scheduled to
be shown as part of the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Classic Film Series.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Portugal’s national soccer team is scheduled to square off against its Israeli
rivals at the national stadium in Ramat Gan this afternoon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Political leaders flocked this morning to the bedside of Acre Mayor Shimon
Lankri, who survived an assassination attempt in what doctors describe as a
lucky escape.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Barack
Obama ended his first presidential visit to Israel and headed off to Jordan
today, after another packed day. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
President Barack Obama scored a diplomatic coup just before leaving Israel when
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Turkey for a 2010 commando raid
that killed nine activists on a Turkish vessel in a Gaza-bound flotilla.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The Jewish Children’s Regional Service (JCRS) which has done an outstanding job
of serving Jewish families and youth since 1855, is scheduled to host a gala
fundraiser “The Jewish Roots of Broadway.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“The German Doctor” is scheduled to be shown at the Northern Virginia Jewish
Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“A Palestinian militants sent threatening text messages to a large number of
Israelis this evening, calling on them to leave the country and warning them
they would be “the next Gilad Shalit.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Hunting Elephants” and “The Attack” are scheduled to be shown at the Houston
Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“A joint IDF, Shin Bet and Border Police raid early today killed a wanted Hamas
operative in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank who was
reportedly plotting a major terrorist attack.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Flexibility Key to Survival” published today described the way that Lebo’s the
91 year old family owned footwear business founded by Sidney Levin has changed
to meet the needs and challenges of its customers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/20/6252722/for-family-owned-business-flexibility.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/20/6252722/for-family-owned-business-flexibility.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
In Rockville, MD, The Magen David Sephardic Congregation is scheduled host its
fundraiser “Casino Night”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.magendavidsephardic.org/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.magendavidsephardic.org/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“Disobedience - The Sousa Mendes Story” (Desobeir) is scheduled to be shown at
the Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“Letter to Afar, “an exhibition “based on films taken by Jewish immigrants who
traveled from New York back to Poland during the 1920’s and 1930’s came to a
close today at the Museum of the City of New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Ron Arons, author of "Jews of Sing Sing" and of "Mind Maps for
Genealogy," is scheduled to introduce basic concepts of "family
systems theory" at the Center for Jewish History.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015;
In Cedar Rapids, Dan Bern, the son of Marianne Bern, is scheduled to perform as
CSPC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“Letters to Afar: Installation by Péter Forgács and The Klezmatics,” a new
exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York is scheduled to be closed today.
(As reported by Cathryn J. Prince)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
The annual AIPAC conference in Washington, DC is scheduled to come to an end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
The “Jews in the American South” is scheduled to visit Hobcaw Barony, the
on-time hunting retreat of Wall Street Investment Maven and Presidential
advisor Bernard Baruch, who contrary to the popular caricature was a native of
Camden, South Caroline where his father practiced medicine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt” is scheduled to be shown at the JCC
Manhattan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Today “Yahya Sinwar said Hamas would not allow the State of Israel to exist on
even a “morsel” of land.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely: "Israel expresses its deep shock
at the terror attack in London today and its solidarity with the victims and
with the people and government of Great Britain. Terror is terror wherever it occurs,
and we will fight it relentlessly."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Producer, keyboardist, lyricist, composer and performer Idan Raichel, a global
music icon and “leader of The Idan Raichel Project is scheduled to perform this
evening at City Winery in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
In Memphis, TN, Temple Israel is scheduled to host an Israeli Wine Tasting and
a discussion led by Rabbi Feivel Strauss on “The Role of Wine in Judaism – From
the Bible Through Prohibition.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
JW3 is scheduled to host the final screening in London of “Bombshell: The Hedy
Lamarr Story.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Weather permitting, the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host
screenings of “Across the Line” and “Operation Wedding.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018(6<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5778): Ninety-four-year-old Charles P. Lazarus, the Washington, DC
born son of bike shop owners Frank and Phoebe Lazarus who found Toys “R” US
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/obituaries/charles-p-lazarus-toys-r-us-founder-dies-at-94.html/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/obituaries/charles-p-lazarus-toys-r-us-founder-dies-at-94.html/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
"Bal Ej: the hidden Jews of Ethiopia" is scheduled to be shown at
Beit Oleh America Netanya AACI, Israel followed by a Q and A with filmmaker
Irene Orleansky.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The Meyerson JCC is scheduled to host “Shabbat Shabbang” featuring a world
premiere concert by Joanie Leeds and Matthew Check.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Fifty years after the publication of his controversial book The Population
Bomb, biologist Paul Ehrlich warns overpopulation and overconsumption are
driving us over the edge.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/22/collapse-civilisation-near-certain-decades-population-bomb-paul-ehrlich"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/22/collapse-civilisation-near-certain-decades-population-bomb-paul-ehrlich</span></a><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
As Jews prepare for Shabbat, one question they may be asking is if President
Trump’s twitter about the Golan Heights is venting, like his recent attacks on
Senator McCain who has been dead for seven months or if they represent an
official change in U.S. policy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019
The Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of
“Fractures” and “Waldheim Waltz.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
In San Jose, the 3Below Theaters and Lounge is scheduled to host “An Evening
with Groucho” as in Groucho Marx.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
Forbidden Music, “an exploration of forgotten masterworks written by composers
living under the shadow of oppressive regimes and perished in the Holocaust” is
scheduled to continue for a second night in the San Francisco Bay area.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
It was reported that Lizabeth Cohen’s <u>Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and
the Struggle to Renew Urban American in the Suburban Age</u> has won this
year’s Bancroft Prize, “one of the most prestigious honors in the field of
American history.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14317-review-of-saving-americas-cities-ed-logue-and-the-struggle-to-renew-urban-america-in-the-suburban-age"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14317-review-of-saving-americas-cities-ed-logue-and-the-struggle-to-renew-urban-america-in-the-suburban-age</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-374-25408-7"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-374-25408-7</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including <u>Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your
Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker</u> by Barry Sonnenfeld and <u>The
Power Notebooks</u> by Katie Roiphe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
“In Search of Jewish Homelands” during which “local writer and teacher Dan Schifrin
was to have expanded on his January 2020 J. cover story about his heritage
visit to Spain with his family, and the country’s Jewish history and
communities” which was scheduled to take place today at the Jewish Community
Library in San Francisco has been postponed due to the pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The “Beth Ami Spring Concert” featuring a three-person string circle including
violin master Joseph Edelberg plus flutiest Stacey Pelinka which was scheduled
to take place this evening at Congregation Ner Shalom in Cotati, CA has been
postponed due to the pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The final Limmudfest-Meeting scheduled to take place today in New Orleans has
been canceled due to the pandemic<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The concert by HaZamir, the International Jewish Teen Choir, honoring Rabbi
Daniel Freelander scheduled to take place this afternoon at Lincoln Center has
been canceled.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
“A special online concert by Ian Raichel organized by the Jewish Agency” is
scheduled to take place today at 4 pm EDT.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;">2021:</span></em><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></i><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;">The
British Library, in association with The National Library of Israel is
scheduled to present “Hebrew Manuscripts: Journeys of the Written Word- Roly
Keating (Chief Executive, British Library)<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">-
Oren Weinberg (Director General, National Library of Israel) - Ilana Tahan
(Lead Curator, Hebrew & Christian Orient Collections, British Library) and
Yoel Finkelman (Curator Judaica Collection, National Library of Israel)<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Jewish Community Center of the
North Shore is schedule to present a panel discussion featuring authors Janice
Kaplan (“The Genius of Women”); Maureen Trestman (“Fair Labor Lawyer: The
Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie
Margolin”); and Jill Wine-Banks (“The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and
Justice Against a Criminal President”<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The London School of Jewish studies is scheduled to present the final session
in Part 1 of 'The Torah of Rabbi Sacks zt"l', with Rabbi Joe Wolfson, who
will lead a discussion into ideas of Pesach and freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Sha’ar Zahav is scheduled to present Tulane professor Golan Moskowitz who will
talk about the Maurice Sendak’s perspective as a gay, Jewish, son of
Yiddish-speaking Polish immigrants, and how his monsters changed children’s
literature. <o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The Boston College Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life is
scheduled to “host a screening of the film “Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham
Joshua Heschel Story” and a panel discussion with filmmaker Martin Doblemeier
and Professor Susannah Heschel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
American Technion Society is scheduled to present “a talk about a new device
for fast, accurate Covid-19 testing by Technion grad and entrepreneur Adam de
la Zerda.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Israelis “endure” one final day of campaigning before tomorrow’s election which
will be the last one for President Rivlin who has already “served through six
election campaigns.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to present the third part
of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Kavkazi, Georgian, and Bukharian
Jews: At the Crossroads of Sephardic, Mizrahi, and Russian-Speaking Worlds.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5782): “Four Israelis were killed in a knife and car-ramming attack
in Beersheba, in southern Israel, this afternoon, in the third attack on
Israeli Jews in less than a week.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/world/middleeast/israel-stabbing-beersheba.html?searchResultPosition=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/world/middleeast/israel-stabbing-beersheba.html?searchResultPosition=1</span></a><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
The two day first ever summing meeting with leaders of Israel and the United
Emirates came to an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host Ari Shapiro as he discusses his first
book <u>The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening.<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The exhibition “Hybrid Event: Holocaust Letters and Family Histories – Ariana
Neumann, Peter Bradley” is scheduled to open at the Wiener Holocaust Memorial
Library.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Center is scheduled to host a lecture by Allen
Packwood on “2023: The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Center is scheduled to host
a lecture by Allen Packwood on “Action this Day: War Aims and Strategy” the
third in a four-part course on “Sir Winston Churchill and the Second World
War.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The Kornit Fashion Week is scheduled to come to an end in Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
On Zoom, curator Kenneth Helphand is scheduled to discuss the Elaine and Norman
Winik Mezuzah Collection currently on view at Eldridge Street.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
LBI is scheduled to host “a viewing of the new exhibit ‘Unpacking Exile,’ a
meeting with curators and a light reception.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Israeli security forces “are once again gearing up for the Muslim holy month of
Ramadan “which is expected to being today or tomorrow.” (As reported by Emanuel
Fabian)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
Kan Kol Hamusika is scheduled to broadcast of an “Excellence – Young Artists in
Concert featuring “outstanding young soloists and ensembles.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
In Waterloo, IA, Sons of Jacob Synagogue is scheduled to host a Purim
celebration with Rabbi Rebecca. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Rabbi Shippel on the
Parsah of the Week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
22nd begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 168 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p>melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-776352472722659492024-03-19T19:50:00.000-06:002024-03-20T16:04:24.581-06:00This Day, March 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levi Z"L<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><em><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;">March 21</span></b></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">456 BCE: The
convocation summoned by Ezra on intermarriage came to an end <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">629: Byzantine
Emperor Heraclius marched into Jerusalem at the head of his army with the
support of Jewish inhabitants. The Jews who had previously fought with the Persians
against Byzantine rule decided to support him in return for a promise of
amnesty. Upon his entry into Jerusalem the local priests convinced him that
killing Jews was a positive commandment and that his promise was therefore
invalid. Hundreds of Jews were massacred, and thousands of others fled to
Egypt. Thus, much of the rich Jewish life in the Galilee and Judea came to an
end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1349(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan): Three thousand Jews were killed in Black Death riots in Efurt
Germany. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This was one
of only a series of wholesale murders of Jews that took place in Germany in
1349. The Jews provided a convenient scapegoat for the Black Death. In some
places they were accused of poisoning the wells which supposedly caused the
plague. Since The Black Death provided an interesting excuse of murdering Jews,
the following few summary will prove useful when we get to it our study of
Jewish History during the Middle Ages. "A Genoese trading post in the
Crimea was besieged by an army of Kipchaks from Hungary and Mongols from the
East. The latter brought with them a new form of plague. Infected dead bodies
were catapulted into the Genoese town. One Genoese ship managed to escape and
brought the disease to Messina, in Sicily. From this time forth the disease
became an epidemic. It moved over the next few years to northern Italy, North
Africa, France, Spain, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Germany, the Low
Countries, England, Scandinavia and the Baltic. There were lesser outbreaks in
many cities for the next twenty years. An estimated 25 million died in Europe
and economic depression followed."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>or there is this version<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1349: After a
mob marched into the Jewish quarter in Erfurt, Germany, carrying a flag with a
cross the Jews tried to defend themselves without success resulting in the
murder of one hundred Jews including Talmudic sage Alexander Suslin HaKohen and
the burning of most of the ghetto.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1475: Simon of
Trent disappeared from Trento, Italy. The disappearance led to a blood libel
that led to 8 Jews being hung by local authorities for their part in a plot use
the blood of this Christian child in the making of Matzah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1497: On the
evening of the Seder, all Jewish children in Portugal between the ages of four
and fourteen were actually baptized.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1542: Paul III
issued “Cupientes Judaeos” the Papal Bull dealing with the treatment of Jews
who converted to Christianity including the strictures that the assets of
converted Jews could no longer be confiscated, converted Jews could no longer
live with Jews, and that converted Jews must be treated the same as other free
citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1548: The
Vatican found a house used to convert Jews to Catholicism which the Jews were
compelled to support with their taxes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1672:
Birthdate of Lutheran theologian Johann Georg Abicht, best known for his works
“about oriental languages and Hebrew archaeology.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1648(8<sup>th </sup>of
Nisan, 5408) OS: Seventy-six year old, the Venice born rabbi Leon Modena or
Yehudah Aryeh Mi-modena who was a scholar and a gambler passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/modena-leon"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/modena-leon</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691008240/the-autobiography-of-a-seventeenth-century-venetian-rabbi"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691008240/the-autobiography-of-a-seventeenth-century-venetian-rabbi</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1694:
“According to the reported of Jesuit John Edler Simon Abeles was killed today
by his father Lazarus Abeles, because he persisted in his desire to embrace the
Christian religion. The father, who was thrown into prison, strangled himself
with his tefillin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Söbl, or Levy
Kurtzhandl, was imprisoned as an alleged accomplice, and put to death with
horrible tortures. The body of Simon was buried in the Teyn Church of Prague
with great pomp and with the honors due a martyr. The report of the Jesuit is
naturally one-sided, full of miracles and many improbabilities. An impartial
investigation of the sources is still lacking.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1697(9<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5457): Amsterdam Rabbi Abraham Cohen Pimentel passed away. A student
of Saul Levi Morteira, he served as hakham of the synagogue in Hamburg and was
initially a signator to a letter of approbation for Sabbatai Zevi. He was the
author of the “Minchat Kohen,” published in 1668.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1758: The
councilor of the Holy Office, Lorenzo Ganganelli , the future Pope Clement XIV,
who had been charged with investigating the blood libel against the Jews of
Yanopol, Poland, presented "Non solis accusatoribus credendum," to
the congregation of the Inquisition<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>which showed that not only were these charges groundless but
demonstrated that “all the principal cases of blood accusation since the 13<sup>th</sup>
century were groundless. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1759: A letter
was received in New York at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue from Newport,
Rhode Island. It was a request from the congregation at Newport asking for
funds to help build a synagogue. New York sent financial assistance, and on May
28 the congregation at Newport sent a letter of thanks, signed by 10 of its
members, back to New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1761: in
Gemmingen, Germany, Bessie Seligmann and Manasse Maier Lindauer gave birth to
David Hirsch Lindauer, the husband of Frommet Weil and the father of Jakob,
Bessie and Mayer Hirsch Lindauer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1767(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5527) Parshat Shimini; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1767: In
London, Aaron Gomes Da Costa, the Portuguese born son of Abigail and Abraham
Gomes Da Costa and his wife Miriam De Solomon Gomes Da Costa gave birth to
Salomon Gomes Da Costa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1697<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1770: In New
York City, Abigail and Michael Solomon Hays gave birth to Solomon Hays.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1771(5<sup>th</sup>
of Nissan, 5531): Aaron Hendricks, the London born son of Chaim Hendricks
passed away today in New York City. (He is not to be confused with the son
Uriah Hendricks who was born a year later in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1772(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5532): Parashat Tzav<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1772: John
Johnson, a doctor from Frederick, Maryland, wrote a letter advising Martha
Washington “on treatments for the “apparent epilepsy” of her daughter Martha
“Pasty” Parke Custis who was treated by Dr. John de Sequeyra, the London born,
University of Leiden trained physician <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1776: The
President of Congress, John Hancock, arranged to send George Washington
$250,000 cash to be used to maintain the siege of Boston. Hancock wrote in the
letter that accompanied the funds sent that he had selected three
"gentlemen of character whom I am confident will meet your notice."
One of these men was the Jewish patriot, Moses Franks of Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1791(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5551): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1791: In
Inowraclaw, Prussia, Rabbi Levin Isaac Auerbach and his wife gave birth to
Isaac Levin Auerbach a supporter of making reforms in Judaism who served as the
“preacher at the Jacobsen Temple where sermons were delivered in German,
teaching at the Jewish girl’s school in Berlin and finally officiating at the
temple in Leipzig for more than 25 years.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799(14th of
Adar II, 5559): As the British, French and Turks fight it out for control of
Egypt and Eretz Israel and Syria, the Jews celebrate Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1803: Jacob
Hays who “was born in May, 1772 in a Jewish home in Bedford, NY and whose
father was a soldier in Washington’s Army” and began his career as law
enforcement as a New York Marshall in 1798 was appointed today as a “Captain of
the Third Watch District” in New York’s “fledgling police force.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1804: In
Germany, Adelheid and Jakob Nathan Michelbacher gave birth to Abraham
Michelbacher, the husband of sophie Michlbacher and the father of Gabriel
Michelbacher.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1807(11th of
Adar II, 5567): Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1806: “At
Grinstead Green, Jewish boxer Daniel Mendoza who based on his previous
reputation, Mendoza was a 3–1 favourite in the betting, returned to the ring today
and defeated the taller Harry Lee in 53 rounds. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1807(11th of
Adar II, 5567): Chaim Joseph David ben Isaac Zerachia Azulai passed away. Born
in 1724, he was “known as the Chida (by the acronym of his name, חיד"א)
and was a rabbinical scholar and a noted bibliophile, who pioneered the history
of Jewish religious writings.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1809: Ralph
Harris married Rachel Shannon at the Great Synagogue today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1810(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5570): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1811:
Birthdate of East Prussian novelist Fanny Lewald who converted to Christianity
at the age of 17.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1821: In
Leigh, Essex, Catherine Phillips and Laurence Lazarus gave birth to Maurice
Lazarus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1822: In
Venjle, Joseph Joel Ballin and Hanne Behrend, born Peiser gave birth to Danish
engraver Joel Ballin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=da&u=http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Ballin&prev=search"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=da&u=http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Ballin&prev=search</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1825:
Birthdate of Bavarian native Max Friedman who “in the spring of 1848 at the age
of 23” came to the United States, became a businessman in Philadelphia, married
“Adeline J. Comelien, the daughter of Rowland And Ameilia (nee Judah) Cromelian
in 1849 and at the outset of the Civil War organized the th65<sup>th</sup>
Regiment as a cavalry unit which fought at Bull Run and which he served as a
Major and then a Colonel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1825: Maurice
Solomon, the London born son of Moshe Eliezer Lieberman Solomon and Betsy
(Elizabeth) Solomon and his wife Louisa Solomon gave birth to future Australian
Solmon Maurice Solomon, the husband of Maria Solomon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827:
Birthdate of Anglo-Jewish communal worker Manuel Castello.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1831(19th of
Adar II): Chaim ben Naphtali Coslin, author of Maslul, passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1833(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5993): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1833: Attorney
and Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court Franklin J. Moses, born
Israel Frank Moses to Esther and Major Myer Moses and his wife Jane Dorcas Moses
gave birth to Rosalie Esther Ann Span the wife o Samuel Robert Spann and the mother
of Henry Spann; Franklin Spann; Robert Spann; Jane Spann; Rebecca Spann; and
Robert Spann. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1833: As the
Jews observed the New Moon, current President Andrew Jackson wrote to future
President James Buchanan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1836: Birthdate
of West Prussia native and University of Berlin trained surgeon Julius Wolff
who received the Iron Cross for non-combatants after having served in three
wars from 1864 through 1870 and who “In 1890 he became chief surgeon of the
newly founded orthopedic dispensary at the” University of Berlin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1837(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5597): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1837(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5597): Nine-year-old Joseph Löb Landauer, the Bavarian born son of
Seligman Ben Schemmel Landauer and Zirle (Cilli) Landauer passed away today at Baden-Württemberg,
Germany<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1837:
Birthdate of Gustave-Hippolyte Worms, the Parisian born actor who made his
debut as Achille in “Duc Job” in 1850. He retired from the stage in 1901.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/15018-worms-gustave-hippolyte"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/15018-worms-gustave-hippolyte</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1838: In
London, Grace and Judah Aloof gave birth to Abraham Judah Aloof, the husband of
London native Meshoda Sequerra whom he married in 1860 and the father of Grace
and Semeta Aloof.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841: Aaron
Lazarus married Maria Myers today at the Great Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841: John
Fileman married Mary Levy today at the New Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1844: The
Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í
calendar. “The Bahá'í Faith has its administrative centre in Haifa on land it
has owned since Bahá'u'lláh's imprisonment in Acre in the early 1870s by the
Ottoman Empire. Pilgrims from all over the world visit for short periods of
time. Apart from the circa six hundred volunteer staff, Bahá'ís do not live or
preach in Israel”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1844:
Birthdate of Lithuania native and future New Yorker Gittel “Catherine” Helvich
Shubert the wife of David Hersh Shubert whom she married in 1862 and the mother
of Yankiel, Khanaa, Le, Fannie ,Sarah, Samuel, Jacob and Dora Shubert.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847: “The
Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel,” the largest congregation in Philadelphia,
was organized” today. “Its first rabbi was B. H. Gotthelf, who held services in
a hall at No. 528 N. Second Street.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848: The
ghetto pillars of Ferrara were destroyed by the professors and students of the
Athenaeum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1850:
Birthdate of Gittel “Catherine” Helvich Shubert, the German born American wife
of David Shubert with whom she had six children, including the famous Shubert
brothers of theatrical fame.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1854(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5614): Eighty-one-year-old Abigail Seixas, the Newport, RI of
Joachabed Levy and Moses Mendes Seixas passed away today in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1856(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5616): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858: In
Lancaster, PA. Augusta Bernheim and Hermance Hirsch gave birth to<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Jefferson
Medical College trained physician and physiotherapist Abraham Bernheim Hirsh,
the husband of Olga Tacheau and Captain in the Medical during WW I who became
the “chief of physiotherapy and occupational therapy at the U.S. Veteran’s
Bureau in New York and who was a member of the Physicians Association for the
Medical Department of Hebrew University.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861: A Jew by
the name of Guranda who was the Editor of <i>the Ost Deutsche Post</i>, was
among those whom the city of Vienna has chosen to serve in the Provincial Diet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864(13th of
Adar II, 5624): Fast of Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864: In
Baltimore, MD, George Hexter and Amanda Kann gave birth to Victor Henry Hexter,
the graduate of University of Virginia and husband of Minnie May Wertheimer who
began practicing law in Dallas in 1887 and has served on the Dallas Board of
Education for six years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1867(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5627): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1867: Five
days after she had passed away, Jeanette Salomons, the daughter of Solomon
Cohen and Hannah Samuel and the wife of David Salomons was buried today at the
West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869:
Birthdate of Florenz Ziegfeld. Ziegfeld was born in Chicago. His father was a
successful doctor and patron of the arts. He encouraged Ziegfeld's flair for
showmanship. Eventually, young Florenz moved to New York where he gained fame
for lavish productions "celebrating" the physical aspects of the
American female. The Ziegfeld Follies launched the careers of many showgirls
and comedians including Will Rogers and Eddie Cantor. Ziegeld was one of the
first in a long line of Jews who were connected with the musical theatre.
Ziegfeld married the famed Billie Burke and later moved to Hollywood. He passed
away in 1932.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869: In
Rhaunen, Prussia, Rabbi Joseph Kahn and his wife Rosalie gave birth to Albert
Kahn, one of the foremost industrial architects of his times who created
several of the signature buildings in Detroit, Michigan, including the General
Motors Building, the Detroit News Building, the Willow Run Bomber building, the
foremost production site of B-24 bombers during WW II and Temple Emanuel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/auto-factory-architect-albert-kahn-dies?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2016-1208-12082016&om_rid=ce90181b0c3c1c3ceab4056c1ed1ff02d824a1fe06338d33baf4a5faf2c54d96&om_mid=119395340&kx_EmailCampaignID=8555&kx_EmailCampaignName=email-hist-tdih-2016-1208-12082016&kx_EmailRecipientID=ce90181b0c3c1c3ceab4056c1ed1ff02d824a1fe06338d33baf4a5faf2c54d96%20&os_ehash=44@experian:ce90181b0c3c1c3ceab4056c1ed1ff02d824a1fe06338d33baf4a5faf2c54d96"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/auto-factory-architect-albert-kahn-dies?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2016-1208-12082016&om_rid=ce90181b0c3c1c3ceab4056c1ed1ff02d824a1fe06338d33baf4a5faf2c54d96&om_mid=119395340&kx_EmailCampaignID=8555&kx_EmailCampaignName=email-hist-tdih-2016-1208-12082016&kx_EmailRecipientID=ce90181b0c3c1c3ceab4056c1ed1ff02d824a1fe06338d33baf4a5faf2c54d96%20&os_ehash=44@experian:ce90181b0c3c1c3ceab4056c1ed1ff02d824a1fe06338d33baf4a5faf2c54d96</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869: Today
San Francisco attorney and Democratic politician Joseph Naphthaly, the Prussian
born son of Samuel and Julia Naphthaly married Sarah Schmitt, the daughter of
“Blaize L. and Pauline Schmitt with whom he had two children – Samuel and Leon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870(18th of
Adar II, 5630: Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin of Aleksander passed away. Born in
1798, “he served as the rebbe of a community of thousands of Hasidim during the
"interregnum" between the Chidushei HaRim of Ger and the Sfas Emes.
Heynekh was one of the leading students of the Rebbe Reb Simcha Bunim of
Pshischa. After the latter's death he became one of the most prominent
followers of Rebbe Menachem Mendel of Kotzk and the senior disciple of
Chidushei hoRim. Following the death of the Chidushei hoRim in 1866, the bulk
of his numerous chasidim chose Rabbi Chanokh Heynekh as the next rebbe. Chanokh
Heynekh served as the Rabbi in the Jewish communities of Aleksander from 1837
(or earlier) till 1853, Nowy Dwór from 1853 to 1859 and Przasnysz from 1859 to
1864 (or 1866). After his tenure In Przasnysz he retired from the rabbinate and
settled in Aleksander, where he lived during his period of leadership as rebbe.
His teachings are collected in Chashovoh leToivo (first published in 1929[, and
are quoted widely. While few may know his name today, his successor was the
renowned Yehudah Aryeh Leib which means he must have been quite a personage in
his own right.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871:
Twenty-six-year-old Max Landsberg, the Berlin born son of a rabbi and graduate
of the Breslau Jewish Theologicial Seminary began serving as the Rabbi at
B’rith Kodesh Temple in Rochester, NY – a position he held for forty-four
years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871: Otto von
Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire. In the 1840’s, when
Bismarck began his political career, he held the views of a reactionary Junker
“who could not accept Jews serving in the name of his ‘holy majesty’” and who
opposed legislation offering Jews full emancipation. By 1869, Bismarck was the
leader of a government that passed an emancipation law stating, “All still
existing limitations of the…civil rights which are rooted in differences of
relgious faith are hereby annulled.” Bismarck explained the change in views by
stating, “Man grows with his goals.” In Bismarck’s case the goal was elimination
of Austria as Prussia’s rival for leadership of a modern unified Germany.
Bismarck turned to his personal banker, a Jews named Gerson Bleichroeder, to
supply the financing for the war which drove Austria from the German equation
and allowed him to modernize the German Army. Bismarck realized that Jewish
support was necessary for his nationalistic goals. But in working with Jews, he
came to see them as human beings, and as human begins capable of making a major
contribution to the new Germany. All of these elements helped to make the new
chancellor a more enlightened leader when it came to matters concerning the
Jews. Evidence of this new enlightenment would be seen in 1878 when he took the
side of the Jews at the Congress of Berlin when dealing with Czar Alexander II
over the question of the horrible treatment of the Jews of Romania.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872: It was
reported today that the Jews of Cahul in Romania have endured three days of
attacks by the local citizens. There are 1,000 Jews living in this town of
7,000. Two of the synagogues have been desecrated and property losses are
valued are 49,000 ducats<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872(11th of
Adar II, 5632): Fast of Esther observed because the 13th of Adar II falls on
Shabbat<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872(11th of
Adar II, 5632): Russian Talmudist Samuel ben Joseph Strashun, also known as
Rashash (רש"ש) passed away today in Vilna. As we shall see, he embodied
the concept of not making a profit from the crown of the Torah. Born in 1794,
he was educated by his father, married at an early age, and settled with his
wife's parents in the village of Streszyn, commonly called Strashun (near
Wilna), where he assumed his last name. The distillery owned by his
father-in-law was wrecked by the invading French army in 1812, and the family
removed to Wilna, where Samuel established another distillery and became one of
the most prominent members of the community. His wife conducted the business,
as was usual in Wilna, and he devoted the greater part of his time to studying
the Talmud and to teaching, gratuitously, the disciples who gathered about him.
The Talmud lectures which for many years he delivered daily at the synagogue on
Poplaves street were well attended, and from the discussions held there
resulted his annotations, which are now incorporated in every recent edition of
the Babylonian Talmud (Hagahot v'Chiddushei HaRashash). His fame as a
rabbinical scholar spread throughout Russia, and he conducted a correspondence
with several well-known rabbis. Strashun was offered the rabbinate of Suwałki,
but he refused it, preferring to retain his independence. His piety did not
prevent him from sympathizing with the progressive element in Russian Jewry,
and he was one of the few Orthodox leaders who accepted in good faith the
decree of the government that only graduates of the rabbinical schools of Wilna
and Jitomir should be elected as rabbis. He wrote good modern Hebrew, spoke the
Polish language fluently, was conspicuously kind and benevolent, and was highly
esteemed even among the Christian inhabitants of Wilna. Besides the
above-mentioned annotations, he wrote others to the Midrash Rabbot, which first
appeared in the Wilna editions of 1843-45 and 1855. Some of his novellæ,
emendations, etc., were incorporated in the works of other authorities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873: In
Hessen, Germany, Simon and Lina Plaut gave birth to Isaac Plaut, the “husband
of Sophie Plaut” with whom he had eight children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875: The
Anshe Bikur Cholim Society hosted a Purim Ball tonight at Irving Hall in New
York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875’ Three
days after he had passed away, 67 year old Morris Jewell, the husband of Sophia
Jewell and the father of Julian, Nathaniel and Caroline Jewell was buried today
at the “Brompton (Fulham Road Jew<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ish
Cemetery.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875: Over 200
contributors signed the “Silver Book of Life” at this evening’s Purim reception
at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875: Rachel
and Moses Isaac Binion gave birth to Martha Esther Binion who became Martha
Esther Cahn when she married Edward Cahn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1876: In New
York, Julia Links and</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“Rabbi
Adolphus Huebsch, who had immigrated to the United States from Hungary in 1866”
gave birth to printer turned publisher Benjamin W. Huebsch, the husband of “Alfhild
Lamm” whom he married in 1920 and who was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“the first publisher in the United States of:
D. H. Lawrence's book Sons and Lovers (1913), James Joyce's Dubliners (1916 and
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio who
merged his publication company with Viking Press where he continued to pursue
his literary career while becoming active in the progressive political
movements.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877(7<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5637): Fifty-eight-year-old Moritz Kohner who in 1869 founded the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Deutsch-Israelitische Gemeindebund</i>
passed away today in Leipzig.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: James
Sanua founded the satirical magazine <i>Abu Naddara Zarqa,</i> which had an
immediate appeal to both those who could read and those who had it read to
them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13186-sanua-james"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13186-sanua-james</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879: A Jewish
peddler from New York was beaten and robbed by 3 men while walking along the
railroad tracks between Norton and Stamford, Conn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880(9th of
Nisan, 5640): Just six days short of his 60<sup>th</sup> birthday, Indian
businessman Elias David Sasson passed away in Ceylon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880:
Birthdate of Hungary native Julius Hochfelder who in 1888 came to the United
States where he was considered to be “a large, sturdy man, considered a genius,
he was a highly educated (LL.B., Ph.D.) patent lawyer, author, organizer of the
Seaman’s Evening College, director of the Homework Protective League and, in
World War I, member of the Jewish Welfare Board” who was the husband of his law
partner Anna Weiner Hochfelder, “the president American Alliance of Civil
Service Women from 1912 to 1938 and legal advisor to the New York Federation of
Women’s Clubs from 1922 to 1938” and the father of Julian and Richad
Hochfelder.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882:
Birthdate of Friederike Massarik, the native of Vienna who gained fame opera
singer Fritzi Massary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/massary-fritzi"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/massary-fritzi</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882:
Birthdate of Max Aronson, the Little Rock AR native who gained fame as Gilbert
M. Anderson an early silent screen actor, appearing as Bronco Billy in that
famed 1903 hit, “The Great Train Robbery. “Anderson also was a promoter of the
new industry and was one of the first to move his operation to California where
he made at least one film featuring the famous Ben Turpin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883(12th of
Adar II, 5643): Sir George Jessel, the son of a Jewish coral merchant who
became on the U.K.’s most influential jurists passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884: In
Budapest, Morris and Fanny (Reiner) Buchler, gave birth University of Bern
Ph.D. rabbi Samuel Buchler, the husband of Ida Frost and chaplain at Sing Sing
Priso who served as deputy attorney general for the State of New York who was
disbarred after having been charged with grand larceny for taking money from
clients and then not performing the promised services,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5646): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: At what
was then Allenstein, Prussia. Emma Esther Jaruslawsky and David Mendelsohn gave
birth to Erich Mendelsohn, the husband of Luise Mendelsohn whom he married in
1915 and the father of Esther Mendelsohn who was “a German- Jewish architect,
known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for
developing a dynamic functionalism in his projects for department stores and
cinemas” who was a friend of Chaim Weizmann and who “now-famous buildings:
Weizmann House and three laboratories at the Weizmann Institute of Science,
Anglo-Palestine Bank in Jerusalem, Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus, Rambam
Hospital in Haifa and others.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888(9<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5648): Zebi Hirsch Ornstein the son of Mordecai Zeeb Ornstein, and
grandson of Jacob Meshullam Ornstein, who served as the rabbi at Rzeszow and
Lemberg, passed away today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889: Birthdate
of Minsk native Aaron Mazia, the husband of Bertha Kurtz Mazia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: A law
was issued today which defines Austrian Jewish communities and “regulated the
conditions of Jewish congregations.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: In
Sokolow, Austria, Henry Pomeranz and Anna Kivowitz gave birth to Max Pomeranz
the Brooklyn dentist who came to the United States in 1900 and is the
grandfather of singer/songwriter David Pomeranz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: Based on
information that first appeared in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">London
Daily News</i> “Sobriety Among Jews” which was published today espouses the
theory that the Jews have survived despite having been oppressed “by cruel
laws” and forced to live “in abodes where others must have died” because “they
lead, as a rule, simple lives and are mindful of the expressive maxim in
Proverbs, ‘wine is a mocker.’” In other words, while Jews do not refrain from
drinking, they drink in moderation and condemn intemperance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: “The
members of the Baron de Hirsch Club opened their clubhouse at 208 East
Broadway” in New York City today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: Hermann
Ahlwardt delivered “a rabidly anti-Semitic speech” in the Reichstag in which
“he declared that he had eleven documents which showed that while Prince
Bismarck was Chancellor, fraudulent contracts had been made repeatedly with
Jewish financers…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: “For
Jewish Working Girls” published today provided the efforts of the Jewish
Working Girls’ Vacation Society to provide a summertime respite by renting a
house in the country where they can spend a few restful days at no charge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The environment will be moral and all dietary
laws will be observed. The society led by Mrs. A.L. Freudenthal rented a house
in Westchester County last year and provided two-week vacations for 125 young
women.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: It was
reported today that the Don Quixote Club will host a fundraiser for the United
Hebrew Charities at the Manhattan Athletic Club.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884: In
Lithuania, Isiah and Esther Fruma (Shapiro) Rabinowitz <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: It was
reported today that the industrial school in New York is only one of the
institutions supported by the Bikur Cholim which is currently under the
leadership of Mrs. Emma L. Toplitz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
Birthdate of Jack Arons, the native of Balia, Roumania who was a “member of the
first group of” members of the Jewish Legon” from Toronto who “served as an
instructor in the 40<sup>th</sup> Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers” who, after
WW I, “returned to Toronto and enter the catering business.” (As reported by
Leon Cheifitz who as an 18-year-old living in Montreal, joined the Legion.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: “Contest
of the Grunhut Will” published today described the attempts by Louis Grunhut
and Mrs. Mary Ballowa, the son and daughter of the late Dr. Bernhard Grunhut,
who are trying to break the will of the descendant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are contending that the Doctor had not
married Eva L. Jacobs who claims to be his widow and that the couple had not
had a baby which died after only 15 deaths. As matters stand now she will
inherit his entire estate less $50,000 that has been left to Mount Sinai
Hospital and the Hebrew Benevolent Society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: For the
first time Shaaray Tefila will use the Union Prayer Book which was recently
adopted by the Union of American Congregations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: The
celebration Shaaray Tefila’s Jubilee will continue this morning with an address
delivered after Shabbat morning services by “Henry Morrison, a veteran lawyer
who as a youth delivered an address at the dedication of the first synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896:
“Inquisition and the Jews” published today summarized the views expressed by
Dr. M. H. Harris. In speaking of the long-term consequences suffered by the
perpetrators of the Inquisition, he concluded that “Spain brought upon itself
its own punishment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In driving out the
Moors and Jews it drove out its best citizens. ..Spain is the most
insignificant of nations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is no
longer a first-rate power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In driving
out the Moors and Jews it wrote its own epitaph.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: A Purim
Reception today marked “the formal opening of the new building and the improved
hospital wards of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews at West 106<sup>th</sup>
Street.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: Cantor
David Cahn will officiate at today’s funeral for Rabbi Ignatz Grossman which
will be held at Rodef Sholom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rabbis
Kaufman Kohler and Joseph Silverman will deliver eulogies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: The
Superintendent of the Montefiore Home For Chronic Invalids hosted its annual
Purim Masquerade Ball tonight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: In
Mulhouse, Alsace, France, Constance Kenendel Lang and Baruch Kahn gave birth to
Samuel Kahn<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898:
Birthdate of Russian native and University of Pennsylvania educated
psychologist Dr. Morris Simon Viteles, the “founder of the first vocational
guidance center,” the author of Industrial Psychology and the Dean of the
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.sas.upenn.edu/psych/history/vitelestext.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.sas.upenn.edu/psych/history/vitelestext.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898(27<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5658: Sixty-two-year-old Babbette Frankfurt, the wife of Moses
Frankfurt passed away today following which she was buried in the Hebrew
Cemetery in Norfolk, Va.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: In
Albany, Governor Black signed into law a bill introduced by Senator Cantor
incorporating the Hebrew Charities Building in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: When the
Austrian Reichsrath reconvenes today legislation will be introduced to exclude
“from the privilege of suffrage all Jews and those remotely connected with that
race either by marriage or remote ancestry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: Samuel
Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor delivered an address on
“The Working Day” tonight at the People’s Home in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: The
first plenary session of the Supreme Court of Appeals, with all three Chambers
sitting jointly and Charles Mazeau presiding.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900:
Birthdate of Hamburg born pathologist Paul Kimmelstiel who along with Clifford
Wilson, is considered to be the first to describe diabetic nephropathy passed
away today while serving on the faculty of the University of Oklahoma.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.renalpathsoc.org/resources/Documents/InMemoriam_2008_PaulKimmelstiel.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.renalpathsoc.org/resources/Documents/InMemoriam_2008_PaulKimmelstiel.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: During
the Boxer Rebellion, as a force of British marines at Tien-Tsin it was reported
today that the only Russian civilians still in the city are members of the
Consulate staff and two Jewish store owners “who left Russia in to save their
lives” and who are now being called upon “to move to the Russian concession.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902:
Birthdate of Hamburg native and actor Carl Jaffe who used the stage name Frank
Alwar while performing in his native Germany which he left in 1936 with the
rise of the Nazis and settled in London where he pursued a long running career
in films and television.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902(12th of
Adar II): Sixty-three year old Abraham Shalom Friedberg (Har Shalom) who went
from watchmaker’s apprentice to tutor, author and editor whose works included
Emek ha-Zasim , a Hebrew language “adaptation of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grace Aguilar's <u>Vale of Cedars</u>"
passed away today in Warsaw.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902:
Four days after she had passed away, Henriette De Jongh, the wife of Nathan
Jacob De Jongh and the mother of James and Benjamin De Johngh was buried today
at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902:
Birthdate of Holocaust survivor Jermie Adler. A poor Jew born in the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, he and his wife moved to Liege, Belgium during the
1930’s where he ran a tailor shop that provided a living for him, his wife and
their three children. The family hid successful for four years during the
brutal German occupation. Tragically, while Adler was sick in the hospital, the
Gestapo came and arrested his family including his nephew. They all perished
except for one daughter, who, along with Adler survived the war.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903:
Birthdate of journalist and movie producer Mark Hellinger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://alankrode.com/public/vigorish/Mark%20Hellinger.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://alankrode.com/public/vigorish/Mark%20Hellinger.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: The
second and concluding session of the American Jewish Historical Society is
scheduled to take place this afternoon at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
where attendees had already heard papers on “The History of the Jews of Mobile”
Rabbi Alfred G. Moses of Mobile, “Edward Woolf, Musisan and Author” by I.S.
Isaacs of New York and “Isaac de Pinto” by Leon Huhner of New York..<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5665): Purim (see item below for a moment or irony)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: Albert
Einstein publishes his theory on special relativity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: This
morning, the funeral for Isaac Gellis is scheduled to take place at
Congregation Kahal Adath Jeshurun the synagogue which he served as President.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906:
Birthdate of Benjamin Samberg, the New York native who gained fame as
singer-songwriter Benny Bell.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/165717"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/165717</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: Abraham
Frankel, a cousin of Israel Levin who had come to St. Thomas in 1897, became
part of the Sephardic merchant community today when he married Rebecca Sasso,
the daughter of Abraham Sasso, who soon after they were married moved on to
Colon, Panama.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: Lina
Abarbanell co-starred in “The White Chrysanthemum” which had its American
opening tonight in Atlantic City, NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: Before
“donning their uniforms” those in the army reserves who had been called up for
duty “plundered several Jewish shops” in Berlad, Moldavia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: “Large
numbers of Jews from Jassy and other Moldavian towns which have been terrorized
by the excesses of the peasantry have arrived “in Bucharest” seeking refuge and
assistance.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908(28<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5668): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Parah observed for the last time
during the presidency of Teddy Roosevelt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908(28<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5668): Seventy-six-year-old French financier and member of the
French parliament Eugene Pereire, the husband of Juliette Fould and the father
of Alice and Marie Pereire passed away today in Franch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: In
Austria, David (Aubie) Kinsbruner and Nettie Kinsbruner gave birth to Max
Kinsbrunner who as Mac Kinsbrunner, the New York City High School graduate who
began his college basketball career at Syracuse before transferring to St.
Johns where he “was a member of the famed ‘Wonder Five basketball team that won
68 of 72 games from 1929 through 1931.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910(10<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5670): Seventy-one-year-old retired dry goods merchant and
philanthropist Abraham Lippmann, the long-time president of Temple Rodeph
Shalom and the Pittsburgh United Hebrew Relief Society passed away at 4 o’clock
this morning in Pittsburgh.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: It was
reported today that V.N. Kokovsoff, the newly appointed Russian Premier
maintains “an enlightened and moderate attitude” on “the Jewish question.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: It was
reported today that “the campaign which the Young Women’s Hebrew Assoication
will undertake from April 11 to April 25 to raise the $200,000 still needed for
the erection of a new dormitory and head headquarters building has attracted a
great deal of attention.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
Birthdate of Max E. Youngstein the New York born lawyer turned movie producer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/11/business/max-youngstein-84-helped-run-united-artists.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/11/business/max-youngstein-84-helped-run-united-artists.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5673: Fifty-six-year-old philanthropist Louis Feist passed away
today in Frankfort, Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5673): Chicago merchant Victor Strelitz, a member of Chicago’s
Sinai Congregation passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5673): Eighty-year-old journalist Charles A.D. Meyerhoff passed
away today in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5673): Samuel A. Lass who “became rabbi of the Ohel Congregation
twenty-six years ago and three years later accepted the pulpit of the Keneseth
Israel Congregation passed away today in Minneapolis, MN.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5674): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudey: Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5674): Fifty-seven-year-old Isidor Langsdorf, of Antonio <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Roig and
Lansdorf, the manufacturer of the Roig cigars and leading member of Rodeph
Shalom passed away today in his hometown of Philadelphia, PA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: London
native Redcliffe Nathan Salaman, the son of Myer and Sarah Salaman and Nina
Ruth Salaman gave birth to Esther Salaman who became Esther Sarah Hamburger
when she married Paul Hamburger<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: “The
American Jewish Relief Committee for Sufferers from the War, the Central
Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War and the Provisional
Committee for General Zionist Affairs issued a joint appeal today to Jews in
American to make special contributions for relief of Jewish war sufferers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: “Plans
to raise $100,000 with which to build a home for Jewish orphans in the Bronx
were discussed today by the Federation of Bessarabian Organization today” at
the meeting in Public School 62.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: “A
protest against the violation by Rumania of the political and civil rights
provided for the Jews of Rumania by the Treaty of Berlin in 1877 after the
close of the Russo-Turkish War was made by the Federation of Rumanian Jews of
America tonight at its dinner at Trotzky’s Kosher Restaurant in the Broadway
Central Hotel at Bond Street and Broadway.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: “Supreme
Court Justice Samuel Greenbaum, President of the Education Alliance delivered
an address tonight at celebration marking the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary of
the found of the alliance in which he “reviewed the history of the organization
and outlined its purposes.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: State
Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo and several former directors of the
Educational Alliance and members of the Women’s Auxiliary were among those who
attended a reception given in honor of Mayor John P. Mitchell by the Education
Alliance., <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
Birthdate of Novelist Harold Robbins. There seems to be some dispute about this
since May 5, 1916, is also given as his birthdate. An orphan, Robbins was also
known as Francis Kane and Harold Rubin. Some of his more famous works included
The Carpetbaggers and The Betsy. While not critically acclaimed, Robbins was a
hit with the public. According to one source, his books have sold more than
fifty million copies and some of them have been turned into popular Hollywood
films. Robbins died in 1997.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: The
President of the American Jewish Committee sent a cablegram to Professor Paul
Miliukov the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Provisional Government
established by the Revolution in which he said, “Every Jew hails free Russia’s
advent with prayer thanksgiving, and pledges for co-operation.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Henry
Morgenthau, of the American Jewish Relief Committee, announced” today “that
$10,000 must be raised in the United States by June 1” if the millions of “Jews
in the eastern war zone were to be saved from starvation.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: In
Jerusalem, “noted archeologist Eleazar Sukenik and educationalist and women's
rights activist Hasya Sukenik-Feinsod” gave birth to Yigal Sukenik who as
Yigael Yadin gained fame fighting in the War for Independence, serving as the
second Chief of Staff for the IDF and becoming a first-rate archeologist. If
you did not know he was a real person, you would swear that some novelist had
invented this fascinating person.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/yigael-yadin"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/yigael-yadin</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/29/obituaries/yigael-yadin-famed-israeli-dies-was-archeologist-and-war-hero.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/29/obituaries/yigael-yadin-famed-israeli-dies-was-archeologist-and-war-hero.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: After
calling on Jews to support “the Catholic war drive” Jacob H. Schiff led by
example when he made a one-thousand-dollar contribution to the charitable
activity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Today,
on Delancey Street, Rabbi M.Z. Margolies blessed “the members of the second
contingent of the Jewish Battalion before its departure for Canada.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: The
National Jewish Council in Constantinople asked the British High Commander for
the discharge of all Jewish soldiers from the Ottoman army. They stated that
the Jewish soldiers endured terrible suffering, as they were used to build
roads across Anatolia. Thousands died due to lack of food, illness,
insufficient equipment and cruel treatment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: In
Budapest, Zsigmond Kunfi, minister of education in the newly formed Hungarian
Social Democratic government met with Bela Kun chairman of Hungary’s Communist
party at the Marko Street Jail. Kunfi was seeking Kun’s support in the
formation of coalition government. The irony is that Kun and Kunfi whose name
was Kohn, were both Jewish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: In a
move that would end up keeping Jews from getting to the United States during
the Holocaust, President Harding pushed Congress to limit immigration. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: In
Vienna, the police and municipal guards dispersed a parade of several hundred
young men that had been formed in front of city hall despite a ban on
anti-Jewish mass meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920(2nd of
Nisan, 5680): Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe passed
away. There is no way that this simple blog can do justice to this leader of Chabad,
and we urge to check elsewhere for more about his life and contributions to the
Jewish people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/110470/jewish/A-Brief-Biography.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/110470/jewish/A-Brief-Biography.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: In
Dublin, Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, who was serving as Chief Rabbi of Ireland and
his wife gave birth to Yaakov Herzog who made Aliyah when his father became the
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi and who, after being ordained earned a law degree and
became a member of the Israeli diplomatic corps.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.magalbooks.com/herzog.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.magalbooks.com/herzog.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/this-is-how-we-ruined-toynbee-s-theory-1.210993"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/this-is-how-we-ruined-toynbee-s-theory-1.210993</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Karl and
Helene Neubauer gave birth to Kurt Neubauer who was murdered at Treblinka in
late 1942.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Dr.
Enlow is scheduled to preach at services at Temple Emanu-El that start at 11
A.M.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: Winston
Churchill cautions Zionist Pinhas Ruttenberg against ordering machinery for the
newly approved power project for Palestine from Germany when unemployment is
still a major problem in Britain. Ruttenberg took the hint and re-channeled his
purchases of heavy equipment accordingly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: Captain
Henry C. Hathaway, Director of Student Welfare at NYU denied today the
“existence of an anti-Jewish movement at New York University” after signs
appeared early in the week saying “Strictly Koshers are not wanted here.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924:
Birthdate of Dov Shilansky an Israeli politician and who served as Speaker of
the Knesset from 1988 to 1992.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924(15th of
Adar II, 5684): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5684): Less than a month before his 40<sup>th</sup> birthday,
Lithuanian born, University of London trained “Hebraist and Arabist” passed
away today in Philadelphia where he was a Professor at Dropsie College and an
editor for the Jewish Publication Society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/halper-benzion"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/halper-benzion</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924(15th of
Adar II, 5684): Eighty-three-year-old Samuel Ullman the native of German who
settled in Birmingham, Alabama where he became a successful businessman, poet
and humanitarian passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.uab.edu/ullmanmuseum/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.uab.edu/ullmanmuseum/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: Viking
Press was founded by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim. “The firm's
name and logo—a Viking ship drawn by Rockwell Kent—were meant to evoke the
ideas of exploration and enterprise implied by the word ‘Viking’".<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: In the
Poconos Mountain town of Stroudsburg, PA, Benjamin Wilkins, a Russian immigrant
tailor and the former Rose Katz gave birth to hotel-man Morris Benjamin Wilkins
who “installed the Poconos’ first heart-shaped bathtub.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/us/morris-wilkins-dies-at-90-lured-lovers-to-poconos.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/us/morris-wilkins-dies-at-90-lured-lovers-to-poconos.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: In New
York, William Fox announced today that realtor Benjamin Winter had contributed
$50,000 to the United Jewish campaign which is working to five fifteen million
dollars to help Jews living abroad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: In
Brooklyn Bernard Gantmacher and the former Rebecca Rose gave birth to Elliot
Bernard Gantmacher who as Elliot Gant, along with his brother Elliot, gave us
that epitome of collegiate fashion – the” button-down” shirt and created their
brand – the famous Gant shirt. (As reported by Sam Roberts)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926(6<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5686): Seventy-seven-year-old 18Dr. Philip Klein who served for
thirty-five years as the rabbi “of the First Hungarian Congregation Ohab Zedek
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jta.org/1926/03/23/archive/dr-philip-klein-aged-new-york-rabbi-dies"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jta.org/1926/03/23/archive/dr-philip-klein-aged-new-york-rabbi-dies</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927(17th
of Adar II, 5687): Seventy-year-old Anglo-American archaeologist Sir Charles
Walston, the son of Henry and Sophie Waldstein who changed his name to Walston
married Florence Einstein Walson with whom he had one side – Henry David
Leonard George Walston -- and whose works included <u>The Jewish Question and
the Mission of the Jews </u>passed away today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Appletons%27_Cyclop%C3%A6dia_of_American_Biography/Waldstein,_Charles"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Appletons%27_Cyclop%C3%A6dia_of_American_Biography/Waldstein,_Charles</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/119534a0"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nature.com/articles/119534a0</span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jta.org/1927/03/25/archive/sir-charles-walston-noted-anglo-jewish-scholar-dies-at-71"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jta.org/1927/03/25/archive/sir-charles-walston-noted-anglo-jewish-scholar-dies-at-71</span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: As the
Ford-Sapiro Libel case continues to be heard in Detroit, letters are arriving
from all over the country including one sent by an unnamed correspondent to
Senator Reed, Mr. Ford’s attorney in which he stated, “every Jew is sworn to
knock out three teeth of a Christian when kissing him.””<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: It was announced
tonight “at a dinner of the Business Men's Council of the Federation at the
Roosevelt” that “The Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic
Societies will seek to raise this year more than $500,000 in excess of its 1927
total.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: “Moe
than two thousand persons attended a memorial performance this afternoon at the
Public Theatre…to raise funds for a monument to placed over the grave of the
Jewish actor Jacob Adler.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929:
Birthdate of Jules Bergman, ABC television’s news space and science reporter.
When the world of space flight was considered the province of the geeks,
Bergman took on the beat and made it intelligible to the average American.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: A West
End production of the Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar musical “The Five O’clock Girl
opened at the London Hippodrome.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: In
Canada, “Premiere L. A. Taschereau and Athanase David, provincial secretary,
representing the Province and representatives of the Catholic clergy today
agreed to the formation of a Jewish school commission with control over Jewish
children within the limits of the island of Montreal.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Nisan, 5691): Parashat Vayikra<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: A group
of leading American Jews are scheduled to assemble this evening un the
leadership of Felix M. Warburg at the Hotel Pennsylvania “for a national
conference of the joint distribution committee formed in 1914 to attain
economic freedom for Jews in Eastern Europe.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: Final
Broadway performance of “Green Grow the Lilacs,” directed by Herbert J.
Biberman, the play that was the inspiration for the Rogers and Hammerstein
musical “Oklahoma.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5692): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932:
Birthdate of Walter Gilbert winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1980.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: “Dumb
Dicks,” a comedy starring Benny Rubin was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932:
Birthdate of violinist and conductor Joseph Silverstein the Detroit native who
has enjoyed a distinguished career that has included both the concert hall and
the world of academia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5692): Rabbi Hyman Joseph Finesinger of Shaarei Zion Congregation
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: The
American athletes who will compete in the upcoming Jewish Olympics are
re-united in Trieste where they begin the last leg of their trip to Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: The
German government opens its first concentration camp at Dachau.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1933: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The New York Times </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reported on the
increased number of German immigrants arriving in Palestine. “Oscar Kahn, who
was a (German) State Secretary in 1918 and who had been threatened by the
Nazis” was among the many German families who reached Eretz Israel this week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934(5th of
Nisan, 5694): Just two days before his 56<sup>th</sup> birthday Austrian
composer passed away in Berlin after having suffered a stroke in December of
1933.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://orelfoundation.org/index.php/composers/article/franz_schreker/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://orelfoundation.org/index.php/composers/article/franz_schreker/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: “The Man
Who Knew Too Much” produced by Michael Balcon and co-starring Peter Lorre was
released in the United States three months after being released in England.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
According to reports published today, “both the police and the Storm Troopers
are under instructions to see it that every registered voter goes to the polls”
in the upcoming elections “except for the Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: In
Marlborough, CT, Sam Boardman and his wife gave birth lightweight boxer Larry
Boardman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Arthur
Grenfell Wauchope, the High Commissioner of Palestine is reported today to be
persisting in pressing forward with establishment of a legislative council even
though the Jews are adamant in their refusal to participate because it would
them a permanent minority subject to Arab and British control<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: As the
wave of terror continues, Dov Zemel, the chauffeur of the Meshek Haotzar, is in
critical condition in Tel Aviv hospital after having been shot by an assailant
firing from an Arab owned orange grove.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: As of today,
no arrests have been in Jersey City “where two large signs derisive of Jews
were painted across the façade of Ahavas Achim” an orthodox synagogue on Myrtle
Avenue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937(9th of
Nisan, 5679) Sixty-four-year-old British born historian and Zionist leader
Jacob De Haas the secretary of the First Zionist Congress, a close confidant of
Theodore Herzel and after moving to the United States in 1902, the first
secretary of the Federation of American Zionists from which position he
recruited Louis Brandeis to the Zionist cause passed away today at Mt. Sinai
Hospital in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/History-Of-Palestine-Thousand-Years/dp/1406709301"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.amazon.com/History-Of-Palestine-Thousand-Years/dp/1406709301</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/03/22/94345411.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/03/22/94345411.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1937: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Palestine Post </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reported that
"unfettered discretion" had been conferred upon the High Commissioner
to make the Defense Regulations under a new Palestine (Defense)
Order-in-Council effective. The proclamation, published in Gazette
Extraordinary, had also empowered the High Commissioner to delegate his powers
to the General Officer, Commander of all Forces in Palestine. It was reported
from London that the Palestine (Peel) Commission was drafting its final report.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: Rabbi
Samuel H. Goldenson is scheduled to speak on “Jews Under Protest and Jews by
Faith” at Temple Emanu-El’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: At this
morning’s Jewish Youth Service, Rabbi I.B. Hoffman of B’nai Jershurun is
scheduled to speak on “Jewish Youth – Awake and Live.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: At the
Free Synagogue, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise is scheduled to speak on “Gains or Losses
in Religion: Have We Lost or Found Faith?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: Rabbi
Morris Lichtenstein is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Healing Through
Religion” at the Jewish Science Society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: “The
proposal that Jews in America adopt a ten-year plan of giving, in order to
safeguard Palestine against partition, was made today by Rabbi Solomon Goldman
of Chicago at the tenth annual luncheon of the Brooklyn Chapter of Hadassah,
held in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939(1st of
Nisan, 5699): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
Birthdate of Joseph Raz the Israeli philosopher whose works include <u>The
Concept of a Legal System </u>and <u>The Morality of Freedom</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: A
24-hour strike protesting Great Britain’s latest plan to deal with the
situation in Palestine was scheduled to come to and at 5 A.M. today. According
to The National Council Of Palestine Jews, the plan would lead to the
“liquidation of the Newish national home” and strangle Jewish settlement in
Palestine<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: “To
Honor Julius Dukas” published today described plans of the United Yehsivos
Foundation to honor “Julius Dukas, the president of the Rabbi Jacob Joseph
School at a dinner celebrating his 80<sup>th</sup> birthday to be held at the
Hotel Astor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: Paul
Reynaud becomes Prime Minister of France. Reynaud would be the Prime Minister
when the Germans would end the Phony War and come crashing through the Ardennes
in May of 1940. Within six weeks, France would suffer a crushing military
defeat. Reynaud was one of the leaders who wanted to continue the fight against
the Nazis from France’s overseas colonies. He was overruled. To his credit,
Reynaud refused to sign an Armistice with the Germans, a role that fell to the
willing hands of Marshall Petain. Petain’s shameful behavior led to the active
betrayal of the Jews of France by their non-Jewish countrymen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941:
Birthdate of Newark NJ native, and Brandeis and JTS alum Arhtur Green, the founder
of Hebrew College in Boston.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://artgreen26.com/">https://artgreen26.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: “Sea
Wolf” co-produced by Jack L. Warner co-starring Edward G. Robinson and John
Garfield (Jacob Julius Garfinkle) and featuring Howard Da Silva as he leading
mutineer was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Nisan, 5702): Parashat Vayikra<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Nisan, 5702): Sixty-nine-year-old Galician born, Berlin trained rabbi Jacob
Lauterbach who in 1903 came to the United States where he became a professor at
Hebrew Union College and a prolific contributor to the Jewish Encyclopedia
passed away today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0186/ms0186.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0186/ms0186.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: Bernhard
Lichtenberg “the single most well-known Catholic cleric who openly disagreed
not only with the persecution of baptized Jews, but of Jews in general” today
“was found guilty of a treacherous attack on state and party and sentenced to a
two-year imprisonment.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943(14th of
Adar II, 5703): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: At
Radom, Poland, Jewish physicians were removed from the ghetto and executed at
nearby Szydlowiec.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: Eight
members of the Jewish intelligentsia were taken from Piotrków, Poland, to a
Jewish cemetery and shot, along with the cemetery's caretaker and his wife. The
Germans engineer these killings to total ten, in a macabre reference to the
biblical story of the hanged ten sons of the Jew-hating Haman--a crucial
character in the Purim story.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: During
the Jewish festival of Purim, 2300 Jews from Skopje, Yugoslavia, were deported
to Auschwitz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: An
attempt to assassinate Hitler when visited a display of captured Soviet weapons
at a military museum in Berlin failed because Hitler’s schedule was changed,
and Colonel Gersdorff did not have time to detonate the bomb.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Eichmann
went to Hungary to oversee German interests in a country that was still
hesitant about deporting its Jews. The Hungarians would soon capitulate to
German demands. The Hungarian Arrow Cross would be an enthusiastic participant
in the Nazis roundups.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: At the
end of the “Flossenberg March,” the remaining survivors of the march were
crammed into cattle cars over a three-day period and awaited further transport.
Many died of thirst. They were sent to Belsen. Only 200 of the original 1000
women survived the entire trip.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: Red Army
troops entered the Pruszcz, Poland, camp near Stutthof. Only about 200 women
prisoners, out of an original 1100, remained alive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: Dozens
of small concentration camps in Germany were liberated by the Red Army.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: “The Kid
From Brooklyn” a musical comedy produced by Samuel Goldwyn and starring Danny
Kaye was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: It was
reported today that “Dr. Stephen S. Wise, President of the American Jewish
Congress and Walter White, Secretary of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People” had “sent a joint appeal to /Governor Thomas E.
Dewey urging him to publicly endorse the Falk-Andrews Bill which would outlaw
restrictive covenants on real estate.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
According to reports published in Tel Aviv today, a combination of loans and
the Jewish Agency has been able to obtain a direct allocation of $500,000 have
made it possible to reopen five diamond plants. The plants had been closed for
the past ten weeks. Seven more plants are scheduled to reopen next week. The
money will be used primarily to purchase rough-cut diamonds which the
Palestinians can cut, polish and sell or be used to create jewelry. About five
hundred polishers will be employed in these efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947(29th of
Adar, 5707): Philip Lehman an American investment banker passed away. Born in
New York City to Emanuel and Pauline (nee Sondheim), his father, was a
co-founder of investment bank, Lehman Brothers. Philip became a partner in the
family-owned firm in 1887 and was the firm's managing partner from 1901 to
1925. He was also the first chairman of the board of the Lehman Corporation.
[1] Lehman was notable as one of the first financiers to recognize the
potential of issuing stock as a way for new companies to raise capital. Lehman
began collecting major artworks in 1911, the bulk of which he willed to his son
Robert. His collection today forms part of the exhibition in the Robert Lehman
Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9406E1DB173CE13BBC4A51DFB566838C659EDE"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9406E1DB173CE13BBC4A51DFB566838C659EDE</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5707): Fifty-one-year-old Solomon “Sol” Tarlow, the Russian born son
of Wolf and Odessa Tarlowski who emigrated to the United States in 1914 under
the sponsorship of his brother-in-law Sam Stolaroff the owner of the dry goods
store in Roswell, NM where Sol was employed as a tailor while raising three
children with his wife Audra, passed away today after which he was buried at
South Park Cemetery in Roswell.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: In
Parliament, Churchill mocks the Labor government’s willing to “scuttle
everywhere” surrendering Egypt, India and Burma but continuing to waste
treasure on a barren Palestine policy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: “Peace
in Europe depends largely on the solution there of the displaced persons
problem, Lieut. Col. Dayton H. Frost, former deputy director of the Civil
Affairs Division of the United States Army in Germany, told 1,500 delegates at
the sixty-third annual meeting of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid
Society today in the Astor Hotel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: Two days
after Ambassador Warren Austin to the UN Security Council said that the U.S. no
longer viewed the partition as viable, an exasperated and angry President Harry
Truman wrote "The striped pants conspirators in the State Department had completely
balled up the Palestine situation."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>President Truman overruled the Arabists, oil industry and self-described
foreign policy pragmatist and continued his support of the creation of a Jewish
state.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: “The
Undercover Man,” a film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis and produced by Robert
Rossen was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: In New
York City, Jackson T. Holtz of Boston, national commander of the Jewish War
Veterans (JWV) presented a 32-passenger bus to Adolf Robison, board chairman of
Material for Israel, Inc. The bus will be used to take disabled veterans from
“Tel Hashomir Hospital in Israel to” their worksites in Tel Aviv which is seven
miles away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar Ii, 5711): Fast of Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: During
the Cold War Red Scare, actor Larry Parks testified before the strangely named
House on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) saying "I don't think
this is American justice to make me...crawl through the mud...this is what I
beg you not to do." "Despite his confessions and informing, Parks was
blacklisted."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952: Jewish
born DJ and producer Alan Freed presented the Moondog Coronation Ball, the
first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1952: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jerusalem Post </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reported that Egypt had
joined the Islamic Union.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1952: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jerusalem Post </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reported that
preliminary secret reparations talks between the Israeli-Jewish and German
delegations had begun at The Hague.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952: The
Jerusalem Post was happy to announce, that together with all other Israeli
newspapers, it would no longer appear as a two-page issue but would be able to
return to four pages daily and eight pages on Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953: Edward
H. Weiss, president of Weiss and Geller spoke at Emory University’s advertising
clinic in Atlanta, GA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5714): Purim Meshulash<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5714): Lithuanian born Columbia educated author and journalist Dr.
Mordecai Katz who “was for many years a member of the editorial staff of the
Jewish Daily News and when this newspaper closed, became the editor of the
Jewish Courier, a daily newspaper in Chicago, which ceased publication several
years ago and who later joined the Jewish Morning Journal in New York” passed
away suddenly today while attending a birthday party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jta.org/archive/dr-mordecai-katz-jewish-author-and-editor-dies-in-miami">https://www.jta.org/archive/dr-mordecai-katz-jewish-author-and-editor-dies-in-miami</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956(9<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5716): Ninety-year-old Edwin Thanhouser, the Baltimore born son of
Samuel and Julia Thanhouser and actor who went on to start the Thanhouser Film
Coporation in New Rochelle, NY while raise his son Lloyd with his wife the
former Gertrude Homan passed away today after which he was buried at the
Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957: Before
filming of “A Fairwell to Arms” began John Huston (who was not Jewish) quit the
project in a dispute with producer David O. Selznick who replaced him as
director with Charles Vidor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958: Seventy-four-year-old
Hans Ehrenberg, who converted to Christianity in 1911 and founded the
Confessing Church passed away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was
forced to flee to England by the Nazis because under their laws he was Jewish.
” Hans Ehrenberg was one of the few German Protestant theologians, even within
the Confessing Church, to publicly express his vehement opposition to the
anti-Semitism of the Nazis and publicly declare his support of the Jewish
people. He strongly urged the Protestant church to take the same stand. He
criticized Christian anti-Semitism and emphasized the similarities between
Judaism and Christianity.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960: David
Susskind was the Executive Producer for tonight’s broadcast of “The Master
Builder,” this week’s “Play of the Week.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961: "A
law was passed that sequestered for the Government 'all goods and property in
Libya, belonging to organizations or persons resident in Israel or connected to
them by professional affiliation”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961:
Sixty-year-old featherweight 5’ 7” David Frush Jr., a native of London who
fought his first fight in 1917 passed away today in Cleveland, Ohio.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://boxrec.com/boxer/52558"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://boxrec.com/boxer/52558</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://boxrec.com/media/index.php?title=Human:52558"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://boxrec.com/media/index.php?title=Human:52558</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961: Art
Modell “bought the old Cleveland Browns” which became the Baltimore Ravens.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962: U.S.
premiere of “Sweet Bird of Youth” produced by Pandro Berman, directed by
Richard Brooks who also wrote the screenplay, starring Paul Newman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1963: “The
Balcony,” a film version of the Broadway play starring Shelly Winters, Peter
Falk, Leonard Nimoy, and Lee Grant was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964: Mayor
Wagner was among those who spoke at the celebration marking the 30<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aufbau </i>which was held
at the Hunter College Assembly Hall and to which “President Lyndon Johnson sent
greetings.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964: In
Philadelphia, the pre-Broadway run of “Anyone Can Whistle,” a musical with a
book by Arthur Laurents and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim came to an
end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964:
Birthdate of Bruce M. Mesner, the New York City native who anchored the defense
for the University of Maryland Terrapins before spending one season playing
pro-ball with Marv Levy’s Buffalo Bills. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1965: Martin Luther
King Jr leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful
civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Among those in the front
rank is Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel who prays with his feet as he joined King and
other civil rights leader on the march which is part of the campaign to pass
the Voting Rights Act.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1966(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5726): Sixty-nine-year-old professional boxer Danny Frust, he husband
of Binnie (Cohen) Frust passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967: “A sharp exchange
involving charges of anti-Semitism against a Soviet representative took place
today” at Geneva” between Morris B. Abram, chief United States delegate to the
United Nations Human Rights Commission and Yakub A. Osrovski, head of the
Soviet delegation, during debate on the question of the establishment of an
office of High Commissioner for Human Rights.” (JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967:
“Thoroughly Modern Millie” produced by Ross Hunter with music by Elmer
Bernstein was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967: “The
Honey Pot, a crime comedy-drama film written for the screen and directed by
Joseph L. Mankiewicz” was released in the United Kingdom today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968: Israeli
forces crossed the Jordan River to attack PLO bases. The organizational names
may change but the war against the terrorists has been going on for decades.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968:
Seventy-one-year-old German born Gerhart Eisler whose father was Jewish and
mother was Lutheran and was a Communist Party operative who worked in several
countries passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhart_Eisler"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhart_Eisler</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://spartacus-educational.com/Gerhart_Eisler.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://spartacus-educational.com/Gerhart_Eisler.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969: Funeral
services for Mrs. Zena Maisel Pollack, a graduate of the University of Nebraska
and the administrative director of the Jewish Guild for the Blind are scheduled
to be held this morning in Manhattan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><a name="_Hlk161764295"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Nisan, 5729): Seventy-seven-year-old <span style="color: black;">Cornell
University trained Mechanical Engineer Ralph Pappenheimer, the Cincinnati, OH,
born son of Pauline and Alexander Pappenheimer, the husband of Claire and
Louise Rauh Pappenheimer and the father tennis player Ralph Pappenheimer passed
away today.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk161764295;"></span>
</span><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1969:
In Cincinnati, OH, Pauline and Alexander Pappehnheimer gave birth to Cornell
University trained Mechanical Engineer Ralph Pappenheimer, the husband of
Claire and Louise Rauh Pappenheimer and the father tennis player Ralph
Pappenheimer</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Nisan, 5729): Seventy-three-year-old Joseph Varbalow, the Russian born son
of Hyman and Sadie Stillman Varbalow and University of Pennsylvania trained
attorney who went on to serve as District Court Judge in Camden, NJ where he
raised a family with his wife Dorothy passed away today after which he was
buried at the Crescent Memorial Park in Pennsauken, NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969: On the
Upper West Side Lucianne Cummings, the Episcopalian literary agent whose
involvement with Monica Lewinsky helped launch her son’s career and Sydney
Goldberg gave birth to right-wing pundit Jonah Goldberg who was raised in the
faith of his father.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5730): Start reading Vayikra on Shabbat Zachor which will be
followed by the reading of the Megillah in the evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: Eighty-nine-year-old
Somerset native George Eric Rowe Gedye who had served as a foreign
correspondent for a dozen years in the 1920’s and 1930” and was the author the
1939 tome Betrayal in Central Europe which was highly critical of Prime
Minister Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement and who provided an eyewitness of
the “brutalities and persecutions” of Jews in Austria<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971(24<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5731): Eighty-year-old Peretz Bernstein, “of the signatories of the
Israeli declaration of independence” and MK passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971: “making
it” produced by Albert S. Ruddy, written by Peter Bart, starring Kristoffer
Tabori and Bob Balaban and with music by Charles Fox was released today in the
United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972: Attorney
General Louis J. Lefkowitz and Senate Minority Leader Joseph Zaretsky, both of
whom were Jewish “attended the funeral today of former State Senator William F.
Condon, during which concelebrated mass of requiem was sung at the Roman
Catholic Church of Christ the King.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973: U.S.
premiere of “Godspell” with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz starring
Victor Garber.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974: “Naum
Olshansky renounced Soviet citizenship and turns in his medals to the Presidium
of the Supreme Soviet.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974: “Jewish
activist Valery Kukui who in June of 1971 had been sentenced “three years in a
labor camp was released today which will enable him to leave for Israel in
April.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1977: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jerusalem Post </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reported that the 293
members of the Palestine Council ended their 13th session in Cairo with an
endorsement which called for the eventual dismantling of the State of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1977: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jerusalem Post </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reported that Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin had told the nation that there were major differences
with Washington on two key issues: Israel¹s final borders and the Palestine
question.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978:
Operation Litani, which was designed to dislodge the PLO from its bases in
southern Lebanon came to a successful conclusion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar, 5739): Sixty-one-year-old Wharton School of Business graduate and WW
II veteran Merrill Lloyd Hassenfeld, the Providence, RI, born son of Henry
Hassenfeld, a pencil and toy manufacturer, and Marion Frank and CEO of Hasbro,
Inc. the toy manufacturing company resonsponsible for selling boys “dolls” by
creating the G.I. Joe “action figure” while raising his family with his wife
Sylvia Kay Hassenfeld, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hassenfeld-merrill-lloyd"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hassenfeld-merrill-lloyd</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980:
“Forbidden Zone,” a musical comedy directed and produced by Richard Elfman who
also wrote the story was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981(15th of
Adar II, 5741): On Shabbat, Soviet film director Mark Semyonovich Donskoy
passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981: Jewish
journalist Jessica Savitch married Donald Payne.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982:
“Forbidden Zone is an American musical fantasy comedy film directed and
produced by Richard Elfman” was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983: After
almost nine years, NBC broadcast the final episode of the popular series
“Little House on the Prairie” starring Michael Landon, who along with Leo Penn
directed serval episodes, Melissa Gilbert and Jonathan Gilbert.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984: In New
York City, author Marion Hess Pomeranc and stockbroker Abe Pomerance gave birth
to “child actor” and chess champion Max Pomerance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5747): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5747): Sixty-four-year-old Viennese native Jacob Tabues, the husband
of Susan Tabues and instructor on Jewish studies at “Harvard, Columbia and
Princeton” passed away today in Berlin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/2672/i-am-impossible-an-exchange-between-jacob-taubes-and-arthur-a-cohen/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/2672/i-am-impossible-an-exchange-between-jacob-taubes-and-arthur-a-cohen/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5749): First Purim during the Presidency of George Bush.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994(9th of
Nisan, 5754): Estelle Sommers passed away. Sommers got her start in the dance
world when she transformed her husband's Cincinnati piece-goods retail store
into a dancewear specialty shop. Passionate about dance since taking ballet and
tap lessons in childhood, Sommers remained committed to the dance world both
professionally and personally until her death. After a divorce and a move to
New York, Sommers married "Mr. Capezio," Ben Sommers, and her career
was thereafter linked to his. As owner-manager of Capezio Fashion Shop,
designer-owner of Estar, Ltd., and as vice president and head administrator for
six Capezio Dance-Theatre Shops nationwide, she achieved success in various
branches of retail dancewear. Along the way, she introduced Antron-Lycra/Spandex,
then a new fabric, into Capezio's dancewear, revolutionizing the industry. Due
to the nature of her business, Sommers could not support or publicly promote
any one dance company over others, but she was deeply involved in general dance
causes. She served on the boards of the Joffrey School of Ballet, the
International Dance Alliance, the Harkness Center for Dance Injuries, and the
Center for Dance Medicine. She was also committed to projects in Israel,
serving on the boards of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the Israeli
Dance Institute. Her greatest impact may have been made as the U.S. Chairwoman
of the International Committee for the Dance Library of Israel. In this
position, which she held from 1979 until 1994, Sommers helped to establish the
Tel Aviv library as the second most important dance collection worldwide.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5755): Eighty-six-year-old “biochemist and immunologist” Alwin Max
Pappenheimer, Jr. passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/24/obituaries/alwin-m-pappenheimer-jr-86-shed-light-on-bacterial-toxins.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/24/obituaries/alwin-m-pappenheimer-jr-86-shed-light-on-bacterial-toxins.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5756): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5756): Ninety-year-old Dorothy Regina Fantasia, the Chicago born
daughter of Henry and Anna Gattman and wife of Peter Albert Fantasia passed
away today in Orange, CA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997: After
premiering in Canada six months ago, “Crash” a film based on a novel of the
same name directed, produced and written by David Cronenberg was released in
the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5757): On the eve of Purim, a Palestinian suicide bomber murdered
Michael Avrahimi, 32; Yael Gilad, 32 and Anat Winter-Rosen, 37 when he set off
a bomb at a Tel Aviv coffee shop.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5758): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudi; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998: It was
reported today that Rashid Baz, a 31-year-old Lebanese immigrant who was
sentenced to 141 years in prison for the murdering 16 year old Aaron Halberstam
and gravely wounding 22 year old Nachum Soskin, has refused to answer most
questions after having been called to testify in the civil suit brought by the
parents of the victims against ‘the seven Tennessee companies that made the
parts of the principal gun that was used in the attack.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1999:</span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> The New York Times </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including
“Years of Renewal” by Henry Kissinger, “The Jewish Lover” by Edward Topol and
“Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land” by Victor K. McElheny.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5760): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: “Pope
John Paul II arrived in Israel, for a historic five-day visit, during which he
visited the holy sites of the three major religions and met with Israel’s
political leaders and Chief Rabbis.” (As reported by Mitchell Bard)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: “Yitzhak
Mordechai, a former defense minister and transportation minister, was convicted
today of committing ''indecent acts'' against two women subordinates.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2001:</span> “<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Palestinian Authority
Force 17 terrorists fired two mortar shells at the town of Morag in the Gaza
Strip and three mortar shells at Netzarim.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002: In
Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three other suspects are charged with
murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal
reporter Daniel Pearl.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002(8<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5762): Yitzhak Cohen, 48, of Modi'in, Tsipi Shemesh, 29 (who was 5
months pregnant with twins) and Gadi Shemesh, 34 were murdered and 47 people
were injured when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated a bomb outside a
clothing store and toy shop on King George Street in Jerusalem<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/21/israel2"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/21/israel2</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: U.S.
premiere of “Dreamcatcher” directed and co-produced by Lawrence Kasdan with a
screenplay by William Goldman and Lawrence Kasdan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Six months after its premiere at the Toronto
International Film Festival, “Evelyn” co-starring Julianna Margulies was
released today in the United Kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2004: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The New York Times </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of interest to Jewish readers including “Codex”
by Lev Grossman and the recently released paperback edition of “The Crisis of
Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror” by Bernard Lewis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: “Israel
today confirmed plans to build 3,500 new housing units in the largest Jewish
settlement in the West Bank, Maale Adumim” which “already resembles a
well-ordered suburb in the hills a few miles east of Jerusalem.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: Publication
of <u>Buried by the Times</u> by Laurel Leff which “ a critical account of The
New York Times's coverage of Nazi atrocities against Jews that culminated in
the Holocaust,” which “argues that the news was often buried in the back pages
in part due to the view about Judaism of the paper's Jewish publisher, Arthur
Hays Sulzberger” and which “gives a critical look at the work of Times
correspondents in Europe.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: The
deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu probably entered Israel from Egypt, sources at
the Agriculture Ministry said yesterday. This conclusion - which ministry
officials are currently willing to offer only off the record - is based on the
fact that the virus was first discovered in southern communities (Holit and
Amioz) located near the Egyptian border. According to the officials, the
disease apparently came from Sinai via people who visited Egypt and carried the
virus back with them on their shoes, clothing or personal effects. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Nisan, 5676): Eighty-one-year-old “L. Leonard Ruben, one of Montgomery
County's best-known judges and the husband of former Maryland state senator Ida
G. Ruben,” died passed away today after he collapsed outside the district
courthouse in downtown Silver Spring.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/21/AR2007032102169.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/21/AR2007032102169.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007:
“Hungarian Folk,” an exploration of the Jewish-Hungarian musical traditions
featuring Magyar Khasene with Jacob Shulman-Ment and Joshua Cohen reading from
his novel A Cadenza for the Schneiderman Violin Concerto, takes place at the
Eldridge Street Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: At the
Shankar School of Engineering and Design in Ramat Gat, an exhibition styled
“There’s No button without a Buttonhole” came to a close.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007:
Raleb<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Majadele replaced Yuli Tamir as
Minister for Science and Technology<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Purim,
5768<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: In New
York, the 92nd Street Y presents an evening with David Grossman one of Israel’s
best-known authors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Three
Kassam rockets fired from Gaza landed in open areas in the Sdot Negev region as
Purim festivities were underway in the area.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: “The
Band’s Visit,” the Israeli film about an Egyptian band stranded in a village in
the Israeli film opens in a most unusual venue, the Fleur Cinema &amp; Café
in Des Moines, Iowa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Shabbath
Hahodesh - The Sabbath of the Month; Completion of Shemot, the Book of Exodus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: The 92nd
Street Y presents Erev Shira, tuneful evening where members of the audience
sing along to their favorite Israeli hits and classics of the past 60+ years,
accompanied by a singer and live band! Erev Shira is part of the Merchav Ivri
Hebrew programming initiative.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Police
foiled a terror attack at a Haifa mall tonight. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Idina
Mentzel “was an Honorary Chair of the Imperial Court of New York's Annual
Charity Coronation Ball, Night of A Thousand Gowns<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: An air
disaster was narrowly averted this afternoon when an Iberia passenger plane
came dangerously close to a Cargo Air Lines jet as the two aircraft were
preparing to land at Ben-Gurion International Airport. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The New York Times </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
“Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History”
by David Aaronovitch, “Backing Into Forward: A Memoir” by Jules Feiffer, and
“Blooms of Darkness” by Aharon Appelfeld<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Keshet
is scheduled to host its 22nd Annual Rainbow Banquet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Gina
Waldman is scheduled to speak at Congregation Edmond J. Safra where she will
discuss “how her experience of anti-Semitism growing up in Libya, and her
family’s expulsion from their ancestral home there, led her to become a human
rights activist.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(15th of
Adar II, 5771): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(15th of
Adar II, 5771): Seventy-six year old movie executive Joe Wizan passed away.(As
reported by Dennis McLellan)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/25/local/la-me-joe-wizan-20110325"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/25/local/la-me-joe-wizan-20110325</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: The
field hospital Israel is establishing in Japan is the first to be set up by any
nation offering outside assistance, Israel’s Ambassador to Japan Nissim Ben
Shitrit said today, and the Japanese are extremely appreciative. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: An
Israel Air Force fighter jet struck a Gaza tunnel running along the border with
Israel, as well as Hamas militants in the northern Gaza strip today, an IDF
statement confirmed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The Sy
Kushner Klezmer Ensemble is scheduled to perform as part of the East Village
Klezmer Series<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Yael
Shahar - Director at Israel’s Institute for Counter-Terrorism is scheduled to
present "Cyber-Terrorism: Threats and Counters" sponsored by The
Israel Project.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
“Obsession” is scheduled to be shown tonight at the 16th Annual New York
Sephardic Jewish Film Festival. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: After
signing a one-year contract with the Minnesota Vikings, Geoff Schwartz played
right guard for 13 games.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Yeshiva
University Museum is scheduled to present 5th Annual Writers on View featuring
artist Sebastian Mendes and writers and poets Terese Svoboda, Willie Perdomo,
Ken Chen, Janet Kaplan, Aldina Vazão Kennedy, Matthew Thorburn, Rachel Zucker,
Tracy K. Smith and Sima Rabinowitz<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Dr.
Elliot Lefkovitz, Loyola University and Spertus Institute faculty member is
scheduled to review and discuss Bernard Wasserstein’s <u>On the Eve:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Jews of Europe Before the Second World
War</u>, a 2012 National Jewish Book Award finalist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present a lecture by Professor
Melissa Klapper author of <u>Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American
Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Art
Garfunkel and Paul Simon’s “The Sounds of Silence” was named as one 25
recordings selected for preservation by the Library of Congress. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013(10<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5773): Ninety-five year old Rabbi Hershel Schacter, who was serving
with the U.S. Army’s VIII Corps when it liberated Buchenwald making him the first
U.S. Army chaplain to enter the camp where he would later conduct services
passed away today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among those whom he
personally rescued was 7-year-old Yisrael Meir Lau, the future chief rabbi of
Israel.2013: The Kubbeh Project hosted by Zucker Bakery on East 9<sup>th</sup>
Street is scheduled to come to an end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: President Obama
visited the Israel Museum seeing the Dead Scrolls at first hand and delivered
an address to young Israelis in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The Memphis
State University “Tigers defeated Saint Mary's 54–52, giving Mark Pastner his
first NCAA tournament victory as a head coach.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: “During US
President Barack Obama's official visit to Israel, Palestinians in Beit Hanoun
fired four rockets at the Israeli city of Sderot, triggering alarms in local
communities and forcing residents on their way to work or school to run to bomb
shelters<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Four rockets
were fired at Israel out of Gaza this morning, as red alert sirens rang out in
south, breaking a tense several month calm in the area.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: “Dominican
Ambassador Aníbal de Castro will joinedLatino and Jewish communal leaders in
Washington DC today for a special screening of the film Sosúa: Make a Better
World as part of an effort by the American Jewish Committee to promote
inter-communal dialogue.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: “The Real
Inglorious Bastards” is scheduled to be shown this afternoon at the Houston
Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014 In Jerusalem,
traffic is scheduled to come “to a standstill from 5:30 am through 1:30 pm as
runners race through the streets in a marathon with “a finish line on Haim
Hazaz Boulevard alongside Sacher Park.” (As reported by Jessica Steinberg and
Rebecca McKinsey)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Coe College is
scheduled to host a lecture by Dr. Waitman Beorn, the Louis and Frances Blumkin
Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at University of Nebraska – Omaha
entitled “Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: The Tulane
Jewish Studies Department under the Chair of Dr. Brian Horowitz is scheduled to
host the annual Strug Lecture delivered this year by Dr. Robert Abzug on
"'Not in Our Town': Christians, Jews, and Skinheads in Billings, Montana, 1993-94."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://tulane.edu/liberal-arts/jewish-studies/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://tulane.edu/liberal-arts/jewish-studies/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.robertabzug.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.robertabzug.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;">2014:
“The Israeli military announced today that it had uncovered a tunnel from Gaza
into Israel meant for carrying out a terror attack, and rejected a Hamas claim
that the find was an old tunnel.”</span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Kenyan Ronald Kimeli Kurgat became the fastest ever person to run the
Jerusalem Marathon.”<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“Arlo and Julie” is scheduled to be shown this evening at the Northern Virginia
Jewish Film Festival.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Captain Jerry Yellin, who “flew the final combat mission of WW II” visited Iowa
Jima today at which time he paid homage to his wingman a nineteen-year-old
Jewish pilot 2<sup>nd</sup> Lt. Philip Schlamberger who was the last airman
killed in combat during WW II.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5775): Ninety-two-year-old Miriam Bienstock of Atlantic Records fame
passed away today.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/business/miriam-bienstock-co-founder-of-atlantic-records-dies-at-92.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/business/miriam-bienstock-co-founder-of-atlantic-records-dies-at-92.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</span></a><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host Angela
Schluter speaking about “The Nazi Officer's Wife: How one Jewish Woman Survived
the Holocaust”<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The 5<sup>th</sup> J Street National Conference is scheduled to begin today.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://conference.jstreet.org/">http://conference.jstreet.org/</a>2016:
Donald Trump is scheduled to address the AIPAC conference this evening because
“It is of paramount importance that our community develops a constructive
relationship with whomever wins their respective party nomination and thus
could be elected president,” according to an AIPAC official.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5776):
Seventy-nine-year-old Hungarian native Andy Grove who survived the Nazis and
the Communists to become the CEO of Intel passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/21/11280004/andy-grove-intel-ceo-dies"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/21/11280004/andy-grove-intel-ceo-dies</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(11th of Adar II, 5776): Seventy-seven-year-old
entertainment lawyer and television host Leon H. Charney passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/nyregion/leon-h-charney-investor-cable-tv-host-and-peace-broker-is-dead-at-77.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/nyregion/leon-h-charney-investor-cable-tv-host-and-peace-broker-is-dead-at-77.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: The 92<sup>nd</sup> Street Y is scheduled
to host “Bridge to Beethoven III” with violinist Jennifer Kohn and pianist Shai
Wosner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: As part of the Jews in the American South
tour Rhetta Mendelsohn will lead a “Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, the country’s
fourth oldest congregation (founded 1749) and the birthplace of Reform Judaism
in the United States, at its 1840 Greek revival temple” followed by a meeting
with “Dr. Dale Rosengarten, curator of the Jewish Heritage Collection at the
College of Charleston to learn more of the story of 300 years of Charleston
Jewish life and a visit to the Coming Street Cemetery, resting place of the largest
and wealthiest Jewish community in colonial America.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Editor’s note: Hopefully including these
items will help people see the broad sweep of the American Jewish experience
and not think of it as something confined to New York and its environs.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: The YIVO Institute is scheduled to
sponsor a lecture by Jack Jacobs on the “Political Thinkers Of East European
Jewry” where he “will focus on the ideas of Dubnow, Zhitlowsky, Pinsker,
Ahad Ha’am, Syrkin, Borochov, Scherer, and Jabotinsky.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: “As part of the the Home Front Command
exercise, the incoming missile alert system in southern Israel was tested this
morning” (As reported Judah Ari Gross)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar, 5777): Seventy-seven-year-old
Chicago Bulls’ general manager passed away today. (As reported by Richard
Goldstein)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/sports/basketball/jerry-krause-dead-bulls-general-manager.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/sports/basketball/jerry-krause-dead-bulls-general-manager.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: Due to the fourth major snow storm to hit
the northeast in the last several weeks, the Streicker Center canceled all
events and classes today including “Being Jewish in America in the Age of
Trump.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: The Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to present Professor Eric H. Cline, author of Biblical Archaeology: A
Very Short Introduction and Kristin Romey, the archaeology editor of National
Geographic Magazine discussing “Mysteries of the Bible: Biblical Archaeology.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: The 6<sup>th</sup> Global Forum for
Combating Antisemitism is scheduled to come to an end today in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: Despite “a Federal Government shutdown
due to a snow emergency,” Morris “Moe” Berg and Eugene Polinsky were among the
13,000 men and woman of the OSS who “finally received the Congressional Gold
Medal today during a ceremony at the U.S. Capital building.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34O_OzoTcFY"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34O_OzoTcFY</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: The Marlene Meyerson JCC in Manhattan
host a live recording of “Unorthodox, Tablet’s flagship podcast featuring guest
appearances by Bart Campolo and former Senator Joe Lieberman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: In Cedar Rapids, IA the Hadassah Book
Club is scheduled to discuss The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: Forbidden Music, “an exploration of
forgotten masterworks written by composers living under the shadow of
oppressive regimes and perished in the Holocaust” is scheduled to open tonight
in the San Francisco Bay area.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: “For the second time in its 165-year
history, Levi’s, “the maker of denim and Cockers which traces its roots to the California
Gold Rush,” is scheduled to start trading on the public markets today. (As
reported by Sapna Maheshwari)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The Federation-Goldring-Woldenberg Major
Donor Dinner is scheduled to take place this evening in New Orleans<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to host screenings of “The Interpreter,” “The Jewish Underground” and
“A Rose in Winter.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In Little Rock, AR, Chabad, under the
leadership of Rabbi Pinchas Ciment, Shaliach par excellence, is scheduled to
host a “Royal Purim Feast and Masquerade Party complete with a multimedial
megilla reading.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5779): Purim;
read the megillah. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: In Los Gatos, Ca, “The Duomo and the
Great Synagogue,” “a talk about two great structures in Florence, Italy, by
Magnes curator Francesco Spagnolo and author Ross King, an expert on
Brunelleschi’s Duomo (dome)” scheduled for today has been cancelled due to the
Pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: In New Orleans, the Limmudfest Meeting
scheduled for today was cancelled due to the Pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: Chabad of Novato’s Rabbi Landa, Cantor
Ari and guitarist Jonathan Kersonky are scheduled to host a “virtual community
Havdalah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020(25<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5779): In
response to the Pandemic, Agudas Achim Congregation in Coralville, IA is
scheduled to conduct its first live streaming service on Zoom starting at 9:30.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020(25<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5780): Parashat
Vayakhel- Pekuday; Shabbat HaChodesh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: <i>The New York Times </i>features
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including <u>The Code Breaker</u> by Walter Isaacson, <u>Last Call</u> by Elon
Green and the recently released paperback edition of <u>Bubblegum</u> by Adam
Levin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:<span style="background: white; color: black;">
Sommelier David Glancy is scheduled to host an S.F. Wine School tasting during
which he will talk about the evolution and diversity of Israeli wines,
especially kosher and for Passover.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: The American Sephardi Federation is
scheduled to present the 8<sup>th</sup> episode of Sephardic Culinary History
with Chef Helene Jawhara Piner, Ph. D which this time will be featuring “a
Mexican Crypto-Jewish Passover Dish.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: Jewish Gateways is scheduled to present
chef Andrea Quinn demonstrating how to make haroset with dried apricots and
pistachios and flourless almond cookies filled with chocolate ganache.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: The “B’nai Jershurun Sisterhood is
scheduled to Host “Art Through the Lens of Marjorie Falk.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: Temple Tiferet Shalom of the North Shore
is scheduled to present “filmmaker, playwright, klezmer musician and cultural
interpreter Ruti Lachs who will present a celebration of an Irish Jewish
community via Zoom.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: Jews and Cabo Verdeans around the world
are scheduled join together online for an international event whose theme is “A
Celebration of Resilience” which will the “15<sup>th</sup> Cape Verdean-Jewish
Passover Seder.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: Michelle Greenebaum of Together in the
Kitchen is scheduled to teach kids online how to mix, roll and bake matzah,
with parental supervision.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: <span style="background: white; color: #1e2322;">Filmmaker, playwright, klezmer musician and cultural interpreter Ruti
Lachs will present a celebration of an Irish Jewish community via Zoom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1e2322; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: JWI is
scheduled to celebrate 10 extraordinary Jewish women who are changing their
industries, communities, and the world” at gala luncheon and awards
ceremony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1e2322; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: “After
Criticism, Film Museum Will Highlight Hollywood’s Jewish History” published
today examines the how a museum devoted to the history of movie making could
leave out the Jewish immigrants — white men all — who were central to founding
the Hollywood studio system” with “barely a mention of Harry and Jack Warner,
Adolph Zukor, Samuel Goldwyn or Louis B. Mayer, to list just a few of the
best-known names from Hollywood’s history.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/21/movies/academy-museum-jewish-founders.html?searchResultPosition=6"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/21/movies/academy-museum-jewish-founders.html?searchResultPosition=6</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #1e2322; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1e2322; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by Jeremy Rosen on “The Rise of
Reform Judaism in Nineteenth Century Germany: Did it Succeed in its Aims?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1e2322; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: Kornit
Fashion Week 2023 is scheduled to continue for a third in Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1e2322; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: The Sir
Martin Gilbert Center is scheduled to host a lecture by Dr. David Kenyon on
“Bletchley Park and D-Day.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1e2322; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host a conversation with Academy Award winner Elinor
Burkett and Andrew Meier author of Jewish Dynasties: The Morgenthaus Power,
Privilege and the Rise of a New York Dynasty.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1e2322; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: All decent
human beings mourn the passing of 32-year-old Or Eshkar, who died yesterday, 11
days after he was shot by a gunman who opened fire outside a cafe on the corner
of Dizengoff and Ben Gurion streets.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1e2322; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: In Cedar
Rapids, the group discussing Everybody Loves Dead Jews is scheduled to discuss
the three chapters dealing with dead American Jews is scheduled to have its
last session which will include the requisite siyyum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1e2322; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: Today, Facebook
author Doron Hamburger is scheduled to arrive at Agnon House for a face-to-face
meeting, where attendees “will get to know a writer whose confessional work, in
the tradition of such contemporary writers such as Karl Ove Knausgaard are carved
into a powerful new genre - instant writing on the web.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1e2322; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: In Berkley,
CA, Urban Adamah is scheduled a screening of “Ziyara,” a “ocumentary following
director Simone Bitton’s pilgrimage to Morocco to connect with her Jewish
roots, in which she meets the Muslim guardians of the country’s Jewish
cemeteries” followed by Q&A and discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1e2322; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As part of
a series presented online, Congregation Sherith Israel is scheduled to “In
Focus: Israel and Gaza” during which “Consul General of Israel Marco Sermoneta
discusses the Israel-Hamas war.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1e2322; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: JWA Book
Talks are scheduled to continue today with editors Tahneer Oksman and Nancy K.
Miller whose <u>Feminists Reclaim Mentorship: An Anthology</u> “illuminates the
obstacles and urgency to form intergenerational feminist connections.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1e2322; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: YIVO is
scheduled to host “Is Anything Okay? – The History Jews and Comedy in America.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1e2322; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: At Temple
Judea, Rabbi Feivel Strauss and Stuart Lockman are scheduled to “share their
experiences from their solidarity missions to Israel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1e2322; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: Lockdown
University is schedule to host a lecture by Dr. Giora Goldman on "You
Don't Mess with the Zohan": Israel's Evolving Relationship with the US
Jewish Community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1e2322; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: At the Sazerac
House in New Orleans, Stephen Sontheimer and Bill Henry are scheduled to be
honored at the annual Jewish Family Fundraiser.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1e2322; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The
Synagogue Seniors are schedule to meet this morning at Agudas Achim in Coralville,
IA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1e2322; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5784) Fast of Easter which is usually observed on the 13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar is scheduled to be observed today because with one exception Jews do
not fast on Shabbat and will include morning and afternoon services and the giving
of the machatzis hashekel – the half shekel coins. For more see <a href="https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/">https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
21st begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 167 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p>melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-43513004286755823742024-03-19T13:52:00.000-06:002024-03-19T16:02:34.057-06:00This Day, March 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><em><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-style: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">March 20<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">43BCE: Birthdate of the Roman poet, Ovid. In “The Art of Love,
Part One” Ovid wrote "And do not miss the festival of Adonis, mourned of
Venus, and the rites celebrated every seventh day by the Syrian Jews." Apparently,
Ovid knew about Jewish customs and, at least when it came to love, thought well
of them (the Jews and the customs)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
1191: The papacy of Clement III “who reissued the bull <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sicut Judaeis</i>, protecting the Jews at the time of the Third
Crusade” came to an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
1488(28<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5248): Celebration of the first “Cairo Purim”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
1602: The Dutch East India Company is established. “By the middle of the
seventeenth century, Jewish diamond merchants helped finance the Dutch East
India Company, which organized its own trade route to India. So Amsterdam then
replaced Lisbon as the port of entry in Europe for India's diamonds.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
1619: Sixty-two year old Matthias, the Holy Roman Emperor who as Archduke had
acceded to the wishes of the Dutch and “established religious peace” in their
provinces which helped to turn the Netherlands into a place of refuge for the
Jews fleeing Spain and Portugal, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
1693: Talmudist Gerhson Ashkenazi, whose many followers including David
Oppenheimer passed away today in Metz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
1705: In Great Britain, Hambro Synagogue founded (there are other claims that
this now defunct synagogue was found variously in 1702 or 1707)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1725: Birthdate of Abdul Hamid I,
the Ottoman Sultan who employed two Jews from Salonica, Doctor Joseph and
Doctor Cohen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1764(16<sup>th</sup> Adar II,
5524): Salomon Nathan Maas, the husband of Hewle Meise and the father of Nathan
and Salomon Maas passed away today and was buried in Frankfurt am Main.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1768: In Whitechapel, London,
Abraham Lumbroso de Mattos and Esther Isaac Lumbroso de Mattos Mocatta gave
birth to Moses de Mattos Mocatta, the husband of Abigail Mocatta and a
co-founder of the West London Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mocatta"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mocatta</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1772(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar II,
5532): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1773: Dutch natives Zipporah da
Veiga Mendes Penha and Samuel Van Isaac Lopes Salzedo gave birth to Jacob Van
Samuel Lopes Salzedo, the husband of Ester Spinossa Catteel<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with whom he had three children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1780: In Wilton, CT, Rachel Mears
and Moses Isaacks gave birth to Esther Isaacks the wife of Isaac Moses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1785: Reyna Levy and Isaac Moses
who were married in 1770 gave birth to Israel Moses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1790: In Virginia, Esther Marache
and Joseph Mordecai who were married in 1786, gave birth to Solomon Joseph
Mordecai the husband of Isabella Jane Kincaid whom he married in 1817 at
Franklin, MO.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1791(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar
II<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>551): Purim</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
1791: In Aldingen, Germany, Elkele Kahn and Samuel Isaac Wormser gave birth to
Zerla Wormser, the wife of Salomon Pappenheimer with whom she had six children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1792: Prague native Israel De
Lieben signed a patent for Abraham Jacobs at Savannah, GA<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1793” Richea Har and Abraham
Mendes Seixas who were married in 1777 at Charleston, SC, gave birth to Moses
Mendes Seixas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799(13th of Adar II, 5559):
Ta’anit Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799: French forces under the
command of Napoleon began the siege of Acre. This was part of Napoleon’s
campaign that stretched from Egypt through Palestine. Napoleon’s campaign in
the eastern Mediterranean marked the start of serious Western involvement in
the land that would eventually become the modern state of Israel.<br />
1800: Birthdate of Gottfried Bernhardy, who was “professor and director the
philological seminary at Halle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1800: Birthdate of SingSing, NY
native Anna Marks, who was an active member of the Philadelphia Jewish
community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1804: In Philadelphia, PA, Issac and
Rachel Cohen Lyons gave birth to their only daughter, Isabel Rebecca Lyons
Mordecai, the wife of “future state senator Moses Cohen Mordecai, the “son of
David Cohen Mordecai and Reinah Abrahams Cohen and grandson of Mordecai Moses
Mordecai and Zipporah De Lyon” whom she married in 1828 and with whom she had
eight children: Isabel, Hortensia, Rosa Hays, David Henry, Isaac John Randolph,
Ellen Loria, Rachel Minnie, and Isabel.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
1806(1st of Nisan): Rabbi Joseph Harif of Zamosc, author of Mishnat Hakhamim
passed away today</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
1810(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5570): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1812: Birthdate of Danzig native
Charles S.J. Semon, the Bradford, England, textile merchant and the “first
foreign born” and Jewish Mayor of Bradford who was the husband Agnes Semon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://bradfordjewish.org.uk/charles-semon-1814-1877/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://bradfordjewish.org.uk/charles-semon-1814-1877/</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
1815: After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of
140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred
Days" rule. In a 1930’s movie about the Rothschilds, Nathan Rothschild
agrees to pledge his entire fortune to defeat Napoleon. In exchange for his
generosity, he demands that the Austrians and Prussian remove their
restrictions against the Jews. “There is a legend told that on the day of the
Battle of Waterloo, Nathan Mayer Rothschild came to the floor of the London
Stock Exchange, leaned against a pillar, and started selling. It was well known
that the Rothschilds had their own independent sources of information and
intelligence, and nobody knew the results of the battle, so when he began to
sell, everyone thought that England had lost, and they began selling, too. That
forced a panic in the market. As much as 15%-20% of the value of the stocks
fell in about three hours. And after they had fallen so low, Rothschild turned
around and began buying. It is said that he knew all along that the Duke of
Wellington had defeated Napoleon and that the British market would go up. And
when the official news came the next day that the British had won, the market
went up 1000 points, making Rothschild even wealthier. It is reputed that on
that coup alone, a substantial amount of the Rothschild fortune was made.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1816: Miriam Marks, a native of
Sing Sing, NY and the daughter of Michael Marks married her first husband Jonas
Barnett today.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
1816:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Montague Marks married Hannah
Moses at the Great Synagogue.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
1825(1st of Nisan, 5585): Rosh Chodesh Nisan</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
1826: Jacob Tenachem ben Yedediah Shmuel married Beila bat Asher at the Hambro
Synagogue today.<br /><br />
1833(29<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5593): Fifty-four year old Myer Moses II, the
Charleston, SC born son of Myer and Rachel Moses and the husband of Esther
Moses with whom he had five children – Franklin, Jr, Rebecca, Montgomery,
Rachel and Hortensia – passed away today in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://chrysler.org/historic-houses/the-moses-myers-house/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://chrysler.org/historic-houses/the-moses-myers-house/</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1835(19<sup>th</sup> of Adar,
5595): Attorney Lyon Levy, the Woolwich, England native South Carlina state
treasurer who was married twice – first to Leah Joseph and then to Sarah N.
Cardoza – and who was the father of Abraham, Elias, Leah, David, Frances,
Olivia, Phillpa and S.L. Levy passed away today in Charleston he was buried at
the Coming Street Cemetery in Charleston, SC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1836: Birthdate of Sir Edward
John Poynter, the English painter who drew on the Bible as topics for his works
as can be seen by his paintings “King Solomon,” King Solomon’s Temple,”
“The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon” and “Israel in Egypt.”<br />
<br />
</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1867_Edward_Poynter_-_Israel_in_Egypt.jpg"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1867_Edward_Poynter_-_Israel_in_Egypt.jpg</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
1837(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5597): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1837: “Mr. Isaac Abisdid was
appointed Chazan today” but would not please the congregation and he would lose
the job in September of the same year.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
1842: In Sulzburg, Hirschel Naphtali Dukas and Helena Hendle Dukas gave birth
to Barcuh Berthold Dukas the husband of Sara Dukas<br />
<br />
1848(15th of Adar II, 5608): Shushan Purim<br />
<br />
1848(15th of Adar II, 5608): Twenty Jews were killed in riots and street
fighting that took place in Berlin. Anti-Jewish riots also spread to Bavaria,
Baden, Hamburg and many other cities. This marked the start of the Revolution
of 1848 that swept the states of Germany. In the end the liberals would lose,
sparking a large migration of Germans including many German Jews to the United
States. These freedom loving liberals would arrive in the United States just in
time to support the infant Republican Party and provide a major element in the
coalition that saved the Union during the Civil War.<br />
1856(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5616): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim<br />
1857: </span><em><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The New York Times </span></em><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reported today that "Jews
are always scrupulously careful about the solemnization of marriages. Two
witnesses, two men of character and unconnected with the parties by
relationship have to sign the marriage document and ten adult males must be
present to participate in the" ceremonies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1854(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5614): Sixty-three year Moses Montefiore Ancona, the London born of
Moses Ancona and the former Hannah Montefiore, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">who lived in Barbados and Jamaica before
settling in Pennsylvania where he used the first name of Moses, married Mary
Ann Knapp, and practiced medicine passed away today after contracting
pneumonia.<span style="color: #444444;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1856(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II,
5616): Erev Purim<br />
1859(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5619): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859: In the Czech Republic, Moses
Eschner and Carolina "Lottie" Caroline Eschner gave birth to Julia
Vasen, the wife of Benjamin George Vasen and mother of Freda Julia Vasen;
Maurice Eschner Vasen; George Benjamin Vasen, Sr and Beulah Catherine Vasen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860: In Kalvarija,Lithuania,
Chaim and Golda Chaya Bluestone gave birth to NYU trained physician Dr. Joseph
Isaac Bluestone affiliated with Beth Israel Hospital and an American delegate
to the 1903 Zionist Congress in Basel who wrote poetry while raising nine
children with his wife Sara Rachel Bluestone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=364804"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=364804</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863: Nathan and Regina Ullman
Stern brought their fourteen year old son Leopold Stern, who would become
“known as the dean of diamond importers in American” and “three time Republican
Presidential elector in New York” to the United States today.<br />
1863:After have transferred to the 120<sup>th</sup> Volunteer Ohio infantry in
1862 and “promoted to the rank of Lt. Colonel, today Marcus M. Speigel “was
officially commissioned as a Colonel” while taking “formal command of the
regiment which would serve under General Grant during the campaign to take
Vicksburg.<br />
1865: Birthdate of Charlottenbrug, Prussia native Hermann Picha, the
German-Jewish actor whose career spanned two decades starting in 1914 and
ending in 1935.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1867(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5627):
Erev Purim<br />
1869: In Lithuania Ella Brown and Joseph Feivel Jacobson gave birth Lakewood,
NJ resident Jacob Jacobson the husband of Slata Gordon whom he married in 1891 was
a member of the ZOA and HIAS.<br />
1870: “The Board of Directresses” of "B'nai Jeshurun Ladies' Hebrew
Benevolent Society," met today in the 34th Street Synagogue. Mrs. Leo
Henry, the President and one of the founders of the society, “presented a
report calling attention to the number of destitute aged and infirm Hebrews in
the city, who were constantly making application for relief which the society
was unable to confer; also urging the ladies to devise some practical measure
which, when adopted, might furnish permanent relief to these distressed and
suffering co-religionists, without interfering with the original objects of the
organization.” The society had been formed in 1848 to provide relief for
“indigent females.”<br />
<br />
1871: In The Hague, Johanna and Maurice Kann gave birth to Emma Louise Kann<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1872: Birthdate of Vilna native
and Berlin ordained Rabbi Aryeh Lev Zagur who in 1898 came to the United States
where he served congregations in North Adams, MA; Evansville, IN; Poughkeepsie,
NY and Houston, TX.<br />
1873: In London, Marcus and Cahia Kohen gave birth to </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Annie Edith Landau, who settled in Palestine where she played a key
role in the development of education and culture for which she was twice
honored by King George V.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/landau-annie-edith"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/landau-annie-edith</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875: Birthdate of Swiss native
Albert Bachman, the son of Russian parents who gained fame as “French
violinist, composer and musicologist.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://it-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Alberto_Bachmann?_x_tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://it-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Alberto_Bachmann?_x_tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
1878(15th of Adar II, 5638): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878: Birthdate of Alsace
Lorraine native Leopold Kling who in 1894 came to the United States where with
his older brother Samuel Kling established Kling Brothers and Company in 1897
in Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.madeinchicagomuseum.com/single-post/kling-bros/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.madeinchicagomuseum.com/single-post/kling-bros/</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
<br />
1878: Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli “gave away the bride” when Hannah
Rothschild married Philip Archibald Primrose, fifth Earl of Rosebery. The
Prince of Wales attended the ceremony that made her the Countess of Rosebery.<br />
<br />
1879: It was reported today that Dr. Henry S. Jacobs will deliver a lecture
this weekend at the Norfolk Street Synagogue sponsored by the Young Men’s
Hebrew Union.<br />
<br />
1880: J W Seligman & Company are parties to a suit to be heard this morning
by Judge Thayer concerning creating a receivership for financially troubled
Memphis, Carthage and Northwestern Railroad Company. Jesse Seligman is one the
trustees for the railroad’s bond holder<br />
<br />
1880: Tonight, the Concord Society is sponsoring a charity for the benefit of
the Young Ladies’ Charitable Union which is part of the United Hebrew
Charities. This first annual event is being held at New York’s Lexington Avenue
Opera House.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1881: Birthdate of Parisian
Eugene Paul Louis Schueller, the founder of the cosmetic and beauty company
L’Oreal and employer of Efrayim Khahneman, whom he rescued from the Nazis which
meant that Efrayim and his wife Rachel could give birth to Nobel Prize winner
Daniel Kahneman. <br />
1882: Calcutta, India native Emanuel Raphael Belilos and Simha Ezra gave birth
to David Belilos who was buried in China after he died at the age of 16 from
the plague in Hong Kong.<br />
1883: In Warsaw, Siegmund Simon Epstein and Sarah Sophia (Lurie) Epstein gave
birth to Russian-American mathematical physicist Paul Sophus Epstein.<br />
<br />
</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/pepstein.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/pepstein.pdf</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
<br />
1885: The Yiddish theater season opened in New York with an operetta by Abraham
Goldfaden.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885: Birthdate of Gerda
Windesheim, a Westphalian survivor of the Holocaust.<br />
<br />
1886(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5646): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Zachor; Erev
Purim<br />
<br />
1886: Birthdate of Jake “Greasy Thumb” Guzik, the native of Galicia and husband
or Rose Lipschultz Gusik whose life of crime included time with Al Capone on
the south side of Chicago.<br />
<a name="_Hlk130051059">1886: In Philadelphia, PA, Florence Stern and Charles
C. Davidson gave birth to Jefferson Medical College trained physician, the
husband of Julia Brown, an “assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at
Jefferson Medical College” and an orthopedic surgeon at the Jewish Hospital in
Philadelphia.</a><br />
1886: In Philadelphia, Emily Grace Solis and Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen gave birth
to “prize-winning poet, author, translator, historian, and communal leader
Emily Solis-Cohen.” (As reported by Arthur Kiron)<br />
1887: Birthdate of Hartog Hamburger the Amsterdam diamond polisher and baseball
who died after being hit in the head with a line drive.<br />
<br />
1890(28th of Adar, 5650): A Hebrew school teacher named Nathan Wisskerz
“committed suicide” this evening “by turning on the gas in his room” at 51
Henry Street.<br />
<br />
1890: in Gelsenkirchen, Julius Hess, an attorney and his wife Elisabeth gave
birth to Ernst Mortiz Hess, “ the baptized German Jew who “commanded the
company of the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16 in which Adolf Hitler
served during WW I.”<br />
<br />
1890: Leo von Caprivi began who was an opponent of the anti-Semitic parties,
began serving as Chancellor of Germany and Prime Minister of Prussia <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: In Berlin,Bernhard
Goldberg, the Polish born son Rose and Abraham Goldberg and his wife Marie Goldberg
gave birth to Betty Goldberg who was the wife of Ruben Cohn and Scholum Solon Salomon
Hirsch<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: Fifty-two-year-old American
actor Lawrence Barrett who portrayed the character of Shylock “with force,
sincerity and at times splendid effect” but was still not on the level of Edwin
“Eddy” Booth whose portrayal of Shakespeare’s Jew was considered to be the best
of them all. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: Birthdate of
Newcastle-on-Tyne native Irving J. Caplan who came to the United States in 1902
at the age of ten, became a successful businessman in Troy, NY, married Marie
Caplan and served as a director of the United Jewish Services.<br />
<br />
1892: “Ivory in the Past” discussed the two sources of this item in ancient
times. While the exploits of Hannibal and others points to an African
source the fact that the ancient Hebrews and those living on the Indian coast
and in Ceylon use the same word for Elephant (habba) and the similarity between
the Hebrew word for Monkey (koph) and Sanskrit word for monkey (kapi) are two
of the indications that India which was home to elephants was the other source
for ivory along with the proven fact that Solomon conducted trade with the
orient.<br />
<br />
1893: “Errors About Intermarriage” published today provided the views of Rabbi
Joseph Silverman of Temple Emanu El on this subject. According to
Silverman, the Bible only prohibits marriage to seven Canaanite tribes and as
can be seen from the examples of Moses and Solomon allows for marriage to
non-Jews.<br />
<br />
1893: William F. Wharton completed his services Assistant Secretary of State
during which he had asserted “that the Department of State is without an
information respecting the alleged suspension of the Russian edict against the
Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: Birthdate of New York
native and holder of a Ph.D. from Columbia Dr. Herman Feldman, the author of <u>Stabilizing
Jobs and Wages</u> and <u>Racial Factors in American Industry </u>who served as
dean of School of Business at CCNY before becoming a Professor of Industrial
Relations at Tuck School, Dartmouth College.<br />
<br />
1894: As the Board of Health struggles to combat the dangers of tuberculosis,
it is having 15,000 copies of instructions on how to deal with consumptives
printed in a variety of languages including Hebrew. (Apparently, the city
officials did not know that Yiddish would have been a better choice for the
immigrants from Eastern Europe)<br />
<br />
1894: The Ladies’ Bikur Cholim Society hosted a Purim celebration for
youngsters at their industrial school.<br />
1895: CCNY grad and Bellevue Medical College trained medical doctor and
bacteriologist<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Louis Fischer, the
Hungarian born son of Louise Frankel and Ignatz Fisher married Clara Robert
with whom he had two sons – Doctors Alfred and Robert Fischer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
1895: In Brooklyn, Louis Grunhurt and his sister Mrs. Mary Ballowa appeared in
surrogate court to contest the will of their brother, the late Dr. Bernhard
Grunhurt who was reportedly lost at sea last August.<br />
<br />
1895: The German Societies in New York asked that the fountain in memory of the
poet Heinrich Heine be placed at 59<sup>th</sup> street and 5<sup>th</sup>
Avenue entrance to Central Park.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1896: Birthdate of Lithuanian
native and JTS graduate Rabbi </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Abraham Mayer Heller,
the spiritual director of the Flatbush Jewish Center since 1924 and author who
raised a son, Rabbi Zachary Heller with his wife the former Frances Lesser,
passed away today.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/01/archives/abraham-heller-rabbi-dies-at-76-conservative-led-flatbush-jewish.html?searchResultPosition=3"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/01/archives/abraham-heller-rabbi-dies-at-76-conservative-led-flatbush-jewish.html?searchResultPosition=3</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: The list published today of
those institutions that the Board of Estimate and Apportionment has given money
to from the theatrical and concert license fund includes Beth Israel ($100);
United Hebrew Charities of the City of New York ($1,000) and Montefiore Home
($500)<br />
<br />
1896: “The Hebrew Infant Asylum Benefit” published today described the
successful auction conducted by Maurice Barrymore and Cyril Scott for boxes and
seats at the upcoming performance of The Heart of Maryland, the proceeds of
which will go to the Jewish charity.<br />
<br />
1896: Speaking of the Jubilee Celebration being held to mark the 50<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of the founding of Shaaray Tefila, Rabbi De Sola Menes who has led
the congregation for 18 years, said today. “The congregation Shaaray Tefila in
the half century of its existence has occupied a unique position among the
Jewish congregations of this city” because “it has held the mean between the
radical reform and the ultra-orthodox” making “haste slowly” while moving
“sedately with the times.”<br />
<br />
1896: Dr. M.H. Harris delivered his second and final lecture today on the
Inquisition at Temple Israel in Brooklyn, NY tonight. During the lecture
he defended himself against charges of “ignorance, prejudice and falsifying
history” made by Revered Brann of St. Agnes’s Roman Catholic Church made after
the first lecture. “The Catholic Church would like to rid itself of this blog
upon its annals. The fact is the Inquistion was a religious institution
but was mixed up with civil affairs…The fact that the Inquisition was
instituted to investigate heresy is the best proof of its religious character.”
(Holocaust deniers were preceded by Inquisition deniers)<br />
<br />
1897: Yeshiva Rabbi Isaac Elhanan opened in New York as an Orthodox rabbinical
seminary. It later expanded into Yeshiva University, with both Jewish and
secular studies, a medical (Einstein) and a graduate school (Ferkauf).<br />
<br />
1897: Oscar S. Straus, formerly the United States Minister to Turkey, returned
to New York from Europe today.<br />
<br />
1897: It was reported today that Mrs. Joseph B. Bloomingdale and Mrs. Edward
Fridenberg had been responsible for the recent party given for those staying at
the Amsterdam Street facility of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. Mrs. Bloomingdale is
the wife of the founder of Bloomingdales Department Store.<br />
<br />
1897(16th of Adar II, 5657): Seventy-four year old Dr. Ignatz Grossman the
native of Hungary who was ordained as a rabbi forty years ago passed away today
in New York City.<br />
1897: Birthdate of Polish born and Columbia and JTS trained rabbi, Max Artz,
the Vice Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary and husband the former
Esther Podolsky with whom he raised three children – Miriam, Raphael and David
Artz.<br />
1898: Two days after he had passed away, Lewis Hart, the son of Joseph and
Rosetta Hart, the husband of Elizabeth Hart and father of Mary and Hannah Hart,
who then married Adelaide Levy with whom he had had seven children was buried
today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.<br />
1898: Yetta Firber took the three children of David Bogin, who were her
grandchildren home from the police station after it appeared they had been
abandoned their father. It turned out that they their mother had died in Denver
and they had gotten lost on their way to join their father in East Hartford
where he had gone for work. (Such was the chaotic life of the children of
the “immigrant generations.”)<br />
1898: Three days after she had passed away, Jane Abrahams, the daughter of
Phillip Levy and Elizabeth Davis and the wife of Isaac Abrahams with whom she
had had six children was buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.<br />
1899: Herzl established the Jewish Colonial Trust as the financial arm of the
World Zionist Organization. Its goal was to encourage Jewish settlement and
projects which would “advance the Zionist cause.” One of its subsidiaries, the
Anglo-Palestine Company, later became Bank Leumi. Other investment helped
create the Israel Electric Cooperation and Bank Hapoalim.<br />
1899: Private Joseph Weinstein, Joseph Polskey, George C. Hahn, Phillip Isaacs,
Julius C. Meyer and Harry Newburg were among those who completed their military
service with the Third Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteer Infantry was
mustered out of the U.S. Army at Savannah, GA.<br />
1900: Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan, a play in one act by David Belasco
premiered today at the Herald Square Theatre in New York City.<br />
<a name="_Hlk130059626">1900: Birthdate of Ukraine native and Columbia
University trained educator Abraham Feingold who came to the United States
where he co-founded the Rugby School and was the victim into a “Red” hunt in
New York City.<o:p></o:p></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130059626;"></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/15/archives/abraham-feingold-dead-at-70-teacher-suspended-in-50-case.html?searchResultPosition=1"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130059626;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/15/archives/abraham-feingold-dead-at-70-teacher-suspended-in-50-case.html?searchResultPosition=1</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130059626;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130059626;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
1901: Russian bank director Levontin presents his plan to buy up the shares of
the Jaffa-Jerusalem railroad. Levontin will become the assistant manager of the
Bank in London.<br />
1902: Birthdate of Baltimore native David Lasser, the science fiction writer
and social activist. (As reported by Lawrence Van Gelder)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/07/us/david-lasser-94-a-space-and-a-social-visionary.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/07/us/david-lasser-94-a-space-and-a-social-visionary.html</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
1903: Lady Sybil Grant the daughter of the 5<sup>th</sup> Earl of Rosebery and
Hannah de Rothschild, the only child of Mayer Amschel de Rothschild and a
granddaughter of Nathan Mayer Rothschild married Charles John Cecil Grant. <br />
1903: Birthdate of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">South
African explorer, stockbroker and chess champion Albert Sidney Pinkus passed
away today in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/06/obituaries/albert-s-pinkus-80-40-s-chess-champion.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/06/obituaries/albert-s-pinkus-80-40-s-chess-champion.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=39243"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=39243</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
1903: American author and humorist Charles Godfrey Leland passed way. In
his memoir, Leland recounted the following exchange with George Eliot
concerning her one novel about Jews. “One day she told me that, in order
to write <u>Daniel Deronda </u>she had read through 200 b00s. I longed to
tell her she had better have learned Yiddish and talked with 200 Jews and been
taught as I was by my friend Solomon the Sadducee the art of distinguishing
Fraulein Lowenthal of the Ashkenazim from Senorita Arguado of the Sephardim by
the corners of their eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: “The American Jewish
Historical Society whose object is to collect and publish data relative to the
achievements of Jews in” the United States, “held the first session of the its
twelfth annual meeting” tonight in the vestry room of the Spanish and
Portuguese Congregation.<br />
1905: The Constitution Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith
continued to meet for a second day New Orleans.<br />
1906: Almost two years after the death of Herzl, Sir Edward Gray wrote to
Leopold Greenberg rejecting the proposal for a Jewish settlement in Sinai for
the third and last time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: Birthdate of Rockford
(Illinois) High School star basketball player Luis Beher, the first Jew to win
Kenneth Sterling Day Award while playing for the University of Wisconsin where
his young brother Sammy was “a star football player.”<br />
<br />
1906(23rd of Adar, 5666): Fifty-five year old Isaac Gellis the successful
businessman and Jewish community leader who came to the United States
thirty-five years ago who has served as a trustee of the Hebrew Sheltering Arms
Society and the Montefiore Home passed away today at his residence on Henry
Street.<br />
<br />
1906: In London, “Esther (née Goldfarb) and Philip Birnbaum, Jewish immigrants
from Poland who fled Warsaw” gave birth to Abraham David Birnbaum who at the
age of three months came to New York where, as Abraham “Abe” Beame became the
city’s first Jewish mayor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/11/nyregion/abraham-beame-is-dead-at-94-mayor-during-70-s-fiscal-crisis.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/11/nyregion/abraham-beame-is-dead-at-94-mayor-during-70-s-fiscal-crisis.html</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
1907: Southern African financier Solomon Barnato Joel, the son of Joel and
Catherine Joel, Ellen (Nellie) Ridley, gave birth to their daughter Eileen who
married John Rogerson and became Eileen Daphne Solvia Rogerson.<br />
1907 (6th of Adar, 5667): Birthdate of Moshe Aharon, the sixth child of Shoshe
and Rabbi Avraham Halevi Shapiro, whom the sainted Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer,
zt"l, pronounced to be an ilui (child prodigy)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: “A decision ended down by
Supreme Court Justice McCail, by which he held that the marriage of Louis and
Sadie Kresh, which took place in Richeletz, Austria, was not valid, it is
asserted by Lawyer Benjamin Reass of 132 Nassau Street, will have the effect of
invalidating hundreds of similar marriages among the Austrian Jews on the east
side, besides affecting several thousand children.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1908/03/20/archives/many-marriages-illegal-court-decision-may-invalidate-hundreds.html?searchResultPosition=1"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1908/03/20/archives/many-marriages-illegal-court-decision-may-invalidate-hundreds.html?searchResultPosition=1</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: Birthdate of Boston native
Benjamin Alexander, the Harvard trained physician who specialized in hematology
and was a member of the faculty at Cornell University.<br />
1909: Birthdate of Cincinnati native and San Francisco physiatrist Meyer Aaron
Zeli<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~law00092"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~law00092</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
1909: In Rotterdam, Moses and Bertha (Haas) Geleerd gave birth to University of
Leyden trained physician Elisabeth Rozetta Gelreed the psychiatrist who fled Nazi
Europe to work at the Menninginer Clinic in Topeka, Kansas who raised one son,
Richard with her husband Rudolph Lowentstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Geleerd-Elisabeth-Rozetta"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Geleerd-Elisabeth-Rozetta</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/mm83060566/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.loc.gov/item/mm83060566/</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: “Dr. Stephen S. Wise, who
returned last week from a visit to the leaders in England of the liberal Jewish
movement” delivered a sermon in the Free Synagogue this morning on “Is There to
be a Schism in English Jewry?” in which “he declared that the Orthodox English
Jews had no understanding of what the liberal Jewish movement means in America”
and have “the mistaken impression that it was an attempt to escape from
Judaism.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/03/21/104925756.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/03/21/104925756.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: In Berlin, “Austrian
theater director Max Reinhardt manager of the Deutsches Theater, and his first
wife Else Heims” gave birth to Gottfried Goldman, who gained fame as
producer-director Gottfried Reihnardt.<br />
1911: Birthdate of Milo Sperber, the “Polish born English actor, director and
writer” who was the brother of Manès Sperber.<br />
1911: “The body of a thirteen year old boy, Andrei Yustschinksi was discovered
near a brick factory on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev.” This
simple statement describes the first event in what will eventually become The
Case of Mendel Bellis, one of the most infamous episodes of anti-Semitism in
Czarist Russia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: “Gerson Sirota, the Russian
cantor who sailed on the Lusitania for home at 1 o’clock this moring was
examined in the City Court yesterday in a suit which is being brought against
him by Herman Herzog,” the plaintiff seeking “to obtain $764 for expenses which
he asserts were incurred by him in certain business relations which he had with
the singer in Europe.”<br />
1913(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5673): Ta’anit Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: “In Berlin, Austrian
theater director Max Reinhardt (until 1904: Max Goldmann), manager of the
Deutsches Theater, and his first wife Else Heims gave birth movie director and
producer who in 1932 came to the United States where he remained after the
Nazis came to power where he made such moves as “The Great Waltz,” served in
the U.S. Army during WW II and served as the stepfather of “US federal judge
Stephen Reinhardt.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar II,
5673): Sixty-nine-year-old Confederate Army veteran Henry Lazarus passed away
today in Camden, Arkansas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: Birthdate of Chicago native
and University of Illinois alum Ralph “Ruffy” Silverstein, the successful amateur
and professional wrester and husband of Evelyn Epstein with whom he had a son
and a daughter who reached the rank of Captain in the U.S. Amy where he was
with the intelligence unit known as Ritchie Boys and “an advisor to General MacArtur
“about the Japanese study of martial arts during the U.S. occupation of Japan.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: It was reported today that
the Educational Alliance on East Broadway and Jefferson Street will host the
ninth concert of the Educational Chamber Music Society on March 22<sup>nd</sup>.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: American Jewish Relief
Committee apportions $30,000 for Jews in Palestine, $1000 per month (for 6
months) for Palestinian soup kitchens, and $3000 per month (for 10 months) to
Turkish Jews outside of Palestine.<br />
1915(5<sup>th</sup> of Nisan, 5675): Parashat Vayikra<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915(5<sup>th</sup> of Nisan,
5675): Sixty-seven-year-old Rebecca Kahn Affelder, the daughter of Nathan and
Isabella Jeri Levy Kahn, the wife of Leopold Affelder and the mother of Minnie,
William, Harry and Jeanette Affelder passed today in New York after which she
was buried in the Mount Neboh Cemetery in Glendale, NY.<br />
1916(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5676): Shushan Purim<br />
<br />
1916: Albert Einstein published his theory of relativity in a journal called
Annalen der Physik. (And that is much as I know about it except to refer you to
Dr. Joe Rosen, the only person I know who understands it.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: As of today, “gifts valued
at close to $100,000 and ranging all the way from a sticks of candy, to a grand
piano, a seven passenger touring car and even building sites in the Bronx and
Staten Islands have been received by the People’s Relief Committee which is
organizing the bazaar and fair for Jewish suffers to be held at the Grand
Central Palace” starting in the last week of March and continuing into April.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: Today, it is estimated that
the gold and jewels given by the Jews of Baltimore at a mass meeting held
“under the auspices of the American Jewish Relief Committee” are worth at least
$3,500.00.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: In what must have seemed
like a momentous occasion at the time for all Russians, including her Jewish
citizens a manifesto issued by the new Russian Provisional Government published
today began “Citizens: The great work has been accomplished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By a powerful stroke the Russian people have
overthrown the old regime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A new Russia
is born.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This coup d’etat has set the
keystone upon long years of struggle.” (In less than a year, the Bolsheviks
would sweep the forces of democratic reform aside and create a dictatorship
every bit as vile as the Czars.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: In
Jerusalem,” noted archeologist Eleazar Sukenik and educationalist and women's
rights activist Hasya Sukenik-Feinsod” gave birth to Yigal Sukenik who as
Yigael Yadin gained fame fighting in the War for Independence, serving as the
second Chief of Staff for the IDF and becoming a first-rate archeologist. If
you did not know he was a real person, you would swear that some novelist had
invented this fascinating person.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/yigael-yadin"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/yigael-yadin</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/29/obituaries/yigael-yadin-famed-israeli-dies-was-archeologist-and-war-hero.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/29/obituaries/yigael-yadin-famed-israeli-dies-was-archeologist-and-war-hero.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Tonight’s mass meeting in
Madison Square Garden which “has been arranged with the co-operation of the
Forward Association, the Bund, the Russian Social Democrats, the Jewish
Socialist Federation of America, the Workingmen’s Circle, the United Hebrew
Trades and the New York local of the Socialist Party” and for which 8,000
tickets have been sold, will mark “the first time in the history of” the city
of New York that “thousands of Jewish refugees will assemble to cheer a Russian
government.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: In an exclusive interview
given to the Associate Press today the new Foreign Minister of Russia said that
“there now appear to be no obstacles” to “a new commercial treaty between
Russia and the United States” since “all the disabilities governing Jews” from
America coming to Russia “have been removed.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1917: Following the sinking of
several U.S. ships by German submarines, President Wilson met with his cabinet
who voted unanimously in favor of going to war four days before Rosh Chodesh
Nisan.<br />
1917: Two days after she had passed away, 63 year old Fanny Levy was buried
today at “the Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.<br />
1918(7th of Nisan, 5678): Fifty year old Richmond, VA native Mitchell H. Mark
who moved to Buffalo where he opened a hat store and then with his brother Moe
“founded the Vitascope Theatre…one of the first permanent movie theatres” built
anywhere in the world.<br />
</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D04E5D6113FE433A25752C2A9659C946996D6CF"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D04E5D6113FE433A25752C2A9659C946996D6CF</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://buffaloah.com/h/mark/Obit.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://buffaloah.com/h/mark/Obit.pdf</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Birthdate of comedian and
television game show host, Jack Berry. Jack Barry met and teamed up with Dan
Enright in Borscht Belt clubs. They started Winky Dink and You, a children's
show known for the special transparent covers children had to put over the TV
screen so they could draw the "hidden pictures" during Winky's
adventures. Barry and Enright were also instrumental in producing and hosting
early game shows, such as Concentration and Tic Tac Dough. Barry is best
remembered as the host on the game show “21” which went from sensational
television hit to be the symbol for corruption in the communications industry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: It was reported today that
based on information supplied by the Jewish Welfare Board, “Jewish families in
the vicinity of army and navy cantonments” are scheduled to act as hosts for
Jewish soldiers and sailors” who will have leaves so they may observe Passover.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: As of today, “more than
$36,000 has been contributed toward New York City’s quota of $100,000 in the
Isaac M. Wise Centenary Campaign being held this week in the United States” to
raise fundes for HUC and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920(1<sup>st</sup> of Nisan,
5680): Triple Header – Parashat Vayikra; Rosh Chodesh Nisan; Shabbat Hachodesh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: Samuel Greenbaum, the
London born son of Louis and Rachel Greenbaum, the Columbia trained attorney
and husband of Selina Ullman was appointed to serve as an Associate Justice of
the Appellate Division of New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: It was announced today at
its national headquarters on East Forty-second street that “Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson, the wife of the President of the United States, has commended the
national campaign now being conducted by the National Council of Jewish Women
to raise $150,000 with which to carry on Americanization and welfare work.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/03/21/118312461.html?pageNumber=14"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/03/21/118312461.html?pageNumber=14</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
1921; In Vienna, Béla Schwimmer and Marie Karp gave birth to Vilma Mitzi
Schimmer who came to the United States in 1935 and married Edward James in 1944
in Brooklyn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Today, on Sunday, Dr.
Rudolph Grossman is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Galsworthy’s Strife and
the Problem of Capital and Labor” at Temple Emanue-El where services start at
11:15 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Dr. Klass is scheduled to
deliver a sermon on “Our Faith in the Time of Trouble at services that start
“promptly at 11” at Central Synagogue on Lexington Avenue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: In New York City, two
hundred delegates at a preliminary meeting of the Provisional Committee for an
American Jewish Congress adopted resolutions that were intended to make this a
permanent organization.<br />
1922: Birthdate of actor Werner Klemper. The German born refugee from Hitler’s
Germany was the son of Otto Klemper. Ironically, Werner gained his greatest
fame as the bumbling Colonel Klink on “Hogan’s Hero” the sitcom set in a German
POW Camp.<br />
1922: The 25 teams that have been canvassing the “trades and industries” as
part of the New York City campaign for Jewish relief for the victims of the
war, famine and pogroms in Russia are scheduled to turn $450,000 tonight.<br />
1922: In the Bronx, Jewish immigrants Bessie (née Mathias) and Irving Reiner
gave birth to comedian and writer Carl Reiner who first gained fame as “the
second banana” on the Sid Caesar comedy show “Your Show of Shows” and is also
remembered for his work with the 2000 Year Old man and the Dick Van Dyke Show.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: In Cleveland, OH, the will
of Charles Eizenman, who for twenty years was the President of the Federation
of Jewish Charities, which was probated today called for $50,000 to be given to
the Federation of Jewish Charities, $12,000 to be given to JPS and $2,000 to
HUC.<br />
<br />
1924(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5648) Purim<br />
<br />
1924: Birthdate of British Jewish scholar Hyam Maccoby, the grandson of Rabbi
Chaim Maccoby and the librarian of Leo Baeck College whose area of expertise
was the relationship between early Christianity and first century Judaism
including the contention that the last two thousand years of western
anti-Semitism had its origins in the drive of early Christian leaders to
separate their religion and followers from the Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jul/31/guardianobituaries.religion"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jul/31/guardianobituaries.religion</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: The new Hebrew University
is scheduled to be dedicated on Mt. Scopus with Lord Balfour and Dr. Chaim
Weizmann in attendance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: Charley Phil Rosenberg
(Charles Green) won the World Bantamweight Championship today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: In New Orleans, the former
Anna Leibof gave birth to Tulane University engineering graduate Harold Allen
Rosen, “a driving force in the invention of modern communication satellite
technology.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/business/harold-rosen-dead-engineer-satellite.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/business/harold-rosen-dead-engineer-satellite.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: Soprano Nanette Guilford
whose name at birth was Nanette Gutman, who had sung in smaller roles until
today “when she appeared as Ginerva in <i>La Cena Delle Beffe</i> by Umberto
Giordano.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-24-mn-477-story.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-24-mn-477-story.html</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: “The Fiddler of Florence” a
comedy written and directed by Paul Czinner and co-starring Grete Moseheim was
released today in Germany.<br />
1927(16th of Adar II, 5687): Purim Meshulash <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/purim-meshulash-1927"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/purim-meshulash-1927</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927(16<sup>th</sup> of Adar II,
5687): Eighty-three-year-old Harold Solomon Gerstner, the Polish born son of
Hyman and Fannie Gerstner and first husband of Sarah Blumberg Parnes passed
away today after which he was buried at the Baron Hirsch Cemetery on Staten
Island.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: “More than 3,000 children
attended the first rally of the New York Jewish Religious Schools which had
been organized by Rabbi Jonah B. Wise of the Central Synagogue.”<br />
<br />
1927: Birthdate of Manhattan native Lawrence Seymour “Larry” Phillips the
Princeton University History major who became a top executive in the family
owned Phillips-Van Heusen clothing business and a leading Jewish
philanthropist.<br />
<br />
1928: Birthdate of Anthony Bernard Blond “a British publisher and author” who
was a cousin of Harold Laski. He passed away in 2008. You can learn more about
Blond by reading his autobiography Jew Made in England, which was published in
2004.<br />
1929: In Paris Michel (Max) Zide and Perl Zahnstecher Zider, “immigrants from
eastern Europe who owned a grocery store in a poor Jewish neighborhood” gave
birth to Rose Rosenthal, who in 1941 escaped with her parents to the United
States where they opened a grocery store in Brooklyn and she “earned a degree
at CCNY,” married and moved with her new husband to Houston where she found
work as a French teacher and raised two children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://hmh.mwmdigital.com/survivor/111/">https://hmh.mwmdigital.com/survivor/111/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1929: New York Mayor Jimmy Walker
“spent more than three hours” this “afternoon on a tour of the new Beth Israel
Hospital,” a five bed facility facing Stuyvesant Square.<br />
1930: Birthdate of Arthur Schneir, the native of Austria who survived the Nazi
occupation of Budapest who has been Senior Rabbi at Park East Synagogue since
1962 and who founded the Appeal of Conscience in 1965.<br />
1931(2<sup>nd</sup> of Nisan, 5691): Sixty-seven-year-old Mathilde Saphir, the
Austrian born daughter of Aurelia and David Schwarz and the wife of Josef
Saphir passed away today in Vienna.<br />
1931: In the Bronx, Charles Lipshitz and the former Frances Rosen gave birth to
CCNY graduate Harold Lipshitz, who gained fame as actor Hal Lidnen who
gainedhis greatest fame in the title role of the police comedy “Barney Miller.”<br />
</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-05-17-ca-5428-story.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-05-17-ca-5428-story.html</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: Christians, Moslems and
Jews united for a week-end of prayer that ended today “for relief from a
continued heat wave and drought that have seriously menaced crops.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: During a radio sermon
delivered this afternoon on radio station WPCH Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein of
the Institutional Synagogue declared that “the Geneva Conference is but a
pretense at an effort for world peace” and that “the world through the League
of Nations is merely nibbling at, rather than grappling with, the question of
world peace.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/03/21/issue.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/03/21/issue.html</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
1933: “German Fugitives Tell of Atrocities at Hands of Nazis” published today
provided readers of the <i>New York Times</i> with accounts from Americans
arriving in Paris from Germany of “outrages and cruelties in racial purging”
and “Jews fleeing persecution.”<br />
<br />
1933: At the initiative of the Jews of Vilna, an anti-Nazi boycott began. It
eventually spread all over Poland and to many countries in Europe. Yet within 6
months Poland itself signed a non-aggression treaty with Hitler which called
for the cessation of all boycott activities.<br />
<br />
1933: The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that “the hoisting of Nazi
swastika banners over the German consulates at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv has
greatly disturbed the feelings of the Jewish public.” Fearing hostile
demonstrations, British police and detectives are guarding the German
buildings.<br />
<br />
1933: The Nazis completed building Dachau, the first of the infamous
concentration camps.<br />
<br />
1933: Darius Paul Dassault born Darius Paul Bloch reached the rank of Brigade
General in the French Army today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: “Immediate investigation of
Nazi activities in the United States was voted by the House today, 168 to 31,
after speakers had condemned in sharp terms the Nazi persecution of the Jews
and other groups, amid frequent applause.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/03/21/93756012.html?pageNumber=1"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/03/21/93756012.html?pageNumber=1</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: Professor John Dewey of the
Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, said today that he was convinced
that Hitler and Hitlerism were "by all odds the greatest threat to world
peace today."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/03/21/93756079.html?pageNumber=10"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/03/21/93756079.html?pageNumber=10</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: “Anti-Semitism, hitherto
inactive in Yugoslavia, made its first appearance” in Sarajevo tonight “when a
group of students demonstrated noisily during a concert given by a Jewish
singing society composed mostly of German emigrant Jews” after which “they
threw rotten eggs and distributed anti-Semitic leaflets.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/03/21/93756082.html?pageNumber=10"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/03/21/93756082.html?pageNumber=10</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar II,
5695): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar II,
5695): University of Minnesota trained attorney Benjamin Mandel Goldman, the
Waukesha, WI born son of Anna and Jacob Goldman and the husband of Clara
Goldman who was an active member of B’nai B’rith passed away today in Los
Angeles. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar II,
5695): Newark, NJ businessman and manufacturer Max Eisman, a member of the
Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York passed away today.<br />
1936: Founding of Kol Israel (Voice of Israel).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “Chancellor Adolf Hitler
has assumed himself a 100 per cent majority of all the valid votes cast in the”
upcoming “Reichstag election” in which Jews will not be allowed to vote “by
creating a ballot that leaves the voter only choice of voting for him or
invalidating the ballot.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “In Palestine,
establishment of a legislative council continued to occupy the minds of both
Arab and Jewish leaders” with the “latter being adamant in their refusal to
participate in the council on the basis of representation in proportion to
population which would make the Jews a permanent minority.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “Polish Jews have strongly
criticized” a government bill to ban ritual slaughtering “which they said would
eliminate their method of kosher slaughtering.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: The daughter of a Viennese
rabbi who was employed in Berlin “as a religious instructor by a Jewish
community center” has been released after six months of imprisonment and
“ordered to leave Germany as an undesirable alien.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937(1<sup>st</sup> of Nisan,
5697): Parashat Vayikra; Rosh Chodesh Nisan; Shabbat HaChodesh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson
is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Religion of the Psalms” at Temple
Emanu-El this morning.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: Rabbi Hyman J. Schachtel is
scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Eternal Road” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: Rabbi Louis I. Newman is
scheduled to deliver a sermon “Benjamin Franklin and the Jews” this morning at
Rodeph Sholom. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: The Luncheon of the Women’s
Division of the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Birobidjan
(Soviet Union) is scheduled to take place this afternoon at the Hotel Astor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: In Honolulu, Katherine
Gordon Landis and Robert E. Hammersberg gave birth to Lois Ann Hammersberg, who
as Lois Lowry “received the National Jewish Book Award in 1990, in the
Children's Literature category.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: In his sermon today at the
North Baptist Church in New York, Rev. Francis K. Shepherd said “God will save
the Jews from Hitler as He saved them from Haman.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938(17<sup>th</sup> of Adar, II,
5699: Cantor Mordecai Balag passed away today in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938(17<sup>th</sup> of Adar II,
5698): Fifty-seven-year-old Rebecca Schweitzer, the Russian born daughter of
Hirsch and Hannah (Levine) Garbovitsky and the wife of Peter J. Schwietzer,
“the largest importer and exporter of cigarette paper in the United States who
used their fortune for philanthropy and support of the embryonic Zionist
movement passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/schweitzer-rebecca"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/schweitzer-rebecca</span></a></span><span style="background: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.vera.org/blog/vera-schweitzer-the-vera-institutes-worthy-namesake"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.vera.org/blog/vera-schweitzer-the-vera-institutes-worthy-namesake</span></a></span><span style="background: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="background: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Seven thousand Jews fled
German occupied Memel, Lithuania.<br />
<br />
1939: A 24 hour strike was scheduled to begin a 5 A.M. in Palestine to protest
Great Britain’s latest plan that would, according to The National Council Of
Palestine Jews, would lead to the “liquidation of the Newish national home” and
strangle Jewish settlement in Palestine.<br />
1939: Rabbi Milton of Steinberg of the Park Avenue Synagogue spoke to the
Brooklyn Chapter of Hadassah at the Waldorf-Astoria where 2,000 women heard
chapter president Mrs. Joseph L. Horowitz announced that “$60,000 has been
raised since last October” to help to support projects in Palestine.<br />
1939: Approximately 5000 paintings, drawings, and sculptures, including many
done by Jewish artists, deemed "degenerate" by the Nazis were burned
on an enormous pyre in Berlin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: Birthdate of Mary Ellen
Mark, the Philadelphia native who became “one of the premier documentary
photographers of her generation.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0013_0_13306.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0013_0_13306.html</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.maryellenmark.com/bio_resume/bio_resume.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.maryellenmark.com/bio_resume/bio_resume.html</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/arts/design/mary-ellen-mark-photographer-who-documented-difficult-subjects-dies-at-75.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/arts/design/mary-ellen-mark-photographer-who-documented-difficult-subjects-dies-at-75.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941:
Rabbi Robert “Serebrenik met in Berlin with Adolf Eichmann who demanded that
Luxembourg must be “Judenrein”, and was given eleven days to complete the
emigration of the Jewish population from Luxembourg.<br />
1941: At Baumann and Berson Children's Hospital in the Warsaw Ghetto, nurse D.
Wagman writes that she is helpless to prevent death.<br />
<br />
1942: After having been turned over to the Nazis today George Politzer, the
Marxist philosopher was tortured – treatment that would last until his
execution in May<br />
<br />
1943(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5703): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor; Erev
Purim<br />
<br />
1943: On Purim Eve in Czestochowa, Poland, over 100 Jewish doctors and their
families were taken away and shot. The meaning behind the factor-of-ten chosen
was revenge for the ten sons of the Jew hater Haman who were hanged in Biblical
times. Victims include 56-year-old gynecologist Dr. Kruza Gruenwald,
30-year-old general practitioner Dr. Irena Horowicz, and 44-year-old
neurologist Dr. Bernard Epstein. Czestochowa is the home of the “Black
Madonna.”<br />
<br />
1943: “Bulgarian military police, assisted by German soldiers, took Jews from
Komotini and Kavala off the passenger steamship Karageorge, massacred them, and
sunk the vessel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5703): Eighty give year old
Jeanette Isaac Davis who wrote the “foreword to the second edition The True
Boundaries of the Holy by her father Samuel Hillel Isaacs and husband of
Benjamin Davis passed away today in Chicago.<br />
1944: One day after the Nazis took control of the Hungarian capital, the SS
seized control of The Budapest University of Jewish Studies and turned it into
a prison<br />
1944(25<sup>th</sup> of Ada, 5704): Japp de Mesquita, the son Dutch graphic
artist Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita and Elisabeth de Mesquita died at Theresienstadt
today approximately a month after his parents had been gassed at Auschwitz.<br />
1944: “Cover Girl” a musical directed by Charles Vidor with songs by Jerome
Kern, Ira Gershwin and E.Y. Harburg was released today in the United States.<br />
<br />
1945: Erhard Auer, the Socialist political leader who was physically attacked
by the Nazis in the 1930’s and who was imprisoned at Dachau for his alleged
role to kill Hitler in 1944 died today.<br />
<br />
1945(6th of Nisan, 5705): An Allied air raid killed Jewish women in a camp at
Tiefstack, Germany, near Hamburg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, the President of the ZOA, today
told members of the national executive committee that while in England he had
met with former Prime Minister Winston Churchill who assured him that “he has
always been a Zionist and still is a Zionist.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Editor’s note – too bad he did not act that way when he was enforcing
the White Paper during WW II)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1947: “The World Jewish Congress announced” today that “it has
received assurances that a law recently enacted by Ecuador was no bar to the
admission of immigrants on the basis of race, creed or religion.”<br />
1948: “David Ben-Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, speaking
in Tel Aviv today, stigmatized United States abandonment of partition as
"surrender" and rejected a United Nations Palestine trusteeship
"even for the shortest time."<br />
1948: Laura Z. Hobson’s “Gentleman’s Agreement” wins the Oscar<br />
</span><a href="http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/20/1978/laura-z-hobson-s-gentleman-s-agreement-wins-oscar"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/20/1978/laura-z-hobson-s-gentleman-s-agreement-wins-oscar</span></a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
<br />
1949: Israeli forces took control of Ein Gedi on the western shore of the Dead
Sea. This move helped to secure the western border of the newly created Jewish
state and to protect Israeli interests in an area that would be beneficial to
the chemical and tourist industries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1950: “The Angel with the Trumpet” the film “based on a novel by
Ernst Lothar” which “follows the rise and fall of an Austrian aristocrat, and
her eventual death following the Anschluss” was released in the United Kingdom
today.<br />
<br />
1950: Moshe Sharett, Israel’s Foregin Minister, “called upon the seven-member
nationas of the Arab League today to make peace with Israel by direct
negations.” He said that Israel only wished “to consolidate its present
position…There will be no further war if the Arab world does not will it.”<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1951:
After opening in New York,“Royal Wedding” the Alan Jay Lerner musical comedy
directed by Stanley Donen premiered today in Los Angeles<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
1952(23rd of Adar, 5712): Rabbi Armand Bloch passed away.<br />
<br />
1952(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar, 5712): Seventy-nine year old Racie Adler passed
away.<br />
<br />
</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/adler-racie"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/adler-racie</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
<br />
1952: </span><em><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jerusalem Post</span></em><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> reported that the Executive
Branch of the US government made it known that experience in Israel suggested
that technical cooperation could succeed there in specific objectives:
"Namely to aid in reducing the present economic crisis, to contribute significantly
to the development and to increase productivity." The Presidium of the
Conference of Jewish Claims Against Germany announced that Moses A. Levitt,
executive of the American Joint Distribution Committee, would lead the
delegation to The Hague Conference on Jewish Claims and Reparations. In the
House of Commons Selwyn Lloyd, Minister of State, announced that Britain was
contributing £4,452,440 for the first year of the three-year international
program (the Blandford Plan) to resettle 800,000 Arab refugees from Palestine
in various parts of the Middle East. In addition Britain announced that it was
proposing an interest-free loan of £1,500,000 to Jordan to contribute
indirectly to the same purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953: “Destination Gobi” an
off-beat WW II movie produced by Stanley Rubin with music by Sol Kaplan was
released in the United States today.<br />
1954(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5714: Parashat Tzav;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shushan Purim<br />
1954(15th of Adar II, 5714): Joe Levin, a founder of B’nai Abraham in Brenham,
Texas and the father of Jewish Texan historian, Rosa Levin Toubin passed away<br />
1954: In Madison, Wisconsin, Morton Wagner and Bernice Maletz gave birth to
author and screenplay writer Bruce Alan Wagner whose work includes “A Nightmare
on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954: Birthdate of East Meadow,
NY native and University of California, Hastings Law graduate Louis Sachar, the
husband of Carla Askew who was the “inspiration for the counselor in <u>There's
a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom </u>and Stanley's lawyer in <u>Holes </u>with whom
he had one daughter, Sherre and who is the award-winning author “best known for
the Wayside School series and the novel Holes.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955(26<sup>th</sup> of Adar,
5715): Fifty-one-year-old Brown graduate and Harvard trained attorney Harry A.
Shulman, the Mogilev, Belarus born son of Simon Shulman and Tillie Klebanoff
who was a “professor at Yale Law School from 1930 to 1954 and Dean of the Yale
Law School staring in 1954 passed away today.<br />
<br />
1956: Under the leadership of Habib Bourghiba, Tunisia gained its independence
from France. Bourghiba was well disposed to the 100,000 strong Jewish
community, appointing a Jew to his first cabinet. But he was not able to stem
the tide of "Islamic extremism" that would take hold in subsequent
years.<br />
<br />
1956: In Lambeth, South London Sally Oppenheim-Barnes, Baroness
Oppenheim-Barnes and her husband gave birth to Phillip Oppenheim, who when he
became an MP became part of what have been the only Parliamentary Mother-Son
duo in English history<br />
1958(28<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5718): Seventy-eight-year old Anna Warner Robins,
the Polish born daughter of Benjamin and Pearl Leach Eichelbaum Warner and the
wife of David M. Robbins passed away today after which she was buried at the
Home of Peace Memorial Park.<br />
1958: “Merry Andrew,” a musical starring Danny Kaye, directed by Michael Kidd,
produced by Sol C. Siegel and written by Isobel Lennart and I.A.L. Diamond, was
released for showing to the movie going public.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959(10<sup>th</sup> of Adar II,
5719): Seventy-eight-year-old Columbia University medical school graduate and
Universities of Strasbourg, Berlin and Vienna trained psychoanalyst Dr. Leonard
Blumgart, the husband of Eleanor Blumgart and father of John Blumgart who
studied with Dr. Sigmund Freude and who “during WW I served as a captain in the
Army’s neuropsychiatric service at Plattsburgh, NY” passed away today at his
home in Manhattan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/03/21/80766171.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/03/21/80766171.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.proquest.com/openview/40c6737542d4f1f4d21c647d4658a206/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1818729"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.proquest.com/openview/40c6737542d4f1f4d21c647d4658a206/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1818729</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
1960: William Schueller and Eleanor Neyens Schueller of Zwingle, Iowa gave
birth to Elizabeth Mary “Liz” Schueller, the younger sister of Deb Levin, Z”L.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960: ABC broadcast “You Still My
Eyes,” an episode of “The Rebel,” directed by Irvin Kershner.<br />
1962(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5722): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964: Ernest Lehman completed his
final draft of the script for “The Sound of Music” today.<br />
<br />
1965: Rabbi Heschel flew to Selma from New York tonight as civil rights leaders
planned to try another march from Selma to Montgomery. Previous attempts had
been stopped by violence so the aged sage was literally risking his physical
well-being to help "the widow, the orphan and the stranger in our
midst." The march was part of the fight to gain passage of what became
known as the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the second most important piece of
Civil Rights legislation ever adopted in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1967(8<sup>th</sup> of Adar II,
5727): Seventy-two year old </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Breslau native Kurt
Peiser, who in 1907 came to the United States where after earning his college
degrees “served as executive director of Jewish federation and welfare funds
successively in Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Detroit and Philadelphia” and who helped
to “set up relief programs in North Africa” during WW II after the Allies had
driven the Italians and Nazis back across the Mediterranean Sea” passed away
today.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
1968: In New York City, Attorney Arnold Jacobs Sr. and Ellen Kheel gave birth
to journalist and author Arnold Stephen “A.J.” Jacobs, Jr. the husband of Julie
Schoenberg with whom he had three sons – Jasper, Zane and Lucas – and cousin of
legal scholar and fellow author Cass Sunstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(1<sup>st</sup> of Nisan,
5729): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(1<sup>st</sup> of Nisan,
5729): Sixty-two-old Abraham Rabinowitz, the graduate of the NYU School of
Commerce and “assistant vice president and chief accountant of the Eastern Life
Insurance of New York, the brother of Max, Samuel and Ida, suffered a fatal
heart attack today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/03/22/90073420.html?pageNumber=33"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/03/22/90073420.html?pageNumber=33</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(1<sup>st</sup> of Nisan,
5279): Sixty-six-year-old CCNY and Columbia University alum, Morris H. Weiss,
the principal of Public School 215 since 1950 who was the husband of Rose Aluff
Weiss and the father of Michael A. Weiss passed away today.<br />
1970: The funeral services for Isadore H. Prinzmetal, the motion picture
industry attorney and a leader in Jewish community service, were conducted
today at Hillside Memorial Park.<br />
<br />
1970: In New York, June Brody and David Rapaport gave birth to “actor, director
and comedian” Michael David Rapaport.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971: Today at the Colony Theatre
in Boston the curtain came down on the pre-Broadway run of “Follies,” “a
musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973(16<sup>th</sup> of Adar, II,
5733): Seventy-year Martin Codel, the “biological son of Samuel Braverman” who
was raised by his mother Sarah Codel and adopted father Morris Codel and the
father of Ella Codel who was the author of <u>Radio and Its Future</u> and who
along with Sol Taishoff and Harry Shaw founded <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Broadcasting </i>which is now published as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Broadcasting and Cable</i> passed away today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974: “The Super Cops” based on a
book of the same name starring Ron Leibman was released in the United States
today.<br />
1975(8<sup>th</sup> of Nisan, 5735): Boston born Harvard graduated
eighty-nine-year-old Reuben B, Gryzmich, a philanthropist of Boston and a
founder of the United Jewish Appeal and Beth El Hospital in Boston who<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was a “director of the Hotel Corporation of
America, chairman and president of Alles & Fisher, cigar makers, and
president of the Plymouth Rubber Company of Canton, MA” who was the husband of Ethel
Gryzmich passed away today in Palm Beach, FL.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/22/archives/reuben-b-gryzmich-89-boston-philanthropist-dies.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/22/archives/reuben-b-gryzmich-89-boston-philanthropist-dies.html</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/155422715642"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.ebay.com/itm/155422715642</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
1975: Aharon Uzan replaced Yitzhak Rabin as Communications Minister <br />
<br />
1977:</span><em><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> The Jerusalem Post </span></em><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">reported that the French Foreign
Minister, Louis de Guiringaud, said that Arab recognition of Israel's right to
exist was a prerequisite of any Middle Eastern settlement. Israel, he
continued, would have to withdraw from occupied areas, but this did not mean a
complete withdrawal from all territories captured in 1967. In Cairo the
mainstream and hard-liners of the members of the Palestine National Council
struggled over the wording of a declaration of a political stance of the PLO.
In Haifa the president of the Technion, Amos Horev, deplored the lack of a
long-term industrial planning in Israel.<br />
<br />
1978(11th of Adar II, 5738): Dr. Meyer Aaron Zeligs, whose defense of Alger
Hiss, <u>Friendship and Fratricide</u>, stirred controversy when it was
published in 1967 with the conclusion that Whittaker Chambers was a
psychopathic personality died today on his 69th birthday at his home in Sari
Francisco.”<br />
1980: “Nijinsky,” a biopic directed by Herbert Ross and co-produced by Herbert
Ross was released today in the United States.<br />
1981: In California, Actor Dustin Hoffman and Lisa Hoffman gave birth to Jacob
Edward "Jake" Hoffman who has gone on to develop an acting career of
his own.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar II,
5741): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar II,
5741: Seventy-four-year-old Olympic Gold Medal winning speed skater Irving
Jaffee passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/03/21/Irving-Jaffee-who-went-from-a-roller-skating-paper/9065353998800/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/03/21/Irving-Jaffee-who-went-from-a-roller-skating-paper/9065353998800/</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981: “Omen III: The Final
Conflict” based on characters created by David Seltzer with music by Jerry
Goldsmith and featuring Mason Adams was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981: “The Postman Always Ring
Twice,” a film version of the novel by the same name with a script by David
Mamet was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar II,
5741): Seventy-three-year-old businessman, Morris Abrams, the holder of patents
for the Arrows brand staple gun the husband of Flo Abrams and the father of
Allan, Louise and Isabel Abrams passed away today in Englewood, NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/23/obituaries/morris-abrams.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/23/obituaries/morris-abrams.html</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86817849/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86817849/</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983(6<sup>th</sup> of Nisan,
5743): Seventy-four-year-old Polish born Holocaust survivor and “Yiddish
writer, editor and historian” Julian Hirshaut, the author of Jewish Martyrs of
Pawiak and the husband of Hanna Hirshaut with whom he had two daughters, Betty
and Vivian, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/22/obituaries/julian-hirshaut-writer-74-yiddish-editor-and-historian.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/22/obituaries/julian-hirshaut-writer-74-yiddish-editor-and-historian.html</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984(16<sup>th</sup> of Adar II,
5744): Eighty-five-year-old Rose Snyder, the Ukraine born daughter of Victor
(Avigdor) Kramer and Rochel? Krasnoshchek, the wife of Henry Snyder and mother
of Elaine Richman and Marvin Lewis Snyder passed away today in Boston.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987: “Stripped to Kill,”
co-staring Norman Fell was released today in the United States<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1989(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II,
5749): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim<br />
1993: 27th of Adar, 5753): Shabbat HaChodesh<br />
<br />
1993: 27th of Adar, 5753): In separate incidents, two Israeli soldiers –
Sergeant Gitai Avisor and Sergeant Yossi Shabtai – were killed.<br />
<br />
1993: “Barbarians at the Gate” a movie version of the book by the same name
that described Henry Kravis’ efforts to buy RJR Nabisco with a script by Larry
Gelbart was broadcast today by HBO<br />
.<br />
1993: A third meeting between Arabs and Israelis began in Oslo, Norway.<br />
<br />
1996: UPN broadcast the first episode of “The Sentinel” a Canadian television
series created and written by Danny Bilson.<br />
1997: A “special edition” of “Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold,” a
movie version of the novel produced by Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan was
released today<br />
1998(22<sup>nd</sup> of Adar, 5758): Yemina Avidar-Tchernovitz, the native of
Vilna who arrived in Palestine as a twelve year old in 1921 and went on to
become an author of children’s books written in modern Hebrew passed away
today.<br />
</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.ithl.org.il/page_13612"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.ithl.org.il/page_13612</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
<br />
</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/tchernovitz-avidar-yemima"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/tchernovitz-avidar-yemima</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
2000: It was reported today that “The discovery in downtown Prague of the
remnants of a medieval Jewish cemetery has turned into a political and moral
quandary for the Czech government and an embarrassment for the small Czech
Jewish minority.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/20/world/prague-journal-a-city-in-a-hurry-stumbling-on-its-medieval-dead.html?searchResultPosition=1"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/20/world/prague-journal-a-city-in-a-hurry-stumbling-on-its-medieval-dead.html?searchResultPosition=1</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
2000(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5760): Ta’anit Esther observed for the last
time during the presidency of Bill Clinton.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: President Bush welcomed
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to the White House.<br />
<br />
2002(7th of Nisan, 5762): Seven Israelis died when an Islamic terrorist blew
himself up in a packed bus.<br />
<br />
2002: Seven people were killed and about 30 injured, several seriously, in a
suicide bombing of an Egged bus #823 traveling from Tel Aviv to Nazareth at the
Musmus junction on Highway 65 (Wadi Ara) near Afula. The victims: Sgt. Michael
Altfiro, 19, of Pardes Hanna; St.-Sgt. Shimon Edri, 20, of Pardes Hanna; SWO
Meir Fahima, 40, of Hadera; Cpl. Aharon Revivo, 19, of Afula; Alon Goldenberg,
28, of Tel Aviv; Mogus Mahento, 75, of Holon; and Bella Schneider, 53, of
Hadera. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: “Six decades after his
parents were arrested and deported from German-occupied France, Kurt Werner
Schaechter, an Austrian-born French Jeew went to court here today to demand
that France's national railroad company accept its responsibility and express
remorse for transporting Jews to Nazi death camps.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/20/world/nazis-human-cargo-now-haunts-french-railway.html?searchResultPosition=2"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/20/world/nazis-human-cargo-now-haunts-french-railway.html?searchResultPosition=2</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
<br />
2004: The treasure hunt, David Blaine's $100,000 Challenge, devised by game
designer Cliff Johnson, creator of The Fool's Errand, was solved today.<br />
<br />
2005: </span><em><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The New York Times</span></em><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> featured reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or of topics of special interest to Jewish readers including
"Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father
of Cybernetics" by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, "Rebels on the
Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio
System" by Sharon Waxman and "The Angel of Forgetfulness" by
Steve Stern.<br />
<br />
2005(9th of Adar II, 5765): Eighty-four year old “businessman and
philanthropist Sir Leslie Porter passed away today.<br />
</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sir-leslie-porter-6149848.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sir-leslie-porter-6149848.html</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1486217/Sir-Leslie-Porter.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1486217/Sir-Leslie-Porter.html</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/24/guardianobituaries.rogercowe"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/24/guardianobituaries.rogercowe</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
<br />
2006: The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Jonathan Pollard’s appeal “to overturn a
federal appeals court ruling that denied his attorneys access to classified
information used in his trial” that they claim “are needed to make Pollard’s
case for clemency.”<br />
2006: “The Valet” starring Gad Elmaleh and directed by Francis Verber, whose
father Pierre-Gilles Verber and grand-uncle Tristan were Jewish but who was
baptized at birth was released in France today.<br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2006:
The WB broadcast the final episode of “Related” created by Marta Kauffman and
starring Lizzy Caplan.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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2006(20th of Adar, 5766): Ninety-six-year-old “Sophie Gerson, a legendary
figure in the history of textile union organizing in the South and a lifelong
fighter for peace, justice and socialism” passed away today. (As reported by
Deborah Gerson and Tim Wheeler)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/20/2006/death-of-social-activist-sophie-gerson"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/20/2006/death-of-social-activist-sophie-gerson</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<br />
2006: </span><em><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Haaretz</span></em><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> reported that Archaeologists have uncovered
underground chambers and tunnels constructed in northern Israel by Jews for
hiding from the Romans during their revolt in 66-70 CE. <br />
<br />
2007: An exhibition featuring documents from the Otto Frank as well as other
material from the YIVO archives pertaining to the Holocaust in the Netherlands,
which has been on display on the Batkin Mezzanine level, at the Center for
Jewish History comes to an end.<br />
<br />
2007: The Association for Jewish Theatre in conjunction with the Jewish Theatre
of Austria hosts a three day international conference for Jewish theater
professionals, artists, and aficionados. <br />
<br />
2007: Avraham “Hirchson was investigated for seven hours by Israeli police
regarding an alleged embezzlement at a non-profit organization while serving as
the chairman of the National Workers Labor Federation.”<br />
<br />
2007(1<sup>st</sup> of Nisan, 5667): Rosh Chodesh Nissan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5667): Eighty-four year old music executive Hyman Y. “Hy” Weiss
passed away today. (As reported by Ben Sisario)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/31/obituaries/31weiss.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/31/obituaries/31weiss.html</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<br />
2008 (II Adar 13 5768): Feast of Nicanor – “Judah Maccabee’s defeat of the
Syrian general Nicanor was originally celebrated as a minor festival on 13 Adar
(I Macc.7:49), this ‘Day of Nicanor’ being specifically mentioned in the
Apocrypha as occurring immediately before Purim, ‘the day of Mordecai (II Macc.
15:36). In time, the Feast of Nicanor gave way to the Fast of Esther.”
[Editor’s note: In another of the many oddities connected with the Purim
celebration, a joyful celebration of a real historic event gave way to a fast
connected to what is at best a piece of historic fiction.]<br />
<br />
2008 (II Adar 13 5768): Fast of Esther<br />
<br />
2008: In Washington, veteran broadcast journalist Daniel Schorr discusses his
new book, "Come to Think of It: Notes on the Turn of the Millennium."<br />
<br />
2008: The state of Iowa issued Agriprocessors Inc. of Postville 39 citations
with proposed penalties of $182,000 for allegedly violating state workplace
safety and health standards<br />
<br />
2009: On Friday night, members of Mount Kisco’s Jewish community gather at
Mount Kisco Hebrew Congregation in an unparalleled display of Jewish
revitalization and Jewish unity as they take part in the 13th Shabbat Across
America Program. <br />
2009: Today “an appellate court denied Bernie Madoff’s request to be released
from jail and returned to home confinement until he is sentenced to prison in
June. (Talk about Chutzpah)<br />
2009: “I Love You Man,” a comedy directed by John Hamburg and starring Paul
Rudd, Jason Segal and Andy Samberg was released today in the United States.<br />
<br />
2009: Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu met with President Shimon
Peres at 10:30 this morning to ask for more time in which to form a coalition.
Peres agreed to the request, and gave Netanyahu an additional two weeks.<br />
<br />
2010: </span><em><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Washington Post</span></em><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> features a review of "The
Irresistible Henry House" by Lisa Grunwald, the daughter of the late Henry
Grunwald.<br />
<br />
2010: Meeskeit and A Matter of Size are scheduled to be shown at 14th Annual
Mandell JC Hartford Jewish Film Festival.<br />
<br />
2010: Today two rockets were launched at the Ashkelon district, north of Gaza,
another landed in Shaar HaNegev, northeast of Gaza and fourth rocket was fired
at Shaar HaNegev. <br />
<br />
2010: A weak earthquake was felt in northern Israel tonight; no injuries or
damage was reported. The Seismological Institute reported that the quake
measured 3.6 on the Richter scale. It occurred just north of the Kinneret Sea
(Sea of Galilee), near the Arik Bridge, at 8:45 PM, for about ten seconds.
Residents reported feeling it. The Arik Bridge is named for Aryeh Shamir, an
IDF a paratroopers officer who fell in the line of duty. It was built in 1976.
Just ten days ago, a 3.4 earthquake was felt in northern Israel. Its epicenter
was off southern Lebanon, in the Mediterranean Sea. Just a day before that, a
level-6 quake hit Turkey, north of Lebanon, killing dozens.The Kinneret
currently stands at 212.81 meters below sea level, 19 centimeters above the
recommended red line. Israel's rainy season is nearing its end.<br />
<br />
2010: The color version of “Forbidden Zone” which had marked Danny Elfman’s
debut as a director when it was released in black and white in 1980 was shown
for the first time today at the Museum of Modern Art.<br />
<br />
2010: For the first time in 62 years, hundreds gathered for emotional Sabbath
prayers at the renewed, majestic Hurva synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem.<br />
<br />
2011: Ilana Cravitz is scheduled to appear at Klezmer Workshop in Cambridge,
UK.<br />
<br />
2011: Israeli vocalist Yasmin Levy is scheduled to appear at the SF Jazz Spring
Session where this daughter of “a revered Turkish cantor” will explore a
forgotten treasure trove of songs dating back to 16th century Spain.”<br />
<br />
2011(14th of Adar II): Purim]<br />
<br />
2011(14th of Adar II): Fifty-four year old Robert Spiegelman, who accompanied
the high school band he directed to the 2011 Rose Bowl Parade despite a serious
illness, passed away today. Speigelman grew up and lived in the St. Louis area.
The school’s jazz ensemble, under his direction, traveled to Paris in 1997 to
play in the 50th anniversary of the school's namesake’s renowned flight from
New York to Paris. (As reported by the Eulogizer)<br />
<br />
2011:</span><em><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> The New York Times </span></em><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">featured reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
“Modigliani: A Life” by Meryle Secrest and "Jerusalem, Jerusalem" by
James Carroll.<br />
<br />
2011: </span><em><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Los Angeles Times </span></em><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">featured reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “New and
Selected Stories” by E.L. Doctorow and “Lee Krasner: A Biography” by Gail
Levin. In describing herself, Krasner said, "I happen to be Mrs. Jackson
Pollock, and that's a mouthful. The only thing I haven't had against me was
being black. I was a woman, Jewish, a widow, a damn good painter, thank you,
and a little too independent."<br />
<br />
2011: 22-year-old IDF Armored Corps officer was stabbed during an attempt to
steal his weapon in Jaffa this morning. An unknown masked assailant stabbed the
soldier in his chest and made off with his weapon. <br />
<br />
2012: “Underdogs: A War Movie” is scheduled to be shown at the Gainesville
Jewish Film Festival in Gainesville, FL.<br />
<br />
2012(28<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5772): One-hundred-one year Rabbi Chaim Pinchas
Scheinberg passed away today.<br />
<br />
</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/religion-obituaries/9161424/Rabbi-Chaim-Pinchas-Scheinberg.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/religion-obituaries/9161424/Rabbi-Chaim-Pinchas-Scheinberg.html</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
<br />
2012: In Philadelphia, PA, Congregation Mikveh Israel's 3rd Annual Sephardic
Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end.<br />
<br />
2012: “400 Miles to Freedom” is scheduled to be shown this afternoon at the
16th Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival. <br />
<br />
2013(9<sup>th</sup> of Nisan, 5773): Ninety-nine year old mezzo-soprano Risë
Stevens who Jewish mother, “the former Sadie Mechanic, recognized Risë’s vocal
talent early and was an enthusiastic steward of her youthful career” passed
away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)<br />
<br />
</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/arts/music/rise-stevens-opera-singer-dies-at-99.html?hpw&_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/arts/music/rise-stevens-opera-singer-dies-at-99.html?hpw&_r=0</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
<br />
2013: Ruth Thomson, author of <u>Terezín, A Story of the Holocaust </u>is
scheduled to deliver a lecture at The Wiener Library in London. <br />
<br />
2013: “Jailed Unjust in the Death of a Rabbi, Man Nears Freedom” published
today described events the events surrounding the two decades old murder of
Rabbi Chaskel Werzberg<br />
</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/nyregion/brooklyn-prosecutor-to-seek-freedom-of-man-convicted-in-1990-killing-of-rabbi.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/nyregion/brooklyn-prosecutor-to-seek-freedom-of-man-convicted-in-1990-killing-of-rabbi.html</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
<br />
2013: Israeli soldiers provided medical care to four wounded Syrians on the
Golan Heights border <br />
<br />
2013: A special screening of “The Flat” is scheduled to be hosted UKJF <br />
<br />
2013: President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conveyed
broad consensus on Israel’s top security priorities in a statements following a
meeting in Jerusalem.<br />
<br />
2013: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to presents “Louis
Marshall and the Founding of Modern American Judaism”<br />
<br />
2013: Barak Obama is scheduled to begin his first trip to Israel as U.S.
President. He had previously visited while serving as a U.S. Senator.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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2014: Violinist Pinchas Zuckerman and cellist Amanda Forsyth are scheduled to
join the IPO conducted by Zubin Mehta in a Benefit Concert held in honor of the
late Marvin Hamlisch.<br />
<br />
2014: The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is scheduled to host
its 2014 Humanitarian Awards Dinner.<br />
<br />
2014: “Wagner’s Jews” is scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish Film
Festival.<br />
<br />
2014: The 17<sup>th</sup> Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to come to an end.<br />
<br />
2014: The Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to open with a
screening of “When Comedy Went to School.”<br />
<br />
2014: A Jewish teacher is attacked leaving a kosher restaurant in Paris. After
breaking his nose, the assailants drew a swastika on his chest<br />
<br />
2014: “The Israel Air Force showed off its new cutting-edge training aircraft,
the M-346” today. (As reported by Marissa Newman)<br />
<br />
2014: Meir Kin, who has refused to give his wife Lonna Kin a get married
Daniela Barbosa tonight in Las Vegas in what was a very public reminder of the
inequity in Jewish divorce law.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/22/us/a-wedding-amid-cries-of-unfinished-business-from-a-marriage.html?hp"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/22/us/a-wedding-amid-cries-of-unfinished-business-from-a-marriage.html?hp</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
2014: Eight of 11 families of Iranian Jews missing since the 90s were told this
evening at the Center for Intelligence Heritage that their relatives were
murdered on their way to Israel. (As reported by Orli Harari)<br />
<br />
2014: “A German panel ruled against the heirs of four Jewish art dealers today
in a complicated case of a monumental collection of medieval religious art
known as the Welfenschatz, or Geulph Treasure.” (As reported by Amanda
Borschel-Dan)<br />
<br />
2015: The exhibition “Lincoln and the Jews” which was inspired by the
publication of Lincoln and the Jews by Jonathan Sarna sponsored by the New York
Historical Society is scheduled to open today.<br />
<br />
2015: “The Green Prince” directed by Nadav Schirman is scheduled to be shown at
the Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.<br />
2015: Today “Empty Mirrors Press published Howard Epstein's political memoir <u>Rise
Again: Nova Scotia's NDP on the Rocks </u>an account of his 15 years in
provincial politics, the history of the New Democratic Party in Nova Scotia,
and his analysis of the successes and failures of the Dexter NDP government
during its term in office.<br />
2015: Lewis Black is scheduled to perform at the Music Box in Atlantic, City.<br />
<br />
2016: In Atlanta, the Breman is scheduled to host Henry Birnbery, the German
born American G.I. who will describe his experiences as one of the “first
American eyewitnesses to the devastation of the Nazi concentration camps.”<br />
<br />
2016: “Wedding Doll” and “A Night at the Opera” are scheduled to be shown on
the final day of the Houston Jewish Film Festival.<br />
<br />
2016: “A Tale of Love and Darkness” which marked the directorial debut of
Natalie Portman “in this adaptation of the autobiographical novel by Amos” is
scheduled to be shown at the Israeli Film Festival in Philadelphia, PA.<br />
<br />
2016: LimmudFest New Orleans 2016 is scheduled to come to an end today.<br />
</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://limmudnola.org/schedule/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://limmudnola.org/schedule/</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
<br />
2016: Hadassah of Greater Washington is scheduled to host High Tea and Harmony,
a fundraiser offering attendees a multi-dimensional musical experience along
with a traditional “High Tea.”<br />
<br />
2016: As part of “Jews in the American South” Rhetta Mendelsohn is scheduled to
lead a walking tour of Old Charleston “with special emphasis on significant
architecture, garden culture and sites of Jewish interest” followed by dinner
with Eli Hyman, the “great-grandson of W.M. Karesh, a Jewish immigrant from
eastern Europe who started a wholesale dry-goods business in the city in 1890.”<br />
Read more: </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://go.forward.com/jews-in-the-american-south/#ixzz43JSZOcOI"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://go.forward.com/jews-in-the-american-south/#ixzz43JSZOcOI</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
Read more: </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://go.forward.com/jews-in-the-american-south/#ixzz43JSHRXoX"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://go.forward.com/jews-in-the-american-south/#ixzz43JSHRXoX</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">]<br />
<br />
2016: The annual AIPAC Policy Conference is scheduled to open in Washington,
DC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers <u>including Imbeciles: The
Supreme Court, American Eugenics and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck </u>by
Adam Cohen, <u>Carry Me</u> by Peter <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: “Israel’s David’s Sling
anti-missile battery will go operational within the next two weeks, providing
the finishing touch of the Jewish state’s multi-tiered missile defense array, a
senior Israeli Air Force officer said today.” (As reported by Judah Ari Gross)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017(22<sup>nd</sup> of Adar,
5777): Eighty-seven years old Robert B. Silvers, the son of James J. Silvers a
salesman, sometime farmer and small business owner, and Rose Roden Silvers a
music critic for The New York Globe and one of the first female radio hosts for
RCA, who founded The New York Review of Books passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/books/robert-silvers-dead-founding-editor-new-york-review-of-books-nyrb.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/books/robert-silvers-dead-founding-editor-new-york-review-of-books-nyrb.html</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/robert-silvers/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nybooks.com/robert-silvers/</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: A surprise drill began
today in which “2,000 reserve soldiers were called up…to simulate war in the
Gaza Strip.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017(22<sup>nd</sup> of Adar,
5777): Eighty-seven year old psychotherapist George Weinberg passed away today.
(As reported by William Grimes)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/us/george-weinberg-dead-coined-homophobia.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/us/george-weinberg-dead-coined-homophobia.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: JW3 is scheduled to host a
screening of The Second Time Around, an improbable tale of love involving Isaac
Shapiro, “a grumpy Polish tailor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: “The 6<sup>th</sup> Global
Forum for Combating Antisemitism” is scheduled to continue for a second day in
Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: The Evelyn Rubenstein JCC
Houston is scheduled to host “Get Cultured: Short Film Night” at the Axelrad
Beer Garden.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: “End Game” and “Keep the
Change” are scheduled to be shown at the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: Publication of the
paperback edition <u>Casey Stengel: Baseball’s Greatest Character</u> by Marty
Appel, the Brooklyn born son of Irving and Celia Appel and graduate of the
State University of New York at Oneonta<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: In Jerusalem, Mercaz
Hatarbuyot is scheduled to host concert pianist Eliahou Zabaly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2018:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: #444444;">Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to
host “</span><span style="color: #1a2e3b; letter-spacing: .1pt;">The Unlikely Nazi
Hunters: A Rare Conversation with Serge and Beate Klarsfeld</span></span><a href="https://vimeo.com/streickercenter"></a><span style="color: #8699a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/254724503"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://vimeo.com/254724503</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2019(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II,
5779): Fast of Esther; at night read the Megillah; for more see </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The New York Sephardic
Jewish Festival is scheduled to come to an end with the New York premiere of
the documentary Photo Farag and presentation of the Pomegranate Award to
“director Lisa Azuelos.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In Florida, the Boca Raton
Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “Working Woman,”
“Joseph Pulitzer” and “A Fortunate Man.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In Metairie, LA (suburban
New Orleans) Congregation Beth Israel, JNOLA and the Jewish Community are
scheduled to host “a very Lego Purim Party” that will include services and a
Megillah reading for the whole family.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: The Jerusalem Marathon
which was scheduled to take place today has been postponed “until after the
Jewish holidays in the fall” per the order of Mayor Moshe Leon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: In New Orleans, Limmudfest,
which was scheduled to begin today has been canceled due to the pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: Safety Jordan Dangerfield,
a member of the Ethiopian Jewish Community signed a new contract with the
Pittsburgh Steelers today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: “Shabbat Live or Later:
Coronavirus Edition,” a livestream organized by Ahava is scheduled for this
evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020(24<sup>th</sup> of Adar,
5780: On the Jewish calendar, Yahrzeits of “Rabbi Isaack Eizik Margolit, author
of Seder <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>Gittin ve-Halizah</u></i>,”
and “Rabbi Eliezer Lipmann Silbermann, founder of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ha-Maggid</i>, the first Hebrew weekly newspaper” (As reported by
Abraham Bloch)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: Contra Costa JCC is
schedule to present an in-person Passover scavenger hunt for ages 3 to 13 and
their families.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: KlezCalifornia is scheduled
to offer the first screening on of line of “an artful video adaptation of
Sholem Asch’s ground-breaking 1906 play ‘God of Vengeance’” performed by the
Yiddish Theatre Ensemble under the direction of Bruce Bierman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: the Beth Am Oneg Israel and
Shabbat Jewish Film Series Committees are scheduled present a screening of
“Dolphin Boy.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSyWHhta5LQ"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSyWHhta5LQ</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021(7<sup>th</sup> of Nisan,
7801): Parashat Vayikra; <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: The JWI Women’s Leadership
Conference is scheduled to open today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: Hundreds of thousands of
Israelis gathered today at the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, a spiritual
leader in ultra-Orthodox Judaism, in one of the largest public gatherings in
Israeli history. (As reported by Patrick Kingsley)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/20/world/middleeast/rabbi-chaim-kanievsky-funeral.html?searchResultPosition=1"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/20/world/middleeast/rabbi-chaim-kanievsky-funeral.html?searchResultPosition=1</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: Tel Aviv Fashion Week is
scheduled to continue for a second day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: The Weitzman National
Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to host “Freedom Seder
Revisited.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: The International Lab for
Research and Leadership in Interfaith Collaboration and Coexistence are
scheduled to present “The Journey of the Sarajevo Haggadah.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2023: The Weitzman National
Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to host the last session of
“Telling Our Stories” during which attendees investigate their </span><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">family's
histories and stories using the Museum's award-winning collection for
inspiration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The Museum at Eldridge
Street is scheduled to host film critic for New York Magazine (Vulture) Bilge
Ebiri, and moderator Lucy Shahar for a discussion of the acclaimed comedy-drama
“The Holdovers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: In Cedar Rapids, the
Hadassah Book Club under the leadership of Nancy Margulis is scheduled to
discuss <u>Kosher Kosher</u> by Jean Meltzer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: In partnership with the
American Society of Jewish Music, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is
scheduled to host a Purim Spiel that will include musicians from the Mannes
School of Music and the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music and performers
from The School of Drama who will provide a dramatic and festive telling of the
story of Esther, Mordechai, Haman, and King Ahasuerus which will be punctuated
by thrilling performances of klezmer music.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: Lockdown University is
scheduled to host a lecture by Jeremy Rosen “Making Sense of the Bible: Can its
Ancient Text be Relevant Today? Numbers 13:16, Good Spies, Bad Spies.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
20th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 166 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">235: End of
the reign of Severus Alexander, the 26<sup>th</sup> Emperor of the Roman Empire<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1153-alexander-severus"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1153-alexander-severus</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1191: Eighty
Jews were burned at Bray, France for trying to execute a vassal who had killed
a Jew. The Jews were not a lynch-mob. They had the permission of the local
ruler which is more than one can say for those who killed the Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1227: Election
of Pope Gregory IX “a prominent opponent of Judaism during his life, condemning
it as "containing every kind of vileness and blasphemy". In the 1234
Decretals, he invested the doctrine of perpetua servitus iudaeorum – perpetual
servitude of the Jews – with the force of canonical law. According to this, the
followers of the Talmud would have to remain in a condition of political
servitude until Judgment Day. The doctrine then found its way into the doctrine
of servitus camerae imperialis, or servitude immediately subject to the
Emperor's authority, promulgated by Frederick II. The Jews were thus suppressed
from having direct influence over the political process and the life of
Christian states into the 19th century with the rise of liberalism” (Dietmar
Preissler, Frühantisemitismus in der Freien Stadt Frankfurt und im
Großherzogtum Hessen (1810 bis 1860), p.30, Carl Winter Universitätsverlag,
Heidelberg 1989, ISBN 3-533-04129-8 (German).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1406:
Seventy-three-year-old Tunisian born “Arab historiographer and historian” Ibn
Khaldun who described the Jarawa or Jrāwa, a Berber Zenata tribal confederacy
that flourished in northwest Africa during the 7th century were Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1497: In an
effort to prevent the Jews from fleeing Christian persecutions, King Emanuel,
secretly ordered the baptism of all children between the ages of four and
fourteen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1590:
Birthdate of William Bradford who served as governor of Plymouth Colony for
over 30 years. Bradford was typical of so many of his ilk who saw a connection
with their lives and what they called “The Old Testament.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bradford studies the Hebrew language because,
as he put it, “Though I am growne aged, yet I have had a longing desire to see
with my owne eyes, something of that most ancient langue and holy tongue, in
which the Law, the oracles of God were write; in which God, and angels spake to
the holy patriarchs, of time; and what names were given to things, from the
creation…for my owne contente.” (<u>William Bradford: Plymouth’s Faithful
Pilgrim</u> by Gary D. Schmidt)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1604 Birthdate
of : King John IV of Portugal who was erroneously reported to have employed the
Jewish doctor Fernando Menes as his physician.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1640(24th of
Adar): Rabbi Chaim Algazi of Constantinople, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>Nesivot ha-Mishpat</u></i> passed away today. A native of Ismir,
Turkey, Chaim Algazai served as the rabbi of Rhodes before returning to his hometown
to serve as Chief Rabbi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>B’nei Chayay</u></i>, his commentary on
the Four Turim, was edited by Rabbi Araron Alfandri, his granddaughter’s
husband and the author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>Yad Aaron </u></i>(As
reported by Aryeh Kaplan)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1684:
Birthdate of Jean Astruc, the French Catholic doctor and descendant from a
medieval Jewish family “who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and
venereal diseases” and one of the founders of “modern Pentateuch criticism” who
contended that Moses and the copyists created a book that was based on two
separate sets of documents – one that used Elhiom for the name of the divinity
and the other that used YHWH for the name of the divinity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1721: The
Papacy of Clement XI, who issued a bull extending the rights of converts over
their Jewish families, ended today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1722: Today
Meyer Low Schomberg was admitted a licentiate to the Royal College of
Physicians. (Editor’s note – Jewish Encyclopedia shows 1721)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1740:
Birthdate of Esther de Leon, the daughter of Abraham de Leon who was 37 at the
time of her birth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1764(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5524): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1772(14th of
Adar II, 5532): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1772: “The
Royal College of Physicians admitted” Meyer Low Schomberg” as a licentiate”
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1783(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5543): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1791(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5551): Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1792: While
“at sea” Hannah Isaacks and Jacob Phillips who were married at Newport, RI in
1785 gave birth to Rebecca Phillips the wife of Isaiah Moses whom she married
at Charleston in 1807 and with whom she had twelve children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1796(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5556): Parashat Vaykira; Shabbat Zachor observed for the last time
during the Presidency of George Washington.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1800: Montague
Levoi married Catherine Chapman today at the Great Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1802(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II,5562): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1803 :( 25th
of Adar): Rabbi Moses ben Abraham, author of Meliz Yosher passed away
today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1804: Birthdate
of Dublin native Sir Alexander Schomberg, the son of Meyer Löw Schomberg a
German-Jewish doctor who settled in England, and who began his distinguished
naval career in 1743 after becoming an Anglican passed away today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1806: Jacob
Hirsch Kann, the son of Miriam and Isaac Jacob Kann and his wife Jetta Kann
gave birth to Theresie Wetheim, the wife of Bernhard Wertheimer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1807:
Birthdate of Louis Félicien Joseph Caignart de Saulcy the French archaeologist
who made several trips to Palestine and Syria from 1850 to 1869 where among other
things he “sketched the first map of Masada,” “identified Tell es-Sultan as the
site of ancient Jericho” and “conducted the first archaeological dig” at “the
Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1810(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5570): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1813: Today
German born Isaac Jacob Bamberger married his second wife Bella Jacobs who died
two years later at the age of twenty-two. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1817:
Birthdate of Bavaria native Fanny Heilbronner, the wife of Isaac Samuel whom
she married in Paris in 1840<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1817: Aaron
Goldsmid married Sophia Salomons, the eldest daughter of Levy Salomons at the
Great Synagogue today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1821: In
Devon, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Netterville Burton and Martha Baker gave birth
to Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton one of those eccentric 19<sup>th</sup>
Englishman who dabbled in the military, exploration and writing. Among his many
works was <u>The Jew The Gypsy and El Islam<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.burtoniana.org/books/1898-The%20Jew,%20The%20Gypsy%20and%20El%20Islam/index.htm">http://www.burtoniana.org/books/1898-The%20Jew,%20The%20Gypsy%20and%20El%20Islam/index.htm</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1822:
Seventy-four-year-old Johann Ludwig Ewald an advocate for Jewish emancipation
“who wrote two pamphlets in defense of the Jews” and who “argued that the Jews
were not worse than others, that their shortcomings were the result of
persecution, and that no one had a right to expect them to improve until they
had been given equal rights with other citizens” passed away in Carlsruhe. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1822: Boston,
Massachusetts, incorporated as a city. “The earliest mention of a Jew in
Massachusetts bears the date May 3, 1649, and there are references to Jews
among the inhabitants of Boston in 1695 and 1702; but they can be regarded only
as stragglers, as no settlers made their homes in Massachusetts until the
Revolutionary war drove the Jews from Newport. In 1777 Aaron Lopez and Jacob
Rivera, with fifty-nine others, went from Newport to Leicester, and established
themselves there; but this settlement did not survive the close of the war. A
number of Jews, including the Hays family, settled at Boston before 1800. Of
these Moses Michael Hays was the most important. In 1830 a number of Algerian
Jews went to Boston, but they soon disappeared. The history of the present
community begins with the year 1840, when the first congregation was
established.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1822(26<sup>th</sup>
of Adar 5582): In Charleston, SC, Wolf Oppenheim, the seventeen-day-old son of
Catherine and Hertz Wolf Oppenheim passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1823: Dr.
Daniel Levy Maduro Peixotto, “the eldest son of Moses Levy Maduro Peixotto” and
a graduate of Columbia College “married Rachel M. Seixas, the daughter of
Benjamin Seixas today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1829: In
Altona, Germany, Doris and Rabbi Reuben Simon Cohn gave birth to Rabbi Moses
Jesaias Cohn the husband of both Hanna Cohn and Rosa Cohn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1831:
Birthdate of Joshua Glaser, who gained fame as Julius Anton Glaser who
converted to Christianity and became a leading Austrian jurist “and liberal
politician.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6700-glaser-julius-anton-joshua-glaser">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6700-glaser-julius-anton-joshua-glaser</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1832:
“Baltimorean Mendes I. Cohen,” who while on his six year tour of Europe and the
Middle East become “one of the first American citizens to visit to Palestine”
wrote a letter to his mother Judith while in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jewishmuseummd.org/tag/mendes-i-cohen/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://jewishmuseummd.org/tag/mendes-i-cohen/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1832:
Birthdate of Hungarian Hermann Wamberger who gained famed Ármin Vámbéry whose
son Rusztem “briefly served as Hungary’s ambassador to the United States after
WW II.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Vambery_Armin"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Vambery_Armin</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://tabriz-rugs-tabriz-carpets.com/History/Arminius_Vambery.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://tabriz-rugs-tabriz-carpets.com/History/Arminius_Vambery.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1839: A
“pogrom, known as the Allahda<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">d</i>, broke
out in the Iranian city of Mashhad. At the time of the pogrom, the city of
Mashhad was home to about 2,500 Jews. The event devastated the Jews of Mashhad,
who were violently forced into converting to Islam. The ruler of Mashhad
ordered the authorities to attack the Jews. A large mob went on to the Jewish
quarter and proceeded to burn down the synagogue, destroy Jewish homes and
businesses, abduct Jewish girls, kill about 40 Jews and injure many more. The
Jews had knives held to their throat and were forced to renounce Judaism and accept
Islam. While some of the Jews left Mashhad following the incident, others
stayed and would go on to lead a secret Jewish life. While adopting Muslim
customs in public, most would maintain Jewish tradition in the privacy of their
homes. There are no Jews left in Mashhad today. Most of the descendants of
Mashhad's Jews live in Israel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1843: Three
days after she had passed away, 79-year-old Jane (Mordecai) Friedeberg, the
widow of Benjamin Friedeberg was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish
Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1845: Edward
Salamon and Henrietta Levien gave birth to Francis Edward Salamon, the brother
of New South Wales native Montague Levien Salamon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5608) Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848: Founding
of the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia whose “Honorary Life Members”
included Moses A Dropsie, Isaace Rosskam, Mayer Sulzberger, Louis E. Levy and
Levi Mayer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848:
Birthdate of Wyatt Earp. Born in Monmouth, Illinois, this fabled lawman gained
fame as the Marshall of Deadwood, Dodge City and Tombstone, Arizona. Much of
Earp's life was spent as a gambler, prospector and failed businessman. He was
not Jewish, but his third wife was. While living in Tombstone, Earp took up
with Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp, daughter of practicing Jewish family living
in San Francisco. Despite her claims that they married, no written record
existed. However, they remained together, if nothing else in common law
marriage until Earp's death in 1929. Earp's ashes were buried in the Marcus
Family Plot at Jewish Hills of Eternity Cemetery in Colma, California, south of
San Francisco. While Ms. Earp did not live among Jews for most of her adult
life, she too chose to rejoin her people in death and is buried alongside her
famous husband. For more about this interesting marriage, you can read <u>I
Married Wyatt Earp,</u> Mrs. Earp's book about their life together.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848: One day
after she had passed away, 42-year-old Mary (Emanuel) Drukker, the wife of
Simon Drukker was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1849: Joseph
Ansell Spier married Catherine Hyam today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853: Things
turned violent in Jerusalem today, Palm Sunday. Greeks and Armenians fought in
front of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and 24 Protestant missionaries from
London scuffling with a group of Jews in the streets of the City of David.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860: In
Milwaukee, WI, Hendrina Speelman Litt and Isaac Jonker Lit gave birth to
theatrical agent Jacob Isaac Litt, the husband of Ruth Litt whom he married in
1898 and the father of Willard and John Carpenter Litt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860: The
"Wealth, Power and Enterprise of the Hebrew People, as evidenced by the
Building of King Solomon's Temple," was the subject of a lecture delivered
this evening in Temple Hall by Rabbi Raphall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1862:</span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> The New York Times</span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> published a letter
today in which took issue with that paper’s characterization of Senator David
Levy Yulee as being Jewish. “In your well-merited rebuke of the traitor Yulee …
you were led into an error which I am sure you will correct, as it reflects unjustly
upon the loyalty of a large religious body of the community. You speak of
Yulee, (the Ex-Senator) and Finegan (the ex-contractor) as "Jew and
Irishman," thus placing the supposed religious belief of Yulee in
juxtaposition with the nationality of his co-traitor. The facts are. Levy is an
American and foreswore the religion of his father’s many years ago, married a
Christian lady of wealth, was baptized a Christian and had his name changed by
the Legislature of his State to ‘Yulee’ thus adding to the many proofs, that a
bad Jew will never make it good Christian.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864: In
Jerusalem, “Yehoshua Yellin, one of the founders of the founders of the Nahalat
Shiv'a neighborhood in Jerusalem and his wife Serah, the daughter of Shlomo
Yehezkel Yehuda, an educator from Iraq” gave birth to David Yellin, the brother
of Shlomo Yellin, the husband of the former Ita Pines whose son Avinoam “was
murdered during the Arab Revolt” and whose Zionism found expression in his work
to advance the Hebrew Language as can be seen by his founding of “the first
Hebrew College for Teachers” and co-founding “the Hebrew Language Committee.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865(21<sup>st</sup>
of Ada, 5625): During the waning days of the Civil War, twenty-five-year-old Charleston
native Marx E. Cohen, Jr., the “eldest Cohen” died of Marx E. and Armida Harby Cohen”
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>died “on the battlefield of
Bentonsville, N.C., where he distinguished himself in Hart's Battery C.S.A., by
volunteering the performance of a service in which he lost his life.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1867: In
Detroit, members of Congregation Beth El gave the trustees of Tabernacle
Baptist Church $17,000 for their property which would be home to Beth El for
the next 36 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.J. Workum,
President of the congregation and Martin Butzel were leaders of in the
negotiations on behalf of Beth El.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1867: The
Ashkenazim of living in Palestine sought permission to slaughter their own
meat. The Ashkenazim appealed to the British to intervene on their behalf. In
the formal letter of request to the Consul, it stated that both the Muslims
(and the Sephardim) “understood that the Ashkenazim were not true
Israelites." This concerned the Ashkenazim because they made money selling
certain cuts of meat to the Muslims, and if the Muslims did not consider them
Jews, they would not buy their meat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868: In
Butrimonys, Albert and Judith Valvrojenski gave birth to Senda Valvrojenski who
gained fame as Senda Berenson Abbot, a pioneer in the game of women’s
basketball.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was also the “sister of
the art historian Bernard Berenson and a great-great-aunt of the photographer
Berry Berenson and the actress and model Marisa Berenson.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/tag/senda-berenson-abbott"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/tag/senda-berenson-abbott</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868:
Birthdate of Josef Schlussselberg, who in 1942 was transported from Prague to
Terezin where he was murdered at the age of seventy-four.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870: In Forsyth
County, GA, Mary Hyams and Isaac Moses Pearlstine gave birth to future
Charleston resident Hyman Pearlstine, the husband of Esther Pearlstine and the “father
of Edwin Strauss Pearlstine; Milton Alfred Pearlstine; Mary Amelia Pearlstine
and Floyd Jacobs Pearlstine.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872: In
Lithuania, David and Gittel Schubert gave birth to Fannie Shubert, a sister of
the famous “Shubert brothers” who was the wife of Isaac Isaacs and William H.
Weissager.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5633): Sixty-year-old economist Wilhelm Stahl who was elected to the
Frankfort Parliament in 1848 and became a professor at the University of
Giessen 3 years later passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/tje/view.cgi?n=13960"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/tje/view.cgi?n=13960</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874(1st of
Nisan, 5634): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874: In Conneautville,
PA, Melius and Sophia (Weissenburg) Ohlman gave birth to Allegheny College
graduate and University of Pennsylvania trained medical doctor Isaac Loeb
Ohlman, the urologist and proctologist at Montefiore Hospital and editor of the
Pittsburgh Medical Bulletin who served for a year as Captain in the Medical
Corps<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875: In New
York’s Part II of the Marine Court Chief Just Shea presided over breach of
contract brought by Jennie Jonas, a Polish Jewess against Victor Goldstein for
his failure to marry him. Jonas was represented by famed litigator Samuel
Hirsh. In the end, the jury found for the plaintiff and awarded her $75 in
damages.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875: Baruch
and Fanny Rothschild gave birth to Hedwig Rothschild who became Hedwig Gutman
when she married Bernhard Gutmann<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876: Sam and
Sarah Nelken gave birth to their son William.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: It was
reported today that the Marquis de Compiegne, the famous French explorer had
died in the interior of Africa after having been mortally wounded during a duel
he fought “with a German Jews named Mayer.” The duel was brought on by a
dispute over geographic matters and insults to Mayer’s girlfriend.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878(14th of
Adar II, 5638): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878: In
Mohileff, Russia, Tobias Weinshenker and Elka Markman gave birth to Esther T.
Weinshenker who came to the Unied States in 1886 where she organized the Clara
de Hirsch Society in Chicago and became the national chairman of the Ladies’
Organization of the Federation of American Zionists whose sixth and seventh
conventions she attended as a delegate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880: It was
reported today from Madrid, the Jews of Morocco are planning to honor the
United States Minister who interceded on their behalf so that they would be
protected by the Sultan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880:
According to a review of “Sunshine and Storm in the East” published today, Lady
Brassy reported that one of the differences between the Jews and Moslems of
Morocco was that the Moslem women “were muffed up to the eyes and waddled along
like animated bundles of dirty clothes” the Jewish women were “gorgeously
draped” and their faces were uncovered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880: In New
York the Board of Estimate and Apportionment allocated funds to be paid to
charities taking care of youngster committed to their care by the Police
magistrates including $1,691.43 for the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1884:
Birthdate of Galicia native <span style="color: black;">Sholom Joseph Perlmutter,
the vice president of the Hebrew Actors Union, co-founder of the Society of
Jewish Composers and the Jewish Playwrights League as well as a “historian of
the Jewish theatre” who wrote Jewish Dramatists and Jewish Composers </span></span><a href="http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/P/perlmutter-sholem.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/P/perlmutter-sholem.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: Seventy-four-year-old
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, the author of <u>The Jew</u> a romantic novel in
which, “the Jews are made to stand as a kind of buffer between the Russians and
the Poles and when the collision comes” between these two “it is generally the
Jews who suffer” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888:
Birthdate of Peretz Naftali, the native of Berlin who made Aliyah in 1933 and
served in Israel’s first Knesset <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888(7th of
Nisan, 5648): Forty-five-year-old Salomon Abendana Belmonte, the Hamburg born
attorney who was editor of the Hamburger Reform and sever as a member of the
Hamburg starting in 1877 passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2843-belmonte-solomon-abendana"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2843-belmonte-solomon-abendana</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889: In San
Francisco, Eva Korper Voorsanger and Rabbi Jacob Voorsanger gave birth to
University of Cincinnati graduate and HUC ordained Rabbi Elkan Cohen
Voorsanger, “the senior Jewish Chaplain with AEF in France during WW I” and
spiritual leader of Temple Shaare Emeth Israel who was the husband of the
former Henrietta Moscowitz and father of Esther, Alice and Edith Voorsanger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: “Slaves
of the Sweater” published today summarized the arbitration hearings between the
striking members of the Shirtmakers’ Union and the contractors for whom they
work. The workers claim they work fourteen hours a day for as little as four
dollars a week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The contractors claimed
that the workers only labor from 7:30 am to 6 pm with half an hour for dinner
and that “a good female operative could make $9 a week and man $13.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The work used to be done by “German, American
and Irish girls” but they have been driven out by the Jews who are now on
strike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The manufacturers, most of whom
are Jewish, claim they know nothing about working conditions because they deal
only with the contractors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: In New
York City, Aaron and Rosa (Roth) Stern gave birth to NYU trained attorney
Emanuel A. Stern, the husband of Charlotte Taussig.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: It was
reported today that Solomon Goldstein, and his three sons were among those
fortunate enough to have survived the fire at the tenement building at the
corner of Hester and Allen Streets but one of them, Abraham, was injured and
had to be taken to Gouvernor Hospitals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: In
Leeds, UK, Ada and Maurice Raisman gave birth to Pembroke College, Oxford,
graduate Sir Abraham Jeremy Raisman, the Indian civil servant and banker.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/raisman-sir-abraham-jeremy"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/raisman-sir-abraham-jeremy</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: Jose
S.K. Mizrachee, the Syrian born Jew charged with shooting Rabbi Mendes in New
York City, is being held at Police Headquarter and is scheduled to make his
first appearance in Part I of the Court of General Sessions this morning.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: An
altercation broke out in New Haven, CT today after carpenters came to work on a
house on Rose Street which was being converted to a synagogue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The current occupants of the house claimed
that the workers would disturb their Sabbath peace, this being Sunday and began
attacking the workers and the Jews who accompanied them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893:
Following regular services at Temple Emanu-El, Rabbi Silverman delivered a
lecture on “Popular Errors About Intermarriage” which is part of series of
lectures he is delivering “on popular errors concerning the Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: Mrs.
Charles Krumm took $20 out of the safe and saw her husband give it to Policman
Charles Levy $20 (in what was either a bribe or payoff)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894:
Birthdate of Jiří (Georgo) Mordechai Langer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/186696/kafka-langer"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/186696/kafka-langer</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
Twenty-four-year-old Felix M. Warburg, the Hamburg born son of Moritz and
Charlotte Esther Oppenheim Warburg married Theresa Loeb Schiff today in New
York after which they had four sons – Frederick, Gerald, Paul and Edward – and
one daughter, Carola. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: “Polish
Jews Going to Cripple Creek” published today described the passage of 80
families, numbering 260 Polish Jewish immigrants who passed through Fort Worth
Texas on their way to Cripple Creek where they going to begin life as farmers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: In
Albany, the State Board of Regents held its regular quarterly meeting during
which it granted an “unregistered provisional charter to the Hebrew Free
School” in Syracuse, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: “The
auction sale of seats and boxes for the performance of ‘The Heart of Maryland’
for the benefit of the Hebrew Infant Asylum was held at the Herald Square
Theatre this afternoon.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: It was
reported today that new wing of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews which was
completed six weeks ago cost $75,000 and allows the institution to care for as
many as 300 people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: The
ladies of the Sewing Society of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum hosted an afternoon of
entertainment for children at the facility on Amsterdam Avenue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5657): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5657): Seventy-one-year-old Ignaz “Ignatz” Grossman, the Hungarian
born rabbi and husband of Anna Rosenbaum Grossbaum who came to Brooklyn in 1873
to lead Congregation Beth Elohim and later Congregation B’nai Abraham passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: Two days
after she had passed away, Elizabeth Levi, the daughter of John Fileman and
Mary Levy and the first wife of Henry Levi was buried today at the “Plashet
Jewish Cemetery<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: It was
reported today that the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia had raised
$9,114 last year to support its programs that include weekly lectures by
Ephraim Lederer on the U.S. Constitution. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: Four
days after he had passed away, 82-year-old James Sylvester was buried today at
the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: Benjamin
"Ben" Schlesinger the native of Lithuania who would become the
nine-time President of International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union became a
United States citizen in Chicago today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: Three
Jewish children, Celia Bogin (11), Louis Begin (9) and Kate Bogin (4) whose
mother had died two weeks ago in Denver were taken to headquarters of the
United Hebrew Charities in New York by a cabman who found them on the street.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: Florence
Prag a teacher at Lowell High School in San Francisco married Julius Kahn, a
former Broadway actor, state legislator, and, at the time, a first-term U.S.
Representative from San Francisco. The couple had two sons, Julius, Jr., and
Conrad. She would later serve five terms in the U.S. House of Representative as
a Republican after succeeding her husband in office following his death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900:
Birthdate of Kiev native and Northwestern University graduate Alexander J.
Burnstein, the JTS ordained Rabbi and leader of the Millinery Center Synagogue
in Manhattan from 1942 until 1970 who raised two sons, Raphael and Ira, with
his wife Etta and whose accomplishments included rescuing European Rabbis which
serving as secretary of the Advisory Committee on Refugee Jewish Ministers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: Herzl
has another meeting with Austrian Prime Minister Ernest von Koerber.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: In
Paris, Leo Mielziner, an artist and the son of a Rabbi and the former Ella
Friend gave birth to “American theatrical scenic and lighting designer” and
convert to Catholicism Joseph “Jo” Mielziner, the “brother of actor-director
Kenneth MacKenna.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: Gladys
Helen Rachel Goldsmid and Louis Samuel Montagu, 2nd Baron Swaythling gave birth
to Captain (Hon) The Hon. Ewen Edward Samuel Montagu, RNR, the man who played a
key role in the creating the subterfuge that helped make the landings for
Operation Husky a success. After the war, Montague filled vital leadership
roles for the Jewish community in the United Kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: In
“Restricting Immigration” published today, the New York Times stated that it
“did not favor arbitrary exclusion” but also said, “the problems which so
sternly confront us today are serious enough, with being complicated and
aggravated by the addition of some millions of Hungarians, Bohemians, Poles,
south Italians and Russian Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: Silverlip,
a steam tanker built in 1902 by the W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Company of
Walker for Sir Marcus Samuel owner and chairman of Shell Transport &
Trading Company of London who had been “born into a family of Baghdadi Jews in
Whitechapel, London” was commissioned today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: In Lviv,
Isaac Gruss, “a Talmudic scholar and a banker” and his wife gave birth to
American financier and philanthropist Joseph Saul Gross, the husband of
attorney Caroline Zelaznik, the father of Martin David Gross and Dr. Evelyn
Gruss Lipper and the father-in-law of producer Kenneth Lipper.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Nisan, 5664): Parashat Vayikra read on the same day that it was reported
that “the Iowa State Senate” had “voted an appropriate of $125,000 for the location
at Knoxville of a hospital for habitual drunkards” and the birthdate of Judge John
Sirica of Watergate fame.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905(12th of
Adar II): Yiddish novelist Isaac Moses Bader, the husband of Helen Bader and
the father of playwright and journalist Gershon Bader passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: Governor
N.C. Blanchard and Charles F. Buck, Grand Master of the Masons were among those
delivering addresses of welcome at the opening of the meeting in New Orleans of
“The Constitution Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: In
Mannheim Luise Máthilde Wilhelmine (Hommel) and Albert Friedrich Speer gave
birth to “Hitler’s architect” Albert Speer the member of the Nazi inner circle
who beat the hangman by convincing people that he did not know about the fate
of the Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: A brief
note had been received from French journalist Francis de Pressensé describing
the demise of the six year old French weekly<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
L’European </i>which provided Europeans with, among other things, an accurate
account of events in Russia including “the Jewish massacres” and which included
the prediction that following the Russian defeat by the Japanese, “one does not
have be a prophet…to predict that it will be the Jews who will be called to
account” and that the “Russian dupes” will release “the fury of revenge on the
Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: “The
Beauty of Bath” a musical comedy produced by Charles Frohman opened at the
Aldwych Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: Cyrus L.
Sulzberger told a group of Jewish women meeting at the home of Mrs. Benjamin
Stern that “there a 700,000 Jews” living in this city but that only “only 4,000
contribute to Hebrew Charities.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: The
Council of Jewish Women sponsored a concert at Temple Beth-El where one hundred
and fifty members of the Musical Cantors’ Association of American filled the
sanctuary with “an impressive exhibition of traditional Hebrew music.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: It was
reported today that Julia Richman, the Jewish and public-school educator and
member of the New York Superintendent’s staff was one of the “most outspoken
advoctes of uniting the City and Normal College under one head.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: The
Sultan ratifies election of the Hahambashi Haim Nahoum who had had an audience
with the Turkish ruler.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5670): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: “Am
Imposing Work of Reference” published today Joseph Jacobs provides a lengthy,
positive review of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics which contains
sections by Professor Morris Jastrow, Jr. the noted orientalist and Professor
Sylvain Levi, the leading expert on Sanskrit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5671): Seventy-year-old Rabbi Immanuel Manchem Adler, the son of Rabbi
Joseph Gabriel Adler and the husband of Judith Adler passed away today in
Bavaria<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911:
International Women’s Day was marked for the first time, by over a million
people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. In the Austro-Hungarian
Empire alone, there were 300 demonstrations. In Vienna, women paraded on the
Ringstrasse and carried banners honoring the martyrs of the Paris Commune.
Women demanded that women be given the right to vote and to hold public office.
They also protested against employment sex discrimination.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912:
Birthdate of New York native Joseph Walker, the Columbia trained attorney and
executive vice president. with S. Klein Department Stores.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://forgotten-ny.com/2016/03/s-klein-stores/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://forgotten-ny.com/2016/03/s-klein-stores/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(10<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5673):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Twenty-year-old Louis
Bachrach, the Decatur, GA, born son of Henry and Mathilda Hamburger Bachrach
passed away today while working at a “large department store” after which he
was buried at the Fairlawn Cemetery in Decatur, GA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: University
of Minnesota graduate (Phi Beta Kappa) and Minneapolis resident Fanny Fligelman
Brinn, the Romania born daughter of Antonette Friedman and Johnn Figeleman married
Arthur Brin today after which she served as the chairman of the National
Council of Jewish Women and President of the Minneapolis Section of the Council
of Jewish Women.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: Lucille
Lefurgey is scheduled to deliver a lecture this evening on “Hamlet” at the
Chicago Hebrew Institute.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914:
Twenty-one-year-old Tulane University trained mechanical engineer Moses Walter
B Moses, the New Orleans born son of Elkin and Ida Moses and member of ZBT
married Josephine Harpman Noar today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: In
Toronto, the Royal Ontario Museum, which is the home to The Dr. Fred Weinberg
and Joy Cherry Weinberg Judaica Collection opened to the public today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Jewish Weekly</i>, edited by Herman
Bernstein published a statement by the famous Danish author, Georg Brandes”
describing the pogrom-like environment facing the Jews in Russian Poland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: Reports
published today estimate that there are between 250,000 and 400,000 Jews
fighting in the Russian Army.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: As
attempts were being made to form a Jewish fighting force in the British Army,
Joseph Trumpeldor held a meeting of all the volunteers that was attended by
senior British military leaders including Major-General Alexander Godly during
which “they heard how it would be the first time in British history that
non-Britons or non-colonials were to be admitted as a unit into the British
forces. Patterson explained that the soldier who carries ammunition and
supplies to the trenches requires no less courage than the man who fires a
rifle and Godley declared that ‘Today the English People have entered into a
covenant with the Jewish People’ (As described by Martin Sugarman)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: The
Young Men’s Hebrew Army and Navy Association announced today that it has
obtained leave of absence for all Jewish sailors and soldiers attached to army
and navy posts in and around New York for three days during Passover. Fifteen
hundred sailors and soldiers will be able to celebrate the holiday with leaves
of absence effective March 29, 30 and 31.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5676): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5676): In Chicago, Henrietta Baach, he wife of Sigmund Baach passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
Birthdate of novelist Irving Wallace. His first best seller was the Chapman
Report which caused a minor scandal for its time since it focused on a group of
that was conducting a survey of sex habits. Other novels included The Man about
the first African-American to become President and The Fan Club. Wallace passed
away in 1990.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: At the
Orpheum Theatre, the Jews of Baltimore responded to an appeal by Herman
Bernstein on behalf of the “war sufferers in Poland” with “a shower of gold,
banknotes and jewels” the proceeds of which will be turned over to the American
Jewish Relief Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: In New
York City, the funeral for Rabbi Moses Guedalia was held followed by interment
at Mount Neboh Cemetery, Cyprus Hills.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: This
morning Rabbi Samuel Schulman, Felix M. Warburg, Judge Julian W. Mack and
Abraham Shiman addressed those attending a celebration at Temple Beth-El
marking the second anniversary of the founding of the Metropolitan League of
the Young Men’s Hebrew and Kindred Associations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: “One
hundred and ten delegates from twenty cities in Pennsylvania met at the Arch
Street Theater” in Philadelphia today” and chose delegates to represent the
state at a conference to arrange for the “inaugural meeting of the American
Jewish Congress” which will be held later this summer.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: The new
government ins Russia has accepted in principle reforms that will lead to <br />
the re-enactment of the commercial treaty with the United States” which had not
been possible under the Romanov dynasty because of “the insistence of Russia in
applying to naturalized American Jews the same rules as to those Jews who are
Russian subjects.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: It was
announced today that 8,000 tickets have been sold for a mass meeting in Madison
Square Garden where “for the first time in the history of” New York City
“thousands of Jewish refugees will assemble to cheer a Russian government.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: With
Associate Justice Louis Brandeis voting with the majority, the US Supreme Court
upheld the Adamson act which provided an 8-hour workday for railroad employees.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918:
Birthdate of Irving Schlossenberg, the native of Baltimore who was a
photographer for the Washington Post and served with distinction as a combat
photographer with the Marine Corps during five different Pacific landings.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: The
Jewish Welfare Board announced today “that Jewish families in the vicinity of
army cantonments would act as host to Jewish soldiers and sailors on March 27
and March 28 when most of them will have leaves of absence for Passover.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Wolffs
Telegraphisches Bureau, the semi-official voice of the German government sent
out an account of the discussion held in the Main Committee of the Reichstag
concerning the Lichnowsky memorandum written by the former German ambassador to
Great Britain which was denounced as indiscreet and treasonable. Wolffs was
founded by Bernhard Wolff, the son of a German Jewish banker. It was ironic
that the British and German press services were both founded by German Jews.
But Reuters, unlike Wolff, left his native home and his native religion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5679): On the Jewish calendar Yahrzeits of Rabbi Reuben Hoeshke of
Prague and Rabbi Gedaliah Lipshutz<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: The
United States rejected the Treaty of Versailles for the second time. This
rejection helped paved the way for World War II and therefore for the
Holocaust. At one level, the rejection signaled a turn to Isolationism which
meant the United States would not do anything to curb the rise of fascism
during the 1930’s. Rejection of the treaty also meant that the United States
would not be joining the League of Nation which would render that international
body d.o.a.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, II 5681): Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Dr.
Enlow is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The New Meaning of Purim” at Temple
Emanu-El on Fifth Avenue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Milton
J. Forman, the Jewish born Chicago son of Mary Hoffman and Joseph Foreman was
promoted to the rank of Major General in the Illinois National Guard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Dr.
Krass is scheduled to Saturday morning services at Central Synagogue on
Lexington Avenue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922:
Birthdate of Camden, NJ native Herbert Harvey Pollack, the graduate of
Philadelphia’s Simon Gratz High and Temple University and NBA statistician who
created the “Harvey Pollack NBA Statistical Yearbook.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/sports/basketball/harvey-pollack-a-statistician-in-nba-from-day-1-dies-at-93.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/sports/basketball/harvey-pollack-a-statistician-in-nba-from-day-1-dies-at-93.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: In Lodz,
Poland, Jewish socialists Josef and Golda Morgentaler gave birth to Henryk
Morgentaler who survived and gained fame as Canadian Doctor Henry Morgentaler.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5684): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924:
Birthdate of Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, a nationally prominent Reform rabbi known
for his progressive, sometimes provocative public stances, including opposition
to the Vietnam War, a speech at Yale accusing the University of a history of
anti-Semitism and early political support for his neighbor Barack Obama. His
mother was a social worker; his father, a tailor, died when Arnold was 7. For
several years, starting when he was about 10, Arnold acted in national radio
dramas broadcast from Chicago on the Mutual Broadcasting System. After
receiving an associate’s degree from the University of Chicago, Arnold Wolf
earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Cincinnati in
1945. He received his ordination from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in
1948 and later served as a Navy chaplain with United States occupation forces
in Japan. In choosing his vocation, Rabbi Wolf had been greatly influenced by
an uncle and a great-uncle, both Reform rabbis. (The great-uncle was the leader
of the KAM congregation, a precursor of KAM Isaiah Israel. Founded in 1847, KAM
took its name — an acronym for the Hebrew phrase “Kehilath Anshe Ma’arav,”
“Congregation of the People of the West” — in tribute to its frontier origins.)
In 1957, Rabbi Wolf became the first full-time rabbi of Congregation Solel, a
Reform synagogue in Chicago. Guest speakers there over the years included the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Chicago Seven, the seven defendants
charged with inciting to riot and other offenses stemming from protests at the
1968 Democratic National Convention. In 1965, the rabbi marched in Alabama with
the civil rights leader John Lewis. Two years later, he led a group of
congregants to Washington to lobby against the Vietnam War. Starting in the
early 1960s, Congregation Solel conducted an annual weekend of Holocaust
remembrance, among the first synagogues in the country to do so. In 1973, Rabbi
Wolf helped found Breira, an organization of progressive American Jews that
advocated a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The
organization, whose name means “alternative” in Hebrew, was a target of
frequent, bitter public attacks by American Zionists. It disbanded in 1977.
Beginning in 1972, Rabbi Wolf spent eight years at Yale as a chaplain and the
director of the university’s chapter of the Hillel Foundation, the Jewish
student organization. In 1980, when he was preparing to leave Yale and return
to Chicago, he delivered a blistering Yom Kippur sermon in which he charged the
university with a “long and dishonorable history of anti-Semitism” and accused
its administration of “callousness” toward the needs of Jewish students and
faculty members. The sermon, and the university’s subsequent denial of Rabbi
Wolf’s accusations, attracted wide public attention. At his death in 2009 at
the age of 84, Rabbi Wolf was rabbi emeritus of KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation
in Chicago, where he had served as rabbi from 1980 until his retirement in
2000.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: Sixty-five-year-old
Hermann Volrath Hilprecht, the Assyriologist who was “in charge of the
University of Pennsylvania Babylonian expedition to Nippur which provided a
great deal of information about the civilization that produced Abraham.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
Birthdate of Jerold Rosenberg, who as Jerry Ross would gain fame as “an
American lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical
theater include The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, winners of Tony Awards in
1955 and 1956 respectively in both the "Best Musical" and "Best
Composer and Lyricist."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
Birthdate of Avrom Isaacovitch, who as Avrom Isaacs became a leading Canadian
art dealer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/av-isaacs-leading-art-dealer-in-contemporary-canadian-art-dies-at-89/article28231438/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/av-isaacs-leading-art-dealer-in-contemporary-canadian-art-dies-at-89/article28231438/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: The
Möller Organ Company of Hagerstown, MD signed a contract in which it “agreed to
build a three-manual organ with 64 registers” for Temple Israel of Washington
Heights.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5687): Parashat Tzav; Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: Final
publication of “Jinglet” a comic strip created by Alvah Posen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927:
“According to Palestine correspondence printed” today “in the Jewish Day”
“nearly 271 years afer Baruch Spinoza…was excommunicated by the Jewish
community in Amsterdam, the ban was revoked when Dr. Joseph Klausner of the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem uttered the formula of release at a meeting of
the university faculty” in February.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: In
Epinal, France, two refugees from Poland, gave birth to Marceline
Loridan-Ivens, the survivor of Drancy and Auschwitz who make them the subject
of cinematic work. (As reported by Alissa J. Rubin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/obituaries/marceline-loridan-ivens-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/obituaries/marceline-loridan-ivens-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: In
Kharkov, Lev Kramarevsky, “the head ballet master in Minsk” and ballerina
Ludmilla Melchemko gave birth to Andrei Kramerevsky, “a principal dancer at the
Bolshoi Ballet” and “a much admired teacher at the School of Ballet in New
York” who was the step-father of dance Alexander Tressor whose “parents decided
to join the mass emigration of Soviet Jews when the Soviet Union lifted bans on
emigration.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930:
Birthdate of Eugene Bleecher Selznick, the native of Los Angeles who was
captain of the United States men's national volleyball team for 17 consecutive
years (1953–67 during which time he team won two Volleyball World
Championships.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: The
former Lenore Lebach and Edmond Nathaniel Cahn the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar
Kahn, who were married yesterday by Rabbi Louis Binstock are scheduled to set
sail today from New Orleans for a Havana honeymoon after which the couple will
reside in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: Harry
Warner and his wife the former Rea Levinson “became the legal guardian of
Lita”, the daughter of his late brother Sam “through a $300,000 settlement in
Lita’s trust fund.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5691): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5691): Shortly after her wedding, Rachel, the daughter of Joel
Teitelbaum and Chava Horowtiz, the daughter of Abraham Chaim Horowitz passed
away today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: It was
reported today that the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury has announced that
“no modifications will be made in the regulations pertaining to the
distribution of sacramental wine” which means that the rabbis who had met with
to seek some changes in the restrictions had failed in their mission.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5692): Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: “Blind
boys and girls were the actors in three short plays, produced under the
auspices of the Community Workers’ Auxiliary of the New York guild for the
Jewish Blind” tonight at the Theresa Kaufmann Auditorium of the Y.M.H.A.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: In
Newark, NJ, Herman Roth, a frustrated life insurance agent and “the former Bess
Frankel” gave birth to award winning novelist Philip Milton Roth, author of <u>Portnoy’s
Complaint</u>. His writings can be loaded with sex, guilt, humor and plenty of
pathos. Two of his more famous novels were Portnoy's Complaint and Goodbye
Columbus. He won the National Book Award for Goodbye Columbus in 1955 and
Sabbath's Theatre in 1995. As somebody once, Roth is funny until you realize
that Portnoy and you have the same mother. (As reported by Charles McGrath)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933(21st of
Adar, 5693): Phillip Jaffe, the father of Hyman Jaffe and Pulitzer Prize
winning editor Louis Jaffe passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: Estee
Lauder gave birth to her son Leonard who became Chairman Emeritus of The Estée
Lauder Companies Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: The
state of Nevada legalized gambling. One of the results of this would be Bugsy
Siegel’s building of the Flamingo which led to the creation of Las Vegas, the
gaming capital of the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1934: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The New York Times</span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> features John
Chamberlain’s excellently written review of "The Oppermanns by Lion
Feuchtwanger. He describes the text as being “that rare thing, a novel…that is
both good propaganda and first-rate dramatic writing.” The novel paints a
picture of a well-to-do German Jewish family confronting the rise of Hitler. In
his concluding lines, Chamberlain writes, “You won’t discover the reasons for
Hitler in the Oppermanns, but you will discover Nazism’s ghoulish incidence in
the wreckage of many human lives and hopes.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: Will
Gould’s “first daily strip, ‘Red Barry’ which was distributed by King Features and
featured the two-fisted cop Red Barry appeared” for the first time today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/gould_w.htm">https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/gould_w.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5695): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935:
Birthdate of actress of Phyllis Newman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Hitler
placed an American citizen, Fritz Julius Kuhn, as the head of the Nazi
organization that became known as party the German American Bund.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: In
Warsaw, “a government amendment to the proposed bill on ritual slaughtering
permitting this method of killing for the consumption of members of religious
denominations requiring was approved the Sjem Committee on Adminstration.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “A group
of 115 Jewish exiles from Germany, the second large group to reach” the United
States as quota immigrants with the last two weeks arrived” today on the United
States liner Manhattan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
Approximately 5,300 children from the Jewish religious schools in New York are
scheduled to attend a pageant portraying “historical episodes illustrating the
evolution of the tradition of Jewish charity from Old Testament times to the
present” at the Roxy Theatre sponsored by “the young men’s and women’s division
of the federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies and the
Jewish Education Association.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1937: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jerusalem Post</span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> reported on widespread
violence and that a curfew was imposed in Jerusalem. Four Arab building workers
were injured when an Arab, who was caught later by police, threw a bomb at them
on their construction site in the Mea She’arim quarter. There were many other
shooting and stabbing incidents. The Arab Higher Committee issued a statement
calling for calm in a period in which "enemies of the nation were striving
to incite Arabs by provocations."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: After
spending six weeks in the United States where he worked to help the Palestine
Appeal “raise $4,500,000 for the settlement of Jews of Poland, German and other
lands” it was reported today that Eliezer Kaplan, the treasurer of the Jewish
Agency for Palestine has set sail on the Normandie on the first league of his
return trip to Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5698): Parashat Tzav<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5698): Sixty-one-year-old A. Ray Katz, the Baltimore, MD born son
Henrietta and the husband of Ethel Epstein with whom he had three children who
was a member of Oheb Shalom Congregation, vice president of the American
General Corporation “and the first president of the Associated Jewish
Charities” passed away today in Rio de Jemerrio. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: In his
sermon today Temple Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Louis I. Newman said President
Roosevelt “should voice his disapproval of the oppression of monitories and
summon freemen throughout the the world to hold together for the preservation
of civil rights.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: Rabbi
William Margolis the “spiritual leader of the United Jewish Community in Ottawa
delivered a sermon at the Jewish Center of New York in which he said, “America,
paragon of democracy must in the current human crisis take the lead and set the
example for other civilized nations.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: Rabbi
Joseph H. Lookstein delivered a sermon at Congregation Kehilath Jeshrun warned
of the danger that Russia was the only nation calling for “a world conference
against dictatorships’ and called on the United States to take the lead in the
endeavor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Dr.
Armin a Holzer of Seattle, the founder of the Palestine Prayer Fellowship is
scheduled to deliver a speech on “The Resurrection of Biblical Ant-Semitism and
the Solution of the Jewish Problem” at a rally at the Hotel Sharon in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: “Signs
forbidding Jews to enter plastered man restaurant and shop doors” as
celebrations took place today in Nazi controlled Danzig marking the German
conquest of Czechoslovakia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
Birthdate of Judy Rae Glassman, the native of Cambridge, MA, who gained fame as
Judith Daniel, the founding editor-in-chief of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Savvy </i>magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: In what
must have seemed to have been a miraculous rescue, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn,
the 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe arrives in New York. The Friediker Rebbe was a man of
great physical and spiritual courage. He battled the Bolsheviks on their home
ground and then stayed with his Chassidim when the Nazis invaded Poland. When
he arrived in the United States, he immediately opened the first Lubavitch
Yeshiva in the United States despite warnings that he would fail because
America was so different from Europe. The Rebbe preserved against great odds.
The small community that he had the fortitude to start in Crown Heights became
the Chabad Lubavitch movement that today circles the globe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: Vladimir
Jabotinsky addressed a crowd of more than 5,000 supporters in New York
demanding the “restoration of a Jewish state” in the area under British
Mandate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941(20th of
Adar, 5701): Rafal Krzepicki, aged 34, was shot dead by a sentry at the Lodz
ghetto<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942 Former
Notre Dame, University of Wisconsin and NFL quarterback Robert Sherman “Bob”
Halperin, the Chicago born son of Jewish immigrants Aaron and Julia Halpern,
enlisted in the United States Navy where he rose to the rank of Lt. Commander
and served as a member of the Navy Scouts and Raiders” whose job was “to mark
beaches for the assault, infantry, a daring, intricate job, calling for as much
brain as courage, and barrels of both." <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: “Levine
Asks for Tine Payment” published in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Los
Angeles Times</i> described Charles Levine’s last brush with the law.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishmag.com/123mag/jewish-aviators/jewish-aviators.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishmag.com/123mag/jewish-aviators/jewish-aviators.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: Haj Amin
al-Husseini, the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem broadcast from Rome to the “Arab
World.” It was the birthday of the Prophet and Haj Amin used the occasion to
try to stir up anti-Jewish hatred. His speech included the reading of a pledge
from German Foreign Minister Jachim von Ribbentropt that “the obliteration of
what is called the Jewish National Home was a basic tenet of German policy.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: Dimitar
Peshev, who would be honored as a “Righteous Among the Nations” introduced a
parliamentary resolution to halt the deportation of the Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Martha
Nierenberg and her entire family go into hiding with a friend in Budapest when
the Nazis invaded her native Hungary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1944:
“The need for a coordinated program for combatting anti-Semitism in the United
States will be a leading subject or discussion at the Conference of the Central
States Region of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds” which is
scheduled to end today in Trenton, NJ</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: During
World War II, the Wehrmacht occupies Hungary. Hungary had been a willing ally
of the Germans. By 1944, the Hungarians saw the signs of impending defeat and
attempted to surrender. The Nazis realized what was happening, occupied the
country and made sure that a sympathetic Hungarian government stayed in power.
This shift marked the beginning of the end of the Hungarian Jewish community.
Thanks to the Hungarian government, the Jews of Hungary had been spared the
Final Solution. Now Eichmann and his henchmen were on their way and “The Night”
would become reality.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: The
Germans arrested 200 Hungarian Jewish doctors and lawyers. This was Germany's
first independent action in that Country. The Gestapo then set up activities in
hundreds of Hungarian towns. They threatened thousands of prosperous Jews with
death if they did not pay “a homage” of valuable belongings and money to the
Gestapo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: Mrs. Z.
H. Rubinstein President of the Brooklyn chapter of Hadassah announced today
that the group had met its goal of raising $200,000 which will be used to fund
five projects underway in Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: As World
War II was coming to an end “Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree"
ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation
facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5706): Sixty-three-year-old Rabbi Boruch Sholom Trainin, the
Latvian born former head of Congregation Tifereth Jerusalem in Manhattan and
husband of Helene Trainin with whom he had three children – Benjamin, Isaac and
Sonia – passed way this afternoon “after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage while
delivering a lecturing a lecture on the Talmud…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946:
Economist Elisha Friedman writes to Winston Churchill telling him how deeply he
had been moved to hear the British leader refer to himself as a Zionist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947(27<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5707): Seventy-nine-year-old Abraham L. Saltzstein, who in 1884 came
from his native Poland to the United States, finally settling in Milwaukee
where he became a “general agent for the New Mutual Life Insurance Company of
Wisconsin” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: At a
meeting of editors held in Tel Aviv today, journalists discussed the warnings
of terrorist groups not to publish an offer of a reward by police that was
designed to lead to the capture of 18 wanted terrorists. Names on the list
include Menachem Begin head of the Irgun and Nathan Friedman head of the Stern
Gang. In a letter delivered to 12 Jewish newspapers, the terrorists said that
publication would be treated as collaboration and dealt with accordingly.
Because they were afraid for the safety of their staffs, the editors agreed no
to voluntary publish the list but said they would have no choice but to comply
under the law if requested to do so by the government.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5708): Eighty-nine-year-old Helen Goldmark Adler, the widow and
“helpmate” of Dr. Felix Adler whose “book <u>An Outline for Child Study,
Intelligently Directed Observation for Mothers</u> was one of the first manuals
of its kind” and who was the mother of Waldo, Laurence, Eleanor and Margaret
Adler passed away today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/adler-helen-goldmark"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/adler-helen-goldmark</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations Warren Austin told the Security Council “that
the United States no longer viewed the partition plan as viable.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(The only problem was that nobody had told
President Truman who would express his anger over what he considered an end-run
around the White House by the State Department.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: “British
military authorities urgently strengthened patrols late tonight as both Arabs
and Jews agreed that the United States proposal to abandon partition would
bring a blood bath to the Holy Land.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: Today “a
new hitch in the Israeli-Lebanese armistice talks… has caused a postponement of
the signing: which was supposed to have been signed tomorrow at Ran En Naqura<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5709): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: At
Temple Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Louis I. Newman gave a sermon in which he said,
“Together we must devise ways and means to save” the President’s “program for a
successful implementing of the economic pledges which have been made to the
people.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: At the
West Side Institutional Synagogue, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein congratulated Dr.
Ralph Bunche for “his courage in declaring Great Britain’s’ decision to send
troops to the Transjordan port of Aqaba a violation of the Security Council’s
resolution.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: Leah and
Yitzhak Rabin gave birth to Israeli attorney and MK Dalia Rabin-Pelossof<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: Herman
Wouk's <u>Caine Mutiny</u> was published. The popular Jewish author has two
great loves – the U.S. Navy and Judaism. This affection shows in his literary
efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952:
Birthdate of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, co-founder of Miramax<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952: The
Jewish Agency announced that Jews emigrating from East European countries would
be admitted to the country without any restrictions imposed by the new,
selective immigration policy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5714): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Jewish Chronicle</i> reported on plans
for an exhibition entitled “Manchester and Israel – a city’s contribution to
the birth a State” which coincided with the 50th anniversary of Chaim
Weizmann’s arrival in the English industrial city.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954:
Birthdate of Jill Abramson, the first woman to serve as executive editor of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5715): Shabbat HaChodesh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955: “Lester
Glucksman and Monroe Newman won the master pair bridge championship tonight at
the McAlpin Hotel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955: U.S.
premiere of “Blackboard Jungle” a movie that gave suburban America one of its
first cinematic looks at inner city schools directed by Richard Brooks who also
wrote the script, produced by Pandro S. Berman and featuring the film debut of
Vic Morrow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957: Producer
David O. Selznick sent a memo to John Huston expressing his concerns with the
filming of “A Farewell To Arms” – concerns that would lead to Huston resigning
and being replaced by Charles Vidor. (Vidor and Selznick were Jewish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Huston was not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this had nothing to do with the dispute)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959: “First
Impressions, a musical with music and lyrics by George Weiss and Bo Goldman and
a book by Abe Burrows, who also directed the musical” opened on Broadway at the
Alvin Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960: After
452 performances the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of
“Redhead,” a musical with music by Albert Hauge, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, who
along with Herbert Fields and Sidney Sheldon also wrote the book.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959: “Shaggy
Dog,” a Disney comedy based on a novel by Felix Salten, featuring Jack
Albertson and featuring an opening narrative by Paul Frees was released today
in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5720): Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5720): Seventy-one-year-old Russian-born American screenwriter Sonya
Levien passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-sonya-levien/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-sonya-levien/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/levien-sonya"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/levien-sonya</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961: In
Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, “Clair (née Sims), a concert pianist, and
Leonard Friedman, a violinist for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra” gave birth
to three time Olivier Award winning actress Maria Friedman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5722): Fast of Esther.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962: Bob
Dylan's self-titled debut album was released. The five time Grammy winner was
born Robert Zimmerman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962: Funeral
services were held to in New York for “Rabbi Clifton H. Levy, the oldest past
president of the New York Board of Rabbis.” (As reported by JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962: The
Broadway production of “All American,” “a musical with a book by Mel Brooks and
music by Charles Strouse opened at the Winter Garden Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964: U.S.
premiere of “The World of Henry Orient” co-starring Peter Sellers and Tom
Bosley, with music by Elmer Bernstein and filmed by cinematographer Boris
Kaufman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5725): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: Two days
before the Selma march was scheduled to begin, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
received a telegram from Reverend Martin Luther King, inviting him to join the
marchers in Selma, Alabama who are seeking the right to vote for all Americans
regardless of race, religion or creed. Heschel will go, “praying with his
feet.” These demonstrations will help Lyndon Johnson to secure passage of the
Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most sweeping and far-reaching pieces of
legislation passed in the history of the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967: It was
reported today that Lester Avent, chairman and president of Avnet,
Incorporated, the electronic components firm started by Charles Avent “a
33-year-old Russian Jewish immigrant, has announced that election of new
financial vice-president.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968: CBS
broadcast the last episode of “Good Morning World,” a sitcom whose creators
included Carl Reiner and Sheldon with some of the episodes written by James L.
Brooks and Saul Turtletaub and co-starring Goldie Hawn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969:
One day after he had passed away funeral services are scheduled to be held in
NYC for seventy-two-year Harvard alum and Navy Veteran from WW I and WW II
Kassel Lewis, the founder of Crown Fabrics and husband of “the former Syliva
Surut who is the director the YMHA/YWHA nursery” with whom he raised a daughter
and a son – Anthony Lewis of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York
Times<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970(11th of
Adar II, 5730): Ta'anit Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5730): Sixty-four year old motion picture attorney Isadore H.
Prinzmetal, the son of Harry and Anna Stein Prinzmetal and the brother of Myron
Prinzmetal who “was a founding member of the Center for the Study of Democratic
Institutions in Santa Barbara and had served on the Citizens” and “the national
vice president of the American Jewish Council as well as the President of the
Los Angeles Hillel Council passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: Writer
and activist Grace Paley was among 182 people arrested in New York City for
protesting the Vietnam War draft<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: In
Canada, Bora Laskin began serving as Pusine Justice of the Supreme Court.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5733): Shusahn Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975: U.S.
premiere of “The Yakuza” directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, featuring
Herb Edelman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1976(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5736): Seventy-five-year-old Harvard and Oxford education David
Wainhouse, “international lawyer, author and Deputy Assistant of State” who was
the husband of the former Katherine Cohen” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/21/archives/david-wainhouse-a-lawyer-diplomat.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/21/archives/david-wainhouse-a-lawyer-diplomat.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977:
"Side by Side by Sondheim" closes in New York City after 390
performances<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978: UN
Security Council Resolutions adopted resolutions 425 and 426. They called upon
Israel to immediately cease its military action and withdraw its forces from
all Lebanese territory while establishing the United Nations Interim Force in
Lebanon (UNIFIL). Like so many UN resolution, this one failed to address the
reasons that forced the Israelis to take action in the first place.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980: It was
reported that customers of the Arthur Murray dance schools, which were founded
by “Moses Teichman, a Galician born Jew” have won the right to back out of
contracts that can run into thousand of dollars.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5741): T’anit Esther and erev Purim occur for the first time during
the Presidency of Ronald Regan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983: In
German, TN, at Temple Israel, Rabbi Harry Danziger officiated at the Miriam
Gerber and Dr. David Bertram Kaplan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/20/style/miriam-gerber-marries-dr-bertram-david-kaplan.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/20/style/miriam-gerber-marries-dr-bertram-david-kaplan.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5744): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5744: Fifty-six-year-old “street photographer” the Bronx born son
Jewish immigrants Bertha and Abraham Winogrand passed away today at Tijuana,
Mexico.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/garry-winogrand?all/all/all/all/0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/garry-winogrand?all/all/all/all/0</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.moma.org/artists/6399"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.moma.org/artists/6399</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985(26th of
Adar, 5745): Eighty-seven year old Dr. Philip Reichert, M.D, who had married
Helen Reichert in 1939, passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/23/nyregion/dr-aaron-feder-dies-internist-and-professor.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/23/nyregion/dr-aaron-feder-dies-internist-and-professor.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985(26<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5745): Sixty-nine-year-old NYU Alum and University of Maryland Medical
School trained physician Aaron Feder the internist and Cornell Medical School
professor who was the husband of “the former of Beatrice Wallance” with whom he
raised two daughters – Carol and Jane – passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986: Jack
Mathieu Émile Lang completed his first term as Culture Minister of France.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987(18th of
Adar, 5747): Arch Oboler, “an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist,
producer and director who was active in radio, films, theater and television,
passed away. He generated much attention with his radio scripts, particularly
the horror series Lights Out, and his work in radio remains the outstanding
period of his career. Praised as one of broadcasting's top talents, he is
regarded today as a key innovator of radio drama. Radio historian John Dunning
wrote, "Few people were ambivalent when it came to Arch Oboler. He was one
of those intense personalities who are liked and disliked with equal
fire." A native of Chicago, Oboler was the son of Leon Oboler and Clara
Oboler, Jewish immigrants from Riga, Latvia.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988: Rabbi
Earl S. Starr officiated at the marriage of Lea Anne Schoenfeld and Randall
Joseph Ottinger this evening at the Mission Hills Country Club in Palm Springs,
CA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989: “Marvin
Hamlisch to Marry Ms. Blair, Producer in May” published today reported on the
plans of independent television producer Terre Blair the daughter of Marie and
Dr. William B. Blair to marry Oscar winning composer Marvin Hamlisch, “the son
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Max Hamlisch of New York” to wed in two months.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993: Arnold
Resnicoff “delivered the prayer for the commissioning of the first of a series
of new Israeli missile boats (Sa'ar 5), jointly built by the U.S. and Israel,
in Ingalls Shipyard, Pascagoula, Mississippi.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997: In
today’s issue of the “Manhattan based weekly,” The New York Observer, Rhodes
Scholar and investigative reporter Katherine Eban Finkelstein wrote about what
JTA described as the “furor…over the use of pigskin in the treatment of
Orthodox Jewish children with serious burns in New York’s pre- eminent
pediatric burn center.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998: As
Ronald Perelman worked to finalize his purchase of Sunbeam a press release was
issued that Sunbeam would not meet sales expectations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2000: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The New York Times</span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including
recently released paperback editions of Max Frankel’s "The Times of My
Life: And My Life With The Times" and Thane Rosenbaum's "Second Hand
Smoke", a “novel about the son of Holocaust survivors who grows up in a
home dominated by his tormented mother and later becomes a Nazi-hunting
lawyer.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: Patrick
Balkany began serving as Mayor of Levallois-Perret<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002: 1st Lt.
Tal Zemach, 20, of Kibbutz Hulda, was killed and three soldiers were injured
when Palestinian terrorists opened fire on them in the Jordan Valley. Hamas
claimed responsibility for the attack.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: A West
End revival of “Ragtime,” a musical based on the book by E.L. Doctorow
produced, by Sonia Friedman opened at the Piccadilly Theatre today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: David
Tepper announced that he would make a single donation of $55 million to
Carnegie Mellon University's business school<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: The American
Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors sends a letter to the Jewish Holocaust
Survivors of Canada addressing the next steps to be taken in the distribution
and use of funds from the Claims Conference that has worked to gain additional
restitution for the victims of the Holocaust.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: Mahmoud
Abbas became the new Palestinian Prime Minister. His appointment was supposed
to mark a new phase in peace negations. Without Arafat's support, he, like the
peace process at that time, was doomed to failure. He finally resigned.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: Zion
Boshirian, 51, of Mevo Dotan was shot and killed while driving in his car
between Mevo Dotan and Shaked in northern Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004: “George
Khoury, 20, a Christian Arab and the son of well-known veteran attorney Elias
Khoury of Beit Hanina, was shot to death from a vehicle while jogging in the
north Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade,
which claimed responsibility for the attack, later published an apology.”
(Jewish Virtual Library)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5765): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: As
Israel unilaterally withdraws from Gaza with no pre-conditions, “the Palestine
economy minister” said “that representatives of Arab countries” have “also said
they would make good on an outstanding pledge…to provide $523 million to the
Palestinians.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2006: </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The New York Times</span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
"The Doctor’s Daughter" by Hilma Wolitzer and "Anna of All the
Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova" by Elaine Feinstein<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: The
Second World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace began in Seville, Spain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: While
the world's cricketing powers are engaged in the World Cup, history is being
made today when for the first time an Israeli team steps out onto the cricket
fields of India.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: The
lawyers for Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was charged with murdering Daniel
Pearl, “cited the confession of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who said he had
“decapitated…the American Jew Daniel Pearl” as proof that while their client
had been involved, he had not done the actually killing and therefore should
not be executed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008:
"Regina Waldman, an executive committee member of Justice for Jews from
Arab Countries, appeared before the United Nations Human Rights Council in
Geneva, where she testified about her family' flight from Libya after the
Second World War."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Eric
Alterman, a professor of English and journalism at the City University of New
York, discusses and signs Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for
Post-Bush America at Prose Bookstore, in Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: In New
York, the 92nd Street Y features a presentation by Edward Kaplan entitled
“Spiritual Radical: On Abraham Joshua Heschel.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: As part
of the Blavatnik Chamber Concert Series, The Center for Jewish History and the
Leo Baeck Institute present: “Women in Song: From Baroque to the Present”
performed by the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble under the direction of Vassa Shevel
and Inessa Zaretsky. The evening features songs by Felix's sister Fanny
Mendelssohn-Hensel along with other women composers from Germany, France and
America.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Elena
Kagan completed her service as the 11<sup>th</sup> Dean of Harvard Law School.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: By a
vote of 61 to 31, the United States Senate confirmed the appointment of Elena
as Solicitor General of the United States, making her the first woman to hold
this position.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: A
revival of the 1950’s musical “West Side Story” opens on Broadway directed by
Arthur Laurents, the 92-year-old Brooklyn born Jew whose views about the world
of American theatre are readily available in his recently published book,
Mainly on Directing: Gypsy, West Side Story, and Other Musicals”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: An
anonymous American Jewish investor celebrated his eldest son’s Bar Mitzvah
which took place this morning at the Western Wall by contributing a Torah
scroll to the Samarian outpost community of El Matan, next to Ma’aleh Shomron
and Ginot Shomron. The name of the community means “G-d’s Gift” in Hebrew, and
the donor, a man of Moroccan descent, said that the mitzvah of giving the holy
scroll is all the recognition he needs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Cape Verde Heritage Project Launched”
published today described “an effort to preserve the Jewish heritage in Cape
Verde” that “was formally launched in Washington.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Itzhak Perlman,
the IPO and Emmanuel Halperin perform together this morning in Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Previews
of “Sondheim on Sondheim” are scheduled to begin Studio 54.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Elephant
Parade, one of an unprecedented eight bands imported from Israel for the sole
purpose of taking part in this year’s SXSW (South by Southwest) festival is
scheduled to play at Stephen F’s Bar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The
opening reception for "My Father's Microcosm, Tel Aviv", a
photographic installation by Israeli photographer Yossi Guttmann and curated by
Eva Grudin is scheduled to take place this evening at The Williams Club of New York.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The Air
Force hit six targets in Gaza early this morning in response to recent rocket
attacks on southern Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: David
Adelman was confirmed as United States Ambassador to Singapore. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010(4<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5770): Ninety-five-year-old George Lane, the husband of Miriam
Rothschild, who earned the rank of Colonel while serving as a commando with SOE
in WW II passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-colonel-george-lane-1-798235"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-colonel-george-lane-1-798235</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/special-forces-obituaries/7528727/Colonel-George-Lane.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/special-forces-obituaries/7528727/Colonel-George-Lane.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Civilian
areas in southern Israel were heavily shelled by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza
this morning, when more than 50 mortars were fired at the regional councils of
Sha'ar Hanegev, Eshkol and Sdot Hanegev. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Foreign
Minister Avigdor Lieberman instructed Israel's United Nations envoy to lodge a
formal complaint with the organization after Israel was hit by over 50 mortars
fired from Gaza this morning. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: “Yiddush
Cup” is scheduled to play tonight at Park Synagogue in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(13th of
Adar II, 5771): Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: In the
evening, the Megillah is read as Purim celebrations begin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(13th of
Adar II, 5771): Sixty-three year old Larry Friedlander who founded Reason
Magazine passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/07/us/07friedlander.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/07/us/07friedlander.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The
Women’s Conference sponsored by Temple Torah is scheduled to open at West
Boyton Beach, Florida.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: “Mabul”
and “Little Simco’s Big Fantasy” are scheduled to be shown at the 16th New York
Sephardic Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5222): Eighty-three year old Belgian born American director and
producer Ulu Grosbard passed away today in New York,.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/arts/music/ulu-grosbard-broadway-and-film-director-dies-at-83.html?_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/arts/music/ulu-grosbard-broadway-and-film-director-dies-at-83.html?_r=0</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: In
Jerusalem, The Off The Wall Comedy Club is scheduled to host “Jerusalem Blend,”
featuring Elazar ‘Dr. Jazz’ Brandt &amp; Benny Firszt ‘Jerusalem’s Poet’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5222): In Toulouse, Mohamed Merah opened fire on two Jewish pupils,
their father and the headmaster’s daughter at Otzar Hatorah which is now called
Ohr Torah School.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(25th
Adar, 5772): Yahrtzeit for those who perished in the Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory Fire.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The
Bernard and Irene Schwartz Distinguished Speakers series is scheduled to
present “Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man” featuring Walter Stahr and Louis
P. Masur<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013(8<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5773): Eighty-nine year old” the matriarch of the last of the grand
Catskill resorts, who greeted guests with a “Welcome home,” made sure the
regulars got rooms facing the lake, entertained them with comedians and filled
them with blintzes and stuffed cabbage” passed away today. (As reported by
Joseph Berger)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/nyregion/helen-kutsher-matriarch-of-a-catskills-resort-dies-at-89.html?_r=1&"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/nyregion/helen-kutsher-matriarch-of-a-catskills-resort-dies-at-89.html?_r=1&</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/a-tour-of-a-little-catskills-resort-with-a-large-heart/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/a-tour-of-a-little-catskills-resort-with-a-large-heart/</span></a><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The
former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, newly installed as Pope Francis I,
opened his speech at today’s Papal inauguration with a nod to the Jewish
community, saying say he was speaking “with the permission of the diplomatic
corps, the Jews who are with us and all the rest,” according to Israel’s Chief
Rabbinate. A delegation of leaders of Jewish communities from around the world,
including Rabbinate Director General Oded Weiner, was on hand at the Vatican
today when Bergoglio officially took office as the leader of the world’s more
than 1.2 billion Roman Catholics. (As reported by Sam Sokol)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The
remains of 17 bodies, discovered at the bottom of a well in the city of Norwich
in 2004, were given a Jewish burial in Earlham Cemetery in Norwich today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: A day
after being sworn into office, Israel’s incoming ministers today celebrated a
series of changing-of-the-guard ceremonies at their respective ministries,
ushering in Israel’s 33rd government. The first ceremony took place at the
Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, where incoming minister Moshe Ya’alon replaced
Ehud Barak at the helm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The
Jerusalem Art Festival is scheduled to present “Cairo Circus”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jerusalem.muni.il/jer_sys/ArtCenter/ArtFestival/alle.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jerusalem.muni.il/jer_sys/ArtCenter/ArtFestival/alle.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: In New
York, the Anastasia Photo Gallery is scheduled to host its first show featuring
the works of Israeli photographer Natan Dvir <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.natandvir.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.natandvir.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
In a sign of the changing times for Jewish institutions, in Olney, MD. Jewish
Social Service Agency is scheduled to host an evening on “The Secrets to a
Successful Job Search” at Shaare Tefila Congregation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“La Verite si Je Mens #3” (“Would I Like to You #3”) is scheduled to be shown
at the New York Jewish Sephardic Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Aftermath” is scheduled to be shown at the Houston (TX) Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Ninety-five-year-old Robert S. Strauss, the Texas born Washington insider and
diplomat passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/20/us/robert-s-strauss-presidential-confidant-and-deal-maker-dies-at-95.html?hpw&rref=obituaries"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/20/us/robert-s-strauss-presidential-confidant-and-deal-maker-dies-at-95.html?hpw&rref=obituaries</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Seventieth Anniversary of the German Occupation of Budapest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://forward.com/articles/194601/how-hungarian-sisters-outwitted-the-nazis-to-creat/?p=all"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://forward.com/articles/194601/how-hungarian-sisters-outwitted-the-nazis-to-creat/?p=all</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The IAF attacked serval sites on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights overnight
that “had aided and abetted the attack against IDF soldiers and included
artillery batteries and a training camp belonging to the Syrian army.” (As
reported by Elad Benari)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“A bill that would allow local rabbis to oversee conversions to Judaism in
Israel passed the Kneseet’s Constituion, Law and Justice Committee today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Two former senior IDF officers were held by police for questioning today on
suspicion of deliberately destroying evidence connected with the Harpaz affair,
a corruption scandal involving Israel’s political and military leaderships
during 2009 to 2011. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Russell Crowe, the star of “Noah” who had been pushing for a meeting with the
Pope got his wish granted, sort of, today when he, producer Darren Aronofsky
and Paramount Pictures Vice President Rob Moore were “on hand for the pope’s
general audience” today followed by a “short meet-and-greet with the
Pope.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trio hopes that the visit
with the Pope will still some of the controversy created by a call for a
boycott of the film by Muslims and Evangelicals. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015(28th
of Adar, 5775): Seventy-two-year-old Boston radio “gadfly” Danny Schechter
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/arts/television/danny-schechter-news-dissector-and-human-rights-activist-dies-at-72.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/arts/television/danny-schechter-news-dissector-and-human-rights-activist-dies-at-72.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a talk “featuring Steven
Fenves, who survived internment in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald before
being liberated by American soldiers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“A new documentary ‘Philip Roth: Unmasked’” is scheduled to be performed for
the last time at New York City’s Film Forum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled to
host “an eveing of live music and feminist Torah celebrating the release of
Girls in Trouble’s new album, ‘Open Ground.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The 18<sup>th</sup> Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled
to come to an end in NYC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The Jewish Theological Seminary is scheduled to host a lecture on "Race,
Bias and Equal Justice in America."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>Canadian Haggadah Canadienne </u></i>is
scheduled to go on sale in Ottawa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5776: Parahsat Vayikra and Shabbat Zachor; <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5776): Three Israelis – Yonathan Shuer, 40; Simha Dimir, 60;
Avraham Goldman, 69 – were killed and another 11 Israelis were wound in a
terror attack today in Istanbul.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5776): Eighty-five-year-old Bob Adelman, the photographer best
known for the images he captured of the Civil Rights struggle passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/arts/design/bob-adelman-photographer-who-captured-the-emotion-of-the-civil-rights-movement-dies-at-85.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/arts/design/bob-adelman-photographer-who-captured-the-emotion-of-the-civil-rights-movement-dies-at-85.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.bobadelman.net/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.bobadelman.net/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
The tour “Jews in the American South” is scheduled to begin today in
Charleston, SC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Rock in the Red Zone” is scheduled to be shown at the Israeli Film Festival in
Philadelphia, PA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Remember” and “Serial Bad Weddings” are scheduled to shown at the Houston
Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2016:
In New Orleans, the second day of Limmudfest is scheduled to begin with
services at Gates of Prayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For more
information see the Crescent City Jewish News, the leading source for news
about the Jewish Community from Lake Pontchartrain to the Gulf Coast. </span><a href="http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/category/limmud-nola/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/category/limmud-nola/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
As Jews observe the first Shabbat after Merrick Garland has been nominated to
fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court, the sense of communal pride is enhanced by
the memory that it was just 100 years ago, in the winter of 1916 that President
Wilson nominated the first Jew – Louis Brandeis – to serve on the Supreme
Court.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the same time this may be
considered a case of third –time is the charm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Benjamin Cardozo was nominated by President Hoover to serve on the High
Court during an election year (1932) making Garland the third Jew to be chosen
in such a manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>George Washington, who
made the Jews feel like welcomed members of the American community, was the
first President to nominate a Justice to the High Court during an election year
and he actually did it twice in 1796 when he was a “lame duck.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> published reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including <u>The Stranger in the Woods</u> by Michael Finkel the recently
released paperback editions of <u>Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo</u> by Boris
Fishman<u>, Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape </u>by
Peggy Orenstein and <u>Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics and the
Sterilization of Carrie Bucky </u>by Adam Cohen<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Am Kolel in partnership with the Jewish Folk Arts Festival, Yiddish of Greater
Washington, The Foundation of Jewish Studies, and the Jewish Study Center is
scheduled to sponsor “The Great Yiddish Writers Festival” at B’nai Israel in
Rockville, MD. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
A surprise drill began today in which “2,000 reserve soldiers were called up…to
simulate war in the Gaza Strip.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2017: Former Arizona Wildcats basketball
player Josh Pastner, the ACC coach of the year, led his Georgia Tech to victory
against Belmont in the NIT.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The Breman Museum / Theatrical Outfit / Atlanta Jewish Music Festival are
scheduled to present “Baby That Is Rock ‘N’ Roll: The Leiber/Stoller Era.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana (JEF) is scheduled to mark half a
century of service to the Greater New Orleans Jewish community with its Annual
Event today in the Grand Ballroom) of the Westin Canal Place.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“Beneath the Silence” is scheduled to be shown this evening at the New Jersey
Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players which was founded by Jens Nygaard who
directed the Washington Heights YW-YMHA concerts for 25 years is scheduled to
perform “Rooted in Russia today<span style="color: #1f497d;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Nissan, 5778): Sixty-nine-year-old Dr. Arnold Richard Hirsch, the Chicago
born son of Nathan Hirsch and Mollie Shulman and the University of Illinois
trained historian best known for chronicling the story of housing segregation
passed away today. (As reported Sewell Chan)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/obituaries/arnold-hirsch-chicago-historian-dead.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/obituaries/arnold-hirsch-chicago-historian-dead.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“Romain Franck, a French employee of France’s Consulate in Jerusalem” “was
indicted today for using a diplomatic vehicle to smuggle dozens of guns from
Gaza to the West Bank.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story” in
London<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Mayim Bialik, the holder of a doctorate in neuroscience who gained fame a “Amy
Fowler-Farrah” on “The Big Bang Theory” is scheduled to address The Global
Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism which is scheduled to begin today in
Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://gfca2018.org/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://gfca2018.org/</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In Cedar Rapids, IA, the Thaler Holocaust Memorial
Education Fund is scheduled to host “From India to America: Routes of the
Roma“presentation at the National Czech and Slovak Museum & Library during
which Ian Hancock (professor emeritus at UT, Austin) “one of the world’s
foremost scholars on Romani history will discuss the history of the little
known but often persecuted people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In Des Moines IA, at Temple B’nai Jeshurun,Grinnell
Professor Katya Gibel Mevorach is scheduled to speak about “The Challenge of
Addressing Anti-Semitism Today” and Rabbi Yossi Jacobson is scheduled to speak
about “Encountering Antisemitism in London” and “The Current Series of Attacks
on Chassidim in Brooklyn” as part of the JCRC Antisemitism Forum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019(12th of Adar II, 5779): Seventy-nine-year-old
photographer, the Manhattan born son of <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Lillian
(Block) Kaplan and Dr. William Kaplan, “a founder of what is now North Shore
University Hospital on Long Island” who married Sharon Rosenbush after his
divorce from Harriet Avramescu passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/obituaries/peter-kaplan-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/obituaries/peter-kaplan-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries</span></a><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled
to present “Searching For Survivors: The Fate of the St. Louis Passengers”
during which “Scott Miller, former Director of Curatorial Affairs at the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will discuss his decades-long search to
uncover the fate of every passenger from this tragic journey and JDC’s historic
role in striving to rescue them.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019” The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a
screening of “Black Honey: The Life and Poetry of Avraham Sutzkever” which
tells the story of the Yiddish poet and his impact on Jewish history and
literature.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to
host the “Palm Beach Country” premiere of “From Cairo to the Cloud” The World
of the Cairo Geniza.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">2019: In London, the exhibition of “Jews Money Myth” is
scheduled to open at the Jewish Museum</span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jewishmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/jews-money-myth/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">https://jewishmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/jews-money-myth/</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: In London, the scheduled screening of “Those Who
Remained” hosted by JW3 will not take place due to the pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: The scheduled screenings of “Final Transports” and
“Childhood Lost” hosted by the Illinois Holocaust Museum will not take place
“in accordance with the recommendations of Governor Pritzker and Mayor
Lightfoot.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: In Cedar Rapids, the final session of “Israel’s
Milestones and Their Meanings” scheduled for today will not take place due to
the pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: In San Francisco, The “Future of Jewish Food” during
which SFSU professor Rachel Gross and “Meat Planet” author Benjamin Aldes
Wurgaft were to discuss kashrut, lab-grown meat and technology” which scheduled
to be held today at the Contemporary Jewish Museum has been canceled due to the
pandemic. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar, 5780): On the Jewish
calendar Yahrzeits of “Portuguese poet and Hebrew grammarian” Moses Gideon
Abudiente. (As reported by Abraham Bloch)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: This Shabbat ONETABLE is scheduled to present “a service
with Kat Morgan from Urban Adamah and Rabbi Paul Shleffar from San Quentin’s
Jewish Congregation, where we will ask “what do gatherings, like that of
Shabbat, gift us?,” “how can our Judaism connect to our service?,” and explore
resources for us to deepen our engagement and support of those individuals who
are living this COVID-19 reality, incarcerated.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">2021: Congregation B’nai Torah of Sudbury is scheduled to
host online “a Kick-Back-and-Relax Shabbat service” which will include music “</span></span>b<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">y composers such as
Simon and Garfunkel, Carly Simon, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, The Indigo Girls,
Shanai Twain, The Carpenters, Bill Withers, Fleetwood Mac and more.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
JCC Contra Costa is scheduled to start hosting a screening “Live and Become”
the 2005 French-Israeli drama about an Ethiopian boy who passes himself off as
a Jew, gets rescued from a refugee camp and grows up in Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The Jewish Secular Community of Cleveland is scheduled to host “Rescue Your
Photos” with Lisa Griffis, the former photo editor and graphics designer at the
<i>Cleveland Plain Dealer.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Challah for Hunger is scheduled to present “Let My People Dough” that includes
a demonstration of “how to make the perfect loaf of challah” followed by “some
fun musical and advocacy activities.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
In a virtual session examining UC Berkeley’s Magnes Collection, curators
Francesco Spagnolo and Shir Kochavi are scheduled to talk about an exhibit that
considered sounds emitted during synagogue services, mainly by ritual objects
but also by acts such as removing the Torah from the ark.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2021:
Today Israelis can look forward to great social freedom thanks to yesterday’s
approval of </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">a fourth stage of Israel’s coronavirus lockdown
exit, which includes the increase in the number of people allowed at social
gatherings, with up to 5,000 visitors permitted at stadiums. (As reported by Moran
Azulay and Adir Yanko)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host
a Special Purim Concert.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022(16<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5782): Parashat
Tzav<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: Israeli, Palestinian, American, Egyptian
and Jordanian officials are set to convene today in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt for
a summit aimed to help foster regional calm ahead of the sensitive Ramadan
period, which begins next week, (TOI)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: Museum at Eldridge is scheduled to host a
“Jewish Lower East Side Walking Tour.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: The Jewish Genealogical Society, LBI and
the Kindertransport Association is scheduled to present Melissa Hacker, Wendy
Henry and Dr. Amy Williams a lecture on The Kindertransports: The KTA, The 80<sup>th</sup>
Year Commemorative Journey and New Research.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: Fashion Week is scheduled to begin today in
Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
LimmuFest New Orleans is scheduled to come to an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
In Newark, NJ, “Phillip Roth Unbound: Illuminating a Literary History”
sponsored by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center is scheduled to come to an
end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/even-portnoy-wouldnt-complain-about-newark-gala-for-provocative-author-philip-roth/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.timesofisrael.com/even-portnoy-wouldnt-complain-about-newark-gala-for-provocative-author-philip-roth/</span></a><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: Based on announcement made on March 16, as
of today “some 650 reserve troops from the intelligence and cyber units in the
IDF would no longer volunteer for service after the coalition rejected the
president's proposed compromise.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rytfdebx2"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rytfdebx2</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: The National Library of Israel is scheduled
to host a lecture by Professor Renee Levine Melammed on “Asenath Barazani, the
16th Century Rosh Yeshiva From Kurdistan: Myth and Reality.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nli.org.il/en/visit/events/asenath-barzani-myth-and-reality?_atscid=3_2269_208004503_10191475_0_Txtatteftwshuhhw2hc&utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%20English%20Newsletter%20-%2002.03.2023"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nli.org.il/en/visit/events/asenath-barzani-myth-and-reality?_atscid=3_2269_208004503_10191475_0_Txtatteftwshuhhw2hc&utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%20English%20Newsletter%20-%2002.03.2023</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: Temple Judea is scheduled to host “Modern
Mussar with Michael Ross.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2024: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2024: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host
the second session of “All Aboard: Yiddish on a Cruise Ship” taught by Naomi
Miller.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
In conjunction with its current exhibition, On the Lower East Side:
Twenty-Eight Remarkable Women…and One Scoundrel, the Museum on Eldridge is scheduled
to host a unique concert lecture with Yiddish theater professor and
director/performer Dr. Diane Cypkin which is “A Salute to the Remarkable Molly
Picon.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2024:
YIVO is schedule to host a conversation, led by former US Ambassador to Israel
Daniel C. Kurtzer,</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">with
Marwan Muasher, Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace and former Jordanian foreign minister and deputy prime minister, about
Muasher's views on “the day after” in Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2024:
“Mostly Kosher, a Los Angeles-based klezmer band, is scheduled to perform at
the Temple Theatre downtown, thanks to the efforts of Des Moines Performing
Arts.</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The Jewish Museum is scheduled to host an “In-Person Adult Studio Workship”
that explores “Marta Minujin’s multi-faceted body of work through sketching and
discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
19th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 165 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p>melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-69842557373709335132024-03-17T16:22:00.005-06:002024-03-17T16:22:43.694-06:00This Day, March 18, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p><a name="_Hlk66810689"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">March 18</span></span></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">37: The Roman Senate
annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Caligula emperor. Caligula ruled from 37
until his death in 41. From the Jewish perspective he was not so much an
anti-Semite as a lunatic whose crazy behavior affected the Jews. The biggest
problems rose from his belief that he was a god and his insistence that the
Jews, along with the rest of the Empire worship him. The Jews did not which led
to a major confrontation. Additionally, Caligula wanted to place a huge statue
of himself in Jerusalem. Fortunately, he died before this travesty could take
place.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1123: Opening of the
First Lateran Council.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike later
councils, this meeting did not deal directly with issues related to the Jews.
However, Canon Eleven did give renewed impetus for the Crusades. “For
effectively crushing the tyranny of the infidels, we grant to those who go to
Jerusalem and also to those who give aid toward the defense of the Christians,
the remission of their sins and we take under the protection of St. Peter and
the Roman Church their homes, their families, and all their belongings, as was
already ordained by Pope Urban II.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Canon Eleven also equates going to fight in Spain with going to
Jerusalem because Spain was under control of the Moors and the Church sought
bring an end to this.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1160: Hamza ibn Asad
abu Ya'la ibn al-Qalanisi an Arab politician and chronicler passed away in
Damascus. His writings provide one of the few contemporary accounts of the
First Crusade from the Moslem point of view including a description of the
sacking of Jerusalem. The Jews had fought alongside the Muslims to defend the
city against the attackers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the end,
according Ibn al-Qalnisi, "The Jews assembled in their synagogue, and the
Franks burned it over their heads.’ (The Franks was the terms easterners used
to describe the Crusaders)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1190: Crusaders killed
750 Jews in Bury St Edmonds England. The logic of the Crusaders was why wait to
kill infidels in the Holy Land when you can kill them right here at home. Just
because these infidels were Jews and the infidels holding the Holy Land were
Moslems did not seem to bother these noble Christian knights and their
supporters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1229: Frederick II,
Holy Roman Emperor declared himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade.
In what would be a lesson for modern times, Frederick’s use of diplomacy
succeeded where the use of force by others had failed. His sixth crusade was
not a military venture; a fact which drew the ire of the Roman Catholic Church.
Instead, after landing in Palestine, he negotiated with the Moslems and gained
control of Bethlehem, Nazareth and Jerusalem for a period of ten years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1389: A priest living
in Prague, Czechoslovakia was hit with a few grains of sand by small Jewish
boys playing in the street. He became insulted and insisted that the Jewish
community purposely plotted against him. Thousands were slaughtered, the
synagogue and the cemetery were destroyed, and homes were pillaged. King
Wenceslaus insisted that the responsibility rested with the Jews for venturing
outside during Holy Week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1478: In Spain, a group
of Jews and conversos gathered for a Seder on the first night of Passover. “A
young cavalier” discovered the group and reported the matter to the
authorities. Since it was holy week, the Spanish decided that the Jews had
gathered to “to blaspheme the Chrisitian religion.” When Alonso de Hojeda, the
prior of the Convent of San Pablo in Seville and enemy of the Jews and New
Christians heard of the event he took the news to Ferdinand and Isabella.
Supposedly this was the “straw that broke the camel’s back” and the two
monarchs petitioned the Holy See to issue a Bull authorizing an Inquisition.
The Bull would be granted and the road to the expulsion of 1492 opened up like
a superhighway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1540: Today “R. Isaac
Porto ha-Kohen obtained from the Duke of Mantua permission to build an
Ashkenazic synagogue.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1580 (2nd of Nisan):
Rabbi Benjamin ben Moses of Lemberg, author <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tavnit
ha-Bayt</i> passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1584: Ivan IV, also
known as Ivan the Terrible passed away. Ivan was terrible for the Jews as well
as for everybody else. He did all that he could to bar them from Russia,
spreading the calumnies of the day, and, when he had the chance, giving them
the choice between conversion or a cruel death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1607: As the
Inquisition prepared to take action against “Jorge de Almedia, a Portuguese
residing in Mexico, the husband of Dona Lenor de Andrada who was convicted by
the Holy Office having kept observed the dead Law of Moses, document were
posted on the door of the Cathedral in the next step to bringing him to
“justice.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1609: At Haderslev in
Denmark, Christian IV and Anne Catherine of Brandenburg gave birth to Frederick
III, who said of the Jews, they “have stolen into Denmark contrary to
long-standing custom, [since the days of the Reformation, the Lutheran creed
had, according to the laws of Denmark, been compulsory throughout the kingdom],
and have dared to traffic with jewels and the like” which led him “to order
that no Jew should enter Denmark without a special passport
("Geleitsbrief"), and that those who were already in the country
should be heavily fined if they did not leave within fourteen days” passed away
today. [Editors’ note: A few years later, however, the tables were turned.
Frederick III., being in need of funds for his wars, borrowed money from the
Jew Abraham (or Diego) Teixeira de Mattos of Hamburg (known through his
relations with the Swedish queen Christina), and gave as security crownlands in
Jutland. Teixeira thereupon made such good use of his influence with the Danish
king that, as early as Jan. 19, 1657, "the Portuguese professing the
Hebrew religion" were permitted to travel everywhere within the kingdom,
and to trade and traffic within the limit of the law. Teixeira himself gained
little by his transaction with the Danish monarch. As his loan was not
returned, he took instead the estates he held as security, selling them later
at a great loss. The king acted similarly in his dealings with the De Lima
family, who were in possession of the Hald estate from 1660 to 1703.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1655: Dutch Minister
Johannes Megapolensis wrote a letter to the Amsterdam Classis, a ruling body in
the Reform Church attacking the Jews who had recently arrived in New Amsterdam.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1669: In Halberstadt
which had been annexed Brandenburg as part of the Peace of Westphalia, a mob
aided by the military demolished a synagogue in the Joeddenstrasse. The people
claimed that the Jews had built the synagogue without permission from the government.
For some time after, the hammer that was used to break the door of the
synagogue was “preserved in the parish house.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1723: Birthdate of
Daniel Itzig, the native of Berlin, who became the “Court Jew” of Kings
Frederick II the Great and Frederick William II of Prussia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-1723-first-jewish-citizen-of-prussia-is-born-1.5338300"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-1723-first-jewish-citizen-of-prussia-is-born-1.5338300</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=475550"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=475550</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1733: Today, the
Prattenbeg, on which Jacob de Beer had been serving as ship gunner left the Cap
bound for Batavia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1746: “The Double
Disappointment,” Moses Mendes’ ballad opera was produced “with considerable”
today “at the Drury Lane Theatre.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1762(23rd of Adar):
Rabbi Judah ben Eliezer passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1764(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5524): Purim observed on the birthdate of notorious slave trader James
De Wolf.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1767: Myer Myers
married Joyce Mears, a cousin of his first wife, Elkalah Myers Cohen of blessed
memory. Myers first wife bore him five children and his second wife bore him
eight children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1769: Birthdate of
Amsterdam native Abraham Levy, the son of Ben Dan Levy and husband of Rachel
Cornelia Bernard whom he married in 1799 before they moved to Richmond, VA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1772(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5532): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1772: In New York City
Abigail and Michael Solomon Hays gave birth to Gitlah Hays.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1772: Birthdate of
German native Isaiah Moses, the husband of Savannah, GA native Rebecca Phillips
whom he married in Charleston and with whom he had twelve children all of whom
were born in South Carolina.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1783(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5543): Purim observed as George Washington is putting down the
infamous Newburgh Conspiracy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1785: In Port au
Prince, Haiti, Sarah and Moise Arbrahm who were married in 1779 gave birth to
Hyam Moise who lived in Charleston, SC with his parents.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1788: In Bavaria, Eve
Edelmuth and Abraham Wolf gave birth to their daughter Philippine Wolf.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1792: One day after he
had passed away, Gabriel Samuel was buried today at the “Alderney Road (Globe
Rd) Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1795: Pennsylvanians
Maria and Moses Nathans gave birth to Isaiah Nathans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1796: In Frankfurt,
Germany, “R' Jonas Moshe (Mozes Jonah) Bondi, A.B.D. Mayence (Mainz) and Bella
Bondi” gave birth to R’ David Tebele Bondi, the husband of Matele Bondi.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><a name="_Hlk66893283"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1796:
Birthdate of Joshua Lazarus, the son of Marks Lazarus who “lived in Cheraw, SC
after his marriage to Phebe Yates in Liverpool in 1835.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></span></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66893283;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1797: In Nancy
(France), Gerson-Jacob Goudchaux and his wife gave birth to Michel Goudchaux,
“a French banker and politician who was twice Minister of Finance during the
French Second Republic and who as a “firm Republican refused to accept the
government of Napoleon III.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799: Haifa was
captured by Napoleon. This marked “high-water mark” in Napoleon’s conquest of
Palestine. The next day French forces reached Acre. It was defended both by
British warships and local townspeople including the Jewish inhabitants. By
June, Napoleon would give up and return to Egypt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1802(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II,5562): Purim observed as the English and the French are negotiating
what will be the Treaty of Amiens which marks the end of conflict known as the
French Revolutionary Wars bringing peace to Europe for the first time to since
1789.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1806: Birthdate of
Cornwall native Henry Joseph, the pawnbroker who was the husband of Amelia
Jacob with whom he had ten children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1809(1<sup>st</sup> of
Nisan, 5569): Parashat Vayikra, Rosh Chodesh Nisan, Shabbat HaChodesh<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1809(1<sup>st</sup> of Nisan,
5569): Karoline Kaulla, the daughter of the banker Yitzchak (Isaak) Raphael who
was Court Jew for the house of Hohenzollern and Rifka Wasserman and the husband
of Akiva Auerbach who <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was “the treasurer
at the Royal Württemberg Court, leader of the Trading House Kaulla in Stuttgart,
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a co-founder of the Royal Württemberg
Court Bank, which after many fusions resulted in the Deutsche Bank in the 1920s
and “a beautiful, impressive woman, praised for the welfare, her care for the
poor regardless of religion, and her works for the Jewish community in
Hechingen” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/kaulla-chaile-raphael"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/kaulla-chaile-raphael</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1811: In Cornwall,
Sarah Kate Simons and John Jacob gave birth to Amelia Jacob on what was the
third birthday of her husband Henry Joseph with whom she had ten children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1812: Three days after
he had passed away, Jacob Phillips was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish
Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1817(1<sup>st</sup> of
Nisan, 5577): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1819: Daniel Joel and
Elizabeth Cohen were married today at the New Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1822(25<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5582): Jacob Lopez, the son of Moses Lopez, who should not be confused
with Jacob Lopez, the son of Aaron Lopez who died in infancy and Jacob Lopez
the son of Moses Lopez who passed away in 1764, passed away today in Newport,
RI.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1824: Two days after he
had passed away, 68-year-old Joseph Benjamin was buried today at the “Brompton
(Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1826: London natives
Matilda Israel and Aaron De Symons gave birth to Matilda Maria De Symons the
husband of Eleazar M. Merton.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1828<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1831: Birthdate of
Joshua Glaser, the Postelburg native who trained as a lawyer before converting
to Christianity to advance his career.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At that time, he changed his name to Jules Glaser, the name by which he
gained renowned as a jurist and statesman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00B1FF9395B10738DDDA00A94DA415B8584F0D3"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00B1FF9395B10738DDDA00A94DA415B8584F0D3</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1835:</span> </span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sir Henry Johnson, 1st Baronet, the British general who had
served with His Majesty’s forces during the American Revolution, the husband of
American Jewess Rebecca Franks and the son-in-law of Philadelphian Davids
Franks passed away today at Bath.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1836:
Forty-one-year-old Mary (Harris) Jessel, the wife of Zadok Jessel and the
mother of Henry, Edward, George and Amelia Jesse was buried today at the “Brady
Street Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1837: Birthdate of
Grover Cleveland, the only man to be elected President of the United States,
defeated in his bid for re-election and then to be victorious over the man who
had beaten him. In 1887, during his first term, Cleveland appointed Oscar Solomon
Straus, “the ranking Jew in America,” envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to Turkey. In 1897, during his second term, Cleveland vetoed a
bill that contained a literacy test for immigrants. The bill was an attempt to
halt immigration from southern and Eastern Europe. If it had passed it would
have a detrimental impact on the Jews of Russia, Romania and the
Austro-Hungarian Empire seeking to come to America. Cleveland spoke out against
the treatment of the Jews at Kishinev and work to raise money for them after
the Pogrom in 1903.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1843(16<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5603): Parashat Tzav chanted as the Great Comet began moving away from
the planet earth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1844: One day after she
had passed away, Phoebe Isaacs, the wife of Isaac Isaacs and the mother of
Abraham and Henry Isaacs was buried today at the “Lauriston Road Jewish
Cemtery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847: Arnold Blum, Jr.,
the New York City born son of Jeanette and Abraham Levi Blum and his wife
Rosina Blum gave birth to Ludwig Blum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848: Bavaria native
Nathan Kahn and Isabella Jeri Levy Kahn gave birth to New Yorker Rebecca Kahn
Affelder, the wife of Leopold Affelder and the mother of Minnie, William, Harry
and Jeanette Afflelder.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852: In Paris,
Augustus Glossop Harris and his wife gave birth to Sir August Harris British
theatrical impresario whom “all of London” called “Gus” and who “was of Hebrew
family and properly proud of his race.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1856: Attorney Leopold
von Kaulla “reorganized some of the institutions founded by his family,
transferring them to Stuttgart, where they were incorporated under the name of
"Kaulla'sche Familien-Stiftung" by King William I. of Württemberg”
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1857: In Pittsburgh,
PA, Louis and Henrietta Berkowitz gave birth to Rabbi Henry Berkowitz the<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">graduate of the
University of Cincinnati, and Hebrew Union College who served a number of
congregations including Temple Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia where he helped to
found the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and the Philadelphia Rabbinical
Association but who may be best known for his role in founding the Jewish
Chautauqua Society, Emily Nepon, his great-great-great-granddaughter described
him in the following words. “Born in 1857, <span style="background: white; color: black;">Rabbi Henry Berkowitz was the “Beloved Rabbi” of Mobile, Kansas City,
Missouri and Philadelphia. He is best known for being the founder of the Jewish
Chautauqua Society in 1893 and was one of four members of the first graduating
class of Reform rabbis in the United States. Rabbi Henry Berkowitz was an
activist, philanthropist, counselor, community leader, voracious learner,
teacher, prolific writer and speaker. And, in keeping with mainstream Reform
Judaism of his day, Berkowitz was also anti-Zionist.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858: In Schenectady,
NY, David and Leontine Marks gave birth to CCNY graduate Marcus Marks, the head
of the family-owned clothing manufacturing firm David Marks and Son, advocate
for Daylight Savings Time and President of the Borough of Manhattan who was the
husband of the “former Esther Friedman,” father of Bernice, Doris, Warren and
Eric Marks and the brother of illumination engineer Louis B. Marks and the
uncle of Johnny Marks “who wrote ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://www.jta.org/1934/08/28/archive/m-m-marks-once-borough-president-dies"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jta.org/1934/08/28/archive/m-m-marks-once-borough-president-dies</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858: Two days after he
has passed away, 86-year-old Isaiah Jones, the husband of Esther Jones and the
mother of Edward A. Jones was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road)
Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859: In Philadelphia,
Henry Cohen and Matilda Samuel Cohen gave birth to sculptor Katherine M. Cohen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_M._Cohen#/media/File:Smith_arch_Beaver.jpg"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_M._Cohen#/media/File:Smith_arch_Beaver.jpg</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Cohen-Katherine-M"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Cohen-Katherine-M</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859: In Cincinnati,
OH, Julia Moses and Frederick A. Johnson<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>gave birth to Cincinnati Law School educated attorney and Democratic party
leader Simeon Moses Johnson the husband of Gertrude Cohen and vice mayor of
Cincinnati who was a member of K.K.B.I. Congregation and a member of the executive
board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861: The New York
Times reported today that the “story floating around the Northern papers” about
a rich Jew named Mordecai “declaring himself insolvent, after paying a small
per centum to his New-York, Boston and Philadelphia creditors, is a falsehood,
cut out of the whole cloth.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862: In Vysocina,
Marie and Bernhard Baruch Mahler gave birth to Ernst Mahler, the younger
brother of Gustav Mahler, whose premature death was one of the tragedies in the
great composer’s personal life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862: Judah P. Benjamin
began serving as Secretary of State for the Confederacy; a position he would
hold until the end of the war.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863: In Opava, Czech
Republic, Charlotte and Samuel David Klauber gave birth to Mathilde Bock<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864: Birthdate of
Aberdeen, Scotland native “Major Frank Lang Collie, M.D. the second husband of
The “Poem A Day Lady,” Ruth Jacob, the “granddaughter of the Rabbi of the Great
Synagogue in London.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866(2nd of Nisan,
5626): Fifty-four-year-old Frederick Goldsmid, the husband of Caroline Samuel,
the MP for Honiton and father of Julie, Walter-Henry, Albert-Abraham, Helen,
Mary-Ada and Isabel Goldsmid passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869: Birthdate of
Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister who signed the infamous Munich
Agreement with Hitler. He returned to England with the words, “I bring you
peace in our times.” Instead there was war within the year. At the same time
Chamberlain’s government followed a pro-Arab policy in Eretz Israel which
resulted in the infamous White Paper that effectively ended Jewish immigration
at the time when the Jews needed a homeland more than ever in their entire
history.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870(15<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5630): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873: In Manhattan, Henry
Rosenheim and Clara Schlesinger gave birth to Casper Schlesinger Rosenheim, the
husband of Eva Rosenheim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874: The Germania
Theatre Company will perform tonight at New York’s Terrace Garden Theatre for
the benefit of the Ladies’ Hebrew Benevolent Society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875(11<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5635): Fast of Esther observed since the 13<sup>th</sup> of Adar falls
on Shabbat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: Birthdate of
Hungary native Otto Abraham Hirsch, the University of Berlin trained lawyer who
came to the United States in 1920.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: It was reported
today that during 1876, the strength of the British Army averaged 184,669
officers and enlisted men of whom 131 were Moslems, Hindus or Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, II, 5638): Fast of Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879: “The New Exodus”
published today described how the Biblical motif was used in events was used in
events leading up to the emancipation of the slaves and how there is the need
for “a New Moses” to liberate the former slaves now living under the oppression
of what came to be known as Jim Crow. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879: The defense was
scheduled to present its case in attempt to prove that Cohen Davis, an elderly
Hebrew glazier, had not committed perjury in the recent trial of Abraham
Freeman and Charles Bernstein, two convicted arsonists.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880: In New York, Dr.
J. P. Newman will deliver a lecture at Chickering Hall sponsored by the Young
Men’s Hebrew Association.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: In St.
Francisville, Illinois, Samuel and Hannah Ochs Morgenstern gave birth to University
of Cincinnati graduate and HUC trained rabbi, Julian Morgenstern the husband of
Helen Thorner and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>biblical scholar who
was the President of Hebrew Union College.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://americanjewisharchives.org/collections/ms0030/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://americanjewisharchives.org/collections/ms0030/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: German born
French Orientalist Jules Oppert “was made a member of the Académie des
Inscriptions et des Belles-Lettres, succeeding the Egyptologist Mariette.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882: Birthdate of Elisabeth
Duetsch who married Austrian photographer, lawyer, inventor, and businessperson
Dr. Emil Mayer in 1903 and committed suicide with him in 1938 when the Nazis
took over Austria.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882: Birthdate of
Russian native Rabbi Eliezer Poupko, the chief rabbi of Veliz who was sentenced
to Siberia for “defying the religious policy of the Soviet Union,” and who in
1931 came to the United States where “he was the spiritual lead of Aitz Chaim
Congregation” in Philadelphia while two daughters and five sons all of whom are
rabbis with his wife “Pesha Chaya.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/09/24/97247374.pdf"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/09/24/97247374.pdf</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883: Birthdate of
Odessa native and American songwriter music publisher Maurice Abrahams, the
husband of “vaudeville performer Belle Baer” and creator of such ragtime hits
as “Ragtime Cowboy Joe,” “"He'd Have to Get Under — Get Out and Get Under
(to Fix Up His Automobile)" and “Hitchy-Koo,” written with fellow Jews L.
Wolfe Gilbert and Lewis F. Muir.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884: Birthdate of
Odessa native Dr. Nahum Enoch Katz, the “consulting chemist of Meridian,
Mississippi.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884(21st of Adar,
5644): Basha Ruchama Twersky, the wife of Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach and the
mother of Aharon Rokeach, the fourth Rebbe of the Belz Hasidic dynasty passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886(11<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5646): Ta’anit Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886(11th of Adar II,
5646): Leopold Zunz, also known as Yom Tov Lippman, a German-born Jewish
intellectual passed away at the age of 91. Born in 1794, Zunz came of age in
post-Napoleonic Germany when Reform Judaism was gaining power and many Jews
were converting to Christianity to gain acceptance in the New Europe. Zunz was
a scholar with a strong Jewish education. He became "the principal of a
teacher's seminary established by the Jews of Berlin.” As can be seen from his
teaching and writings including The Religious Discourses of the Jews Zunz
emphasized the importance of prayer and instruction while contending that
Judaism was a religion that had constantly been reforming itself. Zunz also
believed that for the most part, Judaism and Jewish culture had been at a
higher level than the societies that surrounded it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886: In Radin,
Lithuania, Chaim Yehoshua Heshel Poupko and Bluma Abramowitz gave birth to
Eliezer Poupko, the Rabbi sentenced to two years in Siberia for “defying the
religious policies of the Soviet Union and husband of Pesha Chaya who, thanks
to the intervention of American rabbis came to the United States in 1931 where
he led to congregations and raised a family that played a prominent role in the
world of American Orthodox Judaism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886: Birthdate of
German-born Gestalt psychologist Kurt Koffka who moved to the United States<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in the 1920’s where he
taught at several colleges and universities including Wisconsin and Smith.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: Birthdate of
Abraham Abelson who was buried at the Jewish People’s Cemetery in East Haven,
CT, when he passed away in 1965<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: Two days after he
had passed away, John Coleman Isaac, the husband of Sarah Isaac, was buried
today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: Louis Levene
represented the Shirtmakers’ Union at the arbitration hearing being held today
in an attempt to end the strike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of
the workers are Jewish as are many of the contractors on the other side.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: In Rochester, NY,
Louis and Rose (Neuberger) Wasserman gave birth to Cornell University Medical
College trained urologist Dr. Julius Waterman, the WWI veteran of the U.S. Navy
Medical Corps and “battalion surgeon of the 3<sup>rd</sup> Battalion of the
Naval Militia of the State of New York who began serving as the “consulting
urologist for the Jewish Home for the Aged in 1924.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: A five-story
tenement building at the corners of Hester and Allen Streets which is located
in a neighborhood crowded with Polish Jewish immigrants burned today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time of the fire eleven Jewish
families composed of forty-nine persons were asleep in the building.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: The Trustees
managing the funds sent to the United States by Baron Hirsch for the aid of
Jewish immigrants from Russia and Romania are scheduled to meet today in New
York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise will deliver a lecture entitled “The Jew, Past, Present and Future” this
evening at Temple Israel of Harlem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: Jose S.K.
Mitrachee, the Syrian Jewish beggar who shot Rabbi Mendes on March 5<sup>th</sup>,
returned to New York from Philadelphia today in the custody of Detective
Sergeants Jacobs and Heidelberg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
prisoner was immediately taken to the rabbi’s home where Dr. and Mrs. Mendes
and their 3 servants positively identified as the attacker.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893(1<sup>st</sup> of
Nisan. 5653: Rosh Chodesh Nisan and Shabbat HaChodesh<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893(1<sup>st</sup> of
Nisan, 5653): Two Russian Jewish immigrant peddlers – Isaac Rosnewig and Harris
Blank murdered 18-year-old Jacobs marks on Dutch Mountain in Wyoming County,
PA. (At the time of their execution for the crime the two were described as
“the only people of the Jewish faith ever executed for murder in this
country.”)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: In Berline,
Sidonie and Salomon Salinger gave birth to Los Angeles doctor Harry David
Salinger, the husband of Irene Salinger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: In San Francisco,
founding of the Temple Emanu El Sisterhod whose members included Mrs. P.N.
Lilienthal, Mrs. Lewis Gerstle, Mrs.J.M. Rothchild and Miss Victoria
Lilienthal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: New York Mayor
Strong appointed Jacob W. Mack, the secretary and treasurer of Nathan
Manufacturing Company, to serve as a School Commissioner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5657): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: Two days after he
had passed away, 38 year old Charles Mark Simmons, the son Mark George Simmons
and Caroline Lazarus was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5657): Seventy-one-year-old Ignatz Grossman, the native of Trencsen,
Hungary who arrived at Brooklyn in 1873 where he officiated at Temple Beth
Elohim and Congregation B’nai Abraham passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: A.S. Solomons,
the manager of the Baron de Hirsch Fund oversaw today’s Purim Celebration for
the students which was held in the auditorium of the Educational Alliance
Building.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: The feast of
Purim was celebrated today with “the formal opening of the new wing of the Home
for Aged and Infirm Hebrews” which was attended by 200 visitors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: In Queens, Joseph
Meltsner and Sarah Bach gave birth to Adele Meltsner, the wife of Charles
Pores.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: In Albuquerque,
NM, Dr. William H. Greenburg of London who had responded to an advertisement
“for a rabbi in The American Israelite,” held the first service for fifty
members of Congregation Albert today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: In a letter to
the editor published today “A.C.” takes issue with the statement that Henry
Irving plays the part of the Polish Jew in “The Bells.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Irving actually plays the part of Mathias,
the murder of the Polish Jew which “is not quite the same thing.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: It was reported
today that “some of the French journals intimate that anti-Semitism is at the
bottom of the new movement, which is that no Jew is to be permitted either to
adopt a career in art, or, having painted a picture, to exhibit it.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: Birthdate of Max
Alpert, the decorated Soviet WW II photographer, the brother of Mihail Alperin
with whom he had studied photography at Odessa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: “The Colored Race
and Illiteracy” published today provides a summary of an article by Wallace C.
Hamm in The North American Review that includes the notation that “The Russian
and Polish Jews are never illiterates.” (This stands in stark contrast of the
portrait painted of the Jews of eastern Europe being semi-literate disease
laden parasites)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: In Minsk, Samuel
and Bessy (Miller) Berman gave birth to painter Saul Berman who attended the
Cooper Union School of Fine Arts, the National Academy of Design and the Beaux
Arts Institute of Sculpture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=saul+berman+artist&ei=N4JSYNyVEsSqtQaPsoK4CA&start=10&sa=N&ved=2ahUKEwicjcHbr7jvAhVEVc0KHQ-ZAIcQ8NMDegQIDhBH&biw=1219&bih=706"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.google.com/search?q=saul+berman+artist&ei=N4JSYNyVEsSqtQaPsoK4CA&start=10&sa=N&ved=2ahUKEwicjcHbr7jvAhVEVc0KHQ-ZAIcQ8NMDegQIDhBH&biw=1219&bih=706</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: Edward Breck, who
was not Jewish, expressed his displeasure with the way that United States was
complying with Russian laws that discriminated against American Jews and
praised Julius Goldschdmidt, the U.S Counsel General in Berlin for his protest over
the American government’s behavior in this matter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: It was reported
today that “the Waldeck-Rousseau Ministry has submitted to the French Senate an
amendment to the Dreyfus Amnesty bill which is said to be most satisfactory to
a large body of the more rational Dreyfusards, for its enactment would neither
prohibit the rehabilitation of Captain Dreyfus in the regular legal way, nor
would it make impossible the prosecution of ex-Minister of War Mercier before a
Senatorial High Court of Justice.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901(27<sup>th</sup> of
Adar): On the Jewish calendar, yahrzeit of “Rabbi Leone Modena (Aryeh Leib):
the author of <i>Ari Nohem </i>who had passed away in 5444<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: In New York City,
Julius L. Lubell and the former Kayla Ginsberg” gave birth to Dorothy Lubell
who after she married Dr. Solomon S. Feign was known Dorothy D. Feigin, “the
painter, etcher and lithographer” whose “works are in collection of the Metropolitan
Muses of Art, the Library of Congress, the Tel Aviv Museum of Israel and the
Boston Library” and who was the mother of the psychiatrist, Dr. Simeon Feigin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: Birthdate of
Helene Bernfeld who was deported to Ungarn/Auschwitz in 1944.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: In Nordhausen,
Germany, Oskar Michael Blumenthal, the son of Selig and Juliane Bluementhal
gave birth to Margot Blumenthal, the who became Margot Kasper when she married
David Kasper and whose parents died at Theresienstadt during the Holocaust.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: Herzl begins a
trip to Egypt that lasts until April 9.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: Birthdate of
Louis Gross, the Chicago native who was an outstanding scholar/athlete when he
played tackle for the University of Minnesota “Golden Gophers” from 1922 to
1924.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: In Edinburgh,
Samuel and Rachel Blackman gave birth to Dora Blackman who became Dora Caplan
when she married Ephraim Caplan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: Birthdate of
Mollie Parnis. Although she never had any formal education in design, Mollie
Parnis became an influential women's fashion designer whose prestigious Seventh
Avenue firm provided dresses for first ladies Bess Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, Lady
Bird Johnson, and Patricia Nixon. Parnis was raised on New York's Lower East
Side. She started working in fashion at age eighteen, when she was hired as an
assistant saleswoman for a wholesale blouse manufacturer. Her ability to tailor
and add distinctive finishing touches to blouses for retail customers earned
Parnis her first recognition. She moved from the blouse business to a dress
house, but in 1933, she opened an independent designer dress firm with her
husband, Leon Livingston. Although she could not cut and sew fabric or draw,
Parnis's acute eye for detail and perceptive knowledge of what women wanted
allowed her to provide the creative vision for the company. Even in the midst
of the Great Depression, the Parnis Livingston label was successful. Parnis's
designs were said to combine elegance and beauty with form and function, and
they were frequently featured in the style pages of magazines such as Harper's
Bazaar, Vanity Fair, and Life. After Livingston's death in 1962, Parnis
reshaped her company to cater to a new demand for more informal clothes. New
labels targeted working-class women and young professionals. She closed the
doors of her business in 1984.Throughout her life, Parnis was as dedicated to
humanitarian work as she was to fashion. In 1971, she funded a program to clean
up New York neighborhoods and establish small parks throughout the city. A
similar program for Jerusalem followed two years later. She also contributed
scholarships to fashion schools, and created the Livingston Awards, which honor
young journalists in memory of Parnis's son. Mollie Parnis died in 1992.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: Two days after
she had passed away, Frances (Salomons) Bergel, the wife of Samuel Bergel and
the mother of Charles, William and Herbert Bergel was buried today at the
“Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: Birthdate of
Benny Friedman the native of Cleveland, Ohio known as “the Jewish Johnny
Unitas” who played quarterback for the University of Michigan before going to a
career as a head coach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: As conditions
worsened in Bialystok, two policeman named Rubansky and Syrolevich were killed,
probably by anarchists. This was part of the unraveling situation that would
lead to a pogrom in June of that year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: Birthdate of
Isadore Polier, the native of Aiken, SC who gained fame as civil rights lawyer
Shad Polier, the husband of Justine Wise Polier, the daughter of Rabbi Stephen
Wise.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: A dark day in
history since it marked the birth of Adolf Eichmann, the Gestapo officer who
contributed so much to the Final Solution. Eichmann is the only person to ever
be executed by the state of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: As the peasants
of Romania rose up against the landed gentry, the government declared a state
of emergency and began a general mobilization of the army.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The revolt was tainted by anti-Semitism
because in some parts of the country the Jews collected the rents from the
Christian peasants for the Christian landlords.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Jews, of course, could not own the land.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: As the
investigation into the graft and corruption surrounding the rebuilding of San
Francisco following the earthquake, “all of the Supervisors confessed before a
grand jury to "receiving money from Abe Ruef in connection with the Home
Telephone, overhead trolley, prize fight monopoly, and gas rates deals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In exchange, "they were promised
complete immunity and would not be forced to resign their offices. The grand
jury then returned 65 indictments against Abraham “Abe” Ruef for bribery of the
supervisors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: Dr. Paul S.
Kaplan, a representative of the Russian Jewish Radicals received word today in
New York that Gregory Gershunin, the “organizer and leader of the ‘Fighting
Group’ of the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party” had passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: According to a
report published in the Times, Miss Julia Richman was one of the “outspoken
advocates of uniting the City and Normal Colleges under one head.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: “The home coming
of ex-Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar S. Straus, whose official duties in
Washington ended coincidently with those of ex-President Roosevelt, was the
occasion of a large banquet tendered to the former Secretary last evening by
his friends of the Freundschaft Society of New York, in their clubhouse,
Seventy-second Street and Park Avenue.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910(7th of Adar II,
5670): Adolphus Simeon Solomons passed away in Washington, D.C. Born in 1826
John Solomons, a native of London who emigrated to the United States in 1810,
Julia, daughter of Simeon Levy, “Solomons was educated in the University of the
City of New York, and entered the employ of a firm of wholesale importers of
stationery and fancy goods, becoming within two years its head book-keeper and
confidential man. At the age of fourteen he had enlisted as a color-guide in
the Third Regiment Washington Greys (New York State National Guard); he was
promoted sergeant five years later” “In 1851 Daniel Webster, then secretary of
state, appointed him "Special Bearer of Despatches to Berlin." On his
journey he visited for the first time a Jewish ward in a hospital, at
Frankfort-on-the-Main, and determined to establish a similar institution in New
York. Upon his return home he became a member of a committee of young men who
arranged a ball for charity in Niblo's Garden. The sum of $1,034 realized
therefrom was, upon Solomons' motion, placed in the hands of Simpson Simson of
Yonkers, who, with others, had recently taken out a charter for a Jewish
hospital in New York, the present Mt. Sinai Hospital. In 1859 Solomons
established the publishing-house of Philp & Solomons in Washington, D. C.,
which held for a number of years the government contracts for printing.
Solomons was in 1871 elected a member of the House of Representatives for the
District of Columbia, serving as chairman of the committee on ways and means.
As a representative of the central committee of the Alliance Israélite
Universelle, Solomons at a public meeting held in New York advocated the
establishment of the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids to mark the
one-hundredth anniversary of Sir Moses Montefiore's birth. As trustee and,
subsequently, as acting president of the Jewish Theological Seminary
Association of New York, he was influential in bringing about a successful
reorganization of the society's finances. In 1891 he became general agent of
the Baron de Hirsch Fund and director of its many activities in America; and in
1903, when relieved of active work, he was made honorary general agent.
Solomons was an incorporator and for seventeen years an active member of the
National Association of the Red Cross and was also one of its two
vice-presidents. President Arthur appointed him and Clara Barton as
representatives of the United States government in the International Congress
of the Red Cross, held at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1881; and Solomons was
elected vice-president of that congress. He was one of the five original
members of the New York executive board of the Red Cross Relief Committee,
which board was in session during the Spanish-American war and consisted of
twenty-five members presided over by Bishop Potter. Solomons has been a member
of the central committee of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, and its
treasurer for the United States. He has been for twenty years a director, and
for some time treasurer, of the Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum in
Washington, D. C.; he is also a charter member of the Garfield Memorial
Hospital, acting president of the Provident Aid Society and Associated
Charities, founder and president of the Night Lodging-House Association, and
trustee of the first training-school for nurses in the District of Columbia; he
has been identified also with nearly all the prominent charities in the United
States capital. Solomons has taken active part in all inauguration ceremonies”
starting with Abraham Lincoln.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: In Chicago
theatrical producer and director George W. Lederer, the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>older brother of screenwriter Charlie Lederer
and Reine Davis gave birth to Josephine Rose Leder who gained fame and notoriety
as actress Pepi Lederer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: Irving Berlin’s
“Alexander’s Ragtime Band” “the multimillion-selling smash hit that helped turn
American popular music into a major international phenomenon, both culturally
and economically” was copyrighted today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: “Appeals to Young
Jews” published described a meeting at the Kalverier Synagogue at 15 Pike
Street organized by the Sons and Daughters of Israel where plans were discussed
to design a movement that would “bring together the younger generation of Jews
and stimulate them with a stronger religious feeling.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(9<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5673): Eighty-nine-year-old merchant Aaron Goodman passed away today
in Baltimore, MD.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(9<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5673): Bahr Sheideman, a merchant who had resided in Santa Rosa with
his wife Sophie and was the Treasurer of the Jewish Alliance of California
passed away today in San Francisco.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: The King of
Greece was assassinated at Salonica. False charges ran in the Greek newspapers
that the killer was Jewish. The killer would turn out to be a Greek who was not
Jewish but who was reported to be mentally ill.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(9th of Adar II,
5673): Seventy-eight-year-old merchant Bahr Scheideman, the husband of Sophie
Scheidman who replaced George Aronson as superintendent of the religious school
at Congregation Sherith Israel, passed away today in San Francisco.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: Among these
listed today as contributors to the American Jewish Relief Committee were Zadok
Lodge, I.O.B.B., Selma, Alabama; Ohev Sholem Sisterhood, Harrisburg, PA;
Agudath Jacob Ladies Aide Society, Waco, TX; Akron (Ohio) Hebrew Relief
Association and the Women’s Aid Society, Fargo, ND. (Editor’s Note – These
contributors give an idea of how many different places that Jews were living
and that these places all had active Jewish communities.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: Mrs. Cyrus S.
Sulzberger, Mrs. Albert Seligman, Mrs. Solomon Schechter and Mrs. Israel
Friedland were among the patrons of the Jewish Women’s Relief Association’s
benefit perform of “1,000 Years Ago” at the Shubert Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: The text of ‘what
purports to be the text of a Russian military order on the strength of which
wholesale massacres of the Jews in Poland were carried out ‘under Government
auspices’ which was sent by the Foreign Committee of the General Union of Jewish
Workers of Lithuania, Poland and Russia, commonly as the ‘Bund’” was received
in New York today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: As the Allies
attempted to use their navies to force their way through Dardanelles, three
ships were sunk and three more were disabled meaning that troops, including the
fabled Zion Mule Corps, would have to be used to accomplish the strategic goals
first framed by Winston Churchill.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: According to
reports published today “the Commander-in-Chief” of the Russian Army has given
“orders for the taking of hostages” which provides for their hanging – which
will be used as pretext for hanging Jews on the eastern front.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5676): Shabbat and Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: <span style="color: black;">School of
Industrial Art and Academy of Fine arts trained award winning painter Maurice
Molarsky, the Kiev born son of Kiev, Fannie Sacherenko and Isaac Molarsky, known
for his “portraits, still lifes, landscapes and mural decoration, married Tina
Margolis today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://woodmereartmuseum.org/explore-online/collection/linda"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://woodmereartmuseum.org/explore-online/collection/linda</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Maurice-Molarsky/AB6D7F3839AC6294"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Maurice-Molarsky/AB6D7F3839AC6294</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, II, 5676): Fifty-eight-year-old Adolph Goldberg, the husband of the
former Theresa Pollack passed away today at his home on Iowa Street in Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: A dance is
scheduled” to be held at Burland Casino which is a fundraiser for Sinai
Congregation of the Bronx which has just dedicated a new Temple.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: “Hailing the
Russian upheaval as the greatest world event since the French Revolution, Louis
Marshall said in an interview tonight that the revolt again autocracy might be
expected to Germany and asserted that the emancipation of the Russian Jews would
be as great a boon to their country as to themselves.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: A meeting of Jews
held today at the Manhattan Opera House “under the auspices of the People’s
Relief Committee” adopted resolution calling for a “self-imposed income tax” to
raise funds that will be distributed “among the Jews in the war-stricken
countries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Today, in
churches and synagogue throughout New York City leaders hailed the Russian
revolution “as great blow for the freedom of a race” including Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise who said “he regretted that the American people had not done more to help
the cause of liberty in Russia.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Isaac Nachman
Steinberg completed his term as People’s Commissar for Justice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: It was reported
today that Jacob H. Schiff was one of those who supported the drive to raise
$2,500,000 for the war activities fund of the Knights of Columbus, along with
Rabbi Joseph Silverman of Temple Emanu-El who publicly pledged the support of
the Jews in help the Catholics reach their goal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: In London, the
Jewish community celebrated the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the Chevra
Kadisha.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: It was reported
today that the provision in the League of Nations covenant dealing with
religious discrimination that “was intended to benefit the Jews” may be a
casualty of the Japanese proposal for “an amendment guaranteeing racial
equality.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: Birthdate of
Hempstead, NY, native Milton “Mickey” Rutner the third baseman who played in 12
games for the 1947 Philadelphia Athletics <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rutnemi01.shtml"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rutnemi01.shtml</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920(28<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5680): Forty-eight-year-old San Antonio, TX native Texas A&M alum
Hans Rudolph Reinhart Hertzberg, the U of Texas trained attorney and
newspaperman who wrote <u>Lyrics of Love</u> passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920(28th of Adar,
5680): Seventy-year-old Moriz Benedikt, the “long time editor of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Neue Freie Presse</i>” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: It was reported
today that “a total of three million dollars is need by the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ninety institutions affiliated with the
Federation for Support of Jewish Philanthropies” in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Dr. Enlow is
scheduled to lead services at Temple Emanu-El in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Dr. Krass is
schedule to lead services at the Central Synagogue in Manhattan<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: Birthdate of
Brooklyn native Aaron Shikler, the renowned portrait artist whose works
included the official portrait of JFK, Senator Mike Mansfield and Lady Bird
Johnson in what looks a hymn to the Hill Country, (As reported by William
Grimes)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/arts/aaron-shikler-portrait-artist-known-for-images-of-americas-elite-dies-at-93.html?h"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/arts/aaron-shikler-portrait-artist-known-for-images-of-americas-elite-dies-at-93.html?h</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Shikler#/media/File:John_F_Kennedy_Official_Portrait.jpg"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Shikler#/media/File:John_F_Kennedy_Official_Portrait.jpg</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Shikler#/media/File:Mike_mansfield.jpg"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Shikler#/media/File:Mike_mansfield.jpg</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Shikler#/media/File:Portrait_of_Mrs._Lyndon_B._Johnson_-_NARA_-_192427.tif"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Shikler#/media/File:Portrait_of_Mrs._Lyndon_B._Johnson_-_NARA_-_192427.tif</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: In Cairo, the
first meeting was held between a Zionist Delegation and representatives of the
“Executive Committee of the Congress of Parties of the Confederation of Arab
Countries.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://www.passia.org/publications/Doc_on_palestine/1/2.pdf"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.passia.org/publications/Doc_on_palestine/1/2.pdf</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: Judith Kaplan,
age 12, became the first American to celebrate a bat mitzvah. Judith was the
oldest daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist
Judaism. Believing that girls should have the same religious opportunities as
their brothers, Rabbi Kaplan arranged for his daughter to read Torah on a
Shabbat morning at his synagogue, the Society for the Advancement of Judaism.
The Kaplan bat mitzvah marked a turning point for Conservative Judaism in
America. Always torn between tradition and modernity, the movement struggled
for many decades with women's roles in the synagogue. Judith Kaplan herself was
not allowed to read from the Torah scroll, as modern bat mitzvah celebrants do;
instead, she read a passage in Hebrew and English from a printed Chumash (first
five books of the Bible) after the regular Torah service. Still, Rabbi Kaplan's
innovation gained followers, and about a third of Conservative congregations
held bat mitzvah ceremonies by 1948. By the 1960s, bat mitzvah was a regular
feature of Conservative congregational life; today it is a mainstay in
synagogues from Reform to Modern Orthodox. After her ground-breaking bat
mitzvah, Kaplan Eisenstein (she married Ira Eisenstein who became Kaplan's
successor in leading the Reconstructionist movement) went on to a successful
career in Jewish music. After studying at the Institute of Musical Art (now the
Julliard School) in New York, she attended the Jewish Theological Seminary
(JTS) Teachers Institute and Columbia University's Teachers College, where she
earned an M.A. in music education in 1932. She later earned a Ph.D. in the
School of Sacred Music at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
(HUC-JIR). Kaplan Eisenstein taught music pedagogy and the history of Jewish
music at JTS, HUC-JIR, and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College for many
years. She also created the first Jewish songbook for children, Gateway to
Jewish Song (1937). Her other published works include Festival Songs (1943) and
Heritage of Music: The Music of the Jewish People (1972). In 1987, she created
and broadcast a thirteen-hour radio series on the history of Jewish music. In
1992, at age 82, Kaplan Eisenstein celebrated a second bat mitzvah, surrounded
by leaders of the modern Jewish feminist movement. This time, she read from a
Torah scroll. Kaplan Eisenstein died on February 14, 1996.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: Birthdate of
sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, the co-author of <u>Jews and the New
American Scene</u> in 1995.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/obituaries/04lipset.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/obituaries/04lipset.html</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: A call upon
American Jewry to answer its enemies through the religious education of its
youth was made tonight by Louis Marshall, who spoke at the forum of the
Institutional Synagogue at 37 West 116th Street.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: “Samuel Untermyer
told delegates from thirty cities at the Palestine Foundation Fund meeting in
the Hotel Pennsylvania today that he believed that the movement was "the
most potent force to stem the tide of anti-Semitism” and “he also praised Dr.
Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization, who addressed the
conference after Mr. Untermyer.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: Birthdate of
Irmgard Neumann, the native of Kleinsteinach, who was among the last nine
members of the town be shipped to the death camps in 1942.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: “The Thief of Bagdad,”
starring Douglas Fairbanks, the son of Charles Ullman whose parents Lazarus
Ullman and Lydia Abrahams were German-Jewish immigrants and Austro-Hungarian
born Jew Snitz Edwards was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: “Athletes” a
silent film with a script by Hans Behrendt was released today in Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: Chairman William
Fox announced today that cotton goods merchant Samuel C. Lamport and clothing
manufacture Joseph Frankel have each contributed $25,00 the United Jewish
Campaign of New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5686): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: Thanks to the
effort of New York Section of the National Council of Jewish Women, Purim was
celebrated by “Jewish patients in all the city hospitals on Welfare Island.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: In Leipzig,
German, Herman Menasche, a lingerie merchant and the former Erna Feiner gave
birth to Lilli Menasch who gained fame as Lillian Vernon. Vernon fled with her
family first to Amsterdam and then to New York to escape Hitler. In the U.S.,
her father manufactured leather goods, which would become the base of Vernon's
first foray into mail-order commerce. Married and pregnant, Vernon began the
business that would become Lillian Vernon, Inc., in 1951. She took $495 out of
her wedding gifts to place an advertisement for personalized belts and handbags
in Seventeen magazine. Her father's company manufactured the belts and bags,
and Vernon embossed, packaged, and shipped them. The ad brought in over $32,000
worth of sales, and Vernon's company was born. She mailed her first catalogue
two years later. Taking monogramming as its trademark, and catering mainly to
women, Lillian Vernon mail-order grew rapidly, generating $200,000 in sales in
1956, the year Vernon opened her first manufacturing plant. By 1990, sales had
risen to $238 million, and the mailing list had grown to 17 million names.
After pioneering her successful mail-order business, Vernon continued to keep
the company at the forefront of commercial changes. She began opening retail
outlets in 1985, and went online a decade later. Hers was also the first
woman-owned business to be listed on the American Stock Exchange. The company
continues to introduce new catalogs regularly, and now produces special lines
of items for children, teens, and gardening, as well as its traditional
products for the home. Vernon has used her wealth to support over 500
charities, and has been recognized by, among others, Big Brothers/Big Sisters,
which awarded her its National Hero Award. She has also received the NAACP
Medal of Honor, and has been inducted into the Direct Marketing Association
Hall of Fame. In 1997, she was named one of 50 leading women entrepreneurs by
the National Foundation for Women Business Owners. Though she no longer
embosses items herself, Vernon is still active as the CEO of her company and as
its main spokesperson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: “Praises
Palestine Idea” published today described a plea made today “to the Christian
world” by Colonel Sir Wyndham Deedes, the former Chief Secretary of the
Palestine Government “to banish all prejudices against the Jew, to wipe the
slates clean and start with clean slates, as Jewish history is being re-written
in Palestine.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: In Kansas City,
MO, Harold S. Kander and his wife gave birth to Broadway composer and dance
arranger John Kander whose credits include “Chicago” and “Cabaret.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://www.masterworksbroadway.com/artist/john-kander/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.masterworksbroadway.com/artist/john-kander/</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: The Synagogue on
Welfare Island which was built under the auspices of the New York Section of
the National Council of Jewish Women hosted a Megillah reading on Purim after
which committee representatives “distributed gifts and delicacies to 305 Jewish
patients on the wards of the hospitals.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: Senator James E.
Watson of Indiana is scheduled to be “the principal speaker” at the 19<sup>th</sup>
annual meeting of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Society of American which
will be held at today Cooper Union 1928: The New York Times described the
controversy surrounding the decision of a court in Jaffa to fine a storekeeper
for violating local ordinances concerning the observance of the Jewish Sabbath.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: Birthdate of Iraq
native Naiem Khalasch who gained fame as Naeim Giladi “author of an
autobiographical article and historical analysis titled "The Jews of
Iraq" which “later formed the basis for his originally self-published book
<u>Ben-Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah and the Mossad Eliminated Jews.<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: In Białystok,
Poland, to David and Helaina (née Suchowolski) Pisar gave birth Samuel Pisar
American lawyer who survived seven different concentration camps.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/world/europe/samuel-pisar-dies-at-86-lawyer-and-adviser-survived-nazi-camps.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/world/europe/samuel-pisar-dies-at-86-lawyer-and-adviser-survived-nazi-camps.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: In New Orleans,
Rabbi Louis Binkstock officiated at the wedding this evening “Miss Lenore
Lebach, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart J. Lebach of New York” and Tulane alum
Edmond Nathanial Cahn, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Cahn<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: Eight one year
old Arthur James Balfour, a prominent British politician who served as Prime
Minister from 1902 to 1905 passed away today. During World War I, Balfour
served as Foreign Minister. It was while serving in this position that he
gained his place in Jewish History by giving his name to the Balfour
Declaration, which read in part, "His Majesty's Government view with the
favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people,
and will their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this
object..." The Balfour Declaration came to be one of the basic documents
in the Jewish diplomatic efforts to establish what would become the modern
state of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: “Is Charlie
Chaplin Jew?” published today reported that that both of Charlie Chaplain’s
parents were Jewish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://www.jta.org/1931/03/18/archive/is-charlie-chaplin-jew"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jta.org/1931/03/18/archive/is-charlie-chaplin-jew</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932(10<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5692): Fifty-nine-year-old widower Henry A. Morans, the father of Leslie
and Herbert Morans who was “a prominent figure in Jewish circles” and active “in
the jewelry and music business” passed away today in New Britain, CT.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: Birthdate of Alan
Rosenthal, the native of Manhattan and Harvard graduate who was director of the
Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University from 1974 to 1993. (As
reported by Kate Zenike)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933(20<sup>th</sup> 0f
Adar, 5693): Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: “The annual dance
of the Junior Federation of the Federation for the Support of Jewish
Philanthropic Societies is scheduled to be held tonight in the main ballroom of
the Plaza with the proceeds going to the support of the organization and its
affiliated institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: “More than 1,100
persons attended a dinner at the Hotel Astor” tonight at “celebrating the
thirtieth anniversary of the Jewish Consumptions Relief Society” which
“maintains a sanatorium at Spivak, CO, eight miles from Denver.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5695): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: “Josef Grohe, the
Nazi district leader and State Councilor for the Rhineland made a speech today
attacking Jewish department stores and smaller shops at a demonstration of
retail traders in Western Germany in connection with the opening of the Cologne
Spring Fair” declaring that “it was treasonable for German consumers to by from
Jews…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “These Three” a
drama directed by William Wyler, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, with music by
Alfred Newman and “a screenplay by Lillian Hellman based on her 1934 play ‘The
Children’s Hour.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: The basic plans
for the upcoming meeting of the World Council for German Jewry “which plans to
supervise the emirgration of 100,000 Jews from Germany in the next four years”
which “will be attended by 300 delegates” including 70 from the United States
were published today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: As “the Arab
attacks on the Jews in Palestine continued to increase,” “a bomb exploded early
this morning in the hands of an Arab near the Jewish quarter in Kerem seriously
injuring him and three Arab workmen.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: “Pledges
Protection to Jews” published today described a visit of Benito Mussolini to
Tripoli, Libya where he “openly rejected the policy of anti-Semitism” and
assuring the Jews “of his protection.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Palestine Post</i> reported that 17
Jews, two policemen and one British soldier were injured by a bomb thrown at
the Egged bus terminal on Jerusalem’s Jaffa Road. Two Arabs were detained on
suspicion. Later four Arabs were injured when bombs were thrown into
Arab-frequented cafes on Mamilla Road and in Romema. Police dogs picked an Arab
farmer, Mohammed Kamel, as the murderer of Samuel Gottfried, 26, of Rosh Pina.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: “Notes of the
Advertising World” published today described the appointment of Julien J.
Proskauer, the president of William C. Popper and Co. to serve as chairman of
the printing and allies trades division of the Joint Distribution Committee
which is “raising funds to aid Jews in Germany, Austria and Poland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: “An order issued
by Hitler’s representative in Austria “that no changes shall be carried out in
the personnel of private businesses” essentially “prohibits reduction of staffs
by Jews whose property rights curtailed and whose customers are being frightened
away by propaganda and the badge ‘Jewish shop.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Just after the
Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, in Brno, Syme Rysavy “invited her parents and
younger brothers, Ned and Michael, over to her house for a special family
dinner” during which she told her brothers they must flee immediately – a
decision that saved their lives – and she would stay with their aged parents.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939(27<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5699): Parsahat Vayakhel-Pekudi; Shabbat HaChodesh<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939(27<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5699): Forty-eight-year-old Bert Adler, the secretary of the Department
of Public Works who “served in the motion picture section of many Red Cross
drives and was Chairman of the Stars Committee of the Hoover Central Europe
Relief Drive passed away today at New York’s Mt. Sinai Hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Rabbi Harold
Mashioff is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Strange Death of Adolf
Hitler” at the Temple of the Covenant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Rabbi Hyman Judah
Schachtel is scheduled to deliver a sermon “The Willing Heart” at West End
Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Rabbi B. Benedict
Glazer is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Static Versus Dynamic Religion” at
Temple Emanu-El.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: Adolf Hitler and
Benito Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an
alliance against France and the United Kingdom. [Editor’s Note – For some
strange reason, Italy was never held accountable for its role as Hitler’s
willing ally and all that that meant.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940 This morning, a
funeral service is scheduled to be held at Temple Emanu-El in New York for
sixty-eight-year-old Samuel Mundheim, the Washington D.C. born son of Lewis and
Fanny Foster Mundheim and the husband of Stella Kaufmann Mundheimr who was chairman
of the board of the American Safety Razor Corporation and former president of
Stern Brothers which he is to be buried at the Washington Hebrew Congregation
Cemetery in the District of Columbia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: This week, 200
Jews would die from hunger in Warsaw ghetto. The prior week, 400 died of
hunger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: In a move that
would to a notorious show trial and the execution of the defendant, Leo
Katzenberger was arrested today under the so-called Rassenschutzgesetz, or
Racial Protection Law, one of the Nuremberg Laws, which made it a criminal
offence as Rassenschande ("racial defilement") which prohibited
Aryans from having sexual relations with Jews <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
Forty-five-year-old Charles A. Levine who was “the first trans-Atlantic plane
passenger” was in front of a federal judge in Los Angeles over a $500 fine that
had been levied against him over a violation of immigration law.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943(11th of Adar II,
5703): Fast of Esther observed since the 13<sup>th</sup> of Adar is on Shabbat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943(11th of Adar II,
5703): The hiding place of Dr. Julian Charin, age 30, of Lapy, Ukraine, was
betrayed to the Nazis, and Charin was shot.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943(11th of Adar II,
5703): At Auschwitz, 26-year-old underground fighter Lonka Kozibrodska died of
typhus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: “After Midnight
with Boston Blackie,” part of the series of crime movies produced by Sam White
was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: “Keeper of the
Flame” a movie version of the novel with the same named directed by George
Cukor was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944(23<sup>rd</sup> of
Adar, 5704): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei and Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944(23<sup>rd</sup> of
Adar, 5704): H.J. Freedman passed away in the service of his country after
which he was buried in the Willesden Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Birthdate of
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak the 15th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces,
Member of the Knesset and Minister of Transportation and Tourism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: “The need for a
coordinated program for combatting anti-Semitism in the United States will be a
leading subject or discussion at the Conference of the Central States Region of
the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds” which is scheduled to
being today in Trenton, NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Horthy ends his
talks with Hitler and boards a train to return to Hungary. Horthy guaranteed
the delivery of 100,000 Jewish workers for the German war effort. Yet he was
still hesitant about a general deportation of the rest of the country's 750,000
Jews. At 9:30 that evening, German troops begin to enter Hungary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945(4<sup>th</sup> of
Nisan, 5705): Just seventeen days after his 54<sup>th</sup> birthday WW I
veteran and dental school dropout turned renowned sculptor Max Kalish, the Lithuanian
born son of Hannah Levinson and Joel Kalichick the husband of Alice Neuman and
father of Richard and James Kalish who was raised in Cleveland, OH and who “t
the outset of World War II, Kalish was commissioned by the Museum of American
History to sculpt forty-eight bronze figures — one-third-life-size — of those
involved in the war effort, including President Roosevelt, his cabinet and
other important people” passed away todayl<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://case.edu/ech/articles/k/kalish-max"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://case.edu/ech/articles/k/kalish-max</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://americanart.si.edu/artist/max-kalish-2534"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://americanart.si.edu/artist/max-kalish-2534</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://wolfsgallery.com/artists/max-kalish"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Max
Kalish | Artists | WOLFS Fine Paintings and Sculpture (wolfsgallery.com)</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: Birthdate of Eric
Norman Woolfson, the native of Glasgow where his family owned a furniture, who
became “a Scottish songwriter, lyricist, vocalist, executive producer, pianist,
and co-creator of The Alan Parsons Project.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946(15<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5706): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946(15<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5706): Seventy-nine-year-old Maurice Falk, he Greensberg, PA born son
of Charles and Sara Falk and the founder, with his brothers of Weirton Steel
who married Selma Wertheimer after his first wife Laura Klinordlinger passed
away and who, with his brother “established the Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies at Pittsburg in 1912 passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://www.jewishfamilieshistory.org/entry/falk-family/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishfamilieshistory.org/entry/falk-family/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://www.jta.org/1946/03/21/archive/maurice-falk-noted-jewish-philanthropist-and-steel-executive-dies-at-miami-beach"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jta.org/1946/03/21/archive/maurice-falk-noted-jewish-philanthropist-and-steel-executive-dies-at-miami-beach</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: Birthdate of
award-winning Dutch filmmaker Wolf “Willy” Lindwer, “best known for his films
on the Holocaust, Israel and the Middle East, Judaism and Christianity…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://www.willylindwer.com/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.willylindwer.com/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: Former Prime
Minister Winston Churchill was “the guest of honor at a dinner given by” Jewish
financier and unofficial advisor to numerous Presidents, Bernard Baruch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: Birthdate of Wolf
“Willy” Lindwer the native of Amsterdam “best known for his films on the
Holocaust, Israel and the Middle East and Judaism.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://www.willylindwer.com/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.willylindwer.com/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: In Sweden,
premiere of “Deadline at Dawn” directed by Howard Cluman with a script by
Clifford Odets.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Birthdate of
Steve Schiff the Chicago native who became a Congressman from New Mexico’s
First District.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Birthdate of
Deborah Esther Lipstadt , the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust
Studies at Emory University who defeated Holocaust denier David Irving in an
English court.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/full-interview-with-holocaust-historian-deborah-lipstadt-1.401823"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/full-interview-with-holocaust-historian-deborah-lipstadt-1.401823</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Efforts to
overturn the death sentences of Dov Rosenbaum, Eliezer Kashani and Mordecai
Kashani suffered a setback today when the “Palestine High Court rejected an
application for an order for the commissioner of prisons, the British
commanding general, the attorney general and the chief secretary to show cause”
for why the sentence should not be set aside.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948(7<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5708): Seventy-three-year-old Gedaliah Bublick, the Grodno born son of
Aaron Bublick “the writer and Zionist who drifted from Paris to Argentina to
New York where he became editor-in-chief of the Yiddishe Tageblatt passed away
suddenly tonight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Hempstead, NY, native Milton “Mickey” Rutner
the third baseman who played in 12 games for the 1947 Philadelphia Athletics
passed away today in Georgetown, TX.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rutnemi01.shtml"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rutnemi01.shtml</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948(7th of Adar II,
5708): Rabbi Chaim Isaac Block, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Divrei
Hibbah</i> passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948(7<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5708): Sixty-four-year-old Hungarian native Louis J. Moss, the son of
Michael and Jennie Moss, “a lawyer specializing in real estate and trust law”
and the President of the United Synagoes of American from 1931 to 1941 who was
the husband of the former Bryna Finegold with whom he had three children passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: Today in Tel
Aviv, David Ben-Gurion said “that the Jews and Arabs would make peace in the
Holy Land if the United Nations implemented the decision on partition.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948 President Truman
met with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann and assured him of the United States'
support for Jewish statehood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: After having been
released in Germany and the United States in 1948, “Long Is he Road” – “the
first German-made film to directly portray the Holocaust.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: James Grover
McDonald was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Israel by President Harry Truman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: Moshe Dayan,
Abdullah el-Tell and King Abdullah of Jordan began “a series of meetings today”
which would lead to an armistice agreement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: “Dr. George
Josephthanal, director of the Absorption Department of the Jewish Agency”
announced “that a sea and air operation aimed at moving 90,000 Jews out of Iraq
into Israel would be initiated next month at a cost of sixty million dollars.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: Birthdate of Ben
Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Empire. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952: The Jerusalem
Post reported that Agriculture Minister Levi Eshkol promised self-sufficiency
in animal fodder, increased tobacco production, and intensification of cattle
raising for meat, as the immediate policy goals of his ministry. He noted a general
improvement in fruit production, although he warned that it could take a couple
of years until the full impact of last year¹s planting was felt on the market.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5714): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956(6th of Nisan,
5716): Sixty-eight-year-old Benjamin Glazer, the Irish born director and Oscar
winning writer who “was one of the founding members of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-10680141.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-10680141.html</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4z09n74z/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4z09n74z/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961: <i>The New York
Times</i> reports that the French government awarded Rabbi Simon Langer the
Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur for his "...extraordinary contributions
to the advancement of better French-American relations before and after the
Second World War. He is credited with rescuing many French children from the
Nazis." His tireless work with Bikur Cholim continues.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962: The Evian Accords
put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954. The end of
the Algerian War marked the beginning of a change in French policy towards the
Arabs, and therefore, towards Israel. While fighting the Arab nationalist in
Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria, the French saw the Israelis as allies. This
accounts for French willingness to supply the IDF with military equipment
including jet fighter planes and to join in the Suez War of 1956. Once De
Gaulle decided to end French fighting with Arab nationalist, he sought to
create a French sphere of influence among its former colonies. Supporting
Israel was now a detriment to French policy aims. In 1967, De Gaulle would
oppose Israel’s right to defend itself in what would become the Six Days War
going so far as to deny delivery of naval vessels to the Israelis for which the
Jewish state had already paid.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1963(22<sup>nd</sup> of
Adar, 5723): Eighty-two-year-old Harry Schwartz, the maternal grandfather of
Rabbi Fred Davidow and native of Ukraine who settled in Mississippi where he
and his wife Fannie Stein ran a dry-goods store and meat market and raised a
family that included Fred’s mother Thelma Leah, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964(5th of Nisan,
5724): Sixty-nine-year-old American mathematician Norbert Wiener passed away.
Born in 1894, he was known as the founder of cybernetics. He created the term
in his book Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
(MIT Press, 1948), widely recognized as one of the most important books of
contemporary scientific thinking.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5725) Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: “Do I Hear a
Waltz?” a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Richard Rodgers, and
lyrics by Stephen Sondheim opened on Broadway at the 46<sup>th</sup> Street
Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: Death of King
Farouk, former ruler of Egypt. While King of Egypt, Farouk led his country to
war against Israel in 1948. The defeat of Egyptian forces along with his total
corruption, led to Farouk’s overthrow in 1952 in a coup masterminded by Nasser.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967: Thirteen-year-old
Alan Smason became a Bar Mitzvah at New Orleans Congregation Beth Israel. He
celebrated the event with a major party at the newly-opened Jewish Community
Center that night<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967: Birthdate of
Polish mathematician Jan Marek Hartman the great-great-grandson rabbi Isaak
Kramsztyk<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968(18th of Adar,
5728): Sixty-year-old Harry Kurnitz who wrote over forty movie scripts as well
as detective stories and plays passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9904EEDF1E39E134BC4152DFB5668383679EDE"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9904EEDF1E39E134BC4152DFB5668383679EDE</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968(18<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5728): “Two people were killed and 28 children were in landmine attack on
a school bus in the Negev north of Eilat.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(28<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5729): Sixty-two-year-old Zena Maisel Pollack, the administrative
director of the Jewish Guild for the Blind for the last 35 years, “known to her
associates as Sis” and wife of “retired toy manufacturer Sidney E. Pollack”
passed away today at University Hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(28<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5729: Seventy-two-year Harvard alum and Navy Veteran from WW I and WW II
Kassel Lewis, the founder of Crown Fabrics and husband of “the former Syliva
Surut who is the director the YMHA/YWHA nursery” with whom he raised a daughter
and a son – Anthony Lewis of the New York Times.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/03/19/90071781.pdf"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/03/19/90071781.pdf</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: The Cook-Leichter
Bill, which was co-authored by Holocaust survivor and Harvard Law School New
York State Assemblyman Franz S. Leichter and which “was the first in the nation
to legalize abortion” passed the New York State Senate today after five hours
of debate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972(3<sup>rd</sup> of
Nisan, 5732): Parashat Vayikra<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5733): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973: “Two People” a
dramatic film with music by David Shire was released today in the United
States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973: The Cy Coleman
musical “Seesaw” opened today on Broadway at the Uris Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974: In Tucker, GA,
“Leslie (Diamond) and Charles Lowenstein gave birth to twin brothers Evan
Mitchell Lowenstein and Jaron David Lowenstein, the musical duo who perform as
“Evan and Jaron.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Jerusalem Post</i> reported from Cairo
that Yasser Arafat made it clear that the PLO had no intention of giving up its
aim of creating a "secular state" in Palestine ¬ its roundabout
expression for the destruction of Israel. In Washington, despite Israeli repeated
requests, the State Department declined to say what President Jimmy Carter had
in mind when he called for a Palestinian "homeland." Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin was reportedly worried by Carter¹s statement that there had to be
a homeland provided for Palestinian refugees who have suffered for many, many
years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978: “Straight Time,”
“a crime drama directed by Ulu Grosbard,” produced by Tim Zinnemann and
starring Dustin Hoffman was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978: “Two London
Jewish tourists, who visited Leningrad, reported that after meeting with
refuseniks, they were attacked and beaten up by a gang of hooligans.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979(19th of Adar,
5739): Seventy year old Sylvan N. Friedman who served in the Louisiana State
Legislature from 1944 until 1972,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a
long-time member of Congregation Gemiluth Chassodim and the father of Sam
Friedman, the attorney who reopened the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans, passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://www.lapoliticalmuseum.com/inductees.php?viewID=23"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.lapoliticalmuseum.com/inductees.php?viewID=23</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979: In Los Angeles,
“Fredric Levine, the founder of retail chain M. Fredric, and Patsy (née Noah)
Levine, an admissions counselor” gave birth to Adam Noah Levine an American
singer-songwriter and guitarist who is the frontman for the pop rock band Maroon
5.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979: “Fast Company” a
racing movie directed by David Cronenberg who co-authored the script was
released today in Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980(1<sup>st</sup> of
Nisan, 5740): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980(1st of Nisan,
5740): Seventy-nine-year-old Eric Fromm passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://www.erichfromm.net/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.erichfromm.net/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://spartacus-educational.com/USAfromm.htm"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://spartacus-educational.com/USAfromm.htm</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980(1<sup>st</sup> of
Nisan, 5740): Eighty-year-old German born “British neurologist” and founder of
the Paralympics in the UK Sir Ludwig Guttman passed away today<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ludwig-Guttmann"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ludwig-Guttmann</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/LudwigPoppaGuttmann.htm"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/LudwigPoppaGuttmann.htm</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Guttmann"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Guttmann</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982: In Livingston,
NJ, Caryn and Steven Pally gave birth to actor and comedian Adam Saul Pally.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983(4th of Nisan,
5743): Eighty-nine-year-old New York Republican Party leader Samuel Greenwald,
the Hungarian born son of Judah and Marjem Greenwald and husband of Szeri
Greenwald pass way today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5744): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986(7th of Adar II,
5746): Seventy-one-year-old author Bernard Malmud passed away. The prolific
author may be best known for The Fixer for which he won the Pulitzer Prize and
The Natural which was made into a movie starring Robert Redford. The movie and
the book have different endings. The film version makes Hollywood happy. The
book ends in a manner consistent with Malmud’s view of life. (As reported by
Mervyn Rothstein)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/28/reviews/malamud-obit.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/28/reviews/malamud-obit.html</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987: Two days after he
had passed away funeral services were held today for eighty-seven year old
Estonia native Samuel H. Shapiro, the second Jew to serve as Governor of
Illinois.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988: “The Milagro
Beanfield War” featuring Daniel Stern and with music by Dave Grusin who won an
Oscar for Best Original Score was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988(29<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5748): Eighty-four-year-old Gerald Abraham, the President of the Royal
Musical Association passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989(11<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5749): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989(11<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5749): Albert Bassuk passed today after which he was buried in the
Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990(21<sup>st</sup> of
Adar, 5750): Ninety-four-year-old Manhattan born, Harvard Grad and WW I U.S.
Navy Ensign Walter S. Mack who made Pepsi he nation’s number 2 cola, behind
number 1, Coke, passed away today. (As reported by Peter B. Flint) <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-19/news/mn-579_1_pepsi-syrup"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-19/news/mn-579_1_pepsi-syrup</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: In “Resisting the
Vortex By Living a Life of Books and Anger” published today Frank Rich reviewed
a new Holocaust play – “The Substance of Fire” by Jon Robin Baitz.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1992: Leona Helmsley
was sentenced to 4 years for tax evasion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993(25<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5753): Ninety-seven year old Sara R. Ehrman the Bowling Green KY born
“daughter of H<span style="background: white; color: #222222;">elen Emelie
Rosenfeld and businessman Abe Rosenfeld” and wife of Herbert B Ehrman, an
attorney for Sacco and Venzetti and “founder of the Greater Boston chapter of
the American Jewish Committee who was a long-time and successful opponent of
the death penalty and the mother of H. Bruce and Robert Ehrman passed away
today after which she was buried in the Temple Israel Cemetery in Wakefield,
MA.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993: The Sisters Rosensweig,
a play written by Wendy Wasserstein opened on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore
Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994: In Canada, CTV
broadcast the first episode of “RoboCop” a series produced by Jay Firestone
based on the movie of the same name<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995: “Opening the
Fed’s Door From Inside” published today provides an insight to the fiscal and
monetary philosophy of Alan S. Binder, the Vice Chairman of the Federal
Reserve.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997: Charlene
Barshefsky began his service as 12<sup>th</sup> United States Trade
Representative.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997: It was reported
today that President, Chancellor, Boards of Governors and Overseers, faculty,
administration and students of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion record with profound sorrow the death in Jerusalem of Dr. S. Zalman
Abramov, Chairman of the Board of Overseers of our Jerusalem School. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997: The Landmarks
Preservation Commission held a public hearing on the proposed designation as a
Landmark of the Pike Street Synagogue (Congregation Sons of IsraelKalwarie),
and the proposed designation of the related Landmark Site<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998: Rachel Schulder
Abrams and Ian Daniel Pear, “a graduate of Georgetown University, is a law
student at New York University and a rabbinical student at Yeshiva University”
were married today “at the Puck Building in Manhattan in a ceremony full of ancient
Hebrew folk songs and traditions.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999: Marcel Marceau
day is established in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000(11<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5760): Parsashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor observed for the last time
during the Presidency of Bill Clinton.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and
America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black and The Voice of Memory:
Interviews 1961-1987 by Primo Levi; edited by Marco Belpoliti and Robert
Gordon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: In what was the
first Palestinian rocket attack on Israel proper in the Second Intifada, “Palestinians
fired three mortar shells from the Gaza Strip at the Israeli farming community
of Nahal Oz, wounding a soldier.” (Jewish Virtual Library)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002: “Israeli ground
forces began withdrawing early today from Palestinian-controlled territory in
Bethlehem and two other West Bank towns, the Israeli Army said, as Israel moved
under American pressure toward meeting Palestinian conditions for formal cease-fire
talks.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5763): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004: In Israel
premiere of “Walk on Water” directed by Eytan Fox.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004(2<sup>nd</sup> of
Nisan, 5764): Seventy-two-year-old Tony Award winning Broadway producer Joan
Cullman passed away today. (As reported by Ben Sisario)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/arts/joan-cullman-72-a-producer-and-lincoln-center-board-member.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/arts/joan-cullman-72-a-producer-and-lincoln-center-board-member.html</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: “Melinda and
Melinda” produced by Letty Aronson was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: “The military
announced that Israeli citizens are now barred from moving to Jewish
settlements in the Gaza Strip, a move aimed at preventing an influx of
activists in advance of a planned withdrawal this summer” during which Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon intends to evacuate all 8,500 settlers from Gaza, over
four weeks beginning in July.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006(18<sup>th</sup> of
Adar 5766):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parshat Ki TisaShabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: Founding of
“Jewdas” “a Jewish diaspora group based in London” that describes itself as
"radical" and is described by The Jewish Chronicle as a "Jewish
diaspora group, known for its far-left anti-Zionism.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: The family and
multitude of friends of Betty Levin gather in Chicago for a belated birthday celebration.
Wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, teacher, pillar of the Jewish community and so
much more – she is the complete package. She redefines the term Ashesh Chayil
giving the term a meaning far beyond anything that Solomon could have possibly
imagined.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: The Jerusalem
Circus performs at the Gerard Behar Center as part of the Jerusalem Arts
Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: At Manhattan’s
92nd Street Y, Zvi Gotheiner and Dancers present the last performance of
“Gertrud,” a tribute to Gotheiner’s late teacher, Gertrud Kraus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: The Sunday New
York Times features a review of Waiting for Daisy by Peggy Orenstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Eric Alterman, a
professor of English and journalism at the City University of New York,
discusses and signs Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush
America at Borders Book Store in Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: German Chancellor
Angela Merkel becomes the first foreign head of government to address the
Knesset. In the past, the honor has been reserved only for heads of state and
monarchs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: A special meeting
of the Committee for the Advancement of Women will be convened to mark
International Agunah Day, led by the new chairperson of the committee - Knesset
member Lia Shemtov.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008(11th of Adar II,
5768): Henry A. Fischel, a “professor emeritus of Near Eastern languages and
cultures at Indiana University,” passed away. “Fischel was an influential
figure in founding the Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. Under his
direction, the Lilly Endowment gave the university a grant in 1972-73 to
develop a Jewish Studies Program.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008(11<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5678): Seventy-eight-year-old the heavyweight literary editor who was
a “noted for his distinguished list of authors, tweedy attire and accomplished
renditions of Bach preludes and fugues on the piano” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/arts/22asher.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/arts/22asher.html</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/apr/02/culture.obituaries"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/apr/02/culture.obituaries</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: “Yael Naim, the
self-titled second studio album by Yael Naïm” that features the single
"New Soul" was released today in the United States in Canada today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: A 49-year-old
Israeli rabbi identified as Rabbi Yechezkel Greenwald was stabbed and wounded
by an Arab assailant near the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: The Leo Baeck
Institute hosts “Regina Resnik Presents: Covert or Convert” a film that pays
“homage to composers who converted to Christianity but who wrote on Jewish
themes, and to composers who did not convert, but wrote on Jewish themes in
secret, often at the risk of their lives. Presented and narrated by the
legendary mezzo-soprano Regina Resnik, the film shares the proud and often
difficult history of such composers as Anton Rubinstein, Otto Klemperer, and
Felix Mendelssohn, whose statue outside the Gewandhaus in Leipzig was destroyed
by the Nazis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Book World
columnist Michael Dirda discusses and signs his most recent book, Classics for
Pleasure, at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington in Rockville,
Md.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: The Orange Prize,
given annually to a female fiction writer, announced its list of 20 contenders,
including Allegra Goodman the author of “Intuition.” The finalists for the Man
Booker International Prize, a lifetime achievement award given every other
year, have been announced including E. L. Doctorow and Joyce Carol Oates.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: "The North
American United Jewish Communities, in cooperation with the State
Department...set funds aside to absorb 110 Yemenite Jews in to the United -
more than a third of all the Jews remaining in Yemen."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009(22<sup>nd</sup> of
Adar, 5769): Terry Schwarzfeld died of brain injuries today, two weeks after
being airlifted to a hospital in Ottawa from Barbados where she had been
brutally by Curtis Joel Foster while on vacation with her daughter-in-law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time of the attack, she had just
started her term as president of Canadian Hadassah WIZO and was executive
director of Ottawa's largest synagogue, Agudath Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Jacques Pépin,
author of more than a dozen cookbooks and host of a trio of celebrated cooking
shows, is scheduled to serve as a celebrity judge today during the finals of
the Man-O-Manischewitz Cook-Off, hosted in New York City by the kosher food giant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: An auction of
several rare early American Jewish books is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. in
New York. Among the offerings at the sale being conducted by Swann Auction
Galleries is an early Jewish-American cookbook and the first Hebrew Bible
printed on American soil. A first edition of Esther Levy's 1871 Jewish Cookery
Book is expected bring bids ranging from $10,000 to 15,000<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Itzhak Perlman
joins the IPO for a performance in Concert in Jeans Series in Tel Avi.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: As part of The
Levin/Rosenstein Lecture Series held in Memory of Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B.
Levin, Dr. Jacob L. Levin, and Larry and Judy (Levin) Rosenstein, The Jewish
Studies Program at Tulane University is scheduled to present “From Berlin to
New York: Jewish Culture in Pre-Nazi Germany and Jewish Culture in Post-War
America.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: A migrant worker
in the northern Negev was killed by a rocket fired by Palestinians from the
Gaza Strip.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Israeli actor and
television host Eyal Kitzis and his wife Tali gave birth to their first son.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: In Buenos Aires,
Argentina Jewish leaders, “Jewish school groups, local and federal government
officials met in the square where the embassy once stood, to remember the
attack on the Israeli Embassy which took place on March 17, 1992, killing 29
people, and injuring 242. The attack was the work of Iran.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: The Five
finalists on the Man-O-Manischewitz Cook-Off who have won an all-expense paid
trip to Manhattan are scheduled to compete today at the Jewish Community Center
of Manhattan. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Lorin Sklamberg
with Dublin-born chanteuse Susan McKeown and guitarist Aidan Brennan are
scheduled to present Saints and Tzadiks, a program of rare songs from the
Yiddish and Irish traditions in Bielefeld, Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(12 Adar II, 5771):
Sixty-seven-year-old Knesset Member and educator Ze'ev Boim passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/mk-ze-ev-boim-dies-at-67-1.350109"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/mk-ze-ev-boim-dies-at-67-1.350109</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(12 Adar II): On
the Hebrew calendar, anniversary the “Dedication of Herod’s Renovated Temple”
in 11 BCE. For those who know how Herod lived his life the Talmud’s declaration
that "He who has not seen Herod's edifice has not seen a magnificent edifice!"
is difficult to understand.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Projectiles land
in open areas with no injuries, damaged reported; shots fired at IDF soldiers
near southern Gaza border.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: In “In Novels, an
Ex-Spy Returns to the Fold,” Jules Bosman describes the upcoming literary
efforts of Valery Palme Wilson, the CIA employee who happened to Jewish and who
was identity was scandalously exposed by those upset with her husband.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The annual Jewish
Women’s Archive Luncheon is scheduled to take place at the Museum of Jewish
Heritage in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The final in a
three part lecture series “Agnon’s Eretz Israel” presented by Rabbi Jeffrey
Saks is scheduled to take place today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: “The Last Jews of
Libya” is scheduled to be shown at the New York Sephardic Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The NoVA
International Film Festival is scheduled to begin today in Fairfax, VA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(24<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5772): Eighty-seven-year-old real estate developer Melvyn Kaufman passed
away today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(As reported by Margalit
Fox)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/nyregion/melvyn-kaufman-developer-who-shaped-manhattans-streetscape-dies-at-87.html?hpw=&pagewanted=all&_r=0"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/nyregion/melvyn-kaufman-developer-who-shaped-manhattans-streetscape-dies-at-87.html?hpw=&pagewanted=all&_r=0</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: At Shaaray
Tefila, Rabbi Dagan is scheduled to present a “special program where he will
share gorgeous melodies that track his personal musical journey from an Israeli
Sephardi synagogue to a Reform rabbinate in Haifa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: After almost six
years of service, Ehud Barak stepped down as Minister of Defense.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Leo Baeck
Institute is scheduled to present “Beer, Art and Revolution: Jewish Life in
Munich, 1806-present.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Gideon Sa’ar
replaced Eli Yishai as Minster of the Interior.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Moshe Ya’alon
replaced Ehud Barak as Minister of Defense.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Ayoob Kara
completed his term as Deputy Minister for the Development of the Negev and
Galilee<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The ministers of
Israel’s 33rd government were sworn in this evening in the Knesset in
Jerusalem. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Israel and a
European human rights official criticized Hungary today for presenting an award
to a television journalist they accuse of anti-Semitism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: An Israeli was
lightly injured in a drive-by attack near the West Bank settlement of Kedumim
this morning. A Palestinian shooter opened fire on the man, 71, who was on
foot, at the Kedumim Junction, slightly injuring him in the leg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(16<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5774): Ninety-five-year-old Doris Kanter, “the widow of comedy
writer-produceer-director Hal Kanter passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://variety.com/2014/tv/obituaries-people-news/writer-doris-kanter-widow-of-comedy-scribe-hal-kanter-dies-at-95-1201159272/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://variety.com/2014/tv/obituaries-people-news/writer-doris-kanter-widow-of-comedy-scribe-hal-kanter-dies-at-95-1201159272/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: The New York
Premiere of “Shadow in Baghdad” is scheduled to take place at New York
Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: “Dancing in
Jaffa” is scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Twenty-four
Medals of Honor were awarded by President Obama to Army veterans who were
denied their honor due to prejudice including Private First Class Leonard
Kravitz and Sargent Jack Weinstein who were killed during the Korean War. (As
reported by Jim Kunhenn)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: <u>The Story of
the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD</u> by Simon Schama is scheduled to
go on sale today. This is the first volume of a two volume study of Jewish
history which is the source for the PBS series, “The Story of the Jews which is
scheduled to premiere on Tuesday, March 25<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Four IDF soldiers
wer wouned when an explosive device detonated along Israel’s border fence with
Syria this afternoon in the area south of the Druze village of Majdal Shams.
(As reported by Yoav Zitun)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Hezbollah sources
said today that an explosion on the Golan Heights that injured three IDF
soldiers had been an attempt to kidnap soldiers. (As reported by Uzi Baruch)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: IAF planes fired
on the sites in Syria that terrorists used to attack and wound IDF soldiers
earlier in the day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: “Tales From Tel
Aviv and Upper West Side” published today provided a review of <u>The
Unamericans</u> by Molly Antopol<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>Canadian Haggadah Canadienne </u></i>is
scheduled to go sale in Toronto.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: Today, Supreme
Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “released a feminist reading of the Passover
story” “which focuses on five women at the center of the Exodus narrative” and
was put together by…the American Jewish World Service.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: World premiere of
“God’s Honest Truth” is scheduled to take place this evening as part of Theatre
J sponsored by the Washington, DCJCC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: In San Diego,
Jacob Goldberg is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Israeli-Palestinian
Stalemate: Status Quo, Intifada, or Interim Agreements?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: “Los Angeles
Police Department detectives say several handwriting experts link Robert Durst
to an anonymous letter tipping authorities to the slaying of writer Susan
Berman in 2000, according a search warrant made public today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-robert-durst-suicidal-jail-mentally-ill-20150318-story.html#page=1"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-robert-durst-suicidal-jail-mentally-ill-20150318-story.html#page=1</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: “With some 99
percent of the votes counted by early Wednesday morning, Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party appeared set to win a resounding victory in
the general election, with 30 seats, compared to the Zionist Union’s 24”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-looks-to-form-right-religious-coalition-in-coming-weeks/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-looks-to-form-right-religious-coalition-in-coming-weeks/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: “Jews &
Money” and “24 Days” are scheduled to be shown at the 18<sup>th</sup> New York
Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: Approximately
25,000 runners from 61 countries took part in today’s Jerusalem Marathon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: LimmudFest is
scheduled to begin in New Orleans, LA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: Seventeen-year-old
“Israeli ice skater Daniel Samohin won first placed in the World Skating
Championship held in Hungary today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: “Isaac Mizrahi:
An Unruly History is scheduled to open at the Jewish Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/isaac-mizrahi-an-unruly-history"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/isaac-mizrahi-an-unruly-history</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: The Television
Project: Some of My Best Friends is scheduled to open today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/isaac-mizrahi-an-unruly-history"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/isaac-mizrahi-an-unruly-history</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: Masterpieces and
Curiosities: The Fictional Portrait is scheduled to open today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/masterpieces-curiosities-the-fictional-portrait"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/masterpieces-curiosities-the-fictional-portrait</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2017(20<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5777):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shabbat Parah; for more see
</span></span><a href="http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: In London, the
South Social Film Festival is scheduled to host a tribute to women and Jewish
culture as attendees “dive into Jewish culture” in “an immersive experience
showcasing indie film, with live Klezmer music with TANTZ trio, and food celebrating
Jewish culture. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2017: On the secular
calendar, 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the Bar Mitzvah of Renaissance man
Alan Smason, the founder of the Crescent City Jewish News. </span></span><a href="http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: “Jewish Blind
Date,” “Kosher Love” and “The Setup” are scheduled to be shown this afternoon
at the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018(2<sup>nd</sup> of
Nisan, 5778): Ninety-one-year-old English born, University of London trained
physician Dr. Samuel Epstein who articulated the need to deal with the
political, economic and social aspects of cancer passed away today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(As reported by Sam Roberts)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/obituaries/dr-samuel-epstein-91-cassandra-of-cancer-prevention-dies.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/obituaries/dr-samuel-epstein-91-cassandra-of-cancer-prevention-dies.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: “House of Z” and
“Keep the Change” are scheduled to be shown on the final day of the Houston
Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: LimmudFest is
scheduled to come to an end today in New Orleans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including <u>Impeachment:
A Citizen’s Guide</u> by Cass R. Sunstein<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">,
Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America by Cass R. Sunstein</i> and
the recently released paperback edition of <u>Why?: Explaining the Holocaust</u>
by Peter Hayes<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: The Society for
the Advancement of Judaism is scheduled to sponsor “Too Good To Passover” which
includes a “cookbook talk, book signing and charoset tasting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: “The Israeli
military today announced that it destroyed two attack tunnels, one that entered
Israeli territory and another inside the central Gaza Strip, the latest in a
series of underground structures have been demolished by Israel in recent months.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: Congregation
Shearith Israel is scheduled to host “Passover and the American Imagination.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="http://shearithisrael.org/gala2018?utm_source=Jewish+Review+of+Books&utm_campaign=375e9c5dea-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_538f7810ff-375e9c5dea-184100029"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://shearithisrael.org/gala2018?utm_source=Jewish+Review+of+Books&utm_campaign=375e9c5dea-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_538f7810ff-375e9c5dea-184100029</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: Twenty-year-old
Sgt. Netanel Kahalani, 20, from Elyakim in northern Israel, the victim of a
terroirst car ramming attack was buried early on today in the cemetery in his
hometown, with thousands in attendance, according to Hebrew reports.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: Twenty-one year old Captain Ziv Daos, a platton commander from Azor
who was killed in a terrorist car ramming attack is scheduled to be buried
today at noon today at the military cemetery at Holon.(As reported by TOI)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host a
screening “The Best of Enemies” followed by a discussion moderated by Rabbi
Joshua M. Davidson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://www.emanuelnyc.org/event/the-best-of-enemies-screening-discussion/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.emanuelnyc.org/event/the-best-of-enemies-screening-discussion/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: Shir Gal Kochavi, the “Magnes museum curator” is scheduled to
discuss “the impact of ritual Jewish objects on Polis artist Arthur Szyk’s
work.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: After having been “granted an 11<sup>th</sup> hour reprieve from
the auction block, Marc Chagall’s La Tour Eiffel which has been on display at
the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in Ottawa” is scheduled to be returned to
storage today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"></span><a href="https://www.cjnews.com/culture/entertainment/the-world-according-to-chagall"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.cjnews.com/culture/entertainment/the-world-according-to-chagall</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: On the Gregorian
calendar, 53<sup>rd</sup> anniversary of the Bar Mitzvah of New Orleans
renaissance man Alan Smason.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020(22<sup>nd</sup> of
Adar, 5780): Yahrzeits of Rabbi Elijah b. Solomon of Smyrna, Turkey; Rabbi
Jehiel Michal Epstein of Novogrudok; Rabbi Abraham Duber Shapiro, “the last
rabbi of the Jewish community of Kovno.” (As reported by Abraham P. Bloch)<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: “Babies and
Bagels” which was scheduled to take place at Congregation B’nai Shalom in
Walnut, CA has been canceled due to the Pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: ViacomCBS
canceled a “Women’s History Month” scheduled to be held today reportedly
because of the involvement of “Linda Sarsour, who is known for her support of
the anti-Israel BDS movement and has been accused of spreading anti-Semitism.”
(As reported by Jackson Richman)<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: The luncheon at
Touro College in connection with the National Jewish Book Award sponsored by
the Jewish Book Council scheduled for today has been postponed due to COVID-19
pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: In London,
“age-less job search workshop” sponsored by JW3 scheduled to be held today has
been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: As part of its
series on “Jewish Women, Race and Ethnicity in America” the Jewish Women’s
Archive is scheduled to present online “Sephardic Women in America” with Devi
Mays, assistant professor of Judaic studies at the University of Michigan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: The Open Circle
Jewish Learnings is scheduled to present online “Creating Each Day: An Omer
Maker Space for All Ages” with Rabbi Laura Bellows.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: Contra Costa JCC,
East Bay Jewish film fest and others are scheduled to present Raffi Berg talks
about <u>Red Spies</u>, his 2020 book about a coastal resort in Africa that was
actually an Israeli undercover operation that smuggled thousands of Ethiopian
Jews to Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: The Boston
Women’s Film Festival, Boston Jewish Film and the Consulate General of Israel
to New England are scheduled to host an online screening of “Hope I’m in the
Frame,” a documentary about Michal Bat-Adam, the first Israeli movie director.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: The Jewish
Community Relations Council of Greater Boston and the Massachusetts <o:p></o:p></span></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Association of Jewish
Federations are scheduled to host “a virtual legislative reception with
co-chairs Dale Okonow and Leah Robins to honor outstanding public officials who
have demonstrated their commitment to our community’s priorities.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;">2021:</span></em></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;">UC
Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies is scheduled to present “Homeland, Exile and
Diaspora: Contemporary Jewish Reflections” a conversation among UC Berkeley
professor Daniel Boyarin, Academy for Jewish Religion’s Rabbi Jill Hammer, and
Dartmouth professor Susannah Heschel.<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022(15<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5782): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: The Sir Martin
Gilbert Center is scheduled to host the final lecture by Shirli Gilbert on
“Wandering Jews: Migration in Modern Jewish History.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: the Illinois
Holocaust Museum is scheduled to offer free Spring Break Admission for “Kids
and Students” starting today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: LimmuFest New
Orleans is scheduled to continue for a second day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: At Temple Judea
Rabbi Feivel Strauss is scheduled to lead another of his informative torah
study sessions via zoom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: In Newark, NJ,
“Phillip Roth Unbound: Illuminating a Literary History” sponsored by the New
Jersey Performing Arts Center is scheduled to continue for a second day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: Israel braces for
another round of Saturday evening mass protests against the judicial reform
legislation which is “barreling its way” through the Knesset.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023(25<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5783): Shabbat HaChodesh; <o:p></o:p></span></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;">2024: </span></em></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In another lecture in the online lecture series "Darkness and
Light in Literature" sponsored by Agnon House, participants are scheduled
to “read together with Dr. Lilach Netanel<b> </b>in chapter 45 of the novel
"A Tale of Love and Darkness" and in isolated excerpts from the
modern Israeli and Jewish writing book about darkness, nightmares and shadows.”<em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: In Washington, the final screening of
“Bella” is scheduled to take place followed by “a post-screening conversation
with film director Jeff L. Lieberman, Bella’s Administrative Assistant in
Congress Marilyn Marcosson, Bella’s Administrative Aide in Congress Peter
Rosenstein, and Bella’s Legislative Assistant in Congress Ken Birnbaum.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host
columnist Thomas Friedman as he discusses “his oft-expressed concerns about
Israel’s invasion of Gaza, his belief that Hamas has traded the lives of
Palestinian citizens to pull off a major PR coup and Israel’s lack of a
realistic plan for “the day after.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Center is
scheduled to host a lecture by Dr. Isabelle Seddon on “Intrepid Pioneers:
Jewish Women in the Public Arena.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: YIVO is scheduled to host “a performance
of Joel Engel’s Five Piano Pieces (1923): a collection of Jewish folksongs,
dances, and Hasidic nigunim in virtuosic piano arrangements.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March 18th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin day 164 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66810689;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></em></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p>melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-35751568091338265142024-03-16T16:00:00.000-06:002024-03-16T16:00:19.974-06:00This Day, March 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">March 17</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">796 BCE (1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 2956): Based on computations using the Bible and archaeology,
possible date for the death of Jehoash, King of Judah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">45 <st1:stockticker w:st="on">BCE</st1:stockticker>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Julius
Caesar defeated the forces of Pompey at the Battle of Munda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Caesar’s victory put an end to the Pompeian
attempt to rule Rome. Considering the way Pompey treated the Jews, Caesar’s
victory was the preferable outcome.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">180:
Antonius Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Rome passed away at the age of 58.
The author of <u>Meditations</u> was known as a wise philosopher-king.
However, he had little use for the Jews. While traveling in Judea, he
described the Jews as "Stinking and tumultuous." He reportedly
expressed a preference for the Teutonic barbarians whom he was fighting on the
border between Gaul and Germania.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">455:
Petronius Maximus becomes emperor of the Western Roman Empire after murdering
Valentinian III and forcing the Empress Eudoxia to marry him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Empress wrote to Genseric the Vandal
asking him to come to Rome to avenge her. According to Theophanes he came and
sacked the city and reportedly carried off the treasures from the Second Temple
that had been seized by Titus in 70. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/imperialfora/vespasian/judaeacapta.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/imperialfora/vespasian/judaeacapta.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">461: The man who is known to history as St.
Patrick passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishla.org/do-jews-erin-go-bragh/">https://www.jewishla.org/do-jews-erin-go-bragh/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">763: Birthdate of Harun al-Rashid, the Abbasid
caliph who sent Jewish teachers to France at the request of Charlemagne. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1168: In one of the earliest blood libels in England,</span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Harold of
Gloucester who “was a supposed child martyr who was falsely claimed by
Benedictine monks to have been ritually murdered by Jews in Gloucester, England”
died toda.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1190: The Crusaders completed the massacre of
Jews of York England slaughtering 500 Jews on this particular day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1398: Today “The city council of Worms enacted
an ordinance that every Jew or Jewess over twelve should pay one old tournois
in Leibzoll, but not one farthing more.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1406: Seventy-three-year-old Tunisian born
Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun whose writing about the history of the Berbers
described the conversion of Kahina, the 7<sup>th</sup> century “warrior queen”
to Judaism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1513:
Pope Leo X who relied on Bonet de Lates, a Jew from Provence, as his personal
physician and unofficial advisor and whose <span style="color: black;">leniency
towards the Jews may have stemmed from an attitude summed up by his statement
that “It is well known how useful this fable of Christ has been to us and
ours!” was consecrated today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1526:
After making “major concessions to Charles V” Francis I who had no Jewish
subjects but had a strange interest in the Hebrew language as can be seen by
his unsuccessful attempt get the Hebrew grammarian Elias Levita to move to his
realm, was freed today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1616: In Holland, under the rule of Prince
Maurice of Orange, it is decided that each city could decide for itself whether
or not to admit Jews. In those towns where they were admitted they would not be
required to wear a badge of any sort identifying them as Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1636: Urban VIII issued “Cum allias piae” a
Papal Bull that ordered the “Synagogues of the Duchies of Ferarri and Urban, to
pay a tax of 10 ecus.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1654: Alexis Mikhailovich, the second Romanov
Czar, issued an edict today instructing “a party of Lithuanian Jews to proceed
from Kaluga to Nijni-Novgorod” under the protection of an “escort of twenty
sharpshooters.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1178&letter=A&search=Czar%20Alexis%20I#ixzz1GhwP8x13"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1178&letter=A&search=Czar%20Alexis%20I#ixzz1GhwP8x13</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1678:</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Las Excelencias
y Calunias de los Hebreos</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a defense of the Jewish people written by Isaac
(Fernando) Cardoso which was printed in 1679 was today dedicated to Jacob de
Pinto.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1733: “Deborah,” an oratorio by Handel based on
Chapters 4 and 5 of the Book of Judges premiered at the King’s Theatre in
London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1749: “Solomon,” an oratorio by Handel based on
the Biblical account of the Israelite King had its first performance at the
Theatre Royal in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1757: Following a dispute with other members of
the Bet Din in London, Isaac Nieto wrote a letter today resigning as ab bet
din.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nieto was the son David Nieto and
he had served as the Haham of Bevis Marks and as the first Rabbi of the Great
Synagogue in Gibraltar. He had been serving as the ab bet din since 1751.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1762: The first St. Patrick’s Day Parade is
held in New York City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The parade was
organized by Irish soldiers serving in the British Navy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Corned beef and cabbage is the traditional
meal enjoyed by many on St. Patrick's Day, but only half of it is truly Irish.
Cabbage has long been a staple of the Irish diet, but it was traditionally
served with Irish bacon, not corned beef. The corned beef was substituted for
bacon by Irish immigrants who came to America and who could not afford the real
thing i.e. bacon. According to one version of this tale, the Irish immigrants
learned about the cheaper alternative, corned beef, from <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">their Jewish neighbors.” </span>Are we to
believe that traif bacon gave way to kosher Corned Beef?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only in America!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1764(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5524):
Parahsat Tzav; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1777: Birthdate of Baden native Bina Leone, the
wife of Elias Isaak Cahn with whom she had seven children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1780: Rosine Wambacher and Abraham Hutzler gave
birth to David Hutzler.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1783(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5543): Ta’anit
Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1786: In German, Dreile Schweizer and Philip
Moses Faist Rosenheim gave birth to Samuel Faist Rosenheim, the husband of
Madel Rebensburger with whom he had six children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1787: In Germany, Jentle Loeb and Moses Faist
Rosenheim gave birth to Samuel Moses Faist Rosenheim, the husband of Sarah
Bernheimer with whom he had seven children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1791(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5551): Ta’anit
Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1795: Birthdate of Mary Harris, the wife London
native Zadoc Aaron Jessel whom she married in London’s Great Synagogue in 1819
and the mother of Henry, Edward, George and Amelia Jessel<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1798: Birthdate of Jacob Ettlinger, the native
of Baden who became a leader of Orthodox Judaism and served as Chief Rabbi in
Altona from 1836 until his death in 1871<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1789: Birthdate of Edmund Kean, the great 19<sup>th</sup>
century Shakespearian actor who first gained fame for his portrayal of
Shylock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The portrayal of the Jew from
Venice was a difficult role and a career-maker for those few who did it
successfully. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1801: In Galicia, Rabbi Shebah ha-Levi and his
wife gave birth to Orientalist Simchah Pinksker, the father of Leon Pinsker.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1802(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5562): Ta’anit
Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1805(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5565): Purim
Meshulash<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1805: The Italian Republic, a creation of
Napoleon, was transformed in the Kingdom of Italy with the French emperor
serving as King.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Jews of Italy
benefited from the appearance of the French revolutionary armies. Between 1796
and 1798, they had liberated several ghettos, most notably the Rome Ghetto in
1798.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Jews will be forced to return
to their ghettos with the return of Italian reactionaries, but Napoleon would
have one last success when he freed the Jews of Florence from their Ghetto in
1808.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1807: Birthdate of Mendel Hess the Chief Rabbi
of the Grand Duchy of Weimar (Germany).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1808: Birthdate of Adolfo Eisenstadter who is
buried at the Marjan Hill Cemetery in Split, Croatia. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1808: Today an imperial edict was issued that
“divided the Jews living in French countries into consistories. Brussels
(Belgium) was included in the consistory of Crefeld. Since 1794, the French had
controlled Belgium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the time of the
issuance of that edit, this meant Napoleon was the one issuing the orders. On
the overthrow of Napoleon, Belgium was united with Holland; and the Jewish
community of Brussels became the head of the fourteenth religious district of
Holland. After the revolution of 1830 Brussels became the head of the Belgian
consistories, and a chief rabbi was nominated.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1808: The Infamous Decree (<i>decret infame</i>)
of Napoleon canceled all debts owed to Jews by those serving in the military or
by women if it was signed without the approval of their husbands or parents. It
also abolished freedom of trade of the Jews by forcing them to acquire permits
(which were almost never given) from the local prefects, and it prevented Jews
from settling in the area of the Upper and Lower Rhine<span style="color: red;">.</span>
<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1808: Establishment of the Central Consistory
of French Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1811: Birthdate of Karl Gutzkow, the author
“Uriel Acosta” which was first performed in Yiddish in 1882 at the Mariinsky
Theatre in Odessa starring Abba Schoengold whom Jacob Adler described as
"the god of the Yiddish public, the god, indeed, of all who saw him on
stage... the handsomest man in the world. Tall. Blue eyes. Golden hair. An
Apollo."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1811: The Austrian Emperor denied Simon Edler
von Lämel permission to purchase a house in Vienna but “in the same year
elevated him to the hereditary nobility” as a reward for his assistance in
supplying the Army during the Napoleonic Wars.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1814: In Amsterdam, Alexander (Elkan) Rimini
and Juedith Abraham Messias gave birth to Sara Rimini, the wife of Abraham
Delmonte who was living in Whitechapel at the time of her death in 1884/<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1815: In Darmstadt, Reina (Rachel) Oppenheimer
and Abraham Oppenheimer gave birth to Myer Oppenheimer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1818: “A restrict measure, which Napoleon had
enacted in 1808, -- to continue in force for ten years only, on his assumption
that such a ten years’ term was necessary to enable the Jews to conform to the
conclusions of his Sanhedrin to become good citizens of the country of their
domicile and to be an alien nation expired” today “by its own limitation.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1819: Abraham Solomon married Ellen Levy at the
New Synagogue today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1825: In the Netherlands, James Abraham Cohen
Stuart, the London son of Elisabeth Gompertz and Abraham Benjamin Cohen and his
wife Petronella Wilhelmina Stuart gave birth to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Benjamin Cohen Stuart, the husband of Annetta Dorothea Rebecca de Leeuw.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1826(8<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5586): Hetty
Grace Levy, the daughter of Solomon Levy passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1829: Birthdate of Ephraim Menahhem Epstein the
Russian born Jewish convert to Christianity and College of Physicians and
Surgeons trained doctor who was “the first leader of the University of South
Dakota.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://libguides.usd.edu/ephraim"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://libguides.usd.edu/ephraim</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1832: Birthdate of Moncure Daniel Conway the
Unitarian clergyman and author whose works include <u>The Wandering Jew </u>and
<u>Solomon and Solomonic Literature</u><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1833(26th of Adar, 5593): Judith Levy, the daughter
of Chaim Levy passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1836: In Charleston, South Carolina, Isaac and
Babetta Dittenhoefer, gave birth to Abram Jess Dittenhoefer. His parents were
immigrants from Germany who lived in Baltimore and Charleston before settling
in New York where his father became a successful merchant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A graduate of Columbia Law, young
Dittenhoefer would become a practicing attorney and successful judge. Oddly
enough, this Jew who was born in the Cradle of the Confederacy would be one of
the electors from New York who would cast a vote for Abraham Lincoln in the
Electoral College.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=i-cDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA363&lpg=PA363&dq=Judge+Dittenhoefer&source=bl&ots=jEW7PyaS7E&sig=QZQ4jMhONxiidFEhszSWIoSKZI4&hl=en&ei=7vglTo7iOYri0QGW1b3CCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Judge%20Dittenhoefer&f=false"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://books.google.com/books?id=i-cDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA363&lpg=PA363&dq=Judge+Dittenhoefer&source=bl&ots=jEW7PyaS7E&sig=QZQ4jMhONxiidFEhszSWIoSKZI4&hl=en&ei=7vglTo7iOYri0QGW1b3CCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Judge%20Dittenhoefer&f=false</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1840: Henry Benjamin married Marian Alexander
at the Great Synagogue today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1840: Birthdate of Henri Didon Louis Remy, the
Dominican friar who spoke “approvingly of Renan’s closing work, <u>History of
the Jews </u>which depicts “Christianity as the flower, masterpiece and glory
of Judaism.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841: Harris Barnett married Leah Levy at the
Great Synagogue today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1842: Birthdate of Dublin native Julie
Calisher, the husband of Birmingham, England native Julius Calisher.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1843(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5603): Shushan
Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1846: Mary Ann Talbot and Abdallah Ben Cassan
gave birth to Ali Adolphus Ben Cassan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848: Eight years before the death of his
father Jacob Steinschenider, Moritz Steinschneider “after many difficulties
succeeded in becoming a Prussian citizen” in “the same year” that “he was
charged with preparation of the catalogue of Hebrew books in the Bodleian
Library at Oxford.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848: By the time the time that Carl Heinrich
Spitzer, a 17-year-old Moravian Jew studying at the Vienna Polytechnic who had
been the first one shot down by imperial troops two days ago was laid to rest
today, Emperor Ferdinand had “had acceded to the students’ demands for a
national guard, a freed press and the promise of a constitution.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1849: William III of Netherlands who in 1855
appointed Aron Mendes Chumaceiro chief rabbi of the colony of Curaçao and
intervened on behalf of “the persecuted Dutch Jews of Coro, Venezuela” began is
reign today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><a name="_Hlk161405618"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5611): Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk161405618;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851: Rabbi Sabato
Morais arrived in Philadelphia with the expectation of becoming the spiritual
leader of Congregation Mikveh Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk161405618;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852: In Copenhagen, Amalia Monies and Charles
Kann gave birth to Albert Kann.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852: In Germany, Lazarus Siegel and Zerlin
Koch gave birth to Henry Siegel, who married Marie Vaugh Wilde after his first
wife Julia Rosenbaum passed away and came to the United States in 1867 and
opened a series of progressively more successful department stores starting in
Parkersburg, West Virginia and climaxing with purchases of emporiums in Chicago
and New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852:
In Eubigheim, Lazarus Siegel and Zerlina Koch gave birth to Henry Seigel, the
German immigrant who came to United States in 1852 where he established and/or
acquired a series of increasingly successful department store including Siegel,
Hartsfield & Co., the Siegel Cooper Company, Simpson Crawford Company in
New York, and the Schlesinger and Mayer Company in Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1854:
Mr. and Mrs. Moses Ley Maduro Peixotta gave birth to Daniel Levy Maduro
Peixotto, a leader in the New York State Militia who died because of fever
contracted during the Spanish-American War.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1857:
Paul Reuter, a Jew by birth who would become one of the first of the modern
Press Lords as the founder of Reuters legally became a British subject.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reuter had already shed the Jewish part of
his origins when he converted in November of 1845, a month after he had moved
to London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Nisan, 5618): Seventy-six-year-old Samuel Lyons, the Baltimore born son of
Eleazar Lyons who married Dinah Levy in Surinam in 1810 and then Sarah Marks in
Philadelphia in 1821 passed away today in Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858:
In Chicago, Elias and Rosine (Straus) Greenbaum gave birth to banker Moses E.
Greenbaum, the husband of Julia Friedman who was president of Greenbaum Sons
Bank and Trust Company and Greenbaum Sons Investment Company as well as
President of Chicago Sinai Congregation and a trustee of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations, the National Jewish hospital for Consumptives in Denver
and the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859:
In Frankfurt, Selig and Clementine Goldschmidt gave birth to their second child
Flora.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5620): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudi; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861: In Wilmington, Delaware, Josiah and
Lisette (Frankel) Bochroch gave birth to Jefferson Medical College graduate Max
H. Bochroch, a Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases at Temple University
and a member of Rodeph Sholom Congregation in Philadelphia who married Jennie
M. Wolfe in 1887.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861: The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed. The
ghetto walls came tumbling down and the Jews were fully emancipated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jews played an active part in the creation of
the modern Italian state and they enjoyed a level of social and legal
acceptance that was second only to that enjoyed by the Jews of Great Britain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862(15th of Adar II, 5622): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862: A group of wealthy young men who formed
what would be known as the Purim Association held the first Purim Ball in New
York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862(15th of Adar II, 5622): Composer Jacques
François Fromental Élie Halévy passed away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Born in 1799, Halévy composed the tragic opera <i>La Juive</i> and the
comic opera <i>L'Éclair</i>. These works are his major claim to artistic fame. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864: In New York City, Yetta Hackes and Louis
Stix who had been married since 1852 gave birth to Otto Louis Stix<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864(9th of Adar II, 5624): Abraham David
Meijer, the brother of Jonas Daniel Meijer (the first Jewish lawyer in the
Netherlands) passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1865(19th of Adar, 5625): Seventy-one-year-old
Rabbi Isaac Noah Mannheimer, the native of Copenhagen passed away today in
Vienna. Born in Copenhagen in 1793, he was “the son of a chazzan who began the
study of the Talmud at an early age, though not to the neglect of secular
studies. On completing the course of the cathedral school at Copenhagen, he
took up philosophy, Oriental languages, and theology at the university there,
at the same time continuing his studies in Talmud and Jewish science. When the
Jews of Denmark were emancipated in 1814, confirmation was made obligatory, and
the office of catechist was instituted by the state, Mannheimer being the first
incumbent (1816). The first confirmation took place May 1817. In 1821
Mannheimer went to Vienna, where there was then no congregation, the community
being divided into two opposing parties. Mannheimer, who was welcomed by both factions,
soon succeeded in organizing a congregation, drafting a program and ritual on
the traditional basis and harmonizing the views of the two parties. He returned
to Copenhagen in December of the same year. Failing in his attempt to secure a
new synagogue for Reform services, he accepted a call to the pulpit left vacant
by Zunz in Berlin. German services, however, were interdicted in that city; the
temple formerly under the ministry of B. Beer was closed, and the royal cabinet
order of 26 December 1823, obtained by the Orthodox party, frustrated the
attempt to adapt the old ritual to new forms by delivering German sermons in
the chief synagogue. Mannheimer therefore left Berlin and took temporary charge
of the pulpit of Hamburg, preaching also at Leipzig during the fairs. In 1824
he married Liseke Damier, and in November of the same year he was called to the
new synagogue of Vienna. As he could not receive the title of preacher or
rabbi, he was inducted, in June, 1825, as "Direktor der Wiener K. K. Genehmigten
Oeffentlichen Israelitischen Religionsschule"; he dedicated the new temple
in April, 1826, and officiated there until 1829. Mannheimer's success was due
in great measure to his oratorical gifts. His sermons were, for their time,
models (Geiger, Einleitung in das Studium der Jüdischen Theologie, in
Nachgelassene Schriften, ii. 31). His German translation of the prayerbook and
of the fast-day prayers, and his arrangement of the fast-day liturgy, are of
permanent importance for the ritual, the conservative spirit in which this work
was undertaken leading to its adoption by many communities. In 1848 Mannheimer
was returned by Brody to the Austrian Reichstag, where he delivered two
memorable speeches, one on the Jewish tax (5 October 1848) and the other on the
abolition of capital punishment (29 January 1849). On his seventieth birthday
the city of Vienna conferred honorary citizenship upon him. He devoted the
gifts bestowed by the community upon him on that occasion to a foundation for
the aid of rabbis, preachers, and teachers, which still bears his name.
Mannheimer published the following works: Prædikener Holdte ved det Mosaiske
Troes-Samfund's Andagts-Övelser i Modersmaalet i Sommerhalvaaret 1819
(Copenhagen, 1819); Gottesdienstliche Vorträge Gehalten im Israelitischen
Bethause zu Wien im Monate Tischri 5594 (Vienna, 1834); Gottesdienstliche
Vorträge für die Wochenabschnitte des Jahres, vol. i, Genesis and Exodus (ib.
1835; partly translated into Hebrew by E Kuttner, ib. 1865); a translation of
the prayer-book and of the fast-day prayers according to the ritual of the
Vienna Temple (1840; frequently reprinted). His polemics and responsa include:
Gutachten für das Gebetbuch des Hamburger Tempels (1841); Gutachten Gegen die
Reformpartei in Frankfurt-am-Main in Angelegenheit der Beschneidungsfrage
(1843); Einige Worte über Juden und Judenthum (supplement to the
Oesterreichische Medicinische Wochenschrift, 1842, No. 34), directed against
Professor Rosa's statements in reference to the Jewish Question (1848). </span><a href="http://jewish_bio.enacademic.com/2097/Mannheimer,_Isaac_Noah"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://jewish_bio.enacademic.com/2097/Mannheimer,_Isaac_Noah</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869: In Baghdad, Heskel Shalma Ezra
Shlomo-David, Hakham and Messouda/Massoda/Massouda Shlomo-David gave birth to
Sir Sassoon Eskel, who following WW I became Iraq’s finance minister and who
was the father of Rahel Cohen and Meir Eskel<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868: In the 8th arrondissement of Paris, Elie
Lazare II, the French born son of Elie ben Abraham Lazard and Esther Cahn –
Lazard and his wife Marie Lazard gave birth to Michel Lazard the husband of
Louise Lazard and banquier, chevalier de la Légion d'honneur.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869: Louis and Bluma Joseph were married today
at Cavendish Square.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5630): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870(14th of Adar): Rabbi Dov Ber ben Isaac
Meisels of Cracow, author of Hiddushei Mahardam passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Meisels_Dov_Berush"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Meisels_Dov_Berush</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870: Since the Purim balls in New York appear
to have lost their popularity, tonight’s Purim celebrations will not consist of
any “grand demonstration” but will be limited to some unpretentious
entertainments.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873(18th
of Adar, 5633): Seventy-seven-year-old Joseph Salvador a member of a
distinguished French Sephardi family whose mother was Roman Catholic, the
author of <i><u>Paris, Rome, Jerusalem ou la Question religieuse au XIX siècle </u></i>who
was angered by the anti-Jewish riots in German and was considered a
‘proto-Zionist” passed away today, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873:
Three days after she had passed away66 year old Catherine “Kate” Collins (nee
Isaacs) the wife of Solomon Collins and the mother of Adelaide and William
Collins was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Budapest, Dr. Aaron Wise, the future rabbi
of Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes in Brooklyn, New York and his wife
gave birth to Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, the grandson of Rabbi Joseph Hirsch
Weiss and Móric Fischer de Farkasházy, the founder of the Herend Porcelain
Company.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Rabbi
Stephen Samuel Wise declined to accept the pulpit of New York's largest Reform
Congregation if it meant he could not speak out in favor of Zionism and he
became the President of the Zionist Organization of America. Wise was one
of several Jews who attended the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War
I. In 1922, Wise founded the Jewish Institute of Religion "in an
attempt at sectarian non-partisanship, so that its graduates might serve any
one of the [Jewish] religious groupings" in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007309"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007309</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/stephen-samuel-wise"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/stephen-samuel-wise</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876:
Birthdate of New York City native Samuel Levy, the lawyer, the New York Board
of Education and Manhattan Borough President who married Sadie Vesell with whom
he had one daughter, Bernice and one son Lawrence, the husband of Betha
Rothafel, “the daughter of theatrical impresario and entrepreneur Samuel Roxy
Rothafel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877:
According to a report published today in The Times of London the “Jews’ Deaf
and Dumb Home” “was founded in 1863 by Baroness Mayer de Rothschild as a school
where resident Jewish children could learn to speak.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878:
“Ethical Culture” which was published today describes the growth of The Society
for Ethical Culture which was founded only two years before by Felix
Adler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The author gives due
consideration to Adler’s Jewish origins and the effect that has had in creating
the increasingly popular movement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878:
The Jewish owner of the coffee and cake saloon at number 7 Fulton Street failed
in his effort to get Justice Murray to find that his employee was not guilty of
violating the city’s ordinance against throwing oyster shells, after shucking
them, into the street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878:
The annual Purim reception at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews began this
morning at 11 o’clock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to the
inclement weather, the turnout was smaller than normal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reception ended at 6 in the evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878:
Cohen Davis, an elderly glazier, was tried for perjury today in the General
Sessions Court.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The prosecutor charged
that he had lied under oath during the trial of Abraham Freeman and Charles
Freeman who have been convicted of arson in the first degree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879:
In Paris, Noémie and Adolphe Bloch gave birth to Jules André Albert Bloch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879:
In Uniontown, AL, Cornelia Pake and Moritz L. Ernst gave birth to CCNY graduate
and Columbia trained attorney Bernard M.L. Ernst, the husband of Roberta C.
Clans, the vice president of the Society of American Magicians who was a member
of Temple Israel and the Intercollegiate Menorah Association.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880
In New York City, “Isaac Jacobs and Rachel Strauss gave birth to boxing
Promoter Michael “Uncle Mike” Jacobs whose career spanned an era the ran from
Jack Dempsey’s reign to the retirement of Joe Louis, two of the greatest
heavyweight champions of the world during boxing’s so-called golden age.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880:
It was reported today that the annual ball sponsored by the Purim Association
had raised $18,585.80 for New York’s Mt. Sinai Hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880:
It was reported today that George Kessler is among those selling tickets the
Concord Society’s first grand annual charity ball which is a benefit for the
Young Ladies’ Charitable which is an adjunct of the United Hebrew Charities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881:
Twenty-one-year-old Aizik Aronchic, the son of “Jewish traders from Gomel” was
arrested today for his role in the 1879 “attempt by Narodnaya Volya to kill the
Tsar by exploding a mine under the Moscow - Kursk railway as his train passed.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882:
In Chicago, “Abraham and Anna (Hinde) Shemerinsky” gave birth to Gertrude
Shemerinsky who married Jacob Kaplan and as Gertrude Kaplan gave birth to five
children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882:
“Justice Steckler Expelled” published today described the decision to expel
Alfred Steckler and some of his associates from the Tenth Assembly District
Republican Association.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Steckler and his
associates were not expelled because they were Jewish but because they had
failed to support the Republican candidate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882:
Birthdate of Polish native Max Cline, who in 1885 came to the United States
where graduated from MIT and became “the chief chemist of the International
Paper Company’s research division.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884:
Birthdate of Dr. Nahum Nir, the native of Warsaw who made Aliyah in 1925 and
was one of the signatories of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884(20th
of Adar, 5644): Benjamin Gratz passed away in Lexington, KY.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part of the famous Gratz family, he was born
in Philadelphia in 1792.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After serving
in the Army during the War of 1812 he moved to Kentucky where he practiced law
and served as trustee of Transylvania University.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884:
After moving to Kansas City, MO and working “at the law firm of Lathrop, Smith
and Marrow in 1884, today William J. Berkowitz “and his brother founded
Berkowitz and Company Printers the forerunner if what is now called the Tension
Corporation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://postalmuseum.si.edu/americasmailingindustry/Tension-Corporation.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://postalmuseum.si.edu/americasmailingindustry/Tension-Corporation.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1885: Three days after she had passed away, 24-year-old
Constance Baumann, the daughter of “David and Sarah Baumann” was buried today
at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886:
In Grodno, Cippy Kohen and Robert Fredman gave birth to John Hopkins graduate
and JTS ordained rabbi, Samuel Fredman, the husband of Bessie Stashower who
began serving as spiritual leader of Congregation Beth El in Philadelphia in
1913.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886(10th
of Adar II, 5646): Ninety-one-year-old Leopold Zunz also known—"Yom Tov
Lipmann Tzuntz" passed away. Born in 1794, “he was a German Reform rabbi
and writer, the founder of what has been termed the "Science of
Judaism" (Wissenschaft des Judentums), the critical investigation of
Jewish literature, hymnology and ritual.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888:
In Bloomfield, NJ, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Harris gave birth to WW I veteran and
President of the Young Men’s Building and Loan Association Harvey E. Harris,
the Postmaster of Bloomfield who was the brother of Jerome, Irving and Hazel
Harris.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888:
In Yemen, Bohemian born linguist Eduard Glaser began his third journey from
Sanaa to Ma’rib<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5649): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: Birthdate of Philadelphia native and Jefferson
Medical College trained dermatologist<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sigmund Samuel Greenbaum, the husband of Rae Shirley Refowich whom he
married in 1922 and author of <u>Diseases of the Mouth and Their Treatment</u>
who was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a
member of B’nai Brith and Keneseth Israel Congregation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: Birthdate of Russia native and Kiev University
graduate Solomon Cutler who in 1913 came to the United States where he raised
two daughters with his wife while serving as the “director of the budget
department of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies
of New York.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: Solomon Achillovich Joffe, the Russian born
son of Eugenia Tsirkin and Achilles Joffee the actuary with the Mutual Life
Insurance Company who had served in the Russian Army before coming to the
United States where he attened NYU and the University of Chicago married Rossia
M. Krasnopolskya today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: Birthdate of New York native and CCNY graduate
Max Gewirtz, the holder of a Masters Degree from Teachers College at Columbia
and Doctorate from NYU who retired as an assistant superintended “of a district
in Queens in 1961 and became “head of a religious school at Temple Israel in
Lawrence, L.I.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892(18th of Adar, 5652): Fifty-seven-year-old
Moravian native Max Srakosch, “an impresario and agent” who was the brother of
Maurice Strakosch passed away today in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: It was reported today that Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise will be addressing the congregants at Temple Israel in Harlem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: In Seattle, WA, founding of the Ladies’ Hebrew
Benevolent Society which met on the first Wednesday of each month and whose
members included Ida Davis who served as the society’s secretary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: “Russia’s Securities May Suffer” published
today described an appeal made by the London Russo-Jewish Committee that has
been “sent to every Jewish banker, bank director, bank manager, stockbroker,
and “agent de change” in Europe calling on them” to boycott Russian loans and
Russian financial transactions in general. “The appeal is in retaliation” for
the continued severe treatment of the Russian Jews by the Czar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894:
Moritz Kepes, a Jewish saloon owner, was beaten up today by John Fuchs and his
son who owned a nearby saloon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894:
A fire broke out today in a tenement house on Jefferson Street this morning
that is owned by Abraham Doworsky and is occupied by Russian Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the tenants told Doworsky that they
would be starting a newspaper in the building’s basement, but the fire exposed
the fact that they were operating an illegal still.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894:
“The Germans and their Fatherland” published today provides a detailed review
Germany and the Germans by William Harbutt in which the author devotes one
chapter to the anti-Semitic party and another chapter the criminal activities
in which Jews engage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The author does
raise and does not answer the question “What do the anti-Semites propose to do
with the Jews and what would do without them<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894:
The United Hebrew Charities reported today that between October 1, 1893, to
March 1, 1894 that they had over 18,000 applicants for assistance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During those five months, the charity had
spent over $103,000 for clothing, medicine burials, coal and operating the
industrial schools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the same period
a year ago, they had spent a little more than $46,000 which is indicative of
the losses caused by the depression that began in 1893.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
Three days after she had passed away, 58-year-old Esther Nyman, the wife of
Abraham Nyman was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”<br />
1895: Contrary to what is listed in Wikipedia, today, in Brooklyn Solomon and
Jennie Horwitz gave birth to Samuel Horwitz who gained fame as Shemp Howard of
The Three Stooges.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.shemphoward.com/biography.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.shemphoward.com/biography.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896:
Today, German born Samuel Gutmann, the son of Hirsch Gutman and husband of
Hattie S. Stricker who had come to the United States in 1884 “became a
naturalized citizen before the District Court of Iowa, Polk Co at Des Moines,
Iowa.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5657): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897:
Birthdate of Charles Levine, the son of a Massachusetts scrap metal dealer, who
was a pioneer in the field of aviation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A contemporary of Lindbergh, he was on the second plane that flew from
America across the Atlantic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike Lindbergh
who was heading for Paris, Levine was trying to make Berlin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although he had to land one hundred miles
short of his distance, he had actually outdistanced the Lone Eagle. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897:
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Samuel Simon Leibowitz arrived in
America with his parents from Romania.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Born in 1893, he would become a famous defense attorney and New York
Judge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is best known as attorney who
took the lead in defending the Scottsboro Boys.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898:” The Baron De Hirsch Fund” published today
described the efforts to build “model tenements” and erect “suburban homes” to
relieve the overcrowding on the Lower East Side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the money had already been used to
purchase 12 lots across the Harlem River where “model tenements” will be
constructed. These efforts are not to be confused with other efforts financed
by the late Baron Hirsch and his widow to develop “agricultural colonies”
including the one at Woodbine, NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: “Jewish Philanthropy” published today
described Simon Wolf’s view of Jewish generosity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to him, “We take care of our people
and we help others.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“In the largest
cities in the United States” Jews have collected $64,000,000 for philanthropic
purposes, thanks in no small measure to the efforts of such mean as Oscar
Nathan, Isidor Straus and Adolphus S. Solomon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: On Chicago’s South Side, Rabbi Isaac M. Wise
dedicated the sanctuary of The Reform Congregation of Isaiah Temple which had
been designed by Dankmar Adler.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900:
Birthdate of American film composer Alfred Newman, a major Jewish-American
composer of music for films. He received 45 Academy Award nominations (a record
in the music categories, now shared with John Williams), winning 9 times; in
1940 he was nominated for 4 different films. He also composed the familiar
fanfare which accompanies the studio logo for 20th Century Fox, where he headed
the music department. He was active until the end of his life, scoring Airport
shortly before his death. Between 1930 and 1970, he wrote music for over 200
films of every imaginable type, including a score for the newsreel made from
the World War II footage of the Battle of Midway<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901:
In Philadelphia, PA, a federation of Jewish charities including the Jewish
Hospital Association, Jewish Foster Home, Society of United Hebrew Charities,
Hebrew Education Society, Orphans' Guardians, Jewish Maternity Association,
Jewish Immigration Society, Young Women's Union, and Hebrew Sunday-School
Society was formed today with Jacob Gimbel as President.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902:
Gustav Ave Levy, the Navasota, Tx born son of Henrietta Hyman and Simon Levy
who moved to St. Louis in 1895 where he went to work for the Globe Shoe and
Clothing Company married Nellie Stuart today in St. Louis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902:
Two days after she had passed away, 76-year-old Louisa Levy, the husband of
Charles Levy with whom she had had eight children was buried today at the Balls
Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902:
Herzl is authorized to obtain three letters of credit, each for a million
francs, from banks in Paris, Berlin and London. The funds are to be deposited
in Turkish banks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several members of the
Actions Committee including Avraham Menachem Mendel Ussishkin are opposed to
the plan. Ussishkin and Herzl were both fervent Zionists, but they had
different views as to the goal of establishing a Jewish home in Eretz Israel
could be accomplished. Born in 1863 in Russia, Ussishkin would become an early
Zionist leader and first President of the Jewish Nation Fund or JNF.<b> </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In his youth,<b> </b></span>he became an
enthusiastic reader of the works of contemporary Hebrew writers in his teens,
and from then on the revival of the Hebrew language was one of the main goals
of his life work. Like many other early Hibbat Zion members, he was shocked by
the Russian pogroms of 1881, which emphasized to him the necessity for Jewish
emigration. Ussishkin then began working actively for several Zionist groups.
After graduating as a technical engineer from the Technological Institute in
Moscow, he became active in Hebrew educational work as well as in Zionist
propaganda and fund-raising in Russia. Ussishkin was a "practical"
Zionist who viewed agricultural settlement in Eretz Israel as the first and
most important step toward attaining a Jewish state. He was thus active in
recruiting youth for pioneer work and for agricultural settlement of the land.
He was a delegate to the First Zionist Congress held in Basle in 1893, and was
appointed Hebrew secretary of the Congress. At the Seventh Zionist Congress
(1905), he was among the leaders of those who forced the abandonment of the
Uganda Scheme, and he then proposed a program of Zionism which was later
adopted by the Zionist movement. Under his influence the Zionist movement
actively supported the establishment of agricultural settlements, educational
and cultural institutions, and a Hebrew university. In 1919 Ussishkin himself
settled in Eretz Israel, and in 1923 he was chosen to head the Jewish National
Fund, a position he held for nearly twenty years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902:
It was reported today that “during the month of February, 2,512 families and
individuals applied at the relief bureau of the United Hebrew Charities for
assistance” including 681 who were applying for aid for the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903:
NYU Law School graduate and trustee of the Union Temple of Brooklyn Leopold
Levy, the Brooklyn bon son of Jeannette Grabfelder and Ludwig Levy married Ada
Viola Lese today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903:
Based on reports from their co-religionists in Russia, today, it is evident to
the leading Jews in New York “that the exceptional laws to which the Russian
Jews are subjected – the so-called ‘May Laws’ --- will not be abolished by the
Czar’s recent decree “granting reforms throughout Russia.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904:
Birthdate of Alfred Henry “Truck” Miller the native of Boston who played who
played for Harvard before spending one year as a profession with the Boston
Bulldogs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904:
Birthdate of Chaim Gross an Austrian born American sculptor. Gross began
exhibiting both his sculpture and graphic art in 1935 and was one of 250
sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art in the summer of 1949. Gross was a practitioner of
the direct carving method, with the majority of his work being carved from
wood. Gross was a professor of printmaking and sculpture at both the
Educational Alliance and the New School for Social Research in New York City,
as well as a member of Artists Equity, the Federation of Modern Painters and
Sculptors, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He served as
President of the Sculptors Guild of America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He passed away in 1991 at the age of 84. (As reported by John T.
McQuiston)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905:
In Chelsea, MA, Joseph A Strauss and Ida (Chayah) Kasriels of Russia gave birth
to Harry Strauss who married Cecile G Pofcher in 1931.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906:
Adolf Kraus of Chicago, the President of the Executive Committee of B’nai
B’rith received a cablegram from the Russian Premier, Count Witte in response
to his letter inquiring what measures had been put in place to protect the
lives and property of Jews during a planned Easter massacre in which Witte said
his government does not approve of violence and that all measures will be taken
to protect “peaceable inhabitants without regard to nationality.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906:
It was reported today that “two high officials of the Ministry of the Interior,
one of whom has been arrested” were “the authors of the pamphlet inciting the
people to murder the Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907(2nd
of Nisan, 5667): Gotlieb Schmelkes the husband of Henriette Schmelkes and the
father of Markus and Rachel Schmelkes passed away today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907:
A new orchestra of 75 American musicians conducted by Manuel Klein, the English
born son of Jewish immigrants from Latvia is scheduled to perform for the first
time at the Hippodrome today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk66805853"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: Birthdate of Smith College graduate
Elizabeth Zetel Rosenberg, the New York born daughter of jurist James N.
Rosenburg and University of London trained physician and psychoanalyst.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66805853;"></span><a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/psychology/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/zetzel-rosenberg-elizabeth-1907-1970"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66805853;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.encyclopedia.com/psychology/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/zetzel-rosenberg-elizabeth-1907-1970</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk66805853;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5668): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908:
The Council of Jewish Women held “their regular meeting” today in the West End Synagogue
during which they heard a lecture on the “Physical Welfare of Children” given
by Charles C. Burlingham, the ex-president of the Board of Education who “urged
that action be taken to prevent school children” many of whose mothers are
cleaning offices early in the morning from going to school without eating
breakfast. (The more things change, the more they stay the same)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909:
Welterweight Joe Hirst fought “his first big fight today in Philadelphia which
was a six round bout that was a draw.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909:
Sixty-four-year-old Mariam Myers was buried today at the Belfast Jewish
Cemetery in Northern Ireland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909:
It was reported today that the Jews said the decision of the Senate in Finland
to ban the “slaughter of cattle in accordance with Jewish ritual” was “evidence
of the anti-Jewish sentiment in that body” while members of the Senate claimed
the decision “was based purely on sanitary and humane grounds.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910:
Alma Gluck is scheduled to appear in a matinee performance of the opera
“Werther” at The New Theatre in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910:
Birthdate of David Abraham "Sonny" Werblin the Flatbush native who
gained national fame for his purchase of the New York Jets and the signing of
Joe Namath – an act which helped to force the NFL to merge with the AFL.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/23/sports/sonny-werblin-an-impresario-of-new-york-s-sports-extravaganza-is-dead-at-81.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/23/sports/sonny-werblin-an-impresario-of-new-york-s-sports-extravaganza-is-dead-at-81.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911:
In Vienna “artisan Jakob Goldsand and his wife Helene” gave birth to American
classical pianist Robert Goldsand.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.lib.umd.edu/ipam/collections/robert-goldsand"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.lib.umd.edu/ipam/collections/robert-goldsand</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/17/obituaries/robert-goldsand-80-pianist-and-teacher.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/17/obituaries/robert-goldsand-80-pianist-and-teacher.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911:
Birthdate of Moshe Baram the native of Zdolbuniv who made Aliyah in 1931 and
after Independence served as an MK and cabinet minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912:
This evening Rabbi Israel Odes presided over a meeting of the “many synagogues
on the east side” held “under the auspices of the sons and Daughters of Israel
which heard speeches by Justice Samuel Greenbaum and Congressman Henry
Goldfogle who urged the attendees “to keep alive the religious spirit of the
Jewish race.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5673): Forty-four-year-old glass manufacturer Jacob H. Werbelowsky
passed away today in Brooklyn, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914:
It was reported today that the colony based on the cooperative model desiged by
Dr. Franz Oppenheimer which now employees fifty workman has been more
successful than other settlement ventures and it is hoped will begin to “show a
decent profit” in the next two years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
Birthdate of Wolfgang Doblin the son of German author Bruno Alfred Döblin <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
The Russian official press bureau tonight issued a statement tonight denying
claims by the Austrians that Russian soldiers have “committed outrages on the
Jewish populations in Galicia, Bukowina and Russian Poland.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
“The American Jewish Relief Committee announced” today “that letters to person
in Russia should be written in either Russian, English or French” since owing
to the strict censorship in force in Russia…letters written in Yiddish or any
other language than those named had little or no chance of being delivered.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
As of today, the American Jewish Relief Committee has collected $573,267.00.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
Today, Professor A.T. Fowler of the Biblical Department of” Brown “University
and a member of the Advisory Board of the” Menorah “Society spoke on ‘The Bible
as a Literary Document.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
As of today it was reported that there are an estimated 50,000 Falsahas (Black
Jews) living in Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and that Dr. Jacques Faitlovitch, a French
Jew is working on developing an educational program for them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0006_0_06241.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0006_0_06241.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
Tonight, in Washington, DC, “the Austro-Hungarian Embassy…made public a
dispatch from the Foreign Office in Vienna” that the “Commander-in-Chief of the
Russian Army under the pretext that populating sympathizing with Austrians and
Germans…has ordered that Jews are forbidden to remain in districts occupied by
the army and are forbidden to enter the country east of Jaroslau.” (Editor’s
Note – Jaroslau is a town in southeast Poland on the border with Russia where
Jews had lived since the 15<sup>th</sup> century and whose pre-WW I population
was 25% Jewish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the Eastern Front all
warring parties accused the Jews of being spies or worse and used this as an
excuse for indiscriminate killing and expulsion.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5676): Julia Frankau, the Dublin born Jewish daughter of
photographer Hyman Davis and wife of Arthur Frankau who used the penname Frank
Danby during her writing career which began with the publication of a novel
that was a “social satire” of Anglo-Jewry passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2774960.Julia_Frankau"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2774960.Julia_Frankau</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
Birthdate of Dr. Albert M. Kligman, a dermatologist who invented the widely
used acne medication Retin-A but whose experiments involving prisoners raised
ethical questions that dogged his career.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
During the expedition to capture Pancho Villa, a military action that involved
so many Jewish soldiers that Jewish chaplains were dispatched to the theatre of
operation and High Holiday services were held at several locations, General
Pershing established his main base at Colonia Dublan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: One hundred and ninety Jews from
Palestine migrate to Cyprus on an Ottoman mail steamer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Birthdate of Karel Švenk, the native of
Prague and multi-talented entertainer – “cabaret artist, comedian, songwriter
and writer” – who was shipped to Terezin and then to Auschwitz before weeks
before the war ended on a transport to Mauthausen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Dorothy Cohen Schwartzman, Ida Bienstock
Landau, Minna Goldsmith Mahler, Eva Effron Robin, and Sylvia Steierman founded
Delta Phi Epsilon (ΔΦΕ or DPhiE) is an international sorority at New York
University Law School.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: It was reported today that “as a result
of their on Washington’s Birthday the 62,000 members of the International
Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union have contributed $140,000 to the American Jewish
Relief Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: The British Army including the Jewish
battalion captured Amman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918(4<sup>th</sup> of Nisan, 5678):
Forty-eight year old San Francisco native Tessie (Goslinsky) Fleischner,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the wife of Newton Fleishner, the
Albany, Oregon, born son Bohemian natives Jacob Fleischner and Fanny who was an
1878 graduate of St. Augustine’s College, a partner in Fleischner, Mayer &
Company, “the largest wholesale dry goods house on the Pacific coast” and
President of the local B’nai B’rith Lodge with whom she had two daughters,
passed away today after which she was buried in the Beth El Cemetery in Portland,
Oregon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: It was reported today that the American
Jewish Relief Committee chaired by Louis Marshall continues to receive
contributions from committees across the country including $1,000 from
Nashville, TN and $174 from Richmond, Indiana.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: In Paris “President Wilson conferred
today with Bernard Baruch and others who are serving as economic experts with
the American mission and approved their proposals of no trade discrimination
against enemy countries after the war.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5679): Shushan
Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: Today, “leaders of the Isaac M. Wise
Centenary Fund Campaign expressed themselves as highly pleased with the result
of the first day’s work in the campaign…which will endeavor to raise $100,000
among the Jews of New York for the furtherance of the work of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations and the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati,
Ohio.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: St. Louis Rabbi, Goodman “George” Lipkind
wrote a one act comedy, “Wanted a Housekeeper.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Birthdate of Meir Slutzki who as Meir
Amit gained fame as an Israeli politician, general, and Director of the Mossad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: The Constituent Assembly ratified the constitution
of the Polish Republic which granted equal rights to the Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Thirty-year-old Barney Sedran led the Trenton
Bengals to victory over the Wilkes-Barre Barons. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: At the Cairo Conference attended by
Winston Churchill and T.E. Lawrence (better known as “Lawrence of Arabia”) it
was agreed that Transjordan (an Arab State) should be separated from Palestine
“thus enabling Britain to fulfill its wartime pledges to both the Arabs and the
Jews.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The decision reinforced the right
for Jews to “be able to settle the land from the Mediterranean to the Jordan,
from the Galilee to the Negev.” (“This comprised the area of both Israel and
the West Bank today.”)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: As t he New York City Campaign for Jewish
relief for victims of war, famine and pogroms in Russia continues it was reported
today that the Shaaray Teifilah Sisterhood has raised $6,000 and the B’nai
Jeshurun Sister has raised $8,500.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: “Reports have reached the United States about
threatened disturbances in Palestine which may lead to new bloodshed, as a
result of agitation conducted by certain anti-Jewish Arabs and other
propagandists…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: Dr. Leonard Blumgart, the Columbia
trained psychiatrist, the son of Sophie Hiller and David Blumgart married Jane
Loomis today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: “The Federation for the Support of Jewish
Philanthropic Societies announced” today “that the Business Men’s Council of
that organization…will launch a campaign on March 19 for funds to support 91
charity institutions.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1924/03/18/104245502.html?pageNumber=11"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1924/03/18/104245502.html?pageNumber=11</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: In Los Angeles, Lilian Rose Sokolow, the
New York born daughter of Frederick Fred Margareten and Regina Margareten and
her husband Moe Sokolow gave birth to Jerome David Sokolow, the father of Lora
Lynn Sokolwo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925:
Three days after he had passed away, funeral services were scheduled to be held
this morning at the Ethical Culture Meeting House in Manhattan for sixty-three
year old Harvard and Columbia Law School trained corporate attorney Alfred
Jaretzki, the New York born son of Gustave and Henrietta Jaretzki and the
father of Maud, Alice, Alfred Jaretzki, Jr. who was a member of Sullivan and
Cromwell, “trustee of the Mount Sinai Hospital, a director of the Baron de
Hirsch Fund and a director of the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid
Society”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>followed by burial at Mt.
Pleasant, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1925/03/15/98818593.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1925/03/15/98818593.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
1926: Rodgers and Hart's musical "Girl Friend" premiered in New
York. This is but one example of a Jewish team providing a hit
musical comedy for Broadway. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
Seventy-two-year-old Alexsei Brusilov, the Chief of Staff who approved the
appointment of Jewish Chaplains to serve in the Russian Army in 1917 passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
As of today, members the Women’s Division of the Harmonie Club which is helping
to raise six million dollars for the United Jewish Campaign include Mrs. Felix
M. Warburg, Mrs. Rebekah Kohut, Mrs. Ira Hill Bamberger and Mrs. Charles J.
Liebman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5687): Fast of Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927:
A man identified as “Prince Michel Obolensky, scion of a noble but impoverished
Russian family celebrated by St. Patrick’s Day by” delivering “an oration”
attacking the Jews on the corner of 14<sup>th</sup> Street and Avenue which
touched off neighborhood brawl.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927:
In New Rochelle, NY, Irma Ruskin and Jacob Ruskin, “a lawyer and Civil Court
Judge gave birth to New York Law School trained attorney Robert Kenneth Ruskin
“who as New York City’s investigation commissioner in the early 1970s probed
corruption among building inspectors, construction unions, police officers,
parking ticket officials and peep-show operators…” (As reported by Sam Roberts)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/nyregion/robert-k-ruskin-who-targeted-new-york-corruption-dies-at-93.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/nyregion/robert-k-ruskin-who-targeted-new-york-corruption-dies-at-93.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928:
In Manhattan “Benjamin Kaufman, the chairman of Kaufman Management, and the
former Stella Cohen, a fashion designer known as Brownie” gave birth to George
Stewart Kaufman, “the real estate magnate” who helped to make the Queens a
place for movie and television production. (As reported by Sam Roberts)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/26/obituaries/george-s-kaufman-who-revived-astoria-studios-dies-at-89.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/26/obituaries/george-s-kaufman-who-revived-astoria-studios-dies-at-89.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929:
In Brooklyn, taxi driver Samuel Rosenfeld and bookkeeper Frances Rosenfeld gave
birth to Florence Rosenfeld who gained fame as “Florence Howe, a key architect
of the women’s studies movement and a founder of the Feminist Press, a literary
nonprofit dedicated to promoting social justice and amplifying overlooked
voices…” As reported by Bonnie Wertheim)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/us/florence-howe-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/us/florence-howe-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929:
The Flonzaley Quartet, which had played the String Quartet No. 1 by Erin
Schulhoff performed for the last time in a public concert at The Town Hall in
New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929:
On St. Patrick’s Day, flyweight Moe Mizler fought his 29<sup>th</sup> bought in
London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930:
The four-day dedication exercises “of the new Temple Rodeph” in Manhattan were
scheduled to come to an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930:
It was reported today that “King Alexander has accepted patronage over the
Jewish National Fund bazaar which the Jews of Zagreb are organizing” and that
“he is also making a personal donation to the King Peter Forest which the
Jewish National Fund is to plant in Palestine.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931:
According to an interview given today in Vienna by Charlie Chaplin, his
“parents on both sides were Jewish” with his mother being described “as a
ghetto beauty” and his father being “a fine jargon (Yiddish) comedian.” (JTA) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932:
“The Rev. Dr. Stephen S. Wise, rabbi of the Free Synagogue, 40 West
Sixty-eighth Street, which he founded, marked his fifty-eighth birthday” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932:
Dr. Nathan Krass, the rabbi of Temple Emanu-El in New York City was reported to
be in satisfactory condition after having been admitted earlier today as a
patient at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933:
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Victor Klemperer</span> writes in his
diary, “on Friday, unfortunately, Thiemes was here. It was frightful . . . such
enthusiastic conviction and support. The phraseology of unity. Progress piously
repeated. Grete (his wife) said, "Everything else failed, now we have to blow
this horn." He corrected her vehemently. "We didn't have to." In
really free elections he has voted for the right cause. This I can't forgive
him. The poor dog may be frightened for his job. He must howl with the wolves.
But why in front of me? . . . Naked violence, breach of law, terrible
hypocrisy, unmitigated barbarism poses as law.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933:
The Chevrolet Program starring Jack Benny is broadcast for the first time on
NBC Radio.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5694): Parashat Vayikra; Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934:
Dr. Stephen F. Wise, the founder of the Free Synagogue “broadcast a message to
his friends over nation-wide hook-up of the National Broadcasting Company as
part of the celebration of his 60<sup>th</sup> birthday which fell on St.
Patrick’s Day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II 5695): Mary Goldsmith Prag, the mother of “Florence Prag Khan, the
first Jewish congresswoman” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mary-goldsmith-prag"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mary-goldsmith-prag</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.geni.com/people/Florence-Prag-Kahn-US-Congress/6000000025154791974"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.geni.com/people/Florence-Prag-Kahn-US-Congress/6000000025154791974</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935:
The Palestine Maccabee Association announced that it would not participate in
the 1936 Olympics to be held in Germany because of that country’s treatment of
its Jewish citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
“Louis Lipsky, vice president of the American Jewish Congress and honorary
president of the Zionist Organization of America returned” today “on the Cunard
White Star line Berengaria from Paris and London where he attended several
conferences with Jewish leaders and foreign statesmen on the situation of the
Jews in many countries including Germany and Poland.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
“Resolutions condemning war as a means of settling international disputes and
calling upon the United States Government to ‘reiterate its renouncement of
war’ made in the Kellogg-Briand pact were adopted at the closing session today
of the biennial convention of the United Synagogue of America.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
“Wolf’s Clothing,” a British comeday co-starring Lilli Palmer, the daughter
“Dr. Alfred Peiser, a German Jewish surgeon” and his wife Rose, “an Austrian
Jewish stage actress” was released today the United Kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
In response to the receipt of a copy of Victor Gallancz’s <u>The Yellow Spot:
The Extermination of the Jews in Germany</u> from Harold Laski, Churchill wrote
Laksi urging the Laborite to find a way to gain support from the Labor Party
for the re-armament program designed to thwart the threat of the Nazis. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1936: Following a series of Pogrom-like attack on
Jews in central Poland,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> a
mass demonstration of Polish Jews, left-wingers, and liberals was held to
protest anti-Semitism in Poland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937:
Three days after his 18<sup>th</sup> birthday, Brooklynite Bernard Abramofsky
arrived in Spain today and served with Abraham Lincoln Brigade until “he was
executed behind the lines in May, 1938.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937:
“One Jewish policeman was seriously injured and sixteen other Jews were
slightly hurt tonight when a bomb was thrown in to a bus on Jaffa Road,
Jerusalem’s main thoroughfare.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1937: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Palestine Post</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> reported that in
addition to five young Jews who were murdered by Arabs during the past few
days, there were two more victims: Samuel Gottfried, 26, of Rosh Pina and an
Arab villager who defended his flock from robbers. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937:
“At about 10:30 P.M.,” Meyer Levin discovered two large swastikas painted in
black enamel on the door of Ahavath Chesed in Brooklyn and four smaller ones in
chalk on the side doors of the synagogue and then notified Abraham Beier, the
president of the synagogue “who then asked the police to place a guard on the
building.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1937: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Palestine Post</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> reported that The
Jewish Agency Executive in London submitted a memorandum to the British
government which claimed that the Arab disturbances which began on <st1:date day="19" ls="trans" month="4" w:st="on" year="19">April 19, 19</st1:date>36,
did not end on <st1:date day="12" ls="trans" month="10" w:st="on" year="19">October
12, 19</st1:date>36, as claimed by the government and the Arab Higher
Committee, but continued uninterruptedly, claiming many Jewish lives.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5698); Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5698): Thirty-seven-year-old Canadian born sailor and “anti-fascist
Hyman Epstein was killed in action at Caspe during the Spanish Civil War. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:
“In a message read during the Purim Festival program sponsored by the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee” the national radio audience heard the
words of President Roosevelt who said “enteral vigilance is the price of
liberty” and “the defeat of Haman’s plot to destroy the Jews…is one of the
milestones in mankind’s long and bloody struggle to achieve freedom.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:
Among the “Books Published Today” were An Open Letter to Jews and Christians: A
discussion of Jesus in relation to Jews today by John Cournos and the Selected
Works of Israel Zangwill including “Children of the Ghetto,” “Ghetto Comedies”
and “Ghetto Tragedies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
At a meeting in Tel Aviv today, “the National Council of Palestine Jews…decided
to a call a 24 hour strike” to start on Monday, March 20<sup>th “ </sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“as the first step in its program of ‘drastic
political action’ against Great Britain’s plan” for Palestine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The Council condemned the plan as ‘the
liquidation of the Jewish national home and strangulation of the Jewish
settlement.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
“King of Chinatown,” a crime film based on a story by Herbert Biberman with a
script co-authored by Irving Reis was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
Erich Otto Sonnheim arrived in the United States from Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://tabletmag.com/scroll/166071/why-st-patricks-day-is-my-jewish-familys-favorite-holiday"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://tabletmag.com/scroll/166071/why-st-patricks-day-is-my-jewish-familys-favorite-holiday</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940:
Fritz Todt, who escaped being tried at Nuremberg because he died during WW II
was named Riech Minister for Armaments and Ammunition today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941:
According to a death certificate issued by the Soviet government and made
public in 1954 this is date of the death of Isaac Babel. It would not be until
the 1990’s that this would be exposed as a lie. Babel had actually been
executed by the Soviets on January 27, 1940.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941:
Hans Frank, General Governor of Occupied Poland, had a meeting with Adolf
Hitler about the fate of Jews in Europe. Afterwards, Frank informs the General
Government's undersecretaries of state, police and SS chiefs, district
governors, and department directors that the Jews are to be eliminated.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1942: Dr. Max Lederer, whose last residence
before deportation was Pilsen, was transported today Terezin where he was
murdered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
The 60,000 Jews in Tunisia are restricted to publishing only one newspaper.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
It was reported today that “despite the fact that Jews constitute about three
percent of the population in the United States, they total eight percent of the
75 recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross so far in this war, among
American forces.” (JTA)<br />
1942: In eastern Poland, the Belzec Concentration Camp opened as 1,500 Jews
arrive from the Lviv Ghetto in the western Ukraine. At that time 30,000
Lublin Polish Jews were transported to this death camp.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/05.asp"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/05.asp</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
The deportations which began in Lublin would not until 30,000 had been shipped
to Belzec by April where most of them were murdered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/05.asp"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/05.asp</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: Birthdate of South African born educator
Meyer Feldberg the Dean of the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane
University and the Dean of the Columbia School of Business<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1942(28th of Adar,
5702):</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> In
Pochep, Russia, 1,816 Jewish villagers were massacred in an anti-tank ditch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943(10th
of Adar II, 5703): More than 1200 Jews from Lvov, Ukraine, were killed at
Piaski, Poland, as retribution for the March 16 murder of an SS trooper by a
Jewish man. Eleven Jewish policemen were hanged in the ghetto, 1000 Jewish
slave laborers were executed, and an additional 200 Jews were murdered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943:
Today,”the National Gallery of Art marked its second anniversary with the
announcement of an extraordinary gift from print collector and former Sears,
Roebuck and Company chairman Lessing J. Rosenwald: Rosenwald's print and
drawing collection, which ultimately numbered more than 22,000 works at the
time of his death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943:
Dimitur Peshev and 40 other members of the Sobranje, the Bulgarian parliament,
sign a petition demanding that deportations of Jews from Bulgaria to Occupied
Poland end. Archbishop Kiril of Plovdiv sends a telegram to Tsar Boris III
informing him of his intention to lie down on the tracks in front of any trains
transporting Bulgarian Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944:
Al Bummy Davis (Abraham Davidoff) lost a bout to the former lightweight
chamption today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Nisan, 5705): After enduring six months of imprisonment at Buchenwald
sixty-one year old Henri Paul Gaston Maspero, the French sinologist died today
just weeks before the camp was liberated by Patton’s Third Army.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.umass.edu/wsp/resources/profiles/maspero.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.umass.edu/wsp/resources/profiles/maspero.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945:
Birthdate of mathematician Valery Senderov, the native of Moscow who risked his
life and career “in the struggle against state sponsored anti-Semitism.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5706): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946:
Some of the members of “Kibbutz Buchenwald” set sail for Palestine from France
today on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Maapilim</i> boat the
“Tel-Chai”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/14.asp"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/14.asp</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
The Palestine police issued a “broadsheet” today “offering an unspecified
reward for information leading to the arrest of 18 wanted men” described as
“terrorist chiefs.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The list which
includes photos and physical descriptions is in alphabetical order beginning
with Menachem Begin of the Irgun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
penultimate spot on the list goes to Nathan Friedman Yellin, Abrahm Stern’s
successor as head of the Stern Gang.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
last name on the list is Itshak Yexernitsky who has been captured by the
British but has escaped their custody.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
Leaders of the Arab League are scheduled to meet in Cairo today where they will
map out their propaganda program to oppose the creation of a Jewish state and
how best to present their case at the upcoming meeting of the United Nations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
“Just before noon today an Army officer blew his whistle” in Jerusalem marking
the end of martial law in several areas including Mea Shearim. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948:
In Jerusalem, the British abandoned their compound on the grounds of Schneller
Orphanage which the Etzioni Brigade would “use at its base of operations during
the Israeli War of Independence. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948:
While speaking at a news conference of the American Fund for Palestinian
Institutions, Moshe Pomorok of the Palestine Maritime League said that “90 per
cnet of Palestine’s export and import trade went to foreign shipping companies”
which led him to call for the “establishment of Palestine’s sea power.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948:
Dr. Alexander Rosenfeld of the Hebrew World Union described “an underground
movement to teach Hebrew in Syria and Iraq where the language has been banned.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948:
The Naval Service, which became the Israeli Sea Corps, was formed today and the
members for the Plugat HaYam (the naval arm of the Palmach) were ordered to
join.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949:
“Secretary General Trygve Lie said today that final Congressional approval of
an $8,000,000 advance fund for aid to Palestine refugees had gone a "long
way" to assure the success of the whole United Nations relief program.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949:
Eddie Jacobson, the former business partner of President Truman and his wife
Bluma left New York for Paris on what is the first leg of a trip that will take
to Israel where they plan to met with President Chaim Weizman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/03/18/84200916.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/03/18/84200916.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950:
The Jewish Agency for Palestine announced tonight that it was prepared to
receive 20,000 refugees from Iraq.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
issue has taken on a great deal of urgency for Iraq’s 150,000 Jews, since the
Baghdad government has given them a year to leave the country for Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As part of the price of departure, the Jews
must basically leave behind most of their possessions and wealth for use by the
Iraqi’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950(28th
of Adar, 5710): Eighty-four-year-old Ellis Gimbel, Sr. the last surviving of
the Gimbel brothers who has served as Chairman of the Board of Gimbel Brothers,
Inc since 1936 passed away today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951:
Birthdate of New York City native and Northwestern University trained
journalist David Israel who went from writing about sports the Washington Star,
Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Herald-Examiner to producing television shows
such as ABC’s Monday Night Football in 2000 and “A Comedy Salute to Baseball”
starring Billy Crystal while also playing a major role in organizing the Los
Angeles Olympics in 1984.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5713): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953:
Two days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held
for Columbia trained physician and former American Ambassador to the
Netherlands and Portugal Dr. Herman B. Baruch, the Camden, SC born son of Dr.
Simeon B. and Belle Wolfe Baruch, the brother of famous financier Bernard
Baruch and the husband of “the former Anna Maria, Baroness Mackay of the
Hague.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953:
Two days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held
today at Kehilath Jeshurun Temple for seventy-six-year-old Democratic Party
leader and “chairman of the board of trustees of Yeshiva University Samuel
Levy, the St Patrick Day born NYU trained lawyer and husband of Sadie Vesell
Levy with whom he raised two children – Bernice and Lawrence Levy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953:
The “Life Saver’s” luncheon of the Combined Jewish Appeal chaired by Mrs. Saul
Herman is scheduled to be held at the Saxony Hotel with Mme. Helene Benator, a
“heroine of the French underground, a lawyer and an authority on the Jews of
the Moslem world” delivering the featured talk.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15401339/helene_benatar_1953/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15401339/helene_benatar_1953/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953:
With the help of Anna Sokolow, “Camino Real” starring Eli Wallach opened on
Broadway today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5714): Sixty-six year old Dr. Hyman I. Goldstein, the Baltimore
born son of Solomon and Rose Zuckerman Goldstein and University of Pennsylvania
and Vienna trained physician who discovered “Goldstein’s Toe Sign,” served in
the Medical Corps, USA, during WW II and was part of a family of doctors – Dr.
Leopold Z. Goldstein, Dr. Henry Z. Goldstein and David E. Cooper, the husband
of his sister who earned his DD.S from the University of Pennsylvania and who
was pre-deceased by his wife Joan and children – Joan, Alice and Louis – passed
away today in Philadelphia after which he was buried at the New Camden Cemetery
in Camden, NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1348.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1348.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954:
Following last night attack in the Negev, where an Israeli bus was ambushed by
“a group of Palestinian Arabs who had infiltrated into Israel from Jordan in
which the driver and ten passengers were killed “Israeli trackers assisted by
police dogs and accompanied by UN observers followed the attackers' tracks to a
point 6 miles west of the Jordanian border, where the tracks were lost”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5717): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957:
“Great Philosophy in Small Packets” included a review <u>of The Age of
Enlightenment: The Eighteenth-Century Philosophers</u>, Selected with
introduction and commentary by Isaiah Berlin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960:
It was reported today that the Smith-Roosevelt Independent Democrats have
endorsed selections for State Assembly and State Senate as part of their
opposition to “the Tammany leadership of State Senator Joseph Zaretski,”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5722): Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5722): Ninety-four-year-old “Rabbi Clifton H. Levy, the oldest past
president of the New York Board of Rabbis and a leader of the Reform rabbinate”
passed away today. “Together with the late Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Rabbi Levy
was a founder in 1922 of the Association of Reform Rabbis of New York City and
Vicinity. Born in New Orleans, LA, Rabbi Levy received his ordination from the
Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. He was the author of a book<u>, Judaism
Applied to Life</u>, and of pamphlets and articles on Biblical archaeology and
art.” (As reported by JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5725): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967:
“Mourning Becomes Electra” a three-act opera composed by Marvin David Levy
premiered at the Met in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968:
Israel defeated Ceylon today in the Olympic Games soccer qualifier thanks to
the play of Mordechai Spiegler.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969:
Golda Meir became Prime Minister of Israel. A dedicated Zionist and
Socialist, Mrs. Meir devoted her entire life to creating a national homeland
for the Jewish people where we could flourish in peace and safety. Her
life reads more like a novel with all of its twists and turns ranging from
the gritty determination of the 1920's when she was a pioneer in primitive
Palestine, to the clandestine trips she made to meet the King of Jordan in an
attempt to avert war in 1948, to her fund raising in the United States so the
unborn state would have some weapons with which to face the invading Arab
Armies, to...well I think you get the idea. She certainly is worthy
successor to the memory of Miriam and Deborah and Moses and David as well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971:
The Barefoot Executive” with a screenplay co-authored by Bernie Kahn was
released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972:
“The Time of Your Life” a revival of which in 1969 was directed by John Hirsch
was revived again today in Los Angeles co-starring Richard Dreyfus, Lewis J.
Stadlin<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5733): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973:
“Lost Horizon” a musical version of the pre-war movie and novel of the same
name produced by Ross Hunter, with a script by Larry Kramer and music by Burt
Bacharach and Hal David was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974(23rd
of Adar, 5734): Seventy-three-year-old architect Louis Kahn passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://en.nai.nl/content/1286439/biography"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://en.nai.nl/content/1286439/biography</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/21829"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/21829</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/21829"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/21829</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974:
“The Ford Foundation allocated $250,000 to help resettle Soviet émigré scholars
and writers in America.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Albert H. Godwin, the
husband of Gertrude Godwin at the Riverside Chapel in the Bronx.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1977:<b> </b></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
Jerusalem Post</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
reported that Leah Rabin, wife of the prime minister, admitted that she had
closed her dollar account in Washington and transferred the money totaling
$2,000, as a donation to a charity for autistic children which she headed.
Events surrounding this bank account would lead to Prime Minster Rabin’s
political downfall, end the Labor Party’s domination of Israeli politics and
bring Menachem Begin and Likud to power for the first time since the founding
of the state in 1948.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977:
“The Cadaver in the Clutter” the second episode of “Lanigan’s Rabbi” starring
Bruce Solomon as Rabbi David Small was broadcast tonight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978:
Reuven Schmeltzer, who had been orphaned at the age of 13 and was “one of the
1684 Jews who escaped Nazi-controlled Hungary on the Kastner train and spent
time in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp before being released in
Switzerland” and his wife gave back to their 11<sup>th</sup> child Lipa
Schmeltzer, the “singer, entertainer, and composer” who is popular among Hasdic
and “modern Jewish communities.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978:
Jack Klugman was roasted on The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast on NBC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5739): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5739): Ninety-one-year-old MIT trained civil engineer and second
lieutenant in the Air Service Construction Division of the American
Expeditionary Force Walter D. Binger, the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>New York City born son of Frances Newgass and Gustav Binger <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and the husband of “Louisa Beatrice Bronson
Sorchan, with whom he had three children: Charlotte Binger Hasen, Frances
Binger Mitchell, and Bronson Binger, an architect and historic preservationist”
who in a case of Jew versus used his technical expertise to oppose Robert
Moses's sweeping plans to transform Lower Manhattan during the 1940’s passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980:
Funeral services are scheduled to take place for Louis S. Baker, the husband of
Bessie Baker today followed by interment at the New Montefiore Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held today in West Palm Beach, FL for
Jacob M. Brock, the husband of Eva Brock “who was a past President of the
United Jewish Appeal for the Toy Industry” and was “one of the founders of
Technion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983:
In Jerusalem, the Third World Conference on Soviet Jewry came to an end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983:
Actor Dustin Hoffman and Lisa Hoffman give birth to their daughter Rebecca
Lillian Hoffman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983:
The Third World Conference on Soviet Jewry which had been attended by over
1,000 delegates from 30 countries came to an end today in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984:
Billy Crystal hosted SNL for the first time tonight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984:
“Entertaining God” published today provided a complete review <u>The Life and
Times of Cotton Mather</u> by Pulitzer prize-winning historian Kenneth
Silverman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/17/books/books-of-the-times-entertaining-god.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/17/books/books-of-the-times-entertaining-god.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985:
Abraham Sutzkever, who “wrote poems as underground fighter crawling through the
sewers un the Vilna ghetto to elude the Nazis,” “while fighting the partisans
in the forest of Lithuania outside Vilna” and even “while hiding inside a
coffin” is scheduled to “read some of his poems at a YIVO gathering at the
Society for the Society for the Advancement of Judaism” this afternoon in
Manhattan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989:
The Broadway production of “Chu Chem,” a musical inspired by “a trip to Kaifeng
Fu (prefecture), China, the site of a major Jewish migration in the 10th
century” with music by Mitch Leigh opened at the Ritz Theatre. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989: “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” a fantasy comedy with
music by Michael Kamen was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5750): <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parashat Ki Tisa;
Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5750): Eighty-six-year-old “American opera singer (soprano), voice teacher
and recording entrepreneur who is best known for singing at the Metropolitan
Opera House from 1923 to 1932” Nanette Guilford, the wife of leading concert
violinist Max Rosen passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-24-mn-477-story.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-24-mn-477-story.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991:
“The Substance of Fire” written by Jon Robin Baitz opened Off-Broadway at
Playwrights Horizons with a cast that included Ron Rifkin and Sarah Jessica
Parker<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1992
(12th of Adar II, 5752): The Islamic Jihad used a truck bomb to attack the
Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires Argentina killing 29.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994(5<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5754): Ninety-five-year-old Keyport, NJ native and Syracuse
University trained attorney<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“Sayra
Fischer Lebenthal, a Wall Street legend who was a co-founder in 1925 of the
investment-banking firm of Lebenthal & Company and remained active in it
for 67 years” passed away today. (As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/19/obituaries/sayra-fischer-lebenthal-95-dies-a-founder-of-bond-trading-firm.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/19/obituaries/sayra-fischer-lebenthal-95-dies-a-founder-of-bond-trading-firm.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994(5th
of Nisan, 5754): Ninety-four-year-old German born English zoologist and
geneticist Charlotte Auerbach, the daughter of Friedrich Auerbach and the
granddaughter of Leopold Auerbach passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nahste.ac.uk/isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P1860.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nahste.ac.uk/isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P1860.html</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5755): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995:
Premiere of “Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh” a horror film with music composed
by Philip Glass.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995:
“Bye Bye, Love” directed by Brandeis grad Sam Weisman, co-authored and
co-produced by Gary David Goldberg and co-starring Paul Reiser and Rob Reiner
was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997:
Janet Rosenberg Jagan, the Chicago born Jewess, began serving as Prime Minster
of Guyana.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997:
Eighty-one-year-old Joe J. Heydecker who as a German soldier created a secret
photographic record of the Warsaw Ghetto, which, after being published in 1981
provided “evidence of Nazi atrocities and inhumane living conditions in the
Ghetto passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/february/05.asp"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/february/05.asp</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999:
HBO released the final episode of “Tracey Takes On…” starring Tracey Ullman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999(29th
of Adar, 5759): Seventy-seven-year-old Ernest Gold the Austrian-born
Jewish-American Academy Award winning composer of the theme from the movie
Exodus, the creator of 100 film/television scores between 1945 and 1992,
including the Hawaii Five-O theme and the composer of a 1968 Broadway musical
"I'm Solomon" passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-ernest-gold-1083951.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-ernest-gold-1083951.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/21/nyregion/ernest-gold-77-oscar-winning-composer.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/21/nyregion/ernest-gold-77-oscar-winning-composer.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000:
“Lebanon granted political asylum today to Kozo Okamoto, a 52-year-old Japanese
man who helped carry out a massacre in which 26 people died at an airport in
Israel in 1972.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000:
Sixty-nine-year-old Dr. Marcel Hellman-Mordechai, the father of Hadar Lily
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar, 5761): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah observed for the first time
under President Bush.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001:
“<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Palestinians fired an anti-tank missile
at the Neve Dekalim industrial zone in the Gaza Strip.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002:
In “Poles and the Jews: How Deep the Guilt?” published today Adam Michnik
examines the groups differing view of the Holocaust following the published of <u>Neighbors:
The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne </u>by Jan T. Gross.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002:
Barbra Streisand continued her Timeless tour with a concert at Melbourne’s
Colonial Stadium.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002:
At the Jewish Museum in New York an exhibition entitled ''The Emergence of
Jewish Artists in 19th-Century Europe'' comes to a close.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002:
Twenty-five people were injured in a terrorist bombing of Egged Bus 22 in
Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5763): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5763): Eight-seven-year-old historian Herbert Aptheker passed away.
(As reported by Christopher Lehman-Haupt)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/20/us/herbert-aptheker-87-dies-prolific-marxist-historian.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/20/us/herbert-aptheker-87-dies-prolific-marxist-historian.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004:
As continues to respond to the murderous terrorist attacks on March 14, today,
for a second day in a row, attack helicopters fired on targets in Gaza while “Israeli
soldiers in armored vehicles waged gun battles throughout the day with
Palestinian terrorist in Rafah, on the border with Egypt.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005(6th
of Adar II, 5765): Seventy-eight-year-old college and professional basketball
player Norman Clifford "Norm" Mager who was involved in a point
shaving scandal passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/sports/ncaabasketball/norman-mager-78-player-tarnished-by-gambling-scandal.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/sports/ncaabasketball/norman-mager-78-player-tarnished-by-gambling-scandal.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005:
“The Southern Command of the Israel Defense Forces issued a military order
prohibiting Israeli citizens not living in the Gaza Strip settlements from
taking up residence there.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Forwards </i>reported that the Aleph
Institute, an organization linked to the Chabad-Lubavitch movement was approved
by the Department of Defense to endorse chaplains<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006:
Premiere of “Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan” a documentary
directed and produced by Manfred Kirchheimer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5766): Eighty-year-old Henry Thalsheimer, a relative of Nicaragua
native Maria T. Thalsheimer and Achille Thalsheimer passed away today after
which he was buried at Hebrew Rest Cemetery in New Orleans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007:
Shabbat Ha-Chodesh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: At the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, an
exhibition styled “Adi Nes: Bible Stories” opens to the general public. The
series contains fourteen works of staged photography created by Adi Nes between
2003 and 2006. The large-scale photographs are all anchored in the Bible
stories: Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and Esau, Joseph, David
and Jonathan, Saul and Samuel, Job, Elijah, Ruth and Naomi. Chosen as “actors”
and background for each shot were individuals and landscapes from here and now;
the emphasis is placed on godforsaken places and on figures on the fringe of
Israeli society: a woman beggar on a street corner, an old and barefoot
homeless person. The photographs are charged with enriching references to the
history of art and masterpieces, including Caravaggio’s “Abraham,” “Ivan the
Terrible Murdering His Son” by Ilya Repin, or the famous and impressive
portrait taken by Dorothea Lange – “Migrant Mother.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: In “How Hamas Is Playing the Spoiler,”
published today <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">U.S. News & World
Report</i> describes how the latest Hamas rocket attacks on Ashkelon pose a new
strategic threat to Israel and the limited options available to the Israelis in
responding to this latest downward spiral in the Middle East.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Today, David Gregory began hosting “a
show on MSNBC weekday evenings.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008(10 Adar II, 5768): Ronald E. Arnall,
French born American businessman who served as U.S. Ambassador to the
Netherlands and was a “friend” of Chabad-Lubavitch passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sports
Illustrated</i> describes the pending confrontation over allegations that
Patriots coach Bill Bilichick illegally videotaped his opponents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This could turn into a Jew versus Jew
situation since the probe into the matter is being spearheaded by Arlen
Specter, the Jewish Republican Senator from Pennsylvania and the Patriots are
owned by Jewish businessman and philanthropist Robert Kraft.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Israel and Germany upgraded their ties
approving a host of joint projects and agreeing to hold annual government
consultations, in one of the highlights of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's
three-day visit. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar announced that
Ethiopian immigrants should be able to convert to Judaism in their native land
and make Aliyah under the Law of Return.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Haaretz
</i>reported that Elie Wiesel has told the Prime Minister’s office that he will
not take part in the torch-lighting ceremony marking the 60<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of Israel’s Independence due to prior commitments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer
resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: “For the Love of Movies: The Story of
American Film Criticism” a 2009 documentary co-starring Stanley Kaufman and
featuring appearances by Manny Farber, Harland Jacobson, Leonard Matlin,
Pauline Kael and Gene Siskel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: At <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research </span>Dr. Ellen Kellman of
Brandeis University<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> delivers a lecture
entitled “Educating ‘Moyshe’ or Corrupting Him? Polemics around the Novel <u>Sanin</u>
in the American Yiddish Press ca. 1908”</span> in which she discusses the role
of serialized fiction in the American Yiddish press which was the subject of
rancorous debate from its beginnings. Critics lambasted socialist-oriented
papers for printing romance novels instead of serious fiction in translation.
Yet some works, such as the Russian novel <u>Sanin</u>, proved to be even more
controversial than those originally written in Yiddish.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Services are held at Congregation Shaarey
Zedek in Southfield for Detroit Pistons owner Bill Davidson, a noted
philanthropist who was inducted into the basketball Hall of Fame last year and
passed away on March 13, 2009, at the age of 86.<span style="color: black;"> </span>Among
the causes he funded were Hadassah University Medical Center, the Israel
Antiquities Authority,<span style="color: black;"> </span>the Jerusalem
Archaeological Park,<span style="color: black;"> </span>the Wexner Foundation and
the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education at the Jewish
Theological Seminary in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said today
that her surgery for pancreatic cancer was successful and that she is scheduled
to undergo a precautionary round of chemotherapy starting later this month. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010(2<sup>nd</sup> of Nisan, 5770):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ninety-one-year-old Albert J. Rosenthal who
had served as Dean of the Columbia Law School passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/education/21rosenthal.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/education/21rosenthal.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010(2<sup>nd</sup> of Nisan, 5770): On the day
after his 90<sup>th</sup> birthday, award winning author Albert Sidney “Sid”
Fleischman passed away today in Santa Monica. (As reported by Margalit Fox)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/books/25fleischman.html?_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/books/25fleischman.html?_r=0</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/21/local/la-me-sid-fleischman21-2010mar21"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/21/local/la-me-sid-fleischman21-2010mar21</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: In Jerusalem, Hama'abada is scheduled to
present "Janana," by Yiftach Klein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Cookbook author
Judy Zeidler is scheduled to offer tips on prepping for your Seder and
mastering your grocery list, along with recipes for new and traditional Seder
dishes in a program entitled “Passover: Cooking with Judy” sponsored by the
American Jewish University. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Some 3,000 officers were put on high alert on
today after Hamas called for anti-Israel protests. "We call on the
Palestinian people to regard yesterday as a day of rage against the
occupation's [Israel's] procedures in Jerusalem against Al-Aqsa Mosque,"
Hamas said in a statement. Earlier today Israel lifted its closure on the West
Bank and granted open access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, with police saying that
thousands of troops will remain on high alert but reported no disturbances.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: “Sin,” a play
by Mark Altman opened at the Baruch Performing Arts Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Veteran IPO subscribers enjoy a memorable
evening as Itzhak Perlman performs with Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tamar Hirschl is scheduled to show a suite of
paintings and recent resin works “in the inaugural Artist Project in New York
City, a fair for independent artists.” </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: The Hadassah Mahj Tournament, sponsored
by Hadassah of Greater Detroit, is scheduled to take place at Hadassah House in
West Bloomfield, Michigan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar II): Ninety-year-old
Betty Sarah Wouk, “the wife and literary agent of bestselling writer Herman
Wouk” passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.hermanwouk.net/in-memoriam-sarah-wouk.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.hermanwouk.net/in-memoriam-sarah-wouk.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar II): Ta’anit
Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar II): Eighty-one-year-old
Gabrial Laderman, a painter of figurative art, passed away today. (As reported
by William Grimes)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/arts/design/gabriel-laderman-painter-of-figurative-art-dies-at-81.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/arts/design/gabriel-laderman-painter-of-figurative-art-dies-at-81.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
President Shimon Peres said today that the Navy's seizure of the cargo ship
Victoria earlier this week proves that Syria is providing weapons to Hamas in
Gaza and to Hezbollah in Lebanon. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
Sacramento Kings and Israel National Basketball Team forward Omri Casspi may
temporarily sign to play with Maccabi Tel Aviv in the event of an NBA work
stoppage, he said in an interview with Army Radio today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
Alaska Airlines apologized today for the misunderstanding that occurred earlier
this week on board one of their flights, in which flight attendants issued a
security alert when three Mexican Jews began praying with Tefillin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
“Suzie’s Grill keeps Houston Jews Kosher Connected” published today described
and the culinary and business skills of Susan Goldstein who operates “one of
the only kosher-drive throughs in the country.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.chron.com/life/houston-belief/article/Suzie-s-Grill-keeps-Houston-Jews-kosher-connected-1605717.php"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.chron.com/life/houston-belief/article/Suzie-s-Grill-keeps-Houston-Jews-kosher-connected-1605717.php</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Twentieth Anniversary of the Iranian bombing of the Israeli Embassy in
Argentina.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar, 5772): Yahrzeit
of Yitzchak Meir Alter the first Rebbe of the Ger Chasidic Dynasty who was born
in 1799 and passed away on March 10, 1866. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2012:
“Grace Paley: Collected Shorts” is scheduled to be shown at the Schenectady JCC
Jewish Film Festival at </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Niskayuna, NY<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar, 5772):
Anniversary of the first assembling of the Mishkan on Adar 23 (1321 BCE) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The Eilat Chamber Music Festival is
scheduled to come to an end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The Skirball Center for Adult Jewish
Learning at Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to present “Deconstructing Woody
Allen: Humor, Identity, Judaism” with Dr. Daniel Fainstein<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The Theatre at the 14<sup>th</sup>
Street Y is scheduled to present a puppet show “Lost & Found In Israel”
written and performed by Zvi Sahar and Leat Klingman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to present “Yellow Sneaker and "The Matzah Time Crunch."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2013:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“Samson and
Delilah,” sung in French (with English supertitles) will be presented today at
the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts in New Orleans featuring
Cantor Joel Coleman “as the Old Hebrew.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to come to an end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Today, “Greek Prime Minister Antonis
Samaras vowed to crack down on neo-Nazi groups in a landmark speech marking the
70th anniversary of the first deportations of Thessaloniki’s Jews to the
Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.” (As reported by JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://forward.com/articles/173089/greece-vows-fight-against-neo-nazis-on-anniversary/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20%28Monday-Friday%29&utm_campaign=Saturday-and-Sunday_Daily_Newsletter%202013-03-17"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://forward.com/articles/173089/greece-vows-fight-against-neo-nazis-on-anniversary/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20%28Monday-Friday%29&utm_campaign=Saturday-and-Sunday_Daily_Newsletter%202013-03-17</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Minutes released today by the Israel
State Archive revealed details of tense and nearly failed meetings between
then-prime minister Menachem Begin and former US president Jimmy Carter during
the latter’s visit to the country in 1979, as the two leaders tried to hammer
out the last details of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2013:
Likud MKs met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem
-today receive their marching orders for the next Cabinet and other government
roles.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Film critic Shlomo Schwartberg is scheduled to present the final lecture in the
series “Defining Greatness – Director Steven Speilberg at the Miles Nadal JCC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004:
Professor Yair Reisner of the Weizmann Institute of Science is scheduled to be
recognized for his work in bone marrow transplant therapy when he receives his
Rapport Prize today. (As reported by David Shamah)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Dr. Yaakov Nahmias of Hebrew University is scheduled to receive the Rapport
Prize today for identifying a grapefruit molecule that can block viruses. (As
reported by David Shamah)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Brave Miss World” is scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish Film
Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Once Upon a Time at 55<sup>th</sup> and Hoover,” a documentary about the 300
Sephardic families from Rhodes who emigrated to Los Angeles (USA) and
established a Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) language neighborhood in the area around
55th St and Hoover, in South Central Los Angeles” is scheduled to be shown at
the New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Grammy-award winning performer Ron Levine is scheduled to share stories from
his fantastic career, including touring with nationally renowned recording
artists and his award-winning work on the motion picture Urban Cowboy, at Coe
College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa this evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.raemaemusic.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.raemaemusic.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
During his visit to the White House today “US President Barack Obama urged
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to make tough decisions and take risks for
peace with Israel, saying he hoped to see progress in US-brokered negotiations
in coming weeks.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Today New York State Senator Lee “Zeldin voted against the New York Dream Act.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Today, Jordan condmenned what is call Israeli ‘escalation’ in the flashpoint
Temple Mount in Jerusalem after Housing Minster Uri Ariel “deputy leader of the
hardline national-rligious Bayit Yehudi party visited the Al-Aqsa compound in
Jerusalem’s Old City yesterday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The Jewish Community Relations Council and The Jewish Federation of Greater
Washington are scheduled to host “a real time analysis of the results of the
Israeli elections as they unfold” in North Bethesda, MD.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“The Iranian Americans” and “Before the Revolution” are scheduled to be shown
at the 18<sup>th</sup> Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
In San Diego, Jack Goldberg is scheduled to deliver a lecture on American
Dilemmas in the "New" Middle East: The Elusive search for Coherent
Strategies;”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
A Vanderbilt University official said that the spray painting of three swastikas
on fraternity house belong to the Tau Chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi is being
investigated as a hate crime.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4638011,00.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4638011,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
For those looking for a Jewish connection to St. Patrick’s Day consider “St.
Patrick’s Day, Kosher Style.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://tabletmag.com/scroll/189612/st-patricks-day-kosher-style?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=4d54b3d1f6-Sunday_March_15_20153_13_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-4d54b3d1f6-206644398"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://tabletmag.com/scroll/189612/st-patricks-day-kosher-style?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=4d54b3d1f6-Sunday_March_15_20153_13_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-4d54b3d1f6-206644398</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“How to Win Enemies” and “Sabena Hijacking” are scheduled to be shown at the
Houston Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(7<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5776): Seventy-one-year-old Meir Dagan, the Director of Mossad from
2002 to 2011 passed away today, (As reported by Isabel Kershner)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/world/middleeast/meir-dagan-former-mossad-director-dies-at-71.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/world/middleeast/meir-dagan-former-mossad-director-dies-at-71.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host its
2016 Humanitarian Awards Dinner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
Judge Merrick Garland, President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court visited
Capitol Hill today where he was warmly greeted by Democrats while facing the
opposition of Republicans who said they would not hold any hearings in a move
which was unprecedented in American history, calling into question the claims
of the GOP being the party of Conservatives i.e. those who protect the values
of the past.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
New York premiere of “Iraqi Night” at the New York Sephardic Jewish Film
Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
Thirteen month after disclosed “that he had treatable prostate cancer” today
Arthur M. Blank, the co-founder of The Home Depot and the owner of the NFL
Atlanta Falcons<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“announced that he was
cancer-free following treatment.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Thousands of runners took part in the 2017 Jerusalem Marathon today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/record-30000-take-part-in-jerusalem-marathon/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/record-30000-take-part-in-jerusalem-marathon/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The “Ma’agan Michael II”, “a replica of a 2,500-year-old trading ship found off
the coast of Israel was christened this morning ahead of its first voyage…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Charlemagne Palestine’s Bear Mitzvah in Meshugahland is scheduled to open at
the Jewish Museum in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/charlemagne-palestine-bear-mitzvah-in-meshugahland"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/charlemagne-palestine-bear-mitzvah-in-meshugahland</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to Kabbalat Shabbat followed
an hour later with a Shabbat Friday night dinner and hour later.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5777): Eighty-two-year-old Gershon Kekst, the founder of Kekst and
Company passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/business/dealbook/gershon-kekst-dead-public-relations-executive.html?ribbon-ad-idx=3&rref=obituaries&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Obituaries&pgtype=article"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/business/dealbook/gershon-kekst-dead-public-relations-executive.html?ribbon-ad-idx=3&rref=obituaries&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Obituaries&pgtype=article</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jtsa.edu/the-gershon-kekst-graduate-school"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jtsa.edu/the-gershon-kekst-graduate-school</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
“Rima Khalaf, a Jordanian who served as executive secretary of the Beirut-based
Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia” resigned today “after the body
she led was ordered by the UN secretary-general to remove from its website a
controversial report that charged Israel has established an “apartheid regime”
guilty of “racial domination” over the Palestinians.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
In honor of St. Patrick's Day, one national bagel chain has advertised
"green bagels" while supplies last.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5778): Triple header Shabbat – Shabbat HaChodesh, Rosh Chodesh Nisan,
start reading the book of Vayikra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
As many Irish people and people who wish they were Irish celebrate St.
Patrick’s Day, Jews can contemplate their Irish connection including Yitzhak
HaLevi Herzog, the Chief Rabbi of Ireland and the second Ashekanzi Chief Rabbi
of Palestine and his sons Chaim Herzog, the sixth President of Israel and
Yaakov Herzog, the Haganah member and Israeli diplomat as well as the father
and son team of Robert and Ben Briscoe, both of whom were Lord Mayor Dublin,
author Julia Frankau who died on St. Patrick’s Day, 1916<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and of course “Leopold Bloom,” the
protagonist in <u>Ulysses</u> by James Joyce.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“Humor Me” and “Love is Thicker Than Water” are scheduled to be shown at the
Houston Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Temple Rodef Shalom's Rabbi Amy Schwartzman is scheduled to ashare her
experiences as a woman rabbi as part of “To the Bimah: Women's Activism Enters
the Synagogue.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The “Cake Maker” is scheduled to be shown at the New Jersey Jewish Film
Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Distant Cousins is scheduled to perform as part of LimmudFest Saturday Night in
New Orleans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> featured reviews
of books by Jewish readers and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including I<u>.M.: A Memoir</u> by Isaac Mizrahi, <u>Madame Fourcade’s Secret
War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
</u>by Lynne Olson and the recently released paperback edition of <u>To End A
Presidency: The Power of Impeachment</u> by Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the New York
premiere of “Pepe’s Last Battle” and the international premiere of “Labor,
Rebellion, Upheaval from the Ancestral Sin Series.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
“From salt beef sandwiches and Rachel Riley, to making one’s own Jewish News
front page” there are plenty of reasons to visit The Big Family scheduled to
open this morning in Hendon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
In New Orleans, the JCC is scheduled to host the annual Community Purim
Carnival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2019:
As the Irish and all those people who want to be Irish (which is just about
everybody) prepare to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, examine the connection
between Jewish and Irish cuisine. </span><a href="https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-nosher/the-secret-jewish-history-of-corned-beef-and-cabbage/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-nosher/the-secret-jewish-history-of-corned-beef-and-cabbage/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5780): Yahrzeits of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhansk; Rabbi Isaac Elchanan
Spektor; Sir Moses Montefiore; Adolf Cremieux<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
In Palo Alto, today’s scheduled performance of “Beyond The Pale,” a one-person
show written and performed by Sherri Rose has been canceled.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
In San Rafael, CA, today’s scheduled appearance by Yossi Beilin, the former
Knesset member and Oslo Accords architect speaking on “American Jews and
Israel: What’s Next?” has been canceled.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
Benjamin Netanyahu’s trial in which he faces charges related to “bribery, fraud
and breach of trust” is scheduled to begin today. (As reported by AFP)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The 69<sup>th</sup> National Jewish Book Awards gathering sponsored by the
Jewish Book Council which was scheduled to take place this evening has been
postponed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
As the Irish and everybody who wishes they were Irish are going to have
celebrate St. Patrick’s Day without the traditional parades and festivities,
patrons of Russ and Daughters Kosher Café at the Jewish Museum are having to
learn how to cope without access to some of their favorite delights as the
Museum enters into its second day of being closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
Based on yesterday’s announcement by President Reuvin Rivlin, today marks the
first day of the twenty-eight-day cycle that Blue and White Party chairman
Benny Gantz has to form a government.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
Effective today,” the Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines will be operating
remotely.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The Open Circle Jewish Learning 20s and 30s is scheduled to present online
“Mensch Reimagined: How Masculine People Build a Culture of Nurturance.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The Jewish Community Library is scheduled to host online “Jewish Contribution
to English-Language Versions of the Bible,” during which “Leonard Greenspoon,
Creighton U. Jewish civilization professor, talks about the history of Jews
translating the Hebrew Bible and their influences on non-Jewish versions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Temple Emmanuel (Wakefield) is scheduled to present “Making Prayer Meaningful”
online with Rabbi Greg Hersh during which he “offers many new modalities for
understand and engaging in prayer and other Jewish traditions.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Based on reports published yesterday, Israelis today may feel they are
beginning to win the health battle since “For the first time since the end of
December, the number of serious COVID-19 patients in Israel dropped under 600…”
(As reported by Yaron Druckman)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
As of today, “57% of the adult population” in Israel “has received at least one
dose of vaccine while 47% have received both doses.” (As reported by Gad Lior<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Geographer Benny Furst, Ph.D. is scheduled to lead a virtual tour “Seeing
Yourself as if You Left Egypt.” 2022<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The Friends of Rabin Medical Center is scheduled to present “White Supremacy:
How Big a Threat and How to Counter It.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://globalconnections.splashthat.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://globalconnections.splashthat.com/</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5782): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
Based on recent data on how well its vaccine protected against the Omicron
variant in the Israel, Moderna said late today “that it asked the Food and Drug
Administration for emergency authorization of a second booster of its
coronavirus vaccine for all adults, a significantly broader request than Pfizer
and BioNTech filed for their shot this week.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The exhibition “Americans and the Holocaust” is scheduled to go on display at
Prairie State College Library in Chicago Heights.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Temple Judea is scheduled to host Shabbat Worship services are a family affair
with Rabbi Feivel and Cantor Abbie.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Limmud Fest is scheduled to begin today in New Orleans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Locked Down University is scheduled to host a talk by Rabbi Shippel on the
Parsha of the Week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Sinai Brookline is scheduled to host a Chai Celebration, celebrating 18 years
with Rabbi Andrew Vogel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
In San Francisco Congregation Beth Sholom is scheduled to a “Jacob’s Ladder
Shabbat” during which a Jewish bluegrass groups performs a musical Kabbalat
Shabbat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
In London the UK’s most important Aliyah event, is scheduled to take place, on
a Solidarity Day for Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
Screenings of "A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings" are
scheduled to take place today at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC and the
New Plaza Cinema.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
For one night only, Theatre Royal Haymarket is scheduled to present: “GOLDA. A
Musical Story of Love, Loss and Resilience,”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024The
Mercaz Jewish Choir is scheduled to present "Jewish Music Through the
Centuries" at the JHMOMC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
“The Best of Israel” adult trip sponsored by the Streicker Cultural Center is
scheduled to begin today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
“Munich Displaced,” an exhibition at the Munich Jewish Museum that “portrays
the city when it was a hub for 200,000 displaced Jews who survived the war” is
scheduled to come to an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/resurrected-exhibit-provides-insight-into-jewish-artists-during-after-the-holocaust/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.timesofisrael.com/resurrected-exhibit-provides-insight-into-jewish-artists-during-after-the-holocaust/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
In Marblehead, MA, Temple Sinai is scheduled to host its Purim Project, a
social action projected for make mishloach manot for the Jewish family table
Purim distribution.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a lecture Renée Carl, a
professional genealogist and advocate for historic preservation and records
access “Stuck: Immigration, Naturalization and Reparation in the WWI Era.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
St. Patrick’s Day; <a href="https://www.jewishnola.com/oy-such-a-st-patricks-day">https://www.jewishnola.com/oy-such-a-st-patricks-day</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2013/03/17/174534358/erin-go-bragh-shalom-st-patricks-day-the-jewish-way">https://www.npr.org/2013/03/17/174534358/erin-go-bragh-shalom-st-patricks-day-the-jewish-way</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The Museum at Eldridge Streets is scheduled to host “Eldridge Arts and Learning”
even that will give those five and above a chance to learn about the museum’s
more than sixty stained glass windows.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
17th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 163 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">597<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">BCE (2<sup>nd</sup>
Adar): On the secular calendar, according to certain archaeological
calculations, the first conquest of Jerusalem by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar
occurred. In the Bible, the event is recorded in 2 Kings 24:1ff. and in 2
Chronicles 36:5-8. It is also implied in the early chapters of Jeremiah and
Ezekiel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">37: Caligula becomes Roman Emperor after the
death of his great uncle, Tiberius.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Caligula was a challenge to all those he ruled, including the Jews,
because he was “crazy.” Among other things, he appointed his favorite horse to
the position of Consul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did present a
special problem for Jews because he believed he was a god and expected to be
worshipped by his subjects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately,
he never succeeded in having his golden image installed in the Temple of
Jerusalem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a bizarre meeting with
a delegation of Jews from Alexander that included the famous Philo, Caligula
said of the Jews, “They’re not so bad after all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re just a poor, stupid people unable to
believe in my divinity” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">455: Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor
passed away. During his reign, the position of Jews continued to worsen. Under
one imperial decree, Jews were excluded from government service and were
prohibited from practicing law. Another decree made it possible for the
children of Jews who converted to Christianity to inherit the property of their
Jewish parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1021: The first documentary reference to Jews
living in Cologne after 331 occurs during the time of Archbishop Heribert of
Cologne who passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1190: On the Sabbath eve before Passover
("Shabbat Hagadol") in York, England, a group made up of clergy,
barons indebted to the Jews, and crusaders waiting to follow Richard, set
Jewish houses on fire and stole all their valuables. The Jews under Josce, a
prominent Jew of York, and their Rabbi, Yom Tov of Joigny (a contemporary of
Rabbenu Tam and author of the Yom Kippur Hymn "Omnam Ken"), fled to
the castle. Richard Malebys (a noble who owed large sums to Jewish
moneylenders) commanded the attackers. For 6 days the Jews held out. A monk who
came each morning to celebrate mass and inflame the crowd was killed by a stone
thrown from the tower. Facing the choice of baptism or death, most chose death.
(Josce killed his wife and two children and was in turn killed by the Rabbi).
The vast majority killed themselves after destroying their belongings. Josce
was the last to die. The few who remained opened the gate and requested
baptism. They were massacred anyway. Over 150 Jews died.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/jews-of-york-massacre-of-1190-a-film-by-barry-levinson"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/jews-of-york-massacre-of-1190-a-film-by-barry-levinson</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1421:
Chomutov, a Czech city which was declared “Judenrein” a week before the
occupation by Germany in 1938 and was the home to the Seligman family “was sack
and burned” today by the Taborites, a sect of Catholic heretics.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1523:
Birthdate of Antoine Rodolphe Chevaillier, the French born English Hebraist who
learned the language from Francis Vatablus and who tutored Elizabeth I in the
Biblical tongue while producing translations of several books in both the New
and Old Testaments.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1547: François
Vatable who got the chair of Hebrew at what “became known as the Collège de
France” where “he procured Hebrew editions of the Bible for scholarly use” and
whose lectures were attended by Parisian Jews passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1711(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5471): Isaac Spira, the son of Eliezer Spira and the father of Nathan
Spria, passed away leaving behind a text entitled Elef ha-Magen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1716:
Birthdate of Pehr Kalm, the Swedish-Finnish explorer who visited North America
in 1740’s and described “the Jews of New York” as having “formed a considerable
portion of the population”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>having
“stores and fine houses and ships and flourishing synagogue” while enjoying
“all the privileges of the other citizens.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1722: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
new "Aeltesten-reglement" (Constitution of the Jewish Community) was
issued today in Prussia. It was intended to do away with the evils that had
become apparent in the administration of the community, and which, in order to
be brought home more thoroughly, was to be read every year in the synagogue.
Under this constitution the administration consisted of two permanent chief
elders, five elders, four treasurers, and four superintendents of the poor, and
assistants; new officers were to be elected every three years by seven men
chosen by lot from among the community. The committee was to meet every week in
the room of the elders, and to keep the minutes of their proceedings;
resolutions, passed by them, becoming law by a majority vote. The exclusion of
a member of the community from the Passover was made dependent on the unanimous
vote of the committee; the ban could be pronounced only with the consent of the
rabbi; and both of these measures were to be subject to ratification by the
Jews' commission. The elders were held responsible with their own money for the
proper collection of the taxes but could proceed against delinquent payers.
Every year the entire board had to report to a committee of five chosen by the
community. The college of rabbis was to consist of a chief rabbi, a vice rabbi
and two or three assessors. Other taxes were soon added to the existing ones; <i>e.g.</i>,
on pawnshops, and calendar money for the Royal Society of Science, and marriage
licenses. The income from the last was paid into the treasury from which
enlisted men received their pay, and its amount (4,800 thalers a year) soon
became a permanent tax upon the whole community. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1743: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
New-York Weekly Journal</i> reported that a Jewish funeral procession in New
York was attacked by a mob. According to "one learned Christian"
witness to it, the mob had, "insulted the dead in such a vile manner that
to mention all would shock a human ear."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1751: Birthdate of James Madison author of the
Federalist Papers and 4<sup>th</sup> President of the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Madison was also the President during the War
of 1812.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was the first President to
appoint a Jew to a diplomatic post.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“In
1813, President Madison appointed Mordecai Manuel Noah as Consul to Tunis in
the Barbary States, where he obtained the release of Americans who had been
captured and sold into slavery by the Barbary pirates. It was a difficult task
requiring considerable adroitness, but he spent more than his allotment for the
purposes and his commission was revoked, the letter of recall affirming that
his religion was deemed to disqualify him for the post…In time, however, he got
a clean bill of health in the conduct of his mission and the sums he advanced
in performing it were reimbursed.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While
Noah’s name is known but a handful today, he was considered to be “the most
conspicuous figure in the American Jewish community in the period between the
War of 1812 and the Mexican War (1846).” When he returned from Tunis, Noah
became a power in New York politics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
one point he was elected High Sheriff of New York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One angry citizen complained about Noah
saying, “What a pity that Christians are to be hung by a Jew.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Noah replied, “What a pity that Christians
should have to be hung.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1758: In Buchau, Franziska Levi and David
Einstein gave birth to their son Heinrich Einstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1767(15th of Adar II, 5527): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1771: Birthdate of Benjamin De Leon, the son of
Spanishtown, Jamaica resident Abraham Rodrigues De Leon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1775(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5535): Purim was
celebrated for the last time before the start of the American Revolution.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1778: Amsterdam native Solomon da silva Solis
and benvenida de Isaac Henriques Valentine gave birth to David Solis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1782: In Bavaria, Marion and Joseph Muhlhause
gave birth to future New Haven CT resident Moses Muhlhauser, the husband of
Frederika Fretel with whom he had seven children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1789: Benvenida de Isaac Solis, the daughter of
Isaac Henriques Henriques Valentine and Simha Mandil and Solomon da Solis gave
birth to David Solis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1794: In Mayence, “R’Jonas Moshe Bondi” and
“Bella Bondi” gave birth to “Rabbi Samuel Bondi one of the founders of the
orthodox congregation of Mayence and the progenitor of the largest branch of
the Bondi family.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1794: English born Esther Cohen and future
Easton, PA resident Michael Hart gave birth to Isaac Hart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1795: Birthdate of Cynthia Gomez, the wife of
Curacao native Mordecai Frois and mother of Rachel, Morris and Abigail Frois.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1796: Robert Reuben married Esther Solomons at
the Great Synagogue today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1797: Rebecca and Samuel Suhami gave birth to
Jacob Samuel Suhami, the husband of Esther Gabriel Nunes Da Costs with whom she
had six children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799(9<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5559): Parashat
Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor observed for the last time in the 18<sup>th</sup>
Century.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1802: The United States Military Academy West
Point is established.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to
recent figures, there are 85 Jewish Cadets among the 4.200 members of the Corps
of Cadets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is an accredited Hillel
Chapter at West Point and a Jewish Chaplain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“The West Point Jewish community provides a warm, supportive,
nondenominational family to all West Point Jewish cadets and cadet friends.
Family night services are very popular. The choir practices once per week and
travels several times per semester to other university Hillel Houses and
community functions for relaxed overnight trips. The community celebrates
nearly all Jewish holidays and the West Point Hillel sponsors parties, retreats
and service field trips.” <b>“</b>The completion of the Jewish Chapel in 1984
culminated a twenty-year undertaking. The organization responsible for the
project was the West Point Jewish Chapel Fund a private, non-profit civilian
organization. This group raised more than 7.5 million dollars to erect and
furnish the facility. In 1986 the Jewish Chapel was deeded to the Academy. Led
by a military chaplain, the congregation serves the needs of various branches
of Judaism represented in the Armed Forces. In close connection with the Jewish
Welfare Board worship resources are designed to meet the broad spectrum of our
faith. The Chapel contains an extensive Judaica collection, a fine library, and
special exhibits. Sabbath services are held every Friday evening during the
academic year at 7:00 p.m.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1805(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5565):
Parashat Tzav; Shushan Purim celebrated on the same day that at “Fort Mandan,
ND Long-time Upper Missouri Villages trader Joseph Garreau showed Lewis and
Clark how the Arikara melt glass trade beads and re-make them more to their
liking” as the “two captains” continued their trek to the Pacific.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1806: Israel Jacobs married Elizabeth Abrahams
at the Great Synagogue today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1807: Birthdate of London native Hannah Cohen
the wife of Joseph Lewis Isaacs whom she married at the Birmingham Synagogue in
1854.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1812(3<sup>rd</sup> of Nisan, 5572):
Seventy-four-year-old Fromet (Frumet) Mendelssohn, the Altona, Berman born
daughter daughter of Abraham Ben Joseph Guggenheim and Mirjam Glückel
Guggenheim, the wife of reformer and intellectual Moses Mendelssohn and mother
of Sarah Mendelssohn; Dorothea Veronika Breindel Veit - Schlegel; Haim Chajim
Mendelssohn; Rechel Meyer; Mendel Abraham Mendelssohn; Joseph Emanuel Levi
Mendelssohn; Henriette Maria Mendelssohn; Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy; Susgen
Mendelssohn and Nathan Carl Theodor Nathanel Mendelssohn passed away today after
which she was buried in the Königstraße Jewish cemetery, Hamburg-Altona,
Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1813(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5573): As
Americans fight the British and the Canadians fight what is known in the United
States as the War of 1812, Jews on both sides observe Purim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1815: Today, William I, whose father William V,
the last Stadtholder was supported by the Dutch Jews, began his reign as king
of the Netherlands and grand duke of Luxembourg <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1816(16<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5576): Parashat
Ki Tisa coincides with the first anniversary of William whose father William V,
the last Stadtholder was supported by the Dutch Jews, beginning his reign as of
King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1817: Four days after he had pass away,
58-year-old Levy Nathan was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1817: Two days after he had passed away, was
buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1818: Birthdate of Germain Sée the native of
Ribeauvillé who graduated from the Sorbonne in 1846 after which he became a
leading Parisian physician.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1821: Birthdate of German native and future New
Yorker Rieka Ikelheimer Collenberger, the husband of Aaron Collenberger with
whom she had two children – Amanda and Hattie.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1828: In Grebenstein, Germany Meyer (Meier)
Goldschmidt and Lea Goldschmidt (Katzenstein) gave birth to Selig Meier
Goldschmidt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1830: In Germany, Abraham Bendix Weinberg, the
Westphalia, Germany, born son of Sara Moses Weinberg and Bendix Aron Weinberg
and his wife Hannchen Leffmann Weinberg gave birth toe Aron Abraham Weinberg,
the husband of Pauline Weinberg and father of Abraham Alfred Weinberg who was
murdered by the Nazis in 1941.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1831: Three days after he had passed away,
Israel Isaacs, the husband of Breina Isaacs, was buried today at the “Brompton
(Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1832(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5592): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<h3 style="background: #FAFAFA; margin: 0in; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1835: In Dolnośląskie, Poland, Löbel Schottländer and Henriette
Grossmann Schottländer gave birth to Julius Schottländer, the husband of Anna
Galewski Schottländer and the father of Paul Schottlander.</span><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1836: After having arrived in Texas in 1835, today,
Abraham Lewis began serving in the Army as “a member of Captain James C. Winn’s
Company” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar, 5601): Thirty-three-year-old
Washington Hendricks, the son of copper manufacturer Harmon Hendricks, the son
of Uriah Henricks, one of the founders of Congregation Shearith Israel and his
Frances Isaacs, the daughter of Joshua and Brandy Isaacs passed away toay.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1843(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5603): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1843: In Moravia, Jakob Brüll and his wife gave
birth to “rabbi and scholar” Nehemiah Brüll<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847: Birthdate of Ephrim Henry Addleman, the
husband of Maria Jane Johnson Addleman, and the father of Martha, Alice, Henry
and Samuel Addleman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851: In London, Judith Lazarus and Abraham
Daniel de Pass gave birth to Eliot Arthur de Pass, the husband of Beatrice
“Trixie” de Mercaco and father of Chibbie (Charles) de Pass.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852: Two days after she had passed away, 7-week-old
Mina Braham, “the infant daughter” of Sophia and Lewis Henry Braham was buried
today at the Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855: Bates College in Lewiston, Maine is
founded. According to recent figures, this small liberal arts college has 150
Jewish students among its 1,700-student body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The school has a Hillel Chapter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The environment on campus is described as follows. “Bates is very
supportive of the Jewish Community. Jewish students gather weekly for Shabbat
services and dinner at the Multicultural Center. Films, lectures, holidays, and
parties are frequent. Highlights include Sukkah Building and campout, Tu
B`Shvat Seder, and Parent's Weekend Bagel Brunch. Bates has a Klezmer Band,
Gefilte Dog, and speakers are brought to campus for forums and discussions
often. Hillel also presents a visiting Rabbi retreat. Programs are also held
with students at Colby and Bowdoin. Bates students volunteer at the local
synagogue, Temple Shalom.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1856(9<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5616): Hannah
(Anne) Manuel, the daughter of David Manuel and the second wife of Gershom M.
Seixas whom she married in 1789 passed away today in Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859: Emperor Alexander II granted Jewish
scholars, wholesale merchants and manufacturers the right to live outside of
the Pale.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859: Today, in
Liverpool, the first meeting was held of the Board of Guardians for the Relief
of the Jewish poor.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860:
Based on reports from the Halifax Sun, “an extraordinary event in the history
of the German Jews has just taken place. In the free City of Hamburg, where a
Jew, ten years ago, was not even eligible for a night constable, a Jew, by the
free suffrages of the citizens, has lately been chosen a chief magistrate, next
in station to the highest dignity in that Republic. The gentleman elected is a
distinguished juris-consult and writer, Dr. Gabriel Reisser who was
Vice-President of the German Parliament that sat at Frankfort in 1848.” Born in
1806, Gabriel Riesser “was the first Jewish judge in Germany and an advocate of
the emancipation of the Jews in Germany.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861(5<sup>th</sup>
Nisan, 5621): Parashat Vayikra read on the same day that President Abraham Lincoln
wrote to “Arkansas governor Henry M. Rector concerning a proposed Thirteenth
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution” which in February Congress had passed to guarantee
the legality and perpetuity of slavery in the slave states and which President James
Buchanan had on March 2, 1861, two days before Lincoln was inaugurated.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5622): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862:
Birthdate of Ruben ben Mordecai Brainin the native of Belarus who gained fame
as Reuben Brainin (Some sources show March 15, 1862, as his birthdate)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9A02E7DF153EE432A25752C0A9649D946894D6CF"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9A02E7DF153EE432A25752C0A9649D946894D6CF</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864:
In Baltimore, MD, ”Elkan Bamberger, who had emigrated from Bavaria in 1840, and
Theresa (Hutzler) Bamberger, who was heir to a large Baltimore department
store” gave birth to Caroline “Carrie” Bamberger, the fifth of their six
children who became Caroline Frank when she married Louis Frank and Caroline
Frank Fuld when she married Felix Fuld the name under which became a noted
philanthropist<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who provide the initial
endowment of five million dollars for “what became the Institute of Advanced
Study in Princeton.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jta.org/1929/01/23/archive/funeral-rites-for-felix-fuld-marked-by-simplicity"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jta.org/1929/01/23/archive/funeral-rites-for-felix-fuld-marked-by-simplicity</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866(29th
of Adar): Rabbi Solomon Ha-Kohen of Radomsko, author of Tiferet Shelomo passed
away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866:
Philipp Salzer, “the son of Maier Salzer and Silah Malzer gave birth to Sofie
Salzer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868:
“Affairs In England” published today described the reaction to Benjamin
Disraeli who was a member of the Conservative or Tory Party, to being selected
to serve as Prime Minister.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Generally
speaking, the “Radical press” has congratulated Disraeli on the appointment and
wish him well in his new position. The “Conservative press” has responded
coldly, showing distinct dissatisfaction with Disraeli’s appointment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For them, Disraeli’s appointment is not a
triumph for the Tories but “a blow to their prejudices and principles.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead of being led by Duke or an Earl, the
party is now being led by a commoner who “is not an Englishman by descent” but
rather by a man “whose grandfather was a Jew of Venice, whose father was a man
of letters” and who himself was the editor of a newspaper.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872: Birthdate of Philip King, the native of Washington, DC, who played
quarterback for Princeton before going on a coaching career at the University
of Wisconsin and Georgetown University.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872: Emily Catherine and Josiah Wedgwood gave birth to Josiah Clement
Wedgwood the British political leader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>During the 1930’s Wedgwood took the politically unpopular positions of
opposing the appeasement of Hitler and the limitations on Jewish settlement in
Palestine that climaxed with the White Paper of 1939. Although he passed away
in 1943, the Jewish people honored his memory by naming several things in his
honor including Moshav, an INS destroyer and streets in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and
Haifa. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873: Two days after he had passed away, 64-year-old Abraham Marks, the
husband of Louisa Aarons with whom he had had ten children was buried today at
the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873(18th of Adar, 5633): Seventy-seven year old Joseph Salvador a member
of a distinguished French Sephardi family whose mother was Roman Catholic, the
author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>Paris, Rome, Jerusalem ou la
Question religieuse au XIX siècle </u></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who was angered by the anti-Jewish riots in
German and was considered a ‘proto-Zionist” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874: It was reported today that the Germania Theatre Company will be
performing at the Terrace Garden Theatre in two days for the benefit of the
Ladies’ Hebrew Benevolent Society<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875(9<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5635): Eight-five year old Zipporah Hart,
the daughter of Jacob Hart and Leah Nathan and the wife Eleazar Lazarus passed
away today in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1875: Mayor Wickham Chamberlain Tappan was among the dignitaries who
attended tonight’s </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">charity
ball organized by the Purim Association. The event raised $13,000 for the
various Hebrew charities in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876”
Birthdate Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet official Solomon Lozovsky, who
would like many others, find out that Russian anti-Semitism was stronger the
Communist brotherhood when he was executed by Stalin in 1952 along with other
members of the Jewish Ant-Fascist Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5638): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878:
On Shabbat Zachor, rabbis at several synagogues addressed the appeal that has
been issued by the Board of Delegates of American Israelites to raise funds to
aid their suffering co-religionists trapped in war torn Eastern Europe and
parts of the Ottoman Empire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They did
not make a direct appeal for funds. Instead, they urged them to respond to the
appeal that has been sent to all congregations by the Executive committee of
the Central Relief Committee whose members include Meyer S. Isaacs, Moritz Ellinger,
Jacob H. Schiff, Leonard Lewisohn and Hyman Blum<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1878: Birthdate of Wichita, KS native Mildred Hayes
Printz, the wife of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Bert
H. Prinz who came the United States in 1864 and where he opened several stores
in Pennsylvania and New York before opening "Printz Company Men's Clothing
and Furnishing in Youngstown, Ohio which became the headquarters of his
commercial enterprises and the mother of Bert H. Prinz, Jr who died in infancy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879:
“Mendelssohn and Lessing” traced the improvement in the situation of the Jews
of Germany reminding readers that when these two met, “the country where the
Hebrew race has since attained the highest honors – where a galaxy of Jewish
names, Heine, Borne, Rahel figure among the glories of national distinction –
the Jew was then looked on like a spotted leper, against whom were shut the
doors not merely of the aristocracy and of fashion, but actually of all public
schools and public office” and were excluded “from social position and civic
right” in a manner worse than now found in Romania. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880:
In New York City, Emma Lowenthal and Leopold J. Lewis gave birth attorney and “jurist”
Harry E. Lewis, the Republican Party activist, husband of Rose Nathan and
father of Mrs. Barnett J. Nova who held several judicial positions including serving
as Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division of the Second Department in New
York and who although a Republican was appointed by Governor Franklin
Roosevelt, a Democrat “to preside in a special Supreme Court session for cases
involving bank scandals in Manhattan and Brooklyn.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/harry-e-lewis/">https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/harry-e-lewis/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Judge+Harry+E.+Lewis&sca_esv=28e3935115e0edcf&sxsrf=ACQVn08_dZw4VElCSICOA31zK7syumQgyQ%3A1710502726767&ei=RjP0ZbirLtC1wN4Pnaqs4As&ved=0ahUKEwi45qmbl_aEAxXQGtAFHR0VC7wQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=Judge+Harry+E.+Lewis&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiFEp1ZGdlIEhhcnJ5IEUuIExld2lzMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAFIhipQAFiEDnAAeACQAQCYAZIBoAGdBaoBAzUuMrgBA8gBAPgBAZgCBaACjQTCAggQABiABBiiBMICCBAAGIkFGKIEwgIKECEYChigARjDBMICCBAhGKABGMMEmAMAkgcDMy4yoAe3Dg&sclient=gws-wiz-serp">https://www.google.com/search?q=Judge+Harry+E.+Lewis&sca_esv=28e3935115e0edcf&sxsrf=ACQVn08_dZw4VElCSICOA31zK7syumQgyQ%3A1710502726767&ei=RjP0ZbirLtC1wN4Pnaqs4As&ved=0ahUKEwi45qmbl_aEAxXQGtAFHR0VC7wQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=Judge+Harry+E.+Lewis&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiFEp1ZGdlIEhhcnJ5IEUuIExld2lzMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAFIhipQAFiEDnAAeACQAQCYAZIBoAGdBaoBAzUuMrgBA8gBAPgBAZgCBaACjQTCAggQABiABBiiBMICCBAAGIkFGKIEwgIKECEYChigARjDBMICCBAhGKABGMMEmAMAkgcDMy4yoAe3Dg&sclient=gws-wiz-serp</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5641): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882:
The Tenth Assembly District Republican Association met tonight to decide if
Civil Justice Alfred Steckler, Charles Steckler, and Julius Harburger should be
expelled because they had supported Steckler over the association’s chosen
candidate. (In the 19<sup>th</sup> century the majority of Jews voted
Republican)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883:
Sir George Jessel, who was fighting a variety of chronic illnesses, sat as the
Master of Rolls for the last time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
was the first Jew to hold this important judicial position.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883:
In Russia, Samuel and Rachel (Bernstein) Weinberg gave birth to University of
Pittsburgh trained physician and neurologist Max H. Weinberg, a WWI Lieutenant
in the Army Medical Corps who was the husband of Bessie E. Sakon and who
translated “server books into English,” including <u>Iron Heel</u> by Jack
London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885:
Birthdate of “Dr Alfred Wiener who became a central figure in the documentation
of Nazi and anti-Nazi literature during the Holocaust, forming a collection
that would become known as the Wiener Library – a national resource which
continues to document and educate about genocide.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.hmd.org.uk/resource/dr-alfred-wiener/">https://www.hmd.org.uk/resource/dr-alfred-wiener/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en-cenlib.tau.ac.il/Wiener/Alfred-Wiener">https://en-cenlib.tau.ac.il/Wiener/Alfred-Wiener</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1885: Birthdate of Sydney Chaplin, half-brother of Charlie Chaplin</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886: Rabbi Bernard
Louis Levinthal the Kovno born son of Rabbi Abraham and Beth-Sheba Levinthal
who in1891 came to the United States where he succeeded his father as the
leader “of the United Orthodox Hebrew Congregation of Philadelphia” and helped
to found several Philadelphia institutions including the Hebrew Free Schools,
the Free Burial Society and the Kosher Meat Association married Minna Kleinberg
today,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887(20<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5647): Eighty-seven-year-old Joseph Ritter Von Wertheimer whose good
works included the founding of the first kindergarten in Vienna, the founding
of a Jewish children’s school in the same city in 1834 and the establishment of
the Society for the Education of Jewish Orphans in 1860 while fighting for the
full emancipation of the Jews, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=1NVRfl4gCw0C&pg=PA474&lpg=PA474&dq=zacharias+wertheim,+jewish&source=bl&ots=JjpPWBZ1Nd&sig=4Ipqb-4ht8GouFLr4L3vvlQ2KXI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=I1CjVPmeC5CyyATdgoCYAw&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=zacharias%20wertheim%2C%20jewish&f=false"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://books.google.com/books?id=1NVRfl4gCw0C&pg=PA474&lpg=PA474&dq=zacharias+wertheim,+jewish&source=bl&ots=JjpPWBZ1Nd&sig=4Ipqb-4ht8GouFLr4L3vvlQ2KXI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=I1CjVPmeC5CyyATdgoCYAw&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=zacharias%20wertheim%2C%20jewish&f=false</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889(13th of Adar II,
5649): Shabbat Zachor; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889: In Austria, Dr.
Gotthard Ezekiel Deutsch and Hermine Deutsch gave birth to Hermann Bacher
Deutsch, the holder of a Ph.D. in Biology turned journalist and author who
wrote for both daily newspapers in New Orleans and was an authority on Huey
Long.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1970/06/27/archives/hermann-b-deutsch-dies-at-81-new-orleans-columnistauthor.html?searchResultPosition=1"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1970/06/27/archives/hermann-b-deutsch-dies-at-81-new-orleans-columnistauthor.html?searchResultPosition=1</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5649): Parashat Tzav; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5649): Sixty-four-year-old Dr. Alfred Edersheim the Austrian born Jew
who would later convert to Christianity passed away today. He was made an A.M.
at Oxford in 1881 where he lectured on Biblical topics and wrote <u>Life and
Times of Jesus the Messiah</u>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Mageburg Israelitishes Wochenblat</i>
reported “that a petition is in circulation among the rabbis of Europe and
America begging the Pope to end the calumny that the Jews use human blood in
religious sacrifice by ordering a formal denial throughout the Catholic
churches.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1890: Two days after he
had passed, Ferdinand May, the son of Isaak Withelm Mayer and Jentle Del Banco
Hamburg and the husband of Kettchen Landauer was buried today at the “West Ham
Jewish Cemetery.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890:
Birthdate of Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet actor and chairman of the Jewish
Anti-Fascist Committee.<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
Solomon Mikhoels</span><span style="color: black;"> was a Soviet Jewish actor and
director in Yiddish theater and the chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist
Committee. Born <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Shlioma Vovsi</span> in
Dvinsk (now Daugavpils), Latvia, Mikhoels studied law in Saint Petersburg, but
left school in 1918 to join Alexander Granovsky,s Jewish Theater Workshop,
which was attempting to create a national Jewish theater in Russia based on the
Yiddish language. Two years later, in 1920, the workshop moved to Moscow, where
it established the Moscow State Jewish Theater. This was in keeping with
Lenin's policy on nationalities, which encouraged them to pursue and develop
their own cultures under the aegis of the Soviet state. Mikhoels, who showed
outstanding talent, was the company's leading actor and, as of 1928, its
director. He played in several memorable roles, including Tevye in an
adaptation of Sholom Aleichem's comic short stories about <i>Tevye the Milkman</i>
(which were adapted for an American audience as <i>Fiddler on the Roof</i>) as
well as in many original works, such as <i>Bar Kochba</i>, and translations.
Perhaps his most noted role was as King Lear in a Yiddish translation of the
play by William Shakespeare. These plays were ostensibly supportive of the
Soviet state, however, closer readings suggest that they actually contained
veiled critiques of Stalin's regime. It is noteworthy that two of the
Shakespearean plays put on by the theater company were <i>King Lear</i> and <i>Richard
III</i>, both studies in tyranny. It is now believed that the Ukrainian
director Les Kurbas contributed to the original King Lear production after he
was ousted from his Berezil theater in 1934. He seems to have had a lasting
influence on Mikhoel's directing style. By the mid-1930s, Mikhoels' career was
threatened because of his association with other leading intelligentsia, who
were victims of Stalin's purges, notably author Isaac Babel. Mikhoels actively
supported Stalin against Hitler, and in 1942, he was made chairman of the
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. In this capacity, he travelled around the world,
meeting with Jewish communities to encourage them to support the Soviet Union
in its war against Nazi Germany. While this was useful to Stalin during World
War II, after the war, Stalin opposed contacts between Soviet Jews and Jewish
communities in non-Communist countries, which he deemed as
"bourgeoisie." The Jewish State Theater was closed, and the members
of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee were arrested - all except for two were
eventually executed in the purges shortly before Stalin's death. Mikhoels was
the most visible of the intellectual Jewish leadership, and a show trial would
have cast aspersions on Stalin's rule. Such claims lead most people to a
suggestion that Stalin had him assassinated in Minsk in January of 1948 masking
his death as a car crash, and Mikhoels received a state funeral. According to
documents unearthed by the historian Gennady Kostyrchenko, the organizers of
the assassination were L.M. Tsanava and S. Ogoltsov, and the "direct"
murderers were Lebedev, Kruglov and Shubnikov. Mikhoels' brother Miron Vovsi
was Stalin's personal physician. He was arrested during the Doctors' plot
affair but released after Stalin's death in 1953, as was his son-in-law, the
composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: Birthdate of Chicago native and University of Chicago
graduate Leon Unger, the Rush Medical College trained physician and WW I
veteran who served on the faculty of Northwestern University.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk161375207"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: In Vilno, Anna Levinson and
Kalman Karchmer gave birth to ophthalmologist Ray Karchmer Daily “the first
Jewish woman to graduate from a Texas medical school, the only woman doctor
among the founders of the Houston Academy of Medicine and an advocate for the
creation of more dormitories for female medical students who fought to
eliminate the subtle barriers that kept women and children from succeeding in
early twentieth century Texas” and who was the wife of Dr. Louis Daily, an ear,
nose, and throat specialist, whom she had met in medical school.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk161375207;"></span><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/daily-ray-karchmer"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk161375207;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/daily-ray-karchmer</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk161375207;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk161375207;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk161375207;"></span><a href="https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/daily-ray-karchmer"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk161375207;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/daily-ray-karchmer</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk161375207;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk161375207;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: Based on information that first appeared in the Hartford
Courant and the New Haven Evening Post it was reported today that when he is
not lecturing on military topics Professor Charles Totten of Yale, devotes his
time to Biblical work including study of the Hebrew Prophets. Furthermore, this
early supporter of Jewish settlement in Palestine says in the preface to the
published copy of his Yale Military Lectures that “the whole series was written
in the spirit of Anglo-Saxon identity with the ten lost tribes of Israel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: In Albany, GA, Julia and Morris Weslosky gave birth to their
daughter Blanche who became Blanche Adler when she married Ben Adler<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: “A Russian Banker Fails” published described the impact of
the failure of the Russian-Jewish banker J.E. Guenzburg. The firm dates back to
the Crimean War when Guenzburg’s father supplied “vast quantities of spirits to
the Russian Army.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Guzenburg
currently has extensive holdings in lands and mines, his financial setbacks are
due in no small part to “the expulsion of the Jews who were employed in the
firm’s immense sugar factories” and the hostility of the current government
towards its Jewish citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F0061EFC3C5F1B738DDDAF0994DB405B8285F0D3"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F0061EFC3C5F1B738DDDAF0994DB405B8285F0D3</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: In Cincinnati, OH, “Aleck and Aggie (Salaway) Vigransky gave
birth to attorney and A.E.F veteran Nathan Vigran the husband of Bertha Cohn
who was “elected to the 87<sup>th</sup> Ohio General Assembly and was a member
of Congregation Keneseth Israel in Cincinnati.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: Two days after he had passed away, 48-year-old Edward
Joseph, the son of Abraham Joseph and Sarah Falcke and the husband of Elizabeth
Jonas was buried today at the “Balls Pond Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: “A Contented Colony” published today described conditions
“in the Jewish colony at Chesterfield” which is eight miles from New London,
CN. Contrary to previously published reports the colonists are not destitute
and that most of the 32 families are “comparatively contended people” The
colony already has 180 cows which will provide milk for the new creamery;
something that will produce “considerable revenue.” The colony is supported by
the Baron Hirsch Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: Lt. Moses G. Zalinski who had been serving with U.S. Army
artillery units since 1885 transferred from the 4<sup>th</sup> Artillery to the
2<sup>nd</sup> Artillery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: Birthdate of Otto Hofmann, the head of SS Race and
Settlement Office Main office and participant in the Wannsee Conference that
finalized the “Final Solution who served six years of a twenty-five-year
sentence for his role in genocide. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: It was reported today that “a recent and clever English
novel represents the rector of a struggling parish as having a written a book
assailing the moral character of the Hebrew patriarchs.” The purpose of the
novel is to acquaint the reader with “higher Biblical criticism” and
demonstrate “that Moses did not write the Pentateuch.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: One day after he had passed away, 25-year-old Harris
Liberman was buried at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: Oscar S. Straus said today that the “a large sum of money
that had recently” been received by the Trustees of the Baron de Hirsch funds
“was not a new gift “but the second installment of $1,000,000 which the
Baroness had promised him last year” to help “the Jews in the crowded districts
of New York.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: The recital of Aristide Franceschetti in the Carbon Studio
on West Sixteenth Street began “with an evening prayer,’Vegna reba’ in the
Hebrew text, which preserved by tradition in the synagogue of Leghorn.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: At today’s meeting of the School Board for the Boroughs of
Manhattan and the Bronx, the commissioners voted 11 to 5 to set aside “the full
week in which Good Friday” and “some of the Passover days occur” as Spring
Vacation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: Those attending the meeting of Rabbis belonging to the
Reform Movement in Cincinnati will have to decide if this conference “will
supersede the conference which” had been scheduled to be held in Boston this
year. While the current conference has included several general reports, its
primary purpose was to celebrate the 80<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Rabbi Wise,
who favors holding the Boston conference.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899:
“Credit Men Meet At Dinner” published today described the event sponsored by
the New York Credit Men’s Association which included the statement by one of
the speakers declared that “No man in business life respects” Jewish merchants
“more than I do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have lost less money
by them than by Gentiles, at the ratio of 4 to 1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They often pay 100 cents on the dollar when
they fail.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899:
Simon Wolf of Washington, DC delivered a lecture at Temple Israel in New York
at a meeting of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association entitled “American Jewish
Philanthropy.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899:
Ant-Jewish riots begin in Nikolayev, Russia<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5660): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5660): Raphael Tuck who with his wife the former Ernestine Lissner
whom he married in 1848 founded Raphael Tuck and Sons, the postcard firm passed
away today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900:
Herzl, in his never-ending quest to have the rich and powerful support the
creation of a Jewish homeland in Eretz Israel, had a luncheon with
Eulenburg-Hertefeld, the German ambassador in Vienna.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5661): Parashat Vayakhel – Pekudi: Shabbat HaChodesh observed for the
last time during the presidency of William McKinley<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902:
Road drivers and horsemen from far and near including Nathan Straus who was
driving Cobwebs “throng the Harlem River Speedway from early morning until the
rain began to fall this afternoon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903:
It was reported today that in his comments on the Czar’s latest edict Cardinal
Gibbons said it was the most “unexpected as well as the most important and
beneficent movement that has occurred in the twentieth century” and that he
hopes “the Jews will have a share in the proposed radical changes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: Birthdate of Mississippi native Buddy
Myer, the infielder for the Washington Senators from 1925 through 1941 except
for two years spent with the Boston Red Sox.<br />
1905: “Word was received” in New York today, “that Meyer Guggenheim, the found
of the great smelting business controlled by M. Guggenheim’s Sons” had passed
away in Palm Beach, FL where he had gone two weeks ago because he was
“suffering a severe cold.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1905/03/17/102133209.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: Birthdate of Henny Youngman. Born
in London, England, this comedian was known for his signature line, 'Take my
wife, please. Youngman was had to drop out of school as a youngster and was not
Bar Mitzvahed at age 13. When he was well past the age of seventy,
Youngman studied and proudly participated in the rites that he had missed out
on as a youngster.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: The Jews of Vladivostok were ordered to
leave the city within the next three days.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: Brooklyn, “George Wiener, an attorney who
had emigrated from Russia in 1903, and Mollie (Zuckerman) Wiener” gave birth to
Dr. Alexander Solomon Wiener whose many accomplished included the discovery of
the Rhesus factor and who was the 1946 recipient of the Lasker Award.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://scienceheroes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=195&Itemid=195"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://scienceheroes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=195&Itemid=195</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: <i>The New York Times</i> reported that
the Passover Relief Association has arranged to buy 10,000 pounds of matzoth,
3,000 pounds of coffee, 5,000 pounds of sugar and 500 pounds of tea which will
be distributed among the city’s poor Jews at a distribution center at the
Continental Hall during the week prior to the celebration of Passover which
begins on the evening of April 15.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: In Haifa, "bitterness against the
Jews led to a clash between Jews, Ottoman soldiers and local Arabs in which
thirteen Jews were injured, some of them severely."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: In Finland, “the Senate to-day passed a
measure prohibiting the slaughtering of cattle in accordance with Jewish
ritual.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Straus, who will
“remain abroad until August” are scheduled to set sail on the Celtic today for
the Mediterranean.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: It was reported today that the Trustees
of the of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum are planning to a special anniversary at the
Hippodrome to mark the 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary of opening of the first
building of the asylum on April 10,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: Election for Grand Council of the Jewish
Community of Constantinople takes place. Ashkenazim boycott the elections. Five
Ashkenazim who were elected by the votes of Sephardim do not accept office.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: The American Jewish Committee which had
organized in 1906 was incorporated in New today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: Birthdate of Josef Mengele. This is
was a dark day in history, marking the birth of the German Nazi doctor at
Auschwitz extermination camp. To make matters worse, Mengele escaped
justice and lived out his days in South America. He died in 1979.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: In Pittsburgh, PA, Oscar William
Oppenheimer, the President of the Steel Drum Company and Claude Seisel gave
birth to Louise (Oppenheimer) Levin<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: In New York City, “Drs. Pauline (a
psychiatrist) and Maurice (an ear, nose and throat specialist) Rosenthal” gave
birth to Jean Rosenthal “one of the pioneers of theatrical lighting design.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20020824231526/http:/www.northern.edu/wild/jr.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://web.archive.org/web/20020824231526/http://www.northern.edu/wild/jr.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: Birthdate of Natalie Goldstein the native
of Chicago’s south side who gained fame as Natalie Goldstein Heinmen, “a
pioneering national champion for children’s welfare and respected community and
national leader, changed the lives of thousands of children through her
innovative and thoughtful leadership.” (As reported by Pastora San Juan
Cafferty)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(7th of Adar II, 5673): Sixty-two year old
Abraham H. Fisher, the Maryland Judge who was a founder of what is now Nusiinov
Smith LLP, attorneys at law, passed away today in Baltimore, MD.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
The Annual Conference on Child Labor to which Leon Schwarz of Mobile, Alabama
had been appointed as a delegate came to a closed today<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in Jacksonville, Florida.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: Dr. Franz Opphenheimer, a lecturer on
political economy at the University of Berlin told a mass-meeting in Cooper
Union about agricultural cooperation in Palestine, saying that “the colony
which I have founded in Palestine is on the plain of Jezreel, with fifty people
working 1,000 acres and is “of the pure co-operative kind.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: “Tried to Drive Jews Out” published today
described an attempt by the Russians to force the Austrians soldiers to accept
the 1,500 Jewish families being expelled from territory in and around Namiona
and Tysmieniczany into their lines and to not shoot them as they made their way
forward.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: “The American Jewish Committee announced
today that it had decided to contribute $5,000 to the International Pro-Falasha
Committee which has been endeavoring to spread knowledge of Judaism among the
Falashas, or Black Jews, of Abyssinia.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: Felix M. Warburg, Dr. Morris D. Waldman
of the United Hebrew Charities and Judge William M. Cohen are scheduled to
address today’s meeting at Temple Emanu-El where plans will be discussed “to
federate” the Jewish charitable organizations in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916(11th of Adar II, 5676): Rabbi Moses
Guedalia passed away at the age of 76.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Born in Gibraltar, Guedalia lived in Brazil before coming to New York
City when he was nine years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
“prominent Jewish scholar” was the founder of the Moses Montifore Congregation
and during “the last few years of his life served as the lay-reader for the
Free Synagogue established by the Spanish-Portuguese congregation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Following the death of his first wife,
Jean Cahn Wolf, today, University of Cincinnati graduate and Harvard trained attorney,
Max Benjamin May, the Cincinnati born son of Emily Wise and Benhamin May
married Aimee Max Benswanger while service as Judge of Common Pleas Bench for
Hamilton Country.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: At Temple Israel of Harlem, Dr. M.H.
Harris is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Cleanliness and Godliness” at
services this evening erev Shabbat,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: It was reported today that Herman
Bernstein, the editor of <i>The American Hebrew</i>, believes the condition of
the Jews would improve under the revolutionary government that has taken
control of Russia. He also believes that the new government will seek a
separate peace with Germany while seeking to sign a treaty with the United
States that guarantee the Russian government would allow all Americans to visit
and do business in Russia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Provisional government of Russia voided
many anti-Jewish laws and restrictions. This was the so-called Kerensky
Government which replaced the Czar. Unfortunately, Kerensky and the
forces of democracy were overthrown by Lenin and his Bolsheviks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Birthdate of Frederick Reines winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in
1995.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Dr. Joseph Silverman, the rabbi of Temple
Emanuel is scheduled to be one of the speakers when “leaders in the Catholic,
Protestant and Jewish communities take their place side by side tonight at the
Hippodrome to start the campaign in New York state to raise funds for the kings
of Columbus Camps and Over-Seas Service Program.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919(14th of Adar II, 5679): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919(14th of Adar II, 5679): Yakov Mikhaylovich
Sverdlov, Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of
Soviets of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (SFSR) passed away
at the age of 33.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: The Isaac M. Wise Centenary Meeting at
Temple Emanu-El where attendees paid tribute “to the Americanism of Dr. Isaac
M. Wise” marked the inauguration of “the campaign which will last all this week
for the” purpose of raising $300,000 for the support of the institutions
founded Dr. Wise.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: Birthdate of Avron Zalmon Fleischman, the
native of Brooklyn who gained ame as author Albert Sidney “Sid” Fleischman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: University of Cincinnati graduate and HUC
ordained rabbi Louis Joseph Kopald, the Cracow born son of Eva Langer and Jacob
Nachman Kopald and the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Zion in Bufffalo since
1912 today married Elsa Rheinstrom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Birthdate of welterweight Daniel Kapilow,
the founder of Ring 8 “which was founded to offer health coverage and aid to
retired aging boxer and President of Teamsters Local 966 who was the husband of
Natalie Kapilow. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: A medical bulletin issued from Government
House in Jerusalem today said that “the condition of Sir Herbert Samuel, the
High Commissioner for Palestine has greatly improved” and that “he is out of
danger.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: “David M. Bressler, Chairman of the city
campaign for Jewish relief for victims of the war, famine and pogroms in
Russia, said today that 25 teams were still canvassing the trades and
industries” and that “these teams have promised to turn in $450,000 next Monday
night either by collecting the money or donating it themselves.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: “The Covered Wagon” a film version of the
novel of the same name produced by Jesse Lasky with music by Hugo Riesenfeld
and Josiah Zuro was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise said he “views the
Oil Scandal as one of many signs of a great moral wakening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925(20th of Adar, 5685): Fifty-nine-year-old
August Paul von Wassermann, the Bamberg native, who developed the Wassermann
test that remains “a staple of syphilis detection” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: Seventy-five-year-old “French sculptor
Charles-Henri Cordier who in 1862 created a bust called “Jewess from Algiers,”
which portrays a striking woman cloaked in Eastern garb; a striped headdress
covers her hair, and her shoulders are draped in a voluminous and intricately
detailed white cloth,” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/232047"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/232047</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: Mrs. Abram I. Elkus, wife of the former
United States Minister to Turkey, was appointed chairman of the Women's
Division of the New York drive in the United Jewish Campaign. Mrs. Jacob H.
Schiff heads the Division as its honorary chairman, according to an
announcement made by William Fox, chairman of the New York drive. An
organization meeting will be held today at the Hotel Biltmore, where
headquarters of the New York drive are located. Fifty women, leaders in women's
clubs, professional groups, synagogue organizations, and others making up a
representation of all varied women's interests in the Jewish life of the city,
will be present. They will be addressed by David A. Brown, national chairman of
the United Jewish Campaign. Each of these fifty will head a unit of workers in
the active drive, which opens April 11th. Mrs. Elkus served in the great Jewish
War Relief Campaign of 1918 and led a group of 1,000 women workers in the Red
Cross Drive of that year. Her life abroad in the years immediately after the
war in Eastern Europe brought her into personal contact with the tragedy
precipitated by the war upon European Jewry. (As reported by JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
Trinity College and Columbia University graduate Leon Spitz, the Lithuanian
born son of Debora Klausink and Hillel Spitz and the award winning JTS trained
rabbi who in 1921 became the leader of Congregation B’nai Jacob in New Haven,
CT where he also served as director of the United Jewish Charities of New Haven
and President of the Connecticut Zionist Regional Union married Yettta Rome
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
Newark, NJ, Daniel Levitch and Rachel ("Rae") Levitch (née Brodsky)
gave birth to Joseph Levitch who gained fame as Jerry Lewis who teamed with
Dean Martin to form one of the most popular comedy duos of the post-war
period. After the team broke up, Lewis honed his comedic craft and is
especially loved by French audiences. He is best known for his Labor Day <st1:stockticker w:st="on">MDA</st1:stockticker> Telethons which have raised untold millions for
research and care of those suffering from this disease.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://variety.com/2017/film/people-news/jerry-lewis-dies-dead-nutty-professor-1202533899/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://variety.com/2017/film/people-news/jerry-lewis-dies-dead-nutty-professor-1202533899/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: It was reported today that “three farm
training camps for girls which have started operation Palestine are already
self-sustaining.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: “Resuming his opening ‘statement at the
trial of the $1,000,000 libel suit brought by Aaron Sapiro, Chicago attorney,
against Henry Ford, the chief of counsel for Sapiro, Milton H. Gallagher, today
took up point by point the allegations concerning a "Jewish
combination" to exploit farmers published in The Dearborn Independent and
branding each as false as he went along.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: It was reported today that Senator James
E. Watson of Indiana will be “the principal speaker” at the 19<sup>th</sup>
annual meeting of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Society of American which
will be held at Cooper Union on March 18<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929(4<sup>th</sup> of Adar II. 5689): Parashat
Pekudi<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: During an interview given today in
Philadelphia, Professor C. Leonard Woolley said that based on recent
archaeological discoveries at Ur of the Chaldees, “it was necessary for the
world to completely revise its estimate of Abraham.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1929/03/17/archives/discoveries-at-ur-show-new-abraham-bible-character-not-nomad-but.html?searchResultPosition=13"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1929/03/17/archives/discoveries-at-ur-show-new-abraham-bible-character-not-nomad-but.html?searchResultPosition=13</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: Today, Benjamin “Gitlow was named to the
three-man Secretariat at the helm of the Communist Party, assuming the post of
Executive Secretary.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930(16<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5690): Shushan
Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: It was reported today that “the main
difficulty in connection with the report of the Palestine Inquiry Commission
centers around the land question…” (As reported by JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931(27<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5691): Russian
born Jennie Goodman Amolsky, the wife of Isaac Joseph Amolsky with whom she had
five children – Gertrude, Meyer, Lazarus, Dora and Rebecca – passed away today
in Houston, TX after which she was buried at Beth Israel Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: A New immigration category for
middle-class settlers seeking<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>admission
to Palestine which would mean that “farmers, merchants and industrialist would
be admitted in the new category if they that have a capital of five hundred
pounds, was announced in Jerusalem today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/03/17/100695344.html?pageNumber=10"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/03/17/100695344.html?pageNumber=10</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: Birthdate of Sandy Weil financer and <st1:stockticker w:st="on">CEO</st1:stockticker> of Citigroup until 2003.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The son of Polish immigrants, Weil became one
of the wealthiest individuals in America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Recent revelations have shown that while Weil made a lot of money, some
of his methods were of a questionable nature. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: New York Hakoah of the Eastern Soccer
League defeated a touring team from Budapest today thanks to two goals scored
by Moritz Haeusler. (Bob Wechsler)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: Ceremonies marking the dedication of the
new sanctuary of Temple Rodeph Sholom in Manhattan continued for a third day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: “A Love Story” based on a play by Arthur
Schnitzler and directed by Max Opuls was released in France today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934(29<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5694): Sixty-eight-year-old
Gertrude Aronson, the “daughter of Joseph and Theresa Deutsch” and the first
wife of Louis Vincent Aronson, the inventor of the Ronson lighter passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: In its first international football
(soccer) match the team from Mandatory Palestine (the future Israel) lost to
Egypt 7 to 1.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: After 237 performances the curtain comes
down on the original Broadway production of “Life Begins at 8:40,” “a musical
revue with music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and E.Y. Harburg.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: Fourteen Jewish American athletes and
their manager David White set sail on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SS</i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Conte di Savola</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The athletes will participate in the
Maccabiah, the Jewish Olympics, scheduled to open in April in Tel Aviv.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to unexpected financial difficulties, it
was not known until the last minute if the team would be able to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thirty teams are expected to compete in the games,
up from the twenty-five teams that competed in the inaugural games held in
1932.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935(11th of Adar II, 5695):<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Aron Nimzowitsch passed away.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Nimzovich</span>
or <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Niemzowitsch</span> was born in
Latvia in 1886 when it was part of the Russian Empire. He was a chess
grandmaster and was the foremost figure amongst the <i>hypermoderns</i>.
Nimzowitsch came from a wealthy Jewish family and learned chess from his
father. He travelled to Germany in 1904 to study philosophy but began a career
as a professional chess player that same year. After tumultuous years during
and after World War I, Nimzowitsch moved to Copenhagen in 1922 and lived there
until his death. He is buried in Bispebjerg Cemetery in Copenhagen, Denmark.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Jews in Palestine protested the worsening
conditions under which the Jews of Poland were living.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Polish Jews were dealing with everything from
a government threat to end Kosher slaughtering to actual Pogroms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Jewish National Council of Palestine
conducted a mass protest meeting, and the Jews of Tel Aviv shuttered their
shops for one day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: The U.S. Secretary of the Interior “spoke
at a joint banquet” held tonight by the United Synagogue of America and its
women’s auxiliary where he told the attendees “Like those forefather of yours,
we of America today are wandering the desert even though it is a social and not
a physical desert.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Magistrate Anna Moskowitz Kross and Mrs.
David E. Goldfarb are scheduled to speak a tea being held today that has been
organized by Mrs. Benjamin Antin and Mrs. Edna Crane which will mark the
opening event of the Bronx Women’s Division of the United Palestine Appeal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: In New York, “Catholic, Protestant and
Jewish speakers” including Rabbi Elias L. Soloon and Rabbi Morris M. Goldberg
joined in tonight’s celebration of the 100<sup>th</sup> anniversary of
Congregation Shaare Zedek which was also marked by President Roosevelt and
Governor Lehman who “sent letters of feciliation…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: In Haifa, “Polish-born veterinarian Yosef
Tversky and Lithuanian Jewish Jenia Tversky (née Ginzburg), a social worker who
later became a member of the Knesset representing the Mapai (Workers' Party)”
gave birth to cognitive psychologist Amos Tversky, a Stanford psychology
professor who with his longtime colleague, Princeton psychologist Daniel
Kahneman, jointly won the 2003 Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. The $200,000
prize, awarded for the third time by the University of Louisville in Kentucky,
recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of psychology. Working as a
team for nearly three decades, Kahneman and Tversky revolutionized the
scientific approach to decision making, ultimately affecting all social
sciences and many related disciplines. Tversky died of cancer in 1996.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His untimely death prevented him from sharing
in a Nobel Prize with his longtime colleague, Daniel Kahneman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: Police fired on a crowd in Clichy which
provoked a crisis that the opponents of Leon Blum used in an attempt to gain a
vote of no confidence in his Popular Front government.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: Thanks to intervention by United States
consular representatives, Boris Smolar, a correspondent for JTA who was ordered
to leave Germany on March 12, “has received permission for an indefinite stay I
Berlin.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5698): Fast of
Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: Tonight, Harold Jacobi, the chairman of
the New York United Palestine Appeal, joined with leaders of Hadassah in using
a Purim theme to call upon American Jews to support the drive to provide aid
for the “more than 200,000 Jews in Austria who have come under the rule of the
Nazis” on the eve of the holiday when Persian Jews were faced with possible
destruction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: Jewish professors were kicked out of
Austrian universities<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: In his review of <u>Goodbye Wester
Country</u> by Henry Williamson, Ralph Thompson described the author’s
interpretation of the Nazi revolution as being “the most naïve interpretation
of the Nazi revolution ever put to paper.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: During the Spanish Civil War the four day
battle at Belichite in which the Botwins, a company of Polish volunteers named
after political radical Naftali Bortain, had almost been wiped out.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: Adolf Eichmann went to Austria to begin
the removal of Jews<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Emil Hacha, who had been the last
President of an “independent” Czechoslovakia bowed to personal pressure from
Hitler and became the “State President of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia”
where, regardless of what else he did to help or combat the Nazis, he did sign
“into law legislation modeled after the Nuremberg Laws that meant the Jews were
no longer Czech citizens in any sense of that term.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: As Arab violence continues unabated, 3
Arabs were killed today and another 250 were arrested by British forces who
also seized a large quantity of rifles, ammunition and explosives.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: “Myron C. Taylor, the United States
representative on the Evian inter-governmental refugee committee, who is en
route home, arrived in London and spend the day discussing with the leaders in
the City problems connected with the mass emigration of Jews from Germany if
the recent Nazi proposals are carried out.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940(6<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5700): Parashat
Vayikra<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940(6<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5700):
Sixty-eight-year-old Samuel Mundheim, the Washington D.C. born son of Lewis and
Fanny Foster Mundheim and the husband of Stella Kaufmann Mundheim who was
chairman of the board of the American Safety Razor Corporation and former
president of Stern Brothers department store passed away today in New York
after which he was buried at the Washington Hebrew Congregation Cemetery in the
District of Columbia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940(6th of Adar II, 5700): Samuel Untermyer
passed away. It is difficult to do justice to the life and career of this
lawyer, self-made millionaire and leader of the Jewish community born in
Virginia who found success in New York City. The following lengthy obituary in
the New York Times provides a picture of his life and accomplishments Untermyer
was the grandfather of Samuel Untermyer II. Born in 1912, he was “a United
States nuclear engineer who theorized that steam bubble formation in a nuclear
reactor core would not produce unstable reactions but would instead result in
an inherently stable and self-controlling reactor design. He was responsible
for the BORAX Experiments and in recognition of his fundamental development
work on safe, water-cooled reactors the American Nuclear Society now has an
award named after him for work in this field.” He won the Newcomen Medal in
1980 and passed away in 2001.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941:
In Vichy, France, “the government published a fourth list of nearly 500
business firms in Paris” including Andre Seligman and Seligman Freres, “the
internationally known antique dealers” that have been “provided with Aryan
administrators because anti-Jewish laws prevent their owners and directors from
functioning. (Anti-Semitism is a profitable business)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
L.F. Rothschild and Company and Goldman Sachs and Company were among those
institutions which purchased “the $100,000,000 of short-term notes sold today
by allotment by State Controller O'Leary” and which “will be delivered tomorrow
to the Bank of the Manhattan Company in New York City for conveyance to the
buyers. Proceeds of the sale will be used for general governmental purposes.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.wzo.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=268&subject=144#top#top"></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1942: The first 1,600
Jews were deported from Lublin to Belzec. Another 10,000 would follow the next
week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: “The American Federation for Lithuanian
Jews, of which Sidney Hillman is honorary president, today issued an appeal to
all Jews from the Baltic countries now in the United States to come to the aid
of Lithuanian Jews who succeeded in escaping from the Nazis into Soviet
territory.” (As reported by JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: Birthdate of actress Susan Linda Bay who
is the widow Leonard Nimoy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: In Manhattan, attorney Jacob Goldberg and
“the former Etta Herman, a department store coat model and homemaker” gave
birth to Michael Harris Goldberg “the general counsel of the upstart American
Basketball Association during its final years in the 1970s and the head of the
N.B.A. coaches’ union for nearly four decades…” (As reported by Richard
Sandomir)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/sports/basketball/michael-goldberg-death-nba-general-counsel.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/sports/basketball/michael-goldberg-death-nba-general-counsel.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1943(9th of Adar II,
5703):</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An SS officer was killed by a Jew named
Kotnowski at Lvov. In reprisal, the Germans hung 11 Jewish policemen from the
balconies overlooking the main street of the Ghetto. Also over 1,000 Jews were
taken away and shot.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Following reports that Prime Minister
Miklós Kállay was putting out feelers to the Allies about a possible
capitulation, “Hitler summoned Admiral Miklos Horthy to a meeting” where he
pressured him to stay in the work and “to assist in the kill of more of
Hungary’s Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: Approximately 90% of Wurzburg, a city
that had shipped its Jewish population to concentration camps from 1941 through
1943, was destroyed today when 225 British heavy bombers attacked the city in a
17-minute period.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5706):
Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: Today, The Acheson-Lilienthal Report on
the International Control of Atomic Energy was published.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lilienthal is David Lilienthal who had gained
fame as the creator of TVA. His involvement in how the United States should
deal with Atomic Energy in the post-war world is another example of Jewish
involvement in a whole raft of issues dealing with the creation and use of both
the Atomic and Hydrogen bombs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: Today, at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York,
during the 29<sup>th</sup> convention of the Commercial Education Association, “the
convention gave a special award to Nathaniel Altholz, director of commercial education,
in recognition of his forty years of service in the New Yok City school system”
which was presented to him y Heny Levy chairman of the Board of Education.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: “The Red House,” the film version of the
book by the same name, starring Edward G. Robinson was released today in the
United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: The British announce plans to end Martial
Law in Tel Aviv and adjacent areas effective tomorrow. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947(24th of Adar, 5707): Sixty-three-year-old
Copenhagen born Waldemar Holberg, the world welterweight champion in 1914 who
boxed for in the 1908 Olympics for Denmark passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: An explosion ripped through press room
and tourist information center in the Jerusalem offices of the Jewish
agency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While some said the attack was
the work of “Jewish terrorists” and highlighted the split between Yishuv and
militant extremists, the Irgun denied responsibility and said the attack may
have been the work of the British.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: “In a day of comparatively little
violence in Palestine, a spokesman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine said
today that the Jews ‘would welcome any truce under any conditions.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: As Arab forces waged a war of terror
designed to undo the UN Partition Resolution, the Palmach attacked
al-Husayniyaa in response to the explosion of land mine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
London, Ontario, Joe Garber and Hope Wolf gave birth to Canadian actor Victor
Garber<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951(8<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5711): Eighty-three-year-old
Laura Bearden Leigh, the wife of John Marion Leigh and the daughter of <span style="color: black;">Louis Alexander Gratz, the Mayor of North Knoxville, TN and
a Major in the Union Army and Elisabeth “Lizzie” Trigg Gratz passed away today
in San Antonio, TX.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Birthdate of French American businessman, Philippe Kahn, founder of
Borland Software Corporation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952: It was reported today that the New York
Society for Geneal Semantics, an affiliate of the New York Academy of Sciences
and the International Society for General Semantics has elected Karl Ettinger
to serve as one of its trustees.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952: Birthdate of award-winning author Alice
Hoffman, the granddaughter of a Russian Jewish immigrants whose works included <i><span style="background: white; color: #202122;">The World That We Knew</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #202122;"> based on a true story about a
child whose Jewish parents “had her live with non-Jewish parents to escape the
Nazis.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954(11th of Adar II, 5714): Tonight, unknown
assailants attacked an Egged bus traveling between Eilat and Tel Aviv killing
the driver Efraim Firstenberg, eight male passengers and two female passengers
following which the killers spat on and abused the bodies of the dead before
leaving with loot they had collected.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5717):
Parashat Tzav; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957: “Robert Briscoe, the Jewish Lord Mayor of
Dublin, carrying his Talis bag from Dublin visited and prayed at the Park East Synagogue
on Shabbat morning.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958: In Croatia Slavko Goldstein and his wife
gave birth to Ivo Goldstein, the historian who is ‘the former president of Bet
Israel, a Jewish community in Zagreb, which he founded with his father” with
whom he also worked on “the reconstruction of the Zagreb Synagogue.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958: An explosion caused severe damage to
school wing of Temple Beth El in Miami, Florida.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958: Bombing of Jewish Community Center in
Nashville, Tennessee at 8:07pm, claimed by segregationists of the Confederate
Union. The front of the unoccupied building was damaged by dynamite, including
broken windows and the front door, but the center reopened two days after the
bombing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959: Birthdate of Scott L. Schwartz, the
native of Philadelphia who used “his size and agility at 6"10 and 303
pounds (137 kg)” to carve out careers in law enforcement, acting and wrestling.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960: The Smith-Roosevelt Independent Democrats
which “is opposed to the Tammany leadership of State Joseph Zaretski” announced
their endorsements for State Senator and for the Assembly in the Fifteenth
District.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960(17<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5720):
Seventy-one-year-old Hyam John “Boy” Lipman, a dentist and the first husband of
Australian political and social leader Esther Solomon passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962: It was reported today that Daniel Persky,
the brother of Eliah Persky, had the motto “Eved L’Ivrith Anokhi” (A slave unto
Hebrew am I) on his business cards.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962: The “Golani Brigade raided Syrian
outposts to the north of the Sea of Galilee in order to stop Syrian shelling of
Israeli Villages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seven Israeli soldiers
and thirty Syrian soldiers were killed during the battle.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The raid did not end the shelling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would continue sporadically until 1967
when the IDF heroically took the Golan Heights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1963: “Personality: Boom is Loud for Lesser”
published today provides a profile of Louis Lesser and his real estate empire.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9C06E7DF173FE03BBC4E52DFB5668388679EDE"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9C06E7DF173FE03BBC4E52DFB5668388679EDE</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964: Premiere of “Nothing But the Best,” a
British comedy with a script co-authored by future Oscar winner Frederic
Raphael.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: Israel Votes to Have Diplomatic Relations
with West Germany<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: As bagel bakers clashed over how to deal
with the changing world of Bagel Baking, Morris Skolnick was defeated in his
bid to be elected business agent for famed local 388.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966: When David Dubinsky announced his
retirement today from the International Ladies Garment Workers he told fellow
union officers, ‘I didn't have a life, I had a union life. You know my nature.
If I'm president I can't only be president from morning till night. It has to
be from morning until the next morning.'<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968(16th of Adar, 5728): Italian Jewish
composer <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco</span>
passed away. Born in Florence in 1895, he was descended from a prominent
banking family that had lived in the city since the expulsion of the Jews from
Spain in 1492. Like many artists who fled fascism, Castelnuovo-Tedesco ended up
in Hollywood, where, with the help of Yasha Heifetz, he landed a contract with <st1:stockticker w:st="on">MGM</st1:stockticker> as a film composer. Over the next fifteen
years, he worked on scores for some 200 films there and at the other major film
studios. He was a significant influence on other major film composers,
including Henry Mancini, Jerry Goldsmith, Nelson Riddle, John Williams, and
André Previn. His relationship to Hollywood was ambiguous: later in life he
attempted to deny the influence that it had on his own work, but he also
believed that it was an essentially American art form, much as opera was
European. In the United States, Castelnuovo-Tedesco also composed new operas
and works based on American poetry, Jewish liturgy, and the Bible. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972(1<sup>st</sup> of Nisan, 5732): Rosh
Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972(1<sup>st</sup> of Nisan, 5732): Sixty-eight-year-old
Swiss born physicist and Cornell University Professor Henri S. Sack passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/18071/Sack_Henri_S_1972.pdf;sequence=2"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/18071/Sack_Henri_S_1972.pdf;sequence=2</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973(12<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5733):
Seventy-seven year old Samuel L. Calman, the Russian born husband of Fannie
Calechman who in 1897 moved to New Haven, CT where he was active in business
and the Jewish community passed away today after which he was buried at the
B’nai Jacob Memorial Park in his adopted home town.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(4th of Nisan, 5735): Eight-three-year-old
Galicia native Jacob Kalich, “the Yiddish theatrical producer, playwright and
actor” who was the husband of Molly Picon passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/17/archives/jacob-kalich-of-yiddish-stage-molly-picons-husband-83-dies.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/17/archives/jacob-kalich-of-yiddish-stage-molly-picons-husband-83-dies.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1976(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5736): Purim
observed for the last time during the Presidency of Jerry Ford.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978(7<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5738):
Eighty-year-old Keene, NH native “Dr. Samuel L. Saltzman, an ophthalmologist
and medical historian” who served as a volunteer with the Israeli Army in 1948
and was married to Rose Saltzman with whom he raised two children – Suzanne and
Jonathan – passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/18/archives/dr-samuel-saltzman-eye-surgeon-historian.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/18/archives/dr-samuel-saltzman-eye-surgeon-historian.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979(24<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5739): Sixty-six-year-old
University of Minnesota trained attorney and WW II U.S. Army veteran Julius E.
Davis, the “son of Isadore and Molly (Edelman) Davis, the husband of Lillian
Stacia Kropman and father of Lawrence and Stephen Davis passed away today <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980: Funeral services were held today for Dr.
Herbert J. Fernbach, a member of Temple B’nai Sholom in Rockville Centre,
NY><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980(28<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5740): Eighty-two
year old Harvard trained New Orleans, LA, businessman Edward Bernard Benjamin,
Sr. the Little Rock, AR born son of “Emanuel V. Benjamin and Rachel Goldsmith
and WW I U.S. Army veteran who was the husband of Blanche Sternberger of
Greensboro, NC with whom he had three children passed away today in New Orleans
after which he was buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Greensboro. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981: Birthdate of Phillip Ruch “, a German
artist built a replica of Berlin’s Holocaust memorial and placed it outside the
house of a far-right politician who had called the original “a monument of
shame.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/germany-investigating-artist-who-built-holocaust-memorial-replica-outside-far-right-leaders-house">https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/germany-investigating-artist-who-built-holocaust-memorial-replica-outside-far-right-leaders-house</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982: In case of Jew on Jew, in “Rudnick’s Poor
Little Lambs’ of Yale” Frank Rich reviewed Paul Rudnick’s ''‘Poor Little
Lambs,’ a no-holds-barred account of a year in the life of the Whiffenpoofs
singing group.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/16/theater/theater-rudnick-s-poor-little-lambs-of-yale.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/16/theater/theater-rudnick-s-poor-little-lambs-of-yale.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983: The Third World Conference on Soviet
Jewry continued to a second day in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984: William Buckley, the CIA station chief in
Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in
captivity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985(23rd of Adar, 5745): Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar, 5745): Olga
Ginsburg (nee Bessman) who had been born in 1894 and was the wife of Joseph Ginsburg
and the mother of the multi-talented Serge Gainsbourg passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://forward.com/articles/14621/the-man-with-the-yellow-star-/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://forward.com/articles/14621/the-man-with-the-yellow-star-/</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987: Israel radio reported today that the
Israeli Government has helped to pay the legal bills of Jonathan Jay Pollard,
the American intelligence analyst sentenced to life in prison last month for
spying for Israel. The radio said ''state elements in Israel'' transferred
$80,000 by unspecified indirect means to the defense of Mr. Pollard and his
wife, Anne Henderson-Pollard. Mrs. Henderson-Pollard was sentenced to five
years for helping her husband to pass hundreds of top-secret American documents
to the Israeli Government. The couple's total legal expenses were reported to
be somewhere between $120,000 to $200,000. The radio report did not say when
the transfer took place or whether the Israeli Government planned to make
additional payments to the Pollards. Israel radio said the funds were provided
to James Hibey, a Washington lawyer, whom it described as the lawyer for Mr.
Pollard and his wife. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5747): Shushan
Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5747): Eighty-seven-year-old
Estonia native Samuel H. Shapiro, the second Jew to serve as Governor of
Illinois passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-03-17/news/8701210345_1_mr-shapiro-kankakee-county-election-reform"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-03-17/news/8701210345_1_mr-shapiro-kankakee-county-election-reform</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987: Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin today
denied reports that Israel may still be spying on the United States. Mr. Rabin
was responding to a story in The Washington Post which said American
investigators became suspicious during their questioning of Mr. Pollard that
Israel had another agent working in an American intelligence operation. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987: Doctors discovered and removed a tumor
from the brain of Jazz Drummer Buddy Rich. (As reported by James Barron)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988(27th of Adar, 5748): Eighty-five-year-old
Austro-Hungarian Empire native Paul Kohner, a dominating talent agent, the
brother of novelist Frederick Kohner and father of actress of Susan Kohner
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1988-03-18/news/mn-1515_1_paul-kohner"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://articles.latimes.com/1988-03-18/news/mn-1515_1_paul-kohner</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991:
"Underground," a new work by the Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol,
directed by Adrian Hall, is scheduled to have its last performance today at the
Yale Repertory Theater. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991:
“Trabbi Goes to Hollywood” a comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub and
featuring Milton Berle was released in Germany today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1992:
Loretta Weinberg began serving as a Member of the New Jersey General Assembly
from the 37th Legislative District,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5755): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997(9th
of Adar I, 5757): Eighty-two-year-old Thomas C. Fichandler, the co-founder of
the Arena Stage in Washington D.C. who was the husband of producer, director
Zelda Fichandler and the son-in-law of scientist and inventor Harry Diamond
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997: In “Cabaret That Shocked, Shocked the
Nazis” published today David Mermelstein Ute Lemper’s plans to “perform
relatively obscure cabaret songs banned by the Nazis.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/16/arts/cabaret-that-shocked-shocked-the-nazis.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/16/arts/cabaret-that-shocked-shocked-the-nazis.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998: The Vatican expressed remorse for the
cowardice of some Christians during the Holocaust,but defended the actions of
Pope Pius XII. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998: At a press conference today Cardinal
Cassidy, President of the Holy See's Commission For Religious Relations With
the Jews, presented for publication the document, We Remember: A Reflection On
The Shoah. Joining him in the presentation were Bishop Pierre Duprey, Vice
President of the Commission, and Father Remi Hoeckmann, O.P., its Secretary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/documents/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_16031998_shoah_en.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/documents/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_16031998_shoah_en.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999(28th of Adar, 5759): Rhoda Mendelson
Faffer passed away today at the age of 87.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The deceased was the wife of the late Samuel Faffer and the late,
well-known Chazan, Cantor Nathan Mendelson of Montreal Canada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000(9<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5760): Eighty-one-year-old
Georgia born, University of Chicago trained attorney Morris B. Abram the
fighter for human rights and President of Brandeis University passed away
today. (As reported by William Honan)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/17/us/morris-abram-is-dead-at-81-rights-advocate-led-brandeis.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/17/us/morris-abram-is-dead-at-81-rights-advocate-led-brandeis.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2000/mar/17/news/mn-9914"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://articles.latimes.com/2000/mar/17/news/mn-9914</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: More than 30 Jewish student journalists
from across the United States studied with Pulitzer Prize-winners Charles
Krauthammer and Glenn Frankel, the editor <i>of The Washington Post Magazine</i>,
as well as editors of leading American Jewish publications as part of the
Journalism Track of the 2001 Charlotte and Jack J. Spitzer B'nai B'rith Hillel
Forum on Public Policy.."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002: “The Last Days of Pompeii,” a solo
exhibition of the works of Eleanor Antin came to a close.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: On the eve of the United States' invasion
of Iraq, Pastor John Hagee took to the pulpit to warn of the coming Antichrist.
In his sermon, "The Final Dictator," Hagee described the Antichrist
as a seductive figure with "fierce features." He will be "a
blasphemer and a homosexual," the pastor announced. Then, Hagee boomed,
"There's a phrase in Scripture used solely to identify the Jewish people.
It suggests that this man [the Antichrist] is at least going to be partially
Jewish, as was Adolph Hitler, as was Karl Marx." This "fierce"
gay Jew, according to Hagee, would "slaughter one-third of the Earth's
population" and "make Adolph Hitler look like a choirboy."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004: “Israel's security cabinet, headed by
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, approved military action in response to recent
Palestinian attacks emanating from Gaza, including a double suicide bombing on”
March 14, 2004 “that left 10 Israelis dead.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
New York Times</i> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
interest to Jewish readers including <u>What Liberal Media?<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> The Truth About Bias and the News</span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span>by Eric Alterman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: After having been screening at the
Germany-Berlin Film Festival and the Israel-Jerusalem Festival “Avanim,”
“Raphael Nadjari’s fourth feature film was released in France today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
yet another exchange of land for a promise of peace, Israel officially hands
over Jericho to Palestinian control<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: Excavations at Tel Arad in the Negev were
photographed today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: In an interview at the time, repeated on
BBC2's Newsnight today Michael Levy stated that "Over the years I have
paid many millions of taxes and, if you average it, each year it comes to many
hundreds of thousands of pounds. In that particular year, I was giving my time
to the Labour Party and the voluntary sector, and I just lived off the capital.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: While serving as Chief Rabbi of France,
Joseph Haim Sitruk “was selected as Commander of the Legion of Honor.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2007: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Jewish Post</i> reported that “Hadarom, the Rabbinical Council of America’s
annual Torah journal, is now available on the Internet. The 50-year-old
journal, which deals principally with matters of Jewish law and biblical and
Talmudic exegesis, is accessible at </span><a href="http://www.rabbis.org"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">www.rabbis.org</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
New York Times</i> book section features reviews of <u>Why We’re Liberals:<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America </span></u>by liberal Jewish
columnist Eric Alterman and <u>The Best American Erotic Poems<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> From 1800 to the Present</span></u><b> </b>edited
by David Lehman. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: <span style="color: #222222;">Within a week
of the near collapse of Bear Stearns led by President and COO Bear Stearns and merger
with</span> <span style="color: #222222;">JP Morgan</span> today<span style="color: #222222;">, “the shares were trading at $5.33 per share which
eventually prompted a reportedly angry confrontation between Schwartz and
senior trader Alan Mintz in the company gym<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: “Black Rabbi Reaches out to Mainstream of
His Faith” published today described the life and work of Rabbi Capers C.
Funnye, Jr. (prounced fun-AY) the spiritual leader of Chicago’s Beth Shalom
B’nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation.<span style="color: black;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/us/16rabbi.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/us/16rabbi.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2008:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">About two dozen Holocaust survivors,
including some saved by German industrialist Oskar Schindler mark the 65th
anniversary of the Nazi's liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Krakow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: In Albany, NY,
a screening of Etgar Keret’s film “Jellyfish” followed by Q&A with the
famed Israeli author.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: After <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New Republic</i> published ‘Wasting Away
in Hooverville” today, Jonathan “Chait appeared on Comedy Central's The Colbert
Report to counter conservative arguments that the New Deal was a failure.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:<b><span style="color: #3300cc;"> </span></b><span style="color: black;">As part of </span>Lillian
Goldman Literary Series<b> </b>the American Jewish Historical Society, the
Center for Jewish History and Jewish Heritage present: “The Lifecycles of New
York Jews: Love and Loss,” the second in an already widely praised series of
staged readings that explores the experiences of love, well-being and loss
through the eyes of New York Jewish authors. With the assistance of stage and
screen star Kathleen Chalfant and a wonderful supporting cast, acclaimed author
Nicole Krauss joins in a theatrical reading of her poignant and powerful New
Yorker magazine story, "The Last Words on Earth," from the novel <u><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The History of Love</span></u>.
Non-fiction story writer and memoirist Dorothy Gallagher, whose work has been
described as "intimate, fierce and hilarious," reads from her
collections <u>How I Came Into My Inheritance and Strangers in the House</u>.
Jonathan Rosen, editorial director of Nextbook, reads from his national
bestseller, <u><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Life of the Skies</span></u>
and Alix Kates Shulman reads from her memoir, <u>To<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed</span>.<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: A 29-year-old
Israeli man connected with Jerusalem’s haredi “modesty squad” was sentenced to
four years in prison today for the brutal gang assault of a woman in her
apartment last year. The Justice Minister announced that the group’s ringleader
and other alleged cell members were never charged in the case due to a lack of
evidence. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Ninety-six-year-old
song writer Jack Lawrence passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jack-lawrence18-2009mar18-story.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jack-lawrence18-2009mar18-story.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/arts/music/18lawrence.html?_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/arts/music/18lawrence.html?_r=0</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/17/AR2009031703363.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/17/AR2009031703363.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Federal
Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski “released a National
Broadband Plan, titled “Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Rosh Chodesh
Nisan, 5770<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: According to
the Vilna Gaon, construction of the third temple is scheduled to begin on this
day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: As part of its
series “Far Flung Jews: Jewish Cultures Around the World,” the Jewish Study
Center is scheduled to offer a program describing “The Resurgent Jewish
Community of Berlin” at Adas Israel in Washington, DC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A senior Israel Defense Forces officer said
today that despite the violence that erupted across Jerusalem in response to
Hamas' declaration of a "day of rage,” neither the Palestinian Authority
nor Israel was interested in seeing a renewal of conflict. "<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Avner Netanyahu, 15, son of Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu and Sarah Netanyahu, received the top honor in Israel's
national Bible Quiz championship for youth today. The girls' champion was Or
Ashual of the Bnei Akiva Amana Academy in Kfar Saba.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: David Sofer,
“the Jewish Israeli businessman living in London” whose property would be part
of a dispute in 2018 between Israel and the Greek Orthodox Church, and his wife
Cindy attended the “opening reception of the Jewish Museum in London” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010:
“Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson…helped” to “re-launch the London Jewish Museum”
today “after a two-year closure. “<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
The 15<sup>th</sup> New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to
come to an end. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(6th
of Adar II, 5871): Seventy-five-year-old actor Al Israel who was best known for
his role in two Al Pacino gangster films – Scarface and Carlito’s Way—passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
Final screening of Human Resource Manager, a film based on a novel by A.B.
Yehoushua, is scheduled to take place at the Cinema Village in New York. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi are scheduled to appear “in concert for the
opening of the exhibit on Ketuvot at The Jewish Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
The Israel Air Force fired two missiles at a security compound in the
Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip today, killing two Palestinians, Palestinian medical
officials said. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011:
Jewish youth held an artistic and educational ceremony to memorialize the
victims of the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires Israeli pop
star Ivri Lider, who was invited to Argentina by the "Autumn Festival” of
music, performed at the event. Youth media professionals specializing in video
and film prepared a video called “Justice will not stay buried under the
rubble” about the attack memorials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt-AhWWL4nc"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt-AhWWL4nc</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
The northern California home of Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of the progressive
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tikkun</i> magazine, was vandalized for
the third time in less than a year. The attack came a day after Lerner
presented the Tikkun Award for ethics to South African Justice Richard
Goldstone at a celebration of Tikkun’s 25th anniversary attended by more than
600 people at the University of California, Berkeley. (As reported by JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
The Chief Rabbinate, Interior Ministry and State Attorney’s Office are
currently drawing up new procedures to determine the validity of Orthodox
conversions for the purpose of aliya, Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar said
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Benjamin Berell Ferencz, the last surviving Chief Prosecutor from the Nuremberg
War Crime trials, “in another letter to the editor of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i>, hailed the International Criminal Court's
conviction of Thomas Lubanga as "a milestone in the evolution of
international criminal law."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
“Nina Menkes Retrospective: Cinema as Sorcery” featuring personal appearances
by the famed filmmaker whose parents are Holocaust survivors is scheduled to
come to an in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
The Friars Club is scheduled to present a tribute to Jerry Lewis at the 92<sup>nd</sup>
Street Y. The program will include a “screening of a new documentary, Method to
the Madness of Jerry Lewis, followed by a talk/tribute with Jerry Lewis on the
occasion of his 86th birthday.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Jerusalem hosted its second annual marathon today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
The Alexandria Kleztet is scheduled to perform in Rockville, MD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
“The Day I Saw Your Heart” is scheduled to have its Minnesota Premiere at the
Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013(5<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5773): Sixty-year-old former MK Marina Solodkin suffered a stroke and
passed away while attending a conference in Riga, Latvia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/former-mk-marina-solodkin-dies-of-stroke-in-latvia/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/former-mk-marina-solodkin-dies-of-stroke-in-latvia/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to a the Virginia
Virtuosi performing an evening of Jewish classical music celebrating Freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
The Philomusica Quartet – Nadia Weintraub, Yelena Tishin, Avraham Leventhal,
Dmitri Golderman – is scheduled to perform at the Eden-Tamir Music Center<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2013: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
presented the new government to President Shimon Peres tonight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
MK Tzipi Livni, Israel’s newest Justice Minister, stressed today that she would
not support the basic law bill “Israel is the national state of the Jewish
people,” whose promotion is part of the new coalition agreements with the
Jewish Home party. In the absence of a constitution, The Basic Laws of Israel
(Chukei Hayesod) deal with the formation and role of the principal state’s
institutions, and the relations between the state’s authorities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5774): Purim <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5774): Eighty-six year old Tony award winning composer Mitch Leigh
whose work also included the “Nobody Doesn’t Like Sara Lee “ jingle<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>passed away today. (As reported by Anita
Gates)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/theater/mitch-leigh-man-of-la-mancha-composer-dies-at-86.html?hpw&rref=arts"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/theater/mitch-leigh-man-of-la-mancha-composer-dies-at-86.html?hpw&rref=arts</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Eden Rose Strauss, daughter of Rabbi Feivel and Abbie Strauss and granddaughter
of Dr. Bob and Laurie Silber is scheduled to be the youngest person in Bexley,
Ohio “celebrating” what for will be her first Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a family concert by The Dirty Sock
Funtime Band.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“The Jewish Cardinal” and “Suskind” are scheduled to be shown at the Houston
Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of
“Joann Sfar Draws From Memory” which “tracks his odyssey through the Algerian
and Eastern European Jewish heritage that serves as the wellspring of his
work.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Ilan Caplan, the Chazan for the Traditional High Holiday Services in Cedar
Rapids is scheduled to chant Megalith Esther at Shird Chadesh In Metairie, LA
which when it was the Conservative Congregation of New Orleans gave Mitchell
Levin who davens in Cedar Rapids, his first teaching job. (Don’t you just love
Jewish Geography?) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa Temple Judah is scheduled to host a Religious School
Purim Carnival followed later in the day by a Megillah Reading with attendees
including adults in costumes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
In Israel, Channel 2 reported that Israel has tightened security in its
airspace following the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. (As
reported by Times of Israel)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:”
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Israel’s top negotiator in talks with the
Palestinian Authority, chastised Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Sunday
evening over comments he’d made the previous day dismissing the viability of
peace talks, saying “grumbling and despairing is easy…our responsibility is to
change reality.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(As reported by Itamar
Sharon)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Hundreds of east Jerusalem residents held a demonstration in Jerusalem’s Old
City near the Damascus Gate this evening, with several demonstrators throwing
rocks at a police car, breaking its windshield.” (As reported by Itamar Sharon)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and or of special interest to Jewish readers
including<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>Bernard Malamud: Novels and
Stories of the 1940s and 50s: "The Natural," "The
Assistant," "Twenty Stories," "Posthumously Published
Stories</u> edited by Philip Davis, <u>Bernard Malamud: Novels and Stories of
the 1940s and 50s: "The Natural," "The Assistant,"
"Twenty Stories," "Posthumously Published Stories</u> edited by
Phillip Davis and <u>The Wherewithal, A Novel in Verse</u> by Philip Schultz as
well as the publication of an interview with Philip Roth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“Solomon Schechter Symposium” with Dara Horn is scheduled to be presented by
the Herbert D. Katz Center Advanced Judaic Studies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Rabbi Denise Eger read the Torah today during installation as CCAR president.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Jack Goldberg is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Middle East Chaos: From
Civil Wars to Disintegration of States” in San Diego.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Orient Stier is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “The Hidden and the Revealed:
A God’s-Eye View of the Landscape of Holocaust Postmemory” at the Jewish Museum
of Florida.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“Los Angeles County prosecutors filed a murder charge today against real estate
scion Robert Durst in the December 2000 killing of his longtime friend Susan
Berman, who was found shot execution-style in her Benedict Canyon home on
Christmas Eve.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“Under pressure on the eve of a surprisingly close election, Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel today doubled down on his appeal to right-wing
voters, declaring definitively that if he was returned to office, he would
never establish a Palestinian state.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“The Allied Powers’ Response to the Holocaust Conference” is scheduled open
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.alliedpowersholocaust.org/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.alliedpowersholocaust.org/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Shore of Love” and “Arabic Movie” are scheduled to be shown at the 19<sup>th</sup>
New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Women’s Night Dinner” and “A La Vie” are scheduled to shown at the Houston
Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
Today, President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to serve as an Associate
Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court” (As reported by Julia Edwards)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://forward.com/news/336064/merrick-garland-moderate-jewish-judge-gets-supreme-court-nod-republicans-pu/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://forward.com/news/336064/merrick-garland-moderate-jewish-judge-gets-supreme-court-nod-republicans-pu/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
Today, President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to serve as an Associate
Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
During a speech in the Rose Garden this morning “new U.S. Supreme Court nominee
Merrick Garland credited his Jewish grandparents, who he said fled to the
United States from anti-Semitism in Russia, for putting him in position to be nominated.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
The YIVO Institute for Jewish research is scheduled to present a lecture on
“Yiddish Culture and Interwar Paris: The 1937 World's Fair & the Modern
Jewish Culture Pavilion.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Mobster Myron Sugerman, the son “Barney Sugerman, a man who partnered in the
gambling business with such notorious mob figures as Meyer Lansky and fellow
Jerseyan Abner “Longie” Zwillman” and who “followed his father into the world
of illegal gambling and wound up serving 19 months at the Federal Correctional
Complex in Allenwood, Pa., after being convicted on gambling charges” “regaled
the crowd at Congregation Beth Israel with his own take on the Jewish
involvement in famous crime syndicates. (As reported by Alan Smason) Editor’s
Note – wonder when the congregation will yuck it up with tales of the Purple
Gang.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5777): Ninety-one year old neurologist, Dr. Lewis Rowland passed away
way today. (As reported by Denise Grady)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/science/lewis-rowland-dead-columbia-university-neurologist.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/science/lewis-rowland-dead-columbia-university-neurologist.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The Princeton Tigers (23-6) led by senior forward Spencer Weisz, “a Maccabiah
Games gold medalist” and “the Ivy League’s Player of the Year are scheduled to
face off against Notre Dame in the opening round of the NACC Basketball
Tournament. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
JW3 is scheduled to host the last screening of “Denial,” a film based on the
libel trial in which professor Deborah E. Lipstadt squared again Holocaust
denier David Irving.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Hidden Mysteries and
Magic: Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism in Renaissance Florence.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5778): Sgt. Netanel Kahalani, left, and Cpt. Ziv Daos, have been
identified as the soldiers killed in an apparent car-ramming terror attack that
took place today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5778): Ninety-five-year-old rabbi Mordechai Hager passed away today.
(As reported by Joseph Berger)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/obituaries/rabbi-mordechai-hager-dead-led-large-hasidic-sect.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/obituaries/rabbi-mordechai-hager-dead-led-large-hasidic-sect.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The New Jersey Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to present a screening of “The
Children of Chance,” the story of a Jewish boy surviving the Holocaust in
Paris.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The Fifth Edition of the Socially Relevant Film “featuring Israeli films The
Gravedigger’s Daughter by Shira Gabay, The Girl by Lihi Sabag, Jerusalem In
Line by Amir Har-Gil and Hotel Everest by Claudia Sobral.” Is scheduled to open
in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Following a service at the Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel and a Shabbat
dinner, scholar-in-residence Rabbi Marc D. Angel is scheduled to deliver his
first lecture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Limmudfest is scheduled to begin this evening in New Orleans, LA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“Collecting for the Nation: The 75th Anniversary of the Lessing J. Rosenwald
Gift of Prints and Drawings to the National Gallery of Art” is scheduled to
begin at noon at The National Gallery of Art.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Following its release in Berlin and the United Kingdom, “Seven Days in Entebbe”
is scheduled to be released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/berlin-7-days-entebbe-questions-benjamin-netanyahus-version-history-1085838"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/berlin-7-days-entebbe-questions-benjamin-netanyahus-version-history-1085838</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019(9<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5779): Shabbat Zachor;
begin reading from the Book of Vayikra<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to host a screening of “The Lost Crown” a documentary about the
Aleppo Codex created by “Avi Dabach, the filmmaker and great-grandson of the
Crown Keeper who navigates the dark corridors of hidden history, archival
documents and rare testimonies reveal an astonishing story involving an Israeli
president, Mossad agents, passionate rabbis, and antique dealers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In the wake of massacre of Muslims in Christchurch
on March 15, “Synagogues across New Zealand are to remain closed over Shabbat”
because, as “the Auckland Hebrew Congregation told members of ‘concern about
the security’ of the community.” (As reported by Mathilde Frot)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In New Orleans, Temple Sinai, the oldest reform
congregation in the Crescent City is scheduled to host its annual Spring Gala.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: Joshua Nelson, “the Prince of Kosher Gospel” and The
Kosher Gospel Singers ae scheduled to perform this evening at the Osher Marin
JCC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: Deadline for those in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City to
express their desire to involved in a rejuvenated “Jewish Federation of the
Corriodr.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: Israelis experience the second day of having all
educational institutions, including preschools, kindergartens that previously
had remained open, closed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: Due to the pandemic, the Center for Jewish History
is postponing “a screening of Cinema and Sanctuary followed by a panel
discussion with award-winning director and CUNY Professor Dave Davidson,
documentary filmmaker (We Were So Beloved) and film school alumnus Manny
Kirchheimer (CCNY ’52), CUNY Professor Jerry Carlson, and current CCNY film
school students.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: Unless canceled due to the pandemic, the London
School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to host the first session of Dr. Aviva
Dautch’s “Seder Night with my Ancestors.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020(20<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5780): Yahrzeits of Rabbi
Joel Sirkes, Rabbi Moses Meir Perles of Prague, Rabbi Yom Tov Algazi, and
Yiddish poet Joseph Jaffe. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: “The Bay Area and other Federation communities are
scheduled to host an evening with Michael Solomonov, executive chef and
co-owner of Zahav in Philadelphia who “will share three favorite Passover
recipes during a virtual cooking event.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies is
scheduled to present online “The Nature of A.D. Gordon: Environment,
Nationalism and Jewish Culture.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: The Jewish Community Relations Council of San
Francisco is scheduled to host “The 25<sup>th</sup> Annual Multicultural
Passover Freedom Seder.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: The Jewish Community of the North Shore is scheduled
to present online “Nafshi Yeshovev: What Lifts My Spirit – An Exploration of
Text, Poetry, Music and More.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: The New Israel Fund and the Other Israel Film
Festival are scheduled to present online “Israeli Leaders on Film.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: Sephardi Federation of the Palm Beach County is
scheduled to present “Dr. Albert Menache & The Holocaust in Salonika With
Dr. Joe Halio.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple’s clergy is scheduled
to “lead a special virtual healing service at 6:15 p.m. today designed to
comfort and support those facing illness or pain of any kind and their
caregivers, and to mark the first year period since COVID-19 shut down Ohio and
much of the United States.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">2021: Moment and the Rewind film project from the Stanford
Jewish Studies Department are scheduled to present online “Adapting Jewish
Literature” during which</span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #383431; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“movies
based on I.B. Singer’s “Yentl” and Amos Oz’s “A Tale of Love and Darkness” are
discussed by historian Fania Oz-Salzberger, author Ruby Namdar and culture
critic Rokhl Kafrissen.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #383431; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5782): Ta’anit Esther; Erev
Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #383431; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: In “She Discovered What Happened to 400 Dutch Jews Who
Disappeared,” published today Nina Siegal described a new exhibition which
shows how “Wally de Lang, a Dutch historian, has tracked what happened to each
of the men rounded up in the first Nazi raids on Dutch Jews, whose fates have
largely been a mystery for decades.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/arts/design/nazis-dutch-jews-disappearance.html?searchResultPosition=1"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/arts/design/nazis-dutch-jews-disappearance.html?searchResultPosition=1</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Yiddishkayt and Martin Cohen are scheduled to present a program featuring three
of the world’s most renowned klezmer musicians and Yiddish singers in a concert
style “Songs of the Jewish Ukrainian” in Los Angeles<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present “Diary of A Black
Jewish Messiah” during which “Professor Alan Verskin will share the world into
which the semi-messianic figure, David Reubeni, peddles his vision of an
autonomous Jewish country in the Holy Land.; a world filled with fierce
rivalries between Christian and Muslim powers, brutal conquest, and fantastic
discovery.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to a lecture by Judge Dennis Davis on Marx and
His Relationship to Judaism: A Radical Rethink.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
JWA booktalk is scheduled to host Cindy Kaplan, author of <u>Freefall: One
Mother’s Journey Raising a Child with Special Needs</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Temple Judea is scheduled to host a morning minyan with Rabbi Feivel and Cantor
Abbie followed by an afternoon of “Candid Conversations for Women with Marcia
Grobman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The United Solo Theatre Festival is scheduled to host Tal Levi Cohen's original
solo performance follows the story of a girl-woman-dancer's experiences with
the eating disorder bulimia, and the way she healed through learning psychology
and expressive arts. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
In Brookline, MA, Congregation Kehillath Israel is scheduled to host a “Melaveh
Malkah” during which “Jacob’s Ladder will perform live, bringing their unique
blend of Jewish and roots/Americana music, with soulful melodies and catchy
rhythms.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
At Temple Judea, Rabbi Feivel Strauss is scheduled to lead Torah Study and
Sydney Pomerantz is scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
As part of the Sacramento Jewish Film Festival, The Center is scheduled to host
“Remembering Gene Wilder” a “biographical tribute to the late comedic genius
and beloved star of “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Young Frankenstein”
and “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
In Sudbury, MA, Ma’Yan Tikvah – A Wellspring of Hope is scheduled to present a “Havdalah
Campfire.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
In San Francisco, the Curran Theatre is scheduled present “All Things Equal,” a
“Broadway play from Tony Award-winning playwright Rupert Holmes about the life
and trials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
Agnon House in Jerusalem is scheduled to host another joint reading of Agnon's
stories, this time called "Days Gone by". Together with Ofir
Lifshitzwe who will “examine the connections between the various characters,
look at Jerusalem as reflected in the story and discuss the difficulties of
immigration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The Boston Workers Circle is scheduled to present “Gragger: A Raucous &
Radical Purim Party,”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2024(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5784): Parashat Pekuday (Count or Enumerate); for more see </span><a href="https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
16th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 162 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p>melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-71903257095943201892024-03-14T16:01:00.005-06:002024-03-14T16:02:45.159-06:00This Day, March 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">March
15</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">457
BCE (12th of Nisan, 3303): Ezra and his followers departed from the River Ahava
on their way to Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">44
BCE: Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Roman Senate. The Jews supported
Caesar in his fight for power against Crassus and Pompey. Pompey had seized
Jerusalem, violated the Holy of Holies and shipped thousands of Judeans off to
the slave markets. Eight years later, Crassus came to Jerusalem and stole the
Temple Treasury. As a reward for Jewish support, Caesar returned the port of
Jaffa to Judean control. He instituted a more humane tax rate that took into
account the Sabbatical Year. He allowed the walls of Jerusalem to be rebuilt
and he allowed Jewish communities in the Italian peninsula, including Rome
itself, to "organize and thrive."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">351:
Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of
the Eastern part of the Roman Empire. During his rule, Gallus had to deal with
a Jewish rebellion in Judea/Palestine. The rebellion, possibly started before
Gallus' elevation to Caesar, was crushed by Gallus' general, Ursicinus, who
ordered all the rebels slain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1317:
Today Richard Swinefeld who had been named Archdeacon of London in 1280 and who
in1286 “threatened to excommunicate several of his flock who wished to attend
the wedding of the daughter of a leading Jew of Hereford” passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1391:
“A Jew hating monk” is responsible for starting anti-Jewish riots in Seville,
Spain. These riots marked the start of a wave of violence throughout Spain and
Portugal which claimed 50,000 lives within less than a year. Many Jews escaped
death by converting to Christianity. This marked the emergence of Marranos who
were said to number 200,000.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1513:
Pope Leo X who relied on Bonet de Lates, a Jew from Provence, as his personal
physician and unofficial advisor and whose <span style="color: black;">leniency
towards the Jews may have stemmed from an attitude summed up by his statement
that “It is well known how useful this fable of Christ has been to us and
ours!” was ordained today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1545:
Opening session of the Council of Trent. At the Council of Trent in the 16th
century, the Roman Church stated as a theological principle that all men share
the responsibility for the Passion—and that Christians bear a particular
burden. "In this guilt [for the death of Jesus] are involved all those who
fall frequently into sin..." read the catechism of the council.” This
guilt seems more enormous in us than in the Jews since, if they had known it,
they would never have crucified the Lord of glory; while we, on the contrary,
professing to know him, yet denying him by our actions, seem in some sort to
lay violent hands on him."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1594:
Spanish born Hebraist Casiodoro de Reina, the author of one of the first books
that opposed the Inquisition and the translator of a Spanish language bible
that was a source for the creators of the King James Bible passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1672:
Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence. This
declaration was part of the jockeying for power between Roman Catholics,
Anglicans and non-Anglican Protestants. Religious rights for Jews were not a
part of this measure. Oliver Cromwell, the Protestant civil ruler who
temporarily replaced the Stuarts allowed the Jews to re-enter England. Charles
II continued his policy and actually expanded the rights and protection for the
growing Jewish population. Charles II’s, his successor King James II and the
last Catholic King of England further expanded the royal protection of the
Jews. Both monarchs appreciated the financial support they received from Jewish
bankers. By the time William and Mary had replaced James on the English throne,
Jews were too well established in England to ever again be candidates for
expulsion and exile.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1697:
In New York City, Rachel Simpson and Isaac Rodrigues Marques gave birth to
Jacob Rodriguez, the wife of Esther Maduro and father of Isaac and Rachel
Marques.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1698:
New York ship owner and freeman Isaac Rodriguez, the Denmark born son of Rachel
and Jacob Rodriguez and his wife Rachel Peixotto gave birth to Jacob Rodriquez
Marques.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1764(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5524): Ta’anit Esther observed because the 13<sup>th</sup> of Adar
fell on Shabbat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1767(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5527): Purim observed on the same day “in the Waxhaws region of the
Carolina, Elizabeth Hutchinson and Andrew Jackson gave birth to Andrew Jackson
who as General Andrew Jackson counted Judah Touro as one of those commanded
during the Battle of New Orleans and who as President Jackson appointed
“Mordecai Noah to serve as overseer of the Port of New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1773:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The South Carolina Gazette</i> reported
that Moses Lindo purchased a stone which he believed to be a topaz of immense
size, and that he sent it to London by the Right Hon. Lord Charles Greville
Montague to be presented to the Queen of England.” Lindo was a native of
England who settled in South Carolina where he prospered in the trade of
indigo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1775(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II,5535): Erev Purim celebrated for the last time before the firing of
“the shot heard round the world.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1776:
South Carolina becomes the first American colony to declare its independence
from Great Britain and set up its own government. The Jews played an active
role in the political affairs of South Carolina from its earliest days. As
early as 1702 they were voting in the colony’s general elections. Francis Salvador
began serving in the Provincial Congress in the year before the Palmetto State
declared her independence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1778(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5538): Purim Meshulash observed on the same day that British General
William Howe wrote General George Washington about the possibility of an
exchange of prisoners including General Charles Lee who was ignominiously
captured by the British in 1776.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1792:
Birthdate of Jacob Barrett, the husband of Hetty J. Ottolengui whom he married
in Charleston, SC in 1834 and with whom he had twelve children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1795:
Birthdate of Samuel Moses Marx, the son of a Jewish doctor in Halle who, when
baptized in 1819, changed his name to Adolf Bernhard Marx who gained fame as a
German composer and critic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1800(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5560): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1800:
Birthdate of Joseph Wetheimer, who joined his father’s business in 1821 and who
was “the founder of Jewish Alliance in Vienna.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1801:
In Wurttemberg, Germany, Moses Levi Frankfurter and Mirjam Landauer gave birth
to Bernhard Frankfurter, the husband of Esther Frank.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1801:
Birthdate of Joseph Levin Saalschütz, the native of Konigsberg who was the
first Jew to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Konigsberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1805(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5565): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1807:
Easton, PA native Rachel Pettigrew and Jacob Phillips gave birth to Samuel
Phillips.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1808:
Judith Moses Myers the New York born daughter of Rachel and Michael Moses Hays
and her husband Samuel Myers gave birth Ella C. Myers and Rachel Hays Mayers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1809:
Philip Lazarus married Amelia Barnes today at the Great Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1810:
In Maryland, Margaret and John Gettinger gave birth to future Ohio resident
Daniel Gettinger the husband of Jane Elizabeth Gettinger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1811:
Don Judah Benoliel, the president of the Jewish community on Gibraltar and the
consul for Morocco and Austria and son of Judith and Solomon Benoliel and his
wife Esther Ben-Oliel gave birth to Gibraltar native Isaac Benoliel. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1813:
Birthdate of German native Augusta Straus Bachrach, wife of Aaron Bachrach and
the mother of four children including Henry Bachrach, the founder of Bachrach’s
a department store chain that got its start in Decatur, Il and survived for
over 125 years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1816(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5576): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1817:
Birthdate of Samuel Naumbourg, the native of Bavaria who served as Chazzan at
Besancon and choir director at a Strasburg synagogue before becoming the leader
“of synagogue of the Rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth at Paris, where he became
professor of liturgical music at the Séminaire Israélite” in 1845.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1820:
Just a year after Rebecca Gratz established the country's first Female Hebrew
Benevolent Society in Philadelphia, Richa Levy led a group of women that
established a Female Hebrew Benevolent Society at New York's Shearith Israel
congregation. At that time, Shearith Israel was the only synagogue in New York
City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1820:
The King of Saxony granted “Jewish tradesman” Joseph Friedländer permission to
remain at Bautzen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1820:
Maine becomes the 23rd state to join the Union. Today Maine has a small but
active Jewish population. There are ten congregations in the state. There are
Hillel chapters at the University of Maine, Colby, Bates and Bowdoin. Statewide
organizations include the Jewish Community Council of Bangor, Main, the
Holocaust Human Rights Center of Main, The Jewish Community Alliance of
Southern Maine and the Maine Jewish Film Festival. The mission of the Maine
Jewish Film Festival is to “provide a forum for the presentation of films to
enrich, educate and entertain a diverse community about the Jewish experience.”
Since 1998, we have fulfilled this mission by presenting over 145 films about
all facets of Jewish life and culture to nearly 17,500 people. Our annual
Festival takes place over nine days in mid-March, and each year we bring a rich
selection of films to Maine that otherwise wouldn’t get seen by audiences
anywhere else in the state or even Northern New England. The Festival serves
filmgoers of all ages and backgrounds, both Jews and non-Jews alike. Maine is
one of the smallest cities in the United States to host an independent Jewish
film festival and each successive year we attract increasing numbers of
attendees (over 3,000 in 2006).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1824(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5584): Shushan Puri<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827:
The University of Toronto is chartered. The first Jewish community did not
develop in Toronto until the 1840’s. Today the Toronto University has 3,000
Jewish students among its 40,000 undergraduates and 500 Jewish students among
its 10,000 graduate students. The University offers approximately 35 courses in
Jewish Studies and a minor in Jewish studies. The Hillel chapter is located at
the Wolfond Center for Jewish Life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1830:
Birthdate of Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, the first Jew to win the Nobel Prize
for Literature <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1833:
In Pennsylvania, David Davis and his wife Ann gave birth to Charllota “Charlotte”
Davis Morningstar, the wife of Bernard Morningstar and the daughter-in-law of
Ignatz “Isaac” Morningstar who as Ignatz Morgenstern passed his exams in the
Austrian Empire to serve as a dentist and a surgeon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1839:
In Württemberg, Germany, Bernhard Frankfurter, the son of Moses Levi
Frankfurter and Mirjam Landauer, and his wife Esther Frank gave birth to
Henriette Emma Frankfurter<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1840:
Ephraim Alex married Catherine Jones today the Great Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1843(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5603): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848(10<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5608): Seventy-four-year-old Frances Isaac, the New York City born
daughter of Moses Isaacs and the wife of Joseph Simson passed away today in
Yonkers, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848:
Birthdate of Ignace Ephrussi, the native of Odessa, who was a member of a
family of famous Jewish bankers that included his brother Charles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The family moved their operations from Odessa
to Paris and Vienna.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848:
Birthdate of Toby Edward Rosenthal, the native of New Have CT, whose family
moved to San Francisco in 1855 where he began his art studies which led him to
pursue a career as painter whose worked include “Morning Prayers In Bach’s
Family” which was purchased by the government of Saxony and hung at the museum
in Leipzig.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1849:
Birthdate of Emanuel Rich, who with his brother Morris, founded Rich’s
Department Store.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851:
Birthdate of Hungarian attorney and Diet Member, Arthur Jellinek.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852:
In Szekszárd, Hungary,Jakab Friedmann and Jozefa Friedmann gave birth to Sandor
Forgo (Fiedman, the husband of Nettiq Friedmann and the ex-husband of Jozefa
Bettelheim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1854(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5614): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855:
Birthdate of Bohemian native Eduard Glaser, a groundbreaking Arabist and
archeologist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wdl.org/en/item/16771/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.wdl.org/en/item/16771/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/ead/ead.html?id=EAD_upenn_cajs_PUCJSARCMS36USUSUSPUCJS"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/ead/ead.html?id=EAD_upenn_cajs_PUCJSARCMS36USUSUSPUCJS</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855:
Pauline Koch and Hermann Einstein the parents of Albert Einstein gave birth to
their youngest child Friederike, nicknamed “Rika.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855:
Birthdate of Henry Wallenstein, the husband of Gisele Wallenstein, the father
of Henry Wallenstein and a member of Temple Emanuel in Wichita, KS.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1856:
Following the creation of the Company Ports of Marseille, Franco-Jewish
financier Jules Mires formed a partnership with Talabot Paulin to rebuild the
docks of this major French Mediterranean port.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858:
In Chicago, Rosine and Elias E. Greenebaum a co-founder of the Greenebaum
Brothers Banking House gave birth to Moses Ernst Greenebaum, the husband of
Julia Greenebaum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/greenebaum"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/greenebaum</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859:
Abramo Volterra, a cloth merchant, and Angelica Almagià, the parents of Italian
mathematician and physicist, Vito Volterra were married today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860:
Birthdate of Count Moïse de Camondo, a native of Constantinople whose Sephardic
family owned one of the largest banks in the Ottoman Empire and who became a
leading French banker and art collector. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860:
In Germany, “Feist H. and Caroline (Cagle) Siegel gave birth to Benjamin Siegel
who in 1876 came to the United States where he worked in “general merchandise
stores” in Selma and Prairie Bluff, AL before moving to Detroit in 1881 where
“he organized B. Siegel Co” dealers in women’s clothing and married Sophie
Siegel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860:
Birthdate of bacteriologist Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine, the native of
Odessa who refused to convert to further his career choosing instead to
immigrate to France where he continued his work that led to vaccines against
cholera and the bubonic plague.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862:
In Russia, Miriam Amsterdam and Mordecai Brainin gave birth to journalist and
author Reuben Brainin the contributing editor for the Jewish Daily News and The
Day<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>was the “author of two volumes of Yiddish short stories and the thirty
volumes known collectively as “Brainin’s Collected Hebrew Works.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5622): Shabbat Zachor; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862:
“Treason in Embryo: A Remarkable Document” published today contained excerpts
from correspondence written by David Yulee in January of 1861. At the time,
Yulee was a United States Senator representing Florida. The correspondence
described the meetings of U.S. Senators from several southern states and the
role they would be playing the secession movement and the establishment of the
Confederate States of America.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864(O.S.)
Birthdate of Sergei Zubatov, “the head of the Czarist Secret Police in Moscow”
who “convinced” the imprisoned Manya Shochat to form “tame” workers
“organizations that would work for reform rather than the overthrow of the
government” which would supposedly “help achieve rights for Jews” – a
supposition which the policeman knew was false and which the Jewish leader came
to see as a “pipe dream.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865:
The activities surrounding “the fourth annual masquerade ball of the Purim
Association” which was held last night was described in an article published
today entitled “The Purim Ball--Grand Masquerade at the Academy of Music.”
According to the article “The Purim Ball is held to commemorate one of the
great epochs of Jewish history -- the deliverance of the chosen people from the
machinations of Haman, Prime Minister to King Ahasuerus, of Persia. “The Purim
Association raised approximately $9,000 for its charitable activities through
the sale of 900 tickets at $10 each. The society also published the Purim
Gazette, a paper which is printed at each recurrence of the Purim ball.1867:
The Amusements Column, in an item styled "Last of Shylock" reported
that this evening marked the next to the last performance of “The Merchant of
Venice” at the Winter Garden Theatre. There would be one more Saturday matinee
and then "farewell to the Jew for the Season. “The Merchant of Venice”
featuring Shylock reportedly was the first Shakespearean play to have been
performed in United States; a performance that took place in colonial Virginia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1867:
In Russia, Jacob Baruch Abramowitz and his wife gave birth to Odessa trained
cantor Jacob Abramowitz who in 1919 came to the United States where he served
congregations in Chicago and Buffalo, NY before accepting a position with
Congregation Sons of Halberstamm in Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869:
Prussia does away with the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oath More
Judaico</i> or Jewish Oath<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869:
Basheva Pearlman Lazarus gave birth to Sara Lazarus who became Sarah Mickelson
when she married David Mickelson with whom she had two daughters – Anne and
Lena.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872:
Birthdate of Riga native Max Maisel, the founder, in 1892 of a bookshop at 424
Grand Street on the Lower East Side which was a gathering place for
intellectuals and the setting for Christopher Morley’s novel <u>The Haunted
Bookshop</u> who also translated<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
works of Shakespeare, and Darwin into Yiddish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873:
Birthdate of Vitsebsk native Leon Korbrin the Philadelphia shirt maker, cigar
maker and baker who became a New York journalist, author and playwright.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://yiddishkayt.org/view/kobrin/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://yiddishkayt.org/view/kobrin/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1946/04/01/archives/leon-kobrin-dead-dramatist-author-writer-of-30-plays-for-yiddish.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1946/04/01/archives/leon-kobrin-dead-dramatist-author-writer-of-30-plays-for-yiddish.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875:
In Witosk, Russia, Yetta Friedman and Emanuel Ravitch<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gave birth to American builder Joseph
Ravitch, the husband of Elizabeth Chauser who at age 13 arrived in the United
States where he went into the real estate business with Harry Fischel<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and where he was a director of the Central
Jewish Institute and Jewish Center on West 86<sup>th</sup> Street as well
chairman of the Yeshivah Building Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875:
In Vilna, Lithuanian, Leon and Elizabeth Gershonovitz gave birth to Moishe
Gershnowitz who in 1890 came to Boston where he began the journey which would
lead to him being the theatrical producer Morris Gest, the husband of the
former Reina Belasco and the son-in-law of the famous producer David Belasco.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5636): Forty-two-year-old Margaethe Meyer Schurz, the Hamburg, Germany
born daughter of Heinrich Meyer and the wife U.S. Senator Carl Schurz who among
other things is credited for creating the first kindergarten in the United
States passed away today in child-birth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/schurz-margarethe-meyer"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/schurz-margarethe-meyer</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876:
It was reported today that the Earl of Aylesford was in such dire financial
straits that if he paid all of the money he owed to various English Jews, “he
would have scarcely had a income to support himself.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877:
Birthdate of Vilna native, the Pittsfield, MA realtor and member of both the
ZOA and the United Palestine Appeal who passed away in 1958 after which he was
buried in the Knesset Israel Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877(1st
of Nisan, 5637): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877:
In New York, Caroline and David L. Einstein gave birth to Columba educated
American diplomate and author Lewis Einstein, the husband of Helen Ralli, a
well-connected English lady who served in several posts in the Ottoman Empire
as well as Ambassador to Czechoslovakia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5637): Sixty-six-year-old Alexander Lewis, the Charleston, SC born
son of David and Rachel Benjamin Lewis and the husband of Rebecca Lewis and
Esther Lewish passed away today in St. Louis, MO.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877(1st
of Nisan, 5637): Sixty-two-year-old Albert Cohn, the Hungarian born French
philanthropist and scholar who enjoyed a “lifelong connection with the
Rothschild” and worked to improve the condition of Algerian Jewry passed away
in Paris.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4514-cohn-albert"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4514-cohn-albert</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879:
Birthdate of Warsaw native Yakov Ganetsky, “also known as Jakub Furstenberg”
the Bolshevik Revolutionary who reportedly was one of those who negotiated with
the German General Staff to send Lenin back to Russia so he could complete the
revolution and take Russia out of the war so that the Kaiser would be able to
defeat the Allies in the West and win World War I.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879:
In Kiev, Simon and Sarah (Rappaport) Spielberg gave birth to NYU trained
attorney Harold Spielberg, the husband of Rebecca Fishman and a member of the
Society for the Advancement of Judaism who was an “organizer, vice president
and general counsel of the Equitable Surety Company of the State of New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880:
It was reported today that Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen by Johann Karl
Friedrich Zöllner “bristles with attacks on Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5641): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881:
Birthdate of Russian native Harry Handler, the NYU Law School graduate who
morphed into a Jewish educator who was the husband of “the former Esther
Liskowsky.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881:
The Purim Masquerade Ball will be held today at the Academy of Music in New
York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882(24th
of Adar): Rabbi Eliezer Lipmann Silbermann founder of Ha Maggid, the first
weekly Hebrew newspaper, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883:
In Russia, Helen Newmark and Salmon Jaffee gave birth to Riga native and Riga
Dental College trained dentist Charles D. Jafee, the husband of Katherine
Weisbord who in 1905 came to the United States where he rose from being an
office to being the treasurer of clothing manufacturer L.J. and C.D. Jaffee,
Inc. and President of the New<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>York
Clothing Manufacturer’s Exchange while serving a direction of the Brooklyn
Jewish Hospital and a member of Temple Emanu-El and Union Temple in Brooklyn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883:
In Lithuania, Alex and Agnes Salaway Vigransky gave birth to future Ohio
resident Moses Vigransky<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5644): Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5644): Seventy-nine-year-old Mary Moss, the daughter of Solomon and
Rebecca Eve Levy and wife of Eleazer (Eugene) Moss passed away today in
Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884:
In Podolia, Hana and Boksir Dov Sharfshtein gave birth to author and linguist
Zvi Scharfstein who came to the United States in WW I where he continued his
work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886:
In New York, formation of the Jewish Immigrants’ Protective Society<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886:
Birthdate of Morris Schulman, the Russian native who gained famed as American
actor Michael Mark who enjoyed a forty career in films<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886:
Birthdate of Brest-Litovsk native Abraham Asen, the dentist who in 1903 came to
the United States where he was member of the Executive Committee of the
Farband-National Workers Alliance and pursued a career as Yiddish author and
translator.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2014/06/avrom-aysen-abraham-asen-march-15-1886.html">http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2014/06/avrom-aysen-abraham-asen-march-15-1886.html</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886:
Yeshiva Etz Chaim was founded in New York. It was the first American yeshiva to
include the study of Talmud.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887:
Birthdate of Polish born “Yiddish scholar, novelist and poet J.J. Trunk, a
protégé of I.L. Peretz who was in 1941 was brought to the United States where
he joined the staff of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Jewish Day.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887:
In Valozhyn, Samuel Eliezer and Hanna Rogosin gave birth to American textile
manufacturer Israel Rogosin who opened a plant in Israel at the request of the
Israeli government and who was the father of documentary filmmaker Lionel
Rogosin.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889:
Birthdate of “Nivki” native Moshe Bassin, who in 1907 came to the United States
where he gained fame as Yiddish poet and anthologist Max Bassin the husband of
Miriam Berman Bassin and the father of Milton and Eugene Bassin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.york.cuny.edu/library/about/bassin-collection"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.york.cuny.edu/library/about/bassin-collection</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889:
Simon Cook was promoted from Ensign to Lt. Jr. Grade in the USN.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889:
Birthdate of Prague native and Prague University trained attorney Dr. Hugo
Feigl, the veteran of the Austro-Hungarian Army and art critic and art gallery
operator who in 1939 came to the United States where he found the Feigel Art
Gallery while raising a daughter, Marion, with his wife Greta,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889:
Birthdate assigned to Melech Epstein by his parents. The native of Belarus
moved to the United States where he wrote <u>Labor in U.S.A.</u> and <u>The Jew
and Communism<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890:
In Sutter, CA, Charles and Amanda Dannenberg gave birth to Otto Oscar
Dannenberg, the husband of Iceophine Elsie Zimmerman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890:
Birthdate of Kiev native Shmuel-Mortkhe Zamd, the Yiddish author whose penname
was Shmuel Pesok, who settled in Chicago in 1909 and whose first articles was
“Notes on Montreal”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and who “was an
internal contributor and assistant editor the <i>Shiager forverts</i> (Chicago
Forward.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2016/07/shmuel-mordkhe-zamd.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2016/07/shmuel-mordkhe-zamd.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891:
General H.B. Carrington delivered four lectures today a Syracuse University
including one entitled “Hebrew History.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891:
“New York University” published today described the upcoming free lectures that
would be offered by The School of Pedagogy including Rabbi Leight on speaking
on “Old Hebrew Education.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892:
Birthdate of Jacob Bartfield, “an Austrian-born Jew nicknamed
"Soldier" because he served in the American army after emigrating to
the USA” who “boxed as a welterweight and middleweight in the 1910s and 1920s”
and who passed away in September of 1970.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892:
“Sunday Not Recognized By Jews” published today described the grounds on which
John Besher dismissed the charges that had been lodged against two Jewish
grocers for doing business on Sunday. Bsher accepted their position that
“Sunday being recognized by their race as an ordinary week day, they were
entitled to keep their stores open for business” but only if they observe
Saturdays as their Sabbath.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892:
As the business operations of J.E. Guenzburg crumbled today in St. Petersburg,
it was announced that the Jewish bankers had liabilities totaling six million
rubles. It had been thought that the assets of his firm which dates back to the
Crimean War were closer to ten million rubles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892:
In Paris, the Bourse closed down based on reports of the failure of J.E.
Guenzburg’s banking interests in St. Petersburg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892:
Birthdate of Lithuanian native Henrikas Rabinavicius, a graduate of the
“Universities of Dorpat, Leningrad and London” who in 1927 was forced to resign
as Counsel General of Lithuania in New York because Premier Waldemara wanted
his country to be represented by “a Lithuanian, not a Jew.” (Editor’s note:
this 1927 expression of anti-Semitism might help to explain the success of the
Final Solution in the Baltic States.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892:
Word of the failure of J.E. Guenzburg, a leading Russian banker had little
effect on the financial markets in London<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892:
In Berlin it is believed that the failure of Guenzburg was the result of
governmental animosity. The Czar’s government objected to the power of a Jewish
banker and his involvement with German bankers since Russia is now allying
itself with France. Creditors have good reason to believe that Guenzburg will
pay all of his creditors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893:
Birthdate of Jules Salvador Moch, the French politician who was the grandson of
Colonel Jules Moch and the son of Captain Gaston Moch who was born and died in
the same year as Captain Alfred Dreyfus whose cause he supported.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893:
Arthur Reichow, a representative of the committee connected with the Baron
Hirsch Fund, returned to New York City tonight after having spent the day
investigating conditions at the Jewish colony at Chesterfield, eight miles from
New London, CT. “Instead of starvation” Reichow said “he found a comparatively
contented people with only six families of the thirty-two” at the colony were
“really in need of assistance” and two of the families refused to accept any
help unless it was in the form of loan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893:
In Manhattan Henry and Barbetter Lashanska gave birth to operatic soprano Hulda
Lashanska, who was also known as Hulda Rosenblum after she married Harold
Rosenblum with whom she “had two daughters – Lenore and Peggy.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893:
It was reported today that a Jewish peddler named Morantz has been fencing
stolen goods for several gangs in the Kansas City area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Morantz has a daughter named Mollie who takes
the goods from the thieves when her father leaves the city “to sell the
plunder.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893:
Citing information that has appeared in German newspapers, “Andrew D. White,
the United States Minister to Russia” has written to the State Department
warning “that it is the intention of the promoters of the Baron Hirsch fund…to
renew the immigration of Russian” Jews “to the Argentine Republic.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Only the better class of” Jews “will be sent
to the South American republic and that those of an undesirable class will be
sifted out and sent to the United States.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>White did not comment on the credibility of the reports saying only that
U.S. immigration officials should be vigilant about the appearance of such
undesirable immigrants.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894:
In New York City, Babette Born and Henry Lashanska gave birth to Hunter College
graduate and lyric soprano Hulda Lashanska Rosenbaum a member of Temple
Emanu-El in New York City and the wife of Harold A. Rosenbaum whom she married
in 1913 after which made her debut concert at Detroit in 1916 and give her
first New York recital in 1917. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894:
In Manhattan, Albert and Rose Guggenheim gave birth to Yale educated
anthropologist Edwin Loeb and husband of Ella-Marie Karr Loeb with whom he had
three children – Robert, Peter and Barbara – who served with OSS during WW II.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/aa.1967.69.2.02a00070"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/aa.1967.69.2.02a00070</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
In Kremenetz, Russia, Yetta Shilberg and Israel Pollen gave birth to future
Englishman Zalman Solomon Pollen, the husband of Esther Violet Lipshitz and the
father of Sheila and Andrew Pollen<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
Alfred Dreyfus arrived at the Iles de Sault, “a small archipelago situated
twenty-seven miles (43 km) off Cayenne, opposite the mouth of the River Kuru”
best known for Devil’s Island where the disgraced officer was to be imprisoned.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896:
In Rochester, NY, founding of the Congregation of Tailors (Chevra Chayteem)
whose members included Nathan Rubenstein and which held services three times a
day, operated a daily religious school and used Mt. Hope Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896:
Seventy-eight Jewish veterans of the Union Army met in New York City's
Lexington Opera House to form the Hebrew Union Veterans, the precursor group to
the Jewish War Veterans of the USA. The veterans gathered in an attempt to
refute claims in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Harper’s Weekly</i> and
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">North American Review</i> that Jews
had not fought in the war. (As reported by Seymour “Sy” Brody) The same charge
was also made by Mark Twain which would prove to be unusual on two counts.
Twain’s brief flirtation with the war had come on the Rebel side and his
daughter would end up marrying a Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896:
In Knyszyn, Poland “Reb Eli Novodvorsky, a Jewish scholar, and Chaya Tserel
Novodvorsky, a small goods store owner” gave birth to Shimeon Novodvorsky,
better known as Jim Novy,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Austin, TX
businessman and leader of the Jewish community who worked to save Jews from the
Holocaust and was close friend of Lyndon Johnson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.caa-austin.org/?q=historyofJimNovy"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.caa-austin.org/?q=historyofJimNovy</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896:”
Russia and Religious Liberty” published today described the treatment of
non-Orthodox treatment in the Czar’s empire including his five or six million
Jewish subjects who are subject to “Jew baiting” in which the government has
“appealed to what is worst in human nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“The harrying of the Jews is generally admitted being one of the cause
of the growth of poverty” among the Russian people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“After the expulsion of the Jews from Moscow,
the rate of interest in private pawnshops rose from 25 to 200 per cent per
annum. (So much for the myth of the avaricious Jewish moneylender)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897:
It was reported today that a performance of “My Uncle’s Will” by the students
of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts was the main entertainment provided at
an event hosted by the Hebrew Institute.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897:
Eighty-two-year-old English Mathematician James Joseph Sylvester, the son of
Abraham Joseph who was awarded the Copley Award, the highest honor of the Royal
Society passed away today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897:
“Eulogies of Mr. Goodhart” published today described the speeches made by Dr.
Emil G. Hirsch of Chicago, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Dr. F. de Solo Mendes and Dr.
Hermann Phillips the religious director at the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
Society all of which spoke movingly of the contribution of the late Morris
Goodhart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897:
The Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia, whose “annual report showed that
it had an income of $9,114 last year” celebrated its 49<sup>th</sup>
anniversary today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897:
“Ephraim Lederer” has volunteered to continue giving “weekly lectures on the
Constitution of the United States and the requirements for the proper
performance of the duties of a citizen” in Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897:
“Catholic Praises of Jewess” published today described the praise Reverend
Sylvester Malone, State Regent and Pastor of the Church of Saints Peter and
Paul in Brooklyn had for “Mrs. Nannette Marks, a Jewish lady who has become
famous throughout Brooklyn for her benevolent acts, irrespective of creed and
who walked to the altar rail and presented a bouquet of flowers” to Reverend
Maurice Ryan, the Paulist missionary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898:
Two days after he had passed away, 39 year old Abraham Rosenberg was buried
today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899:
Today the General Conference of American Rabbis discussed a paper entitled “The
National Idea in Judaism with Especial Reference to the Zionistic Movement”
presented by Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch of Chicago, Illinois.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899:
In Riga, “Mr. and Mrs. Richard Taub” gave birth Harry Taub, the Columbia
University trained pharmacist and professor of pharmacology at his alma mater
Harry Taub, the president of Bayside Jewish Center and brother of Abraham Taub,
a fellow faculty member of the Columbia College of Pharmacy who was the husband
of Mildred Taub with whom they raised two children – Robert and Sylvia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899:
Three hundred forty-five guests attended the celebration of the 80<sup>th</sup>
birthday of Rabbi Isaac M. Wise which included a dinner at the Phoenix Club in
Cincinnati, Ohio hosted by the General Conference of American Rabbis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899:
It was reported today that the next musicale and tea sponsored by the Woman’s
Committee of the Hebrew Technical Institute will take place next month at
Sherry’s<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5660): Fast of Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900:
Parts of the body of Ernst Winter, a student who had disappeared in Konitz,
West Prussia were discovered in a nearby lake and an arm was found in a
cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900:
Following the death of a student in Konitz, Poland, local Jews are faced with
another “blood libel” episode. While Count Plucker promoted riots against the
Jews, Wolf Israelski was accused and arrested. After Israelski was proven
innocent, two other Jews, Moritz Lewy and Rosenthal, were arrested on the same
charge. Rosenthal and Lewy were acquitted, yet Lewy was sentenced to four years
for denying he knew the victim. All the evidence was based on the testimony of
a petty thief named Masloff who later received only one year for perjury.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900:
In Hampstead, UK, barrister Herman Cohen and his wife gave birth to Eastbourne
College graduate and WW I Royal Navyman Kenneth Herman Cohen who was the head
of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Secret Intelligence’s Vichy branch
during WW II where he organized disruptive activities behind enemy lines. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901:
Benjamin and Rose Ratner gave birth to Samuel Augie Ratner, the resident of
Minneapolis who was the husband of Betty Ratner and the father Cornell College
(Mt. Vernon, IA) graduate Rochel Rachel Kingman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901:
Birthdate of Starobin, Belarus, native Nathan Chenitz the CCNY grad and U of
Pennsylvania trained dentist who began practicing in Newark, NJ in 1926.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5662): Parashat Pekudi<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902:
Today Charles Scribner and Son published <u>Letters from Egypt and Palestine </u>by
the late Maltbie D. Babcock, D.D.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5663): Purim Meshulash <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903:
In Washington, DC, Mary Sweitzer Strauss and Admiral Joseph Strauss gave birth
to Rear Admiral Elliot B. Strauss who was awarded a Bronze Star with Combat “V”
for his role in the Dieppe Raid of 1942 and the Normandy Invasion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5663): Sixty-four-year-old Adolph Loeb the native Bechtheim, Germany,
the son of Jakob and Ester Loeb and the husband of Johanna Loeb passed away
today in Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904:
Rabbi Schulman of Temple Beth-El opened the exercises marking the dedication
and opening of Mount Sinai Hospitals ten buildings” that were attended by
Governor Odell, Isaac Wallach, Edward Lauterbach and Rabbi De Sola Mendes who
“delivered the invocation.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904:
Rabbi Jacob Sonderling, the Silesia, Germany born son of Johanna Lebowitsch and
Wilhelm Sonderling married Emma Klemann today after which he served as an Army
Rabbi and a member of the staff of Field Marshal Von Hindenburg after which he
moved to the United States where he served as the spiritual leader of the First
Hungarian Congregation in Chicago and Temple Beth El in Manhattan Beach, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904:
Rabbi Jacob Sonderling, the German born son of Wilhelm and Johanna Sonderling,
who served on the staff of Field Marshall Von Hindenbrug during WW I, married
Emma Klemann<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905:
Birthdate of Nat Perrin, the lawyer turned gag writer whose career spanned Marx
Brothers Movies to “The Addams Family” – a 1960’s sitcom. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5665): Seventy-seven-year-old Meyer Guggenheim, the native of
Switzerland, who came to the United States in 1847 where he made his fortune in
mining and smelting and became the patriarch of the Guggenheim clan consisting
of his wife Barbara and ten children, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906:
While delivering a speech at Chesham on the question of the excluding aliens
from settling in the British Isles, The Honorable Lionel Walter Rothschild,
Member of Parliament for the Aylesbury Division of Buckinghamshire, “referred
to the number of poor Russian refugees excluded from Great Britain in the last
few months.” Based on what he considered to be “irrefutable evidence,” Mr.
Rothschild, the son of Lord Rothschild, reported that those Russians who were
forced to return to their native land were shot at the border without being
given any kind of trial.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: “Fanny
"Faigel" (née Anczkowski) and Abraham Atlas (formerly Atlasowicz)”
gave birth to<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sol G. Atlas,
the recipient of the Man of the Year from Yeshiva University in 1969 and was
the husband “of the former Edythe Samuel” with whom he had one daughter, Sandra.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907:
<i>The Jewish Chronicle</i> reported that, a departure from Jewish burial
customs, “at the cemetery of the United London Synagogue” a minister officiated
at the burial of ashes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908:
Countess Muravieff, one of Russia most prominent actresses is scheduled to
begin her tour of America with a performance of Ibsen’s “Nora” which will be
followed at a later date by a performance of “The God of Revenge,” “Sholom
Ash’s Jewish Play.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908:
With Passover a month away, the baking of Matzoth has become a full-time
operation in New York with large moving vans having to be used to take the
boxes of unleavened bread from the bakeries to the various distribution centers
around town. A bakery on 33rd Street between Second and Third Avenues is
actually having to work around the clock to keep up with the worldwide demand
for Matzoth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909:
It was reported today that while Dr. Charles A. Eaton, the pastor of the
Madison Avenue Baptist Church was sermonizing on “the New American” that will
grow out of the mingle of native Americans and immigrants he said, “The Jews
have got your theatres and most of your banks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They will soon hold you in the hollow of their hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most have no religion at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What can we do with them? I say, let them
come to the Madison Avenue Baptist Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There was one Jew would have received here – Jesus Christ. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was another – Paul.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910:
It was reported today that when he was in Europe Samuel Gompers “was styled as
a socialist” but in the United States he is known as a “trade Unionist.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5671): Sushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911:
Following yesterday’s funeral for Albert J. Teller, a young man who rose from
being a “ragged boy of the streets” to become a bookkeeper and an inspiration
to his Jewish peers several “older men” in the community decided that he be
remembered permanently by creating “a memorial prize for debating which will be
offered by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912:
The Turkish Ministry of the Interior to the Governor of Jerusalem issued a
decree permitting the Jews to place benches and light candles in front of the
Western Wall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
The Annual Conference on Child Labor to which Leon Schwarz of Mobile, Alabama
had been appointed as a delegate continued for a third day Jacksonville,
Florida.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
It was reported today that “the will of the late Moses Strauss, a Polk County,
Iowa, pioneer and financier bequeathed $75,000 to charities in Des Moines, IA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5674): Eighty-year-old Prussian born Canadian artist; a founding
member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts passed away today in Montreal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=7660"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=7660</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Raphael#/media/File:Behind_Bonsecours_Market.png"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Raphael#/media/File:Behind_Bonsecours_Market.png</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914:
Birthdate of New York native, high school drop-out and singing water Joseph
Roszawikz the USAA Corps veteran who gained fame as Joe E. Ross best known for
his role in the ridiculous sitcom “Car 54.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/15/obituaries/joe-e-ross-dies-at-67-actor-in-tv-s-car-54.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/15/obituaries/joe-e-ross-dies-at-67-actor-in-tv-s-car-54.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
Birthdate of Joe E. Ross, borscht belt comedian and star of such television
sitcoms as “Car 54 Where Are You?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Vilkovishky, Lithuania, Rabbi Simon
Eisenstein Barzilay and <span style="color: #333333;">Taube (Rosenthal) Barilay
gave birth to American historian and educator, Isaac Eisenstein, the husband of
and father of Sharonah and Joshua Barzilay.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
Birthdate of Bronx native Theodore Wilentz “who with his brother, Eli, owned
the Eighth Street Bookshop, a bustling bibliophilic beehive in the 1950's and
60's.” (As reported by Douglas Martin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/06/nyregion/theodore-wilentz-86-dies-a-bookman-extraordinaire.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/06/nyregion/theodore-wilentz-86-dies-a-bookman-extraordinaire.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
The Austrian Hungarian Consul General in New York issued a dispatch today that
had originated in the foreign office in Vienna<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
Birthdate of broadcast journalist David Schoenbrun, the CBS broadcast bureau
chief in Washington DC and Paris France who was one of the famous “Murrow
boys.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/24/obituaries/david-schoenbrun-is-dead-at-73-veteran-journalist-for-cbs-news.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/24/obituaries/david-schoenbrun-is-dead-at-73-veteran-journalist-for-cbs-news.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
It was reported today that the “relief cargo” being carried by U.S. collier
Vulcan, “represents an expenditure of $150,000 by the American Jewish Relief
Committee” and the flour is the primary staple in the shipment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
Birthdate of Dr. David Wilfred Abse, the native of Cardiff, Wales<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Professor of Psychiatry at the University
of Virginia from 1962 until 2000 whose siblings included poet Dannie Abse and
Welsh Labor Member of Parliament Leopold “Leo” Abse.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
It was reported today that L. H. Levine and E.W. L. Epstein of New York will
direct the distribution of relief supplies once they arrive at Jaffa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
It was reported today that the membership in the Hebrew Sheltering and
Immigrant Aid Society had grown from 15,357 in 1913 to 46,023 in 1914 and that
the society had raised $112, 988 last year and spent $110,869.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
It was reported today that Jewish immigration had fallen form 130,237 in 1913
to 66,557 in 1914.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
It was reported today that in Philadelphia, the newly formed Maccabean Regiment
has “unanimously elected Jacob D. Lit, one the owners of Lit Brothers
department store which had been founded as dress and millinery shop by his
sister Rachel, as Colonel” and “Isidore Stern, a prominent attorney as
Chairman.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
An expeditionary force under the command of General Pershing crossed into
Mexico in an attempt to capture Pancho Villa – a military action that would
include enough Jews that Rabbis were sent to the Mexican border by the Army and
Navy Committee and the Central Conference of American Rabbis to conduct
services for the High Holidays and Sukkoth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
As part of the ceremonies marking the dedication of “the new Temple of Sinai
Congregation of the Bronx” the Sinai Auxiliary Societies are scheduled to host
a reception tonight complete with music and speakers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917:
“Herman Bernstein, the editor of the American Hebrew…predicted” tonight “that
equal rights for the Jews would be one the important results of the Reactionary
Party.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917:
Czar Nicholas II abdicated bringing an end to the Romanov dynasty which had
caused so much suffering for the Jewish people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917(NS):
Sergei Zubatov, “the head of the Czarist Secret Police in Moscow” who
“convinced” the imprisoned Manya Shochat to form “tame” workers “organizations
that would work for reform rather than the overthrow of the government” which
would supposedly “help achieve rights for Jews” – a supposition which the
policeman knew was false and which the Jewish leader came to see as a “pipe
dream” committed suicide today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918:
In Lemberg, the police searched the “headquarters of the Paolie-Zionists and
Union Jewish Workmen and arrested several leaders.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918:
In Frankfort, a “conference of Orthodox Jewish organizations resolved that the
support of a Jewish settlement in Palestine is the religious duty of all Jewry
and pledged itself to work for the emancipation of Jews everywhere.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5697): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919(13th
of Adar II, 5679): Albert, (Avraham) Harkavy passed away. Born in Belarus in
1835, Harkavy led an unusual life for a Russian Jew. After getting a Yeshiva
education he received two degrees from the University of St. Petersburg before
gaining a doctorate while studying abroad. In a country wracked by
anti-Semitism, he was appointed head of the Oriental Division in the Imperial
Public Library, a position he held until his death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919:
This evening, Drs. David Philipson of Cincinnati, Samuel Schulman, Joseph
Silverman and Ambassador Abram I. Elkus were among the speakers at Temple
Emanu-El where the campaign to raise funds for organizations created by Rabbi
Isaac Mayer Wise as a way of “commemorating the centenary of his birth” was
formally begun.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919:
In Connecticut, Michael and Rose Abitz gave birth to Irving Abitz, who served
with Patton’s Third Army during WW II and who was the husband of Ruth Abitz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919:
“Ex-Ambassador Henry Morgenthau” sailed for Europe today where “he will assist
in Red Cross work…and help to arrange the international convention” of the Red
Cross” which will be held in Geneva after the peace treaty ending the World War
has “been promulgated.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919:
The New York office of the Jewish Correspondence Bureau opened today as a New
York Corporation with a total capitalization of $26, 650.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920:
Birthdate of Minneapolis, MN, native and sportswriter and broadcaster Sid
Hartman who took time off from his journalistic career to serve as the acting
general manager of the NBA Minneapolis Lakers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920:
“The Blue Flame,” starring Theda Bara as “Ruth Gordon” premiered on Broadway at
the Shubert Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar. 5680): Forty-seven-year-old Staten Island native and Columbia educated
historian George Louis Beer, a member of the American delegation to the Paris
Peace Conference and winner of the Loubat Prize who was the husband of Edith
Hellman, the niece of Columbia trained academic Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman,
the son of banker Joseph Seligman passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921:
Birthdate of John Patrick Kenneally, the illegitimate son of a wealthy Jewish
textile manufacturer, who won the Victoria Cross for his bravery on April 29
and April 30, 1943, while fighting in Tunisia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922:
After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes
King of Egypt. This is the same King Faud I who declared in 1917, when he was
the Guest of Honor at the opening of the Zionist Movement in Cairo and
Alexandria that: "You Jews of Egypt, will always be protected by us, until
you go back to your land, the Land of Israel."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923:
Birthdate of Rostam Bastuni, an Arab Christian who was the “the first Arab
citizen of Israel to represent a Zionist party in the Knesset.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923:
“Old Heidelberg” a silent film starring Eugen Burg and directed by Hans
Behrendt who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924:
Birthdate of Michael Harsegor an Israeli historian and a professor for history
at the Tel Aviv University who specialized in the history of Europe in the late
Middle Ages.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924:
Birthdate of Richard Topus, who gained fame as pigeon trainer during World War
II. Born in Brooklyn, Topus was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. Growing
up in Flatbush, he fell in love with the pigeons his neighbors kept on their
rooftops in spacious coops known as lofts. His parents would not let him have a
loft of his own — they feared it would interfere with schoolwork, Andrew Topus
said — but he befriended several local men who taught him to handle their
birds. Two of them had been pigeoneers in World War I, when the United States
Army Pigeon Service was formally established.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“In
January 1942, barely a month after Pearl Harbor, the United States War
Department sounded a call to enlist. It wasn’t men they wanted — not this time.
The Army was looking for pigeons. To the thousands of American men and boys who
raced homing pigeons, a popular sport in the early 20th century and afterward,
the government’s message was clear: Uncle Sam Wants Your Birds. Richard Topus
was one of those boys. He had no birds of his own to give, but he had another,
unassailable asset: he was from Brooklyn, where pigeon racing had long held the
status of a secular religion. His already vast experience with pigeons — long,
ardent hours spent tending and racing them after school and on weekends —
qualified him, when he was still a teenager, to train American spies and other
military personnel in the swift, silent use of the birds in wartime. World War
II saw the last wide-scale use of pigeons as agents of combat intelligence. Mr.
Topus, just 18 when he enlisted in the Army, was among the last of the several
thousand pigeoneers, as military handlers of the birds were known, who served
the United States in the war. Pigeons have been used as wartime messengers at
least since antiquity. Before the advent of radio communications, the birds
were routinely used as airborne couriers, carrying messages in tiny capsules
strapped to their legs. A homing pigeon can find its way back to its loft from
nearly a thousand miles away. Over short distances, it can fly a mile a minute.
It can go where human couriers often cannot, flying over rough terrain and
behind enemy lines. By the early 20th century, advances in communications
technology seemed to herald the end of combat pigeoneering. In 1903, a headline
in The New York Times confidently declared, “No Further Need of Army Pigeons:
They Have Been Superseded by the Adoption of Wireless Telegraph Systems.” But
technology, the Army discovered, has its drawbacks. Radio transmissions can be
intercepted. Triangulated, they can reveal the sender’s location. In World War
I, pigeons proved their continued usefulness in times of enforced radio
silence. After the United States entered World War II, the Army put out the
call for birds to racing clubs nationwide. Tens of thousands were donated. In
all, more than 50,000 pigeons served the United States in the war. Many were
shot down. Others were set upon by falcons released by the Nazis to intercept
them. (The British countered by releasing their own falcons to pursue German
messenger pigeons. But since falcons found Allied and Axis birds equally
delicious, their deployment as defensive weapons was soon abandoned by both
sides.) But many American pigeons did reach their destinations safely, relaying
vital messages from soldiers in the field to Allied commanders. The information
they carried — including reports on troop movements and tiny hand-sketched maps
— has been widely credited with saving thousands of lives during the war. Mr.
Topus enlisted in early 1942 and was assigned to the Army Signal Corps, which
included the Pigeon Service. He was eventually stationed at Camp Ritchie in
Maryland, one of several installations around the country at which Army pigeons
were raised and trained. There, he joined a small group of pigeoneers, not much
bigger than a dozen men. Camp Ritchie specialized in intelligence training, and
Mr. Topus and his colleagues schooled men and birds in the art of war. They
taught the men to feed and care for the birds; to fasten on the tiny capsules
containing messages written on lightweight paper; to drop pigeons from airplanes;
and to jump out of airplanes themselves, with pigeons tucked against their
chests. The Army had the Maidenform Brassiere Company make paratroopers’ vests
with special pigeon pockets. The birds, for their part, were trained to fly
back to lofts whose locations were changed constantly. This skill was crucial:
once the pigeons were released by troops in Europe, the Pacific or another
theater, they would need to fly back to mobile combat lofts in those places
rather than light out for the United States. Mr. Topus and his colleagues also
bred pigeons, seeking optimal combinations of speed and endurance. After the
war, Mr. Topus earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business from Hofstra
University. While he was a student, he earned money selling eggs — chicken eggs
— door to door and afterward started a wholesale egg business. In the late
1950s, Mr. Topus became the first salesman at Friendship Food Products, a dairy
company then based in Maspeth, Queens; he retired as executive vice president
for sales and marketing. (The company, today based in Jericho, N.Y. and a
subsidiary of Dean Foods, is now known as Friendship Dairies.) In the 1960s and
early ’70s, Mr. Topus taught marketing at Hofstra; the C. W. Post campus of
Long Island University; and the State University of New York, Farmingdale,
where he started a management-training program for supermarket professionals.
In later years, after retiring to Scottsdale, he taught at Arizona State
University and was also a securities arbitrator, hearing disputes between
stockbrokers and their clients. Though the Army phased out pigeons in the late
1950s, Mr. Topus raced them avidly till nearly the end of his life. He left a
covert, enduring legacy of his hobby at Friendship, for which he oversaw the
design of the highly recognizable company logo, a graceful bird in flight, in
the early 1960s. From that day to this, the bird has adorned cartons of the
company’s cottage cheese, sour cream, buttermilk and other products. To legions
of unsuspecting consumers, Andrew Topus said last week, the bird looks like a
dove. But to anyone who really knew his father, it is a pigeon, plain as day.
Mr. Topus passed away in December of 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925(19th
of Adar, 5685): Mordecai Spector passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5686): Forty-six-year-old Ukrainian native Samuel Dreben, known as the
“fighting Jew” because of the many decorations received while serving in the
United States Army passed away today “when a nurse accidentally injected him
with the wrong substance.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.theoccident.com/wildwest/dreben.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.theoccident.com/wildwest/dreben.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sam-dreben"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sam-dreben</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/dreben-samuel"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/dreben-samuel</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
James N. Rosenberg of New York, the Vice Chairman of the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee conferred today in Washington with Secretary Herbert
Hoover who “expressed great interest in the plans” of the committee to provide
relief for the Jews in Russia and said “he would assist the committee as far as
circumstances permitted.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
Birthdate of Sheldon Jerome Segal, “who led the scientific team that developed
Norplant, the first significant advance in birth control since the pill, and
who also developed other long-acting contraceptives…” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
David A. Brown, the national chairman of the national campaign to raise fifteen
million dollars for the relief of Jews in “Russia, Poland, Palestine, Eastern
and Southeastern Europe” is scheduled to address the first meeting of the
Women’s Division of the New York campaign chaired by Mrs. Abram I. Elkus, the
wife of the former ambassador and supported by Mrs. Jacob Schiff, the honorary
chairman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927:
In Vienna, violinist Max Rostal and his wife gave birth to psychologist Sybil
Bianca Giuliett Eysenck the psychologist and editor of “Personality and
Individual Differences” whose husband Hans was raised by a grandmother who,
although a devout Lutheran, died in a concentration camp because “she
‘apparently’ was from a Jewish family.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927:
“The Csarda Princess” a romance film directed by Hanns Schwarz and with music
by Artur Guttman was released today in Germany and Hungary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927:
The libel suit that Aaron Sapiro brought against Henry Ford’s newspaper, the
laughably named <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dearborn Independent</i>
(it was published in Dearborn, but hardly independent since nothing was
published in it that did not reflect the views of Ford) began today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5688): Sixty-four-year-old Charles Alexander Loeser, the Harvard
graduate and husband of pianist Olga Lebert Kaufman who created one of the
great collection of “early Renaissance art furniture” while living in Florence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://museicivicifiorentini.comune.fi.it/en/palazzovecchio/donazione_loeser02.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://museicivicifiorentini.comune.fi.it/en/palazzovecchio/donazione_loeser02.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://izi.travel/en/ce5e-biography-of-charles-loeser/en"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://izi.travel/en/ce5e-biography-of-charles-loeser/en</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929:
Birthdate of Betty Asher, who as Betty (Mrs. Jacob) Levin would grow up to be a
marvelous person, who raised four fine children, taught school, opened her
heart and home to one and all and was a life-long partner to her husband of
blessed memory.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5690): Parashat Tetzaveh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930:
Dedicatory exercises for the Temple Rodeph Sholom’s new home in Manhattan
continued for a second day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931:
In Waco, TX, during the Great Depression, Sanger Brothers the department store
founded by Sam and Isaac Sanger closed its doors today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://wacohistory.org/items/show/85"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://wacohistory.org/items/show/85</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931:
In what was “the first split in the US Troytskyist movement” Albert “Weisbord
and his wife launched an independent Marxist group, the Communist League of
Struggle, which existed until 1937.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Editor’s note – this intermural fight seemed so important at the time,
but in the great scheme of things have proven meaningless like so much else.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932:
Today at Macy’s Department Store shoppers can buy “Cultured Pearl Necklaces”
from “a new shipment straight from the Japanese fisheries for $39,50 and “commodes”
that are “fine collector pieces” for as little as $69.50.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/03/15/105790029.html?pageNumber=7"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/03/15/105790029.html?pageNumber=7</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932:
In an article datelined London, the Associate Press describes “the Jewish
Olympiad at Tel Aviv, Palestine” as one the “four great athletic competitions
of 1932” putting it in the same category as the world’s Tenth Olympic Games to
be held in Los Angeles. “More than mere physical contests, the Jewish games
serve both body and soul. They recall the protest of ancient Maccabees against
the Greek Olympiads which glorified Athenian physique.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933:
In Brooklyn, Nathan and Celia (née Amster) Bader gave birth to their second
daughter, Ruth Joan Bader who gained fame as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=865"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=865</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933:
Three Jews were arrested by Storm troopers in Breslau were beaten and bloodied.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934:
“New Faces of 1934” with lyrics by Viola Brothers Shore opened on Broadway
today at the Fulton Theatre on 46<sup>th</sup> Street.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934:
“Romance of Ida” a film based on a book by the same name directed by Steve
Sekely was released in Hungary today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935:
“The People’s Enemy,” co-starring Melvyn Douglas, featuring Sheldon Leonard,
with a screenplay by Gordon Kahn and filmed by cinematographer Joseph
Ruttenberg was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935:
Bernard S. Deutsch, New York’s President of the Board of Alderman, met with the
team of Jewish athletes that will be representing the United States at the
World Maccabiah Games<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935:
According to a statement issued today by Dr. E.L. Sukenik, Professor of
Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, twelve pieces of broken
pottery found on the site of ancient Lachish destroy the very foundations of
biblical "higher criticism."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935:
Birthdate of actor Judd Hirsch best known for his role in the hit sitcom,
“Taxi.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
The Joint Distribution held a memorial meeting at the Commodore Hotel where
tribute was paid “to the memory of Paul Sandor, statesmen, member of the
Hungarian Parliament and leader in the organization and legislation to preserve
Hungarian Judaism.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
In Tel Aviv, shops were closed “as a sign of grief for the plight of the Jews
of Poland said to be the victims of renewed pogroms.” The economic protests
“coincided with a mass meeting called by the Jewish National Council of
Palestine.” According to published reports, Polish Jewry is facing a threatened
prohibition of kosher slaughtering in the Polish republic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
“The Ages-Old Battleground of Conflicting Faiths” published today provides a
detailed review of <u>The Battleground: Syria and Palestine</u> by Hilaire
Belloc. (Eighty years later to the day, sounds like this book was published to
match today’s headlines.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
Two days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held at
Temple Emanu-El for seventy-six-year-old attorney Henry Wollman which will be
led by Rabbi Samuel H. Goldman and will be attended by Julian Mack and Albert
Ottinger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
In London, Doctor Chaim Weizmann is scheduled to address a meeting that will
mark the start of an appeal “to British Jewry to raise one million English
pounds for the expatriation of Jews from Germany.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
“Mass Lesson In Charity” published today described plans for the upcoming
pageant at the Roxy Theatre that “will portray historical episodes illustrating
the evolution of the tradition of Jewish charity from Old Testament times to
the present.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
Birthdate of Howard “Howie” Greenfield, the Brooklyn native who formed a
successful songwriting partnership with Neil Sedaka with whom he co-wrote four
songs performed his Sephardic Jewish friend that reached first place on
Billbaord.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937:
The Palestine Post reported that after Shlomo Gafni and Hanoch Metz were
murdered and robbed near Nazareth, Gedaliah Geller, 36, Moshe Zalman
Ben-Sasson, 33, and Yehuda Eliovitz, 28, of Yavne¹el were murdered nearby.
Police dogs followed the tracks to Tiberias. Ammunition disappeared from a
sealed government armory at Kfar Tavor and there was sporadic shooting all over
Galilee. Dr. Chaim Weizmann accepted a donation of £5,000 for the Yishuv¹s
security and development from the British Synagogues Federation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937:
Dr. James Bryant Conant the President of Harvard is scheduled to deliver a
lecture on “the ideals of scholarship and academic freedom” which is the third
in a series of lectures sponsored by the Semi-Centennial Committee of the
Jewish Theological Seminary of America.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937:
Based on a cablegram from Gordon Loud, who was leading the Megiddo Expedition
sponsored by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, to Dr. John
A. Wilson, Director of the Institute, an announcement was made that gold, gems
and vessels hidden at Megiddo dating back to 1400 BCE had been discovered. It
is speculated that the treasure was hidden there by some hitherto unnamed
“Prince of Megiddo.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5698): Morris Tankus, a member of the Workmen’s Circle, passed away
today in Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:
As the Nazis took over Prague Martha and Waitstill Sharp who were running one
of the most successful refugee rescue operations in Europe finished burning
their notes to keep any information from failing into the hands of the SS.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:
Today, “all over Austria,” as “excited crowds are cheering the union” with
Germany, “the Jews of Austria” who have been “loyal citizens” “now find
themselves disfranchised, barred from public office, deprived of their
citizenship, harried and beaten in the streets.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
Felix Weltsch left Prague with Max Brod and his family on the last train out of
Czechoslovakia. In Palestine, Weltsch worked as a librarian in Jerusalem until
his death in 1964.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
Following today’s occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Germans, Czech
diplomate<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Egon Hostovský left Brussels,
“emigrated to Paris” then moved on to Portugal before finally arriving in New
York in 1941.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
German troops marched into Prague in what was the last act of German aggression
before the start of World War II. It also brought the Jews of Czechoslovakia
under the control of the Nazis<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
In Slovakia, Alexander Mach became commander of the Hlinka Guards, the Slovak
Nazis who helped deport the Jews to Auschwitz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
Today, one day after “Slovakia seceded from Czechoslovakia and became a
separate pro-Nazi state” “Carpathian Ruthenia proclaimed its independence”
three days before it would be swallowed up by Hungary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(The unraveling of central Europe just before
WW II was more than just a case of Hitler on the march.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
The family of historian Dr. Yehuda Bauer left Czechoslovakia for Palestine.
Bauer’s life reads like some character out of one of those historic fiction
novels that Leon Uris would write. It spans everything from membership in the
Palmach to a distinguished academic career.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940:
In the Bronx, Benjamin Faerstein, a dentist, and “the former Rose Rosenberg,”
“Jewish immigrants from what is now the Ukraine” gave birth to Florence Ina
Faestein who gained fame as poet and translator Chana Bloch. (As reported by
William Grimes)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940:
“Young Tom Edison,” a biopic directed by Norman Taurog with a script
co-authored by Dore Schary was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940:
Birthdate of Judith Rose Fingeret, the Pittsburgh native, who, as Judith F.
Krug, led the campaign by libraries against efforts to ban books, including
helping found Banned Books Week, then fought laws and regulations to limit
children’s access to the Internet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941:
In Amsterdam, Etty Hillesum a young woman studying Slavic languages at
Amsterdam University recorded her rage of the deportations (of the Jews)
writing in her diary “The whole German nation must be destroyed root and
branch. They are all scum.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
The First Dünamünde Action, a murderous assault designed “to execute Jews who
had recently been deported to Latvia from Germany, Austria, Bohemia and
Moravia” conducted by the Nazis and their Latvian collaborators began today in
the Biķernieki forest, near Riga, Latvia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
In Brooklyn, bookkeeper Eleanor Friedman and insurance salesman Alan Jacob
Friedman gave birth to Alan Jacob Friedman “a physicist who specialized in
communicating the tenets of science to nonscientists and as the director of the
New York Hall of Science in Queens oversaw its growth from a moribund museum to
one of the city’s formidable educational institutions.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942(26<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5702): Seventy-year-old Viennese born composer and conductor Alexander
von Zemlinksy passed away today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.zemlinsky.at/en/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.zemlinsky.at/en/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://orelfoundation.org/composers/article/alexander_zemlinsky/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://orelfoundation.org/composers/article/alexander_zemlinsky/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943:
In Toronto, Canada, “Esther (née Sumberg), a musician, and Milton Cronenberg, a
writer and editor’ gave birth to David Paul Cronenberg<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a Canadian film director and occasional actor
who is one of the principal originators of what is sometimes known as the
"body horror" genre, which explores people's fears of bodily
transformation and infection. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.filmreference.com/film/84/David-Cronenberg.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.filmreference.com/film/84/David-Cronenberg.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://thechronicleherald.ca/heraldmagazine/99409-canadian-icon-david-cronenberg"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://thechronicleherald.ca/heraldmagazine/99409-canadian-icon-david-cronenberg</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943:
The deportation of the Jews from Thrace began. When Hitler was dismembering the
Balkans, he gave Thrace to Bulgaria. The price was for the Nazis largesse was
the extermination of the local Jewish population. The Jews of Thrace ended up
at Treblinka. At the time of the deportation, Anthony Eden, the British Foreign
Minister was meeting in Washington with the Cordell Hull, the Secretary of
State. Hull raised the issue of rescuing the Balkan Jews. Eden cautioned
against this. After all, Hitler might offer the Allies the Jews of Poland and
Germany as well and there simply were not enough ships available for such an
effort.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943(8th
of Adar II, 5703): At the Theresienstadt Ghetto, Trude Neumann died of
starvation. She was the daughter of Theodor Herzl, founder of the Zionist
movement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943:
“The Silver Fleet,” a British war movie co-produced by Emeric Pressburger and
filmed by cinematographer Erwin Hillier.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943:
In Cleveland, Ohio, “Helen (Smolen) Moss, a schoolteacher, and Nelson Nathan
Moss, a lawyer and small-business owner: gave birth to Harvard Business School
professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=tV3CKGuGoRkC&pg=PT25#v=onepage&q&f=false"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://books.google.com/books?id=tV3CKGuGoRkC&pg=PT25#v=onepage&q&f=false</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943:
“In the aftermath of the Stalingrad disaster, Hitler informed Joseph Goebbbels
that the liquidation program should not ‘cease or pause until no Jew is left
anywhere in the Reich.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944:
Fort Ontario, an 80-acre federal reservation on Lake Ontario, was closed today,
only to be re-opened later in the year as the European refugee center that
would be known as “Safe Haven.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944:
Birthdate of Josef Joffe, the native of Łódź, Poland who grew up in West Berlin
and became editor of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Die Zeit</i>, a
weekly German newspaper before moving onto a career in academia in the United
States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944:
Abba Berditchev parachuted into Yugoslavia. His “mission was to assist the
Jews, gather intelligence and help rescue members of the air forces who were
captured or had parachuted into Romania. He did not succeed in reaching
Romania, instead returning to Bari, Italy. In August 1944 Berditchev traveled
to Slovakia, where he participated in the Slovak National Uprising. After two
months of fighting in the mountains, Berditchev was captured by the Germans and
transferred in December 1944 to Mauthausen along with other captives, where he
was brutally tortured and murdered by the Nazis.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">(As
chronicled by Yad Vashem<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bowing to international criticism led by the
British and Americas, Turkey abolished the “Varlik Vergisi” or “Wealth Tax”
levied on that nation’s non-Muslim population including the Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944:
Birthdate of Adèle Geras, the native of Jerusalem, wife of Norman Geras and
author Sophie Hannah who gained fame as author specializing in works for “young
children and teens and winner of the National Jewish Book Award for <u>Golden
Windows</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.adelegeras.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.adelegeras.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944:
Today, the National Council of Resistance whose members including Stephane
Hessel “urged the younger generations to live by and pass on the legacy of the
Resistance and its ideals of economic, social and cultural democracy.”<br />
1945: Birthdate of New York politician Mark J. Green<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945:
The exact date of the death of Anne Frank has not been established. According
to one source, on this date Anne Frank died in Bergen Belsen concentration camp
from Typhus shortly before the liberation. Anne was born in Frankfurt but spent
most of her life in Holland. Once the deportations began Anne and her family
moved to a hiding place and stayed there from July 9, 1942 until August 4, 1944
when they were betrayed. Anne had hoped to become a writer and succeeded beyond
anything she could have imagined when her diary was published after World War
II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946:
British premier Attlee agreed to India's right to independence. This decision
had a major, if under-reported effect on the future of the Jews in Palestine.
Once the British decided to give up India, the need to protect the Suez Canal,
the British lifeline to India, had greatly diminished. The British had wanted
the Palestine Mandate primarily to protect this lifeline. Now that this would
no longer be needed, the British were prepared to give up the Palestine Mandate
which led to the creation of the state of Israel two years later.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
For the first time, British authorities have shipped “authorized immigrants”
from Palestine to Cyprus on Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest. The immigrants are
Jews who had come to Palestine aboard the Susannah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948:
Birthdate of Kate Bornstein, American transgender author.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948:
“The meeting of the United Nations Security Council scheduled today for
consideration of the Palestine question was postponed until 2:30 P.M. tomorrow
as a result of an eleventh-hour decision by the United States, China and France
to ask Jews and Arabs whether they would agree to a truce in the Holy Land,”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948:
“A spokesman of the Jewish Agency protested today that the seven-day curfew on
road traffic which imposed on Jewish settlements in the Upper Galilee was
‘inconsistent’ with the neutrality that British security forces had professed
to maintain.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5709): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5709): Emma Menko, the wife of Jake Menko and the daughter of Charles
Wessolowsky, an earlier supporter of B’nai B’rith in Alabama, passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950:
“Tarzan and the Slave Girl,” another film about the Jungle man directed by Lee
Sholem, produced by Sol Lesser and written by Hans Jacoby was released today in
the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5712): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952:
In Tangiers, a Muslim demonstration supporting union with Morocco turned
violent and "many Jewish-owned shops were among those looted and
burned."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952:
<i>The Jerusalem Post</i> reported from Egypt that a political battle was
shaping up in Cairo between Palestine hard-liners and moderates over the future
of the Palestine Liberation Organization¹s role in the Middle East and its
relations with Jordan and Syria.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953(28th
of Adar, 5713): Eighty-year-old Herman B. Baruch, the brother of financier and
Presidential adviser Bernard Baruch who was both a doctor like his father and a
former Ambassador to the Netherlands<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and Portugal passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9403E5DB173EE53BBC4E52DFB5668388649EDE"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9403E5DB173EE53BBC4E52DFB5668388649EDE</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953(28<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5713): Seventy-six-year-old Democratic Party leader and “chairman of
the board of trustees of Yeshiva University Samuel Levy, the St Patrick Day
born NYU trained lawyer and husband of Sadie Vesell Levy with whom he raised
two children – Bernice and Lawrence – passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/03/16/83714230.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/03/16/83714230.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956:
"My Fair Lady" opened on Broadway. The lyrics were written by Alan J.
Lerner and the music was composed by Frederick Lowe. These are but two Jews
connected with that unique American entertainment creation - the musical
comedy. Some other names include the team of Rogers and Hammerstein, Moss Hart,
Leonard Bernstein, Frank Loesser, Jerome Kern and the Gershwin Brothers, George
and Ira.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957(12th
of Adar II, 5717): Twelve days after having been shot by Zeev Eckstein, Rudolf
Israel Kastner succumbed to his wounds and died today in Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/yom_hashoah/article/rudolph_kastner_gets_a_new_trial_20110426"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishjournal.com/yom_hashoah/article/rudolph_kastner_gets_a_new_trial_20110426</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/kastner.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/kastner.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/movies/23killing.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/movies/23killing.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957:
On Long Island NY, chemical engineering professor Joseph Silverman and his wife
gave birth to <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David Silverman, the American animator best
known for his work on the television “The Simpsons.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959:
In Irvine, CA, Austrian born Holocaust survivor and former resident of Israel
Eric Teltscher and his wife, a native of pre-state Israel gave birth to
American tennis pro Eliot Teltscher.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.worldtennismagazine.com/archives/14107"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.worldtennismagazine.com/archives/14107</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961(27<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5721): Seventy-one-year-old Bertha L. Goldberg Schlossberg, the wife
of Joseph Schlossberg with whom she had three children – Harry, Regina and
Selma – passed away today after which she was buried in the Lincoln Park
Cemetery at Warwick, RI.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962:
“No Strings” with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers which was the first
musical he composed after the death of Oscar Hammerstein II, opened on Broadway
at the 54<sup>th</sup> Street Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962(9th
of Adar II): Seventy-four-year-old Minsk native Daniel Persky who “had been a
columnist for the Hebrew weekly Hadoar” since 1921 and columnist for Haaretz as
well as the winner of Louis LaMed Prize winner for the best Hebrew book of 1948
for writing Ivri Anokhi (I Am a Hebrew) passed away today in New York’s Mt.
Sinai Hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962:
Congregation Zichron Ephriam announced today that Rabbi Arthur Schneier, who
has been served as the “spiritual leader of Congregation B’nai Jacob in
Brooklyn” will be installed tomorrow evening as “its new spiritual leader.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965:
President Lyndon Johnson asked Congress to ensure everybody's right to vote
regardless of any race, religion, sex, etc. This landmark legislation which was
heavily supported by Jewish voters and politicians would be known as the Voting
Rights Act of 1965. It would change the landscape of American politics forever.
And it was a true act of political and physical courage for Johnson to make and
support such a proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966(23rd
of Adar, 5726): Abe Saperstein, founder of the Harlem Globetrotters passed away
at age 63.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/saperstein.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/saperstein.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://news.investors.com/management-leaders-and-success/100400-350265-basketball-promoter-abe-saperstein-innovations-let-his-globetrotters-glitter.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://news.investors.com/management-leaders-and-success/100400-350265-basketball-promoter-abe-saperstein-innovations-let-his-globetrotters-glitter.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967:
ABC broadcast the last episode of “The Monroes” created by Milt Rosen and
co-starring Barbara Hershey.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967:
“In Like Flint,” a spy spoof produced by Saul David, co-starring Lee J. Cobb, featuring
Herb Edelman and with music by Jerry Goldsmith was released in the United
States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5728): Shushan Purim <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5728): Seventy-nine-year-old “French philanthropist and property
developer” Noemie de Rothschild the Paris born daughter of Jules Halphen and
Marie Hermine Rodrigues-Pereire and the granddaughter of Sephardic financier
Eugene Pereire who was the husband of Maurice de Rothschild and the mother of
Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5729): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5729): Eighty-six-year-old antique dealer Abraham Ash, the husband of
the former Tilly Adler with whom he had two daughters – Rose and Florence – who
operated the Madison Galleries on West 45<sup>th</sup> Street passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969:
US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned under a cloud of scandal. Fortas
was a close friend and advisor to Lyndon Johnson. According to some accounts,
when Johnson told Fortas that he was going to appoint him the "Jewish
seat" on the Supreme Court, Fortas, cautioned against this. He told
Johnson that neither he, nor the Jewish community, would consider his
appointment as fulfilling that role. Apparently, Fortas saw himself only
nominally as a Jew and did not see this accident of birth as a steppingstone to
power. Johnson ignored him and made the appointment later.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970:
“After 28 previews, the Broadway production” of Purlie directed by Phillip Rose
who also wrote the book for this musical by Louis Johnson, opened at The
Broadway Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970(7<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5730): Eighty-three-year-old Sarah Grobstein, the Kaunas born
daughter of Mera and Leizer Benjamin Ipp and the wife of Jacob Grobestien
passed away today in Youngstown, OH.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972:
“Slaughterhouse-Five” a movie version of the novel by the same name co-starring
Ron Leibman was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972:
“The Godfather,” a movie version of the novel by the same name produced by
Albert S. Ruddy and co-starring James Caan and Abe Vigoda opened at the Loew’s
State Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5733): Ta’anit Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973:
An attack on the Israeli and Jordanian embassies in Paris” was “forestalled”
today when “2 Arabs were arrested by French police at the French-Italian
bordered, leading to the arrest of one Palestinian and one English doctor in
Paris.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973:
André Bettencourt, who like so many Frenchmen of his generation had a checkered
pass, as can be seen by his service as cabinet under President Pierre Mendès
France after having written during the days of Vichy France that Jews were
“hypocritical Pharisees whose race has been forever sullied by the blood of the
righteous” for which “they will be cursed” began serving as French Foreign
Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974:
“President Nixon stated that the rise in the number of Jews permitted to leave
the USSR is due to his personal contacts with Soviet leaders; passage of his
trade bill necessary for continuing dialogue with Russians and further
emigration.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974:
“Senators Henry Jackson and Abraham Ribicoff told Dr. Kissinger that Soviet
assurance of more than 35 thousand Jewish emigration permits annually are the
condition for considering compromise on the Jackson Amendment.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974:
Funeral services were held today in Brooklyn, for Judge Harold W. Cohn, the
husband of Lillian Cohn and father of Steven and Michelle who was a long-time
board member of the Williamsburg YM/YWHA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975:
In a case of Jews playing Jews, U.S. premiere of “Funny Lady” with Barbara
Streisand as Fanny Brice and James Caan as Billy Rose.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1976(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5736): Ta’anit Esther and Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1976:
Just days before his 75<sup>th</sup> birthday, Jewish born set designer Jo
Mielziner who converted to Catholicism passed away today. (As reported by Albin
Krebs)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/16/archives/jo-mielziner-dead-at-74-pioneering-set-designer-dozens-of-hits-a.html?_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/16/archives/jo-mielziner-dead-at-74-pioneering-set-designer-dozens-of-hits-a.html?_r=0</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1976:
“In Beersheba, Meir and Esther Ohana, Sephardic Jewish immigrants from Morocco
gave birth to their third son, Amir Ohanah, who has served as both the Minister
of Justice and the Minister of Public Safety and who “ss the first openly gay
right-wing member of the Knesset and the first openly gay man from Likud to
serve in the Knesset.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1977:
In Johannesburg, South Aica, Melanie and Mervyn Hurwitz gave birth to Sara
Hurwitz a “Rabba at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, “the president and
co-founder of Yeshivat Maharat” and the wife of “</span><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">lawyer
Joshua Abraham, with whom she has four sons.</span><sup><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">”</span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977:
<i>The Jerusalem Post</i> reported that at his press conference in Washington
US President Jimmy Carter suggested how Israeli and international troops,
assisted by listening stations, might possibly man Israel¹s "defense
line" which would be outside of the sovereign border. He refused, however,
to say where the "line" would be. He warned that further Israeli
settlement in the administered territories hampered the peace effort.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977:
<i>The Jerusalem Post</i> reported that The Knesset Law Committee discussed
legislation which would introduce partial constituency elections in Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977:
The Religious Torah Front, a political alliance in Israel composed of Agudat
Yisrael and Poalei Agudat Yisrael that held five seats in the Knesset split
with Agudat Yisrael taking three seats and Poalei Agudat Yisrael two.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977:
The Hadash movement which included Rakah and Non-Partisans parliamentary group
was formed in preparation for the 1977 elections.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5738): Fifty-year-old “Milton Perlmutter, president and chief
executive officer of the Supermarkets General Corporation” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/16/archives/milton-perlmutter-head-of-store-group-president-of-supermarkets.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/16/archives/milton-perlmutter-head-of-store-group-president-of-supermarkets.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978:
“House Calls,” a comedy based on a story by Julius J.Epstein and Max Shulman,
directed by Howard Zeiff and co-starring Walter Matthau and Richard Benjamin
was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979:
In Cincinnati, Ohio, Carolyn and Mike Youkilis, a wholesale jeweler, gave birth
to professional baseball player Kevin Youkilis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980:
“The Union of Council for Soviet Jews convened an international consultation in
London and in Israel, meeting with officials and local groups to coordinate
efforts and discuss strategies and programs to defend Soviet Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981: The BBC
broadcast the final episode of seven-part mini-series based on Jane Austen’s
Sense and Sensibility with a script written by Alexander Baron, the son of
Jewish immigrants from Poland who had settled in the East End of London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982:
Paul Saginaw, Michael Monahan and Ari Weinzweig founded Zingerman's, a
kosher-style delicatessen, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983:
“Over 1,000 delegates from 30 countries attended the opening session of the
Third World Conference on Soviet Jewry in Jerusalem.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984:
Ninety-one-year-old Henning Linden, the Brigadier General who led a group of
reporters including Marguerite Higgins and a detachment of the 42nd (Rainbow)
Infantry Division as the soldiers liberated Dachau, generating international
headlines by freeing more than 30,000 Jews and political prisoners, passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985:
“Lost In America” a comedy directed by, written by and co-starring Albert
Brooks was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987:
In an article entitled, “For Israel and U.S., A Growing Military Partnership,”
David K. Shipler describes how the relationship between the two nations
continues to thrive despite the Jonathan Pollard fiasco.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987:
Today an Israeli newspaper quoted Rafael Eitan, named as the spymaster in the
Pollard case, as saying that his superiors had known of the operation,
contradicting the Government's position. Mr. Eitan later denied having made
such a statement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988:
CBS brought the series “My Sister Sam” featuring Rebecca Schaeffer as “Patricia
Russell” back to the air today due in part to letters from fans and the 1988
Writers Guild of America strike which affected the production of other
television series for CBS and the other two major television networks.
(Schaeffer would be murdered by an obsessive, stalker a year later)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990:
The first London production” of “Sunday in the Park with George, a musical with
music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim” “opened at the Royal National Theatre
today, and ran for 117 performances, with Maria Friedman as Dot<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990:
Haim Bar-Lev complete his terms as Minister of Public Security<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990:
Yitzhak Rabin completed his term as Minister of Defense.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990:
Gad Yaacobi completed his term as Minister of Communications<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990:
Ezer Weizman completed his term as Minister of Science and Technology.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990:
The Labor Alignment left the National Unity Government leading to the defeat of
Likud’s Yitzchak Shamir.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990:
Yitzhak Moda'I and four other MKs (all of them former members of the Liberal
Party) broke away from Likud to form the Party for the Advancement of the
Zionist Idea, later renamed the New Liberal Party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1992:
In “Separating the Men From the Apes” published today Frans B. M.de Waal
reviewed <u>The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal</u>
by Jared Diamond.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/15/books/separating-the-men-from-the-apes.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/15/books/separating-the-men-from-the-apes.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994(3rd
of Nisan, 5754): Arthur Taubman, a self-made businessman who built the Advance
Stores auto parts chain into a multimillion-dollar business passed away at the
age of 92. During World War II, Mr. Taubman also helped about 500 European Jews
reach the United States by filing affidavits with the immigration authorities
saying the Jews were relatives. When questioned by Federal officials, he said
any Jew facing death in Nazi-occupied Europe was his first cousin. In addition,
he was the founding chairman of Alliance Tire and Rubber Company Ltd., which he
and Prime Minister David Ben Gurion of Israel established in 1953. The company,
based in Hadera, Israel, became the largest such manufacturer in the Middle
East. Mr. Taubman, who was born and reared in Astoria, Queens, went to work as
a stock boy in a New York department store at the age of 13 after completing
the sixth grade. He served in the Navy in World War I and later began an auto
parts chain in Pittsburgh. When the business failed in the early 1930's, he
moved to Roanoke, Va., and started over, making a down payment on three failing
auto-parts shops. This time he achieved success. The chain, Advance Stores, a
privately held family business based in Roanoke, now has 370 stores. Automotive
Marketing magazine estimated its 1992 sales at $320 million. Mr. Taubman was
president of the chain until 1969, when he became chairman. He retired in 1973
but was vice chairman until 1985.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5755): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995:
It was reported today that Secretary of State Christopher has gotten Syria to
agree to direct talks with Israel during which they hope to find a forumula for
peach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held at “Boulevard-Riverside” this morning
for Samuel Goldman, the husband of Bea Goldman and the “father of Eileen and
Robert Roman, Elizabeth and Lawrence Goldman” who was a member of Temple
Beth-El in Cedarhurst, NY which is led by Dr. Sholom Stern and Rabbi Allan
Kroningold.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including
The Children by David Halberstam and Persian Brides by Dorit Rabinyan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000:
Barbra Streisand opened her concert at the Colonia Stadium in Melbourne.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001
Thirty-seven-year-old Khalid Abu Elba, the Palestinian bus driver who ran over
and killed eight Israelis last month, told reporters in Tel Aviv, while
speaking in Hebrew that “I am not sorry.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002:
Three Israelis made the Forbes list of 500 Billionaires - Cruise ship heiress
Shari Arison Dorsman, shipping magnates Sammy and Yuli Ofer and software
kingpin Gil Schwed are the world's richest Israelis. Jewish billionaires
featured on the list include New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a media
mogul turned Republican politician, whose $4.4 billion fortune ranks him at No.
72. Mortimer Zuckerman, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations, is No. 413 with $1.1 billion<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003:
“President Bush's announcement in Washington today of plans to publish the long
delayed plan for Middle East peace represented a gain for Prime Minister Tony
Blair at a time when the British leader is getting little lift elsewhere.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5764): “Two Palestinian suicide bombers blew themselves up minutes
apart at the industrial port here today, killing 10 others and prompting
Israel's prime minister to cancel a first meeting with his Palestinian
counterpart.” (As reported by James Bennet)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005:
Dignitaries from all over the world attended the opening of Yad Vashem's new
History Museum in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006:
Attorney David Etra stays overnight at the White House on the day after Purim
and when asked to explain the holiday’s meaning, Etra summed it by saying, “It
was a about a crazy guy in Iran who wanted to kill all the Jews” which caused
President Bush to remark that “not much has changed.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006:
15th of Adar 5766 – Shushan Purim. This day points out one of the differences
between the Jews and those who sought to conquer or destroy them. There are
still Jews around to celebrate Purim and Shushan Purim. Where are the Romans
who must “Beware of the Ides of March”?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007(25th
of Adar, 5767): Stuart Rosenberg an American film and television director whose
notable works included the movies Cool Hand Luke), Voyage of the Damned ,The
Amityville Horror, and The Pope of Greenwich Village passed away at the age of
79.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/arts/19rosenberg.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/arts/19rosenberg.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007:
As part of its program to republish out of print “classic works” Amazon
published a paperback edition of <u>Chronicle of An American Crusade</u> by
Rabbi Samuel S. Mayerberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chronicle-American-Crusader-Samuel-Mayerberg/dp/1406758817"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.amazon.com/Chronicle-American-Crusader-Samuel-Mayerberg/dp/1406758817</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007:
“Stan Lee Media's new president, Jim Nesfield, filed a lawsuit against Marvel
Entertainment for $5 billion, claiming that the company is co-owner of the
characters that Lee created for Marvel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007:
USA Today reported that Businessman Jimmy Delshad is set to become the first
Iranian-American mayor in the USA. The sixty-sixty-year-old Delshad, who
immigrated to America at the age of 19, will assume the top job in Beverly
Hills, California. As the article points out, 8,000 of the city’s 35,000
residents are of Iranian descent. Just as America benefited from the German
Jews who fled Hitler in 1933, so it would appear that America is benefiting
from the Iranian Jews who fled the Ayatollah in 1979.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007:
The Canadian Jewish News reported that Zahal Square, the barren space just
outside the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, is to be rebuilt by Canadians,
Jewish and non-Jewish, into an attractive public gathering place and site of
national celebrations and cultural events, under a joint project of the Jerusalem
Foundation, the municipality and leading Israeli businesspeople.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008:
Shabbat Zachor, 5768<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008:
The Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities and The Iowa Arts Council present
Israeli Pianist Ofra Yitzhaki at the Galvin Fine Arts Center, St. Ambrose
University. Ms. Yitzhaki is a recipient of the Vladimir Horowitz Scholarship at
Julliard and the winner of the Van Cliburn Institute Concerto Competition.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008:
In Washington, D.C. The National League of American Pen Women hosts author
Cynthia Polansky presenting a lecture, "Why a Holocaust Novel? The Far
Above Rubies Journey," delving into the real-life story that inspired her
novel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
Soviet-born Israeli-American pianist “Yefim "Fima" Naumovich Bronfman
“performed Brahms's Second Piano Concerto with the Houston Symphony Orchestra.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
In an event that is part of the Chaim Kempner Author Series and is co-sponsored
by the Italian Cultural Institute Robert Zweig discusses and signs Return to
Naples: My Italian Bar Mitzvah and Other Discoveries at the D.C. Jewish
Community Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including <u>The Other Side of the Island</u> by Allegra Goodman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009(19th
of Adar, 5769): A Palestinian terrorist shot Israeli Senior Warrant Officer
Yehezkel Ramzarkar, 50, and Warrant Officer David Rabinowitz, 42, as they
patrolled near the northern Jordan Valley town of Massua. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
Over 600 Jewish professional from across North America who are attending the
National Young Leadership Conference in New Orleans took a break from lectures
and learning opportunities to work on restoring Archbishop Hannan High School
in St. Bernard Parish which had been abandoned in the wake of Hurricane
Katrina.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009(19
Adar, 5769): Twenty-four-year-old Sgt. Robert Weinger was killed near Bati Kot,
Afghanistan, when his vehicle struck an explosive device.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010:
After a nearly 62-year hiatus, the renowned Hurva synagogue inside the Jewish
Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City has been rebuilt and is again an operational
house of prayer. Hundreds of people, braving the wind and an unexpected
Jerusalem chill, crowded into a courtyard opposite the outer walls of the
synagogue tonight to take part in an official rededication ceremony for the
newly-rebuilt shul – which stands in the exact spot it did before its
destruction at the hands of the Jordanian Arab Legion during the War of
Independence in 1948. Huvra’s first incarnation came in 1701, when it was
constructed by disciples of Judah Hahasid. Its first destruction came some 20
years later, when those same disciples lacked the funds to repay local
creditors, who in return burned the Hurva to the ground.It was nearly 150 years
before the Hurva stood again, but in 1864, after a massive construction project
was approved by the Ottoman Turks and funds were procured from Jewish
communities the world over, a neo-Byzantine Hurva was soon towering over the
rest of the Jewish Quarter. However, Hurva, which hosted the likes of Theodor
Herzl and Ze’ev Jabotinsky before the creation of the state, also met with
ruin. The Jordanian army took Jerusalem’s Old City in May of 1948, loaded the
building with explosives and set off a blast whose smoke cloud could be seen
miles away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010:
The New York Philharmonic is scheduled to present “Sondheim: The Birthday
Concert” marking the 80th anniversary of the birth of Stephen Sondheim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010:
Phillips-Van Heusen (the Phillips part of the name goes back to a Moses and
Endel Phillips a 19<sup>th</sup> century that sewed shirts and sold them in a
pushcart in Pennsylvania) was “acquired by Tommy Hilfiger today for three
billion dollars.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010:
Actress Isla Fisher who took the Hebrew name “Ayala” when she converted in 2007
married actor/comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010:
An Israeli lawmaker told a delegation of American Jewish leaders that he would
consult with Diaspora Jewry on issues involving conversion. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5771): Fifty-one-year-old “Yakov Kreizberg, an internationally known
conductor praised for the depth and intensity of his interpretations” passed
away today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(As reported by Margalit
Fox)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/arts/music/yakov-kreizberg-orchestral-conductor-dies-at-51.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/arts/music/yakov-kreizberg-orchestral-conductor-dies-at-51.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
“Action Bronson's debut studio album Dr. Lecter was independently released
under Fine Fabric Delegates” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(9th
of Adar II): On the Jewish calendar anniversary of First Dispute Between Two
Schools of Torah Thought (1st century CE). According to Chabad-Lubavitch, “The
schools of Shammai and Hillel for the very first time disagreed regarding a
case of Jewish law. This occurred around the turn of the 1st century. In the
ensuing generations, the schools argued regarding many different laws, until
the law was established according to the teachings of the "House of
Hillel" -- with the exception of a few instances. According to tradition,
following the arrival of the Moshiach the law will follow the rulings of the
House of Shammai. All throughout, the members of the two schools maintained
friendly relations with each other.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
The five finalists for the Sami Rohr Prize in fiction for Jewish Literature are
scheduled to meet with judges in New York City. The winner is expected to be
announced shortly after these meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
“Yolande: An Unsung Heroine” is one of the films scheduled to be shown today at
the 15th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
Samuel Heilman is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled “Lubavitchers: What
Do They Want, and Who Sent Them?” at Ohev Shalom – The National Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
Nissim Reuben, the American Jewish Committee’s Program Director for
Indian-Jewish American Relations is scheduled to deliver a lecture about the
Jewish community in India, Jewish Indian Americans, their relationship with
Israel, and his personal story at Congregation Beth Emeth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
The IDF seized a freighter ship with dozens of tons of weaponry from Iran
headed for Hamas in the Gaza Strip today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
At 11:00 AM this morning, people throughout the country stopped, observing five
minutes of silence in honor of Gilad Schalit. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art announced the selection of painters Asaf Ben Zvi and
Michael Halak as the winners of the 2011 Rappaport Prize. (As reported by
Daniel Rauchwerger)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
Egyptian security officials said that Egypt's army captured five vehicles
smuggling weapons into the country from Sudan, and apparently heading to Gaza,
AP reported. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5772): Seventy-four-year-old “Jerome Albert, who with his father,
Dewey, created and operated Astroland, the space age-themed amusement park that
breathed new life into the Coney Island Boardwalk in the 1960s” passed away
today. (As reported by Denis Hevesi)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/nyregion/jerome-albert-who-helped-bring-space-age-to-coney-island-dies-at-74.html?_r=2&hpw&"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/nyregion/jerome-albert-who-helped-bring-space-age-to-coney-island-dies-at-74.html?_r=2&hpw&</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Noa (Achinoam Nini) and Mira Awad, two of Israel’s most beloved singing stars
and coexistence advocates are scheduled to perform their concert “Two Voices,
One Vision.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Political Stand-up Comedian Jeremy ‘Political’ Man is scheduled to appear at
the Off The Wall Comedy Basement in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
“Non-practicing” Jewish authoress Jodi Picoult is scheduled to discuss the
moral dilemmas presented in her new novel “Lone Wolf” at the Historic Sixth and
I Synagogue in Washington, DC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
New York Congressman Gary L. Ackerman a flamboyant Jewish Congressman from New
York and a supporter of Israel announced today that he will not seek
re-election. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
The Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepted a Grad-type Katyusha rocket fired
by Gaza militants toward the southern city of Ashdod today, following hours of
relative calm along Israel's border with the coastal enclave. Two more
projectiles hit an open field in the Eshkol and Ashkelon regional Councils; no
wounded reported.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
In Olney, MD, Shaare Tefila is scheduled to sponsor “Shabbat Alive!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
“FDR: Anti-Semite or friend of the Jews?” published today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/fdr-anti-semite-or-friend-of-the-jews/2013/03/15/7c5b58c6-8bee-11e2-af15-99809eaba6cb_story.html?utm_term=.40d75174b60d"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/fdr-anti-semite-or-friend-of-the-jews/2013/03/15/7c5b58c6-8bee-11e2-af15-99809eaba6cb_story.html?utm_term=.40d75174b60d</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
In Tel Aviv, the city’s annual marathon will not be run today because of the
expectation of unseasonably high temperatures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Other races, including the half marathon, are scheduled to be run as
planned. (As reported by Adviv Sterman)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Yotam Ben Horin and Sarai Givaty are scheduled to perform at SXSW 2013 in
Austin, Texas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Playwright Jonathan Garfinkel has probably gone where no Canadian Jewish writer
has gone before — Pakistan and Afghanistan — to create his new play, “Dust.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013(4<sup>th</sup>
of Nisan, 5773): A participant in the Tel Aviv half marathon collapsed and died
Friday morning, and more than 20 others were hospitalized due to extremely hot
conditions. The deceased runner, Michael Michaelovitch, was a 29-year-old IDF
sergeant from the settlement of Tene, south of Hebron<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
The Jewish Home and Yesh Atid parties signed a coalition agreement with
Likud-Beytenu this afternoon, paving the way for Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu to swear in his new government early next week<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The Desert Film Society is scheduled to show “The Sturgeon Queens.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5774): Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“My Best Holiday” is scheduled to have its New York Premiere at the New York
Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Today, Masha “Gessen wrote in the Washington Post that Putin's popularity had
been restored thanks to the Sochi Olympics and invasion of Ukraine, which had
played on the longstanding notion "that Russia is a country under siege,
surrounded by enemies and constantly on the brink of catastrophe" and
added that "the only way to continue shoring up his popularity is to
escalate war rhetoric and the war effort," to paint "the
Western/fascist/Ukrainian enemy as ever more dangerous and the Russian invasion
of Ukraine as ever more important<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
In Springfield, VA, Congregation Adat Reyim is scheduled to host a Purim Pasta
Party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
In the evening, Ilan Caplan is scheduled to chant the Megalith Esther at Shir
Chadish in Metairie, LA. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Four Border Police soldiers were hit by a car, driven by a Palestinian, at a
roadblock near Beit Ummar in Gush Etzion in what the driver claimed was an
accident. (As reporterd by Yoav Zitun)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5774): Seventy-eight-year-old comedian David Brenner passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.davidbrennersite.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.davidbrennersite.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-comedian-david-brenner-dies-at-78/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-comedian-david-brenner-dies-at-78/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including <u>The Last Flight of Poxl West</u> by Daniel Torday and <u>Frank: A
Life in Politics From the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage</u> by Barney
Frank.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“The kosher supermarket in Paris attacked by a jihadist gunman linked to the
shootings at Charlie Hebdo magazine in January re-opened today.” (Times of
Israel)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
World premiere of “Khoya: Jewish Morocco Sound Archive” is scheduled to take
place at the 18<sup>th</sup> Annual NY Sephardic Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
In Chicago the Lyric Opera is scheduled to perform “The Passenger” which tells
the story of a former SS officer who thinks she sees one of her former
prisoners on an ocean liner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“Two days ahead of the general election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog today continued to vie for the premiership,
with the former addressing a right-wing rally in Tel Aviv in the evening and
Herzog saying he was willing to form a national unity government under his own
leadership.” (As reported by Marissa Newman)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
In Washington, DC Dr. “Pamela Nadell -- the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's
and Gender History, Chair of the Department of History, and Director of the
Jewish Studies Program at American University – is scheduled explore the lives
of Jewish women who immigrated to the United States as she lectures on “Tevye’s
Daughters in America.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“The Man in the Wall” and “Baba Joon” are scheduled to be shown at the Houston
Jewish Film Festival<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Hiker finds rare gold coin in Israel” published today described Laurie Rimon’s
discovery in the eastern Galilee of “a 2,000-year-old coin with the face of
Emperor Augustus…who ruled from” 27 BCE to 14 CE.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/14/middleeast/israel-gold-coin-found/index.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/14/middleeast/israel-gold-coin-found/index.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
Mosh Ben Aris, an Israeli from a Yemenite Iraqi family, is scheduled to perform
at B.B. King Blues Club in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled to
host an<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Educators' Open House<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which is open to teachers and educators from
around the region and is a chance to learn directly from OJMCHE staff about
renowned photojournalist Ruth Gruber's importance to the topics of 20th century
history.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
“Henryk Ross’s Grim Photos Document Life in the Lodz Ghetto” published today
provides a description of an exhibition entitled “Memory Unearthed: The Lodz
Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross” scheduled to open at The Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The Jerusalem Unity Prize, which was “launched in 2015 in memory of three slain
Israeli teenagers” -- Eyal Yifrach, 19; Naftali Fraenkel, 16; and Gil-ad Shaar,
16 – included Limmud, “the international network of Jewish learning
communities” among the winners announced today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The Yeshiva University Museum is scheduled to present fabric artist Ita Aber
and curator Bonni-Dara Michaels leading a tour of Yeshiva University Museum’s
Uncommon Threads exhibition, featuring garments, textiles and jewelry from the
Museum’s collection, including Aber’s 1970s customized Israeli flag.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “The Jewish Response to Racism”
presented by April N. Baskin the Union for Reform Judaism’s Vice President of
Audacious Hospitality, Stosh Cotler the CEO of Bend the Arc: A Jewish
Partnership for Justice and longtime U.S. civil rights strategist Eric Ward.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host “If Not
Now, When – Impact and Response to the Rohingya Genocide.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018(28<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5778): Seventy-eight-year-old Robert Samuel Grossman, the son of
silk-screen printing shop owner who gained fame as a leading illustrator passed
away today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(As reported by Neil
Genlinger)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/obituaries/robert-grossman-illustrator-with-a-brash-touch-dies-at-78.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/obituaries/robert-grossman-illustrator-with-a-brash-touch-dies-at-78.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.robertgrossman.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.robertgrossman.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“Journey from Tunisia” and “Remember Baghdad” are scheduled to make their
premiere showing on the final night of the 21<sup>st</sup> NY Sephardic Jewish
Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“Saving Neta” and “Winter Hunt” are scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish
Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The Chabad Rosh Chodesh Society is scheduled to meet in Metairie, LA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Liz Alpern and Jeffrey Yoskowitz—cofounders of Gefilteria and coauthors of <u>The
Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods </u>-- are scheduled
to host “All About Gefilte Fish” at the Streicker Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
In Metairie, LA (suburban New Orleans), Congregation Beth Israel is scheduled
to host Community Dinner featuring a talk by Jessie Wilson, author of <u>Under
Water</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
Despite yesterday’s rocket attacks, Balkan Beat Box, fronted by Tomer Yosef, is
scheduled to perform at the Barby in Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington DC is scheduled to co-host a
production of “The Jewish Queen Lear,” an “1898 Yiddish play be Jacob Grodin”
officially titled “Mirele Efros”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
Washington Hebrew Congregation is scheduled to host “District Shabbat” at the
Southwest Waterfront featuring “internationally celebrated musicians Dan
Nichols and Alan Goodis.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
Following yesterday’s rocket attack aimed at Tel Aviv, “a rocket fired at the
Eshkol Regional Council from the Gaza Strip overnight landed in the coastal
enclave, failing to reach Israeli territory.” (YNET)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
As the world wrestles with pandemic, one bright spot is the opportunity to
celebrate the birthday of Betty Asher whose virtues are too numerous to list
and who is the embodiment of the term Ashish Chayel. (I would have written this
even if she weren’t my aunt)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
“Out of concern for the welfare of our community and in accordance with the
recommendations of Governor Pritzker and Mayor Lightfoot, Illinois Holocaust
Museum is canceling “Jump For Justice” which was scheduled to take place today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020”
In Belmont, MA, Beth El Temple Center is scheduled to host “Purim Drag Story
Time and Purim Carnival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
In Berkley, Urban Adamah has cancelled “Preparing for Passover through
Meditation which had been scheduled to take place today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The Breman Museum is canceling Bearing Witness featuring Dr. Alfred Schneider
which was scheduled to take place today in Atlanta.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The gala honoring Rabbi Peretz sponsored by HaMaqom scheduled for today has
been canceled in response to “the public concerns over COVID-19.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times </i>features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including <u>Separation Anxiety</u> by Laura Zigman, <u>The Nation City: Why
Mayors Are Now Running the World</u> by Rahm Emanuel, <u>Facebook: The Inside
Story</u> by Steven Levy and <u>The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For: How a New
Generation of Leaders Will Transform America </u>by Charlotte Alter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
Yiddishkayt is scheduled to host “Virtual Passover Around the World” this
evening online.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
KlezCalifornia is scheduled to host “Klezmer by Ear,” during which Klezmatics
violinist and composer Lisa Gutkin teaches a workshop on how to play music by
ear, including classic klezmer tunes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The National Museum of American Jewish History, for which Mitchell Levin is “an
official content provider” is scheduled to present, online “For the Love of
Opera,” Celebrating RBG’s 88<sup>th</sup> Birthday.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
While the world is worrying about vaccinations, masks and social distancing,
Betty Levin, the matriarch of the Levin Clan is spending her birthday worrying
about how she will get enough fish to make her famous gefilte fish while her
family and friends get to bask in her warmth for another year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Based on an announcement made yesterday by Health Minister Yuli Edelstein,
Israelis have only to wait another six days for the reopening of nightclubs and
bars which is scheduled to take place on <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to present American Jewish Matriarchs during
which Pamela Nadell discusses the lives of Abigail Franks, Rebecca Gratz and
Rose Sonneschein among others.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present Ayala Fader as she talked
with Michal Kravel-Tovi about her book <u>Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the
Digital Age</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Suburban Temple-Kol Ami is scheduled to “host its “Cook-Along: A Muffin can be
Filling: Potato Kugel Muffins Easy and Perfect for Your Seder!” event featuring
Rabbi Shana Nyer.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The Lappin Foundation is scheduled to present “Mosaics With Mia,” during which
Israel-based mosaic muralist Mia Schon leads a one-hour collage workshop via
Zoom during which “participants will learn how to creatively repurpose old
magazines and paper to create Spring and Passover themed cards.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
As part of the Part of Faces of Israel Series this time marking “A Celebration
of Ethiopian Jewish Heritage” Contra Costa JCC, East Bay Int’l Jewish Film
Festival, Jewish Book Council and local congregations are scheduled to host a
screening of “The Passengers,” a “2019 documentary about two young Ethiopian
Jewish men advocating for expanded immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Based on an announcement made yesterday, Israelis may feel a little safer today
because “Iron Sting, the new guided mortar system, is now ready for deployment.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
It was reported today that a study “of Israeli health care workers, showed that
even though fourth shots of either Pfizer’s or Moderna’s vaccine boosted
antibody levels, they were not very effective at preventing infections.” (As
reported by Sharon LaFraniere)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/15/us/politics/pfizer-second-booster-shot-older-americans.html?searchResultPosition=2"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/15/us/politics/pfizer-second-booster-shot-older-americans.html?searchResultPosition=2</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
The mayor who led the seaside town of Surfside, FL, through the traumatic
aftermath of the collapse of a condominium tower in which 98 people were killed
last year was defeated in today’s election by Shlomo Danziger. (As reported by
Maria Cramer)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to present
“A Celebration of Persian Jewish Music in hoor of Purim” this evening with Dr.
Galeet Dardashti.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
As part of the series “Knowledge Under Siege,” YIVO is scheduled to present a
lecture by Anna Bikont on “Irene Sendler: In Hiding.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Modern Jewish Couples is scheduled to present online “Passover Prep for
Jews-by-Choice.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Center is scheduled to host a lecture by Allen
Packwood on “Action this Day: War Aims and Strategy” the second in a four part
course on “Sir Winston Churchill and the Second World War.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The Walnut Street Synagogue is scheduled to present, online, “Crackers, Crepes
and Cheese: Jewish Culinary Traditions from Passover to Shavuot.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The final streaming of “Paris Boutique” presented by UK Jewish Film is
scheduled to take place today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The Jewish Community Library is scheduled to present Marcia Falk as she
discusses her new haggadah, which unlike traditional haggadahs, recounts the
Exodus narrative in its entirety, highlights the actions of its female
characters and includes new blessings.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Based on previous published information hearings under the direction of MK
Simcha Rothman, the chairman of the Constitution, Law and Justice committee are
scheduled to come to an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
In a special event scheduled to take place at Agnon House in Jerusalem today,
at 11:30, “we will host Greenbaum for a conversation with Dr. Shira Stavabout
father-daughter relations following her work as a photographer and with
photographer Gilad Ophirabout generational differences in the artistic
arrangements of home and body in the shadow of Israel's wars.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
At Temple Judea, Rabbi Yaron and Canto Shira Ginsburg are scheduled to lead two
Shabbat services with a Dessert Oneg immediately following services.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host a “Walking Tour of the
Jewish Lower East Side” during which participants can “explore an era of
unparalleled growth as waves of immigrants settled, prayed, played, worked,
shopped, and attended school in this neighborhood as they built their new lives
in a new land.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
Friends and family are over-joyed to celebrate the 95<sup>th</sup> birthday of
Betty Levin, long-time partner in life of Dr. Jack Levin, Z”L, mother of four
wonderful children and grandmother and great-grandmother too a whole tribe and
the best aunt I could ever ask for.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
15th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 161 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p><br /><p></p>melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-5829775897881324122024-03-13T14:12:00.002-06:002024-03-13T16:45:34.207-06:00This Day, March 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">March 14</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">388: A law prohibiting mixed marriages between
Jews and non-Jews which is defined as adultery, is promulgated as part of the
Theodosian Code.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1181: “Immediately after his coronation” today,
King Philip Augustus of France ordered the seizure of all Jews of Paris
attending synagogue and had them detained for ransom<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1473(14th of Adar): Marranos massacred in
Cordova, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1489: The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro,
sells her kingdom to Venice. Jews had been living on this Mediterranean island
since Roman time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time of the
Venetian acquisition, a considerable number of Jews were leading merchants in
the port of Famagusta.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1492: Queen Isabella
of Castile orders her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or
face expulsion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1535: David dei Rossi a Jewish merchant from
Italy, who set out for the Orient in 1534, writes his wife Sarah the following
observation of life in Ottoman Palestine, "Hatred of the Jew is, in
contrast to our homeland, unknown here, and the Turks hold the Jews in esteem.
In this country and in Egypt, Jews are the chief officers and administrators of
the customs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1543: During the Counter Reformation, Paul III
issued entitled “Injunctum nobis,” a papal bull that affirmed certain Catholic
teachings, including the authority of the Pope, in the face of Protestant
challenges. This came a year after Paul III had launched an Inquisition that
was designed to stamp the Protestant revolution begun by Luther.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Judaizing” was one of the crimes that the
Inquisition was empowered to investigated and punish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1630: In Przemysl, Poland, Moses the Braider, a
Jewish merchant, was accused of conspiring to desecrate the host and was burned
alive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1640(1<sup>st</sup> Nisan, 5400): Rosh Chodesh
Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1640(1<sup>st</sup> of Nisan, 5400): Talmud
scholar Joel Ben Samuel Sirkis, known as the Bach, the Lublin born of Rabbi
Samuel Sirkis and Sarah Jaffe of the distinguished Jaffe family and husband of
Bella, the daughter of Abraham of Lwow, man of whose students went on to being
the leading rabbis and Talmudists in Poland passed away today in Krakow after
which he was buried at the Remah Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Sirkis"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Sirkis</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1647: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign
the Truce of Ulm during the Thirty Years War. The Thirty Years War coincided
with the great Cossack Uprising.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jewish
refugees from these two calamities reversed the eastward migration of
Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A trickle that would eventually
become a comparative “torrent” began moving Westward settling in Holland and
England.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1656: The property of Antonio Rodrigues,
“including his two ships than at anchor in the Thames was seized today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1682: Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael, the Dutch
landscape painter whose works include “The Jewish Cemetery” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.oilpaintingfactory.com/english/oil-painting-106726.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.oilpaintingfactory.com/english/oil-painting-106726.htm</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1745: Birthdate of Dumbarton native and
Scottish merchant and statistician Patrick Colquhoun according to whom “at the
opening of the 19<sup>th</sup> century,” “the Jewish population of London
amounted to 20,000” who “worshipped at six synagogues” while “various
provincial centtres held five or six thousand additional Jews” who worshipped
at twenty synagogues.” (Jews of England 300)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1750: In New Amsterdam (New York City), Isaac
Mendes Seixas, a native of Lisbon and Rachel Franks Levy, a native of London
gave birth to Abraham Mendes Seixas, the husband of Richea Hart whom he married
in Charleston in 1777 and with whom he had ten children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1767(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5527):
Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim observed on the same day that Thomas
Franklin wrote to his grandson Benjamin Franklin while the famous inventor and
published was serving as a deputy-postmaster general of British North America.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1769: In Newport, RI, Rachel Mears and Moses
Isaacks gave birth to Hannah Isaacks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1774(2nd of Nisan, 5534): The Jews of Basra,
Persia celebrated a special Purim, Yom Ha Nes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1778(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5538): Parashat
Ki Tissa; Shushan Purim observed on the same day that General George Washington
wrote from Valley Forge to William Livingston, the Governor of New Jersey about
a number of things pertaining to the war including an expression of pleasure of
the favorable account which Livingston gave of Count Pulaski’s Conduct while at
Trenton.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1779(28<sup>th</sup> of Shevat, 5539): Herz
Schiff, the son Joseph or Josebl Schiff whose tombstone described him as “an
upright man…who attended the synagogue every day” passed away today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1782: In Bedford, NY, Philadelphia native
Esther Etting and Rye, NY, native David Barrack Hays gave birth to Charity
Hays, the wife of Jacob Da Silva Solis whom she married in 1811 and with whom
she had seven children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1791: Sixty-five-year-old Johann Salomon Semler
the Lutheran historian and biblical commentator who “was the first to take due
note of and use for critical purposes the opposition between the Judaic and
anti-Judaic parties of the early church” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1794(12 of Adar II, 5554): Elias Issak Wetheim,
who had moved to Frankfurt in 1769 and was the husband of Merle Cahn passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799: The French Army under Napoleon leaves
Jaffa after conquering the city and “continued its march northwards towards its
goal, Acre.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1802: Birthdate of Coswig-on-the-Elbe native
and art critic Manasse Unger trained as an architect who was best known for his
sketches and his role as a captain of the artists' corps which protected the
museums in <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Berlin during the Revolutions of 1848,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1805(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II 5565): Ta’anit
Esther; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1805(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5565): Solomon
Harby, the London born son of Isaac Harby and the husband of Rebecca Moses
Harby passed away today in Charleston, SC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1808(15th of Adar, 5568): Shushan Purim
observed as Lewis and Clark paused to shell corn as they made their way west
exploring the Louisiana Purchase.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1816(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5576): Purim
celebrated on the birthdate of American businessman, William Rice who used his
fortune to establish Rice University in Houston, TX, a premiere academic
institution.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1820: Birthdate of
Victor Emmanuel II, the first King of a unified Italian state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He reigned from 1861 until 1878.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How big a difference did the emergence of the
modern Italian nation make to the Jewish people? </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Historian Howard Morley Sacher puts it this
way: ‘In 1848 there had been no European country save Spain where the
restrictions placed upon Jews were more galling and more humiliating than in
Italy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After 1860, there was no country
on the continent of Europe where conditions were better for Jews.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1821: Thirty-two-year-old Sarah Marks, the
daughter of Michael Marks married Samuel Lyons today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1824(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5584): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1825: Birthdate of Abraham Hays, the husband of
Fanny Hays and father of Kokomo, IN native Emma E. Eckhouse, the wife of Moses
Eckhouse.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5587): Shushan
Purim observed for the last time when Lord Liverpool (Robert Jenkinson) was
serving as Prime Minister of Great Britain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1831: Two days after she had passed away, 20
year old Charlotte Rees, the daughter of Woolf and Hannah Rees was buried today
at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1832: In Edinburgh, Helen and Sir Charles
Fergusson gave birth to Sir James Fergusson who during a Parliamentary debate
in 1890 “said that the British Charge d’Affiares at St. Petersburg had
telegraphed the Foreign Office that no fresh measures were under consideration
by the Government aiming to deprive the Jews of any of the privileges they now
enjoy.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841: Birthdate of Moritz Rosenhaupt, whose
father was the rabbi at Offenbach on the Glan (Prussia) who served as a cantor
at Speyer and Nuremberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1843: Birthdate of German native Gustave
Strauss, the husband of Frances Strauss, and the father of Florence, Edwin and
Lily Strauss, each of whom was born in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1844(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar, 5604):Forty-four-year-old
Chief Constable passed away today after having been bludgeoned by a thief he
was questioning after which he was “buried in the Florence Place Old Jewish
Burial Ground in Brighton's Round Hill district, where he has been considered
to be the 'celebrity' grave.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1845: The state of Massachusetts granted a
charter of incorporation to Congregation Ohabei Shalom (Lovers of Peace) giving
form anal possession of land to the Jewish Community. Organized by German Jews
living in Boston, this large Reform congregation is now located in Brookline,
MA. It is the only Jewish congregation in the Bay State and the second oldest
in New England.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851: While traveling from London to
Philadelphia, Rabbi Sabato Morais arrived in New York <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853: British Parliament debates a Jewish
Disabilities Bill. Lord John Russell said that “his object was to complete the
edifice of religious toleration by permitting the Jewish subjects of Britain
the same rights and privileges of British subjects as were a presented enjoyed
by Protestants, Dissenters and Roman Catholics.” He could see no danger to
Christian institutions to allow “a small number of believers in a different
faith and who were otherwise good citizens and not given to proselytizing” to
hold civil office. Among the opponents, the famed Robert Peel claimed that “it
was incompatible with the dignity of Christians to admit Jews into almost every
office.” One member of the House called for a definition of Parliamentary
Christianity because “he could not understand what doctrine of the Christian
religion was involved in Parliamentary Christianity. While another opponent
said that Jews were as bad as atheist, Mr. O’Connell came to the defense of the
Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a Roman Catholic he had
suffered discrimination and felt it was his duty to speak up on behalf of
another group suffering the same fate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Bill would be defeated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Victory would not come until 1848.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853: Sixty-six-year-old Julius Jacob von
Haynau, the Austrian general who pardoned Judah Leib "Leopold" Löw
after he had been arrested following the Revolutions of 1848.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1854(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5614): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1854: In New York City, Frances Allen Levy and
Jonas P. Levy gave birth to attorney Louis Napoleon Levy and the husband of
Lillian Hendricks Levy with whom he had four children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1854: Birthdate of Nobel Prize Winner and
medical scientist, Paul Ehrlich who discovered a treatment for syphilis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He died in 1915 at the age of 61. How does a
Jew become a German scientist? - By winning the Nobel Prize.
Interestingly, the obituaries of both of these men (see Einstein below)
identify them as Germans even though in the case of Einstein he was forced to
flee by the Germans just before the Brown Shirts ransacked his home and office.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855: Four years after protesting “against the
ratification of a treaty between Switzerland and the United States on the
ground that the former government discriminated against his co-religionists,”
Jacob Ezekiel, a prominent Richmond, VA Jew and the brother-in-law of Jacob A.
Levy wrote to Dr. Isaac M. Wise suggesting “the establishment of a Zion
Collegiate Institute in Cincinnati and a Union of the Israelites in America in
which all could co-operate in matters of religion.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855: In New Orleans, Foundingsof the
Association for the Relief of Jewish Widows and Orphans whose members came to
included Gabe Kahn, Rabbi I.L. Leucht, F.J. Dreyfous and Joe Trautman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859: Birthdate of Adolf Cardinal Bertram the
archbishop of Breslau and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who in 1933
refused the request of an inter-faith group to take part in the protest of the
boycott of Jewish businesses organized by the Nazis and who “ordered Church
celebrations upon Nazi Germany's victory over Poland and France, with order to
ring bells all across Reich upon the news of Nazi capture of Warsaw in 1939.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1860(20th of
Adar, 5620): </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Lewis Charles Levin passed away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Levin was the first Jew elected to the U.S.
House of Representatives. He was the American Party candidate from Pennsylvania
in 1844. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on November 10, 1808. He
graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina)
with a law degree. He was a founder of the Native American Party and published
and edited the <i>Philadelphia Daily Sun. </i>Levin was reelected twice before
being defeated in 1850. He then returned to the practice of law in
Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861: It was announced at today’s meeting of the Board of Charities and
Corrections that the Hebrew Orphan and Half orphan Asylum was among the
organizations that received a portion of the $645 dollars recently raised at
benefit held to raise funds for the benefit of New York’s widows and orphans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1865:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
fourth annual masquerade ball of the Purim Association took place this evening
at the Academy of Music. The society is composed exclusively of Jews, and the
proceeds are to be devoted to charitable purposes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862: Aaron Katz, a native of Philadelphia, PA who had been working as a
clerk in Mecklenburg County, NC, enlisted in the Confederate Army today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865: “The Hebrew Purim Ball” one of the highlights of the New York social
season was held this evening at the Academy of Music.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866: Seventy-six-year-old American historian and former President of
Harvard Jared Sparks who had taken an interest in the life of Haym Solomon
passed away. When others were attempting to denigrate Solomon’s role, Professor
Sparks “wrote to the effect that Solomon’s association with Robert Morris ‘were
very close and intimate and that a great part of the success that Mr. Morris
attained in his financial schemes was due to skill and ability of Hyam
Solomon.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1867, Birthdate of German native Isaak Reihneimer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868(20<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5628): Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868(20<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5628): Solomon Ben Baruch Salkind, the
Lithuanian born poet who wrote in Hebrew passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870: In Whitechapel, London, Mean Wingard and Polish born Louis Harris
gave birth to Israel Harris.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871: The group that would eventually become the Personal Rights
Association in which “English author and economist’ Joseph Hiam Levy played a
major role, met for the first time today in Manchester, UK.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871: In a lecture delivered tonight at Rutgers Female College entitled
“The Bible in the Rocks,” Professor Egleston said that the Bible was written
for “Hebrew bondsman, so all of the illustrations are of a simple nature and
can be comprehended by the most unenlightened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yet these illustrations are perfectly consistent with the latest
discoveries of modern science.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873(15th of Adar, 5633): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1874: “The History of Hats” published today traces the men’s headgear from
ancient Tibet to modern day France.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>According to the author, Jews have not made any contribution to what he
calls “hatology” claiming that he cannot find a Hebrew word hat and that Jews
have “entirely discarded that useful article of dress.”</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876: A full dress reception sponsored by the Purim Association will be
held at Delmonico’s this evening in New York City. This event marks the fifth
and final day of receptions, suppers and other festivities marking the
celebration of Purim. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879: In Ulm, Hermann Einstein, a salesman and
engineer, and Pauline Koch gave birth to Albert Einstein. Forced to flee
Germany during the Nazi era, Einstein continued his career at Princeton
where he died in 1955. He published four scientific papers in his spare
time while he worked as an examiner in the Swiss Patents Office. Each one had
revolutionary implications for the field of physics. Among them was his special
theory of relativity. Einstein said, "If A equals success, then the formula
is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth
shut." It was Einstein who warned Roosevelt of the dangers of Nazi
Germany building the Atomic Bomb - a warning headed by the United States.
Einstein's views on religion were not exactly Jewish, but he was
Jewish enough to be offered the Presidency of the infant state of Israel -
a position he reluctantly declined.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://einstein.biz/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://einstein.biz/</span></a><u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5641): Erev
Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881:
Birthdate of Columbia trained attorney Irving J. Joseph, the husband of the
late Blanche Lewy Joseph with whom he had two children, Marjorie and Stephen,
who was counsel for the Home of the Daughters of Jacob and director of the
Jewish probation Society. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: According to Mrs. Berthold Riese, she was
married to Berthold Riese, a Jewish clairvoyant on this date.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During a trial in 1887, in which he faced
charges of having abandoned his wife, Riese would deny the validity of the
document which said he, a Jew, was married to Catholic by a Lutheran minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883: Karl Marx passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://historyguide.org/intellect/marx.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://historyguide.org/intellect/marx.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884: Birthdate of Maxwell Zwerbach the
American gangster known as Max "Kid Twist" Zwerbach who led the
Eastman Gang.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888: This morning, at Coosaw, SC, Rabbi David
Levy officiated at the wedding of Maurice Emanuel of St. Augustine, FL and Mary
E. Seixas at the home of A.M. Lopez.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><a name="_Hlk129539895"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: In Omaha,
Nebraska, Harry and Anna (Bank) Marowitz gave birth to U. of Michigan trained
attorney Arthur Marowitz, the husband of Esther Epstein who served as the
Director of the Assoc. Jewish Charities, the Secretary of the Jewish War
Victims Relief committee and the organizer and president of the El Dorado Lodge
of B’nai B’rith.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk129539895;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5652): Shushan
Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: Police Recorder dismissed the charges
that had been lodged against two Jewish grocers who had been arrested last week
for doing business on Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893(26<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5653): Sarah
Solomon passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: Two members of a gang in Kansas City, MO
that uses a Jewish fence named Morantz were captured this morning.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: In
Vienna, burial of eighty-four-year Bohemian born medical doctor Ludwig August
Ritter von Frankl-Hochwart, the student of Zecharias Frankel who served as
secretary and archivist of the Vienna Jewish community where he practiced
medicine and was active in the Revolution of 1848. (As reported by Singer and
Mannheimer)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59809&local_base=GEN01-MCG02"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59809&local_base=GEN01-MCG02</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: Among the charities that received money
from the Mayor’s Committee of Five which was distributing funds that had been
raised<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to aid those who have lost their
jobs during the current economic distribution was the United Hebrew Charities
which was given $2,700.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: Three days after he had passed away, 89
year old Eleazer Myers was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: In Ekaterinoslav, Russia, Mark and Hannah
Malifsoff gave birth Columbia and NYU trained biochemist William Marias
Malisoff, the husband of Sally Juster and father of Marias, Eda and Vera
Malifsoff.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: The Hovevei Zion in Vienna decides to
call on Herzl to work for the fulfillment of the program of a Jewish state.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: The Jewish children whose families live
on the upper east side of New York City gave a ball and carnival tonight at the
Central Opera House.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: The Sutro Baths, the “largest indoor
swimming pool establishment” which were built by Adolph Sutro, opened “on the
western side of San Francisco” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: “The Old Dutch Records” published today
described the impact of “the city of New York” to publish “the records of its
municipal ancestor, Nieuw Amsterdam. Included in the documents is a report of
the arrival of 23 Jews in 1654 who “were ordered to depart March 1, 1655.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Patroons of the West India Company
decide, however that as the Jews owned most of the stock in that organization,
they would be let alone.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: “Austria’s Extraordinary Politics”
described the electoral climate in the polyglot empire where “the Clerical
Party” which “style themselves as Christian Socialites but are better known as
anti-Semites” “is led by the lower clergy in defiance” of the Bishops “but
which has the benediction of the Vatican” has again won victory in Vienna.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: In Brooklyn, Father Sylvester Malone of
the Church Saint Peter and Saint Paul spoke in praise of “Mrs. Nannette Marks,
a Jewish lady who has become famous throughout Brooklyn for her benevolent
acts” irrespective of the creed of those in need.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: Emma Frohman was in charge of the
entertainment presented by the Hebrew Institute on East Broadway this evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: A service was held in memory of Morris
Goodhart, the late President of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society who
passed away in February.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: Seventieth anniversary of the birth of
Mrs. Philip J. Joachimsen, the native of Bristol, who fund the Hebrew
Sheltering Guardian Society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: Felix Adler addresses the Mother’s
Congress this afternoon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: Birthdate of Henrietta L. Pitler, the
wife of Jacob Albert Pitler, a coach on the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers World Series
champions<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899(3rd of Nisan, 5659): Seventy-five-year-old
Ludwig Bamberger who was a revolutionary in 1848, a patriot during the
Franco-Prussian War who was elected to the first German Reichstag that met in
1873<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899(3<sup>rd</sup> of Nisan, 5659):
Seventy-five-year-old Hyman Steinthal, the brother-in-law of Moritz Lazarus,
who was “a German philologist and philosopher” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: In Albany, Edward Lauterbach appeared
before the state Senate Cities Committee to voice his opposition to a bill that
would establish St. Nicholas Park because the park would encompass grounds on
Amsterdam Avenue that had been previously granted to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: “Certain Phases of Zionism” published
today described the view of Professor Thomas Davidson that the Jewish return to
Palestine because of selection by “a Supreme Being” is “illogical and
unfair.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Jew must cast off the
swaddling clothes of supernatural and superstition” for “the new Zion of
religious freedom.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899(3<sup>rd</sup> of Nisan, 5659): Émile
Erckmann, co-author of the 1869 play “Le Jeuf Polonais” (The Polish Jew) passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899(3<sup>rd</sup> of Nisan, 5659):
Seventy-five-year-old “German philologist and philosopher” Heymann Steinthal,
the brother-in-law of Moritz Lazarus and “privat-dozent in critical history of
the Old Testament and in religious philosophy at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft
des Judentums, or Higher Institute for Jewish Studies” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: “Topics of the Times” published today
described the career of Dr. Isaac Mayer Wise, “the oldest American rabbi now in
active service and generally and cordially recognized as the most eminent of
them” who will be honored at the upcoming session of the Central of American
Rabbis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to the article he was
born on March 14 while other sources show his birthdate as March 29, 1819.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: The member of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis presented Dr. Isaac M. Wise with an ivory gavel mounted in gold
as part of the celebrations honoring his 80<sup>th</sup> birthday which
included a dinner at the Phoenix Club in Cincinnati, Ohio.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: Birthdate of Des Moines, IA native and
Yale University graduate Elliot E. Cohen the founding editor of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Commentary</i> magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.commentarymagazine.com/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5660): Ta’anit
Esther; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: Morris and Rose Gershwin gave birth to
future stockbroker and composer Arthur Gershwin, the brother of the musical
siblings Ira, George and Frances Gershwin, the husband of ‘Judy Lane, a singer
with the Xavier Cugat Orchestra, in the 1940s, and the father of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marc George Gershwin, who is a trustee of the
George Gershwin Trust, along with his sons Adam, Todd, and Alex Gershwin.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: In Philadelphia, Joseph and Eva Biberman
gave birth to blacklisted screenwriter and director Herbert J. Biberman, the
brother of Edward Biberman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://spartacus-educational.com/USAbiberman.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://spartacus-educational.com/USAbiberman.htm</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: “Want Sunday Law Changed” published today
described a bill “offered by Representative Borofsky of Boston that would amend
the present law on the statute books governing the Sabbath” that would provide
“that whoever shall observe the seventh da of the as the Sabbath shall not be
liable for penalties for performing work on the next” which was favored by “a
number of Rabbis” and opposed by Reverend M.B Kneeland, the Secretary of the
New England Sunday Protective League.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: Brother Leontine “who is in charge of the
male department of the Catholic Protectory in Westchester denied charges by
“Morris Adler of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Disciplinary School for Boys that Protestant
and Hebrews boys of the school who are being temporarily sheltered at the
Protectory are be being<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>taught
Catholicism.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: George Steinman led a delegation of ten
boys from PS No 83 who tried to present Mayor Low with a petition calling for
the street in front of their school to be covered with asphalt which would
minimize the noise of traffic which interferes with their classwork.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: It was reported today that Fay
Templeton’s “take off of Mrs. Leslie Carter” performed at Weber and Field’s,
the burlesque house owned by the Jewish comedy team, was “a work of real
genius.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5663): Parashat
Ki Tisa; Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: “Peace for Man” published today provides
a review of The New Israelite: Or. Rabbi Shalom by Jaakoff Prelooker, a Russian
born “Jewish religious reformer” who settled in Britain where he died in 1935.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: Birthdate of American painter Adolph
Gottlieb an original member of “The Ten” a group of mostly expressionist and
mostly Jewish avant garde artists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Gottlieb abandoned figuration for a new style, “abstract expressionism.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.gottliebfoundation.org/chronology/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.gottliebfoundation.org/chronology/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artists/bios/533"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artists/bios/533</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: Pope Pius X accepted the resignation of
Theodor Kohn as Archbishop of Olomous who had been forced to resign according
to some because his grandfather was Jewish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: In Aleppo Miriam d Ezra Faham gave birth
to cheese merchant Murad Mordechai Faham, the husband of Sarina Faham and “the
key figure in the seizure of the Aleppo Codex by the state of Israel who
risked his life to smuggle the manuscript out of Syria in 1957,”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/the-dangers-of-nice"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/the-dangers-of-nice</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.bethelmc.org/2012/12/aleppo-codex-secret-history/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.bethelmc.org/2012/12/aleppo-codex-secret-history/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: Birthdate of Raymond-Claude-Ferdinand
Aron, “a French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist, well known
for his lifelong, often critical friendship with Jean-Paul Sartre, and for his
skepticism of the post-war vogue in France for ideologies that largely took
their inspiration from a Marxist tradition.” The son of a Jewish lawyer who
witnessed Nazi book burnings, he passed away in 1983.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: “A number of prominent Jews have accepted
inventions to attend” tonight’s “ninth annual campfire” of the Jewish Union
Veterans whose numbers have dwindled from 208 to 109 in the last nine years due
to the death of some of its members.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: In St. Petersburg, “the government
announced that it will take measures to stop the incitement to murder Jews”
which has given rise to a rumor that the government plans to abolish all of the
reactionary organizations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: Flora Krichefski the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. Krichefski of Jersey married Hyman Appleberg, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
A.L. Appleberg at the Great Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: In St. Petersburg, the Police Prefect to
Premier Witte that he did not know how a “proclamation calling for the
extermination of the Jews was printed in the official printing office attached
to his department.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: Beth Israel Hospital is scheduled to host
its annual ball tonight at Madison Square Garden.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907(28<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5667: Exactly one
week after his 81<sup>st</sup> birthday, Samuel Louis, the husband of Ernestine
Anspach Louis with whom he had four children – Bethan, Ray, August and
Simon—passed away today in Atlantic City after which he was buried at Mchpelah
in Ridgewood, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: Today, in New York, “telegrams reached
the Sephardic community directly from the capital of the Turkish empire” saying
“that the Hakam Bashi, Jacob Mair, had been deposed and that Rabbi Elihyahu
Panizeel had been appointed to” replace him which meant that the Turkish
government had stepped in and resolved the dispute that arisen following the
death of the former Hakam Bashi.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5668):
Parasaht Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: Birthdate of Berlin native, refugee from
Nazi German and University of Heidelberg and University of Washington trained
attorney Edgar Bodenheimer who “served in the Allies' "Office of Chief of
Counsel for prosecution of Axis Criminality", OCCPAC, at the Nuremberg
Trials after which he taught law at the University of Utah and the University
of California, Davis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1909: Today, Fannie Newman and Anton Kaufman,”</span>
<span face="Arial, sans-serif">a reporter for
the Berliner Morgen-Zeitung and later the publisher of the Detroit Daily
Chronicle and the Newark Jewish Chronicle,” gave birth to Theodore Newman
Kaufman, the Jewish businessman and journalist who along with his father “was
arrested for the robbery of Sandor Alexander Balint, who had developed a
process to speed the aging of wine” but which proved to be worthless.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: In “Rabbi Lyons Urges Reform Judaism,”
published today Rabbi Alexander Lyons of Temple Beth Elohim in State Street,
Brooklyn expressed his opposition to the formation of a Jewish federation in
New York City. His opposition is based, in part, on his strongly held belief
that Reformed Judaism is “the religion of the Jewish future” and that Orthodox
Judaism is doomed. Furthermore, he believes that such a federation would be
futile attempt to paper over the social, economic and ideological differences
in the Jewish community and that such an organization would separate the Jewish
people from their fellow Americans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: Birthdate of Harry Blitman, the
featherweight boxer from Philadelphia who began his boxing career at the age of
16.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5671): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911:
Birthdate of Barnard College graduate “Aleen Ginsberg Schacht, a national vice
president of Hadassah and wife of steel construction executive Lawrence Schact
with whom she raised two children – Michael and BarDara.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: In Dusseldorf, Germany, Gustave Cohn, the
son of Levi and Eva Regina Cohn and his wife Paula Cohn gave birth to Lore Cohn<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: According to Dr. Maurice H. Harris who
spoke tonight at Congregation Temple Israel, “the Jewish citizens of America
were caricatured unjustly by Burton J. Hendrick in his article ‘The Jewish
Invasion of America” published in the March issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">McClure’s Magazine</i>>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
The Annual Conference on Child Labor to which Leon Schwarz of Mobile, Alabama
had been appointed as a delegate continued for a second day in Jacksonville,
Florida.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: The funeral was held today in Chicago for
Victor B. Strelitz, a member of the firm of Strelitz Brothers – David I., Isaac
D., Maurice and Arthur V. – who had died suddenly in New York City at the age
of forty-two.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: In Asbury Park, New Jersey, Ethel and
Mores Hess, a kosher butcher, gave birth to Leon Hess, “the founder of the Hess
Corporation and owner of the New York Jets professional football team.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: “While the extraordinary motion hearing
was pending, the Journal called for a new trial, saying that to execute Frank
based on the atmosphere both within and outside the courtroom would
"amount to judicial murder". Other newspapers in the state followed
suit and many ministers spoke from the pulpit supporting a new trial.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: Birthdate of L.B. Stein, the native of
Chatham, Mississippi, the “first cousin once removed” of Greenville, MS, born
and Tulane University educated Rabbi Fred Victor Davidow and “historian”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who ministered to the spiritual needs of many
members of the Jewish community in Philadelphia, PA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: A benefit performance sponsored by the
Krakauer Charity and Aid Society is scheduled to take place tonight at the
Lyric Theatre. The money raised by this event will used to buy Matzoth which
will be distributed among the city’s poor Jews for their use during the
upcoming celebration of Passover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
famous singer and actress, Lillian Russell has volunteered to serve as the
announcer for the event. [The Krakauer Charity and Aid Society was one of the
many organizations established by Jews from Cracow, Poland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No reason is given for Lillian Russell’s
having volunteered her services for the event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, she was married to Edward Solomon, the English composer whose
family was Jewish.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: “Nearly 3,000 delegates assembled” today
at “the sixth annual meeting of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aide
Society” which “was held” this “afternoon in the auditorium of Public School
62” at the corner of Hester and Essex Streets.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: The United States collier Vulcan set sail
today from Philadelphia bound for Jaffa carrying supplies for “the relief of
the needy of the Holy Land” as well as supplies for the United States
battleships North Carolina and Tennessee.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: “About 250 persons” attended “a rally of
the Bronx Young Men’s Hebrew Association” that was held this afternoon at
Morris High School chaired by Assemblyman M. M. Fertig.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: “An enthusiastic demonstrations for
preparedness was made” in Philadelphia “tonight when the Maccabean Regiment,
the first Jewish military corps in the United States was formed preparatory to
any call that might arise for the nation’s defense.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1916: “The Pancho Villa Expedition,”</span> <span face="Arial, sans-serif">during which Rabbis were
sent to various camps on the border by the Army and Navy Committee and the
Central Conference of American Rabbis to conduct religious services, began
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: “Representatives of the Union of Orthodox
Congregations and of the New York Board of Jewish Ministers appeared at Albany”
today to express “opposition to the pending bill providing for the compulsory
reading from the Bible in the public schools” of New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Fifty-six-year-old Fernand-Gustave-Gaston
Labori, French attorney who defended Émile Zola in 1898 in the Dreyfus trial
and Captain Alfred Dreyfus at the court martial in Rennes in 1899 passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: “Turn Flowers To Charity” published today
described Henry Morgenthau and Louis Marshall’s support for the suggestion of
I. Edwin Goldwasser, the Director of the Federation for the Support of Jewish
Philanthropic Societies that people stop sending flowers for funerals and
contribute the money in the name of the deceased to a charity of their choice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918:<span style="color: black;"> Rabbi Hyman
Gerson Enelow who served “as a member of the Overseas Commission of the Jewish
Welfare Board, which went to France in July, 1918” wrote today that it was his
“good fortune” be in Paris after the signing of the Armistice and that “the
People don’t seem to be able to find a way to express their joy” over the
“marvelous victory of the Allies.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: The first edition of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Weekly Jewish News</i> edited by
P.M. Raskin and Saul J. Cohen complete with “brief and authoritative articles,
lively fiction, a woman’s page, children’s’ sections and cartoon” is scheduled
to makes it appearance it today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: In keeping with orders issued by the U.S.
Army last week, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniel has instructed all naval
commanders that it is within in their discretion “to give forty-two hours leave
being with the evening of March 27 to men of the Jewish faith in the navy so
that they may observe Passover.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: A dinner hosted by Judges Otto A,
Rosalsky and Moses H. Grossman was held tonight at New York’s Savoy Hotel in
honor of Judge Julian W. Mack of Chicago during which sixty thousand dollars
was raised to go to a fund for establishing a Jewish State in Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: Birthdate of St. Paul, MN native
Maximillian Shulman the humor writer who gave us loads of off-beat laughs in
the tales of Dobie Gillies, “The Tender Trap” and Rally Round the Flag Boys and
was married to Mary Goodman Shulman, the mother of Martha Rose Shulman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: Seventy-five-year-old “Italian financier,
political economist, social philosopher, and jurist” Luigi Luzzatti, the son of
Venetian Jews began serving as Minister of the Treasury today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: Hayyah and Zevi Kempner gave birth to
Vitka Kempner the Jewish resistance fighter who married famed poet Abba Kovner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/kempner-kovner-vitka"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/kempner-kovner-vitka</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Two days after he had passed away,
Abraham Genn, the husband of Fanny Genn with whom he had had six children, was
buried today at the “Belfast Jewish Cemetery” in Northern Ireland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: In New York, Leah Rosenthal Landman and
Dr. Michael Louis Landman gave birth to Ada Louise Landman who as “Ada Louise
Huxtable, pioneered modern architectural criticism in the pages of The New York
Times, celebrating buildings that respected human dignity and civic history —
and memorably scalding those that did not…” (As reported by David Dunlap)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Arthur Shelby Levinsohn who had been
serving as lieutenant in Quartermaster Corps since January was promoted to the
rank of Captain in the U.S. Army today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Alice Edith Isaacs, Marchioness of
Reading (née Alice Edith Cohen) was appointed Companion of the Order of the
Crown of India today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Lionel Leopold Meyer was promoted to the
rank of Captain in the United States Army today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Eustace Maduro Piexotto who had been
serving a lieutenant in the Infantry was promoted to the rank of Captain in the
United States Army today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Ralph Hirsch was promoted to the rank of
Captain in the U.S. Army today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Lester Abraham Harris was promoted to the
rank of Captain in the U.S. Army today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Nathaniel L. Simmonds was promoted to the
rank of Captain in the U.S. Army today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Joseph Philip Kohn was promoted to the
rank of Captain in the U.S. Army today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Charles Wells Jacobson was promoted to
the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Milton Lowenberg was promoted to the rank
of Captain in the U.S. Army today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Eugene Meyer, Jr. was “appointed director
of the War Finance Corporation” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5682): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: In London, Joe Pole “a refugee from the
Ukraine who was Head of Publicity for the United Arts and Phoebe Louise Pole
(nee Rickards) a suffragette, school-teach and Labor Party member of Finchley
Council gave birth to historian Jack Richon Pole whose works included <u>Political
Representation in England and the Origins of the American Republic</u> and <u>The
Pursuit of Equality in American History</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: In New York, David Nemerov and Gertrude
Russek Nemerov, the owners of Russek’s department store gave birth to Diane
Nemerov who gained famed as photographer Diane Arbus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://diane-arbus-photography.com/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://diane-arbus-photography.com/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: Birthdate of Meyer Zarodinsky the
Bessarabian native who made Aliyah in 1925 and gained fame Meir “Zarro” Zorea
an IDF general and member of the Knesset<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: “According to people who have recently
been inmates of Soviet prisons “most of the big ‘Nepman’” the Bolshevik term
for profiteers whom they describe as being “chiefly Jews” have been banished to
Nijni Novogrod which has become the real financial center of Russia, because
the “Nepman” are the only ones who understand how “private trading” really
works.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(The Jew as Shylock -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>one of those unifying themes that transcend
time, place or politics)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925(18<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5685): Parashat
Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925(18<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5685): Sixty-three-year-old
Harvard and Columbia Law School trained corporate attorney Alfred Jaretzki, the
New York born son of Gustave and Henrietta Jaretzki and the father of Maud,
Alice, Alfred Jaretzki, Jr. who was a member of Sullivan and Cromwell, “trustee
of the Mount Sinai Hospital, a director of the Baron de Hirsch Fund and a
director of the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society” passed away
today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: One day after he had passed away, 84-year-old
David Jacob Cohen, the German born son of Jakob and Hannah Cohen and the
husband of Dina Berger was buried at Yokneam, Israel today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: At the Hotel Astor, Judge Otto Rosalsky
was among the speakers during a dinner that raised $25,000 as the opening event
for a fund to build the Jewish Center of University Heights which will require
at least $150,000.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: During “an executive meeting of the
American Jewish Congress held today at the Hotel Biltmore, William Filderman
described the anti-Semitic conditions in his home country of Romania including
a measure which “disenfranchise 15,000 Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: Today, the Administrative Committee of
the American Jewish Congress heard a report from Gershon Agronsky who had just
returned from Rumania in which he described the government’s persecution of
Jews and “other religious minorities” including “Baptists and Unitarians.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: After taking his life on March 11, 1927
because he was still suffering from depression after having survived the
sinking of the Titanic, the remains of Dr Henry William Frauenthal, the
Wilkies-Barre born son of Joseph and Hannah Frauenthal, the husband of Clara
Rogers who also survived the sinking and the founder of the Jewish Hospital for
Deformities and Joint Diseases were cremated today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: A delegation from the United Rumanian
Jews of America met today with the Rumanian Minister to the United States and recommended
“that the Rumanian Government give the fullest administrative protection to its
Jewish population as well as to all other minorities.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: According to the “second section of the
Jewish Communal Survey” released today, “Jewish death rates in New York City
are lower than those of the general population” both in New York City and the
state of New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: Today as his admirers tried to find
Albert Einstein so they could celebrate his 50<sup>th</sup> birthday, “the
great physicist was found sitting bent over a small microscope – one his
birthday presents –“ in a small outbuilding on the palatial estate of “Berlin’s
shoe polish king, Franz Lemm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5690): First
Purim of the Great Depression<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: A four-day series of events tied to the
dedication dedication of the new Temple Rodeph Sholom at 83<sup>rd</sup> Street
and Central Park are scheduled to begin this evening with Shabbat services.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: Racecar driver Woolf Barnato, the son of
Barney Barnato, “reached Dale Bourne's club (the Conservative) in St James's,”
thus making good on his boast that he could reach London before the French
“Blue Train” reached Calais<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: In his editorial column “Today” published
in the New York American Arthur Brisbane recommended “Judge Benjamin Cardozo of
New York for the U. S. Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice
Sanford,” (Editor’s note – Cardozo would have to wait for two years to finally
get to the High Court.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: Premiere of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Die letzte Kompagnie</i> (The Last Company) a German War movie directed
by Curtis Bernhardt and produced by Joe May.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: “Dr. Judah L. Magnes, chancellor of the
Hebrew University on historic Mount Scopus at the edge of Jerusalem and a
former New York rabbi, was officially welcomed back to America tonight at a
dinner in his honor under the auspices of the university's American advisory
committee at the Savoy-Plaza.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: “Recognition by the American courts of
evidence based on blood tests in cases of doubtful paternity, murder cases, and
in a number of other instances in which evidence is uncertain or unavailable
was urged tonight at a symposium on "the forensic value of tests for blood
grouping" at the New York Academy of Medicine by the Society of Medical
Jurisprudence” where the speakers included Dr. Alexander S. Wiener of the
Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, Dr. Max Lederer, Assistant Professor Pathology at
the Long Island College of Medicine and Supreme Court Justice Meir Steinbrink.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932(6th of Adar II, 5692): Benjamin N. Cardozo
joins his fellow Jew Louis Brandeis as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme
Court.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F40A14FE345A16738DDDAC0994DB405B828FF1D3"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F40A14FE345A16738DDDAC0994DB405B828FF1D3</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: During an interview held “at the office
of the American Friends of the Hebrew University” in New York Dr. I.J.Klingler,
head of the Department of Hygiene and Micro-Biology at Hebrew University said
that “unless the Hebrew University at Jerusalem receives increased support, it
is faced with the danger of suspending some of its scientific activities and
perhaps of closing one of its faculties.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: In what would turn out to be another
example of “The Big Lie” “Hugh A O'Donnell, studying leisure time developments
in Germany with a view to adaptation of similar ideas to the United States, was
assured today by Theodor Lewald, honorary chairman of the International Olympic
Committee, that all amateurs, Jew or Gentile, German or otherwise, who are
qualified to compete in the coming Winter Games and Olympics to follow, will be
welcomed in Germany.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: “A petition signed by more than 250,000
American citizens of various faiths and all stations of life protesting the
persecution of the Jews in Germany and requesting President Roosevelt to
forward it to the Hitler government with a diplomatic note was left at the
White House today by Alfred N. Cohen of Cincinnati, president of B'nai B'rith,
and Representative Sabath of Illinois.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: Birthdate of “Jack Keil Wolf, an engineer
and computer theorist whose mathematical reasoning about how best to transmit
and store information helped shape the digital innards of computers and other
devices that power modern society.” (As reported by Douglas Martin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: The campaign for contributions to an
“Albert Einstein Fund for Palestine” that began today on Dr. Einstein’s
birthday has the unique rule that “no one will be permitted to more than one
dollar” which is designed to encourage a massive outpouring affection for the
scientist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Members of Mount Neboh Temple, which last
night heard speeches from “former Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney, Rabbi Israel
Goldstein of B’nai Jershurun and Dr. Robert A. Ashworth, educational secretary
of the National Conference of Jews and Christians continued celebrating the
congregation’s Silver Jubilee today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: According to reports published today, “an
appeal to relatives in the United States and Canada for assistance in
emigration from the district” where anti-Semitic riots are taking place “ was
made by the 700 Jewish families of Przytyk where” the violence has left three
dead and at least 22 people with serious injuries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Milton Brown, “a furniture salesman” and
his wife gave birth to Herbert Brown, the University of Vermont alum and head
coach of the NBA Detroit Pisons who was the older brother of Larry Brown<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: Pope Pious XI issued an encyclical
condemning racism. This was one of the few times the Vatican made a public
statement against the Nazi regime. The next pope, Pious XII, did even less.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Palestine Post</i> reported that Shlomo
Gafni, 28, and Hanoch Metz, 24, of Kfar Hahoresh were stabbed to death and
their flock of 320 sheep and 70 goats stolen by Arab murderers. A bomb was
thrown in Tiberias and there were various shooting incidents in Galilee. In
Safed, a self-constituted Arab "National Committee" confined Jews to
their quarter, subject to a rigid boycott. "We are like prisoners over
whom hangs an indeterminate sentence," one Safed Jew complained. In London
the Royal (Peel) Commission on Palestine heard further evidence from Sir
Winston Churchill and other important British personalities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: In its first
response the “German conquest of Austria” Prime Minster Chamberlain today
“foreshadowed a new kind of national service” which was voluntary for now but
which later might become “compulsory” which “would make Britain a nation in
arms for the first time since 1918.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: “William
Ormsby-Gore, Secretary of State for. Colonies, today announced another stop-gap
quota for Jewish immigration into Palestine, which probably will maintain the
flow at about the same reduced level as at present for another six months
instead the approximate figure of 8,000 Jews permitted to enter Palestine
during the eight months from August through the present month.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: Time published
“GERMANY: Vivid Satisfaction!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,759284,00.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,759284,00.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: “Emil Hácha, the apolitical jurist who
unluckily became president of Czechoslovakia shortly before the German
occupation” “was placidly having lunch with a bishop when he was ordered to
Berlin to meet with Adolf Hitler” to learn of Hitler’s decision send German
troops to occupy the rest of his country in direct violation of the agreements
reached at Munich.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Sara Adler’s fifty years of work on the
stage were celebrated in a gala event at the National Theater during which she
performed the third act of Tolstoy's <i>Resurrection</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/14/1939/sara-adler"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/14/1939/sara-adler</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: “Slovakia seceded from Czechoslovakia and
became a separate pro-Nazi state.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: German troops fully occupy the
Czechoslovak provinces of Bohemia and Moravia. This was a gross violation of
the Munich Agreement that Chamberlain had negotiated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was the last step on the road to war in
Europe and the Final Solution.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: “Hours before Hitler dismembered the
Czech provinces of Bohemia and Moravia as a German “Protectorate,” the first 20
children left Prague on a train” that had been arranged for by Nicholas Winton.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: As the Nazis advance on Prague, Martha
and Waitstill Sharp decided to remain in the Czech capital and continue their
work of rescuing refugees from Hitler’s murder machine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: “The world's Jews are facing what may be
their blackest period in history, and Europe threatens to become one of the
greatest famine areas in modern times, in the opinion of Morris C. Troper,
European director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, who
returned today from a long stay aboard to report on the conditions of the Jews
in Europe.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: It was reported that the British had
suspended the permits “for three Hebrew newspapers” which had published “a
statement of the Jewish National Council for Palestine which had been banned by
the censor.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: The Nazi occupiers of Holland forbade
Jewish owned companies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: Lehmann (Leo) Katzenberger, a Jewish
businessman and leading member of the Nuremberg Jewish community who was
accused of having an affair with a young "Aryan" woman was sentenced
to death during a “notorious show trial” known as the Katzenberger Trial.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1943<b>:</b></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Krakow the deportation of Jews continued.
Children younger than three years were flung into baskets and emptied like
trash into ditches. They were buried alive. One child, Shachne Hiller, who
survived due to the efforts of a Polish couple, was taken by them to a Polish
priest for baptism. The Priest refused, thinking that it would be unfair to the
wishes of the child's parents. The child survived. The Priest went on to become
Pope John Paul II.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: Aaron Copeland's "Fanfare for the
Common Man” was played for the first time in New York City with George Szell
conducting<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Australian Lt. Col. Paul Alfred Cullen
arrived at Port Morseby today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Hanna Szenes Yoel Palgi and Peretz
Goldstein were parachuted into Yugoslavia and joined a partisan group.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1944: In Montreal, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #202122;">cellist Lotte/Charlotte Brott (née Goetzel) and violinist and
composer Alexander Brott gave birth to conductor Boris Jeremiah Brott, the
founder of the Bott Music Festival and the brother of “cellist and conductor”
Denis Brott who survived Covid-19.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">https://brottmusic.com/boris-brott-founder/<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: Winston Churchill wrote to Laura Wingate,
widow of Orde Wingate the British officer who had helped trained Jewish
fighters during the 1930’s telling of her plans to build a memorial to her late
husband on the grounds of Hebrew University.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wingate had been killed while fighting the Japanese in Burma during the
war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At a time when the British officer
corps ranged from pro-Arab to anti-Semitic Wingate stood out as a “chever”
(friend) to the Jewish people in the truest sense of the term.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: Special services were held in many
American synagogues today as Jews here and abroad marked the end of a week-long
period of mourning for the millions of Jews who had been murdered by Hitler and
his cohorts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945(29th of Adar, 5705): Fifty-one-year-old
German born actor Alexander Granach who fled from Hitler and then Stalin before
settling in the United States where his first screen appearance was in the
comedy “Ninotchka” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://libcom.org/history/granach-alexander-1890-1945"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://libcom.org/history/granach-alexander-1890-1945</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: Palestine’s 600,000 Jews ended their week
of mourning for the millions of their co-religionist who have been murdered in
what would come to be known as the Holocaust or the Shoah by observing a solemn
day of fasting where they abstained from normal commercial and social
activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among other things,
“factories, workshops, schools, restaurants and places of entertainment were
closed for hours beginning at 9 o’clock this morning.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5706): Ta’anit
Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: “As part of the illegal immigration to
Eretz Israel ("Aliya Bet"), the “Wingate” sailed from Italy with 238
maapilim ("illegal immigrants") on board, mostly from Eastern
Europe.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/15.asp"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/15.asp</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Birthdate of Judith Plaskow, “the first
Jewish feminist to identify herself as a theologian.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/plaskow-judith"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/plaskow-judith</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1947:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At Doctor’s Hospital in Manhattan “Helen (née Gabler), a housewife, and
Jack Crystal, who owned and operated the Commodore Music Store, founded by
Helen's father, Julius Gabler” gave birth to William Edward Crystal who gained
fame as the multi-talented “Billy” Crystal who has made us smile and laugh in
several different venues.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.biography.com/people/billy-crystal-9262777"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.biography.com/people/billy-crystal-9262777</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: According to reports received in
Jerusalem, today’s attacks on oil pipelines at Haifa were the work of the Stern
Gang and not the Irgun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: U.S. premiere of “The Lost Moment
directed by Martin Gabel and produced by Walter Wagner<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Canadian actress Frances Bay and her
husband Charles gave birth to their only so Josh (Eli Joshua) today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: In an interview today, that expressed
frustration with both terrorism and the British government, Moshe Shertok, a
leader of the Jewish Agency said that “terrorist groups and White Paper
government are vying with each other in ruining the Yishuv.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: A photo the SS Ben Hecht appeared on the
front page of today’s edition of the Bergson Group’s newspaper, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Answer.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: Today, “at Doctors Hospital on the Upper
East Side of Manhattan,” “Helen (née Gabler), a housewife, and Jack Crystal,
who owned and operated the Commodore Music Store, founded by Helen's father,
Julius Gable” gave birth to the William Edward Crystal who gained fame as the
multi-talented funny man Billy Crystal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://stillfoolinem.com/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://stillfoolinem.com/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.biography.com/people/billy-crystal-9262777"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.biography.com/people/billy-crystal-9262777</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: “Jewish witnesses failed to identify
three absentee British police constables at an identity parade at Jerusalem
police headquarters today as being connected with the recent Ben Yehuda Street
Bombing in Jerusalem.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: In Cairo, the Foreign Ministers of the
Arab countries said tonight that they would meet in Lebanon to “act on the
Palestine question.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: The IAF flight school graduated its first
class. Among the graduates was Mordechai "Mottie" Hod, the commander
of Israel’s Air Force during the Six Day War.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: It was announced today that “Dr. Walter
Clay Lowdermilk, American expert on soil erosion and pioneer of the Tennessee
Valley Authority,” has been appointed to serve as an adviser to the Israeli
government.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: The burial of Dr. Mordecai Eliash, who
was serving as Israel’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom when he passed away,
is scheduled to take place today in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: Dr. Serge Koussevitzky, the 75-year-old
conduct emeritus conduct of the Boston Symphony who is currently on a sixteen
concert tour in Israel has donated “his entire music library to Hebrew
University.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: “Am Able Southern Editor” published today
described the life of the late Louis I.Jaffe, the editor of the Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot, the winner of the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for courageously writing
and publishing an anti-lynching editorial.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1951: “Bird of
Paradise” starring Jeff Chandler and featuring Maurice Schwartz was released in
the United States today.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Jerusalem Post</i> reported from the US
that President Harry Truman¹s $7,000m. Mutual Security Program listed $196m for
the Middle East, $76m.for Jewish refugees in Israel and $65m for Palestine
refugees. .<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952: U.S. premiere
of “Deadline – U.S.A.” produced by Sol C. Siegel and directed by Richard Brooks
who also wrote the script.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953(27th of Adar): Essayist and journalist
Chaim Greenberg passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954: “Salt of the Earth” directed by Herbert
J. Biberman and produced by Paul Jarrico both of whom were blacklisted and with
music by Sol Kaplan who was fired after his appeared before HUAC was released
in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957: Edgar D'Arcy McGreer began serving as
Canada’s Ambassador to Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958(22<sup>nd</sup> of Adar, 5718):
Sixty-six-year-old Dr. Samuel Kahn, the Columbia trained physician and WWI
veteran of the Army Medical Corps who was “a member of the medical examining
staff of the Workmen’s Compensation Board from 1925 until his retirement in
1956, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958: “Catch a Falling Star,” a 1950’s pop tune
co-authored by Lee Pockriss, a Brooklyn born Jew, today became “the first
single to receive a Recording Industry Association of America gold record
certification…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5720): Shushan
Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960: Walter Mathau appeared in the role of
James Hyland and Jacob Ben-Ami appeared in the role of Dr. Jacobson in
tonight’s Play of the Week – “The Rope Dances” – produced by David Susskind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960: Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion
and West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer met to discuss mutual problems.
Adenauer was trying to build a "new Germany" and his work to
establish a positive relationship with the state of Israel was part of an
attempt to remove the Nazi Stain. Ben-Gurion, ever the realist, saw West
Germany as a source of financial support (war reparations and other aid) as
well as political support in a world in which the new Jewish state had few
friends. Ben-Gurion was criticized by many Jews both in and out of Israel
for his work with West German and Adenauer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961(26th of Adar, 5721): Akiba
Rubinstein world famous chess player passed away at the age of 78.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964(1<sup>st</sup> of Nisan, 5724): Parashat
Vayikra; Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964: A jury in Dallas, Texas finds Jack Ruby
guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man who shot JFK was not Jewish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man who shot the man who shot JFK was
Jewish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5728): Last Purim
celebration during the administration of Lyndon Johnson, a true friend of
Israel and a supporter of Civil Rights.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5728):
Seventy-five-year-old art historian Erwin Panofsky who came to the U.S. from
Germany in 1934 passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://dictionaryofarthistorians.org/panofskye.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://dictionaryofarthistorians.org/panofskye.htm</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
1969(24th of Adar, 5729): Painter Ben Shahn passed away at the age of 70.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/11/family_of_storied_nj_artist_be.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/11/family_of_storied_nj_artist_be.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970(6<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5730): Parashat
Pekudi<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: Fifty-nine-year-old University of
Kentucky graduate and WW II Army Air Forces veteran Ben Hale Golden the retired
publisher Chattanooga Times and former husband Ruth Sulzberger passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1970/03/15/93879814.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1970/03/15/93879814.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: In Italy, premiere of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I girasoli </i>(Sunflower) co-produced by
Arthur Cohn and Joseph Levine<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: In Malibu, CA,
Gary Salenger, DDS and his wife Dorothy, an interior designer gave birth to actress
Meredith Dawn Salinger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1971: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Barbra Streisand appeared
on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972: A small New York study group using <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the name "Ezrat Nashim"</span>,
founded in 1971 to study the status of women in Judaism, presented Conservative
rabbis with a manifesto for change at the Rabbinical Assembly convention<b>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(2<sup>nd</sup> of Nisan, 5735): After
having suffered a stroke yesterday while testifying before the Congressional
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, fifty-two-year-old Rensselaer Polytechnic
graduate and mathematician, engineer and physicist Keeve M Siegel, the New York
born son of former U.S. Attorney David Siegel and the husband of Ruth Siegel
with whom he had two son, David and Leigh, who was chairman and CEO of KMS
Industries passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://aadl.org/sites/default/files/aa_news/aa_news_clippings-obituaries-p00081.jpg"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://aadl.org/sites/default/files/aa_news/aa_news_clippings-obituaries-p00081.jpg</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/15/archives/keeve-m-siegel-52-engineer-physicist.html?searchResultPosition=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/15/archives/keeve-m-siegel-52-engineer-physicist.html?searchResultPosition=1</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977: The <i>New York Times</i> reported that
Ezrat Nashim (part of the Conservative movement) was about to publish a booklet
entitled "Blessing the Birth of a Daughter: Jewish Naming Ceremonies for
Girls."<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977:<b> </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Jerusalem Post</i> reported that upon
his return from the US, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin declared that President
Jimmy Carter said nothing to indicate a reversal of his pre-election stand,
which said that Israel ought not withdraw from Jerusalem or Golan Heights.
Israel made it clear to the US that it would never return to the 1967 lines and
was sufficiently strong to accept Carter¹s opinion, or to disagree with him on
this issue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977: Asher “Yadlin
pleaded guilty to some of the charges, involving bribes totaling I£ 124,000,
but claimed that he had handed over I£ 80,000 of the money to Labor party
funds, adding that he had raised "millions" for the party” – a claim
the judge did not accept so he “sentenced him to five years' imprisonment and a
fine of I£ 250,000. “<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Israeli Defense Force, in retaliation for a terrorist attack three
days earlier, invades and occupies southern Lebanon, under codename Operation
Litani, resulting in the evacuation of at least 100,000 Lebanese, approximately
2,000 deaths, as well as the creation of United Nations Interim Forces In
Lebanon (UNIFIL)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5739): Shushan
Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979: Birthdate of actor Chris Klein<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980(26th of Adar, 5740): Fifty-one-year-old Allard
Lowenstein the Democratic Congressman from New York’s Fifth District, passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980(26<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5740):
Eighty-four-year-old Gladys Guggenheim Straus, “the widow of Roger W. Straus,
president and chairman of the American. Smelting and Refining Company, the
Elberton, NJ born daughter of Florence Shloss and Daniel Guggenheim, the head
of the mining giant ASARCO and mother of Oscar, Florence and Roger, Jr Straus who
was co-founder of Gourmet magazine, Nutrition Commissioner for the New Yok
Metro area, “vice president of the Board of Governors of the Women's National
Republican Club from 1936 to 1951” and a member of Temple Emanu-El passed away
today. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982:<span style="color: #333333;"> The New York premiere of ''Genocide,'' a film about the
Holocaust narrated by Elizabeth Taylor and Orson Welles, opened at the Ziegfeld
Theater preceded by a cocktail party given by Samuel and Frances Belzberg in
the Parker Meridien and followed by a wine and cheese reception at the theater
honoring Simon Wiesenthal the guest of honor at this fundraising benefit for
the Simon Wiesenthal Center of Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. (As reported
by Ruth RobinsonP<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986: U.S. premiere of “Gung Ho!” based on a
story by Edwin Blum and Lowell Ganz with a screenplay co-authored by Lowell
Ganz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990: “Cry-Baby” produced by Rachel Talalay,
the daughter of Paul Talalay, the Berlin born Jew raised in England and
co-starring Polly Bergen premiered today in Baltimore, MD.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: In Boston, MA, “Elazer Edelman (a notable
biomedical engineer, physician, professor, and inventor)” and attorney Cheryl
Edelman gave birth to Adam (AJ) Edelman the MIT graduate and skeleton
competitor who “competed for Israel at the 2018 Winter Olympics.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.israelskeleton.com/bio/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.israelskeleton.com/bio/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jewinthecity.com/2018/01/aj-edelman-the-first-orthodox-jewish-olympian-is-ready-for-gold/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://jewinthecity.com/2018/01/aj-edelman-the-first-orthodox-jewish-olympian-is-ready-for-gold/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(248, 252, 255);"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">1991(28th of Adar, 5751): Forty-year-old
lyricist Howard Ashman passed away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Born
Howard Elliot German in 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland, Ashman teamed with Alan
Menken on several scores for Disney movies including Beauty and the Beast and
Aladdin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He won two Grammies, and two
Oscars for Best Song.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993: “After
402 performances and 30 previews” the curtain came down on the original
Broadway production of “Conversations With My Father,” a play that “presents
the saga of a first generation of American Jews who came of age in the
Depression and were assimilated at a high price during and after World War II.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5756): Eighty-eight-year-0ld Mortimer Fleishhacker, Jr, the San
Francisco son of Mortimer Fleishhacker and Florence Isabelle (Bella)
Fleishhacker, the husband of Janet Louise Fleishhacker and father of Delia
Ehrlich; Mortimer Fleishhacker, III and David Fleishhacker passed away today.1996(23rd
of Adar, 5756): Seventy-seven-year-old philanthropist and successful
businessman Alfred P. Slaner passed away today. (As reported by Robert Thomas,
Jr)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(248, 252, 255);"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">1996: An exhibition, Synagogue for the
Arts, featuring the works of Fritz Ascher, opened today.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(248, 252, 255);"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">1997(5th of Adar II, 5757): Eighty-nine-year-old
Austrian-born director Fred Zinnemann, passed away</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(248, 252, 255);"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1992-06-21/entertainment/ca-1509_1_fred-zinnemann/2"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://articles.latimes.com/1992-06-21/entertainment/ca-1509_1_fred-zinnemann/2</span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(248, 252, 255);"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">1997(5<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5757):
Fifty-nine-year-old Jurek Becker, the survivor of the Lodz Ghetto and two
concentration camps who was the author of <u>Jakob the Liar </u>which was the
basis for a film of the same name that was one of the most improbable and yet
“must-see” Holocaust movies.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(248, 252, 255);"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.ghi-dc.org/publications/ghipubs/op/op23.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.ghi-dc.org/publications/ghipubs/op/op23.pdf</span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(248, 252, 255);"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">1997: A decision was reached by the
Israelis to begin work on a building project at Har Homa in southern Jerusalem.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(248, 252, 255);"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">1997: Sandy Berger completed his services
United States Deputy National Security Advisor and began serving as the 19<sup>th</sup>
United States National Security Advisor.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(248, 252, 255);"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">1999(26<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5769):
Eighty-five year old John Broome (born Irving Broome) the writer for DC Comics
who created the Flash passed away today while swimming in Thailand.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(248, 252, 255);"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-john-broome-1096133.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-john-broome-1096133.html</span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(248, 252, 255);"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">1999:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> The New York Times</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or special interest to Jewish readers including <u>Aaron Copland: The Life
and Work of an Uncommon Man</u></span> by Howard Pollack and <u><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sex and Social Justice</span></u> by Martha
Nussbaum.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(248, 252, 255);"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">2000: “Israel deployed the first battery
of Arrow missiles.”</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(248, 252, 255);"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">2000: “Susan’s Plan,” a dark comedy
directed and written by John Landis who also co-produced the film co-starring
Rob Schneider and featuring Lisa Edelstein “was released straight to video”
today.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(248, 252, 255);"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">2001: President George Bush issued an
Executive Order adding the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade to the State Department’s
list of Foreign Terrorist Organization.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002:<span style="color: black;"> The original Broadway production of Marvin Hamlisch’s
“Sweet Smell of Success” the musical version of Sweet Smell of Success
co-authored by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman that was based on Walter
Winchell-like character opened today at the Martin Beck Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(248, 252, 255);"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">2002: Avigdor Lieberman completed his
service as National Infrastructure Minister</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(248, 252, 255);"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">2003(10th of Adar II, 5763): Jack
Goldstein passed away at the age of 57. Born in 1945, he was one of the first
graduates of the California School of Fine Arts; Jack Goldstein was known for
his experiments in film, sound and performance art. In 1974, he moved to New
York where he had his first show in 1981. He often made use of commercial
production techniques or isolated bits of Hollywood films such as creating a
continuous loop of the roaring <st1:stockticker w:st="on">MGM</st1:stockticker>
lion. In the late 1970s, he focused on painting and did works ranging from
images of lightning storms, volcano eruptions and World War II battles to
abstractions based on astronomy.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(248, 252, 255);"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">2004: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
New York Times</i> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
interest to Jewish readers including <u>A Sportswriter’s Life:<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> From the Desk of a New York Times Reporter</span></u><br />
by Gerald Eskenazi.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(248, 252, 255);"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">2005: During the Cedar Revolution
hundreds of thousands of Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to
demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon and against the
government. This entry serves as a reminder that there is a lot of violence in
the Middle East that has nothing to do with Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also serves as a reminder that the late
President Assad wanted to create “Greater Syria” which included territory now
known as Lebanon, Jordan and much of Israel.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar 5766): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5766): Ninety-two-year-old
Nathan “Nat” Frankel who played college basketball for Brooklyn College before
turning pro with the Pittsburgh Ironman of the Basketball Association of
America passed away today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>National Public Radio profiled Allan Sherman on “All Things Considered.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: The IDF launched Operation Bringing Home
the Goods to prevent Hamas from making good on their threats to release
terrorists held in a Jericho prison.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: “People & Politics” published today
described the switch of Mark Leibovich from the Washington Post to the New York
Times.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: Eric Lichtblau was a co-winner of the
Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for coverage of the Bush
administration’s domestic eavesdropping program.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Haaretz</i>
reported that Rome's chief rabbi paid a landmark visit to the capital's mosque
yesterday, calling for greater dialogue between Jews and Muslims to promote
peace. Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni's visit to the sprawling mosque on Rome's
outskirts, one of the largest in Europe, was the first by a chief rabbi of Rome
since it opened in 1995. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007(24th of Adar, 5767): Lucie Samuel
(Bernard) Aubrac, French history teacher and member of the French Resistance
passed away. In 1939, Lucie Bernard married a French Jew named Raymond Samuel.
After WW II began, Samuel changed the family name to Aubrac in response to the
anti-Semitism so prevalent at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lucie and Raymond were both active in the Free French Resistance and
kept the name Aubrac even after hostilities came to an end in 1945. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: The Central Conference of American Rabbis
(CCAR) ended its annual meeting which was held in Atlanta, Georgia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: Eric Fingerhut began serving as
Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: Israel Singer, one of the heads of the
World Jewish Congress and a leading figure in the Jewish world for the past 30
years, was dismissed in an unexpected move from all his posts in the WJC. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2007: An exhibition styled “</span><em><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Notes from the
Underground, Subway Portraits by Joseph Solman”</span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> opened at the Danforth
Museum in Framingham, MA. <span style="color: #00021f;">Joseph Solman was, with
Mark Rothko, a co-founder of The Ten, a group of expressionist painters who
worked in New York City in the 1930s. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">2008: At the Newberry Library in Chicago, </span><strong><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">NextBook presents “A Gateway to Jewish Literature, Culture, and Ideas”
featuring author Sara Paretsky.</span></strong><strong><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></strong><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #00021f;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008
The Paris book fair, one of the major events on the European literary calendar
opens with Israel as the ‘guest of honor.”<span style="color: #333333;"> </span>Several
Arab countries are boycotting the prestigious annual fair, because it honors
Israeli writers. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008:
Austria honors the work of the kinder transport and those who helped with the
rescue mission that took place in the months leading to the outbreak of World
War II, with a special ceremony on at the Westbahnhoff, Vienna railway station.
Austrian Minister of Transport Werner Faymann will unveil a statue to
commemorate the kinder transport and a plaque to honor Britain, which took in
nearly 10,000 Jewish children from Europe. The commemoration honors the
different rescuers, including Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld, a British rabbi who
personally rescued thousands of Jews, and the role of the Quakers and the
Christadelphians. The statue is the work of Flor Kent, a Jewish Venezuelan
artist living in London. Following the unveiling ceremony and speeches, a
kosher celebratory meal will be served on the station platform.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2008: The commemoration of the kinder
transport and those who helped with the rescue mission continues at the Vienna
Synagogue with special Friday evening services led by Austrian Chief Rabbi
Chaim Eisenberg. The Vienna Synagogue was built in 1824 and was the only
synagogue to survive the Nazis,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
In Little Rock, AR, a special Kiddush is given by Rabbi Pinchus and Estie
Ciment in honor of the most recent addition to the family of these august
Lamplighters who joined the Ciment Clan in the evening between Purim and
Shushan Purim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
Opening night of the Hartford Jewish Film Festival featuring the Connecticut
premiere of “The Little Traitor, the beautiful story of an implausible 1947
friendship between amiable British Sergeant Dunlop and spirited 12-year-old
Proffy Liebowitz, starring Alfred Molina, Ido Port and Theodore Bikel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010:
HBO broadcast the first episode of the mini-series “The Pacific” featuring
theme music by Hans Zimmer, over-seen by executive producer Steven Spielberg
and featuring Ashley Zukerman and Jon Bernthal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010:
Israeli forces caught Maher Udda, the Hamas terrorist who participated in
several attacks “including the Café Hillel bombing.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010:
Congregation Adat Reyim is scheduled to host a Community Women’s Seder (age
13+) using a Haggadah honoring the role of women in the Passover tradition
while giving the participants a chance to lead a reading, join in the singing
and discussion and share favorite recipes at a pot-luck dairy dinner of
Passover foods.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010:
Magen David Sephardic Congregation is scheduled to host special afternoon of
Israeli Art & Culture featuring the works of Ilan Hasson and Avi Biran.
Ilan’s artistic themes are based on Jewish subjects from the Torah, Talmud,
Passover Haggadah, Kabbalah, and landscapes of Israel. Avi has produced a large
array of Judaica using a broad variety of materials. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010(28th
of Adar, 5770): Ninety-three year old Chimen Abramsky, the Professor of Jewish
Studies at University College London passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/189017/chimen-abramsky?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=07ea56b36e-Wednesday_February_18_20152_18_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-07ea56b36e-206644398"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/189017/chimen-abramsky?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=07ea56b36e-Wednesday_February_18_20152_18_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-07ea56b36e-206644398</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010:
More than 70 years after its synagogue was destroyed by Nazi rioters, the
German town of Herford dedicated a new Jewish house of worship. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The LA Times featured reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “<u>Pulitzer:
A Life in Politics, Print, and Power “</u>by James McGrath Morris.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Fallen Heroes – Remembering the Jewish
casualties of Iraq and Afghanistan published today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jwv.org/images/uploads/Fallen_Heroes_Names.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jwv.org/images/uploads/Fallen_Heroes_Names.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Zemer Chai (Living Song), “The Jewish
Community of Chorus” is scheduled to perform at the National Theatre as part of
the Washington Sings: Festival of Song. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2011:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Commonwealth Club's Middle Eastern Forum and JIMENA are scheduled to present
“Last Jews of Yemen” with linguist, journalist and blogger, Josh Berer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Next Year in Bombay, a documentary about the
Bene Israel, is one of the films scheduled to be shown today at the 15<sup>th</sup>
New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Eric Fingerhut completed his four year term as
Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Albert Einstein will go digital in the coming
months, as the Hebrew University of Jerusalem begins a project to digitize the
German-Jewish physicist's archives. The digitization is expected to take around
one year and then the over 80,000 documents will be available on the Albert
Einstein Archives website. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2011:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Jewish New Media Innovation Fund announced over half a million dollars in
grants today for nine digital media projects intended to engage people between
the ages of 18 and 40 with Jewish life. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Sixty-nine-year-old Neil Diamond was inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tonight during a ceremony at New York’s
Waldorf-Astoria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Jewish Diamond was
introduced by another Jewish musical icon – Paul Simon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two other Jews were among the evening’s
honorees –Art Rupe founder of Specialty Records and Jac Holtzman, founder of
Elektra Records, the label that recorded numerous LP’s by Theodore Bikel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(8<sup>th</sup> of Adar II):
Seventy-six-year-old Canadian Larry Zolf, who was a popular CBC journalist,
passed away. Zolf was a self-described product of the Jewish ghetto of North
Winnipeg. He is the father of famous poet Rachel Zolf.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Zolf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Zolf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: In Washington, DC, Theatre J is scheduled to a
Backstage Discussion entitled “A Spinozian Sense of Justice: Crime and
Punishment in a World According to Spinoza.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: “The Pioneer Jewish Film Festival” which is
held in Amherst and Springfield, MA is scheduled to open today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(20<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5772): On the Hebrew
calendar, Yahrzeit of Yoel Sirkes Rabbi of Krakow and author of the Bayit
Chadash ("Bach"), a commentary on the great Halachic work, the
Arba'ah Turim. (As reported by Chabad Lubavitch)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(20<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5772): Ninety-five-year-old
Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Hager, the leader of the Viznitz Hasidim pass away today.
(As reported by Joseph Berger)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/nyregion/rabbi-moshe-y-hager-hasidic-leader-dies-at-95.html?hpw&_r=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/nyregion/rabbi-moshe-y-hager-hasidic-leader-dies-at-95.html?hpw&_r=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: TIP's Alan Elsner is scheduled to host Dr.
Emily Landau who will be speaking about "Iran's Nuclear Challenge and
Israel's Possible Responses.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2012: Marbin, an improvised music duo consisting of
Israeli-American guitarist Dani Rabin and Israeli saxophonist Danny
Markovitch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is scheduled to perform at
the Newton Theatre at Newton, NJ.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Azerbaijan authorities have arrested 22 people
suspected of plotting to attack the Israeli and American embassies in the
capital Baku, AFP reported today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: A Jerusalem Court acquitted an antiquities
collector on most counts of forgery today eleven years after the case was first
opened.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The Wiener Library is scheduled to present
“I'll Never See You Again: A Story of Survival and Reconciliation” featuring 92-year-old
Holocaust survivor Margot Barnard.<u><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: “Melting Away, “an Israeli film that “follows
the story of a Tel Aviv family drawn into crisis after the parents discover
their son is secretly a cross-dresser and expel him from home” is scheduled to
have its Minnesota Premiere at the Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: LABAlive is scheduled to present “Drunk,” an
evening of learning, art and performances on the heavens and hells of
intoxication in ancient Jewish tradition.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2013: A</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">last-minute
glitch delayed final completion of coalition negotiations today, with the prime
minister’s wife reportedly at its center. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2013: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>T<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">he white smoke had barely dispersed from over
the Vatican this morning when President Shimon Peres invited the new pope for a
visit to Israel, asking him to contribute to peace as a spiritual, rather than
a political, leader.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Today the Israel-based Shem Olam Holocaust and Faith Institute showcased items
that may have been used for Passover rituals at the Chelmno death camp in
western Poland. The items were discovered during excavations of the site in
pits containing prisoners’ belongings.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Rebecca Kushner is scheduled to lead Musical Shabbat at Augdas Achim in
Coralville, Iowa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The 92<sup>nd</sup> Street Y is scheduled to host a Purim themed Shabbat Dinner
complete with costumes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Rabbi Hillel Cohen, the head of Hatzallah emergency services in Ukraine was
recovering from the wounds suffered yesterday when he was beaten and stabbed in
Kiev by Russian speaking youths. (As reported by Times of Israel)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The Israeli Air Force struck seven targets in the Gaza Strip early this morning
in response to another day of rocket fire on southern Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Michael Hiltzik reviews The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC – 1492
AD by Simon Schama<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-simon-schama-20140313,0,7848250.story#axzz2vzMF7E66"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-simon-schama-20140313,0,7848250.story#axzz2vzMF7E66</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5774): Eighty year old courageous and controversial Israeli war
hero Meir Har-Zion, a man Moshe Dayan once called “the greatest Jewish warrior
since Bar Kochba,”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/legendary-soldier-meir-har-zion-dies-at-80/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.timesofisrael.com/legendary-soldier-meir-har-zion-dies-at-80/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
After three days of rocket attacks in the region, Chief Askenazi Rabbi David
Lau and Mayor Alon Davidi visited several centers in Sderot including the
Sderot Yeshiva after which they distributed Purim baskets to the IDF soldiers
manning the Iron Dome defense system. (As reported by Ari Yashar)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Benjamin Schwarz review of <u>Scars of
War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy</u> by Shlomo Ben Ami published
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.powells.com/review/2006_03_14.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.powells.com/review/2006_03_14.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“Netanyahu and the Settlements” published today described the unique bond
between the Prime Ministers and the residents of what some call the West Bank.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/12/world/middleeast/netanyahu-west-bank-settlements-israel-election.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/12/world/middleeast/netanyahu-west-bank-settlements-israel-election.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Following services at Shaare Tefila, Laura Apelbaum is scheduled to deliver a
lecture “Candlesticks, Charm Bracelets & Protest Signs.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“God’s Slave” is scheduled to be shown at the 18<sup>th</sup> Annual New York
Sephardic Jewish Film Festival<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
A peace ring created by Danish Muslims is scheduled tobe formed today “at the
central Copenhagen shul, or Krystalgade Synagogue.” (As reported by JTA and
Times of Israel)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
As negotiations designed to halt the Iranaina nuclear program appear to be
reaching a climax, “Iran today formally inaugurated what it said was mass
production of a long-range anti-ship missile.” (As reported by Justin Jalil)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5775): Ninety-year-old Lia Van Leer, “the founder of the Haifa
Cinematheque, the Jerusalem Cinematheque, the Israel Film Archive and the
Jerusalem Film Festival” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-film-trailblazer-lia-van-leer-90-dies/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-film-trailblazer-lia-van-leer-90-dies/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Seventy-one-year-old Robert Durst was arrested today in New Orleans by the FBI
which claimed to have new evidence linking him to the murder of Susan Berman in
2000.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">http://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/susan-berman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Kirkwood Community College is scheduled to host “Voices
of the Generations: Stories from the Holocaust” with Julie Kohner, whose mother
Hanna was Holocaust survivor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://thegazette.com/keeping-hannas-story-from-being-forgotten-20150313?utm_source=feedburner"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://thegazette.com/keeping-hannas-story-from-being-forgotten-20150313?utm_source=feedburner</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(4th
of Adar II, 5776): Eighty-six-year-old “Geoffrey H. Hartman, a literary critic
whose work took in the Romantic poets, Judaic sacred texts, Holocaust studies,
deconstruction and the workings of memory” passed away today. (As reported by
Margalit Fox)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/books/geoffrey-h-hartman-literary-critic-dies-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/books/geoffrey-h-hartman-literary-critic-dies-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
Migdalei haYam haTichon is scheduled to host “Around the World, At the Speed of
Sound” with guitarist Jean-Robert Ben Danan and pianist Eliah Zabaly<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Very Semi-Serious” and “To Life” are scheduled to be shown at the Houston
Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The Lysander Piano Trio - Itamar Zorman, Violin; Michael Katz, Cello; Liza
Stepanova, Piano – is scheduled to perform at Carnegie Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Catherine Hickley examined how German art collectors answer the question “Do I
Own Nazi Loot?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/arts/design/german-art-collectors-face-a-painful-past-do-i-own-nazi-loot.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/arts/design/german-art-collectors-face-a-painful-past-do-i-own-nazi-loot.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Former Arizona Wildcats basketball player Josh Pastner, the ACC coach of the
year, led his Georgia Tech against Indiana in the first round of the NIT.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
“The La Hora newspaper reported” today that “the Guatemalan government
partnered with the local Jewish community to launch an educational project to
study the Holocaust” as part of a project design “to promote the values of
tolerance and respect.” (As reported by TOI and JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The YIVO Institute, The Center for Jewish History and the Leo Baeck Institute
are scheduled to sponsor a presentation by<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>András Koerner and Victor Karady on “How They Lived: The Everyday Lives
of Hungarian Jews 1867-1940.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018(27<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5778): Eight days after his 89<sup>th</sup> birthday historian and
author David Sword Wyman, the grandson of Protestant ministers who “was
chairman of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168516"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168516</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Chef Alon Shaya is scheduled to “speak about his newly released
memoir/cookbook” <u>Shaya: An Odyssey of Food, My Journey back to Israel</u>
this evening at the JCC in New Orleans<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“Bye, Bye Germany is scheduled to be shown today at the Houston Jewish Film
Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“Two Zions: The Living Legacy of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon” is
scheduled to be shown at the 21<sup>st</sup> New York Sephardic Jewish Film
Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of
“Coco” “followed by a Moroccan Costumed After Party” as a celebrating for
comedian and actor Gad Elmaleh, the star of the film.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019(7<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5779): One-hundred-year-old civic leader and philanthropist Marian
Sulzberger Heiskel, the granddaughter, daughter, wife, sister, aunt and
great-aunt of six successive publishers of The Times, and the wife of Andrew
Heiskell, the chairman of Time Inc.” passed away today. (As reported by Robert
D. McFadden)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/obituaries/marian-sulzberger-heiskell-dead.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/obituaries/marian-sulzberger-heiskell-dead.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington is scheduled to host it’s “largest
annual evening of relationship-building and inspiration will feature special
guest, former U.S. Secretary of State and U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Jews and the
Anti-Renaissance: The Medici Archive Project” during which Dr. Alessio
Assonitis and Dr. Gabriele Manusco “consider hows Jews and Jewish culture have
been situated in both categories – as contributors to the construction of The
Renaissance canon and as fostering ‘anti-Renaissance’ phenomena.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
In Iowa City, Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz of Congregation Agudas Achim is scheduled
to participate in a panel entitled “Resurgent Antisemitism and the Importance
of Historical Remembering at the Iowa City Public Library and not at any
facilities of the University of Iowa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: <span style="color: #606060;">“Based on
current Government guidance, for the moment London School of Jewish
Studies<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>remains open for classes,
lectures and events “ a policy that is subject to change based on further
government advisories or alteration in the situation surrounding the current
health crisis.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host the final Shabbat
service and luncheon of the term.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
In Philadelphia, the Israeli Film Festival will not be hosting the scheduled
screening of “The Rabbi From Hezbollah” because of the Coronavirus Epidemic. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The JCC Chicago Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “After
Munich.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The Peninsula Symphony’s performances using restored Holocaust-era violins that
were used by Jews in concentration camps, which is part of the Violins of Hope
program has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus Epidemic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
In Coralville, IA, Congregation Agudas Achim will not be holding Shabbat
Services because the leadership has wisely “made the very difficult decision to
temporarily close the synagogue to physical presence” while paying the
employees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020
(18<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5780): Parashat Ki Tissa; Shabbat Parah; <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Urban Adamah and Torah of Awakening are scheduled to present a seven-hour
Passover-themed event with Hebrew chanting, contemplative learning, community
connection and deep silence with Reb Brian Yosef.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Zamir Chorale of Boston is scheduled to present online a “Musical Celebration
of the 200<sup>th</sup> Birthday of Louis Lewandowski, arguably the greatest
synagogue composer of the 19th century.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
KlezCalifornia, Jewish Community Library and Chochmat HaLev are scheduled to
present “Strange Yiddish Expressions” during Michael Wex, author of three books
on Yiddish, talks about old sayings and their literal translations (such as
“don’t knock me a tea kettle”), how they developed and why the Jews needed a
language of their own like Yiddish. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Congregation Or Atid is scheduled to present online “Together and Apart: The
Future of Jewish Peoplehood.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
<i>The New York Times</i> features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including <u>Sex With Strangers</u>, a
collection of stories by Michael Lowenthal and the recently released paperback
edition of <u>The Yellow Bird Sings</u> by Jennifer Rosner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Contra Costa JCC, East Bay Int’l Jewish Film Festival, Jewish Book Council and
local congregations are scheduled to hos a virtual tour of Bettae (My Home),
the new Ethiopian Israeli Heritage Center in Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
“Grammy Award-winning violinist Gil Shaham, whose playing the <i>New York Times</i>
called “ravishing” and “rapturous,” is scheduled “to return LIVE - no audience
- to the 92nd Street Y stage, joining friends from The Knights in a fresh and
imaginative program.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Jewish Community Library and KlezCalifornia are scheduled to present online
Wesleyan U. professor emeritus Mark Slobin as he talks about how Yiddish songs
were vital in the early 1900s, declined during Jewish assimilation and
recovered after World War II. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
In this special edition of our LAYKA Lens Film series in partnership with the
Thomas Mann House, attendees are schedule to take a look at Ernst Lubitsch’s
SUMURUN, originally released in the English-speaking world as One Arabian Night
with a panel includes Nikolai Blaumer (Thomas Mann House) Deniz Gokturk (UC
Berkeley German Department), Boris Dralyuk (Los Angeles Review of Books) and
will be moderated by Rob Adler Peckerar (Yiddishkayt). <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
As of today, while Israeli is implementing the third stage of it reopening
plan, “the country’s borders continue to be closed to international visitors,
and no date has been set for their opening.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Limmud NOLA is scheduled to host LimmudFest this year virtually today with
opening ceremonies at 11:30 a.m. CST and sessions running from 12 – 4:30 p.m.
CST. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/limmud-nola-announces-sun-march-14-virtual-event/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/limmud-nola-announces-sun-march-14-virtual-event/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
The JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to continue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
Today’s JWI “civic action to-do list” includes report that the Violence Against
Women Act was passed as part of the final omnibus spending bill.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Based on previous published information hearings under the direction of MK
Simcha Rothman, the chairman of the Constitution, Law and Justice committee are
scheduled to continue today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The Schusterman Center For Israel Studies is scheduled to present online
“Preservation of Jewish Heritage: Egypt, Past and Present.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
YIVO and the American Society for Jewish Society are scheduled to present
in-person and via ZOOM a lecture by Dr. Samantha M. Cooper a historical
musicologist who specializes in American Jewish cultural history on American
Jewish Women and New York Opera Culture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
In Omaha, Reuben Sandwich Day, honoring what is arguably that city’s “most
prized culinary contribution.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.visitomaha.com/blog/post/think-outside-the-bun-with-omahas-reuben-offerings/#:~:text=The%20Reuben%20sandwich%20is%20arguably,month%20to%20it%20in%20Omaha"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.visitomaha.com/blog/post/think-outside-the-bun-with-omahas-reuben-offerings/#:~:text=The%20Reuben%20sandwich%20is%20arguably,month%20to%20it%20in%20Omaha</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2014: National
Pi Day; for more about Jews and Pi see </span><a href="https://forward.com/culture/465702/the-secret-jewish-history-of-pi/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://forward.com/culture/465702/the-secret-jewish-history-of-pi/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://torah.org/torah-portion/dvartorah-5771-korach/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://torah.org/torah-portion/dvartorah-5771-korach/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">And </span><a href="http://jewishvaluesonline.org/jvoblog/pi"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://jewishvaluesonline.org/jvoblog/pi</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
Observance of National Potato Chip Day which Jews of all economic classes can
celebrate since there are so many offerings from HyVee house brands to Trader
Joe’s are kosher.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: In New
Orleans, the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience is scheduled to kick of its
Jewish and New Orleans Cuisine & Heritage Series with this delicious event
with Kugels and Collards authors Lyssa Harvey and Rachel Barnett. Through
recipes and stories, the two food authors will explore the food history,
traditions, and memories of South Carolina Jewry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: In Cedar
Rapids, Rabbi Todd and Steve Ginsberg are scheduled to take part in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Revival Theatre Company's panel discussion on
their upcoming production of Parade. Parade deals with the 1913 trial and
lynching of Leo Frank, amid religious intolerance, political injustice and
racial tension between black and anti-sematic people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: The
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, for which Mitchell Levin
is “an official content provider” is scheduled to present a lecture by Jerome
Karale on “Antisemitism in Elite College Admission: A Brief History” in which
he examines Ivys League Jewish quotas' history, abolished in the 1960s and analysis
declining Jewish enrollments across Ivy League schools over the past 50 years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: Temple
Judea is scheduled to host “Humans of October 7<sup>th</sup>” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a photo exhibit and lecture with photographer
Erez Kaganovitz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: YIVO is
scheduled to present Wild Burning Rage and Song: Replies to Scottsboro –
In-Person Lecture & Concert -- concert-lecture featuring Professor Amelia
Glaser, author of Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from
Scottsboro to Palestine (Harvard University Press), composer/vocalists Heather
Klein and Anthony Russell, and composer/pianist Uri Schreter, performing their
new settings of Yiddish and English poetry written in response to the pervasive
climate of race prejudice that gave birth to the Scottsboro trials in which the
defendants were courageously represented by Jewish attorneys including Samuel
Simon Leibowitz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
14th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 160 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">624: Islamic forces under the command of
Muhammad were victorious at the Battle of Badr which cemented the power of the
Moslem leader with all that we would mean for civilization in general and the
Jews in particular.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1202: Seventy-six-year-old Mieszko III, the
Duke of Greater Poland who “employed Jews in his mint as engravers and
technical supervisors, and the coins minted during that period even bear
Hebraic markings” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1245: As the Mongols sweep across Asia and
Christian Europe, Innocent IV issued “Cum non solum,” a letter addressed to the
Mongols asking them to desist from attacking Christian nations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the same Innocent IV who had ordered
the massive burning of Jewish books including many priceless copies of the
Talmud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1366: During the Castilian Civil War, Peter of
Castile, whose depiction by his enemies as being friendly Jews was used against
was deposed as King of Castile and Leon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1421 (10<sup>th</sup> of Nisan): After nearly a
year’s imprisonment, the Jews of Austria were ordered to be burned. “In Vienna
alone, more than a hundred perished in one field near the Danube.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1421(10th of Nisan): Rabbi Aaron of Neustadt,
author Hilkhot Niddah died the martyr’s death in Vienna<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1524: Suleiman II issued a firman that brought
closure to Abraham de Castro who had exposed the traitorous plans of Amad-Pasha
to take control of Egypt and protection for the Jews of Egypt, an event
memorialized by “Cairo Purim)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1601(19th of Adar II, 5361): Mordecai Marcus
Meisel passed away. Born in 1528, the son of Samuel Meisel, he was one of the
wealthiest people in Bohemia. A noted philanthropist, he was a leader of the
Jewish community in Prague. During his youth, the Jews of Prague were the
victims of the fanatical persecutions instituted by Ferdinand I. “In 1542 and
1561 his family, with the other Jewish inhabitants, was forced to leave the
city, though only for a time. The source of the great wealth which subsequently
enabled him to become the benefactor of his coreligionists and to aid the Austrian
imperial house, especially during the Turkish wars, is unknown. He is mentioned
in documents for the first time in 1569, as having business relations with the
communal director Isaac Rofe (Lékarz), subsequently his father-in-law. His
first wife, Eva, who died before 1580, built with him the Jewish Town Hall in
Prague, which is still standing, as well as the neighboring Hohe synagogue,
where the Jewish court sat. With his second wife, Frummet, he built (1590-92)
the Maisel Synagogue, which was much admired by the Jews of the time, being,
next to the Altneusynagoge, the metropolitan synagogue of the city.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After his death, despite the fact that “his
widow had given presents of tens of thousands of florins to the king and city,
soldiers would forcibly enter his house on the Sabbath and torture his nephews
until they ‘confessed’ that there was still more money hidden away. All the
money was declared property of the Bohemian Chamber with nothing left to the
family.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1615:
Birthdate of Antonio Pignatelli who as Pope Innocent XII abolished Jewish
loan-banks in Rome 1682. In the following year he extended the ban to Ferrara
and other Jewish ghettos under his authority. He also prohibited the Jews under
his control from serving as shopkeeper and banned them most trades and crafts,
causing the Roman Jewish community to shrink.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/italytime.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/italytime.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1639:
Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard. Eighty-three years later,
Harvard would hire its first Jewish instructor, sort-of. In 1722,” the officers
of Harvard Corporation vote that Judah Monis be approved as an instructor of
the Hebrew language at the College, under the condition that he convert to
Christianity. One month before assuming his post at Harvard, Monis converts
before a large assembly in College Hall.” It would take Harvard another 221
years to hire a Jewish professor without the requirement that he convert. Harry
Levin became the first Jewish full professor in the Harvard English department
in 1943.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1656: The </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Jews were denied the
right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1682: Students in Cracow staged anti-Semitic
riots<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1741: Birthdate of Joseph II, Holy Roman
Emperor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the positive side, Joseph
did away with numerous humiliating conditions for his Jewish subjects including
the special badges and taxes. He wanted to liberate the Jews from “humiliating
and oppressive laws and to assure that all Austrian subjects could contribute
to the public welfare without any distinction with regard to nationality and
religion.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The thrust of his reforms were
intended to make Germans out of his Jewish subjects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This liberalization worried the empire’s
anti-Semites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it also bothered
Jewish leaders including Moses Mendelssohn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They feared that the price of being free was a diluted Judaism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1745: Jews exiled from Prague.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1778(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5538): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1780: Isaac Touro sent an appeal for help to
Major General William Tryone stating that he was the rector the synagogue of
Rhode Island, had suffered every persecution and had come to New York” with the
troops and had “struggled to maintain his wife and family.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1781: In a speech delivered today, Edmund Buke
gave credence to reports that “during an attack against the Loyalists” on Long
Island, Isaac Hart was “murdered with the greatest brutality by the rebels for
his attachment to Great Britain.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1789(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5549): Shushan
Purim observed for the last time before George Washington was inaugurated as
first president of the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1797(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5557): Shushan
Purim observed for the first time following the inauguration John Adams as
second president of the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1805: In Bavaria, Fanny Reiling and Michael
Lilienthal gave birth to Bernhard Lilienthal who married Wilhelmine Schmidt in
1869 after having been married to Julia Schwabacher, the mother of his son
Ignatz Lilienthal<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1808(14th of Adar, 5568): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1808: Frederick VI, who had shown a great deal
of interest in his Jewish subjects while regent and who would support full
Jewish emancipation began his reign as King of Denmark. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1808: Levi Barent Cohen, who had three children
with his first wife Fanny and seven children with his second wife Lydia, was
buried today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1809: Birthdate of Alexander Levi, a French
born Sephardic Jew, who was one of the early settlers of Dubuque, Iowa. He
would live there until he passed away in 1893.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Levi was a successful merchant and civic leader who was one of the first
Jews to hold public office in the Hawkeye state.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://iagenweb.org/dubuque/religious/Jewish.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://iagenweb.org/dubuque/religious/Jewish.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1811: Rachel and Nathan Hart gave birth to Mary
Hart the wife of David Hart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1813: In South Carolina, Rachel Mordecai and
Charleston, SC native Isaac Harby gave birth to Samuel Harby who married
Frances Levy, the mother of Octavia, Julia, Isabel and Jeannette Harby after
having been married to New York native Sarah Philips Levy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1815: In Pressburg, Sarel, the daughter of
Rabbi Akiva Eger and Rabbi Moses Sofer gave birth to Shmuel Binyomin Sofer a
leading 19<sup>th</sup> century Hungarian Rabbi and rosh yeshiva of the
Pressburg Yeshiva.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1816(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5576): Fast of
Esther; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1816: One day after he had passed away, Isaac
Eliezer Davis was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1819; Birthdate of Wilmington native Solomon
Solis, one of the first Jewish residents of Delaware of whom we have definitive
records.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1821: Rachel Cashmore and London born Moses
Joseph Cashman gave birth to Rebecca Cashmore.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1824(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5584): Parashat
Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1825: Birthdate of Immanuel Heinrich Ritter who
succeeded Samuel Holdheim as the rabbi at the Berlin Reform Temple in 1860.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1825: Birthdate of Grigori Asaacovich Bogrov,
the native of Minsk, the Russian author whose first work was <u>Memoirs of a
Jew</u> in which he “portrays the vicissitudes of his life and surroundings”
and who left an unpublished Hebrew transcript on astronomy at the time of his
death in 1885.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5587): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827: In Odenbach, Germany, Beir Grunebaum and
David Jacob Felsenthal gave birth to Johanna Felsenthal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1830(18<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5990): Shabbat
Paah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1833: David Nathan married Mary Lazarus at
Canterbury, Kent, UK.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1836: In Bavaria, Aron Emunuel Scharff and
Magdelanna Roos gave birth to Nicholas Scharff<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1839: Two days after he had passed away today,
Isaac Cowen was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1840: In Rotterdam, Salomon Isaac Bril and the
former Mietje Maria Benedictus gave birth to Betje Bril<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1843: Birthdate of Solomon Abedndana Belmonte,
the Hamburg born jurist who was elected deputy to the Hamburg Bürgerschaft, in
1887.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1844: Today, Henry Solomon, the first Chief
Constable of Brighton Borough Police in East Sussex, England, was bludgeoned by
a prisoner whom he was interviewing concerning the “theft of a roll of carpet.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1844: In Paris, twenty-one-year-old Emma
Silberstein, “the daughter of Salomon Silberstein and Amilie Kempner married
Louis Loewe with whom she had four daughters and five sons, “one of whom was
James Lowe, Raphael Loewe’s grandfather.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/digital_library/Intranet/Loewe/stainedglassdesign/LL/Louis-03.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/digital_library/Intranet/Loewe/stainedglassdesign/LL/Louis-03.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1845: Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is
premièred in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist. Born in 1809, Felix
Mendelssohn was the grandson of Moses Mendelssohn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His Jewish parents had him baptized as a
Lutheran in 1816.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The violinist
Ferdinand David was Jewish. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1846(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5606): Shushan
Purim observed for the last time before the start of the Mexican American War<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847: In Mitwitz, Bavaria Abraham H. Freund and
Marie Hoenigsberger gave birth to Adolph Freund, the husband of Henrietta
Newman and trustee of both the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives in
Denver and the Montefiore Kesher Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites of
Cleveland who was he Diretor and Financial Representative of Cleveland, Ohio’s
Jewish Orphan Asylum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848(8<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5608): During
the Revolution of 1848, “as Viennese students thronged toward the Lower
Austrian Diet to submit their revolutionary demands, imperial troops fired into
the crowd” killing Carl Heinrich Spitzer, “a 17-year-old Moravian Jew” studying
at the Vienna Polytechnic making him “the first martyr of the revolution.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1850: David Meyer Davidson married Henrietta
Cohen at the Great Synagogue today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852: In Berlin, Louis and Pauline Blumenthal
gave birth to Oskar (Oscar) Blumenthal who morphed from theatre critic to
playwright and was the husband of Marie Blumenthal with whom he had one son –
Ferdinand.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852: "Austria" published today reported that
"a Hungarian Jew has been arrested for trying to negotiate a number of
Kossuth notes that he had brought with him from Hamburg."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853: In the Czech Republic, Anna Saphir, the Bohemia
born daughter of Salomon Kohn and Thekla Kohn and her husband gave birth to Markus
Saphir to Theresia Saphir.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1854(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5614): Ta’anit
Esther; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858: In Bialystok, Eve Fox and Wolf Dolitzky, “a
ritual slaughter” gave birth to writer Menakhem Mendel Dolitzky the husband of Rachel
Lea Sheinack <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and author of the play “The
Regrett” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which “performed in the United
States who had come to the United States “where he became active in the Yiddish
and Hebrew press” and wee he was a member of the “Yude Leiv Peretz Writers
Society” in Los Angeles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/D/dolitsky-menachem-mendel.htm">https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/D/dolitsky-menachem-mendel.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861: Eleanore Mack, the Cincinnati born
daughter of Abraham and Henrietta Wolf, and her husband Max J. Mack gave birth
to Cincinnati native, and Harvard trained lawyer Harry Wolf Mack who served as
a “special assistant U.S. District Attorney.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5622): Fast of
Esther.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862: Birthdate of Baltimore native Henriette
Hennie van Leer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863: In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, Samuel and
Henrietta Gertrud Frauenthal gave birth Dr. Henry William Frauenthal, the
husband of Clara Heinsheimer Frauenthal with whom he was honeymooning aboard
the SS Titanic, a disaster which they both survived physically, but left them
destroyed mentally<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/dr-henry-frauenthal---one-of-the-titanic-survivors-5379.html#google_vignette"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/dr-henry-frauenthal---one-of-the-titanic-survivors-5379.html#google_vignette</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://prezi.com/p/p4q_a8gp0drc/mrhenry-frauenthal/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Mr.Henry Frauenthal by
William Davis on Prezi</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864: Four days after she had passed away,
Eliza Anne (Baron) Jones the wife of John Alexander Jones was buried today at
the “Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864: Edward Henirques, a native of Jamaica,
was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865(15th of Adar, 5625): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865: After rejoining his regiment in December
of 1864, today Edward S. Salomon “received a brevet promotion to brigadier
general.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865:<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Frederick Knefler, who was serving under the
command of General William Tecumseh Sherman, </span>was promoted to the rank of
brevet brigadier general just before the end of the Civil War.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Born in Hungary in 1833, Knefler had the
distinction of being one of the few people to rise from the rank of private to
general during the course of a war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
1861 he volunteered for the Union Army and became a captain within one
year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He passed away in 1901.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865:
During the Civil War Major Alfred Mordecai, Jr was promoted to the rank of
Lieutenant Colonel in the Union Army.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The newly promoted Lieutenant Colonel was the son of Alfred Mordecai, a
southern born officer in the United States Army.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mordecai Sr. resigned from the Army rather
than fight against the South, marking the end to an illustrious career.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, in a display of honor that was rare
among other Southerners who left the U.S. Army, he refused to accept a
commission in the Confederate Army or serve the South in any civilian capacity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865:
Thirty-three-year-old Philadelphia native Myer Asch who had been serving with
the Union Cavalry since 1861 and spent six months in Rebel prisons including
the infamous Libby Prison, was breveted as a Colonel of United States Vounteers
“for gallant and meritorious services during the war<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866(26th
of Adar, 5626): Seventy-one-year-old Julius Rubo who despite his brilliance and
ability found both a legal and academic career ultimately closed to him because
of his religion from which he refused to convert, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk129492764"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1867: In Paris, France, Caroline Hirshmann and
Benjamin Herrmann gave birth to “prestidigitator “ Leon Hermann, the husband of
Marie Vedie who has performed his magic acts before “almost all of the crowned
heads of Europe” while giving numerous benefit shows for several Jewish
organizations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk129492764;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>including the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and the
National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives at Denver.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk129492764;"></span><a href="http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php/Leon_Herrmann"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk129492764;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php/Leon_Herrmann</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk129492764;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870:
At a meeting of the board of directors of the “B'nai Jeshurun Ladies' Hebrew
Benevolent Society, the President, Mrs. Henry Leo, the founder of the Society,
presented a report on the growing number of destitute Jews who were elderly and
in poor health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She urged the ladies to
develop a practical way of dealing with this growing problem<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A group of leaders of the Jewish community,
including Thomas H. Keasing, E.S. Isaacs and T.J. Solomon, met today to make
plans for establishing a society that would destitute Jewish immigrants when
they came to United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A committee
of seven was selected to draw up plans for such an organization that would be
submitted to this group at its next meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the meantime, fifty dollars was donated to serve as “seed money” for
the group’s work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871:
One day after she had passed away, Kate Davis, the daughter of Pinchas Zelig
Harris and the wife of Abraham Davis was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish
Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871:
The children of Aaron Adolphus, a wealthy New York Jew who passed away in
January, contested the terms of their father’s will in Surrogate Court.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5633): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873:
Birthdate of Benzion ben Moses Eisenstadt, the native of Minsk whose literary
output included poetry and biography of rabbis and scholars.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873:
In New York, the Sabbath School Fair Association of the 57<sup>th</sup> Street
Congregation hosted a Purim reception and masked ball at the Terrace Garden.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875:
It was reported today that the police in Hartford, Connecticut, have arrested a
swindler named W.F. Gerhardt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gerhardt
is really an Hungarian born Jew named Moritz who worked his larceny in his
native land before being forced to flee to the United States. His confederates
include Michael Mandl, an Austrian Jew and Henry Hertz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876:
It was reported that the Jews in Washington, DC celebrated Purim with “a brilliant,
masked ball.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876:
A police officer found the body of Leopold King in front the building housing
Ahavat Chesed in New York City. The police found an empty blue vial in his hand
that smelled of prussic acid. The 54-year-old King was a native of Prussia who
had retired from his successful cap-making business and gone into real
estate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The family could offer no reason
for a suicide and said they thought “that he died from a fit of apoplexy.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876:
It was reported today that the managers of the Home for the Aged and Infirm
Hebrews has leased the “Old Hildebrand Mansion “at the corner of 87<sup>th</sup>
Street and Avenue A in New York City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The number of people seeking admission has grown to such a large number
that the current facility on Lexington Avenue and 63<sup>rd</sup> Street is no
longer large enough.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1877: In Galicia, Austria, Sophie Cooperman and Wolff Tau gave birth to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Sigmund Thau, the founder and president of
the Mutual Lamp Manufacturing Company and leader of the Jewish community as can
be seen by his service as “treasurer of the JNF” and founder and director of
the Jewish Settlement House of the East Side who married Rose Thau after the
death of his first wife Devorah and who was the father of Sophie and Morris
Thau.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: In Troy, NY, Charles J. and Anne (Blatt)
Gilman gave birth to NYU trained attorney and vice president of the American
Bar Association, Samuel P. Gilman, the official of the Intercollegiate Menorah
Association and a member of the advisory board of the “Dormitory ad Vacation
Camp for Jewish Blind.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.amazon.in/Handbook-Exchange-Affecting-Customers-Investors/dp/1362675733/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1615584460&refinements=p_27%3ASamuel+P+Gilman&s=books&sr=1-1"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.amazon.in/Handbook-Exchange-Affecting-Customers-Investors/dp/1362675733/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1615584460&refinements=p_27%3ASamuel+P+Gilman&s=books&sr=1-1</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880(1<sup>st</sup> of Nisan, 5640): Parashat
Vayikra; Rosh Chodesh Nisan’; Shabbat HaChodesh.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1880:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jorge
Isaacs Ferrer, the son of “George Henry Isaacs, an English Jew originally from
Jamaica” and whom Isaac Goldberg described as “a half-Jew” “who is “Spanish
America’s most famous novelist” completed his service as the “President of the
Sovereign State of Antioquia.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: Alexander II of Russia is assassinated,
which put an end to his half-hearted liberalism. He was succeeded by Alexander <st1:stockticker w:st="on">III</st1:stockticker> who was devoted to medievalism and urged a
return to “Russian civilization.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
most influential person during his reign was Pobestonostov, his financier and
procurator of the Holy Synod, who earned the title "the Second
Torquemada." The newspapers in Moscow, Kiev and Odessa began a campaign
against the Jews which would only lead to greater outbreaks of anti-Semitism as
the Czarist regime swirled forward on its downward dance with destruction that
ended in 1917.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882: In Rochester, NH, “George Hobbs Sanborn
and Lillian Knight Hodgdon” gave birth to Harvard trained archaeologist Ashton
Sanborn the husband of Agnes Goldman and the brother-in-law of Hetty Goldman of
the Goldman-Sachs banking family who was “executive secretary of the American
Red Cross Commission with headquarters in Jerusalem after WW I.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882:
In the United Kingdom, Sir Marcus Samuel and his wife “Fanny Elizabeth, the
oldest daughter of Benjamin Benjamin gave birth to their first child “Walter
Horace” who was “educated at Eton and New College, Oxford.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1883(4<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II 5643): Just nine days before his 66<sup>th</sup> birth Emauel Nunes
Cavalho, the Charleston, SC bon of Sarah Cohen Dazevedo and David Nunes Cavalho
the husband Caroline Adella Woolf and te father of Isaac, David and Sarah
Carvalho passed away today in New York City.</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
New York City, Rebecca Rosenblatt and Bernard Eiseman gave birth to JTS trained
rabbi and co-founder of ZBT Aaron Eiseman, the husband of Estelle Viola
Alexander and Army chaplain serving during the Mexican Mobilization and WW I
who began his rabbinic career at Beth Israel Bikur Congregation before settling
in at Mt. Neboh Temple where he earned the nickname “the marrying rabbi”
because he married two thousand couples a year during the decade starting in 1920.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
Romania, Abraham and Hannah Feinstein Achtenberg gave birth to birth to
University of Michigan trained attorney Benjamin Morris Achtenberg, the husband
of Minnie R. Robinson Achtenberg and the father of Beatrice Achtenberg who
practiced law in Kansas City, MO, while serving as the President of
Congregation Keneseth Israel Beth Sholem starting in 1923.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884(16<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5644):
Sixty-four-year-old Charlotte von Rothschild, the only daughter of Carl Mayer
von Rothschild and the wife of Lionel de Rothschild with whom she had five
children passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
Clinton, IA, a group of Protestants founded the American Protective Association
which was anit-Catholic and anti-immigrant at the same time that an untold
number of Jews were trying to escape from repressive regimes Russia and
Romania.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888(1<sup>st</sup> of Nisan, 5648): Rosh
Chodesh Nisa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888: Justice Samuel Greenbaum married Selina
Ulman today after which they had four children - Lawrence Samuel, Edward
Samuel, Grace and Isabel – before she passed away at 25 years of age.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/samuel-greenbaum/">https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/samuel-greenbaum/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: It was reported today that the Passover
Relief Association had raised nearly $250 at its annual Purim masquerade ball
which would go toward the fund it raises yearly to provide the Hebrew poor of
this city with the wherewithal to celebrate Passover.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: “Hebrew Charities” published today
summarized the efforts of the United Hebrew Charities during the month of
February which including providing 226 applicants with work and providing 216
pupils with free instruction in the industrial school. The charity provided
over seven thousand dollars in direct aid.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: It was reported today that the funds
Jesse Seligman has received from Baron Hirsh “will be kept in the vaults of
various trust companies until the trustees of the fund decide” how it is to be
invested.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5652): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: Birthdate of New York native Lillian
Siegel May, the wife of Mortimer A. May, a member of the board of the National
Federation of Temple Sisterhoods and an active member of the Women’s
International League for Peace and Freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: Felix Adler is among those scheduled to
meet with President Cleveland today to urge him to veto the newly passed Treaty
of Extradition with Russia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: “Oriental Records Translated” published
today provides a detailed review of Records of the Past edited by A.H. Sayce
which includes the information that “in the soil of Palestine, for example, the
spade has brought to light evidence of the existence of a Canaanitish library
dating from a period earlier than the birth of Moses…” The material translated
provided a comparison between Biblical texts and those of other, recently
discovered civilizations in the East.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.dreyfus.culture.fr/en/bio/bio-html-antoine-louis-targe.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.dreyfus.culture.fr/en/bio/bio-html-antoine-louis-targe.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: “Want The School Reopened” published
today describe a meeting held to protest the closure of grammar school on
Hester Street which will impact 500 children, most of them who are Jewish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The leaders of the protest contend that the
Jewish “resident of the district were anxious to have their children the
English language” and were afraid that the closure would impede this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Editor’s Note – Compare this view of the
English language by Jewish immigrants with that which has evolved in the 21<sup>st</sup>
century)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0B16FB3C5515738DDDAA0994DB405B8385F0D3"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0B16FB3C5515738DDDAA0994DB405B8385F0D3</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: In New York City, Wilhelmina Nykerk and
David Mendoza gave birth to violinist and conductor David Mendoza the husband
of Dorothea Shoeps<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who at the age 18
became a member of New York Symphony’s first section and rose to become the
first conductor of the Capital Theatre starting in 1923.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: The United Hebrew Charities is one of the
organizations distributing the proceeds from a concert given by Musurgia to
help aid those suffering during the current economic depression.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: Two days after he had passed away, 88
year old Abraham Marks, the son of Jacob Marks and Hannah Alexander was buried
today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: Sir Arthur Wing Pinero’s “The Notorious
Mrs. Ebbsmith” was produced for the first time at the Garrick Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: In Chicago, Benvendia Solis Firth, the
daughter of Moses Maness Ritterband and Esther Amada Ritterband and Emil Firth
gave birth to Mildred Rosenkranz, the wife Elias Victor Rosenkranz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1897:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>San Diego State University founded. The first Jew connected with San
Diego was a young adventurer named Louis Pollock who was temporarily imprisoned
in San Diego along with other Americans by Mexican authorities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By 1851, there were enough Jews in San Diego
for Lewis Franklin to organize the first High Holiday services held in southern
California.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today SDSU has approximately
2,500 Jews among its 27,000 undergraduates and 500 Jews among more than 6,300
graduate students. The school offers 15 courses in Jewish studies and students
can major or minor in Jewish Studies. The campus has an accredited Hillel with
its own Hillel House. For more information about the SDSU Jewish community see </span><a href="http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~jewish/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~jewish/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897(9<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5657): Parashat
Vayikra<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: “Another Homer to be Identified”
published today provides a critique of “The Unknown Homer of the Hebrews” by
Amos Kidder Fiske the author of <u>The Jewish Scriptures</u>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to Fiske, just as Homer is the
father of Greek literature, so is there one author un-named author who created
much of the Biblical literature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Based
on “higher biblical criticism” Fiske contends that the author is the Prophet
Elijah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: “The Austrian Election” published today
described the outcome of the vote for Mayor in Vienna where “Dr. Lueger, the
well-known Jew-baiter” has emerged victorious over Mayor Strohbach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Emperor had nullified an earlier victory
by Lueger but the belief is that the he will not intervene for a second time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: “Money Lenders Attacked” published today
summarized the testimony of Sir George Lewis “the well-known lawyer” and leader
of the Jewish community before the House of Commons in which he complained of
the behavior of money lenders, “the bulk of them” who “were Jews whom “the
Jewish community loathed and despised.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The worst of the lot was one known as “Sam” who had played a key role in
the scandal surrounding Lord Nevill-Spender Clay.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: Lemercier-Picard, author of the forged
letter quoted by General de Pellieux a month earlier (the "faux
Henry"), is found hanging from the window-catch of his hotel bedroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Circumstances of death remain unclear.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: While testifying before the Court of
Inquiry investigating “the beef counsel” Edward Tilden, the treasurer of Libby,
McNeill & Libby Packing Company testified that “the forequarter of the
carcass is the only part eaten by an Orthodox Jew” but that that the price of
the beef does not depend on “the number of Jews in the community.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: Rabbi H.P. Mendez, Dr. Stephen Wise,
Rabbi Gustav Gottheil and his son were among the prominent Jews attended
Professor Thomas Davidson’s lecture entitled “Zionism from a Non-Jewish
Standpoint” at Shearith Israel Synagogue. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: This evening Cincinnati, Ohio, Rabbi
David Philippson is scheduled to deliver the “address of welcome” at the
preliminary meeting prior to the official opening of the annual Conference of
American Rabbis which will start tomorrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dr. Joseph Silverman and Rabbi Isaac M. Wise are also scheduled to
address the meeting to which the general public has been invited.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: Birthdate of Alfred Harding who was
transported from Prague to Ujazdow to Majdanek in 1942 where he was murdered at
the age of 42.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: Henri Didon Louis Remy, the Dominican
Friar who wrote approvingly of the fifth and final volume of Renan’s <u>History
of the Jews</u> passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: Sixty-seven year old Benjamin Harrison,
the 23<sup>rd</sup> President of the United States whose Secretary of State,
James G. Blaine “instructed the American minister to Russia to exert his
influence against” any new anti-Jewish measures being adopted by the Czar and
whose administration received a memorial from William Blackstone and his
supporters calling for “an international conference to consider the condition
of the Israelites and their claims to Palestine as their ancient home” passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: The Sultan approves the Rouvier project
(from the French government) for the consolidation of the public debt. This was
part of a project that Herzl had worked on, the idea being that assisting the
Ottomans with their financial needs would help smooth the way for the creation
of a Jewish homeland in Eretz Israel which was part of the Sultan’s empire.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: In Cincinnati, OH, Abraham and Rachel
(Friedman) Isaacs gave birth to Dr. Asher Isaacs ,the husband of Flora Meyers,
the University of Cincinnati Undergrad who earned his MA and Ph.D from Harvard
before pursuing an academic career in economics that led to his being name
Chairman of the Department of Economics at Pittsburgh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5663): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: Dr. Frederick Mueller, the assistant to
Dr. Adolf Lorenz, the distinguished Austrian orthopedist who yesterday was
welcomed by a Reception Committee of a dozen men representing B’nai B’rith and
Beth Israel including Dr. Isidor Singer, editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia when
the steamship Barbarossa docked in Hoboken will begin his full day in New York
living in the Murray Hill Hotel and working in offices at Beth Israel Hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904(26<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5664): Lieutenant
Bendix, “a German Government engineer” and “an officer of the Bavarian
Reserves” who “had been engaged on the construction of a railroad in German
West Africa” was killed today “in the fight near Owikokorereo against the Herreros.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: During the presidency of Isaac Wallach,
the new buildings of the Mount Sinai Hospital in Madison Avenue (between 100th
and 101st streets) for which $1,500,000 had been raised, were dedicated today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: Ludovic Trarieux, the French political
leader who served as Minister of Justice during the Dreyfus Affair where he
should great courage in taking up the cause of the French military officer who
was a victim of anti-Semitism and a conspiracy of right wing militarists passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: “Kid” Herman (Herman Landfield) knocked
out former featherweight champion Dave Sullivan one month before he fought
Harry Lewis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: Eighty-six-year-old social reformer and
suffragette Susan B. Anthony whose allies included Ernestine Rose, the Polish
born American and English suffragette whose slogan of “Agitate, Agitate” she
adopted, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: In Stafford Springs, CT, Eli and Bessie
Aronson Levin gave birth to Mitchell Levin (no relation to the author of the
blog)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: It was reported today that the
“anti-Jewish proclamation” issued in Russia included “a demand for the
expulsion of the Jews from all the cities of European Russia and Siberia into
the Pale,” “the levying” of a tax on the Jewish people “in lieu of military
service,” forcing Jews to reassume their “Jewish names” if they have changed
them, and the prohibition of Jews from certain professions and from higher
education.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Birthdate
of Oscar Nemon, the Slavonian born English sculptor, </span>best known for his
series of more than a dozen public statues of Sir Winston Churchill as well as
sculptures of Harry Truman and Margaret Thatcher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After World War II, he made sculptures of a
spectacular list of high-profile figures including such war-time leaders as
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Earl Alexander of Tunis, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein,
Lord Freyberg and Lord Beaverbrook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
passed away in 1985.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: Montreal resident Clarence Isaac de Sola,
the son of Cantor Abraham and Esther de Sola and Belle Maud de Sola gave birth
to Gabriel (Oliviera) de Sola<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: Birthdate of Walter Annenberg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The famed philanthropist built a publishing
empire around the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Daily Racing Form</i>,
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Philadelphia Inquirer</i> and that
uniquely American cultural icon, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">TV
Guide.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: A major fire in the Jewish quarter of
Haskoy, Constantinople, Turkey destroys 500 houses. There were over 5,000 Jews
left without shelter. A cablegram was sent from Constantinople to Oscar S.
Straus, U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor asking for assistance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909(20<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5669): Parashat
Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: Alexander Lyons served as the rabbi of
Temple Beth Elohim in Brooklyn<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910 It was reported today that Alma Gluck will
perform at matinee performance on March 17 at The New Theatre in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: Just a month after her 69<sup>th</sup>
birthday, Isabel Goldsmid, the daughter of Frederick David Goldsmid and
Caroline Samuel was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: Birthdate of Columbia Law School graduate
Charles Miller Metzner, the counsel to the General Jewish Council and U.S.
District Court Judge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: Birthdate of Lillian Fruendlich , the
wife of Irwin Freundlich who had been born in 1908 and with whom she teamed to
perform recitals “featuring pieces for one piano and 4 hands.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.lib.umd.edu/ipam/collections/irwin-and-lillian-freundlich"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.lib.umd.edu/ipam/collections/irwin-and-lillian-freundlich</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: The Annual Conference on Child Labor to
which Leon Schwarz of Mobile, Alabama had been appointed as a delegate opened
today in Jacksonville, Florida.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(4<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5673): Sixty-four-year-old Morris Moses Pfaelzer, the German born
son of Karoline and Marx Mordechai Pfaelzer and Philadelphia jeweler who
married Sophie Pfaelzer with whom he had two children – Frank Pfaelzer and
Henrietta Stern.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: Birthdate of Harold Hochstein who would
gain fame as Harold Stone, a character who played numerous roles on Broadway,
in Hollywood films and television. Stone usually played ‘heavies” or bad
guys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was the sort of actor who
became the role.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You might not recognize
the name but as you see the original version of Spartacus or re-runs of the
television series, The Untouchables, you will remember who he was.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: Premiere of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Die geheimnisvolle Villa</i> “a short silent German film directed by
Joe May” born Joseph Otto Mandel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: Abraham Margulis, the Charkof born son of
Chaim and Pessy (Lifushitz) Margulis and University of Pennsylvania graduate
married Esther Andrussier today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915(27<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5675): Shabbat
HaChdoesh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: Today, after further conversations with
the Prime Minister and the Foreign Herbert Samuel “circulated a revised text of
“The Future of Palestine” – a “Zionist memorandum” originally submitted by
Chaim Weizmann<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: Sixty-five-year-old Count Sergei Witte a
leading progressive Russian minster, whose marriage to Matilda Ivanovna
(Isaakovna) Lisanevich, to a converted Jew caused a scandal and limited his
political effectiveness and who tried to reform the Empire while keeping Russia
from entering WW I which he feared would doom his country passed away today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: Among those listed as contributors to the
American Jewish Relief Committee for Sufferers from the War were Beth Gimel,
Ottumwa, IA; Beth Chayim Congregation, Cumberland, MD; Congregation Israel, Hot
Springs, Arkansas and the Literary Society of Beaumont, TX.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: The delegation from Brooklyn chosen to
attend the “proposed Jewish Congress” meeting Philadelphia later this month was
reported to include Judge Strahl, Magistrate Geismar, Rabbi Gold, Dr. H.L.
Melkin, Henry Eiser, Samuel Lippman, and Moe Wervelosky.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: It was reported today that the officers
of Temple of the Sinai Congregation of the Bronx include William Daub,
President; Emil Fleish, First Vice President; Samuel Grossman, Second Vice
President and William Mitchell, Secreatary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: “The Day, the Jewish daily newspaper
edited by Herman Bernstein published…a cablegram from” its correspondent in
Berne that read “I have learned from an absolutely reliable source that the
Pope has prepared an important document of great interest to the Jewish people”
which “will prove of the same importance and significance as he bull issued by
Pope Innocent IV denouncing the ritual murder accusations against the Jews as
false and based on a cruel legend.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: In expressing their support for I. Edwin
Goldwasser’s suggestion to do away with flowers at Jewish funeral and to use
that money to support charities, Louis Marshall said, “I have long thought the
practice wasteful, extravagant and in many instances vulgar” while Henry
Morgenthau said that “as long as the living are destitute and in despair, it
seems wise to direct those who wish to show regard for departed friends to do
so by contributing, in memory of their names, to a fund to alleviate the misery
of the poor.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: The Joint Distribution Committee for
Jewish War Sufferers expressed its displeasure that Dr. Israel Friedlander had
resigned “from the commission which the American Red Cross is sending to take
part in the reclamation of Palestine” because of unfounded rumors that he had
been pro-German before the United States entered the World War.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1918: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">American Red Magen
David, the Jewish Red Cross, was formed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: During a gathering of Lithuanians tonight
at Madison Square Garden, “Dr. Isaac Hourwich appealed for the cultural
autonomy of the Jews of Lithuania” within a newly created Lithuanian Republic
that will become a reality after the World War.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5679): Fast of
Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: U.K. bantamweight Johnny Brown, who
fought under the alias of Philip Hickman fought and lost his first professional
fight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: Today, Alexander H. Geismar told “a story
of the suffering of Jews in war-stricken countries” to the workers in the
$500,000 drive for war relief” at the Brooklyn Committee’s headquarters on
Court Street.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar, 5680): Parashat
Vayakhel-Pekudi; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: “Colonel Harry Cutler of the Jewish
Welfare Board announced” today “that the War and Navy Departments have issued
furloughs for the first two days of Passover for Jews in the Service.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: U.S. premiere of “Know Your Men” filmed
by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg and produced by William Fox.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><a name="_Hlk161139617"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: In Savannah, GA, Mildred and Morris Jaffe, “both Jews who had immigrated
from Lithuania” gave bi to Abraham Jaffe who gained fame as cartoonist and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mad Magazine</i> illustrator Allan Jaffee.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk161139617;"></span><a href="https://www.comicartfans.com/comic-artists/al_jaffee.asp"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk161139617;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.comicartfans.com/comic-artists/al_jaffee.asp</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk161139617;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk161139617;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk161139617;"></span><a href="https://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/jaffee_al.htm"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk161139617;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/jaffee_al.htm</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk161139617;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk161139617;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: The campaign to
raise five million dollars in New York to provide relief for the Jews in Europe
“ends tonight with a rally at the Hotel Commodore.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: A dinner was
held tonight at the Hotel Dinner honoring Dr. Chaim Weizmann and kicking off a
drive to raise two million dollars for the Zionists during which Louis Marshall
urged “unity in the work of reconstructing Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: Birthdate of
“jazz pianist, arranger and producer” Dick Katz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/arts/music/13katz.html?_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/arts/music/13katz.html?_r=0</span></a><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: Tonight while
speak at the Washington Heights Congregation, Julius Miller, the Borough
President of Manhattan “urged Jews never forget to conduct themselves” in such
a way “as to command the respect of the majority of the people of “ the United
States “who are not of the Jewish faith” and reminded his audience “that Jews
were sometimes misjudged as a whole because of the objectionable
characteristics of a few…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: It was reported
today that 10,392 Jews were admitted to the United States “for the last United
States immigration year that ended on June 30, 1925 while 29,142 Jews settled
in Palestine during the same period of time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: “Native Art
From Palestine” published today described the history of the Bezalel School of
Arts and Crafts founded by Boris Schatz which is displaying some of its works
at the Grand Central Palace in New York. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926(27<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5675): Eighty-five-year-old Shlomo Elyashiv passed away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The grandson of Yosef Sholom Eliashiv, and
the son of Chayim Chaikl Eliashiv or Eliashoff , he is best known author <u>of
Leshem Shevo V’Achlama<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: In Rochester,
NY, Rose (nee Shaywitz) Weinstein and Harris Weinstein, an immigrant tailor
gave birth to Donald Weinstein, “an influential historian of the Italian
Renaissance.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://history.arizona.edu/user/donald-weinstein"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://history.arizona.edu/user/donald-weinstein</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.rsa.org/blogpost/856879/235182/Donald-Weinstein-Historian-of-Civic-Religion"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.rsa.org/blogpost/856879/235182/Donald-Weinstein-Historian-of-Civic-Religion</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: Representatives
of about 150 organizations” are scheduled “to attend the annual meeting of
HIAS, the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society which will be held today
at the Hotel Astor.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: “A Jewish
Woman” published today provided a complete review of <u>I Am A Woman – And A
Jew</u> by Leah Morton.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1927/03/13/archives/a-jewish-woman-i-am-a-woman-and-a-jew-by-leak-mortoz-362-pp-new.html?searchResultPosition=2"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1927/03/13/archives/a-jewish-woman-i-am-a-woman-and-a-jew-by-leak-mortoz-362-pp-new.html?searchResultPosition=2</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: “A Jewish
project to establish immigrant aid station in South America for Russian and
Polish Jews excluded by the American quota law, was officially welcomed today
by the Consuls of Paraguay and Peru and received the warm endorsement of
Senator Royal S. Copeland.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: Despite support
from Lloyd George and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, the
British Cabinet rejects a loan designed to support the “Zionist enterprise” in
Palestine in a manner consistent with the Balfour Declaration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: NYC native and
Columbia trained Pharmacist, Miss Fanchon Hart, the bacteriologist and food and
drug analyst attended a meeting of The Torrey Botanical Society “an
organization of people interested in plant life…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1928: Birthdate of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Czech
native and HUC trained rabbi, Benard Martin, the holder of doctorate from the
University of Illinois who in 1934 came to the United States where he served as
a Chaplain in the U.S. Army and held successive pulpits Sinai Temple in
Champaign, Temple Sinai in Chicago and Mount Zion Temple in St. Paul <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/martin-bernard"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/martin-bernard</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: Birthdate of
wrestler Jack Laskin, the native of Hamilton, Ontario who fought under various
aliases including Abe Levinsky who in the 1990’s “got a license to marry people
and became a lay rabbi” when people in his California community had difficulty
getting married by the local Orthodox rabbis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5690): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: “Because the
Jewish deputies had to be present in parliament during “tonight’s “vote on the
budget, “Purim was celebrated this evening in the club room of the Jewish
members of Parliament” with a reading of the Book of Esther (As reported by
JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: Woolf Barnato,
the youngest son of Barney Barnato, “set off from the bar at the Carlton Hotel”
this evening in his 6½ Litre Bentley Speed Six as he tried to win a bet that he
could reach London before the Blue Train reached Calais.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: Premiere of
Sturm im Wasseglas (Storm in a Water Glass) a film based on a play by Bruno
Frank with a script co-authored by Felix Salten, co-produced by Josef Somlo and
starring Paul Otto who would hang himself when his Jewish origins were
discovered during the Nazi period.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932(5<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5692): Seventy-five-year-old Mozes Gans, the Dutch born of Jacob
and Rebecca Mozes Gans and the husband of Sientje Gans passed away today in
Amsterdam.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: On Sunday,
Benjamin Cardozo was sworn in as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A liberal nominated by the conservative
President Herbert Hoover, he would join Louis Brandies as the second Jew to
serve on the High Court.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike Brandeis
whose confirmation hearing had been contentious with more than a whiff of
anti-Semitism, Cardozo’s nomination sailed through with near unanimous support.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.oyez.org/justices/benjamin_n_cardozo"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.oyez.org/justices/benjamin_n_cardozo</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1933(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5693): Shushan
Purim </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: Jewish lawyers and judges were expelled
from court in Breslau <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Birthdate of rock and roll composer Mike Stoller.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: Today, “Pro-Hitler pressmen printed and
folded hate literature into an edition of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Los Angeles Times<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: Birthdate of philosopher and political
commentator Michael Walzer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: It was reported today that in Prztyk, a
town in central Poland where 80 per cent of the inhabitants are Jewish, the
Jews endured a month’s long boycott where trade is so restricted that they
cannot buy even such a basic necessity of milk for their children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: In Poland, a mob raided the Jewish shops
at Turka and order was restored only after the police finally intervened and
“arrested twenty rioters.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936 In New York, “a good will Sabbath” was
held at the Mount Neboh this evening (Friday night) “marking the opening of the
congregation’s Silver Jubilee program” where members of the congregation and
visitors, who include “representatives of the Jewish, Protestant and Catholic
faiths” heard Rabb Abraham L. Feinberg “say that the class and labor struggles
were no less destructive than the widespread anxiety caused by intense
nationalism.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936(19<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5696): Seventy-six-year-old
“Henry Wollman, senior member of Wollman and Wollman, attorneys at law and a
member of Tempe Emanu-El passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Sir Francis Henry Dillon Bell, the first
New Zealand-born Prime Minister of New Zealand, passed away. His Jewish mother
had converted before he was born.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937(1<sup>st</sup> of Nisan, 5697): Parashat
Vayikra; Rosh Chodesh Nisan; Shabbat HaChodesh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: “Navy Spy” directed by Joseph H Lewis
with music by Abe Meyer was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937(1<sup>st</sup> of Nisan, 5697):
Eighty-four-year-old former Fire Commissioner Jacob Solis Carvalho, a native of
Charleston, West Virginia and the son of Sarah Solis and Solomon Carvalho
passed away today in New York <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: On Sunday, just after his native Austria
had been annexed into the Reich, “Adolf Hitler placed a wreath on his parent’s
grave in his adopted hometown of Linz, Austria.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: While walking home from school in
Hungary, Tom Lantos sse a newspaper with the headline: "Hitler Marches
into Austria.” Years later, Lantos said that he sensed that this historic
moment would have a tremendous impact on the lives of Hungarian Jews, my
family, and myself." <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Birthdate of musician Neil Sedaka, a product of Brooklyn’s Sephardic
Community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Commissioner William B. Herlands is
scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Real Facts About Communists and Jews” at the
West Side Institutional Synaogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Churchill wrote to a leading Albanian
diplomat stating that he had been authorized to negotiate ways to establish a
refuge for Jews fleeing Germany in Albania.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The plan came to naught when Mussolini invaded the little Balkan country
a month later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Today, “a British Cabinet subcommittee
started drafting British proposals for solution of the problem of the Holy
Land.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: The three-month war between Finland and
the U.S.S.R which had begun with the Soviet invasion of its neighbor and in
which 204 Finnish Jews had fought (with 37 dead) ended today with the signing
of the Moscow Peace Treaty.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1941(14th of Adar,
5701): Russian author Isaac E Babel</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> was executed during one of Stalin’s periodic
purges. The Soviets exonerated him in 1954.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: The first trainload of 1000 deportees
arrived from Theresienstadt at the village of Izbica Lubelsak, just north of
Belzec. Only six would survive the war.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943(6<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5703): Parashat
Pekudei<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943(6<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5703):
Sixty-five-year-old Olga Ullman, the Czech born daughter of Bertha and Hermann
Ullmann was murdered today at Terezin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943(6<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5703):
Sixty-two-year-old Rachel Hellman the daughter of Rabbi Isaac Seckel Bamberger
and Julie Judith Bamberger (Klein) and the wife of Moritz Hellman was murdered
today at Sobibor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1943(6th of Adar II,
5703):</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
German forces liquidated the Jewish ghetto in Cracow. Two thousand Jews were
rounded up for deportation at Cracow, Poland. Before the trains left hundreds
of children were shot to death, hundreds of elderly were killed in the streets,
and an untold number of patients were killed in the hospital wards.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943(6<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5703):
Fifty-five-year-old Rachel Levor the German born daughter of Isaak and Malchen
Amalie Rothschild, the wife of Joseph Levor and mother of Bruno and Manfred
Levor died today at Sobibor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: An attempt to assassinate Hitler
masterminded by General Henning von Tresckow failed today when a bomb that had
been smuggled aboard the Fuhrer’s plane failed to detonate. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Twenty thousand people attended “The Show
of Shows” which featured “stars of stage, screen and radio and raised $80,000
for the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Today, in New Orleans, Senator James M.
Mead “addressed an emergency war conference for Palestine” during which he
praised “the contributions of the Palestine Jewish Community to the war effort
of the United Nations and their achievements in reconstructing a home for more
than half a million Jews…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: Today, Mrs. Moses P. Epstein told a
meeting at Carnegie Hall honoring Henrietta Szold, the founder of Hadassah who
passed away in February that a foundation was being formed “to perpetuate her
memory thourgh service in keeping with principles of her life.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946(10<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5706): Seventy-one-year-old
Russian native Mrs. Max Danzis the founder of the Volunteer League of Beth
Israel Hospital where her husband was the “senior visiting surgeon” and chief
of staff passed away today in East Orange, NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1946: Birthdate of Yonatan "Yoni"
Netanyahu who was a commander in the elite Sayeret Matkal unit of the Israel
Defense Forces. His younger brothers are Benjamin Netanyahu, the current Prime
Minister of Israel, who previously held that office from 1996-99, and Iddo
Netanyahu, an Israeli author and playwright. Yoni was awarded the Medal of
Distinguished Service (Hebrew: </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">עיטור המופת</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">) for his conduct in
the Yom Kippur War. He was killed in action during Operation Entebbe at Entebbe
airport, by Ugandan soldiers, when the Israeli military rescued hostages after
an aircraft.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946(10<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5706): Seventy-seven-year-old
Swiss born and educated William Dreyfus, the “chief chemist of the West
Disinfecting Company and chairman of the National Association of Insecticide
and Disinfectant Manufacturers passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: During Aliyah Bet, British police kill
one female member of the Palmach as they fired on “the schooner Wingate which
was attempting to land 248 refugees – an attempt that was thwarted by the HMS
Chevron which took the captured vessel to Haifa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: The Lerner and Lowe musical “Brigadoon''
opened on Broadway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Tonight, the British government in
Palestine announced that it had arrested 78 people including 15 members of the
Stern gang and 12 members of the Irgun. The arrests of these “terrorists” had
been made possible, in part, because of “assistance from the Jewish community.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: “Some resistance was encountered by
British troops today when 703 Jews who arrived in Palestine waters yesterday
after running the naval blockade were taken aboard the steamer Empire
Rival.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Jews are reportedly being
shipped to camps in Cyprus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948(2<sup>nd</sup> of Adar II, 5708): Parashat
Pekudi<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: “Paying tribute to Jan Masaryk as a
friend who ‘rescued Jews in distress and championed Jewish cause,’ Rabbi Louis
I. Newman in Temple Rodeph Sholom, 7 West Eighty-third Street, said today that
‘Masaryk has died a martyr to the madness which is sweeping the world.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: As a reminder that the crisis in
Palestine was only one issue with which the United States was wrestling, a
Republican Senate voted to provide the funding that Democratic President Truman
had proposed which would make the Marshall Plan possible.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: While speaking at the ceremony marking
the induction of Dr. Nelson Glueck as head of Hebrew Union College Samuel I.
Rosenmean, who has served as a special assistant to both Presidents Roosevelt
and Truman, assails appeasement. He called for a "policy of
resistance" rather than appeasement and said that the Russian dictatorship
had started rolling westward in true Hitler manner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: “The mystery enveloping the Aqaba area on
the Red Sea was dispelled today when it was learned that Arab Legion troops had
been driven out from strategic positions they had held in Israeli territory of
the Negeb and also had been forced to withdraw from outposts along the highly
contested area to the north of Aqaba.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: In the Roof Garden of the Pierre Hotel,
Rabbi Louis I Newman officiated at the wedding of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hunter and Wellesley alum Florence Epstein
and Fred Gould, the Phi Beta Kappa graduate of CCNY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: “Samuel H. Telsey, president of the
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, announced today at its sixty-fourth annual
meeting that HIAS had set a budget of $5,005,000, the largest in its history,
as "the minimum sum to carry on the imperatively urgent work among the
displaced and suffering Jews of the world."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: Birthdate of Polish native Shmulik
Firstenberg, the Jerusalem raised Loyola Marymount graduate who gained fame as
director Sam Firstenberg whose most famous work maybe in the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“American Ninja” series.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://samfirstenberg.tripod.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://samfirstenberg.tripod.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: In Manhattan “Orthodox Jewish immigrants
Shulim Krauthammer, a lawyer who spoke nine languages and the former Thea
Horowitz gave birth to Charles Krautheimer, the graduate of McGill University
and Harvard Medical School who turned from medicine to become a Pulitzer prize
winner and television news personality who has shown a propensity for appearing
on FOX.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: The body of Dr. Mordecai Eliash, Israel’s
first ambassador to the United Kingdom, arrived at Lydda Airport today and was
taken to Jerusalem where it will lie in state until tomorrow’s funeral.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: Dr. Walter Caly Lowdermilk, American
expert on soil erosion, met today with Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and
Finance Minister Elizar Kaplan before leaving for London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1951: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Israel demanded DM 6.2
billion compensation from Germany<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1952: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jerusalem Post</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> reported that Eilat was bedecked and
illuminated to mark the third anniversary of the town¹s liberation. A military
parade was held and a message was read from Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion,
who said: "The military victory will be won only if pioneers make the land
fertile." <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954: Mr. and Mrs. Sol S. Fuerman announced the
engagement of their daughter Judith Anne to Dartmouth College senior Richard
Philip Lederer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a name="_Hlk129490092"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1959(4<sup>th </sup>of
Adar II, 5719): Tonight, New York born and Columbia trained attorney Henry S.
Hendricks, a partner in the firm of Cardozo and Nathan, the husband of Rosalie
Hendricks and Naval Reserve Ensign during WW I whose many activities in the
Jewish community including served as President of the Spanish and Portuguese
Synagogue for 25 years and treasurer of the American Jewish Historical Society
from 1922 to 1944 passed away today.</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5720): Last Purim
observance during the Presidency of Ike Eisenhower.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960: ABC broadcast, “The Rattler,” an episode
of “The Rebel” directed by Ivin Kershner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5720):
Seventy-nine-year-old Rose Paglin Dubinsky, the wife of Harry Hessel Dubinsky
and the mother of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anne Dubinsky Wexler
and Maxwell Henry Dubin, the long-time assistant Rabbi at the Wilshire Boulevard
Temple in Los Angeles passed away today after which she was buried at the
Hadrath Israel Cemetery in Melrose, MA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961: Monash University, the Australian school
named in honor of Sir John Monash accepted its first 347 students today at
Clayton.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962(7<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5722):
Seventy-eight-year-old Polish born, JTS trained cleric and Columbia trained author
Rabbi Jacob S. Minkin, the husband of the former Fanny R. Rabinowitz, and the Jewish
chaplain at Fordham Hospital since his appointment by Mayor Fiorello H.
LaGuardia in 1937, passed away today in Shutan Hospital, Tel Aviv, while on a
visit to Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">: Today,
Francis Henry Russell, who had served as “a special assistant for Israeli-Arab
relations under Secretary John Foster Dulles and who served as charge
d’affaires at the United States Embassy in Tel Aviv in 1953 and 1954 completed
his service<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as the 2<sup>nd</sup> United
States Ambassador to Ghanah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964: Two days after Rabbi Morris Adler had
passed away, per the declaration of Governor George Romney, today was observed
“as a day of mourning for Rabbi Adler throughout Michigan.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: In Los Angeles, CA, Martin Landau and
Barbara Bain, the Jewish stars of “Mission Impossible” gave birth to actress
Juliet Rose Landau.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966: Based on a declaration by Governor George
Romney is a day of mourning for Morris Adler, the rabbi of Shaaray Zedek in
Detroit who had been shot by mentally ill attacker during Shabbat services on
February 12, throughout the state of Michigan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966:
Two days after he had passed away funeral services were held at Temple Israel
in St. Louis for 75 year-old Riga born Harry Edison “one of five brothers who
started with one shoe store in Atlanta in 1921 and built into the nationwide
chain of Edison Brothers, Inc consisting of 535 stores and who raised two
children, Edna and Sidney, with his wife “the former Mae Goodhart.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967: Margaret Arnstein became dean of the Yale
University School of Nursing. As dean, she brought Yale's nursing school into
the forefront of nursing education. Arnstein's lifetime of work was well
recognized in her later years. In 1966, she became the first woman to receive a
Rockefeller Public Service Award. In 1971, she received the Sedgwick Memorial
Medal, the American Public Health Association's highest honor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967: Broadway opening of “You Know I Can’t
Hear You When the Water’s Running” for which Martin Balsam won the Tony for
best performance by a leading actor in a play.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967: Larry Blyden began appearing as “George”
“Chuck” and “Richard Pawling” in You Know I can’t Hear You When the Water’s
Running.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5728): Fast of
Esther observed for the last time during the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson, a
strong supporter of the state of Israel who helped to rescue Jews during the
1930’s.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969: Funeral services are scheduled to be held
today in Newark, for 83-year-old Alexander Harris, the retired president of the
Ronson Corporation, the husband of the former Hannah Lightenburg and father of
Dr. Jonathan L. Harris followed by burial “B’nai Jeshurun Cemetery in Hillside,
NJ.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(23<sup>rd</sup> of Ada, 5729): Seventy-five-year-old
“Max Wiener, the founder in 1928 of Max Wiene and Company, men’s clothing manufacturers”
and a member of both the ZOA and B’nai B’rith who married Sara Glickberg after
the death of his first wife Fannie Herin Wiener suffered a fatal heart attack
today in Miami Beac.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(23rd of Adar, 5729): Paul Burlin, famed
abstract expressionist painter, passed away. Burlin joined such artists as
Picasso, Manet, Monet, and Degas at the famous Armory Show in 1913 which was
the turning point in public acceptance of expressionism in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: In Metro Detroit, Anita and Jerome
Fesltein gave birth to Tamara Rith Kolton, the clinical psychologist and first
person to be ordained as a rabbi in the Humanistic Jewish movement who is the
wife Petah Tikva native Isaac Kolton with whom she had two children, Lior and
Maya.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971: Jerry Wolman, the former owner of the
Philadelphia Eagles, has agreed to sell historic Shibe Park which he had
purchased in 1964 for $757,500.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973: <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
<i>New York Times</i> reviewed the first edition of <u><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Our Bodies, Ourselves</span></u>. Nine of the 12 women who first formed
the collective that created this groundbreaking women's health reference were Jewish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973: “After thirteen previews, the revival of”
“Irene” a musical with a book by Joseph Stein and co-starring George Irving
“opened at the Minskoff Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974: One of David Wolper’s crews filming a
National Geographic history of Australopithecus at Mammoth Mountain Ski Area
was killed when the Corvair 440 Sierra Pacific Airlines plane exploded on
takeoff from Eastern Sierra Regional Airport in Bishop, California killing all
35 on board including 31 Wolper crew members.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1976(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5736): Shabbat
Zachor observed for the last time during the Presidency of Gerald Ford.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1977</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Jerusalem Post</i> reported from Washington that Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin was surprised to find out that when the US State Department spoke
about "minor adjustments" in the pre-1967 Israeli borders, it
referred to border changes of only a few hundred meters, or "straightening
out of the line" in such places as Latrun or Kalkilya. It was in order to
correct such assumptions that Rabin repeated that under no circumstances would
Israel go back to the 1967 lines. "We believe that we are entitled to decide,
when it comes to our defense, where the boundaries will be which will defend
Israel in the future," Rabin concluded. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar, 5737):
Sixty-eight-year-old Edward Leo Canter, the son of Joseph and Pauline Canter
who was married to Adele Liebling and then to Jean Hyman Canter passed away
today after he was buried at Beth El Cemetery in West Springfield, MA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Jerusalem Post</i> reported that In Washington Hanafi Moslem terrorist leaders
freed their hostages in return for their release without bail, guaranteed by
the authorities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978(4th
of Adar II, 5738): Seventy-nine-year-old historian and biographer Matthew
Josephson an acolyte of economic determinist Charles Beard who created and
popularized the term “robber barons” to describe certain 19<sup>th</sup>
century “captains of industry.” (Editor’s note – NYT shows March 13; his
official papers show March 15)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://drs.library.yale.edu/HLTransformer/HLTransServlet?stylename=yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&pid=beinecke:joseph&clear-stylesheet-cache=yes"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://drs.library.yale.edu/HLTransformer/HLTransServlet?stylename=yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&pid=beinecke:joseph&clear-stylesheet-cache=yes</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5736): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5736):
Seventy-one-year-old Austin born Harvard trained attorney Bernard H Levinson,
an associate justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court and the uncle University
of Michigan Law School trained attorney Steven H. Levinson who served as an Associate
Justice Supreme Court from 1992 to 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5736):
Sixty-three-year-old New York City native and attorney Gilbert Kanter, an
active member of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies passed away today in
his hometown.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981(7th of Adar II, 5741): Jacques Zucker, an
artist whose paintings in post-Impressionist style were seen in many one-man
shows in the United States and abroad, died today at Beth Israel Hospital after
a long illness. Mr. Zucker, who lived in Manhattan, was 80 years old. His work,
including landscapes, still lifes and portraits, is part of permanent
collections in Paris, Tel Aviv and the collection of Joseph Hirschorn in
Washington, D. C. He was born in Radom, Poland. As a youth studied art at the
Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem. He continued his art studies in Paris and
maintained a home there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985(20th of Adar, 5745): Sixty-five-year-old
record producer Bob Shad (Abraham Shadrinsky) passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://blog.superflyrecords.com/storyboard/judd-apatow-bob-shad-was-a-true-innovator/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://blog.superflyrecords.com/storyboard/judd-apatow-bob-shad-was-a-true-innovator/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985: In Topanga, California, Margaret Esther
(née Davenport) and David M. Hirsch gave birth to actor Emile Davenport Hirsch <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986(2<sup>nd</sup> of Adar II, 5746): Ninety-three-year-old
Leo Korbin “an owner of Kobrin Brothers” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/22/obituaries/leo-kobrin.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/22/obituaries/leo-kobrin.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986(2<sup>nd</sup> of Adar II, 5746): Seventy-four-year-old
archeologist George M.A. Hanfmann who led the expeditions to Sardis, the
capital of ancient Lydia, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/15/obituaries/george-hanfmann-archeologist-at-harvard.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/15/obituaries/george-hanfmann-archeologist-at-harvard.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=V9J5PgAACAAJ"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://books.google.com/books?id=V9J5PgAACAAJ</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987: A poll conducted by the Yediot Aharonot
newspaper today indicated that two-thirds of Israelis believed their government
should help Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Pollard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987(12<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5747): Eighty-three-year-old
Trinidad, CO native David Lewis the movie producer responsible for the cinema
classic “Dark Victory” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1987-03-15/local/me-10964_1_david-lewis"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://articles.latimes.com/1987-03-15/local/me-10964_1_david-lewis</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/16/obituaries/david-lewis-83-dies-produced-classic-films.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/16/obituaries/david-lewis-83-dies-produced-classic-films.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989: “Attorney and women’s rights activist”
Harriet Pilpel who “was widowed in 1987…married New York Medical College
administrator Irvin B. Schwartz” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990(16th of Adar, 5750):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bruno Bettelheim, noted child psychologist,
psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor committed suicide six years after his wife
had died from cancer.(As reported by Daniel Coleman)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/14/obituaries/bruno-bettelheim-dies-at-86-psychoanalyst-of-vast-impact.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/14/obituaries/bruno-bettelheim-dies-at-86-psychoanalyst-of-vast-impact.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: “Paris is Burning,” a documentary
directed Jennie Livingston, the Dallas born daughter of poet, children's book
author and anthologist Myra Cohn Livingston” and “Richard Livingston an
accountant and author of the children's book The Hunkendunkens” and edited by
Jonathan Oppenheim, the son actress Judy Holliday and musician and television
produce David Oppenheim was released today in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993(20th of Adar, 5753): Simha Levy, a woman
who worked as driver taking Palestinians from Gaza to their jobs inside the
pre-1967 borders was axed to death in her van at Khan Yunis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994: The “stained-glass ‘Sephardic Heritage
Windows’ designed by Israeli artist Raphael Abecassis” that had been
“commissioned by the Maurice Amado Foundation” and that used “Jewish symbols
and Sephardic motifs” to “depict the history of Sephardic Jews, beginning with
their expulsion from Spain in the 15th Century” are scheduled to be dedicated
this morning at The Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel in Los Angeles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997(4th of Adar II, 5757): Seven school girls
aged twelve and thirteen, all from the same school at Beit Shemesh, were shot
dead and Hila Levy was injured by a Jordanian soldier who went berserk on the
Jordan Border after which King Hussein paid surprise and much appreciated
condolence call on the grieving families.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997: Virologist and immunologist, Hilary
Koprowski who invented the world's first effective live polio vaccine received
the Legion d'Honneur from the French government.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997: “The Devil’s Own,” a film that pits two
Irish institutions – the IRA and the Boston Police Department -- against
themselves directed by Alan J. Pakula premiered today in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998: Former major league catcher and manager
of the Detroit Tigers Brad “Ausmus and his wife Liz whom he married in 1995
gave birth to their first daughter, Sophie.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999(25th of Adar, 5759): Director Garson Kanin
passed away. From a Jewish point of view, Kanin’s claim to fame is that he
direced the play <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Diary of Anne Frank</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The play premiered in 1955 and ran for 717
performances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1964 he directed the
Broadway hit <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Funny Girl</i>, the story of
Fannie Brice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The musical ran for over a
thousand shows.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.garsonkanin.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.garsonkanin.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999: “A Professor in Nanjing Takes Up Jewish
Studies” published today examines the rise of a Center for Judaic Studies in
the central Chinese city of Nanjing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/13/us/religion-journal-a-professor-in-nanjing-takes-up-jewish-studies.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/13/us/religion-journal-a-professor-in-nanjing-takes-up-jewish-studies.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999(25<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5769): Ninety-year-old
multi-talented artist Lucienne Bloch, the youngest child of Ernst Bloch, passed
away today. (As reported by Thomas Roberts, Jr.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/28/nyregion/lucienne-bloch-muralist-is-dead-at-90.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/28/nyregion/lucienne-bloch-muralist-is-dead-at-90.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: “''The Three Stages of Life'' (1898) a
triptych by Count Leopold von Kalckreuth, “a painting that was left behind by a
Jewish woman fleeing Vienna during World War II, taken by the Nazis and held
for most of the intervening years in storage at a museum in Munich was returned
today to the heirs of the original owner.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: In “Year by Year, a Witness to the Nazis’
Affronts,” published today Bruce Weber reviews “I Will Bear Witness: The
Diaries of Victor Klemperer” by Victor Klemperer; adapted by Karen Malpede and
George Bartenieff; translated by Martin Chalmers a one-actor theatrical
adaptation of the second volume of Klemperer’s diaries that had been published
last year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: “The highest-ranking diplomat at the
Iranian Embassy” chargé d'affaires, Mohammad Ali Tabatabai, was recalled as a
result of a growing dispute over responsibility for the bombing at a Jewish
community center in Buenos Aires in 1994, which killed 85 people.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003(9<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5673):” Israeli
troops and a helicopter gunship, on high alert for a possible Palestinian
attack, opened fire with automatic weapons today in the southern West Bank and
mistakenly killed two Israeli security guards in civilian clothes, the army
said.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004: Evelyn Franklin the wife of photographer
Richard Avedon, and mother of John Avedon, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/01/arts/richard-avedon-the-eye-of-fashion-dies-at-81.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/01/arts/richard-avedon-the-eye-of-fashion-dies-at-81.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: Disney announced that Bob Iger would
succeed Michael Eisner as CEO, and Iger was placed in charge of day-to-day
operations,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: In a case of Jew follows Jew, Disney
announced that Bob Eiger would succeed Michael Eisner as CEO<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
New York Times</i> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
interest to Jewish readers including recently released paperback editions of <u>An<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Almost Perfect Moment </span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">by Binnie Kirshenbaum</span> a darkly comic
novel, set in the 1970's that revolves around a Jewish teenager in Brooklyn who
thinks she's the Virgin Mary and <u><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There
Are Jews in My House </span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">by Lara
Vapnyar<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: Cole Meyer announced that it was selling
Myer, an Australian department store chain founded by Sidney Meyer (born Simcha
Myer Baevski) ”to a consortium controlled by US private equity group Newbridge
Capital, part of the Texas Pacific group:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006(13th
Adar): The Fast of Esther has been designated International Agunah Day by Yad
L'Isha. An <i>agunah </i>is a woman who is unable to obtain a <i>get</i>
(Jewish divorce). <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: Under the direction of its founder Eylon
Nuphar, Mayumana opens its production of “Be” at the Union Theatre Square.
“Mayumana is a corruption of the Hebrew word for skill, and the players display
a variety of them, in a show that combines mime, dance, gymnastics, music and
percussion in a joyous celebration of life.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: <u>What the Dead Know</u> “a crime
thriller by the American writer Laura Lippman” was published today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/laura-lippman/what-the-dead-know/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/laura-lippman/what-the-dead-know/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: In Washington, D.C. veteran scriptwriter
and television producer <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Gary David
Goldberg</span>, creator of the series "Family Ties" and "Spin
City," discusses his new memoir, <u><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Sit,
Ubu, Sit: How I Went from Brooklyn to Hollywood with the Same Woman, the Same
Dog<i>, and a Lot Less Hair</i></span></u> at the Sixth & I Historic
Synagogue formerly the site of Adas Israel which relocated to Connecticut Ave
and Porter and is the only Conservative Synagogue still located in the District
of Columbia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Israeli President Shimon Peres paid
tribute to the French who saved Jews during the Holocaust in a somber ceremony
at the Pantheon in the Latin Quarter,and visited a French Foreign Ministry
exhibition about the origins of the state of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: “The Saul Steinberg: Illuminations”
travelling exhibition opened in Hamburg, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009(17<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5769): Eighty-four-year-old
David Jacob Cohen the German born son of Jakob and Hanna Cohen and the husband
of Dina Berger passed away today in Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Award winning Israeli author Etgar Keret
comes to Albany University for a screening of his film “<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Wristcutters: A Love Story” sponsored by the
Albany Center for Jewish Studies and the Writers Institute. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010:
Israeli diva Rita is scheduled to begin her U.S. Tour today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: As
part of the Scholar-In-Residence program, Professor David Kraemer is scheduled
to speak on “Laity in the Lead” following Shabbat morning services.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Late today Israel Defense Forces
soldiers arrested a top Hamas official in Ramallah, suspected of leading
military cells responsible for the murder of more than 70 Israelis over the
course of the second Intifada. Mahar Udda, 47, has been wanted in Israel for
over a decade for his alleged involvement in terror activity including the
deadly double terror attack at Cafe Hillel in Jerusalem and at the bus stop
near the Tzrifin military base in central Israel on September 9, 2003. He was
one of the founding members of Hamas and built the Islamist movement's military
cell in the West Bank in the early 1990s. The cell under his command allegedly
gathered ammunition for Hamas terror activity against Israel and also kidnapped
Palestinians suspected of cooperating with Israel. He was arrested by the
Palestinian Authority in 1998 but released shortly after. Udda's arrest late
Saturday was executed in a joint effort between the IDF, Israel Police and the
Shin Bet security service.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Around 1,000 demonstrators
marched this evening outside the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem to
protest Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz's decision to allow the
continuation of single-sex bus lines that serve the Haredi community. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(7<sup>th</sup> Adar II): Yahrzeit
of Moshe Rabbeinu. According to tradition Moses passed on his 120<sup>th</sup>
birthday, Adar 7, 2488 (1273 BCE). This same tradition teaches that he was born
in Egypt on the 7th of Adar of the year 2368 from creation (1393 BCE).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(7<sup>th</sup> of Adar II): Burial Society Day. “The Chevrah
Kadisha (Jewish Burial Societies) hold their annual get-together and feast on
Adar 7th. This is based on the tradition that God Himself buried Moses on this
day.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Palestinian leadership must be held accountable for continued
incitement and failure to stop the glorification of murderers, a senior aide to
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said today as the Fatah faction named a town
square in El-Bireh after the leader of the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre.</span> <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Chabad Lubavitch of Northern
Virginia is scheduled to present The Rabbi Samuel and Zehava Friedman Annual
Yeshiva Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Jubanos: The Jews of Cuba” and
“The Fig Tree” (La Higuera) are two of the films scheduled to be shown at the
15<sup>th</sup> New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: As
part of its commemoration of the Triangle Waist Factory Fire and the changes
that followed in its wake, the Jewish Women's Archive has organized a walking
tour which is scheduled to take place today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
The second wedding to take place at the Huvra Synagogue since its re-dedication
is scheduled to take place today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The New York Times </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including <u>The Executive Unbound : After the Madisonian
Republic</u> co-authored by Eric A. Posner and the recently released paperback
editions of <u>Wrestling With Moses:</u></span><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">How Jane Jacobs Took On New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the
American City </span></span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">by Anthony Flint and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>Making a Toast:</u></span><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">A Family Story</span></span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> by Roger Rosenblatt. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Former Knesset member Tawfik Toubi aged 89 a Haifa resident, who was
the last remaining living member of the first Knesset was laid to rest in
Haifa's Kfar Samir (Sde Yehoshua) cemetery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Toubi, a Christian Arab Israeli, was a member of the Communist Party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: An orthodox Jewish prayer
observance by three passengers aboard an Alaska Airlines flight today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>alarmed flight attendants unfamiliar with the
ritual, prompting them to lock down the cockpit and issue a security alert,
officials said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Tens of thousands attended the
funeral for five members of the Fogel family massacred at Itamar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
A Chabad rabbi who was serving the tiny ancient Jewish community in Cochin,
India, and his wife were expelled today and sent back to Israel for allegedly
engaging in illegal activities. Indian authorities accused Rabbi Zalman
Bernstein of failing to declare on his visa application that he would be
conducting religious activities and of trying to convert foreigners. A local
daily accused him and his wife of spying for Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2012:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Gaza militants fired a Grad-type Katyusha rocket toward the western
Negev today, despite an Egypt-mediated cease fire between Israel and militant
groups that went into effect earlier in the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rocket struck a residential area if the
town of Netivot, with one person lightly wounded. Eleven people were treated
for shock.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2012:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Israel's Counter Terrorism Bureau warned Israeli citizens today against
travelling to Turkey, citing intelligence that terror groups were planning
attacks against Israeli or Jewish institutions in the country. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">According to the warning, Israelis are
asked to refrain from travel to Turkey over information of intent to go forward
with the attack in next few days.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Israeli composer and organist,
Roman Krasnovsky is scheduled to perform a solo recital at the Central
Synagogue in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2012:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Shmuel Ashkenasi is scheduled to perform with the Chamber Music Society
of Lincoln Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater
Washington is scheduled to sponsor a private tour lead by Dr. Peggy Pearlstein
of Words Like Sapphires: 100 Years of Hebraica at the Library of Congress,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912-2012<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Seton Hall basketball player Tom Maayan
informed his uncle David Fuchs that he could not postpone his service in the
IDF any longer and packed his bags for the flight to Tel Avv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The Yeshiva University Museum is schedule
to sponsor a curator’s tour “Passages Through the Fire: Jews and the Civil
War.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013(2<sup>nd</sup> of Nisan, 5773): Eighty-four-year-old
actor Malachi Throne passed away today. (As reported by Daniel E. Slotnik<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/15/malachi-throne-dead-dies-batman-actor_n_2885549.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/15/malachi-throne-dead-dies-batman-actor_n_2885549.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: In another case of “Jew on Jew” Larry
page announced in a blog post that Andy Rubin “had moved from the Android
division to take on new projects at Google.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: “A new documentary, ‘Philip Roth:
Unmasked’ opened at New York City’s Film Forum today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Bruce Ruben, director of the School of
Sacred Music at HUC, is scheduled to a lecture entitled “Max Lillienthal and
the Making of the American Rabbinate” at the Leo Baeck Institue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: In Washington, DC, the Religious Action
Center for Reform Judaism is scheduled to host a community organizing training
program for those participating in the Jewish Energy Network.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Argentinian cardinal who was elected pope late today
and will take the name Francis I, is said to have a good relationship with
Argentinian Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/03/13/3121966/new-pope-francis-i-is-argentinian-cardinal-jorge-maria-bergoglio"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/03/13/3121966/new-pope-francis-i-is-argentinian-cardinal-jorge-maria-bergoglio</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The 17<sup>th</sup> Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled
to open at the Center for Jewish History.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The 92<sup>nd</sup> Street Y is scheduled to host “The Immigrant Experience in
Movies.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5774): Fast of Easter observed on Thursday. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Terrorists continued their rocket attack firing missles at Ashdod and Ashkelon
in the morning and at Sderot and surrounding communities this afternoon. (As
reported by Maayana Miskin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/178453#.UyI3optOWpo"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/178453#.UyI3optOWpo</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“CBS announced the second season renewal of ‘Mom,’” the sit-com created by
Chuck Lorre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
There was no confirmation today by Israel of Islamic Jihad’s claim that an
Egyptian brokered cease fire had gone into effect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(As reported by Spencer Ho)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Team Crossroads is scheduled to participate in today’s Jerusalem Marathon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://run4crossroads.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://run4crossroads.com/</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: The Oxford University Jewish Society is
scheduled to host its last Friday Night of the academic term.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015(22<sup>nd</sup> of Adar, 5775): Ninety-one-year-old
MVP winning Cleveland Indians third baseman Al Rosen passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.rsa.org/blogpost/856879/235182/Donald-Weinstein-Historian-of-Civic-Religion"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.rsa.org/blogpost/856879/235182/Donald-Weinstein-Historian-of-Civic-Religion</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015(22<sup>nd</sup> of Adar, 5775): Ninety-six
cartoonist Irwin Hasen passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/arts/irwin-hasen-comic-book-artist-and-dondi-illustrator-dies-at-96.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/arts/irwin-hasen-comic-book-artist-and-dondi-illustrator-dies-at-96.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015(22<sup>nd</sup> Adar, 5775): Lia van Leer,
the cinema pioneer who founded “the Haifa Cinematheque, the Jerusalem
Cinematheque, the Israel Film Archive and the Jerusalem Film Festival” passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://deadline.com/2015/03/lia-van-leer-israeli-film-pioneer-dies-aged-91-simon-west-crowdfunds-salty-more-global-briefs-1201393210/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://deadline.com/2015/03/lia-van-leer-israeli-film-pioneer-dies-aged-91-simon-west-crowdfunds-salty-more-global-briefs-1201393210/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.romanianjewish.org/en/index_isro_arhiva_30.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.romanianjewish.org/en/index_isro_arhiva_30.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/van-leer-lia"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/van-leer-lia</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://variety.com/2015/film/news/lia-van-leer-israeli-film-dead-at-90-1201452774/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://variety.com/2015/film/news/lia-van-leer-israeli-film-dead-at-90-1201452774/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: “Many Jewish bodies in Europe are being
bankrupted by the growing need for security measures, the US State Department’s
special envoy on anti-Semitism said today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/european-jews-bankrupted-by-security-costs/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/european-jews-bankrupted-by-security-costs/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2015:
This morning, erev of Shabbat, over 25,000 people participated in the Jerusalem
Marathon. (As reported by Itamar Sharon)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/tens-of-thousands-take-part-in-jerusalem-marathon/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/tens-of-thousands-take-part-in-jerusalem-marathon/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: “The Argentine government today
declassified its files on an unsolved 1994 bombing at a Buenos Aires Jewish
center that is at the center of a new political firestorm.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/argentina-declassifies-files-on-jewish-center-bombing/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/argentina-declassifies-files-on-jewish-center-bombing/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: Lewis Black is scheduled to appear at the
Johnny Mercer Theatre in Savanah, GA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: In North Carolina, “Serial (Bad)
Weddings” and “A Tale of Love and Darkness” are scheduled to be shown on the
last day of the Charlotte Jewish Film Festival<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra is
scheduled to celebrate its 78<sup>th</sup> season by performing at the State
Theatre where it performed in April of 1988 when the State Theatre “was
officially reopened as a nonprofit performing arts center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: In London, the Pears Institute for the
Study of Anti-Semitism is scheduled to host a screening of “The Last of the
Unjust” followed by a panel discussion led by Director David Feldman and
Professor Jacqueline Rose.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: In Atlanta, the Breman Museum is
scheduled to host “Somewhere Over The Rainbow’ – the music of Harold Arlen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for
Holocaust Education is scheduled to host a reception marking the opening of
“Ruth Gruber, Photojournalist” an exhibition that “celebrates the remarkable
life, vision, and heroic tenacity of a twentieth-century pioneer and
trailblazer” who is now in her 104<sup>th</sup> year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.ojmche.org/experience/exhibit-2016-03-10-ruth-gruber-photojournalist"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.ojmche.org/experience/exhibit-2016-03-10-ruth-gruber-photojournalist</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: At London’s Tate Britain, an exhibition
of 36 paintings by Frank Auerbach is scheduled to come to an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/artist-becomes-subject-in-new-tate-exhibition/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/artist-becomes-subject-in-new-tate-exhibition/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
New York Times</i> features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including <u>The Secret of the American
Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built</u> by Jack Viertel, <u>Is that Kafkfa?</u>
by Reiner Stach and <u>Anna and The Swallow Man</u> by Gavriel Savit <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: Tony Nominee Tovah Feldshuh is among the
stars scheduled to appear the Streicker Center’s “Jewish Broadway.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: In Atlanta, the Breman is scheduled to
open “Atlanta Collects” to the public today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5777): Shushan
Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5777): Fifty-one
year old author and filmmaker tragically succumbed to ovarian cancer today. (As
reported by Sam Roberts)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/style/amy-krouse-rosenthal-dies-modern-love.html?_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/style/amy-krouse-rosenthal-dies-modern-love.html?_r=0</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: Claire Foy, the star of “The Crown” was
paid less than her male co-star Matt Smith for the show’s first two seasons,
producers of the Netflix period drama revealed at a panel during the INTV
Conference in Jerusalem today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: As Hamas and the Palestinian Authority
continued their fight for control, “a roadside bomb blast damaged several
vehicles in the convoy of PA PM Rami Hamdallah” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: In response to today’s allegations in the
New York Times that he “had sexually or harassed” five women, Cornell
University trained architect Richard Meier, the winner of the 1984 Pritzker
Architecture Prize said he would take a six months leave of absence from his
firm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: “The Pirate Captain Toledano,” “Sara Levy
Cohen,” “116 Cameras” and “Keep It Cool” are scheduled to be shown at the New
York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of
“Bombshell: The Hedy Lamar Story” in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: “Dr. Stranglelove” is scheduled to be
shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The Illinois Holocaust and Education
Center’s 2019 Humanitarian Awards 10<sup>th</sup> Anniversary Dinner is
scheduled to take place this evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: JW3 is scheduled to host an evening with
Bart van Es, the author of The Cut Out Girl that “tells the true story of the
author’s grandparents and the young girl they fostered to hide her from the
Nazis in occupied Holland.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is
scheduled to host a screening of “Who We Are: The Number on Great-Grandpa’s
Arm”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The Jewish Study Center is scheduled to
host Michael Rugel as he presents “Echoing the Maccabees: How Jewish Soldiers
Restored Synagogues after WWII.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: Friday the 13<sup>th</sup> is a lucky day
for those preparing to celebrate the natal days of Sasha Anderson and JoyAnn
Ruscha.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: The Oxford University Jewish Society is
scheduled to host the “8<sup>th</sup> Week Friday Night Dinner, the last Friday
night dinner of this school term.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: The display of the works of Tali Margolin
at the Noyes Museum of Art is scheduled to continue today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker is
scheduled to host Abraham as he talks about “Battling Bigotry.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: As of 3:00 pm today the Center for Jewish
History in New York will be closed until the end of March.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: Israeli artist David Reeb’s “Colors in
the Studio” and “Boats, from the Green Line Series” were sold at auction today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.artnet.com/artists/david-reeb/colors-in-the-studio-AEWDPaGLdzJ5Pvw7W4YGSQ2"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.artnet.com/artists/david-reeb/colors-in-the-studio-AEWDPaGLdzJ5Pvw7W4YGSQ2</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.artnet.com/artists/david-reeb/boats-from-the-green-line-series-eKq0BPh-rFLFDlugMBms0w2"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.artnet.com/artists/david-reeb/boats-from-the-green-line-series-eKq0BPh-rFLFDlugMBms0w2</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: In Columbus, OH at Tifereth Israel,
Michael Botkin is scheduled to be called the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: In Atlanta, GA, Ahavath Achim is
scheduled to host SOJOURN Celebrates Purim Off Ponce At The Drive-in: The Rocky
“Hora” Picture Show<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to
present online, “Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom with Ariel
Burger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: The Israel Folkdance Festival of Boston
is scheduled to begin today with them of “Ve’Shuv Itchem-Together Again!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021(29<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5781): Parshat
Vayaykel-Pekudi; Shabbat Ha Chodesh; Machar Chodesh.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project, Iranian
American Jewish Federation, Nessah Synagogue, and USC Caden Institute present “Judeo-Persian
in the 20th century: New research” with Dr. Habib Borjian and Ibrāhīm Šafiʿī.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: The JCC Chicago Film Festival returns to
the Illinois Holocaust Museum with the screening of four films including “Three
Minutes: A Lengthening.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Cultural
Center is scheduled to present “Life is a Cabernet,” with cantors Sara
Anderson, Mo Glazman, Sam Rosen and Talya Smilowitz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://streicker.nyc/current-season/cabernet"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://streicker.nyc/current-season/cabernet</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: Based on previous statements by
Constitution, Law and Justice Committee Chairman MK Simcha Rothman committee
hearings on the judicial reform bills are scheduled to continue today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: YIVO, the Center for Jewish History, LBI
and the American Society for Jewish Music are scheduled to present an in-person
event with cantor David Berger and pianist Joyce Rosenzweig performing “Art
Songs by Jewish American Refugee Composers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: The first session of the Lobel Teachers
Colloquium is scheduled to continue for a second day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host
Naama Shefi, the founder of the Jewish Food Society as she joins with James
Beard Award winning chef and restauranter Michael Solomonov,” co-author of the
cookbook <u>Zahav, </u>as they “share the stories behind the recipes, and to
discuss how food is an expression of Jewish identity.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: In London, The Weiner Holocaust Library
is scheduled to host “Dr Becky Jinks, in conversation with Dr Christine
Schmidt, curators of the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership’s latest
exhibition” so attendees can “learn more about how they developed the
exhibition and their curatorial choices.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://hgrp.org.uk/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://hgrp.org.uk/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: President Brian Cohen is scheduled to
chair the board meeting at Temple Judah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: YIVO is scheduled to a presentation on
The Light of Leaning that “that tells the story of an unexpected Hasidic
revival in Poland on the eve of the Holocaust” with its author Glen Dynner <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>along with performances of Hasidic nigunim by
Lorin Sklamberg of the Klezmatic>><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a
lecture by Jeremy Rosen on “Making Sense of the Bible: Can its Ancient Text be
Relevant Today? Numbers 11:16, Rebellion within the Ranks.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
13th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 159 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p>melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-57053861806106772892024-03-10T21:51:00.003-06:002024-03-11T16:01:46.869-06:00This Day, March 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">March
12</span></span></b></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">515
BCE: On the secular calendar the construction of the Second Temple was
completed. (Book of Ezra, 6:15 “And this house was finished on the third day of
the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the
king.” Darius began his reign in 522 BCE.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">604:
Pope Gregory I passed away. Born in 540, Gregory was Pope from 590 until 604.
The great prelate was a vigorous foe of Judaism, a religion he believed was
based on depravity. In his eyes, “the Jewish understanding of scripture
was perverse.” He sought to keep Jews and Christians apart. He forbade
Christians from using Jewish doctors and would not let the clergy employee Jews
as clerks. Jews were not to hold public office, build new synagogues,
marry non-Jews or convert Christians to Judaism. But Gregory was not an
unmitigated anti-Semite. On several occasions he protected the private
property and synagogue of European Jews. One of his writings summed up
the view, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“Just
as it is not befitting to permit Jews in their communities to go beyond the
boundaries of what is permissible by law, so also the rights they already have
should not be diminished.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1088:
Urban II began his papacy during which he initiated the First Crusade, which
brought death and destruction to the Jews all the way from the Rhineland to
Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1421:
In Vienna, under the auspices of Archduke Albert of Austria, a combination of
murder, libel and host-desecration charges brought about the destruction of the
entire Jewish community. This was partly due to the revival of the crusader
spirit of the Hussite Wars. Many Jews were forcibly baptized, others took their
own lives. The rest were forced to leave. Later this became known as the Wiener
Gezairah (The Vienna edict).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1496:
Maximilian I expelled the Jews from Styria, Austria.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1604:
Today, in Mexico, during the trial of Jorge de Almeida, by the Inquisition, the
prosecuting attorney testified that “the accused was a native of the city of
Almeida in the Kingdom of Portugal” and that just because “efforts to arrest
him have failed” “it is proper and necessary that such grave crimes as those of
which Jorge de Almeida is guilty should not remain unpunished” which means
“that the present prosecution and trail of Jorge de Almeida should not be
stopped but on the contrary be allowed to proceed<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> in contumaciam</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1664:
New Jersey becomes a colony of England. A year later, New Jersey granted
religious toleration to those living in the colony. While there were
undoubtedly Jewish merchants operating in the colony in the 17<sup>th</sup>
century, the honor of being the first Jews to live in the colony may go to
“Aaron and Jacob Lozada, who owned a grocery and hardware store in Bound Brook
as early as 1718.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1619:
Fifty-two-year-old Richard Burbage who played the starring role in “The Jew of
Malta” each time it was performed by the Admiral’s Men passed away today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1682:
Anti-Jewish riots beak out in Krakow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1708:
to De Blossiers Tovey, the “principal of New Inn Hall at Oxford” who devoted
much of his time to studying the history of the Jews of medieval England and
wrote Anglia Judaica (the History and Antiquities of the Jews in England)
“matriculated from Queen’s College, Oxford” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=GEEVAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://books.google.com/books?id=GEEVAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tovey,_De_Blossiers_(DNB00)"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tovey,_De_Blossiers_(DNB00)</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1715:
Elector Max Emanuel ordered the expulsion of the few Jews still living in
Bavaria, Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1734:
After a ship of Slazburgers who did not speak English arrived in Savannah,
Benjamin Sheftall, “speaking German fluently, the them in and treated them to a
breakfast of good rice soup.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1760:
Birthdate of Heyum Hutzler, the son of Moses Hutzler.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1767(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5527): Fast of Esther observed because the 13<sup>th</sup> of Adar
falls on Shabbat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1776:
In Chevening, UK, Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope and Lady Hester Pitt gave
birth to Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope, the eccentric English noblewoman whose
“archaeological expedition to Ashkelon in 1815 is considered the first modern
excavation in the history of Holy Land archeology.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1777:
During the American Revolution, Captain Lewis Bush who had transferred from the
Sixth Pennsylvania Battalion to Harley’s Additional Continental Regiment was
promoted to the rank of Major.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1778(13<sup>th</sup>
of Ada, 5538): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim celebrated on the same day that
George Washington wrote from Valley Forge to New York Governor George Clinton that
“the Army has been pretty well supplied since, and I hope will continue to be
so, if proper steps are taken by the present Commissaries, or if there should
be a change for the better in that capital department” but there is a shortage
of “curing salt.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1787:
Birthdate of Ellerstadt, Germany native Eleanor Anschel, the wife of Abraham
Wolf with whom she had eleven children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1789(14<sup>th</sup>
of Purim, 5549): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1789:
In Bonfeld, Germany, Schoenle Lazarus and Lazarus Ruben gave birth to Jendle
Ottenheimer, the wife of Samuel Stiefel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1792:
In Tarrytown, NY, Jochabed Isaacks and Michael Marks gave birth to Abraham
Marks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1792:
Wolf ben Meir was buried today at the “Alderney Road (Globe Rd) Jewish
Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1792:
In Philadelphia, PA, Miriam Marks and Benjamin Abraham Nones gave birth to
Bilha Nones, the husband of Abraham De Leon with whom she had nine children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1797:
Birthdate of Samuel Marum Mayer, the son of a Rabbi in Fruedental<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a convert to Lutheran Christianity who marred
a pastor’s daughter and became a lawyer and legal scholar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799:
One day after he had passed away, Moshe ben Judah was buried today at the
Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1800(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5560): Shushan Purim was celebrated for the first time in the19th
Century.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1804:
Twenty-five-year-old Danish merchant Hartvig Philip Ree married “</span><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Thamar (Therese) today after which they had a number of
children including Hertz Hartvig Rée, Anton Rée, Bernhard Philip Rée, Simon
Philip Rée, Israel Philip Rée, Vilhelm Hartvig Rée and Frederikke Privche von
Essen before Thamar passed away in 1850. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1810(6<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5570): Sara
Machado, the daughter of David Mendez Machado and the wife of Philip Moses
passed away today in Charleston, SC.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1811(16th
of Adar): Judah Leib ben Ze’ev, the first Jewish grammarian of modern times
passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1813:
Joseph “Yosef” Friedlander, a native of Austria, was in Dresden when he was
kidnapped by Russian troops who hired him as a translator when they discovered
that he could speak Russian.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1814:
Birthdate of Louis Jean Königswarter the Amsterdam native who became a leading
French economist<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1817:
Henry Davis married Ellen Lewis at the Western Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1817:
“Czar Alexander I of Russia declared the Blood Libel -- the infamous accusation
that Jews murdered Christian children to use their blood in the baking of
matzah for Passover, for which thousands of Jews were massacred through the
centuries -- to be false.” (Editor’s Note – based on subsequent events, this
was one time that Russians did not obey their Czar)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1819(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5579): Shushan Purim observed on the same day that 83 year-old John
Adams, the second president of the United States wrote to John Taylor
expressing his low opinion of banks at a time when having a Bank of the United
States was a major political issue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1822:
L'esule di Granata (The exile of Granada) a melodrama (opera seria) in two acts
by German Jewish composer Giacomo Meyerbeer, had its world premiere at the
famed at La Scala Opera House in Milan, Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1823(29th
of Adar, 5583): Thirty-nine-year-old Anne Emilie Solar, the wife of Moise Solar
and the daughter of Abraham Furtrado, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">President
of the Assemblee des Notables</i>, passed aeway today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1824:
Birthdate of Darmstadt native Heinrich Blumenthal a successful manufacturer of
farm equipment and the President of Jewish Community of Darmstadt for more than
twenty years. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5587): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1834:
Joseph David married Julia Jacobs today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1837:
Mordecai ben David married Leah bat Nathan today at the Western Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1842:
In Canterbury, Mary Lazarus and David Nathan gave birth to Samuel Nathan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1844:
In Steele, Prussia, Israel Stein and Rosetta Kappel gave birth to Philip Stein,
a graduate of the University of Wisconsin where he earned a B.A. and M.A. a
member of the Milwaukee bar and the husband of Emma Stein who was elected Judge
in the Superior Court of Cook Country, Illinois in 1892 and appointed to the
Appellate Court in 1903.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/In-memoriam-Judge-Philip-December/dp/B0008939FQ"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.amazon.com/In-memoriam-Judge-Philip-December/dp/B0008939FQ</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1845:
Burnett Nathan married Marian Collins today at “29 Orchard Street, Marylebone,
London.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1846(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5606): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847:
In Prossnitz, Moravia, Oberrabiner Hirsch B. Fassel “who had been decorated by
three emperors for his literary works” and Fannie Sternfeld gave birth
journalist Rosa Sonneschein who came to the United States in 1869 and was the
“publisher and editor of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The American
Jewess.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/sonneschein-rosa"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/sonneschein-rosa</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1849:
Elias N. Oberndorfer and Frances (Fanny) Oberndorfer gave birth to Rose Rosenbeg,
the wife of William Rosenberg and other of Minnie F. Hirsh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1849:
One day after she had passed away, “Yenta bat Hayim, the wife of Jacob ben
Yehiel” was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> publishes an
evaluation of the British government headed by Lord Derby which included
Benjamin Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Disraeli’s appointment
to this particular post came as a surprise and, given what the Times reporter
considered his lack of aptitude for the job “his triumph will astonish the
public and lead to his greater glory.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1856:
In Aldgate, London, Morocco born Isaac Benoliel and Rosetta Belasco gave birth
to their daughter Perla Isaac Benoliel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1856:
In Liszka, Hungary, Wolfe Feuerlicht and Leah Cohen gave birth to Jacob
Feurlicht the husband of Rose Buxbaum, who came to the United States in 1882
and served as the rabbi at Moses Montefiore Congregation in Chicago, Gates of
Prayer in Boston, Ansche Chesed in Scranton, PA and B’nai Israel in Augusta, Ga
before become the Superintendent of the Jewish Hospital and Asylum in Baltimore
and finally the Superintended of the Jewish Home for the Aged in Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1856:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> reported that the
Greene Street Synagogue has replaced Anselm Leo with a new leader from Germany
who has musical skills which he has used to introduce a choir to the
congregation. No musical instruments are allowed, but a pitch pipe is
used to set the tone for the choir.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858:
A black-bordered issue of <i>The Asmonean</i>, a weekly that first appeared in
1849 “under the patronage of the leading synagogues of New York, was published
today to mark the death of its founde and editor, Robert Lyon, the English Jew
who had arrived in New York in 1844.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858:
In Cincinnati, OH, Julius and Betha Ochs gave birth to Adolph Simon Ochs..
Ochs, publisher of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i>.
Ochs was the engine behind the Times rise to being the "paper of
record" in the United States. Ochs is one of many American Jews who
have been involved in the media giving rise to the anti-Semites' false claim
that Jews control the media. Ochs was the son of German Jews whom
immigrated to the United States before the Civil War. His life story is a
classic example of that groups rise to prominence from the end of the
Civil War through the start of World War II. It is obvious from reading
Ochs' obituary in the New York Times that he was active in the Jewish
community and quite proud of his heritage. He was a Classical Reform
Jew. He was a trustee of Temple Emanu-El. He donated a building to
the Temple in Chattanooga named for his parents. And he raised
$4,000,000 (quite a sum in 1926) for the Hebrew Union College, which had been
founded by his father-in-law. In responding to an inquiry about the
keys to his success, Ochs wrote, in part, "My Jewish home life and
religion gave me a spiritual uplift and a sense of responsibility to my
subconscious better self --which I think is the God within me, the Unknowable
and the Inexplicable.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0312.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0312.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0324/ms0324.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0324/ms0324.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859:
In Middlesex, Caroline Benjamin and Isaiah Joshua Simmons gave birth to Ephraim
Simmons.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862:
“The Line of the Mississippi” published today described the fortifications on
both the North and South sides of the city of New Orleans. According to
travelers who have recently arrived in St. Louis from the Crescent City, the
Jews are the only people in the city not “regularly enlisted” in its defense.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862:
Second Lieutenant Samuel S. Bloom of Company H resigned from the 111<sup>th</sup>
Regiment today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862(10th
of Adar II, 5622: The U.S. Congress allowed Rabbis to serve as army chaplains.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864:
Sgt. William P. Levi began his service with Company C. of the 54<sup>th</sup>
Regiment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865(14th
of Adar, 5625): Purim celebrated for the last time during the Presidency of
Abraham Lincoln.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865:Birthdate
of Stuttgart native and attorney, Max Isidor Bodenheimer, an associate of
Theodore Herzl, the “first president of the Zionist Federation of Germany” and
one of the founders of the Jewish National Fund” who fled Nazi Germany a “settled
in Palestine” and who was the husband of Rosa Dalberg with whom he had three
children: Simon Fritz, a professor of zoology at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Henrietta Hannah, who wrote a biography of her father, and Ruth, a
lawyer.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bodenheimer-max-isidor">https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bodenheimer-max-isidor</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869:
Abaham Issac Lev, the Richmond, VA born son of Isaac Abraham Levy and Hannah
Norris Levy and his wife Helen Levy gave birth to Cornelius Levy who died of a
heart attack in Cuba.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869:
Four days after he had passed away, Benjamin Woolfe Franklin, the son of
Eliezer Franklin, the husband of Maria Levy and the father of Louisa Franklin
was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873(13th
of Adar, 5633): Fast of Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873:
“The Palestine Lodge of the I.O. of F.S.I. will host a masque ball at the
Germania Assembly Rooms” tonight in New York as part of the celebration of
Purim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873:
A Purim masquerade will be held in Brooklyn tonight at the Assembly Rooms above
the Post Office.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874:
Birthdate of Edmund Samuel Eysler, the son a Viennese merchant and husband of
Polodi Allnoch who gave up a career as an engineer to become a musician,
composer and Kapellmeister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876:
The annual Purim reception held at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews located
at Lexington and 63<sup>rd</sup> Street began at 11 in the morning and lasted
until seven in the evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5636): Shushan Purim observed since Shabbat was on the 15<sup>th</sup>
day of Adar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876:
In Philadelphia, Julia and Simon I. Kohn gave birth to University of
Pennsylvania trained medical doctor, the husband of Elsa Leberman who in 1904
became the visiting physician at the Jewish Hospital, and member of the board
of directors of the Community Health Center, a part of the Federation of the
Jewish Charities while holding “various positions with the Philadelphia
Department of Health” and being a member of Rodeph Sholem Congregation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877:
Despite other claims based upon his gravestone, in Lyakhavichy, Minsk
Governorate, in the Russian Empire today is the birthdate of American Jewish
composer and choirmaster Joseph Broday an “associate of Cantor Joseph
Rosenblatt whose students included George Gershwin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878:
It was reported that the steamship Palestine, under the command of Captain
Whiteway has arrived in Liverpool from Boston.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879:
In Lübeck, Rabbi Salomon Carlebach and his wife gave birth to Ephraim
Carlebach, who like four of his seven brothers became a rabbi and who moved to
Palestine in 1935 the year before he passed away in Ramat Gan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881:
Birthdate of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founding father of the modern secular
state of Turkey who served as its first President. <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In 1923, during the early days of the newly created
Turkish Republic Ataturk declared, “Our country has some elements who gave the
proof of their fidelity to the motherland. Among them I have to quote the
Jewish element; up to now the Jews have lived in happiness and from now they
will rejoice and will be happy.”</span><span style="color: black;"> Ataturk came
to the aid of the Jews in the early days of Hitler’s rise to power. “In 1933
Ataturk invited to Turkey many University Professors of Jewish origin that were
threatened by Nazi cruelty. The list of names is long; approximately 600
distinguished scholars took refuge in Turkey.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882:
In Lithuania, Dora Oppenheim and Zorach Barach gave birth to University of Pittsburgh
trained medical doctor Joseph Hayem Barach, the husband of Edna South Levy and
father of Joseph L. Barach and pathologist Richard Barach “who served as a
captain in the medical during WW I and was a member of the medical staff at
Presbyterian Hospital and a member of Temple Rodef Shalom in Pittsburgh.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882:
Three days after he had passed away, Levi Alexander was buried today at the
“Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883:
In Lithuania, Zorach and Deborah (Oppenheim) Barach gave birth to University of
Pittsburgh trained physician Joseph H. Barach, the husband of Edna Levy whom he
married 1915 and the father of pathologist Richard L. Barach and Joseph L.
Brach who was a captain in the Medical Corps during WW I and a member of Temple
Rodef Shalom in Pittsburgh.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883:
Two days after he had passed away, Lewis Collins, the London born son Isaac
Kollem and Maria Mozes and the husband of Julia Isaacs with whom he had had
nine children was buried today. at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5644): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887:
Dr. Hugh L. Wintner, the rabbi at Temple Beth Elohim in Brooklyn delivered a
eulogy in memory of the late Henry Ward Beecher “at the regular Saturday
morning service” in which he said that Beecher “will be remembered by the
Jewish people like Mordecai of old as being a great promoter of their good,
advocating their welfare and speaking peace to all of them.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889:
Birthdate of New York City native and Harvard trained attorney Jacob Kaplan, a
special justice of the Dorchester Municipal Court, who for “nearly 50 years was
a leader of the Greater Boston Jewish Community while raising three sons with
his wife Anne.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1889:
Birthdate of Philip Guedalla, the Anglo-Jewish barrister and author whose quips
include this one that frightens all historians or would-be historians -
"History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other."</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/philip_guedalla.html">http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/philip_guedalla.html</a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890:
Birthdate of Polish native and WW I veteran of the Russian Army, Samuel Lewin
“a writer of novels, short stories and plays” who was the husband of Mrs.
Miriam Lewin and the father of Isaac, Simon and Jeremiah Lewin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/06/05/82715661.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/06/05/82715661.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890:
The Passover Relief Association held its 18<sup>th</sup> annual Purim
Masquerade Ball this evening at the Lexington Avenue Opera House.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890:
In Maryland, Kiev native Moses Lewin, the son of Henry and Ida Levine and his
wife Hannah Lewin gave birth to future Massachusetts resident Frances Horlick,
the wife of Rubin Horlick.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891:
Jesse Seligman received a draft for twelve million francs from Baron Hirsch
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891:
Birthdate of Hungarian born American scientist turned philosopher, Michael
Polanyi.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5652) Parashat Tetzeveh; Shabbat Zachor and Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893:
At the Stepney Synagogue on Jersey, David Lawton, “the youngest son of the late
John and Jane Lawton” married Rebecca Michaels, the youngest daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Isaac Michaels of Aldgate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893:
Rabbi Adloph Radin of Shaari Tikvah was one of the speakers who addressed the
crowd gathered at the hall of the Hebrew Institute where citizens were
protesting the closing of the annex to Grammar School #7 on Hester Street.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894(4<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5654): Ludwig August Ritter von Frankl-Hochwart passed away after
leading a multi-faceted life. Born in Boehmia in 1810, he studied Hebrew
with Zecharias Frankel, earned an M.D. from the University of Pauda before
moving to Vienna. There he served as secretary and archivist of the
Vienna Jewish congregation and became active in the Revolution of 1848.
He was a prolific author and philanthropist whose literary works include “Nach
Jeruslem” which describe his travels to Asia, Greece and Jerusalem where he
help founded a school. And this is only the tip of the iceberg. (As
reported by Singer and Mannheimer)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59809&local_base=GEN01-MCG02"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59809&local_base=GEN01-MCG02</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1894:
Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time. Coca-Cola was actually first
introduced in 1886 at Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta. Ga. Jacob’s Pharmacy was
owned by Dr. Joe Jacobs who is buried in the same section of Atlanta’s Oakland
Cemetery as other prominent Atlanta Jews including Morris Rich, founder of
Rich’s Department Store. Coke was not certified as Kosher and Kosher for
Passover until 1935 thanks to the efforts of an Atlanta orthodox rabbi named
Tobias Geffen. </span><a href="http://www.ajhs.org/publications/chapters/chapter.cfm?documentID=270"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.ajhs.org/publications/chapters/chapter.cfm?documentID=270</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
Four days after he had passed away, 61 year old John Marsh was buried today at
the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
Dreyfus arrives in French Guyana.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
Three days after she had passed away, Maria Levy who had married John Goodman
Levy after the death of her first husband, Jacob Myers. Was buried today at the
“West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
“The Rights of Clubmen” published today described the struggle between saloon
owners and members of private clubs in New York. Among the clubs that
could be affected by a change in status would be the Adelphi Club, which is the
leading private Jewish club in Albany. Its members include “some of the
wealthiest Jews” living in the state capital.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896:
Judge Charles P. Daly will deliver an address entitled “Songs and Song Writing”
at tonight’s meeting of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896:
Today’s special performance of “The Heart of Maryland” which was intended to
raise funds for the Hebrew Infants’ Asylum has been postponed until the end of
the month.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896:
It was reported today that “Charles Frohman has purchased a new melodrama”
which he will not name but says will be produced in Boston before being brought
to Broadway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5657): Eighty-seven-year-old Daniel Sanders, who earned a doctorate
in 1843 after studying at the universities of Berlin and Halle and who served
as a school principal for ten years before pursuing a career as a German
grammarian and lexicographer passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897:
About 200 cloakmakers who are employed in the shops of contractors who work for
Julius Stein & Co in Manhattan went out on strike today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897:
The will of Elias Joseph which was filed with the Surrogate today left three
bequests of $1,000 each to the Montefiore Home, Mount Sinai Hospital and the
Hebrew Orphan Asylum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898:
Sir George Henry Lewis, the well-known Jewish lawyer testified before a
committee of the House of Commons that was investigating “the evils of money
lending.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898:
“Boston Announcements” published today included a description of a book of
Yiddish poetry with an English translation written by Maurice Rosenfeld which
will be published Messrs. Copeland &amp; Day. The translation is
being prepared by Professor Wiener of Harvard. Jewish author Israel
Zangwill and Abraham Cahan, editor of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Forwards
</i>have expressed their approval of the work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898:
"Anti-Juif Bourguignon,” appeared today for the first time at Dijon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899(1st
of Nisan, 5659): Rosh Chodesh Nisan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899(1st
of Nisan, 5659): Sir Julius Vogel, the first Jewish Premier of New Zealand
passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899:
Seventy-five-year-old Hannah Jacobs, a native of Poland who was the wife of
Nathan Jacobs was buried today at the Bath Jewish Burial Ground.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900:
In Logansport, Indiana, founding of Congregation Beth El which held its
services in the Universalist Church and whose members, over time, included
Rabbi Joseph Leiser of Lafayette, Jorden Hecht, Ben Fisher, Henry Wiler and
Henry L. Bregstone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar,5561): On the Jewish calendar yahrzeit Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spektor
author of <i>Be’er Yizhak.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5561) On the Jewish calendar observance “Purim Narbonne, the oldest
private Purim on record” which was first observed in 1236.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901:
Birthdate of St. Louis native and St. Louis University trained attorney and
banker David Lichtenstein, Sr. the founder of the David B. Lichtenstein
Foundation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://dblfoundation.com/">https://dblfoundation.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902:
Sophia Karp, Jacob Fischel and Joseph Lateiner founded the Grand Theatre in New
York which was the first theatre in New York built to serve as venue for
performing Yiddish theatricals.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903:
Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf arrived at his home in Philadelphia “to-day from
Cincinnati and announced that he had accepted the Director Generalship of the
Isaac M. Wise Endowment Fund Committee of the Hebrew Union College, which
office was tendered him during a meeting of rabbis at Cincinnati.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904:
Herzl authorizes Dr.Leopold Kahn to enter into negotiations with the Ottoman
Empire for renting the administrative revenues of the Sanjak of Acre and for a
loan to be obtained for the Imperial treasury.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905:
Birthdate of Myles S. Friedman the center on the Syracuse University football
team from 1924-1926 and President of Benjamin and Johnes, the manufacturer of
foundation garments who co-founded Camp Robin Hood for boys and raised a
daughter, Judy with his wife Leona.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906:
“Startling reports of the condition and future of Russia’s 6,000,000 Jews were
made” today “in Berlin to the annual meeting of the Central Jewish Relief
League by Germany by Dr. Paul Nathan…who has returned from an extensive trip
through Russia as the special emissary of Jewish philanthropists in England,
America and Germany to arrange for distribution of the relief fund of
$1,500,000 raised after the massacres last Autumn.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906:
Solomon Schechter and Louis Marshall are among the speakers scheduled to speak
at this evening’s dinner “for the faculty, students, directors and officers of
the Jewish Theological Seminary of America on 123<sup>rd</sup> Street and
Broadway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907:
Abraham Goldsmith purchased the building at 99 Fifth Avenue today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908:
Birthdate of David Saul Marshall. Born in Singapore to an Orthodox family that
had come from Iraq, Marshall was trained as a lawyer. After World War II
he became leader of the Labour Front political party and in 1955 became the
first Chief Minister of Singapore.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909:
In Sophia, Bulgaria, The Medical Congress decided to print brochures in Ladino.
The decision was in response to a request from a Christian Delegate who asked
that this be done for the benefit of Jews unfamiliar with the Bulgarian
language.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910:
At the first meeting of the sub-committee on laws of the Civic Federation’s
Committee on Compensation for Industrial Accidents “letters were received from
Louis Brandeis of Boston giving suggestions the establishment of an accident
insurance system” designed to provide relief for workers injured on the job.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911:
Vera Cheberiak, leader of a group of thieves in Kiev, makes plans to have
Andrei Yustschinski murdered. His murder will touch off the infamous
Mendel Bellis Case.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912:
“The application of Jewish citizens of New York City, who are engaged in
organizing a battalion to become affiliated with the National Guard, was
received by Adjt. Gen. Verbeck to-day.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
The Annual Conference on Child Labor, which Leon Schwarz of Mobile, AL attended
as a delegate appointed by the Governor opened today in Jacksonville, FL.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5674): Last Purim before the outbreak of WW I.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914:
Birthdate of Irwin “King Kong” Klein, the Younkers native who was an All-American
football player at New York University and who led the NYU basketball team to a
16-0 as a sophomore in 1934 and then to a 19 and 1 record the following season
which led “to the Helms National Championship.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5674: Pauline Blumenthal the daughter of architect and engineer
Maurice Blumenthal, the Brooklyn born son of Jacob Hersh Blumenthal and Dinah
Judith Hyman Blumenthal, and his wife Miriam Blumenthal passed away two days
after her birth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell met with a delegation headed by Jabotinsky to
discuss the formation of a “Jewish fighting unit” in the British Army. “The
General said he was unable, under the Army Act, to enlist foreign nationals as
fighting troops, but that he could form them into a volunteer transport Mule
Corps.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
As of today, the fund of the American Jewish Relief Committee for Suffers from
the War has collected $555, 3119.19<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
“The Vice,” a German silent film directed and written by Richard Oswald who was
forced to flee when the Nazis came to power and produced by Jules Greenbaum was
released today in Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
According to a report tonight by H.E. Adelman, the Secretary of the Hebrew Free
Burial Association at the annual meeting at the Uptown Talmud Torah, “in the
last year 1,253 people were buried by the association” including “353 buried
from their homes, 218 from Bellevue Hospital and the morgue, 651 from other
institutions, 28 from outside” of New York City and 3 disinterments from Jewish
cemeteries. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
The National Union for Jewish Rights held its first meeting this afternoon in
London. The Anglo-Jewish community formed the organization to secure the rights
of the Jews at the end of the World War. Lucien Wolf and Israel Zangwill
addressed the group. Zangwill said that “if England got Palestine” he
“hoped a Jewish governor would be appointed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
Pianist Vera Kaplun-Aronson and soprano Mrs. George Halperin are scheduled to
perform this afternoon at “the 19<sup>th</sup> regular Sunday afternoon
concert…at the Chicago Hebrew Institute.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
Rabbi Wolf Gold of the Third Street Synagogue opened the convention today in
Sonia Hall where “more than 400 delegates from Jewish societies in Brooklyn”
met “to consider plans for the proposed Jewish Congress and to elect delegates
to the preliminary conference” to be held later this month in Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
This afternoon Rabbi Max Reichler and Cantor Morris Schrager officiated at the
dedication ceremonies of “the new Temple of the Sinai Congregation of the Bronx
a Stebbins Avenue and East 163<sup>rd</sup> Street” which “were attended by
nearly 1,000 including the 125 members of the temple.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
Today <i>The Day,</i> the Jewish daily newspaper edited by Herman Bernstein
published the following cablegram from a special correspondent in Berne.
“I have learned from an absolutely reliable source that the Pope has prepared
an important document of great interest to the Jewish people. It is
understood that this document will prove of the same importance and
significance as the bull issued by Pope Innocent IV denouncing the ritual
murder accusations against the Jews as false and based upon a cruel legend. The
present statement by the Pope, who has interested himself so deeply in peace is
devoted to the sorrows of the Jews in the belligerent lands and contains a plea
for justice and fairness to the Jews.” [The article referred to Pope Benedict
XV.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917:
During the Russian Revolution, the Duma elected a “provisional committee” which
was effectively a new executive branch for the Russian government that would
replace the Czar. The apparent triumph of these social democrats offered
hope (ultimately false hope) for the Jews of Russia that revolution would lead
to liberation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917:
At 11:00 a.m. Dr. Enelow is scheduled to speak on “The Jewish Messiah Idea and
Jesus” followed by the daily noon service.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918:
Following the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, today Erzurm returned to
Turkish control which may have given the Ottomans hope that they would regain
control of the rest of their Empire including Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919:
Louis Marshal, President of the Executive Committee of the American Jewish
Committee and Dr. Cyrus Adler, the chairman of the committee left today aboard
Caronia as they began their voyage to the Peace Conference at Paris.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920:
In Berlin, NH, Hyman Abramson, the son of Stella and Abraham Abramson and
brother of New Hampshire state legislator Nathan Abramson who was responsible
for the passage of legislation ending discrimination against Jews in summer
resorts,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and his wife Ida Abramson gave
birth to Harry Abramson, the nephew of Rabbi Marui Abramson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920:
Birthdate of Roland Lorent a member of the anti-Nazi Ehrenfeld Group who was
hanged in 1944.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921:
The Histadrut (General Federation of Labor) passed a resolution to establish
the Haganah. Haganah, (literally "defense") was
established for the purpose stated in its name. It
was organized to protect the Jewish settlements from Arab attacks -
something the British could not or would not do. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921:
Birthdate of Harry Hamilton Pollak, the Passaic, NJ native, graduate of Rutgers
and the University of Chicago and husband of the former Suzette L. Aldon who
was serving as “labor advisor to Secretary of State Edmund Muskie” at the time
of his death in 1980.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921:
The Cairo Conference began during which Winston Churchill sought to examine the
workings of the British Mandates for governing Iraq and Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921:
In New York City, Iphigene (née Ochs) and Arthur Hays Sulzberger, “the
publisher of the NYTimes from 1935 to 1961” gave birth the second of their four
children Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg whose exciting life included working as a Red
Cross Volunteer in Europe during WW II, to a career in journalism and the
benefactor of wide variety of charities and institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/business/media/ruth-sulzberger-holmberg-newspaper-publisher-dies-at-96.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=1&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F04%2F19%2Fbusiness%2Fmedia%2Fruth-sulzberger-holmberg-newspaper-publisher-dies-at-96.html&eventName=Watching-article-click&_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/business/media/ruth-sulzberger-holmberg-newspaper-publisher-dies-at-96.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=1&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F04%2F19%2Fbusiness%2Fmedia%2Fruth-sulzberger-holmberg-newspaper-publisher-dies-at-96.html&eventName=Watching-article-click&_r=0</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5682): Samuel Hirsch Margulies passed away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Born at Berezhany in 1858, he held several
rabbinic posts before being appointed chief rabbi of Florence, Italy in 1890
where he also became head of the Collegio Rabbinco when it was transferred from
Rome to Florce<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Florence.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Florence.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080623041000/http:/www.bh.org.il/Communities/Synagogue/florence.asp"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://web.archive.org/web/20080623041000/http://www.bh.org.il/Communities/Synagogue/florence.asp</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922(12th
of Adar, 5682): Eighty-year-old Minnie Dessau Louis passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/louis-minnie-dessau"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/louis-minnie-dessau</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922:
According to reports published today Samuel Untermeyer and his son Irwin are
among the members of a New York committee that has pledged to raise $100,000
for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation fund. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922:
In Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, CA, Max and Jennie Gold gave birth to Sydney
Gold who gained famed body-builder Joe Gold, founder of Gold’s Gym – one of the
most ubiquitous fitness centers found in most major and not so major cities in
the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923:
It was reported today that Samuel Gompers, the President of the American
Federation, who is being treated by Dr. G.G. Fish at Lenox Hill Hospital is
“making good progress” in his fight with Pneumonia and should be able to go
Florida at the end of the week so he can fully recuperate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924:
In front of 1,000 men and women who were attending a reception in his honor in
the grand ballroom of the Hotel Astor, Dr. Joseph Silverman, Rabbi Emeritus of
Temple Emanu-El, for many years a non-Zionist, who has just returned from a six
month trip that included spending time in Palestine declared in an address
tonight that he intended to devote the remainder of his life to the cause of
Palestine. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925:
“Decorated from stem to stern with flags of the international code and bearing
the six-pointed star -- the shield of David -- on her funnels, the steamship
President Arthur of the American-Palestine Line sailed today for the Holy Land
with 400 passengers, beginning a new steamship service and linking Palestine
directly with New York.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
It was reported today that of the 32,000 Jews who left Poland in 1925, 15,000
went to Palestine, 8,616 went to Argentina and 3,840 went to the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
It was reported today that Henry Ittlelson had been commissioned by William Fox
“to solicit contributions for the United Jewish Campaign of New York from
Jewish citizens of New York” who are in Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5687): Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927:
Helen Elizabeth Littleton and Robert Livingston Wetmore were married this
afternoon in the Manhattan home of S. Stanwood Menken, the Memphis born Jew and
Columbia trained attorney who converted to Christianity<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927:
Paul and Fay Parnes gave birth today to William Irwin Parnes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927:
Offices of Hias-Ica-Emig-directed, the organization formed by Hias “in
cooperation with the Jewish Colonization Association and the United Jewish
Immigration Committee” designed to help Jewish immigrants move to “Southern
American countries eager for Jewish immigrants” “began to function today” in
“the principal ports” so provide help immigrants learn the native language and
places them “with some trade.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928:
Birthdate of Mordechai Eliyahu, the Jerusalem native who would become a
prominent rabbi, posek and who would serve as the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of
Israel from 1983 to 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929:
One of the first “talkie Hollywood Biblical epics, “Noah’s Ark,” the Warner
Brothers film written by Darryl Zanuck premiered to critical and popular
acclaim in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930:
Birthdate of Los Angeles native Eugene Bleecher Selznick gold medal winning
volleyball player and coach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930:
“Frederick Brown, real estate operator and philanthropist, was presented with
the American Arbitration Association medal for the promotion of industrial
peace, at a luncheon today, held at the Hotel Astor, in “recognition of his
distinguished service in promoting good-will in business relations.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931:
Grand Rabbi Chaim Leib Auerbach, “the founder of and dean of Kabbalah
University in Jerusalem who arrived in Brooklyn on March 11 and was greeted by
the acting mayor of New York at city hall is spending his second day in the
United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932:
U.S. premiere of “The Lost Squadron” -- first RKO production to carry the
screen credit "Executive Producer, David O. Selznick" with music by
Max Steiner and additional dialogue written by Herman J. Mankiewicz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932:
Supreme Court Benjamin Cardozo was among the judges for the National Oratorical
Contest which announced its winners tonight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933:
CBS broadcast the first episode of “Lazy Dan, The Minstrel Man” starring Irving
Kaufman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar,5693) Purim celebrated as during the Great Depression, newly elected
President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first “fire-side” chat today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1934:</span>
“<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Alfred M. Cohen,
international president of B'nai B'rith, Jewish philanthropic society, termed
"senseless cruelty" today moves of the Hitler government that are
interpreted as indicating the dissolution of the order's lodges in Germany.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934:
Professor Morris R. Cohen and Herman Bernstein were among the speakers at
tonight’s evening of dinner and entertainment aboard the United States Liner
which was a benefit designed to raise funds for refugees from Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After opening in New York in January, “The
Good Fairy” a movie version of the Broadway play, directed by William Wyler and
Carl Laemmle, Jr. opened today in Los Angeles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
Warsaw’s Chief Rabbi, Moses Schorr, who is also a Senator, told that body about
“a veritable pogrom in Prztyk, in central Poland” and then “appealed to the
Interior Minister to put an end to the anti-Semitic rioting occurring all over
the country.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
Count Rostworowski, “a member of the government party…requested the government
to combat the growing anti-Semitic movement, which he said was aimed at the
government” adding that anti-Semitism “was the Nationalists’ strongest weapon
with which to weaken the government and win over the population.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
In Chicago, Edward Reba and Suzanne Greenberg gave birth to Daniel Edward Reba
who gained fame as children’s book author Daniel Cohen, who fought for justice
for the families of the victims of Pan Am Flight 103 one of whose passengers
was he daughter Theodora. (As reported by Richard Sandomir.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/obituaries/daniel-cohen-82-dies-sought-justice-for-pan-am-bombing-victims.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/obituaries/daniel-cohen-82-dies-sought-justice-for-pan-am-bombing-victims.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1937: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Palestine Post</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> reported that the
Colonial Secretary, Mr. Ormsby-Gore, told the House of Commons that from 1922
to 1935 the population of Jerusalem rose from 63,000 to 110,000; of Tel Aviv
from 15,000 to 110,000; of Jaffa from 33,000 to 74,000 and of Haifa from 25,000
to 85,000. He added that a committee had been set up by the High Commissioner
in 1932 to consider compulsory health insurance, but it had decided that the
introduction of such system in Palestine was premature, especially for the Arab
section of the population. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937:
As proof that “virtual services” were not a product of the COVID Pandemic, in
New York radio station WHN broadcast Temple Emanu-El services from 5:15 to 6:15
pm<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:
Hitler entered Austria to the greetings of the Church and Cardinal Innitzer.
Seys-Inquert, who later achieved infamy as a mass murderer of Jews, was
appointed Chancellor. The following day, Austria was annexed to Germany. Just a
month before Hitler’s arrival, J.D. Salinger left Vienna to return to the
United States. He had been in the country since 1937 where he was learning
about the meat-importing business.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:
During the Spanish Civil War, the Botwin Company named after Jewish Polish
radical Naftali Botwin were one of the units that went into action today when
fighting began at Belchite.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:
As part of its drive to raise $4,500,000, The United Palestine Appeal issued a
report today focusing on the growth in Palestine over the last twenty
years. Among highlights of the report are figures showing that from 1931
to 1936, exports increased from eight million dollars to eighteen million
dollars. At the same time, bank deposits more than doubled in the last five
years and the numbers of factories and workshops more than doubled in the
period starting in 1921 and ending in 1937.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
Pope Pius XII was crowned Pope in Vatican ceremonies. While the Catholic Church
may be considering Pious XII for canonization, the Jewish view of him is
one who is “impious.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
Mrs. Tehilla Lichtenstein is scheduled to deliver an address on “A Time to Be
Silent and a Time to Speak” this morning at the Jewish Science Society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
Rabbi Hyman Judah Schactel is scheduled to deliver an address on “Palestine
Today” at the West End Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
Rabbi Israel Goldstein is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Religion of the
Unintelligent” at Temple B’nai Jeshurun.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
Rabbi Nathan A Perlman is scheduled to deliver a sermon this morning at Temple
Emanu-El.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The London-Palestine
Conference and Arab Appeasement” at the Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940:
It was announced today at UJA headquarters in New York City that “Edward M.M.
Warburg, son of the late Felix M. Warburg, has accepted the chairmanship for
the New York metropolitan area of the 1940 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal
for Refugees and Overseas Need.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940:
Tova Haber, a homemaker and Yehuda Haber, who worked for the local chamber of
commerce, and was a supporter of the right-wing Herut movement, led by Menachem
Begin gave birth to Eitan Haber, the trusted confidant of Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin, who announced to the nation Mr. Rabin’s shocking death. (As
reported by Isabel Kershner)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/world/middleeast/eitan-haber-dead.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/world/middleeast/eitan-haber-dead.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941:
Churchill met with Weizmann and reiterated his support for the eventual
establishment of Jewish military units and a Jewish state in Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1941:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> A sentry shot and killed a 13-year-old in the
Lodz ghetto.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942(23rd
of Adar): David Raziel was killed while serving for the British in Iraq<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1942:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> The Nazis ordered 8,000 Jews from southern
Polish town of Mielec to be at the train station. The next morning, as they
gathered, 2,000 children and elderly were shot dead at the train station.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943:
In Chicago, Illinois, Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Finkel and his wife, Sara Rosenblum
gave birth to Nosson Tzvi Finkel, the Haredi Rabbi who became Rosh Yeshiva of
the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943:
Aaron Copland's ''Fanfare for the Common Man'' was performed for the first
time, by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943(5<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5703): Ninety-two-year-old Mary Jane Phillips Greenawalt, the widow
of Abraham Greenawalt passed away today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943(5<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5703): Forty-eight-year-old Jiří (Georgo) Mordechai Langer passed
away in Tel Avi.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/186696/kafka-langer"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/186696/kafka-langer</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: Tonight
is the night when Oskar <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Schindler
changed his life, the life of his workers and history. Addressing his workers,
he told them not to go home tonight. The Krakow ghetto, he said, would be
liquidated the next day. Schindler had witnessed the killings and decided he
must protect his laborers. He would build his own concentration camp as a
satellite to Kraków-Plaszów, and his staff would compile the now famous list of
workers he wanted transferred to his camp.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: “In a half hour lecture on Hebrew
contributions to civilization, Mayor La Guardia tonight told 700 persons at a
dinner meeting of the National Council of Fraternal and Landsmanshaften
Organizations for the Yeshiva and Yeshiva College, that "a people that
have such a tradition that has given so much has a lasting permanent place in
this world, and nothing can destroy it."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: “Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise, who was born on St. Patrick's Day seventy years ago, was guest
of honor at a dinner given tonight by the Jewish Institute of Religion in the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, opening a week's ceremonies in celebration of his
birthday and the completion of more than fifty years of activity in American life.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: “German
troops received orders by Hitler to capture critical Hungarian facilities.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945(27th of Adar, 5705): Bernard Drachman, who
served as rabbi at the Park East Synagogue for 55 years starting in 1890,
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5302-drachman-bernard">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5302-drachman-bernard</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945:
According to some sources, this is the day Anne Frank died at Bergen Belsen two
months before the liberation by British forces. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: While
appearing today as a witness for Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg Trials,
“Field Marshal Gen. Albert Kesselring, who ordered the bombing of Warsaw,
Rotterdam and Coventry, appeared today before the International Military
Tribunal and attempted to justify his acts.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: Dr.
Judah L. Magnes, the president of the Hebrew University is prepared to speak in
favor of the “compromise proposal that Palestine be constituted a bi-national
state with eventual numerical equality of Jews and Arabs which was presented to
the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: In the
U.K. premiere of “Nicholas Nickleby” a screen adaption of the novel by the same
name produced by Michael Bolton, the son of Jewish immigrants<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
Speaking as leader of the Loyal Opposition, Churchill attacks the Labor Party’s
policy in Palestine attacking what he called “a senseless, squalid war with the
Jews, in order to give Palestine to the Arab or God knows who.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
A British corvette warned British troops that a large number of Jewish refugees
on board the SS Susanna, were attempting to land on the southern coast of
Palestine. British troops assisted by the local Arab population worked to
intercept and arrest the refugees. The British reported that they had
captured almost 900 people but 240 may have been Jewish citizens of Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
The Truman Doctrine was proclaimed today. It was a policy set forth by
U.S. President Harry S Truman stating that the U.S. would support Greece and
Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet
sphere. Greece was in the throes of a civil war where one side was
supported by the Soviets. In February of 1947, the British government
informed Washington, that it was too broke to continue its traditional role of
protecting Greece which had been part of its “sphere of influence.” While
Britain did not have the money to halt Soviet imperial expansion, she
apparently had enough funds to patrol the Mediterranean to stop Jews from
getting to Palestine. And she had enough money to support what had become an
army of occupation aimed at thwarting the creation of a Jewish homeland.
It should be remembered that when President Truman was being pressured to deal
with the problems of the displaced Jews of Europe and the issue of Palestine,
he was also dealing with an explosion of other problems including the Soviet
drive to control Europe. His decisions vis a vis the Jews must also be
viewed against the backdrop of a much larger world stage which the United
States was only reluctantly entering on to. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
During a session of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, Auni
Bey Abdulhadi described the “wartime associations of the Mufti of
Jerusalem…with Hitler and Mussolini.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar II, 5708): Rosh Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948:
Orville Prescott provided a complete review of <u>A Mask For Privilege:
Anti-Semitism in America</u> by Carey McWilliams.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/03/12/84616561.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/03/12/84616561.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948:
“The representatives of the United States, the Soviet Union, China and France
heard leaders of the Jewish Agency for Palestine present a nine-point plan for
implementation by the Security Council of the United Nations General Assembly
for a partition of” Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949:
The raising of a hand-drawn flag, known as the “Ink Flag over the police
station at Umm Rashrash, the future site of the city of Eilat, at 16:00 “is
considered to mark the end of the War of Independence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink_Flag#/media/File:Raising_the_Ink_Flag_at_Umm_Rashrash_(Eilat).jpg"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink_Flag#/media/File:Raising_the_Ink_Flag_at_Umm_Rashrash_(Eilat).jpg</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar): At the conclusion of Operation Uvada, the commander sent the
following telegram “"On Hagana day, the 11th of Adar, the Palmach Negev
brigade and the Golani brigade present the Gulf of Eilat to the State of
Israel".<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949:
Birthdate of producer, director and writer Rob Cohen. It may not be fair to
include Cohen on this page given his view of being Jewish. When asked
about his feelings about being Jewish Cohen has said, “I'm totally in reaction
to it. I've never been comfortable with the Jewish identity. It's been one of
those crosses to bear that I had the surname 'Cohen' which is a label. You
can't hide even if you wanted to, so I don't practice. It's not anything of
interest to me. I don't want to rediscover it. I'm not interested.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950:
The Foreign Ministry of Israel is scheduled to host a reception for members of
the Istanbul Fenerache soccer team who played their first game in Tel Aviv
yesterday. The reception is in response to the fact that Turkey announced
its decision earlier this week to recognize the state of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Nisan, 5710): Eighty-three-year-old Dr. Armand Ahron Noach Kaminka, the son
of Wolf and Sura Beile Kaminka and husband of Klara Kaminka, “the renowned
rabbi, Hebrew scholar and secretary of Alliance Israelite Universelle in
Vienna” who was arrested by the Nazis in 1938, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Kaminka_Aharon"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Kaminka_Aharon</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Nisan, 5710): Louis I. Jaffe who had been editor of The Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot for thirty years” and who “was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for
an editorial” opposing lynching passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/jaffe-louis-i-ca-1888-1950/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/jaffe-louis-i-ca-1888-1950/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/03/14/84813943.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/03/14/84813943.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950:
As a reminder of the fact that the Jewish state is surrounded by enemies
committed to its destruction “the Israeli Defense Ministry today ordered the
registration for the Army Reserve of all physicians between the ages of 29 and
49.” Reportedly the government will soon require all civilians between
the ages of 18 and 49 who have not served in the military to register with the
Ministry of Defense.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950:
<i>The New York Times</i> reported that the Israel Ministry of Education and
Culture has appointed Mr. Frank Pelleg to serve as head of its music
department.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951(4<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5711: Sixty-five-year-old Samuel Plaut, the President of the
Metropolitan Slaughters Association passed away today at Woodmere, Long Island.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/03/13/113175694.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/03/13/113175694.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951:
In Hartford, CT, Jacob (Jack) Isserman and the former Flora Huffman gave birth
to Maurice Isserman, a “long-time Professsor of History at Hamilton College”
and the award winning biographer of Michael Harrington.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951(4<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5711): Seventy-seven-year-old London born, internationally
acclaimed concert pianist Harold Bauer who performed for the first time in the
United States in 1900 and “gave his last formal concert in 1939” passed away
today having been pre-deceased by his wife Marie Knapp who had passed away in
1940.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/03/13/113175687.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/03/13/113175687.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: As of this date the Iraqis allowed planes filled with Jewish refugees
to fly straight to Israel instead of having to go to Cyprus first.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951:
Eighty-five-year-old Alfred Hugenberg, the German “industrialist and
monarchist” whose right wing party was jettisoned by Hitler after he had
reached power passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/03/13/113175724.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/03/13/113175724.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5712): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1952:<b> </b></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
Jerusalem Post</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
reported that Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett met Sir Anthony Eden, the British
foreign secretary, in London and told him that Israel was eager to reach a
settlement with its neighbors and to stop to "perpetuate its
loneliness" in the area. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953:
Birthdate of Ron Jeremy, pornographic film actor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954:<b><span style="color: black;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
firs</span>t performance of Arnold Schönberg's "Moses und Aaron.” This was
not the only Jewish themed work by this great Jewish composer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954:
Birthdate of British sculptor Anish Kapoor who was born in Bombay (Mumbai) to
Jewish mother whose family emigrated from Baghdad and whose grandfather was the
cantor in the Synagogue in Pune. Kapoor lived on a Kibbutz and after
discovering that Engineering was not his forte decided to gain the skills that
have made him a famous artist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954:
Birthdate of Chicago native Larry Rothschild who was the first manager of the
newly minted Tampa Bay Devil Rays as well as a successful pitching coach for
numerous teams including the New York Yankees.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955:
Opening of the 2<sup>nd</sup> Pan American Games during which Eugene Selznick’s
led U.S. Volleyball team won a gold medal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955:
Birthdate of Druze Israeli political leader and MK Ayoob Kara.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956:
The 1956 NCAA Basketball Tournament in which Temple coached by Harold “Chief”
Litwak defeated Holy Cross, Connecticut and Temple in the East Region began
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957:
Birthdate of actor Jerry Levine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5718): Seventy-nine-year-old Vienna born realtor and philantrhopist
Morris Brukenfeld, the founder of M. Brukenfeld and Company, “a velvet and silk
jobbing firm” and husband of Sarah Sacks Brukenfeld with whom he had two sons
and two daughters and who has served as a director of the Brooklyn Hebrew Home
and Hospital for the Aged, the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Temple Shaari
Zeedek in Brooklyn passed away at his home in Palm Beach, FL.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958: “Desire
Under the Elms” a cinema version of the novel by the same name with a script by
Irwin Shaw (Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff) and music by Elmer Bernstein was released
in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar II, 5719): Eighty-four-year-old retired Bronx button manufacturer Hyman
Steiglitz, the husband of Lena Stieglitz with whom he had five children –
Samuel, Solomon, Louis, Hell and Ruth – passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5720): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960: “Taffy
Pergament won the Novice Ladies singles title at the Middle Atlantic Figure
Skating Championships in Iceland.” (As reported by Bob Wechsler.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://s195.photobucket.com/user/TroyReunion/media/MaryLou/sc001638a1.jpg.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://s195.photobucket.com/user/TroyReunion/media/MaryLou/sc001638a1.jpg.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961(24<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5721): Sixty-seven-year-old “retired singing teacher” Mina Elman who
as a young woman had appeared on stage with brother violinist Mischa Elman and
who is survived by her sisters Liza and Esther passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/03/13/101450837.html?pageNumber=29"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/03/13/101450837.html?pageNumber=29</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1963: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Bob Dylan cancels "Ed Sullivan Show"
television appearance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964:
After premiering in London in January, “Summer Holiday” a musical with a score
by Stanley Black was released in the rest of the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1964<b>: </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">S[amuel] N[athaniel] Behrman's "But for
Whom Charlie" premieres in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965:
Birthdate of American sports journalist, Steve Levy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5726): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5726): Eighty-four-year-old William L. Prager, “the former head of the
Chemistry Department at CCNY” and who during WW II “was instrumental in
developing a synthetic substitute for quinine” the standard drug for fighting malaria
which the Japanese controlled passed a way today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967:
Naqi Jahan, the daughter of the first Miss India, Esther Victoria Abraham, was
chosen Miss India. (As reported by Dr. Navara Jaat Aafreedi)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968:
Mauritius achieves independence from Great Britain. Mauritius is located in the
Indian Ocean. In 1940, the British created a prison there to hold Jews who had
escaped from Hitler’s Europe and were trying to enter Palestine. The
Jewish cemetery on the island attests to the cost of the British policy.
Since gaining its independence, Mauritius has sent many of its citizens to
Israel for professional training in several fields of study including that of
agronomy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969;
In New York City, Theodore S. “Ted” Tapper, “the president of South
Philadelphia Pediatrics and associate clinical professor of pediatrics at
Jefferson Medical College” the former Helen Anne Palmatier gave birth to CNN
newsman Jake Tapper who was raised in Philadelphia and “graduated Phi Beta
Kappa and magna cum laude with an A.B. in History, modified by Visual Studies,
in 1991.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969:
Four months after premiering in the UK, “Where Eagles Dare” a WW II espionage
film produced by Elliot Kastner was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969:
Linda Eastman married Beatle Paul McCartney (A marriage that fits with Purim
motif)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/12/1969/this-week-in-history-linda-eastman-marries-paul-mccartney"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/12/1969/this-week-in-history-linda-eastman-marries-paul-mccartney</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972(26<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5732): Eighty-four-year-old Louis Joel Mordell, the American born
British mathematician “for pioneering research in number theory” passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mordell.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mordell.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972:
“The Rabbinical Council of America” an Orthodox organization “appealed for
Congressional legislation that would ‘grant tax deductions to parents who pay
for their children in the all-day Jewish schools’ arguing that the hundreds of
day schools ‘educate a substantial portion of the American children’ and that
‘our public schools are ill-equipped to absorb the youngsters who are currently
in these schools.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975:
Birthdate of Dan Greenbaum, the native of Torrance, CA who played on the 1992
U.S. Olympic<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Volleyball
team that won a bronze medal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1976(10<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5736): Seventy-three-year-old Charley Phil Rosenberg, who was World
Bantamweight Champion from 1925 to 1927 passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar, 5737): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar, 5737” Eighty-year-old NYU trained attorney Bernard Trencher, “the
former chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Bronx County Bar Association
and husband of “the former Bessie Gelula” with whom he had two daughters,
Lenore and Phyllis, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977:
Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledged to regain Arab territory from Israel. Sadat
would reach his goal, but with the pen of the peace treaty not the sword
of war.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5739): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980:
“A Small Circle of Friends” directed by Rob Cohen was released in the United
States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985(19th
of Adar, 5745): Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian born conductor, passed
away. Born in 1899, he came to United States in 1921. He was the
permanent conductor and music director for the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1938
until 1980. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985:
B. Altman's Fifth Avenue building was designated a New York City landmarkyoday<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5747): Ta’anit Eshter<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5747): Fifty-two-year-old Philadelphia born University of Pennsylvania
graduate Richard Levinson, who collaborated with William Link whose father was
of Jewish heritage on radio and television scripts as well as the scripts of
feature films The Hindenburg and Rollercoaster passed away today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987:
CBS broadcast the last episode of “The Wizard” starring David Stephen
Rappaport.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5750): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5750: Sixty-nine-year-old businessman and sport’s team owner, Gene
Klein passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-13/sports/sp-260_1_san-diego-chargers"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-13/sports/sp-260_1_san-diego-chargers</span></a><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990<span style="color: #666666;"> (</span>15th of Adar, 5750): Rabbi Stuart E. Rosenberg,
a spiritual leader of Canada's Jews and an author, died of cancer today in West
Palm Beach, Fla., where he had a winter home. He was 67 years old and also
lived in Toronto. For nine years, until he retired last August, Rabbi
Rosenberg led the Beth Torah synagogue in Toronto. Earlier, he was senior rabbi
for 17 years at BethTzedec in Toronto, the largest Conservative congregation in
Canada. Rabbi Rosenberg was one of the first Western religious leaders to focus
on the plight of Soviet Jews, traveling to Moscow in 1961 and writing a series
of newspaper articles on their problems. He was also a pioneer in
Christian-Jewish dialogue in Canada. He wrote 20 books, including ''Christians
and Jews: The Eternal Bond,'' published in 1985, and a two-volume study, ''The
Jewish Community in Canada'' (1971). His last book, ''Secrets of the Jews,'' is
scheduled to appear in the fall. He also worked as an editor for the <u>Encyclopedia
Judaica</u> with responsibility for Canadian matters. Born in Manhattan, Rabbi
Rosenberg was a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary and received a
Ph.D. from Columbia University. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5753): Eighty-three-year-old Michael Kanin passed away. The brother of
Garson Kanin, he co-authored the Oscar winning script for “Woman of the Year”
and shared an Oscar nomination with his wife Kay Mitchell for the script of
“Teacher’s Pet.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993(19th
of Adar, 5753): Yehoshua Freidberg, a 24-year-old immigrant from Canada was
shot dead on the Tel Aviv to Jerusalem highway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar II, 5757): Eighty-four-year-old Philadelphia born, University of
Pennsylvania graduate Bertram M. Gross, the English and philosophy student
turned advocated for full employment who was a driving force behind the
Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/15/business/bertram-m-gross-84-author-of-full-employment-bills-of-1944-45.html?searchResultPosition=1"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/15/business/bertram-m-gross-84-author-of-full-employment-bills-of-1944-45.html?searchResultPosition=1</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5758): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998:
Pope John Paul II wrote to Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">On numerous
occasions during my Pontificate I have recalled with a sense of deep sorrow the
sufferings of the Jewish people during the Second World War. The crime which
has become known as the <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Shoah </span>remains
an indelible stain on the history of the century that is coming to a close.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">As we
prepare for the beginning of the Third Millennium of Christianity, the Church
is aware that the joy of a Jubilee is above all the joy that is based on the
forgiveness of sins and reconciliation with God and neighbour. Therefore she
encourages her sons and daughters to purify their hearts, through repentance of
past errors and infidelities. She calls them to place themselves humbly before
the Lord and examine themselves on the responsibility which they too have for
the evils of our time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It is my fervent hope that the document: <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">We Remember</span>: <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">A Reflection on the Shoah</span>, which the Commission for Religious
Relations with the Jews has prepared under your direction, will indeed help to
heal the wounds of past misunderstandings and injustices. May it enable memory
to play its necessary part in the process of shaping a future in which the
unspeakable iniquity of the <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Shoah </span>will
never again be possible. May the Lord of history guide the efforts of Catholics
and Jews and all men and women of good will as they work together for a world
of true respect for the life and dignity of every human being, for all have
been created in the image and likeness of God.</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Times of London</i> features a review
of <u>From Catastrophe to Power: Holocaust survivors and the emergence of
Israel </u>by Idith Zertal. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999(24th
of Adar, 5759): Sir Yehudi Menuhin famed violinist passed away at the age of
82. Born in New York in 1916, Menuhin was raised in San
Francisco. He was a child prodigy who debuted at the age of eight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> The
New York Times</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers
including <u>In America</u> by Susan Sontag, <u>How We Got Here. The 70's: The
Decade That Brought You Modern Life (For Better or Worse)</u><b> </b>by David
Frum and <u>The Nazis</u> by Piotr Uklanski. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000:
Pope John Paul II asked God's forgiveness for the sins of Roman Catholics
through the ages, including wrongs inflicted on Jews, women and minorities.
What a difference in the events from 61 years before on this date.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001:
The Israeli Army today sealed off Ramallah, the unofficial seat of government
of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, blocking roads with trenches,
mounds of earth and checkpoints backed by tanks and armored troop carriers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002:
“The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, told Israel today that ''you
must end the illegal occupation'' of Palestinian lands, as Israeli ground
forces and helicopter gunships killed 31 Palestinians in their fiercest assault
on the areas since Israel conquered them in 1967.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003:
At the Library of Congress opening of an exhibition entitled Herblock’s Gift:
Selections from the Herb Block Foundation Collection<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2003:
In “A New Glasnost on War’s Looted Art,” published today Sophia Kishkovsky
describes the efforts of Russia’s Ministry of Culture to return thousands of
paintings, archives and rare books looted by Soviet forces in Germany and
Eastern Europe during and after World War II and taken to Russia as so-called
trophy art. Hitler's forces had previously pillaged many of the works from
Jewish owners and other Nazi victims</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003(8th
of Adar II, 5763): Howard Fast passed away. Born in 1914, some of
the controversial authors more famous works include <u>Spartacus</u>, <u>Citizen
Tom Paine</u> and <u>The Crossing</u>. <u>The Crossing</u> was adapted
for a PBS mini-series depicting the battles surrounding <u>Washington’s
Crossing the Delaware</u> which were critical to the colonists ultimate victory
over the British.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://spartacus-educational.com/USAfast.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://spartacus-educational.com/USAfast.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2004-Di-Ko/Fast-Howard.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2004-Di-Ko/Fast-Howard.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004:
After having premiered in Bangkok, “Spartan” directed and written by David
Mamet, co-produced by David Bergstein and featuring Moshe Igvy was released
today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: “Roman
Allegories” a solo exhibition of the works of Eleanor Antin came to a close at
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York, NY<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005:
“Love Counts,” an opera in two acts by Michael Nyman “premiered today at the
Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Germany.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including <u>Lipshitz Six or Two Angry</u> by T Cooper and the recently
released paperback edition of <u><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rebels
on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood
Studio System</span></u> by Sharon Waxman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006:
A two-hour event - "Jewish Unity Live 2006" - is held at a hotel in
New Brunswick, New Jersey.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Jerusalem Post</i> reported that “the
first Israeli Druse physician to become a professor is Dr. Jamal Zidan, head of
the oncology department at Ziv Medical Center in Safed. He received his title
from the Medical Faculty of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa,
and he has worked at Ziv since 1979, when he was an intern.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar, 5767): Eleven days after turning eighty-three Arnold Druckman who
gained fame as Arnold Drake “an American comic book writer and screenwriter
best known for co-creating the DC Comics characters Deadman and the Doom
Patrol, and the Marvel Comics characters the Guardians of the Galaxy, among
others” who was the brother of songwriters Ervin and Milton Drake passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=130"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=130</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.comicsbeat.com/dcs-arnold-drake-obit/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.comicsbeat.com/dcs-arnold-drake-obit/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007:
In “Some Things You Never Forget” published today Theresa Vargas remembers the
“1977 siege by Hanafi Muslims” that gripped Washington, DC thirty years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/11/AR2007031101562.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/11/AR2007031101562.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008:
In Washington, D.C.,<i> </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Joseph
Horowitz</span>, a former <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i>
music critic and executive director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra,
discusses and signs <u><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Artists in
Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the
American Performing Arts.<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2008: <i>The New Republic</i> featured reviews of <u>The
Jewish King Lear: A Comedy in America</u> by Jacob Gordin, translated by Ruth
Gay and <u>Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia</u> by Christopher
Clark in which the author attributes the rise of Prussia during the 17<sup>th</sup>
century to the “legendary religious tolerance of the Hohenzollerns” which
enabled them to strengthen the state’s economy by opening its borders to Jews.
The same magazine also profiled the Jews of Sefwi Wiawso a community of about
150 Ghanaians who claim to be descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008:
“Masada, a musical group led by American saxophonist and composer John Zorn”
performed at Yoshi's San Francisco jazz club<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008:
The Australian parliament commemorated Israel's 60 years of independence as its
leaders pledged their commitment to the country's security and stated their
"respect for the Israeli cause," Australia's <i>The Age</i> reported.
The motion was put forward by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and seconded by
Opposition leader Brendan Nelson. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008:
Israel's Holocaust memorial posthumously recognized a prominent Spanish
diplomat, who was the grandfather of the Oscar-nominated actress Helena Bonham
Carter, for his role in saving hundreds of Jews during World War II. Yad
Vashem named Eduardo Propper de Callejon a "Righteous Among the
Nations," the highest honor granted to non-Jews who risked their lives to
save Jews during the Holocaust. More than 22,000 have been honored since the
designation was originated in 1963, including Oskar Schindler, whose efforts to
save more than 1,000 Jews was documented in the Oscar-winning film
"Schindler's List," and Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who is
credited for having saved at least 20,000 lives from Nazi death camps. Only
four Spaniards have been granted the award. About six million European Jews
were killed by German Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. As
German troops marched into France in the summer of 1940, Propper de Callejon,
then first secretary in the Spanish embassy in Paris, stamped and signed
passports for four days nearly nonstop to allow refugees to escape to Spain,
and from there to the relative safety of Portugal. Propper de Callejon, a
Franco loyalist, defied Spanish foreign ministry instructions not to issue such
visas. In 1941, he was demoted and never promoted to be an ambassador. He
retired in 1965 and died in 1972. The exact number of visas Propper de Callejon
issued remains unknown, but Yad Vashem Director Avner Shalev - who called
Propper de Callejon the "Spanish Raoul Wallenberg" - said it was
believed to be at least 1,500, both Jewish and non-Jewish. "He was signing
papers with both his hands. He signed so many that his hands hurt so much, my
mother had to bandage them at the end of the day," said Elena Bonham
Carter, his daughter. "It was extraordinary. Bonham Carter attended
Wednesday's ceremony at the memorial's Garden of the Righteous along with her
brother, Felipe Propper de Callejon. "Today, justice has been done to my
father," He said. Bonham Carter said her famous daughter wished she could
have been at the ceremony as well, but she is currently on location for the
latest film in the Harry Potter series - "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
Prince." <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
New York University’s Taub Center of Isreal Studies presents “Negotiating Peace
With Syria,” a public dialogue subtitled “Lessons from the Past, Promises
from the Future,” featuring Martin Indyk, former US Ambassador to Israel, and
Itamar Rabinovich, former Israeli Ambassador to the US.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
The Westchester Film Festival opens with a screening of “The Gift of Stalin,”
the moving tale of a Jewish boy’s exile to the hinterlands of Kazakhstan in
1949 who is raised by the gruff Kasym, a Muslim, and Verka, a Christian.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:<span style="color: black;"> </span>The disgraced financier Bernard L. Madoff was
immediately handcuffed and led off to jail today after a hearing in which he
pleaded guilty to running a vast Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of
billions of dollars. Rather than letting Mr. Madoff remain free on bail and
return to his apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Judge Denny Chin
of Federal District Court ordered Mr. Madoff remanded as he awaited sentencing.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
The National Book Critics Circle awarded the autobiography prize to Ariel
Sabar's "My Father's Paradise," which traces the author's Jewish
roots in Kurdish Iraq. Sabar, who spoke of being an immigrant's son in 1980s
Los Angeles, remembered growing up with a father who "looked funny,"
"talked funny" and "couldn't get his clothes to match." But
Sabar became deeply curious about his family's history and was struck by Iraq's
long history of people of different faiths "who pretty much got
along."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar. 5769): Ninety-one-year-old Lenore Cohn “Lee” Annenberg, the widow
Walter Annenberg, passed away. (As reported by Robert McFadden)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/us/13annenberg.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Lee+Annenberg&st=nyt"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/us/13annenberg.html?_r=1&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=Lee+Annenberg&amp;st=nyt</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010:
The Adas Israel Scholar-In-Residence Weekend is scheduled to begin with a <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Friday night service, dinner and a
presentation by Professor David Kraemer on "Sacrificial Judaism,
Vegetarianism, and the “Theology” of Food and Kashrut."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
former mayor of Amsterdam, 62-year-old Marius Job Cohen became the new head of
the Dutch Labor party today after Wouter Bos, his predecessor, resigned. Cohen
reportedly could become Prime Minister after elections are held this June.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Eighty-nine-year-old Tawfix Toubi, the last
surviving member of the First Knesset (1949) passed away today in Haifa.
An Arab Christian, he was a member of the Communist Party who served in the
Knesset until he retired in 1990.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Today “a Blue Plaque was placed on the home of
Hungarian born Jewish inventor David Gestetner at 124 Highbury New Park in
north London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: In Fairfax Station, VA, Jewish Rock Artists Rick
Recht and Sheldon Low are scheduled to perform at a special concert celebrating
Temple B’nai Shalom’s 25th anniversary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: “Zion and his Brother” and “There Were Nights” are
scheduled to be shown at the 15<sup>th</sup> New York Sephardic Jewish Film
Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: “Ajami,”
an Israeli film that had been nominated for an Oscar is scheduled to be shown
at Columbia Jewish Congregation’s (CJC) 2011 - Nineteenth Season of Movies<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II): According to tradition today marks the anniversary of Moses
completion of the book of Deuteronomy, which took place on 6 Adar, 1273. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II): Ninety-five year old Yiddish actress Shira Lerer passed away today
in New York City .(As reported by Joseph Berger)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/arts/shifra-lerer-actress-in-yiddish-theater-dies-at-95.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/arts/shifra-lerer-actress-in-yiddish-theater-dies-at-95.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Defense
Minister Ehud Barak vowed today that Israel would use every means possible to
track down those behind the fatal stabbing of a family of five in the West Bank
settlement of Itamar .<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 2011: In
“A Local Life: Al Ungerleider, 89; old soldier recalled nightmare mission,”
published today, Lauren Wiseman recounts the exploits of the Jewish general who
as a young lieutenant fought his from Normandy across Europe where he saw the
horror of Nordhausen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/a-local-life-al-ungerleider-89-old-soldier-recalled-nightmare-mission/2011/03/07/ABNdjBS_story.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/a-local-life-al-ungerleider-89-old-soldier-recalled-nightmare-mission/2011/03/07/ABNdjBS_story.html</span></a><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The East
Bay International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to open in Oakland, CA<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, The American Jewish
Committee, and The American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists are
scheduled to sponsor a “brown bag lunch” featuring Art Spitzer, Legal Director
of the American Civil Liberties Union of the National Capital Area who will
provide a look at some of the civil liberties cases on the Supreme Court
Docket.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5772): Eighty-five-year-old “Mike Silverstein, a founder of Nina
Footwear” passed away today. (As reported by Daniel Slotnik)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/business/mike-silverstein-a-founder-of-nina-footwear-dies-at-85.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/business/mike-silverstein-a-founder-of-nina-footwear-dies-at-85.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5772): On the Hebrew calendar, the 211<sup>th</sup> anniversary of
David Emanuel being sworn in as Governor of the state of Georgia, making him
the first Jew to serve as the chief executive of any state government in the
United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Offensive tackle Geoff Schwartz signed a one-year contract with the Minnesota
Vikings.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired more than 40 rockets at Israel
today, as the heavy cross-border barrage continued into its fourth day. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 2012:
Journalist turned politician Yair Lapid blamed the Palestinians for the failure
to reach a breakthrough in the peace process in a speech on Monday at Tel Aviv
University.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Private Films, Public
Identities: Jewish Self-Representations in Hungarian and Polish Interwar Home Movies.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: “The
Other Son” is scheduled to be shown at the Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Sameh
"SAZ" Zakout a native of Ramle is one of the Israeli musicians
scheduled to perform today at SXSW 2013<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: In an
op-ed column entitled “An Endelible Stain on FDR’s Legacy” Richard Cohen wrote
“FDR supported programs that did. . . save 100,000 Jewish lives” while
“condemning President Roosevelt for not doing more to help Europe’s Jews escape
Hitler.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013(1<sup>st</sup>
of Nissan, 5773): Rosh Chodesh Nissan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: “A month
after canceling a trip to Israel because of floods at home, British Prime
Minister David Cameron is expected to address the Knesset today.” (As reported
by Spence Ho)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: The
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble in
a performance of Schubert’s Sonatina in D Major, Brahms’ Sonata No 2 in A Major
and Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op 80,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: The
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Light and Shadows: The Story
of Iranian Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: In
Washington, DC, as part of “Voices of the Vigil, graphic designer Avrum Ashery
will showcase his unique role in creating posters, buttons, and cards of
protest for the movement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: The
Washington Wizards basketball team is scheduled to host Jewish Heritage Night
& a Pre-Purim Celebration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: In
Washington, the Jewish Study Center is scheduled to host the “Latke-Hamentashen
Debate.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Ruth
Goodman and Yossi Almani are scheduled to lead “Israeli Dancing” at the 92<sup>nd</sup>
Street Y.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: In
Metairie, LA, Rabbi Mendel Ceitin is scheduled to begin teaching at six week
course “To Be a Jew in the Free World: Jewish Identity Through the Lens of
Modern History.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Islamic
Jihad took credit for the barrage of rockets fired into Israel today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The terrorist claim they fired 90 missiles,
but the IDF puts the number at 60. (As reported by Adiv Sterman)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: IDF jets
hit 29 targets this evening in Gaza in response to the most massive rocket
barrage since 2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition, IDF
tanks fired into Gaza eliminating at least two “terror targets.”(As reported by
Marissa Newman and Tova Dvorin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(10th of
Adar II, 5774): Ninety-one-year-old David Sive, “founder of environmental law”
passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/20/nyregion/david-sive-a-father-of-environmental-law-dies-at-91.html?hpw&rref=obituaries">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/20/nyregion/david-sive-a-father-of-environmental-law-dies-at-91.html?hpw&rref=obituaries</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Geoff “Schwartz signed a four-year, $16.8 million deal with $6.2 million
guaranteed with the New York Giants, after confirming the deal on Twitter.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: “After
years of heated public debate and political wrangling, Israel’s Parliament on
today approved landmark legislation that will eventually eliminate exemptions
from compulsory military service for many of the ultra-Orthodox students
enrolled in seminaries.” (As reported by Isabel Kershner)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The Tulane University Jewish Studies Department under the leadership of Dr.
Brian Horowitz is scheduled to present “A Read and Discussion of ‘I Pity the
Poor Immigrant’” with Zachary Lazar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to honor Renée and Lester Crown at
the 2015 Humanitarian Awards Dinner in Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“Zaytoun” directed by Eran Riklis is scheduled to be shown at the Jewish
Community of Northern Viriginia. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
<u>The Canadian Haggadah Canadienne </u>is scheduled to go on sale today at
Montreal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
In Atlanta, the 2015 Molly Blank Jewish Concert Series is scheduled to present
“Kurt Weill: Berlin to Broadway.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Unless the labor court in Jerusalem intervenes, Histadrut is scheduled to begin
a general strike that will hit cities and towns from Ashdod to Eilat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The American Sepharidi Federation’s Film Festival is scheduled to open today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library is
scheduled to present “Voices of the Generations: Stories from the Holocaust”
with Julie Kohner, whose mother Hanna was Holocaust survivor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“Former president and Prime Minister Shimon Peres today threw his support
behind the Zionist Union’s Isaac Herzog for prime minister in the upcoming
March 17 elections.” (As reported by Marissa Newman)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(2<sup>nd</sup>
Adar II, 5776): Shabbat Pekuday; final Torah portion of Exodus<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar II, 5776): Eighty-nine-year-old Elliot Gant, one of the creators of
that ultimate in preppy-wear, the Gant buttoned-down shirt with the loop in the
back passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/business/elliot-gant-marketer-of-the-button-down-shirt-dies-at-89.html?_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/business/elliot-gant-marketer-of-the-button-down-shirt-dies-at-89.html?_r=0</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra is scheduled to celebrate its 78<sup>th</sup>
season by beginning a new tour under conductor Dmitry Yablonsky.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
In Texas, “Remember” and “Serial Bad Weddings” are scheduled to shown at the
Houston Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
In North Carolina, “Once in a Lifetime” is scheduled to be shown at the
Charlotte Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host a third
visit by the Richmond Ballet II.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
After Palestinian terrorists fired rockets from Gaza yesterday, Israeli
aircraft “struck at Hamas military bases in the Gaza Strip.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
Philadelphia is scheduled to hold the opening event for the 20<sup>th</sup>
Annual Israeli Film Festival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including <u>The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler’s Secret Police</u> by
Frank McDonough, <u>Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me </u>by Bill Hayes
and the recently released paperback edition of <u>The Photographer’s Wife</u>
by Susanne Joinson<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
“Keep Quiet” a film that tells the story of vocal anti-Semite Holocaust denier
Csanád Szegedi who discovers that he is Jewish, and his grandmother survived
Auschwitz is scheduled to be shown in Glasgow under the sponsorship of UKJF.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2017(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5777): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
In responding to Congressman Steve King’s statement that “restoring Western
civilization could not be done with somebody else’s babies, Chelsea Clinton,
whose husband is Jewish said “Clearly the Congressman does not view all our
children as, well, all our children which is something particularly ironic and
painful to say on Purim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
This evening in Memphis, TN, Temple Israel is scheduled “to host the third
installment of MLK Moral Monday, the three-part clergy led servings and
gatherings featuring distinguished speakers on the pressing social just issue
of our times” that will music led by Abbie Strauss and readings by Rabbi Feivel
Strauss<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2018: Today, Goldman Sachs “announced that
Harvey Schwartz, the company's co-chief operating officer and president would
be resigning, leaving David Solomon as the second-in-command.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Publication of <u>Joel Meyerowtiz: Where I Find Myself: A Lifetime
Retrospective</u> by Joel Meyerowitz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/mar/07/photography-legend-joel-meyerowitz-phones-killed-sexiness-street-most-stunning-shots"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/mar/07/photography-legend-joel-meyerowitz-phones-killed-sexiness-street-most-stunning-shots</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
UCLA issued a statement today saying that Gabriel PIterberg who had been
accused of sexual assault in 2013 “will no longer be teaching at the school.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“Brave Miss World” is scheduled to be shown at the New York Sephardic Jewish
Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to host an evening, Nikki Haley, the former US
ambassador to the United Nations and former Governor of South Carolina who is
often mentioned as a future candidate of the Presidency of the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
A-WA, a trio of Yeminite sisters Tagel, Liron and Tal Hayim is scheduled to
“perform a pre-Purim Yemenite Hafla concert in Tel Aviv today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The Center for Jewish History, the Leo Baeck Institute and the Oxford
University Press are scheduled to host “First Person: Matti Friedman in
Conversation with Lucette Lagnado” where the author Spies of No Country: Secret
Lives at the Birth of Israel discusses his book with the author of The Man in
the White Sharkskin Suit.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
HIAS, the JCRC and ADL are scheduled to co-host “Seeking Asylum at Our
Borders,” a discussion of “what legal rights and protections are afforded
asylum seekers under US and international law, and what action steps you can
take to ensure we continue to grant asylum” at the Edlavitch Jewish Community
Center of Washington D.C <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
In the wake of reports that President Trump said, “he’d win 98% of vote if he
ran in Israeli elections”, his congressional ally Senator Lindsay Graham, after
visiting the Golan is committed to having the United States officially
“recognize” this territory “as belonging to Israel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The nature of Things, an artist book by Keren Anavy & Tal Frank that
celebrate eight years of artistic collaboration, will be displayed today on
Times Square Billboards, on the corner of 41<sup>st</sup> Street and 7<sup>th</sup>
Avenue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
In San Francisco, “Zohar Studios, the Lost Years” an “exhibit of 30 images
depicting Jewish life and the times by 19th-century Jewish immigrant
photographer Shimmel Zohar, whose studio was on the Lower East Side” is
scheduled to open at Contemporary Jewish Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Center for Jewish
History, American Jewish Historical Society, and the American Sephardi
Federation are scheduled to host a discussion on “Midwives, Musicians,
Soldiers, Rabbis:Whose Stories Will We Tell?” which celebrates the release of
“Hunting Elephants.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 6: Confronting
Modernity, 1750-1880, </span></u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">edited by Elisheva Carlebach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host “Take Me Out,” the
society’s contribution to “the Jewish dating scene at Oxford.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The East Bay International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a
screening of <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
In Oakland, CA, A Great Good Place for Books is scheduled to host Antoinette
Constable as she talks about her new book, <u>Natalie in the Shadow of the
Swastika</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Starting this evening, Kerem Shalom of Concord and Congregation Beth David of
Saratoga, California, are scheduled to host a special weekend of online Shabbat
rituals as they mark the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the COVID-19
pandemic. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The Riverway Project is scheduled to present online a “Virtual Riverway
Shabbat” complete with singing, quiet, moments for gratitude, healing and
remembrance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host “welcoming Shabbat
mindful practice’ where attendees “explore and experience two new meditation
techniques form a Jewish perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Pianist Orli Shaham is scheduled to “join the Grand Rapids Symphony for a
live-streamed performance of Poulenc’s "Aubade." The “choreographed
concerto” for piano and 18 instruments is a masterwork that was conceived in
the exciting musical whirlwind of late 1920s Paris. Photo credit: Aleks
Karjaka.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Starting today, the Sonoma County JCC is scheduled to present five new Israeli
films on demand over a 22-day period: “Asia” (drama), “Forgiveness” (comedy),
“Kiss Me Kosher” (comedy), “Here We Are” (drama) and “Mrs. G” (documentary in a
streaming mode that will last until April 22.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Chapter Two Films is scheduled to host “a special virtual Q and A with Daniel
Libeskind to celebrate the opening of Emmy Award winning director Slawomir
Grunberg’s new documentary “Still Life in Lodz.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Congregation Shomrei Torah, Santa Rosa is scheduled to present Rachel
Havrelock, author of “River Jordan: The Mythology of a Dividing Line,” as she
addresses the water situation in Israel, its history, Israeli technologies and
environmental peacebuilding through watershed restoration. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Based on statements made yesterday by Health Ministry Director General Prof.
Hezi Levi as of today Israel will be leaving in place its mask mandate in
public spaces for the foreseeable future despite the success of the country's
COVID-19 vaccination campaign and the consequent fall in coronavirus morbidity.
(As reported by Nina Fuchs)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host “The Glorious Sound of the Piano”
featuring pianist Benjamin Hochman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
The virtual East Bay International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to
continue today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
Great Plains Shabbat Zachor Havdalh is scheduled to begin at 7p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
In San Francisco, in conversation with Contemporary Jewish Museum curator Maya
Benton, photographer Gillian Laub is scheduled to discuss her work, what it
means to be an artist in this moment of rising antisemitism and how we can
ensure a thriving future for Jewish voices and perspectives.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
In Lafayette, CA, Temple Isaiah is scheduled to host the 16th annual Jewish
Family & Community Services East Bay gala benefit, featuring The Braid
theater company performing “True Colors,” a collection of humorous, poignant
stories about identity and belonging.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience, together with Kulanu and Genie Milgrom is
scheduled to present “Finding Judaism Across Africa and Central America.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to present “Music In the Sanctuary,”
a celebration of Women’s History Month with the Music of Alhambra.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
All Jewish Theatre is scheduled to host an “in-person gathering in Washington,
D.C.” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Constitution, Law and Justice Committee Chairman MK Simcha Rothman has
scheduled hearings starting today on the legislation related to Judicial
Reform.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Live or on Zoom the YIVO Yiddish Club is schedule to present “The Yiddish
Forward with editor Rukhl Sheachter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The Gerald W. Lynch Theatre at John Jay College is scheduled to host the 71<sup>st</sup>
Annual Israel Folk Dance Festival and Festival of the Arts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The first session of the Lobel Teachers Colloquium sponsored by Tikvah is
scheduled to begin today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The Jewish Museum Heritage is scheduled to collaborate with the PJ Library in
the Heart of New Jersey for a make-your-own Hamantaschen program.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
As part of the 23<sup>rd</sup> annual Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is
scheduled to host Dan Grunfeld author of <u>By the Grace of the Game: The
Holocaust, A Basketball Legacy and an Unprecedented American Dream</u> at
Mandel JCC with basketball clinic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2024:</span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Holocaust
Awareness Museum and Education Center (HAMEC), Philadelphia Film Society, and
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History are schedule to host a screening
of “One Life” that tells the story of Nicholas Winton and finally give the man who
proved that one person can make a difference some of the recognition he so
richly deserves.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://phillyjfm.org/event/one-life/">https://phillyjfm.org/event/one-life/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
Observance of Equal Pay Day for which Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsh has shared a d'va
haftarah for Equal Pay Day titled, "You Shall Not Defraud Your
Fellow," affirming our sacred commitment to gender equality and economic
justice.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://reformjudaism.org/blog/wrjs-legacy-championing-equitable-pay-all?utm_medium=email&utm_content=2024_3_7">https://reformjudaism.org/blog/wrjs-legacy-championing-equitable-pay-all?utm_medium=email&utm_content=2024_3_7</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The Jewish Book Council’s Paper Brigade is scheduled to host a presentation by “Scott
Nadelson who will discuss “Noble,” a tale about a man whose carefree life in a
shtetl is overturned when the tsar decrees that all Jews must adopt a last
name. What seems to be a perfunctory administrative matter ends up provoking a
meditation on legacy—and how one’s personal legacy can be erased by the broader
strokes of history.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to “Wild
Burning Rage And Song: Replies To Scottsboro” during which attendees can “Experience
voices of resilience as Yiddish and English poems from the Scottsboro era come
to life through stirring music in this world premiere concert.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
As part of the Women on the Move series, the Streiker Center is scheduled to
host a lecture by Lauren Grodesten, author of the novel <u>We Must Not Think of
Ourselves.</u><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to present “Art History Through a
Jewish Lens: Frida Kahlo’s Artistic Tapestry” during which “art historian and
lecturer Ellaine Rosen will explore the artwork that made Frida Kahlo the
iconic feminist figure she is today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The Skirball Academy is scheduled to host the first session of “All Aboard:
Yiddish On A Cruise Ship To Israel,” “an imaginary journey to Israel by sea in
a beginner Yiddish course” taught by retired speech pathologist Naomi Miller.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
12th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 158 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p>melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-54036624403815676032024-03-10T16:03:00.000-06:002024-03-10T16:03:31.718-06:00This Day, March 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">March 11</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">222: Severus Alexander began his reign as Roman
Emperor during which a table in Intercisa (Hungary) was inscribed as follows:
“To the Eternal God! For the salvation of our Lord; the pious, felicitous
Emperor Severus Alexander and the Empress Julia Mamea, mother of the Emperor;
Cosmius, chief of the Spondilla customhouse, head of the synagogue of the Jews,
gladly fulfills his vow.” (Raphael Patai)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=LLuPS1yVDf8C&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=The+Intercisa+tablet&source=bl&ots=yCzDcl2KUi&sig=O5OHF4BxiH_sYJdbyzAbDGR_k6I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BTT-VKC7HtK1oQSr4oCoAg&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=The%20Intercisa%20tablet&f=false"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://books.google.com/books?id=LLuPS1yVDf8C&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=The+Intercisa+tablet&source=bl&ots=yCzDcl2KUi&sig=O5OHF4BxiH_sYJdbyzAbDGR_k6I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BTT-VKC7HtK1oQSr4oCoAg&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=The%20Intercisa%20tablet&f=false</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><a name="_Hlk129259850"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1296: John le Romeyn,
who on his way home from the Papal Curia at Rome in 1292 met in Paris his old
acquaintance , Bonami, the Jews and acquired from his claim to a debt of £300
which was owed to Bonami by the Brindlington Priory, completed his term as
Archbishop of York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk129259850;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1344: In Speyer, a year after the Jews had been
the victims of an Easter Time blood libel the citizens “</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">requested
the king's permission to confiscate the houses of these Jews for the benefit of
the city” – a request which was granted</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1415: Pope Benedict XIII banned the study of
the Talmud in any form and tried to restrict Jewish life completely. The town
of Tortosa, Spain, was the scene of a disputation between Christians and Jews
from 1412 through 1414.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
disputations were always rigged so that the Christians would win.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Pope (or as he described by some the
anti-Pope) was enraged by the lack of conversions which was the cause of the
ban.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1513:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Leo X elected Pope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leo X
succeeded Julius II, the Pope who paid for the painting of the Sistine
Chapel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“To Martin Luther, Leo was the
functioning head of a “kingdom of Antichrist.’”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even his admirers might say that Leo was more a man of the Renaissance
than a Vicar of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He respected
learning, even when that learning was Jewish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In a dispute concerning the Talmud, Leo took the side of Johann Reuchlin
one of the Christian scholars who could read Hebrew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He defended the Talmud, saying that it did
blaspheme Jesus or Christianity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite
the pressure on him to burn the Talmud to the opposed tact and had a Christian
printer produced the text in its entirety, without censorship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leo banned the requirement of the Jew Badge
in his French possessions and refused to enforce it in his Italian
holdings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1640: Today, after his brother had had his hand
chopped before being burned at the stake and following “week of bands of Old
Christians rioting against New Christians ( many of whom were Jews forced to
converts, the Franciscan friar Henrique Solis left Portugal bound for Amsterdam
where he “took the name Eleazar” and remained a leading member of Dutch Jewry
until 1656.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1638(25<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5398): Simon
Auerbach, the son of Rabbi Meshullam Solomon Fischhof-Auerbach and his wife
Miriam Lucerna and the bother of Rabbi Menahem Mendel Auerbach, “who at the age
of twenty-three wrote a penitential poem on the occasion of epidemic that broke
out among children in Vienna in 1634,” passed away today at Eibenschütz<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1670: Birthdate of John Toland, Anglo-Irish
author and philosopher who in 1714, at a time when Jews were still considered
to be outsiders by many Englishmen, wrote “Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews”
in which he advocated “full citizenship and equal rights for the Jewish people<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1704: Clement XI issued “Propagandae Per
Unicersum,” a Papal Bull that “confirmed all the benefits given to converts
under Paul II and expanded them to include giving them the rights over
properties owned by non-converted members of the their families.” (As reported
by jewishhisotry.org)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1739: In Bordeaux, France, Sara and David Nones
gave birth to Mardochee Nones.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1762: Although Rhode Island was considered more
liberal than other states, and although a few Jews had been previously granted
citizenship, the state refused to grant citizenship to Aaron Lopez and Isaac
Eliezer. The court stated that “no person who is not of the Christian religion
can be admitted free of this colony.” Lopez was granted citizenship by
Massachusetts, and the sentence “upon the true faith of a Christian” was
excluded from the oath. Lopez was probably the first Jew to be granted
citizenship in Massachusetts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1763: Birthdate of Baruch Schottlander who
gained fame as Benedict Schott, the itinerant teacher who served as a “tutor in
the house of Herz Beer, the father of composer Jacob Mayerbeer and as an author
who petitioned Napoleon on the matter of improved education.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1770(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5530): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1770: In Birtsmorton Court, Malvern,
Worcestershire, William and Elizabeth Huskisson, gave birth to one of four
sons, MP William Huskisson who supported toward full emancipation of the Jews
and in 1830 “presented a petition signed 2,000 merchants from Liverpool”
calling for the removal of all civil disabilities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1774: Birthdate of Laupheim, Germnay native
Helene Essinger, the wife os Samuel Gronum Wallersteiner with whom she had six
children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1777: In Amsteram, Jonah Jones and his wife
gave birth to Andrew Abner Jones, who first married New York native Miriam
Marks with whom he had three children and then married Rebecca Jones, the
mother of Sarah Rebecca Jones.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1778:</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">David Barrack Hays and Esther (Hetty Asher)
Hays gave birth to “Yitlah” Hays.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1785: Spanishtown, Jamaica, native Abraham
Rodrigues De Leon and his wife gave birth to Esther De Leon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1787(21st of Adar): Rabbi Elimelekh of
Lizhansk, author of Noam Elimelekh, a commentary on the Torah, passed away
today. He was the brother of Rabbi Zušya, of Hanipol (one of my favorite
Chassidim) and a student of the Maggid of Mezeritch the successor to the Baal
Shem tov.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1789(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5549): Ta’anit
Esther; Erev Purim observed as George Washington makes his way to New York to
be inaugurated as President.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1794: In Mt. Pleasant, NY, Jochabed Isaacks and
Michael Marks gave birth to Samson Marks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1796: New York native Moses Myers and Eliza
Judah gave birth to Frederick Myers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1800(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5560): First
Purim of the 19<sup>th</sup> century<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1801: Paul I of Russia is assassinated, leading
the way for his son Alexander I to accede the throne. Paul’s death was no loss
to the Jews of Russia. At the time of his death, Paul was preparing to
implement the recommendations contained in a report entitled, “An Opinion on
How to Avert the Scarcity of Food in White Russia Through the Curbing of the
Jews’ Avaricious Occupations, Their Reformation and Other Matters.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alexander began his reign by adopting a
series of policies that were designed to further degrade and impoverish the
Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the threat of Napoleon loomed
on the horizon, Paul’s policies towards the Jews softened and improved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first Lubavitcher Rebbe urged Jews to
support Alexander in the fight against Napoleon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the Napoleonic threat disappeared
Alexander’s treatment of the Jews became increasingly less sympathetic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the time of his death, he had returned to
the reactionary views that had marked the start of his reign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1807: Birthdate of Arnaud Aron, the German
trained Talmudist who served as a rabbi in Hegenheim before becoming the Chief
Rabbi of Strasburg in his native Alsace.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://opensiddur.org/profile/arnaud-aron/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://opensiddur.org/profile/arnaud-aron/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1810:
One day after she had passed away, 74-year-old Hannah Emdin, “the widow of
Gumpel Emdin” was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1811(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5571): Shushan
Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1812:
Prussian Jews were granted civil rights. The price of citizenship included the
adoption of family names in the Western style. Although later reaction
revoked most of this freedom, the discrimination never returned to the level
existing in the "Middle Ages." That is, until the rise of Hitler.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1816:
One day after she had passed away, Frances Jacobs, the wife of Lieb Jacobs was
buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1819(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5579): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1824(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5584) Fast of Esther observed because 13<sup>th</sup> Adar fell on
Shabbat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827:
Birthdate of Moritz Ellstätter the native of Karlsruhe and “son of a Jewish
furniture trader who served as minster in the government of Baden.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827:
Two days after he passed away, 20-year-old Solomon Marks, the son of Gedaliah
and Catherine Marks was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish
Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1829:
James Graham Lewis married Harriet Davis today at the Great Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1831:
Birthdate of Adolf Neubaur, the native of Hungary and student of rabbinical
literature who worked in the Austrian Consulate at Jerusalem where he began
publishing articles about the Jews of that city. Eventually he made his way to
Oxford where he enjoyed a distinguished career as a reader in Rabbinic Hebrew
and sub-librarian at Bodelian Library. Besides his extensive cataloguing work,
this unsung intellectual hero edited the Aramic text of the Book of Tobit and
discovered a Hebrew fragment of the wisdom text of “Ben Sira.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11456-neubauer-adolf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11456-neubauer-adolf</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.oxfordjewishheritage.co.uk/notable-jews/modern-period/204-adolf-neubauer-1831-1901"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.oxfordjewishheritage.co.uk/notable-jews/modern-period/204-adolf-neubauer-1831-1901</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1833:
In Amsterdam, Aron Mendes Chumaceiro, who served as the “chakam of Curacao in
the Dutch West Indies” and his wife gave birth to Jacob Mendes Chumaceiro who
“was inspector of the Jewish schools of Amsterdam, head and librarian of the
bet ha-midrash Ets Haim, and editor of Het Israelietisch Weekblad.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1838:
Birthdate of Leo Blumenstock von Halban, native of Cracow, the Austrian trained
physician who became “chair of forensic medicine in 1881.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1838:
Abraham Marks married Phoebe Simmons at the Great Synagogue today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841:
In Venice, birthdate of Luigi Luzzatti who “served as the 31<sup>st</sup> Prime
Minister of Italy between 1910 1911; making him the second Jew to hold this
position.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1843:
Birthdate of Borsborn Germany native Karl Abraham.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1846(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5606): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852:
In “Benjamin Disraeli” published today described the various views, most of
them negative, on the appointed of Disraeli to serve as Chancellor of the
Exchequer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much of the criticism was
based on Disraeli’s career as the author of several novels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently being a man of letters should have
disqualified him for such a post.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>According to the author of the article, Disraeli’s literary background
gives him unique qualifications for public life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Besides which, he was the most capable member
of his party serving in the House Commons where the Conservatives were in need
of leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852:
Joel ben Alexander married Ziporah bat Joseph at the Great Synagogue
today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar II, 5613): Rosh Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853:
The Jewish Disabilities Bill came up in the House of Commons for a second
reading. Mr. Ernal Osborne argued “that religious liberty was violated in the exclusion
of Jews from Parliament and thought the question not one of Jewish
disabilities, but of the right of Christians to be represented by whom they
pleased.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several Members of Parliament
“totally opposed the bill on Christian grounds.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar II, 5613): Sixty-eight-year-old Pinchas Selig Rubino passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855:
In Kensington, Middlesex, England, Nathaniel Mayer Montefiore, the Sussex born
son of Henriette and Sir Abraham Montefiore, and his wife Emma Montefiore gave
birth to Charlotte Rosalind Montefiore who became Charlotte Rosalind McIver
when she married Sir Lewis McIver, the Baronet of Salisbury.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855:
In Uhrichville, OH, Amelia Maye and Elias Wolf gave birth to Philadelphia
educated businessman and Jewish community leader Edwin Wolfe, the husband of Miriam
Fleischer, the father of Blanche Kohan and attorney Morris Kohn and the grandfather
of “librarian Edwin Wolf II” who “a member of the banking and brokerage firm
Wolf Brothers & Co. from 1900 until his death,” President of the Jewish
Publication Society, a member of Congregation Rodeph Shalo and the first Jew to
be elected chairman of the Board of Education of Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1857:
Moritz Jacobi of Florence, SC married Charlotte Phillips at Timmonsville, SC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1857:
Moss Emanuel married Fanny Cohen today at the Great Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861:
In Bakau, Romania, Leib Ehrlich and Sarah Kaufman gave birth to Joseph Ehrlich
the multi-lingual fresco painter who “came to the United States in June of
1889, where he eventually became the United States Immigrant Inspector at the
port of Philadelphia while serving as the secretary of the Hebrew Literature
Society and as the director of a Chevra Kadisha in the City of Brotherly Love.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861:
Birthdate of S. Kutner, the native of Poland who became Director of the Jews’
Deaf and Dumb Home in 1894 where his wife served as a matron and who authored
several books including <u>Kutner’s Aid to Solid Geometry.<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5625): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865:
Corporal Jacob Kaufman began his service with Company A of the 101<sup>st</sup>
Regiment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869:
Birthdate of Lednitz, Hungary native Julius Lowenbein who settled in Asheville,
NC where he was president of B’nai B’rith and organized the seventh annual
Zionist conference of the Seaboard Region.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar II, 5632): Rosh Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872:
In Cornwell, England, Jemima Ridpath, and her husband George Cornwell gave
birth to Kathleen Calrice Louise Cornwell, known as the author K.C. Groom who
was the second wife of Herman Klein, the son of Anglo-Jewish Latvian immigrants
with she had three children – Adrian, Daryl and Denise – two of whom followed
in her literary footsteps.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873:
Birthdate of Philadelphia native Dr.Walter Edward Wyle, the University of
Pennsylvania trained economist and author.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Weyl%2C%20Walter%20E.%20(Walter%20Edward)%2C%201873-1919"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Weyl%2C%20Walter%20E.%20(Walter%20Edward)%2C%201873-1919</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873:
In a letter written today, W. Archdall O’Doherty stated that it was a year ago
to the day that he had delivered “control of the Erie Railway to a little
London Jew of the name of Bischsoffsheim.” The letter continues with his
explanation of the financial machinations that the new owners have engaged in
since the sale. [Editor’s Note – The reference is to Bischoffsehim and
Goldschmidt, British bankers, who were the leaders of a group of English
shareholders seeking to oust Jay Gould from his controlling position of the
railroad which he was ruining for his personal financial gain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gould was one of the villains of the Robber
Baron Era.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The letter was written by a
shadowy figure whose role was emerging during the multiple investigations that
were being conducted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His resort to an
anti-Semitic smear was not unusual in certain circles at that time,]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar, 5634): Sixty-nine-year-old James Bondi, a native of Dresden who came
to the United States where he served as rabbi of “the Norfolk Street Synagogue”
in New York and proprietor/editor of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Hebrew Leader</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876:
It was reported today that the Purim Ball, which has been held for several
years at the Academy of Music did not take place this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No reason was given for the change which came
as a surprise because it was so popular with both Christian and Jewish citizens
of New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883:
Hermann Ullman, the Czech born son of Rabbi Benjamin Ullman and Teresia Ester
Ullmann and his wife, Bertha Ullman gave birth to Hugo Ullmann <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5644): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5644): Seventy-three-year-old Levi Herzfeld the historian and rabbi
who, while personally strictly Orthodox, favored “moderate” reforms passed away
at Brunswick, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886:
In Chicago, Rabbis Lesser, Anexter and Oalperstein officiated at the appraisal
of four casks of wine and liquor shipped from Jerusalem for using during the
upcoming holiday of Passover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According
to the appraiser, the wine will carry a duty of three dollars a gallon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wine looks liked “ordinary Rhine wine and
tastes like hard cider.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the
Appraiser finished his work, the religious leaders sealed the casks and recited
the appropriate prayers over them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887:
In South Carolina, Rabbi Rubin officiated at the marriage of Harris Frank and
Sarah C. Isear.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889:
U.S. Secretary of State James G. Blaine took up the case of Herman Kempinski a
Russian born American citizen who had been imprisoned by the Czar’s government
went he returned to his native land on a business trip.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890:
Birthdate Albert Lorch “Al” Loeb who played Center for the Georgia Tech Yellow
Jackets football team in Atlanta, GA “where he was nicknamed ‘The Yiddish
Wildcat’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890:
“Found Dead In A Cellar” published today described the events surrounding the
discovery of a female corpse in a building that is used as a dry goods store by
Moses Levy on the ground floor and as a school by Aitz Chaim, a Talmud Torah
occupying the second and third floors under the direction of Isaac Libermann
and Hermann Rothstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891:
Ignatz Klein swore before Coroner Levy that a girl that he had seen in the
United States named Rose Kohlmeyer was in fact Esther Soloymis, the girl he was
accused of murdering nine years ago in Hungary as part of an alleged blood
libel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892:
Authorities are investigating reports of patient neglect at North Brothers
Island, the site where numerous typhus fever, many of whom are Russian Jewish
immigrants, are supposed to be held until they regain their health or pass
away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892(12th
of Adar, 5652): Sixty-two-year-old Mason Hirsh, an umbrella manufacturer from
Philadelphia, passed away today in New York after being hit by a car two days
ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was the Treasurer of the United
Hebrew Charities of Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894:
“The Treaty in the Reichstag” published today described the debate taking place
in the German parliament over the adoption of a Russian-German Commercial
Treaty; a debate filled with ant-Semitism. Baron von Hammerstein and Lieberman
von Sonnenberg called the treaty “monstrous” because it would allow Russian
Jews to enjoy all the privileges of Germans while avoiding military
service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They “warned the government
that these Russian Jews would inevitably overrun and monopolize entire villages
and absorbed the prosperity of the provinces.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: In Knoxville, TN, attorney Louis
Alexander Gratz, the son of Salomon and Henrietta Gratz, who was a Major in the
Union Army serving with the Army of the Cumberland and fighting at the Battle
of Chickamauga with the 6th Kentucky Cavalry and the Mayor of North Knoxville
and his wife Marion gave birth John Fisher Gratz who rose to the rank of
Captain in the U.S. Army<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896:
Herzl met Reverend William Hechler chaplain to the British Embassy in Vienna who
was tutor in the household of the Grossherzog von Baden who knew the German
Kaiser and thought he could get Herzl an audience with the German ruler.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: Mount Sinai Hospital, the Hebrew
Benevolent Orphan Asylum, the Montefiore Home, the Home for Aged and Hebrews
are each to receive bequests of three thousand dollars from the late Simon
Goldenberg. The United Hebrew Charities and the Hebrew Technical Institute each
will receive bequests of five thousand dollars.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897(7<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5657):
Seventy-seven-year-old lexicographer Daniel Sanders who “published a
translation in verse of the Song of Songs in 1866” passed away today in
Strelitz, Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: “Africa” published today provides a
review of <u>The Redemption of Africa </u>in which Frederic Perry Noble
includes a description of the impact of Abraham’s journey to Egypt on the
continent’s religious and social development.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: “The Best of Histories” published today
listed 143 works that should be purchased by anybody forming a historical
library including The Story of the Jews by J.K. Hosmer and <u>The History of
the Jews</u> by Josephus Falvius translated by William Whiston<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Story_of_the_Jews_ancient_Mediaeval.html?id=rlxmnQEACAAJ"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Story_of_the_Jews_ancient_Mediaeval.html?id=rlxmnQEACAAJ</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://sacred-texts.com/jud/josephus/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://sacred-texts.com/jud/josephus/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: In Konitz, West Prussia, 19-year-old
Ermst Winter, the son of an architect from Prechlau who was going to school in
Konitz did not return to his boarding house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was assumed that he had fallen through the ice and a search was
begun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unbeknownst to everybody,
including the Jews of Konitz, this would mark the start of Konitz Affair, a 20<sup>th</sup>
century blood libel. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900(10<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5660):
Seventy-two-year-old Henrietta Joseph, the Charleston, SC born daughter of Catherine
and Elias Abrahams, the wife o Lizar Horace Joseph and the “mother of Avery S.
Joseph; Sarah Lehmann; Franklin Joseph; Joseph Joseph; Annabel Nathans; Abigail
Joseph; Kate Eiseman; Arthur Joseph; Louisa Joseph and Cecelia M. Eiseman”
passed away today in New Orleans, LA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: It was reported today that Australian
born, English author Joseph Jacobs has come to the United States “to assist in
the work of preparing the Jewish Encyclopedia which will be a complete
collection of everything relating to the Jewish race, its religion, its customs
and its history” which has the support of “almost every Jewish scholar of note
in American, England and continental Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: It was reported today that Reverend
Robert S. MacArthur, the Christian evangilists plans on having two rabbis
attend the upcoming meeting that will include Andrew Carnegie Wu Ting-Fang,
“the Chinese minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: Bloomingdale’s advertised that its “Show
Days of Spring Millinery” would being “informally today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: Twenty-eight-year-old Israel Strauss, the
Brown University undergraduate and Columbia University trained neurologist who
was the Pawtucket, RI born son of Alexander and Hannah Strauss married Hilda
Newborg today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: Zionist leader Oskar Marmorek returns to
Vienna.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While few may know his name
today, the Austrian born architect was an early convert to Zionism joining Max
Nordau and David Wolffsohn as one of Herzl’s key supporters. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: In New York, Mortimer Schiff and Adele
(Neustadt) Schiff gave birth to Dorothy Schiff who “was an owner and publisher
of the New York Post for nearly 40 years.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: Birthdate of Cleveland native and Western
Reserve University alum Julia Stuhlberg Klineman, the wife of Emory Klineman,
the retired chairman of Majestic Specialists and mother of Robert and William
Klineman who “was an officer of the National Council of Jewish Women and the
American Jewish Committee” and who suffered a fatal heart attack in St. Lucia
in 1971.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: Birthdate of leading childhood obesity
and anorexia researcher Hilde Bruch. Raised in a small German town, Bruch
originally wanted to become a mathematician. An uncle convinced her that
medicine was a more practical career for a Jewish woman, and she earned her
doctorate in medicine at the University of Freiburg in 1929. After giving up
her academic career for private practice in response to anti-Semitism within
the university, Bruch fled Germany altogether in 1933, immigrating to England.
After a year in London, she moved to the United States, where she began working
at Babies Hospital in New York City. Bruch began researching obesity in
children in 1937; her work in this area would prove to be groundbreaking. Yet
she left this research in 1941 to study psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins
University. Returning to New York in 1943, she both established a private
psychoanalytic practice and joined the faculty at Columbia University's College
of Physicians and Surgeons. In New York, and at Baylor College of Medicine in
Houston, Texas, where she joined the faculty in 1964, Bruch's research
increasingly focused on the underlying causes of anorexia nervosa. She
published both scholarly and popular articles on eating disorders and continued
to see patients until her eightieth birthday. Her collected work, published as <u>Eating
Disorders: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa and the Person Within</u> in 1973, is
still considered a definitive work on the subject. Bruch died in Houston in December
1984.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: It was reported today that in Russia,
Jewish doctors, who represent a disproportionate number of the Physicians
drafted to serve “in the East” receive nine hundred rubles for traveling
expenses while their Christian counterparts receive 1,250 rubles for travel
expenses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: In Berlin, “a group of Jews here issued a
statement this evening drawing attention to the inauguration of a new period of
persecution of Jews in Russia and alleging that Russian anti-Semites, are
making a systematic attempt to arrange a repetition of the Kishineff massacre.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5666): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: In “Most Interesting Educational
Experiment In New York” published today described efforts of Miss Olive M.
Jones and Miss Julia Richman to educate the children of Russian Jewish
immigrants.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: During a service held today in the
Alexandrovsky Monastery sponsored by the League of the Russian People, “the
orators openly summoned their followers, the ‘Black Hundreds’ to kill the
Jews…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: The West End Synagogue is scheduled to
host “an entertainment for the Sunday School in the synagogue at Amsterdam and
82<sup>nd</sup> Street.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: This afternoon the Hebrew and Sunday
School of Congregation Beth Israel Biku Cholim are scheduled to host a Purim
celebration at Lexington Avenue and 72<sup>nd</sup> Street.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: The Jewish Endeavor Society is scheduled
to host a Purim celebration this afternoon for 150 religious school students.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: “The Young Men’s and Young Ladies’
Auxiliary of the Consumptives’ Sanitarium in Denver, Colorado” is scheduled to
host a bazaar and Purim Ball tonight at the Grand Central Palace.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: In a column entitled “Talk With Josef
Lhevinne,” the Jewish pianist who is visiting the United States discussed a
wide range of topics including the impact of Anton Rubinstein on his career,
his love and admiration for America and his disappointment that he will not be
able to go fishing while in this country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Fishing is favorite diversion, aside from tennis which he plays
constantly to keep down his weight and to diversion to the muscles of his
arms.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: It was reported today that a new
orchestra of 75 American musicians conducted by Manuel Klein, the English born
son of Jewish immigrants from Latvia is scheduled to perform for the first time
at the Hippodrome on March on March 17.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907(25th of Adar, 5667): Seventy-four-year-old
Prussian born Kentucky attorney and uncle of Justice Louis Brandies, Lewis
Naphtali Dembitz who was one of those who placed Lincoln’s nomination in at the
Republican Convention in 1860 and was an early supporter of the Zionist
movement passed away today in Louisville.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/jewishservicesin00demb"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://archive.org/details/jewishservicesin00demb</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=xXcpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA179&lpg=PA179&dq=lewis+n.+dembitz+obituary&source=bl&ots=1ACMxVwxwB&sig=0rnENeZfFzij0TXhNGtyNVF23JM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjdvKONoM3SAhVKTSYKHegABAAQ6AEILTAD#v=onepage&q=lewis%20n.%20dembitz%20obituary&f=false"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://books.google.com/books?id=xXcpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA179&lpg=PA179&dq=lewis+n.+dembitz+obituary&source=bl&ots=1ACMxVwxwB&sig=0rnENeZfFzij0TXhNGtyNVF23JM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjdvKONoM3SAhVKTSYKHegABAAQ6AEILTAD#v=onepage&q=lewis%20n.%20dembitz%20obituary&f=false</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908(8th of Adar II):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hebrew novelist Isaiah Bersadsky passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: Birthdate of Jules Engel “a
Jewish-Hungarian American filmmaker, painter, sculptor, graphic artist, set
designer, animator, film director, and teacher.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: Birthdate of Sidney “Sid” Goldin the
Georgia Tech basketball player who won a Bronze Star while serving in the
United States Navy during WW II and worked for Shell Oil for 40 years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://gatech.giftplans.org/index.php?cID=230"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://gatech.giftplans.org/index.php?cID=230</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: Birthdate of physicist Henry Solomon
Lipson, the native of Liverpool who “was the co-inventor of the Beevers-Lipson
Strip, a calculating device in crystallography.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5671): Parashat
Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><a name="_Hlk129261773"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: Jacob Frank, the
Burlington, VT born son of Dora Shufrom and Joseph Elihu Frank and graduate of
the University of Vermont was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant in the
Coast Artillery Corps of the United States Army.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk129261773;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: Birthdate of Haim Cohen, the Lübeck, born
Israeli legal scholar and jurist who wrote <u>The Trial and Death of Jesus</u>
in 1968 in which he argued that it was the Romans, not the Sanhedrin, who tried
and executed Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: Elevating a Husband written by Clara
Lipman and Samuel Shipman which had originally opened on Broadway at the
Liberty Theatre moved to the Criterion Theatre today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: “Seek Work for the Deaf” published today
described the organization of “a new Jewish charitable society…to be known as
‘The New York Jewish Committee for Deaf” the purpose of which “is to furnish
industrial education and obtain work for the unemployed Jewish deaf persons in
New York” who, according to Rabbi Barnett A. Elzas number between 1,800 and
2,000.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(2nd
of Adar II, 5673): Forty-two-year-old Chicagoan Victor B Strelitz, a member of
the firm of Strelitz Brothers and the husband of Sarah Strelitz passed away
“suddenly in New York City” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
The funeral of Pauline Phillips, the wife of Herman Philips is scheduled to
take place today followed by burial at Waldheim Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5674): Ta’anit
Esther; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: This afternoon fifty members of the
I.W.W.’s Army of the Unemployed “gathered at the doors of the Stulz-Inzer
Synagogue and demanded that they be provided with supper, shelter for the
night, breakfast and a meeting with the Joseph Finkelstein, the president of
the congregation who sent word that he would meet with them after he and his
300 co-religionist had finished with a service that was undoubtedly tied to the
Fast of Esther and who would have gladly feed them if they had shown patience
instead of acting in such an unruly fashion that the police had to be called to
disperse the demonstration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: The Red Cross Fund which Jacob Schiff
serves as Treasurer now totals $467,779.75.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915(25th of Adar, 5675): Eighty-four-year-old
Leopold Caspari, a French-born businessman and politician from Natchitoches,
Louisiana who in 1884 while serving as state representative pushed for the
establishment of Northwestern State University.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: It was reported today that more than
$200,000 has been sent to aid Jews in Russia suffering from the effects of the
Great War while another $150,000 has been by American Jews to aid their
co-religionists “to that part of Poland now held by the Germans.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: Today, “in a telegram to the Russian and
French ambassadors” Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Minister, “put forward
a proposal that the Allies together issue a public declaration supporting
Jewish aspirations in Palestine” which was one step along the path to issuing
the Balfour Declaration in 1917 <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: Mr. and Mrs. Isaac W. Brill, who moved to
Chicago from Cincinnati to live with their daughter Mrs. Samuel Hoffman
celebrated their golden wedding this evening at the Metropole Hotel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
New York Warheit</i> published an interview city editor Isaac Gonickman
conducted with Jacob H. Schiff where the leading member of the American Jewish
Committee expressed concerns about the upcoming congress to be held in
Philadelphia of the danger presented by Zionists who might attend and because
of a “possible loss of the respect and good-will which have shown to so great
an extent” to the Jewish people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916(6<sup>th</sup> Adar II, 5676): Parshat
Vayikra<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916(6<sup>th</sup> Adar II, 5676): Samuel
Dalkowitz a merchant, passed away today in San Antonio, TX.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Sam Franko, who has returned from Europe
performed a concert devoted to Mozart today at the Aeolian Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: In Manhattan, services are scheduled to
begin at 11 a.m. at Beth-El Temple where the sermon will be on “Priest, Prophet
and Mystic.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: In Manhattan, Mayer and Rose Guarlnick
gave birth to Aaron Gurlanick, who gained fame as Aaron Gural, the NYU trained
accountant who went from meter-reader to real estate tycoon, who married Marion
Kat after his first wife Harriet Feil passed away and was the father of
Jeffrey, Jane and Barbara Gural.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/seattle-shul-vandalized-with-graffiti-saying-holocaust-is-fake-history/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/seattle-shul-vandalized-with-graffiti-saying-holocaust-is-fake-history/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: At the Free Synagogue meeting in Carnegie
Hall, Dr. Herbert S. Bigelow is scheduled to preach on “What Shall We Do With
Our Millionaires!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: In New York Dr. Silverman will deliver a
sermon at Temple Emanu-El on “What the World Should Know About the Idealism of
the Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: During World War I Baghdad falls to the
Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Maude. Those welcoming the British
included, “red-fezzed oriental Jews in misfit European clothing…” Baghdad was
part of the Ottoman Empire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to
General Maud, Jews, not Moslems, made up the majority of the city’s
population.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maude probably overstated
the actual number of Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he did
not overstate the economic role the Jewish population played in an area that
children of Israel had lived in since the days of the Babylonian exile.
According to Martin Gilbert, for several years afterwards, their arrival was
celebrated by the Jews of Baghdad as "a day of miracles."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Mrs. Felix Warburg opened her home on New
York’s Fifth Avenue, for a reading by Miss Jenny Mannheimer which was intended
to be fundraiser for the War Relief Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: Grigori Yakovlovich Sokolnikov began
serving as a “full member of the ‘the 7th Bureau and the 7th Secretariat of the
Russian Communist Party.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: Birthdate of Transylvania native and
Harvard trained attorney Benjamin “Ben” Berell Ferencz, the WWII Army Veteran
and husband of Gertrude Ferencz who was “the chief prosecutor for the United
States Army at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, one of the 12 military trials held by
the U.S. authorities at Nuremberg, Germany.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/simon-skjodt-center/work/ferencz-international-justice-initiative/benjamin-ferencz"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/simon-skjodt-center/work/ferencz-international-justice-initiative/benjamin-ferencz</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: Birthdate of Polish native Hirsz Lejb
Marczak who survived the war in Liege.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: The British C-I-C for Palestine quashed
all military proceedings against Jabotinsky and 19 of his comrades for what
came to be seen as self-defense measures taking during the Arab riots in
Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Birthdate of Elisabeth Jenny Jeanne
Meynard who gained famed as Elisabeth Maxwell, the wife of British media tycoon
Robert Maxwell.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5682): Parashat
Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5682): Pauline
Morpurgo, the wife of David Leopold passed away today in Vienna.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: Bernard Baruch and Henry Morgenthau were
among those who pledged to raise $100,000 for the Woodrow Wilson fund of
$1,000,000 which is to be used in the establishment of annual prizes for
meritorious public service.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: Thirty-eight-year-old Columbia trained
attorney and resident of Bayonne, NJ, Aaron Melniker, the Odessa born son of
Julius and Henrietta (Katz) Melkiner who was a combat veteran of the A.E.F and
Republican Party Leader married Gladys Witt today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: The Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid
Society of America which was “an amalgamation of the Hebrew Sheltering House
Association organized in November of 1888 and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
organized in 1901” held its 14<sup>th</sup> annual meeting today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar, 5683):
Seventy-four-year-old Hungarian born and Viennese trained doctor Arpad G.
Gerster a surgeon at Lenox Hill Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital as well as a
Professor of Clinical Surgery at Columbia while writing such books as <u>Recollections
of a New York Surgeon</u> while raising a son with his wife, the former “Anna
Barnard Wynne of Cincinnati”, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: Today, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the head of
the Zionist World Organization, spoke at luncheon at the Ritz-Carlton arranged
by Herman Bernstein, the editor of The Jewish Tribune, where he told “a group
of New York journalists, “that in the future the might be of inestimable value
in reclaiming the desert and the waste lands of the Near East in cooperation
with the Arabs” and that the land was “capable of absorbing 2,000 immigrants a
month” which is double the number now being allowed to settle there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: It was announced today that Rabbi
Alexander Basel will be in charge of the upcoming drive to liquidate “the
funded debt” connect with the newly dedicated Jacob Schiff Center in the Bronx.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: <i>The Jewish Daily News</i> published
“With Independent Artists” by American art critic Marie Trommer the Ukraine
born daughter of Bertha Edline and Bernard Trommer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: The Jewish Agricultural Society issued a
report today compiled by Gabriel Davidson, the general manager of the society
that showed that during the last 25 years, “the Jewish farm population in the
United Sates has grown from one thousand to seventy thousand” with Jews farming
“approximately one million acres.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: “An announcement was made today by Felix
M. Warburg, the honorary Chairman of the $6,000,000 United Jewish Campaign of
New York, of a contribution of $30,000 from Louis D. Beaumont, the American
banker and philanthropist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927(7<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5687):
Sixty-two-yea-old SS Titanic Dr. William Frauenthal, the Wilkes-Barre, PA born
son of Samuel Frauenthal and Henrietta Gertrude Frauenthal and husband of Clara
Heinsheimer who was on his honeymoon and survived the sinking of the ill-fated
ship reportedly took his own life as a result of feelings of guilt over having
survived but not before having written a will which left a bequest of between
three hundred thousand and four hundred thousand dollars to the Hospital for
Joint Diseases which he had founded.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/dr-henry-frauenthal---one-of-the-titanic-survivors-5379.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/dr-henry-frauenthal---one-of-the-titanic-survivors-5379.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: Samuel Lionel "Roxy" Rothafel
opened the theatre that bears his name – Roxy Theater- in New York City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Six years later he would open an even more
famous venue – Radio City Music Hall – that feature the “Roxyettes” who were
later known as the “Rocketts.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(And you
thought those leggy gals were named after a missile.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and State Supreme
Court Justice Louis E. Gibbs were the speakers at tonight’s dinner at the
Concourse-Plaza Hotel which kicked the drive to raise $150,000 which is the
amount the Bronx has been assessed by the United Palestine Appeal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: Seventy-seven-year-old Joseph Toole, who
while Governor of Montana laid the cornerstone for Temple Emanu-El in Helena
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: After recording exclusively for Columbia
since July of 1923, violinist and conductor Leo Reisman signed a contract to
record with Victor (RCA Victor)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: As the world of movies entered the era of
“the talkies” “Asphalt” – one of the last silent films directed by Joe May –
was released in Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: Tonight “in the Crystal Room o the Ritz-Carlton”
Rabbi William Fineshriber of Philadelphia officiated at the wedding of attorney
Sylvan Hobson Hirsch and Ruth Butler who became Ruth Spiegel when she married
Frederic William Spiegel four ears after the death of her first husband.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: A year before moving up to the Light
Heavyweight Division, twenty-two-year-old Abie Bain won his third straight
lightweight bout each of which ended with knocking out his opponent in the
first round. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: The allied Jewish campaign for
reconstruction in Eastern Europe and development in Palestine has been formally
set in motion by a conference at Washington.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: Chief Justice MacDonald of the Court of
Appeals found the defendant Simche Hinkis, a Jewish policeman not guilty of
premediated murder but guilty of willful killing overturning the death sentence
that had been meted out for his role “in the murder of an Arab family at Jaffa
in the riots last August.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: Birthdate of media entrepreneur Rupert
Murdoch. Murdoch’s mother was Jewish. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: A bridge party and Spring fashion show”
is scheduled to”begvein aboard the liner Conte Grande this afternoon “ by the
Women’s Division of the American Pro-Falasha Committee of which Mrs. David E.
Goldfarb is chairman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: In the UK, Joan Elisa Davis and
commodity-trader Ralph Lawson, the son of Gustav Leibson, gave birth to Nigel
Lawson, the Conservative Party leader and journalist who would become the Lord
Lawson of Blaby<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: At NYC City Hall, Mayor Jimmy Walker met
with 10 of 13 of the athletes who will be participating in the Jewish Olympics
before they set sail this evening on SS Majestic. The mayor praised the group
saying that the co-ed cohort of athletes would bring honor and glory to the
United States and New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5693): Parashat
Tetzavah; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: In New Orleans, LA, Isadore Rosen, a
dentist and Anna Rosen gave birth to Benjamin “Ben” M. Rosen the Chairman and
Acting Chief Executive Officer of Compaq Computer Corporation and “co-founder
of the Sevin Rosen Funds” who was the husband of Donna Perret Rosen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://ethw.org/Benjamin_M._Rosen"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://ethw.org/Benjamin_M._Rosen</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: Jewish-owned department stores in
Braunsshweig were looted.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: Florence and Aaron Zacks gave birth to
Gordon Zacks who became Chairman of the Board of R.G. Barry Corporation in
1979.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/02/03/gordon-zacks-obit-compassionate-businessman-friend-to-israel.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/02/03/gordon-zacks-obit-compassionate-businessman-friend-to-israel.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: “A fund of $3,000,000 is to be sought in
this country to finance a program of reconstructive aid for German Jews who are
victims of the anti-Semitic program of the Hitler regime, it was announced today.
The drive will be under the combined direction of the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee and the American Palestine Campaign, and the money will
be used for the rehabilitation of Jews both within and without Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: It was learned today that Dr. Benno
Walter, vice president of the German Jewish fraternity B'nai B'rith, was taken
into custody by secret police on Feb. 28<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: The fourteenth triennial convention of
the National Council of Jewish Women is scheduled to continue for a second day
under the leadership of Mrs. Arthur Brin of Minneapolis. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936(<span class="fc-title"><span style="color: #333333;">17th of Adar, 5696): Seventy-one-year-old Russian born
New York realtor, Zionist and philanthropist Morris Polsky passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span class="fc-title"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
“The Federation of Polish Jews in America made public tonight a telegram to the
Polish Ambassador at Washington that charged local authorities of Przytyk,
Poland, with collusion in anti-Semtic riots there and demanded that the
officials involved be punished.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="fc-title"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1936:
“The ant-Semitism in some countries of Europe is due to the efforts of the
ruling groups to conceal from the masses their failure to cope with critical
economic conditions, Soviet Ambassador Alexander A Troyanovsky.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Editor’s note – It would be interesting to
hear his explanation for anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union.)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1937: As Arab violence continued to mount,</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> The Palestine Post</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> reported that armed Arabs attacked Jews who
plowing fields near Afula.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two Kfar
Tavor farmers, Jacob Kizler and Shlomo Rothenstein, were seriously injured
during the attack by armed. Stanislav Sluga, the 46-year-old Pole who was shot
in a Ness Ziona orange grove, died after being taken to the hospital. Dogs
tracked his alleged Arab assailant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937:
In Berlin, the Ministry of the Interior announced plans for “a further
intensification of the anti-Jewish boycott in Germany” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937(28<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5697): Moscow born theatre director turn movie director Alexis
Granowsky (Abraham Azarkh) who moved from the Soviet Union to the Weimar
Republic after the Russian Revolution and whose works included “Jewish
Happiness” and “Taras Bulba” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://letterboxd.com/director/alexis-granowsky/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://letterboxd.com/director/alexis-granowsky/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://cy.wn.com/alexis_granowsky"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://cy.wn.com/alexis_granowsky</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:
Birthdate of Petr Klager who was deported from Prague in 1942 to Ujazdow where
he was murdered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: The German army entered Vienna. Austrian
Jews were instantly deprived of all civil rights. Physical and mental
oppression of Austrian Jews began, and Austria ceased to exist as in
independent state.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: Birthdate of Joseph Kaplan, the native
New Yorker who gained fame as song and jingle writer Joseph Brooks whose works
include “You’ve Got a Lot to Live” for Pepsi and “Good to the Last Drop
Feeling” for Maxwell House coffee the producer of the famous Passover hagadah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
the prowess of Szapsel Rotholc continued to grow, “the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Idishe Bilder</i> newspaper ran a front-page headline proclaiming
"Our Szapsel, the boxing hero." The article went on to point out that
Szapsel<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Yiddish version of the
Hebrew name Shabtai, means sheep, but his army of fans saw him as a far more
dangerous animal. "Who would ever have imagined," the correspondent
waxed, "that the Jewish people, the People of the Book, would take the
sport of boxing to their hearts? After all, Jews - who are, by their very
nature, gentle souls - have never been thought capable of such things."
The article went on to describe Rothholc as "our jewel, who made the
Germans eat dirt."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939(20<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5699): Parashat
Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson is scheduled to
deliver a sermon on “Seeing God in Retrospect” this morning at Temple Emanu-El.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Rabbi Nathan Stern is scheduled to
deliver a sermon on “Living on the Heights” this morning at West End Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Rabbi Louis I. Newman is scheduled to
deliver a sermon on “Our Affirmations as Jews Today” this morning at Temple
Rodeph Sholom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel is scheduled
to deliver a sermon “My Reasons for Hope” this morning at Temple Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Rabbi Alexander Zegel is scheduled to
deliver a sermon this morning on “A Foretaste of Paradise” at the Fort
Washington Synagogue. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: The Fort Washington Synagogue is
scheduled to its annual reception this evening at the American Woman’s
Association in Manhattan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Rabbi Harold H. Mashioff is scheduled to
deliver a sermon “No One Has a Monopoly on Brotherhood” this morning at the
Temple of the Covenant.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Rabbi Asher Block is scheduled to deliver
a sermon on “Idle Worshippers at Temple Gates of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar II, 5700): Rosh
Chodesh Adar II <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar II, 5700): Charles
Polakoff, the former president of the Jewish Federation of Buffalo passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://nyheritage.nnyln.org/digital/collection/p16694coll1/id/3699/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://nyheritage.nnyln.org/digital/collection/p16694coll1/id/3699/</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941 The list of donors to the Committee to
Defend America by Aiding the Allies, an organization opposed to the
isolationist America First Committee, published in the newspapers today
included H.Z. Szold and Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman in the $500 to $1,000 category
and Aaron Straus, Alvin Untermyer and Irwin Untermyer in the $250 to $500 category.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: Mrs. Isaac Herzog, the wife of the chief
rabbi of Palestine is in the United States helping in the campaign to establish
Palestine “as the Jewish national homeland.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: “In Covington, GA, just east of Atlanta,”
Harry Dietz, “an immigrant from Russia who owned a dry goods store” and his
wife “Iola (Parker) Dietz” the local librarian gave birth to Elizabeth Camillla
Dietz who gained fame as Camilla Dietz Bergeron, the stockbroker turned jewelry
maven and wife of Jean Maurice Georges Bergeron. (As reported by Sam Roberts)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/obituaries/camilla-dietz-bergeron-stockbroker-turned-jeweler-dies-at-76.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/obituaries/camilla-dietz-bergeron-stockbroker-turned-jeweler-dies-at-76.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: Birthdate of Binghamton, NY native
producer David Weisman whose works included “Kiss of the Spider Woman” and
“Ciao! Manhattan” and who is the brother of director Sam Weisman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1942<b>:</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Gestapo used Jews for target practice at
Janowska labor camp. Chief Dibauer and Lieutenant Bilhause would pick them off
from their window as they carried loads of rocks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: Fifty-year-old Rudolf Propper who had
been transported from Pilsen to Terezin earlier in the year was transported
from Terezin to Isbica today where he was later murdered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: Birthdate of Robert Bryant “Bob” Plager
the Ontario native and son of a hockey official who played in the NHL for the
Rangers and the St. Louis Blues.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: “The Sephardic Jewish community of
Monastir, historically the largest Jewish community in Macedonia was
deported…In cooperation with the Germans, Bulgarian military and police
officials rounded up 3,276 of Monastir's Jewish men, women, and children,
deported them to German-controlled territory and turned them over to the
custody of German officials. The Germans transported the Jewish population of
Monastir and environs to their deaths in Treblinka as part of their plan to
murder all European Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: “Bulgarian police monitored by SS rounded
up the entire Jewish population of Skopje, Bitola and Štip.The population was
sent to temporary detention center in the state tobacco warehouse known as
"Monopol" in Skopje. Among 7,215 people who were detained in
warehouses there were:[34]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>539
children less than 3 years old,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>602
children age 3 to 10 years<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1172
children age 10 to 16 years<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>865
people over 60 years old<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>250
seriously ill persons (tied to the bed)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4
pregnant women who have given birth in the detention camp<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4 people
died at the arrival in the camp.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/09.asp"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/09.asp</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: Birthdate of
Mark R. Cohen, “a leading scholar of the history of Jews in the Middle Ages
under Islam” with degrees from Brandeis, Princeton and Columbia who “won the
National Jewish Book Award” for his tome <u>Jewish Self-Government in Medieval
Egypt</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/titles/331.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://press.princeton.edu/titles/331.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5704): Parashat Ki Tisa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1944(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5704): Eighty-eight-year-old Newark, NJ department store owner and
philanthropist Louis Bamberg the Baltimore born son of Theresa Hutzler “whose
family ran Hultzer Brothers” department store and Elkan Bamberger and the brother
of Caroline Bamberger Fuld, his business partner “who sold his department store
to R.H. Macy and Company” and who supported several charities including “Newark’s
YMHA, the Newark Museum, and the New Jersey Historical Society” passed away
today after which “</span><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">all flags in Newark were flown at </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-staff" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" title="Half-staff"><span style="background: white; color: #3366cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">half-staff</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> for three days, and his large department store closed
for a day</span>.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bamberger-louis">https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bamberger-louis</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://newarkmemories.com/memories/511.php">https://newarkmemories.com/memories/511.php</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.hamiltonplace.com/products/product/louis-bamberger-department-store-innovator-and-philanthropist-barnesnoble-690d98">https://www.hamiltonplace.com/products/product/louis-bamberger-department-store-innovator-and-philanthropist-barnesnoble-690d98</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: The plan of
Captain von Breitenbach to carry a pistol into a staff meeting and shoot Hitler
today was thwarted by “a Führer directive excluding junior officers from Führer
briefings.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1945: Birthdate of
Mark Stein</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
vocalist/organist and founder of Vanilla Fudge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: Birthdate of Antony Lerman, “a British
writer who specializes in the study of anti-Semitism, the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, multiculturalism, and the place of religion in society.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: “I Am a Fugitive” a Spanish language
comedy with a script co-authored by Hans Wilhelm was released today in Mexico.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Levy Shklonik, the secretary of the Tel
Aviv Labor organization told its members today “that the time would come when
the labor movement would have to undertake a bloody anti-terrorist
struggle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His message echoed the words
of Hashomer Hatzair (Young Guard Movement) which called on the Federation of
Jewish Labor to join in the fight against terror and kidnapping.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: “The American League for a Free Palestine
distributed an announcement in the name of the American Sea and Air Volunteers
for Hebrew Repatriation which identified itself as the organization that had
had recruited the volunteer crew of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ben
Hecht.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Kibbutz Yakum (He Shall Rise) was
established on the Plain of Sharon north of Tel Aviv.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The collective was founded by members of the
Hashomer Hatzair (Young Guard Movement).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: A group of American, Rhodesian and South
African Jewish war veterans who had served variously with the American
military, the British Army and South Africa’s Sixth Armored Division have
founded Maayan Baruch (Spring of Barch), a kibbutz in the Upper Galilee near
the borders with Syria and Lebanon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
kibbutz is named in honor of Bernard Gordon of blessed memory who had served as
vice president of the South African Zionist Federation and who had left half of
his large estate to the Jewish National Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948(30<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5708): Rosh
Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948(30<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5708): Arabs bombed the headquarters of the Jewish Agency.
The explosion of the car bomb in the courtyard of KH-UIA's building, tragically
claiming the lives of Keren Hayesod - United Israel Appeal's Director, Leib
Jaffe and 11 other Keren Hayesod - United Israel Appeal employees.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The
Jewish Agency was the unofficial government of the
Jewish Community (the Yishuv) in what was to become the state of
Israel. This attack was part of the unofficial war waged by the
Arabs designed to "drive the Jews into the sea" prior to the
British leaving Palestine in May, 1948.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948:
Today “President Truman declared that a story by a columnist whom he did not
name writing in The New York Mirror, quoting him” as saying “that New York Jews
were disloyal was ‘vicious’ and ‘a lie out of the whole cloth’” after which
Drew Pearson issued a statement identifying himself as the columnist and
standing by his story.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948:
“Forty-one Democratic members of the Senate and the House of Representatives”
made public a letter to Secretary of State Marshall in which among other things
they expressed their surprise at “the unilateral course adopted by” the United
States “prohibiting the export of arms to the Middle East thus increasing ‘the
odds against the Jewish defenders’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>while
Arab bands, supported by neighboring Arab states were being supplied with
stocks of weapons, some of which were coming from current British shipments.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949:
The first Israeli troops reached the Gulf of Aqaba where a white bedsheet with
a hand drawn blue Star of David is hoisted as a sign of the Jewish state’s
claim to the area around Eilat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950(22nd
of Adar, 5710): Dr. Mordecai Elash, Israel’s Ambassador to Great Britain,
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950:
“Perfect Strangers” a comedy produced by Jerry Wald and featuring Thelma Ritter
and Ned Glass was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950:
“The visiting Istanbul Fenerbache soccer players were carried off the hield on
the shoulders of Israeli fans today after they had whipped the Tel Aviv Hapoel
3 to 0 in the first mach of their Israel tourney.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The enthusiastic demonstration was probably
the result of Turkey’s announcement this week that it was recognizing the state
of Israel, making Turkey the first Moslem country to do so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
Milwaukee, WI, “Charlotte A. (Lefstein) Zucker” and “real estate developer
Burton C. Zucker” gave birth to director Jerry Zucker the brother of David
Zucker and actress Susan Breslau, whose works included spoofs like “The
Kentucky Fried Movie” and “romantic mysteries” like “Ghost.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: Birthdate of MK Aryeh Gamliel<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5712): Final
Purim observed during the Presidency of Harry S Truman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1952: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jerusalem Post</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> reported that the
Israel Medical Association warned that the "deteriorating nutrition
situation was inherently dangerous." The Minister of Agriculture, Levi
Eshkol, voiced full support for "Magen David Yarok" the planting of
vegetables in home gardens. Urgent steps were taken to solve the problems of
theft, pilferage and smuggling in the Haifa port which assumed dangerous
proportions. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953:
“My Three Angels” “a comedy by Samuel and Bella Spewack…opened on Broadway at
the Morosco Theatre” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954:
“The Golden Apple,” a Jerome Moros musical opened today at the Phoenix Theatre
where it “was one of the first musicals produced “Off-Broadway.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955(17th
of Adar, 5715): Anna Freud, a sister of Sigmund Freud, passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5715): Seventy-eight-year-old NYU and JTS alum Bernard Calonius
Ehreneich, the Hungarian born son of Henry Reuben and Hannah Ehrenreich, the
husband of Irma Bock and the father of Rosemarie and Louis Sigmund Ehrenreich
who served as a rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel in Atlantic City,
Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Philadelphia and Congregation Kahl Montgomery in
Montgomery, AL passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=109204"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=109204</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955:
Archibald Maule Ramsay the former British military officer and Member of
Parliament who was such a rabid anti-Semite and so sympathetic to the Nazis
that he became the only member of the House of Commons “to be interned under
Defense Regulation 18B which allowed the government to suspend habeas corpus to
imprison Nazi sympathizers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956:
At the Terrace Room of the Plaza Hotel Dr. Israel Goldstein officiated at the
wedding of Carole Sue Rosenfeld and Phi Beta Kappa Dartmouth graduate Arnold
Katz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956:
It was announced today textile consultant J. B. Goldberg and Ephraim Freedman,
the head of Macy’s Bureau of Standards are scheduled to speak at the three day
conference sponsored by the International Rayon Synthetic Fibers Committee to
be held in Sweden starting on October 1.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held in New York today for Phillip
Abramson, the “beloved brother of “Murray and Peggy Zucker.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957:
The 1957 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament which would be dominated
by Lennie Rosenbluth and the North Carolina Tarheels opened today in Kansas
City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957:
Funeral services are scheduled to held today at the Pelham Funeral Home for
David Gutman, Colonel, U.S Army (ret), the husband of Ali Bergman Gutman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959:
Premiere of “Raisin In The Sun” the controversial play produced by Philip Rose
who personally raised the money to bring the drama to Broadway. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960(12<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5720): Seventy-year-old <span style="color: black;">Brooklyn native Samuel
R. Gerber the “industrial engineer and pioneer in the field of time
management,” and “a graduate of Cooper Union and the Polytechnic Institute of
Brooklyn” who was President of both the Kent Metal Manufacturing Company and
the Ortho Chemical Corporation and who was married to Tyl Gerber with whom he
had one son and one daughter passed away today.</span><span style="color: #1f497d;">
<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962(5<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5722): Eighty-year-old Smolensk native and NYU trained lawyer
Alexander Kahn, the general manager and publisher of The Jewish Daily Forward
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962:
In New York City, Sally and Laurence “Larry Berg” gave birth to actor and
director Peter Berg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1963:
Malcolm Cowley announced today that “twelve artists, including Leonard Baskin,
the graphic arts and sculptor on the faculty of Smith College and Stanley
Kuntiz, the author of three volumes of poetry, have been elected to the
National Institute of Arts and Letters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964:
Birthdate of actor Peter Berg,<b> </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">best
known as</span> Dr. Billy Kronk on TV's <i>Chicago Hope </i>whose <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">father is Jewish and his mother was
Catholic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964: Release date for “Becket” with a script by
Edward Anhalt and music by Laurence Rosenthal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966(19<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5726): Nineteen days
before his 60<sup>th</sup> birthday, Morris Adler, the rabbi of Shaaray Zedek
in Detroit who had been shot by mentally ill attacker during Shabbat services
on February 12 succumbed to his wounds in Sinai Hospital in the presence of his
“wife, the former Resnkick” and their daughter Shulameth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.thejewishnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Rabbi-Adler.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.thejewishnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Rabbi-Adler.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966(19<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5726): Seventy-five-year-old
Riga born Harry Edison “one of five brothers who started with one shoe store in
Atlanta in 1921 and built into the nationwide chain of Edison Brothers, Inc
consisting of 535 stores and who raised two children, Edna and Sidney, with his
wife “the former Mae Goodhart, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/03/12/79971628.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/03/12/79971628.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5727): Parashat Pekudi; Shabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5727): Eighty-one-year-old Abraham Shapiro, the cantor emeritus of
Temple B’nai Abraham in Newark, NJ, the father of Carl and Leon Shapiro passed
away today in Beth Israel Hospital in Newark.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/03/12/83028201.html?pageNumber=86"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/03/12/83028201.html?pageNumber=86</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967:
“Israel's "ruling circles" were accused today by Izvestia, the Soviet
Government newspaper, of participating in an anti-Soviet cold war led by the
United States.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967:
At the Temple Young Israel in the Bronx, Rabbi Max Hoch officiated at the
wedding of Bernice Nierenberg, a NYC English teach and Edward H. Wenger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967:
At Temple Beth-El in Long Island, Rabbi Edward T. Sandrow and Cantor Samuel T.
Dubrow officed at the wedding of Ileene Toby Ruin and Seaman Jason Michael
Stern, U.S.N.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Birthdate of singer and songwriter Lisa Loeb.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(21st
of Adar, 5729): Robert “Bob” Briscoe the son of Lithuanian immigrants who
served in the Irish Parliament for almost thirty years passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971:
“The Law Man,” a western directed and produced by Michael Winner, with music by
Jerry Fielding and co-starring Lee J. Cobb was released in the United States
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971:
“A New Leaf” a comedy written and directed by Elaine May (in her first
directorial role) who co-starred alongside Walter Matheau was released in the
United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5732): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudi; Shabbat HaChodesh.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5732): Sixty-one-year-old Shmuel Abarbanel, the Polish born writer and
“anarchist” who spent WW II in the Soviet Union, moved to Israel in 1949 and
who “was co-editor of the anarchist Problemen (Problems), edited from 1964, and
of the memorial volume for Skarżysko-Kamienna (Tel Aviv, 1973), <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wrote for Fraye shriftn (Free writings) in
Vilna, as well as Forverts (Forward) and Fraye arbeter shtime (Free voice of
labor) in New York)” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/5462/Abarbanel,%20Shmuel%20(July%2015,%201910%E2%80%93March%2011,%201972)"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/5462/Abarbanel,%20Shmuel%20(July%2015,%201910%E2%80%93March%2011,%201972)</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972:
Birthdate of Benjamin Cohen the French singer no known Benjamin Diamond.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973:
Today, the New York Times “reported on dwindling enrollments at Jewish day
school” which “was somewhat odd” because this was “at a time when ‘a reordering
of priorities seems to have been taking place in Jewish life as mounting
concern about Jewish cultural survival was metropolitan areas Jews to place
greater importance on Jewish education<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(28th
of Adar, 5735): Fifty-two-year-old former MK Meanchem Cohen passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(28<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5735): Sixty-year-old Ella Drori, the St. Petersburg born daughter of
Alexander Govorkovski and Ester Goverkovsky and wife of Amnon Drori passed away
today in Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(28<sup>th</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of Adar, 5735): Victor Perlmutter, a native
of Russia who came to the United States in 1920 and became a leader of the
Jewish community in Washington, DC, passed away today in Miami Beach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1976(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5736): Daniel Ezrin, the Ritual Director at Beth El Congregation
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1976:
“Robin and Marian” an off-beat look at aging Robin Hood and Maid Marian with a
script by James Goldman was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977:”
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh,” “an American animated musical
anthology comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions featuring classic
songs by the Sherman Brothers including "Winnie the Pooh" and
"The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" was released today in the United
States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1977:<b> </b></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
Jerusalem Post</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
reported from Washington that Hanafi Moslem terrorists held more than 100
mostly Jewish hostages in three buildings and threatened to chop off their
captives’ heads, unless their demands were met. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
was pleased with US President Jimmy Carter¹s definition of peace and with his
distinction between "defense lines" and "legal borders."
But he forecast a tough clash with the US over Israel¹s final borders.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977: More than 130 hostages held in
Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were freed after ambassadors from three
Islamic nations joined the negotiations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The B’Nai Brit building was one of the three buildings which the Muslims
had seized.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977(21st
of Adar, 5737): Palestinians killed 34 Israelis on the Tel Aviv-Haifa Highway. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar II, 5738): Rosh Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978:
The Palestine Liberation Organization carried out a massive terrorist attack in
Israel. PLO terrorists from Lebanon first killed Gail Rubin, an American Jewish
photographer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978:
“In his study at Temple Emanuel, Rabbi Ronald Sobel officiated at the wedding
of university of Wisconsin graduate Susan Lee Grant, “an arbitrator with the
American Arbitration Association, is owner and president of S. L. Grant
Securities Inc., and the vice president of the Commerce Reporting Company,
stenotype reporters” and Morton Libov, “president and owner of Morton Libov
Productions Inc., Los Angeles and New York producer of television specials,
shows and commercials. His father was in the wholesale and retail tobacco and
confectioner.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978:
Eleven Palestinian terrorists landed in Zodiac boats on a beach just outside
Ma'agan Michael and from there ventured towards Tel Aviv in a hijacked bus in
what has become known as the Coastal Road massacre where 39 Israelis were
killed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978:
Terrorists killed 45 Israelis during an attack on a mail truck at Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5739): Seventy-eight-year-old Rabbi Maxwell Henry Dubin, the Lithuania
born son or Rose Paglin Dubinksy and Harry Hessel Dubinksy who in 1925 was
hired by the Wilshire Boulevard Temple “to direct the Religious School and
adult program” and served as an associate rabbi with “Rabbi Magnin for 50
years.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://hup.medium.com/modernity-zionism-and-the-menorah-6aa2421fabd2">https://hup.medium.com/modernity-zionism-and-the-menorah-6aa2421fabd2</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.si.edu/object/archives/components/sova-aaa-kraspete-ref203?destination=collection/search%3Fpage%3D3%26edan_q%3D%252A%253A%252A%26edan_fq%255B0%255D%3Dobject_type%253A%2522Notes%2522%26edan_fq%255B1%255D%3Dtype%253A3d_package%2520OR%2520type%253Aead_collection%2520OR%2520type%253Aead_component%2520OR%2520type%253Aecr%2520OR%2520type%253Aedanmdm%2520OR%2520type%253Aevent%2520OR%2520type%253Aobjectgroup%2520OR%2520type%253Asi-unit%26edan_local%3D1">https://www.si.edu/object/archives/components/sova-aaa-kraspete-ref203?destination=collection/search%3Fpage%3D3%26edan_q%3D%252A%253A%252A%26edan_fq%255B0%255D%3Dobject_type%253A%2522Notes%2522%26edan_fq%255B1%255D%3Dtype%253A3d_package%2520OR%2520type%253Aead_collection%2520OR%2520type%253Aead_component%2520OR%2520type%253Aecr%2520OR%2520type%253Aedanmdm%2520OR%2520type%253Aevent%2520OR%2520type%253Aobjectgroup%2520OR%2520type%253Asi-unit%26edan_local%3D1</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5740): Mikhail Abramovich Kaufman, the native of pre-Revolution
Bialystok who gained fame as a cinematographer and photographer passed away
today in Moscow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/movies/dziga-vertov-films-at-museum-of-modern-art.html?_r=0&login=email"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/movies/dziga-vertov-films-at-museum-of-modern-art.html?_r=0&login=email</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980:
In the Moscow Igor Guberman was the defendant in the “anti-Zionist” trial that
began today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982:
In an article entitled “The Dance: By Pola Nirenska,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i> correspondent Anna Kisselgoff described the
travailed filled life of this accomplished dancer and choreographer whose life
took her from pre-war Poland, through the days of the Holocaust to a new life
in America.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983:
“10 to Midnight” a crime-thriller filmed by cinematographer Adam Greenberg was
released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984:
In the “The British and The Beginnings of The Jewish State” published today J.
Robert Moskin provided a detailed reviews of <u>The High Walls of Jerusalem</u>
by Ronald Sanders that examines the origins of the Balfour Declaration and the
British Mandate in Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985:
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who promised “a policy of openness (glasnost) and
restructuring (perestroika) was appointed General Secretary of the Communist
Party today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986:
The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles granted Leo Frank a pardon,
citing the state's failure to protect him or prosecute his killers, though they
stopped short of exonerating him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987:
Secretary of State George P. Shultz today called the Israeli spy case ''very
disheartening'' and said a decision by the Israeli Government to investigate
would have ''a cleansing effect.''<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Testifying before the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the House
Appropriations Committee, Mr. Shultz also confirmed reports that all United
States officials in Israel had been ordered to have no contact whatever with
Col. Aviem Sella or with the Tel Nof Air Base, which he commands. Colonel Sella
has been indicted by a Federal grand jury on charges of espionage in the case
of Jonathan Jay Pollard, a United States Navy employee who has been sentenced
to life in prison for giving intelligence information to Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989:
In Leningrad, “Irina (née Korina) and Viktor Yelchin, a pair figure skaters who
were celebrities as stars of the Leningrad Ice Ballet for 15 years” gave birth
to Russian-born, American actor Anton Yelchin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/jun/20/anton-yelchin-obituary-film-actor"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/jun/20/anton-yelchin-obituary-film-actor</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989:
“Eighteen years after Yuli Edelstein first applied for an exit visa to Israel,
he and his family finally left the Soviet Union.” (As reported by Laura Bialis)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990(14<sup>th
</sup>of Adar, 5750): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1992(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5752): Seventy-nine-year-old screenwriter and director Richard
Brooks whose versatility enabled him to create films about inner city teenage
delinquents and decadent southerners passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/13/movies/richard-brooks-79-screenwriter-and-director-of-dramas-is-dead.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/13/movies/richard-brooks-79-screenwriter-and-director-of-dramas-is-dead.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1992(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5752): Eighty-seven-year-old “Laslo Benedek, a cameraman,
screenwriter and director whose directing credits include "Death of a
Salesman" (1951) and "The Wild One" (1953), passed away today at
Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/14/arts/laslo-benedek-87-film-director-known-for-wild-one-is-dead.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/14/arts/laslo-benedek-87-film-director-known-for-wild-one-is-dead.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993:
Silent Screen, “an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse” owned by Sonny and
Leah Ray Werblin died today in Lexington, KY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994(28<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5754): Sixty-six-year-old Arthur B. Cohn, the son of Louise and Arthur
Benjamin Cohn passed away today after which he was buried in Waynesville, MO.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994:
U.S. premiere of “The Hudsucker Proxy” directed by Joel Coen, produced by Ethan
Coen with a script by the Coen brothers and Sam Raimi and starring Paul Newman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5755): Parsahat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995:
Queen’s Holy Land” published today described the impact of those come to pay
homage at the Rebbe’s burial site.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/11/nyregion/queens-holy-land-paying-homage-at-rebbe-s-grave.html?searchResultPosition=2"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/11/nyregion/queens-holy-land-paying-homage-at-rebbe-s-grave.html?searchResultPosition=2</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997:
A revival of “Lady in the Dark is a musical with music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by
Ira Gershwin and book and direction by Moss Hart” opened “on the West End at
the Royal National Theatre” starring Maria Friedman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997(2nd
of Adar II, 5757): Eighty-four-year-old composer Hugo Weisgall passed away
today. (As reported by Paul Griffiths)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/12/arts/hugo-weisgall-opera-composer-dies-at-84.html?scp=1&sq=%22The+Stronger%22+%22Hugo+Weisgall%22&st=nyt"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/12/arts/hugo-weisgall-opera-composer-dies-at-84.html?scp=1&sq=%22The+Stronger%22+%22Hugo+Weisgall%22&st=nyt</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999:
In ceremonies at New York City's 92nd Street Y, Rachel Adler was awarded the
National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Thought. The award recognized “<u><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Engendering Judaism: A New Theology and
Ethics</span>,”</u> which set forth a new model for integrating modern feminism
with traditional Jewish theology.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000(4<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5760): Parashat Pekudi<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000:
At the Hilton in Short Hills, NJ, Rabbi Charles A. Kroloff officiated at the
marriage of University of Wisconsin graduate Sally Anne Lewis and Indiana
University graduate Steven Adam Meisner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5761): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> The New
York Times</i> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or special
interest to Jewish readers including “<u>Martyrs' Crossing”</u> by Amy Wilentz
and “<u>Paradise Park”</u> by Allegra Goodman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2001:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A
Class Act, “a quasi-autobiographical musical loosely based on the life of
composer-lyricist Edward Kleban, who died at the age of 48 in 1987” “
transferred to Broadway today at the Ambassador Theatre, where it ran for 30
previews and 105 regular performances.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: In New York, premier performance of “I Will
Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer” by Victor Klemperer; adapted by
Karen Malpede and George Bartenieff; translated by Martin Chalmers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002: Israel lifted Yasser Arafat's three-month
confinement in West Bank.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: Representative James P. Moran, a Democrat
from Virginia apologized today for telling an Episcopal Church forum<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that “Jewish leaders were influential enough
to push” the United States “toward war” because “if it were not for the strong
support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq we would not be doing
this” i.e. invading Iraq.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004: Seventy-one-year-old “Gordon Zacks is
stepping down as president and chief executive officer of R.G. Barry Corp.
after 50 years with the company.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2004/03/08/daily22.html?page=all"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2004/03/08/daily22.html?page=all</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004 The Colloquium “Jacques Faitlovitch and
the Jews of Ethopia being held in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv came to an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004:
In “in the first modern Islamist attack on European soil 191 people were killed
and another 1,857 were injured when a series of terrorist bombs were detonated
today in Madrid.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: The United States government reached a
$25.5 million settlement with the families of Jewish Hungarian Holocaust
victims in the so-called Nazi "Gold Train" affair and will
acknowledge the U.S. Army's role in commandeering a trainload of the families'
treasures during World War II.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: A London revival production of “Once in a
Lifetime” written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman came to an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: Spain began a somber remembrance of the
Madrid terror bombings on this, the second anniversary of the attacks - with
plans for Christians, Muslims and Jews to join in prayers for peace, and for
silence to descend at a memorial set up for victims<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007 In Nagoya, Jewish professional wrestler
Matt Bloom and Travis Tomko defeated Manabu Nakanishi and Takao Ōmori to win
the IWGP Tag Team Championship.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: After 117 performances the curtain came
down on a revival of the “The Apple Tree with music by Jerry Bock and Lyrics by
Sheldon Harnick which had been produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: The Central Conference of American
Rabbis, a 1,500-member group representing Reform Rabbis opened its annual
meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: An exhibition entitled “Biblical Art in a
Secular Century: Selections, 1896-1993” featuring that includes the works of
such Jewish artists as George Segal and Ben-Zion Weinman, as well as
outstanding non-Jewish artists, at New York’s Museum of Biblical Art comes to
an end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: The Reconstructionist movement formally
names Rabbi Toba Spitzer to head its Rabbinical Association. Rabbi Spitzer is
the first avowed Lesbian to lead such a Jewish group.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> The
New York Times </i>features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including “<u>The Gospel of Food:<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Everything You Think You Know About Food Is<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wrong”</span></u><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">by Barry Glassner and “At<u> the Same Time”</u>
by Susan Sontag<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> The
Washington Post</i> features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including “<u>Waiting for Daisy”</u> by
Peggy Orenstein. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: The 92<sup>nd</sup> Street Y presents
“Dennis Prager: The Case For Judaism,” featuring the popular radio talk show
host and author.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: In Jerusalem famous Israeli singer Ronit
Shahar performs in an acoustic concert at Beit Shmuel, singing many of her hit
songs. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008:<span style="color: black;"> </span>The
Belgian government and banks agreed to pay €110 million ($170 million) to
Holocaust survivors, families of victims and the Jewish community for their
material losses during Word War II.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: A Kuwaiti newspaper published
unprecedentedly harsh criticism of the terror attack which killed eight
students at Mercaz Harav Yeshiva. "The attack at the yeshiva was a
barbaric murder of eight children who were engaged in religious study,"
read an op-ed in the daily <i>Al-Watan</i>. "This odious and inhuman
terror attack exemplifies the extremist and inhuman path of the terror
organizations Hamas and Hizbullah." The writer goes on to assert that
"the terror attack must prompt the free world to comprehend the magnitude
of terrorism and its threats and to realize that a clear and unequivocal stance
must be assumed against it. There can be no negotiations with terrorism that
indiscriminately aims itself at students, women and babies without any
consideration for the means and the targets." Contrasting the terror
attack with the IDF's operations in the Gaza Strip, the writer explains that
"there is no link between a murderous terrorist act and the inadvertent
killing of civilians in response to the firing of rockets by Hamas." The
piece presented a stark contrast to the main current in the Arab press, which
presented almost sweeping praise for the "heroic operation."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Jewish American playwright David Mamet
announced a shift in political view and allegiance with an essay in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Village Voice</i>, “<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009 (15 Adar, 5769):
Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5769): Physicist David Medved, the son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants
whose “interest in science” stemmed from a chemistry set he received for his
Bar Mitzvah and who almost made it as an astronaut going to Mars passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel/David-Medved-scientist-and-entrepreneur-dies-at-83"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jpost.com/Israel/David-Medved-scientist-and-entrepreneur-dies-at-83</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/michaelmedved/2009/03/12/the_legacy_of_david_medved_a_zest_for_life_guest_blog_by_diane_medved"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://townhall.com/tipsheet/michaelmedved/2009/03/12/the_legacy_of_david_medved_a_zest_for_life_guest_blog_by_diane_medved</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: In Sterling,
Virginia, Rabbi Bonny Grosz of the Community Rabbi Foundation leads the
first of three study sessions on "Turning Torah: Studying the Weekly
Torah Reading Using Different Approaches."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2009:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> This evening <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">two Palestinian Authority Arab men attacked
Jewish soldiers and civilians in the Binyamin region. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Construction
began on Barclay’s Center, the pride and joy of Bruce Ratner<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010: At the Sixth
& I Historic Synagogue, The Jewish Studies Centers is scheduled to present
“</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Judaism
and Islam: Mirrors and Echoes - Tales from the Koran and Torah” during which
Afroze Mohammed and Stephanie Lowitt will trace the stories about Joseph, or
Yusuf, through both scriptures, and you’ll learn how this always fascinating
character is pivotal to both Jewish and Muslim traditions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: United States Vice President Joe Biden
warned Israelis in a direct address from Tel Aviv today that the status quo in
the Middle East was not sustainable and vowed that the United States would do
everything in its power to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons while urging
both Israelis and the Palestinians look toward direct negotiations to end the
long-standing conflict. ".<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The New York State Attorney General
appointed Judith Kaye as an independent counsel to investigate allegations that
the Governor had violated ethics laws.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: “The Sherman Brothers (Richard and
Robert) were presented with a Window on Mainstreet Disneyland in Anaheim,
California in honor of their contribution to Disney theme parks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011: Despite the fact
that that the faculty members of the Jewish Studies program at UC, Irvine had
asked the Orange Couty District Attorney to drop the charges, eleven Muslim
students,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> who have been charged with disrupting a February 2010
speech by Israeli U.S. Ambassador Michael Oren at the University of California,
Irvine</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> are
scheduled to appear in court today at Santa Ana, CA <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011: After snowing
throughout the day yesterday, the snow was expected to taper off last night
with rain in the north forecast for today.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: The “women building a bridge” festival at
the Valley of Springs near Ashdot Ya’acov is scheduled to be held on the Jordan
River banks near the border between Jordan and Israel today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Song of Songs minyan is scheduled to come together for a community
Kabbalt Shabbat at the Jewish Community Center of the East Bay as part of The
Jewish Music Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(5<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II: Anniversary of Moses’ last day as leadership of the Jewish
people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to Chabad, this took
place on 5<sup>th</sup> of Adar 1273, BCE.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
Hours after an 8.9 magnitude earthquake followed by a devastating tsunami
struck Japan today, Jewish and Israeli humanitarian groups pledged to help
relief efforts in the island nation. Today, the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee (JDC) announced it was collecting funds for relief
efforts and has reached out to the Japanese Government to offer its expertise
in earthquake and tsunami-related response. Meanwhile, IsraAID-FIRST, an
Israeli umbrella group of relief organizations, said this morning it was
preparing to send a team of experts to the island nation to assist in relief
efforts. “We’ve been looking past few hours at the damage and the needs,”
IsrarAID head Shahar Zehavi said. “Our main agenda is to send a delegation of
earthquakes specialists and water purification experts to the region.” Zehavi
said the delegation should arrive in Japan by tomorrow morning but that its
schedule depends on air traffic to and from Japan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(5
Adar II, 5771): Five members of an Israeli family were killed tonight when a
suspected terrorist broke into their home in the West Bank settlement of Itamar
and stabbed them all to death. According to police, the suspect broke into the
house armed with a knife and stabbed the mother, father and three children,
aged 11, three and an approximately one-month-old baby. Magen David Adom rescue
services arrived at the scene and found them all dead. The victims of the
brutal murders are Rabbi and IDF tank unit officer Udi Fogel, his wife Ruth,
11-year-old Yoav, four-year-old Elad and three-month-old Hadas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(5
Adar II, 5771): Eighty-seven-year-old Danny Stiles a New York disc jockey who
styled himself as the “King of Nostalgia and “The Vicar of Vintage Vinyl”
passed away today. (As reported by the Eulogizer)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(5
Adar II, 5771): Eighty-two-year-old Stan Ross, the producer-engineer who
co-founded Gold Star Studio passed away today in Burbank, CA. (As reported by
Valerie Nelson)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/17/local/la-me-stan-ross-20110316"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/17/local/la-me-stan-ross-20110316</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Major General Nitzan Alon is scheduled to officially take up his post as head
of the Central Command at the headquarters in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Dan Shapiro and Julie Fisher are scheduled to be honored at tonight’s JPDS-NC
Purim Ball, sponsored by the only Jewish Day School in Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
“Ahead of Time” is scheduled to be shown at the Sacramento Jewish Festival in
Sacramento,CA<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
“Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades” is scheduled to be shown at the Vancouver
Jewish Film Festival in Vancouver, CA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Stephen Stern is scheduled to moderate “Modern Judaism Wrestles with Spinoza”
featuring Rabbi Lyle Fishman and Joel Schwartz as part of the backstage events
surrounding the performance of “New Jerusalem.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
The Eliat Chamber Music Festival, which will include an appearance by violinist
Valery Soklov, is scheduled to open tonight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
<i>The New York Times</i> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including “The Escape Artists: How Obama’s
Team Fumbled the Recovery” by Noam Scheiber and “Beautiful Souls: Saying No,
Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times” by Eyal
Press.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Beautiful Souls” contains a
vignette about Paul Grüninger, a Swiss police commander, who “broke the law to
help Jewish refugees flee from Austria” after the Nazis annexed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the country.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Residents of southern Israel suffered another day under siege today as
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired about 50 more rockets at the Negev. Two
Grad-type Katyusha rockets fell in Be'er Sheva after the Iron Dome battery that
had been protecting it suffered a technical malfunction. One rocket hit a
school, which was empty since schools in the city were closed today, and the
other hit a parked car. Fifteen people were treated for shock, though there
were no other casualties. The rockets ¬ and the ball bearings that they ejected
hundreds of meters ¬ caused heavy damage to buildings and vehicles. Another
rocket hit a chicken coop in Moshav Carmia in the Ashkelon Coast Regional
Council, causing heavy damage. Since Friday, 104 rockets were fired toward Israel,
43 of which were intercepted by the Iron Dome defense systems. The IAF carried
out 23 strikes in the Gaza Strip. Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned today that
"the current escalation is liable to be lengthy." He said that he
plans to have the Iron Dome anti-rocket defense system declared a
"national emergency project," so as to expedite the manufacture and
deployment of additional batteries. A fourth Iron Dome battery is being
prepared for deployment and is expected to be operational within weeks. Some
200,000 pupils will remain at home again tomorrow as schools remain closed in
Be'er Sheva, Ofakim, Ashdod, Yavneh, Ashkelon, Kiryat Malakhi and Netivot, and
in all the other smaller communities that are between seven and 40 kilometers
from the Gaza Strip. Earlier today, security officials said the Iron Dome
systems performed extraordinarily over the weekend. The systems use a missile
called "Tamir" to intercept incoming rockets, and each missile is
priced at approximately NIS 200,000. (As reported by Gili Cohen, Yanir Yagna,
and Ave Issacharoff)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Rabbi Sidney Kleiman’s 100<sup>th</sup> birthday on the Today Show<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYfYsm95g9o"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYfYsm95g9o</span></a><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
In Brooklyn, Judge Eric Vitaliano “rejected a Jewish attorney’s request to
exclude Jews from a jury involving a client facing charges of lying about
joining the Taliban” ruling “that it would be unconstitutional to bar a
prospective juror because of religion.” The attorney is Frederick Cohn who is
representing Abdel Hameed Shehadeh.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-judge-rejects-request-to-exclude-jews-from-jury/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-judge-rejects-request-to-exclude-jews-from-jury/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
An 11-day mission to Israel sponsored by The Jewish Federation of North
America’s<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Network
of Independent Communities is scheduled to being today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
NASHIM Annual Women's Seder is scheduled to begin at 6:00pm<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Publication date for <u>Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead</u> by
Sheryl Sandberg<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Historic 6<sup>th</sup> & I Synagogue is scheduled to host “Food for
thought- Digesting Ethics, Mysticism, and Philosophy with Rabbi Yosef Edelstein
of MesorahDC<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
In Denver, CO, Temple Emanuel is scheduled to host “The Dishes of Our Lives:
Jewish Cookbooks, Jewish Stories.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/178388#.Ux-JoZuYapo"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/178388#.Ux-JoZuYapo</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5774): Seventy-two-year-old Judge Edmond Levy, a retired member of
the Israeli Supreme Court and author of the Levy Report, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Three terrorists from Islamic Jihad were killed by an IAF strike while an IDF
UAV crashed over Gaza following “a technical malfunction.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Dutch political leader Onno Hoes began serving as Chairman of the Dutch Center
for Information and Documentation Israel (CIDI)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The IDF insisted today that Raed Zeiter, a Jordanian citizen who was shot dead
yesterday morning at the Allenby crossing into Israel, had attacked soldiers
and tried to grab a weapon before he was shot dead. (As reported by Gil Ronen)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The Knesset passed the amendment to the Basic Law on The Government known as
the “Governance Law,” with 67 in favor, and none voting against or abstaining.
The law limits the number of government ministers to 18 and stipulates that all
ministers will have portfolios. It also raises the electoral threshold required
for a party to enter the Knesset to 3.25% of the total votes cast in national elections.
(As reported by Gil Ronen)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Mandolin star Avi Avital is scheduled to join the Venice Baroque Orchestra in
an evening almost pure Vivaldi at Carnegie Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Echoes of the Borscht
Belt” with Marisa Scheinfeld.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Professor Daniel J. Schroeter is scheduled to deliver a lecture on "There
Are No Jews in Morocco, Only Moroccan Subjects Responding to Vichy's
Anti-Jewish Laws in Colonial Morocco during World War. II.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Bruce Guenther, recently retired Chief Curator of the Portland Art Museum, and
Susan Winkler, author of Portrait of a Woman in White are scheduled to discuss
“Looted Art: The Unfinished Business” at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center
for Holocaust Education.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Annie Cohen-Solal and Met Curator Marla Prather are scheduled to discuss the
works of Mark Rothko at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies is scheduled to host “an
historic conference on the topic of the contemporary Jewish scene in Britain,
with four distinguished speakers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“Owners of the Leviathan field said that the Palestine Power Generation Company
had canceled a $1.2 billion agreement, signed in 2014, to buy 4.75 billion
cubic meters of gas over 20 years.” (As reported by Stuart Winer)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“Speaking on HuffPost Live today, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the founders
of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, seemed open to the idea of a pot-infused ice
cream after a viewer asked about it.” (As reported by Julie Wiener)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Comedian Sarah Silverman posted a message on the internet today calling on
supporters of Meretz to vote in Israeli elections scheduled to take place on
March 17. (As reported by Stuart Winer)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar II, 5776): Rosh Chodesh 2, Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“The Muses of Isaac Bashevis Singer” is scheduled to be shown this afternoon
before the start of Shabbat at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Shari Redstone Prepares for Battle to Control a Media Empire” published today
profiles the daughter of media mogul Sumner Redstone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/business/media/shari-redstone-prepares-for-battle-to-control-a-media-empire.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/business/media/shari-redstone-prepares-for-battle-to-control-a-media-empire.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5777): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Tonight, Ahmed Daqamseh, the Jordanian soldier responsible for the 1997 killing
of the Israeli schoolgirls” including “13-year-old Adi Malka” was released from
jail today after serving a sentence of 20 years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
In Paris, the symposium “The Holocaust in Ukraine. New Perspectives on the
Evils of the 20th Century,” is scheduled to come to an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host its annual “Purim
Extravaganza” complete with the traditional Megila reading followed a “Purim
Partaaay!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
In Atlanta, the Breman is scheduled to host a preview party introducing its
newest exhibition “Atlanta Collects Contemporary” featuring unique items that
“normally reside in private Metro Atlanta homes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Today, “Seattle police were investigating a suspected hate crime after graffiti
claiming the “Holocau$t i$ fake hi$tory” was spray-painted on the wall of a
local synagogue.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/seattle-shul-vandalized-with-graffiti-saying-holocaust-is-fake-history/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/seattle-shul-vandalized-with-graffiti-saying-holocaust-is-fake-history/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The Beth Chai-Jewish Humanist Congregation of Greater Washington is scheduled
to host a screening of “Rosenwald” at the Burning Tree Elementary School in
Bethesda, MD.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
JW3 is schedule to host a screening of “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamar Story.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Yes, in the list of the many things they did
not tell us when we were kids was the fact this femme fatal was as Jewish as
Ruth or Esther)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including <u>Behemoth: A History of the
Factory and the Making of the Modern World</u> by Joshua B. Freeman and the
recently released paperback editions of <u>Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films</u>
by Molly Haskell and <u>The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story Darpa, the
Pentagon Agency That Changed the World</u> by Sharon Weinberger<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
In honor of Israel’s 70th anniversary, The Breman Museum and The Atlanta Jewish
Music Festival are scheduled to partner with the Israeli Consulate to bring one
of Israel’s hottest acts, Yemen Blues, with Ravid Kahalani to Atlanta.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“Destination Unknown” is one of the films scheduled to shown at the 5<sup>th</sup>
annual JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
In “Never Again: Fighting Hate in a Changing Germany With Tours of Nazi Camps”
Katrin Bennhold described attempts to change anti-Semitic mindsets with trips
to concentration camps.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The Goldring Family Foundation and Morton Katz are scheduled to be honored
today in New Orleans Jewish Endowment Foundation “Annual Event” at the Westin
Hotel. (As reported by Crescent City Jewish News, the source and resource for
all things Jewish in Cajun Country)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“The Ancestral Sin,” “The Rock in the Red Zone,” “Starting Over Again” and “The
Band’s Visit” are scheduled to be shown at the New York Sephardic Film
Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “A Celebration of Jewish Books” – “a
day filled with Jewish storyteller” and more than fifty “Jewish storytellers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://emanuelstreickernyc.org/events/celebration-jewish-books-2/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://emanuelstreickernyc.org/events/celebration-jewish-books-2/</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In suburban Washington, DC, the Haberman Institute
for Jewish Studies is scheduled to host “a talk with Professor Pamela Nadell,
Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's and Gender History, American University”
where she discusses what it means to be a Jewish woman in America.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The New York Sephardic Jewish Festival is schedule
to host the U.S. premiere of “Stockholm” directed by Israeli Daniel Syrkin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5780): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: In JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Escape
from Pretoria.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: Voting is scheduled to close for selecting the slate
of delegates of attend the World Zionist Congress, or as some call it “the
international parliament of the Jewish People.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: In the wake of the coronavirus, the “S.F.-based
Jewish Community Relations Council annual fundraiser scheduled for this evening
has cancelled.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: Benjamin Ferencz, “the last surviving prosecutor at
the Nuremberg” is scheduled to turn one hundred today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.benferencz.org/tablet/index.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.benferencz.org/tablet/index.html</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/feb/07/nazi-death-squads-nuremberg-trials-benjamin-ferencz"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/feb/07/nazi-death-squads-nuremberg-trials-benjamin-ferencz</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/simon-skjodt-center/work/ferencz-international-justice-initiative/benjamin-ferencz"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/simon-skjodt-center/work/ferencz-international-justice-initiative/benjamin-ferencz</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Golden Globe-nominated actress Emmy Rossum is scheduled to serve as emcee at
the Western Regional Virtual Event sponsored by the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Israeli celebrity chef Ruthie Rousso is scheduled to talk, online, about
putting an Israeli twist on Passover foods and upgrading socially distanced
Passover celebrations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and current Knesset member Michael Oren,
who is writing a book about Israel’s War of Independence, is scheduled to give
the Mimi Epstein Memorial Lecture for Temple Isaiah in Lafayette.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
North Peninsula Jewish Community and JCRC are scheduled to present S.F. police
oversight office director Paul Henderson talking about inequity in the criminal
justice system.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Oshman Family JCC and JCC Literary Consortium are scheduled to present actress,
activist and author Annabelle Gurwitch talking about her memoir, subtitled
“Adventures in Downward Mobility,” in conversation with author Dave Barr.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Today’s virtual visit to the Jewish Museum is scheduled to include an
exploration of the highlights of the Jewish museum’s galleries and discover the
history of this museum’s collection including the oldest Hanukah lamp made in
Britain to the inspiring story of our WWII Nurses’ Cape.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The Jewish Arts Collaborative is scheduled to present online “Kitchen
Explorations” with “chef Michael Leviton as he cooks and discusses some of his
favorite Passover recipes from the archives of the Jewish Heritage Center at
the New England Historic Genealogical Society.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The APJCC is scheduled to present Soprano Anat Baird performing a tribute to
Jewish Broadway composers from George Gershwin to Stephen Schwartz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The LBI is scheduled to present a discussion of <u>Legal Sabotage: Ernst
Fraenkel in Nazi Germany</u> with author Douglas G. Morris and commentators
David Abraham and Claudia Koonz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
With less than 12 days until the elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is
scheduled pay his first visit to the United Arab Emirates today. (YNET)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled a lecture by Professor
Shirli Gilbert on “Wandering Jews: Migration in Modern Jewish History.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
The Americans and the Holocaust” traveling exhibition is scheduled to be shown
for the last time today at the University of Hawaii, Penn State, Georgia
Southern and the University of California, Irvine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
Hamuiska is scheduled to broadcast “Early Music from Ein Kerem” live on Kan
Kol.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
In Milwaukee, Nathan Zachary Silber, the son of Rebecca and David Silber and
the grandson of Laurie and Dr. Bob Silber is scheduled to be called to the
Torah this morning as a bar mitzvah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The solo exhibition of Israeli artist Navot Miller is scheduled to come to an
end at the Yossi Milo Gallery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The Jewish Children’s Regional Service is scheduled to present “a glamping
adventure at the Jewish Roots of Summer Camp Gala at the Ritz-Carlton New
Orleans.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The East Bay International Jewish Festival is scheduled to host a screening the
documentary “Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe” and “Karaoke.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Prime Minister is scheduled to continue his visit to Italy today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023(18th
of Adar, 5783): Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host the first class “Femme Fatale for
Fierce Woman Warrior” taught by feminist Torah scholar and soon-to-be rabbi,
Sivan Rotholz is the Education Director for Achayot.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
Seattle’s YWIN and the Stroum Jewish Community center are scheduled to host a
“Jewish Community Bake” with attendance limited to “Jewish female-identifying
and non-binary people in their 20’s and 30’s.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
In Metairie, LA, Chabad is scheduled to host a “Women’s Gathering” in which
attendees can “discover the power of One Wow Moment with the women's Rosh
Chodesh Society” and “explore 7 biblical women that changed history in one
powerful moment.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
YIVO is scheduled to host a lecture by Nathan Cohen the author of <u>Yiddish
Transformed: Reading Habits in the Russian Empire, 1860-1914</u> on “Jewish
Reading Habits in the Russian Empire.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2024(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar II, 4784): Rosh Chodesh Adar II; for more see </span><a href="https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
11th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 157 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p>melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-76144934955371087572024-03-09T10:09:00.005-06:002024-03-09T17:04:00.326-06:00This Day, March 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">March 10</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">515 BCE (Adar 5):
According to Ezra VI, 15, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius, the Second
Temple was completed today. (15 And this house was finished on the third day of
the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">0037: Roman Emperor
Tiberius passed away at age 78.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
followed Augustus to the throne and reigned from 14 through 37.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His record in dealing with the Jews was a
mixed one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the one hand he over-ruled
anti-Jewish edicts of Pontius Pilate, governor of Judea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the same, he temporarily expelled all of
the Jews from Rome when a Jew was falsely accused of defrauding a Roman matron.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">0298:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Roman Emperor Maximian concluded his
campaign in North Africa against the Berbers and made a triumphal entry into
Carthage.</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The city of Carthage
appears repeatedly throughout Roman history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>According to some historians, when Carthage fell to the Romans after the
Punic Wars, “many Carthaginians and Phoenicians converted to Judaism, because
Jerusalem was the only remaining centre of West Semitic civilization.” They
attribute the original Jewish settlements in Spain to the fact that Spain had
been a Carthaginian colony and that these settlers were part of a group of
these converts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Berbers would also
figure in Jewish history. In the 7<sup>th</sup> century, they would convert to
Islam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the 8<sup>th</sup> century,
the Berbers were a major part of the Muslim force that drove the Christians out
of Spain and created a comparatively hospitable for the Jewish people. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">0418: Jews were excluded from holding public
office in the Roman Empire<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1126: Following the death of his mother Alfonso
VII, the monarch who started a school in Toledo which begins to spread Hebrew
and Arabic learning as well as ancient Greek knowledge through Western Europe
was crowned King of Leon and Castille.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1452:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Birthdate of Ferdinand II the Catholic, King
of Aragon/Sicily who expelled the Jews from his realm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1533:
“Federico II Gonzaga, the ruler of the Italian city of Mantua at the time of
the birth of Leone de' Sommi, the first “unapologetically Jewish playwright and
poet” and a ruler who enjoyed Jewish comedians enough to hire “Solly and Jacob
and his wife Margaret Paleologina gave birth to Francesco III Gonzaga.<span style="color: #1f497d;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1561:
A document bearing today’s date “contains a complaint of Pan Andrei Okhrenskis,
the representative of Prince Nikolai Radziwill and of the Jew Mikhel again
Matvel Voitekhovich, an estate-owner in the district of Pinsk” claiming that he
had sent “a number of his men to the potash works managed by the
above-mentioned Jew” where the “damaged the premises,” drove off the workers
and committed “many thefts.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1616:
Vincent Fettmilch was hanged. Fettmilch lived at Frankfort on the Main
(Germany). During a period of economic downturn (1612-1616), the ruling
class blamed the problems on the Jews. They allowed anti-Semitic
demagogues to attack the Jews. Fettmilch was the ringleader of the action
that resulted in the destruction of the Jewish property in the ghetto.
Jews fled for their lives. Without the Jews to blame, the powers that be
feared the mobs would turn on them. So they hanged Fettmilch as a way of re-establishing
law and order. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1735:
Jochabed Michaels and London native Judah Mears gave birth to Catherine Mears,
the wife of Asher Myers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1743:
Today, Nathan Ley and David Franks of Philadelphia are listed as two of the
owners of the Philadelphia built schooner Drake two years before they
“appear…as the owners of the sloop Sea Flower built in Connecticut” and five
years before they appear as the owner of Myrtilla.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1749:
In the Republic of Venice at Ceneda, Geronimo Coneglian who would later convert
from Judaism to Catholicism so he could a woman who was a Roman Catholic, and
his wife gave birth to Emanuele Conegliano who gained fame as Roman Catholic
priest Lorenzo Da Ponte whose artistic accomplished included writing “the
libretti for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart's most
celebrated operas, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro and Così fan tutte.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1754(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5514): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1762:
Birthdate of Prussian native Gittel Sachs, the wife of Levin Samson with whom
she had seven children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1770(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5530): Parashat Tetzaveh; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1794:
In London, Leah Jacobs and Joseph Hart Myers gave birth to Maria Hart Myers,
the wife of Loftus Longueville Tottenham Clarke.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1771:
In New York, Uriah Hendricks and his first wife Eva Esther Henricks gave birth
to Harmon Hendricks<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1791(4th
of Adar II): Rabbi Aryeh Leib Sarah, a disciple of Rabbi Dov Baer passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1793:
One day after he had passed away, 54-year-old Abraham Bowley Barrow was buried
today at the “Alderney Road (Globe Rd) Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1800(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5560): Ta’anit Esther observed for the first time in the 19<sup>th</sup>
century.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1800(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5560): Erev Purim; the Megillah is read for the first time in the 19<sup>th</sup>
century.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1802:
Victor Abraham married Rebecca Levy at the Great Synagogue today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1810:
Birthdate of Frankfurt native Henry Sigismund Straus, the husband of Henrietta
Straus with whom he had seven children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1811(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5571): Purim observed on the same day that the Spanish fortress town
of Badajoz surrendered to Marshal Jean Soult, its capture depriving the
British, Portuguese, and Spanish alliance of a vital defensive bastion, one
that dominated a nexus of roads in the border region of Extremadura, Spain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/bloody-stand-at-the-battle-of-albuera/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/bloody-stand-at-the-battle-of-albuera/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1819(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5579): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1822:
Birthdate of Tarnow, Poland native, Isaak Ettinger, the husband of Rebecca
Schapiro.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1822(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5582): The mother of Moses Sofer, Reizel the daughter of Elchanan
passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1823:
In Prague, Abraham and Judith Eidlitz gave birth to New York architect whose
commissions included the former Temple Emanu-El sanctuary built in New York
between1866 and 1868 and which was destroyed in 1927<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5587): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1828:
Birthdate of Lorraine native Marc Jacob Isaac, the “French educationist<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and writer” who taught at Jewish schools in
Alsace and Paris and was “a contributor to the "Archives Israelites."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8196-isaac-marc-jacob"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8196-isaac-marc-jacob</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1831:
The French Foreign Legion was established by King Louis-Philippe to support his
war in Algeria. A large number of Jews who fled Eastern Europe during the
1930’s found “a home” in the French Foreign Legion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For more about the Legion and the Jewish
people see <u>Jews and the French Foreign Legion</u> by Zosa Szajkowski<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841:
One day after she had passed away, 67-year-old Martha Ralph, the wife of Henry
Ralph was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1845:
Birthdate of Czar Alexander III, the second to the last of the Romanov
Czars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a line of rulers who made life
hell on earth for the Jewish people, Alexander stands out as one of the worst,
if not the worst of the lot. His policies were intended to give meaning to the
one third, one third, one third rule. One third of the Jews would leave Russia,
one third would convert. One third would perish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1845:
The Jewish Reform movement in Germany was publicly announced<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1845:
In Kovno, Rabbi Aaron Silberstein and Zibhya Sander gave birth to Rabbi Solomon
(Sholem) Joseph Silberstein, the grandson of Kabbalist Naphtali and the author
of numerous works including <u>General Law of Nature</u> and <u>The Jewish
Problem and Theology in General</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847:
Birthdate of “French deputy jurist Camille Sée, the native of Colmar, Alsace,
who was the nephew of French physician Germain Sée and founder of “the École
normale supérieure in Sèvres in 1881.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1854:
Esther Braham and Joseph Benjamin gave birth to Ellen Benjamin, the wife of
Berman Berliner and the mother of Blanche, Walter and Harold Berliner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5615): Parashat Ki Tisa and Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5615): Sixty-six-year-old Carol Mayer von Rothschild the Frankfurt am
Main born son of Mayer Amschel Rothschild and Gulte Schnapper and husband of
Adelheid Herz with whom he had four children who was “the founder of the
Rothschild banking family of Naples” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1856:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The News of the World</i> reported that
in Constantinople a Turkish woman who could not locate her child for several
hours started to scream after local Greeks told her Jews had dragged her child
by force into the house to drain its blood for use on Passover. A crowd
gathered and started to smash the windows of the home and was only held back by
the French soldiers. The child later was found by the mother.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1857(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5617): Purim celebrated for the first time during the Presidency of
James Buchanan <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858(24<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5618): Forty-eight-year-old London native and journalist Robert Lyon
who in 1844 came to the United States where he founded and published The
Asmonean starting in 1849 passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84021919/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84021919/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859:
In Budapest, Jeanette and Jacob Herzl gave birth to Pauline Herzl, the sister
of Theodor Herzl<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5620): Parashat Ki Tisa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860:
Mortiz Pinner, the German-Jewish immigrant abolitionist who was a publishing a
newspaper in Kansas City served as a delegate at the Republican State
Convention in Missouri.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pinner would be
chosen as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago where
Abraham Lincoln was nominated as President of the United States. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861:
Birthdate of Meier Dizengoff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A native
of Bessarabia, he would make Aliyah in 1905, help found Tel Aviv in 1909 and
then became its first mayor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862:
During the Civil War, William Durst was on board the U.S.S. Monitor as it held
its position waiting in vain for the CSS Virginia to return to the fray – a
failure to engage which meant the Union blockade of the Confederacy, a key to
Union victory would hold and grow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863:
Guests at today’s wedding Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (the future King
Edward VII) and Alexandra of Denmark heard a wedding march composed by Sir
Julius Benedict the son of a German Jewish banker.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864:
During the American Civil War, beginning of the Red River Campaign which would
claim the life of Colonel Newbold of the Fourteenth Iowa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866
(23 Adar 5626):<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Yitzchak Meir Alter
passed away. Born in 1798, he is the first Rebbe of the Ger Chasidic dynasty.
Some of his followers referred to him as </span><i>Reb Itche Meir </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">as the Chidushei HaRim. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1867:
Birthdate of Lillian Wald. Born into a successful merchant family in
Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in Rochester, New York, Lillian Wald is remembered
today as the founder of public health nursing and an influential pioneer in the
settlement house movement of the early twentieth century.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.aahn.org/gravesites/wald.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.aahn.org/gravesites/wald.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jwa.org/womenofvalor/wald"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://jwa.org/womenofvalor/wald</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868:
“The Purim Ball” published today reported that last night’s Purim Ball was so
lavish that it was a fitting way to end New York’s gala winter social season.
“The truly brilliant affair” reinforced the reputation of the Purim Society for
providing a ball that “was unique in character” and “meriting the praise” that
it has continued to receive. The ball not only is the epitome of refinement, it
raises money for the disadvantaged – Jew and non-Jew alike. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5628): Naphtali Hirsch Katzenellenbogen, the son of Simḥah
Katzenellenbogen, “who was the editor of the baraita of thirty-two middot” and
who delivered a funeral oration in memory of Saul Katzenellenbogen, passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869:
Abraham Belasco married Maria Davis at Bevis Marks Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869:
Birthdate of Shavel native Benjamin Fedorovich Kagan, who was expelled in 1889 from
Novorossysky University in Odessa for participating in the Democratic Students
movement and who earned degrees from Kiev University and St. Petersburg
University and then he taught at Novorossysky from 1897 to 1922, becoming a
Professor in 1917 before final being appointed Professor of Differential
Geometry in 1922.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870:
Birthdate of Polish actress Ester Rachel Halpern, who after marrying her
manager Avom Yishok Kaminksa gained fame as Ester Rachel Kaminksa, who was
figuratively “known as the mother of modern Yiddish Theater” and who was
actually the mother of actress and film start Ida Kaminksa. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://yiddishkayt.org/view/esther-rachel-kaminska/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://yiddishkayt.org/view/esther-rachel-kaminska/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1870(7<sup>th</sup> of Adar, II 5630): Czech born
composer Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> passed away at the age of 75.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871:
Seventy-eight-year-old German author August Lewald, the cousin of novelist
Fanny Lewald, the Jewess who converted to Christianity, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872(30<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5632): Rosh Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872:
In Luka (Czech Republic): Julie and Samuel Hirsch gave birth to Albert Hirsch,
the husband of Irma Hirsch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873:
Birthdate of Anna Allscoffova, who was transported from Prague to Terezin in
1942 and then to Auschwitz in 1944 where she murdered at the age of 71.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873:
Birthdate of Jakob Wassermann author of <u>My Life As a German and a Jew.</u>
Wasserman was a novelist who dealt with challenges of being both a German and a
Jew. His writings urged Jews to assimilate and "and thus
destroy themselves as a group. By the end of his life, he recognized that
Jewish survival was inevitable and desirable."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875:
It was reported today that E.B. Hart, Joseph Seligman and Joseph Koch are among
the prominent Jews heading the committee of the Purim Association that will be
responsible for the upcoming Hebrew Charity Ball.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D04EFD9153BEF34BC4852DFB566838E669FDE"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D04EFD9153BEF34BC4852DFB566838E669FDE</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Die Königin von Saba</i> (The Queen of
Sheba), an opera in four acts by Karl Goldmark was first performed today at the
Hofoper (now the State Opera) in Vienna,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5638) Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876:
The Anshe Bikur Cholim Society held a reception this evening at Irving
Hall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was very well attended because
it was the Purim celebration of its kind in New York held today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876:
In Pittsburgh, PA, Moses Lehman, the brother of Isaac Lehman, and his wife
Franny Frank Lehman gave birth to the first of their four children Irvin Frank
Lehman, the husband of Fanny Klein Lehman, the son of David Lehman and “one of
the original trustees of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishfamilieshistory.org/entry/lehman-family/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishfamilieshistory.org/entry/lehman-family/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877:
In what was then Galicia, Esther Verner and dairy farmer Jacob Taffel gave
birth to Frank Taffel who founded the Fulton Auto Exchange in Atlanta, GA in
1924.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877:
Birthdate of German native and University of Maryland trained medical doctor
Irving J. Spear, the husband of Hortense Greenwald and Professor of Neurology and
Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Maryland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878:
Birthdate of Lamed Lev Shapiro, the Ukrainian born Yiddish author known as
Lamed Shapiro.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSmpid=47096763&GRid=107567784&"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSmpid=47096763&GRid=107567784&</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/studies_in_american_jewish_literature/v030/30.garrett.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/studies_in_american_jewish_literature/v030/30.garrett.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://forward.com/articles/10618/an-offering-to-the-priests-of-yiddish/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://forward.com/articles/10618/an-offering-to-the-priests-of-yiddish/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5639): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879:
Ernest Falck married Matilda Samuel today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880:
In Hungary, “a doctor in a small town” and his wife gave birth to Max Thorek, a
graduate of Rush Medical College who “founded the International College of
Surgeons.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/1/5170/431.3"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.bmj.com/content/1/5170/431.3</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/11/07/85131581.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/11/07/85131581.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880:
In Vilnius, Bella and Israel Chaim Daiches gave birth to Rabbi Salis Daiches,
the husband of Flora Daiches and holder of a PhD from Leipzig University who
became the Rabbi of the Edinburgh (Scotland) Hebrew Congregation in 1918.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5644): Fast of Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886:
In Cincinnati, OH, Leopold and Rosa (Simon) Adler gave birth to Cincinnati
College of Music trained pianist Clarence Adler, the husband of Elsa Adrienne
Richard, the founder of the of the New York Trio which at that time was a
leading chamber music ensemble and one of the founders of the New Synagogue in
New York City in 1915.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886:
At the Hasell Street Synagogue, Rabbi David Levy officiated at the wedding of
Belle Elias to Isadore Blank.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5647): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887:
“Three Hebrew clergymen” – Dr. L. Wintner, William Sparger, Leon Harrison –
wrote a condolence letter to the widow of Henry Ward Beecher expressing their
sorrow over his passing. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887:
In Galicia, Esther Verner and dairy farmer Jacob Taffel gave birth to Shrage
Fyvel Taffe who as Frank Taffel became a pillar of the Georgia (USA) Jewish
community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888(27th
of Adar): Ferdinand Eberstadt, the first Jewish Mayor of Worms, passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888(27th
of Adar): Scholar and philanthropist Issachar Dov Ber Bampi passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890:
The Young Men’s Hebrew Association will host its fifth “informal entertainment
of the season this evening at Vienna Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890:
The body of an unidentified Jews was found in a cellar at a house on Eldridge
Street in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890:
The Downtown Religious and Sewing Schools and the Young Men’s Society will hold
their Purim celebration tonight at Pythagoras Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891:
Birthdate of Sam Jaffe who starred in movies and television. He gained
early fame playing an Indian water boy in the film “Gunga Din.”
Television viewers of the 1950's and 1960's saw him as wise old Dr. Zorba in
the popular medical series called “Ben Casey.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5652): Ta’anit Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892:
In Grodno, Russia, “Rabbi Eliezer Lipman and Chaya Gitel (Berkowsky) Farber
gave birth to Lester Lipman Farber, product of the El Paso, TX public schools
and husband of Lillian D. Flaum who was the President of Congregation B’nai
Zion and the founder of the Talmud Torah in El Paso.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892:
Friedman Silverstein, a Jewish immigrant from Russia who has been living in the
United States for 2 years was diagnosed as having typhus fever today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892:
Two days after she had passed away, Elizabeth Joseph, the “daughter of the late
Abraham and Sarah (Falcke) Joseph was buried today at the Balls Pond Road
Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892:
Ruben Lodge No. 3 of the Independent Order of the Free Sons of Israel will host
a masquerade ball this evening at the Lexington Opera House.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893:
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Lillian Wald opened the Lower East Side
settlement house that would become the Henry Street Settlement on her 26th
birthday. The Nurses' Settlement opened on Jefferson Street. Two years later,
in 1895, she moved her enterprise to Henry Street. In both locations, the
settlement was dedicated to public health nursing, a term Wald coined to
describe an organic relationship between health care and broader community
needs. In the first year, the settlement cared for 4,500 patients. Recognizing
the interconnectedness of illness and poverty, Wald expanded the activities of
the settlement over time. The renamed Henry Street Settlement House offered
boys' and girls' clubs; classes in arts, crafts, homemaking and English; and
vocational training. Health care remained important, with over 26,000 patients
cared for by 100 Henry Street nurses in 1915.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: In Philadelphia, Rabbi Dr. Henry Berkowitz
delivers a speech to his congregation, Rodelph Shalom in which he suggests that
a society be formed in the United States for "the dissemination of
knowledge of the Jewish religion by fostering the study of its history and
literature, giving popular courses of instruction, issuing publications,
establishing reading-circles, holding general assemblies, and by such other
means as may from time to time be found necessary and proper." In response
to his suggestion, the Jewish literary societies of Philadelphia appointed a
"committee on organization," which formulated plans. An agreement was
entered into with the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle for the use of
the general methods of the popular education process known as the
"Chautauqua System." A Jewish society, national in its scope, was
then organized, with Dr. Berkowitz as chancellor. In the winter of 1893, the
society began the publication of a series of "course books" or
syllabi for general readers and members of reading-circles or study classes.
These guidebooks give syllabi of courses in Biblical and post-Biblical history
and literature, in the Hebrew language (correspondence method), and on Jewish
characters in fiction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: “To Study Our Immigration” published today
described the debate in the House of Lords led by Lord Lyon Playfair over the
impact of Russian and Polish (Jewish) immigration in the United Kingdom and the
treatment of these immigrants in the United States<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5655): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5655):
Fifty-five-year-old English wine merchant Elie Camile Espir, the Bordeaux born
son of Esther Iffla and Jonas Espir, the husband of Sophie Neymarck and the
father of Ferdinand and Daniel Expir passed away today after which he was
buried at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: It was reported today that it will cost
$80,000 to build a new facility for Beth Israel Hospital which now using a
building on East Broadway owned by the Hebrew Free School<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: Birthdate of Samuel Caplan, the native of
Russia, who became and an American author and editor for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Congress Bi-Weekly</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: In “Emanu-El’s Fifty Years,” published today
described plans for the celebration of Temple Emanu-El’s fiftieth anniversary
which will be held on April 12, 13 and 14<sup>th</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The article also provides a brief history of
the Reform Movement and the milestones in the history of New York’s leading
Reform congregation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1896:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dr. Reuben Bierer, chief rabbi of Sofia,
announces that he considers Herzl to be the Messiah. The newspaper
"Ha-am" in Kolomea places itself at Herzl's disposal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: In London, 2
years before he was murdered by a blackmailer, Woolf Joel and his wife gave
birth to their only son, Geoffrey Joel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: Theodore Herzl
described his first meeting with Reverend William Hechler in today’s diary
entry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Herzl described Hechler as an
enthusiastic Zionist who wants to introduce him to the various German leaders
who are friends of the Anglican minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: The world
trademark for State Express 555 cigarettes, a creating of Sir Albert Levy, “was
first registered” today “in Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: In Pittsburgh,
PA, Anselm and Sophie Irene Loeb, the noted child welfare worker, were married
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: In Brooklyn,
Bella Kluger and Osca Kupferman gave birth to Pratt Institute trained “Murray
Kupferman the painter, landscape artist and creator of mural decorations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.invaluable.com/artist/kupferman-murray-bdm67epzoq/sold-at-auction-prices/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.invaluable.com/artist/kupferman-murray-bdm67epzoq/sold-at-auction-prices/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://americanart.si.edu/artist/murray-kupferman-2743"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://americanart.si.edu/artist/murray-kupferman-2743</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: One day after
he had passed away, 90-year-old Samuel Honigbaum was buried today at the
“Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: The will of the
late Simon Goldenberg, who left an estate valued at $200,000 in real property
and $1,000,000 in personal property was filed for probate today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: The Charity
Ball for the benefit of the Montefiore Home which is being sponsored by the
Young Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s League will take place this evening at Carnegie
Hall, under the leadership of Leon Hirsch, who is the group’s President.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 261.0pt; tab-stops: 261.0pt; text-indent: -261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: Funeral services for Moses Bruckheimer will be
held today at Beth Elohim in Brooklyn<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: At today’s
meeting of the House of Commons Committee “inquiring into the evils of money lending,”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 261.0pt; tab-stops: 261.0pt; text-indent: -261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sir George Lewis “condemned the business in the
strongest terms saying it frequently cost the victims.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 261.0pt; tab-stops: 261.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000 percent” and speaking as a Jew he could say
that the Jewish community “loathed and despised those <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 261.0pt; tab-stops: 261.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">who engage in such activity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 261.0pt; tab-stops: 261.0pt; text-indent: -261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: Today, Max Grumbacher, the son of German
immigrant Samuel Grumbacher who had settled in<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 261.0pt; tab-stops: 261.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Trenton, NJ where he opened a retail establishment,
opened “a small store on the first floor of first 22<sup>nd</sup> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 261.0pt; tab-stops: 261.0pt; text-indent: -261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">West Market Street in York, PA which marked the
beginning of the BonTon Department Store.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 261.0pt; tab-stops: 261.0pt; text-indent: -261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: Fifteen thousand people are expected to attend
tonight’s annual Fête and Bal Champêtre at <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 261.0pt; tab-stops: 261.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Carnegie Hall sponsored by the Young Ladies’ and
Gentlemen’s League of the Montefiore Home for <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 261.0pt; tab-stops: 261.0pt; text-indent: -261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Consumptives<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1889: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In Manhattan Jewish
immigrants “Josef Matlz and Taube Elzweig,” gave birth to Columbia trained
surgeon Maxwell “Max” Maltz, the author of Pyscho-Cybernetics and the husband
of Anne Maltz </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/08/archives/dr-maxwell-maltz-dead-plastic-surgeon-and-author.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/08/archives/dr-maxwell-maltz-dead-plastic-surgeon-and-author.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5660): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: English author
Joseph Jacobs, the “editor of the Jewish Year Book and Literary Book” arrived
in New York today aboard the St. Paul and then went to the home of his host
Cyrus Sulzberger with whom he will stay while assisting “in the preparation of material
for a Jewish encyclopedia” which will be issued “by a leading publisher.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: The triennial
meeting of the Council of Jewish Women which was founded in 1897 is scheduled
to come to an end in Cleveland today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: “Jews in the
Roumanian Army” published today reported that “no Jewish soldier in the
Roumanian Army can be promoted to a commission, however brave and loyal he may
be” and that “no Jews are admitted into the military schools…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar II, 5662): Rosh Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar II, 5662): Seventy-two-year-old author and social reformer Jenny Hirsch
died today in Berlin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hirsch-jenny"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hirsch-jenny</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: Former
President Grover Cleveland is staying at the home of Oscar Straus 5 West 76<sup>th</sup>
Street in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: Solomon Alter purchased
the property at 350 Madison Street in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: According to
today’s dispatch from St. Petersburg, the Minister of the Interior Pleheve has
taken a hand in revising the list of reservists be called up so that of the 180
medical students called to duty, 110 are Jewish which has displeased the
Minister of War but has been with approval of “non-Jewish practitioners who
were only too glad to get their Jewish rivals out of the way.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5665): Fifty-nine-year-old Elijah David Rabinowitz-Teomim (ADeReT), a
Lithuanian born Rabbi who made Aliyah at the turn of the century passed away
today and was buried on the Mount of Olives.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: Ernst
Gräfenberg earned his doctorate after studying medicine in Göttingen and
Munich. Another intellectual casualty of the Nazis, this doctor who had served
in the German Army in World War and who developed the IUD, would flee to the
United States in the 1930’s.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5666): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: Purim services
were held this evening at the West End Synagogue at the end of which every
worshipper made “his contribution to charity.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906:
Sixty-seven-year-old Eugene Richter, a German political leader who defended the
Jews during the growing waves of German anti-Semitism that marked the last
decades of the 19<sup>th</sup> century passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: It was
announced tonight “that Mr. Hammerstein has obtained for the United States the
exclusive rights to three French Operas which he will produce early next season
at the Manhattan Opera House.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: “To Petition
Czar To Dissolve Duma” published today described the chaos centered a move to
have the Russian parliament recess for “several days’ so that newly created
Committee on Credentials could decide how treat those from “contested seats”
which included avowed anti-Semites who threatened violence in the southern part
of the Empire if they were not seated.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: Birthdate of
Fevel Greenberg, the native of “the Russian occupied region of Galicia” who
gained fame as Philip Rahv “the editor, author, reviewer for Partisan Review
and The New York Review of Books and Brandeis University English Professor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1974/01/24/philip-rahv-19081973/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1974/01/24/philip-rahv-19081973/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/24/archives/philip-rahv-critic-dead-at-64-english-professor-at-brandeis.html?_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/24/archives/philip-rahv-critic-dead-at-64-english-professor-at-brandeis.html?_r=0</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: Rabbi Eiseman
of the Seventy-second Street Synagogue officiated at the wedding of Mary Bister
and William Greenbaum, “both of whom are deaf-mutes” in an Orthodox ceremony
which he first read in English and then communicated to the couple using “finger
language.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: Birthdate of
Richmond, VA native Amelia Held Ullman the wife of Gilbert Victor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: It was reported
toda that Moses J. Harris, the NewYork-bornn son of Flora Misch and Joseph
Harris and Brooklyn lawyer has been appointed to serve as Police Magistrate by
the Mayor of New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: Karl Lueger,
the sixty-five-year-old anti-Semitic mayor of Vienna passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: Birthdate of
New York native Harold “Hy” Lefft the NYU basketball player who was the older
brother of NYU basketball player Joe Lefft. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: Birthdate of
Odessa native Charles Robert “Buckets” Goldenberg the University of Wisconsin
star who went on to play for 12 years with the Green Bay Packers. (Editor’s
Note – according to some records he was born in April.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.packers.com/history/hall-of-famers/goldenberg-charles-buckets.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.packers.com/history/hall-of-famers/goldenberg-charles-buckets.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: Jerome Kern’s
“La Belle Paree” starring Al Jolson, opened at the Winter Garden Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: “Interesting
information concerning the growth of the movement back to the farms on the part
of Jewish citizens, and especially immigrants, is contained in the twelfth
annual report of the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society” which
“shows that the Jewish immigrant, contrary to the prevailing idea that he hugs
the Atlantic seaboard, is inclined, if given a chance, to move more and more to
the farmland.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar II, 5673): Rosh Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar II, 5673): Forty-two-year-old Chicagoan Victor B Strelitz, a member of
the firm of Strelitz Brothers and the husband of Sarah Strelitz passed away
“suddenly in New York City” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: Birthdate of
Canadian composer John Jacob Weinzweig. The son of Jewish immigrants from
Poland, he received his first formal study of music in mandolin at the
Workmen's Circle Peretz School.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: The funeral of
Pauline Phillips, the wife of Herman Philips is scheduled to take place today
followed by burial at Waldheim Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: Architect and
engineer Maurice Blumenthal, the Brooklyn born son of Jacob Hersh Blumenthal
and Dinah Judith Hyman Blumenthal, and his wife Miriam Blumenthal gave birth to
Pauline Blumenthal who died two days later.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: The American
Jewish Relief Committee for Suffers from the War” made its first detailed
report public today sowing that it has collected approximately $550,000 of
which $472,000 has been sent to various countries in Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: <i>The
Frankfurter Zeitung</i> published a letter that had first appeared in the <i>Hambruger
Israelitische Familienblat</i>t written by a Jewish soldier, who with his
brother had joined the German Army even though they had been denied German
citizenship. According to the letter, one brother had been killed in battle and
the surviving brother wanted his family to know that it was not a piece of
paper that made them Germans. It was their “sentiments that made them
Germans.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feeling this way, they could
not let others fight while they remained spectators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The hero’s death is better than shame.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: With the
passing of the Military Service Act in 1916 the period of voluntary enlistment
came to an end as did the publication of the list entitled “Our Honour Record
of All Jews who are serving” the last one of which was published.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: In Rochford,
Essex, Isidore and Helen Ostrer gave birth to Pamela Helen Ostrer, the English actress
known as Pamela Mason after she married actor James Mason.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: “According to
the ninth annual report of the American Jewish Committee issued” today “by
President Louis Marshall” “nearly $4,000,000 was spent for charity last year by
Jewish organizations in New York State.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: “The Federation
for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies issued…an appeal” which was
supported by President Felix Warburg and Executive Director Edwin Golwaser “to
Jews to do away with the long-established practice of sending elaborate floral
tributes to the dead on the grounds that the money so spent could be used to
greater advantage in caring for the poor.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Birthdate of
Isaac Rosenfeld, the Chicago born author who wrote <u>Passage from Home</u> in
1946.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/april29/zipperstein-steven-042909.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/april29/zipperstein-steven-042909.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918 At today’s
meeting of the Jewish Ministers’ Association of America being held at the
Girls’ Hebrew Technical School Moses Hyamson called for “unified action on the
part of the Orthodox congregation<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to
provide for the welfare of Jewish soldiers” at camps in the United States and
at the Front and the rabbis demonstrated their support for the war effort by
pledging “their support for a campaign which the Independ Order of B’rith
Abraham is conducting to raise one million dollars in thrift and war savings
stamps.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Warner Brothers released its first major film
“My Four Years in Germany." The corporate name honors the four founding
Warner brothers, Jewish brothers who emigrated from Poland to London, Ontario,
Canada, Harry Warner (1881–1958), Albert Warner (1883–1967), Sam Warner
(1887–1927) and Jack L. Warner (1892–1978).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the Strand Theatre in Providence, Rhode
Island, Archibald Silverman presided over the memorial service honoring the
memory of Colonel Harry Cutler who passed away last year in London which was
attended by hundreds of Jewish and Gentile residents of the state including
Rabbi Samuel Gup of Temple Beth-El who characterized Cutler as “a God
intoxicated man.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: Tonight, at the
Harmonie Club in Manhattan, “the Executive Committee of the Isaac M. Wise
Centenary launched a campaign to raise $300,000 for the support of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations and the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati” in
response “to the appeals of Henry Morgenthau and Jacob Schiff for a united
effort to spread the ideals of Judaism.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: In the wake of
Arab attacks on Jewish citizens, Major-General Louis Bols, the Officer
Administering the Government of Palestine, issued an order prohibiting further
demonstrations in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: In the House of
Commons, when Major W. Ormsby-Gore asked he Prime Minister if “any special
instructions had been sent to the commander-in-chief in Palestine in the wake
of anti-Jewish “excesses+ in Metulah and the Galilee, “Secretary Williamson of the
War Office” replied he had “no information of such excesses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Birthdate of
Charlotte Zucker, the wife of Burton Charles Zucker, “the mother directors
Jerry and David Zucker and actress Susan Breslau<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/08/local/me-passings8"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/08/local/me-passings8</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: Three justices
of the Supreme Court of New York – M. Warley Platzek, Edward Lazansky and
Irving Lehman were among those who made contributions today to the “Wood Wilson
Foundation fund of $1,000,000.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: It was
announced today in a meeting held in the home of Felix Warburg that “the work
of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which has provided relief
in more than forty war-stricken countries during the last eight years, will be
finished Jan. 1, 1925.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: In New York
City, attorney Charles Bailey “and the former Phyllis Hedley gave birth to
Judith Bailey who gained fame as Judith Jones, the literary editor whose
accomplishments included rescuing “Anne Frank’s diary from a US publisher’s
rejection pile.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-editor-who-rescued-anne-franks-diary-dies-at-93/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-editor-who-rescued-anne-franks-diary-dies-at-93/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5685): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: In New York
Charles and Elizabeth Kabrin Limmer gave birth to Abraham Louis Limmer who
gained fame as Lou “Boomie” Limmer the major league first baseman who overcame
the effects of having broken his neck and suffered temporary blindness “while
sliding into third base in the Western League” to play for the Philadelphia
Athletics in 1951 and 1954.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: “Wood Love” a
silent comedy written by Hans Neumann was released today in Germany<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: Today, at the
Astor Hotel, during her address at the sixth annual convention of the Jewish
Women’s Organizations, “Mrs. Leory S. Blatner, Field Secretary, New York State
Federation of Temple Sisterhood, launched a spirited attack on the modern Jewish
mother who prepared her daughter for a wedding and not for marriage…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: The Committee
on Civics and Communal Affairs of the Council of Jewish Women arranged for
today’s visit to City Hall in Philadelphia which is part of “a series of trips
through various places of interest in and hear Philadelphia with the idea of
acquainting” members “with the many places of importance in” this historic
city. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: Mrs. W.T.
Andress presided over the opening meeting of the Dallas Section in Max J.
Rosenfield Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: Birthdate of
Bronx native and Manhattan High School of Aviation graduate Louis “Lou” Limmer,
the WW II Army Corps veteran who played first base for the Philadelphia
Athletics of the American League and was part of Jewish trifecta when he came
to bat against Saul Rogovin, the Jewish pitcher for the Detroit Tigers whose
battery-mate was Joe Ginsberg, the Jewish Catcher.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar 5688): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: “The arrival of
Zionist leader Nachum Sokolov, at Belgrade today was the occasion for a feast
between Jews and Serbs.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929(28<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5689): Seventy-seven-year-old German Jurist Victor Gabriel Ehrenberg
passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: “Shakedown”
directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn “was released in
parallel silent and sound versions.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: In New York, Lewis
Steiger, the proprietor of men’s clothing business and his wife Rebecca gave
birth to Samuel Steiger “a New Yorker who transformed himself into a Western
rancher, served five terms in the House as a Republican from Arizona…” (As
reported by William Yardley)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: Reports
published today described the upcoming opening of “the Warner Brothers'
ambitious Vitaphone production which will open at the Winter Garden, featuring
Dolores Costello and George O'Brien” which is a cinematic treatment of the
Biblical story.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: Birthdate of
“Stephen Myron Schwebel is an American jurist and expert on international law.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: It was reported
today that Dr. Israel Goldstein has announced the formation of “a committee of
one hundred leading Jews” to organize celebrations throughout the United States
to mark 20<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the formation of Young Judaea, the
Zionist youth group.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1932: In Great
Britain, David and Eleanor Montague gave birth to businessman and Laborite </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Michael Montague, Baron Montague of Oxford</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-lord-montague-of-oxford-1124327.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-lord-montague-of-oxford-1124327.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: It was reported
today that when Benjamin Cardozo is sworn in next week as an Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court, there will finally be enough Justices to constitute a
quorum so that the Court can hear the government’s appeal of a consent decree
by the lower court in an anti-trust case involving the nation’s
meatpackers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The death of Justice Holmes
and the recusal of Justices Hughes, Stone and Sutherland had meant that there
were not enough Justices to hear the case. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F10A11FF345B13738DDDA80994DB405B828FF1D3"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F10A11FF345B13738DDDA80994DB405B828FF1D3</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1933: Michael Siegel, a Jewish lawyer who
complained about the police “is forced to walk through Munich barefoot while
carrying a sign reading ‘I will never complain to the police again.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: Victor
Klemperer writes in his diary “Hitler elected as Chancellor. What I had called
terror was only a mild prelude. . . . It is amazing how everything collapses .
. . prohibitions and acts of violence. And with it, on streets and radio,
unrestrained propaganda. On Saturday I heard a piece of Hitler's speech in
Konsigsberg. I understood only a few words. But the tone! The unctuous roaring
bark, the bark, really, of a clergyman. . .. How long will I be able to retain
my professorship?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: In Germany,
premiere of Liebelei directed by Max Ophüls, based on a play of the same name
by Arthur Schnitzler.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: “Jail Birds of
Paradise” a Three Stooges comedy and directed by Al Boasberg was released in
the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: “Nearly 700
women from all sections of the nation gathered in New Orleans for the opening
meeting today of the fourteenth triennial convention of the National Council of
Jewish Women.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “Two Jewish
students, one them cast as Shylock, withdrew from a classroom production of
Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” at Hackensack (NJ) High School today as
Rabbi Irving Silman of Hackensack Hebrew Institute continued a campaign to have
the play stricken from the sophomore English course at the school because the
character of Shylock ‘is the foulest slander ever penned by the hand of
genius.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: A delegation
from the Federation of Polish Jews in America met with Secretary of State
Cordell Hall an asked him “to use the influence of the United States to stop
the Polish Parliament from adopting a law “to prohibit Jewish ritual slaughter
in” that country.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: In New York,
the motion introduced by “Aldermen Morton Moses and Saul Frassler to grant
holidays to Jewish employees during Passover” was sent to committee for
consideration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: “Chicken Heart”
written by Arch Oboler was broadcast for the first time on the radio suspense
show, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: Despite
attempts by the Polish foreign minister to have Jews leave for Palestine, “the
Council of Polish Organizations in the United States of America denied” today
“that Poland as forcing Jews to emigrate” and “it declared the present
emigration of about 80,000 Polish Jews annually wa normal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1937: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Palestine Post</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> reported from London
that Viscount Cranborne, MP, the Foreign Under-Secretary told Commander Oliver
Locker-Lampson, MP, that the population of Transjordan was about 300,000 and
that the Palestine Mandate still applied there, except for the provisions which
included the establishment of the Jewish National Home. The policy in regard to
the prospects of the Jewish settlement in Transjordan "remained
unchanged". Thomas Williams, MP, asked the Colonial Secretary why the
recent British military expenditures were charged to the Palestine government,
while they might have been caused by the necessities of the international
situation. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937:
“Franklin Forgery Exposed by Beard” published today described Professor Charles
A. Beards’ conclusion that “the anti-Semitic ‘Prophecy’ attributed to Benjamin
Franklin and distributed in Germany within the last few days by the government
news service” was “a barefaced forgery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1937: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Palestine Post</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> reported that
Jerusalem Arabs welcomed Moslem pilgrims returning by train from the pilgrimage
to Mecca.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:
The day after the Germans marched into Austira, Fritz Grünbaum and Karl Farkas
acted for the last time in Simplicissimus before trying to flee to
Czechoslovakia. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: “Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels”
visited Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp.<br />
1938: Birthdate of Ron Mix. Mix was an oddity - a Jewish professional
football player. He was all-star offensive tackle with the San Diego
Chargers and Oakland Raiders. He was inducted into the Hall of
Fame in 1979. Just to be on the safe side, Mix went to law school at night.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: “The Ice Follies of 1939,” a musical
comedy directed by Reinhold Schünzel and produced by Harry Rapf was released in
the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: “Striking a ‘Nazi persecution of
Catholics as well as Jews in Germany,’ William Cardinal O’Connel, dean of the
Roman Catholic hierarchy in” the United States “today set March 19 as ‘Catholic
refugee Sunday.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: Rabbi Wolf Gold, Chairman of the Mizrachi
World Center said today in Jerusalem that “the recent British restriction of
sales of land to Jews in Pales makes a scrap of paper of the Balfour
Declaration…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5701): Austrian
born Salomea “Sadie” Brenner Kriendler, the husband of Krieve Kriendler with
she had eight children – Augusta, Anna, Jack, Eunice, Harold, Maxwell, Beatrice
and Irving – passed away today in Miami after which she was buried in Mount
Lebanon Cemetery in Glendale, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: Harpo and Chico Marx testified during the
trial of Joseph Schenck, who along with Joseph H. Moskowitz has been charged
with cheating the government out of $412,000 in income taxes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942(21<sup>st</sup> of Adar, 5702):
Seventy-five-year-old San Francisco native and University of California
graduate Julius Wangenheim, “a bridge engineer for the Southern Pacific
Railroad and San Diego wholesale grocer who was instrumental in developing
Balboa Park and other civic endeavors in San Diego passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/locations/wangenheim/juliuswangenheim"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/locations/wangenheim/juliuswangenheim</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://pancalarchive.org/wangenheimjulius/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://pancalarchive.org/wangenheimjulius/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=VKG7XKSpJI7wsQWwnqIY&q=julius+wangenheim&oq=Julius+Wan&gs_l=psy-ab.1.1.0l8.31353.34363..38279...0.0..0.142.808.9j1......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0i131.sWMRtG-IE5k"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=VKG7XKSpJI7wsQWwnqIY&q=julius+wangenheim&oq=Julius+Wan&gs_l=psy-ab.1.1.0l8.31353.34363..38279...0.0..0.142.808.9j1......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0i131.sWMRtG-IE5k</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: Emanuel Zisman, his mother and his
sister, along with the rest of the Jews living in Plovdiv, Bulgaria were
rounded up for a planned deportation to the death camps.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: Bulgaria refused to release 48,000 of its
Jews to the Germans. This became known to the Bulgarians as a "miracle of
the Jewish people."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: More than 1,000 Jews in Plovdiv,
Bulgaria, Emanuel Zisman, the future Israeli ambassador to Bulgaria, his mother
and his sister “were taken from their homes concentrated in the Jewish quarter,
near to the school. But during the day the public pressure was so strong that
the tsar of Bulgaria, Boris III, decided to cancel the deportation. It was a
long day but a very, very happy night.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: Last of two performances of “We Will
Never Die” took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Adolf Eichmann and his staff met at
Mauthausen concentration camp to work out the deportation of over 750,000 Jews
from Hungary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5704): Shushan
Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5704): After
having been captured by the Gestapo on March 7, thanks to betrayal by an
unknown Pole, today is thought to be the day on which Emanuel Ringelbaum, the creator
of “Oyneg Shabbos” which created the “so-called Ringelbaum Archive” that
chronicled life in the Warsaw Ghetto was thought to have been murdered by the
Nazis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://archives.jdc.org/exhibits/in-memoriam/emanuel-ringelblum/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://archives.jdc.org/exhibits/in-memoriam/emanuel-ringelblum/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/emanuel-ringelblum-and-the-creation-of-the-oneg-shabbat-archive"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/emanuel-ringelblum-and-the-creation-of-the-oneg-shabbat-archive</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.yadvashem.org/education/educational-materials/books/who-will-write.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.yadvashem.org/education/educational-materials/books/who-will-write.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: Major Ronald Edmond Balfour, “the son of
Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Robert Balfour and May Eleanor Balfour (née
Broadwood) of Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England” a British officer serving with
the “Monuments Men” died in a shell-burst, while operating beyond the Allied
front line at Kleve (Cleves), seeking out artworks to be protected from war
damage” after which he was buried in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-monuments-men/balfour-maj.-ronald-edmund"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-monuments-men/balfour-maj.-ronald-edmund</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945(25th of Tevet, 5705): Thirty-year-old
Czech journalist Joseph Taussig, the son of Otto and Frederike (Federer) Tausig
and younger brother of journalist František (Franta) Taussig died today at
Flossenburg just five weeks before the camp was liberated by the United States
Army.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: General Omar N. Bradley, the commander of
U.S. ground forces in Europe during WW II and the current administrator of
Veteran Affairs paid tribute” today “to the war record of men of the Jewish
faith…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: In what seems to be a public change in
policy by Jewish leaders, 5 mayors in the martial law zone, including the Mayor
of Tel Aviv issued a strongly worded statement warning against any new outbreak
of terrorism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Acts of desperation do
nothing but harm to the community and are calculated to bring about the
disruption of our organized life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
urgently warn the perpetrators and those who bear responsibility for them to
cease all acts of terrorism, murder and violence against Jews and Britons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do not destroy the last possibility of maintaining
the wholeness of our organization.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: “Twenty-one American citizens, including
a woman named Hanna Herschkowitz, as well as two Norwegians with
American…papers and two French nationals, all of whom arrived aboard the
unauthorized immigrant ship <i>Abri</i>l, were remanded by a magistrate in
Haifa today. They will be held for a fortnight pending investigations into
charges arising from the ship’s arrival in Palestine waters.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two American newspapermen – Wallace Litwin
and Albert L. Hrschkoff are among those being detained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joseph Kaserman, an attorney from Haifa has
been retained to defend the crew and protect the rights of the ship’s
registered owner, the Tyre Shipping Company of New York City. <i>The Abril</i>
is also known as the <i>SS Ben Hecht</i>, a ship under Irgun control that had
been carrying 599 Jewish refugees trying to land in Palestine. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Daniel Frisch a leading member of the ZOA
and the Zionist General Council said tonight, “I am persuaded by consultations
and assurances obtained back by overwhelming Jewish as well as non-Jewish
sentiment, that the United States Government will never give its consent to a
solution of the Palestine problem which would tend to rob the Jewish people of
its only path leading to rehabilitation and life.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: Birthdate of retired government agent and
private investigator Robert Levinson who has been held by the Iranians since
2007.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: A “company of the 1st Battalion commanded
by Assaf Simchoni acted against an Arab gang which had settled in Kafr Kanna,
on the Tiberias-Nazareth road. Information had been received that the village
had become a center for gangs headed by a certain ‘Ibrahim’ that had carried
out many attacks in the Lower Galilee and the Zevulun Valley. Among these was a
gang that had previously been active in Shefaram, but had moved to Kafr Kanna.
Born in 1922, Simchoni would rise to the rank of Major-General in the IDF. In
1956, he “commanded the Sinai Campaign and was killed in an airplane accident
at the end of the war.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: During Operation Uvda “an aerial
photographer discovered that the police station guarding Ras al-Naqb was abandoned,
and the Negev Brigade set out towards Umm Rashrash through Ras al-Naqb<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: At 15:00 the
Negev Brigade reached the abandoned policed station at Umm Rashrash (the future
site of Eilat) followed two hours later by the Golani Brigade.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: The conquest of
the southern Negev and Um Rashrash (Eilat) in March 1949 ended the War of
Independence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: In Israel, the
Provisional Government gave way to the first Cabinet of the new State.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: Moshe Sharett
completed his term as Foreign Minister for the Provisional Government which had
been in power since the creation of the state in May of 1948,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: Moshe Sharett
begins serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs in Israel’s first elected
government.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: Haim-Moshe
Shapira replaced Yitzhak Gruenbaum as Internal Affairs Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: Aharon Zisling
completed his service as Israel’s first Minister of Agriculture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5710): Fifty-one-year-old publisher and editor of Variety Sidne
Silverman, the son of Hattie Freeman and Sime Silverman and husband of Marie
Saxon with who he had one son Syd Silverman, the third publisher of Variety.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: In Tel Aviv Dov
Fruchtman, a teacher of literature and his wife gave birth to Nita Ben-Dov (nee
Fruchtman a Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of
Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: “The Vicious
Year” written by N. Richard Nash was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1951:
An estimated 200 million dollars’ worth of Jewish property was then taken over
by the state. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"At a secret
session of the Iraqi Parliament passed Law No. 5 of 1951 under which "the
assets of all Jews who were leaving and had denounced Iraqi citizenship -
103,866 by that time - were frozen and put under Iraqi Government
control." </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This
law actually was applied to the more than 123,000 Jews who had been forced to
flee during the years 1948-1951. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jews still trapped in
Iran were not only stateless, they were now totally impoverished. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: In Los Angeles, Albert and Ruth (Feldman) Zugsmith
gave birth to real estate executive Michael Albert Zugsmith who was also a
“member of real estate and construction cabinet Jewish Federation” amd a
“guardian of the Jewish Home for the Aging.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: After 48 performances, the curtain came down a
second Broadway production of Frank Loesser’s “Where’s Charley?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5712): Fast of Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1952: Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup
in Cuba and appoints himself as the "provisional president". This was
Batista’s second time to serve as president.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was during this second presidency that Meyer Lanksy negotiated the
deal with Batista that gave “the mob” monopoly control over the island’s
gambling operations in return for a down payment of 3 million dollars and a
fifty percent cut of the profits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(In
those days, a million dollars was really worth a million dollars.).</span><a href="http://www.wzo.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=268&subject=144#top#top"></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1952: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jerusalem Post</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> reported the cabinet’s
decision that wages earned by Arabs in the employ of the state, municipalities
and other public institutions, and the prices paid for Arab produce would be
equal to those paid to the Jews. Mr. Palmon, the prime minister’s adviser on
Arab affairs, stated that among Israeli Arabs the collection of income tax was
practically nonexistent. They paid only a negligible property tax. The cabinet
had also approved the Pensions and Rehabilitation of the Victims of the War of
Independence bill.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957(7<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5717): Sixty-six-year-old screenwriter and author Samuel Ornitz who
was blacklisted as a member of the “Hollywood Ten” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAornitz.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAornitz.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959:
Birthdate of Aital Selinger, the native of Haifa volleyball player who twice
represented the Netherlands in the Summer Olympics.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959:
The original Broadway production of “Sweet Bird of Youth” starring Paul Newman
opened today at the Martin Beck Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5720): Ta’anit Esther observed for the last time during the Presidency
of Dwight Eisenhower.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961:
“God Naked in the World” produced by Aaron Rosenberg was released in the United
States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1963:
Birthdate of Frederick Jay Rubin, known as Rick Rubin. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rick Rubin</span> is one of the two guys behind legendary hip-hop label
Def Jam.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965:
Neil Simon's play ''The Odd Couple'' opened on Broadway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965:
“Music by Israeli composers will be heard on the Composers Showcase concert at
Philharmonic Hall tonight.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/03/10/94961689.html?pageNumber=49"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/03/10/94961689.html?pageNumber=49</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966:
Birthdate of actor Stephen Mailer, son of author Norman Mailer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967(28<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5727): Seventy-nine-year-old Charles Polakoff, the Russian born son
of Louis and Annie Polakoff who with his father formed L. Polakoff and Company,
the Buffalo based “wholesale and retail dealers in coal and ice” and raised
three children – Gerson, Leah and Joseph – with his wife Rebecca Polakoff
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969:
The Israel Chamber Music Orchestra, with Rudolf Serkin as the featured soloist
is scheduled to complete a tour of the United States that began on January 25.<br />
1970: Barbra Streisand recorded "The Singer" & "I Can Do
It"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970:
The Knesset passed the "Who is a Jew?" bill which defined a Jew as
one born to a Jewish mother or a convert to the Jewish religion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971:
“Get Carter” a slick British crime film produced by Michael Klinger and
photographed by Wolfgang Suschitzky.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972:
“Silent Running,” a sci-fi thriller featuring Ron Rifkin, produced by Michael
Gruskoff<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973(6th
of Adar II, 5733): Seventy-two-year-old movie director Robert Siodmak, another
of those whose career in Europe was cut short by the Nazis but who managed to
escape to the United States before the war, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/movies/robert-siodmak-retrospective-at-film-forum.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/movies/robert-siodmak-retrospective-at-film-forum.html?_r=0</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-directors/siodmak/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-directors/siodmak/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974:
Golda Meir formed a new government that included Moshe Dayan and Shimon
Peres.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The government was formed in
response to a new threat from Syria and would prove to be the shortest lived
government in the history of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974:
Abba Eban completed his term as Minister of Foreign Affairs in Israel’s 15<sup>th</sup>
government and began serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Israel’s 16<sup>th</sup>
government.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974:
Aharon Uzan replaced Shimon Peres as Communications Ministers<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974:
Yitzhak Rafael replaced Zerach Warhaftig as the head of the Ministry of
Religious Services.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974:
Yehoshua Rabinovitz replaced Ze’ev Sherf as Minster of Housing and
Construction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1974: Birthdate Keren Ann Zeidel the famous
singer-song writer born at Caearea.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.kerenann.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.kerenann.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977: This evening,
the ambassadors of Egypt, Pakistan and Iran “along with a few D.C. officials,
including the police commander Joseph O’Brien” met with the Hanifis who had
seized the District Building, the headquarters of B’nai B’rith and the Islamic
Center of Washington.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1977: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Jerusalem Post</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> reported that US President Jimmy Carter
suggested that the final Israeli borders should include only "some minor
adjustments in the 1967 borders." He added, however, that it was important
to recognize the difference between the "legal borders" and
"defense lines" which would enable Israel to defend itself. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978: “The Fury” a film version of the novel by
the same name starring Kirk Douglas and Amy Irving was released in the United
States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5739): Shabbat
Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979: After having meet with President Sadat in
Egypt, President Carter is scheduled to fly Israel to meet with Prime Minister
Begin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979: Four terrorists were killed in Tel Aviv
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980: Yitzhak Shamir completed his term as 6<sup>th</sup>
Speaker of the Knesset today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980: Yitzhak Shamir began serving as Foreign
Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1980:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Jean
Harris murdered Doctor Herman Tarnower, the Scarsdale diet doctor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985(17<sup>th</sup> of Adar,
5745): Forty-one-year-old David Carey, “a producer and actor in the Yiddish
theatre” and “a co-founder with Raymond Ariel of the Shalom Yiddish Musical
Theatre” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/12/arts/david-carey-41-a-producer-and-actor-in-yiddish-theater.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/12/arts/david-carey-41-a-producer-and-actor-in-yiddish-theater.html</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986(29<sup>th</sup> of Adar I,
5746): Eighty-three-year-old Myron Cohen, the comedian noted for his use of
dialect in his humor passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/11/obituaries/myron-cohen-dialect-comic-a-low-key-weaver-of-tales.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/11/obituaries/myron-cohen-dialect-comic-a-low-key-weaver-of-tales.html</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986(29<sup>th</sup> of Adar I,
5746): Ninety-five-year-old Rosh Yeshiva Yaako Kamenetsky, author of Emes
leYaakov al HaShas ("Truth to Jacob") passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987: <i>The New York Times</i>
featured reviews <u>of Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew: An Italian Story</u> by Dan
Vittorio Serge and <u>The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue,
Survival</u> by Susan Zucotti.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1987:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black;">Five authors
of books with Jewish themes, published in 1986, were honored today at the
Eighth Annual Present Tense/Joel H. Cavior Book Awards luncheon, sponsored by
Present Tense magazine and the American Jewish Committee, and held at the
committee's headquarters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The winners
were: Biography/Autobiography: Victor Perera, ''Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood''
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). Fiction: Art Spiegelman, 'Maus: A Survivor's
Tale'' (Pantheon Books). History: Bernard Lewis, ''Semites and Anti-Semites: An
Inquiry Into Conflict and Prejudice'' (W. W. Norton & Company). Jewish
Religious Thought: David Weiss Halivni, ''Midrash, Mishnah, and Gemara: The Jewish
Predilection for Justified Law'' (Harvard University Press). General
Nonfiction: Lesley Hazleton, ''Jerusalem, Jerusalem'' (Atlantic Monthly
Press).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elie Wiesel was honored with a
special lifetime achievement citation for his ''extraordinary efforts to rescue
the Holocaust from historical and literary oblivion and to dramatize the plight
of Soviet Jews and other oppressed people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989: “The Adventures of Baron
Munchausen” a fantasy comedy with music by Michael Kamen was released in the
United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar,
5750): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Susanne J. Schwartz and Colin M. Davidson
were married this evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bride’s
father is Richard A. Jacobs, the president of the Joseph Jacobs Organization,
an advertising agency that was founded by his father the late Joseph Jacobs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1992:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> In an article
entitled “</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Menachem Begin, Guerrilla Leader Who
Became Peacemaker,” published the day after he passed away James Feron
described </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Menachem Begin as “the Israeli Prime Minister who made peace with
Egypt” after living much of his life in the opposition. A Jewish underground
leader before Israel gained independence in 1948; he openly fought the
established Zionist leadership of the struggle against British rule. Then for
nearly three decades, he headed Israel's major opposition party. Ultimately and
to many Israelis, surprisingly, his minority bloc ousted the Labor Party, which
had governed continuously in the three decades since statehood, and Mr. Begin,
as party leader, became Prime Minister. He was to govern an ever more divided
and troubled nation. Mr. Begin, who led Israel from May 1977 until he resigned
as Prime Minister in 1983, stretched the national mood from great pride to deep
dismay. He guided the nation to a peace treaty with Egypt, the first such pact
with an Arab country. But he also presided over a bitterly divisive war against
Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon.” The treaty with Egypt, which brought Mr.
Begin a shared 1978 Nobel Peace Prize with President Anwar el-Sadat,
represented a high point in his political leadership while the war in Lebanon
in 1982 and the stalemate that followed, with its steady toll of dead and
wounded, were its low point. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996:
New York City Mayor Giuliani visited Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5656): Oscar nominated movie and television producer Ross Hunter
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/12/movies/ross-hunter-film-producer-is-dead-at-75.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/12/movies/ross-hunter-film-producer-is-dead-at-75.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996:
Helène Aylon's “<i>The Liberation of G-d”</i> was shown for the first time in
the New York Jewish Museum's exhibit “<i>Too Jewish?: Challenging Traditional
Identities</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The work, which took
six years to create, was made by covering every page of the five books of the
Torah with transparent parchment, on which Aylon marked problematic passages
with a pink pen. The marked passages were mostly those considered degrading to
women, but also included negative references to homosexuality. This work was
accompanied by commentary on the marked passages from a spectrum of Jewish
scholars and rabbis. “<i>Liberation”</i> was typical of Aylon's work in
combining Jewish and social justice themes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997:
<i>The New York Times</i> reported that the ownership of <i>The Chattanooga
Times</i> is being transferred from the four grandchildren of Adolph S. Ochs,
who bought the paper in 1878 and remained its publisher until 1935, to his 13
great-grandchildren. The family said it did not anticipate any shift in the
Tennessee newspaper's management or direction as a result of the change in
ownership. ''It is part of an orderly transfer of responsibility to our
children, and we make it with the utmost faith that they will sustain and
enrich'' the family's commitment to the paper, said Ruth S. Holmberg, who
remains the chairman of <i>The Chattanooga Times</i> and is one of the four
current owners. In addition to Mrs. Holmberg, the other three owners are Arthur
Ochs Sulzberger, Marian S. Heiskell and Dr. Judith P. Sulzberger. All are in
their 70's, while their children range in age from 32 to 53. The four grandchildren
of Mr. Ochs are also the trustees of four trusts that own a controlling stake
in The New York Times Company. Mr. Sulzberger is also the chairman of the Times
Company. Although Mr. Ochs bought The New York Times in 1896, <i>The
Chattanooga Times</i> remained separate from the Times Company. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5758): Seventy-four-year Hayim David HaLevi, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi
for Tel Aviv and Jaffa passed way today. A native of Jerusalem, he served in
the IDF during the War for Independence before following a rabbinical career to
which this blog cannot do justice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998:
The new building of the Jewish Museum of Greece was inaugurated today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999:
The first Australian production of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” opened at the
Sydney Theatre Company today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000:
Barbra Streisand performed for the second and final time at the Sydney Football
Stadium.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001:
It was reported today that Senator Hillary Clinton and former President Clinton
are “stonewalling” the FBI in its investigation into Bill’s pardon “of four
convicted swindlers from an upstate Hasidic village in a scandal labeled
“Pardongate” which is not to be confused with President Clinton’s pardon of
Marc Rich which came on the last day of his presidency following a sizable
contribution to his library fund.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002: Israeli helicopters destroyed Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat's office in Gaza City, hours after 11 Israelis were killed
in a suicide bombing in a cafe across the street from Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon's residence in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: Yaakov Edri begins serving as Deputy
Minister of Public Security.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004: “A conference titled ‘Jacques Faitlovitch
and the Jews of Ethiopia’” which was organized by the Centre de recherche
français de Jérusalem in collaboration with Ben-Zvi Institute and Tel-Aviv
University “to mark the centennial day of Jacques Faitlovitch’s first trip to
discover the Falashas” opened today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: New York City officials today said that
“President Bush is sending Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to represent the United
States in Jerusalem next week for the opening of the new museum at the Yad
Vashem Holocaust memorial…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: The Conservative movement decided to
postpone until December 2006 making a final decision on recognizing gay
marriage and allowing homosexuals to be ordained as rabbis, a move that is
threatening to split the movement. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: The Tel Aviv Museum hosts a gala concert
in honor of American composer Steve Reich.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: “John Zorn’s Masada Quartet performed one
of their last concerts at Lincoln Center today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: “Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, an alleged Al
Qaeda operative reported to be third in command under Osama bin Laden, claimed
responsibility, before his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, for the murder of
Daniel Pearl” whom he claimed to have beheaded.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: An exhibition styled “Lucien Freud: The
Painter’s Etchings” at the Museum of Modern of Art comes to an end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: A screening of a film based on <u><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Constantine's Sword: The Church and the
Jews: A History </span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">takes place
at The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: “<i>Irena’s
Vow,</i>” starring Tovah Feldshuh opens at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York
City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009(14<sup>th</sup>
Adar, 5769): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5769): One day before his 92<sup>nd</sup> birthday day New York real
estate developer Aaron Gural, he NYU trained accountant and son of Meyer and
Rose Guralnick passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/business/14gural.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/business/14gural.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:<i> Sherwin B.
Nuland</i>, a clinical professor of surgery at Yale University and the author
of <u>The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine </u>and the forthcoming
<u>The Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedside</u>, presents the inaugural
Stephen E. Straus Distinguished Lecture in the Science of Complementary and
Alternative Medicine, "Chinese Medicine, Western Science and
Acupuncture," at the National Institutes of Health.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2009:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Charles
Zentai, an 87-year-old man accused of killing a Jewish teenager in Hungary
during World War II asked an Australian court today to prevent his extradition
to Hungary, and claimed the results of a lie detector test prove he had nothing
to do with the death. <br />
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">2010:</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The CJH, YUM, Program in Holocaust and Human
Rights Studies at Cardozo Law School is scheduled to present “Genocide and
Responsibility to Protect" during which a panel of scholars and
practitioners will discuss The Responsibility to Protect ("RtoP" or
"R2P"), a new international security and human rights norm designed
to address the international community's failure to prevent and stop genocides,
war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010(24<sup>th</sup>
of Adar): Thirty-eight-year-old Actor Corey Haim passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/arts/11haim.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/arts/11haim.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The 121<sup>st</sup>
annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis came to a close
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: “The Game
Change” based on the book of the same name co-authored by Mark Halperin and
featuring John Rothman had its public debut today on HBO.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: French
premiere of “La Rafle” or “The Round Up a moved “based on the true story of a
young Jewish boy living through “the mass arrest Jews by French (not German)
police in Paris in 1942.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The NJDC is scheduled to host a reception
honoring Kenneth R. Feinberg an American attorney specializing in mediation who
is currently overseeing the U.S. government’s response to claims arising from
the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Israeli Opera is scheduled to host the
premiere “of the tumultuous Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Katerina Izmaylova), by
the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, directed by Yulia Pevzner, based on a
version staged by Irina Molostova, a Ukrainian stage director who first
directed it in a joint production of the Israeli Opera and the Kirov Opera
House in 1997.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Ruth Ellen
Gruber is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled “From Persona Non Grata to
the Present: An American Jewish Journalist's View of Poland's Transformation”
in Washington, DC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Opening night
of the 15<sup>th</sup> New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The faces of four of Israel’s most
celebrated poets and playwrights have been selected to appear on a new series
of banknotes slated for release in the next three years, Bank of Israel
Governor Stanley Fischer announced today. Natan Alterman, Leah Goldberg, Shaul
Tchernichovsky and Rachel Sela – better known as Rachel the Poetess – were
selected for the list, which was finalized following more than a year of heated
debate and which will now be submitted to the government for approval. The
faces will appear on new NIS 20, 50, 100 and 200 banknotes. The Bank of Israel
said in a press release that the poets were chosen in the hope that “featuring
these personalities on the banknotes will help to instill in the younger
generation of Israelis an appreciation of their contribution to Israeli society
and to the state.” Fischer made the announcement a day after meeting with the
Committee for the Planning of Banknotes, Coins and Commemorative Coins, chaired
by retired Judge Yaacov Turkel, to confirm the four selections. The committee
was tasked in December 2009 with finding a new set of personalities for the
banknotes after the central bank shelved its original list – which included
Rachel the Poetess, writer Shai Agnon and former prime ministers Menachem Begin
and Yitzhak Rabin - following strong opposition from, amongst others, Finance
Minister Yuval Steinitz and MK Benny Begin, son of Menachem. The New Israeli
Shekel was introduced in place of the old shekel in 1985, with banknotes
featuring the same personalities that can still be found today: former prime
minister Moshe Sharett on the NIS 20 note, Shay Agnon on the NIS 50 note, and
former presidents Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and Zalman Shazar on the NIS 100 and 200
notes. According to the Bank of Israel, the new series will incorporate
state-of the-art security and identification features to aid
anti-counterfeiting measures.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: In an
agreement signed today, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate sold most of its
leasing rights to large swaths of Jerusalem to a group of Jewish investors last
week. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: “Today,
Skopje, the capital of Macedonia — home to more than a quarter of the country’s
population of 2 million — gained a new cultural artifact: the Holocaust
Memorial Center of the Jews from Macedonia. A landmark in the middle of the
city, the center remembers Jews lost in the Holocaust from Macedonia and from
neighboring Southeast European nations.” (As reported by Katherine Clarke)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://forward.com/articles/136212/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://forward.com/articles/136212/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Opening of the
15<sup>th</sup> New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: “Camera
Obscura” is scheduled to be shown at Congregation Beth-El Jewish Film Festival
in Fort Worth, TX.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Alison
Westermann is scheduled to make her Washington, DC debut with a perforamcne at
Tifereth Israel<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5772): On the Hebrew calendar, anniversary of the commencement of the
rebuilding of the Walls of Jerusalem by Agrippa I in 41 of the CE.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012” HBO broadcast
the film version of <u>Game Change</u> co-authored by Mark Halperin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: United States
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned the barrage of rockets fired
towards Israel from the Gaza Strip. Clinton said in a meeting with Opposition
leader Tzipi Livni in New York that Israel has the right to defend itself.
Livni in turn urged the international community to speak out against terrorism
directed at Israel's southern communities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2012: Due to the
escalation in violence, the IDF Home Front command along with the heads of a
number of local authorities in Israel’s south decided tonight to cancel school
in all towns and cities located between 7km to 40km from the Gaza Strip. Due to
the decision, approximately 200,000 children will stay home tomorrow.</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2013:
Bel Kaufman, author of </span><em><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Up the Down Staircase</span></u></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">;</span></u></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Rachel Cohen Gerrol,
co-founder of the Nexus Global Youth Summit; and Rachel Sklar, founder of
Change the Ratio are scheduled to be honored at JWA's Third Annual Making
Trouble/Making History awards luncheon <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
The Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation’s Capital is scheduled to host a
Purim Ball and Auction honoring Marsha Gentner and Joe Berman, Jacqueline Eyl
and Leonard Chanin Mindy and Jeffrey Sosland featuring comedian Joel Chasnoff<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
As part of Temple Judah’s 90<sup>th</sup> anniversary observance, Barb Feller
will lead a trolley tour of historic Jewish cites in Cedar Rapids with Mark
Hunter serving as “subject matter expert.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
“Passages through the Fire: Jews and the Civil War” – an exhibition presented
by Yeshiva University Museum and the American Jewish Historical Society opened
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
In a ceremony joining together two of the nicest people in the world, Harvard
grad Anna Michelle Resnick married Harvard grad Ilan Caplan who for years
brought joy to the Cedar Rapids Jewish community as the High Holiday Chazan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Exploring Esther: The
Origins, Values and Power of Purim.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Jennifer George, Al Jaffee, Adam Gopnik and Brian Walker are scheduled to
discuss “The Genius of Rube Goldberg” at the 92<sup>nd</sup> Street Y.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Lost Souls: Retrieving
Jewish War Orphans after the Holocaust.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
An Israeli man was attacked with a stun gun in the Marais district” of Paris.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Authorities in Stockholm reported today that The Vasa Real School which offers
classes in Jewish studies and Hebrew was emblazoned with pink and blue
swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans, including “disgusting Jews” and the white
supremacist insignia “1488” (As reported by Times of Israel)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Muhammad Mafarji a Palestinain who was convicted last year of planting a bomb
on a bus in Tel Aviv during Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense was sentenced
to 25 years in prison today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5774): Eighty-three-year-old career diplomat Samuel Lewis who
served as U.S. Ambassador to Israel for eight years passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2014/03/12/839c039e-aa09-11e3-8599-ce7295b6851c_story.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2014/03/12/839c039e-aa09-11e3-8599-ce7295b6851c_story.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5774): At the age of 111, Gisela Kohn Dollinger passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/refugee-who-rescued-husband-from-dachau-dies-at-111/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/refugee-who-rescued-husband-from-dachau-dies-at-111/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Dozens of rockets, boxes of hundreds thousands of bullets and nearly 200
mortar rounds will be opened for the world to see today as Israel puts weapons
on show from a recently intercepted ship smuggling arms that it says exposes
the “true face of Iran” which allegedly dispatched it (As reported by Mitch
Ginsburg)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia caters to diverse Jewish
interest as it offers workshops on “Jews in Sports” and “the evolution of the
Passover Seder over the last two thousand years.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2015:
</span><span lang="EN" style="display: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Take a musical journey through </span><em><span lang="EN" style="display: none;">Modeling the Synagogue – from Dura to Touro</span></em><span lang="EN" style="display: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">. Guests will listen – within the gallery, in the
company of historic scale synagogue models -- to diverse musical selections
inspired by the synagogues and their communities. Hosted by cellist </span><strong><span lang="EN" style="display: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Elad Kabilio</span></strong><span lang="EN" style="display: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> of MusicTalks, and accompanied by clarinet and
singerTake a musical journey through </span><em><span lang="EN" style="display: none;">Modeling the Synagogue – from
Dura to Touro</span></em><span lang="EN" style="display: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">. Guests
will listen – within the gallery, in the company of historic scale synagogue
models -- to diverse musical selections inspired by the synagogues and their
communities. Hosted by cellist </span><strong><span lang="EN" style="display: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Elad Kabilio</span></strong><span lang="EN" style="display: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> of MusicTalks, and accompanied by clarinet and singer</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Eliad
Kabilio is scheduled to take attendees on “A Musical Journey through Jewish
Space” at the Center for Jewish History.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: Today the defense ministry released new photos from
the IDF archives of the raising of the Ink Flag, a historic moment in which IDF
soldiers raised a handmade Israeli flag painted with ink over the Umm
Al-Rashrash police station in 1949 to mark the capture of Eilat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: “An IDF officer was lightly wounded on the Golan
Heights today by gunfire emanating from Syria.” (As reported by Yoav Zitun)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4635640,00.html"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4635640,00.html</span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: “Herzog Emerging as Credible Challenge to Netanyahu
in Israeli Race” published today provides a status report on the Israeli
elections to be held in just one week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/world/middleeast/herzog-emerging-as-credible-challenge-to-netanyahu-in-israeli-race.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/world/middleeast/herzog-emerging-as-credible-challenge-to-netanyahu-in-israeli-race.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news</span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
The19th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to start in New
York City this evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Rosenwald” and “Fire Birds” are scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish
Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
Six days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held in
Arlington Heights, Illinois for 66-year-old William “Bill” Farber the VP and
Senior Counsel at Fidelity Nat'l Title Co, a world-renowned energy facilitator
and husband of the former Rona Rothenbaum with whom he had two children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(30<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5776): Rosh Chodesh I, Adar II <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(30<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, I 5776): Eighty-seven-year-old Booker Prize winning author Anita
Brookner passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/arts/international/anita-brookner-hotel-du-lac-obituary.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&moduleDetail=inside-nyt-region-3&module=inside-nyt-region&region=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/arts/international/anita-brookner-hotel-du-lac-obituary.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&moduleDetail=inside-nyt-region-3&module=inside-nyt-region&region=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Today “twenty one people were lightly injured in Tel Aviv during the city’s
annual festival for the Jewish holiday of Purim.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a Friday night dinner
during which all of those participating in “mystery matanot” reveal their
identities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
“A day after the Jewish Children’s Museum” in Brooklyn was evacuated due to a
bomb threat, “the Jasa Senior Citizen Center on Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn
received the threat in the form of a text message at 8:45 a.m. local time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
It was reported today that “a 1796 first edition of <u>George Washington’s A
Collection of the Speeches of the President of United States </u>which includes
“letters and speeches to the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island” is scheduled to be
sold at auction next week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
In Paris, the symposium on “The Holocaust in Ukraine. New Perspectives on the
Evils of the 20th Century” is scheduled to continue for a second day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5778): Finish the book of Exodus with Vayakhel and Pekuday; Shabbat
Parah; <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“Bar Bahar” is scheduled to be shown this afternoon at Jackson Hole Jewish
Community Center in the Centennial Building.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host its last Shabbat
observance of the term.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The 21<sup>st</sup> NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host
“Classic Move Night: Greek Sephardim in the Holocaust.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
In Atlanta, GA, as “part of the 2019 Molly Blank Concert Series Celebrating
Jewish Contributions to Music,” the Breman Museum is scheduled to host “Salute
to Hollywood: Jewish Contributions to Academy Awards Best Original Songs.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
“Henry Goodman, Nicholas Hytner, Jason Isaacs, Brian Leveson, Emily Maitlis,
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jay Rayner, Philippe Sands, Janet Suzman and Zoe
Wanamaker, are scheduled to read poems, letters and speeches, stretching from
the beginnings of Jewish history, right up to the present day” this evening as
part of “Jewish Voices,” “the grand finale of Jewish Book Week 2019”
co-sponsored by World Jewish Relief<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The Yeshiva University Museum is scheduled to present “Al Naharot Bavel (By the
Waters of Babylon): during which “NYC ensembles ARTEK and PARTHENIA offer a
concert of music by Jewish composers of the Renaissance and early baroque, in
Italy and England.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
Norman Ornststein, the former CBS election analyst and “resident scholar at the
American Enterprise Institue” is scheduled to present “One Nation After Trump:
A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate and the
Not-Yet-Deported” at the JCC of Northern Virginia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the New York
premiere of “From Cairo to the Cloud: The World of the Cairo Geniza” directed
by Michelle Paymar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5780): Purim; <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
This morning, The London School for Jewish Studies is scheduled to host a “the
Women’s Megilla Reading which is going to be a real highlight of Purim day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to co-host a screening
of “Tales of Teleki Square,” “the award-winning film about the rejuvenation of
the Jewish Community of Budapest.”<br />
2020: In Brisbane, CA, the 7 Mile House is scheduled to host “Klezmer Jam”
featuring the Five-piece band KlezNu performing a fusion of klezmer and modern
jazz.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
Chabad of Arkansas under the leadership of Rabbi Pinchas Ciment is scheduled to
host a “Royyal Purim Feast and Masquerade Party” complete with a multimedia
Megilla reading.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The Jewish Community Library is scheduled to present Columbia U. professor
Claudio Lomnitz as he talks about <u>Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo
of Translation</u> his book about the history of Jews who fled Europe for South
America, including his family. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
UCSF Center for BRCA research co-director Pamela Munster and John Muir Health
genetic counselor Josh Barnhart are scheduled to lead a panel on the latest in
genetic testing, the impact of inherited genes and cancer prevention.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
18Doors Boston is scheduled to present online “Let’s Bayit: Home Buying &
Building a Jew(ish) Home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present “Diaspora in Late
Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews,” part of the New Works Wednesdays
program.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
“STANDWITHUS” is scheduled to present online “The Neo-Nazi Who Converted to
Judaism: A Conversation With Yonatan Langer.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
AJC and the Stephen Wise Temple are scheduled to present state Assembly member
Sydney Kamlager-Dove, JFCS director Anita Friedman and an L.A. school district
board member talking about why an inclusive curriculum model benefits everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation is scheduled to present “Building a
More Just World Through Philanthropy” with philanthropy strategy pioneer Judith
Rodin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies’ annual Robbins
Collection Lecture is scheduled to be delivered by Berkeley Law professor
Kenneth Bamberger and Stanford religious studies professor Ariel Evan Mayse who
discuss surveillance, privacy and dignity in the tech age.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to present in person and online “Judaism: A
Mailing List You Can Never Unsubscribe From” with Alex Edelman. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum Women’s Leadership Committee is scheduled to host
an intimate conversation with Lisa Barr, author of the novel <u>Woman on Fire</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
In Wayland, MA, people of all ages are scheduled to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>welcome Shabbat in the Temple Shir Tikva
Sanctuary through sacred music and community with Dan Nichols,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Hadassah Midwest is scheduled to begin this afternoon in Deerfield, IL.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
In Sudbury, MA, Rabbi Eiduson and Cantorial Soloist Student Intern Rachel
Rubinstein are scheduled to host a Post-Purim-themed Shabbat evening Service at
Congregation B’nai Torah. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
At San Francisco, Congregation Sherith Israel is scheduled host a Kabbalat
Shabbat service and oneg, after which guitarist-vocalist Kaye will present
stories and blue music that reflect his personal life, spiritual path, and
Jewish history and liturgy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
In Burlingame, CA, Peninsula Temple Sholom is scheduled to present “Learning
from Ethically Compromised Individuals: What Does Jewish Tradition Say About
Cancel Culture?” during which Rabbi Dr. David Ellenson discusses whether it is
permissible to learn from, study with, read the works or appreciate the art of
morally flawed individuals.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Prime Minister is scheduled to meet with Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni
today in Rome.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
Yeshiva University Museum is schedule to present “War and Memory in Jewish
Material Culture” an in-person event Professor Shalom Sabar author of “Souvenirs
of the Six-Day War as Conveyors of Socio-Historical Messages from the Past to
Modern Israel” and Rabbi Joseph Topek author of <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“Beyond
the Civil War: Memory and Iconography in Early American Jewish Veteran Culture”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to “Mamas with Chutzpah,” a walking
tour in which participants can “discover the notable women, such as Emma
Goldman and Sarah Gellis, who witnessed and shaped social, artistic, financial,
and political change on the Lower East Side from the late 19th to the early
20th century.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
In Cedar Rapids, Rabbi Todd Thalblum is scheduled to offer a prayer at the
“Peace In Our World” prayer service hosted by The Inter-Religious Council of
Linn County. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
In New Orleans, Temple Sinai is scheduled to host a book discussion with Pete
Wolf author of <u>The Sugar King: A New Orleans Legend, His Creole Slave, and
His Jewish Roots</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The Breman Museum is scheduled to host a book talk with Atlanta photographer
Ron Sherman, author of <u>Witness, a Photographic Essay</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024(30<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5784: Rosh Chodesh Adar II coincides with the start of Daylight
Savings Time in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
10th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 156 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p>melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-92153608036808373332024-03-08T16:04:00.001-06:002024-03-08T16:04:21.475-06:00This Day, March 9, in Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">March 9</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">590: Bahram Chobin is
crowned as King Barham VI of Persia. The newly crowned king enjoyed support
among Persian Jews since opposing forces under a general named Mahbad “killed
the Jewish followers of the pretender to the throne, Bahram Chobin.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1230: Bulgarian tsar
Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa. According
to information in the Virtual Jewish Library Jacob b. Elijah wrote a letter in
which he reported that two Jews were thrown from a mountaintop for refusing to
obey the order of the Czar to put out the eyes of the defeated Greek ruler.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1244: The Pope ordered the burning of the
Talmud. Those who hate the Jews understand how critical studying and
learning are to our survival. Hence they have always burned our books and
outlawed study.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1276: Augsburg
becomes an Imperial Free City in the Holy Roman Empire. The Jewish presence in
Augsburg began during the days of the Romans. Existing records show that a
Jewish cemetery and synagogue existed by 1276. The Augsburg Municipal Charter
of 1276, determining the political and economic status of the Jewish residents,
was adopted by several cities in South Germany. “Regulation of the legal status
of Augsburg Jewry was complicated by the rivalry between the religious and
municipal powers. Both contended with the emperor for jurisdiction over the
Jews and enjoyment of the concomitant revenues.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For more about this ancient Jewish community
see <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/5960/history.html
.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1316: “Louis the
Bavarian granted the city of Worms the privilege of levying on the Jewish
community a yearly tax of 100 pounds heller in addition to the 300 pounds it
had thitherto paid.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1489: Giovanni di
Lorenzo de' Medici, the future Pope Leo X who relied on Bonet de Lates, a Jew
from Provence, as his personal physician and unofficial advisor, was named a
Cardinal today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1490: In Florence,
Berahiel ben Hezekiah Trabot completed “a small machzor” today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1496:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Jews of Carinthia, Austria were expelled (and not readmitted until
1848).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1500: A huge fleet under the command of 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, set sail from Portugal today sailing south and the east for
India.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1513: Start of the papacy of Leo X who employed
Immanuel ben Jacob “as a physician and translator and approved the printing of
“the first edition of Mikraot Gdolot” by Daniel Bomberg which was edited under
the directing of “the Jewish convert to Christianity Felix Pratensis.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1666: Birthdate of George Granville, 1st Baron
Lansdowne, the English poet, playwright and political leader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1701 Lord Lansdowne produced “a spurious
version” the “Merchant of Venice” entitled “The Jew of Venice.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Lansdowne’s version the part of “Shylock
was degraded to a kind of low comedy.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The play would not be performed again for 40 years when Macklin would
revive it and begin the hundreds of his sensitive portrayals of Shakespeare’s
most famous Jewish character.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1739: In New York City, Rebecca Michaels and
Judah Hays gave birth to Boston merchant Moses Michael Hays, the husband of
Rachel Myers, the father of Catherine and Rebecca Hays and one of the founding
members of the famous Touro Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/moses-michael-hays">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/moses-michael-hays</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1749:
Birthdate of Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, an early leader of the
French Revolution who came to be a defender of Judaism and Jews completed his
service as a member of the Estates General and began serving as a member of the
Constituent Assembly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mirabeau-honore-gabriel-riqueti-comte-de-x00b0"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mirabeau-honore-gabriel-riqueti-comte-de-x00b0</span></a><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1757: In Bardeau, France, Rachel and Abraham
Benjamin Nones gave birth to “U.S. Patriot and soldier in the American Army
during the Revoltuion Benjamin Abraham Nones, the husband of Miriam Marks with
whom he had thirteen children and the Philadelphia abolitionist who freed his
own slaves.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nones-benjamin"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nones-benjamin</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1760: In Philadelphia, PA, Prague born Mathias
Bush and Tabitah Mears gave birth to Hannah Bush.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1773(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5533): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1773: On Purim at the Newport synagogue, the
future President of Yale University at Ezra Stiles described Rabbi Raphael
Chiam Isaac Carregal as being "dressed in a red garment with the usual
Phylacteries and habiliments, the white silk Surplice; he wore a high fur cap,
had a long beard. He has the appearance of an ingenious and sensible man"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1774:
Birthdate of sugar merchant Louis-August Say the brother of Léon Say, who
worked on the on the Northern Railway Company which was owned by his friend
Alphonse de Rothschild and who had supported Rothschild’s fight to maintain
bimetallism while serving as Minister of Finance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1789: In Coswig, David Salomon Unger, the first
Jew to settle in Erfurt with full “civil rights” and his wife gave birth to
mathematician Ephraim Salomon Unger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1792(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5552): Shushan
Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1793: Robert and Lois Collins Pierpont gave
birth to Julia Pierpont Marks, the wife of Dr. Elias Marks, “a convert to
Christianity from Judaism who she married in 1832.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799(2<sup>nd</sup> of Adar II, 5559): Parashat
Pekudi<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799: Napoleon came to power as a result of a
coup d’etat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1800: Leah Nathan and Jacob Naphtali Hart gave
birth to Philadelphian Benjamin Hart, the husband of Delphine Hart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1803(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5563): Shushan
Purim observed on the same day, the British Ambassador writes to Lord
Hawkesbury to explain why he has issued a British passport to Meriwether Lewis
who was to be one of the two leaders of the Lewis and Clark expedition to
explore the Louisiana Purchase and find a land route to the Pacific Ocean.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1808: Seligman Löb (Siegmund Leopold) Beyfus
married Babette Rothschild.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1811(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5571): Shabbat
Zachor; Erev Purim observed on the same day it was reported that the House of
Representatives at the behest of President Madison voting against a bill for
incorporating a Baptist Society in the Mississippi Territory and granting it
five acres because it was seen as “erecting a religious establishment and
therefore unconstitutional.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1815: Friedrich von
Gentz, the Secretary of the Congress of Vienna “had a conference” today “with
Simon Elder von Lamel of Prague, the distinguished Jewish patriot and accepted
a commission from him to urge Jewish emancipation” when the Congress met.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1816: Birthdate of
Jane L. Theiss Sheftall, the wife of Emanuel Sheftall and the mother of Sarah,
Mary, James, Edward, Jane, Louisa, Caroline, Josephine, Hannah and William
Sheftall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1820: The revolutionary military leader and de
facto Spanish leader, Riego of Spain issued a decree ending the Inquisition.
This decree was apparently not accepted by everybody since people continue to
suffer under the Inquisition until 1826. The Spanish Inquisition was actually
only brought to an end on July 15, 1834.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1821: In Philadelphia, Aaron Moses Dropsie and
Angenette Dropsie gave birth to Moses Aaron Dropsie, the Jewish attorney,
scholar and philanthropist best known for bequeathing the funds that created
Dropsie College.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5331-dropsie-moses-aaron">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5331-dropsie-moses-aaron</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43059613?seq=1">https://www.jstor.org/stable/43059613?seq=1</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1825: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Peixotto
officiated at the wedding of Noah J. Ellis and Esther Levin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827: In London, Rebecca Montefiore and Joesph
Solomon gave birth to Henrietta Rachel Solomon, the wife of Lionel Benjamin
Coheb and the mother of Florence Justina Cohen<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1828: At Posen, Rabbi Levi Aron Pinner and
Wilhelmine Goldbarth Pinner gave birth to Moritz Pinner who moving to the
United States became active in the anti-Slavery movement and the creation of
the Republican Party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1832: Today in Jamaica, Samuel Delisser has
been promoted to the rank of Ensign.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1836: Charles Millingen married Sarah Barnet at
the Hambro Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1839: In Bingen, German, Louis Loeb and his
wife gave birth to Adolph Loeb and husband of Lucille Hart who lived in Memphis
before moving to Chicago in 1873 where he served as a director and/or agent for
several insurance companies while serving as a President of Sinai Congregation
and the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1831: Frederick David Goldsmid, the fifth son
of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid and a member of parliament and his wife Caroline Samuel
gave birth to Albert Abraham Goldsmid who passed away in 1864.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1839: In Bingen, Germany, Louis Loeb and his wife
gave birth to Adolph Loeb the head of the Chicago insurance firm of Adolph Loeb
and Son and the wife of Lucille Hart who had lived in Memphis where he was an
official with the Congregation of Children of Israel before moving to Chicago
where he served as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>president of the
Chicago Sinai Congregation<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://chicagotribune.newspapers.com/clip/65697865/adolph-loeb-obit/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://chicagotribune.newspapers.com/clip/65697865/adolph-loeb-obit/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841: Frederick David Goldsmid and his wife the
former Caroline Samuel, the daughter of Philip Samuel gave birth to their son
Albert Abraham who passed away in 1864.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841: In Nice, France, Rachel Goldsmid and
Salomon Henri d’Avigdor, the son of Count Isaac Samuel d'Avigdor and Gabrielle
Pauline Henriette Avigdor gave birth Elim Henry d’Avigdor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1843: Bavarian born Judah Abraham and Sara
Sussman whom he married en route to the United States in 1837, gave birth to
Brooklyn resident Abraham Abraham, the husband of Ruth Epstein and “the founder
of Brooklyn department store Abraham and Straus who was president of Temple
Israel and Vice President of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1846: Birthdate of Emil Gabriel Warbug a
leading German Jewish physicist was part of the famous Warbug Family<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1849:
Birthdate of Vilna native and German trained Reform Rabbi Herman Eliassof who
led Congregation Beth-El in Chicago while editing <i>The Occident</i> and
several history books including <u>The Jews of Chicago</u> and <u>The Jews of
Illinois</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1849: “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” an opera
with a libretto by Hermann Salomon Mosenthal was performed for the first time
in Berlin<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1849: Today, just “a few weeks before his
death” Hananeel de Castro “secured the repeal of the herem that had been
promulgated against the Reform synagogue in London in 1841.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851(5th of Adar II, 5611): Eighty-one-year-old
Ruben Samuel Gumperz an advocate of Jewish emancipation passed away today in
Berlin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852: <i>The New York Times</i> reported that
“France has addressed three demands to the government of Switzerland” one of
which concerned the treatment of the Jews of Basle Champagne.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853: Ellis Harfield married Catherine Marks
today at the Great Synagogue<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855: “Response to the Call for a Rabbinical
Conference” published today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewish-history.com/Illoway/letter01.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.jewish-history.com/Illoway/letter01.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1857(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5617): Fast of
Esther observed for the first time during the Presidency of James Buchanan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1857: Birthdate of Russian native and future
St. Louis resident Abraham I. Gallant, the husband of Jennie Kaplan Gallant and
the father of Max, C.Lew, Fan, David and Edward J. Gallant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5620: Shushan
Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5620): David
Romm, who became head of the family printing business in Wilna after the death
of his father Joseph Reuben Romm, passed away today “while on his way to St.
Petersburg.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861(27<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5621): Parashat
Vayakhel-Pekudei; Shabbat HaChodesh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861: As the Jews observed the Sabbath, the
Confederate Congress passed “the Coinage Bill” which authorized the printing of
fifty million dollars of Confederate currency.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861: Today, the Burlington Weekly Hawk-eye
printed in full President Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address in which
the new president stressed the Union between the North and South and his
constitutional duty to maintain and defend it – a view which was supported by a
vast majority of the Jews in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862: Birthdate of Algerian native and French
physician Fernand Georges Widal, best known for his work in the fields of
pathology and bacteriology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fernand-Isidore-Widal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fernand-Isidore-Widal</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862(7<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5622): During the Civil War, William Durst, the
Austrian born “coal heaver” was serving aboard the U.S.S Monitor when it scored
a strategic victory over the C.S.S. Merrimack in one of the most important
naval engagements in the 19<sup>th</sup> century. This was the first
clash between ironclads which meant that the days of “wooden sailing ships were
numbered. It also meant that the Union blockade, which was a key to the
Union victory favored by most Jews, would succeed. Durst was one of
the eight to ten thousand Jews who served in the Union army and navy. When he
passed away in 1916, he was reported to be the last surviving member of the
crew of the Monitor, and he was buried at the Mt. Carmel Jewish Cemetery in
Philadelphia.</span></span><span style="font-size: xx-large;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864: President Lincoln appointed General Grant
who would be the first U.S. President to attend services dedicating a synagogue
to command all of the armies of the United States while General William
Tecumseh Sherman succeeded Grant as commander of the Union forces in the west
which contained several Jewish officers and enlisted men.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5625): Ta’anit
Eshter is observed for the last time during the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865: Three days after he had passed away,
Henry Jacobs, the son of Jane Jacobs, the husband of Kitty Moses and the father
of Elizabeth, Moses and Amelia Jacobs was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish
Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1867(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar II, 5627): Rosh
Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868(15th of Adar, 5628): Shushan Purim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868: The annual Purim Ball was held tonight at
Pike’s Opera House in New York City. The ball marked the end of city’s “season
of Carnival.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869: Joseph Aron married Maria Samuel today in
Paris.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870: In Pekin, Illinois, Garrison and Sarah
Bloom gave birth to Sol Bloom, the husband of Sarah Bloom who went from
“entertainment impresario and sheet music publisher in Chicago to a legislative
powerhouse while serving in the House of Representatives from two different New
York congressional districts for more than two decades.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870: Three days after he had passed away, David
Quixano Henriques one of the original founders of the West London Synagogue of
British Jews, the son of Abraham Quixano Henriques and Leah Rachel De Leon, the
husband of Rebecca Micholls and the father of Arthur and Edward Henriques was
buried at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1870:
Birthdate of Kovno native Samuel Osgood who in 1883 came to the United States
where he settled in Pittsburgh where he was a wholesale dry goods merchant and
active member of the Jewish community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872: A reporter for The New York Times visited
Temple Emanu El in this morning where he “at once noticed the extraordinary
resemblance” that this Jewish house of worship had “to the Christian cathedral
form.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875: In the UK, George Joseph Emanuel, “the
son of Joseph and Jane Emanuel” and his wife Elizabeth Emanuel gave birth to
Harry Emanuel today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5636): Fast of
Esther.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: In Chyenne, WY, after an argument over a
card game Jim Levy, an Irishman of Jewish decent mortally wounded Charlie
Harrison in what became known as the “Harrison-Levy Shootout.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.legendsofamerica.com/harrison-levy-shoot-out/">https://www.legendsofamerica.com/harrison-levy-shoot-out/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: Birthdate of Russian born American
businessman and musical impresario Max Rabinoff who also attended the
Versailles Peace Conference.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/Rabinoff/">http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/Rabinoff/</a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20361"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20361</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5639): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5639):
Fifty-nine-year-old London born Dutch writer and translator Mark Prager Lindo
who “went to Holland in 1838 as teacher of English, first at Arnhem, and then
at the Military Academy at Breda” after which “he studied Dutch literature at
Utrecht University” where he earned a doctorate in 1854 and began English by
Dickens and Thackery into Dutch while writing a two volume “history of England I
Dutch.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9997-lindo-mark-prager">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9997-lindo-mark-prager</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879: It was reported today that there of the
849,870 people living in Australia’s Victoria Colony, 4,237 are Jews. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879: Thomas Grady is scheduled to speak at meeting
of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association tonight where he will defend his proposal
to abolish the Free College.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880: Birthdate of Bernard “Barney” Samuel a
leader of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania who served as May of
Philadelphia from 1941 to 1952.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
passed away two years later.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: Birthdate of English labor leader
and politician Ernest Bevin. Bevin was Foreign Minister in the Labor Government
after World War II. He helped to enforce the White Paper and hewed to a
pro-Arab line. In responding to request for consideration for Jews after
the Holocaust, Bevin<br />
commented that Jews were always trying to push to the head of the line. Bevin
died in 1951 at the age of 70.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883: Thirty-year-old historian Arnold Toynbee,
the uncle of historian Arnold J. Toynbee who despairingly referred to “the
Jewish people as a “fossil of Syriac civilization” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884(12th of Adar, 5644): Moses Wilhelm Shapira
“shot himself in the Hotel Bloemendaal in Rotterdam. Born in the Russian Empire
in 1830 he followed his father to Palestine in 1856. He converted to
Christianity and began a career selling artifacts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, many of these were reported to
be fakes. According to some reports he took his own life as the result of his
involvement in the forging of supposedly biblical texts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.johnallegro.org/books/the-shapira-affair-1965/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.johnallegro.org/books/the-shapira-affair-1965/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.bl.uk/eblj/1995articles/pdf/article8.pdf"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.bl.uk/eblj/1995articles/pdf/article8.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885(22nd of Adar, 5645): Seventy-one-year-old
Breslau born merchant Simon Baruch Schefftel who after his retirement “prepared
a large Hebrew commentary on the Targum Onḳelos, which was published
posthumously by his son-in-law Joseph Perles” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5647): Ta’anit
Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: Birthdate of San Francisco native and
Stanford graduate Morgan A. Gunst, the husband of Aline Dreyfus Gunst, with
whom had two children, Mrs. Carl Stern and Morgan Gunst Jr. who became
vice-president of the Bank of Italy (Bank of America) and the Pacific Coast
manager of the General Cigar Company.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=JW19580808.2.60&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=JW19580808.2.60&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889: In Kovno, Fruma Bimstein and Joseph Silverman
gave birth to Syracuse University trained pediatrician A. Clement Silverman, the
specialist in children’s diseases and first lieutenant in the U.S. Army serving
at “base hospitals in France” during WW I who was “appointed assistant in
pediatrics at University Hospital” in Syracuse and who was a “member of the
board of trustees of the Jewish Fresh Air Campaign” while authoring “various
articles on physiology and pediatrics” and serving as the medical director at
City Hospital from 1928 to 1965 which to its name being changed to “the Dr.
Clement Silverman Public Health Hospital.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/27/archives/dr-ac-silverman.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/27/archives/dr-ac-silverman.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889(6<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5649): Fifty-six-year-old
Giacomo Alatri, the Italian banker whose warnings about the impending
bankruptcy of Banca Romana and helped raise funds to support kindergartens for
poor Jewish children passed away today, two months before his father Samuel
Altari passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: Several “Sabbath Schools of Jewish
congregations” in New York City hosted special Purim celebrations. One
congregation hosted a Purim Operetta performed by the female faculty for the
benefit of the young children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: In Paramaribo, Suriname, Salomon David
Levy Hartogh and Rachel Fernandes gave birth to Daniel Joseph Hartogh the
husband of Estelle Celine Abrahams.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: Almost 2,000 people attended the Purim
celebration hosted by the Temple Beth El Sabbath School which was held at the
Lexington Avenue Opera House.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: It was reported today that the money
raised by the Hebrew Benevolent Society’s charity ball at Long Island City will
go “to the erection of a house of worship, a school for children, the purchase
of a burial plot” and for a fund to provide relief for widows and orphans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: Rabbi Kohut recounted the Purim story to
350 children, their parents and friends at Temple Ahawath Chesed at 55<sup>th</sup>
and Lexington Avenue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: It was announced today that Dr. Charles
Elliot who has been teaching Hebrew at Lafayette College for the past four
years will not be teaching after this year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: Today during the strike by Polish
cloakmakers “a group of Polish Jews” broke into the tenement occupied by two
cloak contractors – Hermann Greenbaum and Sam Billet – where they were
reportedly having non-union workers make cloaks and broke up the work stations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: Benjamin Fernstein, a seventy-year-old
clothing cutter who died yesterday while riding the Second Avenue El was the
victim of a heart attack according to his family.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: Birthdate of Georg “George”
Froeschel,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“the son of banker in Vienna”
and lawyer turned author who came to the United States where he wrote several
successful screenplays the most famous of which was the all-time classic “Mrs.
Miniver.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/george_froeschel"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/george_froeschel</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: Today, Naphtali Taylor, a member of the
Sons of the American Revolution, married Rosalie Solomons, who “was active in
Jewish affairs as well as in politics” serving as Tammany co-leader of the
Seventh Assembly District, from 1918-1939 and the daughter of Adolphus S.
Solomons and Rachel Mendez Seixas Phillips Solomons. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: Following the death of two more Jewish
immigrants and two more Irish immigrants, it was reported that there have been
14 deaths since the outbreak of typhus with 70 known or suspected cases
quarantined on North Brother Island.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: Mason Hirsh, a senior member of the
umbrella manufacturing firm of Hirsh Brothers located in Philadelphia was
knocked down by a car in front of 435 Broadway in New York City today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892(10<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5652): The four-year-old
“minor son” of Isaac and Esther Jacob passed away today after which he was
interred in the Jewish Cemetery at Natchitoches, LA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: A. J. Rosenthal, a Jewish banker from
Fayette County served as Chairman of the Credentials Committee when the
Republican State Convention opened today in Austin, Texas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: The New York State Senate passed the
“so-called Freedom of Worship bill” this afternoon<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: Birthdate of Mátyás Rosenfeld, the
Hungarian communist leader who repudiated Judaism and changed his name to Mátyás
Rákosi as he climbed the ladder of “party success.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: A charity ball sponsored by the Purim
Association will take place tonight at Madison Square Garden with the United
Hebrew Charities serving as the beneficiaries of the event where the admission
ticket costs $10 per attendee regardless of their sex.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: “Gift to the Aguilar Library published
today described an anonymous gift given to this non-sectarian institution
founded by several prominent Jews that is “open to any resident of New York
over twelve years of age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(In a day of
“tablets” and “i-pads” it is hard to envision what the availability of this
trove of free books meant to generations of immigrants and their families)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: Today, Lord Lyon Playfair explained to
the House of Lords that “Messrs. Burnett and Schloss” had been sent to the
United States “as part of a general inquiry in the subject of pauper alients to
the United Kingdom” especially as it pertained to Russian and Polish Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: On New York’s City Lower East Side, “Hannah
Pepper, an Austrian native who had emigrated to the United States via Russia”
and her husband gave birth to Bertha "Beatrice" Alexander Behrman who
gained fame as dollmaker “Madame Alexander.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Alexander-Beatrice"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Alexander-Beatrice</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/05/obituaries/beatrice-behrman-95-doll-maker-known-as-madame-alexander.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/05/obituaries/beatrice-behrman-95-doll-maker-known-as-madame-alexander.html</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/beatrice-alexander"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/beatrice-alexander</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/131508/the-woman-behind-the-dolls?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=1e5aa771e2-5_7_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-1e5aa771e2-206644398"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/131508/the-woman-behind-the-dolls?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=1e5aa771e2-5_7_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-1e5aa771e2-206644398</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: Fifty-nine-year-old Austrian author Leopold
von Sacher-Masoch “who faithfully described the manners of Polish Jews but
feared that his affection for them might give the impression that he was”
Jewish passed away today. He was the author Jews and Russians and the editor of
At the Pinnacle, “a progressive magazine” that championed “tolerance and
integration for the Jews of Saxony.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: Birthdate of Suffolk, VA, native Linwood
Lehman, the holder of a BA, MA and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia where
he was a Professor of Latin and translator of the first English edition of “Un
Jeune Homee Presse by Eugen Labiche. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://virginiagleeclub.fandom.com/wiki/Linwood_Lehman"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://virginiagleeclub.fandom.com/wiki/Linwood_Lehman</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: Birthdate of Albert Günther Göring, the
older brother of Hermann Göring, who worked to save Jews while his brothers was
killing them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.auschwitz.dk/albert.htm"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.auschwitz.dk/albert.htm</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/yad-vashem-prize-for-top-nazis-brother/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/yad-vashem-prize-for-top-nazis-brother/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: Purim will be celebrated this evening
with an invitation only fancy-dress reception at Delmonico’ sponsored by the
Purim Association.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: Today Baltimore native Sydney S. Weil
enlisted as a machinist in the United States Navy after which he “served on the
USS New York and USS Indiana and during the Spanish American War on the
“Castine.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: Judge Julian Mack
married Jessie Fox.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: Maurico Jacobs
and his family are scheduled to set sail from New York to Panama today aboard
the SS Allianca thanks to funds provided by the United Hebrew Charities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jacobs is a native of Peru who owned a sugar
plantation in Cuba with his brother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
claims that they were forced to leave the island after his brother was killed
and the plantation was seized.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898(15<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5658): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898(15<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5658): Seventy-seven-year-old “a Warsaw-born Polish composer and pianist,
promoter of Chopin, son of Gabriel Bereksohn, grandson of Berek and Temerl Bergson,
great-grandson of Samuel Zbytkower,” husband of Katherine Levison and father of
“influential French philosopher Henri-Louis Bergson and Moina Mathers, wife of
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers” passed away today in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein has obtained a
lease Olympia which was arranged by Andrew Freeman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: It was reported today that the name of
Esterhazy, one of the French officers responsible for the false imprisonment of
Captain Dreyfus, was added to the name of villains who were booed during the
reading of the Megillah during Purim Services.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: “Peters Praises The Jews” published today
provides a summary of Reverend Madison C. Peters lecture on “Justice to the
Jew” – a unique highly positive view of the Jewish people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><a name="_Hlk129096845"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: Attorney Benjamin
Charles Bachrach, the Elgin, Illinois born son of Leonora and Charles Kalman
Bachrach and his wife Martha Blanche Bachrach gave birth to Leona Celeste
Graham.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk129096845;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: Herzl had another meeting with Austrian
Prime Minister Ernest von Koerber. The subscribers the Colonial Bank were
permitted to complete their payments and receive their shares.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: In Buffalo, NY, Samuel and Rivka Halpern
gave birth to Julius Halpern “the husband of Mary Claire Halpern.”1900(8th of
Adar II): Sixty-three-year-old Hebrew poet and Yiddish author Isaac Rabinowitz
(Ish Kovno) <span style="color: black;">who lived in Telshi where he met his wife
for 22 years before eventually settling in New York where he tried to continue
he vocation of writing songs and translating novels into Yiddish </span>passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: Prinzessin Victoria Luise “the first
purposed built cruise ship” which part of the fleet of Albert Ballin’s Hamburg-American
Line” began her second cruise sailing today from New York to the Mediterranean
and Black seas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: Birthdate of Paterson, NJ, native Judah
Harry Barth, the Hackensack lawyer and leader of the YMHA.<br />
1902: Composer Gustav Mahler married Alma Schindler in Vienna.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: Louis and Clara Asia Parnes gave birth to
Rose Parnes who became Rose Parnes Petchesky when she married Joseph Petchesky
in 1932<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: Birthdate of Elisabeth Pelletier de
Chambure, the member of a wealthy Catholic aristocratic family who became Élisabeth
de Rothschild when she married famed vintner Baron Philippe de Rothschild.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: Rabbi Isaac Jacob Reines founded the
Mizrachi Movement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: “Duty of Jews in Politics” published
today described a speech given by New York rabbi Dr. Adolf Guttmacher in
Baltimore in which he called on Jews to exercise their franchise but denied
that there was a “Jewish Vote” saying that “the Jew is found in all political
camps” and the Jew “goes to the polls to perform the sacred duty of the citizen
not as Jews but as a citizen of this great Republic.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: Birthdate of Gerald Ernest Heal Abraham,
the native of the Isle of Wright who forsook a career in the Royal Navy to
become one of Britain’s leading musicologists. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: It was reported today that Commissioner
Abraham Stern had attacked the City of Superintendent of Schools at a meeting
“called to consider” the State Commissioner’s “order to show cause why his
approval of the Normal College course of study should not be revoked.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: The Wadsworth District Sunday bill (H.R
16483) which would make it effectively to operate a grocery store on Sunday in
the District of Columbia – a bill that be at odds with the needs of Jewish
businessman – was introduced in the House of Representatives.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: In Russia, “founding of the Jewish
Socialist Workers Party” an offshoot of the Paole Zion that followed the
teachings of Chaim Zhitlowsky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: In Skokie, Illinois, Hyman and Rebecca
Bertha Goldstein gave birth to Bertha Rebecca Goldstein who became Bertha
Rebecca Brownstein when she married Henry J. Brownstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar, 5667): Parashat
Vayakhel-Pekudi; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: Pavel Krushevan, “an anti-Semitic member
of the Duma from Kishinev” threatened those who had disqualified him from the
Russian Parliament would “be followed by more anti-Jewish attacks in Southern
Russia.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: Birthdate of Moyshe Lenski.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2017/06/moyshe-lenski.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2017/06/moyshe-lenski.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: It was reported today that in Camden, NJ,
“because of the excellent work she has done in behalf of the Jewish Ladies’ Aid
Society, Mrs. Jacob Silver has been presented with a gold medal.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: In Camden, NJ, “tonight Jacob Wietzman”
is scheduled to “give a reception and dinner to his fellow members of the
Seventh Ward Republican Club.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: As a result of meeting held yesterday at
the home Mrs. I.M. Appel, Jews can now make plans for electing officers for the
newly organized auxiliary for the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives at
Denver.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: It was reported today that incoming Taft
administration has offered former Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar S.
Straus, the position of Ambassador to Japan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: The Mayor of New York appointed Moses J.
Harris, a Brooklyn lawyer to serve as Police Magistrate today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: “Lee Shubert of Shubert Brothers
admitted” today “that negotiations were pend for the leas of six old private
dwellings…at 113 to 123 West Forty-third Street” which may become the site of a
new Shubert theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: After having been baptized as Roman
Catholic in 1905 and having “taken” his doctorate in laws in 1906, Hans Kelsen
took “his habilitation today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: Today, composer and pianist Leo Ornstein,
the Russian born son of Clara and Abram Ornstein who had come to the United
States in 1907 gave his “public concert at the New Amsterdam Theatre” in NYC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: In Detroit, Dr. Emil Amberg, the Santa
Fe, NM born son of Minna and Jakab Amberg, and his wife Cecile Amberg gave
birth to Robert Siegal Amberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: “Mr. Boris Hambourg, the excellent
violoncellist, who appeared here earlier in the season, gave a second recital this
afternoon in Mendelssohn Hall.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912(20<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5672): Shabbat
Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912(20<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5672):
Fifty-seven-year-old Hiram Ullman, the Pennsylvania businessman who served on
the Williamsport Common Council passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: The Independent Anshe Bessarabia Talmud
Torah was founded in Philadelphia, Pa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: The funeral for Pauline Phillips, wife of
Herman Phillips and the mother of Arthur Phillips is scheduled to take place
today followed by interment in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: In Bangor, Maine, Beth Israel whose
synagogue had been destroyed in the Great Fire of 1911, dedicated its new
building today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><a name="_Hlk129087513"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914(11<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5674):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seventy-six-year-old
Nuremberg born Henry Pretzfelder, the “senior member of the wholesale shoe firm
of Pretzfelder and Company, the husband of Hanna Ellel Prtzfelder and the
father of Gertrude Pretzfelder Schental passed away today in Baltimore after
which he was buried at the Oheb Shalom Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk129087513;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: In Cambridge, MA, Herman Bernstein, the
Secretary of the American Jewish Committee told a meeting of the Menorah
Society at Harvard said that since public opinion has forced the Russian
government to abandon its policy of massacring Jews the Czar’s government was
not seeking to consign the Jews to permanent illiteracy by “closing the
schoolhouses” to Jewish students.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: “Bernstroff Defends Turks” published
today contains the assertion by the German Ambassador, who is trying to keep
the United States from joining the Allies, that his Turkish allies are tolerant
of all religions and that the suffering of Jews of Palestine is the product of
local zealots in the government in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: Birthdate of Hyman H. “Bookie” Bookbinder
a Washington lobbyist for Jewish causes who spent many years working for a
variety of liberal causes including civil rights and the rights of labor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://forward.com/news/140356/hyman-bookbinder-passionate-moderate-dies-at-95/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://forward.com/news/140356/hyman-bookbinder-passionate-moderate-dies-at-95/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.ushmm.org/confront-genocide/speakers-and-events/biography/hyman-bookbinder"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.ushmm.org/confront-genocide/speakers-and-events/biography/hyman-bookbinder</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: Kitty Kelly of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chicago Tribune</i> staff is among those scheduled to address the
meeting this afternoon of The Deborah and Deborah at their meeting in the Sinai
Social Center on Chicago’s south side.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5677): Shushan
Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: The Jewish Publication Society announced
“that it has published the first edition of the news translation of the <u>Bible</u>,
the first volume of <u>The History of the Jews in Russia and Poland </u>by
Simon Dubnow and that it will be holding its annual meeting later this month at
Dropsie College in Philadelphia, PA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Dr. M.H. Harris is scheduled to lead
services today, Shabbat, at Temple Israel of Harlem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Dr. Enlow is scheduled to deliver a
sermon on Apostasy and Judaism” this morning at Temple Emanu-El.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Dr. Samuel Schulman is scheduled to
deliver the Sabbath morning sermon at Temple Beth-El.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1918:<b> </b></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Ukrainian mobs massacre
Jews of Seredino Buda<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: The Provisional Executive Committee for
General Zionist Affairs made public the suggestions by the British Palestine
Committee, “a non-Jewish organization” which spoke approvingly of the creation
of a Hebrew university in Jerusalem which was being built “while military
operations were still in progress.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: In Bloomington, Illinois, vaudevillians
Claire and George Rockwell gave birth to George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder
of the American Nazi Party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: In Manhattan, “Israel Edwin Goldwasser
and the former Edith Goldstein,” gave birth to physicist Edwin Leo “Ned”
Goldwassser<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/science/edwin-goldwasser-died-fermi-national-accelerator-laboratory.html?_r=0"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/science/edwin-goldwasser-died-fermi-national-accelerator-laboratory.html?_r=0</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: Jacob H. Schiff told 3,500 members of the
Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America meeting in Carnegie Hall
tonight he hoped “that the portals of America would never be entirely closed to
the Jews” but he also “declared that the one aim of all Jews at the present
time should be the restoration of Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: The 30<sup>th</sup> annual convention of
the Federation of Roumanian Jews of America whose 20,000 members among other
things “maintain the Jewish Home for Convalescents at Grand View on the Hudson,
NY under the leadership of Samuel Goldstein, Rose Markowitz, Mrs. Clara Bereano
and Michael Baumann took placed today at New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919(7<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5679):
Forty-one-year-old Rangoon born barrister, Elisha Arkie Cohen, the first
husband of the former Ruth Jacobs the author and poet whose works include the
“Poem A Day Lady” passed away today in Manitoba, Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: The tombstone for Emanuel Jacobs of
Covent Garden is scheduled to be consecrated at Jersey today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Winston and Clementine Churchill arrive
in Cairo in preparation for a conference to examine the workings of the
mandates for Palestine and Iraq.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: Birthdate of Camden, NJ native Harvey
Pollack, the “grandfather” of the NBA statistical records.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(As reported by Richard by Goldstein)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/sports/basketball/harvey-pollack-a-statistician-in-nba-from-day-1-dies-at-93.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/sports/basketball/harvey-pollack-a-statistician-in-nba-from-day-1-dies-at-93.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nba.com/2015/news/06/23/sixers-harvey-pollack-obit/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nba.com/2015/news/06/23/sixers-harvey-pollack-obit/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: Twenty-two-year-old Alexander Neufeld,
the native of Budapest who in 1918 played his first game as a member of the
Hungarian national team which defeated Switzerland today led his team Hakoah
Vienna’s soccer team to victory. (As reported by Bob Wechsler)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: Winston Churchill delivered a speech in
Parliament in support the Balfour Declaration against its opponents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He reiterated support for the establishment
of the Jewish Homeland in Palestine while cautioning against letting Jews who
were Bolsheviks settle in Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: The Shearith Israel League of the Spanish
and Portuguese Synagogue in New York City is scheduled to present a performance
of “The Mikado” today in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Plaza.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923(21<sup>st</sup> of Adar, 5683): Charles
Eisenman, the New York City born son of Isadore and Caroline (Rosenblatt)
Eisenman, the cofounder in Cleveland of K and E Company, a manufacturer of
shirts and blouses and president of the Federation of Jewish Charities who had
married Bertha Hays in 1891 passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://case.edu/ech/articles/e/eisenman-charles"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://case.edu/ech/articles/e/eisenman-charles</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: In Vienna, “Salomon Kohn, who ran a
business selling artistic postcards, and the former Gittel Rappaport, whom her
son described in an autobiographical sketch for the Nobel committee as “a
highly educated woman with a good knowledge of German, Latin, Polish and French
and some acquaintance with Greek, Hebrew and English” gave birth to Walter Kohn
winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1998.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~kohn/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~kohn/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/26/science/walter-kohn-nobel-winning-scientist-dies-at-93.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/26/science/walter-kohn-nobel-winning-scientist-dies-at-93.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924(2<sup>nd</sup> of Adar II, 5684): Abraham
Caraco, who was named rabbi of the Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel after 39
Turkish elders of the Sephardi community formed the Sephardic Community of Los
Angeles ("La Communidad") in 1920 passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: The deeply anti-Semitic Theodore Duesterberg
who in 1932 would learn for the first time that his grandfather was a Prussian
Jewish doctor who converted to Lutheranism in 1818, began serving as the Deputy
Federal Leader of Der Stahlheim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: In Lower Saxony, Jakob and Hanna Hanne
Cohen gave birth to David Jacob Cohen, the husband of Dian Berger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: William Fox, the Chairman of the
$6,000,000 United Jewish Campaign of New York announced the appointment
“”Albert Goldman , Commissioner of Plant and Structures of New York City, as
Chairman of the Bronx Division of the drive, which is part of the $15,000,000
‘Overseas Chest of the United Jewish Campaign.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: In London, Dr. Alex Tudor Hart and Dr.
Alison Macbeth gave birth to Dr. Julian Tudor Hart the husband of British
photographer and Soviet sympathizer Edith Suschitzky the daughter of Viennese
Jewish social democrat Wilhelm Shuschitzky. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: Birthdate of Erfut, Germany native Leo
Alexander Inselsbacher who gained famed as Hebrew musician Aryeh “Arik” Lavie,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/07/01/arik_lavie_at_77_israeli_singer_actor/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/07/01/arik_lavie_at_77_israeli_singer_actor/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: In Vienna, Franzi Grossman and her
husband, a chief bank accountant gave birth to Lore Groszmann, who gained fame
as Lore Segal, the author of Shakespeare’s Kitchen, one of the finalists for
the Pulitzer Prize in 2008. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928(17<sup>th</sup> of Ada, 5688): Birthdate
of Kassel, Germany native and “professor of Assyriology and Babylonian
Literature and curator of the Babylonian collection at Yale University” Dr.
William W. Hallo, a refugee from Nazi Germany whose family fled to England in
1939 before settling in the United States in 1941.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://news.yale.edu/2015/03/30/memoriam-william-w-hallo-expert-ancient-near-east">https://news.yale.edu/2015/03/30/memoriam-william-w-hallo-expert-ancient-near-east</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: New York State Supreme Court Justice
Alfred Frankenthal was injured this morning when the taxicab in which he was
riding skidded out of control and hit an elevated pillar. Israel Mora was the
cab driver.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: In Manhattan, Maxwell Walzer, a furrier
and the former Ruth Rosenthal, gave birth to Peggy Sandelle Walzer gave birth
to Peggy Charren who gained fame as an advocate for improved children
television programming. (As reported by Bruce Weber)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/arts/peggy-charren-childrens-tv-crusader-is-dead-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/arts/peggy-charren-childrens-tv-crusader-is-dead-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929(27<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5689): Shabbat
Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929(27<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5689):
Thirty-four “English composer, arranger, music teach and pupil of Gustav Holst
passed Jane Joseph away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://landofllostcontent.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/jane-joseph-brief-discussion-of-her.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://landofllostcontent.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/jane-joseph-brief-discussion-of-her.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: The Zionist Organization of America
announced plans for the celebration of the 20<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the
founding of Tel Aviv.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The planned
activities include a Jewish ‘world Congress for Propagation of Interest in
Palestine Products and a Palestine and Newar East Exhibition and Fair. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: The two day “Washington Conference for
the Allied Jewish Campaign” which was “hailed as the beginning of a new
intensified activity by American Jews on behalf of their harassed brethren in
Eastern Europe and Palestine” came to an end today. (JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: Funeral services were held this afternoon
at Temple Emanu-El for theatrical stage impresario Abraham L. Erlanger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jta.org/1930/03/10/archive/funeral-services-for-a-l-erlanger-theatrical-magnate"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.jta.org/1930/03/10/archive/funeral-services-for-a-l-erlanger-theatrical-magnate</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: Twenty-nine-year-old Bucharest native
Leon Feldestein, the owner of Feldstein Furniture Company in Portland, OR
married Esther Gumbert today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
(German: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a political-satirical opera composed by Kurt
Weill” which was later banned by the Nazis, premiered today in Leipzig<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: A “plenary meeting of Arab executives” is
scheduled to be held today which attendees will discuss “the Arab attitude toward
the Palestine Government and the summoning of the eighth Palestine Arab Congress”
and make a decision regarding the proposed economic boycott of Jewish
enterprises.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: Dr. Victor Rosewater, the former editor
and publisher of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Omaha Bee </i>and a
leader of the Jewish community and Republican Party in Nebraska spoke at the
school of politics of the Women’s National Republican Club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told the gathering that “the influence of
the press in forming political opinion is no longer as directed as it once
was…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: In Rochester, NY, Hebrew teacher Eva
Muchnick and attorney Arnold Heicklin gave birth Cornell and University of
Rochester educated chemist Dr. Julian Phillip Heicklen, the husband of Susan
(Hook) Heicklen and father of Alice Heicklen and Deborah Heicklen who gained
famed as “a charismatic, cantankerous chemistry professor who dedicated his
retirement years to a series of public protests in defense of civil liberties…”
(As reported by Clay Risen)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://courtroomlogic.com/tag/julian-heicklen/">https://courtroomlogic.com/tag/julian-heicklen/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/20/obituaries/julian-heicklen-dead.html?searchResultPosition=4">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/20/obituaries/julian-heicklen-dead.html?searchResultPosition=4</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: The new turbines at the hydroelectric
project created by Pinhas Rutenberg began to turn today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: “Night Over Taos” a three-act play
“staged by Lee Strasberg with a cast that included Luther Adler, Stella Adler,
J. Edward Bromberg, Morris Carnovsky, Sanford Meisner and Clifford Odets opened
at the 48<sup>th</sup> Street Theatre today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: It was reported today “at an emergency
executive meeting of the Greater New York American Palestine Campaign Committee
it was voted unanimously…to continue the American Palestine Campaign to raise
money” for the Jewish Agency for Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: The first of thousands of “critics” of
The Third Reich were sent to Dachau.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: Henry Thomas Rainey who in 1906 attended
a mass meeting held to protest the “atrocities in Russia” and told the audience
that the Romanoffs “are inflaming the populace against the helpless Jews – and
already the blood of 100,000 Jews cries out for vengeance” began servings today
as 40<sup>th</sup> Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: “Coming Out Party” a comedy produced by
Jesse L. Lasky and with a script co-authored by Jesse L. Lasky, Jr. was
released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: The Pesach Cruise, managed by Rosen
Palestine Oriental Tours is scheduled to begin today aboard the SS Vulcania.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: “New German Plea” published today
described Dr. Julius Lippert’s call for American businessman to put an end to
the Jewish Boycott of German goods.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/American_Jewish_boycott_of_German_products"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/American_Jewish_boycott_of_German_products</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: The cover of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Time </i>magazine features the beaten, bandaged visage of Leon Blum who
had been beaten Royalist (right wing) youths.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19360309,00.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19360309,00.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “Abominable Triumph” published today as
the cover story for Time described the causes of the life-threatening beating
given to Leon Blum by those who oppose him because he is a socialist,
anti-fascist and Jewish. (The road from Drancy to Auschwitz began on the
streets and chambers of Paris in the 1930’s)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,770084,00.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,770084,00.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1936 :(
15th of Adar, 5696): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936 Birthdate of Martin Ingerman who gained
fame as comic actor Marty Ingles. (A comedian born on Purim – talk about
bashert)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/arts/television/marty-ingels-actor-and-comedian-is-dead-at-79.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/arts/television/marty-ingels-actor-and-comedian-is-dead-at-79.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5696): “Two Jews
were killed and four seriously injured today in rioting in the town of
Prystytyk in the District of Radom, Poland while “scores” more “were beaten or
wounded<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and 700 Jewish families were thrown
into panic.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “A government statement issued by the
official news service” at Berlin which says “Jews do not enjoy the privilege of
voting – that is to say, such persons as are descendants of at least three
fully Jewish grandparents. Furthermore, persons are not privileged to vote who
are descendants of two fully Jewish grandparents and who were members of Jewish
religious bodies… or who joined a Jewish religious body after September 30,
1935 or who married a Jew after that date.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Birthdate of Juda Bar-Norwegian, Dutch
born Israeli actor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: The Przytyk, Pogrom, the worst of a series of
pogroms that took place in Poland during the interwar decades, claimed the
lives of three people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: “The anti-Semitic ‘Prophecy’ attributed to Benjamin
Franklin and distributed in Germany within the last few days by the government
news service was identified on publication” in the United States today “as a
document that made its appearance in 1934 and was investigated for several
months by Professor Charles A. Beard” one of the leading historians in the
United States who “pronounced it ‘a barefaced forgery’.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: The American Labor Delegation to
Palestine, whose members include Max Zaristk, Josephy Schossberg, Isidore
Nagel, Samuel Perlmutter, Reuben Guskin, Jacob Breslaw and Jacob Blum is
scheduled to deliver their report at the Hippodrome today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: The Chancellor of Austria, Schuschnigg,
announces a plebiscite on the question of Austrian independence. His policy was
to try and keep Austria semi-independent and to limit the more overt
anti-Semitic activities. Hitler furiously demanded his resignation, which
arrived two days later. His resignation opened the way to the Anschluss
(annexation) of Austria by Germany on March 13<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1938: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Palestine Post</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> reported that Arab terrorists sniped at
various quarters of Jewish Jerusalem. The Sanhedria Quarter came under a direct
Arab fire from Lifta.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: In what might be seen as double-header
for the Jews, today President Roosevelt “discussed tax legislation with
Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau” and received “a report on the progress
made in arranging for emigration of Jews from Germany” presented by George
Rublee, the director of the Intergovernmental Committee on Political
Refugees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940(29<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5700): Parashat
Pekudi; Shabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: Rabbi David de Sola Pool told congregants
at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue that “the postulate of democracy that
all men are created equal is based on the recognitions of the worth of the
individual” and that “religion and democracy are at one in holding that there
is qual worth to the soul of every human being whatever be his race and creed.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: “An appeal to Protestants, Catholics and
Jews to unite in the relief of war sufferers and reufees and to reintegrate the
shatter spiritual life of the world was made” tonight “by four speakers”
included Rabbi Jonah B. Wise “in a nation-wide broadcast opening campaigns in
various communities of the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees and Overseas
Needs.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: Esther "Etty" Hillesum began
writing in her diary which would provide a description of life Amsterdam under
the Nazis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: After 8 months in office Petain and his
Vichy Government adopted an ordinance requiring Jews to get “authorization to
sell or rent property.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: The Jews of the small Polish community of
Mielec were driven out of their homes and rounded up in the marketplace; the
old and feeble were shot on the equivalent of a death march. The survivors
waited in a hangar in the aircraft factory without food or water and were
herded into cattle cars a few days later.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: U.S. Army Colonel F.B. Yancy, Chief of
the Special Services spoke at the opening club designed for the use of U.S.
military personnel. The club is housed in the former Tel Aviv luxury hotel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: Today Rokhl Auerbakh, one of the few
surviving members of Emanuel Ringelblum’s “Oyneg Shabes group” “escaped from
the Warsaw Ghetto and began working as Polish secretary which enabled her to
continue her work of recording the fate of the Jews of Warsaw.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: The Nazis continued the transport of
Greek Jews from Salonika to Auschwitz. Salonika was an ancient Jewish
community. It became a haven for Sephardic Jews when they fled Spain at
the end of the fifteenth century. It was renowned center for kabalistic
studies. In 1943, Elie Veissi, a journalist, formed an all Jewish
resistance group at Salonika. Veissi supplied valuable information to the
British about Nazi activities in Greece. But he and his group failed in
their main mission - saving the Jews of Salonika. A few thousand escaped
to Athens, but most of the rest perished in the camps. Some of you know about
the Jews of Salonika because of their unique music. Some of it was captured in
a recording called Kol Salonika. You may have heard their haunting melody
for verses five and six of the 118th Psalm – Min hameitzar karati Ya, anani
vemerchav, Out of my distress I called upon the Lord and He set me free.
. The other famous song is entitled Kol Ha-Olam Kulo - "The
entire world is a narrow bridge; the main thing is not to fear." (I
realize this has been a little lengthy, but one of the lessons of Jewish
History is that Holocaust Memorial Day should be plural, not singular, event.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: In a rare case of open police resistance
to the arrest and murder of Jews of Europe during WWII, 12 Dutch military
policemen including 23-year-old Henk Drogt refused orders to round up the
remaining local Jews in Grootegast, Holland. The policemen were pressured and
threatened by their commanders with incarceration at a concentration camp
themselves, but steadfastly refused to carry out the orders. The group was
subsequently arrested and taken to the Vught concentration camp in the Southern
Netherlands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drogt would evade capture
until his arrest in August of 1943.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
was executed in April of 1944.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2010,
he received the State of Israel's highest honor for non-Jews on Monday at
Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943:
An audience of 40,000 gathered in New York’s Madison Square Garden to watch “We
Will Never Die”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“a dramatic pageant”
designed “to raise public awareness of the ongoing mass murder of Europe's
Jews. It was organized and written by screenwriter and author Ben Hecht and
produced by Billy Rose and Ernst Lubitsch. The musical score was composed by
Kurt Weill and staged by Moss Hart. The pageant starred Edward G. Robinson and
Paul Muni and subsequently traveled to other cities nationwide.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007047"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007047</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5704): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944:
Today marked the second and final day of the “Liquidation of the Theresienstadt
concentration camp to which “approximately 144,000 Jews, most of whom were
Czech citizens” had been sent approximately 33,000 of whom had died” and whose
remaining inmates were on their way to Auschwitz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944:
The American Palestine Committee is scheduled to sponsor a national conference”
in Washington today “to promote "American Christian" support for the
opening of Jewish immigration into Palestine…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945:
“Seeks Voice at Parley” published today described demands by the American
Zionist Emergency Council to have Jewish representation “at the San Francisco
conference” when “all matter affecting Palestine and the future of the Jewish
people” are discussed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5706): Parashat Pekudi<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946:
“Establishment of a two million college in Brooklyn to train students for
teaching Hebrew and promote the study of Hebrew Ideals and culture is proposed
in a bill offered in the state legislature by Assemblyman Bernard Austin.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
In Tunis, Hnuna and Shimon gave birth to Yedhuda Galili who made Aliyah in 1956
and died aboard the Dakar, a submarine lost with all hands on board in 1968.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: The first unauthorized immigrant ship
known to have been sent to Palestine by the Hebrew Committee of National
Liberation was taken into government custody today. The ship which was known
variously as the SS Ben Hecht and/or the SS Abril was filled with 599 Jewish
refugees including 385 men, 194 women and 20 children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of the refugees were placed on two
ferries by the British and sent immediately to displaced persons camps in
Cyprus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: According to Jack Bernstein, who served
as a Seaman aboard the SS Abril (Ben Hecht) “at 05:33 A.M. the HMS Octavia came
along side, secured a line and towed the Ben Hecht to Haifa” where “the British
took the American crew members to Akko Prison” and shipped the “passengers<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to Detention Camp Number 66.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: “Troops fired over the heads of a number
of Jews in the marital-law area of Jerusalem” because officials said they were
“’too slow in returning to their homes when the daily curfew was re-imposed at
5 P.M.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: British policed reported that 25
“suspected terrorists” have been arrested in Tel Aviv in the last 24 hours.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: In Los Angeles, Henry and Phoebe Ephron
gave birth author to Hallie Ephron, the sister of Nora, Amy and Delia Ephron.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.oprah.com/spirit/nora-ephrons-mother-hallie-ephron-essay"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.oprah.com/spirit/nora-ephrons-mother-hallie-ephron-essay</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://hallieephron.com/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://hallieephron.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: Jacob Joseph Kohn, the American-born
clothing salesman” is still being held by the Paris police having been charged
with complicity in the illegal collection of arms seized recently in Paris that
were “allegedly collected for use by the Jews in Palestine.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Editor’s Note – this is an example of the
double standard of the time. The arms embargo was enforced against the Jews but
the Arabs, because they were part of nation states had unlimited access to
modern military equipment.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: Birthdate of American artist Eric Fischl.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.ericfischl.com/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.ericfischl.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: During Operation Uvda, one unit from
Alexandroni Brigade captured Ein Gedi while another unit captured Masada.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5709):<span style="color: black;"> University of Cincinnati trained
attorney Alfred Morton Cohen, the Cincinnati born son of Phebe Phillips and
Morton Cohen and the husband of Millie Phillips who served as a state
legislator and city councilman passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/cohen-alfred-morton"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/cohen-alfred-morton</span></a><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: In Chicago, “Nathan Hirsch, a
businessman, and the former Mollie Shulman, who worked in a bank loan
department” gave birth to Dr. Arnold Richard Hirsch, the University of Illinois
trained historian best known for chronicling the story of housing segregation.
(As reported Sewell Chan)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/obituaries/arnold-hirsch-chicago-historian-dead.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/obituaries/arnold-hirsch-chicago-historian-dead.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: During Operation Uvda, “Golani forces
captured Gharandal and proceeded to Ein Ghadyan (now Yotvata).”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: During the War for Independence, two IDF
units set off to take Eilat on the Gulf of Aqaba<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: A special meeting of the board of
directors at the Astor Hotel is held to announce the formation of the
Amun-Israeli House Corporation that “will finance $20,000,000 worth of housing
construction” in Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lack of
adequate housing is one of the Jewish state’s most pressing problems and this
effort which enjoys support from a diverse group that includes Nelson
Rockefeller and the leaders of the I.L.G.W.U. represents a major effort to
provide both immediate and long term relief.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was officially announced tonight that Turkey “has accorded full diplomatic
recognition” to the state of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: The Swedish government issued a report
today accusing the Israeli police of demonstrating grave negligence in
investigating the assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte which had taken place
in September of 1948.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: AT&T announced today that it has
created a new direct circuit between New York and Tel Aviv which will improve
phone service between the major cities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Calls can only be made between 7 in the morning and 1 in the afternoon
at a cost of $12 for the first three minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: Birthdate of Michael Kinsley, journalist
and founder of Slate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: The Pan
American Games, during which Byron “Krieger won gold medals in team foil and
team sabre and the team silver in épée” came to an end today in Buenos Aires.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: Almost thirty thousand Iraqi Jews had signed up for
immigration for Israel as of today. Today was the deadline the Iraqi
government had set for this registration. Registration meant giving up
their Iraqi citizenship which meant that as of this date these people were
"stateless."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952(12<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5712): Israel Gerstein, the
husband of Cecilia F. Gerstein and the father of Tillie and Maurice Gerstein
passed away today after which he was buried in the Tifereth Anshai Sfard
Cemetery in Lawrence, MA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952: Sioux City native and Air Force veteran Morris
Mirkin the founder of Budget Rent-A-Car married his first wife Judith Carole
Lindenberg today after which they had three children – Jeffrey, Margaux and
Mitchell.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952: Birthdate of Amir Petertz, the native of Morocco
whose family made Aliyah in 1956. A Labor Party MK, he has served as Minister
of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1953: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> reported that in Moscow following the death of
Stalin,Georgi Malenkov, 51, was appointed the head of the Soviet Union while
Molotov, Beria, Bulganin and Kaganovitch had been named as his deputies. Israel
was one of the few countries which were not invited to Stalin’s funeral.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Jerusalem Post</i> reported that Israel had been divided into six
administrative districts: three urban: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa, and three
rural: the Northern, Central and South. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Jerusalem Post</i> reported that fifteen marauders were killed and 11 captured
during the past week. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954: CBS broadcast the final episode of
Clifton Fadiman’s “This Is Show Business.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954: CBS television broadcasts the <i>See It
Now</i> episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy," that featured
Ed Murrow at his finest. Fred Friendly, a Jewish television producer born in
New York, joined forces with Murrow to produce all of the<i> See It Now </i>episodes.
CBS was owned by William Paley who was also Jewish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their ethnic origins had nothing to do with
this choice of programming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact,
Paley, like so many other Jews in the print and electronic media, bent over
backwards to avoid any connection between being Jewish and the product they
offered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5715): Shushan
Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5715):
Sixty-four-year-old Columbia trained physician Dr. Ernst Phillip Boas, the
Worcester, MA born son of “Franz Boas, regarded by many as the father of modern
anthropology” and the former Marie Krackowizer,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>who served as the Captain in Medical Corps of the U.S. Army during WW II
before becoming the Director of the Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases
starting in 1921 while raising three children – Barbara, Donald and Norman –
with his wife “the former Helen Sisson” whom he married in 1917, passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956: In Finland, premiere of “The Rose Tatoo”
directed by Daniel Mann, produced by Hal B. Wallis with a script co-authored by
Hal Kanter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956: It was reported today that “eleven
Orthodox deans of Jewish seminaries have signed a directive declaring that
joint action with more liberal rabbis is "prohibited by Torah law."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959: Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted.
Over 800 million have been sold marking another Jewish business success brought
to us, in this case, by Ruth Mosko Handler.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/09/1959/ruth-mosko-handler"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/09/1959/ruth-mosko-handler</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959: “Juno, a musical with music and lyrics by
Marc Blitzstein and book by Joseph Stein” “premiered on Broadway at the Winter
Garden Theatre” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959: In New York City, “Edie L. (Greene), a
merchandise manager, and Murray A. Price, a car leasing company owner” gave
birth to theatric actor, writer and director Lonny Price.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960(10<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5720): Forty-seven-year-old
Richard L. Neuberger, the junior Senator from Oregon passed away unexpectedly
today as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/neuberger_richard_1912_1960_/#.WqCTBFuot9A"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/neuberger_richard_1912_1960_/#.WqCTBFuot9A</span></a><br />
1962: “Knife in the Water” a film nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign
Language Film directed by Roman Polanski who co-authored the script along with
Jakub Goldberg was released in Poland team.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962: Egyptian President Nasser declared that
Gaza belonged to the Palestinians. Of course, Gaza was occupied by Egypt from
1948 until 1967. No attempt was made to turn the government over to the
Palestinians at the time of this declaration. In fact, the Palestinians
were trapped in Gaza without meaningful economic assistance from their Arab
brethren.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1963: The 1963 NCAA Division I Basketball
Tournament which would provide a showcase for the talents of Duke’s Art Heyman
opened today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1963: Allan Sherman’s “My Son The Celebrity”
reached #1 on Billboard’s Top 150 Best Sell LP’s Chart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964: Sir Alfred Knox, who in 1932 while
serving in the House of Commons raised the possibility of Palestine become a
source of suppl of oil for the British Navy, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965(5<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5725): Just
nine days before his 78<sup>th</sup> birthday, Abraham Abelson passed away
after which he was buried at the Jewish Peoples Cemetery in East Haven, CT.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968: Today, while serving with the U.S. Army
in Viet Nam Jack S. Jacobs performed so heroically that earned the Medal of
Honor for Valor. “Although seriously wounded and bleeding profusely, he assumed
command and ordered a withdrawal. He then repeatedly returned through heavy
fire, to rescue other wounded including the company commander and treated their
wounds. On three occasions he repelled Viet Cong squads who were also searching
for wounded American soldiers in the same area, killing three and wounding
several others.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968(9<sup>th</sup> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968: CBS broadcast the final episode of “Good
Morning, World” a sitcom created by Sam Denoff, Carl Reiner and Sheldon and
co-starring Goldie Hawn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968: Birthdate of Adam Carl Adamowicz,
“concept artist whose paintings of exotic landscapes, monsters and elaborately
costumed heroes and villains formed the visual foundation for two of the most
popular single-player role-playing video games of all time” – Fallout3 and The
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. (As reported by Daniel E. Slotnik)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969: The chief of staff of the Egyptian Armed
Forces was killed today during the War of Attrition. Today marked the second
day of Egypt’s attempt to destroy the Bar Lev using massive artillery
bombardments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While General Abdul Munim
Riad was at the front to personally viewing the product of his handiwork, he
was mortally wounded by Israeli artillery that had been fired in response to
the Egyptian assault.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: A meeting of over 100 investors
interested in financing tourist development projects in Israel will meet today
in Jerusalem today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The government will
unveil its plans to provide support for these efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971: “When Eight Bells Toll” the film version
of the novel of the same name produced by Elliot Kastner and Jerry Gershwin was
released in the United Kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar, 5732): Fifty year
old Israeli diplomat and former intelligence officer Yaakov Herzog, the son of
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog and the brother of Chaim Herzog who was trained as a
rabbi and a lawyer passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.magalbooks.com/herzog.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.magalbooks.com/herzog.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977: About a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims
invaded three buildings in Washington D.C., killing one person and taking more
than 130 hostages. The siege ended two days later. The three buildings were the
District Building (city hall), the Islamic Center and, surprise, surprise the
national headquarters of B’nai B’rith. And you thought terrorism like this only
started with Osama and company.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1978:<b> </b></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> reported that the US refused to consider any
new sale of arms to Israel, despite Defense Minister Ezer Weizmann’s pressing
requests, until the conclusion of the current Carter-Begin summit meetings and
negotiations. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1978:<b> </b></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> reported that Israel has started the
commercial exploitation of oil from the Alma II and III wells, situated near
a-Tur in the Gulf of Suez. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979: President Carter is scheduled to meet
with President Sadat in Egypt today before traveling to Israel to meet with
Prime Minister Begin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980: Wrong Number on Israel published today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/03/09/121004146.html?pageNumber=152<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981: According to reports published today,
19,000 Iranian Jews have made Aliyah since the fall of the Shah and the rise of
the Ayotollah and his fundamentalist forces.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5742): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982: Pola Nirenska, a Polish-born dancer and
choreographer who first came to the United States with Mary Wigman's company
from Germany in 1932, presented ''An Evening of Choreography'' to night in
George Washington University's Marvin Theater. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984(5th of Adar II, 5744): Seventy-two-year-old
movie producer Hannah Weinstein passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/11/obituaries/hannah-weinstein-producer-and-political-activist-is-dead.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/11/obituaries/hannah-weinstein-producer-and-political-activist-is-dead.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984: “Splash” a romantic comedy produced by
Brian Grazer, with a script by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay
Friedman with a cast that included Eugene Levy and Howie Morris was released in
the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985: As part of its pre-Broadway run the
curtain came down on a month long performance of Neil Simon’s “Biloxi Blues” at
the Curran Theatre in San Francisco which was its last stop before opening in
New York<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987(8<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5747): Fifty-year-old
Pottsville, PA native and musical preservationist Allen Jaffe the owner of
Preservation Hall, that musical mecca that was always jam-packed even though it
was the only venue in the French Quarter that did not sell alcohol passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/11/obituaries/allan-jaffe-new-orleans-jazz-revivalist-dies-by-frances-frank-marcus.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/11/obituaries/allan-jaffe-new-orleans-jazz-revivalist-dies-by-frances-frank-marcus.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989: “The Heidi Chronicles” by Wendy
Wasserstein opened on Broadway today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989: At the Lotus Club in Manhattan, Rabbi
Saul I. Teplitz officiated at the wedding of NYU trained attornev Ellen Minsky
and Wharton trained television producer Richard Diamon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990(12<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5750):
Eighty-two-year-old Cambridge born, and Harvard trained attorney Harold
Rosenwald who was a member of the Alger Hiss defense team passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990: “Coup de Ville” a “comedy-drama” directed
by Joe Roth and co-starring Alan Arkin was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar, 5751): Parsashat
Vayakhel-Pekudi; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1992(4th of Adar II, 5752): Former Israeli
Prime Minister Menachem Begin died in Tel Aviv at age 78. Regardless of your
view of his politics, Begin was one of the central characters in the Zionist
movement whom we will study in depth. Begin was the heir to Jabotinsky and the
founder of what today is the Likud Party. In other words, he was the
leader of the Jewish opposition to the Labor Zionists personified by Ben
Gurion. Begin was the founder and leader of the Irgun. He was the
first right wing Prime Minister of Israel. Most important of all, he
negotiated the peace treaty with Sadat that ended the state of war that had
existed with Egypt since 1948.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0816.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0816.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993: In “Philip Roth Sees Double. And Maybe
Triple, Too” Esther B. Fein examines the author’s latest work, <u>Operation
Shylock.<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/11/specials/roth-double.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/11/specials/roth-double.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Shylock#/media/File:Shylock.jpg"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Shylock#/media/File:Shylock.jpg</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994(26th of Adar, 5754):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lawrence E. Spivak, creator of Meet the Press
passed away at the age of 93.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On radio
and then on television, Meet the Press was billed as the live press conference
of the air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With Spivak sometimes
serving as the moderator and sometimes as a member of the four person panel,
American and foreign government officials took part in a thirty minute
unrehearsed question and answer session.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While the programs were marked by an air of civility, the members of the
print and electronic media asked real questions and the guests were expected to
provide real answers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996(18th of Adar, 5756): Comedian George Burns
passed away at the age 100.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.biography.com/people/george-burns-9232145"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.biography.com/people/george-burns-9232145</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/10/nyregion/george-burns-straight-man-and-ageless-wit-dies-at-100.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/10/nyregion/george-burns-straight-man-and-ageless-wit-dies-at-100.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996(18<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5756):
Fifty-one-year-old Imar Ambrose of Romania succumbed to the wounds he had
suffered during the Jaffa Road bus bombing on March 3<sup>rd</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997:<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including <u>Blood
and Water:<span style="color: black;"> </span>Sabotaging Hitler's Bomb</u><b> </b>by
Dan Kurzman, <u>Southernmost And Other Stories</u><b> </b>by Michael Brodsky
and <u>The Stories of David Bergelson:Yiddish Short Fiction From Russia<b> </b></u>by
David Bergelson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5759): Hermann Merkin, the native of Leipzig who fled Nazi German and
in 1940 arrived in the United States where, in turn, he served in the Army,
founded the investment firm of Merkin and Company and became a philanthropist
whose good works including the founding of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/11/arts/hermann-merkin-91-benefactor-of-judaism-and-a-concert-hall.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/11/arts/hermann-merkin-91-benefactor-of-judaism-and-a-concert-hall.html</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: Barbra
Streisand began her tour of Australia with a concert at the Sydney Football
Stadium.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001(14th of Adar,
5761): Purim observed for the first time under President George W. Bush.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5761): Eighty-two-year-old “William Hammerstein, the director and
producer who was the eldest child of Oscar Hammerstein II, and directed the
1979 Broadway revival of his father's Oklahoma!, died today of complications
following a stroke suffered Jan. 6, according to Theodore S. Chapin, president
of The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://playbill.com/article/william-hammerstein-director-and-son-of-oscar-hammerstein-ii-dead-at-82-com-95431">https://playbill.com/article/william-hammerstein-director-and-son-of-oscar-hammerstein-ii-dead-at-82-com-95431</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=William+Hammerstein&sxsrf=ALeKk03oOo3OfoYLJs3VJ_gXC32KFfhCWA%3A1621466753907&source=hp&ei=gZ6lYL2lNNjOtQacwZ_gBw&iflsig=AINFCbYAAAAAYKWskZD0ruIWFohZJa2MS4VB8vOwPn_w&oq=William+Hammerstein&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQguEJMCOgQIIxAnOgsILhCxAxDHARCjAjoICAAQsQMQgwE6AggAOgUIABCxAzoOCC4QsQMQgwEQxwEQowI6CAguELEDEIMBOgIILjoICC4QxwEQrwE6BQguELEDOggILhDHARCjAjoLCC4QxwEQrwEQkwI6CAguELEDEJMCOgQILhAKOgYIABAWEB46DQguEMcBEK8BEA0QkwI6BAgAEA06CgguEMcBEK8BEA06BggAEA0QHjoICAAQCBANEB5Q4QpY4pEBYIWbAWgCcAB4AIABeYgBlxCSAQUxMC4xMZgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXo&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=0ahUKEwj96YOv8tbwAhVYZ80KHZzgB3wQ4dUDCAk&uact=5">https://www.google.com/search?q=William+Hammerstein&sxsrf=ALeKk03oOo3OfoYLJs3VJ_gXC32KFfhCWA%3A1621466753907&source=hp&ei=gZ6lYL2lNNjOtQacwZ_gBw&iflsig=AINFCbYAAAAAYKWskZD0ruIWFohZJa2MS4VB8vOwPn_w&oq=William+Hammerstein&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQguEJMCOgQIIxAnOgsILhCxAxDHARCjAjoICAAQsQMQgwE6AggAOgUIABCxAzoOCC4QsQMQgwEQxwEQowI6CAguELEDEIMBOgIILjoICC4QxwEQrwE6BQguELEDOggILhDHARCjAjoLCC4QxwEQrwEQkwI6CAguELEDEJMCOgQILhAKOgYIABAWEB46DQguEMcBEK8BEA0QkwI6BAgAEA06CgguEMcBEK8BEA06BggAEA0QHjoICAAQCBANEB5Q4QpY4pEBYIWbAWgCcAB4AIABeYgBlxCSAQUxMC4xMZgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXo&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=0ahUKEwj96YOv8tbwAhVYZ80KHZzgB3wQ4dUDCAk&uact=5</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: “Get Over It,”
a comedy featuring Mila Kunis was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2002(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5762): Shabbat HaChodesh2002(25<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5762):</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Limor Ben-Shoham, 27, of Jerusalem; Nir
Rahamim Borochov, 22, of Givat Ze'ev; Danit Dagan, 25, of Tel Aviv; Livnat
Dvash, 28, of Jerusalem; Tali Eliyahu, 26, of Jerusalem;Uri Felix, 25, of Givat
Ze'ev; Dan Imani, 23, of Jerusalem; Natanel Kochavi, 31, of Kiryat Ata; Baruch
Lerner-Naor, 28, of Eli;Orit Ozarov, 28, of Jerusalem and Avraham Haim Rahamim,
29, of Jerusalem were murdered by an Arab terrorist and 54 more people were
murdered<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at the Café Moment in Jerusalem
“about 100 meters from the home of the Prime Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
New York Times</i> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
interest to Jewish readers including <u>Regions of the Great Heresay: <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Bruno Schulz: A Biographical Portrait</span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> by</span> Jerzy Ficowski, <u>Down and Out in
the Magic</u> by Cory Doctorow and the recently released paperback edition of <u>Me
Times Three</u>, by Alex Witchel. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004: “Abu Abbas, the Palestinian mastermind of
a deadly 1985 cruise ship hijacking in which 69 year old Leon Klinghoffer, an
American passenger in a wheelchair was shot and thrown into the sea, has died
at a prison in Iraq, a Pentagon spokesman said today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: “The author of a damning report about the
illegal financing of settlement outposts recommended today that Israel consider
criminal investigations of some of those involved, in particular the
settlements adviser to the Defense Ministry, Ron Shechner.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006:<span style="color: black;"> </span>There
was a palpable air of excitement at the Kraft Family Stadium, as two-time Super
Bowl MVP Tom Brady of the New England Patriots made a special visit to see what
American Football in Israel was all about, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: Robert Alan “Bob” Levinson “was taken
hostage” today “when visiting Iran’s Kish Island<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: John Zorn’s Masada Quartet is scheduled
to perform on of its last concert at Lincoln Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Novelist and former Roman Catholic priest
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">James Carroll</span> discusses his
2001 book <u><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Constantine's Sword: The
Church and the Jews: A History </span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: <i>The Sunday
New York Times</i> featured reviews of <u><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Beaufort, </span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">a novel by
Israeli author Ron Lehsem, translated by Evan Fallenberg, <u>The Life of the
Skies</u> </span>by <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jonathan Rosen and
a collection of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>four short works of
fiction by French novelist and Holocaust victim by by Irène Némirovsky
including <u>David Golder</u>, <u>The Ball</u>, <u>Snow In Autumn</u> and <u>The
Courilof Affair</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: In “A Family Tree of Literary Fakers,” published today Motoko
Rich traces famous literary frauds including Clifford Irving’s “biography of
Howard Hughes,” Binjamin Wilkomirski’s 1996 phony memoir, <u>Fragments</u>
describing how he survived as a Latvian Jewish orphan in a Nazi concentration
camp and Misha Defonseca’s book, <u>Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years</u>
about a childhood spent running from the Nazis and searching for her deported
parents; a childhood that did not happen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: <i>The Washington Post</i> book section featured a review of <u>Founding
Faith</u>:<u> Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in
America </u>by Steven Waldman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<u>Founding
Faith </u>takes up two central questions about religion in early America.
First, what did such Founding Fathers as Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison usually believe? And second, how
did it come about that the First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees that
"Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof"? The answers to these questions
carry implications for Jewish Americans since the role of religion and
religious freedom has allowed the American Jewish community to think of itself
as a unique element that will transcend past Jewish experiences in other
societies and countries. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2008(2 Adar II, 5768):</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Twenty-year-old Sergeant Liran Banay, who was critically wounded last
Thursday when a bomb was detonated near an IDF vehicle patrolling the
Gaza security fence, died of his wounds on Sunday morning. The Givati
Brigade soldier, who lost both legs as a result
of Thursday’s explosion, died in Soroka Hospital
in Ashkelon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: WebYeshiva started the WebYeshiva Blog today. “The WebYeshiva
Blog presents a variety of posts daily in audio, video, and text format, and
features regular columns such as the weekly Parsha, Haftora, Nach, Business
Ethics, Aggada, and Jewish Philosophy. Both WebYeshiva students and teachers
also make regular contributions, and WebYeshiva's Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Chaim
Brovender, posts a video Halacha Yomit every day.” “WebYeshiva, founded in 2007
by Rabbi Chaim Brovender, was the first online yeshiva and midrasha.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009 (13 Adar 5769): Fast of Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: In the evening, Megillah Reading <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Economist Nouriel Roubini, the Turkish born son of Iranian Jews
who spent part of his youth living in Israel and who was the “man who predicted
the current financial crisis said the US recession could drag on for years
without drastic action…Roubini sees ‘no hope for the recession ending in 2009
and will more than likely last into 2010.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2009:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Police
arrested two Arab youths carrying a commando blade in the Pisgat Ze'ev
neighborhood of Jerusalem today foiling a stabbing attack. During a preliminary
investigation, the pair said they had planned on carrying out a terror attack.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: In “Bad Guy Inspires Goodies,’ published today in the Cedar
Rapids Gazette, columnist Cecilia Hanley provides a brief account about Purim,
the history of Hamantaschen and a recipe for a pastry that she likened to the
Kolache, a pastry popular with the Czech population that settled Cedar Rapids
and is still a unique local delicacy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: In “The Perfect
Hamantaschen” published today Deborah Gardner attempts to settle the dispute
between those who prefer prune and those who munch on “mun.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/the-perfect-hamantaschen/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/the-perfect-hamantaschen/</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The winners of the National Jewish Book Award are scheduled to be
honored today in New York City. The names of the winners had been made public
in January. Toronto author Joseph Kertes won the 59th annual National Jewish
Book Award for Fiction for his novel, "Gratitude." Other National
Jewish Book Award winners include Hasia Diner, author of "We Remember with
Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust,
1945-1962" (New York University Press), the American Jewish Studies'
Celebrate 350 Award; Melvin Urofsky, the Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book
of the Year Award for "Louis D. Brandeis: A Life (Pantheon Books); Daniel
Gordis, for "Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May
Never End" (John Wiley & Sons), the Contemporary Jewish Life and
Practice Award. Ellen Frankel and Avi Katz of the Jewish Publication Society
won the Louis Posner Memorial Award in Illustrated Children’s Books for the JPS
Illustrated Children’s Bible. Sir Jonathan Sacks, the chief rabbi of England,
won the Dorot Foundation Award in memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson in Modern
Jewish Thought & Experience for his "Covenant & Conversation: A
Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible, Genesis: The Beginnings" (Koren
Publishers).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: David Nemeth is scheduled to be the instructor at this evening’s
session of How to Give A D’var Torah at Adas Israel in Washington, D.C. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Alan Joseph Shatter, Irish political leader, began serving as
Minister for Justice and Eguality<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(3rd of Adar II, 5771): Seventy-two-year-old “Owen Laster, one of
the most powerful literary agents of his generation, who ran William Morris’s
worldwide literary operations and had a long list of best-selling writers that
included James A. Michener and Gore Vidal”, passed away today (As reported by
William Grimes)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/10/business/media/10laster.html?_r=0"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/10/business/media/10laster.html?_r=0</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Calvin Goldscheider (Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies, Brown
University), Max Ticktin (Professor of Judaic Studies, George Washington
University), Susan K. Finston (CEO and Managing Director, Amrita Therapeutics
Ltd.), Steve Rabinowitz (future emeritus president and CEO of
Rabinowitz-something Communications), and a special mystery guest speaker are
scheduled to appear at Washington DC's 20th Annual Latke-Hamantash Symposium at
Adas Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: The Lillian & Albert Small Jewish Museum is scheduled to host
“From Shtetl to City: Travel in the Old Jewish Heartland” featuring author Ruth
Ellen Gruber.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2011:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As Jerusalem
prepared for the possibility of a snowstorm, Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat asked
the public “to be responsible” “during an inspection of the city’s emergency
snow plans at the Givat Shaul maintenance center. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Today the Knesset approved the initial reading of a bill which
proposes an end to allowing companies to discriminate against customers based
on where they live, a law which could potentially benefit West bank cities and
residents. " <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2011:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> UK Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks was honored by
Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba today for his exceptional work as “a widely
published theologian and philosopher, whose aspirations for truth and mutual
respect of all peoples guide his actions.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: According to
an article entitled “50 Famous Travel Spots Every Literary Geek Should See”
published today by the website “Online Courses must see spots include the
following four spots of special interest to followers of Jewish history.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0in;" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l6 level1 lfo9; tab-stops: list .5in left 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.annefrank.org/" target="_blank"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">The Secret Annex</span></a><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> Amsterdam has converted The Secret Annex into the Anne Frank
Museum, preserving the memory of lives lost and destroyed when Nazis
discovered their hiding place.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
</ol>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo9; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/m/" target="_blank"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Auschwitz-Birkenau</span></a><b>:</b>
Holocaust literature frequently relates horrific tales of the Auschwitz
concentration camp, most notably <i>Night</i> and <i>Maus</i>, and today it
stands as a somber reminder of humanity’s capacity for senseless cruelty. <a href="http://www.buchenwald.de/index_en.html" target="_blank"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Buchenwald</span></a>
also appears in many memoirs as well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo9; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.algonquinhotel.com/" target="_blank"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Algonquin Hotel</span></a><b>:</b>
This lush Midtown Manhattan locale used to host the Algonquin Round Table,
consisting of New York’s finest wits. Their meetings resulted in a plethora of
fictitious and non-fictitious works alike, most famously the bulk of Dorothy
Parker’s oeuvre. Parker was born Dorothy Rothschild, the daughter of German-Jew
who was not related to the famous banking house.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo9; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.visitdublin.com/" target="_blank"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Dublin, Ireland</span></a><b>:</b>
Visit the Irish capital on June 16th for Bloomsday, a festival honoring James
Joyce’s modernist magnum opus <i>Ulysses</i>. Readings and walks bring the
brick of a novel to life, allowing celebrants to follow in the footsteps of
iconic protagonist Leopold Bloom. Although fictious, Bloom may be Ireland’s
most famous Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(3rd
of Adar II): Anniversary of the dedication of the Second Temple which took
placed on the 3<sup>rd</sup> of Adar, 3412 (349 BCE)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar II, 5771): Seventy-two-year-old Owen Laster, a literary agent for
William Morris passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/10/business/media/10laster.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/10/business/media/10laster.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
In Washington, DC,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at Tifereth
Israel,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Artist in Residence Alison
Westermann is scheduled to kick off a weekend of “Translating Text Into Song”
with a Carlebach Kabbalat Shabbat Service.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2012: “Footnote” – the Oscar nominated tale of
a rivalry between two Talmudic scholars who are father and son – is scheduled
to pen Angelika Film Center and Lincoln Plaza Cinema.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Two senior terrorists were killed in Gaza today after IDF aircraft targeted a
vehicle in the Strip, the army confirmed. One of the fatalities is Zuhir
al-Qaisi, the secretary-general of the Popular Resistance Committees terror
group, Palestinian sources said. The second terrorist killed in the strike is
Ahmad al-Khanini, a senior PRC member freed in the Shalit prisoner swap, the
Palestinians said. The senior terrorist killed in an IDF strike today was
planning a major terror attack on Israeli targets near the Egypt border, army
officials said. Zuhir al-Qaisi, also known as Abu Ibraim, was planning a
mega-attack in recent days that could have resulted in numerous casualties, the
army said. The planned multipronged terror strike was to originate from Egypt's
Sinai Peninsula, military officials said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(As reported by Yoav Zitun)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
More than 30 rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel tonight, leaving
at least eight people injured, one of them seriously.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
“No Place On Earth” is scheduled to have its Minnesota Premiere this evening at
the Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
AMIT is scheduled to host “A Night of Israeli Cinema” at Tribeca Cinemas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
The Eden-Tamir Music is scheduled to host a concert “Loving Brahms” today in
Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
In Coralville, Iowa, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host its annual Purim
Carnival under the leadership of Rabbi Jeff Portman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“The Sturgeon Queens,” a documentary about Russ & Daughters is scheduled to
be shown in Boulder, CO.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “The Whole Megillah: A
Family Purim Program featuring a Puppet Show and Art Project.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The Washington DC JCC is scheduled to host the 4<sup>th</sup> Annual Community
Day of Education on Israeli Arab Issues.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host a Pre-Purim Pajama Party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The 24<sup>th</sup> annual Washington Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come
to an end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
David Brooks is scheduled to lecture on “Genius, God and Morality” at the 92<sup>nd</sup>
Street Y.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The third bi-annual LimmudFest New Orleans is scheduled to come to an end. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> published reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including <u>Genesis: Truman, American Jews and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli
Conflict</u> by John Judis and <u>The Double Life of Paul De Man</u> by Evelyn
Barish<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
In “Eulogy for a Source” published today, Helen Epstein remembers Jiri Fiedler,
who along with his wife was murdered at the end of January.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/opinion/sunday/eulogy-for-a-source.html?ref=opinion&_r=0"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/opinion/sunday/eulogy-for-a-source.html?ref=opinion&_r=0</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
In Eilat, this morning, Israeli troops unloaded some 150 containers, suspected
of holding illicit Iranian arms, from a ship seized several days earlier in the
Red Sea<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews filled the streets in lower Manhattan today to
protest Israel’s proposal to draft strictly religious citizens into its army. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host a field
trip to The National Museum of American Jewish History which is featuring a an
exhibited “that examines the role that Jews have played in the American
Military from 1654 to present.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The 92<sup>nd</sup> Street Y is scheduled to host an evening with the Meitar
Ensemble which was “founded in 2004 in Tel Aviv by artistic director Amit
Dolberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a screening of “Above and
Beyond,” “the first major feature length-documentary about the foreign airman”
who served in the War of Independence in 1948 produced by Nancy Spielberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“A state attorney announced today that the Israel Prize for Literary
Scholarship will not be awarded this year, after a month-long controversy over
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intervention in the composition of the
judges’ panel.” (As reported by Tamar Pileggi) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
Today, Mitchell “Schwartz signed a 5-year, $33 million contract with the Kansas
City Chiefs, making him one of the highest-paid right tackles in the NFL.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
Steven Gimbel, a Professor of Philosophy at Gettysburg College and author <u>Einstein:
The Man</u> is scheduled to speak at Stevens Tech in Hoboken, NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(29th
of Adar I, 5776): Eighty-six-year-old investment mogul John Gutfreund passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/10/business/dealbook/john-gutfreund-who-ran-salomon-brothers-at-its-apex-is-dead-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/10/business/dealbook/john-gutfreund-who-ran-salomon-brothers-at-its-apex-is-dead-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Everything Is Illuminated” a favorite of festival chairman John Dreyfus is
scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
Today, “Dos Equis Beer announced that it would replace Jonathan Goldsmith in
the role as the "Most Interesting Man in the World",<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“The Midnight Orchestra” is scheduled to be shown at the Charlotte, NC Jewish
Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017(11th
of Adar, 5777): Ta’anit Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Michael D. Cohen, the son of a Holocaust survivor the lawyer and confidant of
Donald Trump who personally paid off “porn start Stormy Daniels” registered as
a Republican today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/us/politics/michael-cohen-trump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/us/politics/michael-cohen-trump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled
to co-host an evening with Tuvia Temebom” the author of <u>The Lies They Tell
Us </u>who will talk about “What American Really Think About Jews And Israel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“Israeli dance master Roy Assaf’s ‘Girls and Boys’” is scheduled to pend for a
month-long run at the Suzanne Dellal Centre in Tel Aviv today. (As reported by
Stacey Menchel Kussell)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Rabbi Eli Glaser is scheduled to run “the Jerusalem Marathon in memory of, and
motivated by Rafael Shachar Weissberg” who succumbed to “a debilitating
neurological illness” last year at the age of 37.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
In New York, the Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is “dark” this evening because
of Shabbat but is scheduled to continue on March 10.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
In New York, the Landmark Theatre is scheduled to host a screening of “Itzhak,”
a film that “explores Perlman’s remarkable biography as an immigrant of humble
origins and a childhood victim of polio who went from young violin prodigy
(debuting at 13 on “The Ed Sullivan Show”) to established international star,
balancing a demanding performance schedule with a robust family life.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“The Diary of Anne Frank,” featuring Serena Collins as “Margot Frank” is
scheduled to premiere at Theatre Cedar Rapids in Cedar Rapids, IA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The Jewish Book Week Festival is scheduled to host a panel of Ruth Deech, Trudy
Gold, Rod Liddle and David Triesman chaired by Gavin Esler discussing
“Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jewishbookweek.com/event/antisemitism-the-longest-hatred/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://jewishbookweek.com/event/antisemitism-the-longest-hatred/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
Final performance of “Fiddler on the Roof” starring Andy Nyman as Tevye is
scheduled to take place this evening at The Menier Chocolate Factory.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/a-new-tradition-the-revival-of-fiddler-on-the-roof/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/a-new-tradition-the-revival-of-fiddler-on-the-roof/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
In Vallejo, CA, Congregation B’nai Israel is scheduled to host the Klezmer
music concert with the Haimish Music Band.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The Fattal Rock Festival is scheduled to come an end at Eilat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The New York Sephardi Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of
“Mori-Shabazy’s Riddle” directed by Israela Sha’ar Meoded.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar II, 5779): Parashat Pekuday; <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The Berkeley Center for Jewish studies is scheduled to host Jelena Subotic,
assistant professor at Georgia State, talks about her new book, <u>Yellow Star,
Red Star</u> that looks at “the suppression and obfuscation of Holocaust
memories in Eastern Europe.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
JSwipe, Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters, the ADL, the AJC, Apptopia, Lanky and
the Fens and Urbanites Boston are scheduled to host “the most anticipated young
professionals Purim event in Boston!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Escape from Pretoria.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
In Cedar Rapids, the Megillah reading is scheduled to be followed by a meal
that include Pizza along with Hamantaschen<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
This evening in Iowa City, Hillel and Congregation Agudas Achim will co-host a
Hamantaschen Baking event followed by a reading of the Megillah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5780): Fast of Esther: Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
The Lubavitch of Arkansas Center for Jewish Life, under the leadership of Rabbi
Pinchas Ciment, is scheduled to host an “interactive live music concert
featuring Tali Yess, “the son of the late Moshe Yess, a true music legend who
created my popular Jewish songs like My Zaidy, Our Land and The Angel Song.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Congregation Beth Israel’s Rabbi Yonatan Cohen is scheduled to lead an online
session about how to engage kids and adults at the Passover table<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
SFSU’s Office of Diversity, Student Equity and Interfaith Programs, in
association with S.F. Hillel, is scheduled to present a conversation with
professor and Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt of Emory University on
“Antisemitism on College Campuses.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Members of Temple Judea are scheduled to participate in an act of tikkun olam
as they contribute to sandwiches to the Help Feed the Hungry program sponsored
by St. George’s Soup Kitchen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
As part of the “celebration of Jewish Women’s History Month,” the Lappin
Foundation is scheduled to present online a discussion of the new documentary
“The One and Only Jewish Miss America.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
In New Orleans, the Hadassah Reader’s Circle is scheduled to discuss<u>
Mortality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times</u> by Rabbi Lord
Jonathan Sacks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Based on reports published yesterday that Israel has administered its 5
millionth coronavirus vaccination, the country is able to contemplate relaxing
some of the virus-related restrictions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
Sephardi Thought and Modernity 2022 Webinar Series is scheduled to present Deborah
Starr (Cornell University) and Eyal Sagui Bizawe (Hebrew University of
Jerusalem) Nostalgia as Critique: The Case of Jews in Egyptian Cinema.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
The King Lecture Series which preserves the work of UCSC History and
Comparative Religion professor Noel Q. King, promotes and explores the dialogue
between faiths is scheduled to present a lecture feature award-winning author
Dara Horn whose latest work is <u>People Love Dead Jews</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to present a Julie Salamon
and Michael Schulman as they discuss his new book, <u>Oscar Wars: History of
Hollywood in Cold, Sweat and Tears.<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The Jewish Museum of London is scheduled to mark the first anniversary of the
war in Ukraine with a “conversation” centering on three Ukrainian spices used
for Havdalah that will be led by Dr Domenico Sergi, Senior Curator, Museum of
London and a panel that includes Sabina Artemieva, who fled Ukraine with her
son, Prof David Cantor, Director of The Refugee Law Initiative and Mark
O’Neill, Associate Professor in the College of Arts at Glasgow University.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The 2023 New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane co-charied by Walter Isaacson is
scheduled to open today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
In London, the Wiener Holocaust Memorial Library is scheduled to host a virtual
panel discussing <u>More Than Parcels: Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi-Era Camps
and Ghettos</u> edited by Jan Lanicek and Jan Lambertz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The JWA Book Talk series is scheduled to host a conversation with Nell McShane
Wulfhart, author of The Great Stewardess Rebellion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Prime Minister Netanyahu is scheduled to fly to Italy today, but based on
previously published reports he will be flying on a Boeing 737 because his
plane of choice the Boeing 777 is not available because he pilots qualified to
fly the 777s operated by Israel’s El Al airline reportedly refused to fly the
prime minister” a part of the protest against his plans to reform the
judiciary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is scheduled to host Jean Meltzer, author of
<u>Mr. Perfect on Paper</u> and Lynda Cohen Loigman, author of <u>The
Matchmaker’s Perfect Gift.<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
In Iowa City, the traditional, egalitarian Hawkeye Minyan is scheduled to meet
at the Iowa City Public Library.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
In Jerusalem, Agnon House is scheduled to host a reading “To My Father’s House”
followed by a discussion on “the tumultuous relationship between parents and
children, which lasts a lifetime and even more” led by Adin Ner-David.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
On the same day that those kidnapped by Hamas spend their 155<sup>th</sup> day
in captivity, the “March for Gaza” sponsored by a group “that supports Hamas”
on its Facebook page and is described as “anti-Semitic” by the Quad-Cities
Jewish clergy is scheduled to take place today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
In Little Rock, following Mincha Lubavitch of Arkansas led by Rabbi Pincas
Ciment is scheduled host a “sponsored in honor of the birthday of Yisroel Aryeh
Leib Mockin.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled “Romantic Nationalism” a chamber music
concert featuring Dima Pocitari, violin; Kirill Mihanovsky, cello and Julia
Gurvitch, piano.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
In Metairie, LA, The Seymour Schram Private Foundation is scheduled to sponsor the
Havdalah Event at Congregation Beth Israel this evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
“Major rising-star conductor Lahav Shani is scheduled to perform with the
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in their first collaboration at Carnegie Hall.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024
(29th of Adar I, 5784): Shabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">For
more see <a href="https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/">https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
9th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 155 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p>melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-9743147177258425752024-03-07T18:18:00.004-06:002024-03-07T18:18:52.961-06:00This Day, March 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">March 8</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1126: Alfonso VII is
proclaimed king of Castile and Leon, after the death of his mother Urraca.
Under the reign of Alfonso Christian Spain “became a refuge for the persecuted
Andalusian Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The capital city of Toledo
became a new center for Jewish learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The major reason for this positive turn of fortune for the Jews was the
king’s positive relationship with Yehuda Ibn-Ezra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After taking the fortress of Calatrava, the
king appointed Ibn-Ezra as its commander as a reward for his bravery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ibn-Ezra used his influence to create a
refuge for the Jews who were fleeing Almohades, a religiously fervent Berber
Moslem dynasty that had crossed into Spain after successful conquests in parts
of North Africa. Those who equate the Golden Age of Spain with Moslem rule
would do well to remember that life for the Jews was much more varied than
that.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1255: King Przemysl
Ottocar II of Austria renewed the charter granting favorable rights to his
Jewish subjects.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1466: Francisco
Sforza of Milan, the founder of the Sforza dynasty who in 1452 “defied Pope
Pious II’s order to tax the Jews of the duchy one-fifth of the value of their
possessions in order to finance the crusade against the Turks, passed away
today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1607: A complaint was
filed today by the Inquisition “against Jorge de Almeida, a Portuguese
domiciled in the City of Mexico, husband of Dona Lenor de Andrada” who had been
convicted of observing Mosaic law” which makes her a Jewess. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1688: On this night a
large group of secret Jews planned to escape from the island of Majorca by
booking passage on an English ship. They were looking for religious freedom. A
storm delayed their departure, and their plan was betrayed. All those planning
to leave were put in prison. In the spring of 1691 these prisoners were
sentenced at an auto-de-fe, where 37 were burned at the stake.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1702: King William II
of England passed away today. Antonio Lopez Suasso, later Baron Avernes de Gras
had provided financing for William who had been Prince of Orange to take the
English throne. In 1700 William knighted Solomon de Medina who had served as an
army contractor making him the first Jew to be so honored. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1712: At Carr End in
Yorkshire, England John Foterhgill and “his first wife Margaret Hough” gave
birth to </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Dr. John Fothergill who sought solace in the suffering of the
Friends or Quakers by comparing them to the Jews as can be seen when he wrote
“John Pemberton during the American Revolution that he often reflects “on the
history of the Jewish people with humbling admiration” and that their
sufferings affords “instructive lessons.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1731: In Mladá
Boleslav, David Brandeis a Jewish shopkeeper who had been accused of poising a
local Christian printer with plum jam was released today after the accusation
was proven to be untrue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Mlada_Boleslav"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Mlada_Boleslav</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1739: Isaac De Paz
advertised his wares in Charles Town, SC today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1754(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5514): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1757: Jacob Pinto and
Thankful Pinto gave birth to Abraham Pinto today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1762: In Buchau,
Franziska Levi and David Einstein gave birth to Jacob David Einstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1766: In the
Netherlands, on the day when Prince William V reached his majority, Jews held
services of Thanksgiving as sign of their on-going support for the monarch who
was not universally popular.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1768:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In the Netherlands, synagogues held services
of thanks-giving on the day that “King William V entered the legislature on the
day of his majority.” “Under the government of William V the country was
troubled by internal dissensions; the Jews, however, remained loyal to him” and
William did not forget the loyalty of his Jewish subjects.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1773(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5533): Ta’anit Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1773: In the evening,
Rabbi Raphael Hayyim Isaac Caregal attended Purim services at the synagogue in
Newport, RI, with Ezra Stiles, the future President of Yale who described him
as being "dressed in a red garment with the usual Phylacteries and habiliments,
the white silk Surplice; he wore a high fur cap, had a long beard. He has the
appearance of an ingenious and sensible man"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1777(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5537): Parashat Vahakhel; Shabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1777: As the Jewish
people observed their day of rest, “American troops under the command of
Brigadier General William Maxwell defeated the British at Amboy, New Jersey.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1789: Birthdate of Coswig-on-the
Elbe “German educator and writer Ephraim Solomon Unger” who studied at the
University of Erfurt, founded in 1820 “</span><span style="background: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">together with
his brother David, a school for mathematics and modern languages” and who refused
to convert to Christianity so he could become a school principal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14580-unger-ephraim-solomon">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14580-unger-ephraim-solomon</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1792(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5551): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1792: Birthdate of
Brumath,bas-rhin,France native Jacques Goudchaux who married Barbe Levi, with
whom he had 9 children, in 1813 and then married Rosette Kahn with whom he had
11 children, in 1834<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>before finally
marrying Marie Metger in 1852 with whom he had one child, Marie Goudchaux. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1794: Madel and Jakob
Loew Feuchtwanger gave birth to Esther Feuchtwanger, the wife of Isaac Fraenkel
with whom she had five children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1798(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5558): Thirty-four-year-old Hannah Isaacs, the daughter of Jacobs
Isaacs and the wife of Jacob Philipps whom she married in 1785 passed away
today in Martinique.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799(1st of Adar II,
5559): Rosh Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799: In Maytown, PA,
Charles Cameron and his wife gave birth to Simon Cameron who as Secretary of
War at the outset of the Civil War complied with law by not allowing Michael
Allen, a Jew, to serve as the chaplain for the unit known as Cameron’s Dragoons
which had been named for Cameron and which had a large contingent of Jews from
Philadelphia in its ranks and leadership.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/jewish-chaplains-in-the-civil-war/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/jewish-chaplains-in-the-civil-war/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1800(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5560): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor observed for the first time
in the 19<sup>th</sup> century.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1803(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5563): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1804: Birthdate of
Bishopgate, London, native Sara Eliza Henriques, the wife of Kingston, Jamaica
native Joseph Gutteres Henriques and the mother of Frederick and Alfred
Henriques.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1807: In France, the
Great Sanhedrin presented its conclusions at its final session.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1816: In Whitechapel,
London, Hanna and Abraham Harris gave birth to Henry Harris<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1817:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In New York, the Stockbrokers Guild formerly
incorporates itself and becomes the New York Stock Exchange.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among the founders were several prominent
Jewish financiers including Benjamin Seixas, Isaac Gomez, Alexander Zuntz and
Ephraim Hart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ephraim Hart’s son’
Bernhard, became Secretary of the NYSE.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bernhard was also the grandfather of writer Bret Harte.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1817:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Joseph Jonas the first Jew to settle in
Cincinnati, Ohio arrived in the Queen City today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was an English-born peddler who had come
from Philadelphia, PA. “He became a successful watchmaker and silversmith and
lived on Broadway between Fifth Street and Harrison. Jonas, like most early
Jews, settled in downtown Cincinnati. Jonas wrote letters describing the
opportunities that existed in the Ohio River valley. This convinced other Jews
to join him including two younger brothers. In 1821, when Benjamin Lieb was
dying, he begged to be buried as a Jew. He was the first Jew to die in
Cincinnati. In response to his request, Joseph Jonas and Morris Moses, two of
Cincinnati's six Jews, purchased the lot for Cincinnati's first Jewish cemetery
from Nicholas Longworth for $75.00, and then buried Lieb there. This cemetery
known as the Old Jewish Community, or the Chestnut Street Cemetery is the
oldest Jewish cemetery west of the Alleghenies. By 1824 there were enough
Jewish residents to fulfill the requirement of ten adult males so that regular
religious services could be held, and the first Jewish congregation beyond the
Allegheny Mountains was established. This congregation became the Rockdale
Temple. Most of the early Jews were British.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1825: Birthdate of
Salomon Kohn, the son of Prague merchant who traded in his business career in
1873 for the world of literature.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1826: This evening,
in Charleston, SC, Isaac Soria of New York married Hetty Cohen, “the daughter
of Moses Cohen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1830: Birthdate of
German Jewish jurist Hermann Makower who was also a leader of the Berlin Jewish
community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1831: Birthdate of
French photographer Félix Bonfils who created one of the first modern
photographic records of the Middle East including Palestine including the Wall
of the Second Temple.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.architechgallery.com/arch_images/architech_images/bonfils_photos/bonfils_temple_1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.architechgallery.com/arch_info/artists_pages/felix_bonfils.html&h=445&w=600&sz=103&tbnid=IewwNBMIE1UQhM:&tbnh=94&tbnw=127&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dfelix%2Bbonfils%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=felix+bonfils&docid=DQ0or5Gfn3EqTM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RbtWT9fvBMbMtgeGsaSyBA&sqi=2&ved=0CEMQ9QEwAw&dur=2929"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.architechgallery.com/arch_images/architech_images/bonfils_photos/bonfils_temple_1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.architechgallery.com/arch_info/artists_pages/felix_bonfils.html&h=445&w=600&sz=103&tbnid=IewwNBMIE1UQhM:&tbnh=94&tbnw=127&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dfelix%2Bbonfils%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=felix+bonfils&docid=DQ0or5Gfn3EqTM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RbtWT9fvBMbMtgeGsaSyBA&sqi=2&ved=0CEMQ9QEwAw&dur=2929</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1832: Jacob de Pass was named to be a Magistrate and
Assistant Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Parish Port Royal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1832: Nathan Solomons married Deborah Abrahams today
in the UK.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1840(3<sup>rd</sup> of Adar II, 5600):
Fifty-nine-year-old Leser Lazarus Ochsenhorn, the husband of Nanette Wexler
with whom he had eight children passed away today in Bavaria.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841: Birthdate of future Baltimore resident
Jeannette Weil Oettinger, the wife Henry Oettinger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841:” A general thanksgiving service” was held
today “in the Synagogue of Spanish Portuguese Jews (Bevis Marks) “to
commemorate the success which attended Sir Moses Montefiore in his mission to
the East.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1842: One day after she had passed away, Ann (Levy)
Simmons the wife of Joshua Simmons and mother of Simeon, Julia and Barnett
Joshua Simmons was buried today “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852: Caroline Davis and Levy Jacobs gave birth to
Walter Jacobs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1857:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Today
one of the first real organized actions of women's solidarity took place in New
York City when hundreds of women staged a strike against the garment and
textile factories in New York City, protesting low wages, long working hours
and inhumane working conditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
strike, which undoubtedly included Jewish workers took place 54 years before
the Triangle Shirt Factory Fire.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1857: Reverend
Charles Harris, "a Christian Jew" is scheduled to preach twice today
at the John Street First M.E. Church in New York City. [The Jews for Jesus
concept obviously was not a 20th century phenomenon.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar): As war clouds loom in the United States, celebration of Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860: Sir Saul Samuel
completed his term as 6<sup>th</sup> Treasurer of New South Wales<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863: In London
“Julius L. Sterner, a German-born American citizen” pursuing business
opportunities in the UK and Sarah Steiner gave birth to Albert Edward Sterner,
a student at Julien’s Academy and Ecole des Beuaz Arts who came to the United
States in 1881 where he pursued a career as an “artist, scene painter and
lithographer.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864: In Lomza, Wolff
Bernard and Goldie (Berant) Lasker gave birth to Hyman M. Lasker, the rabbi of
Beth Israel in Troy, NY and the grandfather of Harold I Saperstein, the Rabbi
at Temple Emanu-El in Lynbrook, NY and the husband of Sarah Roberts. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://kevarim.com/rabbi-chaim-mordechai-lasker/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://kevarim.com/rabbi-chaim-mordechai-lasker/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866: Two days after
he had passed away, 40-year-old Solomon Emanuel, the son of Uzziel Emanuel and
Jane Solomonson, the husband of Phoebe Benjamin and the father of Jeanette,
Elizabeth, Esther and Mark Emanuel was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham
Road) Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866: In Hungary,
Joseph Rosenberg and his wife gave birth to Armin Rosenberg who served as the
Cantor of Beth Israel in Philadelphia before serving Congregation Beth Israel
in Brooklyn, NY,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5628): Purim observed as U.S. Grant begins his run for the presidency.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870(5<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5630): Julia Goldsmid passed away today at Nervi near Genoa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5631): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871: A review of The
Recovery of Jerusalem: A Narrative of Exploration in the City and the Holy
Land” by two legendary British officers, Captains Wilson and Warren, who, among
other accomplishments, conducted the first modern mapping of the ancient Jewish
capital was published today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871: “The Purim
Festival” published today described the history of the holiday as well as local
observances including the celebrations at the Asylum for the Aged and Infirm,
the Orphans’ Home and the Industrial Home on West 17<sup>th</sup> Street.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872: In Camden, AR, 33-year-old
Bina Simon and 39-year-old David Felsenthal gave birth to future New Orleans
resident Jacob Felsenthal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872: Four years
after Abraham Oppenheim had been ennobled, German-Jewish banker Gerson von
Bleichröder and his family were made Prussian nobles; making them the second
Jewish family to have been so honored. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873: Hanchen and
Zadock Greenbaum gave birth to New York Sigmund Greenbaum and the husband of
Fanny Greenbaum with whom he had five children – Herbert, Helen, William, Paul
and Dorothy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874: In
Münstereifel, Germany, Rabbi Joseph Kahn and his wife Rosalie who would raise
their family in Detroit, gave birth to Julius Kahn, the University of Michigan
trained engineer who invented “the Kahn System, a reinforced concrete
engineering technique for building construction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874: “The Prince of
Printers” published today traces the history of printing in Italy including the
rise of the printers of Soncino who were the first to print texts using Hebrew
letters. Although they would set up presses at other locations, they always
used the name of their hometown which they adopted as their family name.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar II, 5635): Rosh Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875: It was reported
that next week’s Hebrew Charity Ball will include music supplied by two bands
and a supper catered by Delmonico’s served at the Academy of Music.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875: In Chicago,
Sarah Vogel and Nelson Morris gave birth to Yale educated diplomat and author
Ira Nelson Morris, the husband of Constance Lily Rothschild who was the
“Minister Plenipotentiary of U.S. to Sweden from 1914 to 1922.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5636): Fifty-eight-year-old Susan Freiberg, the Bavarian born wife of
Lazarus Fels and the mother of Abraham Fels, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: The Hebrew
Lodge, Number 5 of the International Order of B’nai Brit is sponsoring a
fundraiser at the Steinway Hall tonight to aid those who suffered loss in the
recent fire in Brooklyn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Entertainment
will include vocalists and violinists.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: In Eichstetten,
Leopold Bloch, the son of Samuel and Jeanette Bloch and Babette Bloch gave
birth to Jakob Bloch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><a name="_Hlk129022606"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878: Birthdate of Lower East Side native and real estate broker Charles
Oppenheim, “a full partner in his mother’s real estate concern” and husband of
Minnie Schmalzer Oppenheim whom he married in 1902 and with whom he had two
daughters – Rosalind and Beatrice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk129022606;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1879: Birthdate of
Otto Hahn.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
In 1944, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the fission of
heavy nuclei, which made the atomic bomb possible.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879: It was reported today that the Young
Men’s Hebrew Association of Harlem are sponsoring a Purim Calico Ball which
will be held on the day that coincides with Shushan Purim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879: The Young Men’s Hebrew Association of
Manhattan will host its fourth annual Purim celebration at the Lexington Avenue
Opera House.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880: The Cincinnati Southern Railroad, of which
Philip Heidelbach was one of the first trustees, “opened for passenger service”
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: The town of Seligman, MO, which was named
for Joseph Seligman, was incorporated today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882: Abraham Aarons married Miriam Solomons
today in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883: Nissim and Mozelle Ezra gave birth Dinah
Ezra who was buried in the Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery in Hong Kong when she
passed away two months after her sixth birthday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884: Birthdate of <span style="color: black;">Breslau
born “neo-Hegelian philosopher” Richard Kroner whose “Jewish ancestry led him
to be 'suspended' (dismissed) under Nazi legislation in 1934, from his
university position at Kiel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv5rf3cb">https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv5rf3cb</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/5/archival_objects/1018737">https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/5/archival_objects/1018737</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: “In the history of the religious life of
the Israelites of” the United States “there was never expressed in the midst of
the Jewish people such deep-felt grief and sorrow over the death of a public
man as over the death of Henry Ward Beecher” the 73-year-old social reformer
and abolitionist clergyman who passed away today and was eulogized by Rabbi
David Phillipson of Cincinnati. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888: In Albany, NY, Libbie Slawsky and
Lawrence Goldberg gave birth to Albany Law School trained attorney William
Goldberg, the husband of Leona N. Kaufman and from 1925 to 1926 the general
manager of the Manhattan Knitting Mills in NYC who returned to practice law in
Albany where he was chairman of the board of the YMHA and YWHA Board of Albany
and vice president of the Unconditional Republican Club of Albany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: “The charity ball of the Hebrew
Benevolent Society of Long Island City took place tonight at Ahler’s Astoria
Assembly Rooms.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: “Palestine for the Jews” published today
described the plan “advocated by prominent men of the leading cities” including
such philo-Semites as Yale Professor Charles Toten “to obtain in a peaceable
way” the “old homes in Palestine for Jews through… an international
conference.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: “Electric Light In The Holy Land”
published today relied on information that first appeared in the Pall Mall
Gazette to described the introduction of electric light at a new flour mill
located near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891(28th of Adar I, 5651: Seventy-year-old
Benjamin Feuerstein, a clothing cutter, passed away while riding the elevated
on his way to a meeting of a Jewish charitable society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: Birthdate of American film and television
actor Sam Jaffee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His film career
included the role of Gunga Din in the movie of the same name and “Doc”, the
criminal mastermind in the film noire classic “The Asphalt Jungle.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His film career came to a halt as a result of
the infamous blacklist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He returned to
acting as the wise old Dr.Zorba in the television medical melodrama “Ben
Casey.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: As public health workers in New York cope
with the latest outbreak of typhus, 20-year-old Sarah Koslofsky who was living
in a tenement occupied by 18 Jewish families was taken to the hospital after
she was found to suffering with the fever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thirteen-year-old Baruch Stelson who was also found to be suffering from
the disease was taken to the facility at North Brother Island.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: Birthdate of New York native and Oregon
resident Benjamin Cohen, the husband of Anna Klein Cohen and the father of
Gerald Robert Cohen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: In Wheeling, West Virginia, General
Morris Horkheimer, a leading wool merchant and the German born son of Babette
and Simon Horkheimer and his wife Cecilia Horkheimer gave birth to Florence M.
Horkheimer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893(20<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5653): Marie Weil
Desbecker, the wife of Samuel Desbecker and mother of Emelia, Benjamin, David,
Nathan, Daiel, Joseph, Clara, Sigmund and Desbecker passed away today in
Buffalo, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: “Benny” Weiss” saw Wardman Jeremiah Levy
and Charles Krumm shake hands but did not see an exchange of any money.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: Birthdate of Chicago native and WW I Navy
veteran Salem N. Baskin, the advertising executive and one-time head of the
Baskin Clothing Store who raised two daughters and one son, Mark, with his wife
Bess Baskin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/07/05/87775983.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/07/05/87775983.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: Photographer Emil Mayer, the Bohemian
born son of Leopold and Anna Mayer was baptized “under the name of Robert Emil.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: “Brooklyn Bridge Trustees” published
today described Senator Cantor’s objection “to removing men from office upon
charges of dishonesty unless the charges were shown to be true.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: “Mr. Ainsworth Makes an Apology to the
Hebrews” published today described New York Assemblyman Ainsworth’s public
recantation of his use of the term “Jew pawnbrokers’ claiming that he spoke
hastily during the debate on reforming pawn-brokering “and did not think of my
Hebrew brethren on the floor of the house.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: “Unparalleled” published today, relying
on information first appearing in the Cincinnati Tribune described the United
as “perfect in a religious way” because it is the only country on earth where
“a Hebrew Mayor” could “call for the troops to keep the Catholics and
Protestants from getting into a riot.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: “Rabbi Morais’s Anniversary” published
today described plans for the upcoming celebration of Dr. Sabato Morais’s 45<sup>th</sup>
anniversary as the Rabbi of Philadelphia’s Congregation Mikve Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: Birthdate of Otto Heller, the Prague born
English cinematographer Otto Heller.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: Birthdate of Joseph Bernbaum, the native
of Stopnica, Poland native who came to Canada in 1918, joined the Jewish Legion
in 1918 and who “left Toronto with first group of volunteers and served in
Palestine with the 39<sup>th</sup> Royal Fusiliers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897(4<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5657):
Frederick C. Salomon passed away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
native of Prussia where he trained as a surveyor, Salomon moved to Wisconsin
where he worked as a surveyor, registrar of deed and chief engineer on a local
railroad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the outbreak of the Civil
War, he joined the Union Army where he served with such distinction that he
rose to the rank of Major General (Brevet) by the time he mustered out in 1865.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the war he served as the Surveyor
General of Utah Territory and settled in Salt Lake City where he passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: Maurico Jacobs, a native of Peru who has
been living in Cuba for the last 12 years has applied to the United Hebrew
Charities for assistance for himself and his family.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: “Welcomes the Controversy” published today
described Temple Emanu-El’s Rabbi Gottheil response to Reverend Lyman Abbot’s
claims about the Bible including the charge that the Book of Psalms was not
theological because it was written in poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5658): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5658):
Sixty-eight-year-old Moses Bruckheimer, a pawnbroker living in Brooklyn passed
away today. He was active in the Jewish community serving as trustee of Temple
Beth Elohim and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: At the annual diplomatic dinner given by
the Emperor of Germany Today, the Kaiser looked “robust,” having “fully
recovered from the effects of his Palestine” trip where he sought to strengthen
the German role in the Ottoman Empire.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: In Albany, State Senator Elsberg
introduced a bill “authorizing the consolidation of the Education Alliance and
the Hebrew Free School Association of New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: At the Bloomingdale Church in Manhattan
Dr. Madison C. Peters will deliver a lecture on “Justice to the Jew,” “which is
intended to refute popular fallacies and prove that the movements of
civilization have hung upon the Jew.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Dr. Peters claims that he will show that the Jew is in the front rank
as patriot, lawyer, statesman, scientist, philosopher, artist, dramatist, poet,
physician, musician, mathematician, astronomer, actor, discoverer, philologist,
physiologist – in every department of human activity.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: Ray Emanuel, the daughter of David and
Amelia Emanuel married Joseph Jewell at the Central Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: In Jackson, TN, Memphis merchant and
philanthropist Jacob C. Felsenthal, the Kentucky born son of Bina and Marcus
Felsenthal and his wife Cecilia Felsenthal gave birth to Marcus Stanley
Felsenthal<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: Birthdate of Bernard Irvin “B.I,”
Greenhut who served as Mayor of Pensacola, FL from 1965 through 1967.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: At Temple Beth-El in New York, Rabbi
Schulman delivered the opening prayer and Leo N. Levi delivered the main
address at the celebration marking the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of
District Grand Lodge No. 1, Independent Order of B'nai B'rith. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: It was reported that Tobias Abraham has
purchased “a four-story flat” at 1458 Brooks Avenue, on the “northeast corner
of St. Paul’s Place.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar II, 5665): Rosh
Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar II, 5665):
Sixty-three-year-old Theresa Wile the wife of Levi Adler and the mother of
Harvard trained attorney Isaac Adler the mayor of Rochester, NY and the husband
of Cora Barner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: In New York, Rebecca (née Green) and Dr.
Isidore L. Marrow gave birth to psychologist Dr. Alfred J. Marrow, the husband
of Monette Marrow and father of Paul Bennett Marrow and Marjorie Samberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=2005-09571-002"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=2005-09571-002</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5666): Fast of Esther
observed since the 13<sup>th</sup> of Adar falls on Shabbat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: In New York City, Rebecca (née Green) and
Dr. Isidore L. Marrow gave birth to Alfred J. Marrow “American industrial
psychologist, executive, civil rights leader, and philanthropist.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: Po’alei Zion was organized underground in
Poltava, Russia<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: The independent Order of B’nai B’rith has
joined the Jews of Cleveland in their campaign “to force the distasteful figure
of Shakespeare’s Shylock out of the public schools.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: The Federation of Rumanian Jews in
America was founded<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908(5th of Adar II, 5668): Adolph Meyer, a
native of Natchez, Mississippi, who served as a member of the House of
Representatives from Louisiana, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: In Australia, the future Sir John Monash “was
promoted to lieutenant-colonel in the intelligence corps” after which “he was
given command of the 13<sup>th</sup> Infantry brigade in 1912.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: Miss Dora Brachman married Louis Ginsberg
in Marietta, Ohio where they will make their home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5669): Shushan
Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: William Howard Taft, whom B’nai B’rith
gave “a gold medal for trying to improve the lives of Russian Jews” and who was
an outspoken critic of Henry Ford’s anti-Semitism, began serving his one term
as President of the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: Two days after he passed away,
63-year-old Zygmnunt Wartski, the native of Kalisch, Russia, was buried today
in Vienna.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: Birthdate of Louis “Lulu” Bender, “an
all-American basketball player at Columbia whose stellar play during the
Depression helped popularize the game and make Madison Square Garden a magnet
for college basketball…” (As reported by Vincent M. Mallozzi)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/sports/basketball/13bender.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/sports/basketball/13bender.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: International Women's Day is launched in
Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the
Social Democratic Party. Born Clara Eissner, she married a Russian Jewish
socialist leader named Ossip Zetkin. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: Today, Talmud student turned American artist
Jacob Binder, the Kreslava, Russia born son of Aaron Binder and Elle Judin <span style="color: black;">whose portrait the “Talmudist” is in the permanent
collection of the Boston Fine Arts Museum married Rose Bessin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Jacob-Binder/1B937515AF87EFF7#:~:text=Jacob%20Binder%20was%20an%20American,and%20medium%20of%20the%20artwork">https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Jacob-Binder/1B937515AF87EFF7#:~:text=Jacob%20Binder%20was%20an%20American,and%20medium%20of%20the%20artwork</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912(19<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5672): Seventy-six-year-old
Colonel Isaac Hirsch, the former Mayor of Chillicothe, MO, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Birthdate of Seymour Louis Stark, the Brooklyn native who played college
football at Syracuse before turning pro and playing for the Boston Redskins in
1935.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Greek town of Zante was devastated by an earthquake. The Jewish
quarter was destroyed, and more than 100 Jewish families are homeless.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: Marco Besso of Trieste and Errea
Cavalieri of Ferrara were both elected as Senators in Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(29<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5673): Parashat
Pekudi and Shabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: Seventy-three-year-old Leon Israel, “the
manager of the first Italian grand opera company to appear in Chicago” passed
away today at his home on Calumet Avenue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: William Howard Taft, whom B’nai B’rith
gave “a gold medal for trying to improve the lives of Russian Jews” and who was
an outspoken critic of Henry Ford’s anti-Semitism completed his term in office
as President of the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: Birthdate of Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich
who played a key role in the development of nuclear weapons for the Soviet
Union.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: Boris Grabelsky, the Russian born son of
Esther and David Grabelsky who in 1904 came to the United States where he was treasurer
of “Dos Yiddishe Folk” and a member of the Z.O.A married Bathsheba Friedberg
today in New Yok City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: Mrs. Simon Baruch hosted a party at her
home today for twenty-one Italian children from the Bronx as part of an attempt
to combat anarchist propaganda and to the immigrant children a sense of
American history and patriotism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mrs.
Baruch is the wife of Dr. Simon Baruch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are the parents of Bernard Baruch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: In Washington, DC, “Count von Bernstorff,
the German Ambassador, issued a statement today declaring that tolerance toward
all religious beliefs had been displayed by the Turkish Government and that the
disturbances of which he Jews in Palestine were victims were caused by the
overzealousness of local Turkish authorities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: Twenty-four-year-old Baltimore native Samuel
Plotkin married Theresa Scott in Manhattan today after which hey settled in
Bridgeport, CT where he was a member of the Board of Education and the Board of
the Jewish Community Council.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: It was reported today that of the 325
seniors at Yale, twelve of them are Jewish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5677): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: “The trial of a $50,000 libel suit
brought by Maschulem F. Seidman, war correspondent for the Warheit and other
Jewish news against The Day, another Jewish publication” which centered around
whether or not was in fact part of “German propaganda effort to win the
sympathies of Jews in America for the Teuton cause” continued for a second day
in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: The first issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Di varhayt</i> (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Truth</i>),
the first Yiddish communist paper in the world, was published today. Di varhayt
was published in Petrograd, Russia by the People's Commissariat for Jewish
Affairs. It was closed down after a brief existence, as the People's
Commissariat was shifted to the new capital Moscow and the lack of Yiddish
journalists in Petrograd. The paper was later re-started as Der Emes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: A meeting of the Fatherland Union, the
Elberfeld German People’s Party resolved “to request that in the future all
professors and teachers of German, theatre managers and contributors to the
press in all German states be of pure German lineage.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Editor’s note:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For all of the Holocaust apologists, please
note that the war is still going on, there is no Versailles treaty and Hitler
was a corporal in the Kaiser’s Army)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Birthdate of Dresden native Irene H.
Aronson, the English and American trained artist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://americanart.si.edu/artist/irene-aronson-147"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://americanart.si.edu/artist/irene-aronson-147</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Ukrainian mobs
massacred the Jews of Seredino Buda<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: In Salonica, the government decided to
exempt Jewish Ottoman subjects living in Greece from the regulation prohibiting
commercial transactions with subjects of enemy states.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Jews of Gloucher were massacred by
Ukrainians. At this point in Russian history, the empire was in
chaos. The Czar had been deposed. Kerensky and his Social
Democrats were trying to rule the country. The Bolsheviks under Lenin and
Trotsky were plotting to replace the Provisional Government. In the
meantime, the Ukrainians continued their tradition of anti-Semitism
and killing Jews whenever they had the chance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: In Bobruisk, “as a result of steps taken
by pro-Jewish labor leaders, the ban against Jewish employees in the factories
of the city was lifted.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: The Government
of Greece decides to exempt Jewish Ottoman subjects living in Greece from
regulations prohibiting commercial transactions with subjects of enemy states.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: “As a result
of steps taken by pro-Jewish labor leaders, the ban against using Jewish
employees in the factories” was lifted in Bobruisk.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: Representative
Julius Kahn, Republican congressman from California expressed his opposition to
Zionism. He said “that the Zionist Congress which was recently held in
Philadelphia had asserted that it represented 150,000 out of approximately
3,000,000 American Jews. These figures would seem to indicate that the
so-called Zionist number only a small minority” of American Jewry. “The reason
I am opposed to a Jewish state is that experience has shown that the Jew
becomes a good patriotic citizen of any country giving him full citizenship and
civil and religious liberty….I am afraid that many avowed Zionists are also
internationalists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that we in America should stand for
this country and its institutions against all the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, I believe that as nationalists we
make of our religion a secondary matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our country comes first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our
Judaism is simply our religious faith.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: Faisal I bin
Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi who fought with Lawrence of Arabia and who signed an
agreement with Chaim Weizmann that was blueprint for cooperation between Arabs
and Jews began his short lived reign as Faisal I, King of Syria.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: During a
series of Arab protest demonstrations “led to several Arab attacks on Jewish
passers-by and shop owners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The British
authorities were alarmed at the violent tone of the Arab protests, in which
calls to kill the Jews were heard alongside the popular slogan ‘Palestine is
our land, and the Jews are our dogs.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: In Paris,
Marguerite and Paul Rosenberg, “a key figure in the Parisian art world in the
first half of the century” gave birth to “Alexandre P. Rosenberg, founding
president of the Art Dealers Association of America and for many years a
prominent art dealer in New York.” (As reported by John Russell)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1921:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquees of
Reading, completed his service as Lord Chief Justice of England.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: Birthdate of
New York native and NYU and MIT trains physicist Melvin Lax, winner in 1999 of
“the Willis Lamb Medal for Science and Quantum Optics.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/5037"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/5037</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: “Excludes
Alien Jewish Students” published today described the announcement of “a
decision of he Board of Professors” at the Vienna Polytechnic” that henceforth
numerous clauses will be applied against foreign Jewish students.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924:
Ninety-two-year-old Hannah Mathilde von Rothschild, the daughter and wife of
members of the famous members of this banking dynasty who was unique in her
musical activities which included studying with Chopin, writing songs for
popular vocalist of the day and publishing “a volume of 30 melodies” passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://family.rothschildarchive.org/people/53-hannah-mathilde-mathilde-von-rothschild-1832-1924"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://family.rothschildarchive.org/people/53-hannah-mathilde-mathilde-von-rothschild-1832-1924</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: Louis
Marshall, the President of Temple Emanu-El addressed the members of the
Emanu-El League, the congregations newest organization which is designed to
attract younger congregants, calling on them “to study and spread Judaism and
learn the History of the Jews and their contributions<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to civilization” while participating in the
philanthropic and communal pursuits that will prepare to lead the Temple in the
future.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: “Denies Break
in Jews’ Life” published today included a denial by Rabbi Nathan Krass of
Temple Emanu-El “that the blank page in the” Christian “Bible separating the
Old and New Testaments was meant to mark a barren period in the history of
Israel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: In
Philadelphia, PA, “prominent basketball referee and baseball umpire Harry
Rudolph” and his wife gave birth to Marvin “Mendy” Rudolph who was an NBA
referee for 22 years from 1953 to 1957<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070714142048/http:/www.hoophall.com/halloffamers/bhof-marvin-rudolph.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://web.archive.org/web/20070714142048/http://www.hoophall.com/halloffamers/bhof-marvin-rudolph.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181653/http:/www.hoophall.com/ot/rudolph-induction-article.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181653/http:/www.hoophall.com/ot/rudolph-induction-article.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: In New York
City, Joseph C. Hyman and Lee Roven, the sister of concert pianist Anton
Rovinsky gave birth to composer and conductor Richard “Dick” Hyman <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.dickhyman.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.dickhyman.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: Birthdate of
Joel Kaufman who played forward and center for New York University before
choosing to play professional with the American Basketball League after having
been drafted by the Warriors of the NBA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928(15<sup>th</sup>
of Tevet, 5688): Sixty-four-year-old Julius Matz, the German born so of <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: Bantamweight
Herman “Kid” Silvers (born Herman Silverberg) was defeated in his 32nd bout.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: “Fräulein
Else” the movie version of a novella by Arthur Schnitzler and directed by Paul
Czinnner was released in Germany today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: Financier Paul
Warburg warned that the wild speculation gripping the stock market could lead
to disaster. [Bernard Baruch was another Jewish financier who expressed the
same concern.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5690): Parashat Terumah and Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930:
Seventy-two-year-old William Howard Taft the only person to serve as President
of the United States and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and who was the
first U.S. president to attend a seder passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: Der shtern, “a
Yiddish language newspaper published in Kharkov” which “was an organization of
the Central Committee of the Communist party” demanded today that OZET, “the
public Society for Settling Toiling Jews on the Land” in the Soviet Union, “liquidate
all religious habits in the Jewish colonies” noting that many of “the Jews
still observed the Sabbath” and Kashrut.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: At Temple
Emanu-El, Rabbi Isaac A. Milner is scheduled to officiate at the funeral of
Austrian born and NYU trained physician 63-year-old Dr. George Mord “an
assistant medical examiner of Staten Island and one of the oldest practicing
physicians in Richmond County, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: Judge Pound,
“another ‘liberal’” is scheduled to succeed “Benjamin N. Cardozo as chief judge
of New York’s State Court of Appeals.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: “At an
emergency executive meeting of the Greater New York American Palestine Campaign
Committee it was voted unanimously according to an announcement today to
continue the American Palestine campaign to raise money to enable the Jewish
Agency for Palestine to maintain colonization, education, immigration and
sanitation activities in the Jewish homeland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: “Rabbi Stephen
S. Wise told 2,500 persons at an anti-Hitler rally in the Jewish Community
Centre of Jersey” tonight “that he hoped President Roosevelt would ‘speak out’
in protest of the persecutions of Jews in Germany” and “he urged all present to
aid in settling Jewish refugees from Germany in Palestine and to continue their
boycott of German exports.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: U.S. premiere
of “Roberta” produced by Pandro S. Bermon with music by Jerome Kern and
conducted by Max Steiner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5696): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “A festival of
Purim play was given” this “afternoon at Temple Emanu-El on 5<sup>th</sup>
Avenue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: At Temple
Ansche Chesed, “Rabbi Joseph Zeitlin said Purim offered consolation to all
oppressed people” because “it teaches us that force will inevitable fail” and
that “the more a people is persecuted for devotion to ideals the more attached
and loyal they become.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “At Temple
B’nai Jershurun, Rabbi Israel Goldstein reviewed historical instances of
persecution” saying that “the problem that confronted the Jews of Persia and
Rome now confront the Jews of the twentieth century” who must “yield to the
forces and lose their identity” or “resist those forces” and risk isolation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: In the Bronx,
“Dr. Jacob Katz rabbi of the Montefiore Congregation said the celebration of
PUrimes was not to commemorate the defeat of the Persians, but to revive the
spirit of endurance, patience and fortitude of the Jews ‘until the time comes
when neither nations nor creeds shall ask conquest but shall rely for their
survival and progress on the true human value and divine inspiration.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “Rabbi Herbert
S. Goldstein, preaching at the Institutional Synagogue, said anti-Semitism
arose not only from the desire to abolish Judaism but also from political and
economic jealousies.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “Three hundred
chapters throughout the” United States are scheduled to “merge the
celebration…with founders’ day programs” today on a “date that marks the 24<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of the organization which was established by Miss Henriette Szold
in 1912.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Dr. Chaim
Weizmann is scheduled to arrive today in London where he will engage in “a
series of consultations on the increasingly serious position of Jewish
communities’ including Germany, Poland – where “anti-Semitism on the Nazi
model” is growing and Rumania as well as actions being taken by the British
government in Palestine which are inimical to Jewish interests and violate the
Balfour Declaration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “Rabbi Joseph
Rosen, an authority on Talmudic law…known to Jews as the Rogachever Gaon (sage
of Rogachev, Russia)…was eulogized at services” in Vienna today where were
attended by “a great number of his co-religionists.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: The three
winners of the Einstein Medals which are presented by the Jewish Forum “for
distinguished services in the fields of peace, literature and philanthropy”
tonight were awarded to “Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger, executive director of
World Peace ‘for outstanding service to the cause of world peace and goodwill;
author Franz Werfel for distinction as a novelist and playwright and James G.
McDonald, former high commissioner for German refugees for his services to the
humanitarian cause.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: Helmut Hirsch,
a Jewish architectural student originally from Stuttgart was sentenced to death
today for his role in the attempted murder of Julius Streicher.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1937: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The New York Times</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> reported on acts of
human kindness and brotherhood during the ongoing wave of terrorism in
Palestine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“During recent disturbances a
Jewish chauffeur took the son of an Arab who was killed to a hospital and an
Arab driver rescued on the Jews hurt by stone-throwing.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America observed the twenty-fifth
anniversary of Dr. Joseph H. Hertz as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew
Congregations of the British Empire in a broadcast from Radio Station WHN. Dr.
Hertz was the first graduate of the seminary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:
“The Girl of the Golden West” a musical based on a play by David Belasco and
directed and produced by Robert Z. Leonard was released in the United States
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
“The British Government decided today to suspend all formal and informal
meetings with the Jewish and Arab delegates to the Palestine Conference and to
proceed with the formulation of its own plan, which will be submitted to both
sides early next week. (As reported by Robert P. Post)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
Sixty-three-year-old Isaïe Schwartz, the Grand Rabbi of Strasbourg who during
the World War had served as a stretcher bearer and as a chaplain at the
American Army based at Bordeaux, was elected Grand Rabbi France, “replacing
Israel Levy who had retired on account of his health.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940:
A curfew which had gone into effect yesterday following protests over the “new
restrictions on land transfers” which has been “led by the chief rabbis and
members of the Vaad Leumi” was scheduled to fe lifted today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941:
In a prelude to her famous diary, Esther "Etty" Hillesum wrote a
letter addressed to Julius Spier in an exercise book which would provide a
picture of life in Amsterdam under Nazi occupation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
“Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, laid upon the
British Government today responsibility for the death of 760 Jewish refugees
from Rumania who perished when the steamer Struma sank in the Black Sea recently.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
The 2,500 delegates attending the annual conventions of H.I.A.S.at the Hotel
Astor were told today that “n the eighteen months since the fall of France,
"rescue through emigration" of 25,000 men, women and children from
Europe has been aided by the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society and
its European affiliate.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5703): Rosh Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943:
In London, Lynn Smith and theatrical agent Leslie Grade gave birth to English
television executive and businessman Michael Ian Grade, Baron Grade of
Yarmouth, CBE whose wives include Penelope Levinson, Sarah Lawson and Francesca
Leahy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: Greek Jews of
Salonika were transported to Nazi extermination camps.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: The Sokolovo Czech battalion battled the
Germans for three days. Of the 1,000 Czech soldiers, 600 are Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Today marked the start of the “Liquidation
of the Theresienstadt concentration camp to which “approximately 144,000 Jews,
most of whom were Czech citizens” had been sent approximately 33,000 of whom
had died” and whose remaining inmates were on there way to Auschwitz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Robert Rosenthal's crew, nicknamed
Rosie's Riveters, completed their 25-mission combat tour, although the B-17F
(s/n 42-30758) that they usually flew bearing the same name was shot down while
being flown by a different crew during the 4 February 1944 mission to
Frankfurt, Germany” and while the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“crew
returned to the United States, Rosenthal extended his tour, eventually flying a
total of 52 missions.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1944:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> In the Warsaw Ghetto
37 Jews are given away in their hiding places.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Emanuel Ringelblum, noted historian and author of a detailed chronicle
of the plight of the Warsaw Jews is one of the group that is captured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ringelblum was tortured for three days during
which he revealed nothing about his fellow Jews in hiding. A few days later
Ringelblum aged 43, his wife, and 13 year old son Uri were executed. (Some
sites show this as having happened on March 7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The fog of war and change of time zones can play havoc with precision
dating sometimes)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: In France, "in the morning there is
a knock on the door at the apartment of Hélène Berr's family." Her parents
Raymond and Antoinette would die later that year in Auschwitz. Helene
will survive until 1945 when she will die at Bergen Belsen where she was beaten
to death five days before the camp was liberated by the British.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: In response to a proposal by Chief Rabbis
Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel and Yitzhak Halevi Hersog made on March 5<sup>th</sup>
at a meeting at the Hurva Synagogue today marked the first day of a week of
mourning that will “culminate with a fast day on March 14.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar, 5705): Katherine
Garfield the only daughter of actor John Garfield and Roberta Seiman who had
been born in 1938 passed away today after contracting a case of strep throat
while on a USO tour with her father.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: The Big Red One, whose members included
Samuel Fuller captured Bonn today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: “World Zionism officially proposed to the
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine today that 1,000,000 more Jews
be brought to Palestine within the next decade.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: The Committee organizing the second
International Music Festival to be held in Prague has invited Leonard Bernstein
to conduct the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra when it performs in May of this
year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: After having been sighted by RAF plane
the refugee-filled SS Ben Hecht also called the <i>Abril</i> was intercepted by
British ships- HMS Chieftain, HMS Chevron and HMS Chivalrous and HMS St.
Bride’s Bay off the coast of Palestine and were boarded by two waves of British
soldiers wearing red berets which earned them the sobriquet “red devils.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Dr. Ludwig Fischer was executed for his
role in the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Jewish terrorists defy British Martial
law by launching a series of attacks in Tel Aviv tonight that injure 17 people,
including 15 Jews, one British constable and one Arab constable.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: Birthdate of Yaakov Zvi, the London
native we know as Jonathan Henry Sacks, the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew
Congregations of the Commonwealth and one of the most influential Jewish
leaders of his time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://rabbisacks.org/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://rabbisacks.org/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.aish.com/authors/48865787.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.aish.com/authors/48865787.html</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/world/europe/jonathan-sacks-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/world/europe/jonathan-sacks-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: “It was learned tonight after the first
meeting of the Great Powers” that “the Soviet Union is pressing for a prompt
decision on steps to carry out the partition of Palestine while the United
States still hopes that a settlement satisfactory to both Jews and Arabs can be
worked out.” (As reported by Thomas J. Hamilton)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: Milton Sperling and Betty Warner gave
birth to their third child, Cass Warner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1948:<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The U.S.<b> </b>Supreme
Court ruled that religious instruction in public schools was unconstitutional.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: During Operation Uvda, as the defending
Jordanian forces withdrew, the Golani forces took Ein Ghamr.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: During the day the IDF moved towards Umm
Rashrash through the Valley of the Fingers which in the evening the Alexandroni
Brigade set sail from Sodom on the Dead Sea with the intent of seizing Ein
Gedi.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: Following elections, David Ben-Gurion
formed the first government of Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In what would prove to be the curse of the Israeli political system, it
was a coalition government led by Mapai but including two other smaller
parties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ben-Gurion served both as Prime
Minister and Defense Minister. Future Prime Minister Golda Meir served as the
Minister of Labor and Social Security.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: "In a Knesset session in Tel
Aviv...Eliahu Eliashar, a parliamentary representative of the Sephardi Jews,
spoke on behalf of the Jews from Muslim lands."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950(19<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5710): Sixty-seven-year-old
Hans Müller-Einigen, the son of Dr. Josef Müller and Johanna Müller, who is
best “known for his screenplay for ‘The White Horse’” passed away today in
Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950(19<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5710): Fifty-eight-year-old
“Oscar A.H. Danenberg, a former state representative and legal aid for the
municipal department of public welfare passed away today in Stratford, Ct.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: An overflow crowd of one thousand
mourners filled New York’s Park West Memorial Chapel and spilled out into the
street at the funeral services for Daniel Frisch, the president of the Zionist
Organization of America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rabbi Bernard
Bergman officiated at the service and he was assisted by Cantor Robert
Segal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Numerous tributes were paid to
Frisch for his support of Jewish causes and Zionism by several famous
dignitaries include Eliahu Elath, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States,
Louis Lips, chairman of the American Zionist council and Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
chairman of the American section of the Jewish Agency for Palestine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Following the service, Mr. Frisch’s body will
be taken to Indianapolis for burial. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: Judge Morris Rothenberg, National
Chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, issued a report today that funds
raised by American Jews “had made possible” the establishment” of 3,000 small
businesses for the rehabilitation and resettlement of invalid immigrants in
Israel at a cost of five million dollars.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: The International Table Tennis Federation
banned Egypt for refusing to play Israel. You have to give some points to
the ping pong players. They were one of the few international
organizations that has not knuckled under to the Arabs and their supporters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: In London, the original West End
production of “Kiss Me, Kate” a musical with the book by Samuel and Bella
Spewack opened today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: “Royal Wedding” the Alan Jay Lerner
musical comedy directed by Stanley Donen premiered today in New York City<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: Release date for “Lemon Drop Kid,” a
comedy directed by Sidney Lanfield, featuring Sid Melton as “Little Louie” and
Ben Welden as “Singing Solly.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952: Birthdate of former U.S. Senator George
Allen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to Jewish law, Allen is
Jewish since his mother was Jewish. This information surfaced during Allen’s
campaign for re-election in 2006. He did not find out that his mother was
Jewish until sometime after he became an adult.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His mother had lived in Tunisia during World War II and seen her father
hauled off by the authorities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She did
not want her children to know about their Jewish heritage because she saw being
Jewish as threat to their physical well-being.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If it could happen in Tunisia, she reasoned, it could happen again, even
in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953: In Camden, NJ Irving Levinsky chaired
haired a dinner honoring Beth El’s past presidents and founders including Morris
Handle, Louis Berkowitz, Benjamin Natal, Louis Cades, Jacob Leventon, Henry L.
Barroway, E. George Aaron, Meyer Adleman, Samuel F. Ginns, Israel Katz, Jesse
Satenstein, Meyer Sakin, Herman Z. Cutler, Morris Liebman and Louis Markowitz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.dvrbs.com/people/camdenpeople-louisberkowitz.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.dvrbs.com/people/camdenpeople-louisberkowitz.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953(21<sup>st</sup> of Adar, 5713): Russian born
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New Haven, CT businessman Max Alderman
who along with his younger brothers Abraham and William established Alderman
Brothers and who was “Director of the Free Loan Association and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Jewish Aged of New Haven while also being
a member of the Knights of Israel and Vilna Society passed away today after which
he was buried at the Congregation Bikur Cholim Cemetery in East Haven, CT.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5715): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956: “Eleven Orthodox deans of Jewish seminaries
signed a directive declaring that joint action with liberal rabbis is ‘prohibited
by Torah law’” and “that Orthodox rabbis should not participated in the activities
of the New York Board of Rabbis or the Synagogue Council of America” both of
which “are major Jewish agencies” that “have been composed of Orthodox. Conservative
and Reform members.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956: In Toronto, “Harry Rosen, founder of
Harry Rosen, Inc.,” “a Canadian retail chain of 17 luxury men's clothing stores”
and Evelyn Rosen gave birth to University of Toronto and University of Western
Ontario trained businessman and attorney Larry Rosen, the chairman and CEO of
Harry Rosen, Inc who “was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada for his
accomplishments in business and philanthropy.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957: Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to
minor shipping after the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Sinai Peninsula.
This was the last chapter in the Suez Crisis of 1956. Unfortunately, the
United Nations did not honor its guarantees to Israel and the result was
the Six Days War of 1967<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957(5<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5717): A
shepherd from kibbutz Beit Guvrin was killed by terrorists in a field near the
kibbutz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958(16<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5718): Parashat
Ki Tisa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958: In Wilmington, Delaware, Mrs. Joseph
Lazarus has made know the engagement daughter Phyllis Lazarus to Stanley Tocker
the holder of a doctorate in chemistry from FSU><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959: “Too Many Crooks” a comedy co-starring
Bernard Bresslaw and music by Stanley Black (Solomon Schwartz) was released in
the United Kingdom today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959: George Lincoln Rockwell founded the
American Nazi Party<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961(20<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5721): Seventy-three-year-old
Artur Carlos de Barros Basto (Abraham Israel Ben-Rosh) the Portuguese army
office the crypto-Jew who affirmed his Judaism through conversion, helped
hundreds escape the Shoah and worked to rebuild the Jewish community on the
Iberian peninsula passed away today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.the-jewish-story.org/basto.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.the-jewish-story.org/basto.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/324119/portuguese-dreyfus-cause-taken-up-by-leading-candidate/?utm_content=daily_Newsletter_BreakingNews_Position-3&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Daily%202015-11-05&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20%28Monday-Friday%29"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/324119/portuguese-dreyfus-cause-taken-up-by-leading-candidate/?utm_content=daily_Newsletter_BreakingNews_Position-3&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Daily%202015-11-05&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20%28Monday-Friday%29</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Birthdate of actress Camryn Manheim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She has appeared in such movies as “Bonfire of the Vanities” and
television programs as “The Practice.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In 1999 she published her autobiography entitled <i><u>Wake Up, I'm Fat!</u></i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1963: A five-man
syndicate led by Sonny Werblin bought the New York Titans which they would
rebrand as the New York Jets, the first AFL team to win the Superbowl. (As
reported by Bob Wechsler)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964(24<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5724): Seventy-three-year-old Budapest born American psychoanalyst Dr.
Franz Gabriel Alexander, the husband of “artist Anita Venier with whom he had
two daughters, Sylvia and Francesca, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1964/03/09/archives/dr-franz-alexander-73-dies-was-pioneer-in-psychosomatics-analyst.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1964/03/09/archives/dr-franz-alexander-73-dies-was-pioneer-in-psychosomatics-analyst.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1176/appi.ajp.159.8.1305"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1176/appi.ajp.159.8.1305</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1965:</span><span style="color: #003333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Knesset passed the “Broadcasting Authority Law” which is the basis
for the Israeli Broadcasting Authority’s operations. The Israeli Broadcasting
Authority (IBA) was formed as an independent corporation responsible for all
broadcasts in Israel and to the Diaspora. Until 1965, Kol Israel operated under
the Office of the Prime Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969: A Chamber
Orchestra including violinist Miriam Fried and cellist Michael Harran and
featuring Rudolf Serkin as soloist is scheduled to perform today at Hunter
College.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1969:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">During “The War of Attrition” a massive
artillery barrage marked the start of the Egyptian campaign to destroy the Bar
Lev Line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The plan was under the direct
supervision of General Abdul Munim Riad, the chief of Staff of the Egyptian
Armed Forces. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: “Thirty-nine
Soviet Jews from different cities protested against the” U.S.S.R’s’ “continuing
anti-Israel and anti-Zionist Campaign.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: Attorney
Robert Shapiro, part of the O.J. Simpson “dream team” and a co-founder of
LegalZoom married Linell Thomas today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971: Birthdate of
David Aaron Greenberg, the native of New Haven, CT whose poetry was inspired by
a meeting with Allen Ginsberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971: William
Davidon, a Jewish physics professor at Haverford College led “a group of
anti-war activists” who “broke into a small FBI satellite office in the town of
Media,” Pennsylvania.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/158354/fbi-burglars-revealed?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=8ce0925f8d-1_7_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-8ce0925f8d-206644398"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/158354/fbi-burglars-revealed?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=8ce0925f8d-1_7_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-8ce0925f8d-206644398</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1971: Dorothy Fields
was inducted into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame. She was the only woman in the
first class of inductees.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two of her songs that are still played today
are<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">"I Can't Give You Anything But
Love, Baby" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street."</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The song "The Way You Look
Tonight" an Academy Award for "Best Song" in 1936.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973: CBS broadcast
the “Marcus-Nelson Murders” with a script by Abby Mann in what would prove to
be the pilot for the police drama “Kojak” created by Mann.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973(4<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5733): Seventy-two year old accountant Frank Abrams, “a close
association of the late Rabbi Stephen S. Wise “and an “honorary vice president
of the American Jewish Congress” who raised three sons – Sheldon, Douglas and
Barry – with his wife Sylvia passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/09/archives/frank-abrams-dies-a-leader-in-aic.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/09/archives/frank-abrams-dies-a-leader-in-aic.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974: “Henry
Kissinger warned Congress of a presidential veto if the trade bill” was linked
to the issue of Jewish immigration from the Soviet Union.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975: Birthdate of
Livingston, NJ native and Harvard trace attorney Joshua S. Gottheimer, the
husband of Marla Tusk whom he married in 2006 and who has served as the U.S.
representative for New Jersey's 5th congressional district since 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1976(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5736): Eighty-six-year-old Edith Altschul Lehman, the widow of
former New York Governor Herbert H. Lehman passed away today. (JWA shows her
death date as 1974 while the Times uses 1976)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4078517/index.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4078517/index.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Lehman-Edith-Altschul"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Lehman-Edith-Altschul</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/09/archives/edith-lehman-philanthropist-is-dead.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/09/archives/edith-lehman-philanthropist-is-dead.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977: “Cross of
Iron” a WW II movie set on the Eastern Front with music by Ernest Gold was
released in the UK today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977: First
International Women’s Day as proclaimed by the United Nations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979: As part of his
peace-making trip to the Middle East, President Carter is scheduled to arrive
in Egypt this afternoon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar 5740): Shabbat Parah observed for the last time during the presidency
of Jimmy Carter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981: Foreign
Minister Yithak Shamir “warned that the arms race already underway in the
Middle East would be accelerated by the U.S. decision to sell additional
sophisticated weaponry to Arab countries…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5745): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1985:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Two hundred and fifty Congressmen addressed
a letter to President Reagan requesting the administration to set up talks with
the Soviet Union, aimed solely at allowing freer emigration of Soviet Jews, in accordance
with the Helsinki Accords.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1987: In the Soviet
Union, “Jewish parents” gave birth to </span><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">American
actress, comedian, and activist Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988: Refuseniks
meet today with U.S. Senators Sam Nunn, Alan Cranston and Carl Levin all of
whom were Democrats.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989: “Will You
Marry Me?” a one act opera by composer Hugo David Weisgall was performed for
the first time today by the Opera Ensemble of New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5750): Fast of Esther observed because the 13<sup>th</sup> of Adar
falls on Shabbat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993(15th of Adar,
5753): Uri Magidish was stabbed to death by two Palestinians while working in a
hothouse at Gan Or.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including <u>The
Picasso Papers</u> by Rosalind Krauss, <u>Mahler</u> by Jonathan Carr and <u>Conversations
With Joseph Brodsky: A Poet's Journey Through the Twentieth Century <b><br />
</b></u>by Solomon Volkov.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998(10<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5758): Forty-four-year-old Broadway musical star Laurie Hope Beechman
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/10/arts/laurie-beechman-dies-at-44-played-grizabella-in-cats.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/10/arts/laurie-beechman-dies-at-44-played-grizabella-in-cats.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: “In the latest
of a series of scandals involving top Israeli officials, Transportation
Minister Yitzhak Mordechai announced today that he was taking a leave of
absence after the police had begun to investigate a complaint that he had
sexually assaulted a woman who works in his ministry.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2000:</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Prime Minister Ehud Barak met today with Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian
leader, to try to restart formal peace negotiations after a break of more than
a month, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5761): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5761): Sixty-seven-year-old Plymouth, PA native Abraham ‘Abe Cohen who
played college football at the University of Tennessee, Chattagnooga before
turning pro with the CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the NFL Boston Patriots (the
forerunner of the New England Patriots) passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003(4<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5763): Parashat Pekudi<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003(4<sup>th</sup>
of Adar II, 5763): Ninety-one year old Dr. Benjamin W. Pushkin, the husband of
Ann Pushkin with whom he raised two children – Robert and Judy --<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who practiced podiatry for sixty years in
Chicago and Los Angeles and who had been President of the Howard Paul Wilson
B’nai B’rith Lodge passed away today..<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5764): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5674): Ninety-two year old painter Elise Asher, the wife of poet
Stanley Kunitz, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/13/arts/elise-asher-92-painter-poet-who-blended-images-and-words.html?_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/13/arts/elise-asher-92-painter-poet-who-blended-images-and-words.html?_r=0</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: “A report on
the Israeli government's support for illegal settlement outposts in the West
Bank” which “describes widespread state complicity, fraud and cynicism, illegal
diversion of government funds and illegal seizure of private Palestinian land”
“was formally delivered to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: The Hebrew
Cemetery in Richmond, VA “aka Hebrew Burying Ground” founded in 1816 was added
to the Virginia Landmarks Register.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2006: French born,
American-Jewish businessman Roland Arnall begins serving as United States Ambassador
to the Netherlands.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2006: Zubin Mehta,
conductor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, is honored as a Dan David
Laureate <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the annual awards ceremony at
the Opera Garnier in Paris.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Dan David Prize
annually awards 3 prizes of US$ 1 million each for achievements having an
outstanding scientific, technological, cultural or social impact on our world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006(8<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5766): Sixty-nine
year old George Sassoon, the multi-talented son of poet Siegfried Sassoon
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1513183/George-Sassoon.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1513183/George-Sassoon.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Haaretz</i>
reports the 2006 war in Lebanon triggered a baby boom. According to health
maintenance organization statistics show that the number of women now in their
fifth, sixth or seventh month of pregnancy was 35 percent higher than the
figure a year ago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: A scaled down London revival Jerry
Herman’s and Harvey Fierstein’s “La Cage aux Folles” came to a close at the
Menier Chocolate Factory<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Rosh Chodesh Adar II, 5768, First Day of
Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Shabbat Shekalim, 5768<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: (1 Adar II 5763) Yahrzeit for
the passengers killed on Egged Bus #53 five years ago in Tel Aviv: <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .75in left 261.0pt; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Kmer Abu Khamed, 12, from Daliyat al Karmel<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Yuval Mendelevitch, 13, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Smadar Firstatter, 17, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Avigail Lietel, 14, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Asaf Tzur, 16, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Daniel Harush, 16 , from Safed <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Tom Hershko, 16, from Haifa, and his father- <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Motti Hershko, 41, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Tal Kehrmann, 17, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Elizabeth (Liz) Katzman, 17, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Meital Katav, 20, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Moran Shushan, 20, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Anatoly Biryakov, 20, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Be'eri Ovad, 21 , from Rosh Pina <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Eliyahu Laham, 22, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Miriam Atar, 27, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Mark Takash, 54, from Haifa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
In Chicago final performances of two plays by Lillian Hellman – “The Little
Foxes” and “Scoundrel Time.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including <u>Pictures at an Exhibition</u> by Sara Houghteling, <u>The Kindly
Ones</u> by Jonathan Littell, <u>The Believers</u> by Zoe Heller and the
recently published paperback edition of <u>The Forger </u><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">by Cioma Schönhaus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2009: In its on-line edition <i>The Washington Post</i>
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including <u>The Believers</u> by Zoe Heller and <u>Hunting
Eichmann:</u></span><i><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
</span></u></i><u><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">How a Band of Survivors And a Young Spy
Agency Chased Down The World's Most Notorious Nazi</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> by Neal Bascomb. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2009:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin said today at the weekly
cabinet meeting that "Iran has crossed the technological threshold"
in its quest for nuclear arms.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2009: In “They Lived in our midst: Area was
haven for Nazi-era figures,” published today, Ron Grossman reports on Nazis who
moved to Chicago after World War II. </span><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-chicago-nazis-08-mar08,0,758025,print.story"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-chicago-nazis-08-mar08,0,758025,print.story</span></a><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Israel advanced to the Davis Cup
quarterfinals for the first time since 1987 after rallying to beat seven-time
champion Sweden 3-2 today in a close series overshadowed by political protests.
Harel Levy beat Andreas Vinciguerra 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 3-6, 8-6 to decide the World
Group first-round series in a near-empty arena in Malmo.Only about 300 special
invitees were allowed to watch the match because city officials said they
couldn't guarantee security at the venue. Critics, including the Israeli team,
said Malmo was caving in to threats of violence from anti-Israel groups.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: In “Even Among
Venerable Texts, a Torah Like No Other,” published today Sophia Hollander
describes the discovery of an 800-year-old Torah and the unique career of
Yitzchok Reisman who is both a rabbi and a sofer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The
weathered brown parchment with its frayed edges and inked Hebrew letters seemed
beautiful but unremarkable. Itzhak Winer, a 34-year-old Torah scribe turned
Judaica seller, considered the item a nice find, but just one of the 30 or more
Torahs he buys and sells in a year. From his Jerusalem dealer, he learned that
the Torah had been owned by a family in Morocco and was in excellent condition.
“He knew that it’s old, but he didn’t really know — and neither did I — how
special it was,” said Mr. Winer, who works out of his home in Willowbrook,
Staten Island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Curious about the item’s
origins, Mr. Winer took it to a Lower East Side rabbi named Yitzchok Reisman,
an expert in identifying antique Torahs, the scrolls containing the first five
books of the Hebrew Scriptures. Rabbi Reisman, born in 1938 in Flatbush,
Brooklyn, found himself drawn as a teenager to the scribes who congregated on
the Lower East Side. They shared their craft with him, passing down stories and
lore of ancient scrolls. Rabbi Reisman also became attracted to the buying and
selling of Torahs. “There were 400 congregations that were declining, closing
up and selling off the Torahs and the assets,” he said. As Torahs from the
Lower East Side migrated to the suburbs and across the continent, the sellers,
he saw, “helped transfer the Torah scrolls on to the rest of America.” Today,
Rabbi Reisman restores Torahs using handmade ink and carved turkey feathers at
his workshop on Grand Street. Heaps of wooden rollers and antique furniture
obscure treasures like the gleaming copper case of a 300-year-old Yemenite
Torah and an elaborately woven Torah cover from Iraq. Rabbi Reisman quickly
realized that Mr. Winer’s Torah was unique. The materials and calligraphic
style identified it as Spanish, which meant that it was written before 1492,
when the Jews were expelled from Spain. In addition, the strong swirls on the
top of certain letters matched the style favored in Kabbalah, the Jewish
mystical movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“There are very, very
few manuscripts and pieces of manuscripts that are older than the 1400s,” Rabbi
Reisman said on a recent day in his ramshackle office as Mr. Winer looked on.
And the kabbalistic flourishes, the rabbi added, make it “the only Spanish
Torah known done in that way.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">These
special markings are “like thorns that appear in certain letters that only show
up in a small window of time,” Rabbi Reisman said. “No!” Mr. Winer interrupted.
“A few hundred years.” “That’s a small window,” Rabbi Reisman retorted. As they
bickered gently over nearly every detail, the two men also said that their
research suggested that the Torah was created between 1272 and 1302, and that
it could be connected to a famous Spanish scribe, Shem-Tob ben Abraham ibn
Gaon. But they did seem to agree on who should get the Torah. “We’re hoping to
get somebody or some community or some organization that wants to preserve the
Spanish kabalistic tradition,” Mr. Winer said, “and it’s important to them to
give it the<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">CJH, LBI and YIVO are scheduled to present
“Czernowitz in Jewish Memory” during which a panel of historians and writers,
including Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer, the authors of a new volume entitled
<u>Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory</u>, will
discuss and debate the reconciliation of the two different memories Czernowtiz
within the broader history of Jewish emancipation, assimilation and resistance
in Eastern Europe. Czernowitz-"Vienna of the East"-is the site of two
different powerful memories. To some, it was home to an assimilationist
Austro-German Jewish culture; to others, it was a hub for the creation of
modern Yiddish language and culture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar, 5770):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ninety-two-year-old
microbiologist Benjamin Rubin, “the investor of the bifurcated vaccination
needle” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar, 5770: David Kimche, reputed Israeli spymaster and diplomat passed
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A native of London who made Aliyah
in 1936 he fought in the War of Independence before attending<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Sorbonne and Hebrew University.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/world/middleeast/10kimche.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=David+Kimche%2C&st=nyt"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/world/middleeast/10kimche.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=David+Kimche%2C&st=nyt</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: “The Addams Family” a musical comedy with
a book co-authored by Marshall Brickman and lyrics by Andrew Lippa with Bebe
Neuwirth as Morticia began previews on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Ronald Florence is scheduled to discuss <u>Emissary
Of The Doomed: Bargaining For Lives In The Holocaust</u> his new book on the
fate of Hungary’s Jews during World War II at noon today in the James Madison
Building of the Library of Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. began
a five-day visit to the Middle East today, part of a concerted American effort
to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and keep Israel focused on relying
on sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program rather than on unilateral military
action. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: George J. Mitchell, the administration’s
Middle East envoy, announced today in Jerusalem that Israel and the
Palestinians had agreed to start indirect negotiations and that he would be
back next week to continue structuring those talks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The Women’s International Zionist
Organization (WIZO) hosted a ceremony at the Tel Aviv Opera House where it
presented mock awards for what the nonprofit organization has termed the “most
sexist advertisements” of the year. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Today “it was announced that Rob Morrow
has signed on to star in Jerry Bruckheimer's new series, The Whole Truth, on
ABC<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: At the Crowden Music Center, in Berkley,
CA, violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley is scheduled to perform the “rarely heard
works from the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music, a
turn-of-the-century movement that brought Jewish folk music into European
classical form” during the Jewish Music Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Today, “Dana International won the
Israeli National Final for Eurovision with the song "Ding Dong,” and
represented Israel at Eurovision for a second time.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a panel discussion entitled
“The Rebbe, Charismatic Leadership and the American Spiritual Landscape.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
<i>The New York Times</i> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including <u>Moonwalking With Einstein: The
Art and Science of Remembering Everything </u>by Joshua Foer <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
A recent blast of cold air from Scandinavia coupled with warm Mediterranean Sea
influence created torrential rain and thunderstorms today. Snow fell in the
Hermon and other areas in the north. The morning hours saw between 10-30 mm of
rainfall in the country's center, and between 5-15 mm in the North, with the
Israeli Meteorological Service reporting up to 32 mm in the Tel Aviv area.
Showers are expected to dissipate in the afternoon hours. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
A film festival on women and religion is launching today at the Jerusalem
Cinematheque. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
The Hurva Synagogue, which was officially rededicated a year ago, celebrated a
milestone today. For the first time since its destruction by the Jordanian Arab
Legion in May 1948, the Ashkenazi synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem’s
Jewish Quarter hosted a wedding ceremony as an operational house of worship.
Avraham Pashnov and Rachel-Orli Journo were married in the Hurva’s courtyard.
During the ceremony, Pashnov said he and his wife are “only a tiny chain link
that brings together the past and the future.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
In an interview published today by the Wall Street Journal, Defense Minister
Ehud Barak said that Israel was considering asking the United States for an
additional $20 billion in aid due to the increased volatility in the Middle
East.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5772): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Under the leadership of Rabbi Pinchas Ciment, Chabad Lubavitch of Arkansas is
scheduled to sponsor the Royal Purim Feast With The Stars in Little Rock, AR.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: “Grace Paley: Collected Shorts” is
scheduled to be shown at the Farthest North Jewish Film Festival in Fairbanks,
Alaska.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Professors Jerome Copulsky and Alison
Peterman are scheduled to lead “Scripture and Spinoza,” a backstage discussion
following tonight’s performance of “New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch
De Spinoza.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2012:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black;">A Palestinian
stabbed an IDF soldier in the village of Yata in the southern Hebron Hills
today. The soldier returned fire, injuring the attacker and killing another
Palestinian with him. The two Palestinians that were shot were both teenagers.
The soldier was moderately wounded and evacuated to Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital
in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=261037"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=261037</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Maj.-Gen. Nitzan Alon was
appointed head of the Central Command in place of Maj.-Gen. Avi Mizrahi. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: As Israel struggles with how
to keep Iran from going nuclear “Six world powers called on Iran today to let
international inspectors visit a military site where the UN nuclear watchdog
says development work relevant to nuclear weapons may have taken place.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soloists and Ensembles of the Jerusalem
Conservatory of Music and Dance are scheduled to perform at the Eden-Tamir
Music Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2013:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black;">Eva Erben who
as a young girl “was forced by the Nazis to leave her home in Prague and join
one of the transports to the Theresienstadt Ghetto” is scheduled to speak at
the Wiener Library on “Escape Story: Surviving the Holocaust as a Young Girl.”<br />
2013: The Maccabeats are scheduled to perform at Beth Jacob Congregation in
Beverly Hills, CA. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Nir Areli’s, “Inframan” in
which he created a series of portraits using an infrared technique is scheduled
to have its final showing at the Daniel Cooney Gallery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: In London the Girls in
Trouble duo (poet and multi-instrumentalist Alicia Jo Rabins, accompanied by
bassist Aaron Hartman) are scheduled to perform songs from their two albums;
Girls in Trouble and Half You Half Me. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: “Natan” and “When Jews Were
Funny” are scheduled to be shown at the Washington Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: “The Jewish Cardinal” is
scheduled to be shown at the Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: “The Klos-C, which was
captured with what the IDF says is a cargo of Iranian arms in its hold” and
“its Israeli Navy escort entered the port of Eilat this afternoon after a
voyage of three-and-a-half days following Israel’s interception of the ship off
the coast of Sudan earlier this week.” (As reported by Ilan Ben Zion)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: “A Little String Music”
featuring performances of Israeli and klezmer music by Ruth Navarre is
scheduled to take place this evening at “LIMMUD” New Orleans.\<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(6<sup>th</sup> of Adar II,
5774): Ninety-three year old Holocaust survivor Leo Bretholz passed away
today.(As reported by Paul Vitello)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/world/europe/leo-bretholz-93-dies-escaped-train-to-auschwitz.html?hpw&rref=obituaries"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/world/europe/leo-bretholz-93-dies-escaped-train-to-auschwitz.html?hpw&rref=obituaries</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015(17th of Adar, 5775): Fifty-nine-year-old
Sam Simon, the creative of “The Simpsons” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/arts/television/sam-simon-who-helped-shape-the-simpsons-dies-at-59.html?_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/arts/television/sam-simon-who-helped-shape-the-simpsons-dies-at-59.html?_r=0</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: The New York Times features
reviews of books by and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including <u>To
Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science</u> by Steven Weinberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: The Jewish Museum of Florida
is scheduled to mark the 30<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the screening of Shoah
by showing Part 3 of the famed documentary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: The Jewish Community Center
of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host “Have We Overcome?” which will
include a screening of a film depicting the famous 1960 Woolworth’s sit-in.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: In Iowa City, Rabbi Avremel
and Chaya Blesofsky are scheduled to host the Upsherin of their son Berel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: IPTV presents “The Jewish
Journey: America.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: “Residents of the Bat Ayin
settlement in the Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem accused the IDF and police of
“provoking” a violent altercation with local youth today that ended with a
soldier firing in the air to ward off the demonstrators” after police entered
the settlement “to arrest two residents suspected of ‘nationalist crimes.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: “A composition from
Estonian-born composer Jonas Tarm entitled ‘March to Oblivion’ which was set be
performed today at Carnegie Hall was pulled at the last minute because it
“contained a 45-second musical quotation from ‘Horst-Wessel-Lied’ – the Nazi
anthem. (As reported by Lazar Berman)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: The Jewish Genealogical
Society of Broward County is scheduled to host a “presentation from Jewish
Records Indexing-Poland” that “will deal with Jewish records and research for
two major areas of Poland.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: The Pew Research published
“Israel’s Religiously Divided Society” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.pewforum.org/2016/03/08/israels-religiously-divided-society/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.pewforum.org/2016/03/08/israels-religiously-divided-society/</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: In “Deep Rifts Among Israeli
Jews Are Found in Religion Survey” published today Isabel Kershner described a
House of Israel that has many rooms.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/world/middleeast/study-israel-jews-pew-research.html?hpw&rref=world&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/world/middleeast/study-israel-jews-pew-research.html?hpw&rref=world&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: “A Nazi Legacy” is scheduled
to be shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival in Houston, TX.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: Dr. Donneil Hartman,
President of the Shalom Hartman Institute is scheduled to lead the final
lecture of six session series at the Skirball Center that “focuses on the
personal and social mores behind the passionate opinions surrounding the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: In London, the Pears
Institute for the Study of Antisemitism is scheduled to host a lecture by
Professor Sander Gilman of University on “Circumcision: An Index of Difference
and/or the Health Exception?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: Rabbi Yigal Levinstein “who
works together with Rabbi Eli Sadan at the Bnei David pre-army program told
several hundred graduates of another pre-army that IDF service had ‘driven our
girls crazy’” because they are recruited into “the army where they enter as
Jews but” are not “Jews by the time they leave.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: In “Lunch with Lisa Jackson
Pulver: Aboriginal health 80 years behind rest of Australia” published today,
Mark Dapin described his interview with “Western Sydney University
pro-vice-chancellor Lisa Jackson Pulver AM, a typical Aboriginal Jew who
escaped a horrifically violent home life to achieve a PhD in medicine and go on
to become a Group Captain in the Royal Australian Air Force and the first
female president of an Orthodox synagogue in Australia.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: In Chicago, Dr. Richard A. Chaifetz and
E. Scott Santi are scheduled to be honored at tonight’s 2017 Humanitarian
Awards Dinner sponsored by the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is
scheduled to host “Pizza and Movie Night”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is
scheduled to host “Streit’s Matzo Mania” - an evening with Streit scion,
cookbook author Michele Heilbrun and chef/cookbook author David Kirschner
who will provide a crash course on matzo history, complete with clips from a
fascinating Streit’s documentary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: “Nora’s Will” is scheduled to be shown at
the 21<sup>st</sup> NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: In honor of International Women’s Day,
the National Library of Israel is scheduled to host special “Women’s Day tours”
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: Today, on International Women’s Day, Yad
Vashem launched to on-line female focused exhibits. (As reported by Tracy
Frydberg)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/on-international-womens-day-yad-vashem-launches-two-female-focused-exhibits/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=d7b33715ef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-d7b33715ef-53921877"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.timesofisrael.com/on-international-womens-day-yad-vashem-launches-two-female-focused-exhibits/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=d7b33715ef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-d7b33715ef-53921877</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: “Israeli air defense commander Brigadier
General Tzivka Haimovitch” and Lieutenant General Richard Clark said today that
“thousands of America and Israeli soldiers are preparing for the real
possibility that they will have to fight ‘shoulder to shoulder’ against a
massive ballistic attack on the State of Israel.” (As reported Judah Ari Gross)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: Oxford University Jewish Society is
scheduled to host the “Jewniversity Challenge.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: “Itzhak” by Alison Chernick is scheduled
to open in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar II, 5779): Rosh
Chodesh Adar II meaning that Purim is on its way and Pesach is getting just a
little closer. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: Today, Women of the Wall celebrated its
30<sup>th</sup> anniversary with a special anniversary prayer service which
several prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbis sought to disrupt by calling for their
student to demonstrate at the Kotel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In Arlington, VA, Congregation Etz Hayim
is scheduled to host its “2<sup>nd</sup> Friday Night Musical Shabbat.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In San Leandro, CA, Temple Beth Sholom is
scheduled to host “Shanghai Angel” during which “Soprano Heather Klein sings
the story of her grandmother fleeing Nazi-occupied Austria for China and then
U.S. With pianist Joshua Horovitz.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The Fattal Rock Festival is scheduled to
continue for a second day in Eilat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: San Jose State University is scheduled to
host “A Day to Honor and Study Jewish Military Service” which includes the
opening of the exhibit “Uncommon Valor: Jewish-American Medal of Honor Heroes,”
the “2020 Jewish Studies Levinson Memorial Lecture: “American Jews and Military
Service” by Judge Quentin Kopp, the 2020 Burdick Military History Symposium:
Jewish Military History, moderated by Dr. Jonathan Roth, Professor of History,
San Jose State University, "Zionists in the Red Army during the Russian Civil
War" by Ignat Ayzenberg, Coordinator of Jewish Studies, San Jose State
University, “The Boys of Camp Ritchie: From refugees to instruments of justice”
by Lieutenant-Colonel Erik Brun, California State Guard Military Museum Command"
and Jewish Military Chaplains: An American Tale"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Dr. Ronit Stahl, Assistant Professor,
Department of History, U.C. Berkeley <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2020: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
New York Times</i> features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including <u>Strung Out:</u></span><u> </u><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">One Last Hit and Other
Lies That Nearly Killed Me<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A Memoir</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> by Erin Khar of New York City, who is
developing a spiritual practice, and for whom “ultimately converting to Judaism,
has been pivotal to her recovery from heroin addiction.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: In response to a coronavirus outbreak
that has impacted the family of Lawrence Garbuz and Rabbi Reuven Fink Young
members Israel of New Rochelle “who attended a bar mitzvah and funeral in late
February have been asked to self-quarantine until at least” through today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: The JCC Chicago Film Festival is
scheduled to host the mid-west premiere of “Chichinette: How I Accidentally
Became a Spy” which tells “the untold story of Marthe Cohn, a 98-year-old
French-Jewish woman who was a spy in Nazi Germany in WWII.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: The East Bay International Jewish Film
Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “The Best of Enemies” and
“Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: Two days after having cancelled flights
to “San Francisco and a number of European cities amid a global drop in travel
over fears about the new coronavirus,” today, El Al “was also expected to
cancel flights to Munich, Budapest, Amsterdam, Brussels, Bucharest, Vienna and
Marseille.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: “Due to the current coronavirus outbreak
and restrictions on travel, Isaac Herzog will not be traveling to Boston for today’s
Birnbaum Lecture.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: “The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth
County, NJ is scheduled to host a screening of “The Life and Times of Hank
Greenberg.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: The Israeli Film Festival of Philadelphia
is scheduled to host a screening of “The Art of Waiting.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: This evening, in New Orleans, Tulane
University is scheduled to host a lecture organized under the leadership of
Brian Horowitz, the Sizeler Family of the Jewish Studies Department on “The
Frankist Movement in 18th Century Poland: What Happened to This Jewish
Messianic Group?” by Professor Pawel Maciejko, of Johns Hopkins University.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: East Bay International Jewish Film
Festival is scheduled to present a screening of “Six Minutes To Midnight,” a thriller
about a murder at a finishing school for the daughters of high-ranking Nazis,
starring Judi Dench as the headmistress.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: The Park Synagogue is scheduled to host Rediscovering
the Music of the Italian Jewish Ghettos” during which Jeannette Sorrell,
Artistic Director of Apollo’s Fire, Cleveland premier baroque orchestra, and
Howard Bender, their Executive Director, in an interview will talk about
Apollo’s Fire and their next concert, “Tapestry: The Jewish Ghettos of Baroque
Italy.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: YIVO is scheduled to present “Leaving
Behind the Foyen-Vinkl or How Women Functioned in the Male World of Yiddish
Theatre.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://programs.cjh.org/tags/livestreams"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://programs.cjh.org/tags/livestreams</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: Shalom Bayit and JCC East Bay are
scheduled to “present a workshop for International Women’s Day about domestic
abuse and the Jewish community.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2021: </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Israel's economy
is scheduled to reopen its doors for a second day as the country entered its
final phase of lifting coronavirus lockdown restrictions, some of them in place
since September</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
on the morning after it had been reported Israel’s contagion has risen to 4.5%
-- “the highest such figure in days.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: Volodymyr Zelensky, the Jewish president
of Ukraine addressed the British Parliament by telelink, echoing Winston
Churchill and quoting William Shakespeare: “The question for us is, ‘To be or
not to be.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: President Isaac Herzog of Israel is
scheduled to visit to visit the President of Turkey today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: All Jewish Theatre is scheduled to a
“Board Nosh” with Leah Halmos and Ari Weinberg, moderated by Yehda Jai Husband
which will provide “a chance for the AJT community to get to know the board
members better.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar,5783): Shushan
Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: Temple Emmanuel’s Rabbi Oksana Chapman is
scheduled to facilitate an online Zoom course on Jewish identity, literacy, and
values based on Rabbi Joseph Telushkin’s writings and the course participants’
lived experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: In honor of International Women’s
Day,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Weizmann National Museum of
American Jewish History is scheduled to host the Philadelphia Jewish Film and
Media’s screening of Valeria is Getting Married.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: In “Ghosts in the Gallery: Historic
Synagogues and American Jewish Religion,” Prof. Gross is scheduled to discuss
how historic synagogues encourage Jewish and non-Jewish visitors to feel
nostalgia for Eastern European Jewish immigration histories, creating religious
communities that include Jews, non-Jews, and ghostly ancestors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: Dr. Richard Kogan is scheduled to return
to Streicker Center “to shine his unique musical and psychiatric spotlight on
Leonard Bernstein — to explore his exuberance, his need for adulation, his deep
loneliness and to perform some of the composer’s beloved favorites, including
“Somewhere,” “Maria” and “America.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: Laureen Lipsky, the CEO and founder of
Taking Back the Narrative is scheduled to deliver the last lecture on “Israel
Explained: Through the Lens of History.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: In Waterloo, IA, Rabbi Kushner is
scheduled to read the Megillah at a Purim Celebration at Sons of Jacob.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: In Louisiana, Chabad Metairie is
scheduled to a “Shabbaton featuring lecturer Rabbi Abba and Chani Perlmutter.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As part of the Young Artists in Concert
series, Kan Kol Hamusika is scheduled to broadcast live Singers of
"Meitar" Opera Studio of the Israel Opera. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: Tulane University is scheduled to host
“the investiture of Ilana M. Horowitz, PhD, as the inaugural hold of the
Fields-Ryant Chair in Contemporary Jewish Life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: JWI’s Deborah Rosenbloom is scheduled to
be honored at the 2024 International Law Conference on the Status of Women,
hosted by the New York City Bar Association today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
8th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 154 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">322 BCE: Aristotle
passed away. “Aristotle was almost universally held in esteem by the Jews; at
one time for his intelligence and mental power, at another as a penitent
sinner. The following is Maimonides' verdict concerning him: "The words of
Plato, Aristotle's teacher, are obscure and figurative: they are superfluous to
the man of intelligence, inasmuch as Aristotle supplanted all his predecessors.
The thorough understanding of Aristotle is the highest achievement to which man
can attain, with the sole exception of the understanding of the Prophets."
Shem-Ṭob ben Isaac of Tortosa (1261) styles Aristotle "the master of all
philosophers." Elijah b. Eliezer of Candia, who edited the
"Logic" about the end of the fourteenth century, calls Aristotle "the
divine," because, having been endowed by nature with a sacredly superior
intellect, he could understand of himself what others could receive only from
the instruction of their teachers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2019/03/7-march-aristotle.html</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">161: Roman
emperor Antoninus Pius passed away. He was the handpicked successor
of Hadrian. Antonious undid the anti-Jewish decrees of his
predecessor and when he died the Jewish people lost one of the few friends they
ever had sitting on the throne in Rome.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">161: Marcus
Aurelius and Lucius Verus are named co-Emperors of the Roman Empire following
the death of Antonious Pius. Marcus Aurilius had little
understanding or appreciation of the Jewish people. He described
them as “stinking and tumultuous” when he traveled through Judea. He reportedly
said that he preferred the company of Germanic barbarians to that of Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">321:
Constantine I, the first Christian Roman Emperor decreed that the dies Solis
Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire. Thus, would
begin the conflict between the Christian Sunday and the Jewish
Saturday. Of course, the commandment says to hallow the 7<sup>th</sup> day
and Sunday is the first day of the week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">974: John
of Gorze, the monk and diplomat also known as John of Lorraine, the
representative of Otto I who so was so impressed with Hasdai ibn Shaprut when
the latter was negotiating on behalf of Caliph Abd-ar-Rahman III that he </span><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">said that he had "never seen a man of such subtle
intellect as the Jew Hasdeu" passed away today.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1190(20<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 4950): During the Lenten Fair, Crusaders filled “with passion for
crusade” and jealousy over the supposed wealth of the Jews, slaughtered them at
Stamford, England.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1236(21st
of Adar, 4996): The Jews of Narbonne began celebrating the Purim of Narbonne
after Don Aymeric, the governor, intervened to protect the Jews from marauding
Christians who had already carried off the library of Reb Meir ben Isaac
as they made their riotous way through the Jewish quarter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1274:
Catholic theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas passed away. While no friend
of the Jews, Aquinas’ view of Jews was a little better than the average one
held by ecclesiastical and temporal leaders of his time. He opposed
conversions at the point of the sword. He opposed the murder of
Jews. He felt they should be allowed to live so they could serve as
eternal witnesses to “the truth of Christianity.” The views of this
influential Catholic theologian are best summed up in a letter to a widow who
had inherited a duchy that included what is now Belgium and the
Netherlands. “It is true, as the laws declare, that in consequence
of their sin (rejecting Jesus) Jews were destined to perpetual servitude, so
that sovereigns of state may treat Jewish goods as their own property, save for
the sole proviso that they do not deprive them of that is necessary to sustain
life.” In other words, Jews could live, but they could only live a
miserable life. Aquinas also made it respectable for Catholic nobles
to borrow from Jews and then not repay their debts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1291:
Arghun Khan aka Argon, a devote Buddhist and “the fourth ruler of Mongol
empire’s Ilkhanate” who “was friendly with Jews and Christians” in this
predominately Moslem part of the world and whose “chief counselor was a Jew,
Sa'ad al-Daulah, a physician of Baghdad” passed away today touching off a
violent attack by Moslems on the Jews of Baghdad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1361(30th
of Adar): Rabbi Simeon ben Zemah Duran, author of Sefer ha-Rashbaz passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1612 OS (13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5372): Mordecai ben Avraham Yoffe, the son of Abraham ben Joseph
passed away at Prague. Born in 1530, he was the Rosh Yeshiva in
Prague and author of “<u>Levush Malkhut</u>, a ten-volume codification of
Jewish law that particularly stressed the customs of the Jews of Eastern
Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0011_0_09950.html</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112323/jewish/Rabbi-Mordechai-Yoffe-The-Levush.htm</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1693:
Birthdate of Carlo della Torre di Rezzonico, who as Pope Clement XIII would
rule that there was no substance to the claim that Jews used blood in the
preparation of their unleavened bread. Among other things he intervened with
the Polish church and nobles and ordered the protection of Jacob Zelig, the
Jewish spokesperson that the Polish Jews had sent to Rome to plead their case.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1738:
Seckel and Levi Moses Ulf, the owner of a ribbon factory that in 1720 “was
required by the Crown Prince Frederick to supply all the royal regiments with
the necessary braid” were married today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1748:
Birthdate of William V, Prince of Orange-Nassau who “donated a considerable sum
for a new menorah” when he stayed with Benjamin Cohen in Amersfort and whose
wife gave the same community a curtain for the congregation’s Holy Ark.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1754(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5514): Ta’anit Esther and erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1788: The
Jews of the Netherlands celebrated the birthday of William V as holiday as a
sign of the support for the Prince of Orange.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1789: Today, “the authorized Superintendents of the Poor for
the synagogues of the Triple Congregation issued an appeal, in which they asked
for “generous gifts” for the poor on the occasion of the Purim holiday.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://jewish-history-online.net/source/jgo:source-136</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1789:
Birthdate of Michel Martin Drolling the French painter who counted among his
student the Alsatian Jew, Benjamin Ulmann whose works include “Sylla and Manus”
which hangs in the Luxembourg Palace.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1792(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5551): Ta’anit Esther and erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1793: In
“Phalsbourg, France Lorraine, Barcuh Gougenheim, the “son of Jacob Wolff
Guggenheim and Sara Guggenheim” and his wife Rosel Rosette Rosele Goughenheim
gave birth to Isaac Gougenheim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1793: In
Wallerstein, Germany, Regina Wassermann and Loew Isaac Weil gave birth to Gel
Weil, the wife of Isaac Jacob Bamberger whom she married in 1816 and the mother
of Sara, Elkan, David, Aaron and Moses Bamberger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1793: Fanny
Etting, the York, PA born daughter of Elijah Etting married Robert Taylor
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1794: Mrs.
Emanuel Abrahams, the wife of Emanuel Abrahams, was buried in Charleston, SC
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799: (30th
of Adar I, 5559): Rosh Chodesh Adar II.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799: As Napoleon
Bonaparte fought his way across Palestine, his army defeated “a 12,000-strong
mixed force of Al Jazzar and the Mamluks” and captured the port city of Jaffa.
In one of the first examples of what would become a recurring theme, westerners
used modern technology to defeat a Muslim army. In this case,
Napoleon use of bombardments from his heavy artillery was the key to
victory. Following the victory, the French commander “set out to try
and gain political advantages from his military achievements. Letters and
proclamations were directed at the Sultan, the various communities of Palestine
and Syria and their leaders, Akhmad Jasar, the pasha of Acre and
commander-in-chief (seraskir) of the Ottoman forces at that
time. All these aimed at paving the way for the complete occupation
of the Holy Land by negotiation or by making alliances and contacts to ease
further military conquest. Among these was the contact with the Jewish
communities in Palestine and Syria, the first de facto attention to the Jews as
a potential factor in international policy in modern times.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799: The
Royal Institution, an organization devoted to scientific education and research
is founded in London. The Royal Institution today is led by director
Baroness Susan Greenfield, renowned scientist and the daughter of Jewish
parents.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1801: In
Huerben, Germany, Rebeka Heimann and Chaim Guggenheimer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1802(3rd of
Adar II): Rabbi Noah Chaim Zevi Berlin, author of Azei Arazim, passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1803(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5563): Fast of Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1803: Fifty-year-old
Naphtali ben Benjamin was buried today at the “Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1807: On
the day before “the Great Sanhedrin presented its responses and formally ended
its proceedings, Rabbi Sinzheim delivered a short summary of its conclusions
and proclaimed them as nothing less than a ‘social pact’ between ‘the People of
God and the People of France.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1809:
Birthdate of Meïr Leibush ben Yehiel Michel Weiser the Russian rabbi known by
the acronym Malbim the opponent of Reform whose literary works included a
commentary on “Esther” published in 1845.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1811(11<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5571): Ta’anit Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1815: Just
south of Grenoble, Marshall Ney turned his back on King Louis XVIII and
embraced Napoleon which was a major step on his attempt to return to power
which might have nullified those reactionary forces that would re- impose the
restrictions of the ancient on the Jews of Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1815: In
London, Alice and Joseph Cashmore gave birth to Michael Cashmore, the Sydney,
Australia businessman who “was the first Jewish settler of Melbourne where
he owned a haberdashery business and raised a family with his wife
“Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Solomon.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1818:
Birthdate of German born historian, author and Rabbi David Cassel, the brother
of Selig Cassel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1818: In
Kassel, Germany Mayer Japhet and Deborah Weinberg gave birth to Israel Meyer
Japhet who “was choir director at the Realschule (Adass Jeschurun) in Frankfurt
am Main under Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1819:
Today’s minutes of The Nidhe Israel Synagogue in Bridgetown, Barbados “record a
request from Philadelphia for assistance in building a synagogue” for which
“five hundred dollars was granted.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1822(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5582): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1822:
Turkish soldiers killed 60 Jews in Bucharest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1824: <i>Il
crociato in Egitto</i> (The Crusade in Egypt), an opera in two acts by
Jewish composer Giacomo Meyerbeer, premiered at La Fenice theatre in Venice,
Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1825: Birthdate
of Alfred Edersheim, English biblical scholar. Edersheim converted to
Christianity before the age of 20. He was the author of <u>The
Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah</u> which is considered by many
Christians to be a classic study on this topic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1826: In
Stamford Hill, London, England, Ellen Levy and Abraham Solomon gave birth to
Catherine Solomon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1826:
Birthday of Sara Adler who after her marriage became Sara Adler Wolf.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1826:
Birthdate of Samuel Louis, the husband of Ernestine Anspach Louis with whom he
had four children – Bertha, Ray, Augusta and Simon – before passing away in
Atlantic City<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1828: One
day after he had passed away 52-year-old Nathan Nathan was buried today at the
“Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1828(21<sup>st</sup> of
Adar, 5588): Noted Talmudist Jacob Lazarus Riesser, the father of Gabriel
Riesser and “the son-in-law by Raphael b. Jekuthiel Süsskind ha-Kohen, the
incumbent of the rabbinate of Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbeck” passed away today in
Hamburg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1828: In
London, Ellen Alice Jacobs and Gabriel Simmons gave birth to Henry Simmons who
married Hannah Harris in 1864 in Dublin, Ireland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1829: One
day after she had passed away, 30-year-old Betsey Micholls, “the youngest
daughter of Simon and Rosey Hyam” and the wife of Meir Micholls was buried
today at the “Colby Gate Jewish Burial Ground” a Great Yarmouth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1830: The
body of Mordecai Benet, the Moravian rabbi who had passed away in 1829 while
“taking a cure in Carlsbad,” was exhumed from “the cemetery in Lichtenstadt,
near Carlsbad and reburied in the Nikolsburg Cemetery” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1833(16<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5593): Sixty-one-year-old Rahel Antonie Friederike (née Levin) the
German author and hostess to the leading intellectuals of her time who had an
asteroid named in her honor and who was the subject of Hannah Arendt’s 1958
biography Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1836: In
New York, Hyman Levy Seixas, the New York born son of Benjamin Mendes Seixas
and Zipporah Mendes Seixas, and his wife Abigail Nunez Seixas gave birth to
Isaac Cardozo Seixas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1837:
Birthdate of Berlin born “landscape and genre painter” Felix Possart. (Editor’s
note: to appreciate the work of this master click on the following link)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=felix+possart+&sca_esv=b9f5dc3cd9c9d28f&ei=2-noZbvWFu2q0PEP_Kq68AQ&ved=0ahUKEwj7r_7S0-CEAxVtFTQIHXyVDk4Q4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=felix+possart+&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiDmZlbGl4IHBvc3NhcnQgMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMgYQABgWGB5I_yJQzRFYwBxwAXgAkAEAmAFqoAGOBaoBAzUuMrgBA8gBAPgBAZgCB6AC0QTCAgcQABgeGLADwgILEAAYgAQYigUYhgOYAwCIBgGQBgGSBwM1LjKgB7cQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#ip=1"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.google.com/search?q=felix+possart+&sca_esv=b9f5dc3cd9c9d28f&ei=2-noZbvWFu2q0PEP_Kq68AQ&ved=0ahUKEwj7r_7S0-CEAxVtFTQIHXyVDk4Q4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=felix+possart+&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiDmZlbGl4IHBvc3NhcnQgMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMgYQABgWGB5I_yJQzRFYwBxwAXgAkAEAmAFqoAGOBaoBAzUuMrgBA8gBAPgBAZgCB6AC0QTCAgcQABgeGLADwgILEAAYgAQYigUYhgOYAwCIBgGQBgGSBwM1LjKgB7cQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#ip=1</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12313-possart-felix"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12313-possart-felix</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1837: In
Germany, Fanny and Samuel Lowenburg gave birth to wholesale grocer and mayor of
Natchez, Mississippi Isaac Lowenburg who served in the Union Army and who was
twice married – to Ophelia Lowenburg and Molice Lowenburg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1839: In
Kassel, Meyer Bär (Moritz) Mond and Henrietta Levinsohn gave birth Dr. Ludwig
Mond a German-born British chemist and industrialist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5601): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1844:
Birthdate of French historian Gabriel Monod who in 1897 stated in a letter
published by <i>Le Temps</i> “his conviction that Dreyfus was
innocent and demanded that his case be reviewed, denying that it would be an
insult to the army: ‘There is no shame in an error that is consciously
committed and consciously rectified.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847: In
Stuttgart, Germany, “Moriz Eichberg, Oberantor of Wurtemberg and Lenore
Seligsberg gave birth to Julie Rosewald the wife of Jacob Rosewald who for “ten
years was the solo soprano at Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco” where she sang
and recited “the parts of the service usually sung and recited by the Cantor
and served as the Professor of Vocal Music at Mills College<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1849: The
Emperor Franz Joseph “promulgated his own constitution which granted equal
civic and political rights to all citizens, regardless of religious confession”
as a result of which “the Jews were emancipated by imperial fiat and not by the
popularly elected Reichstag.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1849: One
day after he had passed away, Barnet Raphael, the husband of Leah Abraham and
the father of Abraham Raphael was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish
Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851: A
poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia was
discontinued.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1854:
Michael Nathan married Sarah Mitchel today at the Great Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1854: In
California, Samuel and Ernestine Anspach Louis married Augusta Louis Ernst, the
husband of Louis M. Ernst and the mother of Milton and Irving Ernst.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1856: A
letter from the Hahambashi discusses "reforms" to institute in the
Jewish community. The Judeo-Spanish language is discussed, "As the
language taught by the Jews of the Levant is not, properly speaking, a
language, and cannot be useful to the youth, we order the creation of free
schools for the poor where Turkish, Greek, French, and Italian will be
taught."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1857: In
Berlin, attorney Siegfried Borchardt and his wife Helen gave birth to painter
Felix Richard Siegfried Borchardt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.google.com/search?q=felix+borchardt&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=iOqgkV_xaUsfwM%253A%252Cp_qPVxsCtBKGvM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kTlm09_P_oD4HKi40MAj6U3zmrmOQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjTl-_Wle_gAhUM2oMKHQ8_ArcQ9QEwAHoECAUQBA#imgrc=iOqgkV_xaUsfwM</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.google.com/search?q=felix+borchardt&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=iOqgkV_xaUsfwM%253A%252Cp_qPVxsCtBKGvM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kTlm09_P_oD4HKi40MAj6U3zmrmOQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjTl-_Wle_gAhUM2oMKHQ8_ArcQ9QEwAHoECAUQBA#imgrc=iOqgkV_xaUsfwM</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1857:
Birthdate of Julius Wagner-Jauregg, the Austrian born physician and Nobel Prize
Winner. Apparently, he saw no conflict between the fact that he had
been a student of Salomon Stircker, the Jewish pathologist and his support of
the Nazis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860:
Birthdate of Austrian physicist Adler Gottlier who earned a doctorate from the
University of Vienna in 1882 and developed an expertise in the fields of
“electricity and magnetism.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5620): Ta’anit Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5620): Fifty-eight-year-old Italian poet and book collector Joseph
Almanzi passed away today in Trieste.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863:
It was reported today that almost 3,000 Jews attended the second grand ball
hosted by Purim <br />
Association in New York members included Myer S. Isaacs, Chairman; Moses H.
Moses, Adolph L. Sanger, A. Henry Schutz, Judah H. Solomon, Herman H.
Stettheimer, Joseph A. Levy, Louis G. Schiffer, Theodore Hellman, Solomon Weill
Lionel Davies, Jacob S. Isaacs, Geo. Levy, Marcus Moses, Nathan Solomon, Emile
Jacobi, Alex. Meyer and “one lady was dressed in the height of fashion, in
garments made entirely of Frank Leslie's paper, and was decidedly a feature of
the night, as were "Joan of Arc," "Old Aunt Dinah,"
"Mehitabel Ann," "Old Mother Goose,"
"Pocahontas," "Anne Boleyn" and the "Dame aux Camelias"
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863:
“The Purim Ball. A Jewish Festival – A Great Success” published today reported
that “No one of the ancient Hebraic celebrities holds a more absolute sway in
the affections of the Jews of this day than Esther, the beautiful and pious
spouse of Ahasuerus. In commemoration of the signal service rendered by that
estimable lady to her nation, on the occasion of the timely elevation of Haman,
the envious enemy of her uncle Mordecai, whose daily place of rest was in the
neighborhood of the King's gate, the Jewish people yearly observe the Feast of
Purim. In this City, the first grand ball of the Purim Association was given
last year, with marked success, and the second was given on Thursday night, at
the Academy of Music. The building was very elegantly and tastefully decorated
and most brilliantly illuminated, the floor was laid for dancing, and the usual
magnificence of the Academy incredibly enhanced.” [Please note, this article
which showed a certain comprehension and approval for this minor Jewish holiday
appeared in a United States newspaper at a time when Jews comprised
approximately 1% of the Jewish population.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863:
Philip Lang completed his service with Company I of the 37<sup>th</sup> Regiment
which had begun on June 20, 1861.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865:
Birthdate of Bertha Levy Bodenheimer, the wife of Emanuel Mahne Bodenheimer and
the daughter-in-law of Jacob Bodenheimer was believed to be the first Jewish
settle in the Shreveport area<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866(20th
of Adar, 5626): Birthdate of Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein who was
Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Knesseth Yisrael in Slabodka, Lithuania and is
recognized as having been one of the leading Talmudists of the twentieth
century.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5628): Parashat Tetzaveh; Erev Purim observed two days after the
Senate had begun the impeachment hearings designed to removed President Andrew
Johnson from office.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869:
Birthdate of Ernst Julius Cohen “a Dutch chemist known for his work on the
allotropy of metals” who was gassed by the Nazis at Auschwitz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5631): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871:
Receptions celebrating Purim were held at numerous New York Jewish institutions
including the Asylum for the Aged and Infirm, the Orphans Home and the
Industrial Home on west 17<sup>th</sup> Street.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871: Henry
Cardoza and Mary Levi were married this morning by Justice Buckley in
Brooklyn’s Second District Police Court. Cardoza opted for a civil
ceremony because he could not afford a rabbi.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872(27th
of Adar I, 5632): Jekuthiel Süsskind (Süssel) Rapoport, a leader of the Russian
Jewish community passed away today. Born in 1802, he was the son of
Rabbi Chaim ha-Koen and the great-grandson of Rabbi Chaim ha-Koen Rapoport. He
and his brother Jacob, rabbi of Ostrog, published their father's work
"Mayim Ḥayyim"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5734): Fast of Esther; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5734): Eighty-three-year-old Irma Shloss Mannheimer, the daughter of Max
and Rose Sheuermann Sholss, the wife of Eugene Mannheimer whom she had marred
in 1917 passed away today after which she was buried at the Emanuel Cemetery in
Des Moines, IA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875(30<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5635): Rosh Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875: In
Ciboure, France, Marie Delouart and Pierre-Joseph Ravel gave birth to composer
Maurice Ravel, who most famous work may be “Bolero” and whom the JTA described
as being a “Jewish composer” even though both of his parents were Roman
Catholics.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jta.org/1937/12/29/archive/maurice-ravel-noted-composer-dead</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://orelfoundation.org/journal/journalArticle/the_fate_of_professional_french_jewish_musicians_under_the_vichy_regime</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876:
Attendance at tonight’s fancy dress ball sponsored by the Purim Association is
expected to be greater than at such past events. The Association has
increased its membership, which should me more revelers will be dining and
dancing at Delmonico’s.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876: “Ben
Israel or Under the Curse,” a 4-hour long drama about the travails of a Jewish
patriarch named Ben Israel, his granddaughter Rachel and her suitors was
described in a review published today as being “destitute of originality,
coherence and interest.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: In
Warsaw, Chaskel and Gittel Gash gave birth to “one of the best-known bean and
rice importers” in the United States Abraham Gash who in 1898 came to the
United States where “he went into the dry goods business in New York under the
Name of A. Gash and Company, married Ida Cooper with whom he had three children
– Selma, Chester and Freda – and supports several institutions including “the
Chesed Shel Emes an Gmiloth Chesed of New York” and “the Zion Hospital at
Bensonshurst.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: In
Minsk, Sarah Feldman and Abe Lichtman gave birth to Samuel Lichtman who is not
to be confused with Buffalo businessman Samuel Lichtman, the husband of Etta
Altman and the father of Jacob and Victor Lichtman who became partners in S.
Lichtman and Sons a successful company “devoted to the re-sale of paper and
woolen rags<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878:
Joseph Seligman was elected as one of the vice presidents of the newly formed
American Pig Lead Association at a meeting of the leading lead miners and
dealers held at St. Louis, MO.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878:
Reverend George H. Hepworth, a Unitarian Minister will deliver a lecture
entitled “Our American Homes” to the Young Men’s Hebrew Association who are
meeting at Lyric Hall in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879: In
New York’s Court of General Session, Judge Henry A. Gildersleeve heard evidence
before rendering a decision on the application of the Commissioners of
Charities and Correction to force Leopold, Felix and Alfred Salomon to pay six
dollars a week in support of their 70-year-old widowed mother, Fanny
Salomon. The brother’s contested the request saying that she had
rejected their offers to live with them and that she had been able to pay for a
trip to France which would indicate she was not destitute.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879:
Birthdate movie director and muralist Hugo Ballin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://thejewniverse.com/2014/the-great-jewish-muralist-of-los-angeles/</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879: In
Cleveland, OH, Julius and Bertha (Federman) Benesch gave birth to Harvard
trained attorney Alfred A. Benesch, a partner in the Cleveland law firm of
Herrick, Hopkins, Stockwell and Benesch, the husband of Helen Newman and a
leader in the Jewish community who served as the treasurer of the Cleveland
Jewish Orphan Home, a trustee of the National Jewish Hospital in Denver and a
member of Tifereth Israel while authoring several articles including “The Jew
at Harvard.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://case.edu/ech/articles/b/benesch-alfred-abraham</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880:
Nineteen-year-old Hedwig Goldschmidt married Herman Hirsch Cramer, the son of
Jacob Cramer and Caroline Furth today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880: A
service was held to this afternoon at Temple Emanu-El to honor the memory of
the late Isaac Adophe Creimieux, the Frenchman who had served as President of
the Universal Israelite Alliance. When word reached New York that the 84-year-old
philanthropist and statesman had passed away, the Board of Delegates on Civil
and Religious Rights of the Union of American Hebrew congregations recommended
a city-wide service. This afternoon’s service was a collaborative
effort of 11 congregations under the leadership of Louis May.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880:
Former U.S. Secretary of State Elihu B. Washburne was the featured speaker at
today’s memorial service in Chicago held at Temple Sinai to honor the memory of
the late Adolphe Cremieux.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883: Herzl
withdraws from the Akademische Burschenschaft Albia. ("<i>Ich sagte den
edlen jungen Leuten Lebewohl und fing nun an, mich ernstlich an die Arbeit zu
setzen."</i> - "I said farewell to my noble young colleagues and
sat down seriously to my work.")<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883:
Birthdate of Chicago native Harry Salinger, the Jenner Medical College trained
physician who pursued a career a banking which led him to be Vice President of
the First National Bank of Chicago who married Ciel Gruneweald after the death
of his first wife Rae Davis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884:
Birthdate of Shlomo Kaplansky, the native of Bialystok who was a leader of the
World Union of Poalei Zion and an advocate of a bi-national state for the
Jewish homeland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: North
Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly.
According to recent figures there are approximately 250 Jewish students among
an undergrad population of 20,000. The campus is home to a Hillel
Chapter. The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh contains a Judaic Art
Collection that includes an array of historic and contemporary pulpit, life
cycle and holiday objects.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: In
New York City, Julia Marx and Samuel Goetz gave birth to Norman S. Goetz the
three-time president of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York and
the husband of Mildred Blount<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888:
Twenty-three-year-old Leon Sobel, Galicia born son of Jacob and Lena (Malberg)
Sobel who at the age of 21 came to New York where “he established his own
furniture business” married Adeline Levinson before going on to become a
builder and realtor who was “one of the founders and organizers of Yeshivah
Isaac Elchanan.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889: At a
meeting of the Board of Trade, Jacob Schloss “agreed to support a scheme to
drive an exploratory mining shaft to demonstrate the continuing viability of
the mining district.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890:
Abraham Sudyham, a criminal defense attorney was sentenced to five years in New
York State prison after having been convicted of grand larceny when he tried to
sell the house belonging to his aunt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891:
Birthdate of Meyer Streliskie, who gained gamed as European cabaret performer
Marcel Barger, the name under which he met his death at Auschwitz in 1942.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891(27<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5651): Parashat Vayakhel; Shabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891(27<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5651): Moses Reines, “the author of Jewish historical materials in
Russia” and the son of Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines, “the founder of the
Mizrachi Religious Zionist Movement, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891:
Professor Charles A.L. Totten “the well-known military instructor” at Yale
University made a statement today in which he described his approval of the
memorial presented to President Harrison by William E. Blackstone advocating a
project for “restoring Palestine to the Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891:
“Collector Nathan To Retire” published today described Ernst Nathan’s
repudiation of unfounded reports that he was retiring from his position or that
he would seek the office of Mayor of Brooklyn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: It
was reported today that the 600 children living at the orphan asylum operated
by the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society will be returning to school next
week. They have been confined to the orphanage since January 1<sup>st</sup> due
to an outbreak of measles – a medical challenged that has been successfully
dealt with. (In an era of vaccinations, we do not appreciate the
deadly challenges of childhood illnesses)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: The
Hebrew Orphan Asylum Bazar, sponsored by the Ladies’ Aid Society is scheduled
to take place in Baltimore, MD. Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, the wife of
the President is scheduled to be one of the guests. Mrs. Harrison
had told Mrs. Edward Pels and Mrs. J.B. Eiseman that she will be sending a
donation of flowers from the White House for the event.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: It
was reported today that Russian Jews who had formed at a colony in
Chesterfield, Connecticut are returning to New York after a suffering through a
winter of hardships.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894:
Assemblyman Ainsworth apologized to the Jews for using the term “Jew
pawnbrokers” during the debate on a bill to incorporate the “Provident Loan
Society.” The bill passed by a vote of 86 to 6 with the Jewish
members all voting no.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894(29th
of Adar): Fifty-nine Abraham Baer the German born cantor who was author Ba’al
Tifillah, passed away today in Sweden.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: The
Beth Israel Hospital on East Broadway received a substantial benefit this
evening from the proceeds of the Purim charity ball an concert sponsored by the
Young Ladies and Gentlemen’s League, the purpose of which is to support the
hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: The
last “open meeting” of the Monte Relief, “one of the best known Hebrew
charitable organizations in” New York City, “will take the form of a “Cake Walk
and Colored Jubilee.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: Three
days after she had passed away, Annie Horatia Schloss, the daughter of Horatio
Joseph Montefiore and Sarah Daniel Mocatta and the husband of Leopold Schloss
was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: <i>The
New York Times</i> reports on the preparations for the upcoming
celebration of the 45<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Dr. Sabato Morais
beginning his service as the Rabbi for Congregation Mikvah Israel in
Philadelphia, PA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897:
Professor Felix Adler delivered a lecture “Religion of To-day” at Carnegie
Music Hall this morning.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: Rabbi
Gustav Gottheil spoke on “The Present Bible Controversy” today at Temple
Emanu-El.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: It
was reported today that August Belmont was one of the principal financial
backers of plan to unite the manufacturers of bourbon whiskey into a national
syndicate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: It
was reported that Seymour Mork and Phillip Harrison won the prizes at a debate
sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5658): Ta’anit Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: In
the evening, the Purim “festival proper began” this evening, when the first
star was visible, for in celebrating their holidays the Jews till adhere to the
old Oriental custom of counting the day from evening to evening.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: In
Boston, MA, Emily Cohen and Zarah Levin gave birth to Harvard and University of
Chicago educated linguist Lawrence Meyer Levin, the husband of Ada Mandelstam
with whom he had one child – Barbara – and the editor in chief of “The Book of
Popular Science” who taught French at the University of Chicago and the University
of South Dakota before serving as an assistant professor of modern languages
and head of the Department of Spanish at the University of the University of
Utah and was a member of B’nai B’rith in Salt Lake City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898:
“Tatza Jews Killed by Arabs” published today describe the pillaging of the
Moroccan city by Ghiatz Arabs who abducted the women after murdering the men.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898:
Senator Cantor introduced a bill today that would exempt the real estate of the
Young Men’s Hebrew Association from taxation, assessment and water rates.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898:
“Congregations to Unite” published today traces the decision of members Temple
Beth-Elhoim to consolidate with Temple Israel. Both of the
congregations are located in Brooklyn with Beth-Elhoim having 150 members and
Temple Israel having 140 members. The enlarged congregation will
have to build a new sanctuary as neither of the currently occupied edifices are
big enough to accommodate the increase in attendance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: It
was reported today that the oldest resident of the Home for Aged and Infirm
Hebrews is a 99-year-old man “whose only physical ailment is deafness.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899(25<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5659): Eighty-one-year-old German native Samson J. Rothschild, the
husband of Mary Griessman Rothschild and the father of Jacob and Martin
Rothschild passed away today in Manhattan after which he was buried in the
Union Field Cemetery in Ridgewood, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900:
Birthdate of Gerald Burton Windrod, the Kansas native whose virulent
anti-Semitic views earned him the title of "the JayHawk Nazi.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: The
Council of Jewish Women which was founded in 1897 continued its triennial
meeting today in Cleveland under the leadership of its president Mrs. Hannah G.
Solomon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900:
Birthdate of Benn Wolfe Levy the British Playwright and Labour Party MP who
clashed with his party’s Foreign Minister over the government’s pro-Arab and
anti-Jewish policies in Palestine after WW II.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901:
Police captured the burglars who had broken into Rudolph Grossman’s fur store
on Sixth Avenue in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: In
New York, Justice Scott of the Supreme Court ruled that he rejected the
applications for alimony filed by Mrs. Adolph Greenblatt, “pending trial of an
action for separation.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902(28<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5662): Isidore Cahen, French scholar and journalist born at Paris in
1826 passed aay today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0004_0_03822.html</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: In
Athens, Ohio, newspaper editor and publisher Charles Harvey Bryson, who owned
the <i>Athens Morning Journal</i> and his wife gave birth to Bernarda
Bryson who married Ben Shan and gained fame in her own rights as Bernarda
Bryson Shan (As reported by Margalit Fox)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/16/arts/16shahn.html</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: In
Paris, Baron Louis de Koenigswarter and his wife gave birth to Lt.-Col. Baron
Jules de Koenigswarter who married Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild in 1935
and fought with the Free French during WW II.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: In
Canada, Rebecca (Freedberg) and Emmanuel Kenen gave birth to journalist turned
American attorney Isaiah L. Kenen, the information director for the Jewish
Agency and a member of Israel’s first delegation to the United Nations who was
the father of economist Peter Kenen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://books.google.com/books?id=HcpZAAAAMAAJ&q=Bochner+Kenen&dq=Bochner+Kenen</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.amazon.com/Isaiah-L.-Kenen/e/B001KIZKTW%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/3/resources/387</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: In
Germany, Abraham Zvi Idelson, the Latvian born son of Azriel Fishel Idelson and
Dvora Idelson and his wife Zilla Idelson gave birth to Susannah Idelson who
became Susannah Bobrow when she married Abe Bobrow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905(30<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5665): Rosh Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905(30<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5665): Sixty-three-year-old Theresa Wile, the wife of Levi Adler and
the mother of attorney Isaac Adler who served as Mayor of Rochester, NY from
1930 to 1932 passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: It
was reported today that forty-year-old “Morris Rosenfeld, the Yiddish poet and
author of “Songs of the Ghetto’ is ill with paralysis” which has “afflicted his
right arm and leg” but “physicians that with a year’s rest he will recover.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: “To
Aid Kingston’s Destitute Jews” published today described the plans of Mrs.
Samuel d. Levy, Mrs. Hugo A. Wallenstein, Mrs. Samuel Greenfield, Mrs. Joseph
Cohen, Mrs. Alfred Pincus and Mrs. Albert Lucas to host a fund raiser at the
Waldorf Astoria to provide financial assistance to “the aged and destitute
Jewish poor and for the rebuilding of the alms houses destroyed in the Kingston
earthquake.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907:
Composer and musical director Zavel Zilberts, the Pinsk born son of Fanny
Eisenberg and Boruch Hersh Zilberts married Amalia Fischer today after which he
came to the United States in 1920 where he became the Musical director of the
Cantors’ Association of America and organized the Hazomir choral Society of
Newark, NJ><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: In
Des Moines Iowa, “community activist” and suffragette Rose Frankel Rosenfield
and Meyer Rosenfield the owner of Younkers department store gave birth to
Louise Frankel Rosenfield who became Louise Noun when she married dermatologist
Maurice “Maurie” Noun.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5669): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909:
Birthdate of director, cinematographer and alleged WW II Soviet agent Irving
Lerner who was the editor on for “Spartacus,” a movie that noted for redeeming
more than one person who had been on the Hollywood Blacklist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">www.chicagofilmsociety.org/2013/03/25/irving-lerner-a-career-in-context/</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://fredrikonfilm.blogspot.com/2017/07/irving-lerner.html</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: On
Purim, in Paris, France Leopold and Lena Pilichowski gave birth to Thade Pilley<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: It
was reported today that the widow of the recently deceased actor-playwright
Moses Horowitz is now living at the Home of the Daughters of Jacobs on East
Broadway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910:
“Mother,” “which was the first successful ply Jules Eckert Goodman, the Oregon
born so of Jenette Rothschild and S. Newman Goodman “was first performed today in
Plainfield, NJ.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: In a
case of Jew versus Jew, it was reported today that Henry Siegel, the President
of Simpson-Crawford Company and the Fourteenth Street Store said that he was
“in favor of having Congress at the special session deal merely with the one
matter for which it was called, the bill for the reciprocity with Canada” while
Nathan Straus, of R. H. Macy said “that Congress should not stop with the
passage of the reciprocity measure” but it should take action that would lead
to a “downward revision of the tariff.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912:
Hadassah was founded by Henrietta Szold. “At a meeting at Temple
Emanu-El in New York City, Henrietta Szold, a noted scholar, teacher,
journalist, editor, social worker and pioneer Zionist, convinced the Daughters
of Zion study circle to expand its purpose and embrace “practical Zionism,”
proactive work to help meet the health needs of Palestine’s people. Because the
meeting was held around the time of Purim, the women called themselves “The
Hadassah chapter of the Daughters of Zion,” adopting the Hebrew name of Queen
Esther. Hadassah also means “myrtle,” a hardy Levantine plant with agricultural
and biblical significance. Henrietta Szold became the first president.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912(18th
of Adar, 5672): In St. Louis, Marcus Bernheimer, the native of Liberty,
Mississippi and the son of Samuel and Henrietta Bernheimer passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912(18<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5672): Seventy-two-year-old St. Louis merchant Eugene Sterne passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(28<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5673): In Chicago, Samuel Weil, the brother of Carrie, Josephine and
Esther Weil, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(28<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5673): Seventy-five-year-old Rabbi Adolf Ehrlich passed away today at
Tilsit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(28<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5673): Forty-year-old theatre manager Maurice Baumfeld passed away
today in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: For
the second time in five years, Jewish welterweight Joe Hirst fought Jack
Britton to a draw, a year before Britton on the Welterweight title.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: Mrs.
Simon Baruch had a surprise party for twenty-one Italian children from the
Bronx at her home as part of her program to teach patriotism and American
values to the children of immigrants newly arrived in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914:
Eighty-two-year-old “Polish born British Bible scholar and student of the
Masoretic tradition of Judaism Christian David Ginsburg who had converted to
Christianity at the age of 15 passed away today in Middlesex.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914:
Having exhausted all of his appeals at the state court level, today, the state
set Leo Frank’s execution date for April 17, 1914.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: “Miss
Jane Addams spoke of ‘War and Social Service’ at the Free Synagogue at Carnegie
Hall” this “morning following the service conducted by Rabbi Stephen Wise.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: Mrs.
Edward Goldbeck is scheduled to speak on “America at the Crossways” this after
afternoon during the regular meeting of the Chicago Woman’s Aid at the Sinai
Social Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
“Habits and preferences of members of the Yale senior class were disclosed
today” including that of the 325 members of the senior class, 12 of them were
Jewish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: Mrs.
Edward A Aaron and Mrs. Jules E. Furth arranged the program for the sixth
regular meeting of the B’nai Sholom Temple Sisterhood on Michigan Avenue in
Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5677): Ta’anit Esther and Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: “The
trial of a $50.000 libel suit brought by Maschulem F. Seidman, war
correspondent for the Warheit and other Jewish news against <i>The Day</i>,
another Jewish publication” which centered on whether or not it was in fact
part of “German propaganda effort to win the sympathies of Jews in America for
the Teuton cause” began today in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917:
Birthdate of Herman Fishman, the Detroit native who letter in basketball,
baseball and football and went on to play professional baseball until his
career was cut short by WW II where he served in a U.S. Navy intelligence unit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: The
decision rendered in People ex rel. Mulderig v. Kaplan which held that “a
theatrical performance give in the Neighborhood Playhouse by the Henry Street
Settlement” on a Sunday “did not interrupt the repose and religious liberty of
the community in any way” which means that “a prosecution of the treasurer of
the settlement house for Sabbath-breaking should be dismissed” was reported in
today issue of the New York Law Journal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: During
World War I, on the Dialah River in Mesopotamia, Private Jack White, a
signaler, during an attempt to cross the river, saw the two pontoons ahead of
him come under very heavy fire with disastrous results. When his own pontoon
had reached mid-stream, with every man except himself either dead or wounded,
and not being able, by himself, to control the boat the private tied a
telephone wire to the pontoon, jumped overboard and towed it to the shore,
thereby saving an officer's life and bringing to land the wounded and also the
rifles and equipment of all the men in the boat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: The
Palestine Fund Restoration Commission announced to today that “plans have been
completed for the establishment of a great Jewish university in Jerusalem” and
“that one of the first duties of the commission, which is going to Palestine
under the auspices of the fund, would be the founding of this university” on
the site which has already been chosen and acquired.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: In
London, King George expressed his gratitude to Dr. Wiezmann for Zionists
“useful work during the word” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918(23<sup>rd</sup> of
Adar, 5678): Fifty-seven-year-old “Schklov, Russia,” native Solomon Baroway who
came to the United States in 1883 and went to Kansas with “25 other Jewish
young men” to start an agricultural community at Lasker in Clark County before
moving on eventually settling in Baltimore where he “was the Superintendent of
the Hebrew Benevolent Society for twenty-five years passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Solomon-Baroway-1860-1918-Pioneer-Baltimore/dp/B0006WLT98</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: The
Jewish Press Bureau in Stockholm said that the Yiddishe Morgenpost of Vienna
reported “400 families have been killed at Proskuroff in the Ukraine, east of
Lemberg” where “Jews were being massacred in large numbers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920:
Birthdate of Harry Kuniansky, the native of Atlanta who played guard for the U.
of Georgia football team from 1940 through 1942 when the Bulldogs were
“declared national champion in six polls recognized by the NCAA.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921:
Mischa Levitzki’s “farewell recital” took place this evening at Carnegie Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Red
Army under Trotsky attacked sailors of Kronstadt in a move to put down “a
counter-revolutionary” plot. Soviet leaders were always putting down
“counter-revolutionary plots” both real and imagined. Stalin would
later brand Trotsky as a counter-revolutionary and drive him from the party and
the Soviet Union.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922:
Birthdate of Los Angeles native Arthur P. Jacobs, the press agent turned
producer who played a key role in bringing the Planet of the Apes series to the
screen as well as a musical version of Good-bye Mr. Chips featuring the singing
voice of Peter O’Toole.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/06/28/103220952.html?pageNumber=50</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922:
Birthdate of Hans Eduard Ephraimson-Abt, the Berlin born Jew who became an
internationally known advocate for families of air-crash victims after the
death of his daughter on Korean Air Lines Flight 007, shot down by Soviet
fighter planes in 1983 (As reported by Margalit Fox)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: It
was reported today that William S. Slater’s will calls for bequests of $1,000
each to the Montefiore Home, the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, Beth
Israel Hospital and the Jewish Consumptive Relief Society of Denver and $500
each to the Home for the Aged and Infirm Hebrews, Educational Alliance and
B’nai Jeshrun in Manhattan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1923/03/07/issue.html</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924(1<sup>st</sup> of
Adar II, 5684): Rosh Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: “Dr.
William Armhold, Rabbi Emeritus of Keneseth Israel, Philadelphia, who passed
away in Atlantic City at the age of 96 is scheduled to be interred today at Mt.
Sinai Cemetery in Philadelphia, PA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: Dr.
Chaim Weizmann is scheduled to sail for England today aboard the SS Olympic so
that he can accompany Lord Balfour to Palestine where they will take part in
the dedication of the new Hebrew University on Mt. Scopus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925(11<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5685): Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925(11<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5685): Eighty-three-year-old Alfred Abraham Strauss, the Manheim, Germany
born son of Sarah and Aaron Strauss who was married to both Blum Straus and
Amelia Strauss passed away today after which he was buried in Sumter, SC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
Herbert H. Lehman sent a letter to William Fox, the chairman of the United
Jewish Campaign of New York which will officially be launched in April that
$300,000 has already been pledged by the American Joint Reconstruction
Foundation which should help in meeting the goal of raising six million
dollars.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: The
Institute of Jewish Studies of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem announced that
a concordance of the Talmud will be prepared by Rabbi Kossovski of Jerusalem
for the used of Talmudic students.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: As of
today, the Bronx Division of the United Palestine Appeal has raised $85,000 of
the $200,000 it needs to reach its quota.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928(15<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5688): Shushan Purim observed for the last time during the presidency of
Calvin Coolidge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: Today
in Iraq, "Jewish journalist, Anwar Shaul, published an open letter in
weekly magazine al-Hasid, addressed to the British High Commissioner and
commander-in-chief, Brigadier-General Sir Gilbert Clayton, demanding full
independence for Iraq from Britain<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930:
Birthdate of Alfred Gottschalk, the native of Germany who “as head of Reform
Judaism’s major institution of higher learning ordained the first women as
rabbis in the United States and Israel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: Chief
Justice MacDonnell and Justices Baker and Kermak heard the appeal of Simcha
Hinkis, a 22-year-old Jewish policeman accused of participating in the murder
of an Arab family at Jaffa in the August riots. Hinkis had been “found guilty
of premeditated murder and sentenced to death.” “Mordecai Eliash,
counsel for the defense, declared the conviction was based on insufficient
evidence.” The court is expected to render its judgment next
week. [It is ironic that a Jewish policeman is the one who was convicted
of murder following the murderous Arab rampage of 1929.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930(7<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5690): Sixty-nine-year-old Buffalo native A.L. (Abraham Lincoln) “Abe”
Erlanger the part of Marc Klaw in Klaw and Erlanger that gave Broadway a slew
of productions including the first Ziegfeld Follies and built several of the
theatres on the Great White Way including the News Amsterdam passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: The
blue liveried state luxury saloon carriage of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first
president of Czechoslovakia, which entered service today would gain an extra
measure of fame when it became part of the 2009 Winton Train – “a private
passenger train which travelled from the Czech Republic to England in September
2009, in tribute to the wartime efforts of Sir Nicholas Winton, described as
the 'British Schindler' for his part in the saving refugee children from
Czechoslovakia.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931(18<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5691): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931(18<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5691): Fifty-year-old Romanian born German “actor director, producer and
screenwriter Lupu Pick” passed away today in Berline.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: Benjamin
Cardozo, the Chief Judge of the Court of appeals sent his formal resignation
today to the Secretary of State as part of the process by which he assumed the
position of the Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: “The
Nazis hoisted their swastika flag over a synagogue at Bochum this morning.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: At
Konigsberg, a bomb which was thrown into the local synagogue “exploded near the
ark, setting fire to the curtain.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: Tonight
“at an emergency executive meeting of the Greater New York American Palestine
Campaign Committee” under the leadership of “Louis Lipsky, national chairman of
the American Palestine campaign and Morris Rothenberg, president of the ZOA” it
was decided to continue the American Palestine campaign to raise money to
enable the Jewish Agency for Palestine to maintain education, immigration an
sanitation activities in the Jewish Homeland.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934:
Bainbridge Colby presided over the anti-Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden
where the speakers included Bernard S. Deutsch, the Reverend A.J. Brown and
Michael Williams, the Editor of the Commonweal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: “The
address by Gustavus T. Kirby, former president of the Amateur Athletic Union
and of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America, on
"What Germany Must Do Before the World of Sport Will Look With Favor Upon
the Olympic Games Scheduled to Be Held in Berlin in 1936” was delivered tonight
at Madison Square Garden.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935(2<sup>nd</sup> of
Adar II, 5675): Seventy-six-year-old Odessa native Michael Zametkin, who in
1877 “fled political persecution in his homeland” and came to the United where
he worked in the needle trades, became a leader in “the Jewish labor and
Socialist movements while becoming a contributor to several Yiddish and
Socialist newswires” including “The Jewish Daily Forward which he helped to
found” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: In
Poland, those supporting a bill introduced by Mrs. Blazej Pyster, the wife of
the former Prime minister, that would prohibit kosher slaughtering practices on
grounds that it is not humane and makes meat more expensive are faced with
charges of violating the Constitution since it guarantees “to all of Poland’s
citizens freedom of faith the free execution of religious rites” and this new
law “would violate the rights of the Jewish population.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
Today’s meeting of the Reichstag “will be the first since” that body “was
convoked hurriedly in Nuremberg last September to sanction the new restrictions
on the Jews and the ordinance establishing the Nazi flag as the Reich’s
official emblem.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
According to the current issue of the American Hebrew, “the 1935 American
Hebrew Medal for outstanding service in promoting better understanding between
Christians and Jews has been awarded to Roger Williams Straus…the son of the
late Oscar Straus, United States Ambassador to Turkey” who is also co-chairman
of the National Conference of Jews and Christians, a member of the executive
committee of the American Jewish Committee and a vice president of the National
Republican Club.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5695): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5696): As the celebration of Purim begins tonight, the Jews are in the
words of Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson, painfully aware that “in Germany half a
million Jews are groaning under the yoke of the Nuremberg laws and are
threatened with economic and even physical annihilation.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936 Final
performance of Jubilee,” “a musical comedy with a book by Moss Hart which had
premiered on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Hitler
violated Treaty of Versailles by sending troops to the Rhineland. This was
one of the early steps leading to World Word II and the Final
Solution. Hitler was running a bluff. He really lacked
sufficient military force to have made the remilitarization
stick. If France and Great Britain had acted decisively, Hitler
would have been forced to back down and he might even have been forced from
power.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: Fifty-four-year-old
Paul Bekker, “the former director of the Wiesbaden opera” who had been stripped
of his German citizenship by the Nazis in 1936 because “favored Jews” passed
away today in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: <i>The
Palestine Post</i> reported that members of the Russian Zionist Center in
Tel Aviv were worried by a new wave of purges and arrests in the Soviet Union.
They reported that in Moscow, Odessa and many other Russian towns, charges of
counter-revolutionary activities were trumped up against Jews and the youth was
particularly affected. Although there were hardly any Jews in Japan, the Tokyo
government launched Japan¹s first anti-Semitic campaign announcing a “worldwide
Jewish plot.” The Japanese press presented a long list of the country’s Jewish
enemies who included, among others, various international peace leagues,
socialists and even Rotary International. The charges against Rotary were later
withdrawn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938(4<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5698): Seventy-four year old Aaron the Cincinnati, OH, born son of
Moses and Sarah Waldheim, the St. Louis furniture merchant and philanthropist
who raised two children with his wife Hattie Sommers Waldheim passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: In
New York City Getrude Lipschitz and Richard Baltimore gave birth to David
Baltimore, American biologist, recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1975/baltimore-bio.html</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: “Two
Czech Fascists named Stund and Kovarik were in Pilsen today by the explosion of
an infernal machine that they were concealing in a ceremonial hall of a Jewish
cemetery where a big funeral service was scheduled for tomorrow.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939(16<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5699): Seventy-four-year-old Ludwig Anton Salomon Fulda the poet and
playwright who was the first President of PEN of Germany and whose career
effectively came to an end when the Nazis came to power committed suicide in
Berlin today when he was denied entry into the United States. (Editor’s Note –
Germany wanted to put an end to him because he was a Jew and the United States
had no room for him for the same reason. Also there seems to be some
confusion about the date of his death)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://snbehrman.com/library/nytimes/43.2.7.htm</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: As
Jews continued to protest against the newly enacted British laws limiting
purchase of land in Palestine by Jews, the Chief Rabbis and leaders of the Vaad
Leumi led a protest demonstration through the streets of Jerusalem while other
Jews took part in a work stoppage in Haifa. In reaction to the
protest in Jerusalem, the British imposed an over-night curfew on the Jewish
quarter of the City of David.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940:
Birthdate of Arlene Hannah Butter, the New York born daughter of Jewish
immigrants from Eastern Europe who gained fame as artist Hannah Wilke.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.hannahwilke.com/id10.html</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/07/1940/this-week-in-history-sculptor-and-performance-artist-hannah-wilke-is-born</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: It
was announced today, that “Dr. Israel Goldstein has been elected for his eighth
consecutive terms as president of the Jewish National fund, that Jacob Sincoff
and I.M. Kowalsky were chosen co-treasures and Louis Segal was chosen secretary
while Mendel N. Fisher will serve as Executive Direcotr.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
Birthdate of Michael Eisner President of The Walt Disney Company.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: Lucy
Parsons the labor organizer and anarchist who addressed the striking members of
the Chicago Tailors Union most of whose members were Jewish and who clashed
with Emma Goldman passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943(30<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5703): Rosh Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: “The
third American enlisted men’s club in the Middle East” is scheduled to be open
in Tel Aviv today. The club has “sleeping quarters for 150 men and
lounge, game reading and music rooms. It is 300 yards from the
beach.” In addition, hospitality committees of the Jewish Agency arrange
sightseeing trips in the Holy Land and the Tel Aviv Hospital committee is
operating three clubs for solidiers and nurses of the Allied armies serving in
Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: In
Kansas City, MO, “Hilde and Alfred Rosbash, Jewish refugees from pre-war Nazi
Germany” gave birth to Nobel Prize winning “geneticist and chronobiologist”
Michael Rosbash<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/10/02/nobel-prize-in-medicine-or-physiology-awarded-to-tktk/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_nobel-550am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.3b93cfb99dbc</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/faculty/rosbash.html</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: The
poet David Vogel was deported from Drancy the French concentration camp and
sent to Birkenau along with another 1,500 Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944(12<sup>th</sup> of
Adar): At Birkenau, 3,860 Jews who had been living in "family
quarters", were sent to the gas chambers. Five days earlier, in their
special "family quarters", they were shown off to Red Cross
representatives (who were not allowed to see the rest of the camp.) The Jews
were told to write postcards to their Czech relatives, but postdate
them March 25, 26, and 27. The Jews would never live to see those days. Of
this group, only 37 were spared, including eleven sets of twins. They would be
sent to Dr. Mengele for medical experiments.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944(12<sup>th</sup> of
Adar): Today, the Nazis discovered “the hideout of Emanuel Ringelblum the
historian of the Warsaw ghetto and one of the leaders of the Jewish
underground” which would lead to the execution of him and his family a few days
later.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945:
Brigadier General Ernest Frank Benjamin began serving with the British Eighth
Army in the Faenza Area, Italy; a posting that would last until the end of
World War II in Europe. Born in 1900, Benjamin “was a British officer from
Canada of Jewish birth who commanded the Jewish Infantry Brigade during the
Second World War. Benjamin was commissioned into the Royal Engineers and served
with that service during 1941-42 before being transferred as a General Staff
Officer 1 to the Middle East Command in 1943. He served as Assistant
Quartermaster-General there until 1944 when he was appointed Deputy Director of
Military Training Middle East Command and in the autumn of the same year as the
Commanding Officer, Jewish Brigade Group. His last post with the Brigade group
was in north-west Europe as part of the VIII Corps of the British Army of the
Rhine. He passed away in 1969.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: The
US 9th Armored Division seized the bridge at Remagen Germany, enabling
them to cross the Rhine and enter the German heartland. This is an
amazing story of luck and unbelievable courage on the part of American soldiers
which shortened the war and help end the nightmare for European
Jewry. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946:
Birthdate of Ronald Reider, the New Jersey native who settled in Cedar Rapids,
after earning his M.D. at the University of Iowa. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: “An
independent campaign to raise three million dollars for emergency relief for
Jews in Poland was announced” today “by the American Federation for Polish
Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: In
Brooklyn, “voice actor Allen Swift” (Ira Stadlen) and his wife gave birth to
Lewis J. Stadlen who “made his Broadway debut as Grouch Marx in the 1970
musical comedy ‘Minnie’s Boys’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Major
Beneral R.N. Gale, the British commander of “Operation Elephant” expressed
satisfaction with the results of having imposed martial law over a large area
of Palestine and that it will be able to “cut out this canker of underground
violence.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: As
the British continued their efforts to pacify Palestine, 5,000 troops and
policemen surrounded Rehoveth, Nathanya and Hadera and began searching the
communities for “terrorists” and weapons. The raid netted thirty-two
detainees and a small cache of arms. Dr. Chaim Weizmann is a
resident of Rehovoth. “After the searches ended” armed masked men attacked the
police station at Rishon le Zion. As the British looked for the
attackers, they let be known that they were looking for members of the Irgun and
the Stern gang and not members of Haganah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: At a
speech given tonight in Reading, MP Ian Mikardo said “Lt. Gen. G.H.A.
MacMillian, commander of the British forces in Palestine ‘forgot’ to get
evidence regarding Arabs who entered Palestine to fight Jews” which he
described as “appeasing the Arabs.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: While
speaking at Temple Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Louis I. Newman said that “relations
between Christians and Jews” in the United States “will steadily deteriorate if
both do not maintain stability and common sense in attitudes toward the great
social issues of our time.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: At
the opening of the annual conference of the Poale Zion of Great Britain, Ian
Mikardo revealed that a vote of "no-confidence" would be sought
against the government by some members of the British Labour Party when the
bill to terminate the Palestine Mandate had its second reading in the House of
Commons.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: This
afternoon speakers at a meeting of 2,000 delegates at the annual conference of
the Council of Organizations, United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York said
that “world peace and international security are dependent largely on United
Nations support of the Palestine partition plan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949:
During Operation Uvda, “Golani forces conquered the village Ein Harouf.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949(6<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5709): Two days before his 79<sup>th</sup> birthday Sol Bloom the
music publisher turned politician passed while serving his 14<sup>th</sup> term
as a Member of the House of Representatives representing the 19<sup>th</sup> and
then 20<sup>th</sup> Congressional District from New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000565</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949:
During Operation Uvda, “the Alexandroni Brigade moved from Beersheba through
Mamshit towards Sodom and then made an amphibious landing near Ein Gedi through
the Dead Sea.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: The
IDF established a based Ayn Husb at the junction of the Beersheba-Sodom and
Sodom-Eilat tracks<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950(18th
of Adar, 5710): Daniel Frisch, the President of the Zionist Organization of
America, passed away today at the age of 52 following a surgical procedure that
had been performed yesterday. Born in Palestine, Frisch was the son
of Rabbi Eliezer and Haia Landau Frisch. His family moved to
Roumania when Frisch was one year old. Frisch came to the United
States in 1921 and settled in Indianapolis where he operated a successful
salvage yard. Frisch who had been active in the Zionist movement
since childhood, founded the Indianapolis Zionist District, served as President
of the Ohio Valley Zionist Region and was elected to the ZOA Administrative
Council in 1934. He retired from business five years ago and moved
to New York so he could devote himself to the Zionist cause. Frisch
reportedly made at least 14 trips to Israel and worked tirelessly to raise
funding for a projects for the infant Jewish state.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: In
what has to be one of the all-time great whoppers of history, the Soviet Union
issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy days after
he had been found guilty by a British court. Fuchs testified that
Harry Gold was his courier for getting information to the
Soviets. Harry Gold led to David Greenglass that led to the
Rosenbergs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: “The
Communist newspaper <i>Kol Ha’am</i> charged today that Israel has
instituted an anti-Communist campaign and inquirty to similar to those that it
said had been launched by President Truman in all countries under American
protection.” The paper charged that America was pulling the strings
of anti-Communism in Israel just as it was in England. [This charge came at the
same time when many right-wing Americans were warning of the Jewish Communist
conspiracy.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: Lillian
Hellman's "Autumn Garden" premiered in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951(29<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5711): Nineteen-year-old PFC Leonard M. Kravitz, the Brooklyn son of
“Jean (Kaufman) and Joseph Kravitz was killed today during the Korean War while
voluntarily manning a machine so that he Army comrades could escape even though
he knew it would mean his death – action that would earn him the Congressional
Medal of Honor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: In
one of those incidents that undermine stability in the Middle East and thus
prove worrisome to Israel, the Prime Minister of Iran was shot and killed by an
Islamic fundamentalist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952: Dr.
Alexander Marx, director of libraries and the Jacob H. Schiff Professor at JTS
is scheduled to leave for Israel today. This is his first trip to
the new Jewish state during which he plans to establish closer working
relationships between JTS and libraries in Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953(20<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5713): Maksymilian Apolinary Hartglas passed away in Tel
Aviv. Born in 1883, he was a lawyer, Zionist and a politician in
pre-war Poland who courageously escaped from Warsaw and finally settled in
Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apolinary_Hartglas</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954(2<sup>nd</sup> of
Adar II, 5714): Jacob Isaac Segal the Canadian Jewish poet and husband of Elke
Shtaiman who had been born Yaakov Yitzchak Skolar in Slobkovitz who worked as a
tailor in the garment industry and a teacher at the Jewish People’s School
after immigrating to Montreal in 1911 whose 12 volumes of poetry including
Sefer Idish (The Book of Yiddish) passed away today after which he was buried
at the Baron de Hirsch Cemetery in Montreal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1sq5vks</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954: Rabbi
Eliezer Silver of Cincinnati is scheduled to be “the guest of honor at the
thirty-second annual dinner of Agudath Israel of America today at the Roosevelt
Hotel” where “Michael J. Treis, the administrative president, will present” him
with a bronze plaque “in tributed to his fifty years of work for Judaism.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955: NBC
presented “Peter Pan,” a musical version of the 1904 play of the same time with
music by Mark Charlap and Jule Styne, and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden
and Adolph Green as part of its Producers Showcase anthology series.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956(24th
of Adar, 5716): Seventy-eight-year-old Cecile Meyer Pilpel (Mrs Emanuel Pilpel)
a native of Wissembourg, France, “a leader in parent education for more than
thirty years an executive of the Child Study Association of America” passed
away today in Hartford, CT.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957(4<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5717): Seventy-eight-year-old Dr. Eugene Jacob Asnis who served on the
faculty of Temple University and reached the rank of Major while serving in the
Army during WW I passed away today after which he was buried in the military
cemetery in Beverly, NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958(15<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5718): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959(27<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5719): Parashat Vayakhel; Shabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960:
“Volpone” co-starring Lou Jacobi as “Corvino” was broadcast today at the Play
of the Week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961(19<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5721): Seventy-two-year- Dr. Max Augustus Cohn D.D.S. the Texas born son,
Josephine Walker and Frank Cohn and the husband of Nina Edna
Fleshman who served during WW I as a “1st Lt Dental Corps, 36th Division at the
US Army Base Hospital, 84th Med Corps passed away today after which he was
buried in Cleveland, TX.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964:
Seventy-year-old Sir Alexander Knox Helm, the United Kingdom’s first ambassador
to Israel passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: On
Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, group of 600 civil rights marchers are
violently prevented from marching to the state capital in
Montgomery. Two weeks later a group of marchers would successfully
begin the march from Selma to Montgomery. Included among them would
be Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel who said he was “voting with his feet.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965:
Release date for “The Train” a film based on <i><u>Le front de l'art</u></i> by
Rose Valland, which tells the story of a successful attempt to keep a train
filled with looted French art from reaching Germany. In reality, the
boxcar doors were opened by Free French forces under the command of Lt.
Alexandre Rosenberg who had no trouble identifying the masterpieces since man
of have them had been hanging in the Paris home of his father Paul Rosenberg<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966(15<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5726): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967:
“You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown” premiered off-Broadway today with Bob Balaban
as Linus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967: Alice
B. Tolkas passed away. Born Jewish in 1877, the San Francisco she gained fame
as confidante, lover, cook, secretary, muse, editor, critic, and general
organizer for another famous Jewess, Gertrude Stein. Before her
death, Tolkas converted to Roman Catholicism. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969: The
Central committee of the Labor Party voted to nominate Golda Meir as Prime
Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970(29<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5730): Parashat Vayakhel; Shabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: In
Westminster, London, George Weisz, an inventor from Hungary and Edith Ruth (née
Teich), a teacher-turned-psychotherapist from Vienna, Austria Rachel Hannah
Craig (née Weisz) who gained fame as British actress Rachel Weisz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971(10th
of Adar, 5731): Eight-three-year-old movie mogul Barney Balaban, the long
serving head of Paramount pictures passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/08/archives/barney-balaban-dead-at-83-headed-paramount-pictures-builder-of.html?_r=0</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.balabanandkatzfoundation.com/</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.thewaldorfconference.com/balaban.html</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971: Two
days after he had passed away, “a funeral service” is scheduled to be held this
afternoon for the Society for the Advancement of Judaism” for “sixty-seven year
old Wharton graduate James Felt, the son of real estate developer Abraham Felt,
who followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather when he went into
to the real estate business instead of becoming a Rabbi and went on to become
the Chairman of the City Planning Commission.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971:
Birthdate of British-born Academy Award winning actress Rachel
Weisz. Her father was a Hungarian Jewish inventor who fled to
England to escape the Nazis. Her mother is described as Catholic
with Jewish ancestry. Weisz has appeared in films with Keanu Reeves and Hugh
Grant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971: Egypt
refused to renew the Suez ceasefire during an outbreak violence that presaged
the Yom Kippur War of 1973.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972(21<sup>st</sup> of
Adar, 5732): Sixty-eight-year-old Aubrey Louis Goodman the tackle who led
Baylor University and the University of Chicago to conference championships
before turning professional and play for the Chicago Bulls and for the NFL
Chicago Cardinals passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973:
“Slither” a crime move directed by Howard Zieff and starring James Caan, Louise
Lasser and Allen Garfield was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973: U.S.
premiere of “The Long Goodbye” starring Elliot Gould and featuring Mark Rydell
and Warren Berlinger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5734): Ta’anit Esther and erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5734): Eighty-three-year-old Irma Shloss Mannheimer, the daughter of Max
and Rose Shloss and the wife of Eugene Mannheimer passed away today after which
she was interred at the Emanuel Cemetery in Des Moines, IA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974:
“Jewish activists Miron Dorfman, Mark Abramovich, Yacov Schwartzman (Kishinev),
Leonid Bendersky (Tiraspol) and Sender Levinson (Bendery),” who were “serving
15 day sentences for staging a hunger strike outside the Central Post office in
Kishinev, celebrated Purim by declaring a 48 hour hunger strike” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974:
“Yankel Kantas was released from prison today” a month before he would leave
for Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1974:
“David Rockefeller, the Chairman of the Manhattan Bank criticized the Jackson
Amendment” because, “concern for Jewish emigration and human rights must not
jeopardize US – Soviet trade relations.” </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(Editor’s Note – really
learned a lot from the Holocaust experience)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(24th
of Adar, 5735): Canadian born comedian Ben Blue passed away at the age of
73. Blue never achieved the fame of some his contemporaries like
George Burns or Milton Berle. But he was good enough to have his own
life variety show in the early days of television.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1976(5<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5736): Sixty-seven-year-old Dr. Solomon Maranov, the husband of Belle
Maranov and the father of John and David Maranov passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/08/archives/francine-larrimore-actress-on-broadway-stage-77-dies.html</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977: Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin met President Carter. Most people remember
Rabin as the Prime Minister of Peace from the 1990's. But Rabin was first
Prime Minister back in the 1970's. It was at this time that he and the
Labor Party were rocked by a scandal dating from Rabin's days as Israel's
Ambassador to the United States. The scandal drove him from
power. It resulted in the rise to power of Likud and the
election of Menachem Begin as Prime Minister. In other words, Rabin's
financial indiscretions ended Labor's control of the Israeli
government which dated back to the founding of the state in 1948 and changed
the political landscape of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 1977(17<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5737): Almost exactly ten years after her husband Louis Gottlieb passed
away, eighty-year Clara Gottlieb, the mother of Lillian, Florence and Harvey
Gottlieb passed away today after which she was buried at Be Olam Cemetery, in
Beachwood, OH.<br />
1978: <i>The Jerusalem Post</i> reported that the representatives of
the Ministry of Finance and the Histadrut met to discuss the current wave of
strikes which for more than seven weeks paralyzed the merchant marine,
disrupted El Al flights and TV, radio and other communications.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978: <i>The
Jerusalem Post</i> reported that In Iran the shah warned that he might
impose an oil embargo on Israel to make it more flexible in negotiations with
Egypt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979:
President Carter is scheduled to leave Washington this after for meetings with
President Anwar Sadat in Egypt and Premiere Menachem Begin in Jeruslaem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979:
Twelve people were injured when a bus was detonated on a bus at the Plaza
hotel, while nobody was injured when a second bomb was detonated on another bus
in Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980(19<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5740): Rabbi Yitzchok Isaac Tendler passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://kevarim.com/rabbi-yitzchok-isaac-tendler/</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981: As
Soviet authorities “put pressure on Hebrew teacher, “Yuli Kosharovsky and Pavel
Abramovich were threatened with arrest.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982(12<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5742): Fifty-six year old the movie director Konrad Wolf, the younger
brother of Stasi spymaster Markus Wolf passed away in the German Democratic
Republic (Communist East Germany) today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://eastgermancinema.com/category/konrad-wolf/</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5745): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar. 5745)” Seventy-six-year-old Sophie M. Friendly, the Philadelphia born
daughter of Henrietta and Horace Stern and the wife of Henry Friendly passed
away today in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986:
Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean
floor. The crew included Judith Resnik, the first Jewish American astronaut and
the first Jewish woman to go into space.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986(26th
of Adar I, 5746): Former Senator from New York, Jacob K Javits passed away in
Palm Beach FL at the age of 81. Javits was a political anomaly for his
time. At a time when most Jews were Democrats, he was a Republican.
True, he was part of the liberal wing of the Republican Party, but he was
a Republican, nonetheless. Javits was a champion of Civil Rights and
stood against the right-wing tide that swept his party in the 1960's. A
lot of Jews were critical of Javits for supporting President Eisenhower in
1956. Ike and his Republican Administration sided with
Egypt during the Suez Crisis and threatened Israel with crippling economic
sanctions unless she bowed to the will of the Americans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987: In
his “Jerusalem Journal,’ Francis X. Clines described the newly Ophel Garden
which is “a magnificent ascending honeycomb of history at the southern foot of
the Temple Mount that allows passing mortals to meander across 3,000 years of
history, from the First Temple time of Solomon in the 10th century B.C. to the
Ottoman extravagances of the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, 2,500 years
later.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/07/world/jerusalem-journal-new-garden-cornucopia-of-the-past.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990: <u>Means
of Ascent,</u> the second book in Robert Caro’s trilogy on Lyndon Johnson
was released today. (Caro was Jewish. Johnson was not but he did
have several interesting with the Jewish community beginning with his days in
the Hill Country)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1992: NBC
broadcast the first episode of “The Powers That Be” a sitcom created by David
Crane and Marta Kauffman, produced by Norman Lear and with music by Marvin
Hamlisch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5753): Purim observed for the first time under President Bill Clinton.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: NBC
broadcast the final episode of “Square Pegs” a sitcom starring Sarah Jessica
Parker and created by Anne Beatts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996: The
Third Way was formed today “towards the end of the thirteenth Knesset's term
when two MKs, Avigdor Kahalani and Emanuel Zisman, broke away from the Labour
Party.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996: MK
Efraim Gur left Likud.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997:
“Jungle 2 Jungle” a comedy featuring Leelee Sobieski was released today in the
United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997(28th
of Adar I, 5757): Rabbi Emanuel H. Bronner passed
away. Born in 1908, Emanuel H. Bronner was the eccentric maker
of Dr. Bronner's castile soap, a concentrated liquid notable for the
vast amount of lather produced from a few drops and the vast amount of tiny
text on its packaging. Although his parents were killed in the Holocaust, Rabbi
Bronner believed in the goodness and unity of humanity. He was born in
Heilbronn, Germany to the Heilbronner family of soap makers. He emigrated to
the United States in 1929, dropping "Heil" from his name to protest
the rise of Hitler. He pleaded with his parents to emigrate with him for fear
of the Nazis, but they refused. His last contact with his parents was in the
form of a postcard saying, "You were right. —Your loving father." He
started his business making products by hand in his home. The product labels
were crowded with statements of Bronner's philosophy, which he called
"All-One-God-Faith" and the "Moral ABCs". Many of Bronner's
references came from Jewish and Christian sources, such as the Shema and the
Beatitudes; others from poets such as Rudyard Kipling. Sometimes they contained
unusual product statements, for example suggesting a contraceptive use for the
soap. They became famous for their idiosyncratic style, including hyphens to
join long strings of words and the liberal use of exclamation marks. In 1947,
while promoting his "Moral ABC's" at the University of Chicago,
Bronner was arrested and committed to a mental hospital from which he escaped.
Eventually his operation grew into a small factory in Escondido, California. At
his death in 1997, it produced over a million bottles of soap and other
products a year but was still not mechanized. The firm did no advertising but
has been the subject of many published articles. It supported many charitable
causes. After Bronner's death, his family continued the business. They have
said the labels he wrote will not change except when required by government
regulations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999(19th
of Adar, 5759): Sidney Gottlieb passed away.<b> </b>Born in
1918, Sidney Gottlieb was an American chemist probably best-known for his
involvement with the Central Intelligence Agency mind control program
(MKULTRA). Sidney was born in the Bronx under the name Joseph Schneider.
He received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology.
Despite the fact that he was a stutterer since childhood, Sidney got a master's
degree in speech therapy. He also had a club foot, but this did not stop him
from practicing folk dancing, a lifelong passion. In 1951, Sidney Gottlieb
joined the Central Intelligence Agency. As a poison expert, he headed the
chemical division of the Technical Services Staff (TSS). Sidney became known as
the "Black Sorcerer" and the "Dirty Trickster". He
supervised preparations of lethal poisons and experiments in mind control.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999(19th
of Adar, 5759): Movie director Stanley Kubrick passed away at the age of
70. Some of his more memorable films included “Spartacus,” “2001-A
Space Odyssey” and “Dr. Strangelove.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/08/movies/stanley-kubrick-film-director-with-a-bleak-vision-dies-at-70.html</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1966/11/12/how-about-a-little-game</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.theguardian.com/film/stanleykubrick</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999:<i> The
New York Times</i> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or
special interest to Jewish readers including <u>The Times of My Life: And
My Life With The Times</u> by Max Frankel, <u>A Return to Modesty:
Discovering the Lost Virtue</u> by Wendy Shalit, <u>Hirschfeld On
Line </u>by Al Hirschfeld and <u>P.S.: The Autobiography of Paul
Simon</u> by Paul Simon<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000:
Second showing of ‘The Life of the Jews in Palestine'' at the Museum of Modern
Art..<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001:
Gesher pulled out of the coalition as a result of Ehud Barak’s participation in
the Camp David Smmit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: Ehud
Barak completed his services as Israel’s tenth Prime Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: Airel
Sharon was sworn in as Prime Minister of Israel today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001:
Shlomo Ben Ami completed his service as Israel’s Foreign Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001:
Binyamin Be-Eliezer replaced Ehud Barak as Defense Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: Dalia
Rabin-Pelossof replaced Efraim Sneah as Deputy Minister of Defense.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001:
Shimon Peres begins serving as Israel’s Foreign Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: Reuven
Rivlin replaced Binyamin Ben-Eliezer as Communications Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: Asher
Ohana replaced Yossi Beilin as Minister of Religion<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001:
Avigdor Lieberman replaced Avraham Shochat as the National Infrastructure
Minister<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: Natan
Sharansky began serving as Minister of Housing and Construction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: Uzi
Landau replaced Shlomo Ben-Ami as Minister of Public Security.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001:
Gideon Ezra began serving as Deputy Minister of Public Security<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001:
President Bush met with 25 leaders from the Jewish community in the White House
Roosevelt Room.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002:
Fifteen people were injured in the hotel lobby bombing at Ariel for which the
PFLP terrorists took credit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003(3<sup>rd</sup> of
Adar II, 5763): Two Israelis were killed and five were wounded when armed
terrorists infiltrated the community of Kiryat Arba and attacked during
Shabbat. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: “In
an advertisement placed in” today’s edition of The Jewish Press, The Union of
Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada declared that ...Agudas
Horabonim cannot approve of a call to attend a Reform or Conservative temple on
Friday night, or any time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: A
celebration of actress Ruth Kobart’s life is scheduled to be held this evening
at the Geary Theatre in San Francisco.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/12-2002/ruth-kobart-of-forum-and-how-to-suceed-fame-dies-i_2919.html</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004: <i>The
New York Times</i> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
interest to Jewish readers including <u>The Prisoner of Vandam Street</u> by
Kinky Friedman and the recently released paperback edition of <u>Trains of
Thought: From Paris to Omaha Beach: Memories of a Wartime Youth,</u> by
Victor Brombert in which the renowned literary scholar recalls his bourgeois
Jewish childhood in Europe and his stateless youth: his parents escaped from
France to the United States in 1941, and after joining the Army he returned to
Europe to fight in the Normandy campaign and the Battle of the Bulge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5764): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004 (14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5764): Ninety-two-year-old painter Elise Asher, the wife of poet laureate
Stanley Kunitz passed away today. (As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/13/arts/elise-asher-92-painter-poet-who-blended-images-and-words.html?_r=0</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: After
considering Hiram Bingham's deeds during the war years in Marseille for a
number years, Israel's memorial Yad Vashem ("Holocaust Martyrs' and
Heroes' Remembrance Authority") issued the Bingham family a letter of
appreciation<br />
2006: <i>The Jerusalem Post</i> reported that Saudi Arabia has
continued to participate in the boycott against Israeli goods in violation of
promises the Saudis had made to the United States and the international economic
community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: <i>The
Cedar Rapids Gazette</i> announced that it would no longer carry the
column by Mitch Albom because he was not reliable. Apparently,
the <i>Gazette</i> could tolerate his fictional columns, not just the
fact that he could not be trusted to get his work to the paper once a week as
promised.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: The
Ministry for the Development of the Negev and Galilee decided to move the
national archive of Israel from Jerusalem to Arad,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: At
the Skirball Cultural Center, a screening of <i>Black Book</i> in
which “a beautiful chanteuse (Carice van Houten) joins the Dutch resistance in
1944 to track down the Nazis who killed her family and becomes embroiled in a
web of seduction, betrayal, and revenge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: The
Israel Air Force began incorporating the new "Shoval" drone, which
according to the Israel Defense Forces has an improved ability to identify the
launch of projectile rockets such as Katyushas and Qassams.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: An
exhibition entitled “Superheroes and Schlemiels: Jewish Memory in Comic
Strip Art” opens at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam. “<i>Superman</i>, <i>Maus</i>, <i>The
Rabbi’s Cat</i> and many other heroes and anti-heroes from the art of
comics feature in this exhibition of comics and graphic novels by Jewish
artists. Leading comic artists present their vision of a Jewish past in
original drawings, printed matter and film material. The artists include Will
Eisner, Joe Kubert, Ben Katchor and Rutu Modan. The exhibition, with comics
from 1910 to the present day, is a co-production by the JHM and the Musée d’art
et d’histoire du Judaïsme in Paris.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007(17<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5767): Eighty-year old journalist and novelist Charles Einstein, the
author of The Bloody Spur passed away today in Michigan City, Indiana.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Charles-Einstein-S-F-sportswriter-and-2571360.php</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008(30
Adar I, 5768: Rosh Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008:
“College Road Trip,” a comedy featuring Molly Ephraim was released today in the
United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008 (30
Adar I, 5768): The eight victims of the attack on Mercaz Harav yeshiva in
Jerusalem were buried this afternoon, each with Torah scrolls stained with
their blood, in accordance with the Halakhic decision ruled by former Chief
Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu. The victims included American student Avraham David
Moses, aged 16, Doron Maharata, 26 the oldest of those killed whose family
immigrated to Israel as part of Operation Moses when he was eight years old,
Yochai Lipschitz, 18, of Jerusalem; Yonatan Yitzchak Eldar, 16, of Shiloh;
Yonadav Chaim Hirschfeld, 19, of Kochav Hashahar; Neriah Cohen, 15, of
Jerusalem; Roey Roth, 18, of Elkana; and Segev Pniel Avihayil, 15, of Neveh
Daniel<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008:
Roland E. Arnall completed his term as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: “The
Other Boleyn Girl” starring Natalie Portman premiered in the United Kingdom<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Today
a state historical marker was erected by the Georgia Historical Society, the
Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, and Temple Kol Emeth, near
the building at 1200 Roswell Road, Marietta where Leo Frank was
lynched. The memorial reads:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Near this
location on August 17, 1915, Leo M. Frank, the Jewish superintendent of the
National Pencil Company in Atlanta, was lynched for the murder of
thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory employee. A highly controversial trial
fueled by societal tensions and anti-Semitism resulted in a guilty verdict in
1913. After Governor John M. Slaton commuted his sentence from death to life in
prison, Frank was kidnapped from the state prison in Milledgeville and taken to
Phagan's hometown of Marietta where he was hanged before a local crowd. Without
addressing guilt or innocence, and in recognition of the state's failure to
either protect Frank or bring his killers to justice, he was granted a
posthumous pardon in 1986.</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: In
“The Perfect Hamantaschen” published today Deborah Gardner attempts to settle
the dispute between those who prefer prune and those who munch on “mun.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/the-perfect-hamantaschen/</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
Journalist <i>David Plotz</i>, the editor of Slate, discusses and
signs <i>Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and
Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible</i> at
Politics and Prose Bookstore, 202-364-1919.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
Israeli illustrator and artist <i>David Polonsky</i> discusses and
signs his new graphic novel, <i>Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story</i> (created
with Ari Folman, whose animated film of the same name inspired the book), at
Busboys and Poets (D.C.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
Shabbat Zachor 5769<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: With
demonstrators clashing with the police outside a near-empty stadium, Sweden won
a doubles match to take a 2-1 lead against Israel in the Davis Cup series in
Malmo, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: In
case involving Dead Sea Scrolls scholars, <i>The Chicago Tribune</i> reported
that New York City authorities this week charged the son of University of
Chicago professor Norman Golb with identity theft, criminal impersonation and
harassment in connection with a campaign to smear opponents of his father's
scholarly theories.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The
Jewish Women's Archive’s tour of Santa Fe is scheduled to come to an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: “The
Splendor of the House of Camondo: From Constatinople to Paris, 1806-1845” which
opened at the Museum of Jewish Art and History in Paris on November 6, 2009 is
scheduled to close today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The
121st annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis opened in
San Francisco.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The
Twentieth Annual KOACH Kallah is scheduled to come to an end. KOACH is the
college program of The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: After
a year-and-a-half of careful restoration work by the Egyptian authorities, the
Maimonides Synagogue in Cairo is scheduled to be rededicated today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: <i>The
New York Times</i> features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readings including <u>The Ask</u> by
Michael Lipstye<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010(21
Adar, 5770): Ninety-seven-year-old Arnold Forster, an American Jewish
leader, lawyer and writer who was a longtime executive of the Anti-Defamation
League of B’nai B’rith, passed away today in the Bronx at the Hebrew Home for
the Aged in Riverdale. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
Israeli choreographer Michal Samama is scheduled to perform ‘Still Life with
Seven Stones’ in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Israeli
violinist Misha Keylin, Seymour Lipkin and the Jupiter musicians are scheduled
to perform at the Good Shepherd Church in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: On
the day before Mardi Gras, Jews in the Crescent City have the opportunity to
participate in Breakfast with Maimonides during which Rabbi Zelig Rivkin is
scheduled to lead a study of the writings of the Rambam<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: (1
Adar II 5771): Rosh Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: (1
Adar II 5771) Yahrzeit for the passengers killed on Egged Bus #53 8 years ago
in Tel Aviv:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">· Kmer
Abu Khamed, 12, from Daliyat al Karmel<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">· Yuval
Mendelevitch, 13, from Haifa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">· Smadar
Firstatter, 17, from Haifa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">· Avigail Lietel,
14, from Haifa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">· Asaf Tzur, 16,
from Haifa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">· Daniel Harush, 16
, from Safed<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">· Tom Hershko, 16,
from Haifa, and his father-<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">· Motti Hershko,
41, from Haifa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">· Tal Kehrmann, 17,
from Haifa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">· Elizabeth (Liz)
Katzman, 17, from Haifa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">· Meital Katav, 20,
from Haifa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">· Moran Shushan,
20, from Haifa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">· Anatoly Biryakov,
20, from Haifa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">· Be'eri Ovad, 21 ,
from Rosh Pina<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">· Eliyahu Laham,
22, from Haifa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">· Miriam Atar, 27,
from Haifa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">· Mark Takash, 54,
from Haifa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has ordered the state to demolish all
illegal West Bank outposts built on private Palestinian land by the end of
2011, Cabinet Secretary Zvi Hauser announced today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
Publication of “Jewish Texts Lost in War Are Surfacing in New York”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/nyregion/08books.html?_r=2&hpwm</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: “Nicholas
Winton: The Power of Good” is scheduled to be shown at the Pittsburgh Jewish
Film Festival in Pittsburgh, PA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The
junior faculty at the University of Haifa is scheduled to go on strike as part
of “an ongoing dispute with the Committee of University Presidents over work
conditions.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Friends and family of Dr. Ron Reider join together to celebrate his natal
day. Besides being a crack physician, Reider is an avid wrestling
fan, a pillar of the Jewish community and a loyal supporter of the Traditional
Minyan. In addition to which, he is one of only two people in Cedar Rapids who
wraps his tefillin around his right arm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5772): Fast of Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: As
part of their Fast of Esther observance, the 9<sup>th</sup> graders at
Temple Judah have agreed to take part in “Say No To Lashon Hara
Day.” Purim is a holiday that reminds us of the evil consequences of
the Evil Tongue. Traditionally, on the day before Purim, we give up food and
drink to show our solidarity with Esther. They are going to avoid Lashon Hara,
both in its literal and figurative meaning, on the day before Purim to show
that modern world would be better off without it just as the Jews of Shushan
would have benefited from its absence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Education Minister Gideon Saar announced today that Rabbi Chaim Druckman will
receive the Israel Price for his contributions to society and educatio<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Thirteen Israelis made this year’s list of billionaires which totaled 1,226
people. Idan Ofer, director of Ofer Group, leads the list of Israeli
billionaires in the 161st spot, with an estimated fortune of $6.2 billion. Beny
Steinmetz of Steinmetz Business Group ranked eight spots bellow Ofer, with a
net worth of $5.9 billion. Another Ofer brother, Eyal, came in 173rd on the
list, with $5.8 billion. Iscar founder Stef Wertheimer and his
family ranked 255th with some $4.2 billion, while Bank Hapoalim's Shari Arison
was placed in the 288th spot with $3.9 billion. Other Israelis included on the
list were film producer Arnon Milchan (290th, $3.8 billion); Kazakh-Israeli
tycoon Alexander Machkevich (418th, $2.8 billion); Check Point founder Gil
Shwed (683, $1.9 billion); Delek Group owner Yitzhak Tshuva (683, $1.9
billion);Lev Leviev (764, $1.7 billion); Marius Nacht (1015, $1.2 billion);
Teddy Sagi (1015, $1.2 billion) and Moris Kahn (1153, $1 billion). (As reported
by Y Net)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Center for Jewish History and American Jewish Historical Society are scheduled
to present a discussion of the soon-to-be published book <u>FDR and the
Jews</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Helaine and Isaac Heller donated one million dollars as an unrestricted gift to
Cooper Union’s Annual Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: In
Cedar Rapids, the family and friends of Dr. Ronald Reider, a pillar of the
Jewish community and an ardent supporter of the Shabbat Minyan, celebrate his
natal day. Dr. Reider is one of two men in Cedar Rapids who uses
“left-handed’ tefillin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013(25<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5773): Ninety-eight-year-old Jacques Torczyner, the Belgian born former
president of the ZOA passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/zionist-leader-jacques-torczyner-dies/</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://zoa.org/2013/03/10193626-zoa-mourns-passing-of-jacques-torczyner-zionist-leaderformer-zoa-president/</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:”
British Fascism, Anti-Fascism and Jewish Defence,” a one day conference
co-sponsored by the Board of Deputies of British Jewish is scheduled to take
place at the Wiener Library. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: JW3
is scheduled to host a “100% Shabbat friendly” Friday Night Supper Club in
London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Following funeral services this afternoon, Francis Calisch Rothenberg, the
granddaughter of Edward N. Calisch the rabbi at Richmond’s Temple Beth Ahabah,
is scheduled to be interred at the Hebrew Cemetery in Richmond.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.richmond.com/obituaries/rothenberg-frances-calisch/article_4755d663-7fa6-5517-a445-d2c919b83ec7.html</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: The
Library of Congress is scheduled to screen “Sukkah City,” Jason Hutt’s
documentary that “explores the artistic process of architects and documents how
an ancient building was reinvented for the 21<sup>st</sup> century.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: In
Coralville, Iowa, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host Shabbat Across America.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Following a congregation spaghetti dinner, the 9<sup>th</sup> grade class
is scheduled to lead Friday night services at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: The
third bi-annual LimmudFest New Orleans is scheduled to open this evening with
registration at Temple Sinai on St. Charles Avenue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Nine
Ukrainian Jews injured by gunfire during fighting in Kiev were flown to Israel
today afternoon to receive crucial medical treatment. (As reported by Yoel
Goldman)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Israeli jets scrambled to its Northern border with Syria today after Syrian
aircraft were spotted in the area. The Syrians, who were apparently
attacking rebel positions, pulled back from the border when they spotted the
IAF. (As reported by Times of Israel)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Closer to the Moon” a movie based on the Ioanid Gang (a group of Jewish
Romanians who allegedly stole a huge amount of money from an armored car) was
released in Romania today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/07/2015/wa-release-worldwide-hit-habib-galbi"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/07/2015/wa-release-worldwide-hit-habib-galbi</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 2015:
As Jews in Cedar Rapids come together for the Traditional Shabbat minyan they
are bathed in a veritable Upper Mid-West Heat Wave as temperatures go above
freezing for the second day in a row.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #06080a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2015: The
band A-WA released its first song “Habib Galbi” (“Love of My Heart”), a modern
take on a Yemeni folk song of the same name.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: The
Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host a Paint Your
Own Passover Pottery party this evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015(16<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5775): Eighty-eight-year-old businessman and philanthropist Isaac Heller
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/business/isaac-heller-co-founder-of-remco-and-toymaker-to-a-generation-dies-at-88.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: Tom
Morton-Smith’s “Oppenheimer” which takes him “from a left-wing academic in
Berkeley, California, to a military scientist in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where
he headed the top-secret Manhattan Project” is scheduled to be performed for
the last time at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 2015:
At the New Orleans Hyatt Hotel, the Jewish Children’s Regional Service (JCRS),
the first and oldest Jewish children’s agency in the United States, will host a
160th anniversary, featuring some of New Orleans finest musical talent, and
honoring families who have made programs on behalf of Jewish children a
centerpiece of their philanthropy. (Editor’s Note – speaking from personal
experience, this is an organization worthy of financial support)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: “Yoav
Galant, a former IDF general running for Knesset with the centrist Kulanu
party, charged today that the government led by Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu largely ignored the tunnel threat posed by Hamas in the Gaza Strip
until Operation Protective Edge last summer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: “An
estimated 40,000 demonstrators filled Rabin Square this evening “to take part
in a rally calling for a change in government” where they herard former Mossa
chief Meir Dagan say that Netanyahu “is dragging us down to a bi-national state
and to the end of the Zionist dream.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Phoenix” and “Apples from the Desert” are scheduled to shown at the Houston
(TX) Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: “War
Paint,” a musical based on the rivalry between Elizabeth Arden and Helena
Rubinstein, the Jewish cosmetics entrepreneur, premiered on Broadway at the
Nederlander Theatre today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/231414/skin-deep-broadway-war-paint-patti-lupone-christine-ebersole?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=6087aac131-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-6087aac131-206644398</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: It
was announced today that “beginning in 2017, the National Jewish Book Award for
Holocaust studies and narratives will be named to honor the memory and legacy
of the late Ernest W. Michel” who was “deported from his hometown of Manheim,
Germany by the Gestapo at 16 years old, “Ernie” Michel escaped seven years
later after the death march from Auschwitz to Buchenwald and dedicated the rest
of his life to Jewish life and Holocaust remembrance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: In
Memphis, TN, Temple Israel is scheduled to host its annual Purimspiel, “an
original production…inspired by a collection of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock
tunes.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: In
France, the court is scheduled to render a verdict after hearing evidence in a
case where “French Jewish scholar Georges Bensoussan is being sued by Muslim
anti-racism groups for saying in a radio debate: ‘In French Arab families,
babies suckle antisemitism with their mothers’ milk.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: The
YIVO Institute is scheduled to sponsor a lecture by Jack Jacobs on the
“Political Thinkers Of East European Jewry” where he “will focus on the ideas
of Dubnow, Zhitlowsky, Pinsker, Ahad Ha’am, Syrkin, Borochov, Scherer, and
Jabotinsky.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: “As
of midday today, threats had been reported at Jewish institutions in Wisconsin,
Maryland, Oregon, Florida, Alabama and at least two community centers in New
York, according to Secure Community Network, the security arm of the Jewish
Federations of North America” while “two threats were directed toward Canadian
JCCs, in Toronto and London, Ontario.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: “Why
Do They Hate Us?” a documentary that examines anti-Semitism in France is
scheduled to be shown at the 21<sup>st</sup> NY Sephardic Jewish Film
Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Zachary Truboff, the senior rabbi at Oheb Zedek-Cedar Sinai Synagogue in
Lyndhurst, OH announced today that he was resigning so he could pursue his
dream of returning to Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: Tony
Blair, the former British Prime Minister is scheduled to be the keynote speaker
at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center’s 2018 Humanitarian
Awards Dinner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: Dr.
Mark W. Weisstuch is scheduled to lead two sessions on “The Ten Commandments:
Ambiguities and Misconceptions” at the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: The
National Jewish Book Award is scheduled to take place at the Lander College for
Women – The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School in Manhattan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: Rabbi
Lawrence of the Kinloss United Synagogue and an Oxford alumnus, is scheduled to
discuss issues of confidentiality and cover-ups in Halacha at the Old Law
Library at the Magdalen College.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: At
the Center for Jewish History, curator Ilona Moradof is scheduled to a lead a
four of “Kindertransport—Rescuing Children on the Brink of War” which “illuminates
the organized rescue efforts that brought thousands of children from Nazi
Europe to Great Britain in the late 1930s”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In
San Francisco, the Jewish Library is scheduled to host a screening of “Shimon
Returns,” about Holocaust survivor who returns to the lands of his childhood.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In
Palo Alto, CA the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host an evening with Dr.
Nathan Szajnberg, the German born American author of <u>Jacob and Joseph,
Judaism's Architects and Birth of the Ego Ideal </u>in a discussion of
father and son relationships in the world of Judaism and the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: On
the same day when Democrats in Congress can’t seem to get it together with an unambiguous
condemnation of ant-Semitism, the San Jose Sharks of the NHL are scheduled to
host Jewish Heritage Night.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The
Wandering Israeli Performance is scheduled to take place today in Tel Aviv<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.touristisrael.com/the-wandering-israeli-performance-tel-aviv-israel/25527/</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: JW3
is scheduled to host a screening of “Foxtrot,” the “winner of the Silver
Lion at the 2017 Venice Film Festival,” directed by Samuel Maoz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The
Jewish Book Festival is scheduled to host authors Jodie Ginsberg, Jane Haynes,
Keith Kahn-Harris, Mark Levene and James Libson as they discuss “Is Humanity in
Denial?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://jewishbookweek.com/event/is-humanity-in-denial/</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019(30<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5779): Rosh Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: The
Philadelphia Israeli Film Festival is scheduled to open this evening with a
screening of “Incitement.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: The
JCC Chicago Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The Mamboniks
that tells the “story of how Jewish people fell in love with the music and
dance of Cuba during the exciting 1950s mambo era.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: The
East Bay International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of
“A Matter of Size” and “The Harmonists.”<br />
2020: In Louisiana, “Scholar-in-Residence Tanya Farber” is scheduled to deliver
a drosh on “Hidden and Revealed Light” during the Shabbaton hosted by
Congregation Beth Israel..<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: In
San Francisco, Yeashore Community and Maggid Raja Anderson are scheduled to
lead a Havdalah service, followed by a sing-along on historic ship.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: In
Boston, SEIU 32BJ is scheduled to host “Gragger 5780, a “raucous and radical
Party Party, “ featuring the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass
Band..<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: On
this Shabbat when the world is dealing with the outbreak of coronavirus, Jews
prayer for a refuah shelaymah (perfect healing) for all who are suffering from
any affliction including Reuven Fink, the rabbi of Young Israel in New
Rochelle, NY and the family of Lawrence Garbuz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020(11<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5780): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: The
Jewish Community Library and Mechanics’ Institute are scheduled to present
co-editors Barbara Cantalupo and Lori Harrison-Kahan as they talk about Emma
Wolf, the author of <u>Heirs of Yesterday</u> and their journey to
resuscitate her work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6106185355183603844/8475784473403374950"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://thejewishnews.com/2020/12/13/review-heirs-of-yesterday-by-emma-wolf/</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: The
JCC Literary Consortium and JCCs across the nation are scheduled to present
“author and businessman Mark Gerson as he talks about his nonfiction
book “The Telling: How Judaism’s Essential Book Reveals the Meaning of Life”
and the importance of haggadahs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: The
Contra Costa JCC is scheduled to present a program about Israel-UAE-Dubai
relations and business ties as part of its Faces of Israel series” with UAE
business leader Thani Al Shirawi, Knesset member Michal Cotler-Wunsh and
international human rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: <i>The
New York Times</i> features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including <u>Ticking Clock: Behind the
Scenes at “60 Minutes”</u> by Ira Rosen and <u>Mike Nichols: A Life</u> by
Mark Harris.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: Film
director Nurith Aviv and UC Berkeley professor Chana Kronfeld are scheduled to
lead a discussion about the 2020 documentary “Yiddish.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: In
Waltham, MA, Temple Beth Israel is scheduled to present online a
“Yiddish/Klezmer Dance Workshop.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: The
Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth is scheduled to host a virtual tour of the
Novogrudok Jewish Resistance Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
Deadline for apply JWA’s Twersky Education Fellowship.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: The
National Library of Israel is scheduled to host a lecture by Professor Rachel
Elior, Yigal Zalmon and Caron Sethiil on Micha Ullman’s “Letters of Light”
which will stand in the southern portion of the new National Library of Israel
campus in Jerusalem, at a prominent crossroads between the Israel Museum and
the Knesset.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5783): Purim <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: YIVO
is scheduled to offer a lecture by Ronald Robboy via ZOOM on “Molly Picon As
Lyricist.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Jeremy Rosen on “Purim:
Fact and Fiction.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: Based
on previous published information Justice Minister Yariv Levin, Finance
Minister Bezalel Smotrich and MK Simcha Rothman, head of the Knesset
Constitution, Law and Justice Committee are prepared to meet for compromise
talks about judicial reform tonight under the auspices of President Isaac
Herzog.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a virtual lecture by Trudy Gold on
“Jews In Bismarck’s Germany, Part 1.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: The
Humanitarian Awards Dinner, one of the largest fundraising events in the city
of Chicago which is a high-profile evening that pays tribute to Holocaust
Survivors as well as civic, community, and business leaders is scheduled to
take place tonight under the co-sponsorship of the Illinois Holocaust Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: A
double simcha – celebration of Purim and the birthdate of Dr. Ron Reider.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The
second and final day of Never Now, “the world’s largest summit on antisemitism
and hate” is scheduled to come to an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The
Museum of Southern Jewish Experience is scheduled to host an “Author Event”
during which “author Stephanie Deutsch will present on her book, You Need a
Schoolhouse, which dives into the historical partnership between Booker T.
Washington and Julius Rosenwald, two dynamos who shared an ethos of pragmatism
and a progressive vision that led to the Rosenwald schools and ultimately
changed the fate of thousands of Black students across the South in the Jim
Crow era.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As
the 80<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the Normandy Invasion approaches, the Sir
Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled the last lecture by Allen Packwood
on “Churchill’s D-Day.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: “In
the spirit of the Talmudic teaching of Eilu v’Eilu, principled disagreement,
Rabbi David Saperstein, a Reform Jewish leader and former Obama appointee, and
Dr. Tevi Troy, an Orthodox Jew who served in the Bush administration, will
model the type of respectful discord all too uncommon in these contentious
times . . . and explore how we might forge a Jewish path to greater bipartisan
cooperation and tolerance the Streicker Center is scheduled to host a
discussion of “Jewish Values and American Politics.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: Dr.
Doris Bergen, J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence, United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of
Holocaust Studies in the Department of History and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre
for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto is scheduled to deliver a lecture on
“A Priest in a Nazi Collar: German Military Chaplains and the Holocaust.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/mashapirolec0324"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/mashapirolec0324</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The
Illinois Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host an on-site and online
program “A Time for Action: Rising Hate Crimes and Antisemitism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: Dr.
Dalal Saeb Iriqat, a columnist and associate professor at Arab American
University Palestine, who “has made statements downplaying the Hamas attack on
Israel and blaming the Israeli government for the bloodshed on October 7, when
1,200 people were killed after Hamas terrorists infiltrated the country” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is scheduled to speak at the Harvard Kennedy
School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs today for a
seminar series called "Middle East Dialogues."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/harvard-to-host-palestinian-prof-who-blamed-israel-for-oct-7-called-attacks-normal-human-struggle"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.foxnews.com/media/harvard-to-host-palestinian-prof-who-blamed-israel-for-oct-7-called-attacks-normal-human-struggle</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The
JWA book talk is scheduled to Emily Bowen Cohen, the author of <u>Two Tribes.</u><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As
part of International Women’s Day, The Weitzman National Museum of American
Jewish History is scheduled to a screening of “Rose,” a French and Yiddish film
with English subtitles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 2024:
Funeral services ae scheduled to be held this morning at Agudas Achim in
Coralville, IA for David Caplan Z”L, the husband of Joni Caplan, the father of
Benjamin Caplan and Shoshannah (Joseph) Egers followed by interment in the
congregation’s cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
7th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 153 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p>melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-83515105739354344532024-03-05T14:03:00.000-06:002024-03-05T16:05:04.250-06:00This Day, March 6, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p><a name="_Hlk65776354"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">March 6</span></span></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">19 BCE (12th of Adar
II, 3741): The Temple “built” by King Herod was dedicated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Technically, Herod had refurbished the Second
Temple and not built a ‘third Sanctuary.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1239: With the Edict of
Valencia, Spanish King James I validated privileges of the Jews of Aragon. The
Jewish courts (Bet din) were authorized to try all cases except capital
offenses. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1405: In Toro, Zamora,
King Henry III and Catherine of Lancaster gave birth to John II, who as King of
Castile and Leon overturned the Valladolid laws that restricted Jewish
activities and adopted “a more tolerant attitude toward the already battered
Jewish population of Castile following the mass wave of conversions” that had
taken place from 1391 to 1415.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1447: The papacy of
Nicholas V began today. According to Shlomo Simonsohn he “changed course
several times in his policy the Jews just as his predecessors had done.” (For
more on Nicholas V and the Jewish people see <u>The Apostolic See and the Jews</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1475: Birthdate of
famed Italian artist Michelangelo Buonarroti.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Say Michelangelo to most people and they respond, Sistine Chapel
ceiling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Say his name to Jews and the
response is “Moses.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Moses”</span> is a
marble sculpture which depicts the greater Jewish leader. Originally intended
for the tomb of Pope Julius II in St. Peter's Basilica it was placed in the
minor church of San Pietro in Vincoli on the Esquiline in Rome after the pope's
death. The statue depicts Moses with horns on his head. This is believed to be
because of the mistranslation of Exodus 34:29-35 by St Jerome. Moses is
actually described as having "rays of light" coming from his head,
which Jerome in the Vulgate had translated as "horns." This horned
Moses provided further proof that the Jews were, as the Gospel says, “the
Devil’s spawn.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1663: Alexander VII
issued the Papal bull “Illius, qui illuminat.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1754:
Fifty-nine-year-old British statesman Henry Pelham who while serving as Prime
Minister introduced the Jew Bill of 1753 “which allowed Jews to become
naturalized citizens by application to Parliament” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1758: Abraham de
Mesquito was one of those witnessing the changes of the will made by Abraham
Menedes Seixas also known as Miguel Pancheco Da Silva. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=5RsXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=Miguel+Pacheco+da+Silva&source=bl&ots=YClG-mgM3N&sig=y53ofmKL5tAEr-K6wfDYs7snD2Y&hl=en&ei=xIRXTKvJG8ugnQejpIzTCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Miguel%20Pacheco%20da%20Silva&f=false"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://books.google.com/books?id=5RsXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=Miguel+Pacheco+da+Silva&source=bl&ots=YClG-mgM3N&sig=y53ofmKL5tAEr-K6wfDYs7snD2Y&hl=en&ei=xIRXTKvJG8ugnQejpIzTCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Miguel%20Pacheco%20da%20Silva&f=false</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1760: New York native
Abigail Seixas and Hillel Judah who were married in 1759 gave birth to Sarah
Judah, the wife of Ralph de Pass, whom she married in 1798 at Newport, RI.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1762: In Germany,
Dreile Schweizer and Philip Moses Faist Rosenheim gave birth to Moses Faist
Rosenheim who was the husband of Jentle Loeb and Rehle Jonathan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1765(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5525): Fast of Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1766(25<sup>th</sup> of
Adar): “The Sefardim congregation of London passed a resolution that a Sefardi
marrying an Ashkenazi has forfeited his claim on congressional charities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1774: Birthdate of
Stuttgart, Germany native Sarah Benedictus, the husband of Jacob Ottenheimer
with whom she had six children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1776: English born
Lucius Levy Solomons and Rebecca Franks gave birth to Mary Solomons, the wife
of Jacob Franks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1777: In Norwalk, CT,
Judith Rachel Mears and Moses Isaacks gave birth to Sampson Mears Isaacks the
husband of Catherine Cohen with whom he had five children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1781: James Wright, the
British Colonial Governor ordered the Jews of the Georgia to leave; accusing
them of disloyalty to his majesty by supporting the revolution. The order was
never carried out. For the most part, Wright had it right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most Jews did support the American
Revolution.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1789(8<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5549): Fifty-five-year-old Phillip Minis, the Savannah born son of
Abraham and Abigail Minis and the husband of Judith Pollock with whom he had
five children – Isaac, Abigail, Frances, Phillipa and Abaham – who “was paymaster
to the Continental troops in Georgia” during the American Revolution and wo the
first president of Savannah’s Congregation Mickve Israel<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/40575523?seq=4#metadata_info_tab_contents"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.jstor.org/stable/40575523?seq=4#metadata_info_tab_contents</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">page 47 ff.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1789(8th of Adar, 5549):
Rabbi Aryeh Leib ben Jacob Joshua Falk, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>Penei Aryeh,</u></i> passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1791: Birthdate of
David Paul Drach the native of Strasbourg who converted to Catholicism after
moving to Paris and eventually became the librarian of the College of
Propaganda in Rome <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1792: Moses Alexander
(Moshe ben Abraham) was buried today at the Alderney Road Jewish Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799: General Kleber,
Commander in Chief of the French forces in Palestine, “instructed General Damas
to undertake a reconnaissance in the mountains which was met with such fierce
resistance from the Turks that the French were forced to retreating having lost
sixty dead.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1801: Phillip Abraham,
the husband of “Jane Vogg” and the father of Victor Abraham was buried today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1815: With the defeat
of Napoleon, new restrictions were imposed on the Jews all over Europe. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1816: The
Jews were expelled from the Free City of Lubeck, Germany at the instance
of the local guilds. This was part of the reactionary backlash that followed
the defeat of Napoleon a year earlier. Many of these Jews finally found refuge
in the German of city of Moisling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
“a period of adjustment” where the citizens of Moisling determined how many
Jews would live in their city and under what conditions, the government
provided a house for a rabbi and constructed a building that the Jews were
allowed to use as a synagogue if they paid “a moderate annual rent.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1819: Birthdate of
Fanny Neuda author of Studen de Anacht (Hours of Devotion) a prayer book for
women.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Neuda_Fanny_Schmiedl"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Neuda_Fanny_Schmiedl</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/neuda-fanny"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/neuda-fanny</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1819: In Leiden, Emanuel
Levi Goldsmith, the Dutch born, son of Levie Emanuel Goudsmit and Magdalena
Hartog Goudsmit, and his wife Alijda Joseph Joel Goldsmith gave birth to Leon
Emanuel Goldsmith, the future resident of New York State and husband of Charlotte
Goldsmith with whom he had two children – Joel and Mary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1821: Start of the
Greek War for independence. According to the Jewish Virtual Library, Jewish
populations in the Peloponnese had become in disfavor with the Greeks by
apparently supporting the Ottomans, and during the Greek War of Independence
thousands of Jews were massacred alongside the Ottoman Turks by the Greek
rebels, with the Jewish communities of Mistras, Tripolis, Kalamata and Patras
completely destroyed. At the same time, Jews throughout other parts of Europe,
including the Rothschilds supported the revolt, which captured the popular
imagination with its imagery of Greece the cradle of Democracy versus the
Ottoman Sultan. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1821: In Paris Elie
Furtado and Rose Fould gave birth to Cécile Charlotte Julie Fould-Furtado who
was the wife of Charles Heine who unlike his cousin Heinrich did not convert to
Christianity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1822(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5582): Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1822: In Liverpool,
Sarah and Lyon Samson gave birth to Frances Samson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1823: In Aldingen,
Germany Zerla Wromser and Salomon Pappenheimer gave birth to future Cincinnati
resident Leopold Pappenheimer, the husband of Maie Pappenheimer and father of Helena
Meyer; Sara Pfeiffer; Emma Dreyfuss; Rae Pappenheimer; Oscar Pappenheimer;
Alexander T. Pappenheimer; Eda Newelt; Sigmund Pappenheimer; Anna Pappenheimer
and Dora Pappenheimer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1823: In Stuttgart,
King William I and his third wife Pauline Therese gave birth to Charles I who during
his reign as the king of Württemberg bought one of the wooden models of the
Temple Mount created by Conrad Schick, the “German architect, archaeologist and
Protestant missionary who settled in Jerusalem in October of 1846.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Schick “designed the Mea Shearim
neighborhood” and his home, Tabor House “is today considered one of Jerusalem’s
most beautiful buildings.” (Moshe Gilad)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1825(16<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5585): Hungarian Talmudist Shalom Charif Ullman passed away at Lackenbach
where he, his son and grandson all served as Rabbis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1830(11<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5590): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1834: In Canada, York
was incorporated as the city of Toronto. It was not until the 1840s that small
numbers of Jewish immigrants from Western and Central Europe began to arrive in
Ontario and settle in the cities of Hamilton, Kingston, and Toronto. In 1849,
Abraham Nordheimer moved from Kingston to Toronto and purchased a plot of land
for a cemetery on behalf of the Toronto Hebrew Congregation. The congregation
was originally an Orthodox synagogue, made up of members from Germany,
including Bavaria, Bohemia, and Alsace, Great Britain, the United States,
Russia, Galicia, and Lithuania. It became known as the Daytshishe Shul because
of its modernized services. In 1856, Lewis Samuel of York, England, immigrated
to Toronto and helped organize the Sons of Israel Congregation. In 1858, the
two congregations combined to form the Toronto Hebrew Congregation-Holy Blossom
Temple. Holy Blossom was Orthodox, but in the 1920s joined the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations and became Reform. It was the only Reform temple
in Toronto until the 1950s, when it was joined by Temple Sinai and Temple
Emanu-El. Today Holy Blossom is the largest Reform Congregation in Canada. In
the 1880s, the arrival of large numbers of Eastern European Jews escaping the
pogroms of czarist Russia, led to the creation of three new synagogues. Goel
Tzedec and Beth Hamidrash Hagadol Chevra T'Hillim were founded in 1883 and were
made up of mostly Russian members. They merged in the early 1950s to form Beth
Tzedec, a Conservative congregation. The third synagogue, Shomrei Shabbos, was
started in 1889 by Orthodox Galician Jews. Also in 1889, Beth Jacob, known as
the Poylishe Shul and Rumanian Synagogue or Adath Israel came into existence.
By the 1940s, Toronto had about 60 synagogues. These were mainly small
Landsmannschaften, which were immigrant synagogues that represented the
different hometowns of settlers from Russian Poland, the Ukraine, Lithuania,
and Belorussia. In the 1950s and 60s, the smaller shtiblekh merged into larger
synagogues. Therefore, the number of synagogues decreased, but in their place
were larger and more stable congregations. The Jewish population of Toronto
started out small in the 18th and 19th centuries and grew slowly but steadily
into the early 20th century. In 1871, 157 Jews lived in Toronto, in 1891, the
number rose to 1,425, and, by 1901, the Jewish population had increased to
3,090. The size of the community always depended on waves of immigration from
Europe, based on pogroms and persecution in various countries. In 1911, the
Jewish population of Toronto had expanded to 18,237 and, by 1921, had almost
doubled to 34,619. In 1931, 45,000 Jewish immigrants, made up of mostly Poles,
settled in Canada after the United States tightened its immigration quota in
1924. Because of restrictions imposed by the Canadian government during the
Depression, Immigration preceding and during World War II declined significantly.
This was a huge blow to Eastern European Jews trying to escape persecution, and
only small groups of Austrian and German Jews fleeing Hitler were able to
immigrate to Toronto during this period. In 1941, the number of Jews in Toronto
had only risen slightly to 49,046, despite the thousands who desperately sought
refuge in Canada. <a name="postwar"></a>After World War II, the Canadian
government established anti-discrimination laws and eased immigration
regulations. The Canadian Jewish Congress and needle traders helped refugees
come to Toronto from displaced persons camps. In addition, an important
development in the Toronto community was the growth of the Jewish day school
system in the post-World War II era. Previously, the Montreal and Winnipeg
Jewish communities had larger networks of congregational and day schools. The
1950s and 60s saw a tremendous growth of population and community life. In
1951, the Jewish population of greater Toronto reached 66,773. It was augmented
further after the 1956 Hungarian uprising brought a new influx of Jewish
refugees to the city. In the 1960s, the first Sephardic Jews came to Toronto
from Morocco, and established the first Sephardic synagogues and organizations
in the city. Toronto's economic developments of the 1960s, combined with the
rise of Quebec's separatist movement in the 1970s, led to a mass migration from
Montreal to Toronto in the late 70s and early 80s. In 1971, the Jewish
population stood at 105,000, by 1981, it reached 128,650 and, by 1991,
increased to 162,605. When the Parti Quebecois won the provincial election in
1976, 20,000 to 30,000 Jews fled to Toronto, fearing an independent Quebec
would divide and weaken the national Jewish community. Toronto assumed
Montreal's position as the center of Jewish activity. However, the economic
recession of the 1990s had a deleterious impact on the Jewish community's
finances and its ability to subsidize Jewish day schools. Despite this setback,
Toronto maintains the largest Jewish population of any Canadian city. In recent
years, Toronto has received Jewish immigrants from South Africa, the former
Soviet Union, the United States, and Israel. Today, the Jewish community stands
at approximately 150,000 out of Toronto's 3.5 million inhabitants. Most Jews
living in Toronto have only been there for one or two generations. With such
close ties to their homelands, Torontonian Jews are typically more traditional
than those in the rest of Canada and the United States. Of the 50 percent or so
of the Jewish population that associate themselves with the community, 20
percent are Orthodox, 40 percent Conservative, 35 percent Reform, and the
remainder nondenominational. Toronto maintains around 50 synagogues, a growing
network of Jewish day schools, and a number of Jewish organizations. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1835: In London, Sarah
and Jacob Nunes Castello gave birth to Hannah Jacob Nunes Castello.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a name="7"></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1836:
The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege.
Antony Wolfe, a young Englishman, was reportedly the only Jew who fought and
died at the Alamo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1838: Two days after he
had passed away, Naphtali Cohen, the father of John Hart, was buried today at
the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841: Joseph and Nanny
Rosenheim gave birth to Simon Rosenheim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1844: In Amsterdam,
Ahasuerus Salomon van Nierop and Lady Rachel Salvador gave birth to Frederick
Salomon van Nierop the Dutch lawyer who became a director of the Amsterdam Bank
in 1871 and also served on the City Council.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1845: In Canterbury,
Kent, Hannah Barnard and Nathan Jacobs gave birth to Jane Jacobs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1845: John Samuels, the
26-year-old “son of Alexander and Ann Samuels” was buried today at the “Balls
Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1850: In Darmstadt,
Germany, Salome Loew and Moses Altheimer gave birth Benjamin Altheimer, who
came to the United States 1868 where he engaged in a variety of business
enterprises and married Jeny Eisenstadt in 1880.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/altheimer-benjamin"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/altheimer-benjamin</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1850: In Darmstadt,
Germany, Moses Altheimer and Salome Loew gave birth to Benjamin Altheimer the
math and language tutor in Germany and husband of Jennie Eisenstadt who settled
in the United States where he “director of the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum,”
“Treasurer of the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives in Denver” and a
member of of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Charitable and Educational
Union in St. Louis, MO.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851(2<sup>nd</sup> of
Adar II, 5611): Benjamin Wolf Löw passed away today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Born at Loslau in 1775, this Polish-Hungarian
rabbi was the son of Eleazar Low, the father of Eleazar Low and the grandfather
of Abraham and Benjamin Singer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1856: The University of
Maryland, College Park is chartered as the Maryland Agricultural College.
According to recent figures approximately 5,000 of the school’s 25,000
undergraduate students are Jewish while 1,500 of the 10,000 grad students are
Jewish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These figures do not include the
other U of Md. Campuses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The school
offers 35 Jewish studies courses with a major and minor in Jewish Students. In
1949, Evelyn Levow Greenberg, the wife of the Hillel Rabbi at the University of
Maryland published <u>The Little Tractor who Traveled to Israel</u> one of the
first children’s books to celebrate the Kibbutz movement and the creation of
the state of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1857(10<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5617): Leopold Reiss, the husband of Caroline, the father of Emily and
the Manchester woolen merchant who with his brother James owned Reiss Bros.
passed away today in France “leaving £180,000 in England.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858: In Lynchburg, VA,
Isadore Untermyer and Therese Laudauer, two Jews from Bavaria, gave birth to
Columbia trained attorney Samuel a civic leader, successful businessman and
pillar of the Jewish Community who had three children with his wife Minnie Carl.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/social-science/sociology/reform-bios/untermyer-samuel"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/social-science/sociology/reform-bios/untermyer-samuel</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860: Forty-year-old
Henry Cantor was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1860: In Biblis, Germany,
</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #202122;">Auguste
Gustina (née Bendheim) and Koppel Jakob Hochschild gave birth Berthold
Hochschild the “mining magnate who co-founded the American Metal Campaign while
raising three children Harold, Walter and Gertrude.<br />
1862: In Manitowoc, WI, Brandies Department Store founder Jonas Leopold
Brandeis, the Prague born so of Helena and Lazar Brandeis and his wife Franziska
Brandeis gave birth to Arthur D. Brandeis.</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863(15<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5623): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863: Mr. Max Maretzek
resumption of his old position at the Academy of Music this evening was greeted
with the full approval of “all classes of the music-loving community in New
York/<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865: Sara Kosman and
Jacques Lang gave birth to Judith Lang.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865: In Vilna, Sarah
Rachel Milchiger and Hirsch Wolf gave birth to Peter Wiernik who in 1885 came
to the United States “where he wrote for the Yiddish Chicago Daily Courier”
before becoming editor for New York's most important Yiddish daily, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jewish Morning Journal.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2016/06/perets-vyernik-peter-wiernik.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2016/06/perets-vyernik-peter-wiernik.html</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/wiernik-peter"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/wiernik-peter</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866: Birthdate of NYC
native and Chicago Medical College graduate Sydney Kunn, the alienist and
neurologist who served on the faculty of the University of Chicago and was a
director of the Illinois Society for Mental Hygiene. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1867: In Manhattan, Louis
Frankenthaler and Frau Frankenthaler gave birth to Joseph Frankenthaler, the
brother of Benjamin Frankenthaler.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868: In New York City,
Julie Lilienfeld and Joseph Bierhoff gave birth to CCNY grade and Columbia
trained surgeon, Dr. Frederick Bierhoff <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Birthdate of Austrian-born composer Oscar
Straus whose most famous work is an operetta called “<i>Der tapfere Soldat” </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">or “The Chocolate Soldier.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870: In Rochester, NY, founding of the Hebrew Ladies’ Aid Society
whose members included Mrs. Levi Adler, and Mrs. Simon Guggenheimer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5631): Ta-anit Esther; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871: Birthdate of German native and London resident Wily Herzfelder,
the husband of Anne Frances Strauss and father of Dorothy Herzfelder. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5631): Fast of Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871: In Blaydon, Newcastle on Tyne, Thomas and Hannah Oxberry gave
birth to James Henry Oxberry, the proprietor of the Palace Hotel in Kowloon,
China who was the founder of several lodges of the Royal Antediluvian Order of
Buffalos, the fraternal organizations knowns as “the Buffalos” or “the Buffs.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871: Two days after she had passed away, “Ellen (nee Joseph) Jewell,”
the wife of Moss Jewell with whom she had had eight children was buried today
at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872(26th of Adar I, 5632): Fifty-one-year-old Theodor Goldstücker, the
German born Sanskri school who was appointed professor of Sanskrit at
University College London in 1852 passed away today in his adopted homeland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874: Birthdate of Hugo Dreschfeld who was bur at the Reform Jewish
Cemetery in Bradford.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875: In Kensington, London Leopold (Lippmann) Seligmann, the son of
Fanny and David Isaac Seligmann and Julia Levi gave birth to Clara Schloss<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876: Birthdate of Chaim Aaron ben David the native of Berlin who
gained fame as artist Hermann Struck an ardent Zionist who “helped establish
the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876: “Ben Israel or Under the Curse” opened at the Grand Opera House
in New York City this evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Described
as “a Jewish drama” in five acts, the drama had previously been performed in
Troy, New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876: It was reported today that the Purim Association will host a full-dress
reception at Delmonico’s that will mark the end of five days of festivities
celebrated the Jewish people who hold private masquerade parties as is their
“usual custom.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877(21<sup>st</sup> of Adar, 5637): Seventy-one-year-old Johann
Jacoby, the physician turned political activist passed away today in his native
Konigsberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://www.ohio.edu/chastain/ip/jacoby.htm"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.ohio.edu/chastain/ip/jacoby.htm</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877(21st of Adar, 5637): Franklin J. Moses, Sr. an attorney, planter,
politician and judge in South Carolina who both opposed secession, then
supported the Confederacy and then was accused of being a scalawag during
Reconstruction, passed away. His maternal grandfather was Jonas Phillips a
founder of Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia, PA and the paternal grandfather
Commodore Uriah P. Levy, the highest-ranking Jewish officer to serve in the
U.S. Navy during the Civil War.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, you
got it right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These two Jewish grandees
were on opposite sides during the Civil War, a fight that pitted brother
against brother, father against son and in this case, grandson against
grandson. For a contemporary view of Moses, written by a Northern newspaper see<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20D1FF63E5A127B93C4AB1789D95F4C8784F9"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20D1FF63E5A127B93C4AB1789D95F4C8784F9</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: It was reported
today that humorist Raphael J. de Cordova is scheduled to deliver a lecture at
an upcoming fundraiser to be held at Steinway Hall sponsored by the Hebrew
Lodge for those who suffered during the recent fire in Brooklyn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878: “Beaconsfield on
the Jews” published today described Disraeli’s view of the Jews as described in
<u>Coningsby</u>, a novel he wrote before he entered political life including
the fanciful sentiment that “the Jews hold in their hands the destinies of
Europe.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879 (11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5639): Fast of Esther observed because the 13<sup>th</sup> of Adar is
Shabbat<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879: The Purim
Association is sponsoring this evening’s fancy dress charity ball which is
taking place at the Academy of Music.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880(23<sup>rd</sup> of
Adar, 5640): Parasaht Vayakhel-Pekudi ending the reading of Exodus and Shabbat
Parah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880: In Bavaria, Baruch and Fanny Rothschild gave birth to Ida
Rothschild, who became Ida Strauss when she married Siegmund Strauss. (She died
at Auschwitz, and he died at Theresienstadt.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: In Kieff, Euphrosyne Khatavner and Greogry Korshoon Cournos gave birth
to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ivan Grigorievich Korshun who gained
fame as American translator and novelist John Cournos who “used the pseudonym
John Courtney” and was married to Helen Kestner Satterhwaite who used the
penname Sybil Norton.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/bookshopdoor/signature.cfm?item=136"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/bookshopdoor/signature.cfm?item=136</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5642): Shushan Purim observed as Congress
is considering the Chinese Exclusion Act which would become effective in May.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883(27th of Adar): Jacob Barit (Yankele Kovner) passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885: President Grover
Cleveland appointed Thomas Francis Bayard as Secretary of State in which
capacity he wrote to the U.S. charge d’affairs in Vienna expressing his disgust
with the government of Austria-Hungary’s refusal to accept Anthony M Keiley as
the American minister “on the ground of his wife being a Jewess.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886 Nine thousand
members of the Knights of Labor struck Jay Gould’s Southwestern Railroad
System. The Knights were one of the earliest attempts at forming a national
labor union in the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Cloak and Suit Maker’s Union which was made up largely of “westernized Jews
from Austria, Galicia and Germany” was part of the Knights which made it one of
the successful joining of Jewish laborers with this umbrella labor
organization. Cultural and linguistic differences as well as plain old-fashioned
anti-Semitism trumped the supposed solidarity of labor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886: Birthdate of
Shmuel “Samuel” Eisner, the native of Kolomyia, Austria-Hungary and father of
“American cartoonist, writer and entrepreneur” William Erwin “Will” Eisner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: In New York City,
Fannie and Samuel Werner gave birth to Columbia University educated author and
WW I veteran of the U.S. Army Medical Corps Morris R. Werner whose career included
a stint as the Obituary Editor for the Herald-Tribune after WW I.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://archives.nypl.org/mss/3289"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://archives.nypl.org/mss/3289</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/wernerm.pdf"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/wernerm.pdf</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889: Today, two years
after having been elected rabbi of Temple Sinai in New Orleans, Rabbi
Maximilian H. Heller married Ida Annie Marks with whom he had four children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1889/03/07/103188184.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1889/03/07/103188184.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889: Henry Cohen, the graduate of Jews’
College, who served as rabbi at several congregations included, the Amalgamated
Congregation of Israelites in Kingston, Jamaica, Congregation Beth Israel in
Woodville, Mississippi and Congregation B’nai Israel in Galveston, Texas as
well as being the Librarian of the Texas Historical Society, an executive board
member of the Jewish Publication Society of America and the American Jewish
Historical Society and following the historic hurricane, the Central Relief
Committee of the Galveston Storm Sufferers married Molly Levy today in Galveston,
TX.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5650) Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: It was reported
today that the United Hebrew Charities have offered to post a bond on behalf of
Lazar Anezes, his wife and four children who have been detained by the
Commissioners of Emigrations because they are “paupers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: It was reported
today that the next event sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association will
be held at the Vienna Hall on Lexington Avenue at 58<sup>th</sup> Street.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: Solomon Barnett,
a Jewish tailor who had thwarted an attempt to rob him “is lying at his home in
a badly demoralized condition” as a result of the injuries he received at the
hand of the thieves.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: I.S. Isaacs of
the United Hebrew Charities was among those who a attended a conference in the
office of the President of the Sanitary Aid Soceity where plans were made to
promote a municipal lodging house law in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: It was rumored
today that United States Collector of Internal Revenue Ernst Nathan had
retired.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: “They Ask For
Palestine” published today described the efforts of William E. Blackstone,
Chairman of the Conference of Christians and Jews to present “a memorial to
President Harrison concerning the Russian Government’s treatment of the Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: In New Jersey,
two Jewish grocers operated their business today for which they would be
arrested because they were open on Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: The
Superintendent of the orphan asylum operated by the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
Society said that only of the youngsters was suffering from measles and that
the twelve other youngsters who had been diagnosed with the disease have been
sent to the Willard Parker Hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: Henry Pereira
Mendes, the rabbi at Shearith Israel is recovering from the gunshot wound he
suffered at the hands of Jose Mizrachee who some describe as a “professional
beggar”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: “To Establish
‘Special Alcoves’” published today described the efforts of the directors of
the Aguilar Free Circulating Library to establish special alcoves at the
various branches of the library” including the one in the Hebrew Institute at
East Broadway and Jefferson Street “for the reception of works on particular
lines of reading.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: Charles W. Foster
completed his service as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during which he dealt
with issues surrounding the massive influx of Russian Jews as can be seen by
his response to the letters of 1891 from Simon Wolf and Lewis Abraham of the
Union of American Hebrew Congregations in which he expressed his appreciation
for their “expressions of confidence” that the department would act humanely
“while executing the immigration laws efficiently.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: It was reported
today the William E. Blackstone Chairman of the Conference of the Christian
Jews” which was held recently in Chicago “has presented a memorial to President
Harison concerning the Russian Government’s treatment of Jews” which includes the
rhetorical question “Why not give Palestine back” to the Jews “since according
to God’s distribution of nations it is their home—an inalienable possession from
which the wee expelled by force.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: “The Answers to
Correspondence Column” published today included the information that “a fellow
badge, round or square, was the mark of degradation a Jew was obliged to wear
in certain parts of medieval Europe.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: Four days before
what would have been his 83<sup>rd</sup> birthday, “Henry Sigismund Straus” the
husband of Henrietta Straus with whom he had had seven children was buried
today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: In New York City,
Leopold and Rebeca Weil gave birth to Leopold Weil Columbia Law School trained
attorney Frank Leopold Weil, the husband of the former Henrietta Simons who was
active in the Jewish community as can be seen by “chairmanship of the National
Jewish Committee on Scouting of the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts
of America” passed away way today and who was award the Medal of Merit by
President Truman <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43059041?seq=1"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.jstor.org/stable/43059041?seq=1</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0048/ms0048.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0048/ms0048.html</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=fbWpX8S7H42ztQbz5aToAg&q=frank+leopold+weil&oq=Frank+Leopold+w&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQARgAMgkIABDJAxAWEB46CAgAELEDEIMBOgIIADoICC4QxwEQowI6BQgAELEDOgsILhCxAxDHARCjAjoFCC4QsQM6DgguELEDEMcBEKMCEJMCOgIILjoICAAQsQMQyQM6CAguEMcBEK8BOggILhCxAxCDAToLCC4QsQMQyQMQkwI6CwguELEDEMcBEK8BOg0ILhCxAxDJAxAKEJMCOgUIABDJAzoOCC4QxwEQrwEQyQMQkwI6CAgAEBYQChAeOgYIABAWEB5QmwtYuSdgjEBoAHAAeACAAc8BiAHBC5IBBjExLjMuMZgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXo&sclient=psy-ab"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=fbWpX8S7H42ztQbz5aToAg&q=frank+leopold+weil&oq=Frank+Leopold+w&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQARgAMgkIABDJAxAWEB46CAgAELEDEIMBOgIIADoICC4QxwEQowI6BQgAELEDOgsILhCxAxDHARCjAjoFCC4QsQM6DgguELEDEMcBEKMCEJMCOgIILjoICAAQsQMQyQM6CAguEMcBEK8BOggILhCxAxCDAToLCC4QsQMQyQMQkwI6CwguELEDEMcBEK8BOg0ILhCxAxDJAxAKEJMCOgUIABDJAzoOCC4QxwEQrwEQyQMQkwI6CAgAEBYQChAeOgYIABAWEB5QmwtYuSdgjEBoAHAAeACAAc8BiAHBC5IBBjExLjMuMZgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXo&sclient=psy-ab</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: In New York City,
Richard and Eugenie Hahn gave birth to Columbia University trained attorney
Paul M. Hahan, the husband of the “former Nannette Hogan Wells” who gave up the
law for tobacco which led to his serving as “President and Chief Executive
officer the American Tobacco Company.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: In Germany, by a
vote of 167 to 51, the Reichstag rejected the bill to restrict Jewish
emigration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896(21<sup>st</sup> of
Adar, 5565): Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor a leading Russian rabbi and Talmudist
passed away. Born in 1817, Rav Spektor engaged in a wide variety of activities
including visiting St. Petersburg to ameliorate the suffering that followed the
Pogroms of 1881, the establishment of yeshivas and involvement with the Hovevei
Zion movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His impact was so great
that the Yeshiva University named it theologic seminary after him - Rabbi Isaac
Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), or Yeshivat Rabbeinu Yitzchak
Elchanan,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: Rabbi M.H. Harris
delivered the first in a series of lectures on the Inquisition tonight at
Temple Israel in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896:
Thirty-four-year-old Behrendt Pick, who would eventually hang himself as a
result of Nazi persecution began teaching “as an adjunct professor of ancient
numismatics at the University of Jena” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: In City Court
today, Justice McCarthy signed an order for the release of Oscar Altman from
the Ludlow Street Jail where he has been held on a charge of “breach of promise
of marriage.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: In St. Louis,
George Washington Milius, the son Eva and William Solomon Milius and his wife
Pauline gave birth to Helen Dinah Milius who became Helen Dinah Baum when she
married Isaac Albert Baum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: It was reported
today that Mrs. Esther Herrmann whose late husband was a partner in H.
Herrmann, Sternbach & Co has given $10,000 to the Young Men’s Hebrew
Association. According Percival Menken, the President of the association, the
money will make it possible to improve the facility at 861 Lexington Avenue
which Jacob Schiff had donated to YMHA last January.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: Seymour Mork and
Philip Harrison won the prizes at the debate hosted this evening by the Young
Men’s Literary Society of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association which was held at
Temple Ahawath Chesed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897(2<sup>nd</sup> of
Adar II, 5657): Parashat Pekudi<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: Cantor David Kahn
led “the regular Sabbath” at Temple Rodloph Shalom at Lexington and 63<sup>rd</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: Rabbi Kaufman
Kohler delivered the “charge” to Dr. Rudolph Grossman at services marking his
installation as the new rabbi at Temple Roloph Sholom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A two-day conference begins </span>in Vienna
with members of the Zionist circles of Vienna, Berlin, Breslau and Galicia.
Herzl's proposal of a general Zionist Congress is adopted with the reservation
that the cooperation of the Russian Zionists will be obtained. München is
chosen as the city for the congress.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: Congregants from
Beth Elohim with a membership of 150 and Congregants from Temple Israel with a
membership of 140 met in Brooklyn and voted unanimously to consolidate the two
congregations and build a new building to serve as their synagogue. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: More than a
thousand people attended the annual Purim reception at the Home for Aged and
Infirm Hebrews hosted by the President Simon Borg and the Board of Trustees.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: It was reported
today that the “heads of the army” refused to allow Commandant Esterhazy who
played a key role in framing Dreyfus with Colonel Picquart because they were
afraid of “the effect on popular sentiment if Esterhazy were defeated.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: According to the
Court Circular, today "The Emperor of Austria has given the title of Baron
De Forest to M. Arnold [De] Forest and to his brother M. Raymond De Forest,
both the adopted sons of Baroness de Hirsch de Gereuth, widow of the late Baron
de Hirsch."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: Bayer registers
aspirin as a trademark. According to Diarmuid Jeffreys, the author of <u>Aspirin:
The Story of a Wonder Drug</u>, a Jew named Arthur Eichengrün, was “the Bayer
chemist who first found an aspirin formulation which was tolerable in the human
stomach and did not have the unpleasant side effects of nausea and gastric
pain. Eichengrün also invented the name aspirin and was the first person to use
the new formulation to test its safety and efficacy. However, Eichengrün was
excluded from the official version of Bayer's history in 1934 because of his
Jewish origin. Instead, it was claimed by Bayer that aspirin was
‘discovered" by an Aryan scientist, Felix Hoffman, to alleviate the
sufferings of his rheumatic father.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fritz ter Meer who “became chairman of Bayer's supervisory board” in
1956 had been “convicted at the Nuremberg trials for his part in carrying out
experiments on human subjects at Auschwitz and was imprisoned for five years.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900(5<sup>th</sup> of
Adar II, 5660): Samuel Joseph Gelman, the Warsaw born son of Abraham Gelman and
the husband of Kate Gelman passed away today after which he was buried at
Kingston upon Hull, England.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: The Council of
Jewish Women which was founded in 1897 continued its triennial meeting today in
Cleveland under the leadership of its president Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: Birthdate of
Avraham Shlonsky, a Russian born Israeli poet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: Birthdate of
Viennese native Ludwig Donath whose European acting career was cut short by the
Anschluss which led him to the United States where his film career included the
portrayal of Al Jolson in two biopics about the Jewish performer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: In Baltimore, MD,
Isadore and Caroline Ester Blustein gave birth to Reba Golda Blustein Cohen,
the wife of Charles Cohen who attended Syracuse University and was a member of
the National Board of the Federation of Temple Sisterhoods.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1901: Birthdate of Russian born film director Mark Donskoy</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: Herzl informs the
Sultan that on March 15th three million francs will be deposited to his account
in banks in Paris, Berlin and London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: On this date it
is announced that the King has been pleased to give and grant unto the Right
Honorable Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel, E.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., his Majesty's Royal
license and authority that he may accept and wear the Grand Cordon of the Imperial
Ottoman Order of the Osmanieh, conferred upon him by his Highness the Khedive
of Egypt, authorized by his Imperial Majesty the Sultan of Turkey, in
recognition of valuable services rendered by him to his Highness. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: Columbia trained
attorney Solomon Strook, the New York City born son of Mariana Marcuse and Sameul
Strook and future President of the Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York
City married Hilda Weil today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: It was reported
today that “A Book of Hours, lent by Mr. Felix Warburg” that included a picture
of King David “having doffed his turban and crown” and showing that he has “a
Hebrew face and long white beard” was among the rare manuscripts of the 14<sup>th</sup>
and 15<sup>th</sup> century now on display at the library of Columbia
University.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: In Chicago, Julia
Sanditz and Benjamin J. Ettelson gave birth to University of Michigan graduate
and University of Chicago trained attorney Leonard Bert Ettelson, the husband
of Leula Bone and Senior partner firm Ettelson, O’Hagan, Ehrlich & Frankel
as well as Chicago Chairman board First Drovers Corporation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: It was reported
today that “At the regular meeting of the Jewish Union Veterans held at their
headquarters in the Yorkville Court building a letter was from President
Roosevelt acknowledging his election to honorary membership and expressing his
regrets that he could not find it convenient to attend the ninth annual
campfire and installation of officers on March 14.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: In Chicago, Hyman
and Rebecca Bertha Goldstein gave birth to Bertha Rebecca Goldstein who became
Bertha Rebecca Brownstein when she married Henry J. Brownstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906(9<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5666):Sixty-eight-year-old Isabelle Rosenbaum the Richmond born daughter
of Caroline and Joseph Myers, the wife of Michale Rosenbaum and the “Mother of
Joseph Marx Rosenbaum; Bertha Varina Guggenheimer; Florence Virginia Lippman;
Morton Beauregard Rosenbaum; Minnie Lee Guggenheimer; Daisy Wise Estelle Prag;
Sidney Beale Rosenbaum; unknown Rosenbaum; Adele Rita Prag; unknown Rosenbaum;
Irma Belle Rosenbaum and Corinne Omega Hirsh” passed away today in her
hometown.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: Birthdate of
Mariners Harbor, Staten Island native and University of Michigan trained doctor
Julius Edwars Astrchan, a trustee of the Queens Jewish Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: It was reported
today that at its annual meeting, “the German Jewish Relief Society…paid a
tribute to Jacob H. Schiff” the “noble philanthropist” who “rendered service of
great importance in supporting the efforts on behalf of the Jews of Morocco.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: Saks and Company
advertised “Spring Apparel for Men with “suits and topcoats” selling for $15 to
$45.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: Charles Nagel
succeeded Oscar Straus as the United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor and
proved to be supportive of Jewish immigrants when <span style="color: black;">in
1910 he “ruled that thirteen of the twenty Russian Jewish immigrants being held
at Galveston, TX as likely to become public charges may be admitted to” the
United States” and that “the other seven will receive further consideration.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909:
Birthdate of Albany, NY native and University of Pennsylvania graduate Max Leon
Forman, the JTS ordained rabbi, the husband of Diana Slavin Forman and father
of Gayle, Cyrelle, Jane, Donna and Dr. Barr Forman who was serving the Hollis
Hills Jewish Center in Queens in 1970.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/max-l-forman/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/max-l-forman/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910(25th of Adar I,
5670): Sixty-three-year-old Zygmunt Wartski, the husband of Eugenie Wartski
passed away today in Vienna. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: In New York,
Nathan Feinerman, the future President of the Workmen’s Circle and Ida Joffe
Feinerman gave birth to Louis Edwin Feinerman, the brother of Berta and Mollie
Feinerman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: Fifteen hundred
members of The Hebrew Actor’s Union honor the memory of Morris Horowitz with
“an elaborate funeral” that remembered his contributions to the Yiddish Theatre
yet belied the impoverished state to which he had fallen in his declining years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: Rufus Daniel
Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, began serving as Solicitor General for
England.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: Tonight, a mass
meeting organized by Drs. Solomon and William Neuman is scheduled to take place
at Progress Hall where members of the Federation of Galician Jews will register
their displeasure with the reports, already denied by Superintendent Abraham
Spector, the Har Moriah Hospital which was built with funds from the federation
places to “secede from the federation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: Birthdate of
Sodus, NY, native and Syracuse University graduate Louis Gassell the publisher
of the Jewish Ledger who was an active member of the ZOA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: It was reported
today that” Mortimer L Schiff and Howard S. Gans, who so far have been
unsuccessful in their efforts to tell their stories to the special Grand Jury
investigating the case of Foulke E. Brandt, the former servant of Mr. Schiff
who was sentenced to thirty years in prison for burglary, are now expected to
appear as witnesses before that body early next week.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: In a reminder of
how determined Christians were to convert Jews, the will of Mrs. Martha W.
Wardell, the widow of the Treasurer of the Standard Oil Company which was filed
for probate today included a bequest of one thousand dollars for the Society
for the Promulgation of the Gospel among the Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: In Swampscott,
MA, Russian-Jewish immigrants Simon and Rose Alfond gave birth to Harold
Alfond, the founder of Dexter Shoes who was the husband of Dorothy Levine, the
father of Ted, Susan Bill and Peter Alfond and the grandfather of Tulane
graduate and Maine State Legislator Justin Alfond.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: As of today, “the
Palestine Relief Ship Fund, which is being raised by the American Jewish Relief
Committee and will used purchase supplies to be shipped on the naval collier
Vulcan has reached a total of $34,413.86.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915(20<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5675): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: The list of
contribution to the Palestine Relief Ship Fund published today includes the
Lawrence, MA Jewish Relief Committee, the Zadek Lodge, International Order of
B’nai Brith of Selma, Alabama and the Minneapolis American Jewish Relief
Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: Felix A. Levy is
scheduled to present a paper on Egyptian Obelisks at this morning’s meeting of
the Chicago Rabbinical Association at the Stratford Hotel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: It was reported
today from New York that Jacob H. Schiff has issued another statement
expressing his continued opposition to “the negotiation of any loan by Russia
in” the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: It was reported
today from New York that the custom tailors, many of whom are Jewish “are now
on strike for higher wages.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: It was reported
today from New York that Ambassador Henry Morgenthau has met with “two
delegations of Oriental Jews” and after having discussed their problems with
them “agreed to send them a Ladino-speaking chief rabbi to care for their
spiritual needs” when he returns to his post in the Ottoman Empire.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: In Haifa Rachel
Klimker and Zwi Schwarz gave birrg to Ruth Schwartz who gained fame as Ruth
Dyan, the first wife of Moshe Dyan, the mother of Yael, Ehud and Assi Dyan and
the sister of Reuma Schwartz, the wife of Ezer Weizman<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/obituaries/ruth-dayan-dead.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/obituaries/ruth-dayan-dead.html</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: In Brooklyn, the
former Fannie Ingber and Shmuel “Samuel” Eisner gave birth to cartoonist Will
Eisner who was a mentor for Jules Feiffer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/05/books/will-eisner-a-pioneer-of-comic-books-dies-at-87.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/05/books/will-eisner-a-pioneer-of-comic-books-dies-at-87.html</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://www.economist.com/node/3555931"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.economist.com/node/3555931</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Albert Lucas, the
Secretary of the Joint Distribution Committee on Jewish War Relief traveled
from Washington to New York today where he announced that the committee had
made new arrangements making it possible to send money from the United States to
people living “in the territory occupied by Germany and her allies.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Birthdate of
Irving Torgoff, the Brooklyn born basketball player who led Long Island
University to “an undefeated record and National Invitation Tournament” in 1939
before going on to a career as a pro.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/25/obituaries/irving-torgoff-75-liu-star-in-30-s-and-nba-player.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/25/obituaries/irving-torgoff-75-liu-star-in-30-s-and-nba-player.html</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918(22<sup>nd</sup> of
Adar, 5678): Ludwig Dreyfus whose estate was valued at $1, 305, 318, passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: During a
patriotic gathering at Congregation Ohab Zedek attended by an array of
dignitaries including Dr. Isaac Alcalsy, the Grand Rabbi of Serbia, Rabbi
Bernard Drachman and Rabbi Pereira Mendes a “service flag bearing eighty-seven
stars was presented to the congregation and Albert Lucas, he Secretary of the
Union of Orthodox Congregations of American expressed the loyalty of American
Jews saying “We shall continue to support the Government even to the sacrifice
of our lives where this sacrifice is ask asked of us and as this flag
expresses.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: It was learned
today that “the resignation of Henry Morgenthau, the former Ambassador to
Turkey, as President of the Free Synagogue was due to his unwillingness to
continue as lay leader of the congregation while its rabbi, Dr. Stephen S.
Wise, champions the cause of Zionism.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: Today, at the New
York home of Henry Morgenthau Jacob Billikopf, the executive director of the
American Jewish Relief Committee who was described as the “Marshal Foch of the
army of solicitors of the Jewish Relief Committee” received “a check for $50,000
in recognition of his services as head of the Relief Committee since January
1915.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: “Harry Levine scored
25 points to lead” the University of Pittsburgh Panthers” to a 33-24 victory
over “the University of West Virginia Mountaineers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920(16<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5680): Parashat Ki Tisa<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920(16<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5680): Forty-nine-year-old Nebraska City, NB born University of
Pennsylvania trained attorney Henry N. Wessel a judge of the Court of Common
Pleas of Philadelphia and a long-time member of the American Jewish Committee
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: In Vienna, Max
Bretholtz, a Polish born tailor and Yiddish actor and Dora Fischmann Bretholtz,
a seamstress gave birth to Leo Bretholz a Holocaust survivor who played a key
role in the class action lawsuit against the French railway system - the Société
Nationale des Chemins de fer Français, or S.N.C.F.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Birthdate of
Austrian born conductor Julius Rudel who fled to the United States at the age
of 17after the Anschluss. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://www.music.buffalo.edu/bpo/rudel.htm"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.music.buffalo.edu/bpo/rudel.htm</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: As the lockout
aimed of members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers enters its 14<sup>th</sup>
week, Joseph Schlossberg told a meeting at New York’s Town Hall, that employers
were trying to the old sweatshop environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Schlossberg was a Russian born Jewish was one of the founders the
Amalgamated and served as its Secretary General.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1922:</span> “</span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">More than $300,000 in pledges to the Jewish relief fund
were turned in tonight at a meeting of campaign workers at the Hotel
Pennsylvania, making $2,800,000 toward the quota of $5,000,000.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: The will of
William S. Slater who passed away on February 25 was filed for probate today
and included bequests in the amount of $3,000 to the Federation For the Support
of Jewish Philanthropic Societies and $2,000 to The federation of Jewish
Charities of Boston.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924(30<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5684): Rosh Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924(30<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5684): Seventy-one-year-old Thomas Jefferson Levy, the three-term
Congressman from New York who followed in the footsteps of his uncle Uriah P.
Levy by spending a great deal of his time and fortune on the preservation and
restoration on Monticello, the home of President Thomas Jefferson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000268"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000268</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: The Jewish
Transcript of the Pacific Northwest now known as JTNews was published for the
first time today. (JTA and Times of Israel)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: Banker and
philanthropist Ben Altheimer turned 75 today<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: It was reported
today that “the New York Board of Jewish Ministers has appointed Rabbi Israel
D. Levnehtal to represent it at the opening of the Hebrew University in
Palestine at Jerusalem on April 1.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: After having
addressed more than 300 guests at a farewell dinner given last night at the
Hotel Astor by the Society of for Advancement of Judaism, Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
President of the World Zionist Organization spent his last full day in the
United States before setting sail with Dr. Mordecai Kaplan aboard the Olympic
on the first leg of their trip that will end when they arrive in Jerusalem for
the opening of the Hebrew University. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: “Looking back
from his seventy-fifth birthday over a career of material success and of
unusual aid to the needy, Ben Altheimer, retired banker, revealed today the
activity which has brought the greatest satisfaction to him” “was a work that
began the united efforts of all religious denominations to help a common cause
and has developed into the widespread cooperative welfare movements in this
country.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926(20<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5686): Parashat Ki Tisa<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926(20<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5686):
Eighty-year-old Isabella Prince Aloe, the Belfast born daughter of Isabella
Hill Prince and Louis Morris Prince, the wife of Albert Sidney Aloe and the
mother of four sons including Republican party leader and Washington University
Louis P. Aloe who would serve as acting mayor of St. Louis during World War and
Vice President of the Federation of Jewish charities while being married to
Edith Rosenblatt, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: “Miss Henrietta
Szold, President of Hadassah…sailed” today for Palestine “take charge of the
construction of the Nathan and Lina Straus Health Center in Jerusalem made
possible by a recent gift of $100,000 by Mr. Straus.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: Russian born New
Yorker David Alper married his second wife “Minnie ‘Manya’ Machle Isiomin”
today<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: In Washington
Heights (NYC) stockbroker and market analyst Herbert Greenspan and Rose
Goldsmith gave birth to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://www.biography.com/people/alan-greenspan-9319769"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.biography.com/people/alan-greenspan-9319769</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://www.federalreservehistory.org/people/alan_greenspan"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.federalreservehistory.org/people/alan_greenspan</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: Birthdate of New
Jersey resident Dr. Maurice Gerstein, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: In Jersey City,
NJ, “Herman Firstenberg, a plumber and the former Elizabeth Loeb gave birth to
Elaine Firstenberg who gained fame as graphic designer Elaine Lustig Cohen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/arts/design/elaine-lustig-cohen-designer-who-left-her-mark-everywhere-dies-at-89.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/arts/design/elaine-lustig-cohen-designer-who-left-her-mark-everywhere-dies-at-89.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: Fritz Lang's
silent film epic “Metropolis” is released.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lang’s murky ethnic heritage is typical of many Germans of his era.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lang’s parents were practicing Roman
Catholics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Lang’s mother was born Jewish,
and she did not convert until Fritz was ten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sort of makes hash of those easy answers about “who is a Jew” although
by Nazi standards Fritz and his brother would have been fodder for the
Holocaust.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: “The New Yok cast
of ‘Abie’s Irish Rose’” is scheduled to “be guests of honor at the open meeting
o the Jewish Theatrical Guild of America this afternoon at the Republic
Theater.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5688): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5688): Mrs. Lewis M. Nelson who was a member of the Directors of the Beth
El Sisterhood and Hadassah, passed away today in Camden, NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: In Weymouth, Massachusetts,
“Ruth (Sward and Hollis Judson Wyman gave birth historian and author David
Sword Wyman, the grandson of Protestant ministers who “was chairman of the
David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168516"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168516</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1930: In Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, Marion "Marie" Shulman
Maazel, the founder of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orcestra and multi-talented
actor and musician Lincoln Maazel gave birth to conductor and composer Lorin
Maazel</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> (As reported by Allan
Kozinn)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/arts/music/lorin-maazel-brilliant-intense-and-enigmatic-conductor-dies-at-84.html?hpw&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHedThumbWell&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/arts/music/lorin-maazel-brilliant-intense-and-enigmatic-conductor-dies-at-84.html?hpw&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHedThumbWell&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1930: In the Bronx,
David and Dora Rubin gave birth to “Ira Rubin, </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black;">a champion
bridge player and an innovative theorist who was nicknamed the Beast because of
the emotional intensity of his play…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(As reported by Paul Vitello)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: The Mayor of New York appointed Ontario native and NYU trained
attorney Jonah J. Goldstein, the American representative of the Jewish Agency
that investigated the Palestine warfare in Jerusalem in 1929 and the husband of
prominent social worker Harriet B. Lowenstein, as a City Magistrate today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932(26<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5692): Seventy-two-year-old German author
Alfred Bock from Giessen, the father of author Werner Beck passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: As the confirmation process comes to a close, it was reported today
that “Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo who has been appointed to succeed Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes on the Supreme Court bench is the author of two books, <u>The
Growth of the Law</u> and <u>The Nature of the Judicial Process</u> by
published by the Yale University.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: It was reported today that the Song of Songs Publishing Company in
Jerusalem has recently issued a new edition of the Solomon’s Song of Songs with
the text printed in Hebrew and English and with illustrations by Zeeb Raban,
one of the leading artists of the Bezalel Arts and Crafts School” which “is on
sale in a number of bookshops and department stores in New York.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: Premiere of “The Merry Heirs” a German comedy directed by Max Ophüls.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934(19<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5694): Fifty-nine-year-old Antopol, Russia
native Isaac Kahanowitz, the resident of “Greensburg, Pennsylvania…who in the
early twentieth century amassed the greatest private collection of Yiddish and
Hebrew books and periodicals in western Pennsylvania, meaning that his library
surpassed anything that could be found even in Pittsburgh, with a Jewish
population of over 50,000” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=pDViIlVm0s8C&pg=PA267&lpg=PA267&dq=Isaac+Kahanowitz&source=bl&ots=DXLUX1yTaQ&sig=ACfU3U33z4Oi9gC58nRzMS83Dx99N95q3g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi_icyAzOvgAhVm5oMKHYnJDZgQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Isaac%20Kahanowitz&f=false"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN">https://books.google.com/books?id=pDViIlVm0s8C&pg=PA267&lpg=PA267&dq=Isaac+Kahanowitz&source=bl&ots=DXLUX1yTaQ&sig=ACfU3U33z4Oi9gC58nRzMS83Dx99N95q3g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi_icyAzOvgAhVm5oMKHYnJDZgQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Isaac%20Kahanowitz&f=false</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar II, 5695): Rosh Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar II, 5696): Forty-nine-year-old “Emanuel
Aronsberg, a member of the United States Legation in Latvia and former member
of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency staff in New York and London passed away today
in Riga.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/03/07/93457818.html?pageNumber=24"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/03/07/93457818.html?pageNumber=24</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: As part of his 85<sup>th</sup> birthday celebration philanthropist
Ben Altheimer received “two cablegrams, one from Cairo, Egypt, from Dr. Samuel
Schulman, rabbi emeritus of Temple Emanu-El and the other form Commodore Louis
D. Beaumont of Antibes, France, honorary of the National Jewish Hospital at
Denver.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: It was reported today that “an appeal for contributions to buy
Passover food for Jewish prisoners in Sing Sing” has been sent out by Dr. Jacob
Katz, Jewish chaplain at the prison.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: As Jews prepared to observe Shabbat this evening and Purim tomorrow
evening, Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson of Temple Emanu-El sent a letter to all of
his colleagues reminding them and their congregants of “the campaign of the
American Joint Jewish Distribution Committee to raise $1,500,000 in” the New
York metropolitan area “as a part of the nationwide effort to raise $3,500,000
for the benefit of Jews in Germany and in other European countries.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: In Amsterdam, “Julius Streicher’s anti-Semitic <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stuermer </i>was burned during a mass meeting” tonight “organized by
the Liberal State party as a protest against the distribution of this paper in
the Netherlands by an Amsterdam news store circulating propaganda for the
Netherlands National Socialist movement.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “In a sharp message to the Legislature delivered today, New York
Governor Herbert Lehman demanded that that the Republicans restore to the
budget an item of $11,160,010 for the debt service” which he said was a clear
violation of the state constitution<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936 In Warsaw, “prohibition of Hebrew ritual slaughtering would
unconstitutional, Monseigneur von Golowicz, State Under-Secretary in the
Ministry of Education and former Professor of Canon Law at Vilna University
declared today at a meeting of the Sejm committee appointed to deal with the
bill for the abolition of ritual killing of cattle.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: In Berlin, “it was confirmed today that the first mutually
satisfactory agreement for the exodus of foreign Jews from Germany had been
concluded between the Reich and the Netherlands” (Editor’s note – the term
mutually satisfactory cannot have been applied to the Jews since the price of
being effectively deported was that they had to give up most of their wealth.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: While “official records on the number of German Jewish refugees
received visas for the United States were not available in Washington, DC, as
of today it is know that “the annual quote for Germany is theoretically 25,957
but nothing near that number of German immigrants has been admitted” to the
United States “in any recent year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black;">1936: “The Home Office has received a series of complaints from Jews in
Jewish districts of London who have been subjected to abuse and in some cases
assault” and “there can be no doubt…people have been molested because they are
Jews in pursuance or as an outcome of a campaign that is being carried on to
some extent by Fascist speakers at Fascist meetings” in Britain.</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: And on the other
side of the financial ledger, birthdate of Ivan Boesky the stockbroker
convicted of insider trading. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: “Despite the
official statement of regret made by the State Department yesterday for Mayor
La Guardia’s attack on Adolf Hitler, the Mayor said he would stand by what he
had said.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: In the Old City
section of Jerusalem, an Arab shot and wounded M. Schneerson as he walked to
daven at the Western Wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: Author Ludwig
Lewisohn “declared in an address before the congregation of the Free Synagogue
in Carnegie Hall” this morning that “the Greeks had their Homer and the Jewish
people have their Torah which is their great historical novel” that “is the eternal
expression of our character and our faith.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: Birthdate of
Bronx native and note photographer Joel Meyerowitz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://www.theartstory.org/artist-meyerowitz-joel.htm"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.theartstory.org/artist-meyerowitz-joel.htm</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://www.joelmeyerowitz.com/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.joelmeyerowitz.com/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1938: </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Palestine Post</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
reported that an armed Arab gang was routed by troops in the Umm el-Fahm area.
One British soldier was killed and three wounded in this operation, while
numerous Arabs were killed, wounded or arrested. There was also unrest in the
Acre northern district. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1938: </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Palestine Post</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
reported that the new High Commissioner, Sir Harold MacMichael, had outlined
his immediate policy in a radio broadcast. He asked the rival parties in the
area to reconcile their claims “upon an amended basis.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: Today “Communist
activity and propaganda were denounced at the closing session of the first
national convention of the Jewish Labor Committee at the Capitol Hotel” where
“delegates…representing more than 500,000 organized Jewish workers in this country,
rejected suggested participation and cooperation with Communist groups” in the
labor committee’s “fight against anti-Semitism and fascism)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1938: </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Palestine Post</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
reported that the first Palestinian “Who’s Who” was published by Masada in Tel
Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939(15<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5699): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: “Representative
Sol Bloom of New York” is scheduled to “read President Roosevelt’s greeting
from Washington today in a Purim festival program” being “broadcast by the
National Broadcast Company that will include speeches by “Rabbi Joseph H.
Lookstein and Mrs. Moses L. Isaacs, the chariman of the women’s division of the
Orthodox Union for the celebration of the 150<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the
inauguration of George Washington.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: “Plans for a
‘Jewish College of Exile’ at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and a
program for a ten-year campaign of spiritual education by the college and the
Union of American Hebrew Congregations were outlined” tonight “at a dinner at
the Hotel Ambassador by Ralph W. Mack, hairman of the board of the college and
Robert P. Goldman, president of the Union.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: In Brighton
Beach, Brooklyn, Jack London, “a lapsed socialist who sold fabric, leather and
vinyl for upholstery” and “Esta (Epstein) London gave birth to Herbert Ira
London, the basketball playing Columbia graduate and husband of Vicki London,
who made the transition from “New York Liberal” to self-proclaimed Conservative
(As reported by Sam Roberts)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/obituaries/herbert-london-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/obituaries/herbert-london-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: The Nazis barred
Jewish physicians from treating Aryans and vice-versa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: Vladimir <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jabotinsky</span>, president of the New
Zionist Organization of the World lectures on "The Fate of, Jewry" at
Manhattan Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: “Three leaders of
the Jewish Labor party were sentenced to three months in prison today on
charges of organizing recent demonstrations against the British government that
took place in Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: Laborite M.P.
Philip J. Noel introduced a motion to censure the British government in
response to the newly enacted laws restricting the purchase of land in
Palestine by Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In defending the
government’s action, Malcolm MacDonald, the Colonial Secretary, said, in
effect, that the restrictions were put in place to placate the Arabs and avoid
more Arab-led violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Baker contended
that the enactment of the new laws was in violation of the rules of the League
of Nations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore he said that “if
the Jews were not a weak and hunted race today, the British government would
have repudiated the moral contract which we made with them while the last great
was going on.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sir Archibald Sinclair,
the Liberal leader and Leopold S. Amery, the former Colonial Secretary spoke
out against the government’s action, with Mr. Amery reminding the House that
Winston Churchill also opposed the new rules.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All of the talk was useless since the Chamberlain government had the
votes to thwart any vote of censure.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: In a move that
does not bode well for Jews living in French North Africa, “Italian armistice
commissioners have left French Morocco, and their duties are being performed by
German members of the commission.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: As the Nazis
tightened their control over Holland and its Jewish population<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Hollanders were warned today in a military
court, which had heard a striking account of a secret organization for
espionage and sabotage all over the Netherlands, that anyone who conspired,
even in thought, against the German Army was playing with a death sentence.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: Adolph Eichmann
talked of deportation of 50,000 Jews from the Old Reich. He emphasized the
importance of secrecy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: In Swieciany,
Ukraine, 20 youths armed with two revolvers escaped the ghetto and hid in the
forest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 1943: The
Bulgarian army started to liquidate Jewish property. All confiscated gold and
silver was deposited it in sealed packages in the Bulgarian National Bank. Many
Bulgarian officials became rich by stealing from the Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: An internal memo
from the United States Government War Refugee Board states that the United
States was negotiating the purchase of a ship for $400,000. The S.S. Necat
would be donated to the Turkish Red Crescent after evacuating 5,000 Jewish
refugee children from Romania to Palestine. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: “The demands of
Jews to be represented as a nation in the peace conference are growing in
Middle East Zionist circles, and it was reported” in Cairo “today that David
Ben Gurion of the Jewish Agency is soon to visit Britain and America to push
the claims.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: “One person was
killed and several others were injured in recent disturbances between Germans
and displace persons at the Jewish displaced persons camp at Zeilsheim near
Frankfort, United States authorities said today.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(The Nazis got to keep their country while
their Jewish victims got to languish in the hell of DP camps.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: Today, “the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations adopted a twelve point statement on ‘Judaism
and the Moral Challenges of Today’ and elected officers and excusive board
members” today in Cincinnati “in the closing hours of the biennial assembly.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Birthdate of John
Stossel, the Chicago born journalist who was born to two Jewish refugees from
Nazi Germany who raised him as a Protestant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: In the Bronx,
“Estelle Reiner (née Lebost), an actress, and Carl Reiner, a renowned comedian,
actor, writer, producer, and director” gave birth to actor and director Rob
Reiner best known for his role of “Meathead.” Archie Bunker’s son-in-law in the
comedy hit “All in the Family.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: In his second
visit to Tel Aviv in two days, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the former President of the
Zionist organization and world-class chemist, told a group of civic leaders
that he is setting aside his research to do whatever he can to help the people on
the coastal plain who are living under strict martial law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: “The Guilt of
Janet Ames” a post-WWII movie directed by Henry Levin, produced by Helen
Deutsch, with a screenplay co-authored by Devery Freeman and Allen Rifkin and
co-starring Melvyn Douglas was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: In a
demonstration of how successful their campaign has been, British authorities
announced today that “25 known terrorists have been captured in Palestine in
recent days.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Authorities said that many
of them are members of Irgun or the Stern Gang.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: It was announced
today that the Joint Distribution Committee “has appropriated $50,400 for
emergency aid and relief” for Jews in the British protectorate of Aden where
“Arab violence…has totally paralyzed Jewish business” and led to “four
synagogues and two schools” being “looted and ruined.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: In New York City,
the former Sheila Lorna Siegel and businessman Stanley Leonard Schwartz gave
birth to Carnegie Mellon University graduate Stephen Lawrence Schwartz, the
Grammy award winning composer and lyricist who gave us “Godspell” and “Pippin.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: In Los Angeles,
novelist Blossom Elfman (aka “Clare Elfman”) and elementary school teacher
Milton Elfaman gave birth to actor, director and author Richard “Rick” Elfman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: On the second day
of Operation Uvda “the Negev Brigade travelled to Sde Avraham and began to
clear land for an airfield there” and that night the “7th Brigade
reinforcements from the Gahal platoon arrived by air in the newly cleared
airfield” carrying “supplies and fuel vital to continue the operation.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: Birthdate of
Norman Spector, the native of Montreal who after a career as a civil servant
became publisher of the Jerusalem Post in 1997.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950(17<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5710):Fifty-your-year old Lew Lehr, the comedian, writer and editor who
authored <u>Lew Lehr's Cookbook for Men</u> and <u>Stop Me If You've Heard This
One </u>passed away toda <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19500307&id=M5EpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oOUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6834,3478241"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19500307&id=M5EpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oOUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6834,3478241</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: Tonight, when his
U<span style="background: white; color: #222222;">nit's positions at Yangpyong were
overrun by the enemy Pvt, Leonard M Kravitz voluntarily manned a machine-gun
position, forcing the enemy to direct its efforts against him and helping his
comrades to retreat,:</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: Ethel and Julius
Rosenberg go on trial charged with espionage for providing secret information
concerning the Atomic Bomb to the Soviet Union.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In this case the defendants, the prosecutor and the Judge will all be
Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But right-wing America fixated on
the ethnicity of the defendants and used it to equate beings Jewish with being
anti-American.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953: U.S. premiere of
“Battle Circus” a Korean War movie directed by Richard Brooks (b. Ruben Sax)
and produced by Pandro S. Berman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1953: </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
reported that Stalin¹s condition was very grave. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1953: </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
reported that The World Jewish Conference, scheduled to open in Zurich was
postponed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1953: </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
reported that Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill had promised that the
British sales of jet aircraft to Arab States would take care to preserve the
balance of power in the area.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954: “New Faces” a
film adaptation of 1952 musical revue directed by Harry Horner and written by
Mel Brooks was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956: CBS Television
broadcast the last episode of “Meet Millie,” a sitcom that had featured Marvin
Kaplan as Alfred Prinzmetal<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956(23<sup>rd</sup> of
Adar, 5716): Seventy-five-year-old Russian born Englishman Abraham Joseph
Hyman, the Titanic survivor and husband of Esther Levy with whom he had five
children – Julius, Ann, Lilian, Morris and Ena – passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/abraham-hyman.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/abraham-hyman.html</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957: At Mt. Sinai
Hospital, the former Miss Joan Seck and her husband Samuel I Hyman gave birth
to their child, a daughter named Susan Marjorie Hyman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957: United Kingdom
colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of
Ghana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Israel and Ghana formed several
joint ventures including a shipping company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The leaders of Ghana and other emerging African countries saw Israel as
a non-threatening source of Western technology and training.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The African leaders were afraid that
accepting similar assistance from the major Western powers would lead to
re-colonization, something they did fear from the tiny nation of Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Israelis provided aid to Ghana and other
newly independent countries as a way of breaking out of the diplomatic and
economic isolation that the Arabs and their allies were trying to use to
destabilize and destroy the Jewish state.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957: Israel withdrew
its troops from the Sinai Peninsula.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
withdrawal followed the October, 1956 war with Egypt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Americans and the Soviets joined forces
to make the Israelis leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They saved
President Nasser of Egypt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Soviets
quickly re-armed Nassar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The American
action had the effect of giving Nasser a free hand to follow his Pan-Arab dream
which included the destruction of the state of Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5718): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958: U.S. Premiere of
“Star Struck” directed by Sidney Lumet and co-starring Susan Strasberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Birthdate of actor Tom Arnold.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964: Allan Sherman
sang “The Dropouts March” on tonight’s edition of “That Was The Week That Was.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1964: Jewish movie star </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Liz Taylor divorced
Jewish “crooner” Eddie Fisher so that she could marry Richard Burton. Fisher
and Taylor were Jewish – he by birth, she by choice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: “Alain Calmat of
France won the men’s world figure skating championship in Colorado Springs, CO
today” (As reported by Bob Wechsler)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: “Items for the
home and its inhabitants will be featured at the annual games and auction night
of the Livonia Jewish Congregation” which is scheduled to be held this evening at
East Junior High School in Farmington, MI<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: On the day before
her 17<sup>th</sup> birthday, Vivian Joseph joined her brother Ronald to “win a
silver medal in pairs skating.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5726): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967: Today, “the
architect, Saul Berkoiwtiz, gave an elaborate description” of the Chapel
planned for Congregation Shaar Hashomayim of Montreal which “will seat
approximately 289 people, cover an area 50 feet by 70 feet” with “windows that
will be fitted with solar bronze glass.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967: In New York City,
Arlene and Daniel Greenwald gave birth to “lawyer, journalist and author” Glenn
Greenwald.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://glenngreenwald.net/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://glenngreenwald.net/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969: Twenty-nine
people, most of whom were students were injured when a terrorist detonated a
bomb in the cafeteria at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969: One person was
injured when a terrorist exploded a grenade at a bank in Al Bireh<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969: Yonatan Netanyahu
wrote to his parents, "In another week I'll be 23. On me, on us, the young
men of Israel, rests the duty of keeping our country safe. This is a heavy
responsibility, which matures us early... I do not regret what I have done and
what I'm about to do. I'm convinced that what I am doing is right. I believe in
myself, in my country and in my future."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971: Publication of
“Diplomacy in the Living Room.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F10810F83A55127B93C4A91788D85F458785F9"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F10810F83A55127B93C4A91788D85F458785F9</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972: Birthdate of
Israeli Olympic swimmer Yoav Bruck <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973: Marcel Marceau
appears at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, IA. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974(12<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5734): Forty-nine-year-old Pulitzer Prize winning author and cultural
anthropologist Ernest Becker passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/14/archives/further-intimations-of-immortality.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/14/archives/further-intimations-of-immortality.html</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(21<sup>st</sup> of
Adar, 5735): Eleven people were killed and twelve more were injured during a
terrorist attack in Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975: “On the ABC
late-night television show Good Night America (hosted by Geraldo Rivera), two
assassination researchers presented the first-ever network television showing
of the Zapruder home movie.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1976(4th of Adar II,
5736): "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom light-heavyweight box champion from
1932 to 1934 passed away at the age of 71. Rosenbloom boxed
during a period when Jews dominated the ring. In 1933, during Maxie's
reign as light-heavyweight champion, Jewish boxers were the champions in four
out of the eight weight classes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977(16<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5737): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977(16<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5737): Seventy-six-year-old Richard Jacob Mack, the son of Bertha and
Jacob William Mack and the husband of Elizabeth Mack passed away today in his
home town of Cincinnati.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978: Birthdate of Sage
Rosenfels, the native of Maqkoketa, Iowa, who as quarterback, led Iowa State
University to its victory in a bowl game before going to a career in the NFL.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1978:<b> </b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
reported that Premier Menachem Begin, on the eve of his departure to the US,
was adamant that Resolution 242 did not specify the withdrawal of the
“territories occupied in the recent conflict” and that the war of 1967 was a
war of national self-defense, while the West Bank was never under Jordanian
sovereignty. Begin did not rule out any West Bank territorial compromise, but
argued that 242 was unspecific, and Israel reserved its position until there
was a practical prospect of negotiating the issue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979: It was reported
today that The Jewish Chronicle is planning to its current office building and
may establish its headquarters out central London for the first time in its 138
year history. (JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981: Canadian attorney
Samuel “Sam” Berger sold the Montreal Alouettes football team to a Vancouver
businessman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981: The Mannes
Orchestra performed under the baton of Yakov Kreizberg as part of his
graduation ceremony from the Mannes College The New School for Music.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981: U.S. premiere of
“On the Right Track” featuring Herb Edelman and Norman Fell.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982(11th of Adar,
5742): Russian born Ayn Rand, author and social commentator, passed away. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/07/obituaries/07randobit.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/07/obituaries/07randobit.html</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://www.aynrand.org/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.aynrand.org/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982: Nathan Teitel's
''The Keymaker,'' described as the story of a Jewish Paul Bunyan in New York
City in 1910, is scheduled to have its premiere today at the American Jewish
Theatre at the 92<sup>nd</sup> Street Y.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984: Ninety-two-year-old
“German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller passed away
today. He is best known for his statement:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak
out-- Because I was not a Socialist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak
out-- Because I was not a Trade Unionist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Jew.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak
for me<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5745): Ta’anit Esther and Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986: “The West End
production” of “Lend Me a Tenor” for which Jerry Zaks won a Tony Award as Best
Director opened today at the Globe Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986: In Santa Monica,
CA, Penny Marienthal and Joseph Cross gave birth to actor Eli Marienthal whose
two siblings Harley Cross and Flora Cross are also thespians.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986: It was reported
today that those who gathered at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City to
celebrate the wisdom of Maimonides whose work they have been studying for the
past year<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“were centuries removed from
the life” of the sage “who was born 851 years ago in Cordoba, Spain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987(5<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5747): Fifty-eight-year Edward Zorinsky, the Democrat who served as Mayor
of Omaha and United States Senator from Nebraska while raising three children –
Barry, Jeffrey and Susan – with his wife Cece.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/08/obituaries/edward-zorinsky-58-dies-us-senator-from-nebraska.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/08/obituaries/edward-zorinsky-58-dies-us-senator-from-nebraska.html</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987: U.S. premiere of “Tin
Men,” the second of Barry Levinson’s four “Baltimore films co-starring Richard
Drefyus and Barbara Hershey, whose father was Jewish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989(29th of Adar I,
5749): Eighty-three-year-old Erwin Charles Ginsburg who earned All-Far Western
Conference honors while playing for Fresno State College from 1925 thought 1929
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990: In Tel Aviv,
architect Arik Ginzburg and his wife gave birth to fashion model Esti Ginzburg.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: Harry Heinz
Schwarz began serving as the Ambassador of South Africa to the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: “CBS Newsman Bob Simon
Tells of Ordeal as Captured Jew” published today<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://www.jta.org/1991/03/06/archive/cbs-newsman-bob-simon-tells-of-ordeal-as-captured-jew"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jta.org/1991/03/06/archive/cbs-newsman-bob-simon-tells-of-ordeal-as-captured-jew</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1992: U.S. premiere of
“Once Upon A Crime” a comedy directed by Eugene Levy with a script co-authored
by Nancy Meyers and co-starring Richard Lewis as “Julian Peters.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993: Having just
completed a short run at the WPA, Paul Rudnick’s “Jeffrey” opened at the
Off-Broadway Minetta Lane Theatre today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994: It was reported
today that “The Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel in Los Angeles has installed
stained-glass "Sephardic Heritage Windows" designed by Israeli artist
Raphael Abecassis.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994: Twenty-six-year-old
Rabbi David Keehn, who is legally blind, is one of 144 rabbis who is honored
with formal ordination at the quadrennial Chag HaSemikhah (rabbinic
convocation) of Yeshiva University's affiliated Rabbis Isaac Elchanan
Theological Seminary (RIETS) in the Nathan Lamport Auditorium, Joseph and Faye
Tanenbaum Hall, New York City. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995: FOX broadcast the
final episode of “Models, Inc” directed by Paul Lazarus for which Aaron
Spelling served as executive producer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997: Janet Rosenberg
Jagan, the daughter of middle-class Jewish parents from Chicago moved from
being the first lady of Guyana to the role of Prime Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> The Times of London</i> featured a review
of <u>The Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism and the Making of
the Jewish State </u>by Zeev Sternhell; translated by David Maisel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: First showing of
''The Life of the Jews in Palestine'' at the Museum of Modern Art. The classic
documentary was produced in 1913 by the Odessa-based Mizrakh Company and
presumed to be lost for some 80 years -- has resurfaced in New York. This excellent
new print with English inter-titles of Noah Sokolovsky's 78-minute silent film
is quite likely the rarest of the rarities featured in the museum's 10-program
tribute to France's national film archives, the Centre Nationale de la
Cinematographie.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: As Israel braced
for more terror attacks, Ariel Sharon finished creating “his unity government”
as the Knesset prepared to pass legislation that would lead to “a fundamental
restricting of Israel’s political system.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002(22<sup>nd</sup> of
Adar, 5762): Seventy-four-year-old “Walter Goodman, a former reporter and
critic at The New York Times and the author of a widely read history of the
House Committee on Un-American Activities” passed away today. (As reported by
Douglas Martin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/07/arts/walter-goodman-74-tv-critic-and-reporter-for-the-times.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN">http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/07/arts/walter-goodman-74-tv-critic-and-reporter-for-the-times.html</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002(22<sup>nd</sup> of
Adar, 5762): Eighty-five-year-old Scottish economist and psychologist Ralph
Glasser passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1389641/Ralph-Glasser.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1389641/Ralph-Glasser.html</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: Israel mourned
the 15 people, at least 8 of whom were students under the age of 18, killed
yesterday by a Palestinian terrorist in Haifa and prepared for their funerals
tomorrow which, for many of the victims would take place “in the section of a Haifa
cemetery reserved for victims of terrorism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004(11<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5764): Ta’anit Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004: Those opposed to
the release of convicted Nazi war criminal who “was convicted in 1997 for a
1944 massacre in which more than 300 Italian civilians were killed” is
scheduled to take place today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: After 138 years,
Rich's whichbegan as a dry goods store run by Morris Rich in 1876 disappeared
and became part of Macy’s-Central. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Washington Post</i> book section
features a review of Michael Medved’s autobiography, <u>The Faith of a Critic</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Chicago Tribune</i> reported that
despite an anti-Semitic backlash, the renaissance of Jewish culture and
religion continued its growth in Russia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This “quiet cultural revolution” has been fueled, in part, by Jews who
moved to Israel during starting in the 1970’s and have returned at the start of
the 21<sup>st</sup> century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New
York Times</i> reported that Robert K. Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots
made his thirtieth visit to Israel since 1963.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On this most recent visit he took the Lombardi Trophy which was proof of
his teams’ Super Bowl Victory and showed it Prime Minister Sharon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> reviewed <u>Ester and
Ruzya </u>by Masha Gessen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The title
characters are Gessen’s grandmothers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The biography tells how these two women maintained their Jewish
identities while living through Stalin, Hitler and the Cold War.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: The cover story
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times Magazine</i> was “A
Memory Loop” by Joseph Lelyveld featuring an account of life with his father
Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006(6<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5766): Ninety-seven-year-old Ruth F. Weiss, also known as Wèi Lùshī, an
Austrian born Chinese “educator, journalist and lecturer” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/06/2006/this-week-in-history-death-of-ruth-f-weiss-last-european-eyewitness-of-chinese"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/06/2006/this-week-in-history-death-of-ruth-f-weiss-last-european-eyewitness-of-chinese</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: The Colorado
Jewish Artist’s Guild of the Mizel Museum hosts a workshop styled “Catapulting
Your Visions to Achievements: Do You Want to Be A Working Artist or An Artist
Who Works?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: “The Project
Gutenberg eBook, Rabbi and Priest” by Milton Goldsmith was released today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20756/20756-h/20756-h.htm"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20756/20756-h/20756-h.htm</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: Former White
House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. was found guilty on four of five counts of
perjury and obstruction of justice trial. The one person convicted in the whole
Plame Affair was a practicing Reform Jew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: As part of its <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Israel
at 60</i></b> celebrations, the 92<sup>nd</sup> Street Y presents “Lee Saar The
Company & Netta Yerushalmy: Out of Israel” as two innovate Israeli dance
companies join forces to present a compelling evening of duets.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008(29<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5768): Ninety-year-old screenwriter who was nominated for Best Story
Oscar for “Naked City” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008(29<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5768): Eight people were killed and nine others were wounded this evening
when a terrorist infiltrated a Jerusalem yeshiva and opened fire. Three of the
wounded in the attack at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in the Kiryat Moshe
neighborhood were serious condition and taken to Hadassah Medical Center in Ein
Karem. The other six were lightly hurt and taken to Sha'arei Tzedek Medical
Center. One of the wounded is 15 years old. Magen David Adom emergency medical
service declared the incident a "multiple casualty event."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Agudas Achim
hosts Shabbat Across Iowa City with an early Friday evening service followed by
a Shabbat Dinner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:<span style="color: black;"> </span>Composer Samuel Adler lights up the marquee at
Temple Emanuel’s Synaplex Shabbat service on Friday night. The German-born son
of a cantor showcases a sampling of his music, performed by the Los Angeles
Zimriyah Chorale. In addition to putting his musical talents on display,
Adler also exhibits his strong faith in a musical sermon. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: At the Kirk
Douglas Theatre in Culver City, Kirk Douglas appears in “Before I Forget” a
scripted one-Douglas show all about the 92-year-old Hollywood icon. In this
rare theatrical appearance, Douglas shares stories about his life and acting
career — the stroke he suffered in 1996 that left him unable to speak, his
numerous starring roles and his return to Judaism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today was a double-header for Jews and the
criminal justice system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lawyers for
Bernard Madoff, the goniff who ran the biggest Ponzi Scheme in history, has
taken steps that could lead to him pleading guilty as early as next Tuesday and
in Des Moines a federal judge rejected a motion to dismiss illegal immigration
and bank fraud charges against Agriprocessors Inc. and its former
owner/manager, Sholom Rubashkin. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: The Foreign
Ministry said today it had closed its embassy after the government of
Mauritania, an overwhelmingly Muslim West African nation asked the Israeli
ambassador and his staff to leave. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: In Davis Cup
competition, Thomas Johansson put Sweden ahead of Israel with a five-set win
over Harel Levy Israel’s Duda Sela even the series with a five-set victory
against Andreas Vinciquerra.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010 (5770): Shabbat
Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The 40<sup>th</sup>
Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches” opened in
Philadelphia, PA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Theater J in
association with Jonathan Reinis Productions is scheduled to present the World
Premiere of Andy Warhol - Good for the Jews?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: In London, UK,
Jewish Book Week came to an end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: U.S. President
Barack Obama's Middle East envoy, George Mitchell met with Defense Minister
Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv today as he began a round of meetings aimed at
relaunching peace negotiations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Today, Professor
Geoffrey Alderman was named the recipient of the Chaim Bermant Prize for
Journalism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://www.geoffreyalderman.com/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.geoffreyalderman.com/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Veretski Pass is
scheduled to perform their new composition “Klezmer Shul” as well as their
standard repertoire and some special surprises at the Freight and Salvage
Coffee House in Berkeley, CA as part of the Jewish Music Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events/veretski-pass"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events/veretski-pass</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Mlle. God” by
playwright Nick Kazan is scheduled to have iis final performance at the Atwater
Village Theatre in Los Angeles. “The subtext of Kazan’s production is an
attempt to mitigate the controversial role the playwright’s father — Oscar- and
Tony-winning director Elia Kazan — played during the era of the Hollywood
blacklist.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regardless of how you may
view the elder Kazan’s role during the Red Hunting days of the 1950’s, this
Greek immigrant had the courage to serve as director of “Gentlemen’s
Agreement,” the 1947 film that dealt with the issue of anti-Semitism in the
United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jewish directors and
movie moguls had shied away from making the film because they were afraid of an
anti-Semitic backlash. [Yes, this is post Holocaust America]<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: “Down Home,” a
multi-media project that “celebrates Jewish contributions to North Carolina
social, civic and commercial life” that has been appearing at the North
Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh is scheduled to come to a close today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: <i>The Los
Angeles Times</i> featured reviews by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including <u>Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis
— Suez and the Brink of War</u> by David A. Nichols<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Most of the
Israel’s welfare services will be suspended indefinitely starting today morning
after negotiations between representatives of social workers and the Finance
Ministry broke down two days ago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: A sanitation
worker of the Jerusalem Municipality was moderately injured today by an
explosion apparently set off when he picked up a garbage bag in Jerusalem..<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(30<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5771): Rosh Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(30<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5771) Ninety-two year old Dr. Sholom Omi Waife a noted writer and
medical researcher who was the grandson of Sholom Aleichem passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=sholom-omi-waife-md&pid=149526929"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=sholom-omi-waife-md&pid=149526929</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The annual AIPAC
Policy Conference is scheduled to come to an end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The Illinois
Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host its annual
Humanitiarian Awards Dinner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The Jewish
Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to sponsor a noontime
screening of “Jewish Women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to the
Olympics,” <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Jewish Women's
Morning at the Capitol (JWMC) is scheduled to take place in St. Paul, MN.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Professor Deborah
E. Lipstadt is scheduled to deliver the annual Charles Grossman Lecture In
Jewish Intellectual History entitled “History Written, History Re-Written: On
American, The Holocaust and Playing the Blame Game” at The Skirball Center for
Adult Jewish Learning at Temple Emanu-El<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The organization
Peace Now filed a complaint with police this morning after a death threat was
made against director Yariv Oppenheimer the night before<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Following the
death of Robert Sherman, the founder of Music World, “his son Robert J. Sherman
succeeded him as CEO and President.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(12<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5772): Ninety-four-year-old “Albert Abramson, who became a principal
force in the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington by using the same pragmatic approach that had made him a successful
developer of apartments, offices and malls” passed away today. (As reported by
Douglas Martin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/us/albert-abramson-94-holocaust-museum-advocate.html?hpw"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/us/albert-abramson-94-holocaust-museum-advocate.html?hpw</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Israel Military
Industries will be barred from submitting bids for Indian defense contracts for
the next ten years, along with five other firms, The Times of India reported
today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The Humanitarian
Awards Dinner co-sponsored by the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education
Center is scheduled to take place this evening in Chicago, Illinois.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: To mark its
acquisition of the defense archive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews,
The Wiener Library is scheduled to host a public panel discussion on the
subject of Anglo-Jewish responses to domestic fascism in the 1930s.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: “The Last White
Knight: Is Reconciliation Possible?” is scheduled to have its Minnesota Premier
tonight at the Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The Hebrew
language edition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Playboy </i>will be
available on newsstands today in Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: “Agriculture
Ministry workers armed with pesticides went into action at first light today
morning, distributing both aerial and ground sprays in the area where millions
of locusts descended upon southern Israel from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula the day before.”
(As reported by Sharon Udasin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: New York police
today said they arrested a suspected hit-and-run driver following a weekend
accident that killed a young Orthodox Jewish couple whose baby was later
delivered by C-section but then died.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: A global Shi’ite
terrorism network made up of Iranian Quds Force operatives and Hezbollah
continues to target Israelis overseas, the National Security Council’s
counterterrorism bureau warned today, ahead of the Passover vacation season.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The Los Angeles
mayoral runoff opened today with Democrats Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greue, each
of whom have Jewish connections, l fighting over who can best craft an image of
fiscal restraint in a cash-strapped city whose voters refuse to raise taxes to
maintain public services.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Shaul Magid,
professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at Indiana University
Bloomington is scheduled to deliver a lecture “After Multiculturalism: Post
ethnicity and Judaism in America” at the University of Colorado Boulder.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Leslie Maitland
is scheduled to discuss “Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War,
Exile and Love Reclaimed.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: “Dove’s Cry and
“Sukkah City” are scheduled to be shown at the Washington Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(4th of Adar II,
5774): Eighty-year-old theatre critic and author Martin Gottfried passed away
today. (As reported by Daniel E. Slotnik)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://www.faber.co.uk/author/martin-gottfried/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.faber.co.uk/author/martin-gottfried/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/theater/martin-gottfried-theater-critic-and-author-dies-at-80.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/theater/martin-gottfried-theater-critic-and-author-dies-at-80.html</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Dr. Rose Cohen is
scheduled speak on “Facets of Holocaust Research: Victims and Survivors,
Possessions and Plunder Search strategies and Integrating Resources” at the
Center for Jewish History.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: A source at the
Foreign Ministry confirmed today that the trip of Pope Francis scheduled for
this May has been cancelled because Foreign Ministry workers “are currently on
strike and are unable to make the necessary arrangements for the visit.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: In Columbus,
Ohio, Abbie and Feivel Straus have a new daughter; Joseph Straus has a new
sister and Dr. Bob & Laurie Silber have a new granddaughter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Today’s decision
“in Crimea’s parliament to hold a referendum on March 16 asking whether the
semi-autonomous region should become part of Russia took some members of the
peninsula’s 17,000-strong Jewish community by surprise.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: The Oxford
University Jewish Society is scheduled to host the “penultimate Friday night
dinner.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: Agudas Achim is
scheduled to host “Shabbat Across Iowa City.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: Lewis Black is
scheduled to perform at the Club Regent Event Center in Winnipeg, Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: “In U.C.L.A.
Debate Over Jewish Student, Echoes on Campus of Old Biases” published today
Adam Nagrourney described the assault that Rachel Beyda endured from members of
the Undergraduate Students Association because, as they said, she “a Jewish student
and very active in the Jewish community.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: “Police in the
northern town of Dokkum said in a statement today that they are investigating
the attempted sale of the soap online dating back to WW II that purportedly
contains remains of Jews murdered in the Holocaust,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: “Five people were
injured Friday morning in a car-ramming terror attack near a Jerusalem Light
Rail station in the north of the city.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: “Deli-Man” a
documentary by Erik Greenberg Anjou opened in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: “A tribute to
Ephraim Kishon’s work that includes <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: The New York
Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including <u>Master of Ceremonies: A Memoir</u> by Joel Grey
with Rebecca Paley and <u>Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War</u>
by Fred Kaplan<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: Hunter College is
scheduled to host the Sixth Annual Diaspora-Israeli Russian Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: In Iowa City
Rabbi Avremel and Chaya Blesofsky are scheduled to celebrate the Bar Mitzvah of
their son Yehoshua.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: In Atlanta, GA,
the Breman Museum is scheduled to host “a very special one-time-only
performance of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow: The Music of Harold
Arlen."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: Evelyn “Evie”
Banko, a native of Vienna whose family fled after the Anschluss, is scheduled
to speak at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: “A Torah scroll
from the synagogue in the northern Italian town of Biella has been identified
as probably the oldest in the world still owned and used by a Jewish community”
is scheduled to “returned to the Biella synagogue at a ceremony” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: Temple Beth Ami
is scheduled to Dr. Ramon Tasat speaking on the “Music of the Jews In Italy” –
a lecture that includes musical selections.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: The Temple
Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host Hershey Felder in “George
Gershwin Alone.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: ‘The heirs of
Robert Gotschalk Lewenstein and his sister Wilhelmine Helena Lewenstein have
filed a lawsuit against a Munich bank, claiming ownership of a Wassily
Kandinsky painting that was allegedly stolen from a Netherlands museum during
World War II, Colin Moynihan and Alison Smale of the New York Times” reported today<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="https://www.artforum.com/news/descendants-of-jewish-family-sue-for-return-of-kandinsky-painting-233143/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.artforum.com/news/descendants-of-jewish-family-sue-for-return-of-kandinsky-painting-233143/</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: The Yeshiva
University Museum is scheduled to host “Out of the Whirlwind: Hugh Mesibov and
the Legacy of the Book of Job” during which Mordechai Cohen will “explore the
character of the Book of Job and its legacy within the Jewish imagination.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Times of Israel</i> is scheduled to host
a screening of “Norman” at Cinema City in Jerusalem<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/director-joseph-cedar-talks-court-jews-and-herring-ahead-of-normans-israel-debut/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.timesofisrael.com/director-joseph-cedar-talks-court-jews-and-herring-ahead-of-normans-israel-debut/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: In Washington,
DC, the annual AIPAC Conference is scheduled to come to an end today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Editor’s note – you have to wonder how many
of the attendees feel about the fact the state of Israel does not recognize them
as Jews and/or does not regard their religious practices as being Jewish?)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: The Oxford
University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a Hummus Off where teams compete
to create the best form of this Oriental treat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: The screening of
“The Jews of Syria” is scheduled to be shown at the 21<sup>st</sup> NY
Sephardic Jewish Film Festival “followed by an After Party! Featuring Music by
Maury and Josh Blanco, Mazza and a special performance by crooner Steven Chera
and his quartet.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: Tonight’s opening
of the 22<sup>nd</sup> NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to
include the New York Premiere of “El Hara.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: At the Jewish
Book Festival, Anna Nyburg and Daniel Snowman are scheduled to examine <u>Insiders/Outsiders</u>
which “examines the extraordinarily rich contribution of refugees from
Nazi-dominated Europe to the visual culture, art education and art-world
structures of the United Kingdom.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In Beverly Hills,
CA, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled “to honor Sylvie
and Mark Deutsch and Linda and Tony Rubin as they receive the National
Leadership Award.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In Washington,
DC, Adas Israel is scheduled to host its annual Latke-Hamentasch Debate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"></span><a href="http://www.jewishstudycenter.org/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jewishstudycenter.org/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: The JCC Chicago
Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the screening of the “Keeper” and
“Golda’s Balcony.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: “The
Booksellers,” a documentary about rare book sellers co-produced by Judith
Mizrachy and featuring Fran Leibowitz amongst others, was released today in the
United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: In Louisiana,
Congregation Beth Israel is scheduled to begin a weekend Shabbaton “<span style="background: white; color: #333333;">featuring Scholar-in-Residence Tanya
Farber, a student at Yeshivat Maharat.:</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: The Oxford
University Jewish Society is scheduled to Friday night preceded by <span style="color: #1d2129;">an orthodox minyan and a student-led egalitarian minyan<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: “Chained”
and “God of the Piano” are scheduled to be shown at the East Bay International
Jewish Film Festival<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129;">2020:
MoMA is scheduled to host a screening of “Berlin-Jerusalem” with a screenplay
by Amos Gitai the film’s director.</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: In Brookline, MA,
the Chai Center is scheduled to host “First Fridays Shabbat Dinner” preceded by
Kabbalat Shabbat services.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: The Boston
Israeli Film Festival is scheduled to present online “a collection of some of
Israel’s best new short cinema.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: Temple Emunah is
scheduled to present online a “Kiddush Schmooze and Q&A With Comedian and
Activist Pamela Schuller.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: In Columbus, OH,
at Tefereth Israel Lola Lewin, the daughter of Stephanie and Adam Lewin is
scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: Ayelet
Gundar-Goshen, Israeli author of “One Night Markovitch,” “Walking Lions” and
“The Liar” is scheduled to give a talk exploring truth, lies and the truth that
hides inside lies” sponsored by Congregation Beth Am.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021(22<sup>nd</sup> of
Adar, 7801): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah; <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: Lily Brosch, an
Orthodox woman from Chicago who had delivered a lecture at the Case Western
Reserve University Chabad on she is overcoming a rare form of muscular
dystrophy is scheduled to climb Camelback Mountain in Arizona today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: The National
Library of Israel is scheduled to host a lecture by Professor Shai Secunda on “Between
Worlds: The Context of the Talmud.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5783): Fast of Esther; in the evening read the Megillah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: The HUB is
scheduled to host a class on “Mordechai the Villain: The Shocking Story Behind
Drinking on Purim.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to present a Purim Party including “reading of the Guinness
World Record Longest Megillah and a special live performance by the Maccabeats.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: The Oscar J.
Tolmas Charitable Trust is scheduled to sponsor the Federation-JNOLA Purim held
jointly with Beth Israel <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: IN Columbus, OH,
Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host its Community Purim Celebration that will
includes its annual costume contest and “The Totally Rad 80’s Spiel
Performance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: Never Is Now —
the world’s largest summit on antisemitism and hate — is scheduled to begin
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: YIVO is scheduled
to host a conversation with Jeremiah Lockwood and Jessica Roda, led by Jonathan
Boyarin in celebration of Lockwood and Roda’s new books <u>Golden Ages: Hasidic
Singers and Cantorial Revival in the Digital Era </u>(Lockwood, UCPress) and <u>For
Women and Girls Only: Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the
Digital Age</u> (Roda, NYU Press)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The Sir Martin
Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to host a lecture by Professo Ari Joskowicz
on “Roma, Jews and the Holocaust.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host a screening of “#NOVA,” a compilation real-time
video and audio footage taken by more than 3,500 Nova partiers and by Hamas
militants into a searing documentary film” depicting the events of October 7.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65776354;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March 6th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin day 152 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p>melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-62983500584302022602024-03-04T16:06:00.000-06:002024-03-04T16:06:33.983-06:00This Day, March 5, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">March
5</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">363: Roman Emperor
Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire,
in a campaign which will lead to his own death. Julian followed Constantine to
the throne and turned back his predecessor’s pro-Christian promulgations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Effectively, his decrees gave validity to
other religions previously practiced in the Empire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On his was to fight the Sassanids, Julian
gave orders that the Temple in Jerusalem should be rebuilt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His untimely death prevented this from
happening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Sassanids were the
Persians of their day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1133: Birth of King
Henry II of England during whose reign Jews would prosper as reported by
visitors including Abraham ibn Ezra and Isaac of Chernigov as well as the money
that flowed to his coffers through the estate of Aaron of Lincoln and “the
Saladin tithe.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1179:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Third Lateran Council opens at Rome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At the end of the meeting the council would adopt the following as
matters of canon law: "<i>Jews should be slaves to Christians and at the
same time treated kindly due of humanitarian considerations.</i>" <i>”The
testimony of Christians against Jews is to be preferred in all causes where
they use their own witnesses against Christians.</i>"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1245: As the Mongols continued their sweep
across Christian Europe, Innocent IV issued “Dei patris immense,” a Papal bull
urging them to be baptized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are
the same Mongols who had destroyed the kingdom of the Khazars in 1239.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently, the Mongols were no more
impressed with Christianity than the Khazars had been since the latter, in a
legendary contest, had chosen Judaism over Islam and Christianity. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1291(3rd of Nisan): Sa’ad al-Da’ulah, Jewish
grand vizier under the Mongol ruler of Persia Argun Kahn was assassinated
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1326: Birthdate of
King Louis I “who initially had shown toleration to the Jews” and then expelled
them from Hungary after he failed to convert them to Catholicism<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1328(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5088): After the
death of Charles the Fair today, Pedro Olligoyen, a Franciscan friar, used the
Jews as a scapegoat against French rule. Starting today, Shabbat, all the
Jewish houses were pillaged and then destroyed. Approximately 6000 Jews were
murdered with 20 survivors. Among the dead were parents and four younger
brothers of Menachem ben Zerach, “then barely twenty years old who became a
scholar of commanding influence.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was
saved by “a compassionate knight” who was a friend of the young Jew’s father.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1328(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5088): Aaron ben Zerah,
a French Jew “banished from his original home in 1306 by order of King Philip
the Fair, of France, who confiscated his property” and who had sought refuge at
Estella, where, after a residence of twenty years, he, his wife, and several of
his sons were slaughtered by the Christians are described in "Ẓedah
la-Derek," a work written by Aaron's son Menahem, who escaped death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/104-aaron-ben-zerah">https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/104-aaron-ben-zerah</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1563: Havazzelet ha-Shaon, a commentary on the
Book of Daniel by Rabbi Moses Alshekh was published for the first time today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1605: Sixty-nine year old Pope Clement VIII who
“Implemented strict measures against Jewish residents of the Papal States”
including the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1592 papal bull that
forbade “the Jewish community of the Comtat Venaissin of Avignon, a papal
enclave, to sell new goods, putting them at an economic disadvantage; the 1593,
the bull Caeca et Obdurata that reiterated Pope Pius V's decree of 1569 which
banned Jews from living in the Papal states outside the cities of Rome, Ancona,
and Avignon and the bull Cum Hebraeorum malitia that also forbade the reading
of the Talmud, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1616: The Roman Catholic Church decreed that
the Copernican theory was “false and erroneous” and that teaching or believing
in the earth orbiting the sun was prohibited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For one view of Copernicus and the Jews see<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.elijahnet.net/copernicusandthejews.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.elijahnet.net/copernicusandthejews.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1696: Birthdate of
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His fresco,
“The Sacrifice of Isaac” is an example of how European artists used the Hebrew
Bible as an inspiration and resource. It also is an example of how deeply entrenched
Judaism is in the fabric of Western Civilization </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1737: The Dragon, a fifteen-ton sloop built in
Lewes, Delaware was registered today by three individuals including Daniel
Nunez who in 1743 registered the sloop Sally and the twenty ton sloop Molly of
which he was part owner and Master. (Editor’s note- some show the date as 1738)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1767: In Boulay-Moselle, Jacob Bernard Fould,
“a small-time wine dealer” and his wife gave birth to Beer Léon Fould, “the
founder of the Fould banking dynasty.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1779: In London, Lydia Cohen and Solomon
Gompertz gave birth to Benjamin Gompertz, the husband of Abigail Montefiore and
the father of Justina, Joseph and Juliana Gompertz who was “a British
self-educated mathematician and actuary, who became a Fellow of the Royal
Society.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1783: King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski
granted rights to Jews of Kovno. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1787(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5547): Shushan
Purim observed on the same day that “Dr. Erastus Sargeant writes to Major
General William Shepard describing being captured by Shays' Regulators as they
attack and loot the town of Stockbridge” during a major threat to the newly
formed United States known as Shay’s Rebellion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1791: Birthdate of Frankfurt, Germany native
Jantoff Lasse Oppenheim, the husband of Fanny Oppenheim and the father of
Betty, Louis, Moritz and Helene Oppenheim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1792(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5552): Moses
Alexander (Moshe ben Abraham) passed away today in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1795(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5555): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1798: Today French troops completely overran
Switzerland, leading to the collapse of the Old Swiss Confederation where
Jewish settlement had been limited to a couple of communities and creation a
month later of the Helvetic Republic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1805: Jewish businessman David B. Nones who “had
a claim against for supplies taken from the Kitty,” wrote James Madison
requesting a passport for a voyage across “the Seas.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1814(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5574): Seventy-four-year-old
Solomon Pappenheim, the son of Rabbi Seligmann Pappenheim of Zulz, who was the
associate rabbi at Breslau and the author of a three volume work on Hebrew
synonyms passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1815: Birthdate of Austrian banker Friedrich
Freiherr Schey von Koromla, the father of Charlotte Przibram and the maternal
grandfather of biologist Hans Leo Przibram<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1816: In Charleston, SC, Rachel and Nathan Hart
who were married in 1807 gave birth to Hyman N. Hart, the husband of Hetty
Maria Gomez.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1817: Birthdate of Sir Austen Henry Layard
whose excavations at Ninveh helped to provided historical context for the
events described in the Bible and whose discovery of the library of
Ashurbanipal provided a copy of the “Epic of Gilgamesh” a flood story that in
some respects parallels that of Noah and helped to establish the historicity of
the event.<br />
1820: Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbade Jews to go to synagogues on
Sundays.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1821(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar II, 5581): Rosh
Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1821(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar II, 5581): Sarah
Hendricks, who had been born to Uriah and Eve Esther Gomez Hendricks in 1777
and who was the sister of Jochobed, Charlotte, Rebecca, Hanna, Mordecai and
Harmon Hendricks passed away today after which she was buried at the Third
Cemetery of Congregation Shearith Israel in Manhattan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1825(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5585): Parashat
Ki Tisa; Shushan Purim observed for the first time during the presidency of
John Q. Adams.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1828: Jacob ben Eliezer HaCohen married Keila
bat Benjamin Zeev Wolf HaLevi today at the New Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1829: Today, the London Tavern on Bishopgate
Street is scheduled to host the anniversary celebration for the Jews’ Free
School. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1832: In Frankfurt am Main, Charlotte and
Anselm von Rothschild, a chief of the Vienna House of Rothschild gave birth
their second oldest daughter Hannah Mathilde Rothschild who was known for her
musical skills and who married the banker Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild, a cousin
of her father with whom she had two daughters, Adelheid and Minna Caroline
Rothschild.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1838: In Kent, England, Ann Crawcour and Reuben
Alexander gave birth to Fanny Alexander.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841: In Philadelphia, Abraham Hart and Rebecca
Cohen Hart, the New York born daughter of Catherine and Sampson Mears Isaacks
gave birth to Myrtilla Eduora Hart who became Myrtilla Eudora Mitchell when she
married Lewis Allen Mitchell with whom she had four children – Estelle, Irving,
Percival and Clarence Mitchell.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1844(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5604): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1849: At “Government Vitebsk,” Levy Rapport and
his wife gave birth toe Rabbi N. Rapport the leader of Congregation Kneseth
Israel, in Reading, PA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851: In Beisegola, Russia, David Atlas and his
wife gave birth Elazar Atlas, the bookkeeper turned literary critic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2090-atlas-elazar-lazar"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2090-atlas-elazar-lazar</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5615): Shushan
Purim on the same day that John Snow had submitted his paper on the cholera outbreaks
in Great Britains<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1856: In New York, Esther (Nathan) Lazarus and
Moses Lazarus gave birth to Agnes Marx.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1856: Michael Heymanson married Adelaide Jewell
today at the Great Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858: In Vienna, Simon and Marie Spitzer gave
birth to Dr. Franz Spitzer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><a name="_Hlk65691460"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860: In “Krakau,
Austria, Israel and Amelia Anisfield gave birth to “philanthropist and
financier” John Anisfeld who in 1876 came to the United States where he settled
in Cleveland, OH, married Alice Straus in 1904 served as the President of
Jewish Infants Home and Mt. Sinai Hospital in Cleveland and was a “member of
Ansel Road Temple.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65691460;"></span><a href="https://case.edu/ech/articles/a/anisfield-john"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65691460;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://case.edu/ech/articles/a/anisfield-john</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65691460;"></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861: Dr. Fischer delivered a paper at
tonight’s meeting of the New York Historical Society entitled “The History of
the Inquisition in America” that included a description of the life and death
by fire of the dramatist Antonio José da Silva.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Da Silva wrote most of his plays while imprisoned in a dudgeon and faced
the auto de fe rather than betray the faith of his fathers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861: William H. Seward
began serving as Secretary of State under President Abraham Lincoln. Seward had
visited Jerusalem and other parts of Palestine in 1859 and it is thought that
his talk about that visit may have been the factor that prompted Lincoln’s
comment that when his term was over he wanted to visit the “Holy Land” during
his travels aboard with Mrs. Lincoln.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862(3<sup>rd</sup> of
Adar II, 5622): During the Civil War, Philadelphian Henry Bamberger, a Corporal
with Company E of the 79<sup>th</sup> Regiment who had been serving since
September of 1861 died today “at Munfordsville, KY.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863: The Zion Musical
Society which was formed by Rabbi and Cantor Gustave M. Cohen and which “may
have been the first public Jewish singing organization established in 19<sup>th</sup>
Century America” gave it first performance today at Cleveland, Ohio’s Melodeon
Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863(14th of Adar,
5623) Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863: In New York, more
than three thousand Jews and their friends gathered tonight at the Academy of
Music to for the second annual grand ball of the Purim Association. The first
grand ball took place last year and it was a great success. Many of the guest
came in costumes including “one lady who was dressed … in garments made
entirely of Frank Leslie's paper, and was decidedly a feature of the night, as
were "Joan of Arc," "Old Aunt Dinah," "Mehitabel Ann,"
"Old Mother Goose," "Pocahontas," "Anne Boleyn"
and the "Dame aux Camelias.” One lady was dressed in the height of
fashion, in garments made entirely of Frank Leslie's paper, and was decidedly a
feature of the night, as were "Joan of Arc," "Old Aunt
Dinah," "Mehitabel Ann," "Old Mother Goose,"
"Pocahontas," "Anne Boleyn" and the "Dame aux
Camelias.” Myer S. Isaacs and his committee are to be congratulated for putting
on such a successful event which was orderly and entertaining.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866: In London, Miriam
Solomons and Abraham Bittan gave birth to Benjamin Bittan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869: Birthdate of
Michael von Faulhaber who was Archbishop of Munich from 1917 until 1952 who
opposed the Nazis on certain issues but demonstrated the anti-Semitism
compatible with European Christianity as manifested by his work with Amici
Israel among other things.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869: The first edition
of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jewish Times</i> appeared in New
York City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mortiz Ellinger was the
publisher.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869: Two days after
she had passed away, Jane Norden, “the daughter of the late Jacob Norden” and
Catherine Jacobs was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish
Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870: In Cambridge
City, Indiana, Michael H. and Rachel Levy Franklin gave birth to Leo Morris
Franklin the graduate of the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College
who began his career Temple Israel in Omaha before serving as Rabbi of
Detroit’s Temple Beth El for over four decades.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871: In Zamość, Congress Poland, Russian
Empire, timber trader Eliasz Luxemburg and Line Löwenstein gave birth to German
revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://spartacus-educational.com/RUSluxemburg.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://spartacus-educational.com/RUSluxemburg.htm</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871: The clause of the Constitution of the
Independent Order of the Free Sons of Israel “establishing an endowment fund
for widows and orphans” “went into effect” today which meant that “the widow
and orphans of a deceased member became entitled to receive $1,000 besides
monthly benefits.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872: In Uniontown, AL, Mary Wise and Leo
Obendorfer, a successful jeweler gave birth to Carrie Obedorfer Simon, the
graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and wife of Rabbi Abram Simon
with whom she had two sons, Leo and David, who was a founder of the Reform
movement’s National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods in 1913.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/simon-carrie-obendorfer"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/simon-carrie-obendorfer</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873: In Kovno, Lithuania (part of the Russian
Empire), Fanny Sapira Morris and Jacob Samuel Samuels Morris gave birth to
Hyman Morris who was the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Leeds.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873: In Russia, “Leib-Ber and Dinah Bernstein
gave birth to NYU trained attorney John L. Bernstein the husband of Celene J.
Richtier and the President of H.I.A.S. from 1917 to 1926.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874: “A Gang of Swindlers” published today
described J. Moritz Ehrenberg, a college educated middle class Hungarian born
Jew as the leader of a group of con man who have preyed on members of the
American financial community in many cities. Michael Mandel, an Austrian born
Jew and Henry Hertz, a Russian born Jew are two of his comrades in these
larcenous schemes for which they have been imprisoned in New York and Missouri.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874: In Berlin, Ignatz (Isidore) Hantke and
Johanne Hantke gave birth to Zionist leader Arthur Menachem “Max” Hantke, the
husband of Edith Alice Hantke and the father of Tehila and Jonathan Theodor
Hantke who made Aliyah in the 1920’s.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876: It was reported today that a Purim
reception will be held at Delmonico’s 4 days after the actual celebration of
the holiday on the Jewish calendar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876: Birthdate of Francis Deak Pollak, the
native of NYC and Columbia Law School Graduate who was a partner in the firm of
Sullivan and Cromwell and served as a trustee of the Jewish Agricultural and<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Industrial Aid Society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876: Karl Goldmark’s “Rustic Wedding Symphony
premiered in Vienna today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878(30th of Adar I, 5638): Rosh Chodesh Adar
II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi David Levy
officiated at the wedding of Isaac Levy of Thomasville, GA and “Rachel Elias,
the daughter of the late Levy Elias.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879: In New York, Judge Gildersleve is
scheduled to rule on an application compelling the 3 Salomon brothers to pay
six dollars a week in support of Mrs. Fanny Solomon, their 70-year-old
mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had petitioned the court for
a payment of support.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sons had
contested the matter claiming that their mother was financially capable of
taking of herself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880: In Russia, Max and Sima (Plotka)
Silverman gave birth to Providence, RI Jewelry store owner and Jewish community
leader, Archibald Silverman the husband of Ida Camelhor and the father of
Irwin, Norman and Selma Silverman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.riheritagehalloffame.org/inductees_detail.cfm?iid=275"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.riheritagehalloffame.org/inductees_detail.cfm?iid=275</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The would-be assassin of General Melilkoff, a leading figure in Russia,
who was to be hanged today, said while be interrogated that he had converted
from Judaism because it was impossible for a Jew to live in St. Petersburg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A06E6DA173FEE3ABC4E53DFB566838B699FDE"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A06E6DA173FEE3ABC4E53DFB566838B699FDE</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Publication of “Was Shylock A Jew”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D0CEEDB173FEE3ABC4D53DFB566838B699FDE"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D0CEEDB173FEE3ABC4D53DFB566838B699FDE</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881(4<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5641): Parashat
Pekudi<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881(4<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5641): Fifty-nine-year-old
Baruch Rothschild the son of Simon Rothschild and Rosina Ullman passed away
afer which he was buried at the Judischer Friedholf Wiesloch cemetery in
Wurttemberg, Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882(14th of Adar, 5642): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882: In Vienna, Albert Salomon von Rothschild
and Bettina Caroline de Rothschild gave birth to Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild
who had to pay the Nazi twenty-one million dollars to gain his freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884: Gustav Jacob Born and his first wife
Gretchen Kauffmann gave birth to their daughter Kathe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884: In the wake of an order expelling all
Jews holding foreign passports from Odessa and other Russian cities, The
Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of Internal Relations, St.
Petersburg said that it could not provide Jewish citizens of America with
Russian permits of residence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885: Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen
completed his terms U.S. Secretary of State under President Chester A. Arthur
during which he dealt with problems related to the persecution of Jews in
Russia and Russian discrimination against American Jews trying to do business
in the Czar’s empire.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885: In Vienna, Dr. Alois Klemperer and
Eugenie Jenny Klemperer gave birth to Gustav Klemperer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: In Great Britain Jewish novelist Benjamin
Leopold Farjeon and Margaret Jefferson gave birth to Herbert Farjeon, a major
force in “the British theatre from 1910 until 1945.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><a name="_Hlk65769456"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888(22<sup>nd</sup> of
Adar, 5648): Hannah Rebecca Sheftall Cramer, the daughter of Emanuel and Jane
L. Theiss Sheftall and the wife of Robert Godwin with whom she had two
daughters – Carrie and Alice – passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65769456;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5650): Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65769456;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: “Dancing For Charity” published today
described the charity ball given by the Purim Association has raised between
ten and twelve thousand dollars for the United Hebrew Charities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: In Baltimore, MD, Benjamin and Rose
Nathan Perlman gave birth to Philip B. Perlman who was appointed as U.S.
Solicitor General by President Truman in 1947, making him the first Jew to hold
that post.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: As Mr. and Mrs. Lazar Anezes and their
four children are detained by the Commissioners of Emigration as paupers and
the United Hebrew Charities work for their admission by offering “to go surety
for them” Judge O’Brien granted a writ of habeas corpus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: Birthdate of Latvia native Bernard
Shulman, the John Marshall Law School trained Chicago attorney who was a
“director of the Orthodox Jewish Home for the Aged.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: “Lipschutz Won Another Game” published
today descried the third game of the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>match between Jewish chess champions Eugene Delmar and Samuel Lipshcutz
at the Manhattan Chess Club which Lipschutz<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>when Delmar “resigned” after the 49<sup>th</sup> move.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: In Boston, “Benjamin M. and Rena Etta
(Jaffe) Feinberg gave birth to Abraham Selig, the holder of a bachelor’s degree
from Bates College in Lewiston, ME and an LL.B. from Harvard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891 In one of the earliest manifestations of
popular non-Jewish support for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, the
Blackstone Memorial was sent to President Benjamin Harrison.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The petition was the creation of Reverend
William Eugene Blackstone and called for U.S. government support in the
endeavor. It was signed by 431 prominent Americans including John D.
Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan and future President William McKinley and was
supported by a myriad of newspapers including the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times,</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chicago
Tribune</i> and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Washington Post</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Harrison’s lack of response may have been
another sign of the ineptitude that would lead voters to deny him a second term
a year later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: Birthdate of Boston native and Harvard
train lawyer and state district court judge Abraham Selig Feinberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: Kansas Congressman Funston was brought to
tears during his visit to Ellis Island today when he saw the conditions under
which the immigrants were living.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
member of the House Committee on Immigration, Funston was so moved by what he
saw that he took money from his own billfold and gave it to some of those whom
he encountered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892(6<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5652): James
Solomon Moore who had suffered a stroke two years ago passed away this evening
in New York City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Born at Konigsberg,
Germany in 1821, he moved to England at the age of 17 where he pursued his studies
while living with his uncle, P.B. Moore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He came to the United States during the 1840’s and in 1849 joined the
California Gold Rush. After a successful business career, he became interested
in economic theory and his advocacy of removing tarries earned him the title of
“The Father of Free Trade.” He married Amelia Moore in 1854 and was a member of
B’nai Jeshrun at Madison and 65<sup>th</sup> Street.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a name="_Hlk65770372"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1892: Birthdate of New
York native Mary E. Boretz, “the social work and child-care authority” who was
the wife of Henry Friedman</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: In New York Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes
was shot in the abdomen at his home by a beggar named Jose Mizrachee. Born in
England, he had been the rabbi at Congregation Shearith Israel of New York and
an active member of the Jewish community, who, among other things, established
the Jewish Theological Seminary and <i>The American Hebrew.</i> Misrachee
followed the rabbi home from the synagogue and forced his way into the house
and shot him during a botched robbery attempt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The rabbi’s wife and baby were in the house at the town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Emergency surgery spared Mendes and permanent
harm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mizrachee is described as an
“Arabian Jew” who came to the United States in 1890.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was well known to the victim and other
members of his congregation for his aggressive begging habits and his failure
to be content with any “alms” that were given to him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: R.H. Macy & Co. was advertising the
sale of “Passover Goods for the Holiday” including “Matzoths, Matzoth Flour and
Potato Flour” for nine cents a pound on the fifth floor of its new building.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: It was reported today that tickets for
the upcoming Purim Ball will cost ten dollars and they may be purchased from
M.H. Moses as well as several other Jewish businessmen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those wanting a box for the event must
contact S.B. Solomon or Simon Schafter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: In Lemberg, “Gershom and Etti (Joanna)
Bader gave birth to Maximillian Bader, the husband of Ida Bader and father of
Izzak, Helen and Benedict Bader, who in 1913 came to the United States where he
practiced law and was “active in Democrat Party politics.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: At today’s meeting of The Central Labor
Federation, “the Hebrew printers said they had conferred with Typographical
Union, No.6”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: “Russian Hebrew Immigrants published
today described some of the controversy surrounding the admission Jews to the
United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to the Bureau
of Immigration many of the Russian Jews are actually coming from South America
where they have been living in agricultural communities financed by the Baron
Hirsh Funds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The colonies in Argentina
have failed and the Jews have come to the United States where they have been
allowed to settle as long as they meet the legal requirements regarding health
and financial responsibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite
criticism, the Bureau cannot turn people away because of their religion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: In Hartford, CT, Annie Berman and Nathan
Slonim gave birth to NYU graduate and University of Pennsylvania trained
attorney turned St. Louis realtor Moses J. Slonim, a WW I veteran of the U.S.A.
Medical Corps and husband o Sophia G. Greenburg who was “active in Hebrew
educational wok and Zionism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: In New York, Assemblyman Danforth E
Ainsworth, a Republican from Oswego County made use of the term “Jew
pawnbrokers” while addressing the legislature.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: Birthdate of Joseph Allen, the NYU
trained lawyer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: Birthdate of Romania native Fannie Marcus
Eisman, the future California resident who was the wife of Mas Isackman Eisman and
the mother of Sadie and Evelyn Eisman each of whom died in infancy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: “Fortunate Hebrew Foundling” published
today described the work of Henry S. Allen who has secured a place for a
homeless waif at the orphanage run by the Hebrew Guardian Sheltering society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: In New Haven, Pennsylvania, Aaron and
Jennie Marcus gave birth to Jacob Rader Marcus, the Reform Rabbi who founded
the American Jewish Archives at the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, Ohio.
He passed away in 1995 at the age of 99.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Marcus__Jacob_Rader.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Marcus__Jacob_Rader.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: Birthdate of Dr. William Zev Malamud, the
native of Kishinev and Canadian trained physician who became a “professor of
Psychiatry at the State University in Iowa City” which is now known as the
University of Iowa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897: In Ohio, Theresa and Henry William Mack
gave birth to Rebecca Mack.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: “Notes of Forthcoming and Recent
Publications” published today described an article by Israel Zangwill written
by Israel Zangwill “for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sunday School
Times</i> on the second Moses – Moses Maimonides – without a knowledge of whom
the old Hebrew prover ‘From Moses to Moses there was non like Moses,’ is
meaningless.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: “Bargain Books” published today listed
The Jew at Home by Joseph Pennell as costing $.10<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: “Colonel Picquart, who was disciplined
for giving testimony favorable to the case of Emile Zola,” the defender of
Dreyfus, “at the recent trial of the author, fought a duel with swords today in
the riding school of the Military School with Colonel Henry who testified
against Zola.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: “New Jewish Synagogue” published today
described plans for the construction of a new synagogue being built by
Congregation Hand-in-Hand, the first such building to take place in the Borough
of the Bronx. The congregation, which received a gift of $1,000 from Baroness
Hirsch for its building fund, has been meeting at the North Side Republican
Club Hall<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: Four days after she had passed away,
Miriam (Joel) Leapman, the wife of Lewis Leapman was buried today at the
“Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: “Rabbis Will Meet in Cincinnati”
published today described the decision of reform movement to hold its Annual
Central in March instead of July because March<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>marks the birthday of Dr. I. M. Wise and the rabbis wish to honor the
man who mentored so many of them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: In the UK “Joseph and Etty Roth” gave
birth to the youngest of their four sons, historian Cecil Roth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-58153;jsessionid=7E8A4CA01C796CD0F3E3E03210D4B5BC">http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-58153;jsessionid=7E8A4CA01C796CD0F3E3E03210D4B5BC</a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.oxfordjewishheritage.co.uk/resources/further-reading/170-cecil-roth-1899-1970"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.oxfordjewishheritage.co.uk/resources/further-reading/170-cecil-roth-1899-1970</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jta.org/1970/06/23/archive/dr-cecil-roth-authority-on-jewish-history-dies-of-cancer-at-the-age-of-71"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.jta.org/1970/06/23/archive/dr-cecil-roth-authority-on-jewish-history-dies-of-cancer-at-the-age-of-71</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: “Reminiscences of Rothschild” published
today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40D15FF3E5811738DDDAC0894DB405B8985F0D3"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40D15FF3E5811738DDDAC0894DB405B8985F0D3</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: “Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan,”
“a play in one act by David Belasco premiered today at the Herald Square
Theatre in New York.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: Today, Otto Jaffe, the German born Irish
businessman who helped turn The Jaffe Brothers into the “largest linen exporter
in Ireland before becoming Lord Mayor of Belfast was “knighted at Dublin Castle
by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: Birthdate of Lilli Schlüchterer who
gained famed as the German Jewish doctor Lilli Jahn “who gained international
fame posthumously following the publication of her letters to her five children
which she wrote during her imprisonment in the labor camp Breitenau before
being deported to the concentration camp Auschwitz where she was murdered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/My-Wounded-Heart-Lilli-1900-1944/dp/B008SMX8W4"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.amazon.com/My-Wounded-Heart-Lilli-1900-1944/dp/B008SMX8W4</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5661): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: Birthdate of Yocheved Ba-Miriam the
Russian born Israeli poet who made Aliyah in 1928 who “never wrote another
poem” after her son Nahum (Zuzik) Haaz “died in the Israeli War of
Independence.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901(NS): Birthdate of Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky
who gained fame as Philadelphia architect Louis Isadore Kahn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1974/03/20/archives/louis-i-kahn-dies-architect-was-73-louis-i-kahn-architect-dead-at.html?_r=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/1974/03/20/archives/louis-i-kahn-dies-architect-was-73-louis-i-kahn-architect-dead-at.html?_r=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: Mizrachi (literally: "Eastern",
but actually derived from the Hebrew acronym for "Spiritual Centre")
was established by Rabbi Isaac Jacob Reines as a religious Zionist organization
based on the Basel Program and commitment to the Torah. Their slogan is
"Eretz Israel for the people of Israel according to the Torah of
Israel." Mizrachi is a worldwide religious Zionist movement. Its main
ideal is that Torah should be the spiritual center of Zionism. In Israel, it
initiated the Ministry of Religion and helped pass laws for "Kashrut"
and Sabbath observance in public life and in the Israel Army. During WWII, it
participated in the American Zionist Emergency Council<b>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: Leopold
Greenberg, one of Herzl's most devoted followers and representative in London
suggested that Herzl should appear before the Royal Commission in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902:26th of Adar I,
5662: Fifty-four-year-old New York businessman Leonard Lewisohn passed awa at
the London home of his son-in-law Charles S. Henry. A native of Hamburg, Mr.
Lewisohn came to the United States when he was 16 years old. He was President
of the United Metals Selling Company and a philanthropist who had mad generous
contributions to numerous Jewish charities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: Reports of the
death of Leonard Lewisohn “caused some weakness in the stock market where
Amalgamated Copper declined 1 and 3/8 points.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: In response to
the death of Leonard Lewishon who was trying “make a bull market in coffee” the
coffee market opened 10 to 20 points lower than the day before but regained its
losses by the close of business<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: Louis
Seligisberg, who represented the business interests of Leonard Lewisohn
announced that his death would not affect the coffee business of the firm<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: Birthdate of
Irving Kahal, the native of Houtzdale, PA, the songwriter who collaborated with
composer Sammy Fain (Samuel E. Feinberg)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C49?exhibitId=49"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C49?exhibitId=49</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: A committee was
appointed to secure a site for a new building at Hebrew Union College.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5664): Parashat Ki Tisa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: The Criminal
Chamber of Cassation grants Dreyfus a re-investigation of his case.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: David Blaustein
of the Educational Alliance is scheduled to be one of the speakers at this
afternoon’s meeting of the University Settlement of New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: Birthdate of
László Benedek the native of Budapest who “worked as a writer and editor in
Hungarian cinema until World War II when Louis B. Mayer helped him escape and
brought him to Hollywood where he directed his first film for MGM in 1944 as a
stand-in.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: Two days after
he had passed away, 76-year-old Ernest Falck, the native of Holstein, Germany
was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: A description
of the Pogrom in Russia provided by Abraham E. Lubarsky, a wealthy tea merchant
from Odessa who has escaped to safety in New York included praise for the “Soma
Borona (Self Defense)” which “is composed of armed young Jews” that Cossacks
“have learned to fear.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: A Jewish
Congress which has been authorized by the Government is scheduled to meet today
in St. Petersburg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: In Baltimore,
MD, Anna Rosenbloom and Solomon Rosenbloom, “the owner of a successful
work-clothing manufacturing company gave birth to Dale Carroll Rosenbloom, the
halfback for the University of Pennsylvania football best known as Carroll
Rosenbloom the man who brought the NFL to Baltimore as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the owner of the Baltimore Colts and who
latter traded his ownership to become the owner of the Los Angeles Rams.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: At its annual
meeting today in Berlin, The German Jewish Relief Society “paid tribute to
Jacob H. Schiff,” the “noble philanthropist” who was instrumental in inducing
the United States Government to take the initiative at the Algeciras
Conference” in raising the question of the treatment of the Jews in Morocco.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: It was reported
today that in his “Report on Milk in Its relation to Public Health,” the
Surgeon General of the United States” noted that “references will be observed
to the achievements of Mr. Nathan Straus in promoting the use of clean,
pasteurized milk for infants and the establishment of infants’ milk depots both
in the United States and abroad and it is proper her to give recognition to his
philanthropic and successful efforts.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: Alianza Hispano-Israelita formed in Spain
to bring about the return of Spanish Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: Oscar Solomon Straus completed his terms
as the third U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Straus had been appointed by
Theodore Roosevelt and left when William Howard Taft took office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A year later Straus would return to a post he
had held before, U.S. Minister to the Ottoman Empire.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://millercenter.org/president/roosevelt/essays/cabinet/1799"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://millercenter.org/president/roosevelt/essays/cabinet/1799</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910(24h of Adar I, 5670): Parashat Vayakhel<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: This afternoon, Oscar Hammerstein mounted
a production of the opera Salome by Richard Strauss whose conduct during the
Nazi period was motivated by his need to “<span style="background: white; color: #222222;">to protect his Jewish daughter-in-law Alice and his Jewish
grandchildren from persecution” and being sent to a concentration camp.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: “As A Man
Thinks Staged” published today described the opening performance in New Haven,
CT of August Thomas’ latest play, “As A Man Thinks” which “deals with the
American Jew” and stars John Mason in the role “Dr. Seelig, the Jewish
physician” and Amelia Gardner as “Mrs.Selig.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: In London,
Waldorf Astor and Nancy Witcher Langhorne gave birth to journalist David Astor
who wrote “Two Wronged People” in 1967 that examined the Arab-Israel
confrontation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/1967/jun/04/featuresreview.review"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/1967/jun/04/featuresreview.review</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(26<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5673): One
hundred five-year-old Abraham Isaac Trager, a rabbi from NYC, passed away today
at Columbia, SC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: Dr. Joseph H. Hertz, “the newly chosen
English Chief Rabbi” is scheduled to set sail for London today aboard the
Mauretania today, when it is rumored that Dr. Moses Hyamson, “his principal
competitor for the position” is sailing from England to New York where he is
expected to become the rabbi of Orach Chaim, replacing Rabbi Hertz who had held
that position.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: Mrs. Philip Stein is scheduled to lecture
on “To and From Jerusalem” at today’s meeting of the Isaiah Woman’s Club at the
Isaiah Temple in Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: “Lied Against Frank, Newsboy Swears”
published today reported that “the case of Leo M. Frank, convicted of the
murder of Mary Phagan,” developed a new twist “when attorneys for Frank gave an
affidavit signed by George W. Epps, Jr., a 15 year old newsboy in which he
repudiated parts of his testimony at the…murder trial” and in which “he admits
he gave false testimony “because he was persuaded to do so by Detective John
Black” and Solicitor Dorsey.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: Birthdate of French mathematician,
Laurent Schwartz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His considerable
mathematical work, including the theory of distributions, won him the Fields
Medal in 1950.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During World War II the
Schwartz hid his Jewish identity by using numerous aliases including that of <i>Laurent
Sélimartin</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He passed away in 2002.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/aug/07/guardianobituaries.obituaries"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/aug/07/guardianobituaries.obituaries</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1404336/Laurent-Schwartz.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1404336/Laurent-Schwartz.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: It was reported today that Dr. Robert
Tuttle Morris the former President of the American Association of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists believes that “Zangwill’s melting pot theory…is absurd
biologically” because “the Jews are not going to cross with the Aryans” which
means “they are not melting away” and they have “a sort of racial feeling that
they must come again to rule the earth” which “keeps them together.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: As of today, the Fund of the American
Jewish Relief Committee has collected $532,937.14.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: Pianist Lois Adler is scheduled to
perform during ‘the 18<sup>th</sup> regular Sunday afternoon concert” at the
Chicago Hebrew Institute today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: Thanks to the efforts of Isidore
Hershfield of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society who was sent to
Poland by HIAS, the German authorities have granted the Jews of the
Governmental District of Warsaw postal privileges which will enable them to
send letters asking friends and relatives for financial assistance and
informing of them of lifestyle events such as births and deaths.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: “The sixteenth concert of the fourth
season of the Sinai Orchestra” conducted by Arthur Dunham is scheduled to take
place this evening at Sinai Temple in Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Sylvan Cole, Sr. the Los Angeles born son
of <span style="color: black;">Nathan and Fannie (Prager) Cohn “the founder and
chairman of National Shirts, a men’s apparel chain,” the father of Sylvan Cole,
Jr, “an internationally art dealer who helped foster the explosion of
printmaking and print collecting in the United States in the decades after WW
II married Dorothy B. Stein today.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: As of today, there are 200,000 Jews
living in the province of Kalisch, “of whom 100,000 are destitute” and 500,000
Jews in the district of Warsaw “of whom half are in want…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Constantin C. Arion, who said that his
“Government would grant rights to the Jews in accordance with the peace treat”
and that the Government “would completely abolish Article 7 of the Rumanian
Constitution” which states that “Jews in Rumania are aliens, and that
naturalization is only possible for them individually” began his service as the
Rumanian Minister of Foreign Affairs today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: President Wilson ordered the removal of
the sentence “The foreign born and especially Jews, are more apt to malinger
than the native born” which had inadvertently been included in the manual sent
to medical advisory boards in February.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a name="_Hlk65768401"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1918(21<sup>st</sup> of
Adar, 5678): Sixty-two-year-old Johanna Haas Westheimer, the German born
daughter of Levy and Helena Haas who in 1861 moved to Chicago and then after
marry St. Joseph, MO, merchant Samuel Westheimer after which she served as the
treasurer of the Jewish Ladies’ Benevolent Society of St. Joseph where she
raised eight children, passed away today</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919:<span style="color: black;"> Rabbi Hyman
Gerson Enelow who served “as a member of the Overseas Commission of the Jewish
Welfare Board, which went to France in July, 1918” wrote today that “I am in
Paris for several days and busier than ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My last trip covered...a vast area all the way from Marseilles to Brest”
where I opened up a number of centers for the Jewish War Board and delivered “a
great many addresses.” </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
a letter published in the <i>New York Times</i> Emir Feisal wished “the Jews a
hearty welcome home” and asserted “our two movements complete one another.”
“There is room in Syria for both of us” he concluded.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: Birthdate of Albert J. Rosenthal, who as
dean of Columbia Law School in the late 1970s and early 1980s helped increase
the number of women on the school's faculty.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920(15<sup>th</sup> of, 5680): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: It was reported today that as “Poland is
confronted wit the with worst typhus epidemic in the history of the world,”
“the joint distribution committee for all-American Jewish relief funds,
instructed it representative in Warsaw to expend $100,000 for coal to be used
in starting disinfecting plant in the typhus zone.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Birthdate of Milton “Milt” Kaiman the
native of Hurleyville, NY, who was a standup comedian appearing on numerous
variety and talk shows as well as a frequent actor on television shows and
movies whose sole Broadway credit in “The Passion of Josef D” – one of those
“Jewish culture things” since it was written by Paddy Chayefsky and starred
Luther Adler and Peter Falk.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Rueben Mattus, “arrived at the Port of
New York on the SS Vestris with his widowed mother Lea today several months
before Rose Vesel, his future wife and co-founder of Häagen-Dazs ice cream,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: In New York City, twenty-seven-year-old
Kuhn, Loeb investment banker Lewis Lichtenstein Straus, the Charleston, W.Va.
born son of Lewis and Rosa Straus married Alice Hanauer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/22/archives/lewis-strauss-dies-exhead-of-aec-lewis-l-strauss-former-chairman-of.html?searchResultPosition=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/22/archives/lewis-strauss-dies-exhead-of-aec-lewis-l-strauss-former-chairman-of.html?searchResultPosition=1</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: In Brooklyn, Russian immigrants Sadye
Tisch and Al Tisch a “former All-American basketball player at the City
University of New York who owned a garment factory as well as two summer camps”
gave birth to businessman Laurence Tisch, <st1:stockticker w:st="on">CEO</st1:stockticker>
of CBS from 1986 through 1995. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2003/nov/16/local/me-tisch16"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://articles.latimes.com/2003/nov/16/local/me-tisch16</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: In Seattle, WA, Moe and Rose Minnie
(Cohn) Bernhard gave birth to producer, writer and real estate executive Harvey
Bernhard, the husband of Lillian Vera Kramer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: Dr. Joseph Silverman, “Rabbi Emeritus of
Temple Emanu-El” who had gone to Palestine to study conditions there and his
wife are scheduled to set sail for New York from South Hampton, England aboard
the SS Aquitania.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: In Germany, “Jewish Mensevik refugees”
“Lazar Michael Pistrak” and his wife Raissa gave birth to Senaida “Zena”
Pistrak, the elder sister of Vera Katz, the future mayor of Portland, Oregon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: Birthdate of Menahem Stern, the native of
Bialystok and son of a mitnaged father and Chasidic mother (talk about mixed
marriages) who made Aliyah in 1938 and who began his climb up the academic
ladder as “Lecturer of the History of the Jewish people in the Second Temple
period.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: “The Bohemian Dancer” a silent film based
on a 1907 operetta directed and produced by Frederic Zelnik was released today
in Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: William Fox, the chairman of the United
Jewish Campaign in New York City announced today that national campaign which
will begin in April will be trying to raise fifteen million dollars of which
six million dollars will be raised locally.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: The Kosher Meat Law introduced by Assemblyman
Harry Lyons of Los Angeles which is modelled after the New York State Kosher
Meat Law and “, provides punishment for falsely representing meat as kosher while
requiring merchants to display signs stating whether or not the meat they offer
for sale is kosher” was passed today by the lower house of the California state
legislature.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: In response to a call by Bishop Manning
“for a joint effort by Protestant, Catholic and Jewish churches to preserve
marriage and the home” Rabbi David de Sola Pool said “he believed that such
cooperation between these three religious groups was feasible and that headway
could not be made against the divorce evil without it.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar II, 5687): Rosh
Chodesh Adar II and Shabbat Shekalim <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: David Louis Podell and Sara (Cissie)
Podell gave birth to Margaret A. Shulman, the wife of Mark Shulman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5688): Ta’anit
Esther and Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: Herbert Samuel’s successor as High
Commissioner, Field Marshal Viscount Plumer, a distinguished WW I commander,
opened Jerusalem’s first Arts and Crafts Exhibition which was held in the
Citadel at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: John D. Rockefeller Jr. spent the day
viewing ancient and historic sites in Jerusalem, including the Mosque of Omar
and the Holy Sepulcher.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: “Dr. Nathan Kraus, the rabbi at Temple
Emanu-El” is scheduled to officiate today at the “funeral services for the late
Justice Louis D. Gibbs of the New York State Supreme Court” which will be
followed by burial “in Mt. Hebron Cemetery” in Flushing, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/03/02/95885301.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/03/02/95885301.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: In the Bronx, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Halpern
gave birth to Howard Marvin Halpern, “psychotherapist who wrote popular
self-help books about severing or realigning burdensome relationships.” (As
reported by Bruce Weber)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: In New York, Dr. Bernard Goodman and the
former Alice Matz, the heir to a fortune created by “Ex-Lax” gave birth to Roy
M. Goodman who was powerhouse among liberal Republicans when there really were
such people.” (As reported by Richard Perez-Pena)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/nyregion/roy-m-goodman-new-york-state-senator-for-more-than-30-years-dies-at-84.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/nyregion/roy-m-goodman-new-york-state-senator-for-more-than-30-years-dies-at-84.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930(5<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5690): Isaac
Isaacs, the first husband of “Fannie Shubert Weissager” passed away today after
which he was buried at the Ahavath Achim Cemetery in Syracuse, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: Birthdate of David Lawrence Goldberg, the
native of Crown Heights who gained fame as political consultant David Garth,
the political guru behind the elections of Mayors John Lindsay, Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani
and Michael Bloomberg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(As reported by
Sam Roberts)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/16/nyregion/david-garth-pioneer-of-the-political-ad-dies-at-84.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/16/nyregion/david-garth-pioneer-of-the-political-ad-dies-at-84.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2014/12/15/political-guru-david-garth-dies/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://nypost.com/2014/12/15/political-guru-david-garth-dies/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: “Jews Urge Right To Trade On Sunday”
published today described attempts by “Jewish citizens” to get the New York
state legislature to pass a bill that would permit them to engage in business
on Sunday which according to Rabbi Bernard Drachman, the president of the
Jewish Sabbath Alliance of America is not a matter of commercial concern but a
matter of religious and spiritual needs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: Following a farewell dinner last night at
the Hotel Astor hosted by the American Palestine Campaign, Albert Einstein, who
expressed his appreciation for his treatment while visiting the United States
is on the Atlantic sailing aboard the Hamburg-American liner Deutschalnd which
is bound for his home in Germany<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: Three members of the team of athletes
assembled by the Maccabee Association of the United States to participate in
the Jewish Olympic Games in Palestine sailed on the SS Aquitania.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The three athletes included co-captains David
White and Lesslie Flaskman representing the Maccabee Association of Boston and
Harold Ginsburg representing the 92<sup>nd</sup> Stree Y.M.H.A. The other ten
members of the team are to sail next week on the Majestic or the Conte Grande.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932(27<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5692): Parashat
Vayakhel and Shabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932(27<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5692): A week
before her 85<sup>th</sup> birthday, rebbetzin Rosa Sonneschein passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/sonneschein-rosa"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/sonneschein-rosa</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: Last democratic election during Hitler's
lifetime. Nationalists gain 52 seats, but not enough to establish a
dictatorship by consent of Parliament. The Third Reich is born.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: When Jeanette Wolff, an outspoken critic
of the Nazis, returned home from an election campaign today and was arrested by
SA men.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: In Tel Aviv, while visiting relatives in
Tel Aviv, Ruth Kahneman gave birth to Israeli economist and Nobel Laurette
Daniel Kahneman, whose father “Efrayim “was picked up in the first major
round-up of French Jews. He was a key pioneer and theorist of behavioral
finance, which integrates economics and cognitive science to explain seemingly
irrational risk management behavior in human beings. He is famous for
collaboration with Amos Tversky and others in establishing a cognitive basis
for common human errors using heuristics and in developing prospect theory.
Kahneman spent his childhood years in Paris, France and moved to Palestine in
1946. He received his B.Sc. in mathematics and psychology from the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem in 1954, after which he served in the Israeli Defense
Forces principally in its psychology department. In 1958 he came to the United
States and earned his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California,
Berkeley in 1961. Currently a faculty member at Princeton University and a
fellow at Hebrew University, he is the winner of the 2002 Bank of Sweden Prize
in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his work in prospect theory,
despite being a research psychologist and not an economist. In fact, Kahneman
claims to have never taken a single economics course — he claims that what he
knows of the subject he and Tversky learned from collaborators Richard Thaler
and Jack Knetsch. In explaining why he entered the field of psychology,
Kahneman once wrote: “It must have been late 1941 or early 1942. Jews were
required to wear the Star of David and to obey a 6 p.m. curfew. I had gone to
play with a Christian friend and had stayed too late. I turned my brown sweater
inside out to walk the few blocks home. As I was walking down an empty street,
I saw a German soldier approaching. He was wearing the black uniform that I had
been told to fear more than others - the one worn by specially recruited SS
soldiers. As I came closer to him, trying to walk fast, I noticed that he was
looking at me intently. Then he beckoned me over, picked me up, and hugged me.
I was terrified that he would notice the star inside my sweater. He was
speaking to me with great emotion, in German. When he put me down, he opened
his wallet, showed me a picture of a boy, and gave me some money. I went home
more certain than ever that my mother was right: people were endlessly
complicated and interesting.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: “In New York “Sandor Harmati “conducted
the American Ballet at the world premiere of Balanchine’s ballet Dreams.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: “In New York “Sandor Harmati “conducted
the American Ballet at the world premiere of Balanchine’s ballet Dreams.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: A brothel run by Polly Adler was raided
resulting in the only conviction for which the famed madam served jail time (24
days of a 30-day sentence).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936(11th of Adar, 5696): Observance of the
Fast of Esther since the 13<sup>th</sup> of Adar fell on Shabbat<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: The men’s division of the New York
campaign of the United Palestine Appeal is scheduled to “hold a luncheon rally
at the Hotel Astor” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: It was reported today that “in the House
of Lords, the government’s intentions” “to establish a legislative council for
Palestine” “were assailed by peers of all parties, notably by the Marquees
Lothian who predicted that the proposed council ‘would exaggerate racial
difficulties, not heal them’” and would lead to Chaim Weizmann using “all of
his powers of persuasion at the Colonial Office…to postpone or scrap this
project.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “Responding to the appeal from Dr. Chaim
Weizmann, President of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, for funds to aide
Jewish refugees in various parts of Europe, leaders of the United Palestine
Appeal opened a campaign here today” with a luncheon at the Hotel Astor
presided over by Nathan Straus, chairman of the campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Jewish leaders estimated that at least
thirty people had been injured during the attacks by nationalist students in
Warsaw who threw “firecrackers and stench bombs in several classrooms.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “The largest single group of Jewish
refugees to reach” the United States “from Germany, 200 men, women and children
arrived” today “on the United States liner Washing as quota immigrants” which
meant “they were admitted as permanent residents on the basis, in most case, of
avowals given by relatives here that none would become public charges.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “Sir John Simon, Minister of Home
Affairs, admitted today in the House of Commons there was Jewish persecution
going on in the East End of London which he a attributed to the Fascist
movement” – a movement led by Sir Oswald Mosely – but “denied that police had
shown any political bias in the matter” i.e. supporting the Fascists. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936(11th
of Adar, 5696): Rabbi Yosef Rosen, known as the Rogatchover Gaon
(Prodigy/Genius), passed away in Vienna today. Born in 1858, and raised in the
Belarusian city of Rogatchov, he served for decades as a rabbi in the Latvian
city of Dvinsk (Daugavpils). He was an unparalleled genius, whose in- depth
understanding of all Talmudic literature left the greatest of scholars
awestruck. He habitually demonstrated that many of the famous debates between
the Talmudic sages have a singular thread and theme. Rabbi Rosen authored tens
of thousands of responsa on the Talmud and Jewish law. Many of them have been
compiled in the set of volumes Tzafnat Paneach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0017_0_17112.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0017_0_17112.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: The Spitfire went through its first
test-flights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The famed fighter plane
would play a key role in the defeat of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of
Britain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks to the Spitfire and the
spirited pilots of the Royal Air Force (RAF), Hitler’s seemingly invincible
legions were stopped for the first time; the British Isles remained free and
would become the launching point for the Allied invasion of Europe which would
save a remnant of European Jewry. Robert Roland Stanford Tuck, known as “Lucky
Tuck” was one of the Jewish pilots in the RAF who flew the Spitfire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his case he flew it at the Battle of
Dunkirk where he earned a DSO. The Spitfire was the favorite plane of Ezer
Weizmann the father of Israel’s Air Force and later President of the Jewish
state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had his own Spitfire which was
featured in flyovers by IDF planes during various Israeli celebratory
activities. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937:
U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull offered a public apology for New York
Mayor LaGuardia’s suggestion that the “1939 New York World’s Fair would include
a ‘chamber of horrors’ displaying that ‘brown-shirted fanatics who is menacing
the peace of the world.’” (Hull’s comments came during the hey-day of
Isolationism in the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
apology came in the same year that the United States ignored a Japanese attack
on an American gunboat in China.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937:
Despite an apology issued by the State Department, Mayor La Guardia said he
stood by his declaration that Hitler is a “brown-shirted fanatic who is
menacing the peace of Europe.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937:
British author Mary Frances Butts who had been the wife of Jewish poet and
published John Rodker whose career she had worked to further and with whom she
had one child passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: Birthdate of Czech native Theodore K.
Rabb, the Oxford and Princeton trained historian who specialized in the
Renaissance and was the husband of Tamar Rabb with whom he had three children –
Susannah, Jonathan and Jeremy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=theodore-rabb&pid=191228154"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=theodore-rabb&pid=191228154</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: The wave of Arab terror spread into
southern Palestine when an Arab entered a Jewish orange grove near the colony
of Less Tzionah and shot Vladislav Louga, a non-Jewish worker from Poland, in
the stomach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Louga was rushed to a
hospital in Tel Aviv where he is in critical condition.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938(2<sup>nd</sup> of Adar II, 5698): Parashat
Pekudi<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: During his sermon at the Mount Zion
Congregation, Rabbi B.A. Tinter said “the non-sectarian Temple of Religion to
be erected at the New York World’s Fair of 1939 was ‘one of the greatest
contributions the fair will offer to posterity.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: In his sermon at Mount Neboh Temple
Abraham L. Feinberg warned that “dictatorship in the style of Hitler and
Mussolini has become so alluring to many, even in America.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: During his sermon at the West Side
Institutional Synagogue, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein said, “the present trial in
Moscow is the greatest indictment against liberalism” because “liberalism
brought about the breakdown of the autocracy of the Czar and ushered in through
Communism the slavery of the body, mind and soul.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: During a sermon at Temple Ansche Chesed,
Rabbi Joseph Zeitlin said he “saw in the darkness of the California floods a
ray of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>light in the thought that so many
have rallied to the aid of those who have been so unfortunate as to have lived
in communities swept away by rushing waters.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Editor’s note – Eighty years later, we are still dealing with these
same California floods.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
New York Times</i> reported that Palestine Symphony Orchestra, conducted by
Eugen Szenkar has just completed four subscription concerts in a tour that
included stops in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem where the symphony played before
audiences totaling 30,000 music lovers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939(14th of Adar, 5699): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939(14th of Adar, 5699): Moses Gaster, the Romanian
born Jewish scholar who served as Hakam of the Spanish and Portuguese
Congregation in London passed away today at the age of 82. In addition to all
of his other accomplishments he was the father of the renowned scholar, Thedore
Herzl Gaster.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F60E15FA3858127A93C4A91788D85F4D8385F9"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F60E15FA3858127A93C4A91788D85F4D8385F9</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: The Jewish Labor Committee, representing
about 500,000 members of Jewish labor unions in the United States, sent a cable
to the Labor Party in England requesting the Laborites oppose the recent
British restriction of Jewish land purchases in Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: In the Bronx, attorney William Rosenthal
and “the former Lillian Kellin” gave birth to photographer Melvyn “Mel”
Rosenthal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(As reported by Neil
Genzlinger)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/obituaries/mel-rosenthal-photographer-who-captured-the-bronx-dies-at-77.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=thumb&module=region&region=region&WT.nav=region&_r=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/obituaries/mel-rosenthal-photographer-who-captured-the-bronx-dies-at-77.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=thumb&module=region&region=region&WT.nav=region&_r=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://melrosenthal.com/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://melrosenthal.com/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://kenanmalik.com/2017/11/12/the-human-lens-of-mel-rosenthal/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://kenanmalik.com/2017/11/12/the-human-lens-of-mel-rosenthal/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: A delegation consisting of Henrietta
Szold, Mrs. Isaac Herzog, wife of the Chief Rabbi of Palestine and “others
representing the Council of Jewish Women of Palestine” met with the British
High Commissioner and gave him a memorandum protesting the recent change in the
land laws that was intended to be forwarded to his superiors in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: Birthdate of Alain Boublil a Tunisian
musical theatre lyricist and librettist, best known for his collaborations with
the composer and co-religionist Claude-Michel Schönberg for musicals on
Broadway and London's West End including: La Révolution Française (1973), Les
Misérables (1980), Miss Saigon (1989), Martin Guerre (1996), The Pirate Queen
(2006), and Marguerite (2008).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1942:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> At the “Selection” of
Jews at Baranowicze, Poland those sent to the left were beaten and placed in
trucks where they sent away to their death in a pit just outside of town. Those
on the right looked on. Of the 12,000 Jews living in the town at the start of
the war, 3,500 were killed that Purim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: “49<sup>th</sup> Parallel,” a British war
movie based on an original story by Emeric Pressburger who wrote the screenplay
and starring Leslie Howard premiered in New York as “The Invaders.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1943:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> In the Ukraine, over
1,000 Jews were murdered outside the Khmeilnik ghetto.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: Office of Strategic Services interviews
Dr. Eduard Bloch, a Jewish Austrian physician who had been doctor and confidant
to Adolf Hitler and his family while the future Fuehrer was growing up, and who
ministered to Hitler's mother Klara during her losing battle with breast
cancer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1944(10th of Adar,
5704): Max Jacob</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
French writer and painter, died at the Drancy, the French concentration camp at
the age of 68.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Born in Brittany in 1876,
Jacob converted to Roman Catholicism in 1914. He spent most of the war hiding
from the Nazis and their French fascist allies. He died while awaiting
transport from France to a concentration camp in Germany Apparently his
conversion was not enough to get the Roman Catholic Church to intervene on his
behalf. His friends, who included the renowned Pablo Picasso, saw to it that he
had a fine burial after the war, but were unable to do anything so save him
from the fate common to most of the Jews of Europe, great and small alike.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1944(10th of Adar,
5704):</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ernst Julius Cohen, “a Dutch chemist known
for his work on the allotropy of metals,” was murdered today in a gas chamber
in Auschwitz. Born in 1869, “Cohen studied chemistry under Svante Arrhenius in
Stockholm, Henri Moissan at Paris, and Jacobus van't Hoff at Amsterdam. In 1893
he became Van't Hoff's assistant and in 1902 he became professor of Physical
Chemistry at the University of Utrecht, a position which he held until his
retirement in 1939. Throughout his life, Cohen studied the allotropy of tin.
Cohen’s areas of research included polymorphism of elements and compounds,
photographic chemistry, electrochemistry, pizeochemistry, and the history of
science. He published more than 400 papers and numerous books. He was elected a
Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1926.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: Today, a
gathering took place at the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem, deemed “the greatest
Jewish synod to be held in the Holy City in modern times” by The Palestine
Post, which reported that: “… all the rabbis in Palestine assembled in
conclave, from town and settlement, Sephardi religious leaders in their flowing
oriental robes, side by side with Hassidic rabbis, among them the heads of the
famous Sadagora dynasty, and rabbis from Europe who had found shelter here from
Nazi persecution…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://blog.nli.org.il/en/lbh-the-original-holocaust-memorial-day-1945/?_atscid=3_2269_208004503_10110639_0_Txtatteftwshuhhw2hc&utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%20English%20Newsletter%20-%2026.01.2021"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Before
Liberation: Mourning the Holocaust in 1945 (nli.org.il)</span></a></span> <span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://blog.nli.org.il/en/lbh-the-original-holocaust-memorial-day-1945/?_atscid=3_2269_208004503_10110639_0_Txtatteftwshuhhw2hc&utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%20English%20Newsletter%20-%2026.01.2021"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://blog.nli.org.il/en/lbh-the-original-holocaust-memorial-day-1945/?_atscid=3_2269_208004503_10110639_0_Txtatteftwshuhhw2hc&utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%20English%20Newsletter%20-%2026.01.2021</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1945: While excavating
the site near Crematorium II at Auschwitz, Soviet soldiers found a German
canteen which contained the diaries of Salmen Gradowski.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> One of the entries
read,<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “At almost each block, beside the
men standing in line, bodies of three, four persons are lying. These are the
victims of the night that have not lived to see the day. Even yesterday they
were standing members of the roll-call and today they lie, lifeless,
motionless. Life is not important at the roll-call. Numbers are important.
Numbers tally…” Gradowski’s diary was published in a book entitled <u>Amidst a
Nightmare of Crime: Manuscripts of the Sonderkommando</u> which describes life
in the death camp through the eyewitness accounts of four Sonderommandos. For
more about this work, Gardowski and the others who supplied the material see<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.wce.wwu.edu/nwche/reviews/amidst.shtml"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.wce.wwu.edu/nwche/reviews/amidst.shtml</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: Birthdate of
Martin Levi van Creveld “an Israeli military historian and theorist. Van
Creveld was born in the Netherlands in the city of Rotterdam and has lived in
Israel since shortly after his birth. He holds degrees from the London School
of Economics and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he has been on the
faculty since 1971. He is the author of seventeen books on military history and
strategy, of which <u>Command in War</u> (1985), <u>Supplying War: Logistics
from Wallenstein to Patton</u> (1977, 2nd edition 2004), <u>The Transformation
of War</u> (1991), <u>The Sword and the Olive </u>(1998) and <u>The Rise and
Decline of the State</u> (1999) are among the best known. Van Creveld has
lectured or taught at many strategic institutes in the Western world, including
the U.S. Naval War College.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Birthdate of Dr. John Kitzhaber the
Oregon physician who served as governor from 1995 to 2003.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: As the Jews of Palestine endure their
fourth day of living under martial law, banks in Tel Aviv are scheduled to
reopen thanks to a shipment of coins and currency in an amount equal to
thirty-two million American dollars having arrived from Jerusalem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In an attempt to exercise greater control,
the British suspended the press passes of correspondents which had enabled the
journalists to enter and leave zones of military occupation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver warned the U.N.
Security Council today “that the Jews of Palestine would fight for survival
even without the United Nations if the world organization is unable to carry
out its own decisions” i.e. the Partition vote that created an Arab State, a
Jewish state and a Jerusalem governed by an international body.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: Actor Eli Wallach married actress Anne
Jackson in what marked the start of 66 year marriage that only ended with his
death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: Publication of a review of Mark
Hellinger’s final film, “The Naked City.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C06E4DA143BE33BBC4D53DFB5668383659EDE"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C06E4DA143BE33BBC4D53DFB5668383659EDE</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: Operation Uvda, the final Israeli
campaign of the War of Independence which is intended to secure portions of the
Negev began oday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: Negev Brigade forces set out from
Beersheba to the Ramon Crater, through Bir 'Asluj. Golani forces simultaneously
set out from Mamshit to Ein Husub on the first day of Operation Uvda, one of
the final campaigns of the War for Independence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: Jordanian political leader Samir Rifai
Pasha has rejected King Abdullah’s request that he form a new government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pasha’s refusal is tied to opposition to the
non-aggression pact with Israel which was first made public on February 28,
1950.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite Abdullah’s support, the
pact seems doomed since Jordan’s political leaders do not.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: Iraq’s announcement that effectively, the
Jewish population must leave the country within the next twelve months
represents a reversal of its policy of not allowing Jews to move to Israel
while completely dislocating “Israel’s immigration program for 1950.” The
Jewish agency had budgeted for the absorption of 150,000 immigrants, including
50,000 from Arab countries and 50,000 from eastern Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since there are approximately 150,000 Jews
living in Iraq, the Israelis will have to find some way to raise additional
funds allowing for the in-gathering of twice as many as Jews as had been
originally planned.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: Daniel Frisch, the President of the
Zionist Organization of America, underwent surgery today at
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center today after having named Benjamin G.
Bowdy, on the ZOA’s vice president, as acting president.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952(8<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5712):
Fifty-five-year-old, the Massachusetts born son Rosa Shapha and Rabbi Solomon
Nathan Lurie who had passed away in Milwaukee passed away today after which he
was buried at Forest Park in Cook County, Illinois.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952(8<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5712): Sixty-six-year-old
Rachael “Rae” Landy the Cleveland born nurse who helped create the health
system in pre-World War I Palestine and rose to the rank of Lt. Colonel in the
U.S. Army passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=LRD"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=LRD</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953: Birthdate of Michael J. Sandel, the
Minneapolis born Harvard Professor “best known for his course ‘Justice.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953: Stalin died disrupting plans for mass
deportations of Russian Jews. The Soviet dictator was an
anti-Semite. Unlike Hitler, he could curb his anti-Semitism when it
suited his purposes. For example, he allowed the government of
Czechoslovakia to sell modern arms to Israel at the moment of its birth.
He later switched his views and followed an anti-Zionist as well as
anti-Semitic policy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953: Lazar Kaganovich began serving as the
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers in the Soviet Union.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1953: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> reported that the Lower House of the Bonn
Parliament passed the first reading of the West German agreement to pay
reparations to Israel and World Jewry for the Nazi persecution. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1953: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> reported that in the Knesset, Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion defined the role of the army in national life. The Knesset
extended for a year the provisional military law currently in force, providing
for prison terms for any form of propaganda intended to undermine the authority
of the state. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1953: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> reported that the Abill to legalize the
requisition of land or property for the development, security or settlement,
from the establishment of the State in May 1948, to the end of April 1, 1952,
was presented for the second and third reading. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954(30<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5714): Rosh
Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954(30<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5714):
Forty-year-old Donald Bloomingdale the son of Rosalie and Irving Bloomingdale
and the onetime husband of Bethsabée de Rothschild passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954: “The Girl in Pink Tights, a musical
comedy with music by Sigmund Romberg; lyrics by Leo Robin; and a musical book
by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields” opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger
Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955: In the United Kingdom, Phyllis April
Jaffé, child Lithuanian Jewish refugees and Stephen Eric Seabag-Montefiore, the
descendant of “a line of wealthy Sephardic that included “his great-great uncle
Sir Moses Montefiore” and veterans of both World Wars,gave birth to Nicholas
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore the barrister turned author who wrote Dunkirk: Fight to
the Last Man, the ultimate “big book” about this moment in British history and
who is the brother of historian Simon Sebag Montefiore who authored “the big
book” on the history of Jerusalem. (Editor’s note – can you imagine what the
dinner conversation was like in their home. Wow)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955: Birthdate of Julien Dray, the native Oran
which was then part of French Algeria, who became a leader of the French
Socialist party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956: The album “Songs For Swingin’ Lovers”
which featured Irving Kahal’s hit tune “You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me”
was released today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956(22<sup>nd</sup> of Adar, 5716):
Fifty-year-old pianist and composer <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Erich
Itor Kahn, the son mathematician and cantor Leopold Kahn and husband of Frida
(nee Rabinowitch) Kahn, both of whom escaped to America when the Nazis came to
power, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957(2<sup>nd</sup> of Adar II, 5717):
Seventy-nine-year-old Mamie Fishell, the Louisiana born daughter of Ferdinand
and Lizzie Sicher Fishell passed away today in Pine Lawn, MO after which she
was buried at New Mount Sinai Cemetery and Mausoleum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1957: Jewish comedian
Phil Silvers in the role of “</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Sergeant Ernie Bilko” satirizes rock star Elvis Presley.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5718): Ta’anit
Esther; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958: The Uraga Dock Company, “a leading
Japanese shipbuilding concern…announced today that it would export two oil
tankers each of 46,000 deadweight tons to Israel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960(6<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5720): Parashat
Terumah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960(6<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5720): Julius W.
Bronstein, the husband of Evelyn M. Bronstein passed away today after which he “was
buried in Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in Saint Louis, MO.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960: “Ben Hur,” which has been nominated for
12 Oscars is being screened at the Loew’s New State.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961: Final Broadway performance at the Phoenix
Theatre of “The Octoroon” for which Karl Bernstein served as the General Press
Representative. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962: “Rome Adventure,” a romantic comedy
co-starring Suzanne Pleshette with music by Max Steiner was released in the
United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962: In Washington, DC, “law professor and
Kennedy administration member Abram Chayes and lawyer and former Undersecretary
of the U.S. Air Force Antonia Handler Chayes” gave birth to Sarah Chayes “a
former award winning reporter for NPR” and “a senior associate in the Democracy
and Rule of Law Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5726): Shabbat
Zachor; Erev Purim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966: In a move that would change the economic
landscape for major league baseball in particular and all professional general
sports in general, the “player representatives selected United Steel Workers
executive Marvin Miller as executive director of the Major League Players
Association” in what would prove to be an attack on the “plantation world of
the owners.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar I, 5727):
Sixty-one-year-old Mischa Auer the native of Russia who transitioned from the
Yiddish theatre to movies, which included a 1936 Oscar nomination passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967: Last minute replacement Rodney Dangerfeld
was the surprise hit of tonight’s Ed Sullivan Show on CBS.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5729): Shushan
Purim is celebrated for the first time during the presidency of Richard Nixon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: U.S. premiere of blockbuster “Airport”
directed by George Seaton who grew up in a Jewish neighborhood and called
himself a “Shabbos Goy” produced by Ross Hunter with music by Alfred Newman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: Funeral services are scheduled to be held
“today at Max Sugarman Funeral Parlor in Providence, R.I.”
eighty-three-year-old Solomon A. Wald the President of S.A. and Wald, Co, the
marine cargo salvage company he founded in 1916 which ironically got the
“contract to dismantle the German dirigible Hindenbrug” the pride of the Nazi
lighter than air fleet” when it crashed in Lakehurst.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971(8<sup>th</sup> of Adar,5731):
Sixty-sixty-year-old Mainz, Germany born holder of a doctorate in chemistry and
chemical engineering from the University of Munich Dr. Max Eugene Grunewald who
came to the United States at the age of 21 where he eventually became <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>board chairman and president of the Copley
Cement Manufacturing Company of Copley, Pa., near Allentown and who married the
former Edith Burlin after the death of his first wife, the former Frances Bloch
while his daughter Eva passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973: Baritone Robert Merrill (Moshe Millstein)
“celebrated his 500<sup>th</sup> performance” at the Metropolitan today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973: Marcel Marceau appears at Hancher
Auditorium in Iowa City, IA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973: Funeral services for eighty-six-year-old
Lithuanian born, LSE trained, American labor leader Ossip Walinsky, the founder
of the Women’s Trade Union and the “International Leather Goods, Plastics and
Novelty Workers Union who was the husband of Rose (Newman) Walinksy are
scheduled to be held today “at the Park West” in Manhattan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/06/archives/ossip-j-walinsky-union-head-and-jewish-leader-dies-at-86.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/06/archives/ossip-j-walinsky-union-head-and-jewish-leader-dies-at-86.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974: In the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War Israeli forces withdrew from the west bank of the Suez Canal as step towards
ending hostilities brought on by the Arab sneak attack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ariel Sharon was responsible for the audacious
attack across the Suez Canal which gave the strategic advantage to the Jewish
forces.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974(11th of Adar, 5734): Solomon I
"Sol" Hurok US impresario, passed away at the age of 85. Hurok
was responsible for bringing a troupe of Yemenite Jews who had moved to Israel
to perform in the United States. Thanks to these efforts Yemenite culture
was introduced to Americans (Jews and non-Jews alike). Not only did this
help to preserve an ancient part of the Jewish heritage, it helped create a
positive image of Israel as a homeland for persecuted Jewry no matter
where they lived.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(22<sup>nd</sup> of Adar, 5735): Thirty-eight-year-old
Colonel Uzi Yairi who had become head of the Sayeret Matkal at the age of 31
was killed when rescuing hostages being held by Palestinian terrorists at the
Savoy Hotel in Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975 After hearing gunfire from Tel Aviv’s
Savoy Hotel, Private Moshe Deutschmann, a soldier from the Israeli army's
Golani Brigade who was on home leave, grabbed his weapon, ran to the hotel
after hearing gunfire and was mortally wounded during a firefight with
terrorists who were trying to escape from the Saoy. Deutschmann was
posthumously awarded the Medal of Distinguished Service.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1976(3<sup>rd</sup> of Adar II, 5736): Eighty-seven-year-old
Warsaw born, American plastic surgeon Dr. Jacques W. Maliniac passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/06/archives/jacques-maliniac-a-plastic-surgeon.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/06/archives/jacques-maliniac-a-plastic-surgeon.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5737): Parashat
Tetzaveh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5737): Just 16
days before his 71<sup>st</sup> birthday Avraham Margalit. The son of Taub and
Moshe Dov Bear Margalit passed away today in his home town of Petach Tikva. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978: A revival of David Merrick’s “Hello
Dolly” that would run for 147 performances began at the Lunt-Fontaine Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1978:<b> </b></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Jerusalem Post</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> reported that the US State Department was
upset and angered that between the time that Prime Minister Menachem Begin
presented his peace plan to US President Jimmy Carter in early December, and
when the same plan was submitted at the end of the month to Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat, significant changes were made in the text. The draft added
Israel’s right to maintain security and “public order” in Judea, Samaria and
Gaza, and stipulated that only those Palestinians who accepted Israeli citizenship
could buy land in Israel, while any Israeli could purchase land in the
administered areas. The Americans demanded complete reciprocity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978: University of Maryland graduate Jill
Joanne Pollack, the daughter of Dorothy and Morton Pollack is sched scheduled
to marry Edward Mark Feldman, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Feldman are
scheduled to be married today at the in the Sephardic Temple of Cedarhurst, LI.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979: “The stalemated Middle East peace process
took a dramatic turn today with the White House announcement that President
Carter will leave Washington tomorrow afternoon with President Anwar Sadat in
Egypt and Premier Menachem Begin in Israel?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979: Twelve people were injured in Jerusalem
when a terrorist bomb exploded on a bus at the Plaza Hotel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979: In Tel Aviv, a bomb exploded on a bus but
nobody was injured.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981(29<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5741):
Seventy-five-year-old “Bernard Postal, associate editor of <i>The Jewish Week</i>,
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/07/obituaries/bernard-postal-associate-editor-of-the-jewish-week-and-a-writer.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/07/obituaries/bernard-postal-associate-editor-of-the-jewish-week-and-a-writer.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jta.org/1981/03/09/archive/bernard-postal-dead-at-75"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.jta.org/1981/03/09/archive/bernard-postal-dead-at-75</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><a name="_Hlk65761718"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981(29<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5741): Ninety-two-year-old Rose (Popper) Zuckerman, the Istanbul born
wife of Joseph Zuckerman and the mother of Paul Zuckerman, who thanks to Velvet
Peanut Butter “became the Peanut Butter King of Detroit” passed away today in
the “Motor City.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65761718;"></span><a href="https://myjewishdetroit.org/2014/12/fresh-pure-delicious/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65761718;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://myjewishdetroit.org/2014/12/fresh-pure-delicious/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65761718;"></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982: Gail Winston and journalist Frank Rich
gave birth to novelist Nathaniel Rich, the brother of screenwriter Simon Rich.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982: “I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can” produced
by Scott Rudin and featuring David Margulies as “Walter Kress” and Ellen Greene
as “Karen Mulligan” was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982: U.S. premiere of “Diner” with a script by
Barry Levinson who also directed what would the first of four films set in
post-war Baltimore, produced by Jerry Weintraub co-starring Steve Guttenberg
and Ellen Barkin and featuring Paul Reiser. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986: CBS broadcast the first episode of “Fast
Time” produced by Amy Heckerling who directed the 1982 film on which the
television series was based.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987: Today, in Tel Aviv, Defense Minister
Yithak Rabin, read a statement in English apologizing to the American
government and the American people for the Pollard sypinng operation, an
operation that foreign minister Shimon Peres had characterized as a mistake.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987: Yossi Sarad, a member of the Knesett,
called for the dismissal of Rafael Etian from his job as chairman of the
state-owned Israel Chemicals since he was the Defense Ministry official who
organized the Pollard spying operation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993: In the United Kingdom premiere of “Toys”
a comedy directed and co-produced by Barry Levinson who also co-authored the
script and filmed by cinematographer Adam Greenberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
New York Times</i> features a review of <u><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Diary of a Young Girl:</span> The Definitive Edition<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by Anne
Frank; edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler; translated by Susan
Massotty<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996(14th of Adar, 5756): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997(26<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5757): Eighty-eighty-year-old
Zalman Abramov the Israeli politician who had been born in Minsk, made Aliyah
in 1920 and served as an MK from 1959 to 1977 passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997: U.S. premier of “The Watermelon Woman”
with music by Paul Shapiro whose specialties include Klezmer music. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999: U.S. premiere of “Analyze This” directed
by Harold Ramis, produced by Paula Weinstein and Jane Rosenthal with music by
Howard Shore and co-starring Billy Crystal and Lisa Kudrow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Times of London</i> featured a review of <u>Brother Against Brother: Violence
and<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Extremism in Israeli Politics from Altalena to
the Rabin Assassination</span></u><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> by Ehud Sprinzak.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> The New York Times</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or special interest to Jewish readers including <u>The Unruly Life of Woody
Allen: A Biography </u>by Marion Meade<u>, Law of Return: Short Stories </u>by
Maxine Rodburg and <u>Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs,
and Rituals</u> by George Robinson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: Today, “The
Israeli cabinet voted to withdraw from southern Lebanon by July” of 2000.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: “Prime
Minister-elect Ariel Sharon put the final elements of his unity government
together today as police officers stood guard throughout the country in a state
of high alert, braced for a repetition of the terror bombing that killed three
Israelis and wounded scores more in a coastal city yesterday.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2002(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5762):</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Police officer FSM Salim Barakat (33),
Yosef Habi (52), and Eli Dahan (53) were murdered today in Tel Aviv when a Fatah
terrorist opened fire on diners at two restaurants.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002: “The Vagina
Monologues” with Idina Menzel opened at the West Side Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: Victor
Brailovsky began serving as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003 (1 Adar II, 5763): Seventeen people were
killed and 53 wounded in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus No. 37 in the Carmel
section of Haifa, en route to Haifa University. The blast, which took place on
the city's main Moriah Boulevard near the Carmel Center, turned the bus into a
charred wreck and scattered bodies along the road. The bus driver, a Christian
Arab from Shfaram, was moderately injured. Police said the bomb was laden with
metal shrapnel in order to maximize the number of injuries and strapped to the
bomber's body. This was the first suicide bombing in two months, following the
bombing in the Neve Sha'anan neighborhood in Tel-Aviv on January 5, in which 23
people were killed. The Hamas spokesman praised the attack. The suicide bomber
has been identified as a member of Hamas. A letter found on his body praised
the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
victims included the following all but two of whom died on the day of the
attack: <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Kmer
Abu Khamed, 12, from Daliyat al Karmel<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Yuval
Mendelevitch, 13, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Smadar
Firstatter, 17, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Avigail
Lietel, 14, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Asaf
Tzur, 16, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Daniel
Harush, 16 , from Safed <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Tom
Hershko, 16, from Haifa, and his father- <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Motti
Hershko, 41, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Tal
Kehrmann, 17, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Elizabeth
(Liz) Katzman, 17, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Meital
Katav, 20, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Moran
Shushan, 20, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Anatoly
Biryakov, 20, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Be'eri
Ovad, 21 , from Rosh Pina <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Eliyahu
Laham, 22, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Miriam
Atar, 27, from Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Mark
Takash, 54, from Haifa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: Victor Brailovsky begins servicing as
Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004: “A demonstration planned for” tomorrow
“to rally support for the release of Erich Priebke, a 90-year-old convicted
Nazi war criminal serving a life sentence under house arrest in Rome, has
angered Jewish groups and city officials, and his critics are also planning a
demonstration, also for tomorrow. Mr. Priebke, a former SS captain, was
convicted in 1997 for a 1944 massacre in which more than 300 Italian civilians
were killed. Jason Horowitz<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: "Dear Esther," an Arizona
Jewish Theatre Company production had its last performance in Phoenix,
Arizona.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The play is based on the life
of Esther Rabb and her experiences as recorded in “Escape from Sobibor” about
the 1943 uprising.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006(5<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5766): Eighty-four-year-old
Haifa native Yael Alingham, the daughter of Yehiel Weitzman, wife of Conal
Wolsey Allingham and the sister of Israeli pilot, politician and president Ezer
Weizman passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
restoration of a 1942 freight car, the type used to carry Jews to death camps
went on display at the Holocaust Museum in Houston, Texas. The freight car is
intended to symbolize the penultimate step in the industrialized mass murder of
the Jews of Europe. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Jerusalem Post</i> reported that
American Jewish leaders welcomed the decision by British architect Richard
Rogers to resign his membership in a professional organization that has called
for the boycott of Israel's construction industry. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
New York Times</i> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including <u>Absolute Convictions</u>, a
biography of Dr. Shalom Press by his son Eyal Press, <u>The Case for Goliath:<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> How America Acts as the World's Government
in the Twenty-First Century</span></u> by Michael Mandelbaum and<u> Intuition</u>
by Allegra Goodman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: CBS broadcast the final episode of “The
Class” a sitcom created and produced by David Crane and starring Lizzy Caplan
and Jon Bernthal. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: Opening of an exhibition styled “<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Studio Man Ray: Photographs by Ira Nowinski” </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">at </span>the<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Judah L
Magnes Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Sheldon Adelson ranked #12 on the list of
The World’s Billionaires published today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008(28th of Adar I, 5768): Joseph Weizenbaum
“a German-American author and professor emeritus of computer science at MIT”
passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: As part of “Hadassah on Tour,” Dr.
Michael Wilschanski, the Director of the Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit of the
Division of Pediatrics at Hadassah Medical Center, Hebrew University in
Jerusalem, speaks in Minnesota’s Twin Cities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: A Yarhtzeit on the civil calendar - Five
Year Anniversary of the bombing of Egged Bus 53 carried out by a Hamas suicide
bomber who killed 17 innocent civilians.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Following the completion of Operation Hot
Winter, today “Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office announced that Israel would
maintain its pressure on Hamas<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: In “A City That Was and Is No Longer”
published today, Aharon Appelfeld examines the history of Czernowitz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/a-city-that-was-and-is-no-longer-1.240681"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.haaretz.com/news/a-city-that-was-and-is-no-longer-1.240681</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Israeli model Bar “Refaeli received the
World Style Award presented by the Women's World Awards for her "natural
elegance, sense of style and compassion/.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Sherman Oaks-based mortgage banker Bruce
Friedman, whose Friedman Charitable Foundation committed $10 million to the
Children’s Museum of Los Angeles and $1 million to Brandon’s Village, a
special-needs park in Calabasas, was indicted on securities fraud charges today
by the Securities and Exchange Commission. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:<b> </b>Professor Anat Helman of Hebrew
University delivers a talk and visual presentation exporing the deeper meanings
of Israeli styles of the 1950s at Rutgers University entitled <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"Fashion and Identity in Israel in the
1950s."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: “Love in the Big
City,” a Russian-Ukrainian film set in New York City directed by Maryus Vaysberg
and staring Volodymyr Zelensky, the future President of Ukraine who would lead his country in the fight against Russian aggression was released in today in Russia, Ukraine and the
United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2009:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">An exhibition of paintings by Simon Black
hosted by the Manchester Jewish Museum comes to an end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2009:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">An Arab terrorist identified as 26-year-old
Mir'i Redeideh attacked police officers and civilians in Jerusalem with his
bulldozer today<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The Washington
DCJCC is scheduled to host Interfaith Couples Shabbat Dinner with Rabbi Tamara
Miller explaining the rituals while attendees enjoy a traditional Shabbat
Dinner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: A major
security exercise is scheduled to take place today at the Sha'ar Ha'ir building
in Ramat Gan, next to the Diamond Center. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2010:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Clashes broke out between Israeli police
officers and Muslim rock throwers at the end of Friday prayers on the Temple
Mount in Jerusalem following a sermon on a recent Israeli decision to include
two West Bank shrines on a list of national heritage sites. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Vandals have
defaced a former Nazi concentration camp with anti-Jewish and anti-Turkish
graffiti, Austrian authorities said today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Marc Trestman
of the Montreal Alouettes Marc “won the Coach of the year award.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2011:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ravid Kahalani, a veteran of Israel’s
renowned Idan Raichel Project who uses his music to showcase his
Yemenite-Jewish heritage is scheduled to appear in Berkeley, CA at opening
night of the Jewish Music Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Israeli
sculptor Ohad Meromi is scheduled to host a series of events as the culmination
of his evolving New Commission project in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Leonard I.
Weinglass, filed brief on behalf Mumia Abu-Jamal that was part of “a post-conviction
motion to vacate the conviction of his client,” (Weinglass was Jewish;
Abul-Jamal was not)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(29 Adar I):
Shabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2011:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A computer glitch which had been preventing
the flow of natural gas at the Mari-B natural gas field operated by the Yam
Tethys conglomerate off of Ashdod was fixed after several hours today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: “A Child of the
Ghetto” is scheduled to be shown at Prague in the Czech Republic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The second of
the annual AIPAC Policy Conference capped off by an gala evening event is
scheduled to take place in Washington, DC<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Yeshiva University Museum with
Fantagraphics Books is scheduled to present: “Diane Noomin’s Graphic Details:
Glitz-2-Go Book Launch.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met
with President Barak Obama at the White House.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: President Shimon Peres today praised US
President Barack Obama's speech to the AIPAC annual policy conference, saying
he had offered the maximum support for Israel that an American president could
possibly offer. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The field of candidates in today’s
Mayoral election in Los Angeles includes Wendy Gurel a synagogue attending
Christian married to a Jew whose 10-year-old son studies Hebrew and is being
raised in the Jewish tradition, City Councilman Eric Garcetti whose mother is
Jewish and City Councilwoman Jan Perry, an African-American who converted to
Judaism while in college. (As reported by Bill Boyarsky)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Iranian born Israel singer Rita
Yahan-Faourz, known simply as Rita, sang in Persian, Hebrew and English at
performance in the UN General Assembly Hall tonight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The London Sinfonietta, conducted by Brad
Lubman, at the Royal Festival Hall in London gave the world premiere of Radio
Rewrite for ensemble with 11 players, inspired by the music of Radiohead.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater
Washington is scheduled to sponsor a lecture by Zalmen Mlotek entitled “100
Years of Yiddish Theater Music.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Defense Minister Ehud Barak is scheduled
to meet with newly confirmed U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will be Hagel’s first meeting with a
foreign defense chief since his confirmation by the U.S. Senate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The AIPAC conference is scheduled to come
to an end in Washington, DC<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar, 5773):
Eighty-seven-year-old actor and director Arthur Storch passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">(As reported by Paul Vitello) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/theater/arthur-storch-theater-director-is-dead-at-87.html?_r=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/theater/arthur-storch-theater-director-is-dead-at-87.html?_r=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The daughters of a Yiddish writer
persecuted under communism reclaimed copies of his works today, following a
prolonged legal fight to establish their ownership. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The first Hebrew language edition of
Playboy magazine was launched in Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://forward.com/articles/172284/playboys-first-hebrew-issue-hits-newsstands-in-isr/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20%28Monday-Friday%29&utm_campaign=Daily_Newsletter_Mon_Thurs%202013-03-05"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://forward.com/articles/172284/playboys-first-hebrew-issue-hits-newsstands-in-isr/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20%28Monday-Friday%29&utm_campaign=Daily_Newsletter_Mon_Thurs%202013-03-05</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Thousands attended the funeral of
Menachem Froman in the Judean Desert settlement of Tekoa today, remembering the
mystic rabbi and activist as a unique figure in Israel’s religious and
political landscape.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The Library of Congress is scheduled to host “Dancing in Jaffa,” Diane
Nabatoff’s documentary about ballroom dance Pierre Dulaine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“The Women Pioneers” and “Shtisel” are scheduled to be shown at the 24<sup>th</sup>
Washington Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2014:
“Where It Began” by Joseph Dorman published today provided a review of <u>Genesis:</u></span><u>
</u><u><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Truman,
American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict</span></u><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> by John B. Judis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/books/review/genesis-by-john-b-judis.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/books/review/genesis-by-john-b-judis.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The Jewish Study Center is scheduled to present “Two 20th-Century
Theologians:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Herberg and Soloveitchik.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“If/Then” a musical featuring Idina Menzel is scheduled to open at the Richard
Rodgers Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Today, IDF Special Forces intercepted a ship in the Red Sea carrying an Iranian
arms shipment headed for the Gaza Strip in what was known as “Operation Full
Disclosure.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the United States-Israel
Strategic Alliance and Security Act, which is aimed at further enhancing the
two countries’ already strong defense relationship<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5774): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5774): Eighty-eight year “award winning documentarian” Albert Maysles
passed away today. (As reported by Anita Gates)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/movies/albert-maysles-pioneering-documentarian-dies-at-88.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/movies/albert-maysles-pioneering-documentarian-dies-at-88.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
The funeral for Chabad Rabbi Daniel Moscowitz, the husband of Esther Rochel
Moscowitz and the father of nine children is scheduled to take placed today in
Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
This evening the Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a “Purim
Spiel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“The elections for the 20th Knesset have officially begun for thousands of
Israeli diplomats across the globe” today. (As reported by Raphael Ahren<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan lambasted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in
a Channel 2 interview previewed today, calling his speech before Congress
“bullshit,” and charging that his policy vis-a-vis the Palestinians endangered
the Zionist dream. (As reported by Avi Lewis)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5776): Shabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
The board of trustees of Oberlin College in Ohio “has denounced as
‘anti-Semitic and abhorrent’ social media post” by Joy Karega, a professor in
the rhetoric and composition department that referred to ISIS as a “C.I.A. and
Mossad organization.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
The Jewish Children’s Regional Service (JCRS) which has been serving families
since 1855 is scheduled to host its annual fund-raiser “The Jewish Roots of
Celebration!” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Wedding Doll,” starring Moran Rosenblatt and Asi Levi is scheduled to be shown
at the Charlotte Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including <u>A Horse Walks Into A Bar</u> by David Grossman, <u>The Fortunate
Ones</u> by Ellen Umansky, <u>Well Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend and
Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie</u> by Noah Isenberg and <u>Stalin
and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905-1953</u> by Simon
Ings.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The Jewish Historical Society and Congregation B’nai Israel are scheduled to
host “The Release of Natan Sharansky: The Back Story” during which “John Martin
- former FBI agent and Director of the Department of Justice Internal Security
Section - will discuss the behind-the-scenes negotiations leading to the
release of former Soviet refusenik Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky, and share
never-before-seen film footage of Sharansky's 1986 historic crossing of the
snow-covered Glienecke Bridge to freedom.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
In Atlanta, The Breman Museum is scheduled to continue it “Bearing Witness”
program during which Hungarian native Murray Lynn will share his story of
survival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
WLIW is scheduled to broadcast the television concert “Dudu Fisher in
Jerusalem.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Today, Michael Schmidt broke the story that the FBI director had asked the
Justice Department to publicly refute Trump's claims that President Obama had
him wire-tapped during the 2016 campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
In London, Sarah Kaminsky spoke about <u>Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger’s Life</u>,
the biography she wrote about her father.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-wwii-counterfeiter-who-forged-ahead-in-the-face-of-horror/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-wwii-counterfeiter-who-forged-ahead-in-the-face-of-horror/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
“An NYPD spokesman said” today “that the department’s hate crimes division had
been notified of the “headstones toppled in a Brooklyn Jewish cemetery”
yesterday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to sponsor an “all-day
festival to launch the special issue of the journal <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">East European Jewish Affairs</i> featuring “opening remarks by guest
editor Anna Katsnelson” and including “panels on current issues in the field of
Russian Jewish American cultural production, writers and visual arts.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The annual AIPAC Conference is scheduled to continue for a second day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to co-sponsor a talk by
Liliane Umubyeyi, a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda
who “has been named Ultimate Campaigner of the Year for her work with Survivors
Fund, of which she is a trustee.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
President Trump is scheduled to meet in Washington with Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu with hopes of soon reaching a long-sought Mideast peace
agreement, as both world leaders try to make international progress amid the
strains of domestic investigations into each of their governments. (As reported
by Joseph Weber)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to begin today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Foxtrot,” the
“winner of the Silver Lion at the 2017 Venice Film Festival,” directed by
Samuel Maoz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In Washington, DC, 2019: JW3 is scheduled to host a
screening of “Foxtrot,” the “winner of the Silver Lion at the 2017 Venice
Film Festival,” directed by Samuel Maoz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Foxtrot,” the
“winner of the Silver Lion at the 2017 Venice Film Festival,” directed by
Samuel Maoz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In Washington, DC, “Israel’s Rock troubadour, Ehua Banai” is
scheduled to perform at the Howard Theatre which is near Howard University and
has its own sets of stores to tell from when the Nation’s capital was a
segregated city.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: “Perfectly Normal for Me is scheduled to shown at the
“ReelAbilities Film Festival” which in a case of tikkun olam is being hosted by
the JCC of Northern Virginia <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The JCC Sonoma County is scheduled to host the screening of
Israeli films in Hebrew with English subtitles as part of the Israeli Film
Festival.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: Haifa-born fashion designer Ruti Zisser is scheduled to
discuss what styles and trends in Israel reveal about its culture and society
in Belmont, CA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The Jewish Book Festival is scheduled to host a discussion
of <u>Churchill: Walking With Destiny</u> with the author Andrew Roberts and
moderator “David Horspool, the History Editor of the Times Literary Supplement”
and a discussion of <u>Jerusalem on the Amstel</u> with the author Lipika
Phelham and the moderator Keren David. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host
a panel discussion with Barbara Dobkin, Jane Eisner and Pamela Nadell as they
discuss issues raised in Nadell’s new work, <u>America’s Jewish Women: A
History From Colonial Times To Today.<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2019: The 68<sup>th</sup>
Annual National Jewish Book Awards Dinner and Ceremony is scheduled to take
place this evening at Bohemian National Hall in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/68th-annual-national-jewish-book-awards-dinner-and-ceremony-tickets-53708921831"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/68th-annual-national-jewish-book-awards-dinner-and-ceremony-tickets-53708921831</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: In Berkley, “Hamaqom” is scheduled to host the first session
of a “multi-part workshop on the story of Hebrew literature and its history as
an amalgam of languages.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: In Brookline, MA, Congregation Kehillath is scheduled to
host the first meeting of Yachad, “an organization devoted to creating an
inclusive environment for Jewish individuals with disabilities.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: In San Francisco, the JCCSF is scheduled to host a fund
raiser with a theme of “It’s Your to Play.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the last two screenings
of “Waiting for Anya.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: At the Museum of Modern Art, Amos Gitai is scheduled to
introduce a screening of his film “Carmel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: TCM is scheduled to broadcast a series of Kirk Douglas
movies in memory of the actor who recently passed away and who transcended the
role of “movie star” when helped to break the “blacklist” with the making of
“Spartacus.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: Boston Jewish Film is scheduled to present online screenings
of “Menachem Begin: Peace and War” and “Sky Raiders.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: “In a session examining UC Berkeley’s Magnes Collection,
curators Francesco Spagnolo and Shir Kochavi are scheduled to talk about an
exhibit that studies modern Jewish culture via lists and inventories.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: The Jewish Arts Collaborative is scheduled to present online
“Adriana Katzew,” whose “work searches to unearth stories and memories of
people, moments and places, with much of her photography-based work featuring
images of her own Mexican Jewish family.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: The Joseph and Florence Mandel Jewish Day School is
scheduled to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>host its annual Winter
Auction today at the school in Beachwood after previously postponing the
fundraiser last month due to COVID-19 cases.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: The Eden Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host “The Israel
Chamber Project Vienna.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: The Atlanta Jewish Times is scheduled to present the Atlanta
Jewish Life Festival at the Georgia Aquarium.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel and Augdas Achim are
scheduled to host a Community Purim Carnival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: The National Library of Israel is scheduled to present “The
Talmud and #MeToo<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A Lecture in Anticipation of the Fast of Esther and International
Women's Day” with Mira Beth Wasserman an associate professor of rabbinic
literature and director of the Center for Jewish Ethics at the
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, outside Philadelphia, PA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: The Jewish Museum of London is scheduled to host “Purim and
Pride Family Day.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: The Jerome Robbins-inspired “Fiddler on the Roof” with music
and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, a book by Joseph Stein and
direction by Bartlett Sher, which is on a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>national tour is scheduled to come to an end
today at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: In Coralville, IA, the Agudas Achim religious school is scheduled
to host a Purim Bake Sale.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled “Eldridge Eats: A
History of the Lower East Side Food Tour.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">2023: The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is scheduled to host
Faith Kramer, the author of <u>52 Shabbats: Friday Night Dinners Inspired by a
Global Jewish Kitchen</u>.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The
online screening of “Karaoke,” hosted by the UK Jewish Film, directed by Moshe
Rosenthal is scheduled to come to an end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: “I
another lecture in the online series “The Book, That’s the Whole Story” David
Ivgy is scheduled to discuss the place of the boo within the works of art…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: AJHS is scheduled
to host a discussion on organized and informal Jewish labor movements in early
20th century New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As part
of the Women on the Move series, the Streicker Center is schedule to host “
7th-generation Sabra born in Tel Aviv, Talia Carner is the author of five
earlier novels”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2024: Today, at
1pm Cantor Abbie Strauss from Temple Judea is scheduled to sing the national
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<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
5th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 151 in captivity</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(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.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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