tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61061853551836038442024-03-18T16:19:56.282-06:00This 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-79907711865648535962024-03-18T14:03:00.002-06:002024-03-18T16:19:06.333-06:00This Day, March 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p><em><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">March 19</span></span></b></em></p>
<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>
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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"><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-16386570554171313322024-03-15T10:58:00.003-06:002024-03-15T16:05:04.255-06:00This Day, March 16, 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 16</span></span></b></p>
<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>
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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-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"><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-44275998413527488512024-03-12T12:37:00.002-06:002024-03-12T16:04:24.636-06:00This Day, March 13, 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 13</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;">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" 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>
<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;">Anatoly Biryakov, 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;">Be'eri Ovad, 21 , from Rosh Pina <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;">Eliyahu Laham, 22, 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;">Miriam Atar, 27, 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;">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"><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-32022570611616244162024-03-06T19:25:00.003-06:002024-03-06T19:25:19.326-06:00This Day, March 7, 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 7</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-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>
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<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>
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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
anthem at the opening of the Twins Vs. Cardinal baseball game.</span><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75"
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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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<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-67918587344863151372024-03-03T18:54:00.002-06:002024-03-03T18:54:24.751-06:00This Day, March 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">March 4</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">457BCE
(1st of Nisan, 3303): According to chapter 7, verse 9 of the Book of Ezra, Ezra
and his followers left Babylonia for Jerusalem<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1193:
Saladin, the great Moslem leader, passed away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Among Saladin’s many accomplishments were the re-taking of Jerusalem
from the Crusaders and his subsequent defeat of Richard the Lionhearted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saladin had begun his leadership career in
Egypt where Maimonides served as physician to his court.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is some question as to whether
Maimonides provided medical services to Saladin or to his brother-in-law and
his entourage.<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;">1152:
Frederick Barbarossa was elected Roman-German king. Born in 1123,
Barbarossa or Frederick I was Holy Roman Emperor for forty years. He
was slated to lead the Third Crusade along with Phillip of France and Richard
the Lion-Hearted. Unfortunately, Barbarossa drowned before he
could help lead the Crusade. From the Jewish point of view,
unfortunately is the correct word to use in describing his death. Unlike
other Crusaders, Barbarossa sought to protect the Jews. He warned local
priests and monks not to preach against the Jews. He told the Diet
(Parliament) that anybody who killed a Jew would forfeit his own life.
Thanks to Frederick's efforts, German bishops threatened those who attacked
Jews with excommunication. As a Jewish commentator of that time
wrote, "Frederick defended us with all his might and enabled us to live
among our enemies, so that no one harmed 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;">1215:
King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the
support of Innocent III.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While they may
have been odds over many issues, the two leaders both held firm to the concept
of allowing the Jews to exist, but in a state of humiliation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1210, John imprisoned the Jews of Bristol
and demanded 66,000 in ransom as the price of their freedom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To move the process along, John reportedly
had the teeth of the prisoners extracted one at a time until they agreed to the
payment. Such was his treatment of the Jews, that Barons included special
language about the treatment of the Jews in the Magna Carta. The Fourth Lateran
Council over which Innocent actively presided adopted several cannons attacking
Jews including the denying them the right to hold office and the requirement to
wear distinctive dress.<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;">1277:
“Emperor Rudolph of Hapsburg granted a charter of rights to the Jews of
Prussia.” P 140<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1349:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Birthdate of Prince Henry the Navigator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Portuguese prince earned his sobriquet
and place in history for supporting ever more ambitious efforts to explore the
uncharted waters of the Atlantic Ocean and beyond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His efforts were financed and encouraged by
the family of Don Judah Abarbanel a wealthy refugee from Spanish persecution
who served as financer and confident to two generations of Portuguese monarchs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1386:
Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland. The situation of the
Jews in Poland had already begun to deteriorate prior to his kingship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the middle of the century, the Jews were
blamed for the Black Plague and attacked by the countrymen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Under Wladislaus II and his successors the
first extensive persecutions of the Jews in Poland commenced, persecutions
which the monarch did not act to stop.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1493:
According to some records, today Columbus arrived in Lisbon from which he sent
the letter that described the results of his first voyage. The letter was
addressed to Luis de Santangel, the converso who, as finance minister, had
convinced the Spanish monarchs to finance the voyage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1524:
In Cairo, Mohamed Bey freed the Jews who had been imprisoned by the viceroy
Ahmed Schaitan on the day on which he planned to kill them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ahmed had rebelled against the Sultan and
when a Jewish leader, Abraham de Castro, exposed the plot, Ahmed responded by
demanding a ransom from the Jews of Cairo and then imprisoning them once they
had brought him the money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This day of
deliverance is celebrated as the Purim of Cairo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1648(8th
of Adar): Rabbi Issachar Baer, author Arba’ah Hadashim 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;">1699:
Jews of Lubeck, Germany, were expelled.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1743:
Birthdate of Tuscan poet Solomon Fiorentino who wrote “Elegie” after the death
of his wife Laura Gallico and was the father of Hebrew teacher Angiolo
Fiortentino.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1761(OS-
9<sup>th</sup> of Adar II, 5521): London physician Meyer Low Schomberg, the
German born son of Low Schomberg, the brother of “Salomon, Hertz and Gerson
Schomberg” and the father of physicians Isaac Raphael and Joel Schomberg as
well as Moses, Solomon, Rebecca, Alexander and Henry Schomberg passed away
today after having alienated himself from the London Jewish community because
of his feud with Jacob de Castro Sarmento<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/13297-schomberg-meyer-low">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13297-schomberg-meyer-low</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1770:
In London,Haham Moses Cohen d’Azvedo, the London born son Daniel David Cohen
d’Azvedo and Sara Cohen d”Azvedo, and his wife Sara de Abraham Cohen d’Azvedo
gave birth to Samuel Cohen D’Azvedo<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1770:
Lancaster, PA native Shinah Solomon and Frankfurt, Germany native Elijah Etting
gave birth to Hetty Etting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1776(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5536): 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;">1781:
In Philadelphia, PA Miriam Simon and Michael Gratz gave birth to Rebecca Gratz,
one of the most important Jewish women of the 19<sup>th</sup> century who
according to some was the role model for the character in the novel Ivanhoe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gratz-rebecca"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gratz-rebecca</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;">1787(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5547): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1789:
James Madison, who championed religious liberty through the Bill of Rights
began serving as a member of the U.S House of Representatives from Virginia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1791:
Vermont is the 14<sup>th</sup> state to join the Union.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the first state to join the original 13
states.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today Vermont boasts a vibrant,
if small, Jewish community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
includes houses of worship in at least half a dozen cities, a Chabad in
Burlington and Hillel chapters at two of the state’s universities.<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;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1791: A Christian in Alsace was punished by
the Church for lighting a fire for a Jew 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;">1791:
Israel Jacobs of Pennsylvania took his seat as the first Jewish member of the
United States House of Representatives.<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;">1793: Philadelphia native “Catherine” Bush and
London born Myer S. Solomon gave birth to Alexander Solomon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1795(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5555): 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;">1796: In Richmond, VA, Richea Myers and Joseph Marx
gave birth to Samuel Marx.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1797: John Adams is sworn in as second President of
the United States, succeeding George Washington.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This orderly transfer of power, including the
acceptance of the outcome of elections, is a uniquely American gift to the
world of political science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the
national level, the U.S. failed to abide by this and the result was four
violent years of Civil War.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are
those who would say that the Jewish people have been able to thrive in America
because of the stability of the society and because of its respect for the rule
of law as epitomized by this seemingly simple event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Adams, like so many of his New England
contemporaries was greatly influenced by his reading of what he called “the Old
Testament.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The images of George III as
Pharaoh and the colonists as the modern day Israelites fighting tyranny provide
a couple cover for what others might have called treason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Adams was an early Zionist, writing to the
Jewish leader Mordechai Manuel Noah, “I really wish the Jews again in Judea an
independent nation.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For more about the
views of our Second President on the Jewish people see </span><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/adams.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/adams.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;">1798:
Catholic women were forced to do penance for kindling fire for Jews on
Shabbat. <br />
Either this is the same episode reported at two different times or being a
"Shabbos Goy" was a big no-no among the Catholic hierarchy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1798:
Birthdate of Abigail Judah, the daughter of Baruch Juda, the wife of Moses
Judah and the mother of Rachel Judah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799:
Under cover of night, between the 3rd and the 4th of March, work commenced- the
erecting of five batteries, four against the southern wall and one in support
of the northern sector.13 The artillery park at Napoleon¹s command consisted
only of field pieces, mostly of 12, 8, 6 and 3 "pouces" (=inches of
2.7 cm), of howitzers of 6 pouces and of 6-pouce mortars,14 since the heavy
artillery had all been loaded for transfer to Acre bay onto the ships of the
flotilla commanded by captain Standelet, and onto the freighters that had been
collected for that purpose in the Egyptian harbors. Those ships were only just
then commencing their journey north, without the means of contact with the land
forces, and Napoleon was compelled to make do with the lighter ordinance at his
command. However, he did not seem to have been unduly worried. Most probably,
the outward appearance of these antiquated walls revived his confidence in the
description of M. de Volney, who, in 1784, had called the ramparts of Jaffa
"mere garden walls."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1806:
Birthdate of Charleston SC native and cousin of the renowned Judah P. Benjamin,
Henry Michael Hyams who “served as the 7<sup>th</sup> Lieutenant Governor of
Louisiana from 1862 to 1864l<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1809(16<sup>th</sup>
Adar, 5569): 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;">1809:
James Monroe, who had helped draft the Bill of Rights which included language
intended to protect the religious liberty of all Americans, including its
Jewish citizens, began serving 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;">1813: Baptism of
Franz Delitzsch “a German Lutheran theologian and Hebraist” who wrote many
commentaries on books of the Bible, Jewish antiquities, Biblical psychology, as
well as a history of Jewish poetry, and works of Christian apologetics” while
also translating the New Testament into Hebrew and raising his son, “an
influential Assyriologist and author of works on Assyrian language, literature,
and 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;">1817: On the day after Shushan Purim, James
Madison, who had appointed Mordecai Noah to serve as Counsel to Tunis after the
latter had turned down an appointment to serve as U.S. Consul to Riga completed
his second and final 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;">1817(16<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5577): Grace
Mears, the wife of “Haim” Levy with whom she had two children – Judith and
Moses – 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;">1818: Birthdate of future Kansas City resident
Louis Berkowitz, the husband of Henrietta Jaruslawski Berkowit with whom he had
seven children – Sarah, Benjamin, Albert, Henry, Rose William and Maurice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1820: Alexander I of Russia prohibited the
employment of Christian servants by Jews. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1822(11th
of Adar): Eighty-two-year-old Isaac Franks the American patriot from
Philadelphia who served in the Continental Army 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;">1825(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5585): Purim observed on the same day that John Quincy Adams takes the
oath of 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;">1826: In St. Thomas, Jacob and Leah Biaz gave
birth to Sarah Henriquez Morón<o:p></o:p></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(29<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5589):
Forty-six-year-old attorney Judah Zuntz, the son of Alexander Zuntz who was a
member of Shearith Israel and a supporter of Moses Elias Levy’s plan for
educating Jewish youth passed away today after which he was buried in the First
Cemetery of Congregation Shearith 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;">1837(27<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5597): Parashat
Vayakhel 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;">1837: Chicago receives its official charter by
the state of Illinois. Jews first came to Chicago from Prussia, Austria,
Bohemia and sections of modern-day Poland, fleeing oppression to settle in the
Chicago area as early as 1832. Kehilat Anshe Mayriv (Congregation of the People
of the West), Chicago's first Jewish congregation, was founded in 1847; in 1851
KAM built the city's first synagogue at Clark and Jackson streets, a site now
occupied by the Kluczynski Federal Building. It was followed by B'nai Shalom,
in 1852, and Chicago Sinai, the city's first Reform congregation, in 1861. The
expansion of the Jewish community was slow but steady. In 1871, the Great Fire
destroyed many residences near the downtown business district, forcing
thousands of people to relocate. The more prosperous German Jews, who made up
the majority, moved south along Michigan, Wabash and Indiana avenues,
eventually settling in Washington Park, Kenwood, Hyde Park and South Shore; the
Eastern European Jews moved west of the central business district in the
vicinity of Maxwell Street. Between 1880 and 1900, a new wave of 55,000 Russian
and Polish Jews crowded into the Maxwell Street market neighborhood. Yiddish
was the language of choice. Dozens of Hebrew schools and Yiddish theaters were
organized, and 40 Orthodox shuls were built within walking distance of Halsted
and Maxwell streets. As successive waves of Jewish immigrants became settled
and successful, the Jewish community began expanding. In addition to continued
growth on the South Side, neighborhoods such as Lawndale and Douglas Park on
the West Side and Albany Park, Humboldt Park, Lake View, Uptown and Edgewater
on the North Side became vibrant Jewish communities. Many Chicago Jews today
trace their roots in this city to one or more of these areas.<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;">1838: The first Sunday School for Jewish
students, under the direction of the Female Hebrew Benevolent Society, opened
today in Philadelphia, PA.<o:p></o:p></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: 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" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1844(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5604): 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;">1849:
Austrian Jews were granted equal civil and political rights under the new
constitution. The imperial government would renege on its promise and full
rights would not be finally granted until 1867.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1850:
In Winnsboro SC, Sailing and Sarah Cohen Wolfe gave birth to Isabel “Belle”
Wolfe Baruch, the Winnsboro, SC, the wife of Dr. Simon Baruch and the mother of
Hartwig, Bernard, Herman and Sailing Baruch <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1850:
In Paris, “Prof. Hermann G. Ollendorff and Dorothea Ollendorff” gave birth to
art critic and Franco-Prussian War veteran Gustave Ollendorff who along with is
brother Paul “received his Jewish education from the chief rabbi Zado Kahn” and
who was the <span style="color: #4d4d4d;">was president of the Union Française de
la Jeunesse, which he founded immediately after the close of the war” while
also serving as at the head of the bureau of museums, expositions, and art in
the department of the fine arts</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851:
Fifty-year old businessman, militia colonel and Democrat Party member Emanuel
Bernard Hart began serving his first and only term as a member of the U.S.
House of Representatives, making him the first Jews to serve in Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/emanuel-bernard-hart"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/emanuel-bernard-hart</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;">1851:
Alexander Samuel Joseph, the ten-month-old son of Simon and Eliza 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;">1853:
Philip Phillips began serving as a U.S. Congressman representing Alabama’s 1<sup>st</sup>
District.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5615): 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:
After having been out of office for four years, David Yulee, the first Jew
elected to the United States, began his second term in office today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1857:
Philadelphia Democrat Henry Myer Phillips began service as a member of the U.S.
House Representatives <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1857:
In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Solomon Jacobs officiated at the wedding of Mr. Magnus
of Rome, GA and Rebecca Alexander the youngest daughter of the late Abraham
Alexander.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858:
Mary Levy and John Fileman gave birth to Rachel Fileman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858:
Edmund Myer Tobias married Adeline Miriam Alexander today at “Bristol, (Avon),
Somerset.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859(28<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5619): Sixty-six-year-old Frances Cohen, the daughter Hymen Cohen
and the former Zipporah Isaacs passed away today 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;">1860:
Birthdate of Russian native an future resident of Atlanta, GA, Clara Mitnick
Massell, the wife of Raphael M. Massell with whom she had five children –
Benjamin, Levi, Samuel, Alan, Rebie and Jacob.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861:
Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16<sup>th</sup> President of the United
States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lincoln sensitivity to Jewish
can be seen in the way he handled the law that allowed Jews to serve as
Chaplains and the aftermath of General Grant’s infamous order banning Jews from
the area under his command.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
Lincoln’s greatest contribution to the welfare of the Jewish people was his
successful effort to save “the last best hope of man” which has provided Jews
with unprecedented opportunity. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862:
“From the African Coast” published today described the travels of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">USS Saratoga</i> through the waters of the
South Atlantic including a stop at the island of St. Helena where the ship took
on provisions. According to the author, the Jews on the island exploited the
plight of the American naval vessel, selling spoiled and overpriced supplies
and even exchanging money at rate that exploited the Americans. “The Jews of
St. Helena took money out of us and tucked sour flour and bad rice into us,
sold us Spanish dollars at 4s. 2d., and took them at 3s. 9d., was a caution,
never to come again if we can help it. Even the common necessaries of life were
in price luxuries -- for instance, beef, 60c. per pound; mutton, do.; butter,
55c. per pound; eggs, 5c. each, &c., &c.” [It is difficult to know who
these Jews were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the 1820’s,
Nathanial Isaacs’s uncle served on St. Helena as the counsel for France and
Holland. Saul Solomon who converted to Christianity was born in St. Helena in
1817 but left to find fame and fortune in South Africa. “The few other St.
Helena Jews who settled” on St. Helena “during Napoleon's banishment, the
Gideon, the Moss, and the Isaacs families, were all related to” Solomon, and,
like him “most of them drifted from Judaism.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1863(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5623): Ta’anit Esther; Erev
Purim</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;">1863:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Myer Strouse, the Bavarian born American editor, lawyer
and Democrat politician began the first of his two terms as a Congressman from
Pennsylvania.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1863: A rumor from Jackson, Miss., says that a Jew has
been arrested on the charge of offering to spike the guns at Port Hudson for
$60,000. </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;">1863: William Sprague completed his term as governor of
Rhode Island and took his seat in the United States Senate representing his
home state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While in the Senate Sprague
would explain away the suffering of the Jews of Romania as being the result of
their taking away the lands and livelihood of the Christian, a pattern that he
implied could be repeated in the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sprague’s words take on additional weight because he was not just an
ordinary political hack. He was a successful businessman who supported Abraham
Lincoln and was the son-in-law of Salmon Chase, the powerful Republican
politician who served as Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice of the
U.S. Supreme Court.</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;">1863:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Myer Strouse, the Bavarian born American editor, lawyer
and Democrat politician began the second of his two terms as a Congressman from
Pennsylvania.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864:
German born; Tulane University graduate George Michael Deck Hahn began servings
as the 19<sup>th</sup> Governor of Louisiana.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865: Birthdate of Lieutenant General Sir George Mark
Watson Macdonogh, that rarity among British officers, “a Zionist sympathizer”
who was a close enough friend of Chaim Weizmann, that Jewish leader discussed
the possibility of having Herbert Samuel removed as British High Commissioner
following the issuan”ce of the report issued by the Haycroft Commission of
Inquiry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865:
German born, Tulane University graduate George Michael Deck Hahn ended his term
in office as the 19<sup>th</sup> Governor of Louisiana.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866: The Purim Ball: The Wonders or a Persian Temple-A
Glimpse of the Glories of Babylon Fun, Frolic and Phantasmagoria” published
today described the celebration of the Purim Ball in New York City which was
“duly celebrated…with all the pomp, display an out-rivaling effectiveness which
was promised for it by its promoters.<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1868: Birthdate of Kiev native,
“Talmudist and Hebrew scholar,” Max Jacobs, a partener in the firm of Jacobs
and Janowitch and the husband of the fromer Sonia Feldman whom he married in
July, 1893 and with whom he had four children – Moe, Libbie, Sadye and
Elizabeth – who “has helped various Jewish in situtions in New Haven and New
York and who is the borther of J.L. Jacob “a prominent engineer in Chicago.”</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;">1869: William Seward who had served as
Secretary of State under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson completed his service
in this office following which he took a tour around the world which included a
stop in Jerusalem and Palestine which he had first visited in 1859. Seward
described in the Jews as “the builders and the founders of “ Jeruslaem.</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: President U.S. Grant appointed Civil War hero
Edward Selig Salomon governor of Washington Territory (the future state of
Washington, not D.C.)<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;">1870: Six days after she had passed away in France,
Octavia Dresden, the daughter of Edward Emanuel and Rosetta Mischolls, the wife
of Ephraim Dresden and the mother of Mathilda, Ernest and Edmond Dresden 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;">1871: In France, Israël-Vita Lattès and Marie ép.
Lattès gave birth to Eveline Bethsabée Lattès ép. Mayrargue the wife of Henri
Daniel Mayrargue. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1871: Robert C. De Large, the son of
black woman and Jewish man, began serving in the U.S. Representatives as a
member from South Carolina’s 2<sup>nd</sup> district.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Republican, he had served in the state
legislature and as state land commissioner before being elected to Congress.</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;">1872: In Tilsit, East Prussia, Abraham
Weil, the son of Salomon Weil, and the former Berta Seligman gave birth to
their son Karl Fischel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873(5<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5633):
Sixty-seven-year-old Bohemia native Siegfried Becher, the University of Prague
and University of Vienna educated economist who taught at the Polytechnic
Institute in Vienna and was employed in the ministry of commerce from 1848 to
1851 passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2704-becher-siegfried"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2704-becher-siegfried</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;">1873: Two days after she had passed away
Rosa (Joseph) Asher, the wife of Andrew Asher, was buried today at the “West
Ham Jewish Cemetery.”1873: Two days after she had passed away, Ruth Ellen Hyam
was buried today in the UK</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;">1874(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5634):
Shushan Purim</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;">1874: In Cincinnati, Ohio, Solomon and
Caroline Fox gave birth to Lydia Mack</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;">1874: “The Jews In Italy” published
today contains a synopsys of an article by Dr. Berliner published in the <i>Judische
Presse. </i>According to Dr. Berliner there are approximately 4,500 Jews living
in Rome “most of who are destitute.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are 5 synagouges in Rome two of which follow the Sephardic
(Spanish) rite and three of which follow the Italian rite. One of the
synagogues dates backs to the time of Titus, the Roman who destroyed the Second
Temple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </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;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B0DE1DE1039EF34BC4C53DFB566838F669FDE"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B0DE1DE1039EF34BC4C53DFB566838F669FDE</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;">1875: It was reported today that over 2,000 tickets have
already been sold to the upcoming Hebrew Charity Ball sponsored by the Purim
Association.</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;">1875: William Sharon began serving as U.S. Senator
from Nevada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he passed away ten
years later, his recipients of his bequests included several California
charities including those established by the Jewish community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1875(27<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5635): Rabbi Joseph Saul
Nathanson of Lemberg, author of Ner Ma’aravi, a novaellae on the Jerusalem
Talmud passed away</span><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/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_14591.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_14591.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;">1876: Birthdate of Ferencz Dezso Weisz, the native of
Budapest, who “went by the name of Theodore Weiss when the family was living in
Appleton, Wisconsin” and who in 1893 as Theodore Hardeen Hardeen performed with
Houdini at Coney Island as "The Brothers Houdini:</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;">1876: In Girait, Hungary, Maurice and Rose (Baumgarten) Moschcowitz
gave birth to American portrait painter, Paul Moschowitz, the husband of
Madeline Rabb and winner of the Silver Medal at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition
whose works included “Portrait of Young Woman in Opera Box with Classical
Background.”</span><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.invaluable.com/artist/moschcowitz-paul-27ir28f7az/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.invaluable.com/artist/moschcowitz-paul-27ir28f7az/</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.askart.com/artist/Paul_Moschcowitz/24442/Paul_Moschcowitz.aspx"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.askart.com/artist/Paul_Moschcowitz/24442/Paul_Moschcowitz.aspx</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;">1877: “The Russian Army of the South” published today
provides a detailed description of Kishinev, the city that is the headquarters
of the major Russian unit under the Grand Duke that has been mobilized in the
war against the Turks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kishinev has a
population of 100,000, more than half of whom are Jews. [This is the same
Kishinev that will be the site of future horrible Pogroms.]</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;">1877:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Emile Berliner
invented the microphone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He would also
invent the flat disc that replaced Edison’s cylinder and became the prototype
for the record which would become the standard for the recording industry for
the better part of a hundred years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: Leopold Morse began serving as a member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts’s 4<sup>th</sup> district.<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 Toronto, Canada native Murray
Leonard Cohen, the Edinburgh University medical student who was buried in that
city when he passed away at the age of 24.<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 Great Synagogue at 187a Elizabeth Street
in Sydney, Australia was consecrated today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878: In New York City, Sonny and Hettie (Monsky)
Simmons gave girth to NYU trained attorney and Commander of the Spanish War
Veterans of New York Maurice Simmons who fought anti-Semitism in the National
Guard, led protests during the Kiishineff Masscrest, opposed literacy
requirements for immigrants and who got President Taft “to grant leaves of
absence to al men of the Jewish faith in various branches of military and naval
service.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879: It was reported today that the Purim
Association will be sponsoring a fancy-dress charity ball to be held later this
week 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;">1879: Cincinnati native and CCNY alum Edwin Einstein
began his serving his one term of service as a member of the House of Representatives
after which he was an unsuccessful candidate as a Republican for the mayor of
New ork.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879(9th of Adar, 5639): Leon Hyneman passed away.
Born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in 1808, he “was the author of
"The Fundamental Principles of Science" and of several works on
masonic subjects, the chief among them being "The Origin of
Freemasonry" and "Freemasonry in England from 1567 to 1813."
Hyneman was one of the members of the Jewish Publication Society of America.
Among his eight children were Leona Hyneman who “under the stage name of
"Leona Moss," became a talented actress. Another daughter was Alice
Hyneman, authoress; born in Philadelphia Jan. 31, 1840; contributor to
"The North American Review"; "The Forum"; "The Popular
Science Monthly"; and the author of "Woman in Industry," a
treatise on the work of woman in America, and of "Niagara," a
descriptive record of the great cataract and its vicinity. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879: Edwin Jonas took his seat as a United States
Senator from Louisiana making him the third Jew to serve in “the upper
chamber.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879: Edwin Einstein, a native of Cincinnati, began
to serve as a member of the U.S. House Representatives from New York’s 7<sup>th</sup>
Congressional District.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880: Birthdate of Washington, DC native, playwright
and drama critic Channing Pollock, author of <u>Adventures of a Happy Man.<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: William Sharon, who would bestow a bequest of
$5,000 on the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of San Francisco, completed his term as
service as a U.S. Senator from Nevada.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: James G. Fair who would bestow a bequest of
$25,000 on the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of San Francisco, began his term as service
as a U.S. Senator from Nevada.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5642: Triple Header –
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;">1883: Leopold Morse began serving as a member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts’s 5<sup>th</sup> district.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883: Julius Houseman began serving as a member of
the U.S. House Representatives from Michigan’s 5<sup>th</sup> district.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884: Arthur Sebag-Montefiore and Harriett
Beddington gave birth to Charles to English stock-broker Charles Edward
Sebag-Montefiore, the husband of Muriel Alice Ruth de Pass.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885: Birthdate of Pittsburgh native and Harvard
trained attorney Allan Davis, the president of the Menorah Society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885: Grover Cleveland who relied on Isidor Strauss
the co-owner of R.H. Macy and member of Congress as a trusted advisor and whom
he appointed as Ambassador to Turkey was inaugurated as 22<sup>nd</sup>
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;">1885: Julius Houseman completed his service as a
member of the House of Representatives from Michigan’s 5<sup>th</sup> district.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885: Charles Henry Grosvenor is elected to the
House of Representatives from Ohio for the first time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His career will last until 1907, but he will
represent 3 different congressional districts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>During his career he will take part in several debates on immigration
bills during which he said “he said he would not vote for a measure framed
specially to restrict the entrance of the Russian Jews, for such a would be
charged up to him as a vote against a man on account of his religion.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885: Californian William W. Morrow, who would
champion the cause of Adolph Kutner, formerly of Wierbchow, Russia who was
afraid to return to his native land on business because of the Czar’s policies,
began serving a member of the House of Representatives today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885: Joseph Kemp Toole, who would lay the
cornerstone when construction was begun on Temple Emanu-El in Helena, Montana
began serving as the Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Montana
Territory’s At-large district today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885: Edwin Jonas, who failed to win re-election,
competed his term as a United States Senator following which he was appointed
Collector of the Port of 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;">1887: James G. Fair who would bestow a bequest of
$25,000 on the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of San Francisco, completed his term as
service as a U.S. Senator from Nevada.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: William Stewart, who will defend the Jews of
Romania against persecution, begins serving as the U.S. Senator from Nevada.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: Leopold Morse began serving as a member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts’s 3rd district.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: Isidor Rayner began serving as a Congressman
from Maryland in the 50<sup>th</sup> U.S. House of Representatives. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889: St. Louis newspaperman Nathan Frank began
serving as a member of the House of Representatives in the 51<sup>st</sup>
Congress.<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;">1889: In Baltimore, MD, Clara Ostro and Harris
Hirschman gave birth to Deichman College and University of Maryland medical
doctor Isidore Isaac Hirschman, an instructor at Johns Hopkins Medical School
and chief medical officer for the U.S. Veterans Bureau’s 4<sup>th</sup>
District from 1917 to 1922 who settled in Huntington, West Virginia and who was
a member of Oheb Shalom Congregation <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889: Benjamin Harrison who appointed Solomon Hirsch
of Portland, Oregon as Minister to Turkey was inaugurated as 23<sup>rd</sup>
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;">1890: Seventy-seven-year-old Franz Delitzsch, the
“Lutheran theologian and Hebraist” who “wrote many commentaries on the books of
the Bible and Jewish antiquities” and who “defended the Jewish community
against anti-Judaic attacks” 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;">1890: Isidor Gunsburg was among the spectators of
the chess match played between Delmar and Lipschutz at the Manhattan Chess
Club.<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 29<sup>th</sup> annual ball sponsored by
the Purim Association took place this evening at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Money raised this year will go to the aid 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;">1890: Thieves attempted to rob Solomon Barnett, a
Jewish tailor, while he was working at this shop on Lexington Avenue, near 83<sup>rd</sup>
Street in New York City.1891(24th of Adar I, 5651: Two students at the Hebrew
Union College, Isador H. Frauenthal and Ernst Sallinger, passed away today in
Cincinnati, Ohio.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: In Russia, Fanny Gold and Abraham M. Dubin
gave birth to bio-chemist and holder of a Ph.D from the University of
Pennsylvania Harry Ennis Dubin the husband of Estelle Amy Schacht whose works
included Physiology of Phenols.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Dubin%2C%20H%2E%20E%2E%20%28Harry%20Ennis%29%2C%201891%2D"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Dubin%2C%20H%2E%20E%2E%20%28Harry%20Ennis%29%2C%201891%2D</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://books.google.com/books/about/Physiology_of_the_Phenols.html?id=sVrdjwEACAAJ"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://books.google.com/books/about/Physiology_of_the_Phenols.html?id=sVrdjwEACAAJ</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;">1891: James B. Eustis completed his last term as a
United States Senator following which he would become U.S. Ambassador to
France, a position from which he would study the Dreyfus Affair but die before
he could deliver his report to the government in Washington.<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 Abraham Herrman,
Simon Borg and Solomon B. Solomon have been unanimously elected to serve
three-year terms as Directors of the Hebrew Technical Institute.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: Max Marcus Zerner and Julie Zerner gave birth
to Alice Zerner who became Alice Eister when she married Otto Eisler.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: Grover Cleveland who would lend his support to
those who objecting to the treatment of the Jews of Russia and opposed
legislation that would have kept Jews from immigrating to the United States was
inaugurated as 24<sup>th</sup> 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;">1893: In Austria, Anna Wilder and Abram Wolf
Tannenbaum gave birth to Dr. Frank Tannenbaum, the New York born labor activist
turned economics academic and U.S. Army veteran who taught at Columbia, his
undergraduate training ground before his death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/06/02/90108763.html?pageNumber=45"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/06/02/90108763.html?pageNumber=45</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;">1893: It was reported today that the proceeds from
the upcoming ball sponsored by the Purim Association will be donated to 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;">1893: “Scenes in the Azores” published today
provides a picture of life on these Atlantic Islands including the fact that
“native Azorean Jews” have gradually come to dominate the banking business, the
importation of coal and the ownership of the mail boats to Lisbon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Jews now own homes in Tangiers and
Lisbon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: “Manifesto of Jewish Rabbis” published today
described a document issued by 210 German Rabbis designed to counteract the
increasing power of the country’s anti-Jewish 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;">1894: The Superintendent of the Bureau of
Immigration, a section of the Treasury Department, “has received an official
denial from the Russian Government that” it is aiding Russian Jews in their
efforts to come to 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;">1894(26th of Adar I, 5654):</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Fifty-eight-year-old <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rabbi Joseph Perles passed away. Born in
Baja, Hungary in 1835, he received his early instruction in the Talmud from his
father, Baruch Asher Perles, he was educated successively at the gymnasium of
his native city, was one of the first rabbis trained at the new type of
rabbinical seminary at Breslau, and the university of that city (Oriental
philology and philosophy; Ph.D. 1859, presenting as his dissertation Meletemata
Peschitthoniana). Perles was awarded his rabbinical diploma in 1862. He had
already received a call, in the autumn of the previous year, as preacher to the
community of Posen; and in that city he founded a religious school. In 1863 he
married Rosalie, the eldest daughter of Simon Baruch Schefftel. In the same
year he declined a call to Budapest; but in 1871 he accepted the rabbinate of
Münich, being the first rabbi of modern training to fill that office. As the
registration law which had restricted the expansion of the communities had not
been abrogated until 1861, Perles found an undeveloped community; but under his
management it soon began to flourish, and in 1887 he dedicated the new
synagogue. He declined not only a call to succeed Abraham Geiger as rabbi in
Berlin, but also a chair at the newly founded seminary in Budapest. Perles'
most important essays were on folklore and custom. There is much that is
striking and original in his history of marriage (Die Judische Hochzeit in
nachbiblischer Zeit, 1860), and of mourning customs (Die Leichenfeierlichkeitcn
ins nachbiblischen Judenthum, 1861), his contributions to the sources of the
Arabian Nights (Zur rabbinischen Sprach-und Sagenkunde, 1873), and his notes on
rabbinic antiquities (Beitrage zur rabbiniscizen Sprachund Altertumskunde,
1893). Perles' essays are rich in suggestiveness and have been the starting
point of much fruitful research. He also wrote an essay on Nachmanides, and a
biography and critical appreciation of Rashba (1863).<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;">1894: As the United States grapples with the
problem of unemployment brought by economic depression, the United Hebrew
Charities is one of the organizations making daily requests to aid the needy.<o:p></o:p></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: Among the donations made to the fund to
help New York’s unemployed are R.H. Macy & Co ($100), Simon Borg ($100) and
Emanuel Lehman ($100).<o:p></o:p></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: “The Pope May Interfere” published today
described the Pope’s plans to issue an “encyclical letter denouncing the
anti-Semitic agitation in Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Pope is reacting to the reports brought to him several weeks ago by Cardinal
Schoenborn “concerning Jew-baiting in 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;">1895: A case was “called against the Adelphi
Club” “among whose members are the wealthiest and most influential Jews of
Albany, NY” which resulted in the Judge decreeing that private clubs were under
the jurisdiction of the Excise Board and must be licensed accordingly.<o:p></o:p></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: The 3-year-old “waif” found wandering the
streets and known only as “John Doe, No.19” moved to the Hebrew Sheltering
Society’s Home where Philip Goodhart, the President of the home gave him the
name of Judah Touro.<o:p></o:p></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: “Mrs. Ida Lieberman, the convicted
fire-bug was taken to Auburn Prison” today to begin serving “her sentence of
six years and eight months.<o:p></o:p></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: The six-year-old daughter and eight-year-old
son of prisoner Ida Lieberman, for whom no provision had been made, were
provided with a home today at 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;">1896: Among the facilities being visited by
those attending the conference on “Improved Housing” is the Hebrew Institute on
East Broadway, where they will be greeted Inspector <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Isaac Spectorsky<o:p></o:p></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: Joseph Simon, a native of Germany who
settled in Portland, Oregon where he became a member of the bar and played an
active role in Republican Party politics began serving in the U.S. Senate<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;">1897: Lucius Nathan Littauer, the first
football coach at Harvard, began serving as a Member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from New York’s 22<sup>nd</sup> 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;">1897: “Two Heroes Remembered” published today
summarized a speech given by Hugo Hirsh in honor of the 1<sup>st</sup> and 16<sup>th</sup>
presidents of the United States in which he said that the “Hebrew race was
typified by the institutions of the county in that the Hebrew was the most
cosmopolitan among peoples and the United States the most cosmopolitan of
nations.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore, “the principles
of educational, religious and political freedom fostered by these two leaders
had been of incalculable benefit to the Hebrew race.”<o:p></o:p></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: William McKinley was inaugurated as 25<sup>th</sup>
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;">1897:
William H. King, who in 1927 “declared…that he favored the United States
severing diplomatic relations with any country which failed because of
anti-Semitism to protect its Jewish nationals” and “expressed the belief that
eventually Palestine would be able to support a population of a million Jews”
began serving in the House of Representatives 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;">1899: Jefferson Monroe Levy, the nephew of
naval hero Uriah P. Levy, began serving as a Member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from New York’s 13<sup>th</sup> 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;">1899: Mitchell May who was elected as a
Democrat to the 56th United States Congress began serving as a member of the
House of Representatives 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;">1899: A group of “prominent” Jews met in
Cincinnati to plan for the reception and entertainment of the rabbis who will
be attending the upcoming annual Central Conference of American 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;">1899: It was reported today that among the
three new novels in Houghton, Mifflin & Co.’s spring list is <u>A Tent of
Grace</u>, a story of a Jew and a gentile in Germany by Adelina C. Lust.<o:p></o:p></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 Slonim, Poland, native
Jehoshua Alouf, the Polish gymnast and organizer of the “first five World
Maccabiah Games who “served as director of the Israel department of physical
education from 1953 to 1957.”<o:p></o:p></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 London, the “Jewish Study Society,”
which had been “formed as a result of the visit of the delegates of the Council
of Jewish Women in London” met for the first time 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;">1900: The Council of Jewish Women which was
founded in 1897 began 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="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: In Philadelphia, PA Joseph and Eva
Biberman gave birth to screenwriter and director Herbert J. Biberman who was
one of the Hollywood Ten.<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 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://spartacus-educational.com/USAbiberman.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;">1901(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5661: 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;">1901: Birthdate of Genevieve Brown the wife of
Ralph Horween, the All-American Harvard and NFL football player and lawyer who
founded the Horween Leather Company with his brother.”<o:p></o:p></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: Birthdate of master bridge player,
Charles Goren, the Philadelphia born lawyer who probably did more to popularize
the game bridge than did any other single American.<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/1991/04/12/obituaries/charles-goren-90-bridge-expert-dies.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/12/obituaries/charles-goren-90-bridge-expert-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;">1901: Henry Mayer Goldfogle began serving as a
member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 9<sup>th</sup>
Congressional 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;">1902: It was reported today that “Jefferson M.
Levy” is the buyer of” of the property at “219 and 221 Wester 36<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;">1902: Israel Lubarsky, the Son of Leib (Leo)
Lubarsky and Rivke Lubarsky and the wife of Devorah (Dora) Lubarsky gave birth
to Rebecca Glassberg, the wife of Abe Glassberg and mother of Rosalyn Weinberg
and Adeline Hoppenstand<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;">1903: Edmund H. Hinshaw, who in
1906 attended a mass meeting at Belasco’s Theatre in Washington, D.C which was
a protest against the atrocities begin committed against the Jews of Russia
began his service as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from
Nebraska’s 4<sup>th</sup> District 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;">1903: Having spent six years serving as a
member of the U.S. House of Representative from New York’s 22<sup>nd</sup>
district Lucius Littauer began serving as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from New York’s 25<sup>th</sup> 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;">1903: 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 serving as a
member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois’s 20<sup>th</sup>
district 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: Senator Joseph Simon, Oregon Republican,
finishes his term in the U.S. Senate. Simon returned to Portland, Oregon where
he resumed his law practice and would serve as mayor from 1909 to 1911.<o:p></o:p></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: In Richmond, VA, Beth Ahabah, a Reform
congregation that could trace its roots back to 1789, laid the cornerstone for
a new house of worship popularly referred to as the Franklin Street Synagogue
because of its address 1111 West Franklin 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;">1905 Isidor Rayner began serving as U.S.
Senator from Maryland.<o:p></o:p></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: “<span style="background: #FAFAFA; color: #36322d;">Barney and Fanny (Greenberg) Taber,” gave birth to Madeline Taber who
became Madeline Talamo when she married Dr. Haskell Talamo with whom she had
three children – Fern, Ronald and Alan.</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;">1905: Frank Putnam Flint, who would be one of
those supporting a new trial for Leo Frank, began serving as a U.S. Senator
from California.<o:p></o:p></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: William S. Bennett, who would publicly support
aid for the Jews Europe after the World War broke, began his service as a
member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 17<sup>th</sup>
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;">1905: William M. Stewart completed his services
as U.S. Senator from Nevada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During one
debate on anti-Semitism in Romania, Stewart defended the Jews of charges from
Senator Sprague that the Jews were the author of their own suffering because
they had been so successful.<o:p></o:p></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: Abraham E. Lubarsky, a wealthy tea
merchant from Odessa arrived in New York today on the American liner St. Louis
and in describing the desperate conditions of his coreligionists said that “A
Jew’s Life in Russia is not worth as much as a bad cigarette.<o:p></o:p></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: Only days after Martial Law had come to
an end a police officer name Kulchitsky was killed in Bialystok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This killing was one of the many acts of
violence that would lead to the pogrom that took place in June of that 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;">1907: John Simon Guggenheim, the son of Meyer
and Barbara Guggenheim began serving as U.S. Senator from Colorado.<o:p></o:p></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: Adolph Joachim Sabath began serving as a
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois’ 5<sup>th</sup>
district 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(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar, 5668): 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;">1908: As the Jews of Cleveland celebrated Rosh
Chodesh, disaster struck the city with the burning of The Lakeview School which
claimed the lives of 172 students two teachers and one first responder.<o:p></o:p></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: “At the third of his concerts of old
music in Mendelssohn Hall” this “evening, Mrs. Sam Franko devoted his entire
program to the Music of J.S. Bach.”<o:p></o:p></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: Three weeks before his 20<sup>th</sup>
birthday, Sam Hamburg, the Russian born son of Sam and Bella Hamburg who would
become President of Hamburg Realty and Investment Company in St. Louis where he
was an active member of the Jewish community married Dora Hamburg 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;">1909: Birthdate of Millionaire Real Estate
Mogul Harry B. Helmsley.<o:p></o:p></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(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5669): Fast of
Esther observed since 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;">1909: The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt came
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;">1909: William Howard Taft took the oath of
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;">1909(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5669):
Maximillian “Max” Hirsch the Cologne born Australian economist and political
leader who was a believer in the Single Tax theories of Henry George 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://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hirsch-maximilian-6682"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hirsch-maximilian-6682</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://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5179721"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5179721</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: Ed “Cotton” Smith who as a member of the
House of Representatives had opposed legislation that would have exempted
Jewish immigrants from Russia from a literacy test began serving in the United
States Senate.<o:p></o:p></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: The first issue of Der Yiddisher Record,
a Yiddish weekly, appeared in Chicago 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;">1910: Birthdate of Mt. Pleasant, PA, native
Henry Weinberg, the guard for the Duquesne Dukes when they played Miami in the
first game of what would become the Orange Bowl before going on to play as a
lineman for the Pittsburgh (Football) Pirates who would become the Pittsburgh
Steelers.<o:p></o:p></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(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar I, 5670): Romanian
born Yiddish dramatist Moses Horowitz passed away in the Montefiore Home at the
age of 76.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Bucharest native came to
the United States in 1882 and was hailed at his passing as being “the Pioneer
Yiddish playwright in New York.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Five
years before his death he lost all of his money while trying to produce a
unique Yiddish opera at the Windsor 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;">1911(4<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5671): Parashat Terumah<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;">1911: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Victor Berger of
Wisconsin became the first member of the Socialist Party to be elected to the
U.S. House of Representatives.<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;">1911: Edmund H. Hinshaw, the
Congressman from Nebraska who in 1906 attended a mass meeting at Belasco’s
Theatre in Washington, D.C which a protest against the atrocities begin
committed against the Jews of Russia completed his service today as a representative
for Nebraska’s 4<sup>th</sup> congressional district.</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;">1911: Frank Flint, who in 1915 would offer
Governor Slaton who had commuted Leo Frank’s sentence a place of refuge,
completed his service as a U.S. Senator from California.<o:p></o:p></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: James Edgar Martine, a member of the
Democratic Party who would support Jewish fund raising efforts on behalf of
their co-religionists in war torn Europe began serving as a U.S. Senator from
New Jersey.<o:p></o:p></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: Jefferson Monroe Levy, the nephew of
Uriah P. Levy began serving as the U.S. Congressman from New York’s 13<sup>th</sup>
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;">1912(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5672): 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;">1912:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Birthdate of the actor John Garfield in New
York. Born Julius Garfinkle, Garfield rose to stardom in the 1930's and 1940's
playing a variety of wisecracking, “lover boy” type roles. One of his
most famous roles was in the film hit, “The Postman Rings Twice.”
Garfield was caught up in the Anti-Communist Witch Hunts of the 1950's.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
In Mainz, Germany Maier and Selma (Hirschberger) Trepp gave birth to Leo Trepp,
the German born American Rabbi who was freed from “Sachsenhausen Concentration
on the condition that “he and his wife leave the countries within two weeks – a
requirement that led him to England and then to California where he served as
the “rabbi for Beth Ami in Santa Rosa and Beth El in Berkley<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?pid=145071443"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?pid=145071443</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.jweekly.com/2010/09/10/leo-trepp-holocausts-longest-surviving-rabbi-dies-at-97/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jweekly.com/2010/09/10/leo-trepp-holocausts-longest-surviving-rabbi-dies-at-97/</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;">1913:
Dr. Joseph Hertz sailed from New York on the SS Mauritania bound for the
British Isles where he will become Chief Rabbi of England which will make him
not only the leader of British Jewry but one of the most influential Jewish
clerics in 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;">1913:
“On Rivington Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side, Russian Jewish immigrants
David and Hannah Garfinkle gave birth to Jacob Julius Garfinkle who gained fame
as actor John Garfield whose marvelous talent did not keep him from being
crushed by the Red Hunting House Committee on Un-American Activities. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-john-garfield-19590522-20160519-snap-story.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-john-garfield-19590522-20160519-snap-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;">1913:
Jefferson Monroe Levy, the nephew of Uriah P. Levy began serving as the U.S.
Congressman from New York’s 14<sup>th</sup> District.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
Maude Kohn is scheduled to play a piano solo this afternoon during the meeting
of the Ladies’ society of B’nai Sholom Temple.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914:
The General Orders issued on this date provided the official citation awarding
Louis C. Hoseher the Congressional Medal of Honor. “The President of the United
States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the
Medal of Honor to Second Lieutenant Louis C. Mosher, United States Army, for
most distinguished gallantry on 11 June 1913, while serving with the Philippine
Scouts, in action at Gagsak Mountain, Jolo, Philippine Islands. Second
Lieutenant Mosher voluntarily entered a cleared space within about 20 yards of
the Moro trenches under a furious fire from them and carried a wounded soldier
of his company to safety at the risk of his own life.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914:
On his 21<sup>st</sup> birthday Frank Tannenbaum, a leader of the I.W.W. “led a
group of unemployed workers from Rutgers Square to the Catholic St. Alphonsus
Church on West Broadway where they were met by a phalanx of police and the
parish rector, who refused their demands after which he was arrested and
eventual fined a sent to jail on Blackwell’s Island.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914:
“Arthur Ruppin wrote in his diary, ‘Today I succeeded in buying from Sir John
Gray Hill his large and magnificently situated property on Mount Scopus, thus
acquiring the first piece of ground for the Jewish University 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;">1915:
The United States naval collier <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vulcan</i>
is scheduled to set sail from the League Island Navy Yard at Philadelphia today
carrying supplies paid for by the Jewish Relief Society for “distribution to
the starving residents” of Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
William Stiles Bennet who in 1916 would tell 3,000 people attending a meeting
at the McKinley Casino that it was “now necessary for the American Jew to
assist his brethren in Europe” and “said that large sums of money would be
needed in order to accomplish the desired relief” began his services as a
Member of the US. House of Representatives from New York’s 27<sup>th</sup>
District today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
Dr. Robert Tuttle Morris, ex-President of the American Association of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists delivered a talk tonight at the Cornell Club on
“Warfare as Natural History” in which he “advanced the theory that the Jewish
people would be the next to dominate” the world because, among other thing,
“they are gathering in the citing, thriving under urban life” and “increasing
more rapidly than any others.” <o:p></o:p></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: Jefferson Monroe Levy completed his
second and final term as a U.S. Congressman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
Meyer London, the Jewish Socialist, began serving his first term in the U.S
House representing New York’s 12<sup>th</sup> Congressional District.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
Among those whose contributions to the Fund of the American Jewish Relief
Committee were received today included L.M. Jacobs of Tucson, AZ and the
Dallas, TX, YMHA,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
“Assurance that the Jewish people of Palestine ‘enjoy perfect safety’ was given
in an official communication” that arrived in Washington, DC today from
Constantinople.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5676): Parashat Pekudi and 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;">1916:
In King Williams Town, South Africa, Morris and Ethel Aronowitz gave birth to
Cecil Aronowitz, the South African viola player who was appointed “head of the
String Department at the royal Northern College of Music in Manchester” passed
away today at Suffolk while “performing a piece by Motzart.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/events-calendar/cecil-aronowitz-viola-competition/about-cecil-aronowitz"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/events-calendar/cecil-aronowitz-viola-competition/about-cecil-aronowitz</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.allmusic.com/artist/cecil-aronowitz-mn0002172741"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.allmusic.com/artist/cecil-aronowitz-mn0002172741</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:
At 8:00 p.m. in Chicago, the Sinai Swimming Team is scheduled to take part in a
meet at the Hyde Park Y.M.C.A.<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 30,000 shirtmakers are on strike with their union
demanding “higher wages and more sanitary working 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;">1916: In Berlin, film start Helga Molander, a
Lutheran, and nightclub entertainer Eduard Anton Eysenck, a Catholic, gave
birth to psychologist Hans Jürgen Eysenck who was raised by his Lutheran
maternal grandmother who died in a concentration camp where she had been
interred because she came from a Jewish 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;">1916: In Bologna, Dora Bassani and Dr. Enrico
Bassani gave birth to Giorgio Bassani the author of <u>The Garden of the
Finzi-Continis</u> whose early career was stifled by Italian race 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;">1917: Among the contributions listed today by
The Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War were
$1,167 from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jewish Morning News</i>
and $1,097 from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jewish Daily News.</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;">1917: James Edgar Martine who in 1916
introduced a resolution in the Senate “asking the President to set aside a day
as Jewish relief day for Jewish war sufferers” which led to Jewish Relief Day
completed his terms as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.<o:p></o:p></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(10<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5677): Moritz
Kalisch passed away today in Manchester.<o:p></o:p></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: Republican Milton Kraus began serving the
first of three terms as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from
Indiana’s 11<sup>th</sup> Congressional District.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917:
William H. King, who in 1927 “declared…that he favored the United States
severing diplomatic relations with any country which failed because of
anti-Semitism to protect its Jewish nationals” and “expressed the belief that
eventually Palestine would be able to support a population of a million Jews”
began serving as the U.S. Senator from Utah 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;">1917: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">La
Renacensia Guida,</i> the Zionist paper that argued against the use of the
Greek language in the 1920’s, was founded 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;">1918: It was reported today that Mrs. Rose
Pastor Stokes told a gathering at the Masonic Temple “that she had just
returned to the Socialist Party and that while she was not anti-Zionist, she
feared a Jewsih State in Palestine could not be made socialistic at once” and
she feared that Great Britain was playing a game designed to dampen “the fervor
of the Jewish working people all over 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;">1918: Houston College and Stanford University
alum Herbert M. Ostroski, the San Francisco born son of Deborah Wise and Louis
I Ostrki who was a Major in the United States Cavalry and an associate in the
law firm of Turner and Geraghty marked Helen D. Pupkin 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;">1919: After four years out of office, Henry
Mayer Goldfogle began serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York’s 12<sup>th</sup> Congressional District.<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 Washington “acting on behalf of a committee of thirty-one prominent men,
Congressman Kahn of California presented a petition to President Wilson on
behalf of the Zionist organization for consideration at the Peace Conference”
and in turn, President Wilson said that he would “have the matter put before
the conference after his arrival 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;">1919:
Five days after he had passed away, 59-year-old John Robert Raps was buried
today at the “East 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;">1920:
Birthdate of Leo Greenland, the Bronx born adman whose accounts included
Tanqueray Gin, Johnnie Walker (Red & Black) Scotch and Olvatine. Do you
think he ever confused his liquids? (As reported by Margalit Fox)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920:
In Harlem, Robert and Mary Habib Yohai, Jewish immigrants from Turkey, gave
birth to Morrie Robert Yohai, the man who invented Cheez Doodles one of
America’s most popular junk snack foods. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)<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 Raft of the Dead,” photographed by Mutz Greenbaum premiered 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:
Having been out of office for two years, Meyer London again begins representing
New York’s 12<sup>th</sup> Congressional District.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921(24th
of Adar I, 5681); Eighty-two-year-old Leopold Loeb passed away today after
which he was buried at Morgan City, LA.<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 Raft of the Dead” a silent drama filmed by cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum
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;">1922:
Birthdate of British cardiologist David Mendel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922:
Release date of German silent horror film “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror”
co-starring Wolfgang Heinz, the stage name of David Hrisch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5683): Shushan Purim, since the 15<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;">1923(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5683): Edward Lauterbach, prominent New York attorney and leader of
the Republican Party who devoted four decades of his life to the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum 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=F10916FB3D5416738DDDAC0894DB405B838EF1D3"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F10916FB3D5416738DDDAC0894DB405B838EF1D3</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;">1923:
Birthdate of Kurt Schubert, the founder of Austria's first Jewish museum after
World War II and the founder of the Jewish Institute at the University of
Vienna.1923: Burton K. Wheeler, who in 1936 “said that anti-Semitism has not
only gained a foothold in European countries like Germany, Poland, Rumania,
Austria and Hungary, but has been imported in the Western Hemisphere by Mexico,
Brazil and Ecuador” and that the “capacity for persecution” as embodied in
anti-Semitism is not “foreign to American soil” began serving as a U.S. Senator
from Montana. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923:
Emmanuel “Manny” Celler began serving as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from New York’s 10<sup>th</sup> Congressional District.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923:
Sol Bloom began as serving as a member of the U.S. House Representatives from
New York’s 20<sup>th</sup> District. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923:
Royal Samuel Copeland begins serving as a U.S. Senator from New York. In June
of 1933, when several Senators rose on the floor to condemn the treatment of
the Jews of Germany, Copeland “paid tribute to the Jews as whole mentioning
Nathan Straus as an example of Jews whose work set an example for the world.”
He went on to say that the condemnation of Germany’s treatment of the Jews by
Senator Pat Robinson of Arkansas, the Senate majority leader, “will bring hoe
and cheer into the hearts of many persons…”<o:p></o:p></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 Manhattan, Isidor and Gussie Stein
gave birth to their only son “Robert Stein who helped expand the scope of
women’s magazines as editor in chief of McCall’s and Redbook in the early
stages of the modern women’s movement, publishing articles about race and
politics and introducing readers to the nascent writings of feminist leaders
like Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem.” (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/2014/07/18/business/media/robert-stein-who-led-mccalls-and-redbook-for-decades-dies-at-90.html?hpw&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHedThumbWell&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">-90.html?hpw&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHedThumbWell&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="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: Iris Margaret Origo, an Anglo-Irish
writer who helped to save Jewish children through the kindertransport including
the painter Frank Helmut Auerbach “married Antonio Origo, the illegitimate son
of Marchese Clemente Origo.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1925(8th of Adar, 5685): Polish born composer Moritz
Moszkowski</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
passed away at the age of 70 while living 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;">1925:
Florence Kahn, the Salt Lake <br />
City born daughter of Jewish Polish immigrants Mary and Conrad Prag and the
widow of Congressman Julius Kahn began serving as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives rom California’s 4<sup>th</sup> 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;">1926: Plans are under way to raise five million
dollars to build a new library at the Hebrew Union College to house the new
collection of 6,174 items brought back from Europe by Dr. Adolph S. Oko.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927(30th
of Adar I, 5687): 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;">1927:
William Cohen began his one and only terms as member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York’s 17<sup>th</sup> District.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for German born Meta Schroeder
Braunfeld, the widow of Julius Braunfeld had passed in 1921 in New Orleans
where he served as Cantor at Temple Sinia, the city’s leading Reform
congregation, is scheduled to be buried today in San Diego, CA<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927:
Birthdate of Richard “Dick” Savitt the Bayonne, NJ, who started out playing
basketball for Cornell University and then switched to tennis – a sport at
which he became so adept that he became the first Jewish player to “win both
Wimbledon and the Australian Open.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Savitt.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Savitt.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;">1927(30th
of Adar I, 5687): Solomon Cicurel, 46, was fatally stabbed - eight times -
shortly after midnight today. The only witness to the crime was Cicurel’s wife
Elvire Toriel. She had little to say except that she had been chloroformed by
her husband’s assailants. Four suspects were eventually tried. They had either
murdered Cicurel during a robbery or as part of an act of revenge or both. The
four were all tried, but due to the legal system under which existed, they were
tried in the courts of their native countries. This reality caused as much
anger among many Egyptians as did the murder of the Jewish merchant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The murdered victim was the eldest of three
brothers. Solomon, Salvator and Joseph were the sons of Moreno Cicurel, a
Sephardic Jew who came to Egypt during the previous century from Smyrna
(Izmir), then a thriving cosmopolitan trading port in Turkey. A self-made man,
Moreno, started his career as an employee with a coreligionist who owned a
textile shop in the Mousky district, Cairo’s main commercial hub. Moreno
Cicurel was the founder of one of the largest department stores 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;">1928:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Max Pine, the Secretary of
the United Trades, at The Jewish Daily Forward building at 175 East Broadway.<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;">1928:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In Mannheim, Germany, cantor and composer Hugo
Chaim Adler and Selma Adler gave birth to composer Samuel Adler who came to the
United States in 1939 where he earned a B.M. from Boston University, and an
M.A. from Harvard University. He has also received several honorary doctorates
in recognition for his artistic accomplishments. During his tenure in the U.S.
Army, he founded and conducted the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra, and because
of the orchestra's great psychological and musical impact on the European
cultural scene, he was awarded the Army's Medal of Honor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.samuelhadler.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.samuelhadler.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;">1929:
In New York, screenwriter Jo Swerling and Florence (née Manson) Swerling gave
birth to mathematician Peter Swerling.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://news.usc.edu/6473/Peter-Swerling-Radar-Expert-Dies-at-71/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://news.usc.edu/6473/Peter-Swerling-Radar-Expert-Dies-at-71/</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;">1930:
The “headquarters of the Allied Jewish Campaign announced” today that Lt. Gov.
Lehman will be one of the speakers at its annual national conference” to be
held this weekend in Washington.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930:
At least one member of Parliament complained that “new South African quota bill
limiting the number of immigrants to 50 each yeaer from each of the East and
South European countries” which passed its third reading was aimed at limiting
Jewish immigration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930:
‘Masks” a crime film direct by Rudolf Meinert was released in the Weimar
Republic today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5691): 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;">1931:
William Henry Dieterich, the anti-Semitic and somewhat pro-German Republican
began serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois’s
at-large district.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931:
“Two world records,” in the 500-yard back stroke and the half mile back stroke
“were broken today by Joe Wohl, the captain of the Syracuse University swim
team.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932:
“President Hoover signed he commission of Benjamin Cardozo as Justice of the
Supreme Court” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933:
Illinois Democrat J. Hamilton “Ham” Lewis who as a congressman had supported a
“proviso in the Balfour Declaration that Jews going to Palestine to live could
retain their original citizenship instead of automatically becoming British
subjects” and who as U.S. Senator led “a protest against the possible transfer
of American Jews from their present homes in Palestine to other parts of the
country” began serving as Senate Majority Leader today,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as 32nd President of the United
States. Regardless of what one may think of Roosevelt's record during the
Holocaust, there is no denying the positive things he did for Jews during the
days of the New Deal. He had numerous Jewish advisors and appointed them
to a variety of positions of power including Supreme Court Justice to Secretary
of the Treasury. A hitherto untapped cohort of well-educated first- or
second-generation American Jews gained access to positions through the newly
emerging federal agencies that were part of Roosevelt's program to reform
American government, business and labor practices.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933:
Theodore Albert Peyeser began serving as a member of the United States House of
Representatives from New York’s 17<sup>th</sup> congressional district.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933:
Cordell Hull began serving as U.S. Secretary of State a post he would hold
until 1944. Hull would win the Nobel Peace Prize but he earned low marks from
the Jewish community for his moves to thwart attempts to aid Jewish refugees
and his failure to curb the genteel anti-Semitism found in his department.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933:
Sixty-year-old Theodore Albert Peyser, a native of Charleston, West Virginia,
began representing New York’s 17<sup>th</sup> congressional district today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: Seventy more people are imprisoned at Nohra on the
second day of the operation of Germany's first Concentration Camp. This
brings the total number of prisoners to 170.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934:
As the Philadelphia SPHAS (South Philadelphia Hebrew Association) basketball
team dressed into their uniforms prior to playing the Brooklyn Jews, “Coach
Eddie Gottlieb introduced the team to its newest member, Moe Goldman, a
Brooklyn native, who had just completed his senior year of basketball at the
City College of New York (CCNY) where he had excelled as a center for the CCNY
team, under the tutelage of coach Nat Holman, arguably the best Jewish
basketball player in the 1920s.”<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 Jerusalem Shopkeepers Association plans to shutter its shops today in an
attmpet to “force the Municipal Council to adopt a rent regulation ordinance”
similar to the ones in force in Tel Aviv and Haifa.<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 Poland, “Warsaw University, scene of anti-Semitic riots, was closed today
for an indefinite period.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
Among those reported today to have been “denationalized” by the German
government were ‘nine designated as Jews” including “Herbert Stahl who writes
under the name of Steel who is denounced as ‘a Jewish editor who directed lying
press attacks against American newspapers against Germany and in connection
with the Jewish boycott movements surpassed all other machinations of that kind
in meanness.’” (Editor’s Note:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is
worse than being a Jew in Germany?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not
being Jewish but being labeled as one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Johannes
Steel was an author who left Germany before WW II and was allegedly involved in
wartime espionage for the Soveits.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
Under the terms reported today, “Netherlands citizens of Jewish descent living
in Germany” may be repatriated to Holland but every family can take no more
than 20,000 marks (less than $10,000) with them regardless of how much wealth
they may have accumulated or the size of the family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Editor’s note: Anti-Semitism almost always
include theft making it a profitable business throughout the centuries)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
“Nearly 1,000 women representing various” philanthropic organizations attended
a meeting today at the Hotel Astor where “Christians and Jewish leaders joined
with officials of the women’s division of the United Palestine Appeal in the
campaign for $1,500,000 to be raised for the benefit of Jewish settlements 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;">1936:
Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland, a national co-chairman of the United
Palestine Appeal which is seeking to raise $3,500,000 to help settle German
Jews in Palestine and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt are the featured speakers at a
tea in the Hotel Astor which is the opening event of the campaign in New York
City. (Editor’s note: Abba Hillel Silver was a Reform Rabbi and ardent Zionist
who was instrumental in seeing to it that support for a Jewish state in
Palestine was supported by both American political parties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One can only wonder how he would have reacted
to the state of Israel’s treatment of Reform Judaism including denying that
Jews who were converted by Reform rabbis are not really Jewish.)<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 9th Annual Academy Awards, hosted by Jewish actor and Hollywood fixture,
George Jessel, are held at the Biltmore Hotel 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;">1937:
In Warsaw, the Polish Government and the Jewish Emigration Agency signed an
agreement designed “to facilitate the emigration of wealthy Polish Jews to
Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1937(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5697): Four-year-old Miriam Ruhama Pacifici the daughter of Rabbi </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Riccardo Reuven Pacifici passed away at Genoa.</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;">1938(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar II, 5698): 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;">1938:
Two days after he had passed away, funderal services are scheduled to be held
at Union Temple in Brooklyn for 57-year-old to NYU Law School graduate Joseph
J. Baker, “a senior member of the law firm of Baker, Obermeir Rosenson and
Rosner,” “President of the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, the son of Adolph and
Carrie Baker and the husband of the former “May Lautman” with whom he had two
children – Ruth and Edward.”<o:p></o:p></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: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Palestine Post</i> reported that Sir Harold MacMichael had arrived in Palestine
and described the ceremony in which he was sworn as the fifth High
Commissioner. <o:p></o:p></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: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Palestine Post</i> reported that The Lydda-Jerusalem train was sabotaged when
the railway line was damaged by an explosion. Another bomb was found on the
railway tracks near Khan Yunis. Curfew was imposed on Arab villages situated
close to the railway tracks. <o:p></o:p></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 Allan Nathaniel Kornblum,
the Brooklyn native who would help steer the F.B.I. into the post-J. Edgar
Hoover era by drafting guidelines for its surveillance operations in the 1970s,
and whose testimony would help convict the murderer of a black man in a
celebrated civil rights case revived nearly 40 years after the event.<o:p></o:p></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: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Palestine Post</i> reported that there were 5,734,917 Palestine pounds in
circulation and 15,641 registered vehicles in the country in 1937. There were
also 95 credit cooperatives with 79,750 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;">1939: Birthdate of Brooklyn native and Albert
Einstein College of Medicine trained Doctor Gerald Walker Wholberg, the
psychiatrist who served on the faculty of Boston 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;">1939: Twenty-three-year-old Bernard “Bernie”
Opperman, the Bronx native whose Kentucky Wildcats were upset by the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>Tulane
Green Wave</u></i></b> in the 1938 SEC Tournament redeemed himself today by
leading his team to victory over the Tennessee Vols in the 1939 SEC
Championship finals.<o:p></o:p></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: “An appeal to the people of Great Britain
‘to stay the hand’ of their government from putting into effect the proposal to
restrict the sale of land to Jews in Palestine was made” tonight by thousands
of people “at a protest meeting in Carnegie Hall called by a group of Jewish
organizations.<o:p></o:p></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: Nineteen-year-old twin brothers Robert
and David Goldwasser from Paris, NJ led Jewish students in a protest in front
of the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem after which they received “assurances from
the consul general that Washington would be informed about the effect of the
new land on the rights of Americans 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;">1941(5<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5701):
Eighty-nine-year-old Hattie Collenberger Bloomingdale, the New York born
daughter of Aaron and Rieka Ikelheimer Collengenberger and the wife of Lyman
Gustave Bloomingdale, the co-founder of the department store that bears his
name whom she married in 1871 and with whom she had five children – Samuel,
Hiram,, Hanna, Irving and Corinne – passed away today after which she was
buried at Salem Fields Cemetery 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;">1941: A group of tailors who worked in shop
supplying uniforms to the German Army were photographed in Nazi occupied
Bendzin, Poland.<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/06.asp"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/06.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;">1941: "I. Segaloff" wrote “My best
regards to my friend Tatsuo Osako," on the back of a photo. Segaloff was
probably a Jewish refugee who had been helped by Osako who was a young employee
of the Japan Tourist Bureau at the start of World War II. Osako probably worked
with “Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania who granted
transit visas to several thousand Jews in the early days of the war. In doing
so, he defied strict stipulations from Tokyo that such recipients have proper
funds and a clear final destination after Japan. He was one of a handful of
diplomats such as Sweden's Raoul Wallenberg and Hiram Bingham IV of the U.S.
who used their bureaucratic machinery, often without their government's
knowledge, to issue the paperwork that would get Jews to safety. Dubbed the
"Japanese Schindler," Sugihara was honored in 1985 by Yad Vashem as
one of the Righteous Among the Nations, a high honor reserved for non-Jews who
saved Jews at their own personal risk from the Holocaust, Hitler's destruction
of 6 million Jews. A short movie about him, "Visas and Virtue," won
an Academy Award in 1997. Museums at his hometown and in Lithuania are
dedicated to his memory.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
Algiers radio announced that all firms, property and legal titles owned in part
or full by Jews have been put under "Aryan" administration. This came
after the dismissal of 3,000 Jews from the French civil service just a couple
months prior.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
Birthdate of Peabody award winner and “feminist” Lynn Sherr.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=126383"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=126383</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(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5702) 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;">1942(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5702): Seventy-nine-year-old Tobias Schanfarber, the Cleveland born
son of Aaron and Sarah (Newman) Schanfarber, the husband of Carrie Phillipson
and graduate of the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College who led
congregations in Toleo, Ft. Wayne and Baltimore before settling in as the rabbi
at KAM in Chicago 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/1942/03/05/85022784.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/03/05/85022784.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;">1942(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5702): Shushan Purim<br />
1942: Eichmann met with all his territorial representatives to discuss the
organizational problems of the deportations to come. Actual plans commenced
months earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
Frank L. Weil, announced today “the appointment of Ralph E. Samuel, the New
York stock broker as chairman of the Greater New York Army and Navy Committee
of the National Jewish Welfare Board.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943:
Most of the Jews living in Cuomotini, Greece were arrested and transported in
20 open train cars to the notorious Dupnitsa transit camp, and then dispatched
from Lom by boat via the Danube. The Jews from Cuomotini and Kavala on the
Karageorge were shot by the Bulgarians and the Germans; while three other
boats, of which one held Cuomotini Jews, arrived in Vienna and from there the
Thracian Jews were sent to Treblinka; where they were gassed upon arrival. The
Bulgarians confiscated all of the Jewish properties and possessions.<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/08.asp"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/08.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;">1943:
The Jews of Drama, a town in Macedonia, were arrested by the Bulgarian police
and army, held in tobacco warehouses in the Agia Barbara quarter for three
days, and then sent to the Gorna Djumaya camp in Bulgaria, where they were kept
in extremely harsh conditions. From there, young men in their teens and early
twenties were sent to forced labor in Bulgaria and 113 families (589 people)
were dispatched by train to Lom and from there put on a boat to Vienna, where
they were reloaded on trains to Treblinka and gassed upon their arrival.<o:p></o:p></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: Jews continued to be sent from Paris to
Chelmno, Sobibor, and Majdanek.<o:p></o:p></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: At the 15<sup>th</sup> Annual Oscar award
ceremony, “Mrs. Miniver” directed by William Wyler wins for Best Picture of
1942.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wyler, a refugee from Hitler’s
Europe wins for Best Director. <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(9th of Adar,
5704):</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> In
Warsaw, four Jewish women were shot in the ghetto along with 80 non-Jews. All
their bodies, dead and wounded alike, were thrown into a building that was then
lit on fire.<o:p></o:p></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(9th of Adar, 5704):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Ossining, New York, Louis Buchalter, the
leader of 1930s crime syndicate Murder, Inc. was executed at Sing Sing. <o:p></o:p></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(9th of Adar, 5704):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Ossining, New York, Emanuel “Mendy” Weiss
a member of the crime syndicate Murder, Inc. was executed at Sing Sing. <o:p></o:p></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 a move to eliminate duplication of
activities among organizations supplying relief for refugees” the delegations
attending the 60<sup>th</sup> annual convention of HIAS, led by President
Abraham Herman, called today for the “creation of a council of Jewish voluntary
agencies as the pivotal point of a plan for coordinating their work.<o:p></o:p></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: Oscar Straus, soon will be 75 years old, “celebrated
his golden jubilee as a composer-conductor by directing a ‘Straus Festival’
tonight before a large and enthusiastic audience.”<o:p></o:p></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: Eric Jabotinsky, the son of the late
Vladimir Jabotinsky, is scheduled to begin living in Haifa today as part of the
terms under which he was released from the custody of British authorities 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;">1946(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar II, 5706): 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;">1946: In New York City doctors Ruth (Silboiwtz)
Achs and Samuel Achs gave birth Naomi Achs, who gained fame as screenwriter and
director Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal.<o:p></o:p></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
English impresario Harvey Goldsmith<o:p></o:p></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: Felix
Frankfurter was one of the Associate Justices who heard Girouard v. United
States, a landmark citizenship case, when it was argued today before the
Supreme Court.<o:p></o:p></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: Birthdate of
Douglas Peter “Doug” Beal, the Cleveland Ohio native who played volleyball at
Ohio State and then continued his involvement with the sport as a college and
serving as USA Volleyball CEO.<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.jewishsports.net/BioPages/DougBeal.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/DougBeal.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;">1947: As much of Palestine’s Jewish community
endured the third day of martial law, Joseph Saphir, the mayor of Petach Tikva
reported that 4,000 men were out of work due to the clampdown and the number
was growing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Tel Aviv, the banks were
closed due to a lack of coin and currency while the population worried about
getting the necessities of life including fresh milk.<o:p></o:p></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(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar I, 5708): This
morning “Arabs ambushed and killed seventeen Jewish members of the
Haganah…seven miles northwest of 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;">1948: U.S. premiere of “The Naked City,” a
gritty, black and white film directed by Jules Dassin, produced by Mark
Hellinger with a screenplay by Albert Maltz and Malvin Wald.<o:p></o:p></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: Two days after he had passed away,
funeral services are scheduled to be held for Emanuel Philip Adler, the Times
Publisher who was buried in the Mount Nebo Hebrew Cemetery in Davenport, IA.<o:p></o:p></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 Security Council of the United
Nations recommended Israel for membership in the international body.<o:p></o:p></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 Baron of Arizona” a western movie
directed and written by Samuel Fuller and featuring Vladimir Sokoloff 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;">1950(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5710): Parashat
Tetzaveh; 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;">1950: “Israel and Jordan Working for Peace,” an
article about the proposed Israel-Jordan non-aggression pact entitled Gene
Currivan declares that “Israel decided long ago that while external advice is
always welcome, she must rely principally – as the Jews have over the centuries
– on her own resourcefulness where the future is concerned.” <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 Revocation of Citizenship Bill, which made it
possible for Iraq's Jews to flee the country, went into effect.
"By the end of May of 1950, at least ten thousand Iraqi Jews" many of
whom were impoverished before leaving, "had crossed the border into Iran”
as they made their way to Israel.<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;">1953:<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 the new, official US Middle
Eastern policy was to “equalize the support for Israel and other countries in
the area.” According to the explanation given to the <i>Post</i> by US Embassy
officials in Tel Aviv, this new policy did not mean that the support hitherto
given to Israel was to be lessened, but that the assistance offered to the Arab
states was to be increased. [This new policy was a product of the newly elected
Republican Administration of Dwight Eisenhower and his Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eisenhower and Dulles
would show their true feelings about Israel when they took the side of the
Egyptians over the Israelis during the Suez Crisis of 1956.] <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;">1953:<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 following the recent Israeli
offer, the Barclay and Ottoman banks in Cyprus started accepting claims from
Arab Palestine refugees for the release of their frozen accounts held in
Israeli banks. <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;">1953:<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 a new draft for the Punishment
of Crimes against the State was tabled in the Knesset. It provided for a death
sentence for the high treason in time of 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;">1954(29<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5714):
Eighty-year-old Birdie Loeb Gimbel, the daughter of Henrietta Frank and Marx
Loeb and the wife of department store executive Benedict Gimbel passed away
after which she was buried at Mt. Sinai Cemetery 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;">1954: As attempts were being made to remove his
security clearance, J. Robert Openheimer, the “father of the Atomic Bomb,” sent
a letter to Major General Kenneth D. Nicholas describing his relationship with
Jean Tatlock.<o:p></o:p></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: Following the rape and murder of his
sister Shoshana and the murder of her boyfriend Oded Wegmeister by Bedouin
Tribesmen, Meir Har-Zion<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“and three
ex-members of the 890 Battalion drove to the Armistice Line with Jordan where
they captured six Bedouins.<o:p></o:p></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(21<sup>st</sup> of Adar, 5716):
Sixty-nine-year-old NYU alum, attorney and unsuccessful Republican candidate
for Congress Max Perlman passed away today leaving behind his wife, Mrs.
Gertrude Hyams Pearlman and his son Franklin Perlman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Israel, in compliance with the United Nations
resolution, withdrew from the Gaza Strip and other territories. These
territories had been seized in the Sinai Campaign of
1956, sometimes referred to as “the One Hundred Hour War” because of
its short duration. The fighting in 1956 was an Israeli response to
years of attacks by terrorists as well as the arming of the Egyptians by
the Soviets with an arsenal of modern weapons. The history of
the war is too complicated to summarize here. Suffice it to say that the
Israelis withdrew with guarantees from the United Nations and the
United States that the Sinai Peninsula would be a demilitarized zone and that
Israel would enjoy unfettered access from Eilat, its southern port through
the Straits of Tiran. In 1967, Egypt would completely break the
agreements of 1957 and the U.N. would fail to honor its commitments which
brought about the Six Days 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;">1957: <u>The Importance of Overweight</u> by
childhood obesity researcher Hilda Bruch 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://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/04/1957/hilde-bruch"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/04/1957/hilde-bruch</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;">1957: “Ill Met by Moonlight” on which Emeric
Pressburger served as co-writer, co-director and co-producer was released today
in the United Kingdom.<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;">1959(24<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5719):
Ninety-nine-year-old </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Adolphe Danziger de Castro the native
of Poland and scholar, journalist, lawyer, author of poems, novels and short
stories who was the first president of the La Comunidad Sefardi of Los Angeles
passed away 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-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38602/38602-h/38602-h.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38602/38602-h/38602-h.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;">1960(5<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5720): <span style="color: black;">Bronx born Leonard Warenoff, the son
of Russian Jewish immigrants who gained fame as Leonard Warren, a leading
baritone with the Met died suddenly while singing with his Richard Tucker
another of the Jewish immigrants who was a giant in the world of opera.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://operawire.com/artist-profile-baritone-leonard-warren-legendary-verdi-interpreter/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://operawire.com/artist-profile-baritone-leonard-warren-legendary-verdi-interpreter/</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/03/05/105182334.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/03/05/105182334.pdf</span></a><span style="color: #1f497d; 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.classicfm.com/discover-music/leonard-warren-death-forza-del-destino/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/leonard-warren-death-forza-del-destino/</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;">1962: “The Boston Celtics beat the St. Louis
Haws 123-120 giving Red Auerbach his 700<sup>th</sup> coaching victory in the
NBA.” (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: Birthdate of New York native and former
New York City Council Member Eva Sarah Moskowitz whose mother “fled Europe
during the Holocaust” avoiding the fate of other family members who died in the
concentration 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;">1964(20<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5724):
Eighty-one-year-old Hattie Weltman Simon, the Hempstead, TX born daughter of
Louisa and Louis Weltman and the husband of Uriah Myer Simon passed away today
in Fort Worth, TX after which she wasburied at the Hebrew Rest 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;">1965: Jay Rabinowitz began services as an Associate
Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court.<o:p></o:p></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: “The Group” directed by Sidney Lumet,
produced and written by Sidney Buchman and filmed by cinematographer Boris
Kaufman 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;">1967: Birthdate of Manchester native Ivan
Lewis, the Chief Executive of Jewish Social Services of Greater Manchester who
was elected as the Labour MP for Bury South in 1997.<o:p></o:p></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(14<sup>TH</sup> of Adar, 5729): The first
Purim during the Nixon 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;">1969(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5729):
Seventy-one-year-old “Romanian-born British political scientist and Fabian
socialist who was professor at the University of Chicago 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;">1969(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5729): Pioneering
movie mogul, Nicholas M. Schenck 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://voices.yahoo.com/nicholas-schenck-motion-picture-production-pioneer-2133037.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://voices.yahoo.com/nicholas-schenck-motion-picture-production-pioneer-2133037.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;">1970: “Loving” a comedy directed by Irvin
Kershner, produced and written by Don Devlin and starring George Segal and with
music by Bernardo Segall 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;">1970: The funeral for seventy-one-year-old
Russian born Joseph L. Dubow who in 1902 came to the United States where “he
was admitted to the bar…after graduating from the University of Chattanooga Law
School” and eventually became the “executive director of the New York Coat and
Suit Association” while raising two sons – Peter and Robert – with his wife
Estelle is scheduled to take place today at The Riverside. <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/1970/03/04/archives/joseph-l-dubow-garment-leader-coat-suit-associations-executive.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/04/archives/joseph-l-dubow-garment-leader-coat-suit-associations-executive.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;">1971(7<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5731):
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 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;">1971: The second of two-part television
production Clifford Odets’ Paradise Lost co-starring Eli Wallach was broadcast
on American Public Television.<o:p></o:p></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(18<sup>th</sup> of 5732): 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;">1972(18<sup>th</sup> of 5732):
Eighty-one-year-old NYU trained obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Isador W.
Kahn the husband of Harriet Kahn, 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/1972/03/06/archives/dr-isador-w-kahn-an-obstetrician-81.html?searchResultPosition=1"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/06/archives/dr-isador-w-kahn-an-obstetrician-81.html?searchResultPosition=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-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973(30<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5733): 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;">1973(30<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5733):
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 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/1973/03/06/archives/ossip-j-walinsky-union-head-and-jewish-leader-dies-at-86.html"><span style="font-family: 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 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: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
New York Times</i> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors including <u>The
Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry</u> by Harold Bloom.<o:p></o:p></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: 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 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974(10th of Adar,
5734): Adolph Gottlieb, prominent Abstract Expressionist painter passed away at
the age of 71.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://gottliebfoundation.org/grants/individual-grants/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://gottliebfoundation.org/grants/individual-grants/</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="http://www.artnet.com/artists/adolph-gottlieb/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.artnet.com/artists/adolph-gottlieb/</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: After having
been beaten by police outside the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Alexander Tsatskis
and Saul Raslin were taken to Kiev where they were “arrested and interrogated.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974: "Five months after Israel's defeat of the
Syrian forces on the Golan Heights, four young Syrian Jewish women were found
raped, robbed and murdered in a cave on the Syrian side of the Syrian-Lebanese
borders...The bodies were returned to their parents in sacks."<o:p></o:p></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: Charlie Chaplin was knighted by Queen
Elizabeth II of England. <o:p></o:p></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: Tonight, “at 11:00 p.m. eight
Palestinians in two teams landed by boat on the Tel Aviv beach at the foot of
Allenby 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;">1977(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5737) 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;">1978(25<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5738): Parashat
Vayakhel; 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;">1978(25<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5738): Sixty-seven-year-old
<span style="color: black;">Samuel Phillip Mandell, Philadelphia born son of
Morris and Rebecca Mandelm the President of Samuel P. Mandell and Company, the
founder of the Samuel P. Mandel Foundation and the husband of Ida Slustsky with
whom he had five children, including two sets of twins passed away today.</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;">1980(16<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5740):
Sixty-three-year-old Charles Pannet, the Brooklyn native and Executive Director
of Hillcrest Jewish Community Center who was an officer of the National
Association of Synagogue Administrators passed away 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;">1981: It was reported today that New York City
Mayor Koch is scheduled to meet with “Rabbi Rokeach, who is revered as the only
surviving heir of the founder of the sect nearly 200 years ago in the
then-Russian town of Belz’ who has just arrived in New York sparking off a
controversy with Satmars. <o:p></o:p></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: The “U.S. Senate adopted a resolution
calling for the Soviet Union to stop the persecution, arrests, and trials of
Jewish activists; to remove obstacles to emigration; and to respect the
religious rights of its citizens.”<o:p></o:p></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(19<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5743):
Eighty-six-year-old Boston born American Modernist artist and illustrator for
several magazines including <i>The Saturday Evening Post</i> and <i>Harpers</i>
Henry Botkin 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.google.com/search?q=Henry+albert+botkin&source=hp&ei=qPwAZLGpNa-s0PEPt66AmA0&iflsig=AK50M_UAAAAAZAEKuABAw9BK2rcLqtMbKWt2wXVkzVCK&ved=0ahUKEwixnZ_6gL79AhUvFjQIHTcXANMQ4dUDCAo&uact=5&oq=Henry+albert+botkin&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQghEKABMgUIIRCgAToRCC4QgAQQsQMQgwEQxwEQ0QM6CwguEIAEEMcBENEDOgsIABCABBCxAxCDAToOCC4QgAQQsQMQxwEQ0QM6CAguELEDEIMBOggIABCABBCxAzoLCC4QsQMQxwEQ0QM6BQgAEIAEOggIABCxAxCDAToICC4QgAQQsQM6CwguEIAEEMcBEK8BOgUILhCABDoLCC4QgAQQsQMQgwE6EQguEIAEELEDEMcBENEDENQCOg4ILhCABBCxAxCDARDUAjoLCC4QgwEQsQMQgAQ6CAguEIAEENQCOgYIABAWEB46CQgAEBYQHhDxBFAAWMQpYI4uaABwAHgAgAGFAYgBjQ6SAQQxMy42mAEAoAEB&sclient=gws-wiz"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.google.com/search?q=Henry+albert+botkin&source=hp&ei=qPwAZLGpNa-s0PEPt66AmA0&iflsig=AK50M_UAAAAAZAEKuABAw9BK2rcLqtMbKWt2wXVkzVCK&ved=0ahUKEwixnZ_6gL79AhUvFjQIHTcXANMQ4dUDCAo&uact=5&oq=Henry+albert+botkin&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQghEKABMgUIIRCgAToRCC4QgAQQsQMQgwEQxwEQ0QM6CwguEIAEEMcBENEDOgsIABCABBCxAxCDAToOCC4QgAQQsQMQxwEQ0QM6CAguELEDEIMBOggIABCABBCxAzoLCC4QsQMQxwEQ0QM6BQgAEIAEOggIABCxAxCDAToICC4QgAQQsQM6CwguEIAEEMcBEK8BOgUILhCABDoLCC4QgAQQsQMQgwE6EQguEIAEELEDEMcBENEDENQCOg4ILhCABBCxAxCDARDUAjoLCC4QgwEQsQMQgAQ6CAguEIAEENQCOgYIABAWEB46CQgAEBYQHhDxBFAAWMQpYI4uaABwAHgAgAGFAYgBjQ6SAQQxMy42mAEAoAEB&sclient=gws-wiz</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;">1984: The life of journalist and author Sidney
Zion “was transformed” tonight “when his 18-year-old daughter, Libby, a
Bennington College freshman with a history of depression and cocaine use, was
admitted to New York Hospital with fever, chills and agitation. Her condition
was not diagnosed, but two interns gave her a painkiller and sedative, a plan
approved by phone by a senior clinician who had treated members of the family,
and Ms. Zion was tied down to prevent injury. She died eight hours after
admission.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This tragedy resulted in
Zion leading a crusade that resulted in national reforms in the training,
workload and supervision of young doctors.<o:p></o:p></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: Today, “The New York Times reported on
Kurt Waldheim’s wartime service in the Balkans and his prewar Nazi
associations.”<o:p></o:p></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: Jonathan Pollard was sentenced today by a
Washington, D.C. court to life imprisonment for spying for 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;">1988: Sir John Templeton, sponsor of the
$369,000 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, has expressed surprise at
charges that this year's prize winner was associated with anti-Semitic and
anti-Israel causes. ''We'd heard absolutely nothing of that nature, and I don't
think any of the judges had either,'' Sir John said by telephone today from the
Bahamas. ''We are completely surprised and will be trying to study the facts.''
The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and the American Jewish Committee
protested the designation of Dr. Inamullah Khan, secretary general of the
Pakistan-based World Moslem Congress, as the winner because Dr. Khan and the
congress have linked to anti-Semitic groups, including those that deny the
Holocaust occurred, and that Dr. Khan had rejected Israel's right to exist. Dr.
Khan is the first Moslem to be chosen for the Templeton Prize.<o:p></o:p></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: In Ramat HaSharon, Alon and Arela Mekel
gave birth to professional Gal Mekel. Who played for Wichita State University
before turning professional.<o:p></o:p></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: Funeral services are scheduled to be held
to at Riverside Memorial Chapel for Brooklyn Law School trained attorney and
decorated WW II Army veteran New York State Senator Abraham Bernstein, the past
president of the National Association of Jewish Legislators and husband of the
former Gretchen Diamond.<o:p></o:p></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(4<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5750):
Seventy-two-year-old CCNY and Brooklyn Law School graduate Abraham Bernstein,
the husband of Gretchen Diamond, the decorated WW II Army veteran and member of
both houses of the New York State Legislature suffered a fata heart attack after
which he was interred in the New Mount Lebanon 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;"><a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1957&dat=19900303&id=V3UhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AokFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1553,1076008">https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1957&dat=19900303&id=V3UhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AokFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1553,1076008</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;">1992(29th of Adar I, 5752):
Eighty-four-year-old Hollywood animator and Walt Disney collaborator Arthur
Babbitt 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/1992-03-07/news/mn-3376_1_arthur-babbitt"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://articles.latimes.com/1992-03-07/news/mn-3376_1_arthur-babbitt</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;">1993(11th of Adar, 5753): Ta'anit 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-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1993(11th of Adar, 5753): Izaak Maurits (Piet)
Kolthoff “a highly influential chemist, widely considered the Father of
Analytical Chemistry” passed away. </span><a href="https://www2.chemistry.msu.edu/portraits/PortraitsHH_Detail.asp?HH_LName=Kolthoff"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www2.chemistry.msu.edu/portraits/PortraitsHH_Detail.asp?HH_LName=Kolthoff</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;">1994: The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">INS
Hanit</i> a corvette built by Northrop Gruman was launched 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;">1994: “Greedy” produced by Brian Grazer, a
screenplay co-authored by Lowell Ganz, with music by Randy Edelman and starring
Kirk Douglas 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;">1995: President Clinton appoint Martin S. Indyk
as U.S. Ambassador to 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;">1995(2<sup>nd</sup> of Adar II, 5755): 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;">1995(2<sup>nd</sup> of Adar II, 5755):
Eighty-six-year-old Minnie Sweedler Eisman, the mother of Samuel and Fanny
Belle Sweedler and the wife of Philip Carl Eisman whom she married in 1934
passed away today after which she was buried at Beth Israel Memorial Park in
Cedar Knolls, 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;">1996(13th of Adar, 5756): A suicide bomber
killed at least 10 people and and wounded at least 35 others. The Arab bomber,
with explosives strapped to his body, blew himself up in the street near the
indoor mall known as Dizengoff Center.<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;">1996(13th of Adar, 5756): This morning, owner
Abe Lebewohl the 2nd Avenue Deli was in his delivery truck, going to make his
habitual deposit at a nearby bank when he was shot and killed, a victim of a
robbery that remains unsolved to this day. His baby brother, Jack Lebewohl,
who, unlike Abe, realized their parents’ American dream by becoming a
“professional,” a real estate lawyer, gave up his practice and took over the
deli. He made a go of it for almost 10 years, despite the fact that delis in
New York have been disappearing for almost 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;">1998: “The Fourteenth Knesset re-elected Ezer
Weizman for a second term. For the first time, an acting president was faced by
an opponent, (MK Shaul Amor of the Likud), in the re-election. 119 members
participated in the election: 63 votes were in favor of Weizman, 49 were in
favor of Amor, and 7 were empty ballots.<o:p></o:p></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(27<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5760): Parashat
Vayakhel; 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;">2000: “New Paths in Africa, Europe and Middle
East” published today reported that in Africa and the Middle East, most of the
attention regarding technology “has focused on Israel” and that “there is a
wide range of Israeli technology stocks are listed in London and on Nasdaq.”<o:p></o:p></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: Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz
ended his visit to Lebanon today “which was aimed at a common Arab front”
following “the breakdown in peace talks between Israel and Syria” and between
Israel and the Palestinians.<o:p></o:p></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:<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>Islam's
Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora</u> by Ronald Segal<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;">2001(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5761):</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Naftali Dean, 85, of Tel Mond; Yevgenya
Malchin, 70, of Netanya and Shlomit Ziv, 58, of Netanya were murdered today by
a Palestinian suicide bomber “in the center of the business district of
Netanya.<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;">2001: </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Graveside services were held at Temple Emeth
Memorial Park, Baker St., West Roxbury, MA for Deborah (Pessin) Margolis, the
widow of Dr. Benjamin D. Margolis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002: As of today, “latest round of unrelenting violence -- more than 20
Israeli deaths in the last 24 hours -- has left the Bush administration stymied
and efforts at meaningful diplomacy stalled.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002: “Syria seemed to register unease with the Saudi peace plan, which
offers Israel normal relations with the Arab world in return for its withdrawal
from land occupied in the 1967 war” but which “makes no explicit mention of
resettling the millions of Palestinian refugees spread about the region nor
does it mention any Israeli return of the Golan Heights area to Syria, two
points Damascus has always insisted on.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003(30<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5763): Rosh Chodesh Adar II<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: As the Israelis continue their war against terrorists who hide
among the civilian population, the IAF killed three Palestinians in “separate
shooting incidents and clashes.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004: “How Bush’s Advisers Confront the World”
published today provides a review of <u>The Rise of the Vulcans</u> by James
Mann who lists Paul Wolfowitz as one of the six people to whom the President
looks to for guidance on foreign 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;">2005: A German court ruled that the heirs of a
once prominent Jewish-owned department store chain were entitled to
compensation for what has in recent years become one of Berlin's most valuable
pieces of real estate. Deciding one of the biggest and most bitterly disputed
claims for restitution of property seized by the Nazis, the German
Administrative Court awarded $17 million to Barbara Principe and her nephew,
Martin Wortham. They are the main surviving heirs of the family of German Jews
that, until the war, owned and operated the Wertheim department store chain,
which even today is to Berlin what Macy's or Bloomingdale's is to New
York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Wertheim Company, founded in
the 19th century, owned seven large stores in Berlin before the war, all of
them appropriated by the Nazis in 1937 as part of the process by which Jews
were squeezed out of German economic life and their holdings turned over to
"Aryans." The Wertheim brothers arrived in the United States penniless
in the 1940's. Gunther Wertheim, Mrs. Principe's father, ran a chicken farm in
southern New Jersey.<o:p></o:p></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><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> reviewed <u>The Great
Morality</u> by John Kelly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This book
provided “an intimate history of the Black Death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Included in this acclaimed volume are
references to the treatment of the Jews including reports of “survivors
pointing accusatory fingers at Jews and Muslims and outsiders” and the “pogroms
instituted against the Jews, who were scapegoated for spreading the plague; the
abdication of responsibility on the part of many officials and community
leaders; and the exploitation of the needy and grief-stricken by con men and
opportunists.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005:
<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">An exhibition styled “The
Power of Conversation of Jewish Women and Their Salons” opens at the Jewish
Museum.<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;">2006: Dalia Itizk a native of Jerusalem
born into a family of Iraqi Jews, began serving Speaker of the Knesset, making
her the first women to hold this post. </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;">2006:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
Cedar Rapids, celebration of the birthday of Ivy Hurwitz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the short time that Ivy has been in Cedar
Rapids, she has demonstrated her culinary wizardry and made herself an integral
part of 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;">2007: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Sunday New York Times</i> book section featured a review of <u>The Art of Aging<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">:A Doctor’s Prescription for Well-Being</span></u><b>
</b>by Jewish author Sherwin B. Nuland and a review of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>Becoming Judy Chicago<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">: A Biography of the Artist</span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span>by Gail Levin. “Judy Chicago, born
Judith Sylvia Cohen in Chicago in 1939, is descended from a long line of
rabbis, going back to the Vilna Gaon in eighteenth century Lithuania.”<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(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5767): 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;">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 Duluth, MN<o:p></o:p></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 New York, the 92<sup>nd</sup> Street Y
presents “Breaking News from Israel: Reports from the Front Lines” featuring
NBC journalist Martin Fletcher and moderated by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i> editor and author Joseph Berger.<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;">2008:<span style="color: black;"> </span>James L.
Kugel and Rabbi Harold Kushner are among the 20 writers honored tonight at the
57th annual Jewish Book Awards, to be held at the Center for Jewish History in
Manhattan. In January, the Jewish Book Council, which administers the awards,
named Mr. Kugel's <u>How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now</u>
the Jewish Book of the Year for 2007, and chose Rabbi Kushner, the author of
the 1981 best seller <u>When Bad Things Happen to Good People</u>, the
recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award. The Jewish Book Council, founded
in 1943, is the only organization in America devoted exclusively to promoting
books reflecting the Jewish experience. The annual awards honor achievement in
biography and memoir, children's and young adult literature, fiction, poetry,
and 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;">2008: According to Palestinian sources, the
Arabs suffered 110 casualties during Operation Hot Winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Israelis launched Operation Hot Winter
following a series of rocket attacks launched from Gaza that targeted Israeli
towns, including Sderot.<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(27<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5768):
Eighty-three-year-old Oscar winning composer Leonard Rosenman 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://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E2D91638F935A35750C0A96E9C8B63&scp=1&sq=Fox%2C+Margalit+Rosenman&st=nyt"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E2D91638F935A35750C0A96E9C8B63&scp=1&sq=Fox%2C+Margalit+Rosenman&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;">2009:
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Hadassah Book Club met at the home of community leader
Amy Barnum to discuss a novel by Anita Dimant entitled <u>Good Harbor</u> <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 New York, the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Chinese Community
Relations Council sponsor a presentation by Avrum Ehrlich, Professor at the
University of Shandong, China, entitled China-Israel Relations: Geopolitical
and Social Dimensions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits
Ramallah before flying out of Israel as she completes her first official peace
mission to 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;">2009:
Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander in chief of the Iran’s Revolutionary Guard
announced that Iran now has missiles that can reach Israeli nuclear sites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Iran’s Shahab-3 missiles have a range of up
to 1,250 miles, putting Israel within striking distance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
According to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the Proivdence Journal,</i>
the last two paid staff member of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I., were
let go and public tours were canceled because of financial difficulties.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009(8th
of Adar, 5769: Joseph Bloch, who was a professor of piano literature at the
Juilliard School in New York passed away today at the age of 91. at his home in
Larchmont, N.Y. For the better part of the past five decades, every Juilliard
pianist passed through Mr. Bloch’s classroom. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010:
YIVO is scheduled to present a program entitled Goebbels in Arabia during which
Jeffrey Herf, eminent historian and a professor at the University of Maryland,
discusses his new book, <u>Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World</u> (Yale
University Press), a detailed account of how Hitler's Germany planted the seeds
of its own brand of virulent anti-Semitism 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;">2010:
The Twentieth Annual KOACH Kallah is scheduled to begin today at the Pearlston
Conference and Retreat Center in Reisterstown, MD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>KOACH is the is the college program
Conservative Movement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010:
In Washington, D.C., Norman Shore is scheduled to lead a “learn over lunch”
that examines the reign of Solomon as described in Book of I Kings.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010:
Rabbi Joshua Maroof, the spiritual leader of the Magen David Sephardic
Congregation in Rockville, Maryland is scheduled to conduct another class
designed to discover the fascinating world of Sephardic Jewish thought in which
attendees delve into the legacy of great philosophers such as Maimonides and
Joseph Caro (author of the Shulchan Aruch) and discuss monotheism, free will
and other ever-contemporary themes.<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 High Court today refused to throw out a lawsuit by Peace Now against
construction in Kiryat Netafim, even though the government says it has evidence
that shows that construction was approved before the lawsuit was undertaken,
contradicting the contention of the suit that the building was illegal..<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010:
Michigan Congressman Sandy Levin took over as chairman of the committee today
when Charles B. Rangel of New York stepped aside in due to a number of ethics
violations. (Levin is Jewish; Rangel is not.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
Agudas Achim in Iowa City is scheduled to celebrate Shabbat Across America.<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 Rockville, MD, Tikvat Israel is scheduled to explore the world the Jews of
Ethiopia in a program styled: “From Tesfa to Tikva: A Lens on Ethiopian
Israelis.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
Congregation Adat Reyim is scheduled to celebrate a Shabbat Service Honoring
Military Families. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
Several hundred people gathered in central Tel Aviv today to protest government
plans to deport hundreds of children of foreign workers and illegal residents
of Israel. Speaking at the rally in Tel Aviv’s Gan Meir Park, famous Israeli
actress Gila Almagor said “these 400 children are considered illegal, but they
are Israeli children just like our children. They were born here, grew up here,
and they don’t have any other country,” adding that they must be <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
Twenty-year-old Jessica Feibler, a U.C. student has brought a federal civil
rights lawsuit against the University of California, Berkeley, saying the
university did not protect her from being attacked because she is Jewish. The
case, filed in U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., today against the
university, the regents of the University of California and their ranking
officials, is the first of its kind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/61116/former-u.c.-berkeley-student-files-suit-charges-endangerment-of-jewish-stud/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/61116/former-u.c.-berkeley-student-files-suit-charges-endangerment-of-jewish-stud/</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(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5771): Vivienne Harris, 89, who worked with her husband to found the
Jewish Telegraph, now a regional publishing powerhouse in northern England with
editions in Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool and Glasgow, passed away. Harris
received an Order of the British Empire -- MBE -- for her professional and
charitable works and was still active as the company's financial director until
days before her death. Her son, Paul, the Telegraph's editor, said that "I
always said that she had three children -- myself, my brother and the Jewish
Telegraph. The paper was very much her baby, and she nurtured it like a child
for 60 years. Even in her 90th year, she was devoted to the company."
Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdon, Ron Prosor, said that Harris
"embodied what we should all be proud of: Jewish values, Zionistic
determination and motivation of someone who established the Jewish Telegraph
with her late husband with just the 10 fingers that she had, against all the
odds. A remarkable woman who I had the privilege of meeting and talking to.
It's a great loss (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;">2012:
The AIPAC Policy Conference is scheduled to begin 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:
Jeremy Skidmore (director) and the Designers of “New Jerusalem: The
Interrogation of Baruch De Spinoza” are scheduled to take part in a “Talk Back”
which is part of “a month-long national conversation about Spinoza’s impact and
legacy.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Rabbi Jeffery Saks is scheduled to lead the first in a three-part mini-series,
“Aganon’s Eretz Yisrael” that examines the work of Nobel Prize Winner, S.Y.
Agnon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Virginia’s Eric Cantor, the House Majority Leader and the only Jewish
Republican serving in the U.S. House of Representatives endorsed Mitt Romney
for president and said that he is not interested in the vice-presidency.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(10<sup>th</sup>
of Adar): Ninety-seven-year-old Shmuel Tankus, who commanded Israel’s navy from
1954 until 1960 passed away today.<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-4198215,00.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4198215,00.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.jweekly.com/article/full/64524/shmuel-tankus-97-former-israeli-navy-commander/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/64524/shmuel-tankus-97-former-israeli-navy-commander/</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.jta.org/2012/03/06/jewish-holidays/hanukkah/former-israeli-navy-commander-shmuel-tankus-dies-at-97"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jta.org/2012/03/06/jewish-holidays/hanukkah/former-israeli-navy-commander-shmuel-tankus-dies-at-97</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:
President Barak Obama addressed the AIPAC Policy Conference.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/03/04/3091959/obama-policy-to-prevent-iran-from-obtaining-a-nuclear-weapon"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/03/04/3091959/obama-policy-to-prevent-iran-from-obtaining-a-nuclear-weapon</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"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Josh Sussman is scheduled to host a Montreal Aliyah Fair 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;">2013:
Dr. Brian Horowitz is scheduled to be the first speaker at today’s session of
the a day-long conference at Tulane University - “Jewish Music 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;">2013(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar, 5773): Sixty-eight-year-old Rabbi Menachem Froman died tonight at his
home in Tekoa in Gush Etzion, where 200 of his students and followers sang and
prayed instead of learning with him a weekly lesson in the mystical Zohar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=305321"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=305321</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:
Pawel Frenkel, who fought alongside Mordecai Anielewicz is to be commemorated
today at an event marking anniversary of the Jewish rebellion<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=7695"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=7695</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:
Sandy, Larry and Michael Levin, from suburban Chicago, are among those
scheduled to attend the final day of the AIPAC Policy Conference 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;">2014:
Emily Casden, Coordinating Curator for “Art Spiegelman’s Co-Mix: A
Retrospective” is scheduled to participate in a Q & A following a screening
of “The Art of Spiegelman.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Dancing in Jaffa” and “An Evening of Yiddish Song” 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-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The Historic 6<sup>th</sup> & I Synagogue is scheduled to host “Judaism on
Trial: The Barcelona Disputation of 1263” <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 Library of Congress is scheduled to host a screening of Regina, Diana Goo’s
documentary about Regina Jonas the first female Rabbi ordained in Germany who
was murdered at Auschwitz in 1944.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Arab terrorists hurled a firebomb today at the community of Beit El, in the
Binyamin region, north of Jerusalem. No one was hurt and no damage was caused.
A similar attack took place on yesterday, too.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar II, 5774): Fifty-nine Rabbi Daniel Moscowitz, the Chicago native who
“has led Chabad in Illinois since 1977” died suddenly 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(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar II, 5774): Nine-two-year-old Frances Calisch Rothenberg, “the
granddaughter of Edward N. Calisch of Temple Beth Ahabah passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.richmond.com/obituaries/rothenberg-frances-calisch/article_4755d663-7fa6-5517-a445-d2c919b83ec7.html"><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="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:
GW’s Rabin Chair Forum and Middle East Forum and the Middle East Program of the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars are scheduled to host a
program about the making of “JERUSALEM” a “film that tells the…story of
Jerusalem through the viewpoints of…Christianity, Islam and Judaism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://theschmooze.org/c/pdf/JerusalemGW_E3414.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://theschmooze.org/c/pdf/JerusalemGW_E3414.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;">2014:
YIVO is scheduled to host “Jacob Glatstein: A Yiddish Genius in Anglicizing
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:
Britain’s advertising watchdog banned an Israeli government tourism
advertisement for suggesting that the Old City of Jerusalem is part of Israel
today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-bans-ad-for-implying-jerusalems-old-city-part-of-israel/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-bans-ad-for-implying-jerusalems-old-city-part-of-israel/</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 Daily Mail</i> reported today that “A
hillside house dating back to the early first century CE in northern Israel may
have been the Nazareth home where Jesus was raised, according to researchers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/galilee-structure-may-be-jesus-boyhood-home/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/galilee-structure-may-be-jesus-boyhood-home/</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(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5775): 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;">2015:
In the evening, Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids has a “Pizza” Purim complete with
costumes and the traditional Megillah Reading<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
Rabbi Kushner is scheduled to speaking about “Learning Life from Painting” as
an exhibition of his paintings opens at Congregation Emanuel-El of San
Francisco.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
Agudas Achim, in Coralville, IA, is scheduled to host the 20<sup>th</sup>
Annual Shabbat Across North America.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5777): Parashat Terumah; <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
“State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda” is scheduled to come to an
end today 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;">2017:
Assemblyman Dov Hikins tweeted photos tonight showing “headstones toppled in a
Brooklyn 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;">2017:
National Day of Unplugging<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.sabbathmanifesto.org/unplug/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.sabbathmanifesto.org/unplug/</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:
<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>Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and
Progress</u> by Steven Pinker<u>, Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist’s Memoir</u>
by Irvin D. Yalom and <u>The Narrow Space: A Pediatric Oncologist, His Jewish,
Muslim, and Christian Patients, and a Hospital in Jerusalem </u>by Elisha
Waldman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Education Minister Naftali Bennett announced that Gil Shwed, the CEO of Israeli
cybersecurity firm Check Point, has been awarded the Israel Prize in technology
and innovation.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/gil-shwed"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/gil-shwed</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(17th
of Adar, 5778): the San Francisco born son of Clayton Solomon, the founder of
Tower Cut Rate Drugs and “the former Annette Sockolov” gave birth to Russell
Malcom “Russ” Solomon, the founder of Tower Records.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/obituaries/russell-solomon-founder-of-tower-records-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;">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/obituaries/russell-solomon-founder-of-tower-records-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;">2018:
The American Sepahrdi Federation is scheduled to present “Queen Esther’s
Dilemma,” “a musical by Samuel J. Bernstein inspired by the” Megillah 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:
In Ames, IA, home of the ISU Cyclones, the Ames Jewish Congregation is
scheduled to host a Megiallah reading “and other fun activities” this morning.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Center for Jewish History, American Jewish Historical
Society, Leo Baeck Institute & Yeshiva University Museum are scheduled to
present “March Mash-Up” a family festival featuring The Gefilteria’s Liz Alpern
and Jeffrey Yoskowitz, singer Eléonore Biezunski, storyteller Shane Baker, and
the Yiddish puppet theater troupe Great Small Works.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“Filmmaker and writer Aviva Kempner, who is responsible for The Life and Times
of Hank Greenberg” and “Rosenwald” is scheduled to wear a red, white and blue
button at the Oscar ceremony reading “Let’s Love Our Kids More Than Our Guns!”<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 final performance of “A Walk With Mr. Heifetz” which is based on
performance by the violinist Jashcah Heifitz at Ein Harold Kibbutz in 1926, is
scheduled to take place at the Cherry Lane Theatre.<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 “The Land of Israel – In
Song” featuring “Israeli singer Ariella Edvy” who “embarks on a musical journey
through Israel’s diverse sites and environments – from the Sea of Galilee to
the Dead Sea, from bustling cities to agricultural kibbutzim.”<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 24<sup>th</sup> East Bay International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to
host “The Last Supper” and “Promise at Dawn” (La promesse de l’aube)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
As part of the Jewish Book Festival, an evening with Robert Alter discussing
his “translation of the Hebrew Bible” with Raphael Zarum, the “Dean of the
London School of Jewish Studies.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
At Book Passage Marin, Matti Friedman is scheduled to discuss <u>Spies of No
Country</u>, which tells the story of “four Mizrachi Jewish spies under in
Lebanon during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.”<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 Washington, DC, American University is scheduled to host “What’s Radical
About Jewish Feminism” in which “Professor Joyce Antler as interviews civil
rights icon Heather Booth and pioneering Jewish lesbian feminist Dr. Evelyn
Torton Beck, who are featured in Antler's new book, Jewish Radical Feminism:
Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement.”<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 Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines, Chabad of Ames, the ISU Department
of History and the Philosophy and Religious Studies at ISU are scheduled to
host “The Holocaust through the Eyes of a Child Survivor” an evening with Inge
Auerbach where she “shares her story as a Holocaust survivor who spent 3 years
as a young child in Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Auerbacher
was born in Kippenheim, Germany, survived Kristallnacht, and was deported with
her parents in 1942 to Terezin, where out of 15,000 children only about 1
percent survived.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
Adas Israel and the Capital Jewish Museum are scheduled to host a dessert
reception, film, and panel discussion on confronting the environment of hate
American Jews face today with “Tom Gutherz, Senior Rabbi of Charlottesville’s
Congregation Beth Israel, and Doron Ezickson, ADL Vice President of the
Mid-Atlantic/Midwest Division.”<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 “Hammenashen Bake for
Chairty” where students “bake Hamantashen to help raise money for the amazing
work GIFT do all year round and 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;">2020:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Anti-Semitism: The Hate That Sill
Won’t Die in the US.”<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 Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University is scheduled to host
Elisheva Baumgarten, the Prof. Yitzchak Becker Chair for Jewish Studies and
professor in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry and the
Department of History as she lectures on “Learning from the Dead about the
Living: Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Northern Europe.”<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 Brookline, MA, the Chai Center is scheduled to host a “Hamantashen Baking
Workshop.” <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 “Beyond the Exodus: The Haggadah’s
Lessons for Life” during which “Mark Gerson, author of <u>The Telling: How
Judaism’s Essential Book Reveals the Meaning of Life,</u> will plumb the text
with Senator Cory Booker.<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 Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Cantorial Soloist Abbie Strauss is scheduled to lead
the morning minyan.<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 Alliance of Southern Maine is scheduled to present “The
Passover Haggadah: A Biography – A Zoom talk with author Rabbi Vanessa Ochs.”<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 JCC Literary Consortium and the Atlanta History Center are
scheduled to present Tulane University history professor and award-winning
author Walter Isaacson as he discusses his latest work <u>The Code Breaker:
Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race</u>, an
“account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched
a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have
healthier babies.<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 UC Berkley Center of Jewish Studies is scheduled to present Arun Viswanath as
he talks about his challenges in translating <u>Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s
Stone</u> into Yiddish with Hebrew Bible translator Robert Alter.<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 to host a lecture by Shirli
Gilbert, Professor of Modern Jewish History at University College London, 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 Fight Over ‘Maus’ Is Part of a Bigger Cultural Battle in Tennessee”
published today described the decision of the McMinn Count School Board to
remove the graphic novel about the Holocaust from its eighth-grade curriculum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
“Rabbi Labish Becker, the executive director of Agudath Israel of America, an
umbrella organization of ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups, has raised more than $2
million for Ukraine since the Russian invasion.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Starting “Paris Boutique” is scheduled to be available for rent thanks to UK
Jewish Film.<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 Boston, the Emerson Colonial Theatre is scheduled to present The Simon &
Garfunkel Story” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“a critically acclaimed
concert-style theatre show about two young Jewish boys from Queens, New York,
who went on to become the world’s most successful music duo of all time.”<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 Great Plains is scheduled to host its second annual “Shabbat Zachor
Havdalah.”<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 Rafael, CA, the Osher Family JCC is scheduled to host two Purim Parties.<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 Eden Tamir Music Center is scheduled to present “Ensemble
Millennium/Toscanini Quartet, Ensemble in Residence and Friends.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5783): 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;">2024:
Vice President “Harris is slated to meet with visiting war cabinet Minister
Benny Gantz in Washington” 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 Metairie, LA, the Jewish Community is scheduled to host a Hamantaschen
Baking Event.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
4th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held hostages begin
day 150 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-10858881585499718532024-03-02T01:53:00.001-06:002024-03-02T16:02:57.440-06:00This Day, March 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A Levin and Deb Levin Z"L<p><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">March 3</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">321:
Roman Emperor Constantine named Sunday which had been a Roman pagan day for
honoring the sun as a day of rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
was an attempt by Constantine to close the gap between pagans and Christianity
and to isolate the Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Constantine’s
day of rest should not be confused with the Jewish Sabbath which was a
universal day of rest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">505:
Rav Ahai ben Ray Huna, a member of the Saboraim, 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;">561:
The Papacy of Pelagius I came to an end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He owed his election to Justinian I, the emperor whose religious program
included placing restrictions on Jews and interfering with their practices by
trying to force them to substitute the Greek Septuagint for the TaNaCh.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1186:
Saladin takes control of the city of Mosul which at that time had a Jewish
population of approximately 7,000 souls which had been led by Zakkai ha-Nais
“who claimed to be a descendant of King David.” (As reported by the Jewish
Encyclopedia)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1240:
Seizure of all copies of the Talmud in France<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1337:
Levi ben Gershon, better known by his Latinised name as Gersonides or the
abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG Levi observed a solar eclipse today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1431:
Eugene IV began his papacy today. This was a less than positive move for Jews
since the new pope would “decree and order that from now on, and for all time,
Christians shall not eat or drink with the Jews, nor admit them to feasts, nor
cohabit with them, nor bathe with them. […]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They cannot live among Christians, but in a certain street, separated
and segregated from Christians, and outside which they cannot under any pretext
have houses.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1455:
Birthdate of John II, the King of Portugal whom Abraham Zacuto served as Royal
Astronomer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1554:
Fifty-year-old John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, whose issuance of “a
mandate that prohibited Jews from inhabiting, engaging in business in or
passing through his realm” sparked an episode in which Luther showed that he
had become an anti-Semite passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1605: VIII,
during whose Papacy Jews were forced to attend “conversionist sermons,”
prohibited from “dealing in new articles of clothing” and forced to allow
copies of the Talmud to be burned in 1601, passed away today at the age of 69.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1619(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5379): Shlomo Ephraim ben Aaron Luntschitz passed away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Born at Lenczyk in 1550 he was “a rabbi, poet
and Torah commentator, best known for his Torah commentary Keli<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Yakar</i>.” (For more see <u>Seeing with
Both Eyes: Ephraim Luntshitz and the Polish-Jewish Renaissance</u> by Leonard
S. Levin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1641:
One day after he had passed away Rabbi Meir Jacob Schiff-KaZ, the son of Jacob
Schiff-KaZ and Gitlin Schiff-KaZ and the husband of Sprinz Schiff-KaZ was buried
today at Frankfurt am Main.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1658:
Dr. Jacob Lumbrozo, the first Jew to settle in Maryland was given amnesty by
Oliver Cromwell. Lumbrozo had been indicted on charges of blasphemy, which was
a capital offense.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1732(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5492): Isaiah Azulai, father of Isaac Zerahiah Azulai and the
grandfather Hayyim Joseph David Azulai passed away 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;">1742:
Last will and testament of Benjamin Bravo of Kingston, Jamaica.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1743:
In Oberdndorf, Wurtembger, Tavis Einstein and Solomon Abraham gave birth to
Amson Solomon, the husband of Zerla Lucas whom he had married in 1773 and the
father of Abraham Amson.<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 City, Eve Esther Gomez and Uriah Hendricks gave birth to Harmon
Hendricks, the husband of Frances Isaacs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1779(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5539): 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;">1782:
Birthdate of German native Elias Levi Rosenheim, the husband of Rosetta Nathan
Eisendrath 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;">1788:
Birthdate of German native Jeanette Franc, the wife of Hertz Heyn and the
mother of Betty Heyn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1790:
As of today, Alexander Hamilton whom Dr. Andrew Porwancher, among others has
determined that Hamilton “was in all likelihood born and raised Jewish” was unable
to supply the information that would have enabled the resources to have been
applied to pay state debts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1791:
Birthdate of Bavarian native Meyer Strauss who had four children with his first
wife, Goldie Strauss and three children – Abraham, Lessman and Nathan Strauss –
with his second wife.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799:
General Kléber, Commander in Chief of the French Army invading Palestine,
received the order to push detachments after having taken up position to the
south of the river Nahar-al-Ougeh, to watch enemy movements, and to prepare for
the army to march to Acre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799:
Birthdate of Posen native and author Israel Albu, the husband of Johanna Cohen
and the father of Berthold, Cacilia, Salomon, Adolph and Eveline Alabu.<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.goodreads.com/author/show/14462890.Israel_Albu"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14462890.Israel_Albu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799:
The French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte reached the outskirts
of Jaffa. The army had left for Palestine on the first of February in an
attempt to forestall a Turco-British invasion through the Palestinian
land-bridge. A division under the command of General Kleber deployed along the
shores of the river Yarkon, 10 kms north of the town and was responsible for
shielding the besieging forces from hostile interference. This military action
had nothing to do with the Jewish people. It was another example of the land of
the Jews being a battleground because it was the land bridge between Africa,
Asia and indirectly, Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1800:
In Charleston, SC, Priscilla Moses and David Lopez gave birth to Aaron Lopez,
the husband of Eleanor Cohen with whom he had eleven children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1801:
David Emanuel took office as the Governor of Georgia. Emanuel was the first
Jewish person to serve as a governor in the United States. Emanuel was
appointed to serve the last eight months of the term of his predecessor who had
assumed a seat in the U.S. Senate. Born in Pennsylvania in 1743, he passed away
in 1808.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1803:
John Jacob Hays, the New York City born son of Baruch and Prudence Hays and his
wife Mary Louise Hays gave birth to Jane Hays, who became Jane McKenney when
she married Samuel Templeman McKenney<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1805(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar II, 5565): Eighty-year-old author Naphtali Hartwig Wessley passed away
in Hamburg following which he was buried “in the cemetery of the Portuguese
Israelites, whose rituals he had professed all his life.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1808:
In the Kingdom of Westphalia, ruled by Jerome Bonaparte, Israel Jacobson “was
appointed president of the Jewish consistory which was established 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:
In Frankfurt am Main, Jacob Hirsch Kann, the son of Miriam and Isaac Jacob
Kann, and Jetta Kahn gave birth to Fanny Sichel<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1811:
Birthdate of Bernhard Wolff, the German journalist and editor who founded
Wolffs Telegraphisches Bureau which was the German version of Rueters (British)
and Havas (French).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1813:
Henry Moses married Esther Nathan 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;">1814:
Birthdate of Charles Kensington Salaman, the native of London who gained fame
as pianist and composer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1819:
Benjamin Cohen married Jestina Montefiore 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;">1822:
In Baltimore, “Dr. Jonas Horwitz and his wife Debby Andrews” gave birth to
Phineas J. Horwitz, the 1845 graduate of the University of Maryland who would
become Surgeon General and Chief of the Navy Bureau of Medicine. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1824:
Daniel Levy married Amelia Jacobs today at the New Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1824:
Isaac Vallentine married Sarah Green today at the Hambro Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1825(13<sup>th</sup>
Adar, 5585): 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;">1826:
In London, Ellen Allice Jacobs and Gabriel Simmons gave birth to Samuel Simmons
who would be buried in Brooklyn, NY when he passed away fifty-five 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;">1833:
Birthdate of Mendel Hirsch, the German born Bible commentator and poet who was
the son of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1844:
Birthdate of “Dreyfeusard” Clement Moras.<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="http://www.dreyfus.culture.fr/en/bio/bio-html-clement-moras.htm"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.dreyfus.culture.fr/en/bio/bio-html-clement-moras.htm</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1845:
Florida becomes the 27th state to join the Union.” In 1763, the first recorded
Jews in Florida came to Pensacola, in the northwest corner of the territory.
More Jews moved to north Florida in the next few decades, but the Jewish
population remained small during this time, numbering no more than a dozen
individuals. When Florida became a state, there were less than 100 Jews in a
population of 66,500. The first U.S. Senator from Florida was a Jew, David Levy
Yulee.” For more about the history of the Jews of Florida see<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://www.floridajewish.com/florida_jewish_history.php"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.floridajewish.com/florida_jewish_history.php</span></a></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-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1846:
The French Supreme Court declared the “Jewish Oath” unconstitutional in
response to a case involving Rabbi Lazard Isidor of Pflazburg who was defended
by Isaac Adolphe Crémieux, the Jewish lawyer and political leader.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1846:
In Franklin, PA, Julius Marx Rieser and Clara Kahn gave birth to Hernai Rieser,
the CCNY grad and husband of Carrie Rosenfeld who served as the Manager of the
Clara de Hirsch Home and Superintendent of Beth Israel Hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847:
In Germany, Leopold Solomon Bernheimer the son of Salomon Bernheimer and Ella
Bernheimer and his wife Fanny Weil—Bernheim gave birth to Leopold A. Bernheimer
<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 Freudenburg, Germany native David Kahn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1849:
The United States Department of the Interior is established. Joel D. Wolfsohn
who served as Assistant Secretary of the Department from in the final months of
the Truman Administration appears to be the highest-ranking Jew to have served
at the Department of the Interior. He served from July 10, 1952, through
February 20, 1953.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1849:
Israel’s Herold was published for the first time 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;">1850:
Aaron Lyons married Fanny Nathan 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;">1851:
In Bavaria, Rose and Maier Ottenberg gave birth to future Washingtonian Isaac
Ottenberg, the husband of Regina Ottenberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851:
David Levy Yulee completed his first terms as a United States Senator from
Florida. He was the first Jew to sit in the Upper Chamber of the U.S. Congress.
Yulee was also the last Jew in his family line since he married a gentile and
raised the children in the faith of their mother. Yulee would not only turn his
back on his religion, but he would turn his back on his country and join the
Confederacy 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;">1852:
Birthdate of Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel British merchant banker and capitalist.
Born in Cologne, Germany, the son of Jacob Cassel, who owned a small bank,
Cassel arrived penniless in Liverpool, England in 1869 and found employment
with a firm of grain merchants. With an enormous capacity for hard work and a
natural business sense, Cassel was soon in Paris working for a bank. The
Franco-Prussian War forced him to move to a position in a London bank, as he
was born in Prussia. He prospered and was soon putting together his own
financial deals. His areas of interest were in mining, infrastructure and heavy
industry. Turkey was an early area of business ventures, but he soon had large
interests in Sweden, the United States, South America, South Africa, and Egypt.
One of the wealthiest men of his day, Cassel was a good friend of King Edward
VII as well as of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and the young Winston
Churchill. In 1878, he married Annette Mary M. Maxwell at Westminster He became
a Roman Catholic at the behest of his wife, Annette, but was always thought of
as a Jew. The establishment was shocked to find out on his death that he had
converted many years before. A few months after his death in 1921, Cassel's
estate was probated at £6,000,000.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852:
Lionel Alman Myers married Julia Collins in the UK today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1854:
Birthdate of Moisei Yakelovich Ostrogorski, the native of Grodno who lived in
France during the Dreyfus scandal and whose visits to the U.S. and the U.K. led
to the publishing of his most famous work Democracy and the Organization of
Political which did not keep him from returning to his native Russia where he
dies “in 1919 during the chaos that followed the Bolshevik Revolution.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5615): Parashat Tetaveh; 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;">1855:
In London, Caroline Lazarus and Mark George Simmons gave birth to Arthur
Abraham Simmons.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855:
Philip Phillips, the son of a prominent Charleston, SC Jewish family completed
a term representing Alabama’s First Congressional District in the U.S. House of
Representatives. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859:
Henry Myer Phillips completed his terms as member of the House of
Representatives in the 35<sup>th</sup> Congress.<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 France, “Babette Kahn (née Bloch), an uneducated homebound mother: and
cattle dealer Louis Kahn gave birth to Abraham Kahn who gained fame as Albert
Kahn was a millionaire Parisian banker and philanthropist whose plan to use his
fortune to document the world in photographs was thwarted by the Great
Depression.<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://thebioscope.net/2007/05/21/searching-for-albert-kahn/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://thebioscope.net/2007/05/21/searching-for-albert-kahn/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861:
Marcus Jastrow repeated the sermon he had delivered yesterday on Shabbat so
that those who had heard and were impressed by the sentiments expressed could
write it down.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861:
Alexander II of Russia signed the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing the serfs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862:
At a meeting of the Jewish community in Davenport, Iowa, Rabbi Lowenthal was
“elected to serve Congregation B’nai Israel” whose President was Isaac Bernist,
“as Chazan, Schoket and M’lamed” for which he was paid an annual salary of
$350.<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 American Civil War, David Yulee, barely avoided capture by Union
troops who were attacking Fernandina FL. Yulee was the first Jew to be elected
to the United States. When Florida left the Union and joined the Confederacy,
Yulee resigned from the U.S. Senate and took a seat in the southern Congress. <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 Chicago, “Oscar L. American and Amelia Smith gave birth to social activist,
Sadie American, who moved to New York where she became “one of the founders of
the council of Jewish Women,” “a vice president and director of the Illinois
Consumers’ League,” “a leader in the formation of what later became the Jewish
Women Workers in England and during the Spanish-American War “one of the founders
of the Army and Navy League of Illinois.”<br />
<a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/American-Sadie"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/American-Sadie</span></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.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sadie-american"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sadie-american</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863:
During the American Civil War, Alfred Mordecai, Jr. was promoted to the rank of
Captain in the Union Army.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865:
Ellen (Barnett) Elias, the wife of Hyman Elias and mother of Herbert, Alfred,
Annette, Dora and Eleanor Elias 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;">1867:
Myer Strouse, the Bavarian born American editor, lawyer and Democrat politician
completed his second and final terms as a Congressman from Pennsylvania.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869:
In Widz, Russia Isaac Ginsburg and his wife gave birth to David Ginsburg the
“Rabbi of Congregations Beth Israel and Beth Hakneses Hachodesh, Rochester, N.
Y.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869:
In Pennsylvania, Bernhard and Henrietta Siegel Goldman gave birth to Helen
Goldman, the future resident of Minnesota who became Helen Bechhoefer when she
married Charles Bechhoefer. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870:
Arguments resumed this morning in the matter revolving around the will of the
late Simeon Abraham, the New York physician and Jewish civic leader whose
bequests exceeded the value of his estate. The executor is seeking a court
order in how to resolve the shortfall while several of the beneficiaries are
seeking to protect their interests.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870:
Two days after he had passed away, Hamburg, Germany native Adolphus Sallust 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;">1871:
On his 49<sup>th</sup> birthday, while serving with the United States Navy, Dr.
Phineas J. Horowitz was appointed medical inspector.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871:
Abraham Hoffnung married Esther Levey in Manchester, UK.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871:
In New York, the remodeled sanctuary of Shaarey Tzedek was dedicated today. The
building, which is located on Henry Street, was bought by the Jewish
congregation from Quakers in 1840. The remodeling was necessitated by the
growth of the congregation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874(14th
of Adar, 5634): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874:
Theodore Minis Etting, the son of Philadelphia merchant Edward Etting was
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in the United States Navy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874:
As a group of temperance crusaders marched through Columbus, Ohio looking for
support it was rebuffed by various merchants and other locals including a group
of German Jews who tautened them with offers of free beer. [Could the beer
drinking Jews have been Purim revelers?]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875:
William Sprague completed his 12-year career as a United States Senator from
Rhode Island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During a debate in the
United States Senate on the massacre of Jews of Romania, Sprague said “the
facts would show that the Jews of Romania had possessed themselves of nearly
all the land and of all of the trade of the that principality while a vast
population of Christians there were deprived of their means of support.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said that this “would be found to be the
cause of the recent outbreak” and that that this experience should provide
“food for profound reflection…in regard to conditions…in our own country.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk65519814"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876(7<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5636):
Seventy-eight-year-old Rebecca Cohen, the Charleston born daughter of Moses
Cohen and wife of Abraham Isaacs passed away today in Nyack, NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65519814;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877(18<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5637): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65519814;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877:
It was reported today that a Reuter’s dispatch from Constantinople the said Greeks
are upset with the outcome of the election held in that city to choose
delegates for the Ottoman Parliament because the of the five non-Muslims chosen
the Greeks got the same number as the Jews – one – with the other three going
to Armenians.<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 Philadelphia, Diana Newmayer and Levi Lowenstein gave birth to University of
Cincinnati gradate and Hebrew Union College ordained Rabbi, Solomon Lowenstein,
the husband of Linda Berger who was the Secretary of the National Conference of
Jewish Charities in the United States and a member of the Editorial Board of
Jewish Charity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877:
It was reported that a dispatch from the Daily News that one Jew was among the
10 delegates elected to serve in the Ottoman Parliament. Of the remaining
delegates, 5 were Turks and 4 were Christians – a result that the Daily News said,
“caused no excitement.” [Editor’s Note – no matter which version you prefer,
for the Jews the important item was that they were an accepted part of the
electoral process as the Porte lurched toward a more open form of government.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878:
Following the Russo-Turkish War, Bulgaria regained its independence from
Ottoman Empire. The rights of the Jews of Bulgaria, along with other religious
minorities, were guaranteed by the Treaty of Berlin. The treaty guarantee did
not protect from outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence, blamed in part on the
erroneous notion that the Jews had supported the Ottomans. Bulgaria was never
very hospitable to its Jewish population. On the other hand, Bulgaria managed
to avoid shipping most of its Jewish population 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;">1878:
In New York City, Meyer S. Isaacs presided over a meeting of prominent Jewish
leaders including rabbis, synagogue presidents and representatives of Jewish
benevolent societies. Those attending the meeting which was held at the 34th
Street Synagogue discussed ways of raising funds to aid the suffering Jews of
Turkey and the East during the current hostilities. A proposal to by the Ball
Committee to hold a masked ball at the end of March as a fundraiser was
rejected and a more direct approach for appealing for funds was adopted.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878:
Rabbi D.C. Lewin delivered a well-received lecture on “The Life and Character
of Moses Mendelssohn” at the Young Men’s Hebrew Union 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;">1878:
Birthdate of German-born expressionist theatrical producer and director Leopold
Jessner who left Germany in 1933 which meant his life was saved but his career
was over. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878:
“Macklin in the Merchant of Venice” published today described the decision of
great 18th century thespian Charles Macklin to play the role of Shylock in the
manner of a serious character. Despite the doubts of others, Macklin was so
successful that he reprised it hundreds of times. No other actor even came
close to his portrayal of this Jewish figure until Edmund Kean took up the role
in the 19th century. Of Macklin’s portrayal, Alexander Pope, the great English
poet wrote, “This is the Jew, That Shakespeare Drew.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878:
In Philadelphia, PA, “Hebrew School No. 2 opened today in a synagogue building”
at “fifth and Catherine Streets. The school would later move to Wheatley Hall
before finding its final home at Touro Hall. (As reported by Cyrus Adler and
David Sulzberger)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878:
Charles Wessolowsky wrote to Rabbi Edward B.M. Browne today describing “the
B’nai B’rith organization in Uniontown, Alabama and the value of B’nai B’rith
to the survival of American Judaism” while praising “a Mrs. Ungar of Uniontown
not only for her resistance to attempted conversions, but also for the raising
of her family in Jewish lore.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879:
Jewish financier and businessman Joseph Seligman was among the major
stockholders of the St. Louis and San Francisco who arrived in St. Louis this
morning prior to tomorrow’s meeting during which a new Board of Directors will
be elected<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879: Birthdate
of Phillip Solomon Trost, the husband of Pearl Trost and father of Philip
Solomon Trost, Jr.]. who worked for the Curtis Publishing Company and was
president of the Society for Crippled Children. <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 first edition of the “Oriental and Biblical
Journal” edited by Stephen D. Peet has been issued in Chicago, Illinois. [Peet
served as a pastor to several Congregational and Presbyterian Churches in the
Middle West. He had a passion for archeology which he used in his Biblical
studies. He was one of a series of English and American clergyman who tied the
study of Archeology with Biblical Scholarship; a connection that late would
become a national pastime of the Zionists.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881:
Edward Einstein completed his term as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from New York’s 7<sup>th</sup> Congressional District<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5642): Sixty-seven-year-old Ludwig Kalishch, the German born author
whose participation in the Revolutions of 1848 and 1849 forced him to move to
France passed away today 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;">1883:
Leopold Morse completed his service as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from Massachusetts’s 4th district.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884:
On his 62<sup>nd</sup> birthday, Phineas Jonathan Horwitz retired from the U.S.
Navy after 38 years of service.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885:
Leopold Morse completed his service as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from Massachusetts’s 5<sup>th</sup> district.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885:
Fifty-year old Benjamin Franklin Jonas, a native of Williamstown, KY and 1855
graduate of the University of Louisiana (the future Tulane University) who
served in several governmental and political positions after the Civil War
completed his services a U.S. Senator from Louisiana today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886:
It was reported today that banker Isidore Wormser had given his daughter, the
former Miss Julia Wromser “$100,000 in Lake Shore 7 per cent sinking bond
funds” as a wedding gift, while James Seligman had given Jefferson Seligman,
his son and her new husband “a check for $50,000” which was supplemented by a
check for $20,000 from the firm of J & W Seligman.<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 Chasidic Rabbi Yehuda Meir Shapiro “a descendant of Rabbi PInchas
Shapiro of Korets, on the students of the Baal Shem Tov” and French tosafist
Rabbi Joseph ben Isaac Bekhor Shor, who was “known as the Lubliner Rav.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5648): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Paah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888:
Birthdate of František Langer Czech military physician and author who survived
the Shoah because he was serving “as a member of the Czechoslovakian Army
abroad (England) with the rank of brigadier general.<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="http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Langer_Frantisek"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Langer_Frantisek</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889:
Leopold Morse completed his service as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from Massachusetts’s 3<sup>rd</sup> district.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889:
Twenty-six-year-old Moses G. Zalinski who had joined the U.S. Army as a
private, completed his service with the First Artillery with the rank of
Sergeant. <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: Birthdate of
Philadelphia native and graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy Albert
A. Light, the “former president of the Light Box Corrugated Box Corporation who
was an officer of Young Judea and a director of the Welfare 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;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/10/08/96435109.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/1948/10/08/96435109.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889:
The Temple Emanu-El Sisterhood was incorporated today by several leading
Jewesses including Mrs. Theodora G. Levy, Mrs. Cordeilia Schnitzer and Mrs.
Theresa Sidenberg.<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 Trustees of Columbia College met today and “acknowledged and accepted
“several gifts including “a valuable collection of Hebrew manuscripts from”
Oscar S. Straus, the former American minister to Turkey.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890(11th
of Adar, 5650): Seventy-year-old Rabbi Julius Landsberger who helped found “the
Liberal Synagogue at Darmstadt” passed away today in Berlin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891:
Californian William W. Morrow championed the cause of Adolph Kutner, formerly
of Wierbchow, Russia who was afraid to return to his native land on business
because of the Czar’s policies, completed his service as a member of the House
of Representatives 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:
It was reported today that the New York Siberian Exile Petition Association
will be forwarding a petition to the Czar in April “protesting against the
present treatment of 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;">1891:
“Priests and Rabbis Barred” published today described an attempted Dr. T.T.
Eaton, “a liberal Baptist preacher” to have the Louisville Ministerial
Association admit Catholic and Jewish clergy as members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His motion failed in 14 to 12 vote.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891:
Prominent St. Louis Jewish leader Nathan Frank completed his service as U.S
Congressman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891:
Charles Baker completed his service in the House of Representatives during
which he had protested the treatment of the Jews by the government of Russia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892:
President James H. Hoffman presided over tonight’s meeting of The Hebrew
Technical Institute which was held at Temple Emanu-El 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;">1892(4th
of Adar, 5652): Joseph Ratner, a Russian Jewish immigrant who has been married
for two months shot himself this afternoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was believed to have been despondent over health problems.<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 Salvator Cicurel “an Egyptian Olympic fencer, who competed in the
individual and team épée and team foil events at the 1928 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;">1893:
Forty-two-year-old Sigmund Hyman was taken from Mount Sinai Hospital and sent
to North Brother Island because he was suffering from typhus fever.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893:
The New York Auxiliary to the Jewish Section of the Woman’s Branch of the
Parliament of Religions is scheduled to resume its meeting today at the home of
Mrs. Scholle where they will continue making plans for the papers they will be
presenting at the upcoming World’s Fair. The members include Mrs. Oscar Straus,
Mrs. Jacob Schiff, Mrs. Simon Borg, Mrs. Isidor Wormser, Mrs. Jesse Selgiman
and Mrs. Alexander Kohut, the wife of Rabbi Alexander Kohut.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894:
Policemen Fay and Schultz came to Shearith Israel to investigate reports that
“there was a crazy man in 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;">1895:
“A Wedding Reception, 1471” published today described the wedding of the Duke of
Ferrara who hosted so many guests that he was ‘obliged to hire” “the mattresses
and bolsters…from the Jews who kept a bank in Ferrara.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
“The Fate of a Financier” published today provided one version of the life and
death of Joseph Suess Oppenheimer which is at odds with the facts as they are
known today.<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 Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. Born in Uzda, Belorussia "Reb
Moshe" was the leading authority on Orthodox Jewish religious law
(Halacha) during the last century. He served as a Rabbi of Luban, near Minsk
starting in 1921 before coming to the United States in 1937. In 1938, he was
named Rosh Yeshiva (Dean) of Mesivta Tiferes Yerushalayim, a New York yeshiva,
a position he held until 1986, the year he passed away. As his reputation grew,
his rulings on religious law came to be accepted worldwide. A multi-volume
collection of his letters, Igros Moshe, is considered authoritative among
Orthodox Jews with regard to moral and ethical issues. He served President of
the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, 1968-1986,
Chairman, American Branch, Mo'ezet Gedolei ha-Torah of Agudat Yisrael, the
Council of Torah Sages, and was acknowledged as the Gadol Ha-Dor, or preeminent
individual of his generation of Jewish scholars.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
“Early Bible Printing in This Country” published today described the role of
the city of Philadelphia has played “in this branch of bookmaking” including
the fact that the first Hebrew Bible published in the United States was printed
by Philadelphian William Fry in 1814. This was done five years after a Hebrew
language copy of the Book of Psalms had been printed at Harvard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
“B’nai B’rith Pioneers” published today traces the fifty-year history of “the
pioneer of all the existing Hebrew secret societies.”<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="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F10715F73A5D15738DDDAA0894DB405B8585F0D3"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F10715F73A5D15738DDDAA0894DB405B8585F0D3</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
Isidor Straus completed his service as U.S. Congressman from New York’s 15<sup>th</sup>
Congressional District. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896:
Professor Felix Adler will deliver a lecture entitled “Moral Aspects of the
Question” at the opening session of a conference on Improved Housing being held
at the United Charities Building.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896:
It was reported today the resolution Congress had adopted “which virtually
denounced the attitude of the Russians toward the Jews” had caused
“embarrassment” for the U.S. Minister to St Petersburg because he had to
“present such expression from his own government to the nation to which he is
sent.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897:
Four lodges of B’nai B’rith hosted a party in honor of the birthdays of George
Washington and Abraham Lincoln at the Tuxedo on Madison and 59<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;">1897:
One day after she had passed away, 61-year-old Rebecca Doncaster, “the widow of
Henry Doncaster” 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;">1898:
“The Jews For Arbitrators” published today described Rabbi Pereira Mendes wish
that the United States would consider submitting its claims against Spain
following the blowing up of the battleship USS Maine to a court of
international arbitration instead of resorting to war.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899:
Stanford Moses who had been serving aboard the USS Oregon, was promoted to the
rank of Lt. Jr. Grade and transferred to serve on the U.S.S. Celtic, a “stores
ship” that provided support for U.S. forces during the Philippine-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;">1900(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar II, 5660): 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;">1900:
It was reported today that at the first meeting of the Central Committee of the
Children’s National Easter Festival it was proposed that the upcoming benefit
for the Cuban Orphan Society include a building “where the customs of the
people of Jerusalem at the Easter could be shown” and where the games and
services cold be held represented the characteristics of the Jews… of the City.<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;">1901:
Jefferson Monroe Levy completed his services a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from New York’s 13<sup>th</sup> district.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901:
New York Democrat Mitchell May completed his service as a member of the 56<sup>th</sup>
United States Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902(24<sup>TH</sup>
of Adar, 5662): Isaac Conquy Abecassis, a native of the Azores born in 1840
passed away today at Var, France.<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://www.abecasis.info/genpt2_isaac.htm"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.abecasis.info/genpt2_isaac.htm</span></a></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-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903:
Congress passed legislation aimed at curbing immigration to the United States.
The bill required immigrants to pay a two-dollar head tax (a considerable sum
in those days for poor immigrants). It also gave immigration officers the right
to exclude those whom they deem anarchists or as people who believe in or
advocate the overthrow of the United States government. The legislation was
obviously aimed at immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, including the
large Jewish populations in the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires.<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 Naugatuck, CT, “Gilbert and Helena (Pollak) Greenberg gave birth to Adrian
Adolph Greenburg the award-winning costume designer who gained fame as Gilbert
Adrian or simply “Adrian.”<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="http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/adrian-hatmakers-son-dressed-america/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/adrian-hatmakers-son-dressed-america/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903:
Senator Joseph Simon, Oregon Republican, finishes his term in the U.S. Senate.
Simon returned to Portland, Oregon where he resumed his law practice and would
serve as may from 1909 to 1911.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903:
Lucius Nathan Littauer completed his service as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from New York’s 22<sup>nd</sup> district which began in 1897.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903:
Despite “all the pressure that has been brought to bear to induce him to
reconsider,” the leaders of Temple Beth-El reluctantly accepted the resignation
of Dr. Kaufmann Kohler from his position as Rabbi of New York’s leading Reform
congregation.<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;">1904: Birthdate of Hans
Vogelstein, “former president of American Metal Climax” and a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>governor of the New York Commodity Exchange
who began his career in the metal industry after arriving from Germany in 1923
and who raised a son John with his wife the former Ruth Krieger while serving
as a trustee of 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="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/08/08/99774847.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/1960/08/08/99774847.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</span></a><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;">1904:
Birthdate of award-winning sportswriter Jesse Abramson, “who was noted for his
coverage of track and boxing.”<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="http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/JesseAbramson.htm"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/JesseAbramson.htm</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904:
In South Carolina, Rabbi J.J. Simenhoff officiated at the wedding of Jake l.
Karesh and Minnie A. Ellison.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905:
Cala and Jacob Zetzer gave birth to Samuel Zetzer, the brother of Morris and
Rose Zetzer.<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 the wake of the defeat by Japan and the Russian Revolution, Czar Nicholas II
agreed to create an elected assembly, the Duma.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906:
M.S. Snow delivered a lecture on “The Habit of Reading” before the Jewish
Educational alliance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907:
Charles Grosvenor completed his 14-year career as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from Ohio’s 11<sup>th</sup> district.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was an opponent of immigration bills that
specifically barred Russian Jews from coming to 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;">1907:
Birthdate of London native Joyce Black, who as Joy Finzi gave birth to
Christopher and Nigel Finzi and founded the Finzi Trust “a foundation named for
deceased husband composer Gerald Finzi<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5667): Sixty-two-year-old Levi Adler, the husband of Theresa Wile and
the father of Rochester, NY Mayor Isaac Adler 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:
After 4 years, Lucius Nathan Littauer completed his service as a member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 25th district <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908(30<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5668): Rosh Chodesh Adar II observed for the last time during the
presidency of Theodore Roosevelt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909;
“By a vote of 47 to 2 the Senate” today “refused to put a Statehood rider on
the House resolution looking to the prevention of discrimination against
American Jews traveling in Russia.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910:
Dorothy Levitt “was booked to give a talk at the Criterion Restaurant today
about her experiences learning to fly.<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 Eddie “Kid” Wolfe, the welterweight from Memphis, TN, who fought
his first bout 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;">1911(3rd
of Adar, 5671): Rabbi Jacob de Botton leader of the Jewish community in
Salonica passed away at the age 68.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911:
William S. Bennett, who would publicly support aid for the Jews Europe after
the World War broke, completed his service as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from New York’s 17<sup>th</sup> District.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5672): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5672): Eighty-six-year-old philanthropist William Wolf passed away
today in San Francisco.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> publishes a review
of Die Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben (The Jews in Economic Life) recently
published in Germany by Prof. Werner Sombart, Professor of Political Economy at
the Commercial High School of Berlin that includes the insights of Dr. Solomon Shechter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
Victor L. Berger completed his term representing the 5<sup>th</sup>
Congressional District of Wisconsin<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
Simon Guggenheim completed his term as U.S. Senator from Colorado.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
Jefferson Monroe Levy completed his services a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from New York’s 13<sup>th</sup> district.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
Birthdate of Harold Hochstein who gained fame as Harold J. Stone, the American
actor who traveled from Broadway to Hollywood to Television.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914:”
The way was paved to-day for the resentencing of Leo M. Frank in Judge Hill's
court, and for the next move of the defense when the remittitur was received
from the Supreme Court by the Clerk of the Superior Court, Solicitor Dorsey, it
is understood, will to-morrow move that Frank be brought into court and
resentenced.”<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 the 63rd session of the United States Congress came to an end, Jacob Cantor
completed his term as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He had
been elected on November 4, 1913 to fill the vacancy of Francis Harrison (who
was not Jewish). He lost to Issac Siegel who was Jewish and returned to his New
York law practice. Siegel in turn would be replaced by that most famous of all
New Yorkers, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, the son of a Jewish mother who was raised
as a Yiddish speaking Italian Catholic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
“Needs of Jews in Russia” published today described the request for aid from
the Jewish Colonization Association of Petrograd to aid the “tens of
thousands:” of “new refugees from Poland” that have arrived in the Russian
capital.<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 the 63rd session of the United States Congress came to an end, Henry Mayer
Goldfogle completed his term as a member of the U.S. House of Representative
which had begun with the 57<sup>th</sup> session of Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
Jefferson Monroe Levy completed his services a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from New York’s 14<sup>th</sup> district.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
In Vienna, rabbis and communal leaders from Galicia met and formed a committee
designed to find a “solution for the eastern Jewish problem.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
Today, C.H. Rubenstein wrote to Simon Wolf, the Chairman of the Board of
Delegates in Washington, DC, “I am glad to inform you that the bill before the
Maryland Legislature, making the reading of the Bible compulsory in the public
schools of the State…has been defeated” by a “constitutional majority.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
After winning 15 straight bouts Benny Leonard (born Benjamin Leiner) fought
today for the lightweight championship but lost when he failed to knockout the
champ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917:
Birthdate of Lou Labovitch, the native of Winnipeg who played right wing in six
different hockey leagues from 1938 to 1948, none of which were the NHL.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917:
William H. King, who in 1927 “declared…that he favored the United States
severing diplomatic relations with any country which failed because of
anti-Semitism to protect its Jewish nationals” and “expressed the belief that
eventually Palestine would be able to support a population of a million Jews”
began serving as a U.S. Senator from Utah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917:
William Stiles Bennet who in 1916 told 3,000 people attending a meeting at the
McKinley Casino that it was “now necessary for the American Jew to assist his
brethren in Europe” and “said that large sums of money would be needed in order
to accomplish the desired relief” completed his services as a Member of the US.
House of Representatives from New York’s 27<sup>th</sup> District today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917:
Djemal Pasha offers to give the Jews free access to the Western Wall in
Jerusalem to pray if they provide the sum of 80,000-100,000 Francs<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918:
Birthdate of photographer Arnold Abner Newman.<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="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/arts/07newman.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/arts/07newman.html</span></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="http://arnoldnewman.com/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://arnoldnewman.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918:
Germany and the new Communist government of Russia signed The Brest-Litovsk
Treaty. This treat dismembered the Russian Empire and took Russia out of the
war. This freed the German Army to shift all of its forces to the Western Front
where the Kaiser’s forces tried for a knock-out blow that failed. The treaty
helped bring on the Russian Civil War between the Whites and the Reds during
which Jews were slaughtered by both sides. Also, the treaty resulted in western
forces (U.S., English, etc.) sending troops to Russia. Once again, Jews were
caught in the middle and suffered economic ruin and death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918:
Today, after having reluctantly signed last week, Grigori Sokolnikov, a Jewish
born Bolshevik, predicted that “Germany’s expansionism would be short lived.” <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 New York City, Joseph and Lena Kornberg who had married in 1904 and
emigrated to New York from Austrian Galicia gave birth to Arthur Kornberg US
biochemist who synthesized artificial DNA. He received the Nobel Prize in 1959.
He died in 2007 at the age of 89.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919:
Emir Faisel writes a letter to Felix Frankfurter expressing his support for the
Zionist cause. ”We Arabs...look with deepest sympathy on the Zionist
Movement....We will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome… The Arabs, especially
the educated among us, look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement.
Our deputation here in Paris is fully acquainted with the proposals submitted
yesterday by the Zionist Organization to the Peace Conference, and we regard
them as moderate and proper." The boundaries of Palestine shall follow the
general lines set out below: Starting on the North at a point on the
Mediterranean Sea in the vicinity South of Sidon and following the watersheds
of the foothills of the Lebanon as far as Jisr el Karaon, thence to El Bire following
the dividing line between the two basins of the Wadi El Korn and the Wadi Et
Teim thence in a southerly direction following the dividing line between the
Eastern and Western slopes of the Hermon, to the vicinity West of Beit Jenn,
thence Eastward following the northern watersheds of the Nahr Mughaniye close
to and west of the Hedjaz Railway. In the East a line close to and West of the
Hedjaz Railway terminating in the Gulf of Akaba [will serve as the boundary];
in the South a frontier to be agreed upon with the Egyptian Government; in the
West the Mediterranean Sea. The details of the delimitations, or any necessary
adjustments of detail, shall be settled by a Special Commission on which there
shall be Jewish representation. Emir Faisel fought against the Turks alongside
T.E. Lawrence. Faisal was expecting to be able to control a Caliphate based in
Damascus. As we can see here, he had even worked out a plan with Chaim Weizmann
that would have allowed for the creation of a Jewish home in Palestine. Unfortunately,
the French, who controlled Syria after the war, drove Faisal from Damascus,
ending his power and the dream of peace 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;">1919(1st
of Adar II, 5679): Abraham (Albert) Antebi, head of the Alliance Israelite
Universelle in Constantinople passed away. He was born at Damascus in 1899.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919:
Illinois Democrat J. Hamilton “Ham” Lewis who as a Congressman had supported a
“proviso in the Balfour Declaration that Jews going to Palestine to live could
retain their original citizenship instead of automatically becoming British
subjects” and who as U.S. Senator led “a protest against the possible
transfer of American Jews from their present homes in Palestine to other parts
of the country” completed almost six years of service as Senate Majority Whip
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919:
Meyer London, one of only two members of the Socialist Party to be elected to
the U.S. House of Representatives completed his term representing the 12th
District of New York. He had defeated Henry M. Goldfogle, a Jew, for the seat
and Goldfogle returned the favor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920:
Arabs attacked Kfar Giladi forcing the settlers to abandon their land and take
refuge in “the Shia village of Taibe” before finding ultimate sanctuary at
Ayelet Hashahar, a kibbutz settled in 1915 during the Second Aliyah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921:
In Galveston, TX, “Russian Jewish immigrants Louis and Rose Paskowitz” gave
birth to Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz the graduate of Stanford University
School of Medicine who gave up his medical career to become “a professional
surfer.<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 Allen Ginsberg beat generation poet who received the Arts and Letters
Award in 1969.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922:
Birthdate of Richard S. Lazarus who was ranked as one of the “one hundred most
eminent psychologist of the 20<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;"><a href="https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/12/04_lazarus.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/12/04_lazarus.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922:
An Arab delegation “held a meeting…at the Hyde Park Hotel in London to denounce
Britain’s ‘Zionist policy.’” The Secretary of the delegation was reported to
have declared “the necessity of killing Jews if the Arabs did not get their
way.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922:
The schedules in the estate of Jacob H. Schiff, banker and philanthropist, who
died Sept. 25, 1920, prepared for submission to the State Tax Commission in the
inheritance tax proceeding to begin shortly, fix the value of the property to
be taxed in New York State at $35,257,008. The net estate on which the
executors estimate a tax will be fixed is $34,426,282.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5683): Parashat Tetzaveh; 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;">1923:
Mayer Jacobstein began serving his first term a Member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from New York’s 38<sup>th</sup> District.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923:
Meyer London completed his second, non-successive term as a member of the U.S.
House of Representatives representing New York’s 12th District. He was followed
in office by another Jewish politician, Samuel Dickstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923:
TIME magazine was published for the first time by Henry Luce. Jews connected
with America’s leading weekly news magazine have included managing editors
Henry Grunwald (1968–1977) and Walter Isaacson (1996–2000) and contributors Lev
Grossman, Joe Klein and Joel Stein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923:
Fifty-six-year-old Republican Milton Kraus completed his service as a member of
the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana’s 11<sup>th</sup> congressional
district.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924:
“Why Men Leave Home” a silent film directed by John M. Stahl and produced by
Louis B. Mayer 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;">1924:
Felix M. Warburg, a partner in Kuhn, Loeb, and Co. arrived in Jerusalem today
to begin a fact-finding mission as allowed under the terms of the British
Mandate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924(27<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5684): Eighty-year-old “author and communal worker” Lady Katie
Magnus, the Portland born wife of former MP Sir Phillip Magnus and the mother
of “Laurie Magnus, the editor of the London Jewish Guardian” 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;"><a href="https://www.jta.org/1924/03/03/archive/lady-katie-magnus-dies-at-age-of-eighty-years"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.jta.org/1924/03/03/archive/lady-katie-magnus-dies-at-age-of-eighty-years</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925:
“Salome of the Tenements” a silent film adapted to the screen by Sonya Levien
from the Anzia Yezierska novel produced by Jesse L. Lasky and Adolph Zukor and
co-starring Jetta Goudal 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;">1925:
Birthdate of Lodz native Zvicka Zarevsky who at the age of seven months made Aliyah
with his family and gained fame as IDF Major General Zvi Zamir who headed
Mossad for six 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://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/zvi-zamir">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/zvi-zamir</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5686): Sixty-six-year-old Sir Sidney Lee, born Solomon Lazarus Lee,
the editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and author who specialized
in the Elizabethan period and who was the brother of Elizabeth Lee passed away
today.<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://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Times/1926/Obituary/Sidney_Lee"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Times/1926/Obituary/Sidney_Lee</span></a></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-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclopædia_Britannica/Lee,_Sidney"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclopædia_Britannica/Lee,_Sidney</span></a><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://archive.org/details/alifewilliamsha04leegoog"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://archive.org/details/alifewilliamsha04leegoog</span></a></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-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
The Lenox Quartette performed “String Quartette” by Leopold Mannes at the New
York Public Library.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
Theatrical producer E. Ray Goetz returned to New York today on the line France
and said that his brother-in-law Irving Berlin and his bride the former Ellin
Mackay “are planning to make their home in London” at least until next fall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
“Important Jewish manuscripts, relics, early printed books, antiquities,
ceremonial objects and other items of Judaica” totaling 6,174 pieces “have been
purchased in Germany for the Hebrew Union College at Cincinnati and are now on
their way to “the United States” according to an announcement made today by Dr.
Adolph S. Oko, who has been in Europe for ten weeks working on the project.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
Dr. William Filderman of Bucharest, the President of the Union of Rumanian Jews
was met at the pier when his ship docked in New York by “a large delegation
from the American Branch Branch of the Union of Rumanian Jews headed by Leo
Wolf who heard the visitor say that while the “King depalored any anti-Semitic
feeling in Rumania…the situation of the Jews…was very bad” and that economic
help might be a remedy for their troubles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927:
After ten years, Senator William King who “declared…that he favored the United
States severing diplomatic relations with any country which failed because of
anti-Semitism to protect its Jewish nationals” and “expressed the belief that
eventually Palestine would be able to support a population of a million Jews”
completed his service as Secretary of the Senate Democratic Caucus today.<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 wooden hut of the former tenants of the railway station in Tel Shamam”
were brought to the hill of what became Kfar Yehoshua, a moshav in northern
Israel named in honor of Yehoshua Hankin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927:
Nathan David Perlman completed his service as a member of the U.S. House Representatives
from New York’s 14<sup>th</sup> District.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928:
A statement published today marking the passing of Max issued by Joseph C.
Hyman, Secretary of the Joint Distribution Committee closed by say “The annals
of the Joint Distribution Committee, as well as the record of American Jewry,
united in this great humanitarian effort to save rebuilt the lives of our
people across the sea, will for all time carry the name of his modest, simple,
devoted leader who gave of his very best to the causes which he served”<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 New York City, “Abraham Hyman and Ivy (Ernst) Resnick” gave birth to their
second daughter Bernice Resnick who gained fame as Bernice Sandler the holder
of a D.Ed. from the University of Maryland who was the driving force behind the
implementation of Title IX. (As reported by Katharine Q. Seelye)<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.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/obituaries/bernice-sandler-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/2019/01/08/obituaries/bernice-sandler-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">19291923:
Mayer Jacobstein completed his third and final term as a Member of the U.S.
House of Representatives from New York’s 38<sup>th</sup> District.<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 the Old City of Jerusalem, Rabbi Salman Eliyahu, a Jerusalem Kabbalist from
an Iraqi Jewish family and his wife Mazal gave birth to Rabbi Mordechai Tzemach
Eliyahu<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929:
“Discovery of written tablets and clay stoppers which bear the impression of
the archaic seals and are the oldest written documents at Ur of the Chaldes”
(the Biblical of home of Abraham) “was revealed” in Philadelphia “following
receipt of a report from the joint archaeological field expedition of the
University of Pennsylvania Museum and the British Museum.” (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;">1930:
U.S. premiere of “Madame Satan,” a “musical romantic comedy” co-starry Lillian
Roth (b. Lillian Rutstein)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5691): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931:
A special screening of “1914” directed and produced by Richard Oswald,
co-starring Reinhold Schunzel and filmed by cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum was
held today at the Reichstag.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932:
Judge Cutherbert W. Pound addressed Benjamin Cardozo on his last as Chief Judge
of the New York Court of Appeals saying of the man who was about to become a
U.S. Supreme Court Justice, “We shall miss not only the great Chief Judge whose
wisdom and understanding have added glory to the judicial office but all the
true man who has blessed us with the light of his friendship, the sunshine of
his smile.”<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 a unanimous opinion written by Chief Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo as his final
judicial act before taking his place on the United States Court bench, the
court held” today “that the issuance of a subpoena to Senator Hastings was
legal but that the efforts to penalize him were improperly conducted.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933:
Birthdate of Harry Oscar Triguboff, the native of Dalian whose parents had fled
from Russia to northeastern China after the Russian Revolution who became an
Australian billionaire residential property developer known as “high-rise
Harry.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933:
About a month after Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany and about a week
after the burring of the Reichstag 100 prisoners were taken to a school in the
small town of Norha near the city of Weimar. They were interrogated and sent
into three large rooms where they guarded by policemen and students from the
school. This was the start of Germany's first Concentration camp.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934:
“Heat Ligthning,” the film version of the Broadway play by the same name,
directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Samuel Bischoff 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;">1934:
At the 102<sup>nd</sup> Engineers Armory, the undefeated City College of New
York basketball team led by Abe Weissbrodt lost to the undefeated NYU team led
Willie Rubenstein.<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 New York native, Brandeis Alum and Harvard Ph. D Michael Walzer,
the Professor Emeritus for Advanced Study in Princeton who is the husband of
Judith Borodovko Walzer with whom he had two daughters – Saran Esther and
Rebecca Leah – and “older brother of historian Judith Walzer Leavitt.<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 Eva Kleinova who was transported from Prague in 1942 to Ujazdow
where she 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;">1936:
Paul Bekker, the former director of the Wiesbaden opera whom “officials said
‘favored Jews and showed Bolshevik opposition” was among those deprived of
their citizenship today by the German government. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
Funeral services are scheduled to take place at the family residence for Rabbi
Isaac Brill which will be attended by his four children – Jacques, Ray, Nellie
and Jessie Brill.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
Eighty-five Jewish refugees from Germany arrived in New York aboard the Cunard
White Star Line Berenaria.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
“Twenty-five more German intellectuals, led by Arnold Zweig” who “was denounced
as Jewish author” “were denationalized today by order of Dr. Frick in agreement
with…the Foreign Minister on the ground that they had violated their duty of
loyalty to 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;">1936:
It was announced today that “the United Palestine Appeal will be opened in New
York City” on March 4” with a tea at the Hotel Astor.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
A dispatch from Berlin “today reported that an agreement has been reached
between the German and Netherlands Governments enabling Netherlands citizens of
Jewish descent living in Germany to be repatriated with part of their capital
in order to be in a position to start anew in the Netherlands.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937:
Benjamin Winter announced today that “Professor Albert Einstein has accepted
the honorary chairmanship of the American Appeal for the Jews in Poland” which
is trying to raise one million dollars in the United States to provide relief
for destitute Polish Jews. (<span style="color: red;">Editor’s Note – Due to the
Shoah we often lose sight of the fact that during the 1930’s many countries in
Europe, including Poland, were in the grip of a virulent anti-Semitism that had
nothing to do with Hitler)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937:
In an address at the annual luncheon of the Women’s Division of the American
Jewish Congress, Fiorello La Guardia suggested that Hitler’s effigy be placed
in a chamber of horrors at the World’s Fair.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:
Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia. The connection with Jewish history should be
self-evident.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938(30th
of Adar I, 5698): 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;">1938:
Sholem (Samuel) Schwarzbard a Bessarabian-born Jewish poet and anarchist, known
primarily for the assassination of the Ukrainian nationalist leader Symon
Petliura who wrote poetry in Yiddish under the pen name of Baal-Khaloymes
(English: The Dreamer) passed away today in Cape Town, South Africa.<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://forward.com/articles/14428/when-france-embraced-a-jewish-avenger-/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://forward.com/articles/14428/when-france-embraced-a-jewish-avenger-/</span></a></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-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:
The Palestine Post reported from London that the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Ormsby
Gore, assured the House of Commons that Palestinian police, assisted by British
troops, were doing everything possible to contain the deeply seated and
widespread Arab terror.<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 Palestine Post reported that Yacoub Marata, an Arab police corporal, and
Alfred Koblenz, a Jewish constable, were shot and badly wounded by Arab
terrorists at a Haifa market.<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 Palestine Post reported that the Haifa Port inaugurated a new, extensive
cargo jetty.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
Cardinal Pace III, a long-time semi-supporter of the German government, became
Pope Pius XII. He was later greatly criticized for his passive acceptance of
the Final Solution.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
Thirty-three-year-old Jenny Marx who was caring for ailing parents wrote to her
younger brother Max who had taken refuge in Palestine today that, “It makes
little sense to you about the same subject over and over, yet there is nothing
else to write about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am so tired of
life that I have often wished it would end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In your case it is quie different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You are held in esteem, and you have a fantastic position, for which I
congratulate you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You enjoy life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my case all is finished. The tragedy with
our parents, the long separation from you, everybody loaded down with sorrows,
so interest in life is not great.” (Editor’s Note – In a decision that we might
not understand, men were thought to be a greater risk in the 3<sup>rd</sup> Reich,
so women stayed behind when family matters forced them to make such a decision.
Jenny’s engagement in April to Sigmund Mayer, “a plain workman, baker and
confection” brought her renewed hope.”<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 first contingent of about 500 Jews who had been expelled from Danzig left
early this morning for an unknown destination. In a departure marked by
“distressing farewell scenes” the contingent of men, women and children were
taken to a German railway station by a convoy of buses and trucks. There are
unconfirmed rumors that these homeless Jews will pass through Hungary to
Constanta, Romania where a ship is waiting to take them to Tel Aviv. The Jews
face the double whammy of the Nazis and the Arab inspired limits on Jewish
immigration to Eretz Israel since no valid visas are available for this
wretched contingent.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940:
When hundreds of Jewish women took to the streets of Tel Aviv today chanting
“anti-land law slogans,” the British military commander issued an order
imposing a total curfew that was scheduled to last for three days until.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941:
Ice cream parlor owner Ernst Cahn was executed by a Nazi firing squad today in
the Netherlands.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941(4th
of Adar, 5701): Adolph Schwartz died from a heart attack today at the age of
74. <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://epcc.libguides.com/content.php?pid=309255&sid=2604789"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://epcc.libguides.com/content.php?pid=309255&sid=2604789</span></a></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-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5702): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
“Thousands of members of the ZOA” are scheduled to “give defense stamps and
bonds” today “for Schalach Manos, in response to a plea made by Judge Louis E.
Leventhal.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
“An exhibition titled ‘Artists in Exile’” that included the works of Marc
Chagall “opened at the Pierre Matisse Gallery 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;">1943:
Today, all the men from Brive-la-Gaillarde, including Jua Blusztajn, were sent
to Drancy after which he was sent to Majdanek where his surviving family members
lost track of him and assume he died on a forced march to another camp.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943(26<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5703): Betty Diana Aarons passed away today after which she was
interred in the Rainham 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;">1943(26th
of Adar I, 5703): Judikje Simons, later Judikje Themans- Simons, died today at
Sobibor, together with her husband, Bernard, their five-year-old daughter
Sonja, and their three-year-old son Leon. Simons was one of six Jewish members
of the Dutch Ladies’ Gymnastic Team that won the Olympic title at Amsterdam in
1928, Simons, who ran an orphanage with her husband in the city of Utrecht that
housed 83 children, had apparently been warned that the Nazis were heading her
way, and was offered a hiding place by Dutch friends. However, Simons had no
intention of forsaking her orphans, sealing her fate, and that of almost all of
the children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944:
“The Iraqi Government today announced through the Arab News Agency that its
protest to Washington with regard to the Palestine resolution “has had
satisfactory results.” (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;">1944:
Birthdate of Yoram Jerrold Kessel, the South African born Israeli journalist
and correspondent who gain fame with American audiences as the CNN
correspondent reporting on the Middle East from Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944:
“The Jewish Agency for Palestine today announced that David Ben-Gurion,
chairman of its executive, has withdrawn his resignation and resumed work in
the Agency’s headquarters.” (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;">1944:
Birthdate of Fred Goldsmith “the 1992 Sports Illustrated National NCAA Football
Coach of the Year and the 1994 Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944:
Emir Abdullah Ibn Husseein, ruler of Transjordan…cabled a bitter protest to
President Roosevelt against the pending Senate resolution reaffirming United
States approval of Palestine as Jewish national homeland.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944:
Jermie Adler, a Jewish father of three who was hiding in village outside of
Liege, Belgium became so ill that he checked himself into a hospital today.
“While he was in the hospital, the Gestapo arrested his wife, two daughters,
and a nephew.” Only his oldest daughter survived 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;">1945:
The Jewish Infantry Brigade was activated as part of the British Army. Jewish
military groups fought with distinction during World War II. These soldiers
were drawn from the Yishuv - the Jewish community in what was then called
Palestine. At the end of the war, some of these soldiers participated in daring
rescue activities that brought survivors of the Holocaust from central Europe,
through Italy and eventually to ships bound for Palestine. Military training
gained by the Jewish troops proved useful when the Israelis converted from the
small military unit tactics of the pre-Independence period to the larger
operations necessary to defeat the invading armies they faced in 1948 and 1949.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945:
Eri Jabotinsky, son of the late Zionist Revisionist leader, Vladimir
Jabotinsky, was released after two days in custody for interrogation concerning
his “activities.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945:
Over two thousand Jews from Ebensee, a sub-camp of Mauthausen were sent from
Gross Rosen. Of them 49 died in the trains on the way and 182 more died upon
arrival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946:
The Union of American Hebrew Congregations, parent body of Reform Judaism in
the United States, was urged today by Dr. Maurice N. Eisendrath, executive
director, "to disassociate itself from dogmatic anti-Zionism."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946:
In an article about the appropriate ways to rehabilitate disabled WW II GI’s
published today, Dr. Howard Rusk reported that the number of “working-age
males, who are either unemployable or marginally employable because of
handicaps exceed, numerically, the Jewish population.” Such a comparison would
indicate that the average American knows how many Jews live 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;">1947:
Having left Poland for Paris in 1946 and Paris for the United States in
February 1947, future novelist Louis Begley and his family arrived in New York
City.<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://www.louisbegley.com/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.louisbegley.com/</span></a></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-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
The four hundred ton “motor ship Susanna” left Italy carrying 800 Jewish
refugees who hope to avoid the British blockade and find a home 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;">1947:
The Irgun gave proof to its announcement that open warfare exists between its
forces and the British by attacking British military installations in Haifa
with a barrage of 500 hand grenades.<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 Haganah accused the British of “deliberately destroying the Jewish economy”
by imposing martial law on “thousands of people who have nothing whatsoever to
do with terror or crime.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
Lieutenant General G.H.A. MacMillan announced that the word “terrorist” would
no longer be used to describe those Jews attacking the British in Palestine.
The term had acquired a sense of “glamour” which should not be ascribed to
people he said were no better than the gangsters from Al Capone’s Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
In New York City, Dr. Jacob and Maida (Seltzer) Bornstein gave birth to Tufts
University trained physician Harold Nelson Bornstein “who for a time was
President Donald J. Trump’s personal physician and who had attested that Mr.
Trump would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.” (As
reported by Katharine Q. Seelye)<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.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/nyregion/harold-bornstein-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/2021/01/14/nyregion/harold-bornstein-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
Lazar Kagnovich began serving as First Secretary of the Communist Party of
Ukraine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948:
“Black Bart,” a cowboy biopic filmed by cinematographer Irving Glassberg 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;">1948:
The executive board of the Parent-Teacher Association at DeWitt Clinton High
School registered their protest “again the banning of <u>Gentleman’s Agreement</u>
and Focus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948:
“Pleading for a supreme for effort at conciliation, Canada today called on the
five permanent members of the Security Council” – US, UK, USSR, France and
China – “to make a last-minute attempt to find an agreed solution to the
Palestine problem.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949:
“At the Theatre” published today provided a review of “Two Blind Mice” starring
Melvyn Douglas.<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="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A04E3D9123DE03ABC4B53DFB5668382659EDE"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A04E3D9123DE03ABC4B53DFB5668382659EDE</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949:
In Brooklyn, discount store owner and stock broker Israel Chernow and Ruth
Chernow, a bookkeeper gave birth to Pulitzer Prize winning historian and
biographer Ronald “Ron” Chernow whose subjects have included George Washington,
J.P. Morgan and Warburg family.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950(14th
of Adar, 5710): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950:
After having premiered in San Francisco, “Love Happy,” a Marx brothers musical
comedy 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:
In the San Fernando Valley, California, Elaine Edelman, and Jay Ziskin gave
birth to Laura Ziskin, the producer of “Spider Man” and “Pretty Woman.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950:
In Jordan, the cabinet has reportedly resigned because it was opposed to the
non-aggression pact which has been secretly negotiated with Israel. King
Abdullah is said to be the major supporter of the agreement.<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 New York City, “real estate developer Richard Zirinsky” and “Cynthia (nee
Finkelstein) Zirinsky, the founder of Gracie Square Hospital” gave birth to
American University graduate and long-time CBS journalist and producer Susan
Zirinsky who is now the President and Senior Executive Producer of CBS News <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.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/01/10/news-media-more-women-leaders-susan-zirinsky-cbs-news-president-column/2523913002/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/01/10/news-media-more-women-leaders-susan-zirinsky-cbs-news-president-column/2523913002/</span></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://variety.com/2019/tv/news/new-cbs-news-chief-susan-zirinsky-1203102819/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/new-cbs-news-chief-susan-zirinsky-1203102819/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Jerusalem Post</i> reported that
seven infiltrators from Jordan were killed in two separate incidents on Israeli
territory. The Soviet ambassador to Egypt, Semyon Kozirev, invited the former
mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini, to visit Moscow. The increased food
rations for Pesach included an extra 100 grams of meat, a welcome addition to
the monthly rate of 200 grams, and 290 grams of olive oil to every consumer.
(As you can see from this entry, even without the attacks from Arab terrorists
and the threat of attack from the surrounding Arab nations, the early settlers
of Israel had a rough time of it.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954:
“Rose Marie” an adaptation of the 1924 operetta with lyrics by Oscar
Hammerstein II with a script by George Froeschel and directed by Mervyn LeRoy
premiered in Chicago, Illinois 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(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5714): Sixty-four-year-old Ethel Weiner, the “daughter of Samson and
Mary (Miriam) Natleson and the husband of Meyer Weiner” who was active in
Jewish organizations including Hadassah while working as a public-school
teacher and principal passed away today in her native Brooklyn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956:
Morocco gained its independence from France. "One of the first actions of
the government was to order the Jewish agency to halt its emigration
activities."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956:
After 461 performances, the curtain came on the original Broadway production of
“Plain and Fancy” with a book co-authored by Joseph Stein and music by Albert
Hague in which Bea Arthur understudied for the role of “Ruth.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957(30th
of Adar I, 5717): Controversial Holocaust survivor Rudolf (Israel) Kastner, the
man who negotiated with Eichmann to save Hungarian Jews was shot by by Zeev
Eckstein, 24, a Holocaust survivor, and died of his injuries nine days later.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5718): Eighty-six-year-old Joseph Emanuel, the son of Elizabeth and
George Joseph Emanuel and the husband of Ethel Emanuel 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;">1959:
Birthdate of Ira Glass, host of public radio’s “This American Life.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960:
U.S. premiere of Home From the Hill with a screenplay by Irving Ravetch, the
son of a rabbi and his wife Harriet Frank, Jr.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5721): 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;">1961:
Hassan II becomes King of Morocco who would play a positive role in relations
with Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962:
Art Heyman led Duke to victory over South Carolina in the ACC tournament
semi-finals. (As reported by Bob Wechsler)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1963(7<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5723): Today, in Rishon LeZion the foundation stone for Kiryas Kaliv
was laid on “the yahrtzeit of Grand Rabbi Yitzchak Isak Taub.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964:
It was reported today that “Jerome I. Udell, the 66-year-old chairman of Max
Udell Sons & Co., Inc.—manufacturer of Gramercy Park suits and Blacker
Bros. sport jackets — has retired and sold his interest in the company” which “marks
the end of his family’s dominance of the company which was founded by his
father, Max, in 1886 as a clothing contractor.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5726): 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;">1966:
“The Lion in Winter” a play depicting the lives of Henry II and his wife
Eleanor written by James Goldman opened on Broadway at the Ambassador Theatre. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967:
The Second International Conference of High Energy and Nuclear Structures is scheduled
to come to an end today the Weizman Institute at Rehovot, Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967:
Stan Lee was a special guest on WBAI’s broadcast of “Will Success Spoil
Spiderman?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968:
Birthdate of Scott David Radinsky, the native of Glendale, CA who spent eleven
years in the majors as a pitcher and pursued a career as a “punk rocker.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968:
Iraqi Prime Minister, Tahir Yahya, instituted a law that impoverished the Jews.
"Jews couldn't sell their cars or furniture. All licenses given to Jewish
pharmacists were canceled" and their pharmacies were ordered to close.
"All commercial officers in Baghdad had to dismiss their Jewish employees.
Muslim owned businesses were warned not to engage in commerce with Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5729): Fast Esther; e’rev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969:
In a Los Angeles, California court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed
presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy. According to his diaries, he killed
Kennedy because he was a supporter 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;">1970:
Thirty-two “local, independent groups in the U.S. join together to create the
Union of Councils for Soviet Jews…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970:
Gabriel Oliver Koppell “was elected an Independent to the New York State
Assembly.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971:
After opening on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre, today “Man of La Mancha”
a musical adaptation of Dale Wasserman’s “non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don
Quixote” with music by Mitch Leigh moved to the Eden Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5732): Seventy-seven-year-old Rabbi Morris Silverman, best known for
the creation of the black book affectionately known as the “Silverman Prayer
Book” 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;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/03/04/79426170.pdf"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/03/04/79426170.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5733): Parashat Vayakehl; 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;">1973:
Senator Guy Gillette passed away. While serving in the Senate during World War
II, Gillette spoke out in favor of caring for the Jewish refugees in Europe and
in favor of Jewish aspirations in Palestine. After he lost his bid for
re-election he served as “president of the American League for a Free
Palestine, serving until the Committee's work ended with the establishment of
the state of Israel in 1948.” [Why a senator from Iowa, a state with a
miniscule Jewish population, would adopt such views is a mystery awaiting
further study.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5732): Eighty-nine-year-old Carrie Sanger Shaw, the Waco, TX born
daughter of Samuel and Hannah Heller Sanger and the wife of Alfred Tennyson
Godshaw whom she married in 1907 and with whom she had one child, Elva Sanger
Godshaw Levy who was part of the family that founded Sanger Brother’s
Department Store, passed away today after which she was buried in Hebrew Rest
Cemetery in Waco.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5734): Fifty-eight-year-old Bernard Phillips, the native of
Minneapolis who earned PhD at Yale and became a Professor of Philosophy and
Religion 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:
In Jerusalem, the three day long annual meeting of the International –Catholic
Jewish Liaison Committee 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;">1977(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5737): Fast of Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk65522154"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5737):
Fifty-six-year-old “Herman Ausubel, a Columbia University history professor and
an authority on Victorian England” and who was associated with Columbia as a
student and teacher for thirty-seven years” while raising two sons – Kenneth
and Jesse -- with “his wife, the former Anne Weisinger” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65522154;"></span><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1977/03/04/75043138.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65522154;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1977/03/04/75043138.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65522154;"></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;">1978:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Jerusalem Post</i> reported from
Washington that US President Jimmy Carter warned that “the abandonment” of UN
Resolution 242 by any of the parties in the Middle East “would put us back many
months or years.” Observers, however, noted that on the eve of the expected
Carter-Begin summit meetings, the American position on many issues was seen to
be much more supportive of Egypt than of Israel. In Jerusalem, the 91-year-old
Notre Dame Hospice, uninhabited for years, had quietly begun a new life as a
modern hostel for pilgrims.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978(24<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5738): Seventy-two-year-old “American industrial psychologist,
executive, civil rights leader, and philanthropist” Alfred J. Marrow 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;"><a href="http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/34/11/1109/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/34/11/1109/</span></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:
In “Tens of Thousands of People Attend Funeral of Yigal Allon” Yitzhak Shargil
described the final ceremony honoring the fallen Israeli leader.<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="http://archive.jta.org/article/1980/03/03/2986837/tens-of-thousands-of-people-attend-funeral-of-yigal-allon"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://archive.jta.org/article/1980/03/03/2986837/tens-of-thousands-of-people-attend-funeral-of-yigal-allon</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981:
Israeli planes raided Palestinian positions northeast of Tyre today, according
to the Lebanese radio. The raid came a day after rockets from Lebanese
territory struck several homes in the Galilee town of Qiryat Shemona today,
wounding three people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981(27<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5741): Eighty-three-year-old Hugh Harris the educator and journalist
who was the brother of Leslie Julius Harris and the son Rabb John Solomon
Harris 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;">1983(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5743): Fifty-six-year-old psyhciatrist Victor Jerome Teichner, the New
York born son of “William Isiah and Sonya Clare (Breitman) Teichner, husband of
Gail W. Berry and member of the U.S. Naval Reserve who earned his MD at Temple
and his certification in psychoanalytic medicine at Columbia 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;">1983(18th
of Adar, 5743): Seventy-seven-year-old Hungarian born author Arthur Koestler,
two of whose more famous works were <u>Darkness at Noon</u> and <u>Thirteenth
Tribe</u>, which highlighted his view of the role the Khazars played in the
life of European Jewry, and his wife died today in the United Kingdom,
apparently having committed suicide in response to their declining health.<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://spartacus-educational.com/SPkoestler.htm"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://spartacus-educational.com/SPkoestler.htm</span></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://spartacus-educational.com/SPkoestler.htm"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://spartacus-educational.com/SPkoestler.htm</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985(10<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5745): Seventy-one-year-old Sándor Scheiber who served as director
of the Rabbinical Seminary in Budapest from 1950 until his death 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:
After “767 performances and 37 previews” the curtain came down on the original
Broadway production of “My One and Only” a George and Ira Gershwin musical.<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 final performance of a revival of “Jubilee” a musical with a book by Moss
Hart is scheduled take place at the Town Hall 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;">1987(2nd
of Adar, 5747): Multi-talented performer Danny Kaye passed away. Born David
Kominsky in 1913, the red-headed comedian and vocalist enjoyed success in a
variety of entertainment formats. His hit movies included The Secret Life of
Walter Mitty and Hans Christian Andersen. He also starred in his own television
variety show. He used his fame for the betterment of mankind serving as a
champion for UNICEF when that organization was dedicated to the welfare of the
world's children without consideration to politics. (As reported by Eric Pace)<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://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/04/obituaries/danny-kaye-limber-limbed-commedian-dies.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/04/obituaries/danny-kaye-limber-limbed-commedian-dies.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm</span></a></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-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987:
Israeli Air Force Colonel Aviem Sella was indicted today for his alleged role
in the Pollard spy operation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5748): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5748): Sixty-nine-year-old Polish-born Mexican violinist Henryk
Szeryng who donated his Stradivarius “King David” violin to Jerusalem in 1972
in honor of 25 years of Israeli independence 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;">1988:
Today the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and the American Jewish
Committee protested the designation of Dr. Inamullah Khan, secretary general of
the Pakistan-based World Moslem Congress, as the winner of the $369,000
Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion because he has been associated with
anti-Semitic and anti-Israel causes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991(17th
of Adar, 5751): Arthur Murray passed away at the age of 95. Born Arthur
Teichman, Murray became "America's dance instructor" through a string
of dance studios and a hit television show featuring his wife and partner,
Catherine. (As reported by Eric Pace)<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="http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/04/obituaries/arthur-murray-dance-teacher-dies-at-95.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/04/obituaries/arthur-murray-dance-teacher-dies-at-95.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991:
As the war with Iraq came to an end Air France is scheduled to resume service
to 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;">1991:
“THEATER; Music? Lyrics? He Can Get Them for You” published today described the
career of Harold Rome<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="http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/03/theater/theater-music-lyrics-he-can-get-them-for-you.html?pagewanted=print"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/03/theater/theater-music-lyrics-he-can-get-them-for-you.html?pagewanted=print</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993(10th
of Adar, 5753): Albert Sabin passed away at the age of 86. Born in 1903, Sabin
developed an oral polio vaccine which supplanted the earlier Salk Vaccine. <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.sabin.org/legacy-albert-b-sabin"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.sabin.org/legacy-albert-b-sabin</span></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="http://www.polioplace.org/people/albert-b-sabin-md"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.polioplace.org/people/albert-b-sabin-md</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993:
“American Samurai,” a “martial arts action film directed by Polish born,
Jerusalem raised American filmmaker Sam Firstenberg 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;">1994(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5754): Seventy-six-year-old actor, director and WW II veteran Ezra
Stone, the New Bedford, MA born son of Mr. and Mrs. Sol Feinstone and husband
of Sara Seegar who was best known for his role as adolescent “Henry Aldridge”
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;">1995:
“Roommates” a comedy based on a story by Max Apple who co-wrote the screenplay,
with music by Elmer Bernstein and starring Peter Falk 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;">1995:
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb's <u>She Who Dwells Within</u>, which she describes as
"a practical guide to nonsexist Judaism," was published. In 2004,
Gottlieb left the pulpit to become director of a California organization
dedicated to interfaith work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995:
Steven T. Katz, “the man chosen to lead the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum resigned today “citing recent news reports over his misrepresentation of
his scholarly accomplishments and a violation of leave policy while a faculty
member at Cornell University.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5756): In Jerusalem a Palestinian terrorist boarded a No. 18 bus,
detonated an explosive belt murdering 19 people and wounding another seven.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996
(12th of Adar, 5756): Ninety-one-year-old Dr. Meyer Schapiro, university
professor emeritus at Columbia University, multi-disciplinary critic and
historian, galvanic teacher, lifelong radical and for more than 50 years a
pre-eminent figure in the intellectual life of New York, died at the Greenwich
Village house that had been his home for more than 60 years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997:
In “Where We Stand,” Albert Shanker said "Public schools played a big role
in holding our nation together. They brought together children of different
races, languages, religions, and cultures and gave them a common language and a
sense of common purpose. We have not outgrown our need for this; far from it.<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 beheld at the Beth El Cemetery in New Jersey
for Irving Hirsch, the husband of the former Gene Braunstein, Z”L.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998(5<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5758): Eighty-two-year-old Fred Friendly, the CBS broadcast executive
who teamed with Edward R. Morrow to make television news a meaningful part of
the 20<sup>th</sup> century 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;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/05/arts/fred-w-friendly-cbs-executive-and-pioneer-in-tv-news-coverage-dies-at-82.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/05/arts/fred-w-friendly-cbs-executive-and-pioneer-in-tv-news-coverage-dies-at-82.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999:
Today 1999, during Barbara Walters interview with Monica Lewinsky which was
seen by a record 74 million viewers, the highest rating ever for a news program,
“Walters asked Lewinsky, "What will you tell your children when you have
them?" to which Lewinsky replied, "Mommy made a big mistake," at
which point Walters brought the program to a dramatic conclusion, turning to
the viewers and saying, "... that is the understatement of the year.:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000:
“Love in A Thirsty Land” by Alan Glass was presented by the Jewish Repertory
Theatre at Playhouse 91 in Yorkville.<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.nytimes.com/2000/03/03/movies/theater-review-voyagers-far-from-home-lose-their-moral-compass.html?searchResultPosition=1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/03/movies/theater-review-voyagers-far-from-home-lose-their-moral-compass.html?searchResultPosition=1</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000:
The exhibition “Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture, 1890-1918” is on
display at the Jewish Museum 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;">2000(26<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5760): Eighty-six-year-old Polish born Shoshana Shifris, the wife of
Ovid Shifriss passed away today after which she was buried at Floral Park
Cemetery in South Brunswick, NJ><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000:
Israelis authorities killed three terrorists in “Taibah an Israeli Arab town
southeast of Nazareth, where authorities said a group of at least five Islamic
militants from the Gaza Strip were preparing explosives for use in Israeli
cities.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5761): Parashat Terumah 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;">2001(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5761): Ninety-one-year-old Deborah (Pessin) Margolis, the widow of Dr.
Benjamin D. Margolis 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;">2002:
<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>Summer in Baden-Baden</u> by Leonid Tsypkin; translated by Roger
Keys and Angela Keys and <u>Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic
Billionaire</u> by Michael T. Kaufman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5762: Capt. Ariel Hovav (25), Lt.(res.) David Damelin (29), 1st
Sgt.(res.) Rafael Levy (42), Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Avraham Ezra (38), Sgt.-Maj.(res.)
Eran Gad (24), Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Yochai Porat (26), Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Kfir Weiss
(24), Sergei Birmov (33), Vadim Balagula (32) and Didi Yithak (66) were
murdered by Fatah terrorists at an IDF roadblock.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003:
Natan Sharansky began serving as Jerusalem Affairs Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004:
“Arab governments, suspicious that the Bush administration plans to give
priority to changing how the region is ruled rather than solving the
Arab-Israeli conflict, began thrashing over a joint position today to counter
any such American initiative.” (As reported by Neil MacFarquhar)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005(22nd
of Adar I, 5765): Max M. Fisher, the Detroit oil and real estate magnate known
for his philanthropy and for the advice he gave Republican presidents on the
Middle East and Jewish issues, passed away at his home in Franklin, a Detroit
suburb at the age of 96. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/national/04fisher.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/national/04fisher.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006(3rd
of Adar, 5766): William Herskovic who was a Holocaust survivor and humanitarian
passed away at the age of 91. His escape from Auschwitz in 1942 and early
eyewitness testimony inspired Belgium's opposition to Nazi Germany during World
War II and alerted the Resistance to the atrocities that were taking place in
the concentration camps. Because of Herskovic's escape and testimony, hundreds
of lives were saved. Herskovic is also the founder of Bel Air Camera, a
veritable landmark in Los Angeles, which he established in 1957, and has
received numerable awards for his philanthropy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5766): Eighty-three-year-old “Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist
Ivor Cutler (born Isadore Cutler) 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;"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4781980.stm"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4781980.stm</span></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="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/mar/07/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/mar/07/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries</span></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.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1512258/Ivor-Cutler.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1512258/Ivor-Cutler.html</span></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="http://www.ivorcutler.org/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.ivorcutler.org/</span></a><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 Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007:
In the evening, Jews fulfill the mitzvah of hearing the Megillah as Purim
begins<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008:
This evening, Israel pulled its troops out of the Gaza Strip marking the end of
operation Hot Winter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008:
Agudas Achim, the Shulman Hillel and Chabad Lubavitch of Iowa City sponsor “An
Evening in Tribute to Michael Balch” (devoted member of the Iowa City Jewish
Community and Professor Emirtus of Economics at Iowa University) featuring an
address by Rabbi Dov Greenberg from Stanford University entitled “Death and
Afterlife in Judaism.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008(26<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5768): Eighty-six-year-old artist William Brice the son of Fannie
Brice and Nick Arnstein passed away today in California.<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="http://www.lalouver.com/resource/brice_bio/brice_obituary.pdf"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.lalouver.com/resource/brice_bio/brice_obituary.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
David Polonsky discusses “Waltz With Bashir” at the Society of Illustrators.
David Polonsky is the art director and chief illustrator for Waltz With Bashir,
written, produced and directed by Ari Folman. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents a lecture by Dr. David Berger,
author of The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference,
entitled “The Lubavitcher Rebbe as Messiah: Turning Point in Judaism?” in which
he will examine whether the Lubavitch messianic movement represents a
fundamental transformation of Judaism or is merely a passing development of
little moment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
<u>The Believers</u>, Zoë Heller’s latest novel appears in American bookstores.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
Hillary Clinton makes her first visit to Israel as Secretary of State meeting
with a variety of Israeli leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
A press release issued today confirmed that Julius Genachowski was President
Obama’s choice to serve as Chairman of the Federal Communication Commission.<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 Jewish Women's Archive’s tour of Santa Fe 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;">2010:
Israeli musicians Asaf Avidan &amp;cellist Hadas Kleinman of Asaf Avidan
and the Mojos leading rock/folk band are scheduled to perform at the City
Winery 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;">2010:
In Columbus, Ohio, Congregation Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host
“Interfaith Study of Genesis” in conjunction with First Congregational Church
and Noor Islamic Center.<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 years of drought-like conditions that saw the water level of the Dead Sea
plummet by 15 meters, this winter the water level rose by 8 centimeters, the
Water Authority 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;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2010: Canadian businessman and Brandeis
graduate Leonard Asper stepped down as Canwest CEO 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:
A documentary entitled “Harlan – In the Shadow of ‘Jew Suss’” opened today in
Manhattan<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://movies.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/movies/03harlan.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/movies/03harlan.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"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
The Wiener Library, “the world’s oldest Holocaust memorial institution,” is
scheduled to sponsor an exclusive gala fund-raising event that will feature a
recital by Andras Schiff and a talk by Misha Aster about the Berlin
Philharmonic under the Third Reich.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
Amit Peled and Dina Vainshtein are scheduled to perform at Symphony Space 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;">2011:
Today Prime Minister Netanyahu met with White House senior advisor Dennis Ross,
who is in the country with a team of Middle East experts – including Fred Hoff
and Mara Rudman from US envoy George Mitchell's team – for talks. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011:
Today, Canadian Historian Catherine Chatterley, who has said that “the
accusation that Zionism is racist and imperialist by nature is as old as
Israel” wrote an editorial for the National Post outlining the history of
Israel Apartheid Week and its relationship to the BDS movement<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 7<sup>th</sup> Annual Charlotte, NC Jewish Film Festival 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;">2011(28th
of Adar I, 5771): Holocaust survivor Gina Borchardt Nencel passed away today in
Israel at the age of 100.<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 “Yankees remember late baseball author Harvey Dorfman” Marc Carig described
the impact that the Jewish sports psychologist had on the National Pastime.<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="http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2011/03/yankees_remember_late_baseball.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2011/03/yankees_remember_late_baseball.html</span></a><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 conference entitled "One State Conference: Israel/Palestine and the
One-State Solution” hosted by Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government
is scheduled to open in Cambridge Mass.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
“Mahler on the Couch” is scheduled to be shown at the Denver Jewish Film
Festival sponsored by the Mizel Arts and Culture Center<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
“Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women” at Florida Atlantic
University’s Jewish Kultur Festival in Boca Raton, Fl.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
“Camera Obsucra” is schedule to be shown at Temple Beth Israel’s Fresno Jewish
Film Festival in Fresno, 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:
“Ahead of Time” is scheduled to be shown at Congregation Beth Israel Judea in
San Francisco, 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:
“Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg” is scheduled to be shown at Congregation Kerem Shalom
in Concord, MA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
“My Name is Asher Lev,” Aaron Posner’s dramatic adaptation of Chaim Potok’s
novel of the same name is scheduled to have its final performance tonight at
the Westside Theatre.<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 Maccabeats are scheduled to perform at West Side Institutional Synagogue<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 evening concert is scheduled tonight as part of the Preliminary Program for
Jewish Music in New Orleans hosted by Tulane University.<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 AIPAC Policy Conference is scheduled to open 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;">2013:
Rebekka Helford and Bruce Bierman are scheduled to lead the Klezmer Jam Session
and Dance at The Talking Stick in Venice, CA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
A young couple expecting their first child was on their way to a hospital early
Sunday when the car they were riding in was hit, killing them both, but their
baby boy was born prematurely and survived, authorities said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to Washington, opened the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference with an appeal for
pro-Israel outreach to African Americans, Latinos and Muslims, and others.<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 “The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking.” Eric Lichtblau lets us know that the
worst event in Jewish history was even worse than we had thought it was.<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="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/sunday-review/the-holocaust-just-got-more-shocking.html?hp"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/sunday-review/the-holocaust-just-got-more-shocking.html?hp</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:<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>Russ
& Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Hearing Built</u>
by Mark Russ Federman the grandson of the founder who made each trip to his
store a most memorable occasion for two Jews from Iowa.<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 New York City, the City Winery is scheduled to host a Kosher Wine Tasting<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5773): Ninety-one-year-old Abe Baum the leader of ill-fated Task Force
Baum in WW II 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="http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-abe-baum-20130324,0,4017206.story#axzz2ullGs3ON"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-abe-baum-20130324,0,4017206.story#axzz2ullGs3ON</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 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar II, 5774): 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;">2014(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar II, 5774): Eighty-three-year-old physician and author Sherwin B Nuland
passed away today. (As reported by Denise Gellene)<o:p></o:p></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="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/us/sherwin-b-nuland-author-who-challenged-concept-of-dignified-death-dies-at-83.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=0"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/us/sherwin-b-nuland-author-who-challenged-concept-of-dignified-death-dies-at-83.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=0</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 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: “Women of the
Wall founder Bonna Devora Haberman attended a Women of the Wall prayer 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;">2014: The HEA
All-Judaic & Israeli Art and Jewelry Festival is scheduled to take place in
Denver, CO.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: David Broza is
scheduled to appear in concert at the AIPAC Policy 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;">2014: “Master of a
Good Name” and “Nothing Old About This Testament” are scheduled to be shown at
the 24<sup>th</sup> 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;">2014: Shelter
Studious is scheduled to host a reading of “Suddenly a Knock at the Door” by
Robin Goldin based on stories by Etgar Keret<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: In London, JW3
is scheduled to co-sponsor a showing of “Flash 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;">2014: Senator John
McCain, US Secretary Jack Lew and Senator Chuck Shumer addressed the AIPAC
Policy Confernece with each of them using the “Jewish issues” to promote their
American domestic political agenda – a point that apparently was lost to the
attendees who mistake pandering for 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;">2014: “Israeli
aircraft fired at Gaza terrorists (mortally wounding one) as they were
preparing to launch rockets at southern 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;">2014: “France’s Jews
demand the election of new chief rabbi (the post had been filled by two interim
chief rabbis since April 2013), in a letter that cites the need of a leader “to
express the voice of Judaism during the difficult period we are experiencing.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Some 20 Israelis who were making their way to India today found themselves for
a short time in Tehran<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 two hours this morning, students at Oxford (UK) are scheduled to have a
chance to make hamantaschen while raising money for The Gatehouse and Camp
Simcha.<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 a display of cultural diversity, the Jewish Community Center of Northern
Virginia is scheduled to offer programs on “Jews in Sports” and “The Evolution
of the Passover Seder.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Marc Caplan, 2014-15 Cahnman Senior Scholar at CJH, is scheduled to present his
groundbreaking research on Jewish modernity in conjunction with a screening of
Arnold Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron 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;">2015:
Having created crisis atmosphere in relations between Israel and the United
States Prime Minister delivered a speech to a joint session of Congress where
he “argued that the proposed nuclear deal being negotiated with Iran will lead
inexorably to a nuclear-armed Iran and war in the Middle East.” (JTA)<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;">2016:
“Remember” directed by Atom Egoyan is scheduled to be shown for the last time
at the UK 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:
JCC Manhattan is scheduled to host “Shulamit, a new opera with music and
libretto by Dina Pruzhansky”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Strong ties between Israel and US will be needed to confront the “instability
in the region,” according to Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr., who met in Tel Aviv” today. (As
reported by Judah Ari Gross)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
Screening of Three Episodes of the Israeli TV Show Fauda is scheduled to take
place at <span style="color: black;">the Ninth Annual Ring Family Wesleyan
University Israeli Film Festival. <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;">2017: Fifty-one-year-old author Amy Krouse Rosenthal “announced
that she was terminally ill with ovarian cancer, by way of a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i> "Modern Love"
essay” which “was in the form of a dating profile for her husband Jason, to
help him remarry after her death.”<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;">2017: Today thirty-one-year-old Juan Thompson of St. Louis, “a
reporter for a news website was charged on Friday with making more than a
half-dozen bomb threats against Jewish community centers, schools and a Jewish
history museum, federal authorities 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;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2017: “Hautey: Memory of
Fire” “a new Yiddish opera composed by iconic Klexmatics trumpeter Frank
London” “based on an epic poem written in 1931…by Oscar Pinis” is scheduled to
have its inaugural performance in Havana, Cuba. <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;">2017: Penultimate day for New Yorkers and out of town visitors to
view “State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda” on view at the United
Nations headquarters.<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;">2017:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Oxford University
Jewish Society is scheduled to host Shabbat evening dinner.<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;">2018(16 of Adar, 5778): Parashat Ki Tissa. <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;">2018: Tonight, as part of seventy-five-year-old Sixto Rodriguez’s
“latest American tour played a solo concert for a full house of several hundred
at Washington, DC’s historic 6<sup>th</sup> and I Synagogue”<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.timesofisrael.com/down-the-street-from-aipac-sugar-man-rodriguez-plays-a-shul-muses-over-trump/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=af8efb3183-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-af8efb3183-53921877"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.timesofisrael.com/down-the-street-from-aipac-sugar-man-rodriguez-plays-a-shul-muses-over-trump/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=af8efb3183-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-af8efb3183-53921877</span></a><span style="color: black;"><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;">2018: Jack and Jennifer Benjamin, Jr.,John Haspel and Amy
Gainsburgh-Haspel and Rob and Pamela Steeg are scheduled to be honored this
evening in New Orleans at Temple Sinai’s Spring Gala.<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;">2018: Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan is scheduled to perform this
evening at the 92<sup>nd</sup> Street Y.<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;">2019: The American Jewish Historical Society, the Center for
Jewish History and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research are scheduled to
present a “a screening of the 1923 silent classic ‘East and West’” as part of
the celebration of the “121<sup>st</sup> birthday of Molly Picon.”<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;">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 style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In suburban Chevy Chase, MD, Ohr Kodesh is scheduled to host
the “First Maryland Jewish Choral Festival.”<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;">2019: “The 24<sup>th</sup> East Bay International Jewish Film
Festival” is scheduled to host screenings of “Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good
Deeds: The Conductor Zubin Mehta,” “A Bag of Marbles” and “Almost Famous.” <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;">2019: At the JCC of Northern Virginia, the ReelAbilities Film
Festival is scheduled to host a screening of Director Rachel Israel’s “Keep the
Change.”<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;">2019: In San Francisco, the Jewish Community Library is scheduled
to host author Shostak as he discusses his latest book <u>Stealth Altruism.</u><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.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/stealth-altruism"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/stealth-altruism</span></a><span style="color: black;"><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;">2019: At today’s session of the Jewish Book Festival, Aureillia
Young is scheduled to discuss Finding Nemon, her biography about her father,
sculptor Oscar Nemon,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“with cultural
historian Patrick Bade.” <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;">2020: “At the concert celebrating the cultural melting pot of New
York, Israeli composer/pianist Dina Pruzhansky is scheduled to present a
segment from her Hebrew opera 'Shulamit', while perform her piano solo piece,
dedicated to 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;">2020: The Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to host Dan Abrams as he
discusses his newest work, <u>John Adams Under Fire<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: The Taube Center for Jewish Students at Stanford University
is scheduled to host Professor Ilana Pardes as she discusses her latest book, <u>The
Song of Songs: A Biography</u>,<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;">2020: The JCC Chicago Film Festival is scheduled to host a
screening of “The Last Supper,” that tells the story of a Jewish family in
Germany gathered for dinner on the day Hitler came to power.<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;">2020: At a time when we are seeing a spike in anti-Semitic
outbreaks, Democratic voters are scheduled to go to the polls for Super Tuesday
where the leading candidate is Senator Sanders and where former Mayor Bloomberg
will actually be on the ballot for the first time which should tell us
something about the impact of his ads, money and decision to skip the first
four “small” electoral events. <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;">2020: The JCC Sonoma Country is scheduled to host a screening of a
“Flawless” on the opening night of the Israeli Film Festival.<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;">2020: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a
shiru conducted by Rabbi Jeremy Gordon from New London Synagogue followed by
dinner and “the Yachad talk.”<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;">2020: Israelis find out today, if the exit poll information was
accurate and that Prime Minister Netanyahu holds on to his job.<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;">2021: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present
“The Jews of Iran and Rabbinic Literature: New Perspectives with Daniel Tsadik”
as part of “New Works Wednesdays.”<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;">2021: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host op-ed NYT
columnist Charles Blow, author of Fire Shut Up in My Bones in a discussion
about ending “white supremacy” moderated by Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson.<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;">2021: The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to host Rav
Avida Tabory who “will explore the Halachic issues with Cohanim serving in the
army.”<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;">2021: Cleveland Jewish News Arts and Entertainment Columnist Bob
Abelman, author of All the World Is a Stage Fright, is scheduled to be “featured
in an author talk plus question-and-answer session at the Jewish Community
Center of Greater Columbus bookfair<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;">2021: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present Eliyana
R. Adler (Penn State University) in conversation with Debórah Dwork (The
Graduate Center, CUNY) about her book, <u>Survival on the Margins</u> which
tells the forgotten story of 200,000 Polish Jews who escaped the Holocaust as
refugees stranded in remote corners of the USSR.<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;">2021: In collaboration with Table Magazine, Asylum Arts and
Meislin Projects are scheduled to have organized a “special Pre-Passover
Art/Break exploring The Passover Haggadah: An Ancient Story for Modern Times
illustrated by Shai Azoulay” who “will be in conversation with Tablet
Editor-in-Chief Alana Newhouse.”<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;">2021: In London, the Highgate Synagogue is scheduled to host via
Zoom a meeting of the Book Club which will be discussing Golden Hill by Francis
Spufford.<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;">2021: The Consulate General of Israel in New York is scheduled to
host “a conversation between Academy Award Winner Guy Nattiv (Skin) and Tomer
Shushan, director of White Eye, shortlisted in the 93rd Academy Awards® Live
Action Short category.”<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;">2021: As part of Jewish Book Week, Aviva and Jacqueline Saphra,
the author of Veritas: Poems After Artemisia are scheduled to explore, “with
conversation and readings, what it means to be a Jewish woman poet.”<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;">2021:<span style="background: white;"> Following study published
yesterday by the military intelligence task force in the Health Ministry,
people who had been ill should receive a coronavirus vaccine three months after
they recovered, Israel is scheduled to continue vaccinating recovering patients
against recurring illness today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: Oren Segal, VP of the ADL Center on
Extremism is scheduled to host “a special edition of the ADL’s Fight Hate from
Home webinar series to discuss alarming incidents of antisemitic and white
supremacist propaganda from coast to coast.”<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: Playwright and author Harvey Fierstein is
scheduled to discuss his memoir <u>I Was Better Last Night</u> which tells the
story of his move “from Bensonhurst to Broadway” at the Streicker Center.<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: David Winitsky, the founder of the and
Executive Artistic Director of the Jewish Play Project is scheduled to moderate
an event today where attendees can “meet several of the finalists from this
year’s Jewish Plays Project.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #232333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: “The Americans and the Holocaust
traveling exhibition” is scheduled to which opened in January is scheduled to
have its last showing at the Chattanooga Public Library in Chattanooga, TN.<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: Kan Kol Hamuskia is scheduled to broadcast,
live” a special concert featuring “Maestro Jeffry Swann.”<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: In Israel the police are investigating the
incident that resulted in two brothers and their sister, aged 3, 4, and 8,
respectively, being fatally injured yesterday morning when they were hit by a
car in the Shuafat refugee camp of East Jerusalem. (TOI)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: Yeshiva is
scheduled to present the last exhibition tours o “The Golden Path: Maimonides
Across Eight Centuries.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: “At The
Breman Museum, The Vega String Quartet-in-Residence at Emory University is
scheduled to present "Music of Jewish Composers.”<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 host a “Walking Tour of the Lower
East Side.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: Temple
Sinai Annual Gala at The Pavilion of the Two Sisters at City Park, featuring
Cantor Rebecca Garfein and her captivating one-woman show, Cantorful! Is scheduled
to take place today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: “In
conjunction with Adrienne Ottenberg's ongoing exhibition, the Museum at
Eldridge Street is scheduled to host a panel discussion moderated by Remember
the Triangle Fire Coalition Vice President Rose Imperato, with historians and
Coalition members Andi Sosin and Kevin Baker. Adrienne Ottenberg will join
these esteemed speakers, and together we will mark 113 years since the March
1911 Fire</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The 2024 Atlanta Jewish Life Festival is scheduled to take place at the Georgia
Aquarium.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
3<sup>rd</sup> begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held
hostages begin day 149 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; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">117(12th
of Adar, 3877):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the rebellion by
Disapora Jews against the Roman Empire of Trajan came to an unsuccessful close,
two Jewish brothers who had been leaders in the revolt, Pappus and Julianus
were executed at Laodicea in Syria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Trajan did not get to savor his victory since he died in 117.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately for the Jews he was followed by
Hadrian who was even crueler than his predecessor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">986:
Louis V becomes King of the Franks. Louis was the last of the Carolingian, a
dynasty under whom the Jews had done rather well, all things considered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Charlemagne was the most famous of the
Carolingian rulers and he supported his Jewish subjects despite opposition from
church leaders. Louis le Débonnaire who reigned from 814 to 833 was another of
the Carolingians who gave special protection to his Jewish subjects. During the
reign of Carolingians the Jews were active in commerce, medicine and agriculture,
especially in the field of viticulture a fact of which we are reminded when we
study about Rashi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The change in
dynasties would not have an immediate effect on the Jews living in France.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life for them would not really change until
the first crusade in 1096.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1127:
Charles, the Good, Count of Flanders was murdered while praying in the church
of St. Donat at Bruges. This came two years after Charles had expelled the Jews
from Ghent because he blamed them for the famine that consumed his realm in
1125.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><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 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1291:
As Moslems and Christians continue their war for control of “the Holy Land”
“Al-Ashraf Khalil resumed the offensive” begun by his later father Al-Mansur
Qalawun which including laying siege to Acre, the capital of the Crusader’s
Kingdom of Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1336(10<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5096): Physician and astronomer Joseph Sason, a member of a
prominent Iberian Jewish family passed away today in Toledo<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1349:
In Erfurt, the capital of the German state of Thuringia, 1,000 Jews were killed
in a single day of violence in a pogrom brought on by hysteria surrounding The
Black Death which struck Europe in 1340.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>During this outbreak of what was probably bubonic plagues millions died
in Europe removing approximately one third of the continent’s population.
“Modern research has revealed that the plague was probably carried by boat from
an Asian source, but at the time the affected communities had no idea why and how
such a terrible affliction had come upon them so suddenly. In seeking an
explanation, they needed a scapegoat and lighted upon the Jews living in their
midst. In many villages, towns and cities, Jews were accused of causing the
sickness by poisoning drinking water in wells and fountains.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Editor’s note: for those tracking sweeping
patterns of history, note that blaming Jews is not different or rational today
than it was in what was supposedly the unenlightened Dark Ages. <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;">1382: The Mailotin
Riots began in Paris. These riots were similar to the tax riots held two years
previously. Both times the Jews were considered accomplices in over-oppressive
taxes. Sixteen Jews fell victim to this outbreak violence.<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;">1515: Today, in a grida
(proclamation) Marquis Fancesco Gonzaga stated “that the recent popular
uprising against Jews in Mantua greatly displeased him.<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;">Page 1 introduction
Italian art<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;">1578: In Bishopsthorpe,
Edwin Sandys, the Archbishop of York and his wife gave birth to Oxford educated
travel writer George Sandys who claimed to have found the Ten Lost “1610 in the
neighborhood of the Caspian Sea” and whose third book in “The Relation of a
Journey” series provided “a description of Palestine, the Holy Land and the
Jewish and Christians living there during the middle of the seventeenth
century,<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;">1640(20<sup>th</sup> of
Adar): Rabbi Joel Sirkes, author of Bayit Hadash 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;">1641(Julian; 1<sup>st</sup>
of Nisan, 5401): Rabbi Meir Jacob Schiff-KaZ, the son of Jacob Schiff-KaZ and
Gutlin Schiff-KaZ and the husband of Sprinz Schiff-KaZ passed away today at
Frankfurt am Main.<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;">1727: Abraham Pinto and
his wife gave birth to Samuel Pinto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Editor’s note – There are several men who bear the name of Samuel
Pinto)<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;">1743: In
Wolfenbütteler, “court factor Samson Gumpel” and his wife gave birth to “court
banker” Philipp Samson.<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;">1753(26th of Adar I,
5513): Issachar Berush Eskeles the native of Poland who was the son of Gabriel
Eskeles and son-in-law of Samson Wertheimer, who was named rabbi of Kremsir in
1710, when he was only eighteen years old and eventually served as "Landesrabbiner"
of Moravia passed away today in Vienna.<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;">1775: Birthdate of
Steinhart, Bavaria native Israel Mayer, the husband of Marianne Miriam Dreifus
with whom he had seven children.<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;">1779(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5539): Purim<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;">1781:
Ninety-five-year-old Elias Mordecai was buried today at the “Alderney Road
(Globe Rd) Jewish Cemetery.”<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;">1785: In Philadelphia,
PA, Miriam Marks and Bordeaux born Benjamin Abraham Nones gave birth to Rachel
Nones.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1789:
Alexander Hamilton, the native of Nevis who according to some was the son a
Jewess Rachel Levine and who attended the island’s Jewish school before leaving
for North America, completed his five months of service as Delegate to the
Congress of the Confederation from New York .<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1791: An act
approved today declared that " from and after the third day of March next,
all the laws of the United States, which are not locally inapplicable, ought to
have, and shall have, the same force and effect within the State of Vermont as
elsewhere within the United States.<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;">1793: Sarah Cohen and
New York native David Nunez Cardozo gave birth to Isaac N. Cardozo.<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;">1794: Benjamin Farmer
who had changed his last name from Solomons married Phoebe Moses at the Great
Synagogue 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;">1796: Rabbi Mordecai of
Niesvizh, issued a proclamation, which was approved by other rabbis in Poland,
addressed to all Jews of Poland, imploring every male and female, adult and
minor, whether living in cities or villages, to subscribe a fixed sum every
week for the support of their countrymen, who had settled in the Holy Land with
the amount to be paid quarterly, in addition to special donations at weddings,
circumcisions, and other religious rejoicings all of which resulted in a
substantial increase in the halukkah (the fund to support Jews living in the
Holy Land.<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;">1798(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5558): Purim<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;">1798: Esther Cohen and
Michael Hart gave birth to Samuel Hart, the husband of Emily Hart and the
father of Charles, Isabel and Hetty Hart.<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;">1799(25<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5559): Parashat Vayakhel; Shabbat Shekalim<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;">1799: As these Jews
observed Shabbat, a day on which they are often reminded that God will judge us
based on how we treat the widow, the orphan and the stranger in our midst – the
weakest member of society – President Adams approved an act of Congress providing
“for the relief of sick and disabled seaman.”<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;">1801: Today, Maryland
native Simon M. Levy began his career as Cadet at the newly created U.S.
Military Academy at West Point having earned the appointment “for his good
conduct at the Battle of Maumee Rapids.<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;">1803: Isaac Joseph
married Judith Myers today at the Great Synagogue.<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;">1809(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5569): Purim is observed two days before the end of the Presidency of
Thomas Jefferson.<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;">1821: Today,
forty-three-year-old Aaron Lazarus the Charleston, SC born son of Mark Lazarus
married his second wife Rachel Lazarus in Richmond after his first wife Esther
Cohen had passed away.<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;">1822: In Charleston,
SC, Hertz Wolf (Fritz) Oppenheim and Catharine Oppenheim gave birth to Wolf
Oppenheim who would die seventeen days later.<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;">1822: In Bavaria,
Solomon Blumauer and Helen Binswanger gave birth to Simon Blumauer the Portland
businessman, the builder of the second brick building in Portland, Oregon, and
charter member of Congregation Beth Israel who was the husband of Malie Rodelsheimer.<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;">1822: In London, Keila
bat Joseph and Michael Myers gave birth printer Benjamin Myers who settled in
Edmonton, Canada.<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;">1824: Founding of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Boston Courier</i> which had become a
weekly newspaper by the time Benjamin Cohen began serving as its Business
Manager.<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;">1828(16<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5588): Purim Meshulash celebrated for the last time during the Presidency
of John Quincy Adams who “during the first year of his presidency stated in a letter
to Mordecai Noah that he like his father supported the rebuilding of Judea as
an independent state.?<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;">1831: Frederick Samuel
married Sarah Mocatta today at the Great Synagogue.<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;">1831: Birthdate of
Dutch native Levi Sasieni.<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;">1835: Francis, who as
Francis II was the last Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and who as Francis I
was the first Emperor of the Austrian Empire passed away. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2152-austria#anchor23"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2152-austria#anchor23</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">1835: Ferdinand I of
Austria, who was reported to be “a member of the Chevra Kadisha of Prague began
his reign today.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1835: In Christchurch,
Rachel and Edward Nathan gave birth to Joseph Edward Nathan, the husband of
Dinah Nathan who died while she was sailing on the SS Kaikoura.<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;">1836: Texans signed the Texas Declaration of
Independence at Washington-on-the-Brazos, effectively creating the Republic of
Texas. Adolphus Sterne was one of the many Jews who supported the cause of
Texas Independence both on and off of the battlefield.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sterne was “an East Texas merchant who became
a principal source of financial backing for the Texas Revolution. Born in the
Rhineland in 1801, he arrived in Texas in time to fight in the ill-fated
1826-27 Fredonia Rebellion at Nacogdoches. He was sentenced to be shot but was
released on the promise never to bear arms against the government again. He
kept to the vow in the 1836 struggle for independence but supplied funds,
coordinated with his old friend Sam Houston, who he had known in Tennessee
before coming to Texas.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.texasalmanac.com/topics/culture/jewish/jewish-texans"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.texasalmanac.com/topics/culture/jewish/jewish-texans</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1839:
French political leader Benoit Fould was re-elected for a third time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841
German born Caroline (Waterman) Myers, the Virginia resident and wife of Joseph
Myers gave birth to Isadore Myers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1844(11<sup>th
</sup>of Adar, 5604): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5607): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5607): Forty-seven-year-old Immanuel Wohlwill taught at the Israelite
Free School in Hamburg and then became the Director of the Jacobson School in
Seesen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848:
Ibrahim Pasha who issued a decree “forbidding the Jews to pave the passage in
front of the Wall. It also cautioned them against “raising their voices and
displaying their books there.” They were however allowed “to pay visits to it
as of old” began his reign over Egypt without the approval of the Porte.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1854:
Temple Israel which was established as the Orthodox Congregation B'nai Israel
in 1853 by 36 heads of families, was granted a charter by the Tennessee state
legislature today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855:
Czar Nicholas I, a narrow-minded, reactionary, whose anti-Semitism included but
was not limited to expulsion from a variety of cities including Kiev; the
drafting of under-age Jewish boys for twenty-five years of military service;
the banning of beards and a sidelocks for men and banning of women shaving
their heads at the time of marriage; the banning of Yiddish; censorship and
destruction of Jewish books passed away today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855:
Alexander II becomes Czar of Russia. Alexander gets high marks from many
historians for two reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, he is
the Czar who freed the serfs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Second, he
was a lot better than his two successors, Alexander III and Nicholas II.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alexander earned the goodwill of the Jewish
people because “he called a half to the cantonist system that separated Jewish
youths from their families, a staple of the previous Czars anti-Semitic
program.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From then on, “only Jews of
draft age would serve, and under the same rules as well as other
Russians.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Under his reign, universities
liberalized their admission policies for Jews and Jews were allowed to enter
the legal profession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jewish businessman
and craftsmen were allowed to work outside of the Pale and enter into the
commercial life of many major urban areas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Czar was no liberal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
changes in policies were caused, in part, by a desire to attract investment
from Jewish European financiers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Czar’s reforms were proving to be too little too late.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the Czar saw Jewish names among
opponents, his anti-Semitism rose to the surface as can be seen by the closing
of Yeshivot and his opposition to legal equality for Jews when the issue came
up at the 1878 Congress of Berlin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1857:
In New York Solomon and Jael Belais gave birth to Henry Belais Belais <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858:
Caroline Davis and Levy Jacobs gave birth to Alice Ann Jacobs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a name="_Hlk128500346"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858: In Lynchburg, VA, Therese and Isadore
Untermyer gave birth to CCNY grad and Columbia trained attorney Samuel
Untermyer , the husband of Minnie Carol<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>who was a partner in the firm of Guggenheimer, Untermyer and Marshall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk128500346;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">1859(N.S): In Russia, Menachem-Nukhem Rabinovich, a “rich
merchant” who lost it all and his wife Chaye-Esther gave birth to Solomon
Rabinowitz who became famous under the penname of Sholem Aleichem. Born
in Russia, Sholem Aleichem first wrote in Hebrew and only later turned to
writing in Yiddish. He moved from Russia to Denmark, to
Switzerland and ultimately moved to the United States at the outbreak of World
War I. Unfortunately, he only lived in America for two years and he
passed away in 1916. Known as the Yiddish Mark Twain, Sholem Aleichem is
most famous for creating Tevya and all of the wonderful characters who lived
with him in the shtetels of the Pale. He used humor to portray both the
joy and the suffering of his co-religionists. He became famous among
generations of Jews who had thought they had escaped from all of that
"Yiddish stuff" and gentiles as well with the production of Fiddler
on the Roof. Some of his famous lines include: "In the mud, but not
of the mud." "When a Jew eats a chicken one of them was
sick." "A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a
different direction." "Gossip is nature's telephone." "Life
is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy
for the poor." "No matter how bad things get you got to go on living,
even if it kills you." "The rich swell up with pride, the poor from
hunger." Some of his works that have been translated into English include
Tevye's Daughters, The Adventures of Menahem-Mendel, The Best of Sholom Aleichem
and The Great Fair which is his autobiography. (Editor’s note</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">As with many Russians of his periods, Sholom Aleichim has two birthdates
on the secular calendar – one on the Julian calendar and one on the Gregorian
calendar.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/shalom-aleichem"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/shalom-aleichem</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861(20<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5621): Parashat Ki
Tisa; Shabbat Parah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861: In Warsaw, despite the fact that is was
Shabbat, three Rabbis including Morris Jastrow joined the funeral procession
for five Polish nationalists who had been shot by the military.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861: Morris Jastrow preached his first sermon in
Polish at the Shabbat service during which the five victims of the Polish
military were memorialized.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862: Today, W. Davidson the only Jew to serve in
the 17<sup>th</sup> regiment enlisted in the unit after which he was taken
prisoner at Tilton, GA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><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" style="line-height: normal; 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 Savannah, GA, Roseta Moses, the daughter of
Martha and Joseph Jonas and her husband Dr. Montefiore Jonas gave birth to
Belle Moses<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864: Marian Moss and Alphonse Hartog gave birth to
Philip Hartog.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868: In Elgin, Il, Leopold Adler, the German born
of Auguste Schlesinger and Loeb Adler and his wife Rose Adler gave birth to
Abraham H. Adler.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868: “The Alleged Illegal Action of the American
Consul at Jerusalem” published today described a dispute that took place
recently in Jerusalem involving a Prussian Rabbi, named Markus, a Prussian
Jewess named Steinberg, her sister who had converted to Christianity and Victor
Beaubouchier, the American Counsel in Jerusalem<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5630): Abraham Jacob Jones, the native of Whitechapel and husband of
Sophia Goldsmid passed away today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870:
In New York, Judge Brady began hearing a suit brought by Benjamin Abrahams, the
executor for the estate of his late brother Dr. Simeon Abrahams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The total value of the bequest exceeds the
value of the estate and the executor is seeking to obtain a decree that will
establish “which if any legacies have preference” or, if there be no such
preference, what pro rata share each of the legacies should receive. The late
Dr. Abrahams was a prominent member of the Jewish community and he left several
large bequests to Jewish charities including the Hebrew Benevolent Society, Mt.
Sinai Hospital as well as numerous bequests to secular charities most of which
provide aid to orphans, juveniles and those in need of medical aide.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871:
The Purim Association hosted its second reception of this social season at
Delmonico’s under the management of Emanuel B. Hart, Samuel A. Lewis and
Gustave D. Cardozo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871:
Adolph Marx Oppenheimer, the son of Marx and Sarah Oppenheimer, and Julie
Oppenheimer gave birth to Alfred Oppenheimer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9800EFD7173BEF34BC4F51DFB466838F669FDE"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9800EFD7173BEF34BC4F51DFB466838F669FDE</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873:
Three days after she had passed away. Phoebe Aarons, the wife of Barnet Aarons
with whom she had had eight children was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish
Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar): Fast of Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874:
In Vicksburg, Mississippi, Nicholas Scharff and the former Carrie Bernheimer
gave birth to their second child Sidney N. Scharff.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874:
Today marked the second and final day of the Purim reception at the Home for
Aged and Infirm Hebrews in Manhattan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876:
In Chicago, Henrietta Kahn and Jacob Friedman, gave birth Harvard trained
attorney Herbert J. Friedman, the husband of Elsie Seidenberg who was an
organizer of the first national Conference for the Reformation of Criminal Law
and Criminal Procedure and the first president of Young Men’s Associated Jewish
Charities. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876:
In Rome, Filippo Pacelli and Virginia (née Graziosi) Pacelli gave birth to Eugenio
Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli who gained fame as Pope Pius XII, the Holocaust
Pope. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877:
The Hayes-Tilden election is finally settled by the specially created electoral
commission that resolved the disputed election returns of four states in favor
Hayes making him the 19<sup>th</sup> President of the United States. Hayes
appointed the first Jew to effectively serve as a U.S. Ambassador - Benjamin
Peixotto – and assured a government employee that she would not lose her job if
she did not work on Saturday.<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;">1877: Rutherford B.
Hayes declared winner of the 1876 Presidential Election.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Samuel Tilden won the popular vote, but Hayes
won a majority of the disputed in the Electoral College giving him and the
Republicans the White House by one vote.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As President, Hayes worked to protect the well-being of Jewish
communities in Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1879, his
Secretary of State, William Evarts said that “this government has ever felt a
deep interest in the welfare of the Hebrew race in foreign countries.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hayes backed up these noble sentiments in
negotiations with the government of Romania where he worked to try and improve
the condition of Jews living under that anti-Semitic regime. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a name="_Hlk65489640"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878: In New York City, Isaac Blumenthal and
his wife gave birth to NYU alum and art collector Irving Blumenthal, the father
of Clairce Altmayer Blumenthal and father of Suzanne and Thomas Blumenthal who
rose to be president of the United Dress Beef Company, a business that had been
started by his grandfather Wolf Blumenthal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65489640;"></span><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/03/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65489640;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/03/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65489640;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879:
At the Clinton Street Synagogue in New York City, Rabbi H.P. Mendes of the
Nineteenth Street Synagogue delivered a lecture on “A Dark Chapter of
Spanish-Jewish History” one the opening of the tenth season of lectures
sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Union.<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;">1880: It was reported
today that Mrs. W. T. Brothington of Newark, NJ has finally received the
$10,000 from the estate of deceased English family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><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;">1880(19<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5640): “Daniel (Gedalia) Mandelbaum” the oldest child German native Jacob
Mandelbaum and Bella Epstein 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;">1881: Birthdate of New
York native and CCNY grad and Columbia trained physician Dr. Kaufman Schilvek
the clinical professor of ophthalmology who was the husband of Elsie Schilvek and
the father of Isabelle Kinzler and Louis Schilvek. <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;">1881: Birthdate of
Bialystok native and HUC student Samuel Banett, the son-in-law of Rabbi Margolis
and brother-in-law of Rabbi Elias Margolis who gave a up the rabbinate for a
business career which led to his joining Harris Brothers and Barnett and become
“president o the association of those engaged in the muslin underwear industry.”<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;">1882(11<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5642): 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="line-height: normal; 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 twentieth annual Hebrew charity dress ball sponsored by the Purim
Association will begin at the in the Academy of Music at nine o’clock with the
grand march starting at ten.<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;">1884: Birthdate of
Albert Samuel, the native of Vesoul who was the father of Raymond Samuel, better
known as French Resistance leader Raymond Aubrac,<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;">1884:
Seventy-four-year-old anti-Semitic author Theodor Griesinger passed away.<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;">1885(15<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5645): Shushan Purim<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;">1886: This afternoon
Rabbi Gustav Gottheil of Temple Emanu-El officiated at the wedding of Julia
Wormser, “the only daughter of Isidor Wormser” and Jefferson Seligman, the
“youngest son of James Seligman, the head of the well-known bank house.”<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;">1888: The Convention of
Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez
Canal during war and peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one
major exception to this would be the state of Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For years, the government of Egypt denied
ships flying the flag of Israel from using the canal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Egyptians also denied access to ships
that had visited Israeli ports from using the canal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><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;">1888: Birthdate of Romania
native Yetta “Yettie” Leffner Wexler the wife of Isadore Wexler and the father
Louis, Joe, Ralph, David, Morris and Dr. William Abe Wexler,</span> “<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">an optometrist in the
Savannah, GA, area for more than 30 years who was named "Outstanding Man
of the Year" by the Savannah Jewish War Veterans.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><a name="_Hlk160209689"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890:
Birthdate Austrian native “an architect, film produce and director” Robert Neppac
the husband of Jewish tennis player Nelly Neppach who committed suicide because
of Nazi persecution and Grete Walter, the Jewish daughter of composer Bruno
Walter who “oversaw the art direction of over 80 films” and who returned to
working as an architect in Switzerland because of the Nazis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160209689;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: At today’s
meeting of the Louisville (KY) Ministerial Association a debate was held over
the question of admitting priests, rabbis and Unitarian Ministers.<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;">1891: Frances Lucy
Henriques and Raoul Foa gave birth to Aubrey Henriques Foa.<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;">1891: At a meeting of
the New York Siberian Exile Petition Association was held at the Church of
Ascension in New York City, “Isaac Aronavitch Hourvitch, a Russian Jew who had
suffered exile in Russia related his terrible experiences as a political prisoner.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Following discussion of this and other
matter, “copies of the petition which is to be forwarded to the Czar in April
protesting against the present treatment of the Jews were circulated” and
signed by many attendees.<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;">1892: A theatrical
review published today described Carl Weiser’s portrayal of Shylock, “the
vengeful Jew” as being “picturesque, if not strikingly dignified.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The Merchant of Venice” reportedly first
performed in America in the 16<sup>th</sup> century making it possibly the
first Shakespearean drama performed in what would become the United States. <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;">1892:
Fifty-eight-year-old Konigsberg born ant-Semitic journalist Otto Glagau who
blamed the Jews for financial problems in Germany passed away today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://ghdi.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1814"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://ghdi.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1814</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1892: It was reported
today that the sixty Russian Jewish immigrants who are in quarantine on North
Brother Island due to the outbreak of typhus are housed in their own heated
pavilion where they have their own cooks who prepare their food according to
Orthodox Jewish law.<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;">1892: Fifty-year old
Otto Glagau the anti-Semitic author whose hatred of Jews may be traced to
losses he suffered while speculating in stocks 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;">1892: Forty-two Russian
Jewish immigrants who may be infected with typhus and are under the care of the
United Hebrew Charities will be taken to North Brother Island today if the
storm sweeping the area abates.<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;">1892: Birthdate of
Felix Bressart, a native of what was then East Prussia the German-American
character actor whose best known for his appearance in the Jimmy Stewart comedy
“The Shop Around the Corner.”<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;">1893(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5653): Purim<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;">1893: A fire broke out
in a building in Fall River, MA, that was used as meeting place by the Hebrew
Literary Club. (Who would have thought that Fall River would have been home to
such an organization in the 19<sup>th</sup> century?)<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;">1893: Birthdate of
Eliyahu Golomb the native of Russia who made Aliyah in 1909 and organized the
Haganah during the Mandate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/golomb.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/golomb.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1894: Birthdate of NYU
trained civil engineer Jay Frank Krakauer, an associate member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers and a “Special Lecturer” at NYU.<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;">1894: Birthdate of
Hélène Falk, the native of Crest who was the mother of of Raymond Samuel better
known as French Resistance leader Raymond Aubrac.<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;">1895(6<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5655): Thirty-eight-year-old Charlotte Myers, the wife of Godfrey
Harris passed away today after which she was buried at the Edmonton, Western
Jewish Cemetery.<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;">1895: The National
Council of Women, an organization that was unique for its time because it
included Jewish, Catholic and Protestant members, held the final session of its
triennial meeting in Washington, DC.<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;">1896(17<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5656): Fifty-five-year-old Edward Johnson Etting II, the son of Horatio
and Frances Etting and the husband of Maria Etting with whom he had two
children Thomas and Frances 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;">1896: “Mathias Bells
for Bicycles” published today described the debate in Parliament where
lawmakers are trying to force cyclists to use “the continuous bell of the kind
brought into vogue by Sir Henry Irving’s “Polish Jew.”<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;">1897: Three days after
she had passed away, 23-year-old Dora Fisher, the wife of Phillip Fisher, was
buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.<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;">1897: Birthdate of
Budapest native Jacob Weiss who gained fame as producer, director and writer
Jack White.<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;">1897: In Albuquerque,
NM, wholesale merchant Ivan Grunsfeld and Hannah Nusbaum Grunsfeld gave birth
to Florence Grunsfeld, the of Julius Rosenwald, “the founder of Sears Roebuck
and Company<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who when she married
financier Walter Heller became Florence Grunsfeld Heller, the name under which
she gained a social benefactor and philanthropist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/heller-florence"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/heller-florence</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/01/06/105232290.html?pageNumber=23"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/01/06/105232290.html?pageNumber=23</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=Florence+Heller"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=Florence+Heller</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1898(8<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5658): Forty-two-year-old Marylebone native Isaac Botibol, the son of
Moses Botibol and Jessie Myers, passed away to 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;">1898: In Albany, the
Senate Cities Committee will report out a bill sponsored by Senator Cantor
“exempting 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="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: The annual Purim
reception at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews will be held today starting
at 11 a.m. and lasting until 5 p.m.<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;">1899: Birthdate of
Russian native and Odessa Imperial Art School student, Jacob B. Abramowitz, a
WW I veteran of the Russian Amry who in 1919 came to New York City where he
pursued a career as a journalist.<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;">1899: While serving
with the Twentieth Kansas Regiment in the Philippines, Sergeant Morris J.
Cohen, a resident of New Jersey, captured a Filipino flag.<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;">1900: In Dessau Emma
Weill (née Ackermann) and Albert Weil gave birth to German-American composer
Kurt Weill whose “best-known work is The Threepenny Opera.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://orelfoundation.org/index.php/composers/article/kurt_weill/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://orelfoundation.org/index.php/composers/article/kurt_weill/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1901: Birthdate of
Breman native, mathematician Grete Hermann.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.academia.edu/7818454/Grete_Hermann_Mathematician_Philosopher_and_Physicist"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.academia.edu/7818454/Grete_Hermann_Mathematician_Philosopher_and_Physicist</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1901(11<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5661): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor<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;">1901(11<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5661): Sixty-six-year-old Joseph Blumenthal passed away in New York
City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Born in Munich in 1834, he came to
the United States in 1839, settled in California with his family before moving
to New York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was part of the
Committee of Seventy that helped to overthrow the infamous Tweed Ring and spend
the last 15 years of his life working to create and build the Jewish
Theological Seminary.<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;">1902: In Harlem,
Bernard Berg, a pharmacist, and Rose Tashker, a homemaker” gave birth to their
third and last child baseball catcher Morris “Moe” Berg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a day when most baseball players were
barely literate Berg stood out as a Princeton graduate who was multi-lingual.
His major league career lasted from 1923 to 1939. He was a journey-man catcher,
described as “good field, no hit.” The stories about his eccentricities are too
numerous for this brief entry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suffice
it to say, he makes the television character “Monk” look normal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His real claim to fame was his espionage
work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During barnstorming trips to Japan
in the 1930’s, the Japanese speaking Berg would leave the group to do his own
“explorations.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among other things, he
took a series of pictures in Tokyo which later were used to help plan the
famous Doolittle Raid during World War II.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/MBerg.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/MBerg.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1903:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Herzl receives Leopold Greenberg's report.
Greenberg was the owner of a successful advertising agency, publisher of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jewish Yearbook</i> and an ardent Zionist.<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;">1904(15<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5664): Fifty-seven-year-old professor of statistics Gottlieb
Schnapper-Arndt passed away today in Halberstadt, Germany.<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;">1904(15<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5664): Sixty-six-year-old Moritz Framing, the German rabbi who edited two
Jewish magazines and whose writings included <u>On the Introduction to
Maimonides</u> and <u>Jerome’s Commentary on the Twelve Minor Prophets</u>, passed
away today in Magdeburg.<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;">1905: Birthdate of
Pincus “Pinky” Sober the half-miler who became an executive with the Amateur
Athletic Union.<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;">1905: Birthdate of Philadelphia native and noted composer Marcus Samuel
Blitzstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.masterworksbroadway.com/artist/marc-blitzstein/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.masterworksbroadway.com/artist/marc-blitzstein/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1906: “The Rabbinical Conference of Bohemia decided that a Rabbi may
officiate at the funeral of a cremated body” which led “Chief Rabbi Ehrenfield
of Prague” to resign his membership.<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;">1907<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">:</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ein Walzertraum</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> (A Waltz Dream), “an operetta by Oscar Straus
premiered today at the Carltheater in Vienna.<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;">1908: “Know The Talmud And Bible” published today described how fifteen
hundred Jewish boys ranging in age from 7 to 14 had been “put through a searing
examination on the Bible and the Talmud” at the Norfolk Street Synagogue, after
President Phillips, head of the congregation located at 66 Norfolk Street,
“congratulated the boys on the progress they had made in their studies.”<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;">1909(9<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5669): Seventy-six year old Baron Horace
Günzburg, the son Joseph Günzburg, wealthy merchant and army contractor, and
the father of David Günzburg who was a major philanthropist and leader of the
Jewish community passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewhistory.ort.spb.ru/eng/main/s.php?id=840"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewhistory.ort.spb.ru/eng/main/s.php?id=840</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1909: Birthdate of Konigsberg, native Hanoch Jacoby, one of the many
German musicians whose career was ended by the Nuremberg laws and who
immigrated to Palestine as part of the Fifth Aliyah where he pursed a musical
career that included playing viola with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and
the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra while raising four children - </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Hava Nir (deceased), Ilana Yaari, Rafi Jacoby, Michal
Preminger – with his wife, the former Alice Kennel.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewish-music.huji.ac.il/content/hanoch-jacoby"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewish-music.huji.ac.il/content/hanoch-jacoby</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jacobi-hanoch"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jacobi-hanoch</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1910: Birthdate of
Natie W. Brown, the Washington, D.C. native, brother of Morris Brown and wife
of Ann McKinley Brown, who “fought Joe Louis two times in the heavyweight
division.”<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;">1911: Louis-Lucien
Klotz, the son of Alsatian Jewish parents completed his service as Minister of
Finance in the second government of Aristde Briand.<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;">1911: Sophie Tucker
recorded “Some of these Days” on a four-inch cylinder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Some of these Days” was written by African
American composer Shelton Brooks in 1910.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Some of these Days” was Tucker’s signature song and the title of her
autobiography.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/02/1911/sophie-tucker"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/02/1911/sophie-tucker</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1912(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5672): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim<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;">1912: In Chicago, the
ceremonies marking the dedication of Sinai Temple and Social Center continued
for a second day.<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;">1913: <i>The New York
Times</i> reported that Dr. Joseph H. Hertz, Rabbi of the Congregation Orach
Chayim of New York was recently appointed replace the late Dr. Hermann Adler,
who was serving as Chief Rabbi of the British Empire when he passed away in
July of 1911.<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;">1913: This evening,
Temple Emanuel is scheduled to host “a Congregational Sociable” that will
include “a ventriloquist act by Mr. I.D. Levy and Frederick M. Gotlieb.<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;">1913: “Mr. Aaron
Aronsohn, chief of the Experimental Station at Haifa is scheduled to deliver a
lecture at Sinai Temple in Chicago.<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;">1912: Fighting as a
welterweight, today in a ten-round newspaper decision, Al McCoy(Alexader
Rudolph) defeated the more accomplished boxer Terry McGraw whom he outweighed.
(McCoy was Jewish; McGraw was not)<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;">1913: Today, “The
Hebrew Sunday School Society which maintains fifteen schools in various parts
of Philadelphia with an enrollment of more than 4,000 pupils celebrated its 75<sup>th</sup>
anniversary at the Horticultural Hall in Philadelphia.<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;">1913: I.D. Levy and
Frederick M. Gottlieb are scheduled to perform a ventriloquist act as part of a
congregational social at Temple Emanuel.<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;">1914: Two days after he
had passed away, Morris Rose, the 38 year old husband of Sarah Rose, was buried
today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.<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;">1914:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Birthdate of New York native and
small-college football player Martin Ritt, the veteran of the WPA arts program
and WW II best known as the director of <u>The Long Hot Summer</u> and one of
the many victims of the “black list.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/11/obituaries/martin-ritt-director-dead-at-76-maker-of-socially-conscious-films.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/11/obituaries/martin-ritt-director-dead-at-76-maker-of-socially-conscious-films.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1915:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Vladmir Jabotinsky
formed a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine against the Turks in World
War I.<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;">1915: The Red Cross
Fund of which Jacob H. Schiff is the treasurer received an additional $1,670.07
in contributions bringing the total collected so far to $464,796.11.<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;">1915: An “official
communication” concerning the condition of the Jews was sent from
Constantinople stating that “All the recent publications to the contrary are
unfounded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The natural inconveniences
they may have experienced during the mobilization have been shared by the rest
of the population.”<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;">1916: Maurice Avner,
the Manchester, England born son of Rose and Abraham A Avner joined the British
Army Corps Reserves 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;">1916: The funeral of
Bertha Hirsch, the wife of Adolphe Hirsch and the sister of Mrs. William Hirsch
is scheduled to take place at her residence today in Chicago.<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;">1916: After funeral
services are held at the home of George Levitt, his father Jacob Levi is
scheduled to be buried at Waldheim Cemetery where mourners will include his
other son Henry Levi.<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;">1917(8<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5677): Forty-four-year-old Austrain native Kieve Kriendler, the husband
of Salomean Brenner Kriendler with whom he had four children – Augusta, Anna,
Jack and Eunice – passed away today in Manhattan after which he was buried in
the Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Glendale, NY<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;">1917: In Philadelphia,
PA, Russian Jewish refugees William Goodies, the owner of William Goodis
Company, a textile company, and the former Mollie Halpern gave birth to Temple
University graduate and author David Loeb Goodies who may be best known for his
novel <u>Dark Passage </u>which he claimed was the basis for the popular
television series “The Fugitive.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.beatbookcovers.com/goodis-books/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.beatbookcovers.com/goodis-books/</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;">1918: Today, “the House Immigration Committee
recommended the adoption of a resolution by Representative Slayden of Texas”
which be beneficial to Jewish immigrants “authorizing readmission to the United
States of aliens who were conscripted or have volunteered for service with the
United States or the Allies.”<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;">1918: An announcement was made today at the
headquarters of the Palestine Restoration Fund, “that contributions for the
fund were close to the $950,000 mark nearly $150,000 having been raised in the
last ten days.<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;">1919(29<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5679): For the
first time since the end of The World War, observance of Parashat Vayakhel and
Shabbat Shekalim.<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;">1919: “Approval of the plans of Zionist leaders
for the creation of a national Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine was given
tonight by President to a delegation of representatives who spent an hour at
the White House in conference with the President over the international stats
of Jews around the world.”<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;">1920: An appeal signed by several prominent
Polish academics supporting historian Szymon Askenazy joining the faculty of
Warsaw University was published today in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Robotnik,</i>
“a newspaper published by the Polish Socialist Party.” (He did not get the
position, probably because he was Jewish)<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;">1920: The U.S. Supreme Court hear arguments in
Missouri v. Holland in which Louis Marshall, submitted an amicus curae brief on
behalf of the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks<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;">1921: In Vienna, “Ernst Haas and Frederike
Haas-Zipser gave birth photographer and refugee from Hitler’s Europe Ernst Haas
whose work included the iconic “Marlboro Man.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.thejc.com/culture/features/ernst-haas-the-mad-men-s-favourite-photographer-1.26391"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.thejc.com/culture/features/ernst-haas-the-mad-men-s-favourite-photographer-1.26391</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;">2021: Birthdate WWII Code Breaker Julia
Parsons.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=julia+parsons&source=hp&ei=tG-FY_jbMIqZptQPht6KgAU&iflsig=AJiK0e8AAAAAY4V9xG9MrZrAevHI1DdR8bSP0p-2yJTV&ved=0ahUKEwj4hYKerdL7AhWKjIkEHQavAlAQ4dUDCAo&uact=5&oq=julia+parsons&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDILCC4QgAQQxwEQrwEyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB4yBggAEBYQHjIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB46BQgAEJECOgsILhDHARCvARCRAjoECC4QQzoICC4QsQMQgwE6CwguEIAEELEDENQCOhEILhCABBCxAxCDARDHARDRAzoKCC4QsQMQgwEQQzoLCC4QsQMQgwEQkQI6BQguEJECOgQIABBDOgsILhCABBCxAxCDAToICC4QgAQQsQM6BwguELEDEEM6CwgAEIAEELEDEIMBOggILhCxAxCRAjoICAAQgAQQsQM6BQguEIAEUABYphhgqx1oAHAAeACAAesBiAHLC5IBBTQuOC4xmAEAoAEB&sclient=gws-wiz#ip=1"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.google.com/search?q=julia+parsons&source=hp&ei=tG-FY_jbMIqZptQPht6KgAU&iflsig=AJiK0e8AAAAAY4V9xG9MrZrAevHI1DdR8bSP0p-2yJTV&ved=0ahUKEwj4hYKerdL7AhWKjIkEHQavAlAQ4dUDCAo&uact=5&oq=julia+parsons&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDILCC4QgAQQxwEQrwEyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB4yBggAEBYQHjIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB46BQgAEJECOgsILhDHARCvARCRAjoECC4QQzoICC4QsQMQgwE6CwguEIAEELEDENQCOhEILhCABBCxAxCDARDHARDRAzoKCC4QsQMQgwEQQzoLCC4QsQMQgwEQkQI6BQguEJECOgQIABBDOgsILhCABBCxAxCDAToICC4QgAQQsQM6BwguELEDEEM6CwgAEIAEELEDEIMBOggILhCxAxCRAjoICAAQgAQQsQM6BQguEIAEUABYphhgqx1oAHAAeACAAesBiAHLC5IBBTQuOC4xmAEAoAEB&sclient=gws-wiz#ip=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;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: In Harrisburg, PA, Jules Solomon, “a
scrap-metal dealer” and homemaker Lena Solomon gave birth to Birdie Solomon who
gained fame as “operatic soprano” Brenda Lewis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QZsKu2GJtv0J:www.masterworksbroadway.com/artist/brenda-lewis+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QZsKu2GJtv0J:www.masterworksbroadway.com/artist/brenda-lewis+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/16/arts/music/brenda-lewis-dead-opera-soprano.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/16/arts/music/brenda-lewis-dead-opera-soprano.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">=<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;">1922: On the Lower East
Side, Barnet and Tessie Greenglass gave birth to “Atomic Spy” David Greenglass,
the brother of Ethel Rosenberg and the brother-in-law of Julius Rosenberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/us/david-greenglass-spy-who-helped-seal-the-rosenbergs-doom-dies-at-92.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LargeMediaHeadlineSumCentered&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/us/david-greenglass-spy-who-helped-seal-the-rosenbergs-doom-dies-at-92.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LargeMediaHeadlineSumCentered&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1923(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5683): Purim<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;">1923(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5683): Sixty-seven-year-old Max Meyerhard a native of Krojanka, Germany
who practiced law in Rome, Georgia for nearly forty years passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.cherokeelodge66.org/max_meyerhardt.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.cherokeelodge66.org/max_meyerhardt.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1923: In the Bronx,
social worker Louis Keepnews and his wife, the former Naomi Perlman gave birth
to “Orrin Keepnews, who as a record company executive and producer helped
create some of the most celebrated recordings in jazz over a half-century.” (As
reported by Nate Chinen)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/arts/music/orrin-keepnews-jazz-producer-and-record-executive-is-dead-at-91.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/2015/03/02/arts/music/orrin-keepnews-jazz-producer-and-record-executive-is-dead-at-91.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="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: Birthdate of
Calvin “Cal” Abrams, the native of Philadelphia the left-handed hitting
outfield who played for several major league teams from 1949 to 1956.<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;">1925(6<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5685): Zionist leader Shneur Abel passed away today in NYC<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;">1925(6<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5685): Lithuania born “Zionist, Hebrew writer and editor” S. Abel who in
1892 came to Baltimore and then moved to New York 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;"><a href="https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/7096/Abel,%20S.%20(1871%E2%80%93March%202,%201925)">https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/7096/Abel,%20S.%20(1871%E2%80%93March%202,%201925)</a><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;">1926: It was reported
that Jean Barondes, the daughter of Joseph Barondess, had joined with the
Herzliah Hebrew Academy Choir and Cantor Adolphe J. Weisgal had provided the
music at the gala dinner honoring her father’s “forty years of work in behalf
of American Jewry.<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;">1926: In the Bronx,
chemist David Rothbard and his wife Rae gave birth to American economist Murray
Rothbard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/11/obituaries/murray-n-rothbard-economist-and-free-market-exponent-68.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/11/obituaries/murray-n-rothbard-economist-and-free-market-exponent-68.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1927: Today
“representatives of eleven organizations meeting at Temple Emanu-el” formed “a
national organization to carry on religious and welfare work among Jewish
university students.”<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;">1927(28<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5687): German born Meta Schroeder Braunfeld, the widow of Julius Braunfeld
the Hungarian bon of Ignacz who had passed in 1921 in New Orleans where he
served as Cantor at Temple Sinia, the city’s leading Reform congregation, passe
away today in San Diego, CA.<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;">1928(10<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5688): Sixty-two-year-old Max Pine the native of Smolensk who came to the
United States in 1889 who became the Secretary of the United Hebrew Trades
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=990DE0D7113DE73ABC4B53DFB5668383639EDE"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=990DE0D7113DE73ABC4B53DFB5668383639EDE</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jta.org/1928/03/05/archive/max-pine-noted-jewish-labor-leader-dies-at-62"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jta.org/1928/03/05/archive/max-pine-noted-jewish-labor-leader-dies-at-62</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Life_and_Times_of_Max_Pine.html?id=6EEYAAAAIAAJ"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Life_and_Times_of_Max_Pine.html?id=6EEYAAAAIAAJ</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1928: In Antwerp,
Belgium, Morris Golinski, a tailor and his wife Caroline gave birth to Marie
Golinski who gained fame as Mary Adelman, whose Osner Business Machines was the
most famous of that dying breed – a typewriter repair shop.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/24/obituaries/mary-adelman-89-fixer-of-broken-typewriters-is-dead.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=region&region=region&WT.nav=region&_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/24/obituaries/mary-adelman-89-fixer-of-broken-typewriters-is-dead.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=region&region=region&WT.nav=region&_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; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: Following a
positive vote in the House of Representatives, “the Senate unanimously passed
the resolution” favoring “the erection” in Washington, DC “of a memorial or
monument” honoring the late Oscar Straus which has been sent to President
Hoover for his signature.<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;">1930:
Twenty-two-year-old Solomon “Happy” Furth, who would compete in the 1932
Olympics, won “the 70-yard hurdles at the IC4A indoor meet” 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;">1931(13<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5691): Fast of Esther; erev Purim<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;">1931: Birthdate of
Lionel I. Pincus “an American finance executive, venture capitalist, and
entrepreneur” who “ran the private equity firm Warburg Pincus from 1966 to
2002.”<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;">1931: “While attempts
are being made by the Zionists and Palestine Government to bring about a
friendly understand between Arabs and Jews, the Chief Executive will head a
plenary meeting of all forty-eight members of the Executive” which is scheduled
to be held 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;">1932: Birthdate of
Jacob “Jack” Austin, the native of Calgary who went from being an attorney to a
political leader whose career included serving the Canadian Senate.<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;">1932: Reports published
today explained that the delay between the Senate confirmation of Judge Cardozo
and its transmittal to the President was due to “a Senate rule that all
confirmations must be held through three executive sessions in the event that the
Senate should wish to reconsider its action.<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;">1932: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> reported on speech by
Senator Dill of Washington praising the appointment of Benjamin Cardozo to the
U.S. Supreme Court.<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;">1933: “King Kong” with
music by Max Steiner premiered in New York City.<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;">1933: In Patterson, NJ,
homemaker Tillie Kraut and Samuel Finke, the owner of “a wholesale plumbing,
heating and air-conditioning” business gave birth to Helene Fnike, the wife of
Alan Fortunoff who as Helene Fortunof “built a multimillion-dollar jewelry empire.”
(As reported Katharine Q. Seelye who followed what seems to be a policy not to
identify successful deceased people to be Jewish)<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;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/business/helene-fortunoff-dead.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/business/helene-fortunoff-dead.html</a><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;"><a href="https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/remembering-helene-fortunoff/">https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/remembering-helene-fortunoff/</a><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;">https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/2021/12/10/in-memoriam-helene-fortunoff-1933-2021/<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;">1933: Despite the fact
that he was gay, on his 28<sup>th</sup> birthday composer Marc Blitzstein
married novelist Eva Goldbeck whose mother was soprano Lina Abarbanell, whose
“father was the descendant of prominent Sephardic family.<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;">1934(15<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5694): Shushan Purim<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;">1934: “The Zwie
Family,” a drama of Jewish life “translated from the original Yiddish by Isaac
Goldberg” which was performed for the first-time last night at the Sutton
Theatres is scheduled to be performed again tonight.<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;">1935: In Toronto, Aaron Waxman and his wife, who together owned and
operated Melinda Lunch gave birth to actor and director Albert Samuel “Al”
Waxman the husband of Sara Waxman.<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;">1935 (27th of Adar I, 5695):</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Eighty-three-year-old <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Samuel Sachs, an American investment banker passed away. He was born in
Maryland in 1851 to Jewish immigrants from Bavaria, Germany. Sachs along with
his longtime friend Philip Lehman of Lehman Brothers pioneered the issuing of
stock as a way for new companies to raise funds. He married Louisa Goldman, the
youngest daughter of close friends and fellow Bavarian immigrants, who had
already seen their older child wed as well. Sachs then joined his father-in-law
Marcus Goldman's firm which prompted the name change to Goldman Sachs in 1904.
Together they underwrote securities offerings for such large firms as Sears,
Roebuck and Company. During this time Goldman Sachs also diversified to become
involved in other major securities markets, like the over-the-counter, bond,
and convertibles markets which are still a big part of the company's revenue
today. Sachs retired in 1928 and died in 1935.<o:p></o:p></span></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;">1936(8<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5695): Seventy-six-year-old, Shalom
Binder, the retired cantor and father of composer Abraham W. Binder, who had
come to the United States from Poland forty-five years ago and was the “founder
of the Federation of Galician and Bukowinian Jews” as well “as the first
president of the Home of the Sons and Daughters of Israel” passed away at Bronx
Hospital 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;">1936(8<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5696): Sixty-one-year-old Isaac Brill, the
leader and rabbi of Congregation Agudath Achim, native of Mainz and son the
Jewish scholar Jechiel Bril, who came to the United States from London in 1904
where spent 25 years as the editor of the English department of The Jewish
Daily News and was the first editor “of The Hebrew Standard which later merged
with the Jewish Tribune” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jta.org/1936/03/04/archive/rabbi-i-l-bril-dies-at-age-of-81"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jta.org/1936/03/04/archive/rabbi-i-l-bril-dies-at-age-of-81</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1936: When the “first crown session of Parliament” opened today in
Athens, deputies swore their oath to their respective deities which meant “the
Spanish Jews from Salonika swore by Jehova.”<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;">1936: It was reported today that the Nazi Governor of the Saar has
already warned that now that Germany has assumed full sovereignty over the
region it “will become the most Jewless part of Germany.”<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;">1936: “The official organ German Justice announced 763 notaries had been
ousted through the recent Nuremberg anti-Jewish laws.”<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;">1936: The newly formed Physician Committee of the United Palestine Appeal
is scheduled to hold its first meeting this evening at the Harmonie Club under
the leadership of co-chairmen Dr. Emanuel Libman and Dr. Bernard Sachs.<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;">1937: “According to a statement issued” today “by the American Delegation
to Palestine, Great Britain has not discharged her duties or fulfilled her
pledges with respect to Palestine but instead has place artificial barriers to
immigration there and obstructed the purchase of land by Jws and failed to give
adequate assistance in reconstruction work.<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;">1937: In Pittsburgh, the Convention of the Women’s League of the United
Synagogue adopted resolutions “urging prompt ratification of the child labor
amendment, passage of neutrality legislation to prohibit the use of American
armed forces outside continental and territorial United States and endorsing
President Roosevelt’s ‘good neighbor’ policy in Pan-American relations” at its
final sessions. (<span style="color: red;">Editor’s Note – For those critical of
FDR’s response to the plight of the Jews of Germany, please note that this leading
Jewish women’s organization favored the very kind of isolationist legislation
that helped to tie the President’s hands.)<o:p></o:p></span></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;">1937: “Lost Horizon,” the cinema version of the novel with the same name
with a screenplay by Robert Riskin, co- starring Sam Jaffe and with music by
Dimitri Tiomkin was released today in the United States.<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;">1937: Rabbi Goodman “George” Lipkind wrote “Here’s Hoping” a three act
farce.<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;">1938(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar I, 5698): Rosh Chodesh Adar I<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;">1938(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar I, 5698): After a prolonged illness, 57 year
old </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">to NYU
Law School graduate Joseph J. Baker, “a senior member of the law firm of Baker,
Obermeir Rosenson and Rosner,” “President of the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn,
the son of Adolph and Carrie Baker and the husband of the former “May Lautman”
with whom he had two children – Ruth and Edward” passed away today.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/03/03/98105620.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/03/03/98105620.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1938: </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;"> (the progenitor of
today’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jerusalem Post</i>) published the
farewell message of the retiring High Commissioner, Sir Arthur Wauchope,
addressed to the people of Palestine. In a separate letter to the Post, Sir
Arthur wrote that “though rather busy during most of my leave in England, I
always found time to read <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Palestine
Post</i>... I hope to read your paper in future years.” <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;">1938: </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 Sir John
Woodhead, Sir Allison Russel and Mr. A.P. Waterfield were appointed by the
British Government to serve as members of the Technical Commission which will
proceed to Palestine to investigate conditions for the country’s eventual partition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><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;">1938: </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 An Emek
settler, Abraham Goldschlager, 38, was murdered by Arab terrorists near Mishmar
Ha¹emek. Tirat Zvi came under heavy Arab fire. <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;">1938: According to a
report published today, The Jewish Agricultural Society, Inc. led by General
Manager Dr. Gabriel Davidson, which aids Jews in settling on farms and then
helps them with an educational and extension program, has granted 12,313 farm
loans totaling $7,513,857 since its founding in 1900.<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;">1939: Cardinal Eugenio
Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII. As Secretary of State for
the Vatican he had negotiated a concordat with Hitler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Pope, he would remain silent about the
Nazis and the Holocaust even when a Roman Catholic nun who converted to Judaism
years ago was taken to the death camp because, under Hitler’s Race Laws, she
was really a Jew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Based on this alone,
one wonders what this Pope thought about the meaning of baptism.<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;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></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;">1940: “The police-imposed
curfew regulations at Tel Aviv tonight after breaking up widespread
demonstrations protesting against British restrictions on the sale of Arab
lands to Jews.<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;">1941: “One day after
Bulgaria's King Boris III is coerced into accepting Adolf Hitler's terms and
joins the Axis, the German army marched into Bulgaria” which would be the first
step in bringing Bulgarian Jews into the orbit of “the Final Solution.”<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;">1942: Birthdate of
Brooklyn born American musician Lewis Allan “Lou” Reed<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;">1942(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar):</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> As Purim began, Jews from Minsk refused to
cooperate in latest deportation. Germans and Ukrainians retaliated by searching
houses, dragging children to sand pits and throwing them in alive, throwing
candies in after them as they died. By the end of Purim 5,000 Jews were
murdered in Minsk. Jews all over Europe were tortured, murdered or deported
that day included those from Krosniewice, Baranowicze, Lvov and Zdunska Wola<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;">1942:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
At Janowska, eight laborers were ordered to stand in a barrel of water by
Gestapo chief Dibauer, because "they didn't look too clean." They all
froze to death by the next day as the ice hardened around their feet.<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;">1943(25<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5703): Seventy-year-old Washington University Law School graduate,
Judge Moses Hartman, the St. Louis born “son of Ignatz and Anna (Kohn) Hartman”
and husband of Carrie A. Scooler with whom he had three children who was
President of Congregation B’nai El passed away today after which he was buried
at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, CA.<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;">1943: Over 2,500 Jews
in Salonica are crammed into 593 rooms in the Baron de Hirsh Ghetto. The ghetto
was surrounded with high wooden fences, topped with barbed wire. Signs in
German, Greek and Ladino warned Jews not to leave, under penalty of death.<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;">1943: “Zorah Sculpture
on Display Today” published today described two New York showings of works by William
Zorach, “a Lithuanian-American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and writer” who
won the Logan Medal of the arts.<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;"><a href="https://time%20smachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/03/02/85087219.pdf">df</a><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;">1943: The daily
transports to Treblinka continued. Included are New York Born Yetta Flater and
London born Helene Rosenberg. Three hundred of the deportees that day were over
70 years old.<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;">1943: In explaining the
Nazi commitment to the Final Solution, Goebbels writes in his diary, “We are so
entangled in the Jewish question that henceforth it is impossible to retreat.”<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;">1944:
Eighty-five-year-old Lucius Nathan Littauer, the first Harvard football coach,
businessman and Congressman passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jta.org/1944/03/03/archive/lucius-n-littauer-noted-jewish-philanthropist-dies-suddenly-was-85"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jta.org/1944/03/03/archive/lucius-n-littauer-noted-jewish-philanthropist-dies-suddenly-was-85</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944:
Denise Bloch and a fellow SOE agent “were dropped back into central France” on
what would, tragically prove to be her last mission since she would be captured
in June and executed at Ravensbruck.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://nigelperrin.com/denisebloch.htm#.VPJpOWfwt9A"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://nigelperrin.com/denisebloch.htm#.VPJpOWfwt9A</span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1945:<i> Haaretz</i>
published the following description of kidnapping Yaakov Tavin during the
“Hunting Season.” “</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Passersby in Dizengoff and Yirmiyahu
streets were greatly struck…by the kidnapping of a young man in the street. The
kidnapping occurred at 11 a.m, and was witnessed by a large number of people. A
large taxi halted at the corner of Dizengoff and Yirmiyahu streets, and several
men emerged, one of them dressed in police uniform. They approached the young
man, who was standing on the pavement holding a package. Shouting 'Thief!',
they attacked him and began to hit him. The crowd thought that he was in fact a
thief, and several of them joined the attackers and helped them to push the
young man into the taxi. He struggled with them and shouted in Yiddish and in
Hebrew: 'Jews, help me! Why do you let them hit a Jew?' He was thrown into the
car, which swiftly drove away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945:
In Afula, Yemima and Adam Rubin gave birth to Michal Breslavy who gained fame
Michal Bat-Adam who among other things was “the first Israeli woman to direct a
feature film.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5706): Parashat Vayahkel; Shabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946:
“Concluding a week of active discussion of the problems facing the world's
Jewish communities, the London conference of Jewish organizations adopted today
a final report stressing the heavy responsibility of Jewish communities in the
United States and Britain for assisting European Jews on the road back and he
need for immediately opening up of avenues for emigration for thousands of
displaces Jews still in Europe.”<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;">1947: In Tel Aviv, a
radio announcement by the Irgun was heard in which the Jewish organization took
responsibility for yesterday’s attack on a British officers’ club in Jerusalem
yesterday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Irgun said the attack was
in retaliation for British attacks in Haifa on Friday, February 28.<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;">1947: In response to
the latest wave of violence, the British imposed martial law throughout
Palestine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At 4 A.M. British troops
occupied Petah Tikav Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv as well as other coastal communities
while the government in Jerusalem imposed additional restrictions on Mea
Sharim.<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;">1947(10th of Adar,
5707): Four-year-old Ketti Shalom died tonight after having been shot by
British forces as she stood on the balcony of her home in Jerusalem, which is
under martial law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her mother was
wounded but survived the shooting.<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;">1947: Composer Morton
Gould and his second wife Shirley Blank gave birth to their second child David.<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;">1948: “Backing the
United States proposal that the Security Council accept partition as the
solution of the Palestine question, the Soviet Union today urged "direct
negotiations" between the Big Five as the best approach to the whole
problem.”<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;">1948: During a speech
at the headquarters of the UJA in New York, “David Hacohen, engineer and
managing direct of Soleh Bonen, the construction cooperative said that “all
Jewish settlements in Palestine are being fortified” and “that women are being
rained to handled firearms” so they can fight on an equal basis with men.<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;">1949(1<sup>st</sup> of
Adar, 5709): Rosh Chodesh Adar<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;">1949(1<sup>st</sup> of
Adar, 5709): Fifty-four-year-old Henry J. Berkowitz, the Rabbi at Temple Israel
“the largest Jewish Congregation in the Pacific Northwest passed away
today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Born in Philadelphia, a veteran
of WW I, and a graduate of HUC, he wrote several books including Book Camp
which “described his experiences as a Navy chaplain.” (As reported by JTA)<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;">1949: “Two Blind Mice,”
a comedy by Samuel and Bella Spewack opened on Broadway at the Cort Theatre.<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;">1949(1<sup>st</sup> of
Adar, 5709): Seventy-six-year-old Quad Cities newspaper man Emanuel Philp
Adler, the Chicago born son of Bertha (Blade) Adler and Philip Emanuel Adler,
husband of the former Lena Rothschild and father of Iowa journalist Philip
David who was President of Temple Emanuel in Davenport and head of the Tri-City
Jewish Charities passed away today after which he was buried in the Mount Nebo
Hebrew Cemetery in Davenport, IA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://uipress.lib.uiowa.edu/bdi/DetailsPage.aspx?id=4"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://uipress.lib.uiowa.edu/bdi/DetailsPage.aspx?id=4</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1950(13th of Adar,
5710): Ta'anit Esther<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;">1950: Israel Railways
began regular passenger service today from Tel Aviv North Railway Station, via
the Eastern Railway and Rosh HaAyin, to Jerusalem.<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;">1950: “Salih Jabr, the
Iraqi interior minister in a draft bill to parliament – Supplement to Decree 62
of 1933 -- that became law a week later which said the Jews were “free to go”
as long as they give up their citizenship, agree never to return and basically
left them impoverished at the time of their departure<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;">1950: A bill was
introduced in the Iraqi parliament allowing the Jews of Iraq to immigrate to
Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Introduction of the bill
required a large cash payment by the Israeli representatives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “Jews could leave provided they left
behind all gold, jewelry and valuables and provided that they also gave up
their Iraqi citizenship.” <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;">1950: In Iraq,
Parliament passed the Revocation of Citizenship which had been introduced
earlier on that same day by Saleh Jabr, the Minister of the Interior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><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;">1950: A horse named Tel
Aviv is entered in the second race at Hialeah Park in Miami.<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;">1950: “Plans for the
tenth store unit of Oppenheim Collins Co. were announced today with the
completion of leasing negotiations for a large site at the northeast corner of
Main and Berry Streets, extending back to River Street in Hackensack, N.J.”<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;">1951(24<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5711): Yakov Gilyarievich Etinger, “one of the physicians accused in
the ‘Doctor’s Plot’” died today in prisons as result of the brutal
interrogations he was forced to endure.<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;">1952: Birthdate of
comedian and early star of SNL Laraine Newman and the sister of Emmy winning
television writer Tracy Newman.<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;">1952: It was reported
today that 74-year-old Dr. Alexander Marx, director of libraries and Jacob H.
Schiff Professor of History at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America will
be taking his first trip to Israel this month. <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;">1953(15<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5713): Shushan Purim<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;">1953: In Janesville,
WI, attorney Leon Feingold and the former Sylvia Binstock gave birth to Phi
Beta Kappa graduate and Harvard trained attorney Russell Dana Feingold who
served as U.S. Senator from Wisconsin from 1993 through 2011.<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;">1953: </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 the Eisenhower administration decided to pay more attention to
Arab countries and less to Israel. The first concrete step in this direction
was granting Egypt an $11m. credit so it could purchase American arms. <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;">1953: </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 twenty
Jewish families from Poland arrived in Austria on their way to Israel. They
reported that the Polish Jews were in a state of panic and more families were
expected to follow.<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;">1956:
Seventy-four-year-old Israel Zolli, the former chief rabbi of Rome who
converted to Catholicism in 1945 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;">1956: Morocco gains its
independence from France; date celebrated as Independence Day in Morocco. Jews
are known to have settled in what is no Morocco during Roman times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1948, the ancient Jewish community had over
a quarter of a million members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Following violent attacks, large numbers of Jews began leaving for
Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time of independence,
Jews served in the parliament and held at least one ministerial post.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The new government banned immigration to
Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ban was lifted in 1963 and
Jews began moving en masse to Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The ancient community has now dwindled to a couple of thousand members.<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;">1957(29<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5717): Parashat Pekudei; Shabbat Shekalim<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(29<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5717): Eight-four-year-old Hunter College graduate and educational
activist Mrs. Miriam Sutro Price, the New York born daughter of Bernard and
Pauline Josephthal Sutro, and sister of Richard and Lionel Sutro, the founders
of Sutro Brothers and Company who was the widow of Joseph M. Price, “the
chairman of the Fusion Executive Committee” and president of the Improved
Mailing Case Company, passed away today in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/03/04/102275058.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/03/04/102275058.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="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958: In “Israel’s
Anniversary Year” Mary Qualley King described plans being made by Israelis to
celebrate the country’s tenth anniversary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F70C13F9385D1A7B93C0A91788D85F4C8585F9"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F70C13F9385D1A7B93C0A91788D85F4C8585F9</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1959: “Sleep Warm,” an
album including songs by Alan Bergman and Harold Arlen was released 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;">1961(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5721): Purim is observed for the first time during the Presidency of John
Kennedy.<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;">1962: Harvey Pollack,
the New Jersey born statistician and journalist kept score tonight during Wilt
the Stilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Pollack was Jewish; Chamberlain was not)<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;">1964: “David Lawrence.
newspaper columnist and editor of the Magazine U. S. News + World Report,
received today the American Legion 1964 Journalistic Achievement Award for
“continuous dedication to the finest traditions of American journalism in the
national capital.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1964/03/03/archives/david-lawrence-honored.html?searchResultPosition=9"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1964/03/03/archives/david-lawrence-honored.html?searchResultPosition=9</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1964: Pre-Broadway
tryouts for “Anyone Can Whistle” “with a book by Arthur Laurents and music and
lyrics by Stephen Sondheim” opened in Philadelphia.<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;">1964:</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">One of the old 66-year-old
men's clothing industry, Jerome I. Udell, the 66</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria Math", serif;">-</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">year-old chairman of
Max Udell Sons & Co., Inc.—manufacturer of Gramercy Park suits and Blacker
Bros. sport jackets — “sold his interest in the company and announced his
retirement 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;">1965: U.S. premiere
“The Sound of Music” the movie version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway
musical with a score by Irwin Kostal and a screenplay by Ernest Lehman.<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;">1966: In Moscow, Mikhail
Sheferovsky and Rachel Sheferovskaya gave birth to Felix Mikhailovich
Sheferovsky who gained fame as real estate developer and business associate of
Donald Trump Felix Henry Sater.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump's-business-sought-deal-on-a-trump-tower-in-moscow-while-he-ran-for-president/ar-AAqOjEs?ocid=spartandhp"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump’s-business-sought-deal-on-a-trump-tower-in-moscow-while-he-ran-for-president/ar-AAqOjEs?ocid=spartandhp</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1969: “Law and Order” a
documentary that “shows the daily routine of the Kansas City Police
Department,” directed, produced and edited by Frederick Wiseman was release
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;">1970(24<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5730): Seventy-one-year-old Russian born Joseph L. Dubow who in 1902
came to the United States where “he was admitted to the bar…after graduating
from the University of Chattanooga Law School” and eventually became the
“executive director of the New York Coat and Suit Association” while raising
two sons – Peter and Robert – with his wife Estelle passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/04/archives/joseph-l-dubow-garment-leader-coat-suit-associations-executive.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/04/archives/joseph-l-dubow-garment-leader-coat-suit-associations-executive.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: “The white
minority Rhodesian Front government, led by Ian Smith, severed ties with the
British crown; Smith declared Rhodesia an independent republic.” The majority
black population resisted the Smith government. A civil war broke between the
Smith government and the black population which was represented by ZANU
(Zimbabwe African National Union) and ZAPU (Zimbabwe African People’s
Union).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of the civil war, most
of the Jewish population (approximately 7,000 in number as of 1961) left the
country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually the minority white
government was defeated, and the Republic of Zimbabwe was formed.<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;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/zimbabwe.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/zimbabwe.html</span></a><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></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;">1970(24<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5730): 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 passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/05/archives/solomon-a-wald-cargo-salvor-83-founder-of-marine-dealer-in-damaged.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/05/archives/solomon-a-wald-cargo-salvor-83-founder-of-marine-dealer-in-damaged.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1971: Daniel Ellsberg,
the son of “Ashkenazi Jews who had converted to Christian Scientist<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>went to the home of Neil Sheehan, who had
offered him a place to stay and talked to him about the possibility of the NYT
publishing what came to be known as The Pentagon Papers.<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;">1972(17t of Shevat,
5732): Seventy-eight-year-old Harvard educated, WW II veteran, Pulitzer Prize winning
historian Herbert Feis, the son New York City born son “Louis Feis and Louise
Waterman Feis, were Jewish immigrants from Alsace, France,” the husband of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the former Ruth Stanley</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria Math", serif;">‐</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Brown,
a granddaughter of President Arthur Garfield” who was a high ranking economic
advisor “during the administrations of Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt” and is
the namesake o the American Historical Association’s “Herbert Feiss Award” passed
away today in Winte Park, FL after which he was buried at the First Parish
Cemetery in York Village, Maine.<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;"><a href="https://lccn.loc.gov/n50003382">https://lccn.loc.gov/n50003382</a><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;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/03/archives/herbert-feis-historian-dies-a-warded-pulitzer-prize-iin61.html?searchResultPosition=1">https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/03/archives/herbert-feis-historian-dies-a-warded-pulitzer-prize-iin61.html?searchResultPosition=1</a><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;">1972: “Journey Through
Rosebud” co-starring Kristoffer Tabori was released in the United States 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;">1975(19<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5735): Eighty-two-year-old Lester Gans Steppacher, the Philadelphia born
son of Leah G. Gans and Walter Meyer Steppacher and the husband of Ruth Miriam
Elizabeth Steinbach Steppacher who were married at Rodeph Shalom by Rabbi Henry
Berkowitz passed away today after which he was buried at Mt. Sinai Cemetery.<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;">1975: Birthdate of Rishon LeZion native Danny Niv, the “Israeli singer
and rapper” known as “Muki.”<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;">1976: The International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee continued to
meet for a second day in Jerusalem.<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;">1976: In New York, “Madelin Itzkoff” and “cocaine addict Gerald Itzkoff”
gave birth to Princeton educated journalist and author David Itzkoff, a
reporter with the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i>
whose memoir is entitled <u>Cocaine’s Son</u> for obvious reasons.<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;">1978:<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 Egypt
was counting on US President Jimmy Carter to put forward an American peace
package to put pressure on Israel and to break the apparent deadlock over the
Israeli-Egyptian “declaration of principles.” In Israel government sources
declared that the positions of the two sides remained far apart on major
issues, especially on the problem of the future of the “administered areas.” <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;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></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;">1978: “Fingers,” an
aptly named drama about a pianist directed and written by James Tobac and
starring Harvey Keitel was released in the United States today.<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;">1978:<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
Venezuela had announced that there were no obstacles in selling oil to Israel
and welcomed cooperation on other aspects of energy. <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;">1979: “Real Life,” a
comedy with a script by Harry Shearer and Albert Brooks who also served as director
and costarring Albert Brooks and Charles Grodin was released today in the
United States.<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;">1979: U.S. premiere of
“Norma Rae” directed by Martin Ritt, with music by David Shire, a screenplay by
Irving Ravetch and his wife Harriet Frank Jr. co-starring Ron Liebman.<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;">1980(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5740): Purim<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;">1980: Yigal Allon’s
funeral took place today at Kibbutz Ginosar on the shore of Lake Kinneret which
had been his home for almost fifty years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://archive.jta.org/article/1980/03/03/2986837/tens-of-thousands-of-people-attend-funeral-of-yigal-allon"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://archive.jta.org/article/1980/03/03/2986837/tens-of-thousands-of-people-attend-funeral-of-yigal-allon</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1981: Rockets from
Lebanese territory struck several homes in the Galilee town of Qiryat Shemona
today, wounding three people.<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;">1981: Discovery of 5020
Asimov, an asteroid named after science fiction author Isaac Asimov.<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;">1982: Rabbi Haim Meir
Drukman lost his post as Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs.<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;">1982(7<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5742): Seventy-one-year-old Yoel Zussman the fourth President of the
Supreme Court of Israel, 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;">1982: The U.S. House of
Representatives unanimously adopted a resolution calling on the Soviet Union to
end the persecution, arrests and trials of Jewish activists; to remove
obstacles to emigration; and to respect the rights of its citizens to practice their
religion<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;">1982: The Dearborn
Station, “a Romanesque Revival structure designed by Cyrus W. Eidlitz” was
designated as an official Chicago Landmark.<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;">1983: Shulamit Ran's <i>Verticals</i>
“was premiered by pianist Alan Feinberg at New York's Merkin Concert Hall. <i>The
New York Times</i> described the work by the Tel Aviv native as “rhapsodic and
intriguing.”<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;">1984: U.S. premiere of
“This Is Spinal Tap” “an American 1984 rock music mockumentary written and
scored by Rob Reiner who also co-starred along with Harry Shearer.<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;">1984: U.S. premiere of
“Harry and Son” directed, produced and written by Paul Newman, who co-starred
in the feature along with Ellen Barkin.<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;">1984: “Against All
Odds” a romantic thriller featuring Saul Rubinek was released today in the
United States.<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="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1986(21st of Adar I, 5746): Marcel Liebman,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Belgian historian and
Holocaust survivor, passed away at the age of 56.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986: A
revival of “Jubilee” a musical with a book by Moss Hart opened today at The
Town Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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="line-height: normal; 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;">Law-enforcement officials said today that federal
prosecutors are on the verge of seeking the indictment of Aviem Sella, a
prominent Israeli Air Force officer who the Justice Department alleges played a
key role in directing the espionage activities of Jonathan Jay Pollard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1988(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5748): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1988:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black;">Dr. Inamullah Khan, secretary general of the Pakistan-based
World Moslem Congress has been named as the winner of the $369,000 Templeton
Prize for Progress in Religion even though there are reports that the prize
winner has been associated with anti-Semitic and anti-Israel causes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989: The
Broadway production “Lend Me A Tenor” directed by Tony Award winner Jerry Sake
opened at the Royale Theatre.<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;">1991(16th of Adar,
5751):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>French musician Serge Gainsbourg
passed away at the age of 62. Born <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Lucien
Ginzburg, Gainsbourg survived the Nazi occupation of France to become a leading
poet, songwriter, singer and director.<o:p></o:p></span></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;">1992(27th of Adar I, 5752): The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel
Schneerson, suffered a disabling stroke while praying at the gravesite of the
previous Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch. <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;">1993(9th of Adar, 5753): Yehoshua Weissbrod was stoned and then shot dead
by Palestinian terrorists in the town of Rafa.<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;">1993: ABC broadcast the episode of “Civil Wars” created by Steven Bocho
who served with Executive Produces along with William M. Finkelstein and
co-starring Debi Mazar and Alan Rosenberg.<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;">1996(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5756): Parsashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor<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;">1996(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5756): Eighty-year-old Tufts and Columbia
trained social worker and WW II veteran Mitchell Irving Ginsberg, the Revere,
Massachusetts born son “Harry J Ginsberg, a maintenance worker and Rose Harris
and the husband of Ida Robbins, who held leadership roles in the Peace Corps
and VISTA while also teaching at Columbia, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/ginsberg-mitchell-irving"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/ginsberg-mitchell-irving</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">1997: <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>Rubber Bullets:<span style="color: black;"> </span>Power
and Conscience in Modern Israel</u><b><br />
</b>by Yaron Ezrahi, the children’s book, <u>When Chickens Grow Teeth: A Story
From the French of Guy de Maupassant</u> retold and illustrated by Wendy
Anderson Halperin and <u>Too Much Is Never Enough</u> by Russian born architect
Morris Lapidus, the man who “created Miami Beach in the 1950’s<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;">1998: After almost three months of negotiations, Ronald Perelman and Al
Dunlap reach an agreement involving the sale of Sunbeam and Coleman.<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;">1999(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5759): Purim<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;">2000: Thomas Buergenthal began serving as a Judge of the International
Court of Justice.<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;">2001(7<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5761): Forty-seven-year-old British
journalist and broadcaster John Diamond lost his battle with throat cancer and
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091216113301/http:/www.lastingtribute.co.uk/tribute/diamond/260391"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://web.archive.org/web/20091216113301/http://www.lastingtribute.co.uk/tribute/diamond/260391</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/mar/03/guardianobituaries.lifeandhealth"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/mar/03/guardianobituaries.lifeandhealth</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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="line-height: normal; 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="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: “Inherit the Wind,” the controversial play co-authored Jerome
Lawrence “that used Darwin vs. Genesis as a way to speak out against
McCarthyism” opened at the Sheffel Theatre of the Topeka Civic Theatre &
Academy<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;">2001:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
“<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Eleanor Antin: Real Time Streaming”
opened at the Cornerhouse in Manchester, UK.</span><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;">2001: <i>The Times of
London</i> reviewed <u>The Jewish State: The struggle for Israel's Soul</u> by
Yoram Hazony<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;">2002(18<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5762): Eleven Israelis were killed in a Palestinian suicide bombing in
Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox neighborhood.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshivat_Beit_Yisrael_massacre"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshivat_Beit_Yisrael_massacre</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">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>'The
Pieces From Berlin': Swindling Holocaust Victims</u> by John Sutherland and <u>Irving
Howe:<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> A Life of Passionate Dissent</span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> by Gerald Sorin<b>. </b></span><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;">2004:</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The creeping chaos in Palestinian areas has
been evident throughout the last three years of intifada…but the killing early”
today “of Khalil al-Zebin, a longtime associate of Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian
leader, seemed to crystallize the growing lawlessness” which for once has not
blamed on the Israelis.<b><br />
</b></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2005: Start of the 12th Daf
Yomi Cycle. Daf Yomi is translated as "Daily Page." Daf
refers to the double-sided page of the Talmud. Daf is also the word for
Plank. Tjere are those who say that the double meaning of the term Daf
comes from a story about Rabbi Akiva who was saved by from drowning when he
grabbed hold of a plank of a daf. By holding on a daf - a page of the
Talmud, the Jew stays a float in the worldly sea. The program called Daf
Yomi is "a systematic approach to the daily study of the Talmud formulated
by Reb Meir Shapira of Lublin in 1923. The program enables Jews
throughout the world to study the same daf or double-sided page of the Talmud
simultaneously. Using this method, one can study the Talmud in a little
over seven years. This system has become popular and there is plethora of
sites that provide both text and audio explanations. There are also
weekly summaries. The success of Daf Yomi has led to the creation of
other cyclical study programs. These programs can be found on the
web. Also, many congregations - Orthodox, Conservative and Reform - now
have spontaneously formed lay study groups that cover this material. It
is one more example of the burgeoning interest in Adult Jewish Education.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></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;">2005: Final performance
of television series “Boston Public” co-starring Fyvush Frinkel, the veteran of
the Yiddish theatre who portrayed “history teach Harvey Lipshultz.”<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;">2006:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Jerusalem Post</i> reported on deteriorating condition for Jewish communities
in parts of the former Soviet Union.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
Uzbekistan authorities are probing the murder of one of Tashkent's rabbis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And despite pleas from the Jewish community
and international organizations, the Tajikistan government has started to
destroy the country's only synagogue.<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;">2006(2nd of Adar,
5766): Marty Stein, who helped start Stein drugstores and Stein Optical, has
died of cancer. He was 68. Mr. Stein was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic
leukemia in 1994. He passed away in Milwaukee. A former pharmacist, Mr. Stein
co-founded the first Stein drugstore in Menomonee Falls in 1961. He later
expanded the chain into 19 stores, which he sold to the Walgreen Co. in
1979.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then started Stein Health
Services Inc., which ran three companies in home health care, eye care and
related fields. The Eye Care One division ran Wisconsin stores as Stein Optical
and Chicago stores as EyeQ. Those were sold in the late 1990s.Mr. Stein also
was involved in efforts to help Israel and Jewish immigrants, including serving
as national chairman of a worldwide effort to airlift thousands of Ethiopian
Jews to Israel. By 1988, he had met President Ronald Reagan, the pope and
Israeli leaders. Despite his international focus, Mr. Stein remained committed
to helping those in his local communities.” There are two Americas in
America," he once said. "There's the one where I live and there's the
other one in places such as the inner city. I want to help other people who
live in the other America to know the America I know. "Mr. Stein was active
in groups such as the Hunger Task Force of Milwaukee. Former Wisconsin Gov.
Tommy Thompson called the news of Mr. Stein's death "devastating."<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;">2006: This evening poet
Rachel Tzvia Back gave a lecture entitled "Placing the Voice: The Personal
and Political, Israel 2006" at Williams College. Though born in Buffalo,
NY, she "is the seventh generation of her family in Palestine,"
according to this bio at <i>The Drunken Boat</i>. Her grandfather left there in
the 1920s, seeking his fortune in America; in the 1980s she returned to Israel,
completing the cycle, and lives there still.<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;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2006/03/placing_the_voi.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2006/03/placing_the_voi.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">2007: Ethiopian born
singer Aiiala Ingdsht released her first album in Tel Aviv.<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;">2007: The Secretary of
State appointed Eliot Asher Cohen, the Harvard Ph.D. and graduate of the Army
ROTC program at MIT “serve as Counselor of the State Department.<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;">2007(12th of Adar,
5767): Former American Jewish Congress leader William Maslow died in his
Manhattan home at the age of 99. Born in Kiev in 1907, Maslow moved to the
United States with his family in 1911. He served as general counsel to the
American Jewish Congress from 1945 to 1960, and as executive director from 1960
to 1972, guiding the organization’s fight against discrimination to the court
system. Under Maslow’s direction, the American Jewish Congress fought housing
restrictions on Jews in many communities, as well as discriminatory hiring and
admissions policies at U.S. companies and universities. He filed the group’s
amicus brief in Brown v. Board of Education and helping organize the 1963 March
on Washington that featured the “I Have a Dream Speech.” He also founded the
Commission on Law and Social Action, modeled after the ACLU and NAACP. A nephew
of Paula Ben-Gurion, wife of Israel’s first Prime Minister, Maslow was a
dedicated Zionist and helped lead Israel’s fight against the Arab economic boycott
in the 1970s.<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;">2007: 153 years to the
day after the congregation now known as Temple Israel received its charter from
the State of Tennessee, a historical marker was erected by the Shelby County
Historical Commission, the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation,
and Temple Israel, on the corner where the synagogue had once stood describing
the building as the "First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in
Tennessee".<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;">2007: After almost
thirty two years, Jacob “Jack” Austin completed his service as a Senator from
British Columbia.<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;">2008: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Washington Post </i>featured a review of
Richard M. Cohen's <u><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Strong at the
Broken Places</span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">.</span><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;">2008: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sunday New York Times</i>
features a review of <u>Dreams and Shadows:<span style="color: black;"> </span>The
Future of the Middle East</u> by Robin Wright and<u> The Bush Tragedy<b> </b></u>by
Jacob Wiesberg.<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;">2008: In New York City, the 92<sup>nd</sup> Street Y presents what might
be called“Jewish night the press” in a program styled “In the News With Jeff
Greenfield—On the Election with Jonathan Alter, Joe Klein and Rich
Lowry.” <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;">2008: During
Operation Hot Winter the “IDF decided to change its strategy today and sent a
whole regiment (about 2000 men) into the Northern Strip to occupy Jabalya and
Sajiyah but met stiff resistance from the Palestinians. In the bloodiest day
for Gaza since 2002, close to 70 civilians were killed. Military deaths totaled
4 Palestinian fighters and 2 Israeli soldiers.”<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;">2009: Jonathan David Leibowitz assuming the Chairmanship of the Federal
Trade Commission.<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;">2009: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sports Illustrated</i>
reports that Andy Roddic will “not be showing up at the Dubai Open” this
week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“He’s ticked that Israel’s Shahar
Peer was denied entry to the United Arab Emirates to ply in the women’s
tournament.<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;">2009: At the 92<sup>nd</sup> Street Y, playwright, author and actress
Anna Deavere delivers the Annual State of Anti-Semitism lecture entitled
“Hatred Knows No Boundaries,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> a unique address on the issues of hatred,
racial conflict and genocide<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: In
“Lesbian Nation” published today author Ariel Levy, who described herself as
“female and gay” and who had been named one of the "Forty Under 40"
most influential out individuals in the June/July 2009 issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Advocate </i>examines a “golden age” of
sexual expression.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/02/lesbian-nation"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/02/lesbian-nation</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2009: In
Washington, D.C. Jewish author Adam Gopnik</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black;">discusses and signs
his new book, <u><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Angels and Ages: A
Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life</span>,</u> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009:
Israel's UN envoy filed a letter of complaint about the continued rocket
attacks from Gaza to the Secretary-General and the president of the Security
Council, whose rotating chair is currently held by Libya. Ambassador Gabriela
Shalev warned that the Hamas attacks would hinder efforts to reach a
"stable and durable cease-fire" - a deliberate echo of language
adopted by the Security Council in its January resolution calling for an end to
Israel's Operation Cast Lead offensive in Gaza. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: In
“The Good, the Bad, the Bible,” published today Lisa Miller examines <u>The
Good Book</u> by David Plotz, “a naïf wandering in a strange land full of
eccentric people and incomprehensible rules.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Today
is the day the New Israeli Foundation for Cinema & TV has set as the
deadline for submitting scripts based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem that
could be used for television productions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The selected scripts will be eligible for special funding supplied by
the foundation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: A
direct-to-DVD sequel to the animated film Curious George titled Curious George
2: Follow That Monkey!” based on the character created by Hans Augusto Rey and
Margret Rey was released today.<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="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black;">At noon today a demonstration that will include members of
the Union of Israel Journalists who are demanding the safeguarding of public broadcasting
in Israel is scheduled to take place at Beit Sokolov in Tel Aviv</span>. <span style="color: black;">The demonstration is being initiated by a group of
organizations concerned that the sharp deterioration in employer/employee
relations at the Israel Broadcasting Authority, coupled with the souring of
relations between the IBA and the Finance Ministry and other government bodies,
may result in a decision that the IBA is no longer necessary.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: The
Tulane University Jewish Studies Program under the direction of Dr. Brian
Horowitz is scheduled to present to present a program entitled “Obama and
Israel,” featuring Mitchell Bard of the American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise<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="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black;">Late today reports started to emerge that, contrary to
initial reports, the Masorti synagogue in Concepcion was destroyed in the
earthquake that had rocked Chile this past weekend.</span> <span style="color: black;">The head of the international Masorti organization, Rabbi
Tzvi Graetz had been to Concepcion which was close to the epicenter of the
earthquake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said that ‘it was like
the 'hurban habayit' [destruction of the Temple], the walls were all cracked
and the roof had fallen down. I couldn't stay there, so I got the sifrei Torah
and left,’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Amos
Oz said today that the Khoury family of East Jerusalem had funded the
translation of <u>A Tale of Love and Darkness</u>, his best-selling
autobiography to promote coexistence. The translation which was done by Israeli
Arab Jamal Gnaim, was done in memory of Khoury’s son George who was a promising
Hebrew University law student when he was killed in a 2004 shooting attack while
jogging on the university's Mt. Scopus campus. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011: The
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to present a
program entitled “Jewish Confederates” at Adas Israel Congregation.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black;">JHSGW Board Member Les Bergen’s presentation will include
information about “a female spy living just doors from the White House and her
sister, who ran a military hospital in Richmond and became known as the
‘Confederate Clara Barton.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">Pope Benedict XVI reiterated that the Jewish people are not
responsible for Jesus' death in a new book released today. The Pope also denies
the Gospel writers' claim that Jews working in the Temple collaborated with the
Roman authorities, leading to Jesus' execution.</span> <span style="color: black;">"Many
readers will find this section of the book particularly interesting as the Pope
reviews the historical positions taken about this," said Father Joseph
Fessio, founder and publisher of Ignatius Press, the primary publisher of the
Pope's books in the US. "He discusses some very controversial claims that
have been made, and draws on some contemporary scholarly resources to reach a
conclusion that I am certain will generate a lot of discussion." <u>The
book, Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week - From the Entrance Into Jerusalem to the
Resurrection,</u> a sequel to a previous book on Jesus' life, the Pope
describes "the final week of Jesus' earthly life."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">There were signs today of a new effort to restart the
Israeli-Palestinian peace process after months of stagnation, but chances of a
resumption of talks looked slim and Israel appeared to be stepping back from
the stated goal of reaching a framework agreement resolving the core issues of
the conflict by September<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(26<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5771): Eighty-seven-year-old Walter Zacharius, a publisher and
iconoclast who released an unauthorized version of the erotic classic
"Candy" and had the savvy and sales talk to help romance novels make
the transition from drugstores to superstores to the Internet passed away today
(As reported by Hillel Italie)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article-print/2011/03/14/3086393/the-eulogizer-innovative-publisher-bataan-death-march-survivor?TB_iframe=true&width=750&height=500"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jta.org/news/article-print/2011/03/14/3086393/the-eulogizer-innovative-publisher-bataan-death-march-survivor?TB_iframe=true&width=750&height=500</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Final
day to make reservations for the 2012 Humanitarian Awards Dinner sponsored by
the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.<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="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2012:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black;">Joseph Cedar’s “Footnote,” a tragicomic tale of rival
father-and-son Jewish scholars in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in
Jerusalem is scheduled to open in New York today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/movies/footnote-israeli-film-by-joseph-cedar.html?pagewanted=all"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/movies/footnote-israeli-film-by-joseph-cedar.html?pagewanted=all</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Emanuel Berman, author of “City within a City” is scheduled to participate in a
lecture and book signing sponsored by<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>the YIVO Institute of Research.<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="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2012:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black;">In his first public comments on a North American visit that
will include talks with U.S. President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu said today Israel reserved the right to defend itself against Iran. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: A
memorial service is scheduled to be held this afternoon at Congregation B’nai
Israel In Baton Rouge for 81-year-old attorney Victor Alphonse Sachse III, the
Korean War Combat Veteran and husband of Mary-Lynn Cross Sachse.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://obits.theadvocate.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=victor-alphonse-sachse-jd&pid=156203740"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://obits.theadvocate.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=victor-alphonse-sachse-jd&pid=156203740</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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="line-height: normal; 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="line-height: normal; 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;">Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said today that Israel
is ready to help treat Syrians wounded in the uprising against President Bashar
Assad. <o:p></o:p></span></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;">2013(20<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5773): In Cedar Rapids, the traditional
minyan at Temple Judah gathers for Shabbat Parah which, the weekly portion
includes the story of the Golden Calf, might be called “The Tale of Two
Bovines.<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;">2013: The Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival is scheduled the Minnesota
Premiere of “Life In Stills.”<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 Israel String Quartet – Yigal Tuneh
and Avital Steiner (violins), Robert Moses (viola), and Tzvi Moskovsky (cello)
– is sechduedl to perform to pieces by Beethoven at the Eden-Tamir Music Center<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: “After failing to assemble a coalition
within the legally allotted month, Prime Minister Netanyahu went back to
President Shimon Peres tonight to ask for an extension. (As reported by Jewish
Press News Briefs)<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: Three Syrian mortars landed near moshav
Ramat Magshimim in the southern Golan Heights this afternoon, causing no
injuries or damage (As reported by Yoel Goldman and Gavriel Fiske)<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(30<sup>th</sup> of Adar I,
5774): Rosh Chodesh Adar I<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(30<sup>th</sup> of Adar I,
5774): Eighty-eight-year-old Justin Kaplan who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967
for Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/books/justin-kaplan-literary-biographer-dies-at-88.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/books/justin-kaplan-literary-biographer-dies-at-88.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=0</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: The Center for Jewish History
and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research are scheduled to present a symposium,
“Tevye’s Daughters: How Jewish Women Confronted Modernity.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Yuval Adler’s “Bethlehem” a
move that “explores the relationship between a Shin Bet agent and a Palestinian
teenager is among the films competing tonight for the Academy Award for Best
Foreign Language Film. (As reported by Debra Kamin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Niv Adiri who was “part of the
team” nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound for “Gravity” is the only
Israeli nominated for one of tonight’s Oscars.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Opening session of the AIPAC Policy
Conference is scheduled to take place today in Washington<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: “The Sturgeon Queens,” a
documentary featuring Russ & Daughters is scheduled to be shown at the
Washington, DC Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Eight people have been arrested
as suspects in a stabbing that took place in Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, this
evening. The background for the attack is suspected to be nationalistic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: A Jewish man is beaten on the
Paris Metro by assailants who reportedly told him “Jew, we are going to lay
into you, you have no country.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Jerusalem is the site of the
so-called million man march where haredim protest having to serve in the IDF.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/178008#.UxPOT5uYapo"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/178008#.UxPOT5uYapo</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/178002#.UxPTyZuYapo"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/178002#.UxPTyZuYapo</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Michael Kapustin, the rabbi at
Ner Tamid, the reform congregation in Simferpolo, the capital of Ukraine’s
republic “said there is an atmosphere of fear in the city, with few cars and
fewer pedestrians on the streets” and that his congregants should “stay
indoors.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ner Tamid has already been
vandalized with “anti-Semitic graffiti including swastikas” (As reported by
Amanda Borschel-Dan)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><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 Jewish readers including Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence
Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen and Not I:
Memoir of a German Childhood by Joachim Fest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: Dr. Hana Barouk is scheduled to
deliver a lecture on”Chassidic Feminism? Rabbi Menachem Schneersohn's Approach
to the Role of Women in Chabad Chassidism” at the Jewish Museum of Florida.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: Rabbi Robert Loewy is scheduled
to officiate at the graveside services at Hebrew Rest Cemetery in New Orleans
for Elma Bloch Rosenfeld, the mother of Becky Ripps.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Evan Rapport is scheduled to deliver a lecture “Greeted with Smiles:
Bukharin Jewish Music and Musicians in New York” at the Center for Jewish
History.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: In an interview to be broadcast
on Channel 2 today, “Israel’s recently retired Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Benny
Gantz hinted that he helped prevent a possible Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear
program.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: Three thousand reservists will
have to report for duty today as part of an exercise to prepare of “possible
destabilization of the security situation in the West Bank.” (As reported by
Justin Jalil)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: US Secretary of State John
Kerry today delivered a vigorous defense of Israel before the UN Human Rights
Council, urging its members to end what the United States says is its unfair
and biased focus on the Jewish State that could undermine its credibility. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: Prime Minister Netanyahu
addressed AIPAC today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: “Black Jews: The Roots of the
Olive Tree” and “Chaos Within” are scheduled to be shown today at the 26<sup>th</sup>
annual Washington Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">2016: As part of the Books on
Broadway series</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Author Barbara Isenberg is scheduled to chronicle the rich
tale of how Sholem Aleichem's 19th-century Yiddish stories of Tevye the milkman
and his family were re-imagined, set to music and popularized onstage and
onscreen and scholar Diane Cole is scheduled to set the context with a
background discussion on Yiddish author Sholom Aleichem, whose stories were the
basis for Fiddler on the Roof.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">2016: Dario Disegni, the president of
the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Italy, told a meeting
of the foundation board in Rome today that Carbon 14 dating carried out by the
Geochronology Laboratory of the University of Illinois has established that “a
Torah scroll from the synagogue in the northern Italian town of Biella has been
identified</span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> as probably the oldest in the
world still owned and used by a Jewish community.” (As reported by JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: In Tel Aviv, the Estonian
Israeli Music Festival is scheduled to come to an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: “Mr. Kaplan” a movie made in
Uruguay about a Jewish refugee is scheduled to be shown at the Charlotte Jewish
Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: “A bipartisan slate of House
lawmakers introduced a bill that would ensure that claims of Jews from Iran and
Arab lands are addressed in any Arab-Israeli peace talks in which the United
States is involved and also requires that any administration report to Congress
each year what it has done to address the issue of those Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: The family of photojournalist
David Rubinger made public the news today that he had passed away yesterday at
the age of 92.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/david-rubinger-photographer-of-the-nation-dies-at-92/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/david-rubinger-photographer-of-the-nation-dies-at-92/</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: The Illinois Holocaust Museum
and Education Center is scheduled to host “Growing Up Bielski” during which
Michael “Mickey” Bielski, the son of Tuvia Bielski describes the his families
fight for survival which was depicted in the film “Defiance.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: The Jewish Historical Society
of Greater Washington is scheduled to host the final focus group to provide
input for a new Jewish Museum<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: The 92<sup>nd</sup> Street Y is
scheduled to host a concert by the Woman to Woman All-Start Band featuring
clarinetist Anat Cohen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">2018: In Des Moines, I, Temple B’nai
Jershurun is scheduled to host a special “Megillah reading for kids” this
evening</span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></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 Jackson Hold Jewish Community Center
is scheduled to host “Megillah Madness: Purim Shabbat and Improv Comedy Night.”<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: ShabbatUK is scheduled to come to an end
today.<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 East Bay International Jewish Film
Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Monsieur and Madame Adelman” this
evening.<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 Carmel Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to open tonight with a screening of “Laemmle,” a documentary about
“Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures” and a pioneer of the world of
movies as we have come to know them.<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: Jewish Book Week Festival 2019 is
scheduled to open today in London.<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(25<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5779): Shabbat
Shekalim; Parashat Vayakhel; <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: A screening of “Leona” is scheduled to
take place on the final night of The New York Sephardic 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;">2020: The legislative elections for the 23<sup>rd</sup>
Knesset are scheduled to held today in Israel which are unique in that they
take place when the sitting Prime Minister is under indictment and facing trial
on charges of corruption.<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 London, JW3 is scheduled to host a
screening of “Waiting for Anya.”<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: As part of Jewish Book Week, Elliot is
scheduled to discuss Yeshiva Days: Learning on the Lower East Side with its
author Johnathan Boyarin, a professor of Modern Jewish Studies at Cornell
University.<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 Tulane University Hillel Board
Meeting 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;">2021: An agreement between Prime Minister
Netanyahu and Education Minister Yoav Galant that students in grades 7-10 would
return to school today, has reportedly been supplanted by an agreed between the
Prime Minister and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein delaying the opening until
Sunday, March 7<sup>th.</sup> <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 Jewish Volunteering Network (JVN) is
scheduled to host its “Celebration of Volunteering Awards,” an online event
this evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jvnawards.org.uk/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://jvnawards.org.uk/</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;">2021: As part of the “Who Inspires the Women
Who Inspire Us” series the Streicker Center is scheduled to host an evening
with Debbie Wasserman Schultz, “the first Jewish female to be elected to the US
Congress from Florida.<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 YIVO Institute is scheduled to
present discussion celebrating the exhibition “Beba Epstein: The Extraordinary
Life of an Ordinary Girl” featuring Beba Epstein's son, Michael Leventhal,
scholar Antony Polonsky, museum chief curator Karolina Ziulkoski, and YIVO's
Executive Director and CEO Jonathan Brent.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://museum.yivo.org/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://museum.yivo.org/</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;">2022: An adaptation of “The Merchant of Venice”
directed by Arin Arbus which is a “Theatre for New Audience production” is
being performed at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn.<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/2022/03/01/theater/merchant-of-venice-black-no-more.html?searchResultPosition=4"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/theater/merchant-of-venice-black-no-more.html?searchResultPosition=4</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;">2022: “Israel’s high court said that four
Palestinian families could stay in their homes in East Jerusalem for now.”<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;">2023: The 23<sup>rd</sup> annual Cleveland
Jewish Book Festival is scheduled to begin today<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;">2023: This evening, the Sir Martin Gilbert
Learning Centre hosted a lecture by Mr. Lee Pollock on “The Art of Winston
Churchill.”<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;">2023:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lea
Kalisch is scheduled to present SHTETL CABARET, a night of Jewish entertainment
and Yiddishkayt, delivered with young, zestful, sexy energy.<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;">2023: The Hebrew College and Jewish Arts
Collaborative ar scheduled to dedicate the Musician Cohen Center for the
Performs Arts at Ordis Hall in Newton, MA<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;">2023: In Palo Alto, CA, the Oshman Family JCC
is scheduled to host Attorney Orly Erez Likhovski (CEO of Israel Religious
Action Center) and scholar Mashua Shagiv (Koret visiting prof at Berkeley Law) as
they discuss how the recent elections are affecting relationships between
Israel and world Jewry.<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;">2024: At Temple Judea, with Rabbi Fievel on a
mission to Israel, Rabbi Yaron is scheduled to lead the Torah Study.<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;">2024: Jewish Children’s Regional Service (JCRS),
an organization that really does deliver for the benefit of the community, is
scheduled to present Jewish Roots’ B’nai Mitzvah, a celebration of 13 years of
the Jewish Roots fundraising gala which will be held at The Higgins Hotel at
6:30 PM (CST).<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;">2024 (22nd of Adar I, 5784): Parashat Tetzaveh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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
2<sup>nd</sup> begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held
hostages begin day 148 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="line-height: normal;"><span style="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" 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-8948203843621823572024-02-29T11:48:00.002-06:002024-02-29T16:00:22.086-06:00This Day, March 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">March 1</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">286: Roman Emperor Diocletian raises Maximian
to the rank of Caesar. Diocletian was determined to restore greatness and
stability to the Roman Empire.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">He was
far more concerned about the Christians whom he saw “as the sole cause of the
dissolution of the Empire, on account of their persistent struggle against the
Roman state religion and their zeal for conversion” than he was about the
Jews.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">When he attempted to unify the
empire by ordering all of those under his reign to accept his divinity and
“bring sacrifices to his cult,” Diocletian exempted the Jews.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The only negative note of import surrounding
Diocletian and his Jewish subjects had to do with accusation that they had
mocked him because of his early origins as a swineherd.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Judah III, the Patriarch, actually had to
appear before the Emperor while he was in Tiberias to answer the charge.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Judah assured him that while some may of
spoken disrespectfully of Diocletian the swineherd nobody had uttered any words
of criticism against Diocletian, the emperor.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The explanation assuaged Diocletian but it has been used an example of
the dangers of speaking L’shon Hara.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">293: Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian
appoint Constantius Chlorus and Galerius as Caesares, thus beginning the
Tetrarchy. This move on the part of
Diocletian was part of an attempt to ensure a smooth transition of power after
Diocletian resigned as Emperor. The plan
would fail and would result in 19 years of turmoil that would end only when
Constantine took the throne. For the Jews, this would mean an end to great
Yeshiva at Tiberias. Those who could
would flee to Caesarea where they would a haven at the yeshiva begun by Abbahu.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">317: Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Roman
Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius Iunior, son of Emperor Licinius, are made
Caesares. Lucinius and Crispus would be killed, the latter by his father
Emperor Constantine I. Constantine II
would continue the anti-Jewish policies of his father. Among other things, he decreed that any
Christians who converted to Judaism would forfeit their property to the state. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1105: Birthdate of Alfonso VII who in 1130,
started a school in Toledo which begins to spread Hebrew and Arabic learning as
well as ancient Greek knowledge through Western Europe <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1274: Gregory X issued Turbato Code, a Papal
Bull that forbade Christians from “embracing Judaism.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1349 (Adar 10): Riots broke out in Worms
(Germany). Many Jews fled to Heidelberg.
Others in desperation set fire to their homes or were murdered. An
estimated 420 people died that day. Their property was seized by the town.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1565: Portuguese settlers founded the city of
Rio de Janeiro. For the first two centuries of its existence, Jewish life in
the city was hindered by the reality of the Portuguese laws against Judaism and
the Inquisition. “New Christians” played
an active role in the city’s commercial and social life but records show that
at least 300 of these New Christians were found guilty by the Inquisition of
secretly practicing Judaism. After
Brazil gained its independence in 1822 and adopted a constitution in 1824 that
allowed for religious toleration, more Jews began arriving in the city and
played a more active role in its growth and prosperity. Today, Rio has the second largest Jewish
community in Brazil. <a name="_Hlk65419815"><o:p></o:p></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1655: The Magistrate of
New Amsterdam wrote a ruling making an attempt to expel 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;">It read, in part,
"Resolved that the Jews, who came last year from the West Indies and now
from the Fatherland, must prepare to depart forthwith." (“The Patroons of
the West India Company decided, however, that the Jews owned most of the stock in
that organization they would have to be left alone.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1655: The Sheriff of
New Amsterdam as plaintiff filed suit against the defendant Abram de la Sina, a
Jew, for the crime of keeping his store open during the hour the church gave a
sermon.</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;">1670: “A solemn proclamation was made in all
public places that ‘for the glory of God’ all Jews should, on penalty of
imprisonment and death, leave Vienna and Upper and Lower Austria before Corpus
Christi Day, never to return. Hirz Koma and a physician named Leo Winkler,
“made a last attempt to propitiate the emperor by offering him 100,000 florins
and, in addition, 10,000 florins a year.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1692: “In the Parish of St.
Martin-in-the-Fields” apothecary John Tovey and his wife gave birth to De
Blossiers Tovey, the “principal of New Inn Hall at Oxford” who devoted much of
his to studying the history of the Jews of medieval England and wrote <i><u>Anglia Judaica</u></i> (the History and
Antiquities of the Jews in England.)<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://books.google.com/books?id=GEEVAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false">https://books.google.com/books?id=GEEVAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1728(2<sup>nd</sup> of Nisan, 5488): Joseph
Abraham Azuby, the Amsterdam born son of Lea Azuby and Chazan Abraham Azuby and
husband of Rachel David Azuby and Esperanca David Azuby passed away today in
the Netherlands.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1761(25<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5521): Abraham
Gershon of Kitov, also known as Rabbi Gershon of Brody, the Polish born brother-in-law
of the Baal Shem Tov and leader of the Jewish community in Brody, who “traveled
to Jerusalem, making him one of the first Hasidim to establish a presence in
the Holy Land<br />
where he embraced the Rashash, together
with those who were students of Kabbalah” passed away today in Jerusalem after
which he was buried on the Mount of Olives which was also the burial site of
his second wife Bluma.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1761: In Philadelphia, PA, Tabitha Mears and
Mathias Bush gave birth to “Catherine” Bush, the wife of Myers S. Solomon whom
she married in 1778 and the mother of Joseph, Samuel Arabella, Mattathias,
Alexander, Sarah and Henry Solomon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1769: In Buchau, German, Rebekka and Joseph
Einstein gave birth to David Einstein, the husband of Sara Kan and the father
of Lena, Abraham, Baruch, Joseph and Eva Einstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1779(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5539): 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;">1781: James Madison. the author of the First
Amendment which guaranteed separation of church and who as president appoint a
Jew to a diplomatic post, beganhis service as a delegate from Virginia to the
Congress of Confederation which was the national government 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;">1790(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5550): 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;">1790: The Pennsylvania Packet featured an
advertisement offering the skills of Abraham Cohen as Hebrew tutor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1792: Francis II, who relied on Bernhard
Eskeles for “financial advice” became King of Hungary and Croatia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1798(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5558): 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;">1799: Eppingen, Germany natives Babetter Furth
and Maier Heinsheimer gave birth to Jeanette Heinsheimer, the wife of Model
Wertheimer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1800(4<sup>th</sup> of Adar 5560): Parashat
Terumah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1800: English born Esther Cohen and German born
Michael Hart gave birth to Rachel Hart.<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 Aldgate, London, Aaron Jacob Cantor,
the son of Simeon Cantor and his was Catherine Cantor gave birth to Abraham
Jacob Cantor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1803: In London, Dinah Myers and Rabbi Henry
Henoch Myers gave birth to Rabbi Moses Henry Myers, the husband of Sarah
Abrahams whom he married at the Hambro Synagogue in 1826 and father of Kate, Phoebe, Miriam, Matilda,
Isaac, Dinah and Victor Myers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1803: Birthdate of Editor Salomon Frensdorff<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1803: Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state.
Under the terms of the Northwest Ordinance there was not to be any religious
qualification for states formed in the region including Ohio. The first record
of Jewish settlement in Ohio relates to the city of Cincinnati. By 1824, there were enough Jews living in the
“Queen City,” that the Jews formed a congregation called the Sons of
Israel. The twenty-four members of the
congregation were not able to raise enough funds for a building until
1836. Max Lilienthal and Isaac Mayer
were the first two rabbis in the state.
By the time of the Civil War, the Jewish population was large enough
that it sent almost 1,200 of its sons to fight in the Union cause.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1806(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5566): Chaim
Yosef David Azulai ben Isaac Zerachia passed away. Born in Jerusalem in 1724, he was the
great-great grandson of Abraham Azulai who was a noted student of the Talmud
and Kabbalah, community leader and prolific author.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/rabbis/chida.htm">http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/rabbis/chida.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1809(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5569): Fast of
Esther; erev Purim are observed for the last time during the Presidency of
Thomas Jefferson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1810:<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Georgetown College was
chartered in Washington, D.C., making it the first Roman Catholic institution
of higher learning established in the United States. Today Georgetown has approximately 1,600
Jewish students out of a student boy of 13,000 students. The school offers approximately 35 Jewish
Studies Courses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1810: John Jonas, the son of Jacob Jonas and
Sarah Reuben was circumcised 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;">1811: In Dresden, German, Reitzel and Mordechai
David Landau gave birth to Wolf Landau, the husband of Fanny Landau, the father
of David and Emilie Landau and the grandson of Rabbi David Landau who “in 1854,
when Zacharias Frankel became director of the Jewish Theological Seminary at Breslau,
was unanimously elected as his successor in the Dresden chief rabbinate.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1816(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar, 5576): Rosh
Chodesh Adar observe on the same that “The Gorkha War between the United
Kingdom and Nepal is ended after more than a year by the ratification of the
Treaty of Sugauli, with Nepal ceding about one-third of its territory to
British Indian control,”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1819: Jamaica native Rosetta Micholls and
Edward Emanuel Micholls gave birth to Emma Micholls he wife of Salomon Henry
Godefron.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1822: In Brno, Joshua Philipp Feibelman Gomperz
and Henriette Auspitz gave birth to Max von Gomperz the sugar merchant who was
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Creditanstalt.”<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 New York, Solomon Henry Jackson
published “The Jew,” an anti-missionary journal. This is thought to be the
first Jewish publication to be published in the United States. Jackson is also
known for translating and publishing the first Sephardic Siddur in America. He
published an English-Hebrew version in 1826.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827: In Charleston, SC, Hartwig and Deborah
Marks Cohen gave birth to Sarah Cohen who became Sarah Cohen Wolf when she
married Sailing Cohen. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827: In Karlsruhe, Germany, Fanny and David
Ellstaetter gave birth to Mortiz Ellstaetter whose quarter of a century as
Minister of Finance made him “the first and only Jew since the days of Joseph
Suss Oppenheimer to be a Cabinet Minister 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;">1828(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5588): Parashat
Tetzaveh; Shushan Purim celebrated for the last time during the Presidency of
John Quincy Adams.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1837: Birthdate of Egyptologist Georg Moritz
Ebers, the Berlin native who “discovered the Ebers Papyrus at Luxor” which
dates from 1550 BCE.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841: Dr. Marcus Mosse and Ulrike Mosse gave
birth to Deborah Leonore Mosse who became Leonore Cohn When she married Emil
Cohn<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1843: David Belasco married Mary Davis at Bevis
Marks 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;">1843: The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of
New York passed a resolution prohibiting the performing of ceremonies at
funerals of persons intermarried with Christians.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1843: Isaac Michael Emanuel married Jane Jacobs
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;">1847(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5607): 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;">1847: in Liberty, Mississippi, Henrietta Cahn
and Samuel Bernheimer gave birth to Georgia Military institute Cadet Marcus
Bernheimer, the husband of Ella Heyman, the president of the United Hebrew
Relief Association and vice president of the Merchants’ Exchange 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;">1848: In Shirwint, Russia Hirsch Tannenbaum and
his wife gave birth to Abner Tannenbaum who came to New York in 1887 and
“opened a small candy and cigar store” and then starting in 1889 began writing
for Jewish publications including <i>Der
Morgenstern</i> as well as translating “all the work of Jules Verne 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;">1848: Birthdate of San Francisco native Abraham
B. Arnold, the graduate of Washington University School of Medicine who was
granted a “certificate to practice medicine and surgery in” California at
meeting of the Board of Examiners on December 22, 1890.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851: Noting the appearance of Jews in Utah,
Lorenzo Brown wrote in his diary today that he had seen “some Hungarian Jews
living in the ward--emigrants bound for the [California] mines...forced to
leave their native land because of the revolution.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852: <i>The New York Times</i> reported that a
funding raising ball has raised $1,034 which will be donated to "The
Hebrew Hospital" 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;">1854: In Dresden, on his 43<sup>rd</sup>
birthday, Rabbi Wolf Zeev Landau, the Dresden born son of Reitzel and Mordechai
David Landau and his wife Fanny Landau gave birth to Emilie Landau in the same
year that Woolf Landau became the Chief Rabbi of Dresden.<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 Hungary, Sándor Salamon Rockenstein
and Nina Genendel Rockenstein gave birth to Jozefa Bettelheim, the wife of Dr.
József Bettelheim and ex-wife of Sándor Forgo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1857: The Hebrew Indigent Sick and Burial
Society was organized today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858: <i>The New York Times</i> reported that
in February of this year, Lord John Russell's bill that would modify the oath
of office so that Jews could serve in Parliament had been "debated and
read for a second time" in the House of Commons. [This was in the days
before the transatlantic cable. Gaps
between events and published reports are responsible for some of the
inconsistencies in providing specific dates for events]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858: Birthdate of German born philosopher and
sociologist Georg Simmel. Simmel’s family was Jewish, but when his father died,
Simmel’s Catholic guardian converted him to the Church of Rome. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860: “Gang of Rogues Started on a Traveling
Tour,” published today, reported that “Five Polish and Prussian Jews, who have
long been known to the police authorities of” New York City “as expert
pickpockets and daring burglars… started on a Western traveling tour” yesterday
evening. Information of their departure
was given by two members of the gang, who have lately sundered relationship
with their old associates.” According to these two, “the gang has for a long time
gone by the name of the ‘Order of Vatabeds,’ a name till now kept private among
the members.” Since it was impossible for the police to detain them in New
York, “telegrams were sent to Albany, Buffalo and Dunkirk, stating the fact of
their departure, and putting the public and Police on guard against their
arrival. The names of the traveling troupe are Samuel Levy, alias "Old
Levy"; Morris M. Goldstein, alias Goldever; L. Truebart; Michael Roberts,
alias "Big Roberts," and Henry Wcyman. Most of them have served terms
in foreign state prisons.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 1860: A
column entitled London Town Talk published today provides a gossipy and negative view of William Ward’s
elevation from Baron of Ward to Earl of Dudley. His elevation was attributed
not to his virtue but to his wealth. According to the unnamed author the role
of money should come as no surprise since it was “Baron Rothschild’s millions”
that made Lord John Russell an advocate of the bill to remove “Jewish disabilities”
when it came to taking the oath to serve in Parliament. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861: The first train of the Florida Railroad
arrived in Cedar Key providing the first link between Florida’s Atlantic and
Gulf of Mexico’s ports. The railroad was
the creation of David Levy Yulee, the first Jew to be elected to the United
States Senate. Unfortunately for Yulee, the business success was short-lived
due to the Civil War which began a month later.
Yulee supported secession and served in the Confederate Congress so you
might say he was the architect of his own doom.<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 American author Henry
Harland. A lawyer by trade he began his literary career by using the pen name
Sidney Luska under which he wrote his first three novel’s <u>As It Was Written</u>,
<u>Mrs. Peixada </u>and <u>The Yoke of the Torah</u> which were known as his
“Jewish Trilogy.”<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://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16044a.htm">http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16044a.htm</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;">1861: <i>The New York Times</i> reported that <i>The
Knoxville</i> (Tenn.) <i>Whig</i> gave “a first rate” description of a “Jew”
named Mordecai who distinguished himself a few weeks” ago since by presenting
$10,000 to the Governor of South Carolina. <i>The Whig</i> stated that
“Mordecai who is a druggist, visited New-York, Philadelphia and Boston, just
before he did this act, and represented to his creditors that he was insolvent,
and settled with them by paying 50 cents on the dollar.” [By this time, South Carolina had seceded
from the Union, so the money was going to support the Rebel government.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863: Six days after she had passed away,
Franklin, Maria (nee Levy), the wife of Benjamin Woolfe Franklin and the mother
of Louisa Franklin 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;">1865: The Medal of Honor was issued to Private
Benjamin Levy for bravery displaced during fighting at Glendale, VA in 1862.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866(14th of Adar, 5626): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866: The Purim Ball, the last of the three
great events of New York’s Winter Social Season was held 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;">1867: Nebraska becomes the 37th state to join
the Union. The Jewish community in Nebraska pre-dates statehood. Services were
conducted in Omaha in the 1860’s. The oldest congregation in the state, Temple
Israel, was founded in 1871 along with a burial society. The town of Lancaster was renamed Lincoln at
this time and Lincoln became the state capital. Lincoln, Nebraska’s
Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, also known as the South Street Temple was
Lincoln’s first Jewish congregation. The Temple was founded in 1884,
principally by German immigrants. The year 1884 must have been an auspicious
one for Cornhusker Jews, since that is the same year in which the first
synagogue building in the state was dedicated at Omaha. It was the home of Congregation Israel now
known as Temple Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk65412832"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870: Israel and
Rebecca (Kaplan) Gerstein gave birth to law student turned physician Maurice
Gerstein, the laryngologist and husband of Miriam Brodie who was a member of
the Massachusetts Medical Society and Temple Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870: J.K. Buchner published <i>Di Yiddshe Zeitunge</i>, the first Yiddish
weekly to be published in the United States. The language itself was more of a
German Yiddish than the eastern European variant of the patois. The politics were conservative rather than
socialist in direction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871: Birthdate of Baltimore native Bertha van
Leer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872(22<sup>nd</sup> of Adar II, 5632): Forty-four-year-old
Hannah Moses, the widow of Zvi Moes passed away today after which she was
buried at the Lauriston 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;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872: Wilhelm Benjamin Rothschild, the German
born son of Caroline and David Aron Rothschild and his wife Stella Rothschild
gave birth to Albert Aron Rothschild.<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 the Galitzian town of Lemberg, or
Lviv, then under Austrian administration, Nahum Niemirower, a Jewish trader and
his wife gave birth to Dr. Jacob Itzhak Neimirower, “a modern reform rabbi” who
served as the first Chief Rabbi of Romania as well as a member of the Romanian
Senate.<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 German writer, editor and
translator Efraim Firish who dropped out of rabbinical school in Vienna and
went on to study art and literature at the University of Berlin.<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://archives.cjh.org/repositories/5/resources/17541">https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/5/resources/17541</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874: The first day of the annual Purim
Reception at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews in New York is scheduled to
begin at eleven o’clock this morning.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874: Birthdate of General Sir Arthur Grenfell
Wauchope who was appointed High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief for
Palestine and Trans-Jordan in 1931” and whose firs four years in office were
described as “the heyday of Zionist history in Palestine” with an increase in
immigration, land holdings and “Jewish business and commerce.”<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 a Jewish
furniture dealer named Beyfus has brought suit against a weekly London
newspaper claiming that he and his son have been defamed as money-lenders by
the publication. <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 Savannah, GA, the cornerstone is laid
for the new home of Mikveh Israel. The
new structure was required because the congregation had outgrown the old
building. <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 Russia, Benjamin and Sarah Kail
Lazarus gave birth to Isaac B. Lazarus who owned an operated a newsstand in the
Arcade in the Powers Building in Rochester NY which offered its customers six
hundred different periodicals.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: The Purim Association is sponsoring a
Purim calico masked reception at Delmonico’s in New York City. The association had originally planned on
sponsoring a fancy dress ball but changed its plans because of the current
economic problems.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a name="_Hlk65414448"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1878: In Cincinnati,
OH, Leopold Henry Anspacher and Rosa Kaufman gave birth to “author and
dramatist Leopold Henry Anspacher the holder of a B.A., M.A. and LL.B from
Columbia best known for as a playwright, poet and lecturer in philosophy.</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;">1878: It was reported that George H. Hepworth
is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled “Our American Homes” at a meeting of
the Young Men’s Hebrew Association at Lyric Hall later 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;">1879: Birthdate of Edward Ganz the Vilna born
American “coal and fuel dealer who was the co-owner of Harris and Gans in
Norwalk, CT where he was a city councilman and an active Zionist.<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 a modern case that is harkens back to
the fifth commandment, in the Court of General Sessions, Judge Gildersleeve
heard charges from seventy-year-old Fanny Salomon that she had been abandoned
and refused support by her three sons – Alfred, Leopold and Felix. The sons responded by contending that their
mother was financially secure and was merely too parsimonious to pay for her
own upkeep.<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 Lee &
Shepard is about to published “The Exodus of the Children of Israel” by Francis
Underwood and Brugsch Bey that uses the latter’s research to provide that the
Red Sea has been mistaken for the Sea of Reeds in the Exodus narrative.<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 Ernest Renan,
the French scholar who is an expert on ancient eastern civilizations and
Semitic languages is scheduled to deliver a series of lectures in London. Renan’s knowledge of Hebrew is such that he
was the chair of Hebrew at the College de France, a position from which he was
ousted because he challenged the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church.[Renan
would eventually write a three volume 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;">1881(30<sup>th </sup>of Adar I, 5641): Rosh
Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: Ida (Kuhn) Cohen and Eduard Cohen gave
birth to Sophie Cohen<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: Judith Salzedo Peixotto, the first Jewish
school principal in the history of New York City and the daughter of the
Amsterdam-born physician Dr. Daniel Levy Maduro Peixotto and New York–born
Rachel (Seixas) Peixotto who was the wife David Hays with she had eight
children - “Sarah Rosalie (b. 1852),
Daniel Peixotto (b. 1854), Rebecca Touro (b. 1855), Benjamin Franklin (b.
1857), George Davis (b. 1859), Rachel Peixotto (b. 1861), David Solis, Jr. (b.
1863), and Cora Florence (b. 1870). Judith Peixotto Hays –“passed away today
after which she was buried at the Shearith Israel Cypress Hills Street Cemetery
in Queens, 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;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/peixotto-judith">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/peixotto-judith</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></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: Twenty-three citizens of Salt Lake City
met to form B’nai Israel. Under the direction of President Henry Siegel $2,600
was spent on a lot which would be the site of Utah’s first synagogue. (As
reported by Jack Goodman)<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://historytogo.utah.gov/people/ethnic_cultures/the_peoples_of_utah/jewsinzion.html">http://historytogo.utah.gov/people/ethnic_cultures/the_peoples_of_utah/jewsinzion.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;">1882: Birthdate of birthdate of Lwow native and
University of Lemberg trained doctor of jurisprudence Dr. Adolf Berger, the
author of the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law and lecturer on Roman Law at
the University Berlin who “came to the United States in WW II, joined the Ecole
Libre es Hautes Etude as a Professor of Roman Law” and joined the faculty of
CCNY in 1922 where he served until his death ten years later. (Editor’s Note:
He is not to confused with New York College trained oral surgeon Adolph Berger,
the Hungarian born son of Theresa Goldberger and Ignatz Berger and author of
Principles and Techniques of Oral surgeon who was an assistant professor of
Oral Surgery at Columbia the oral surgeon for Beth Israel Hospital 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;"><a href="https://www.abaa.org/book/63120617">https://www.abaa.org/book/63120617</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://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/04/09/82043779.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/04/09/82043779.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</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.jstor.org/stable/25776413">https://www.jstor.org/stable/25776413</a><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 West Virginia, Bertrand Kahn, the
Atlanta, GA, born son of Matilda and Samuel Kahn and his wife Leonora Kahn gave
birth to Louis Isaac Kahn, the brother of Minette Hirsch.<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 New York City, Frederika Baum and Mark
E. Fohs gave birth to Columbia University oil geologist F. Julius Fohs, the
husband of Cora Bladauf Fohs who “early in his career made a detailed study of
Palestine’s natural resources,” a report of which “he submitted immediately
after World War I to the British Government and the World Zionist Organization
that led to the development of the present Dead Sea potash and chemical plants
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;">1885(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5645): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885: Four days after he had passed away,
Morris Angel, the son of “Rachel and Daniel Angel” and the husband of Sarah
Angel with whom he had had six children was buried today at “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: First organized Arab attack on a Jewish
settlement in what would become Eretz Yisrael. The attack was waged
against Petak Tikvah, the first all Jewish village to be built in Palestine
during modern times. The early settlers had a difficult time of it facing
not only Arab marauders but malaria as well. The land on which the
village was built was purchased by English Jew named Hayyim Amzalak who had
moved to Palestine in 1830. Money for draining the malarial swamps in the
area was given by Baron Edmond de Rothschild. Much of the labor was
supplied by Russian Jewish immigrants.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888: Rabbi Joseph Silverman begins serving as
spiritual leader for Temple Emanu-El replacing the legendary Gustav Gottheil.
Silverman is the first American born rabbi to serve a congregation 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;">1889: Birthdate of Warsaw native Avro Tatlboym,
the actor and director who performed and/or staged plays in Russia, France,
Argentenia and 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;"><a href="https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/4098/Taytlboym,%20Avrom%20(March%201,%201889%E2%80%93October%2016,%201947)">https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/4098/Taytlboym,%20Avrom%20(March%201,%201889%E2%80%93October%2016,%201947)</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889: In Baltimore, MD, “Jacob Levy and Bertha Arnold”
gave birth to Elsie Levy, who became Elsie Pfaelzer when she married Frank
Pfaelzer with whom she had four children – Maurice, Betty, Frank and Mildred –
while being active in several social improvement organizations 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;">1890: In Krakow, Anna Ferber and Isador Berstein
gave birth to Theresa Ferber the Philadelphia educated American artist who
settled in Manhattan in 1912 and whose husband William Meyerowitz was a
well-known artist in his own right.<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://nml.cuny.edu/theresabernstein/">http://nml.cuny.edu/theresabernstein/</a></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;"><a href="http://forward.com/articles/189491/why-theresa-bernstein-was-the-jewish-artist-of-the/">http://forward.com/articles/189491/why-theresa-bernstein-was-the-jewish-artist-of-the/</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;">1891(21<sup>st</sup> of Adar I, 5651): Sixty-seven-year-old
Bernhard Sondheim passed away today in New York. Born in Hesse Homburg, he and his family
moved to Georgia when Sondheim was nine years old. Eventually he settled in New York where he
established a successful import business. He was a member of the 10<sup>th</sup>
Regiment of the state militia and served as Vice President of the Hebrew Mutual
Benefit Society, a position he held 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;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0A15F9345F10738DDDAA0894DB405B8185F0D3">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0A15F9345F10738DDDAA0894DB405B8185F0D3</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: With less than two months until the start
of Passover, The Passover Relief Association, which provides matzoth and items
to New York’s less fortunate Jews, finds itself with only $173.45 in its
treasury. Considering the fact that the
association spent $675.24 and the fact that the population of needy Jews has
greatly increased, the association is in need of donations which can be sent to
its members including the chairman, Benjamin Saidel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: Today the United States trustees of the
fund created by the late Baron de Hirsch to provide for the needs of immigrants
coming to America will draw the $2,400,000 set aside for this purpose from the
banks 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;">1891: In New York city Harriet
"Hattie" (nee Lehman) and Philip Julius Goodhart gave birth to their
third and youngest child Arthur Lehman Goodhart, the brother of Howard Goodhart
and Helen Goodhart Altschul and grandson of Mayer Lehman (co-founder of Lehman
brothers who became a Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford and “was the first
American to the Master of an Oxford College.”<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.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/wps/WPS2010-01_Goodhart.pdf">https://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/wps/WPS2010-01_Goodhart.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: “Good Things From Foreign Tongues”
published today provided a review <u>of A Literary Manual of Foreign
Quotations, Ancient and Modern </u>by John Devoe Belton which includes an
explanation of the Latin phrase “Credat Judaeus Appella” which Horace saw as a
reference to Appella “the most superstitious of his race” who “believed that
the incense placed on the threshold of his temple melted without fire” but whom
Renan “thought referred to a Hellenized Jew who, was orthodox, ill-informed and
consequently very superstitious.” (As the worse Latin student in the history of
Alice Deal and Woodrow Wilson, I can claim no credit for the following. According to some experts this phrase, which
by the way Doc Holliday used in the movie “Tombstone”, can loosely be
translated as “Let the Jew believe it; not I” or in colloquial English, “tell
it to someone else, not me.”)<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="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30712F9395D15738DDDA80894DB405B8185F0D3">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30712F9395D15738DDDA80894DB405B8185F0D3</a><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 the next
meeting of the Hebrew Technical Institute will take place at Temple Emanu-El<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: Carl Wiser played the role of Shylock in
the German version of “The Merchant of Venice” at New York’s <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thalia Theatre<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
of this afternoon, 21-year-old Joseph Seigler who worked in his father’s dry
good store is the only new case of typhus reported 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: As New York City continued to deal with
the latest outbreak of typhus fever, public health officials ordered all
synagogues on the Lower East to be fumigated.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: Sixty-two-year-old banker Isidor Wormser,
was attacked on the floor of the NYSE by another broker who “stuck him twice in
the face” and who had to be restrained by half a dozen members of the exchange.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: “Jewish Women’s Achievements” published
today outlined the plans for the presentation of papers to delivered at the
upcoming Parliament of Religions “which is to be a feature” of the upcoming
World’s Fair. The papers which will be prepared by some of New York’s leading
Jewish ladies will highlight the unique contributions of such groups as the
Woman’s Auxiliary of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5653): 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;">1893: Three days after she had passed away
Eloisa Berger, the wife of Austrian native Leo Berger with whom she had had
five 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;">1893:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar I, 5654): Twenty-seven-year-old
Hyman Freedman, the husband of Sarah Freedman passed away today after which he
was buried at the Edmonton Western 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;">1894: According to the testimony of Benny
Weiss, Charles Krumm gave two ten dollar bills to Ward Man Jeremiah Levy of the
Eleventh Police Precinct “in pursuance of an arrangement with the policeman.”
(Arrangement is a euphemism for bribe)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk65411116"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: In London,
Abraham and Leah (Santman) Broun gave birth to Beaux Arts Institute trained
American illustrator Aaron Broun, the husband Sadie Cohen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.invaluable.com/artist/broun-aaron-b0d06xsrum/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.invaluable.com/artist/broun-aaron-b0d06xsrum/</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;">1894: Over the last six months (10/1/93 –
3/1/94), the United Hebrew Charities spent $103,102.40 providing aid to the
needy as opposed to $46,498.22 “for the corresponding period of the preceding
year.”<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 Bradford, Yorkshire, Lean and Aaron
George Bernstein, the president of the Bradford Hebrew Congregation gave birth
Joseph Bernstein who was killed in France while service with the West Riding
Regiment<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: The National Council of Women, an
organization whose members included Jewish, Protestant and Catholic women,
opened the penultimate session of its annual triennial meeting 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;">1895: “Russians Arrested on Suspicion”
published today relied on telegraphs from the Vienna correspondent of the
Central News to described arrests made in Kiev and Odessa of those thought to
be “engaged in revolutionary plots’ many of whom were 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(16<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5656): Forty-three-year-old
Jacob Bueno De Mesquita, the son of David and Jessy Bueno De Mesquita passed
away after which he was buried in the Nuevo 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;">1896:
Theodor Herzl and Nathan Birnbaum meet for the first time. Nathan
Birnbaum was born in Vienna, and lived there from.1864-1908, and again from
1914-21. In 1882, together with two other students in the University of Vienna,
he founded “Kadimah,” the first organization of Jewish nationalist students in
the West. In 1884, he published his first pamphlet, <i>Die Assimilationsucht</i>
(“The Assimilation Disease/Mania”). He founded, published and edited <i>Selbst-Emancipation!</i>
(“Self-Emancipation!”) The periodical promoted
“the idea of a Jewish renaissance and the resettlement of Palestine.” It
incorporated and developed the ideas of Leon Pinsker. In 1890, Birnbaum coined
the terms “Zionist” and “Zionism,” and, in 1892, “Political Zionism.” In 1893,
he published a brochure entitled <i>Die Nationale Wiedergeburt</i> <i>des
Juedischen Volkes in seinem Lande als Mittel zur Loesung der Judenfrage</i>
(“The National Rebirth of the Jewish People in its Homeland as a Means of
Solving the Jewish Question”), in which he expounded ideas similar to those
that Herzl was to promote subsequently. Birnbaum played a prominent part in the
First Zionist Congress (1897) and was elected Secretary General of the Zionist
Organization. However, he and Herzl developed ideological differences. Birnbaum
had begun to question the political aims of Zionism and to attach increasing
importance to the national-cultural content of Judaism. Birnbaum eventually
left the Zionist movement and later became a leading spokesman for Jewish
cultural autonomy in the Diaspora. He stressed the Yiddish language as the
basis of Ashkenazi Jewish culture and was chief convenor of the Conference on
Yiddish held in Czernowitz, Bukovina, in 1908. This was attended by leading
Yiddish writers, and proclaimed Yiddish as a national Jewish language. Birnbaum
propagated his ideas in writing and by lecturing in many Jewish communities. In
the years preceding World War I he gradually abandoned his materialistic and
secular outlook, eventually embracing full traditional Judaism. He may be seen as
the forerunner of the modern <i>Baal Teshuvah</i> movement. His most famous
book of this period was <i>Gottesvolk</i> (“God’s People”) first published in
German and Yiddish in 1917 (translated into English in a shortened form by J.
Elias in 1947 titled "Confession"). In 1919, he became the first
Secretary General of the new Agudath Yisrael Organization. Dissatisfied with
the spiritual complacency of the religious masses, he initiated a movement, the
Order of the Olim (“[Spiritual] Ascenders”), to consist of small groups of
people dedicated by their way of living to raising spiritual awareness within
the larger Jewish society, thus leading toward a Jewish spiritual renaissance.
Disturbed by the urbanized focus of Jewish life, he promoted the establishment
of agricultural communities and other groups living a style of Jewish life more
in conformity with nature. Settlement in Eretz Israel was to be for the prime
purpose of fulfilling the spiritual role of the Jewish people. He lived in
Berlin from 1912-1914, and again from 1921-1933. After the rise of Nazism, he
left Germany for Scheveningen, Netherlands, where he edited <i>Der Ruf</i>
("The Call"), a platform for his ideas. He died there in 1937.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: “Gifts on Purim” published today based on
information that first appeared in The American Hebrew described the near
disappearance of “the custom of sending gifts on Purim to friends” a custom,
“that can easily be restored.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: “The Mexican Inquisition” published today
described the publication of two papers by the American Jewish Historical
Society – “Trials of Jorge de Alemdia by the Inquisition in Mexico” by Dr.
Cyrus Adler and Jewish Martyrs of the Inquisition in South America” by George
Alexander Kohut – which provide a hitherto untold story of the early Jews
living in Latin America.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897(27<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5657): Seventy-one-year-old
Mosbach native and editor of Jewish texts Seligman (Isaac) Baer whose most
famous work was Seder Avodat Yisrael, “a monumental edition of the Jewish
prayerbook according to the Ashkenazic rite” 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: “Old Bibles In A New Home” published
today “rich and curious library of the American Bible Society” which includes
“an ancient Hebrew roll found in a synagogue in the interior of China” that “is
supposed to date back to the year 900 and is supposed to have been used for
centuries.”<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 the Yale
Divinity Students who visited New York last week learned about “the magnitude
of the problems confronting charitable organizations” including the United
Hebrew Charities whose director N.S. Rosenau told them “We have been faced
since with an unprecedented rush of immigration” since 1890 because the Russian
have driven 400,000 people to 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;">1898: In Bucharest, Tulius Revici and Ecaterina
Gaster Revici, the daughter of Phina Judith Gaster and Abraham Emanuel Gaster,
gave birth to Fina Friedman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: “Get-Together Clubs Meet” published today
included a summary of a speech, “The United Hebrew Charities and the
Unemployed” by N.S. Rosenau in which the director described “the problem of
Jewish labor in New York saying that their natural limits of ability had kept
them out of the work of the day laborer” and had “sent them into the garment
trades” where “the Italians were already displacing them.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: “Hope For Zionist Union” published today
described efforts two unify the religious and secular supporters of the Zionist
which, if successful will strengthen the movement designed to buy land for
Jewish settlement in the Ottoman Empire.
Representative of 26 different Jewish organizations including Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise, Adam Rosenberg, E.D. Eisenstein and Dr. Moses Mintz are
working on the effort led by Columbia Professor Richard Gottheil.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899(19<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5659): Sixty-one-year-old
Farrer Herschell, the 1<sup>st</sup> Baron Herschell whose father Rabbi Ridley
Haim Herschell who had converted to Christianity and founded the British
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Jews 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;">1899(19<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5659): Bavarian
born William S. Rayner, who in 1838 settled In Baltimore from which he managed
“mining enterprises in Pennsylvania and North Carolina” while also serving as a
director of the Western National Bank and the Western Maryland Railroad and
playing an active role in the Jewish community as can be seen by his serving as
President of the Hebrew Orphans’ Asylum, the Hebrew Benevolent Society and
Congregation Har Sinai which he helped to found 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;">1899: Chaim Isaac Bloc, the Lithuanian born so
of Gitte Sarah Meshumami and Zundel Bloch began serving as the rabbi in Polangen,
Kurland after which in 1904 he “succeeded Chief Rabbi Kook of Jeusalem.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899(19<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5659): Miriam
Joel, the wife of Lewis Leapman passed away today in her 66<sup>th</sup> year
after which she was buried 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;">1900(30<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5660): 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;">1900(30<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5660): Forty-eight-year-old
Flora Moses, the New York bon daughter of Jacob Moses and Sarah J. Moses Davega,
the wife of Dr. Ottolenghui Aaron Moses and the mother of Walter Moses 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: In France, a bill calling for amnesty of
all matters related with the Dreyfus Affair is introduced by the Senate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: Cincinnati College of Music graduate
Bertha Beitman Herzog, the daughter of Emanuel and Millie Beitman and social
worker who was President of the Cleveland, OH Council of Jewish Women and a
member of the board of the National Council of Jewish Women and the National
School for Social Service married Siegmund Herzog today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: “A fire which started in the basement of
the five-story brick tenement at 20 Clinton Street” this evening “caused a
panic among the occupants” including Mrs. Nathan Goldberg and her four
children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: In New York City, Goodman Richard Davis
and Benvenida Solis Davis, the daughter of David and Sarah Brickner, gave birth
to Walter Alan Davis<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: Rev. S. Levy, MA read “Notes on Leicester
Jewry” today before The Jewish Historical Society of England.<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://books.google.com/books?id=CkULAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA340&lpg=PA340&dq=Isaac+Lopes+Chillon&source=bl&ots=30TT7GGbJh&sig=ACfU3U1i6fQZZPPBUr1qIQazceN9005R3w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiflPOavfTgAhVjw4MKHcfvDVkQ6AEwAXoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=Isaac%20Lopes%20Chillon&f=false">https://books.google.com/books?id=CkULAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA340&lpg=PA340&dq=Isaac+Lopes+Chillon&source=bl&ots=30TT7GGbJh&sig=ACfU3U1i6fQZZPPBUr1qIQazceN9005R3w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiflPOavfTgAhVjw4MKHcfvDVkQ6AEwAXoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=Isaac%20Lopes%20Chillon&f=false</a> page 34 ff<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: “Light on the Jewish Question in
Romania,” published today summarizes an article that first appeared in <i>The Romanian Bulletin</i> that defends King
Charles (a.k.a. Carlos I) against accusations that he is the prime mover in the
persecution of his Hebrew subjects. The
article depicts him as being sympathetic to their plight, but as a constitutional
monarch, all but powerless to defend the Jews against “unscrupulous ministers”
who do not share his enlightened views of Romanian Hebrews. <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 Topeka, KS, Henry A. Auerbach, the
Achim, Germany born so of Emma and Abraham Auerbach, and his wife, Rosine
Auerbach gave birth to Ruth Auebrach who became Ruth Hirsch, the wife of
Clarence Hirsch and the mother of Rosine and Robert Hirtsch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5665): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: In London, Redcliffe Nathan Salman, the
son of Myer and Sarah Salaman and Nina Ruth Salaman gave birth to Arthur
Gabriel Salaman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: Israel Schochat, founder of Ha-shomer
arrived 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;">1905: Birthdate of New York native research
chemist Saul Caspe who was educated at Columbia and Brooklyn Poly Technique.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: In Hamburg, “Austrian actor Fritz Spira
who died in the Ruma concentration camp in 1943” and actress Lotte Spira gave
birth to German actress Camilla Spira.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5667): 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;">1907: As of today 15,000, Jews have fled Odessa
since the attacks by members of the Black Hundreds began and thousands more
“have their passports in readiness to leave Odessa at the first sign of an
anti-Jewish attack.1908: “Zionist leader” Solomon J. Weinstein, the Grodno born
son of Ida and Joseph Weinsterin who in 1896 came to the United States where he
became a member of the New York Produce Exchange, and who was active in
numerous Jewish organizations including the American Zion Commonwealth, the
Palestine General Mortgage Bank and Temple Beth Elohim married Fannie Grohn
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: In a letter made public today, Henry
Bergh, the nephew of the founder of the American Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, called “attention to the present means of killing used by
Jewish butchers to comply with Hebraic laws” and said that “efforts are now
being made to construct some form of harness which will permit the animal to be
treated more humanely while it is being suspended by their hind legs as part of
the Jewish method of slaughtering animals.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: The theme of “Meyer and Son” “the news
modern drama by Thomas Addison that opened at the Garden Theatre tonight puts a
new twist on the theme of “Jew against Gentile” since it tells the story of
college educated son of an old Jewish banker who falls in love with the
daughter of business rival “who is prejudiced again father and son because race
and creed.”<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 “in Replying
to a delegation from the American Association of Foreign Language Newspapers,
who called at the White House to protest against the Hayes and Overman bills to
restrict immigration, President Taft paid a high tribute to the Jews who had
come to America from various parts of the world and had become imbued with a
true spirit of patriotism.”<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
chess grandmaster Harry Golombek<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912. CCNY grad and
Stanford University trained psychologist Samuel Calmin Kohs, the New York City
born son of Louis and Fannie (Rosenfeld) Kohs who eventually settled in San
Francisco married Paula Bonoff today in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1912: It was reported
today that </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Lina
Straus, Nathan Straus, Nathan Straus Jr., H. Grant Straus an Sissie S. Lehman
are the directors of the newly incorporated Nathan Straus Pasteurized Milk
Laboratories with principal office in New York City which will establish infant
milk depots throughout the State of New York and dispense through them
pasteurized milk free or at a cost price with a view of reducing sickness among
babies” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: Three-day long
dedication ceremonies for Sinai Temple and Social Center began 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;">1913(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar I, 5673): Parshat Vayakhel<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar I, 5673): Seventy-two-year-old Rabbi Judas Leopold Friedman passed away
today in Cleveland, Ohio.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: Rabbi Weil is
scheduled to preach his sermon in German this morning at Temple B’Nai Jehoshua
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;">1913: Rabbi Abram
Hirschberg delivered the sermon this morning at Temple Sholom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: Birthdate of
boxer Nathan “Nat” Bor, the native of Fall River, MA, “who won a bronze medal
at the 1932 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;">1913: Effective
today, Congregation Anshai Emeth released Dr. Charles S. Levi from his contract
as of today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: Adolph Lewisohn, Lee Kohn, Simon F.
Rosenthal and Benjamin H. Nam are in charge of tonight’s program at the 39th
Street Theatre in Manhattan which includes a screening of “How the Jews Care
for Their Poor” and “a program of music.”<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 Aaron Ruben the Chicago
native who gain fame as a producer, writer and director for some of the most
popular television comedies of the 1960s and ’70s, notably “The Andy Griffith
Show,” “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” and “Sanford and Son<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5675): 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;">1915: Mrs. Piza Weyl was reported today to have
been in charge of the tableaux “representing the influence of Jews on the early
history of America” which were shown at the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue at
70tth Street and Central Park West.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: Kruetzer
Sonata, the silent film version of Jacob Gordin’s play of the same name 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;"><a href="http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/K/KreutzerSonata1915.html">http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/K/KreutzerSonata1915.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: Rabbi Emil Hirsch was reported today to
be among the 29 clergymen who are trustees of the Church Peace Union founded by
Andrew Carnegie designed to promote “a new moral leadership to prevent armed
conflict” – specifically to limit and/or end the World War that had begun 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;">1915: “Dr. (Samuel) Schulman Tells Why He
Opposes Return To Palestine Movement” published today quotes the President of
the Metropolitan League as saying that “In America we are Americans, and if
there are those who wish to perpetuate Jewish customs and narrow nationalism,
let it be done in Palestine, not here in America. The highest work of the Jews
is not to teach customs but how different races and peoples may live together
in accord and harmony.”<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
received a cablegram from the Jewish Colonization Association of Petrograd
describing the desperate condition of the “tens of thousands” of refugees from
Poland” and the granting of official permission to organize assistance for the
Jews of Galicia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: The funeral of Rose Fridstein, the wife
of Joseph Fridstein and the mother of Myer, Sam and Harry Fridstein is
scheduled to take place today followed by burial at Bickur Cholim Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: As the Russian Revolution gained
momentum, with all that that would mean to the Jewish people, the Czar
abdicated today “leaving the Provisional Government in control of” the Russian
Empire.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: The U.S. government released the
plaintext of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public. Barbara Tuchman, the noted Jewish historian,
wrote <u>The Zimmerman Telegram</u> a fascinating volume covering this little-known
event which had a major impact on America’s decision to enter World War I on
the side of the Allies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Benjamin and Dora Finkelstein gave birth
to Maurice Finkelsteinm “the husband of “Justice Irene Finkelstein” and the
father of Arlene Dawn Joelson.<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 Vienna, the “Press states that Count
Czernin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will in the course of peace negotiations
with Romania, bring up thequestion of granting full 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;">1918: The new Zionist publication, <i>Ungarische Wochenschrift</i> reported that
Galician Jewish regfugees are the victims of frequent atrocities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: Emir Feisal, the son of Emir Hussein,
Grand Sharif of Mecca and the leader of the Arabs of Hejaz sent a letter to
Felix Frankfurter. According to Martin
Gilbert he wrote, “We Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the
deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement.
We will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home.” “I hope the Arabs may soon be in a position
to make the Jews some return for their kindness. We are working together for a reformed and
derived Near East, and our two movements complete one another. The Jewish movement is notional and not
imperialist: our movement is national and not imperialist, and there is room in
Syria for both. Indeed I think that neither
can be a real success with the other. I
look forward, and the people with me look forward to a future in which we will
help you and you will help us, so that the countries in which we are mutually
interested may once against take their place in the comity of the civilized
peoples of 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;">1919(29<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5679): Parashat
Vayakhel and Sabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: Final performance of The “Little
Brother,” with a script co-authored by Milton Goldsmith which was based on his
work “The Priest and the Rabbi,” and
produced and directed by Walter Hast on Broadway at the Belmont Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919(29<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5679): Seventy-three-year-old
Moshe Dov ben Mordecai Zev passed away today after which he was buried at the
Blackley 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;">1920: “Several hundred Shiite Arabs from the
village of Jabal Amil in southern Lebanon marched to the gates of Tel Hai
together with Bedouin from Halasa and their Mukhtar, Kamal Affendi” demanding
to search Tel Hai for French soldiers<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920(11th of Adar, 5680): Tel Hai, a Jewish
village in the Galilee is attacked by Arabs. Joseph Trumpeldor, the one-armed
Jewish military leader and one of the Zionist movement’s first military heroes
was killed in the ensuing battled along with five men under his command.
“Trumpeldor was born in 1880 in Russia. Originally in training as a dentist, he
volunteered for the Russian army in 1902. During the Russo-Japanese War he
participated in the siege of Port Arthur, where he lost his left arm and was captured.
Subsequently, he received four decorations for bravery, which made him the most
decorated Jewish soldier in Russia. In 1906 he became the first Jew in the army
to receive an officer's commission. In 1911 he emigrated to Palestine then
under the Ottoman Turks, living for a time at kibbutz Deganya. When World War I
broke out, he went to Egypt, where together with Vladimir Jabotinsky he
developed the idea of the Jewish legion to fight with the British against
common enemies and as a result, the Zion Mule Corps was formed in 1917,
considered to be the first all-Jewish military unit organized in close to two
thousand years, and the ideological beginning of the Israel Defense Forces. He
saw action in Gallipoli, where he was wounded in the shoulder. Upon his return
to Russia in 1918, he established the <i>He-Halutz</i>, a youth organization
that prepared immigrants for <i>Aliyah</i> (moving to Palestine), and returned
to Palestine himself, then under the British Mandate. He was one of the
founders of the Zionist Socialist movement in pre-state Israel. After his death
Trumpeldor became the symbol of Jewish "self-defense", and his Memorial
Day on the 11th day of Adar is officially noted in Israel every year.
Supposedly, his last words were, "Never mind, it is good to die for our
country". There is no proof whether this is true.”<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 Political committee of the Zionist
Organization met in London to discuss Churchill’s forthcoming visit to
Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Margery Merlyn Baillieu and Sidney Myer,
the founder of Myer (Australia’s largest department store chain) gave birth to
the first child, Ken. But since Myer had
converted a year earlier and Baillieu was not Jewish, Ken would not be carrying
on the “faith of his fathers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1391841/Sir-Michael-Kerr.htm<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: In Berlin, “Alfred Kerr, the well-known
socialist author and theatre critic for Berliner Tageblatt and Frankfurter
Zeitung” and his non-Jewish wife gave birth to Sir Michael Kerr, the Lord
Justice of Appeal who was believed to be “England's first foreign-born judge
since the reign of Henry II.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: John Schuburgh a member of the Middle
East Department (of the British Government) sent a visiting Arab delegation a
letter reiterating British support for the Balfour Declaration and the
establishment of a Jewish National Home 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;">1922: Director Heimann “informed the Second
Congress of Jewish Communities” that “the American Joint Distribution Committee
as allocated and placed at the disposal of the National Jewish Council of
Lithuania 24,000,000 marks for the rehabilitation of Jews who suffered from the
war.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1922:
Birthdate of Yitzhak Rabin
(</span><b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">יצחק
רבין</span></b><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>). A Sabra, Rabin was a soldier-statesman who served as Prime
Minister from 1974 until 1977. The
scandal which drove him from office would open the way for the Right-Wing Likud
to take power for the first time since the founding of the Jewish State. Rabin would return as Prime Minister in
1992. He would win the Nobel Peace Prize
for his groundbreaking attempts to end the violence in the Middle East. Sadly, the man who had avoided death at the
hands of Israel’s Arab enemies, met death at the hands of a Jewish fanatic bent
on derailing the Peace Process. Would
events been different had Rabin lived?
We will never know. Just as a
killer at Dallas had thwarted the American electoral process, so a killer
thwarted the democratic process in Israel in 1995.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5683): 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;">1923: Dr. R.E. Stewart MacAlister, President of
Celtic Archaelogoy at the National University of Dublin and director of the
Palestine Exploration Fund who is leaving for Palestine to supervise the
excavation of work at the site of the old City of David “says it is impossible
to say what the fruits of the excavation will be as Palestine was a country
where art was cultivated to the same extent as in Egypt” but he hopes that
“considerable light will be thrown on biblical history” as a result of these
efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: Dr. Max Pinner, the recipient of the
American Thoracic Society’s Trudeau Medal, married Berna Rudovic, four years
before he became a naturalized U.S. citizen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: In New York “Max Druckman, a Manhattan
furniture dealer” and Pearl Cohen gave birth to 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.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: In Bacau Romania, Sima and Alter Marcus
gave birth Romanian mathematician Solomon Marcus, a professor at the University
of Bucharest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: “The Jewish Agency for Palestine which
has been in complete control of Zionists since the League of Nations so
decided, will be reconstituted to include non-Zionists, if Great Britain and
the League approve of a decision made by leaders of both factions at the Hotel
Astor” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: “Rabbi Samuel Schulman in his sermon this
morning at Temple Beth-El, Fifth Avenue and Seventy-sixth Street, condemned the
plan for giving religious instruction in the public schools. He characterized
the experiment of sending groups of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish children to
their respective centres of religious education near their public schools as
"a most serious modification of the secular character of the American
public school as we are accustomed to admire it."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5686): 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;">1926: It was reported today that the Purim Ball
at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel sponsored by the Old Timers of the Young Men’s
Hebrew Association had “served a reunion for all former Y.H.M.H.A. members
since 1874.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: At a testimonial dinner honoring Joseph
Barondess’ forty years of service to American Jewrtygiven tonight in the
ballroom of the Manhattan Opera House, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise said, “that no Jew
in America had given more to 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;">1926: Mlle. Maxa Nordau, the daughter of the
late Zionist author Max Nordau is scheduled to begin holding an exhibition of
art in New York starting 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: In Poland Moishe and Baila Wilderman gave
birth to Robert Max Widerman known as <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Robert Clary, the actor who gained fame playing
the part of LeBeau on “Hogan’s Heroes” and who ironically was the only one of
his immediate family members to survive imprisonment by the Nazis 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;">1927: “Social service offers women their best
opportunity for training in Government, Henry Morgenthau said today at a
luncheon of the Women's Division of the Federation for the Support of Jewish
Philanthropic Societies at the Hotel Astor.”<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 125-pound midget basketball team of
the Jewish Centre of the East side defeated the Hudson Guild midget team”
tonight” “on the winners court” with Grossman scoring 45 points for the winning
team.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: Joseph Levy, writing in the <i>New York
Times</i> described the ceremonies that marked “the recent inauguration of the
plantation of the Balfour Forest at Ginegar, in the Valley of Jezreel,
Palestine.” As part of the ceremony, Sir Alfred Mond delivered an address in
which he “paid high tribute to Lord Plumer, the High Commissioner, for the
devotion he has shown during his tenure in office and to the Jewish national
fund. The entire cost of the Balfour Forest is being borne by the Jews of Great
Britain. The project is part of the
Zionist led reforestation project that is vital to the renewal of Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk65414904"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929(19<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5689): Forty-eight-year-old Lodz native Louis DeWitt Gibbs, the 1906
graduate of New York University Law and state legislator who led the battle to
make the Bronx into a separate country before going to serve as “a member of
the New York State Supreme Court and who was the husband of Anna White Gibbs
with whom he had three children – Howard, Harriet and Isadora – passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/03/02/95885301.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/03/02/95885301.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;">1929: It was reported today that “The Anshe
Russia Synagogue, the oldest Orthodox congregation in Newark, NJ” which is led
by Rabbi Joseph Konvitz and President Bernard Brody, “is planning to erect a
new synagogue at a cost of three hundred thousand dollars.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar, 5690): Parashat
Mishpatim; Rosh Chodesh Adar; 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;">1930: “Puttin’ On the Ritz” produced by Joseph
M. Schenck starring Harry Richman in his movie debut who also wrote the music
for the film along with Fred E. Ahlert and Irving Berlin 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;">1931: The White House released President
Herbert Hoover’s congratulatory message expressing his congratulations to Baith
Israel Anshei Emes on the celebration of the 75<sup>th</sup> anniversary of its
founding.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: “Anti-Semitism is a challenge to the Jew
to be at his best, and he must find his idealism not only in fighting against
anti-Semitism with every legal weapon, but also in accepting it as a spur to
his own virtue, declared Rabbi Samuel Schulman in his sermon today at Temple
Emanu-El” while he also said that “the Jewish problem is a spiritual problem
for the Jew and for the world and there is no short cut to its solution.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: On a radio broadcast Clarence C. Dill,
Democratic Senator for Washington, called Hoover's appointment of Justice
Cardozo "the finest act of his career 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;">1932: It was reported today that Daniel Frohman
is the honorary president of “Theatre in Art” exhibition which will open later
this month as a fundraiser for the Actors’ Fund 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;">1932: It was reported today that Judge Cardozo
has met with Chief Justice Hughes and “made tentative arrangements for his
induction as a member of the 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;">1932: “The confirmation of the appointment of
Judge Benjamin Cardozo as associated just of the Supreme Court was transmitted
to the White House by this Senate 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;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. the infant son
of “the Lone Eagle” was kidnapped today which would lead to the trial of his
kidnapper where David Theodore Wilentz, the Attorney General of New Jersey
would serve as the lead prosecutor.<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 Maccabee Association of the United
States announced the members of the swimming and track and field teams that
will be sent to compete in the Jewish Olympic Games that will take place at the
end of March. The selection committee
was chaired by Sol Goodstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: Benjamin N. Cardozo was elected an
honorary member at today’s meeting of the governing committee of the Lawyers’
Club 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;">1933: During the movement to boycott Jewish
businesses in Germany, Nazi troops sang in front of the Berlin Woolworth
Company store” because they believed that the Methodist Woolworth brothers were
Jewish. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: Today, Billy Wilder arrived in Paris from
Berlin and settled in the Hotel Asonia which was “a haven for members of the
German film industry who had fled from their homeland to escape the encroaching
threat of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party including actor Peter Lorre,
composers Franz Waxman and Friedrich Hollaender, and screenwriters H.G. Lustig
and Max Kolpé, who agreed to help Wilder develop a plot he had conceived in
Berlin” which became the French film “Mauvaise Graine.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5694): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: Birthdate of New York native and Olympic
gymnast Abie Grossfeld. <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="http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/AbieGrossfeld.htm">http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/AbieGrossfeld.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: As of this date, according to a report
prepared by Morris Rothenberg, President of the ZOA, there are a quarter of a
million Jews living in Palestine which marks a significant increase from the
total of 85,000 Jews living there in 1921..<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: Sandor Harmati served as the conductor
today when “Serenade” had its “official premiere” today with “the American
Ballet at the Adelphia 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;">1935: Aaron DeRoy, the University of Pittsburgh
trained dentist and husband of oil heiress Helen Lowentritt DeRoy who moved to
Detroit where he established the Aaron DeRoy Motor Car Compnay and “sat on the
board of the Hudson Motor Company” died today in an automobile accident in
South Carolina.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936(7<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5696): Eighty-one-year-old
“Dr. Arnold Netter, noted physician and newly elected President of the Alliance
Israelite Universelle died today while addressing a meeting of the French
Medical Association” 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;">1936:
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, is scheduled to leave Palestine today for London where he
will meet with those Jews who “are sponsors of a scheme to accelerate the
evacuation of Jews from Germany “told the New York Times ‘I do not know the
extent of the funds of the nature of the scheme contemplated by Herman Samuel’s
mission, but I am ready to cooperate in the execution of any project promising
to increase Jewish immigration to Palestine.’”<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 Richmond, VA native Shirley
Bernice Politzer who would gain fame as “Dr. Shirley P. Glass, a psychologist
who strove to redefine the nature of infidelity” and the mother of Ira Glass,
producer of “This American Life.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “Creation of an ‘Albert Einstein Fund for
Palestine’ to be applied to the nation-wide campaign of the United Palestine
Appeal to raise $3,500,000 for the settlement in Palestine of Jews from
Germany, Poland and other countries was announced” today “after a meeting of
the Council of Jewish Organizations at the Hotel Pennsylvania<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “A new anti-Semitic wave was ushered in
today in Germany following of weeks of quiet because of the Winter Olympics”
during which the “Nazis attempted not to offend foreign visitors.”<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 thousand people attending the
fifty-first annual meeting of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aids Society”
today “at the Hotel Astor urged Congress to ‘humanize’ sections of the
immigration law affecting resident aliens by enacting the Kerr-Coolidge Bill”
which according HIAS President Abraham Herman “would tend to remove ‘some
hardships affecting innocent resident aliens.’”<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 view of the recent Nuremberg decrees”
it was reported today that the “efforts” of the Joint Distribution Committee
“will be intensified including the continuation of aid to Jewish and non-Jewish
German refugees in France, Czechoslovakia, Holland, etc., providing money for
German Jews going to Palestine as well as the “education of about 60,000 German
Jewish children 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;">1936: “Travels in Palestine” published today
provided a review of <u>Footprints in Palestine: Where the East Begins</u> by
Madeline Sweeney Miller with an introduction by Field Marshal Viscount Allenby,
the liberator of Palestine during 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;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9E05E2DC133BE33BBC4953DFB566838D629EDE">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9E05E2DC133BE33BBC4953DFB566838D629EDE</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></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: It was reported today that the “three
hundred chapters of Hadassah throughout the country will merge the celebration
of Purim with founders’ day programs” that will mark the 24<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of the organization which was established by Henriette Szold in
1912.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Taking advantage of earlier meetings held
by Eliezer Kaplan, treasurer of the Jewish Agency in Palestine and the General
Manager of the Anglo Palestine Bank, Dr. Chaim Weizmann is scheduled to leave
today for London “to confer with Sir Herbert Samuel, Viscount Bearsted and
Simon Marks, sponsors of a scheme to accelerate the evacuation 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: According to sources in Heidelberg, “Nazi
Government will…now undertake a counter-campaign against the refusals of the
English universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Birmingham to accept an
invitation to send representatives to the ceremony celebrating the 550<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of the found of Heidelberg University.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Columbia University’s acceptance of “an
invitation to send a representative to the 550<sup>th</sup> anniversary
celebration of Heidelberg University evoked a protest” today “from Roger E.
Chase, editor of <i>Spectator</i>, an
undergraduate publication.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: It was reported that the Nazi “program,
which fundamentally has only one aim, namely, racial, as a substitute for
national, unification through restoration of German military strength” will
require it t”o make compromises with all existing classes except 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;">1936: The Cornell University <i>Daily Sun</i> will say editorially today: If
Cornell has already accepted the German invitation as reported, it can only
save its academic face by publicly reversing its stand and by joining British
and American universities in a boycott of this Nazi travesty.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “Germany recovered full sovereignty over
the Saar today when the last League of Nations bonds were cut” which meant an
end to “the validity of assurances given by the German government to the League
that ‘no discrimination on account of language, race or religion’ would be made
during the one year period.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “Details of an agreement under which
1,000 non-Russian Jewish families will be settled in the Jewish autonomous
territory of Birobidjan, Soviet Russia have been made public by William W.
Cohen, chairman of the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in
Birobidjan.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: As of today, “Sam H. Harris, the
theatrical producer who has been suffering with pleurisy for more than a week
while staying at his winter home in Palm Springs was reported by his nurse to
be improving as of 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;">1937: Winston Churchill retained Hungarian born
Jew Emery Reves as his literary agent which would prove a boon to Churchill’s
literary career and pocketbook.<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, “the American ORT Federation
opened a national campaign to raise $450,000 to provide technical and
agricultural training for Jewish victims of social and economic decimation in
Poland, Germany, Rumania and other European countries and to assist them in
achieving economic independence and stability.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939(10<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5699): Jacob C.
Felsenthal, the Kentucky born son of Bina and Marcus Felsanthal, the Memphis
merchant and philanthropist who was the husband of Cecillia Felsenthal and the
father of Jeanette, Edward and Marcus Felsnethal passed away today in Jackson,
TN.<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 Brooklyn Joseph Grossman, the owner of
“a silk-screen printing shop” and “the former Ethel Stern” gave birth to Robert
Samuel Grossman to the illustrator you may not know by name but do know by
product. (As reported by Neil
Genzlinger)<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.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">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</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.robertgrossman.com/">https://www.robertgrossman.com/</a><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 Brooklyn, “Maurice Schaap, a salesman,
and the former Leah Lerner, a French teacher” gave birth to controversial
attorney William H. Schaap, the older brother of sportscaster Dick Schaap.<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.nytimes.com/2016/03/03/nyregion/william-h-schaap-radical-lawyer-author-and-publisher-dies-at-75.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/03/nyregion/william-h-schaap-radical-lawyer-author-and-publisher-dies-at-75.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</a><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 South Miami Beach, FL, Max and Mae
Greenberg gave birth to “anthologist” Martin Harry Greenberg.<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://web.archive.org/web/20120710140557/http:/sfscope.com/2011/06/anthologist-martin-greenberg-d.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20120710140557/http://sfscope.com/2011/06/anthologist-martin-greenberg-d.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: Prime Minister Winston Churchill writes
to Colonial Secretary Lord Moyne expressing his displeasure with General Wavell
who, “like most British officers is pro-Arab” and opposed to the Jews. This attitude extends to an unwillingness on
the part of the British military to form additional Jewish military units to
fight in the Imperial Army.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1941: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Himmler inspected the Auschwitz concentration
camp<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: Bulgaria officially joins the Axis Powers
- Germany, Italy and Japan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: Three years after premiering in the
United Kingdom, “The Silent Battle” with a script co-authored by Emeric
Pressburger and music by Francis Chagrin 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;">1942: On Purim Eve, the Germans ordered 5,000
Jews deported from Minsk.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: Three years after premiering in the
United Kingdom, “The Silent Battle,” featuring Carl Jaffe who had escaped from
Nazi Germany and settled in the UK, 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;">1942: “Hitler order the Einsatzstab to
establishment a library of Jewish books and works to art to be use in the in
the ideological war against the Jews” “600,000 of which volumes fell intact in
the hands of the United States Army” at the end of 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;">1942: In Boston, Ruth Ashen and Sam Gruber, the
owner of a junk business, gave birth to Howard Peter Gruber, best-selling
author, CEO of Mandalay Entertainment and the owner of several pro teams.<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 Jerusalem, Aliza and Menachem Begin
gave birth to Benny Begin who earned a doctorate in Geology from Colorado State
University before following his father into the world of Israeli politics.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1943: In Amsterdam, a
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Jewish old
age home for the disabled was raided.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943:
Fourteen examples of the work of William Zorach including “Hound” and “Cat”
were part of his one-man show that opened today in New York at the Downtown
Gallery.<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 a speech given before a crowd of 70,000
people at Madison Square Garden, Chaim Weizmann states, “Two million Jews have
already been exterminated. The world can
no longer plead that the ghastly facts are unknown or unconfirmed. This rally
had been planned by the American Jewish Congress in an attempt to mobilize
American public opinion in support of efforts to rescue Jews trapped in
Hitler’s Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944:
In London, “Dr. Wolf Gottlieb, Rabbi at Queen's Park Synagogue, Glasgow and
head of Glasgow's rabbinical court (av beit din)” and his wife gave birth to
Dr. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, the Torah scholar and author who finally settled
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;"><a href="http://www.avivahzornberg.com/">http://www.avivahzornberg.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945:
“Pope Spoke In Hebrew” published today described the visit of Pvt. Lou Herman
who in civilian life was a cantor and other Canadian Jewish soldiers who were
singled out by Pope Pius XII and speaking in Hebrew were blessed by the Pontiff
who “raised his arms in the manner of the priests of the Hebrew faith” while
giving the benediction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945:
During the “Hunting Season” the British expressed their concerns that the
Jewish Agency was interested in more than just going after terrorists when the
High Commissioner to the Minster of Colonies wrote today that Unfortunately,
the Jewish Agency's lists of so-called terrorists continues to include numerous
people who have no terror connections, but politically speaking are undesirable
to the Jewish Agency. This adds to the difficulties the police has in
separating the sheep from the goats…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: It was disclosed today that the
investigation of the activities of the big six German banks by the Allies has
found evidence that the Netherlands subsidiary of the Dresdner bank “collected
rans by accepting payments from Netherland Jews in concentration camps outside
the Netherlands who had assets abroad.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: In Vienna, the police guard “at the
headquarters of the Jewish community organization has been strengthened” in
response to Vienna Jewish community organization having previously informed the
police that it has been receiving threatening letters from Nazis who wrote that
‘Hitler’s task’ would be finished when the last Jews had been liquidated.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Jews responded violently to British
Foreign Minister Bevin’s latest pronouncements about Palestine by conducting
multiple attacks that resulted in the death of at least sixteen British
military personnel.<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 Abril, filled with 600 Jewish
refugees, set sail from Port du Bouc today only after having been pulled free
by tugboats after she ran aground.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: David Remez, Chairman of The Jewish
National Council, announced tonight that the “Jewish population of Palestine
will observe a self-imposed curfew for four hours” tomorrow night to express
their concern for the refugees from Europe recently seized by the British.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: This month Henry and Phoebe Ephron gave
birth to author Hallie Ephron one of four sisters all of whom are talented
authors.<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 dramatization of Robert Nathan’s <u>The
Bishop Wife</u> “was dramatized as half-hour radio play on today’s broadcast of
The Screen Guild Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949(30<sup>th</sup> of Shevat, 5709): Rosh
Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949(30<sup>th</sup> of Shevat, 5709): Fifty-four-year-old
University of Cincinnati and HUC graduate Rabbi Henry Joseph Berkowitz, the
Philadelphia born son of Clara Landman ad Albert Berkowitz and the leader of
Temple Israel in Portland, OR “the largest Jewish congregation in the Pacific
Northwest” died today “from a rare disease he had contracted while serving as a
chaplain 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;">1949: “Henry Morgenthau Jr., former Secretary
of the Treasury, announced today that he had accepted the chairmanship of the
1949 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: It was revealed today that in the
non-aggression pact being considered by Israel and Jordan included a promise
that Haifa would become a free-port for Jordan thus giving the Arab state
access to the Mediterranean.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5713): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk65412023"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5713): Eighty-four-year-old retired New York Stock Exchange member
Hartwig Baruch, the, Winnsboro, SC born son of Simon and Isabel Wolfe Baruch
and brother of Bernard Baruch who had acted under the name of “Nathaniel
Hartwig” and who had one son and two daughters with his wife Arline Lennox
Baruch whom he married in 1917 passed away today in Coral Gables, FL after
which he was buried at the Flushing Cemetery in Flushing, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/03/02/93603323.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/03/02/93603323.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;">1953: In Wilmington, DE, The Executive Council
of the Building Committee of Congregation Beth Emeth which had been founded in
1905 presented plans for a new building to the congregation at a special
meeting and received approval to go ahead with the project.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954: Today,Rokhl Auerbakh “one of the three
surviving members of the covert Oyneg Shabes group led by Emanuel Ringelblum
that chronicled daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto, and the initiator of the
excavation of the group's buried manuscripts after the war” “was named director
of Yad Vashem's new Department for the Collection of Witness Testimony, which
was based in Tel Aviv where most Holocaust survivors had settled.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954: In Perm, Russia, Victor Radunsky, the
teacher at naval school and Maria (Ilinichna) Radunsky, a teacher gave birth to
illustrator Vladimir Radunksky, the brother of Alexander Radunsky, the husband
of Eugenia Uriitsky whom he married in 1987 the year before the publication of
his first book <u>The Riddle</u> and the father of Anna and Alexandra Radunsky.
(As reported by Daniel E. Slotnik)<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.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/obituaries/vladimir-radunsky-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/obituaries/vladimir-radunsky-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955: The Lux Radio Theatre broadcast an hour
long adaptation of “The Bishop’s Wife” based on the novel of the same name by
Robert Nathan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960(2<sup>nd</sup> of Adar): Hundreds of Jews,
including some students of the local Chabad Yeshivah, were among the thousands
of victims to perish in a devastating earthquake that struck Agadir, Morocco
today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5721): For the
first time during the Presidency of John Kennedy, Jews observe 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;">1964: Fifty-four-year-old composer and pianist,
whose father was “a Lithuanian Jews” 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;">1967: In a sketch tonight on “At Last the 1948
Show” Marty “Feldman’s character harassed a patient shop assistant for a series
of fictitious books, achieving success with<u> Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity
Surveying.<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967: “More than four hundred Jewish lay and
religious leaders representing fifty national Jewish organizations” are
scheduled to meet David Ben Gurion today at Kennedy International Airport to
mark the state of a three-week tour of the United States that will be part of
the celebration of his 80<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;">1968(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar, 5728(: Rosh
Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969: Joseph Vogel the MGM executive who served
as its President from 1956 to 1963 during which the studio produced the classic
“North by Northwest” 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;">1970: Birthdate of best-selling author Darin
Strauss author of “<u>Half a Life</u>, which won the 2011 NBCC Award for
memoir/autobiography.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971: In Massachusetts, “Nancy Falchuk, the
national president of Hadassah” and her husband gave birth to Hobart and
William Smith Colleges grad and self-proclaimed Republican Brad Falchuk, the award-winning
television “writer, director and producer” and husband of actress of Gwyneth
Paltrow whose brother Evan Falchuk was the founder of the United Independent
Party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971(4<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5731):<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Rzeszow,
Poland native Lieb Wiesenfeld who gained fame as Leon Wiesenfeld “a journalist,
editor for the Yiddish language press and Jewish community leader” in
Cleveland, OH passed away 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://case.edu/ech/articles/w/wiesenfeld-leon">https://case.edu/ech/articles/w/wiesenfeld-leon</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://case.edu/ech/articles/w/wiesenfeld-leon">https://case.edu/ech/articles/w/wiesenfeld-leon</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OCLWHi2546.xml&doc.view=printead;chunk.id=0">http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OCLWHi2546.xml&doc.view=printead;chunk.id=0</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.clevelandjewishhistory.net/people/wiesenfeld-memoir.htm">https://www.clevelandjewishhistory.net/people/wiesenfeld-memoir.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972: Naomi Bronheim Levine was appointed
Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress (A. J. Cong.), becoming the
first woman to take the helm of a major American Jewish organization that
included both men and women as members. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5732): 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;">1972(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5732): Sixty-three-year-old
Moshe Sneh 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;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0018_0_18758.html">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0018_0_18758.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk65413848"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972:
Seventy-eight-year-old Vladimir Golschmann, the Paris born son of Russian
parents and conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra from 1931 to 1957
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/02/archives/vladimirgolschmann-conductor-dies.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/02/archives/vladimirgolschmann-conductor-dies.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.naxos.com/person/Vladimir_Golschmann/31777.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.naxos.com/person/Vladimir_Golschmann/31777.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;">1973: U.S. premiere of “The Thief Who Came To
Dinner co-produced by Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin who also directed the film
featuring Alan Oppenheimer as “Insurance Man.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973: A week after premiering in New York “Charlotte’s
Web” with music by Richard and Robert Sherman is released today across 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;">1973: Eight Palestinians were arrested after
the Saudi Arabian Embassy at Khartoum was seized and the U.S. Ambassador and
Deputy Head of Mission and the Belgian Charge d’ Affaires 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;">1974: “Soviet police detained about 70 Jews
from Moscow and other Soviet cities to prevent the transmission of a petition
to the Central Committee of the CPSU with 200 signatures.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974: “Radio Moscow reported demonstrations by
Zionist elements during the wreath laying ceremony at the monument to the
heroes of Plevna in Moscow.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(18<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5735): 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;">1976: “The Witch Who Came From The Sea,” a horror
film with music by Herschel Burke Gilbert 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;">1976: The International Catholic-Jewish Liaison
Committee began its annual meeting in Jerusalem today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978: At today’s 17<sup>th</sup> Annual Grammy
Awards presentation Marvin Hamlisch was honored as “best new artist” and Alan
and Marilyn Bergman & Marvin Hamlisch (composers) were honored for The Way
We Were performed by Barbra Streisand.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978:
Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery.<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 “Lefkowitz Style: Example of the Old
School” published today Maurice Carroll traced the career of New York’s
Attorney General.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979: Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd: The
Demon Barber of Fleet Street” opened on Broadway at the Uris Theater. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5734): Parashat
Tetzaveh; Erev Purim celebrated for the last time during the Presidency of
Jimmy Carter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981: “Miracle on Ice,” a sports docudrama
starring Steve Guttenberg 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;">1982: Wadi Aranki of the POL was killed in
Madrid<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983(16<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5743): Author
Arthur Koestler and his wife Cynthia took their own lives 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;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/04/world/arthur-koestler-and-wife-suicides-in-london.html?pagewanted=all&mcubz=3">http://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/04/world/arthur-koestler-and-wife-suicides-in-london.html?pagewanted=all&mcubz=3</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983:” Soviet dissident, mathematician, teacher
and human rights advocate” Valery Senderov went on trial in the USSR today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1985: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Milwaukee businessman
Herb Kohl Kohl would go on to become one of Wisconsin’s two Jewish senators
purchased the Milwaukee Bucks. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985: “The Sure Thing” a comedy directed by Rob
Reiner and co-produced by Henry Winkler and Roger Birnbaum 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(30<sup>th</sup> of Shevat, 5747): Rosh
Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987(30<sup>th</sup> of Shevat, 5747): Eighty-three-year-old
University of Paris graduate Bertrand de Jouvenel, the son of Henri de Jouvenel
and Sarah Boas, the daughter of a Jewish industrialist and the husband of
Marcelle Prat de Jouvenel whom he married in 1925 “who was a French
philosopher, political economist, and futurist” and who “taught at the
University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of
Manchester, Yale University, the University of Chicago, and the University of
California, Berkeley.”<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.britannica.com/biography/Bertrand-de-Jouvenel">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bertrand-de-Jouvenel</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://mises.org/profile/bertrand-de-jouvenel">https://mises.org/profile/bertrand-de-jouvenel</a><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 Israeli Lawyer Dares Defend an Accused Nazi, “published today Francis X.
Clines describes the challenges and criticism facing Yoram Sheftel, the Tel
Aviv criminal lawyer serving as co-counsel in the defense of John Demjanjuk,
the retired auto worker from the United States who is accused of being the
infamous executioner of the Treblinka death camp.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988: University of Michigan graduate Preston
Robet Tisch, the Bensonhurst bon son Sadye and Al Tisch, the husband of Joan
Hyman with whom he had three children – Steve, Jonathan and Laurie – and who was the chairman and—along with his
brother Laurence Tisch—was part owner of the Loews Corporation completed his
service as the 68<sup>th</sup> United States Postmaster General.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988(12th of Adar, 5748): Joe Besser one of the Three Stooges 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;">1990(4<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5750): Seventy-seven-year-old
London native Hyman Barnett “Harry” Mizler who along with his brothers Moe and
Judah worked in the family fish stall “in Watney Street Market” before become
becoming a member of Britain’s 1932 Summer Olympics box team and winning “the
British Board of Control (BBofC) Lightweight Title” 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;">1991(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5751): Shushan
Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1991(15th of Adar,
5751): Edwin H Land</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
inventor of the Polaroid Camera passed away at the age of 81.<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.biography.com/people/edwin-land-9372429">https://www.biography.com/people/edwin-land-9372429</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="http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/02/obituaries/edwin-h-land-is-dead-at-81-inventor-of-polaroid-camera.html?pagewanted=all">http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/02/obituaries/edwin-h-land-is-dead-at-81-inventor-of-polaroid-camera.html?pagewanted=all</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: <i>The
New York Times</i> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors including <u>Mr.
Mani</u> by A.B.Yehoshua<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.nytimes.com/1992/03/01/books/history-overheard.html?searchResultPosition=2">https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/01/books/history-overheard.html?searchResultPosition=2</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and <u>The Story of H. H. Asquith, Venetia
Stanley and Edwin Montagu, Based on the Life and Letters of Edwin Samuel
Montagu </u>by Naomi B. Levine<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/01/books/no-prime-minister.html?searchResultPosition=5">https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/01/books/no-prime-minister.html?searchResultPosition=5</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: Following the end of the Iraq War,
Lufthansa plans to resume service to Tel Aviv today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: “My
Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys” a rodeo drama directed by Stuart Rosenberg 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;">1991: Months
after its premiere in the United States “Avalon” the saga of a Jewish immigrant
family in Baltimore, MD, directed, produced and written by Barry Levinson, with
music by Randy Newman, starring Leo Fuchs, Leo Jacobi and Kevin Pollak was
released today 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;">1992(26th of
Adar I, 5752): Seventy-year-old Marshall Sklare, the husband Rose Bernard and
the father of Daniel, Joshua and Judith Skalre who “was the Klutznick Family
Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Sociology emeritus at Brandeis
University” and considered to be “the founding father of American Jewish
Sociology” passed away 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.brandeis.edu/hornstein/sarna/americanjewishcultureandscholarship/Archive4/MarshallSklare.pdf">https://www.brandeis.edu/hornstein/sarna/americanjewishcultureandscholarship/Archive4/MarshallSklare.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993: In the following article entitled “Doubts
Mar PBS Film of Black Army Unit,” Richard Bernstein describes the controversy
surrounding a movie that is supposed to be a documentary about the 761<sup>st</sup>
Tank Battalion’s role in the liberation of Jews held in concentration camps at
the end of World War II. The tank
battalion was an all-black unit and the film was supposed to be a tool to
rejuvenate the alliance between Jews and African-American.<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://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/01/nyregion/doubts-mar-pbs-film-of-black-army-unit.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm">http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/01/nyregion/doubts-mar-pbs-film-of-black-army-unit.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm</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;">1993: Publication of E. M. Broner's <u>The Telling:
The Story of a Group of Jewish Women Who Journey to Spirituality Through
Community and Ceremony</u> <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="http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/01/1993/em-broner">http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/01/1993/em-broner</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993(8th of Adar,
5753): “Two civilians in their twenties, Natan Azaria and Gregory Avramov, were
stabbed to death in Tel Aviv by Palestinians from 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;">1994: Ari Halberstam,
a 16-year-old yeshiva student, was returning from a vigil for Rabbi Menachem
Mendel Schneerson. While pulling onto the exit ramp for the Brooklyn Bridge,
Halberstam’s vehicle was shot at by Rashid Baz, a Lebanese immigrant. He died five
days later. (As reported by Seth Berkman)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994: Publication of <u>Gun,
with Occasional Music</u>, a novel by Jonathan Lethem.<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. Air Force
Captain Jack Weinstein, the future Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic
Deterrence and Nuclear Integration, was promoted to Major today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995: Publication of
the paperback edition of <u>Gun, with Occasional Music</u> by Jonathan Lethem.<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 25th European
Athletics Indoor Championships in which Aleksandr Averbukh placed sixth in the
Heptathlon closed today at Valencia.<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>The New York Times</i> featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including
recently released paperback editions of <u>Unto the Soul</u> <i>by </i>Aharon
Appelfeld in which “<i>Gad</i>
and Amalia, brother and sister, have been given the sacred duty of tending an
ancient cemetery of Jewish martyrs near their village in turn-of-the-century
Eastern Europe and <u>Isaiah Berlin</u> John Gray’s study of the 20th century's
premier Renaissance man that focuses on his liberalism, which was complex in
that it acknowledged no one right path for human society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998: Today,
“Titanic” produced by Jon Landau and featuring Victor Garber and David Warner
became the first film to earn more than $1 billion worldwide<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999: Dan Seligman provides
a detailed review of <u>The Times of My Life</u> by Max Frankel today.<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.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-times-of-my-life-by-max-frankel/">https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-times-of-my-life-by-max-frankel/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5759): Fast of Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk65407566"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5759): Seventy-seven-year-old Jews’ College
educated Rabbi Bernard Hooker, “the youngest Jewish Chaplain to serve in the
British Armed Services and the husband of Eileen Hooker, whose career began at
the Birmingham Liberal Jewish Synagogue in 1948 and ended at the North London
Progressive Synagogue in 1991 where he later reached emeritus status passed
today in Ledbury Herefordshire<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5759): Ninety-one-year-old Jeannette Levin,
the daughter of Rachel and Isaac Aaron Levin passed away after which she buried
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;">2000: “After combing
through their holdings, Britain's art museums and galleries released a list of
more than 350 works of art today that have murky provenances for the period
around World War II and may have been seized 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;">2001(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5761): Hamas claimed credit for the Mei Ami junction bombing which
took place at Vadi Ara where one person 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;">2002: In the fiercest
fighting of the last 17 months, Israelis troops fought their way into two camps
one of which was located at Jenin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2003: “Another Round
in the Skirmish Over Elio and Anti-Semitism” published today examined charges
that the famous poet had an animus and bias towards Jews that was unknown to
most readers and students.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/books/shelf-life-another-round-in-the-skirmish-over-eliot-and-anti-semitism.html?searchResultPosition=1">https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/books/shelf-life-another-round-in-the-skirmish-over-eliot-and-anti-semitism.html?searchResultPosition=1</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004: It was reported
today that in Vienna, “an Austrian genealogist said two Jewish relatives of”
Senator John Kerry's -- his grandmother's sister and half-brother -- had died
in Nazi 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;">2005(20th of Adar I, 5765): Seventy-seven-year-old
Peter “Zvi” Malkin, the Mossad agent who led the team that captured Adolf
Eichmann 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;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/obituaries/peter-zvi-malkin-israeli-agent-who-captured-adolf-eichmann-dies.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/obituaries/peter-zvi-malkin-israeli-agent-who-captured-adolf-eichmann-dies.html</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.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/08/guardianobituaries.israel">https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/08/guardianobituaries.israel</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></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: Completion of the Eleventh Daf Yomi Cycle
begun in September, 1997. The next cycle
begins on Wednesday, March 2, 2005. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel was
deported from Canada to Germany today where he “was arrested and detained in
Mannheim prison” where he would await “trial for inciting racial hatred.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: Penultimate broadcast of “Boston Public”
co-starring Fyvush Finkel as “Harvey Lipschultz.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: “Boris Lurie: Uneasy visions,
uncomfortable truths” published today highlights the views of artist Boris
Lurie the native of Leningrad who survived imprisonment in a string of
concentration camps including Buchenwald.<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="http://thevillager.com/vil_95/borislurieuneasy.html">http://thevillager.com/vil_95/borislurieuneasy.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: On
the secular calendar Rosh Chodesh Adar, first day of the month of Adar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: London
Mayor Ken Livingstone began serving his four week suspension from office after
being found guilty of bringing his office into disrepute by comparing a Jewish
reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: Fast of Esther
observed on 11<sup>th</sup> of Adar since the 13<sup>th</sup> of Adar falls 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;">2007(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5767): Eighty-seven year old New York native Harold Michelson “the
illustrator and storyboard artist” who with his wife Lillian formed a
formidable behind the camera Hollywood power couple immortalized in the biopic
“Harold and Lillian” 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;"><a href="https://www.jta.org/jewniverse/2017/meet-the-jewish-power-couple-behind-hollywoods-iconic-films?utm_source=jewniverse_maropost&utm_campaign=jewniverse&utm_medium=email&mpweb=1161-5275-39206">https://www.jta.org/jewniverse/2017/meet-the-jewish-power-couple-behind-hollywoods-iconic-films?utm_source=jewniverse_maropost&utm_campaign=jewniverse&utm_medium=email&mpweb=1161-5275-39206</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007(11th of Adar,
5767): Meyer “Mike” Feldman, a White House advisor for President Kennedy,
passed away at the age of 92.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: Celebration of the birthday of Muriel Rogers, doyen of the Cedar
Rapids Jewish Community<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2008: The Jerusalem Cinematheque presents <i>The
Path Of Our Fathers \ </i></span><b><i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">בדרכי אבות</span></i></b><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> This is
“an extraordinary and at times surrealistic road movie about a charismatic man
named Menahem Goldberg. On the eve of Passover, Menahem took his donkey and two
sons, one 12 years old and the second 8 years old, and set out to fulfill the
mitzvah of going up to Jerusalem. The 170 km, 9-day trip by foot from their
home in the north to the Western Wall, took them through the biblical
landscapes of Judea and Samaria and brought them into contact with the
present-day Israeli and Palestinian realities there.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Beth Hillel
Congregation in Wilmette, Illinois, presents a screening of the Argentinean
film <i>Legado</i> a documentary about the
arrival of the first Russian Jews in 19<sup>th</sup> century Argentina. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008(24th of Adar I,
5768): St. Sgt. Doron Asulin, 20 of Beersheba and St. Sgt. Eran Dan-Gur, 20, of
Jerusalem, were killed early Saturday as their Givati Brigade units operated
against terrorists. Asulin served in the
brigade’s anti-tank company and Dan-Gur served in the Shaked Battalion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2008:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> On the second day of Operation Hot Winter
which was aimed at disrupting terrorist infrastructure in the Gaza Strip,
Israeli forces “carried out airstrikes at ammo warehouses, rocket factories,
rocket warehouses and launching cells, combined with small incursions close to
the border. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Jonathan
Schanzer, director of policy at the Jewish Policy Center discusses and signs
copies of <u>Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle For Palestine at Politics</u> and
Prose Bookstore 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;">2009: The 120th
annual Central Conference American Rabbis being held in Jerusalem comes 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;">2009: The annual
Koach Kallah comes 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;">2009: <i>The New York Times</i> featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including <u>The
House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War</u> by Alexander Waugh, <u>A Mad Desire
to Dance</u> by Elie Wiesel and recently released paperback editions of <u>The
Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal,</u> by Lily Koppel and <u>Swimming in a Sea of
Death:</u><u> A Son’s Memoir,</u> by David Rieff<i>.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: <i>The Washington Post</i> featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including <u>The
Future of Liberalism</u> by Alan Wolfe<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2009:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Effective today the Glendale Uptown Home will
become a nonkosher facility, leaving Philadelphia proper without a certified
glatt-kosher nursing home. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: A revival of
Rogers and Hart’s Pal Joey presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company had its
last performance <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010 (15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5770): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> In a talk at Harvard University on
"Identity, Diversity, and Human Rights," Canada Supreme Court Justice
Rosalie Silberman Abella shared her family's Holocaust story and explained how
it informs her view of human rights. (As reported by Jewish Women’s Archives)<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 48 Ways to
Wisdom,” a program cosponsored by The Jewish Renaissance is scheduled for this
evening at Keter Torah Synagogue this evening in West Bloomfield, Michigan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> In Jerusalem, The Kingdom of Alrov Mamilla
Avenue is scheduled to celebrate Shushan Purim at its annual Purim carnival
which will include a colorful parade with characters from the Megilla, clowns
and jugglers, circus performances, circus workshops, magnet games, and whole
lot more. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel was released
from a German prison today after serving a five-year sentence. <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>Israel LTD</i>,
film that records “a group of young Americans on their intensive bus journey
across a strong and righteous Israel” is scheduled to be shown at the JCC in
Manhattan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Today Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh
accused Israel of financing and plotting the protests in his country and other
Arab states. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> In reaction to clashes that took place a day
earlier in the Gilad Farm outpost in Samaria, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said
today that "We cannot let citizens take the law into their hands." <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Amy Totenberg
assumed office as the Judge of the United States District Court for the
Northern District of Georgia which includes Atlanta, GA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011: In an “Anti-Semtism Double Header”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said
Jews and Zionists are "trying to push the US into war" and are a
cover for Satan, at the group's annual meeting near Chicago today while a
report published by a British magazine today said the WikiLeaks founder, Julian
Assange, suggested that British journalists, including the editor of The
Guardian, were engaged in a Jewish-led conspiracy to smear his organization. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011(25<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5771):</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Marilyn Henry, a journalist and lecturer,
died of cancer today four days short of her 58th birthday. She lived in
Teaneck, NJ with her husband, Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer<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="http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=210568">http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=210568</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(25<sup>th</sup> of Adar): On the Yahrzeit of
those who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire (March 25), Rabbi Shmuel
Plafker led a memorial survey at the Hebrew Free Burial Association cemetery on
Staten Island where 22 of the victims are buried (As reported by Joseph Berger)<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="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/triangle/">http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/triangle/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> The
postal services of Liberia, Gambia and Sierra Leone will simultaneously issue a
set of three commemorative postal sheets today in memory of 12 Jews – men and
women – who fought Apartheid and racism in Africa.<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="http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=210275">http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=210275</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: On the 70th anniversary of the signing of the
pact uniting Bulgaria with Germany as Axis partners The Sephardic Temple in
Cedarhurst, New York is hosting a public meeting as part of a campaign to
convince “the government of Bulgaria to reveal the truth over its interaction
with the Jews during 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;">2011: A Merkava MK IV stationed near the Gaza
border, equipped with the Trophy active protection system, successfully foiled
a missile attack aimed towards it and became the first operational success of
the system<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: It was announced today that Frank Rich would
be leaving the New York Times for New York magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(7<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5772): Forty-three-year-old
Tulane alum Andrew Breitbart the creator of Brietbart.com 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;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/business/media/the-life-and-death-of-andrew-breitbart.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/business/media/the-life-and-death-of-andrew-breitbart.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: “Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray” is
scheduled to be shown at the Charleston Film Festival 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;">2012:
“Tijuana Jews” is scheduled to be shown at Congregation Etz Chaim in Toledo,
Ohio.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Miriam Gilbert is scheduled to deliver a lecture Shakespeare and ‘the likeness
of a Jew’ Shylock, Fagin and Disraeli” will take place at the Iowa City Public
Library<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present: “Anti-Jewish
Violence in Eastern Europe” an evening based on a book of the same name that
“and Israel that investigates the phenomenon of anti-Jewish violence, the local
and transnational responses to pogroms, and instances where violence was
averted.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #003300; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein today ordered the police to open a criminal
investigation into illegal building in the West Bank Shiloh settlement.
Notification of the investigation was given to the High Court of Justice, which
in November asked the state to decide if it planned to hold such a
investigation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Former Shas Minister Shlomo Benizri, who was released from the Maasiyahu Prison
this morning, said Israel was the most anti-Semitic country in the world due to
what he referred to as its "incitement campaign against the haredi
community."<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="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4197436,00.html">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4197436,00.html</a><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 Ashburn, VA Beth Chaverim is scheduled to join hundreds of congregations
throughout the United States in “Shabbat Across America!” that will include a
screening and discussion of “Advice and Dissent” starring Eli Wallach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013<u>:</u>
Release date for <u>Put it in the Book</u>, Howie Rose’s “autobiography and
memoir of 50 years of Mets history.” <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 sequestration goes into effect today, Israeli defense planners are bracing
for a potentially dramatic cut in US assistance that may slash as much as $300
million in aid over the next seven months. (As reported by Haviv Rettig Gur)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5773): Sixty-nine-year-old actress Bonnie Franklin passed away. (As
reported by Douglas Martin<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="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/02/world/europe/kerry-criticizes-turkish-prime-minister-over-zionism-remark.html?hp">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/02/world/europe/kerry-criticizes-turkish-prime-minister-over-zionism-remark.html?hp</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Some 20,000 runners took part this morning in the Jerusalem marathon, which was
won by Abraham Kabeto Katale of Ethiopia. His final time of 2:16:29 was a
record for the course.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Secretary of State John Kerry said today that Turkey’s prime minister had made
“objectionable” remarks when he cast Zionism as a crime against humanity in
comments earlier 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;">2014:
In London, JW3 in partnership with the UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to
present “Oscars Warm-Up Night” including a screening of “Searching For Sugar
Man.”<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 Prayer for Aliyah” and “The Jewish Cardinal” 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-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Observance of Tel Hai Day in honor of the memory of Joseph Trumpeldor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Professor David Shneer is scheduled to host a seminar on “Post Holocaust
American Judaism” in Boulder, CO.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5774: 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;">2014:
Two rockets landed near an IDF post in Mount Hermon early this morning. According
to the IDF, the rockets “were most likely the spillover from the clashes in
neighboring Syria, not a deliberate attack.” (As reported by Tova Dvorin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Renowned Religious Zionist leader Rabbi Haim Druckman has called on the
Religious Zionist community to stay far away from tomorrow’s "million-man
march" against the hareidi draft. "I totally reject [the
march]," Rabbi Druckman declared tonight. "If this demonstration is
being held to say that Israel is fighting against the rule of the Kingdom of
Heaven, I am so shocked and outraged by it," said the rabbi. (As reported
by Tova Dvorin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Twentieth anniversary of the mortal wounding of 16-year-old yeshiva student Ari
Halberstram who was shot by Rashid Baz, an immigrant from Lebanon.<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="http://forward.com/articles/176900/mother-of-jewish-teen-killed-on-brooklyn-bridge-sp/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Saturday-and-Sunday_Daily_Newsletter%202013-05-18&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20%28Monday-Friday%29">http://forward.com/articles/176900/mother-of-jewish-teen-killed-on-brooklyn-bridge-sp/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Saturday-and-Sunday_Daily_Newsletter%202013-05-18&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20%28Monday-Friday%29</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
At Tiftereth Israel in Columbus, Ohio, Rachel Levin will join her classmates in
the First Grade Consecration Service.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015(10<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5775): Ninety-one-year-old record executive Orrin Keepnews 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;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/arts/music/orrin-keepnews-jazz-producer-and-record-executive-is-dead-at-91.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/arts/music/orrin-keepnews-jazz-producer-and-record-executive-is-dead-at-91.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</a><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>The New York Times</i> featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including <u>Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education</u> by Morris
Dickstein, <u>We Are Pirates</u> by Daniel Handler and <u>Anonymous Soldiers:
The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947</u> by Bruce Hoffman<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 25<sup>th</sup> Washington 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;">2015:
F.I.U. is scheduled to host the 30<sup>th</sup> Anniversary Screening of
“Shoah”<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 curtain is scheduled to come down on “The King of Second Avenue” which has
been playing at Boston’s Charles Mosesian Theatre.<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="http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-boston-klezmer-musical-spoofs-jewish-infighting/">http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-boston-klezmer-musical-spoofs-jewish-infighting/</a><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 exhibition <i>Light & Noir: Exiles
and Émigrés in Hollywood, 1933–1950</i> which explores how the experiences of
German-speaking exiles and émigrés who fled Nazi Europe—many of them
Jews—influenced the classic films of Hollywood’s Golden Age” is scheduled to
come to an end at the Skirball Center 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;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/la-exhibit-shows-how-nazi-invasion-spawned-film-noir-genre/">http://www.timesofisrael.com/la-exhibit-shows-how-nazi-invasion-spawned-film-noir-genre/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
““’Twas the Night Before Hanukkah” an “exhibition, which highlights the music
of Hanukkah and Christmas, and the people behind some of the holidays’ songs”
at the National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to come to a
close 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:
“California Senator Dianne Feinstein” who is a supporter of Israel, “lashed out
at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his “arrogant” claim to speak
for all Jews today, two days before he is scheduled to deliver a controversial
speech to the US Congress. (As reported by Joshua Davidovich)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Commanders for Israel’s Security, “a nonpartisan body of more than 200 retired
officers held a press conference in Tel Aviv this morning” where Prime Minister
Netanyahu was “slammed” for what were described as his “destructive diplomatic
policies.” (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:
“Activists pitched tenets in Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard to protest
inequality and the cost of living.”(Lazar Berman)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Today “is the anniversary of the execution by beheading of Sophie Scholl, her
brother Hans and their school friend Christopher Probst who farmed the
short-lived anti-Nazi ‘White Rose’ conspiracy in Munich” 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;"><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/02/24/contemptible-heroes/">http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/02/24/contemptible-heroes/</a><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 Historical Society is scheduled to co-present a screening Raise the
Roof “as part of the 26<sup>th</sup> annual Washington 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 Indiana Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill banning state dealings with
entities that boycott Israel or its settlements.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“According to the 30<sup>th</sup> annual Forbes billionaires list released
today, “five Jews are in the top 15 spots and seven are in the top 25 spots”
with Mark Zuckerberg being ranked as the “sixth richest person in the world and
the richest Jew” in 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;">2017(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5777): Ninety-two-year-old Israeli photographer David Rubinger whose
many iconic photos of the early days of the Jewish state included the pictures
of soldiers at the Wall during the Six Day War 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;"><a href="http://time.com/4687856/in-memoriam-david-rubinger/">http://time.com/4687856/in-memoriam-david-rubinger/</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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rubinger#/media/File:Soldiers_Western_Wall_1967.jpg">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rubinger#/media/File:Soldiers_Western_Wall_1967.jpg</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5777): Ninety-year-old “artist and political radical” Gustav Metzger
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;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/arts/design/gustav-metzger-dead-auto-destructive-artist.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/arts/design/gustav-metzger-dead-auto-destructive-artist.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</a><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 Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble
playing an evening of “Mostly Schubert.”<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 “Jewbilation!”
featuring “music from the Yoelling Stones, food, Jewish dancing and regular
music.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Rabbi Michael Rosenfeld-Schuler is scheduled to lean an interfaith discussion
on “Scriptural Reasoning” in the Harold Wilson Room of Jesus College, Oxford.<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 Pikesville, MD, Chizuk Amuno is scheduled to host “Auschwitz through the
Lens 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;"><a href="https://www.ushmm.org/online/calendar/eventDetails.php?event=MAPPGLENSS0317">https://www.ushmm.org/online/calendar/eventDetails.php?event=MAPPGLENSS0317</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5778): 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:
MIT Assistant Dean Ray Feller is scheduled to speak on “Hard Times in Hard
Sciences: Mental Health in Stem” at Coe College in Cedar Rapids.<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 Little Rock, Chabad under the leadership of Rabbi Pinchas Ciment is
scheduled to host a “Royal Purim Fest and Masquerade Party” completed 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;">2018:
In Iowa City, Rabbi Avremel Belsofky is scheduled to host a “multi-cultural”
Purim celebration featuring Sushi and Hamantashen.<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 London, JW3 is scheduled to host two screening of “Remember Baghdad,”
“fascinating exploration of the rich Jewish life and culture that had
flourished in Iraq before the events of the 20th and early 21st centuries
dramatically changed the course of the country – and the fate of its Jews.<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 a Gemara shiur which
will be on mesechet Megillah.”<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 London, the Phoenix Cinema is scheduled to host a screening “The Cakemaker”
directed by Ofir Raul Graizer.<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 next ShabbatUK 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;">2019:
In Arlington, VA, Congregation Etz Hayim is scheduled to host “Potluck
Shabbat.”<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 California, Chabad of Petaluma is scheduled to “host a gourmet dinner for
100.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
Parents Shabbat is scheduled to begin today at the University of Iowa Hillel.<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 Washington, DC, HIAS Action DC, Moishe House Bethesda, and Avodah DC Service
Corps are scheduled to “kick off Women's History month with a Shabbat dinner
highlighting the experience of women refugees and asylum seekers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
Funeral services are scheduled to held today in Mamaroneck, NY for Dr. Steven
Charles Strauss, the former resident of Chevy Chase and husband of Ruth Strauss
with whom he had two daughters, Marley and Amelia.<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>The New York Times</i> features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Aperirgon, Colum McCann’s novel that begins with 1997 terrorist
attack on Ben Yehuda Street, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year
Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle
East by Kim Ghattas, <u>This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers </u>by
Jeff Sharlett, the son of a Jewish father from Schenectady and the recently
released paperback edition of <u>Spies of No Country: Israel’s Secret Agents at
the Birth of the Mossad</u> by Matti Friedman<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 part of the JCC Chicago Film Festival, the Illinois Holocaust Museum is
scheduled to host a screening of “A Bag of Marbles,” “the true story of two
young Jewish brothers in German occupied France…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
“Objector” and “A Cantor’s Head” are two films scheduled to be shown on the
second and final day of the Seventh Annual JFI WinterFest.<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, Liberty Hall is scheduled to host “Beyond Bubbie’s Kitchen,”
Boston’s “biggest, best and most delicious celebration of Jewish food.”<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 Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host its Purim Carnival and
Petting Zoo on a day when the temperature is scheduled to reach a torrid (for
Iowa) sixty degrees.<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 Sacramento, CA, the Kashenberg Ostrow Hayward Library is scheduled to host
historian Jennifer Craig—Norton as she talks about <u>The Kindertransport:
Contesting Memory</u>,” which is about child refugees and family separation
during 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;">2021:
“The first passengers who will be subject to the measure of being
electronically tagged will be those arriving on Arkia flight 232 from
Frankfurt, set to arrive at 4:35pm today at Ben-Gurion Airport. (As reported by
Adir Yanko)<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.ynetnews.com/article/ByM41UBMd">https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ByM41UBMd</a><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 New York, Adi Nes is scheduled to explore social and political questions
revolving around gender, the center vs. the periphery, Eastern vs. Western
cultures, ethnicity, Judaism, local myths, militarism, humanism and social
justice through his portraits.<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 London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to “S&P Senior Sephardi
Rabbi Joseph Dweck and Rabbi Dr Rapahel Zarum as they continue their in-depth
discussion into the 10 Commandments.”<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 New Orleans, the National Council of Jewish Women is scheduled to hold its
Board Meeting 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:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present Manashe Khaimov is an
Adjunct Professor in Jewish Studies, with a specialty in History and Culture of
the Bukharian Jews at Queens College as he lectures on “The Persian Experience:
The Jews of the Great Silk Road.”<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 Jewish Book Week, Trudy Gold, the director of Holocaust Studies at
JW3 and former chief executive of the LJCC who is the Editor-in-Chief of
Understanding the Holocaust is scheduled to talk with Dr Brendan McGeever, a
Lecturer in the Sociology of Racialization and Antisemitism at Birkbeck,
University of London and a Research Associate at the Pears Institute for the
Study of Antisemitism about the subject matter covered in his book <u>Antisemitism
and the Russian Revolution.<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
Hadassah Northeast, the Lappin Foundation, Temple Emanuel and the Holocaust
Legacy Foundation are scheduled to present Dr. Deborah Gilboa lecturing on
“Talking to School-Age Children About 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;">2022:
Today, as Putin began his war of aggression against Ukraine “The Babyn Yar
Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv said that Russian forces had struck the site.”<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.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/world/ukranian-ww2-survivors.html?searchResultPosition=2">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/world/ukranian-ww2-survivors.html?searchResultPosition=2</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture on Nazi hunter Efraim
Zuroff, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
Berkeley Law’s Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies is
scheduled to present Elisheva Rosman-Stollman of Bar-Ilan U. discussing her
work on religion/gender in the Israeli military with Ronit Stahl of UC
Berkeley.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
YIVO and Anyin Press are scheduled to present a conversation with playwright
Rokhl Kafriseen and Jeremiah Lockwood about the forthcoming release of
Lockwood’s “Once Upon a Time the Fire Burned Brighter: Ballads from the Yiddish
Gothic.”<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 States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a virtual
event “A Nazi Killing Center through a Perpetrator’s Lens: The Sobibor
Perpetrator Collection.”<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 National Library of Israel is scheduled to host a presentation by Ginie
Milgrom and Dr. Yochai Ben-Gehdalia on “Purim or the Holiday of Esther?
Uncovering and Preserving Crypto-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;">2023:
The Limmud Festival 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;"><a href="https://limmudna.org/efestival/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Limmud+Efestival">https://limmudna.org/efestival/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Limmud+Efestival</a><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 72<sup>nd</sup> National Jewish Book Awards is scheduled to take place this
evening at the Bohemian National Hall.<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.jewishbookcouncil.org/events/72nd-national-jewish-book-awards-celebration">https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/events/72nd-national-jewish-book-awards-celebration</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Elan Ganeles, an American-Israeli citizen killed in a terrorist attack near the
Dead Sea while traveling to a wedding is scheduled to be buried in Ra’anana’s Klausner cemetery
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;"><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-israel-citizen-killed-in-terror-attack-to-be-buried-in-country-he-loved-so-much/">https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-israel-citizen-killed-in-terror-attack-to-be-buried-in-country-he-loved-so-much/</a><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 Centre is scheduled to host the first lecture
on a course on Sir Winston Churchill and the Second War styled “The Power of
Words: Oratory, minutes and memoirs.”<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 a lecture by Daniel
Herszberg on “Amid Conflict and Distress: Exploring the Remnants of Jewish
Heritage in Syria and Lebanon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Dance on the Beach — which in the foreground shows two of Munch’s lovers, Tulla
Larsen and Millie Thaulow — and which was hidden from the Nazis is expected to
be sold for $15-25 million at the Sotheby’s auction today.<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.algemeiner.com/2023/01/17/artwork-hid-from-nazis-in-norwegian-forest-to-be-auctioned-by-sothebys-in-restitution-settlement/">https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/01/17/artwork-hid-from-nazis-in-norwegian-forest-to-be-auctioned-by-sothebys-in-restitution-settlement/</a></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-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
At Temple Judea, Rabbi Yaron and Cantor Abbie are scheduled to lead Shabbat
services that will include a Special HaGomel Blessing for anyone who recovered
from an illness, is recovering, or survived an accident followed by a Shabbat
Dinner.<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 Stoughton, MA, Ahavath Torah Congregation is scheduled “to participate in
Shabbat Across America and host Tufts University’s Shir Appeal, an a cappella
group!”<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 U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a presentation by Dr.
Ewa Wampuszyc, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Dr. Edna
Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on “Irena
Sendler: Risking Her Life to Save Others.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
1<sup>st</sup> begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held
hostages begin day 147 in captivity</span></b>.
(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"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><o:p> </o:p><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">March 1</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">286: Roman Emperor Diocletian raises Maximian
to the rank of Caesar. Diocletian was determined to restore greatness and
stability to the Roman Empire. He was
far more concerned about the Christians whom he saw “as the sole cause of the
dissolution of the Empire, on account of their persistent struggle against the
Roman state religion and their zeal for conversion” than he was about the
Jews. When he attempted to unify the
empire by ordering all of those under his reign to accept his divinity and
“bring sacrifices to his cult,” Diocletian exempted the Jews. The only negative note of import surrounding
Diocletian and his Jewish subjects had to do with accusation that they had
mocked him because of his early origins as a swineherd. Judah III, the Patriarch, actually had to
appear before the Emperor while he was in Tiberias to answer the charge. Judah assured him that while some may of
spoken disrespectfully of Diocletian the swineherd nobody had uttered any words
of criticism against Diocletian, the emperor.
The explanation assuaged Diocletian but it has been used an example of
the dangers of speaking L’shon Hara. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">293: Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian
appoint Constantius Chlorus and Galerius as Caesares, thus beginning the
Tetrarchy. This move on the part of
Diocletian was part of an attempt to ensure a smooth transition of power after
Diocletian resigned as Emperor. The plan
would fail and would result in 19 years of turmoil that would end only when
Constantine took the throne. For the Jews, this would mean an end to great
Yeshiva at Tiberias. Those who could
would flee to Caesarea where they would a haven at the yeshiva begun by Abbahu.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">317: Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Roman
Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius Iunior, son of Emperor Licinius, are made
Caesares. Lucinius and Crispus would be killed, the latter by his father
Emperor Constantine I. Constantine II
would continue the anti-Jewish policies of his father. Among other things, he decreed that any
Christians who converted to Judaism would forfeit their property to the state. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1105: Birthdate of Alfonso VII who in 1130,
started a school in Toledo which begins to spread Hebrew and Arabic learning as
well as ancient Greek knowledge through Western Europe <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1274: Gregory X issued Turbato Code, a Papal
Bull that forbade Christians from “embracing Judaism.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1349 (Adar 10): Riots broke out in Worms
(Germany). Many Jews fled to Heidelberg.
Others in desperation set fire to their homes or were murdered. An
estimated 420 people died that day. Their property was seized by the town.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1565: Portuguese settlers founded the city of
Rio de Janeiro. For the first two centuries of its existence, Jewish life in
the city was hindered by the reality of the Portuguese laws against Judaism and
the Inquisition. “New Christians” played
an active role in the city’s commercial and social life but records show that
at least 300 of these New Christians were found guilty by the Inquisition of
secretly practicing Judaism. After
Brazil gained its independence in 1822 and adopted a constitution in 1824 that
allowed for religious toleration, more Jews began arriving in the city and
played a more active role in its growth and prosperity. Today, Rio has the second largest Jewish
community in Brazil. <a name="_Hlk65419815"><o:p></o:p></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1655: The Magistrate of
New Amsterdam wrote a ruling making an attempt to expel 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;">It read, in part,
"Resolved that the Jews, who came last year from the West Indies and now
from the Fatherland, must prepare to depart forthwith." (“The Patroons of
the West India Company decided, however, that the Jews owned most of the stock in
that organization they would have to be left alone.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1655: The Sheriff of
New Amsterdam as plaintiff filed suit against the defendant Abram de la Sina, a
Jew, for the crime of keeping his store open during the hour the church gave a
sermon.</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;">1670: “A solemn proclamation was made in all
public places that ‘for the glory of God’ all Jews should, on penalty of
imprisonment and death, leave Vienna and Upper and Lower Austria before Corpus
Christi Day, never to return. Hirz Koma and a physician named Leo Winkler,
“made a last attempt to propitiate the emperor by offering him 100,000 florins
and, in addition, 10,000 florins a year.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1692: “In the Parish of St.
Martin-in-the-Fields” apothecary John Tovey and his wife gave birth to De
Blossiers Tovey, the “principal of New Inn Hall at Oxford” who devoted much of
his to studying the history of the Jews of medieval England and wrote <i><u>Anglia Judaica</u></i> (the History and
Antiquities of the Jews in England.)<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://books.google.com/books?id=GEEVAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false">https://books.google.com/books?id=GEEVAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1728(2<sup>nd</sup> of Nisan, 5488): Joseph
Abraham Azuby, the Amsterdam born son of Lea Azuby and Chazan Abraham Azuby and
husband of Rachel David Azuby and Esperanca David Azuby passed away today in
the Netherlands.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1761(25<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5521): Abraham
Gershon of Kitov, also known as Rabbi Gershon of Brody, the Polish born brother-in-law
of the Baal Shem Tov and leader of the Jewish community in Brody, who “traveled
to Jerusalem, making him one of the first Hasidim to establish a presence in
the Holy Land<br />
where he embraced the Rashash, together
with those who were students of Kabbalah” passed away today in Jerusalem after
which he was buried on the Mount of Olives which was also the burial site of
his second wife Bluma.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1761: In Philadelphia, PA, Tabitha Mears and
Mathias Bush gave birth to “Catherine” Bush, the wife of Myers S. Solomon whom
she married in 1778 and the mother of Joseph, Samuel Arabella, Mattathias,
Alexander, Sarah and Henry Solomon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1769: In Buchau, German, Rebekka and Joseph
Einstein gave birth to David Einstein, the husband of Sara Kan and the father
of Lena, Abraham, Baruch, Joseph and Eva Einstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1779(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5539): 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;">1781: James Madison. the author of the First
Amendment which guaranteed separation of church and who as president appoint a
Jew to a diplomatic post, beganhis service as a delegate from Virginia to the
Congress of Confederation which was the national government 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;">1790(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5550): 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;">1790: The Pennsylvania Packet featured an
advertisement offering the skills of Abraham Cohen as Hebrew tutor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1792: Francis II, who relied on Bernhard
Eskeles for “financial advice” became King of Hungary and Croatia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1798(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5558): 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;">1799: Eppingen, Germany natives Babetter Furth
and Maier Heinsheimer gave birth to Jeanette Heinsheimer, the wife of Model
Wertheimer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1800(4<sup>th</sup> of Adar 5560): Parashat
Terumah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1800: English born Esther Cohen and German born
Michael Hart gave birth to Rachel Hart.<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 Aldgate, London, Aaron Jacob Cantor,
the son of Simeon Cantor and his was Catherine Cantor gave birth to Abraham
Jacob Cantor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1803: In London, Dinah Myers and Rabbi Henry
Henoch Myers gave birth to Rabbi Moses Henry Myers, the husband of Sarah
Abrahams whom he married at the Hambro Synagogue in 1826 and father of Kate, Phoebe, Miriam, Matilda,
Isaac, Dinah and Victor Myers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1803: Birthdate of Editor Salomon Frensdorff<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1803: Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state.
Under the terms of the Northwest Ordinance there was not to be any religious
qualification for states formed in the region including Ohio. The first record
of Jewish settlement in Ohio relates to the city of Cincinnati. By 1824, there were enough Jews living in the
“Queen City,” that the Jews formed a congregation called the Sons of
Israel. The twenty-four members of the
congregation were not able to raise enough funds for a building until
1836. Max Lilienthal and Isaac Mayer
were the first two rabbis in the state.
By the time of the Civil War, the Jewish population was large enough
that it sent almost 1,200 of its sons to fight in the Union cause.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1806(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5566): Chaim
Yosef David Azulai ben Isaac Zerachia passed away. Born in Jerusalem in 1724, he was the
great-great grandson of Abraham Azulai who was a noted student of the Talmud
and Kabbalah, community leader and prolific author.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/rabbis/chida.htm">http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/rabbis/chida.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1809(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5569): Fast of
Esther; erev Purim are observed for the last time during the Presidency of
Thomas Jefferson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1810:<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Georgetown College was
chartered in Washington, D.C., making it the first Roman Catholic institution
of higher learning established in the United States. Today Georgetown has approximately 1,600
Jewish students out of a student boy of 13,000 students. The school offers approximately 35 Jewish
Studies Courses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1810: John Jonas, the son of Jacob Jonas and
Sarah Reuben was circumcised 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;">1811: In Dresden, German, Reitzel and Mordechai
David Landau gave birth to Wolf Landau, the husband of Fanny Landau, the father
of David and Emilie Landau and the grandson of Rabbi David Landau who “in 1854,
when Zacharias Frankel became director of the Jewish Theological Seminary at Breslau,
was unanimously elected as his successor in the Dresden chief rabbinate.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1816(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar, 5576): Rosh
Chodesh Adar observe on the same that “The Gorkha War between the United
Kingdom and Nepal is ended after more than a year by the ratification of the
Treaty of Sugauli, with Nepal ceding about one-third of its territory to
British Indian control,”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1819: Jamaica native Rosetta Micholls and
Edward Emanuel Micholls gave birth to Emma Micholls he wife of Salomon Henry
Godefron.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1822: In Brno, Joshua Philipp Feibelman Gomperz
and Henriette Auspitz gave birth to Max von Gomperz the sugar merchant who was
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Creditanstalt.”<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 New York, Solomon Henry Jackson
published “The Jew,” an anti-missionary journal. This is thought to be the
first Jewish publication to be published in the United States. Jackson is also
known for translating and publishing the first Sephardic Siddur in America. He
published an English-Hebrew version in 1826.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827: In Charleston, SC, Hartwig and Deborah
Marks Cohen gave birth to Sarah Cohen who became Sarah Cohen Wolf when she
married Sailing Cohen. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827: In Karlsruhe, Germany, Fanny and David
Ellstaetter gave birth to Mortiz Ellstaetter whose quarter of a century as
Minister of Finance made him “the first and only Jew since the days of Joseph
Suss Oppenheimer to be a Cabinet Minister 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;">1828(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5588): Parashat
Tetzaveh; Shushan Purim celebrated for the last time during the Presidency of
John Quincy Adams.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1837: Birthdate of Egyptologist Georg Moritz
Ebers, the Berlin native who “discovered the Ebers Papyrus at Luxor” which
dates from 1550 BCE.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841: Dr. Marcus Mosse and Ulrike Mosse gave
birth to Deborah Leonore Mosse who became Leonore Cohn When she married Emil
Cohn<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1843: David Belasco married Mary Davis at Bevis
Marks 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;">1843: The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of
New York passed a resolution prohibiting the performing of ceremonies at
funerals of persons intermarried with Christians.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1843: Isaac Michael Emanuel married Jane Jacobs
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;">1847(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5607): 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;">1847: in Liberty, Mississippi, Henrietta Cahn
and Samuel Bernheimer gave birth to Georgia Military institute Cadet Marcus
Bernheimer, the husband of Ella Heyman, the president of the United Hebrew
Relief Association and vice president of the Merchants’ Exchange 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;">1848: In Shirwint, Russia Hirsch Tannenbaum and
his wife gave birth to Abner Tannenbaum who came to New York in 1887 and
“opened a small candy and cigar store” and then starting in 1889 began writing
for Jewish publications including <i>Der
Morgenstern</i> as well as translating “all the work of Jules Verne 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;">1848: Birthdate of San Francisco native Abraham
B. Arnold, the graduate of Washington University School of Medicine who was
granted a “certificate to practice medicine and surgery in” California at
meeting of the Board of Examiners on December 22, 1890.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851: Noting the appearance of Jews in Utah,
Lorenzo Brown wrote in his diary today that he had seen “some Hungarian Jews
living in the ward--emigrants bound for the [California] mines...forced to
leave their native land because of the revolution.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852: <i>The New York Times</i> reported that a
funding raising ball has raised $1,034 which will be donated to "The
Hebrew Hospital" 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;">1854: In Dresden, on his 43<sup>rd</sup>
birthday, Rabbi Wolf Zeev Landau, the Dresden born son of Reitzel and Mordechai
David Landau and his wife Fanny Landau gave birth to Emilie Landau in the same
year that Woolf Landau became the Chief Rabbi of Dresden.<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 Hungary, Sándor Salamon Rockenstein
and Nina Genendel Rockenstein gave birth to Jozefa Bettelheim, the wife of Dr.
József Bettelheim and ex-wife of Sándor Forgo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1857: The Hebrew Indigent Sick and Burial
Society was organized today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858: <i>The New York Times</i> reported that
in February of this year, Lord John Russell's bill that would modify the oath
of office so that Jews could serve in Parliament had been "debated and
read for a second time" in the House of Commons. [This was in the days
before the transatlantic cable. Gaps
between events and published reports are responsible for some of the
inconsistencies in providing specific dates for events]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858: Birthdate of German born philosopher and
sociologist Georg Simmel. Simmel’s family was Jewish, but when his father died,
Simmel’s Catholic guardian converted him to the Church of Rome. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860: “Gang of Rogues Started on a Traveling
Tour,” published today, reported that “Five Polish and Prussian Jews, who have
long been known to the police authorities of” New York City “as expert
pickpockets and daring burglars… started on a Western traveling tour” yesterday
evening. Information of their departure
was given by two members of the gang, who have lately sundered relationship
with their old associates.” According to these two, “the gang has for a long time
gone by the name of the ‘Order of Vatabeds,’ a name till now kept private among
the members.” Since it was impossible for the police to detain them in New
York, “telegrams were sent to Albany, Buffalo and Dunkirk, stating the fact of
their departure, and putting the public and Police on guard against their
arrival. The names of the traveling troupe are Samuel Levy, alias "Old
Levy"; Morris M. Goldstein, alias Goldever; L. Truebart; Michael Roberts,
alias "Big Roberts," and Henry Wcyman. Most of them have served terms
in foreign state prisons.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 1860: A
column entitled London Town Talk published today provides a gossipy and negative view of William Ward’s
elevation from Baron of Ward to Earl of Dudley. His elevation was attributed
not to his virtue but to his wealth. According to the unnamed author the role
of money should come as no surprise since it was “Baron Rothschild’s millions”
that made Lord John Russell an advocate of the bill to remove “Jewish disabilities”
when it came to taking the oath to serve in Parliament. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861: The first train of the Florida Railroad
arrived in Cedar Key providing the first link between Florida’s Atlantic and
Gulf of Mexico’s ports. The railroad was
the creation of David Levy Yulee, the first Jew to be elected to the United
States Senate. Unfortunately for Yulee, the business success was short-lived
due to the Civil War which began a month later.
Yulee supported secession and served in the Confederate Congress so you
might say he was the architect of his own doom.<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 American author Henry
Harland. A lawyer by trade he began his literary career by using the pen name
Sidney Luska under which he wrote his first three novel’s <u>As It Was Written</u>,
<u>Mrs. Peixada </u>and <u>The Yoke of the Torah</u> which were known as his
“Jewish Trilogy.”<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://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16044a.htm">http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16044a.htm</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;">1861: <i>The New York Times</i> reported that <i>The
Knoxville</i> (Tenn.) <i>Whig</i> gave “a first rate” description of a “Jew”
named Mordecai who distinguished himself a few weeks” ago since by presenting
$10,000 to the Governor of South Carolina. <i>The Whig</i> stated that
“Mordecai who is a druggist, visited New-York, Philadelphia and Boston, just
before he did this act, and represented to his creditors that he was insolvent,
and settled with them by paying 50 cents on the dollar.” [By this time, South Carolina had seceded
from the Union, so the money was going to support the Rebel government.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863: Six days after she had passed away,
Franklin, Maria (nee Levy), the wife of Benjamin Woolfe Franklin and the mother
of Louisa Franklin 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;">1865: The Medal of Honor was issued to Private
Benjamin Levy for bravery displaced during fighting at Glendale, VA in 1862.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866(14th of Adar, 5626): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866: The Purim Ball, the last of the three
great events of New York’s Winter Social Season was held 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;">1867: Nebraska becomes the 37th state to join
the Union. The Jewish community in Nebraska pre-dates statehood. Services were
conducted in Omaha in the 1860’s. The oldest congregation in the state, Temple
Israel, was founded in 1871 along with a burial society. The town of Lancaster was renamed Lincoln at
this time and Lincoln became the state capital. Lincoln, Nebraska’s
Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, also known as the South Street Temple was
Lincoln’s first Jewish congregation. The Temple was founded in 1884,
principally by German immigrants. The year 1884 must have been an auspicious
one for Cornhusker Jews, since that is the same year in which the first
synagogue building in the state was dedicated at Omaha. It was the home of Congregation Israel now
known as Temple Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk65412832"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870: Israel and
Rebecca (Kaplan) Gerstein gave birth to law student turned physician Maurice
Gerstein, the laryngologist and husband of Miriam Brodie who was a member of
the Massachusetts Medical Society and Temple Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870: J.K. Buchner published <i>Di Yiddshe Zeitunge</i>, the first Yiddish
weekly to be published in the United States. The language itself was more of a
German Yiddish than the eastern European variant of the patois. The politics were conservative rather than
socialist in direction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871: Birthdate of Baltimore native Bertha van
Leer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872(22<sup>nd</sup> of Adar II, 5632): Forty-four-year-old
Hannah Moses, the widow of Zvi Moes passed away today after which she was
buried at the Lauriston 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;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872: Wilhelm Benjamin Rothschild, the German
born son of Caroline and David Aron Rothschild and his wife Stella Rothschild
gave birth to Albert Aron Rothschild.<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 the Galitzian town of Lemberg, or
Lviv, then under Austrian administration, Nahum Niemirower, a Jewish trader and
his wife gave birth to Dr. Jacob Itzhak Neimirower, “a modern reform rabbi” who
served as the first Chief Rabbi of Romania as well as a member of the Romanian
Senate.<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 German writer, editor and
translator Efraim Firish who dropped out of rabbinical school in Vienna and
went on to study art and literature at the University of Berlin.<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://archives.cjh.org/repositories/5/resources/17541">https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/5/resources/17541</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874: The first day of the annual Purim
Reception at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews in New York is scheduled to
begin at eleven o’clock this morning.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874: Birthdate of General Sir Arthur Grenfell
Wauchope who was appointed High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief for
Palestine and Trans-Jordan in 1931” and whose firs four years in office were
described as “the heyday of Zionist history in Palestine” with an increase in
immigration, land holdings and “Jewish business and commerce.”<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 a Jewish
furniture dealer named Beyfus has brought suit against a weekly London
newspaper claiming that he and his son have been defamed as money-lenders by
the publication. <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 Savannah, GA, the cornerstone is laid
for the new home of Mikveh Israel. The
new structure was required because the congregation had outgrown the old
building. <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 Russia, Benjamin and Sarah Kail
Lazarus gave birth to Isaac B. Lazarus who owned an operated a newsstand in the
Arcade in the Powers Building in Rochester NY which offered its customers six
hundred different periodicals.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: The Purim Association is sponsoring a
Purim calico masked reception at Delmonico’s in New York City. The association had originally planned on
sponsoring a fancy dress ball but changed its plans because of the current
economic problems.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a name="_Hlk65414448"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1878: In Cincinnati,
OH, Leopold Henry Anspacher and Rosa Kaufman gave birth to “author and
dramatist Leopold Henry Anspacher the holder of a B.A., M.A. and LL.B from
Columbia best known for as a playwright, poet and lecturer in philosophy.</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;">1878: It was reported that George H. Hepworth
is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled “Our American Homes” at a meeting of
the Young Men’s Hebrew Association at Lyric Hall later 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;">1879: Birthdate of Edward Ganz the Vilna born
American “coal and fuel dealer who was the co-owner of Harris and Gans in
Norwalk, CT where he was a city councilman and an active Zionist.<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 a modern case that is harkens back to
the fifth commandment, in the Court of General Sessions, Judge Gildersleeve
heard charges from seventy-year-old Fanny Salomon that she had been abandoned
and refused support by her three sons – Alfred, Leopold and Felix. The sons responded by contending that their
mother was financially secure and was merely too parsimonious to pay for her
own upkeep.<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 Lee &
Shepard is about to published “The Exodus of the Children of Israel” by Francis
Underwood and Brugsch Bey that uses the latter’s research to provide that the
Red Sea has been mistaken for the Sea of Reeds in the Exodus narrative.<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 Ernest Renan,
the French scholar who is an expert on ancient eastern civilizations and
Semitic languages is scheduled to deliver a series of lectures in London. Renan’s knowledge of Hebrew is such that he
was the chair of Hebrew at the College de France, a position from which he was
ousted because he challenged the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church.[Renan
would eventually write a three volume 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;">1881(30<sup>th </sup>of Adar I, 5641): Rosh
Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: Ida (Kuhn) Cohen and Eduard Cohen gave
birth to Sophie Cohen<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: Judith Salzedo Peixotto, the first Jewish
school principal in the history of New York City and the daughter of the
Amsterdam-born physician Dr. Daniel Levy Maduro Peixotto and New York–born
Rachel (Seixas) Peixotto who was the wife David Hays with she had eight
children - “Sarah Rosalie (b. 1852),
Daniel Peixotto (b. 1854), Rebecca Touro (b. 1855), Benjamin Franklin (b.
1857), George Davis (b. 1859), Rachel Peixotto (b. 1861), David Solis, Jr. (b.
1863), and Cora Florence (b. 1870). Judith Peixotto Hays –“passed away today
after which she was buried at the Shearith Israel Cypress Hills Street Cemetery
in Queens, 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;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/peixotto-judith">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/peixotto-judith</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></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: Twenty-three citizens of Salt Lake City
met to form B’nai Israel. Under the direction of President Henry Siegel $2,600
was spent on a lot which would be the site of Utah’s first synagogue. (As
reported by Jack Goodman)<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://historytogo.utah.gov/people/ethnic_cultures/the_peoples_of_utah/jewsinzion.html">http://historytogo.utah.gov/people/ethnic_cultures/the_peoples_of_utah/jewsinzion.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;">1882: Birthdate of birthdate of Lwow native and
University of Lemberg trained doctor of jurisprudence Dr. Adolf Berger, the
author of the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law and lecturer on Roman Law at
the University Berlin who “came to the United States in WW II, joined the Ecole
Libre es Hautes Etude as a Professor of Roman Law” and joined the faculty of
CCNY in 1922 where he served until his death ten years later. (Editor’s Note:
He is not to confused with New York College trained oral surgeon Adolph Berger,
the Hungarian born son of Theresa Goldberger and Ignatz Berger and author of
Principles and Techniques of Oral surgeon who was an assistant professor of
Oral Surgery at Columbia the oral surgeon for Beth Israel Hospital 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;"><a href="https://www.abaa.org/book/63120617">https://www.abaa.org/book/63120617</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://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/04/09/82043779.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/04/09/82043779.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</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.jstor.org/stable/25776413">https://www.jstor.org/stable/25776413</a><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 West Virginia, Bertrand Kahn, the
Atlanta, GA, born son of Matilda and Samuel Kahn and his wife Leonora Kahn gave
birth to Louis Isaac Kahn, the brother of Minette Hirsch.<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 New York City, Frederika Baum and Mark
E. Fohs gave birth to Columbia University oil geologist F. Julius Fohs, the
husband of Cora Bladauf Fohs who “early in his career made a detailed study of
Palestine’s natural resources,” a report of which “he submitted immediately
after World War I to the British Government and the World Zionist Organization
that led to the development of the present Dead Sea potash and chemical plants
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;">1885(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5645): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885: Four days after he had passed away,
Morris Angel, the son of “Rachel and Daniel Angel” and the husband of Sarah
Angel with whom he had had six children was buried today at “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: First organized Arab attack on a Jewish
settlement in what would become Eretz Yisrael. The attack was waged
against Petak Tikvah, the first all Jewish village to be built in Palestine
during modern times. The early settlers had a difficult time of it facing
not only Arab marauders but malaria as well. The land on which the
village was built was purchased by English Jew named Hayyim Amzalak who had
moved to Palestine in 1830. Money for draining the malarial swamps in the
area was given by Baron Edmond de Rothschild. Much of the labor was
supplied by Russian Jewish immigrants.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888: Rabbi Joseph Silverman begins serving as
spiritual leader for Temple Emanu-El replacing the legendary Gustav Gottheil.
Silverman is the first American born rabbi to serve a congregation 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;">1889: Birthdate of Warsaw native Avro Tatlboym,
the actor and director who performed and/or staged plays in Russia, France,
Argentenia and 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;"><a href="https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/4098/Taytlboym,%20Avrom%20(March%201,%201889%E2%80%93October%2016,%201947)">https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/4098/Taytlboym,%20Avrom%20(March%201,%201889%E2%80%93October%2016,%201947)</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889: In Baltimore, MD, “Jacob Levy and Bertha Arnold”
gave birth to Elsie Levy, who became Elsie Pfaelzer when she married Frank
Pfaelzer with whom she had four children – Maurice, Betty, Frank and Mildred –
while being active in several social improvement organizations 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;">1890: In Krakow, Anna Ferber and Isador Berstein
gave birth to Theresa Ferber the Philadelphia educated American artist who
settled in Manhattan in 1912 and whose husband William Meyerowitz was a
well-known artist in his own right.<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://nml.cuny.edu/theresabernstein/">http://nml.cuny.edu/theresabernstein/</a></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;"><a href="http://forward.com/articles/189491/why-theresa-bernstein-was-the-jewish-artist-of-the/">http://forward.com/articles/189491/why-theresa-bernstein-was-the-jewish-artist-of-the/</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;">1891(21<sup>st</sup> of Adar I, 5651): Sixty-seven-year-old
Bernhard Sondheim passed away today in New York. Born in Hesse Homburg, he and his family
moved to Georgia when Sondheim was nine years old. Eventually he settled in New York where he
established a successful import business. He was a member of the 10<sup>th</sup>
Regiment of the state militia and served as Vice President of the Hebrew Mutual
Benefit Society, a position he held 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;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0A15F9345F10738DDDAA0894DB405B8185F0D3">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0A15F9345F10738DDDAA0894DB405B8185F0D3</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: With less than two months until the start
of Passover, The Passover Relief Association, which provides matzoth and items
to New York’s less fortunate Jews, finds itself with only $173.45 in its
treasury. Considering the fact that the
association spent $675.24 and the fact that the population of needy Jews has
greatly increased, the association is in need of donations which can be sent to
its members including the chairman, Benjamin Saidel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: Today the United States trustees of the
fund created by the late Baron de Hirsch to provide for the needs of immigrants
coming to America will draw the $2,400,000 set aside for this purpose from the
banks 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;">1891: In New York city Harriet
"Hattie" (nee Lehman) and Philip Julius Goodhart gave birth to their
third and youngest child Arthur Lehman Goodhart, the brother of Howard Goodhart
and Helen Goodhart Altschul and grandson of Mayer Lehman (co-founder of Lehman
brothers who became a Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford and “was the first
American to the Master of an Oxford College.”<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.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/wps/WPS2010-01_Goodhart.pdf">https://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/wps/WPS2010-01_Goodhart.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: “Good Things From Foreign Tongues”
published today provided a review <u>of A Literary Manual of Foreign
Quotations, Ancient and Modern </u>by John Devoe Belton which includes an
explanation of the Latin phrase “Credat Judaeus Appella” which Horace saw as a
reference to Appella “the most superstitious of his race” who “believed that
the incense placed on the threshold of his temple melted without fire” but whom
Renan “thought referred to a Hellenized Jew who, was orthodox, ill-informed and
consequently very superstitious.” (As the worse Latin student in the history of
Alice Deal and Woodrow Wilson, I can claim no credit for the following. According to some experts this phrase, which
by the way Doc Holliday used in the movie “Tombstone”, can loosely be
translated as “Let the Jew believe it; not I” or in colloquial English, “tell
it to someone else, not me.”)<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="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30712F9395D15738DDDA80894DB405B8185F0D3">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30712F9395D15738DDDA80894DB405B8185F0D3</a><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 the next
meeting of the Hebrew Technical Institute will take place at Temple Emanu-El<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: Carl Wiser played the role of Shylock in
the German version of “The Merchant of Venice” at New York’s <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thalia Theatre<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
of this afternoon, 21-year-old Joseph Seigler who worked in his father’s dry
good store is the only new case of typhus reported 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: As New York City continued to deal with
the latest outbreak of typhus fever, public health officials ordered all
synagogues on the Lower East to be fumigated.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: Sixty-two-year-old banker Isidor Wormser,
was attacked on the floor of the NYSE by another broker who “stuck him twice in
the face” and who had to be restrained by half a dozen members of the exchange.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: “Jewish Women’s Achievements” published
today outlined the plans for the presentation of papers to delivered at the
upcoming Parliament of Religions “which is to be a feature” of the upcoming
World’s Fair. The papers which will be prepared by some of New York’s leading
Jewish ladies will highlight the unique contributions of such groups as the
Woman’s Auxiliary of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5653): 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;">1893: Three days after she had passed away
Eloisa Berger, the wife of Austrian native Leo Berger with whom she had had
five 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;">1893:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar I, 5654): Twenty-seven-year-old
Hyman Freedman, the husband of Sarah Freedman passed away today after which he
was buried at the Edmonton Western 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;">1894: According to the testimony of Benny
Weiss, Charles Krumm gave two ten dollar bills to Ward Man Jeremiah Levy of the
Eleventh Police Precinct “in pursuance of an arrangement with the policeman.”
(Arrangement is a euphemism for bribe)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk65411116"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: In London,
Abraham and Leah (Santman) Broun gave birth to Beaux Arts Institute trained
American illustrator Aaron Broun, the husband Sadie Cohen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.invaluable.com/artist/broun-aaron-b0d06xsrum/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.invaluable.com/artist/broun-aaron-b0d06xsrum/</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;">1894: Over the last six months (10/1/93 –
3/1/94), the United Hebrew Charities spent $103,102.40 providing aid to the
needy as opposed to $46,498.22 “for the corresponding period of the preceding
year.”<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 Bradford, Yorkshire, Lean and Aaron
George Bernstein, the president of the Bradford Hebrew Congregation gave birth
Joseph Bernstein who was killed in France while service with the West Riding
Regiment<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: The National Council of Women, an
organization whose members included Jewish, Protestant and Catholic women,
opened the penultimate session of its annual triennial meeting 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;">1895: “Russians Arrested on Suspicion”
published today relied on telegraphs from the Vienna correspondent of the
Central News to described arrests made in Kiev and Odessa of those thought to
be “engaged in revolutionary plots’ many of whom were 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(16<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5656): Forty-three-year-old
Jacob Bueno De Mesquita, the son of David and Jessy Bueno De Mesquita passed
away after which he was buried in the Nuevo 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;">1896:
Theodor Herzl and Nathan Birnbaum meet for the first time. Nathan
Birnbaum was born in Vienna, and lived there from.1864-1908, and again from
1914-21. In 1882, together with two other students in the University of Vienna,
he founded “Kadimah,” the first organization of Jewish nationalist students in
the West. In 1884, he published his first pamphlet, <i>Die Assimilationsucht</i>
(“The Assimilation Disease/Mania”). He founded, published and edited <i>Selbst-Emancipation!</i>
(“Self-Emancipation!”) The periodical promoted
“the idea of a Jewish renaissance and the resettlement of Palestine.” It
incorporated and developed the ideas of Leon Pinsker. In 1890, Birnbaum coined
the terms “Zionist” and “Zionism,” and, in 1892, “Political Zionism.” In 1893,
he published a brochure entitled <i>Die Nationale Wiedergeburt</i> <i>des
Juedischen Volkes in seinem Lande als Mittel zur Loesung der Judenfrage</i>
(“The National Rebirth of the Jewish People in its Homeland as a Means of
Solving the Jewish Question”), in which he expounded ideas similar to those
that Herzl was to promote subsequently. Birnbaum played a prominent part in the
First Zionist Congress (1897) and was elected Secretary General of the Zionist
Organization. However, he and Herzl developed ideological differences. Birnbaum
had begun to question the political aims of Zionism and to attach increasing
importance to the national-cultural content of Judaism. Birnbaum eventually
left the Zionist movement and later became a leading spokesman for Jewish
cultural autonomy in the Diaspora. He stressed the Yiddish language as the
basis of Ashkenazi Jewish culture and was chief convenor of the Conference on
Yiddish held in Czernowitz, Bukovina, in 1908. This was attended by leading
Yiddish writers, and proclaimed Yiddish as a national Jewish language. Birnbaum
propagated his ideas in writing and by lecturing in many Jewish communities. In
the years preceding World War I he gradually abandoned his materialistic and
secular outlook, eventually embracing full traditional Judaism. He may be seen as
the forerunner of the modern <i>Baal Teshuvah</i> movement. His most famous
book of this period was <i>Gottesvolk</i> (“God’s People”) first published in
German and Yiddish in 1917 (translated into English in a shortened form by J.
Elias in 1947 titled "Confession"). In 1919, he became the first
Secretary General of the new Agudath Yisrael Organization. Dissatisfied with
the spiritual complacency of the religious masses, he initiated a movement, the
Order of the Olim (“[Spiritual] Ascenders”), to consist of small groups of
people dedicated by their way of living to raising spiritual awareness within
the larger Jewish society, thus leading toward a Jewish spiritual renaissance.
Disturbed by the urbanized focus of Jewish life, he promoted the establishment
of agricultural communities and other groups living a style of Jewish life more
in conformity with nature. Settlement in Eretz Israel was to be for the prime
purpose of fulfilling the spiritual role of the Jewish people. He lived in
Berlin from 1912-1914, and again from 1921-1933. After the rise of Nazism, he
left Germany for Scheveningen, Netherlands, where he edited <i>Der Ruf</i>
("The Call"), a platform for his ideas. He died there in 1937.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: “Gifts on Purim” published today based on
information that first appeared in The American Hebrew described the near
disappearance of “the custom of sending gifts on Purim to friends” a custom,
“that can easily be restored.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: “The Mexican Inquisition” published today
described the publication of two papers by the American Jewish Historical
Society – “Trials of Jorge de Alemdia by the Inquisition in Mexico” by Dr.
Cyrus Adler and Jewish Martyrs of the Inquisition in South America” by George
Alexander Kohut – which provide a hitherto untold story of the early Jews
living in Latin America.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897(27<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5657): Seventy-one-year-old
Mosbach native and editor of Jewish texts Seligman (Isaac) Baer whose most
famous work was Seder Avodat Yisrael, “a monumental edition of the Jewish
prayerbook according to the Ashkenazic rite” 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: “Old Bibles In A New Home” published
today “rich and curious library of the American Bible Society” which includes
“an ancient Hebrew roll found in a synagogue in the interior of China” that “is
supposed to date back to the year 900 and is supposed to have been used for
centuries.”<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 the Yale
Divinity Students who visited New York last week learned about “the magnitude
of the problems confronting charitable organizations” including the United
Hebrew Charities whose director N.S. Rosenau told them “We have been faced
since with an unprecedented rush of immigration” since 1890 because the Russian
have driven 400,000 people to 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;">1898: In Bucharest, Tulius Revici and Ecaterina
Gaster Revici, the daughter of Phina Judith Gaster and Abraham Emanuel Gaster,
gave birth to Fina Friedman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: “Get-Together Clubs Meet” published today
included a summary of a speech, “The United Hebrew Charities and the
Unemployed” by N.S. Rosenau in which the director described “the problem of
Jewish labor in New York saying that their natural limits of ability had kept
them out of the work of the day laborer” and had “sent them into the garment
trades” where “the Italians were already displacing them.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: “Hope For Zionist Union” published today
described efforts two unify the religious and secular supporters of the Zionist
which, if successful will strengthen the movement designed to buy land for
Jewish settlement in the Ottoman Empire.
Representative of 26 different Jewish organizations including Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise, Adam Rosenberg, E.D. Eisenstein and Dr. Moses Mintz are
working on the effort led by Columbia Professor Richard Gottheil.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899(19<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5659): Sixty-one-year-old
Farrer Herschell, the 1<sup>st</sup> Baron Herschell whose father Rabbi Ridley
Haim Herschell who had converted to Christianity and founded the British
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Jews 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;">1899(19<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5659): Bavarian
born William S. Rayner, who in 1838 settled In Baltimore from which he managed
“mining enterprises in Pennsylvania and North Carolina” while also serving as a
director of the Western National Bank and the Western Maryland Railroad and
playing an active role in the Jewish community as can be seen by his serving as
President of the Hebrew Orphans’ Asylum, the Hebrew Benevolent Society and
Congregation Har Sinai which he helped to found 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;">1899: Chaim Isaac Bloc, the Lithuanian born so
of Gitte Sarah Meshumami and Zundel Bloch began serving as the rabbi in Polangen,
Kurland after which in 1904 he “succeeded Chief Rabbi Kook of Jeusalem.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899(19<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5659): Miriam
Joel, the wife of Lewis Leapman passed away today in her 66<sup>th</sup> year
after which she was buried 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;">1900(30<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5660): 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;">1900(30<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5660): Forty-eight-year-old
Flora Moses, the New York bon daughter of Jacob Moses and Sarah J. Moses Davega,
the wife of Dr. Ottolenghui Aaron Moses and the mother of Walter Moses 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: In France, a bill calling for amnesty of
all matters related with the Dreyfus Affair is introduced by the Senate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: Cincinnati College of Music graduate
Bertha Beitman Herzog, the daughter of Emanuel and Millie Beitman and social
worker who was President of the Cleveland, OH Council of Jewish Women and a
member of the board of the National Council of Jewish Women and the National
School for Social Service married Siegmund Herzog today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: “A fire which started in the basement of
the five-story brick tenement at 20 Clinton Street” this evening “caused a
panic among the occupants” including Mrs. Nathan Goldberg and her four
children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: In New York City, Goodman Richard Davis
and Benvenida Solis Davis, the daughter of David and Sarah Brickner, gave birth
to Walter Alan Davis<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: Rev. S. Levy, MA read “Notes on Leicester
Jewry” today before The Jewish Historical Society of England.<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://books.google.com/books?id=CkULAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA340&lpg=PA340&dq=Isaac+Lopes+Chillon&source=bl&ots=30TT7GGbJh&sig=ACfU3U1i6fQZZPPBUr1qIQazceN9005R3w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiflPOavfTgAhVjw4MKHcfvDVkQ6AEwAXoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=Isaac%20Lopes%20Chillon&f=false">https://books.google.com/books?id=CkULAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA340&lpg=PA340&dq=Isaac+Lopes+Chillon&source=bl&ots=30TT7GGbJh&sig=ACfU3U1i6fQZZPPBUr1qIQazceN9005R3w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiflPOavfTgAhVjw4MKHcfvDVkQ6AEwAXoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=Isaac%20Lopes%20Chillon&f=false</a> page 34 ff<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: “Light on the Jewish Question in
Romania,” published today summarizes an article that first appeared in <i>The Romanian Bulletin</i> that defends King
Charles (a.k.a. Carlos I) against accusations that he is the prime mover in the
persecution of his Hebrew subjects. The
article depicts him as being sympathetic to their plight, but as a constitutional
monarch, all but powerless to defend the Jews against “unscrupulous ministers”
who do not share his enlightened views of Romanian Hebrews. <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 Topeka, KS, Henry A. Auerbach, the
Achim, Germany born so of Emma and Abraham Auerbach, and his wife, Rosine
Auerbach gave birth to Ruth Auebrach who became Ruth Hirsch, the wife of
Clarence Hirsch and the mother of Rosine and Robert Hirtsch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5665): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: In London, Redcliffe Nathan Salman, the
son of Myer and Sarah Salaman and Nina Ruth Salaman gave birth to Arthur
Gabriel Salaman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: Israel Schochat, founder of Ha-shomer
arrived 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;">1905: Birthdate of New York native research
chemist Saul Caspe who was educated at Columbia and Brooklyn Poly Technique.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: In Hamburg, “Austrian actor Fritz Spira
who died in the Ruma concentration camp in 1943” and actress Lotte Spira gave
birth to German actress Camilla Spira.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5667): 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;">1907: As of today 15,000, Jews have fled Odessa
since the attacks by members of the Black Hundreds began and thousands more
“have their passports in readiness to leave Odessa at the first sign of an
anti-Jewish attack.1908: “Zionist leader” Solomon J. Weinstein, the Grodno born
son of Ida and Joseph Weinsterin who in 1896 came to the United States where he
became a member of the New York Produce Exchange, and who was active in
numerous Jewish organizations including the American Zion Commonwealth, the
Palestine General Mortgage Bank and Temple Beth Elohim married Fannie Grohn
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: In a letter made public today, Henry
Bergh, the nephew of the founder of the American Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, called “attention to the present means of killing used by
Jewish butchers to comply with Hebraic laws” and said that “efforts are now
being made to construct some form of harness which will permit the animal to be
treated more humanely while it is being suspended by their hind legs as part of
the Jewish method of slaughtering animals.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: The theme of “Meyer and Son” “the news
modern drama by Thomas Addison that opened at the Garden Theatre tonight puts a
new twist on the theme of “Jew against Gentile” since it tells the story of
college educated son of an old Jewish banker who falls in love with the
daughter of business rival “who is prejudiced again father and son because race
and creed.”<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 “in Replying
to a delegation from the American Association of Foreign Language Newspapers,
who called at the White House to protest against the Hayes and Overman bills to
restrict immigration, President Taft paid a high tribute to the Jews who had
come to America from various parts of the world and had become imbued with a
true spirit of patriotism.”<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
chess grandmaster Harry Golombek<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912. CCNY grad and
Stanford University trained psychologist Samuel Calmin Kohs, the New York City
born son of Louis and Fannie (Rosenfeld) Kohs who eventually settled in San
Francisco married Paula Bonoff today in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1912: It was reported
today that </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Lina
Straus, Nathan Straus, Nathan Straus Jr., H. Grant Straus an Sissie S. Lehman
are the directors of the newly incorporated Nathan Straus Pasteurized Milk
Laboratories with principal office in New York City which will establish infant
milk depots throughout the State of New York and dispense through them
pasteurized milk free or at a cost price with a view of reducing sickness among
babies” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: Three-day long
dedication ceremonies for Sinai Temple and Social Center began 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;">1913(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar I, 5673): Parshat Vayakhel<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar I, 5673): Seventy-two-year-old Rabbi Judas Leopold Friedman passed away
today in Cleveland, Ohio.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: Rabbi Weil is
scheduled to preach his sermon in German this morning at Temple B’Nai Jehoshua
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;">1913: Rabbi Abram
Hirschberg delivered the sermon this morning at Temple Sholom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: Birthdate of
boxer Nathan “Nat” Bor, the native of Fall River, MA, “who won a bronze medal
at the 1932 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;">1913: Effective
today, Congregation Anshai Emeth released Dr. Charles S. Levi from his contract
as of today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: Adolph Lewisohn, Lee Kohn, Simon F.
Rosenthal and Benjamin H. Nam are in charge of tonight’s program at the 39th
Street Theatre in Manhattan which includes a screening of “How the Jews Care
for Their Poor” and “a program of music.”<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 Aaron Ruben the Chicago
native who gain fame as a producer, writer and director for some of the most
popular television comedies of the 1960s and ’70s, notably “The Andy Griffith
Show,” “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” and “Sanford and Son<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5675): 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;">1915: Mrs. Piza Weyl was reported today to have
been in charge of the tableaux “representing the influence of Jews on the early
history of America” which were shown at the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue at
70tth Street and Central Park West.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: Kruetzer
Sonata, the silent film version of Jacob Gordin’s play of the same name 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;"><a href="http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/K/KreutzerSonata1915.html">http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/K/KreutzerSonata1915.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: Rabbi Emil Hirsch was reported today to
be among the 29 clergymen who are trustees of the Church Peace Union founded by
Andrew Carnegie designed to promote “a new moral leadership to prevent armed
conflict” – specifically to limit and/or end the World War that had begun 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;">1915: “Dr. (Samuel) Schulman Tells Why He
Opposes Return To Palestine Movement” published today quotes the President of
the Metropolitan League as saying that “In America we are Americans, and if
there are those who wish to perpetuate Jewish customs and narrow nationalism,
let it be done in Palestine, not here in America. The highest work of the Jews
is not to teach customs but how different races and peoples may live together
in accord and harmony.”<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
received a cablegram from the Jewish Colonization Association of Petrograd
describing the desperate condition of the “tens of thousands” of refugees from
Poland” and the granting of official permission to organize assistance for the
Jews of Galicia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: The funeral of Rose Fridstein, the wife
of Joseph Fridstein and the mother of Myer, Sam and Harry Fridstein is
scheduled to take place today followed by burial at Bickur Cholim Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: As the Russian Revolution gained
momentum, with all that that would mean to the Jewish people, the Czar
abdicated today “leaving the Provisional Government in control of” the Russian
Empire.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: The U.S. government released the
plaintext of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public. Barbara Tuchman, the noted Jewish historian,
wrote <u>The Zimmerman Telegram</u> a fascinating volume covering this little-known
event which had a major impact on America’s decision to enter World War I on
the side of the Allies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Benjamin and Dora Finkelstein gave birth
to Maurice Finkelsteinm “the husband of “Justice Irene Finkelstein” and the
father of Arlene Dawn Joelson.<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 Vienna, the “Press states that Count
Czernin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will in the course of peace negotiations
with Romania, bring up thequestion of granting full 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;">1918: The new Zionist publication, <i>Ungarische Wochenschrift</i> reported that
Galician Jewish regfugees are the victims of frequent atrocities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: Emir Feisal, the son of Emir Hussein,
Grand Sharif of Mecca and the leader of the Arabs of Hejaz sent a letter to
Felix Frankfurter. According to Martin
Gilbert he wrote, “We Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the
deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement.
We will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home.” “I hope the Arabs may soon be in a position
to make the Jews some return for their kindness. We are working together for a reformed and
derived Near East, and our two movements complete one another. The Jewish movement is notional and not
imperialist: our movement is national and not imperialist, and there is room in
Syria for both. Indeed I think that neither
can be a real success with the other. I
look forward, and the people with me look forward to a future in which we will
help you and you will help us, so that the countries in which we are mutually
interested may once against take their place in the comity of the civilized
peoples of 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;">1919(29<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5679): Parashat
Vayakhel and Sabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: Final performance of The “Little
Brother,” with a script co-authored by Milton Goldsmith which was based on his
work “The Priest and the Rabbi,” and
produced and directed by Walter Hast on Broadway at the Belmont Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919(29<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5679): Seventy-three-year-old
Moshe Dov ben Mordecai Zev passed away today after which he was buried at the
Blackley 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;">1920: “Several hundred Shiite Arabs from the
village of Jabal Amil in southern Lebanon marched to the gates of Tel Hai
together with Bedouin from Halasa and their Mukhtar, Kamal Affendi” demanding
to search Tel Hai for French soldiers<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920(11th of Adar, 5680): Tel Hai, a Jewish
village in the Galilee is attacked by Arabs. Joseph Trumpeldor, the one-armed
Jewish military leader and one of the Zionist movement’s first military heroes
was killed in the ensuing battled along with five men under his command.
“Trumpeldor was born in 1880 in Russia. Originally in training as a dentist, he
volunteered for the Russian army in 1902. During the Russo-Japanese War he
participated in the siege of Port Arthur, where he lost his left arm and was captured.
Subsequently, he received four decorations for bravery, which made him the most
decorated Jewish soldier in Russia. In 1906 he became the first Jew in the army
to receive an officer's commission. In 1911 he emigrated to Palestine then
under the Ottoman Turks, living for a time at kibbutz Deganya. When World War I
broke out, he went to Egypt, where together with Vladimir Jabotinsky he
developed the idea of the Jewish legion to fight with the British against
common enemies and as a result, the Zion Mule Corps was formed in 1917,
considered to be the first all-Jewish military unit organized in close to two
thousand years, and the ideological beginning of the Israel Defense Forces. He
saw action in Gallipoli, where he was wounded in the shoulder. Upon his return
to Russia in 1918, he established the <i>He-Halutz</i>, a youth organization
that prepared immigrants for <i>Aliyah</i> (moving to Palestine), and returned
to Palestine himself, then under the British Mandate. He was one of the
founders of the Zionist Socialist movement in pre-state Israel. After his death
Trumpeldor became the symbol of Jewish "self-defense", and his Memorial
Day on the 11th day of Adar is officially noted in Israel every year.
Supposedly, his last words were, "Never mind, it is good to die for our
country". There is no proof whether this is true.”<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 Political committee of the Zionist
Organization met in London to discuss Churchill’s forthcoming visit to
Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Margery Merlyn Baillieu and Sidney Myer,
the founder of Myer (Australia’s largest department store chain) gave birth to
the first child, Ken. But since Myer had
converted a year earlier and Baillieu was not Jewish, Ken would not be carrying
on the “faith of his fathers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1391841/Sir-Michael-Kerr.htm<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: In Berlin, “Alfred Kerr, the well-known
socialist author and theatre critic for Berliner Tageblatt and Frankfurter
Zeitung” and his non-Jewish wife gave birth to Sir Michael Kerr, the Lord
Justice of Appeal who was believed to be “England's first foreign-born judge
since the reign of Henry II.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: John Schuburgh a member of the Middle
East Department (of the British Government) sent a visiting Arab delegation a
letter reiterating British support for the Balfour Declaration and the
establishment of a Jewish National Home 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;">1922: Director Heimann “informed the Second
Congress of Jewish Communities” that “the American Joint Distribution Committee
as allocated and placed at the disposal of the National Jewish Council of
Lithuania 24,000,000 marks for the rehabilitation of Jews who suffered from the
war.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1922:
Birthdate of Yitzhak Rabin
(</span><b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">יצחק
רבין</span></b><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>). A Sabra, Rabin was a soldier-statesman who served as Prime
Minister from 1974 until 1977. The
scandal which drove him from office would open the way for the Right-Wing Likud
to take power for the first time since the founding of the Jewish State. Rabin would return as Prime Minister in
1992. He would win the Nobel Peace Prize
for his groundbreaking attempts to end the violence in the Middle East. Sadly, the man who had avoided death at the
hands of Israel’s Arab enemies, met death at the hands of a Jewish fanatic bent
on derailing the Peace Process. Would
events been different had Rabin lived?
We will never know. Just as a
killer at Dallas had thwarted the American electoral process, so a killer
thwarted the democratic process in Israel in 1995.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5683): 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;">1923: Dr. R.E. Stewart MacAlister, President of
Celtic Archaelogoy at the National University of Dublin and director of the
Palestine Exploration Fund who is leaving for Palestine to supervise the
excavation of work at the site of the old City of David “says it is impossible
to say what the fruits of the excavation will be as Palestine was a country
where art was cultivated to the same extent as in Egypt” but he hopes that
“considerable light will be thrown on biblical history” as a result of these
efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: Dr. Max Pinner, the recipient of the
American Thoracic Society’s Trudeau Medal, married Berna Rudovic, four years
before he became a naturalized U.S. citizen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: In New York “Max Druckman, a Manhattan
furniture dealer” and Pearl Cohen gave birth to 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.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: In Bacau Romania, Sima and Alter Marcus
gave birth Romanian mathematician Solomon Marcus, a professor at the University
of Bucharest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: “The Jewish Agency for Palestine which
has been in complete control of Zionists since the League of Nations so
decided, will be reconstituted to include non-Zionists, if Great Britain and
the League approve of a decision made by leaders of both factions at the Hotel
Astor” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: “Rabbi Samuel Schulman in his sermon this
morning at Temple Beth-El, Fifth Avenue and Seventy-sixth Street, condemned the
plan for giving religious instruction in the public schools. He characterized
the experiment of sending groups of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish children to
their respective centres of religious education near their public schools as
"a most serious modification of the secular character of the American
public school as we are accustomed to admire it."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5686): 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;">1926: It was reported today that the Purim Ball
at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel sponsored by the Old Timers of the Young Men’s
Hebrew Association had “served a reunion for all former Y.H.M.H.A. members
since 1874.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: At a testimonial dinner honoring Joseph
Barondess’ forty years of service to American Jewrtygiven tonight in the
ballroom of the Manhattan Opera House, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise said, “that no Jew
in America had given more to 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;">1926: Mlle. Maxa Nordau, the daughter of the
late Zionist author Max Nordau is scheduled to begin holding an exhibition of
art in New York starting 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: In Poland Moishe and Baila Wilderman gave
birth to Robert Max Widerman known as <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Robert Clary, the actor who gained fame playing
the part of LeBeau on “Hogan’s Heroes” and who ironically was the only one of
his immediate family members to survive imprisonment by the Nazis 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;">1927: “Social service offers women their best
opportunity for training in Government, Henry Morgenthau said today at a
luncheon of the Women's Division of the Federation for the Support of Jewish
Philanthropic Societies at the Hotel Astor.”<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 125-pound midget basketball team of
the Jewish Centre of the East side defeated the Hudson Guild midget team”
tonight” “on the winners court” with Grossman scoring 45 points for the winning
team.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: Joseph Levy, writing in the <i>New York
Times</i> described the ceremonies that marked “the recent inauguration of the
plantation of the Balfour Forest at Ginegar, in the Valley of Jezreel,
Palestine.” As part of the ceremony, Sir Alfred Mond delivered an address in
which he “paid high tribute to Lord Plumer, the High Commissioner, for the
devotion he has shown during his tenure in office and to the Jewish national
fund. The entire cost of the Balfour Forest is being borne by the Jews of Great
Britain. The project is part of the
Zionist led reforestation project that is vital to the renewal of Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk65414904"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929(19<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5689): Forty-eight-year-old Lodz native Louis DeWitt Gibbs, the 1906
graduate of New York University Law and state legislator who led the battle to
make the Bronx into a separate country before going to serve as “a member of
the New York State Supreme Court and who was the husband of Anna White Gibbs
with whom he had three children – Howard, Harriet and Isadora – passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/03/02/95885301.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/03/02/95885301.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;">1929: It was reported today that “The Anshe
Russia Synagogue, the oldest Orthodox congregation in Newark, NJ” which is led
by Rabbi Joseph Konvitz and President Bernard Brody, “is planning to erect a
new synagogue at a cost of three hundred thousand dollars.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar, 5690): Parashat
Mishpatim; Rosh Chodesh Adar; 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;">1930: “Puttin’ On the Ritz” produced by Joseph
M. Schenck starring Harry Richman in his movie debut who also wrote the music
for the film along with Fred E. Ahlert and Irving Berlin 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;">1931: The White House released President
Herbert Hoover’s congratulatory message expressing his congratulations to Baith
Israel Anshei Emes on the celebration of the 75<sup>th</sup> anniversary of its
founding.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: “Anti-Semitism is a challenge to the Jew
to be at his best, and he must find his idealism not only in fighting against
anti-Semitism with every legal weapon, but also in accepting it as a spur to
his own virtue, declared Rabbi Samuel Schulman in his sermon today at Temple
Emanu-El” while he also said that “the Jewish problem is a spiritual problem
for the Jew and for the world and there is no short cut to its solution.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: On a radio broadcast Clarence C. Dill,
Democratic Senator for Washington, called Hoover's appointment of Justice
Cardozo "the finest act of his career 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;">1932: It was reported today that Daniel Frohman
is the honorary president of “Theatre in Art” exhibition which will open later
this month as a fundraiser for the Actors’ Fund 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;">1932: It was reported today that Judge Cardozo
has met with Chief Justice Hughes and “made tentative arrangements for his
induction as a member of the 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;">1932: “The confirmation of the appointment of
Judge Benjamin Cardozo as associated just of the Supreme Court was transmitted
to the White House by this Senate 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;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. the infant son
of “the Lone Eagle” was kidnapped today which would lead to the trial of his
kidnapper where David Theodore Wilentz, the Attorney General of New Jersey
would serve as the lead prosecutor.<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 Maccabee Association of the United
States announced the members of the swimming and track and field teams that
will be sent to compete in the Jewish Olympic Games that will take place at the
end of March. The selection committee
was chaired by Sol Goodstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: Benjamin N. Cardozo was elected an
honorary member at today’s meeting of the governing committee of the Lawyers’
Club 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;">1933: During the movement to boycott Jewish
businesses in Germany, Nazi troops sang in front of the Berlin Woolworth
Company store” because they believed that the Methodist Woolworth brothers were
Jewish. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: Today, Billy Wilder arrived in Paris from
Berlin and settled in the Hotel Asonia which was “a haven for members of the
German film industry who had fled from their homeland to escape the encroaching
threat of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party including actor Peter Lorre,
composers Franz Waxman and Friedrich Hollaender, and screenwriters H.G. Lustig
and Max Kolpé, who agreed to help Wilder develop a plot he had conceived in
Berlin” which became the French film “Mauvaise Graine.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5694): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: Birthdate of New York native and Olympic
gymnast Abie Grossfeld. <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="http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/AbieGrossfeld.htm">http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/AbieGrossfeld.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: As of this date, according to a report
prepared by Morris Rothenberg, President of the ZOA, there are a quarter of a
million Jews living in Palestine which marks a significant increase from the
total of 85,000 Jews living there in 1921..<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935: Sandor Harmati served as the conductor
today when “Serenade” had its “official premiere” today with “the American
Ballet at the Adelphia 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;">1935: Aaron DeRoy, the University of Pittsburgh
trained dentist and husband of oil heiress Helen Lowentritt DeRoy who moved to
Detroit where he established the Aaron DeRoy Motor Car Compnay and “sat on the
board of the Hudson Motor Company” died today in an automobile accident in
South Carolina.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936(7<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5696): Eighty-one-year-old
“Dr. Arnold Netter, noted physician and newly elected President of the Alliance
Israelite Universelle died today while addressing a meeting of the French
Medical Association” 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;">1936:
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, is scheduled to leave Palestine today for London where he
will meet with those Jews who “are sponsors of a scheme to accelerate the
evacuation of Jews from Germany “told the New York Times ‘I do not know the
extent of the funds of the nature of the scheme contemplated by Herman Samuel’s
mission, but I am ready to cooperate in the execution of any project promising
to increase Jewish immigration to Palestine.’”<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 Richmond, VA native Shirley
Bernice Politzer who would gain fame as “Dr. Shirley P. Glass, a psychologist
who strove to redefine the nature of infidelity” and the mother of Ira Glass,
producer of “This American Life.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “Creation of an ‘Albert Einstein Fund for
Palestine’ to be applied to the nation-wide campaign of the United Palestine
Appeal to raise $3,500,000 for the settlement in Palestine of Jews from
Germany, Poland and other countries was announced” today “after a meeting of
the Council of Jewish Organizations at the Hotel Pennsylvania<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “A new anti-Semitic wave was ushered in
today in Germany following of weeks of quiet because of the Winter Olympics”
during which the “Nazis attempted not to offend foreign visitors.”<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 thousand people attending the
fifty-first annual meeting of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aids Society”
today “at the Hotel Astor urged Congress to ‘humanize’ sections of the
immigration law affecting resident aliens by enacting the Kerr-Coolidge Bill”
which according HIAS President Abraham Herman “would tend to remove ‘some
hardships affecting innocent resident aliens.’”<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 view of the recent Nuremberg decrees”
it was reported today that the “efforts” of the Joint Distribution Committee
“will be intensified including the continuation of aid to Jewish and non-Jewish
German refugees in France, Czechoslovakia, Holland, etc., providing money for
German Jews going to Palestine as well as the “education of about 60,000 German
Jewish children 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;">1936: “Travels in Palestine” published today
provided a review of <u>Footprints in Palestine: Where the East Begins</u> by
Madeline Sweeney Miller with an introduction by Field Marshal Viscount Allenby,
the liberator of Palestine during 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;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9E05E2DC133BE33BBC4953DFB566838D629EDE">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9E05E2DC133BE33BBC4953DFB566838D629EDE</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></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: It was reported today that the “three
hundred chapters of Hadassah throughout the country will merge the celebration
of Purim with founders’ day programs” that will mark the 24<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of the organization which was established by Henriette Szold in
1912.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Taking advantage of earlier meetings held
by Eliezer Kaplan, treasurer of the Jewish Agency in Palestine and the General
Manager of the Anglo Palestine Bank, Dr. Chaim Weizmann is scheduled to leave
today for London “to confer with Sir Herbert Samuel, Viscount Bearsted and
Simon Marks, sponsors of a scheme to accelerate the evacuation 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: According to sources in Heidelberg, “Nazi
Government will…now undertake a counter-campaign against the refusals of the
English universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Birmingham to accept an
invitation to send representatives to the ceremony celebrating the 550<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of the found of Heidelberg University.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Columbia University’s acceptance of “an
invitation to send a representative to the 550<sup>th</sup> anniversary
celebration of Heidelberg University evoked a protest” today “from Roger E.
Chase, editor of <i>Spectator</i>, an
undergraduate publication.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: It was reported that the Nazi “program,
which fundamentally has only one aim, namely, racial, as a substitute for
national, unification through restoration of German military strength” will
require it t”o make compromises with all existing classes except 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;">1936: The Cornell University <i>Daily Sun</i> will say editorially today: If
Cornell has already accepted the German invitation as reported, it can only
save its academic face by publicly reversing its stand and by joining British
and American universities in a boycott of this Nazi travesty.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “Germany recovered full sovereignty over
the Saar today when the last League of Nations bonds were cut” which meant an
end to “the validity of assurances given by the German government to the League
that ‘no discrimination on account of language, race or religion’ would be made
during the one year period.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: “Details of an agreement under which
1,000 non-Russian Jewish families will be settled in the Jewish autonomous
territory of Birobidjan, Soviet Russia have been made public by William W.
Cohen, chairman of the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in
Birobidjan.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: As of today, “Sam H. Harris, the
theatrical producer who has been suffering with pleurisy for more than a week
while staying at his winter home in Palm Springs was reported by his nurse to
be improving as of 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;">1937: Winston Churchill retained Hungarian born
Jew Emery Reves as his literary agent which would prove a boon to Churchill’s
literary career and pocketbook.<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, “the American ORT Federation
opened a national campaign to raise $450,000 to provide technical and
agricultural training for Jewish victims of social and economic decimation in
Poland, Germany, Rumania and other European countries and to assist them in
achieving economic independence and stability.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939(10<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5699): Jacob C.
Felsenthal, the Kentucky born son of Bina and Marcus Felsanthal, the Memphis
merchant and philanthropist who was the husband of Cecillia Felsenthal and the
father of Jeanette, Edward and Marcus Felsnethal passed away today in Jackson,
TN.<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 Brooklyn Joseph Grossman, the owner of
“a silk-screen printing shop” and “the former Ethel Stern” gave birth to Robert
Samuel Grossman to the illustrator you may not know by name but do know by
product. (As reported by Neil
Genzlinger)<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.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">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</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.robertgrossman.com/">https://www.robertgrossman.com/</a><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 Brooklyn, “Maurice Schaap, a salesman,
and the former Leah Lerner, a French teacher” gave birth to controversial
attorney William H. Schaap, the older brother of sportscaster Dick Schaap.<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.nytimes.com/2016/03/03/nyregion/william-h-schaap-radical-lawyer-author-and-publisher-dies-at-75.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/03/nyregion/william-h-schaap-radical-lawyer-author-and-publisher-dies-at-75.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</a><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 South Miami Beach, FL, Max and Mae
Greenberg gave birth to “anthologist” Martin Harry Greenberg.<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://web.archive.org/web/20120710140557/http:/sfscope.com/2011/06/anthologist-martin-greenberg-d.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20120710140557/http://sfscope.com/2011/06/anthologist-martin-greenberg-d.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: Prime Minister Winston Churchill writes
to Colonial Secretary Lord Moyne expressing his displeasure with General Wavell
who, “like most British officers is pro-Arab” and opposed to the Jews. This attitude extends to an unwillingness on
the part of the British military to form additional Jewish military units to
fight in the Imperial Army.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1941: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Himmler inspected the Auschwitz concentration
camp<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: Bulgaria officially joins the Axis Powers
- Germany, Italy and Japan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: Three years after premiering in the
United Kingdom, “The Silent Battle” with a script co-authored by Emeric
Pressburger and music by Francis Chagrin 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;">1942: On Purim Eve, the Germans ordered 5,000
Jews deported from Minsk.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: Three years after premiering in the
United Kingdom, “The Silent Battle,” featuring Carl Jaffe who had escaped from
Nazi Germany and settled in the UK, 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;">1942: “Hitler order the Einsatzstab to
establishment a library of Jewish books and works to art to be use in the in
the ideological war against the Jews” “600,000 of which volumes fell intact in
the hands of the United States Army” at the end of 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;">1942: In Boston, Ruth Ashen and Sam Gruber, the
owner of a junk business, gave birth to Howard Peter Gruber, best-selling
author, CEO of Mandalay Entertainment and the owner of several pro teams.<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 Jerusalem, Aliza and Menachem Begin
gave birth to Benny Begin who earned a doctorate in Geology from Colorado State
University before following his father into the world of Israeli politics.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1943: In Amsterdam, a
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Jewish old
age home for the disabled was raided.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943:
Fourteen examples of the work of William Zorach including “Hound” and “Cat”
were part of his one-man show that opened today in New York at the Downtown
Gallery.<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 a speech given before a crowd of 70,000
people at Madison Square Garden, Chaim Weizmann states, “Two million Jews have
already been exterminated. The world can
no longer plead that the ghastly facts are unknown or unconfirmed. This rally
had been planned by the American Jewish Congress in an attempt to mobilize
American public opinion in support of efforts to rescue Jews trapped in
Hitler’s Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944:
In London, “Dr. Wolf Gottlieb, Rabbi at Queen's Park Synagogue, Glasgow and
head of Glasgow's rabbinical court (av beit din)” and his wife gave birth to
Dr. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, the Torah scholar and author who finally settled
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;"><a href="http://www.avivahzornberg.com/">http://www.avivahzornberg.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945:
“Pope Spoke In Hebrew” published today described the visit of Pvt. Lou Herman
who in civilian life was a cantor and other Canadian Jewish soldiers who were
singled out by Pope Pius XII and speaking in Hebrew were blessed by the Pontiff
who “raised his arms in the manner of the priests of the Hebrew faith” while
giving the benediction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945:
During the “Hunting Season” the British expressed their concerns that the
Jewish Agency was interested in more than just going after terrorists when the
High Commissioner to the Minster of Colonies wrote today that Unfortunately,
the Jewish Agency's lists of so-called terrorists continues to include numerous
people who have no terror connections, but politically speaking are undesirable
to the Jewish Agency. This adds to the difficulties the police has in
separating the sheep from the goats…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: It was disclosed today that the
investigation of the activities of the big six German banks by the Allies has
found evidence that the Netherlands subsidiary of the Dresdner bank “collected
rans by accepting payments from Netherland Jews in concentration camps outside
the Netherlands who had assets abroad.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: In Vienna, the police guard “at the
headquarters of the Jewish community organization has been strengthened” in
response to Vienna Jewish community organization having previously informed the
police that it has been receiving threatening letters from Nazis who wrote that
‘Hitler’s task’ would be finished when the last Jews had been liquidated.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Jews responded violently to British
Foreign Minister Bevin’s latest pronouncements about Palestine by conducting
multiple attacks that resulted in the death of at least sixteen British
military personnel.<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 Abril, filled with 600 Jewish
refugees, set sail from Port du Bouc today only after having been pulled free
by tugboats after she ran aground.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: David Remez, Chairman of The Jewish
National Council, announced tonight that the “Jewish population of Palestine
will observe a self-imposed curfew for four hours” tomorrow night to express
their concern for the refugees from Europe recently seized by the British.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: This month Henry and Phoebe Ephron gave
birth to author Hallie Ephron one of four sisters all of whom are talented
authors.<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 dramatization of Robert Nathan’s <u>The
Bishop Wife</u> “was dramatized as half-hour radio play on today’s broadcast of
The Screen Guild Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949(30<sup>th</sup> of Shevat, 5709): Rosh
Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949(30<sup>th</sup> of Shevat, 5709): Fifty-four-year-old
University of Cincinnati and HUC graduate Rabbi Henry Joseph Berkowitz, the
Philadelphia born son of Clara Landman ad Albert Berkowitz and the leader of
Temple Israel in Portland, OR “the largest Jewish congregation in the Pacific
Northwest” died today “from a rare disease he had contracted while serving as a
chaplain 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;">1949: “Henry Morgenthau Jr., former Secretary
of the Treasury, announced today that he had accepted the chairmanship of the
1949 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: It was revealed today that in the
non-aggression pact being considered by Israel and Jordan included a promise
that Haifa would become a free-port for Jordan thus giving the Arab state
access to the Mediterranean.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5713): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk65412023"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953(14<sup>th</sup> of
Adar, 5713): Eighty-four-year-old retired New York Stock Exchange member
Hartwig Baruch, the, Winnsboro, SC born son of Simon and Isabel Wolfe Baruch
and brother of Bernard Baruch who had acted under the name of “Nathaniel
Hartwig” and who had one son and two daughters with his wife Arline Lennox
Baruch whom he married in 1917 passed away today in Coral Gables, FL after
which he was buried at the Flushing Cemetery in Flushing, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/03/02/93603323.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/03/02/93603323.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;">1953: In Wilmington, DE, The Executive Council
of the Building Committee of Congregation Beth Emeth which had been founded in
1905 presented plans for a new building to the congregation at a special
meeting and received approval to go ahead with the project.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954: Today,Rokhl Auerbakh “one of the three
surviving members of the covert Oyneg Shabes group led by Emanuel Ringelblum
that chronicled daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto, and the initiator of the
excavation of the group's buried manuscripts after the war” “was named director
of Yad Vashem's new Department for the Collection of Witness Testimony, which
was based in Tel Aviv where most Holocaust survivors had settled.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954: In Perm, Russia, Victor Radunsky, the
teacher at naval school and Maria (Ilinichna) Radunsky, a teacher gave birth to
illustrator Vladimir Radunksky, the brother of Alexander Radunsky, the husband
of Eugenia Uriitsky whom he married in 1987 the year before the publication of
his first book <u>The Riddle</u> and the father of Anna and Alexandra Radunsky.
(As reported by Daniel E. Slotnik)<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.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/obituaries/vladimir-radunsky-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/obituaries/vladimir-radunsky-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955: The Lux Radio Theatre broadcast an hour
long adaptation of “The Bishop’s Wife” based on the novel of the same name by
Robert Nathan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960(2<sup>nd</sup> of Adar): Hundreds of Jews,
including some students of the local Chabad Yeshivah, were among the thousands
of victims to perish in a devastating earthquake that struck Agadir, Morocco
today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5721): For the
first time during the Presidency of John Kennedy, Jews observe 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;">1964: Fifty-four-year-old composer and pianist,
whose father was “a Lithuanian Jews” 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;">1967: In a sketch tonight on “At Last the 1948
Show” Marty “Feldman’s character harassed a patient shop assistant for a series
of fictitious books, achieving success with<u> Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity
Surveying.<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967: “More than four hundred Jewish lay and
religious leaders representing fifty national Jewish organizations” are
scheduled to meet David Ben Gurion today at Kennedy International Airport to
mark the state of a three-week tour of the United States that will be part of
the celebration of his 80<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;">1968(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar, 5728(: Rosh
Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969: Joseph Vogel the MGM executive who served
as its President from 1956 to 1963 during which the studio produced the classic
“North by Northwest” 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;">1970: Birthdate of best-selling author Darin
Strauss author of “<u>Half a Life</u>, which won the 2011 NBCC Award for
memoir/autobiography.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971: In Massachusetts, “Nancy Falchuk, the
national president of Hadassah” and her husband gave birth to Hobart and
William Smith Colleges grad and self-proclaimed Republican Brad Falchuk, the award-winning
television “writer, director and producer” and husband of actress of Gwyneth
Paltrow whose brother Evan Falchuk was the founder of the United Independent
Party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971(4<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5731):<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Rzeszow,
Poland native Lieb Wiesenfeld who gained fame as Leon Wiesenfeld “a journalist,
editor for the Yiddish language press and Jewish community leader” in
Cleveland, OH passed away 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://case.edu/ech/articles/w/wiesenfeld-leon">https://case.edu/ech/articles/w/wiesenfeld-leon</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://case.edu/ech/articles/w/wiesenfeld-leon">https://case.edu/ech/articles/w/wiesenfeld-leon</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OCLWHi2546.xml&doc.view=printead;chunk.id=0">http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OCLWHi2546.xml&doc.view=printead;chunk.id=0</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.clevelandjewishhistory.net/people/wiesenfeld-memoir.htm">https://www.clevelandjewishhistory.net/people/wiesenfeld-memoir.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972: Naomi Bronheim Levine was appointed
Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress (A. J. Cong.), becoming the
first woman to take the helm of a major American Jewish organization that
included both men and women as members. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5732): 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;">1972(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5732): Sixty-three-year-old
Moshe Sneh 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;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0018_0_18758.html">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0018_0_18758.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk65413848"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972:
Seventy-eight-year-old Vladimir Golschmann, the Paris born son of Russian
parents and conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra from 1931 to 1957
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/02/archives/vladimirgolschmann-conductor-dies.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/02/archives/vladimirgolschmann-conductor-dies.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.naxos.com/person/Vladimir_Golschmann/31777.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.naxos.com/person/Vladimir_Golschmann/31777.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;">1973: U.S. premiere of “The Thief Who Came To
Dinner co-produced by Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin who also directed the film
featuring Alan Oppenheimer as “Insurance Man.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973: A week after premiering in New York “Charlotte’s
Web” with music by Richard and Robert Sherman is released today across 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;">1973: Eight Palestinians were arrested after
the Saudi Arabian Embassy at Khartoum was seized and the U.S. Ambassador and
Deputy Head of Mission and the Belgian Charge d’ Affaires 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;">1974: “Soviet police detained about 70 Jews
from Moscow and other Soviet cities to prevent the transmission of a petition
to the Central Committee of the CPSU with 200 signatures.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974: “Radio Moscow reported demonstrations by
Zionist elements during the wreath laying ceremony at the monument to the
heroes of Plevna in Moscow.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(18<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5735): 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;">1976: “The Witch Who Came From The Sea,” a horror
film with music by Herschel Burke Gilbert 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;">1976: The International Catholic-Jewish Liaison
Committee began its annual meeting in Jerusalem today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978: At today’s 17<sup>th</sup> Annual Grammy
Awards presentation Marvin Hamlisch was honored as “best new artist” and Alan
and Marilyn Bergman & Marvin Hamlisch (composers) were honored for The Way
We Were performed by Barbra Streisand.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978:
Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery.<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 “Lefkowitz Style: Example of the Old
School” published today Maurice Carroll traced the career of New York’s
Attorney General.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979: Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd: The
Demon Barber of Fleet Street” opened on Broadway at the Uris Theater. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5734): Parashat
Tetzaveh; Erev Purim celebrated for the last time during the Presidency of
Jimmy Carter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981: “Miracle on Ice,” a sports docudrama
starring Steve Guttenberg 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;">1982: Wadi Aranki of the POL was killed in
Madrid<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983(16<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5743): Author
Arthur Koestler and his wife Cynthia took their own lives 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;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/04/world/arthur-koestler-and-wife-suicides-in-london.html?pagewanted=all&mcubz=3">http://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/04/world/arthur-koestler-and-wife-suicides-in-london.html?pagewanted=all&mcubz=3</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983:” Soviet dissident, mathematician, teacher
and human rights advocate” Valery Senderov went on trial in the USSR today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1985: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Milwaukee businessman
Herb Kohl Kohl would go on to become one of Wisconsin’s two Jewish senators
purchased the Milwaukee Bucks. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985: “The Sure Thing” a comedy directed by Rob
Reiner and co-produced by Henry Winkler and Roger Birnbaum 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(30<sup>th</sup> of Shevat, 5747): Rosh
Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987(30<sup>th</sup> of Shevat, 5747): Eighty-three-year-old
University of Paris graduate Bertrand de Jouvenel, the son of Henri de Jouvenel
and Sarah Boas, the daughter of a Jewish industrialist and the husband of
Marcelle Prat de Jouvenel whom he married in 1925 “who was a French
philosopher, political economist, and futurist” and who “taught at the
University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of
Manchester, Yale University, the University of Chicago, and the University of
California, Berkeley.”<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.britannica.com/biography/Bertrand-de-Jouvenel">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bertrand-de-Jouvenel</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://mises.org/profile/bertrand-de-jouvenel">https://mises.org/profile/bertrand-de-jouvenel</a><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 Israeli Lawyer Dares Defend an Accused Nazi, “published today Francis X.
Clines describes the challenges and criticism facing Yoram Sheftel, the Tel
Aviv criminal lawyer serving as co-counsel in the defense of John Demjanjuk,
the retired auto worker from the United States who is accused of being the
infamous executioner of the Treblinka death camp.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988: University of Michigan graduate Preston
Robet Tisch, the Bensonhurst bon son Sadye and Al Tisch, the husband of Joan
Hyman with whom he had three children – Steve, Jonathan and Laurie – and who was the chairman and—along with his
brother Laurence Tisch—was part owner of the Loews Corporation completed his
service as the 68<sup>th</sup> United States Postmaster General.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988(12th of Adar, 5748): Joe Besser one of the Three Stooges 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;">1990(4<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5750): Seventy-seven-year-old
London native Hyman Barnett “Harry” Mizler who along with his brothers Moe and
Judah worked in the family fish stall “in Watney Street Market” before become
becoming a member of Britain’s 1932 Summer Olympics box team and winning “the
British Board of Control (BBofC) Lightweight Title” 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;">1991(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5751): Shushan
Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1991(15th of Adar,
5751): Edwin H Land</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
inventor of the Polaroid Camera passed away at the age of 81.<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.biography.com/people/edwin-land-9372429">https://www.biography.com/people/edwin-land-9372429</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="http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/02/obituaries/edwin-h-land-is-dead-at-81-inventor-of-polaroid-camera.html?pagewanted=all">http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/02/obituaries/edwin-h-land-is-dead-at-81-inventor-of-polaroid-camera.html?pagewanted=all</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: <i>The
New York Times</i> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors including <u>Mr.
Mani</u> by A.B.Yehoshua<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.nytimes.com/1992/03/01/books/history-overheard.html?searchResultPosition=2">https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/01/books/history-overheard.html?searchResultPosition=2</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and <u>The Story of H. H. Asquith, Venetia
Stanley and Edwin Montagu, Based on the Life and Letters of Edwin Samuel
Montagu </u>by Naomi B. Levine<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/01/books/no-prime-minister.html?searchResultPosition=5">https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/01/books/no-prime-minister.html?searchResultPosition=5</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: Following the end of the Iraq War,
Lufthansa plans to resume service to Tel Aviv today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: “My
Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys” a rodeo drama directed by Stuart Rosenberg 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;">1991: Months
after its premiere in the United States “Avalon” the saga of a Jewish immigrant
family in Baltimore, MD, directed, produced and written by Barry Levinson, with
music by Randy Newman, starring Leo Fuchs, Leo Jacobi and Kevin Pollak was
released today 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;">1992(26th of
Adar I, 5752): Seventy-year-old Marshall Sklare, the husband Rose Bernard and
the father of Daniel, Joshua and Judith Skalre who “was the Klutznick Family
Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Sociology emeritus at Brandeis
University” and considered to be “the founding father of American Jewish
Sociology” passed away 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.brandeis.edu/hornstein/sarna/americanjewishcultureandscholarship/Archive4/MarshallSklare.pdf">https://www.brandeis.edu/hornstein/sarna/americanjewishcultureandscholarship/Archive4/MarshallSklare.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993: In the following article entitled “Doubts
Mar PBS Film of Black Army Unit,” Richard Bernstein describes the controversy
surrounding a movie that is supposed to be a documentary about the 761<sup>st</sup>
Tank Battalion’s role in the liberation of Jews held in concentration camps at
the end of World War II. The tank
battalion was an all-black unit and the film was supposed to be a tool to
rejuvenate the alliance between Jews and African-American.<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://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/01/nyregion/doubts-mar-pbs-film-of-black-army-unit.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm">http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/01/nyregion/doubts-mar-pbs-film-of-black-army-unit.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm</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;">1993: Publication of E. M. Broner's <u>The Telling:
The Story of a Group of Jewish Women Who Journey to Spirituality Through
Community and Ceremony</u> <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="http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/01/1993/em-broner">http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/01/1993/em-broner</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993(8th of Adar,
5753): “Two civilians in their twenties, Natan Azaria and Gregory Avramov, were
stabbed to death in Tel Aviv by Palestinians from 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;">1994: Ari Halberstam,
a 16-year-old yeshiva student, was returning from a vigil for Rabbi Menachem
Mendel Schneerson. While pulling onto the exit ramp for the Brooklyn Bridge,
Halberstam’s vehicle was shot at by Rashid Baz, a Lebanese immigrant. He died five
days later. (As reported by Seth Berkman)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994: Publication of <u>Gun,
with Occasional Music</u>, a novel by Jonathan Lethem.<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. Air Force
Captain Jack Weinstein, the future Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic
Deterrence and Nuclear Integration, was promoted to Major today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995: Publication of
the paperback edition of <u>Gun, with Occasional Music</u> by Jonathan Lethem.<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 25th European
Athletics Indoor Championships in which Aleksandr Averbukh placed sixth in the
Heptathlon closed today at Valencia.<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>The New York Times</i> featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including
recently released paperback editions of <u>Unto the Soul</u> <i>by </i>Aharon
Appelfeld in which “<i>Gad</i>
and Amalia, brother and sister, have been given the sacred duty of tending an
ancient cemetery of Jewish martyrs near their village in turn-of-the-century
Eastern Europe and <u>Isaiah Berlin</u> John Gray’s study of the 20th century's
premier Renaissance man that focuses on his liberalism, which was complex in
that it acknowledged no one right path for human society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998: Today,
“Titanic” produced by Jon Landau and featuring Victor Garber and David Warner
became the first film to earn more than $1 billion worldwide<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999: Dan Seligman provides
a detailed review of <u>The Times of My Life</u> by Max Frankel today.<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.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-times-of-my-life-by-max-frankel/">https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-times-of-my-life-by-max-frankel/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5759): Fast of Esther; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk65407566"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5759): Seventy-seven-year-old Jews’ College
educated Rabbi Bernard Hooker, “the youngest Jewish Chaplain to serve in the
British Armed Services and the husband of Eileen Hooker, whose career began at
the Birmingham Liberal Jewish Synagogue in 1948 and ended at the North London
Progressive Synagogue in 1991 where he later reached emeritus status passed
today in Ledbury Herefordshire<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5759): Ninety-one-year-old Jeannette Levin,
the daughter of Rachel and Isaac Aaron Levin passed away after which she buried
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;">2000: “After combing
through their holdings, Britain's art museums and galleries released a list of
more than 350 works of art today that have murky provenances for the period
around World War II and may have been seized 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;">2001(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5761): Hamas claimed credit for the Mei Ami junction bombing which
took place at Vadi Ara where one person 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;">2002: In the fiercest
fighting of the last 17 months, Israelis troops fought their way into two camps
one of which was located at Jenin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2003: “Another Round
in the Skirmish Over Elio and Anti-Semitism” published today examined charges
that the famous poet had an animus and bias towards Jews that was unknown to
most readers and students.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/books/shelf-life-another-round-in-the-skirmish-over-eliot-and-anti-semitism.html?searchResultPosition=1">https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/books/shelf-life-another-round-in-the-skirmish-over-eliot-and-anti-semitism.html?searchResultPosition=1</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004: It was reported
today that in Vienna, “an Austrian genealogist said two Jewish relatives of”
Senator John Kerry's -- his grandmother's sister and half-brother -- had died
in Nazi 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;">2005(20th of Adar I, 5765): Seventy-seven-year-old
Peter “Zvi” Malkin, the Mossad agent who led the team that captured Adolf
Eichmann 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;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/obituaries/peter-zvi-malkin-israeli-agent-who-captured-adolf-eichmann-dies.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/obituaries/peter-zvi-malkin-israeli-agent-who-captured-adolf-eichmann-dies.html</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.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/08/guardianobituaries.israel">https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/08/guardianobituaries.israel</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></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: Completion of the Eleventh Daf Yomi Cycle
begun in September, 1997. The next cycle
begins on Wednesday, March 2, 2005. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel was
deported from Canada to Germany today where he “was arrested and detained in
Mannheim prison” where he would await “trial for inciting racial hatred.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: Penultimate broadcast of “Boston Public”
co-starring Fyvush Finkel as “Harvey Lipschultz.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: “Boris Lurie: Uneasy visions,
uncomfortable truths” published today highlights the views of artist Boris
Lurie the native of Leningrad who survived imprisonment in a string of
concentration camps including Buchenwald.<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="http://thevillager.com/vil_95/borislurieuneasy.html">http://thevillager.com/vil_95/borislurieuneasy.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: On
the secular calendar Rosh Chodesh Adar, first day of the month of Adar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: London
Mayor Ken Livingstone began serving his four week suspension from office after
being found guilty of bringing his office into disrepute by comparing a Jewish
reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: Fast of Esther
observed on 11<sup>th</sup> of Adar since the 13<sup>th</sup> of Adar falls 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;">2007(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5767): Eighty-seven year old New York native Harold Michelson “the
illustrator and storyboard artist” who with his wife Lillian formed a
formidable behind the camera Hollywood power couple immortalized in the biopic
“Harold and Lillian” 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;"><a href="https://www.jta.org/jewniverse/2017/meet-the-jewish-power-couple-behind-hollywoods-iconic-films?utm_source=jewniverse_maropost&utm_campaign=jewniverse&utm_medium=email&mpweb=1161-5275-39206">https://www.jta.org/jewniverse/2017/meet-the-jewish-power-couple-behind-hollywoods-iconic-films?utm_source=jewniverse_maropost&utm_campaign=jewniverse&utm_medium=email&mpweb=1161-5275-39206</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007(11th of Adar,
5767): Meyer “Mike” Feldman, a White House advisor for President Kennedy,
passed away at the age of 92.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: Celebration of the birthday of Muriel Rogers, doyen of the Cedar
Rapids Jewish Community<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2008: The Jerusalem Cinematheque presents <i>The
Path Of Our Fathers \ </i></span><b><i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">בדרכי אבות</span></i></b><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> This is
“an extraordinary and at times surrealistic road movie about a charismatic man
named Menahem Goldberg. On the eve of Passover, Menahem took his donkey and two
sons, one 12 years old and the second 8 years old, and set out to fulfill the
mitzvah of going up to Jerusalem. The 170 km, 9-day trip by foot from their
home in the north to the Western Wall, took them through the biblical
landscapes of Judea and Samaria and brought them into contact with the
present-day Israeli and Palestinian realities there.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Beth Hillel
Congregation in Wilmette, Illinois, presents a screening of the Argentinean
film <i>Legado</i> a documentary about the
arrival of the first Russian Jews in 19<sup>th</sup> century Argentina. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008(24th of Adar I,
5768): St. Sgt. Doron Asulin, 20 of Beersheba and St. Sgt. Eran Dan-Gur, 20, of
Jerusalem, were killed early Saturday as their Givati Brigade units operated
against terrorists. Asulin served in the
brigade’s anti-tank company and Dan-Gur served in the Shaked Battalion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2008:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> On the second day of Operation Hot Winter
which was aimed at disrupting terrorist infrastructure in the Gaza Strip,
Israeli forces “carried out airstrikes at ammo warehouses, rocket factories,
rocket warehouses and launching cells, combined with small incursions close to
the border. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Jonathan
Schanzer, director of policy at the Jewish Policy Center discusses and signs
copies of <u>Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle For Palestine at Politics</u> and
Prose Bookstore 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;">2009: The 120th
annual Central Conference American Rabbis being held in Jerusalem comes 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;">2009: The annual
Koach Kallah comes 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;">2009: <i>The New York Times</i> featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including <u>The
House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War</u> by Alexander Waugh, <u>A Mad Desire
to Dance</u> by Elie Wiesel and recently released paperback editions of <u>The
Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal,</u> by Lily Koppel and <u>Swimming in a Sea of
Death:</u><u> A Son’s Memoir,</u> by David Rieff<i>.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: <i>The Washington Post</i> featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including <u>The
Future of Liberalism</u> by Alan Wolfe<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2009:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Effective today the Glendale Uptown Home will
become a nonkosher facility, leaving Philadelphia proper without a certified
glatt-kosher nursing home. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: A revival of
Rogers and Hart’s Pal Joey presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company had its
last performance <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010 (15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5770): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> In a talk at Harvard University on
"Identity, Diversity, and Human Rights," Canada Supreme Court Justice
Rosalie Silberman Abella shared her family's Holocaust story and explained how
it informs her view of human rights. (As reported by Jewish Women’s Archives)<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 48 Ways to
Wisdom,” a program cosponsored by The Jewish Renaissance is scheduled for this
evening at Keter Torah Synagogue this evening in West Bloomfield, Michigan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> In Jerusalem, The Kingdom of Alrov Mamilla
Avenue is scheduled to celebrate Shushan Purim at its annual Purim carnival
which will include a colorful parade with characters from the Megilla, clowns
and jugglers, circus performances, circus workshops, magnet games, and whole
lot more. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel was released
from a German prison today after serving a five-year sentence. <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>Israel LTD</i>,
film that records “a group of young Americans on their intensive bus journey
across a strong and righteous Israel” is scheduled to be shown at the JCC in
Manhattan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Today Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh
accused Israel of financing and plotting the protests in his country and other
Arab states. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> In reaction to clashes that took place a day
earlier in the Gilad Farm outpost in Samaria, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said
today that "We cannot let citizens take the law into their hands." <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Amy Totenberg
assumed office as the Judge of the United States District Court for the
Northern District of Georgia which includes Atlanta, GA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011: In an “Anti-Semtism Double Header”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said
Jews and Zionists are "trying to push the US into war" and are a
cover for Satan, at the group's annual meeting near Chicago today while a
report published by a British magazine today said the WikiLeaks founder, Julian
Assange, suggested that British journalists, including the editor of The
Guardian, were engaged in a Jewish-led conspiracy to smear his organization. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011(25<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5771):</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Marilyn Henry, a journalist and lecturer,
died of cancer today four days short of her 58th birthday. She lived in
Teaneck, NJ with her husband, Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer<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="http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=210568">http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=210568</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(25<sup>th</sup> of Adar): On the Yahrzeit of
those who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire (March 25), Rabbi Shmuel
Plafker led a memorial survey at the Hebrew Free Burial Association cemetery on
Staten Island where 22 of the victims are buried (As reported by Joseph Berger)<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="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/triangle/">http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/triangle/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> The
postal services of Liberia, Gambia and Sierra Leone will simultaneously issue a
set of three commemorative postal sheets today in memory of 12 Jews – men and
women – who fought Apartheid and racism in Africa.<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="http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=210275">http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=210275</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: On the 70th anniversary of the signing of the
pact uniting Bulgaria with Germany as Axis partners The Sephardic Temple in
Cedarhurst, New York is hosting a public meeting as part of a campaign to
convince “the government of Bulgaria to reveal the truth over its interaction
with the Jews during 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;">2011: A Merkava MK IV stationed near the Gaza
border, equipped with the Trophy active protection system, successfully foiled
a missile attack aimed towards it and became the first operational success of
the system<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: It was announced today that Frank Rich would
be leaving the New York Times for New York magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(7<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5772): Forty-three-year-old
Tulane alum Andrew Breitbart the creator of Brietbart.com 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;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/business/media/the-life-and-death-of-andrew-breitbart.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/business/media/the-life-and-death-of-andrew-breitbart.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: “Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray” is
scheduled to be shown at the Charleston Film Festival 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;">2012:
“Tijuana Jews” is scheduled to be shown at Congregation Etz Chaim in Toledo,
Ohio.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Miriam Gilbert is scheduled to deliver a lecture Shakespeare and ‘the likeness
of a Jew’ Shylock, Fagin and Disraeli” will take place at the Iowa City Public
Library<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present: “Anti-Jewish
Violence in Eastern Europe” an evening based on a book of the same name that
“and Israel that investigates the phenomenon of anti-Jewish violence, the local
and transnational responses to pogroms, and instances where violence was
averted.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #003300; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein today ordered the police to open a criminal
investigation into illegal building in the West Bank Shiloh settlement.
Notification of the investigation was given to the High Court of Justice, which
in November asked the state to decide if it planned to hold such a
investigation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Former Shas Minister Shlomo Benizri, who was released from the Maasiyahu Prison
this morning, said Israel was the most anti-Semitic country in the world due to
what he referred to as its "incitement campaign against the haredi
community."<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="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4197436,00.html">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4197436,00.html</a><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 Ashburn, VA Beth Chaverim is scheduled to join hundreds of congregations
throughout the United States in “Shabbat Across America!” that will include a
screening and discussion of “Advice and Dissent” starring Eli Wallach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013<u>:</u>
Release date for <u>Put it in the Book</u>, Howie Rose’s “autobiography and
memoir of 50 years of Mets history.” <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 sequestration goes into effect today, Israeli defense planners are bracing
for a potentially dramatic cut in US assistance that may slash as much as $300
million in aid over the next seven months. (As reported by Haviv Rettig Gur)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5773): Sixty-nine-year-old actress Bonnie Franklin passed away. (As
reported by Douglas Martin<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="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/02/world/europe/kerry-criticizes-turkish-prime-minister-over-zionism-remark.html?hp">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/02/world/europe/kerry-criticizes-turkish-prime-minister-over-zionism-remark.html?hp</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Some 20,000 runners took part this morning in the Jerusalem marathon, which was
won by Abraham Kabeto Katale of Ethiopia. His final time of 2:16:29 was a
record for the course.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Secretary of State John Kerry said today that Turkey’s prime minister had made
“objectionable” remarks when he cast Zionism as a crime against humanity in
comments earlier 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;">2014:
In London, JW3 in partnership with the UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to
present “Oscars Warm-Up Night” including a screening of “Searching For Sugar
Man.”<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 Prayer for Aliyah” and “The Jewish Cardinal” 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-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Observance of Tel Hai Day in honor of the memory of Joseph Trumpeldor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Professor David Shneer is scheduled to host a seminar on “Post Holocaust
American Judaism” in Boulder, CO.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5774: 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;">2014:
Two rockets landed near an IDF post in Mount Hermon early this morning. According
to the IDF, the rockets “were most likely the spillover from the clashes in
neighboring Syria, not a deliberate attack.” (As reported by Tova Dvorin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Renowned Religious Zionist leader Rabbi Haim Druckman has called on the
Religious Zionist community to stay far away from tomorrow’s "million-man
march" against the hareidi draft. "I totally reject [the
march]," Rabbi Druckman declared tonight. "If this demonstration is
being held to say that Israel is fighting against the rule of the Kingdom of
Heaven, I am so shocked and outraged by it," said the rabbi. (As reported
by Tova Dvorin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Twentieth anniversary of the mortal wounding of 16-year-old yeshiva student Ari
Halberstram who was shot by Rashid Baz, an immigrant from Lebanon.<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="http://forward.com/articles/176900/mother-of-jewish-teen-killed-on-brooklyn-bridge-sp/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Saturday-and-Sunday_Daily_Newsletter%202013-05-18&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20%28Monday-Friday%29">http://forward.com/articles/176900/mother-of-jewish-teen-killed-on-brooklyn-bridge-sp/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Saturday-and-Sunday_Daily_Newsletter%202013-05-18&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20%28Monday-Friday%29</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
At Tiftereth Israel in Columbus, Ohio, Rachel Levin will join her classmates in
the First Grade Consecration Service.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015(10<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5775): Ninety-one-year-old record executive Orrin Keepnews 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;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/arts/music/orrin-keepnews-jazz-producer-and-record-executive-is-dead-at-91.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/arts/music/orrin-keepnews-jazz-producer-and-record-executive-is-dead-at-91.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</a><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>The New York Times</i> featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including <u>Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education</u> by Morris
Dickstein, <u>We Are Pirates</u> by Daniel Handler and <u>Anonymous Soldiers:
The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947</u> by Bruce Hoffman<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 25<sup>th</sup> Washington 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;">2015:
F.I.U. is scheduled to host the 30<sup>th</sup> Anniversary Screening of
“Shoah”<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 curtain is scheduled to come down on “The King of Second Avenue” which has
been playing at Boston’s Charles Mosesian Theatre.<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="http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-boston-klezmer-musical-spoofs-jewish-infighting/">http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-boston-klezmer-musical-spoofs-jewish-infighting/</a><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 exhibition <i>Light & Noir: Exiles
and Émigrés in Hollywood, 1933–1950</i> which explores how the experiences of
German-speaking exiles and émigrés who fled Nazi Europe—many of them
Jews—influenced the classic films of Hollywood’s Golden Age” is scheduled to
come to an end at the Skirball Center 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;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/la-exhibit-shows-how-nazi-invasion-spawned-film-noir-genre/">http://www.timesofisrael.com/la-exhibit-shows-how-nazi-invasion-spawned-film-noir-genre/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
““’Twas the Night Before Hanukkah” an “exhibition, which highlights the music
of Hanukkah and Christmas, and the people behind some of the holidays’ songs”
at the National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to come to a
close 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:
“California Senator Dianne Feinstein” who is a supporter of Israel, “lashed out
at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his “arrogant” claim to speak
for all Jews today, two days before he is scheduled to deliver a controversial
speech to the US Congress. (As reported by Joshua Davidovich)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Commanders for Israel’s Security, “a nonpartisan body of more than 200 retired
officers held a press conference in Tel Aviv this morning” where Prime Minister
Netanyahu was “slammed” for what were described as his “destructive diplomatic
policies.” (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:
“Activists pitched tenets in Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard to protest
inequality and the cost of living.”(Lazar Berman)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
Today “is the anniversary of the execution by beheading of Sophie Scholl, her
brother Hans and their school friend Christopher Probst who farmed the
short-lived anti-Nazi ‘White Rose’ conspiracy in Munich” 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;"><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/02/24/contemptible-heroes/">http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/02/24/contemptible-heroes/</a><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 Historical Society is scheduled to co-present a screening Raise the
Roof “as part of the 26<sup>th</sup> annual Washington 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 Indiana Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill banning state dealings with
entities that boycott Israel or its settlements.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“According to the 30<sup>th</sup> annual Forbes billionaires list released
today, “five Jews are in the top 15 spots and seven are in the top 25 spots”
with Mark Zuckerberg being ranked as the “sixth richest person in the world and
the richest Jew” in 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;">2017(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5777): Ninety-two-year-old Israeli photographer David Rubinger whose
many iconic photos of the early days of the Jewish state included the pictures
of soldiers at the Wall during the Six Day War 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;"><a href="http://time.com/4687856/in-memoriam-david-rubinger/">http://time.com/4687856/in-memoriam-david-rubinger/</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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rubinger#/media/File:Soldiers_Western_Wall_1967.jpg">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rubinger#/media/File:Soldiers_Western_Wall_1967.jpg</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5777): Ninety-year-old “artist and political radical” Gustav Metzger
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;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/arts/design/gustav-metzger-dead-auto-destructive-artist.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/arts/design/gustav-metzger-dead-auto-destructive-artist.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</a><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 Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble
playing an evening of “Mostly Schubert.”<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 “Jewbilation!”
featuring “music from the Yoelling Stones, food, Jewish dancing and regular
music.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Rabbi Michael Rosenfeld-Schuler is scheduled to lean an interfaith discussion
on “Scriptural Reasoning” in the Harold Wilson Room of Jesus College, Oxford.<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 Pikesville, MD, Chizuk Amuno is scheduled to host “Auschwitz through the
Lens 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;"><a href="https://www.ushmm.org/online/calendar/eventDetails.php?event=MAPPGLENSS0317">https://www.ushmm.org/online/calendar/eventDetails.php?event=MAPPGLENSS0317</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5778): 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:
MIT Assistant Dean Ray Feller is scheduled to speak on “Hard Times in Hard
Sciences: Mental Health in Stem” at Coe College in Cedar Rapids.<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 Little Rock, Chabad under the leadership of Rabbi Pinchas Ciment is
scheduled to host a “Royal Purim Fest and Masquerade Party” completed 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;">2018:
In Iowa City, Rabbi Avremel Belsofky is scheduled to host a “multi-cultural”
Purim celebration featuring Sushi and Hamantashen.<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 London, JW3 is scheduled to host two screening of “Remember Baghdad,”
“fascinating exploration of the rich Jewish life and culture that had
flourished in Iraq before the events of the 20th and early 21st centuries
dramatically changed the course of the country – and the fate of its Jews.<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 a Gemara shiur which
will be on mesechet Megillah.”<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 London, the Phoenix Cinema is scheduled to host a screening “The Cakemaker”
directed by Ofir Raul Graizer.<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 next ShabbatUK 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;">2019:
In Arlington, VA, Congregation Etz Hayim is scheduled to host “Potluck
Shabbat.”<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 California, Chabad of Petaluma is scheduled to “host a gourmet dinner for
100.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
Parents Shabbat is scheduled to begin today at the University of Iowa Hillel.<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 Washington, DC, HIAS Action DC, Moishe House Bethesda, and Avodah DC Service
Corps are scheduled to “kick off Women's History month with a Shabbat dinner
highlighting the experience of women refugees and asylum seekers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
Funeral services are scheduled to held today in Mamaroneck, NY for Dr. Steven
Charles Strauss, the former resident of Chevy Chase and husband of Ruth Strauss
with whom he had two daughters, Marley and Amelia.<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>The New York Times</i> features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Aperirgon, Colum McCann’s novel that begins with 1997 terrorist
attack on Ben Yehuda Street, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year
Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle
East by Kim Ghattas, <u>This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers </u>by
Jeff Sharlett, the son of a Jewish father from Schenectady and the recently
released paperback edition of <u>Spies of No Country: Israel’s Secret Agents at
the Birth of the Mossad</u> by Matti Friedman<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 part of the JCC Chicago Film Festival, the Illinois Holocaust Museum is
scheduled to host a screening of “A Bag of Marbles,” “the true story of two
young Jewish brothers in German occupied France…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
“Objector” and “A Cantor’s Head” are two films scheduled to be shown on the
second and final day of the Seventh Annual JFI WinterFest.<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, Liberty Hall is scheduled to host “Beyond Bubbie’s Kitchen,”
Boston’s “biggest, best and most delicious celebration of Jewish food.”<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 Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host its Purim Carnival and
Petting Zoo on a day when the temperature is scheduled to reach a torrid (for
Iowa) sixty degrees.<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 Sacramento, CA, the Kashenberg Ostrow Hayward Library is scheduled to host
historian Jennifer Craig—Norton as she talks about <u>The Kindertransport:
Contesting Memory</u>,” which is about child refugees and family separation
during 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;">2021:
“The first passengers who will be subject to the measure of being
electronically tagged will be those arriving on Arkia flight 232 from
Frankfurt, set to arrive at 4:35pm today at Ben-Gurion Airport. (As reported by
Adir Yanko)<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.ynetnews.com/article/ByM41UBMd">https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ByM41UBMd</a><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 New York, Adi Nes is scheduled to explore social and political questions
revolving around gender, the center vs. the periphery, Eastern vs. Western
cultures, ethnicity, Judaism, local myths, militarism, humanism and social
justice through his portraits.<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 London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to “S&P Senior Sephardi
Rabbi Joseph Dweck and Rabbi Dr Rapahel Zarum as they continue their in-depth
discussion into the 10 Commandments.”<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 New Orleans, the National Council of Jewish Women is scheduled to hold its
Board Meeting 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:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present Manashe Khaimov is an
Adjunct Professor in Jewish Studies, with a specialty in History and Culture of
the Bukharian Jews at Queens College as he lectures on “The Persian Experience:
The Jews of the Great Silk Road.”<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 Jewish Book Week, Trudy Gold, the director of Holocaust Studies at
JW3 and former chief executive of the LJCC who is the Editor-in-Chief of
Understanding the Holocaust is scheduled to talk with Dr Brendan McGeever, a
Lecturer in the Sociology of Racialization and Antisemitism at Birkbeck,
University of London and a Research Associate at the Pears Institute for the
Study of Antisemitism about the subject matter covered in his book <u>Antisemitism
and the Russian Revolution.<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
Hadassah Northeast, the Lappin Foundation, Temple Emanuel and the Holocaust
Legacy Foundation are scheduled to present Dr. Deborah Gilboa lecturing on
“Talking to School-Age Children About 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;">2022:
Today, as Putin began his war of aggression against Ukraine “The Babyn Yar
Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv said that Russian forces had struck the site.”<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.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/world/ukranian-ww2-survivors.html?searchResultPosition=2">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/world/ukranian-ww2-survivors.html?searchResultPosition=2</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture on Nazi hunter Efraim
Zuroff, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022:
Berkeley Law’s Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies is
scheduled to present Elisheva Rosman-Stollman of Bar-Ilan U. discussing her
work on religion/gender in the Israeli military with Ronit Stahl of UC
Berkeley.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
YIVO and Anyin Press are scheduled to present a conversation with playwright
Rokhl Kafriseen and Jeremiah Lockwood about the forthcoming release of
Lockwood’s “Once Upon a Time the Fire Burned Brighter: Ballads from the Yiddish
Gothic.”<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 States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a virtual
event “A Nazi Killing Center through a Perpetrator’s Lens: The Sobibor
Perpetrator Collection.”<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 National Library of Israel is scheduled to host a presentation by Ginie
Milgrom and Dr. Yochai Ben-Gehdalia on “Purim or the Holiday of Esther?
Uncovering and Preserving Crypto-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;">2023:
The Limmud Festival 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;"><a href="https://limmudna.org/efestival/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Limmud+Efestival">https://limmudna.org/efestival/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Limmud+Efestival</a><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 72<sup>nd</sup> National Jewish Book Awards is scheduled to take place this
evening at the Bohemian National Hall.<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.jewishbookcouncil.org/events/72nd-national-jewish-book-awards-celebration">https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/events/72nd-national-jewish-book-awards-celebration</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Elan Ganeles, an American-Israeli citizen killed in a terrorist attack near the
Dead Sea while traveling to a wedding is scheduled to be buried in Ra’anana’s Klausner cemetery
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;"><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-israel-citizen-killed-in-terror-attack-to-be-buried-in-country-he-loved-so-much/">https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-israel-citizen-killed-in-terror-attack-to-be-buried-in-country-he-loved-so-much/</a><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 Centre is scheduled to host the first lecture
on a course on Sir Winston Churchill and the Second War styled “The Power of
Words: Oratory, minutes and memoirs.”<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 a lecture by Daniel
Herszberg on “Amid Conflict and Distress: Exploring the Remnants of Jewish
Heritage in Syria and Lebanon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023:
Dance on the Beach — which in the foreground shows two of Munch’s lovers, Tulla
Larsen and Millie Thaulow — and which was hidden from the Nazis is expected to
be sold for $15-25 million at the Sotheby’s auction today.<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.algemeiner.com/2023/01/17/artwork-hid-from-nazis-in-norwegian-forest-to-be-auctioned-by-sothebys-in-restitution-settlement/">https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/01/17/artwork-hid-from-nazis-in-norwegian-forest-to-be-auctioned-by-sothebys-in-restitution-settlement/</a></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-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024:
At Temple Judea, Rabbi Yaron and Cantor Abbie are scheduled to lead Shabbat
services that will include a Special HaGomel Blessing for anyone who recovered
from an illness, is recovering, or survived an accident followed by a Shabbat
Dinner.<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 Stoughton, MA, Ahavath Torah Congregation is scheduled “to participate in
Shabbat Across America and host Tufts University’s Shir Appeal, an a cappella
group!”<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 U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a presentation by Dr.
Ewa Wampuszyc, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Dr. Edna
Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on “Irena
Sendler: Risking Her Life to Save Others.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As March
1<sup>st</sup> begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held
hostages begin day 147 in captivity</span></b>.
(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><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>melamed&mavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482591120434887412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106185355183603844.post-33006001968816036952024-02-28T16:21:00.001-06:002024-02-28T16:21:12.223-06:00This Day, February 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A Levin and Deb Levin Z"L<p><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">February
29</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 1236: In Narbonne (France), an attack on
the Jewish quarter occurred after a Jew accidentally killed a Gentile during an
argument. The Governor of the city, Don Amyeric, forcibly reestablished order.
The house and library of Rabbi Meir ben Isaac were pillaged, but no one was
killed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1468: Birthdate of Alessandro Farnese who as
Pope Paul III</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> failed in his attempt to censure Bomberg’s
Hebrew publications because the printer successfully argued that “ancient
manuscripts were not to be altered.”<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;">1644: Dutch explorer Abel Tasman began his
second Pacific voyage which proved to be a disappointment to his backer – the
Dutch East India Company in which Jews owned approximately a quarter of the
shares<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;">1704: During Queen Anne’s War, French forces
and their native allies staged a raid on Deerfield, MA which today is home to
Schoen Books and the Jewish History Society of Western Massachusetts.<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;">1720: Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden, in whose
presence “two Jews of Stockholm, Israel Mandel and Moses Jacobs together with
their families were baptized in 1681” abdicated in favor of her husband, who
became King Frederick I.<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;">1752(25<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5512): Shabbat
HaChodesh (According to Rosetta Calendar)<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;">1772(25<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5532): Parashat
Vayakhel; Shabbat Shekalim<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;">1776: Today, in an attempt to crush the
American Revolution which was supported by most Jews in the 13 Colonies, “the
House of Commons approved treaties with German principalities supplying Great
Britain with German troops.<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;">1792(6<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5552): On the
Hebrew Calendar, Yahrzeit of tosafist Rabbi Samuel ben Natronai who died a
martyr’s death<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;">1796(20<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5556): On the
Hebrew calendar, Yahrzeit of Rabbi Joel Sirkeks, the author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bayit Hadash</i>, a commentary on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tur </i>code.<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;">1804: Twenty-four-year-old Judah Lyons, the
Philadelphia born son of Eleazar Lyons married Mary Levy in New York City.<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;">1808(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar, 5568): Rosh
Chodesh Adar<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;">1812(16<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5572): Paashat Ki
Tasa<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;">1812: In Charleston, SC, Sarah and Chapman
Solomon gave birth to Levy J. Solomon, the husband of Hannah Hyams with whom he
had eight sons.<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;">1816(30<sup>th</sup> of Shevat, 5576): Rosh
Chodesh Adar<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;">1816: In Santa Cruz, Jamaica, Joseph Alexandre
Lindo, the Son of Alexandre (Elisha) Lindo and Hannah Lindo and his wife Sarah
Lindo gave birth to Caroline Munt Braham, the wife of John Richard Braham<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;">1820(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5580): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1824: In Savanah, GA, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sarah E.
Melhado, who was Sephardic and Cosam Emir Bartlett gave birth to Washington
Montgomery Bartlett, the first Jewish governor of California.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1828(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5588):
Purim</span><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;">1828: Dutch natives Vrouwtje Salomon Barnstijn
and Benjamin Jacob Van Blercom gave birth to Judi Van Blercom.<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;">1828: Birthdate of Ludvi Jacob Hertz who was
buried in Denmark’s Horsens Jewish Cemetery.<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;">1832(28<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5582): Jendle
Jentle, the wife of Jose Falsche passed away today.<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;">1832(28<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5582): Emanuel
Baruh Lousada, the uncle and namesake of West Indies merchant Emanuel Baruch
Lousada and the uncle of Abigail Lousada, who lived at Sidmouth and was a
member of the Mahamad (Council of Elders) of the London Spanish and Portuguese
Synagogue passed away today.<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;">1836: Les Huguenots an opera composed by Jewish
composer Giacomo Meyerbeer premiered at the Paris Opéra<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;">1840(25<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5600): Parashat
Vayakhel; Shabbat Sekalim<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;">1844(9<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5604): On the Jewish
calendar, ancient fast day observed to mark “the first controversy between he
schools of Hillel and Shammai.”<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;">1848(25<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5608): On the
Jewish calendar, yahrzeit of “Rabbi Moses ben Abraham, the son of a Swedish
Count who had converted to Judaism, served as a rabbi in Amsterdam and was the
author of Meliz Yosher” who had passed away in 1803.<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;">1852(9<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5612): On the
Jewish calendar, yahrzeit of Prague communal leader Mordecai Marcus Meisel who
pass away in 1601.<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;">1856: Sir Saul Samuel completed his first term
as a member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales.<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;">1860: Samuel Levy, alias "Old Levy";
Morris M. Goldstein, alias Goldever; L. Truebart; Michael Roberts, alias
"Big Roberts," and Henry Wcyman, “five Polish and Prussian Jews known
to the authorities of New York as expert pickpockets and daring burglars left
town this evening on what was described as a “Western Tour” meaning they were
heading for Albany, Buffalo and parts unknown. <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;">1864: Birthdate of Baltimore native Sadie
Altman, the wife of Henry A. Altman<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;">1868: Benjamin Disraeli completed his third and
final term as Chancellor of the Exchequer<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;">1868: Birthdate of Heinrich Class, the
anti-Semitic German politician who supported the Putsch of 1923 and was a
member of the Nazi Party who avoided punishment for his evil and passed away in
1953.<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;">1872: Birthdate of bantamweight boxer Sigmund
“Sig” Hart who managed three Heavyweight Champions including Jack Johnson.<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;">1872: In Budapest, orientalist Armin Vambery
and his wife gave birth to future New York resident Rusztem Vambery, the
attorney and godson of Edward, Prince of Wales (King Edward VII) who opposed
the dictatorships of Bela Kuhn and Miklos Horthy and served briefly as
Hungary’s ambassador to the United <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;">1872: In Hartford, CT, Hannahlie and Jacob Lyon
gave birth to Bernhard Lyon, the father of Delphine Lyon Kohn, the father-in-law
of Police Commissioner Sol H. Kohn, and “head one of the largest firms of
plumbing contractors in the state” of Connecticut who served as a health
commissioner for Hartford and who served as an “office of Congregation Beth
Israel.<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;">1876: Birthdate selected by Ferencz<span style="background: #FAFAFA; color: #36322d;"> Deszo Weisz, who gained fame as
“magician and escape artist Theodore Hardeen” who joined with his brother Harry
Houdini for a brief period before going off on a career of his own, when he was
reportedly creating an American persona.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timenote.info/lv/person/view?id=11368959&l=en">https://timenote.info/lv/person/view?id=11368959&l=en</a><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;"><a href="https://www.wildabouthoudini.com/p/theo-hardeen.html">https://www.wildabouthoudini.com/p/theo-hardeen.html</a><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;">1876(4<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5636): On the
Jewish calendar, Yahrzeit of av Ahai b. Ray Huna, an early Saboraim (Post
Talmudic Sages) who had passed away in 506 C.E, (As reported by Abraham Bloch)<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;">1880: It was reported that the Young Men’s
Hebrew Association will hold a Purim celebration at the Lexington Avenue Opera
House featuring performance by the Torriano Opera Troupe. <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;">1884: In Washington, DC, Rhode Island
Congressman Nelson W. Aldrich and his wife gave birth Richard S. Aldrich who
while serving in Congress as Republican from Rhode Island in 1924 joined
Congressmen Adolph J. Sabah, Samuel Dickestein and Emanuel Celler in opposing
the proposed immigration bill denouncing it as “the worse kind of
discrimination against a large class of individuals and absolutely opposed to
our American ideas of equality and justice.” <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;">1888: Birthdate of Lucille Selig, the Atlanta
native who married Leo Frank <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;">1892: Sir Edgar Speyer, the American born
chairman of Speyer Brothers, the British branch of his family’s financial
empire, became a naturalized British citizen.<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;">1892: Among the charities that were named at
today’s meeting of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment to receive
contributions from the city’s theatrical and concert license fund were the
United Hebrew Charities of the City of New York, $1,500; the Montefiore Home,
$1,000; Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, $350; and Beth Israel Hospital, $100.<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;">1892: Incorporation of St. Petersburg, Florida
which has become the site for the Florida Holocaust Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0017_0_17303.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0017_0_17303.html</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.cbistpete.org/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.cbistpete.org/</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.chabadsp.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.chabadsp.com/</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;">1892: Thirteen new cases of typhus were
discovered today by sanitary authorities in New York City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seven of the new cases were Russian Jews who
had arrived aboard the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SS Massilia</i>
and had been quarantined at a facility provided by the United Hebrew
Charities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other six were people who
had come in contact with one of these seven.<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;">1892: “Renan on the Prophets” published today
provides an in-depth review of <u>History Of The People of Israel From the Time
of Hezekiah Till The Return From Babylon</u> by French author Ernest Renan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F10811F93D59107788DDA00A94DA405B8285F0D3"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F10811F93D59107788DDA00A94DA405B8285F0D3</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1896: In Brookline, MA,
Cecilia McCarthy and Arthur Wellman gave birth to director William Augustus
Wellman who won the Oscar for his work on the script of “A Star is Born” which
included contributions by Dorothy Parker, produced by David O. Selznick and
with music by Max Steiner.</span></span><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;">1904(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5664): Ta’anit
Esther; Erev Purim<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;">1908(27<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5668): Shabbat
Shekalim; Parashat Vayakhel; Mevarchim Chodesh Adar II observed on the same day
that James Madison University which at last report had a Hillel House servicing
over 400 Jewish students, was founded at Harrisonburg, Virginia in the United
States as The State Normal and Industrial School for Women by the Virginia
General Assembly.<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;">1912(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5672) Ta’anit
Esther is observed on Thursday to avoid conflict with Shabbat.<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;">1912: “The Nathan Straus Pasteurized Milk
Laboratories with principal office in New York City <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was incorporated today to establish infant
milk depots throughout the State and dispense through them pasteurized milk
free or at a cost price with a view of reducing sickness among babies” whose
directors are Nathan Straus, Lina Straus, Nathan Straus, Nathan Straus Jr., H.
Grant Straus an Sissie S. Lehman.<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;">1912: In an echo of “America’s difficulties with
Russia of the passports of American Jews,” this morning, in London, The Times
printed a letter from David L. Alexander, K.C., President of the Jewish Board
of Deputies and Claude Montefiore, President of the Anglo-Association,
protesting against the anomalous position in which Jews desiring of visiting
Russia are placed by restrictions imposed upon them by the Russian Government.”<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;">1916: In Winchester, Tennessee, “Russian-Jewish
immigrant shopkeepers, Anna (née Stein) and Solomon Shore gave birth to Frances
Rose Shore who gained fame as singer, actress and television variety show
hostess, Dinah Shore<strong><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">.</span></strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She overcame a childhood bout of polio to
become a successful dancer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
graduating from Vanderbilt University, she found early fame and fortune as a
singer with bandleader Xavier Cougat (Charo’s husband).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She took the name Dinah from the title of a
popular song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the 1950’s she
hosted a Sunday Night variety show which she always ended by giving America a
big sweeping kiss before singing the theme “See the USA in your
Chevrolet.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most Americans did not know
that this all-American blond girl-next door was Jewish.<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;">(Please note, NYT shows her birthdate as March
1 while all other sources show February 29.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I realize I disagree with the Times at my peril)<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;">1916: Funeral Services are scheduled to be held
this morning at the Uptown Talmud Torah for Henry Glass the husband of Fannie
Glass and head of Henry Glass and Company where the mourners will include
members of the Young Women’s Hebrew Association, the Jewish Centre and the
Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War.<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;">1920: In New York, Gertrude and David Nemerov
gave birth to Howard Nemerov, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet who was the older
brother of famed photographer Diane Arbus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/07/obituaries/howard-nemerov-poet-laureate-and-pulitzer-recipient-dies-at-71.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/07/obituaries/howard-nemerov-poet-laureate-and-pulitzer-recipient-dies-at-71.html</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;">1920: Czechoslovakia’s National Assembly passed
a constitution establishing a democratic republic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time there were approximately 350,000
Jews living in the country making them about 2 to 3% of the total population.
Jews of the newly created republic would flourish until the shameful Munich
Agreement of 1938.<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;">1920: “The Annual Meeting of the Federation for
the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies” is scheduled to take place this
evening in the ballroom of the Hotel Astor complete with supper and dancing to
the music of Michael Markel’s Orchestra.<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;">1920: In Hungary Admiral Miklos Horthy
overthrew the government and becomes Regent, a position he will hold until
1944. Horthy was an avowed anti-Semite who promulgated a series of declarations
and laws aimed limiting the participation of Jews in all facets of Hungarian
society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This played well with the
populace since at this time, the Jews who were 5% of the population were 60% of
the doctors, 51% of the lawyers, 25% of the university students, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Anti-Semitism goes hand in hand with Jewish
success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, anti-Semites also attack
Jews as a pariah when they are poor.]<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;">1924: In Munich, Geneal Ludendorff, one of the
chief defendants in the trial of those held responsible for the Bavarian ‘putsch’
last November took the stand today” and declared that him the Jewish question
was a racial question; that the Jews had no more right than the English or
Frech to be allowed to obtain authority and influence in Germany.”<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;">1924: It was reported today that “the Chief
Rabbi of Palestine, Abaham Isaac kook has left” Palestine “ for <br />
America on an official visit.”<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;">1924: Birthdate of Cleveland third basemen Al
Rosen. Rosen elected MVP of the American League in 1953. He was the first
player to be elected unanimously. He led the Indians to the American
League Pennant in 1954. He left baseball after 1956, his all-star career
shortened by injuries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/sports/baseball/al-rosen-who-missed-triple-crown-by-a-hit-dies-at-91.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/2015/03/15/sports/baseball/al-rosen-who-missed-triple-crown-by-a-hit-dies-at-91.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;">1928: Birthday of Laszlo Berkowits “a
Hungarian-born American Reform rabbi. From 1944-1945, he was imprisoned in a
Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. After his release in 1945, he studied
briefly in Sweden before he moved to the United States, where he began studying
to be a rabbi. He was ordained in 1962.” In 1963, he was hired by Temple Rodef
Shalom as its first senior rabbi. He held this title for 35 years, prior to his
retirement in July, 1998. In 1988, he received his Doctor of Divinity from Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He is currently the Rabbi Emeritus
at Temple Rodef Shalom.<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;">1932: A portrait of Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo
was among those on display at an exhibition of American portraits by
contemporary American artists that was held this afternoon at the American Art
– Anderson Galleries for the purposed of raising funds to support the Free Milk
Coffee Stations for the unemployed.<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;">1932: “Benjamin Cardozo, the newly appointed
Justice of the Supreme Court” had lunch with President Hoover today at the
White House during which they “discussed legal affairs and his new duties on
the highest tribunal.<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;">1932: Twenty-four-year-old Jackie Fields (born
Jacob Finkelstein) won a non-title bout with a 9<sup>th</sup> round knockout in
Pittsburgh, PA.<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;">1932: Birthdate of Chicago native and University
of Illinois trained mathematician (B.S., M.A. and Ph.D.) Gene Howard Golu the numerical
analyst “who taught at Stanford University as Fletcher Jones Professor of
Computer Science and held a courtesy appointment in electrical engineering.<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;"><a href="https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/MRAuthorID/74940">https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/MRAuthorID/74940</a><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;">1936: Twenty-two-year-old track star Milton
Green who would boycott the Berlin Olympics, won the 45 high hurdles, the 50
yard spring and the broad jump in a competition today between Harvard, Yale,
Cornell and Dartmouth.<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;">1936(6<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5696): Parashat
Terumah<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;">1936: Rabbi Israel Goldstein is scheduled to
deliver a sermon on “What Is Success: How Much Is Worth?” at B’nai Jeshurun.<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;">1936(6<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5696): Seventy-one-year-old
Abraham “Abe” Ruef, who began as a reformer but became a political boss and
Mayor of San Francisco who went to prison after being convicted of corruption
related to the rebuilding of the city after the earthquake.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9400E6DC133BE33BBC4953DFB566838D629EDE"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9400E6DC133BE33BBC4953DFB566838D629EDE</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;">1936: Paul Baerwald, Chairman of the Joint
Distribution Committee announced today that “New York City’s quota in the 1936
national $3,500,000 fund of the Joint Distribution Committee has been set at
$1,500,000.<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;">1936: Dr. Chaim Weizmann, is reported scheduled
to meet with those Jews who “are sponsors of a scheme to accelerate the
evacuation of Jews from Germany “told the New York Times ‘I do not know the
extent of the funds of the nature of the scheme contemplated by Herman Samuel’s
mission, but I am ready to cooperate in the execution of any project promising
to increase Jewish immigration to Palestine.’”<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;">1936: In Berlin court today, when sentencing
five communists to death and “five more to penal servitude for fourteen years
each and six others to penal servitude ranging from three to twelve years” the
presiding Judge said that in passing judgement he had “considered all the
circumstances that had led to the incitement of the masses by Jewish-Marxist
wirepullers.”<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;">1936: In Lwow, Poland, “two Jewish students
were seriously injured and other were slightly hurt in a clash” tonight
“between Jewish and non-Jewish students at the Lwow University of Polytechnic
and Commerce.<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;">1936: Birthdate of Gene Golub, the Fletcher
Jones Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and co-author of
“Matrix Computations.”<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;">1936: Baby Snooks, played by Jewish comedic
actress Fanny Brice, debuts on the radio program The Ziegfeld Follies of the
Air.<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;">1936: During a concert at the Carnegie Hall,
Bronislaw Huberman, switched the Stradivarius "Gibson" he owned for
over 40 years with his newly acquired Guarnerius violin in his dressing room
during the intermission and went on to the second half of the concert. When he
was playing Cesar Franck's Violin Sonata in A Major, his secretary, Miss Ida
Ibbiken, noticed that the "Gibson" disappeared from the dressing
room. It was snatched by a young New York nightclub musician, Julian Altman, who
kept the violin for the next half century. After being convicted of child
molestation in 1985, Altman made a deathbed confession to his wife, Marcelle
Hall, that he had stolen the violin. The insurance company, Lloyd's of London,
paid Huberman $30,000 for the loss in 1936. Ironically, Julian Altman went on
to become a violinist with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C.
and performed for Presidents and politicians with the stolen Stradivarius for
many years. After Altman's death in 1985, Ms. Hall consulted experts who
confirmed that the violin was indeed the Gibson Stradivarius. Two years later,
she returned it to Lloyd's and collected a finder's fee of $263,000. The
instrument underwent a 9-month restoration by J&A Beare Ltd., in London. In
1988, Lloyd's sold it for $US1.2 million to British violinist Norbert Brainin.
In October 2001, the American violinist, Joshua Bell, purchased it for
$4,000,000. "Normally someone in my situation with my income could not
afford to own a Strad like this, but I was very lucky in my purchases of
violins", Bell said. "I kind of worked my way up and managed."<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;"> 1936: “Not The Only Victims” published
today described efforts to by the American Christian Committee for German
Refugees to provide aid for Christians seeking to flee Nazi Germany including
raising a fund of $400,000 for the resettlement of 2,500 Christian refugees.”<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;">1940: "Gone with the Wind" won eight
Oscars at the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, including Best Picture of
1939. This American classic certainly had a Jewish touch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had a Jewish producer, theme music written
by a Jew and of course a Jew, Leslie Howard, played one of the leading
characters – the soulful Ashley Wilkes<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;">1940: The screen version of <u>The House of the
Seven Gables</u> with a script by Lester Cole and directed by Joe May premiered
in Chicago today.<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;">1940: In response to the adoption of the Land
Transfer Regulations, David Ben Gurion declared that “The effect of these
regulations is that no Jew may acquire in Palestine a plot of land, a building
or a triee, or ay right in water, except in town and a very small part of the
country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The regulations not only
violate the terms of the Mandate but completely nullify its primary purpose.’<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;">1940: “Jewish women and children marched
through the streets of Tel Aviv today carrying banners with biblical quotations
prophesying Jewish ownership of Palestine.<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;">1940: In Tel Aviv, Avraham Milstein, a
volunteer in the British army in World War II, and Sarah Milstein, a kindergarten
teacher” who “were among the founders of Kibbutz Afikim” gave birth to “Israeli
military historian Uri Milstein,” the husband of “actress Shifra (Ben David)
Milstein.”<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;">1944: “Views Here Irk Egypt” published today
reported that “Mustafa Nahas Pasha, as Egyptian Premier and Foreign Minister,
has gone to the United States Minister to Egypt, Alexander Kirk, protesting
against speeches made in Congress favoring the recognition of Palestine as a
Jewish nation and the unrestricted settlement of Jews there.”<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;">1944: Today, in Washington, “the Iraqi
Legations made public protests from leaders of the Iraqi Parliament against a
proposed Congressional resolution in favor of lifting restrictions on the
immigration of Jews into Palestine.”<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;">1944: It was reported today that “for the first
time since the liberation of North Africa, Jewish delegates from Algeria, Tunis
and French Morocco will proceed to the United States to report on the situation
of the Jews there before and after the Nazis were driven out of their
homelands…”<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;">1944: “Incomplete returns on the results of a
three-week fund-raising drive to further the work of the National Conference of
Christians and Jews show that $100,000 has been collected, it was announced today
at a luncheon at the Hotel Commodore attended by 1,000 members of the textile
and allied industries who conducted the campaign.”<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;">1948(19th of Adar I, 5708): Two Jews were killed,
and five other persons were wounded in a bomb explosion in Haifa today on the
third floor of Barclays Bank building near the railway station in the harbor
zone.<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;">1948: The Stern Gang bombed
the Cairo-Haifa train killing 27 British soldiers.<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;">1952: In Queens, NY, Raymond and Shirley (née
Silverstein) Joseph, emigrants from Poland gave birth to Cornell and G.W. alum
Abby Joseph Cohen known for her bullish stock market predictions who is the
wife of David Cohen with whom she had two children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-10/goldman-s-abby-joseph-cohen-famous-for-bullish-calls-to-retire"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-10/goldman-s-abby-joseph-cohen-famous-for-bullish-calls-to-retire</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;">1952: Lawrence Demmy and his partner won “the
ice dancing title at the World Figure Skating Championship in Paris.” (As
reported by Bob Wechsler.<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;">1956: President Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower
announced that he would seek a second term.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He would win in a landslide in November.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the last weeks of the campaign (October, 1956) the Suez Crisis would
flair up and Ike would have to deal with a major foreign policy challenge which
would have special meaning for Jewish voters as they went to the polls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </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;">1960: The first Playboy Club opened in Chicago,
Illinois. One of the most famous Playboy Bunnies was feminist activist Gloria
Steinem. <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;">1960: “The Play of the Week” broadcast the Moss
Hart adaption of “The Climate of Eden” produced by David Susskind<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;"> 1960: An earthquake in Agadir, Morocco
killed 5000 people, including hundreds of Jews.<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;">1964(16<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5724): Parashat
Ki Tisa<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;">1964: Birthdate of Princeton graduate and
Orthodox rabbi Joshua Berman, the holder of a PhD from Bar-Ilan university
where he later joined the faculty as a professor of bible and as a contributor
to several publications including <i>Mosaic Magazine,</i> he “has written there
on a variety of topics including most commonly the Israelite exodus out of
Egypt and the current state of biblical studies…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://bible.biu.ac.il/en/node/559"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://bible.biu.ac.il/en/node/559</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="https://mosaicmagazine.com/author/joshua-berman/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://mosaicmagazine.com/author/joshua-berman/</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;">1964: Birthdate of James Robert Bruce Ogilvy,
the editor of <u>Revisioning Philosophy </u>which included a section by Naomi
Scheman who wrote about attempts to heal the rift between Blacks and Jews which
included her membership in a Black and Jewish Women Dialogue Group in the Twin
Cities.<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;">1968(30<sup>th</sup> of Shevat, 5728) Rosh
Chodesh Adar<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;">1968: Eighty-two-year-old Barnard and University
of Chicago graduate Margaret Avery Augur, the Evanston, IL born daughter of
Walter Wheaton Augur and Nellie J Augur, the headmistress of the Kingwood
Schoolpassed away today in Hingham, MA<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;">1968: “The Secret War of Harry Frigg” with Tom
Bosley, Norman Fell and Paul Newman was released today in the United States.<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;">1972(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5732): Purim<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;">1972: “Plans to hold antipoverty elections on,
the Jewish Sabbath would be forestalled by legislation introduced in the New
YokCity Council today at the request of the Lindsay administration.”<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;">1976: Birthdate of Lior Mor, the native of
Haifa who was Israel’s 2000 Davis cup team and coached Israeli players at the
2008 Summer Olympics.<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;">1976: “Operation Daybreak” a “film based on the
true story of Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of SS General Reinhard
Heydrich in Prague” with a screenplay by Ronald Harwood was released in the
United Kingdom, 3 months after having first been seen in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1980 (12th of Adar, 5740): <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Yigal Allon</span> (</span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">יגאל אלון</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 dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>)</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> passed away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Born on a kibbutz in 1918, this sabra played
an active role in the creation of the Kibbutz movement and the IDF.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a member of the Haganah and leader of
the Palmach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the War for Independence,
he became a leading general in the IDF.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After leaving the army, Allon became active in politics and held several
responsible government positions including acting prime minister between the
death of Levi Eshkol and the installation of Golda Meir as head of the
government.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Allon.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Allon.html</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.goisrael.com/Tourism_Eng/Tourist%20Information/attractions/Pages/The%20Yigal%20Alon%20Museum.aspx"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.goisrael.com/Tourism_Eng/Tourist%20Information/attractions/Pages/The%20Yigal%20Alon%20Museum.aspx</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.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14393.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14393.html</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;">1984: Pierre Trudeau, whose son Justin would
apologize for Canada’s treatment of Refugees and condemn the BDS movement as
anti-Semitic, announced today that he was stepping down as the Prime Minister
of Canada.<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;">1988(11<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5748): Eighty-seven-year-old
May Weiss, the New York born daughter of Regina and Frederick Fred Margareten
and wife of Morris Weiss with whom she had two sons – Richard and Stanley
Weiss.<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;">1988: Nazi documents implicated former UN
Secretary-General and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim in WWII
deportations. Waldheim's claims that he was just an Austrian serving
as an officer in the Nazi Army, proved to be false. His war time
behavior would make him persona non grata in many countries and he did not
run for re-election as President of Austria. <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;">1992(25<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5752): Parashat
Vayakehl; Shabbat Shekalim<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;">1992: In Lawrence, L.I., at Temple Israel,
Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman officiated at the wedding of Michele Lesley Bialek, an
assistant district attorney and Todd Alan Neufeld, C.P.A.<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;">1992: It was reported today that “The
International Paper Company said it had tentatively agreed to acquire roughly
an 11 percent stake in Israel's Scitex Corporation for $209 million in a
private placement.”<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;">1996: Novelist Joan Collins, the daughter of a South
African Jew, was awarded US $1 million from Random House for breach of
contract.<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;">1996: Manhattan Borough President Ruth
Messinger named today as “Henry Roth Day” in New York City.<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;">2000: In “Its Children; Cultural Ties and Low
Costs Lure Orthodox Couples to Lower East Side” published today, Tina Kelly
described the phenomena of young Jews returning en masse to an area from which
their immigrant forbearers sought to escape.<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;">2004: Thirty-four-year-old “defenseman Mathieu
Schneider” whose love of the game may have come his French-Canadian mother
Aline, led the Detroit Red Wings to victory over the Philadelphia Flyers.<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;">2004: "Ten Years of Hope," a play by
Elizabeth Swados about the experiences of women who fled El Salvador for new
lives in New York City, opened.<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;">2004: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
New York Times</i> features books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including <u>Five Men Who Broke My Heart</u> by Susan Shapiro
and the recently published paperback edition of Michael Pye’s novel World War
II art theft <u>The Pieces From Berlin</u>. A woman in wartime Berlin accepts
objets d'art for safekeeping from cultivated Jews, most of whom are sent to
their deaths in Nazi camps. Sixty years later a Holocaust survivor recognizes a
table in the window of her shop in Switzerland, forcing both characters to
confront their long-submerged pasts. <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;">2004(7th of Adar, 5764): Playwright Jerome
Lawrence passed away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Born Jerome
Schwartz in Cleveland, Ohio, Lawrence is best known for the hits “Auntie Mame”
and “Inherit the Wind” both of which became hit films.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040325/news_1m25lawrence.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040325/news_1m25lawrence.html</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;">2004: In “A Frenchman Or a Jew?” published
today Fernanda Eberstadt uses a sketch of the life of a French Jewess named
Brigitte Stora as a vehicle for describing the changing status of the Jews of
France especially in light of the growing Moslem population in metropolitan
France. <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;">2008: At Temple Judah, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
the second in a series of special Musical Shabbats.<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;">2008: The original motion picture soundtrack of
“The First Basket,” a “documentary film on professional basketball’s influence
on Jewish culture was released today.<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;">2008: Two weeks after its premiere at the
Berlin International Festival, “The Other Boleyn Girl” starring Natalie Portman
and featuring Andrew Garfield was released today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: A Belgian writer has
admitted that she made up her bestselling "memoir" depicting how, as
a Jewish child, she lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the
Holocaust, her lawyers said. Misha Defonseca's 1997 book, <u>Misha: A Memoire
of the Holocaust Years</u>, was translated into 18 languages and made into a
feature film in France, according the Associated Press.Her two Brussels-based
lawyers, siblings Nathalie and Marc Uyttendaele, said the author acknowledged
her story was not autobiographical and that she did not trek 1,900 miles as a
child across Europe with a pack of wolves in search of her deported parents
during World War II, the AP reported. Nor is she Jewish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: Israel began Operation Hot
Winter, also called Operation Warm Winter a “military campaign in the Gaza
Strip, launched in response to Qassam rockets fired from the Strip by Hamas.
Two days prior to the IDF mission, “Hamas, the Popular Resistance Committees
and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad carried out a rocket barrage, in which they
fired for the first time 6 Grad missiles at the industrial city of Ashkelon.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: “New
Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza” is scheduled to open at
Theatre J in Washington, DC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: A
petition that had been presented to Parliament by Isabel Ferreira Lopes,
granddaughter of Barros Basto and Vice President of the Jewish Community of
Porto that stated Barros Basto’s dismissal from the army was a matter of
political and religious segregation on account of being Jewish, the name of Artur
Carlos de Barros Basto was officially “rehabilitated” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The
annual Latke-Hamentasch Debate is scheduled to take place at Adas Israel in
Washington, DC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Violinist Yehonatan Berick and cellist Rachel Mercer are scheduled to perform a
series of duets at the Jerusalem Music Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: A number
of people were injured; traffic was disrupted and electricity was cut today due
to winds that reached up to 110 kilometers per hour as a late-February winter
storm swept across the country. In Tel Aviv, a large tree was toppled on the
city's central King George Street, taking down an electricity line with it. The
street was closed to traffic as crews worked to clear the tree and restore
electricity. A number of other trees were uprooted in Tel Aviv, causing damage
to cars. In Herzliya, Netanya, Ramat Hasharon, municipal crews were working to
clear fallen trees from city streets. In Netanya, a driver was trapped when a
tree fell on his car. Emergency crews freed the uninjured driver from his
vehicle. In Netanya, a 70-year-old man was lightly injured by flying glass from
a shattered store door. Magen David Adom crews treated the man on the scene and
evacuated him to a hospital. In the North, a major road in Hatzor Haglilit was
closed to traffic due to a number of uprooted trees strewn across the road.
Police were allowing traffic to access the city from the direction of Safed.
The Israel Electric Company said its crews were working to restore electricity
in a number of locations. It asked the public to stay away from downed power
lines and to report such dangerous instances to its hotline, *103. In the
North, snow fell this morning on the Hermon Mountain in the Golan Heights,
leading police to close access to the area. Schools in the Golan Heights closed
early Wednesday and sent children home due to the snow. By the afternoon snow
flurries spread to the south over the Golan, prompting authorities to close
Route 91 between the Hasharyon and Wasat junctions leading to the Golan
settlement Ein Zivan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Snow was expected
to reach other mountain areas in the North later tonight and it was possible
snow would reach mountains in the Center of the country later tonight. (As
reported by the JPost) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Members
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints posthumously baptized slain
Jewish reporter Daniel Pearl last year, the Boston Globe reported today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/mormons-posthumously-baptize-slain-jewish-reporter-daniel-pearl-1.415552"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/mormons-posthumously-baptize-slain-jewish-reporter-daniel-pearl-1.415552</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5772): Ninety-one-year-old “Sheldon Moldoff, who drew some of the most
recognizable superheroes of comic books’ golden age without receiving
recognition in his own right until decades later” passed away today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(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/2012/03/08/books/sheldon-moldoff-batman-comic-book-artist-dies-at-91.html?_r=1&hpw"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/books/sheldon-moldoff-batman-comic-book-artist-dies-at-91.html?_r=1&hpw</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: Shulem Deen, the author of All Who Go Do
Not Return, his story of growing up among the Skverers, one of the most insular
Hasidic sects in the US is scheduled to lecture on “Telling Your Story: The Art
and Craft of Memoir Writing” at the Skirball Center.<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: Mike Brown who had placed on waivers by
the Sharks was claimed today by the Montreal Canadians.<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: “Sands and Seasons” and “Carvalho’s
Journey” are scheduled to be shown at the 26<sup>th</sup> annual Washington
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;">2020: In the Bay Area, among the
non-traditional Shabbat observances are “Tot Shabbat with Isaac Zones” hosted
by Urban Admah and “Shabbat Forest Bathing” in the Redwood Regional Park.<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 Berkeley, CA, the Kehilla Community Synagogue
Immigration Committee is scheduled to co-present “Witness at Tornillo,” a “documentary
that follows Josh Rubin, a border activist who plants himself outside a child
detention center in Texas.”<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: The Oxford University Jewish Society is
scheduled to host a Seduah that will begin an hour the end of Shabbat.<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: This evening, The New York Sephardic
Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The Syrian Jewish Community:
Coming to America (1900-1919).”<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: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is
scheduled to host George Levy Mueller as part of the “Resistance, Resilience
and Hope” program where Holocaust survivors tell their stories.<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: The Seven Annual Jewish Film Institute
Winterfest is scheduled to open today with screenings of “Soros” and “Oliver
Sacks: His Own Life.”<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 Palo Alto, CA, the Oshman Family JCC
is scheduled to host a Klezmer band performing on instruments preserved and
restored from the Holocaust as part of the “Violins of Hope” project.<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(4<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5780): Parashat
Terumah; <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;">2024: Since Rabbi Feivel is on a mission to
Israel, Cantor Abbie will lead the Thursday morning minyan at Temple Judea.<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;">2024: YIVO is scheduled to present a discussion
of<u> Firebird </u>with translator Alissa Valles, led by YIVO Executive
Director Jonathan Brent.<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;">2024: In New Orleans, Chabad and Hadassah are
scheduled to jointly host a Challah Bake.<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;">2024: The Sir Martin Learning Center is scheduled
to host Allen Packwood’s third lecture on “Churchill’s D-Day.”<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;">2024: In Washington, the Lillian and Albert
Small Capital Jewish Museum is scheduled to present “CJM After Sunset: Summer
Camp” for those age 21 and above.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The
Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Antisemitism Yesterday, Today and
Tomorrow” during which will Mark Weitzman, Dr. Robet J. Williams and Professor
Magda Teter will discuss <u>The Routledge History of Antisemitism</u>, “a
guidebook to the breadth and depth of conspiracy theories, libels, rumors and
propaganda that have underpinned the oldest hatred across time and space.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As
February 29th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held
hostages begin day 146 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-79067813928326048122024-02-26T02:36:00.000-06:002024-02-27T16:01:06.865-06:00This Day, February 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">February 28</span></b><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;">628: Persian
Shah Khosrau II who “conquered Jerusalem after a brief siege in 614 during the
Byzantine – Sasanian War” came passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1255: Bishop
Richard of Worms transferred to the chapter of the local cathedral, among other
revenues from the city, the sum of 40 pounds heller which the Jewish community
was obliged to pay annually on St. Martin's Day which falls on November 11.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1261: Henry
III, the Duke of Brabant and Margrave who provided the first evidence Jews
living in Antwerp when he “expressed his wish that the Jews of Brabant should
be expelled and destroyed because they were all considered ‘usurers’’ passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1276(12th of
Adar): Bishop Pierre III Rostaing guaranteed protection to the Jews of
Carpentras, France in return for a tax of one-thirteenth of the total seat
rents of the synagogue<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1348: At the
Cortes of Alcala de Hebares King Alfonso XI issued a "startling"
decree which forbad Jews and Moors from lending money “at interet.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1488: Joshua
Solomon Soncino began printing copies of the Bible at Soncino, Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1533:
Birthdate of French writer and philosopher Michael de Montaigne. His
mother, Antoinette de Louppes, came from a rich Spanish Jewish family, but was
herself raised as a Protestant. Should Montaigne be considered
Jewish? It depends upon whose list you look at, so I will leave it up to
others to investigate more fully and decide.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1574: The
first official Auto da Fe in the New World was held in Mexico after the
establishment of the Inquisition 5 years earlier. The first unofficial Auto da
Fe was actually held in 1528 when the conquistador Hernando Alonso was
executed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1575(18th of
Adar II): Rabbi Elijah ben Moses de Vidas completed Reishit Hakhmah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1592: Clement
VIII issued <i>Cum saepe accidere</i>, a Papal Bull that forbade the Jews of
Avignon from selling new goods.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1593: Clement
VIII issued <i>Cum Haebraeorum militia</i>, a Papal Bull decreeing that the
Talmud should be burnt along with cabalistic works and commentaries, which gave
the owners of such works 10 days to turn them over to the Universal Inquisition
in Rome and subsequently two months to hand them over to local inquisitors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1648:
The reign of Christian IV, the King of Denmark and Norway who lifted the
restrictions that had been placed on Sephardic Jews when he took control of the
town of Altona came to an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1648:</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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” began his reign 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></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1659:
Birthdate of Father Jean Morin, a French biblical scholar who was the first to
edit the “Samaritan Pentateuch and Targum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1660(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5420): Jacob Katzenellenbogen the son and successor of Abraham
(Joseph Jacob) Katzenellenbogen of Lemberg who served as President of the bet
din and head of the yeshibah of 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;">1675: An
agreement was ratified today that would allow 250 Jewish families to return
Vienna and occupy 50 places of business. In return for this privilege,
the Jews agreed to make a payment of 300,000 florins and the payment of an
annual tax of 10,000 florins. The government agreed to the return of the
Jews because the treasury was empty.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1677: In
Newport, RI, Jewish community purchased land to be used as a cemetery<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1715: Judah
Monis “was admitted a freeman by the Mayor and Common Council of 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;">1720: Judah
Monis, an Algerian born Jew who would become the first American author of a
Hebrew grammar book arrived in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><a name="_Hlk65264311"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1721:
In New York City, Moses Raphael Levy and Grace Mears who had been married in
London in 1718 gave birth to “Esther (Hetty) Levy,” the wife of Jacob Hart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65264311;"></span>
</span><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1747: Benedict
XIV issued <i>Postremomens</i>, a Papal Bull that deals with the baptism of
Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1762: Dutch
born Hyam Mers and Rachel Louzada who were married in New York in 1751, gave
birth to Belle Myers, the wife of Samuel Asher Levy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1767(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5527): Parashat Pekudei; Shabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1771(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5531): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1781:
Birthdate of German native Isaac Jacob Bamberger, the husband of Babette Treu,
Bella Jacobs and Gela Weil and father of Bertha, Henry, Ansel, Rosa and Clara
Bamberger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1784: Moses
Cohen de Larah arrived in Savannah after which he lived in Charleston and
Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1784: Ralph de
Pass, a “vendue master” (auctioneer) arrived in Savannah today from Jamaica
before moving on to Charleston, SC where he passed away in 1812.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1784: Jacob de
Pass, the son of Ralph de Pass arrived in Savannah today from Jamaica the place
to which he would return in 1788.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1784: Esther
de Pass, the future wife of Samuel da Costa, arrived in Savannah today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1784: One day
after he had passed away, Nathan ben Hayyim, was buried today, erev Shabbat, at
the “Alderney Road (Globe Rd) Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1787: The
state legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania granted Hugh Henry
Breckenridge a charter for a school that is now known as the University of
Pittsburgh. Today, there are approximately 1,800 Jewish students among the
total undergrad population of 16,000 and 500 Jewish students among the 7,000
graduate students. The university offers a major in Jewish studies.
Jewish students can avail themselves of programs offered by Hillel and Chabad
as well as find kosher meals at the “Kosher Korner” at the University Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799:
Birthdate of Father Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger author of “The Jews In
Europe.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_21/June_1882/The_Jews_in_Europe_I"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_21/June_1882/The_Jews_in_Europe_I</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;">1799:
Napoleon, the first European leader to meet with Jewish leaders in Palestine,
led his army out of Gaza and headed for Ramallah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799: In
Georgetown, SC, Belle Moses and Solomon Cohen who were married her hometown of
Charleston in 1786 gave birth to Sarah Henrietta Cohen, the wife of Mordecai
Myers and then Robert Phillips.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1805(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5565): Naphtali Hirz Wessely, the Jewish man of letters born at
Hamburg in 1725 and educated at Copenhagen passed away today in his native
city.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0021_0_20854.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0021_0_20854.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;">1806:
Birthdate of Bohemia native Siegfried Becher, the University of Prague and
University of Vienna educated economist who taught at the Polytechnic Institute
in Vienna and was employed in the ministry of commerce from 1848 to 1851.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2704-becher-siegfried"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2704-becher-siegfried</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;">1808:
Birthdate of Frances “Fanny” Francks Hirschberg, the wife of Henry M.
Hirschberg and the mother of Georgiana, Michael and Isabella Hirschberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1811(4th of
Adar, 5571): Eighty-six-year-old Jakob Faibel, the husband of Ewa Duschenes
passed away in Prague.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1812(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5572): Shushan Puri<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1812:
Birthdate of Moses (Moyses) Baruch, Auerbach who gained fame as German-Jewish
author Berthold Auerbach who published a novel entitled <u>Spinoza: Ein
Historischer Roman</u> in 1837 and who passed away in 1882 at the age of 70.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1814: Two days
after she had passed away, Bilhah Gompertz, the son of Barnet Gompertz and
Rachel Benjamin Isaac was buried today at the “Hoxton Old Burial Ground.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1818:
Birthdate of Amsterdam native and future resident of Viriginia Catherine de
Castro, the wife of Jacob Ezekiel and mother of auctioneer Henry Clay Ezekiel<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1819(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5579): Jochebed Levy, the daughter of Simeon Levy passed away. (She is
not to be confused with other contemporaries with the same name.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1820(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5580): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim observed as the United States debate
the legislation that will be known as the Missouri Compromise.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1823:
Birthdate of Ernest Renan a French author who specialized in studies of the
ancient languages and civilizations of the Middle East. Late in life, Renan
wrote a three volume “History of Israel.” The first volume appeared in
1887 and the final volume appeared in 1897. Some claimed that he was an
anti-Semite (anti-Jewish) because of comments about the limitations of the
Semitic mind. But Renan contended that the Jewish people were not a race
in the biological and he was an opponent of the nationalism that took hold in
Germany in the latter of the 19<sup>th</sup> century because of its
anti-Semitic component. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1824(29<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5584): Parashat Vayakhel; Shabbat Shekalim observed on the same day
that Robert E. Lee wrote to Secretary of War John C. Calhoun describing his
qualification for entering the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1826:
Birthdate of Prague native and Czech trained physician William Tausig who
immigrated to New York in 1847 and moved on to St. Louis a year later where he
was elected Mayor in 1852 in which would mark the start of decades of public
service that included serving as St. Louis County Judge, the raising of two
regiments during the Civil War to turn back Rebel raiders and the construction
of the first road and railroad bridge across the Mississippi River<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827(1st of
Adar): Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Shklov passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1828(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5588): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim as General Andrew Jackson campaigns
against John Q. Adams, the only President who was elected by House of
Representatives after a deadlock in the Electoral College.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1829(25th of
Adar, 5589): Wolf Breidenbach passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1831: In
Philadelphia, John A. Forepaugh and Susannah Heimer gave birth to Adam John
Forepaugh, the circus owner who included Leopold S. Kahn, “the dwarf performer”
known as Admiral Dot among his acts in the 1890’s<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1832:
Birthdate of Moritz Wahrmann, the native of Budapest and the grandson of Israel
Wahrman and brother of Alexander Wahrmann who was a leader of the Jewish
community, a member of the Hungarian Parliament and President of the Chamber of
Commerce and Industry of Budapest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1837: In
Bavaria, Jakob Neumond and his wife gave birth to Isidore Newman the husband of
Rebecca Kiefer and “head of the banking firm of Isidore Newman and Sons, the
“owner of street railway systems” in several cities and the President of the
New Orleans Stock Exchange whose philanthropies included chairing the Board of
Trustees of the Endowment Fund for the Jewish Widows’ and Orphans’ Home,
chairing the Endowment Fund of the Touro Infirmary Board, Commissioner of
Audubon Park and the founding of the Isidore Newman Manuel Training School.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1838:
Birthdate of French engineer Maurice Levy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1838: In New
York City, Myer David Cohen and Judith Simha Solis gave birth to Jacob Da Silva
Solis Cohen, the husband of Miriam Binswanger with whom he had eleven children
who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Jefferson Medical College
and who served with both the U.S. Army and Navy during the Civil War before
pursuing a career as a leading laryngologist in Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/3/resources/356"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://archives.cjh.org//repositories/3/resources/356</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;"><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;">1842: B'nai
Yeshurun, a congregation organized by the German Jews living in Cincinnati,
Ohio was incorporated under the laws of the state of Ohio.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1842: In
Cleveland, Ohio, Anshe Chesed (now Anshe Chesed - Fairmount Temple) which had
been founded as a German Orthodox congregation in 1841 was chartered
today. The congregation had 30 members and Asher Lehman served as the
Rabbi. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1843: In
Bishop-Purnitz, Austria, Mina and Benedict Greenhut gave birth to Joseph B.
Greenhut, a decorated Civil War veteran and a successful Chicago, Illinois,
businessman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1845: Sarah
Moses and Alexander Jones gave birth to Lewis Jones.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847: In
Canterbury, Kent, Hannah Baranard and Nathan Jones gave birth to their daughter
Ellah Jacobs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1849: London
born Amelia Joel and Solomon Marks gave birth to Mary Marks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1850: The
General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret established the University
Desert which was the forerunner of the University of Utah located at Salt Lake
City, Utah. Today the university has approximately 350 Jewish students out of a
student population of 15,000. The school has ten courses in Jewish
studies and offers a major degree in Jewish Studies. Not bad for a school
founded deep the heart of the land of Brigham Young.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851(26<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5611): Eighty-one-year-old Annie Ezekiel, the England born daughter
of Sarah and Abraham Ezekiel, the husband of Exeter, England, Benjamin Jonas
with whom she had nine children passed away today in Cincinnati, OH.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853: One day
after he had passed away, Jacob Aaron, a London hosier and haberdasher, the son
of “Leib Milkman Aaaron”, husaband of the former Catherine Benjamin with whom
he had had six children 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;">1854: The
Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin. The
party was formed in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska act and was designed to
stop the Democrats’ pro-slavery agenda. Some of the Jews who were active
in the early days of the party were Sabato Morais, rabbi of the Mikveh Israel
Congregation, Moritz Pinner who edited a German language abolitionist paper in
Kansas<span style="color: red;"><span class="msoDel"><del> </del></span></span>,
Kentuckian Lewis Naphtali Dembitz, uncle of the Louis Brandeis and New Yorker
Sigsmund Kaufman who was an a member of the electoral college that chose
Abraham Lincoln to serve as President in 1860. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855: In a
demonstration of the extent to which Jewish concepts have penetrated the
general cultural milieu, while giving a speech in New York on the habits of
North American Indians, General Sam Houston tells the audience that until “the
spirit of revenge had been conquered by civilization” the law of the Cherokee
Nation “was the same as that practiced under the old dispensation by the Jews
of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth and blood for blood.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5618): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5618): Joseph Reuben Romm, the third generation of printers of Hebrew
books, who moved the family business from Grodno to Vilna, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858: At
Frankfurt Am Main, Selig Meier Goldschmidt and Clementine Goldschmidt gave
birth Helene Goldschmidt, the future wife of Leon Yehudah Tedesco making her
Helen Tedesco.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860: “In
Nieder-Rehbach, Austria-Hungary (today in Romania),” Julia and Ignatz Bker gave
birth to Milwaukee, WI socialist journalist Victor L. Berger, the husband of
fellow socialist Meta Schlichting and the first member of the Socialist Party
to hold a seat in the U.S. House of Representative.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1851-1900/Representative-Victor-Berger-of-Wisconsin,-the-first-Socialist-Member-of-Congress/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1851-1900/Representative-Victor-Berger-of-Wisconsin,-the-first-Socialist-Member-of-Congress/</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://history.house.gov/People/Detail/9304"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/9304</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;">1861:
Birthdate of Kuppenheim, Germany native and San Francisco trained lawyer Julius
Kahn, the U.S Congressman who was a strong advocate for national defense
before, during and after WW I and the author of legislation designed to exclude
Chinese immigrants while enjoying the unique distinction of having his wife
Florence Prag Kahn succeed him in the House after he passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/K/KAHN,-Julius-(K000003)/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/K/KAHN,-Julius-(K000003)/</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;">1862: “Affairs
In Utah” published today described the drive of those living in that territory
to become a state in the Union. “As things go, it does seem apparent that Jews
and Gentiles here are, more or less, under the conviction that the particular
time ‘in the course of human events’ is at hand when a change is inevitable in
the fashion of Government among "this people." Some may be surprised
to hear of Jews connected with Utah which is almost synonymous with the Mormon
Religion. The first Jews who settled in Utah were probably “dropouts” from the
wagon trains heading to California during the California Gold Rush. By 1853,
two Jews had established a millenary store in Salt Lake City. The first
non-Mormon governor of Utah would be a Jew named Simon Bamberger. As to
the issue of statehood, it would be another 34 years before that goal was
reached. The price of admission would be a formal rejection by the
Mormons of the practice of polygamy. To date, this is the only time that
the federal government has “interfered” with the doctrines of a religious
organization. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862(28<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5622): Meyer Schoenfeld, who is buried in the New Mount Sinai
Cemetery &amp; Mausoleum in St. Louis County, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863: The will
of the late Commodore Uriah P. Levy, U.S. Navy, which has been admitted to
probate, is now before the Supreme Court, at Special Term. Proceedings have
been “instituted to break it, in respect to its bequests to the people of the
United States, or the State of Virginia, and then to certain Hebrew
congregations in New-York, Philadelphia and Richmond, for the purpose of
founding an agricultural school at Monticello, in the State of Virginia.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864: During
the Civil War, according to General Order No. 9 issued today at the Headquarters
of the 3<sup>rd</sup> Brigade, 3<sup>rd</sup> Division, 11<sup>th</sup> Corps
stationed at Whiteside, TN which is to be read “on dress parade to the troops today”
that in parting with Captain Joseph B. Greenhut of the 82<sup>nd</sup> Regiment
Illinois Volunteers who has resigned his resignation after having “served three
years, taking active part in all the most decisive battles in the East and West”
“the Colonel commanding feels it both a duty and a pleasure to bear testimony
to his diligence, zeal and fidelity in the performance of his duty in the
office as well as in the field and he regrets to see so excellent and brave an
officer as Captain Greenhut leave his command.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865: In
Geneva, Kate, née Levison and Michel Bergson gave birth to Mina Begson, the
sister of Henri Bergson who gained fame as “artist and occultist” Moina
Mathers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1866(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5626): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim on the last day of “a month that
concludes with having a full moon.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868(5th of
Adar, 5626): Rabbi Israel Muschkat, author of Harei Besamim, passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><a name="_Hlk96708832"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868:
In Austria-Hungary, Philip and Marie (Goldfinger) Greenbaum gave birth
Philadelphia Dental College Graduate Max Greenbaum, the husband of Blanche
Goldsmith and a member of Keneseth Israel Congregation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk96708832;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869: In New York City, Louis and Sarah
(Greenbaum) Sloss gave birth to Harvard trained attorney Marcus C. Sloss, the
husband of Hattie Hecht whom he married in 1899 and who practiced law in
California where he served as an associate California State Supreme Court
Justice and was a member of the American Jewish Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk96708832;"></span>
</span><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869: In
Austria-Hungary, Philip and Marie (Goldfinger) Greenbaum gave birth to
Philadelphia Dental College graduate, Max Greenbaum, D.D.S, the husband of
Blanche Goldsmith and author of “The Practice of Dentistry” who was a member of
Keneseth Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874:
Birthdate of <a name="_Hlk159799745">Brooklyn native Benjamin Britton
Gottsberger, the husband of Helen Majorie Beadle Gottsberger whom he married in
1898.<o:p></o:p></a></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159799745;"></span>
</span><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875:
Birthdate of Kiev native Morris Garfunkel, the resident of New York and
President of the Garfunkel Conditioning Corporation. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875:
Birthdate of Riga native Adolph Abbey, the student of Rabbi Isaac Eichanan
Spector and University of Oregon trained attorney who led congregations in
Washington, D.C. and Spokane, WA before becoming the rabbi at the Hall Street
Synagogue in Portland, OR.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5637): Shushan Purim observed for the last time during the Presidency
of U.S. Grant who had attended dedicatory services at Adas Israel 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;">1878:
Birthdate of Warsaw native Zdzisław Birnbaum, the Polish violinist and
conductor who served two terms as Music Director of the Warsaw Philharmonic
Orchestra.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878: In
response to “the proliferation of door-to-door begging in the city by destitute
Jews,” “a meeting was held in Leeds to establish a Board of Guardians to
provide a system of relief to those in need.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879: One day
after he had passed away, Isaac Horwitz, the son of “Abraham Horwitz” and “Lena
Altman” was buried today in the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”<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 City, Samuel Steinbrink, who operated a small candy store on the east side
and Fredricka (Stein) Steinbrink gave birth to NYU trained attorney and
Republican party member Meier Steinbrink, the husband of Sadie Bloch and father
of Stuart Steinbrink and Miriam Abelow who became a New Your State Supreme
Court Justice and President of Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn as well as
a “director and incorporator of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charites.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880: In
Lithuania, Lazarus and Miriam (Burros) Abramowitz gave birth to Herman
Rabinowitz, who in 1890 came to the United States where he graduated from CCNY,
Columbia and the Jewish Theological Seminary before moving to Canada in 1903
where he served as Rabbi of Montreal’s Shaar Hashomayim Congregation and the
Senior Jewish Chaplain in the Canadian Army during WW I while also founding the
Canadian Jewish Congress and raising two children with “his wife, the former
Theresa Bockar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn31777"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn31777</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.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/abramowitz-herman"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/abramowitz-herman</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
Hungary, Judah and Marjem Grunwald gave birth William Vilmus Grunwald, the
borther of Samuel, Hani, Emanuel and Ida Ethel Grunwald.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5642): Eighty-four-year-old Almeria Levy, the daughter of Jacob and
Hannah de Leon and wife of Hayman Levy passed away today in Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882: It was
reported today that the Russian government offered an explanation to the
British government for the expulsion of Mr. Lewisohn from the Czar’s
empire. While the British saw Lewisohn as an English citizen, the
Russians saw him as being a Jew. And in Russia, Jews, regardless of the
country in which they live, are considered to be Jews which make them a thing
without legal standing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882: John w.
Foster will deliver a lecture on “The Czar and His People” a tonight’s meeting
of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association at Chickering 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;">1883: Twenty-four-year-old
Yale alum and Columbia trained attorney Adolph S. Ochs, the future owner and
President of <i>The New York Times</i> married Effie M. Wise today in
Cincinnati, OH.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><a name="_Hlk128332981"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883:
In New York City, Louis and Ethel (Baltan) Finkelstein gave birth to Columbia
trained physician Rae B. Blum who was the “consulting orthopedic surgeon at
Jewish Memorial Hospital and a member of the original founding staff of the
Hospital for Joint Diseases, where he was a chief of orthopedic surgery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk128332981;"></span>
</span><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883: In the
U.K. British Zionist and barrister Herbert Bentwich and Susannah Bentwich gave
birth to Norman De Mattos Bentwich who “was the British-appointed
attorney-general of Mandatory Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5645): Shabbat Zachor; erev Purim celebrated for the last time during
the Presidency of Benjamin Harrison.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885: In
Dayton, OH, Mollie Witkowsky and Moses Kusworm gave birth to Cincinnati Law
School trained attorney Sidney Grover Kusworm, the husband of Helen Frances
Block and Republican politician who was the president of the Jewish Federated
Charities of Dayton and a member 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;">1886(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar I, 5646): Pawnbroker Aaron Simon, a native of Prussia, passed away
today after which he was buried at the Wolverhampton Old Jewish Burial Ground.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: Rumania
excluded Jews from public service and the tobacco trade. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887:
Birthdate of Zorach Gorfinkel who gained fame William Zorach, “a
Lithuanian-American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and writer” who won the
Logan Medal of the arts and who was “the husband of Marguerite Thompson Zorach
and father of Dahlov Ipcar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Zorach#mediaviewer/File:William_Zorach,_Moses,_1952.JPG"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Zorach#mediaviewer/File:William_Zorach,_Moses,_1952.JPG</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888: In
Baltimore, MD, Charles and Rebecca Erlanger gave birth to Johns Hopkins
lacrosse player and textile executive Milton S. Erlanger, the husband of Alene
Stern Erlanger “who was responsible for the formation of the Canine Corps
during WW II and with whom he had a son and two daughters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889(27th of
Adar I, 5649): In Edinburgh, Marcus Levy, a picture frame maker and Minna Levy,
a draper, gave birth to Hyman Levy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Levy_Hyman.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Levy_Hyman.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-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Obits/Levy_Hyman.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Obits/Levy_Hyman.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;">1890: Lena
Catosk Pearlstone, the Mississippi born daughter of Mina and Louis Hart and her
husband Barney Pearlstone gave birth to Morris Pearlstone<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891:
Birthdate of Yaakov Kamenetsky, the Lithuanian born Rosh Yeshiva and Talmudist,
who moved to North America in 1937 where he served as a Rabbi in several U.S.
and Canadian cities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: In
Buffalo, NY Nathan and Esther (Freedman) Aaron gave birth to University of
Buffalo trained attorney A. Howard Aaron, a member of Temple Beth Zion and
supporter of the Jewish Federation for Social Service who was the husband of
Arline Schwartz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: Decrees
ordering the expulsion of the Jews from Poland today which were even more
far-reaching than those that had been issued expelling Jews from their homes in
Russia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: In New
York City, Joseph Seligman and Babette Seligman gave birth to Walter Joseph
Seligman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: In New
York City, Joseph and Sarah Swernofsky Hecht gave birth to Racine, Wisconsin
resident and American playwright Ben Hecht, the two-time Oscar winner whose most
famous work was “The Front Page” which he co-authored with Charles MacArthur
but whose real claim to fame for some was his ardent support for the Zionist
cause.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ben-Hecht"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ben-Hecht</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.amazon.com/Ben-Hecht-Fighting-Moving-Pictures/dp/030018042X"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.amazon.com/Ben-Hecht-Fighting-Moving-Pictures/dp/030018042X</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: It was
reported today that the officers of the Young Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s League of
the Montefiore Home are: Lucien Bonheur, President; Miss Gertrude Hess, Vice
President; James Loeb, Treasurer; Amelia Simon, Secretary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: “Great
Hebrew Charity” published today included Jacob Schiff’s acknowledgement of the
receipt $10,063.19 for the Montefiore Home that was raised by the recent
charity ball as well as an additional $2,000 that came from payment of dues.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: “German
Hebrew Immigration” published today described the debate in the Reichstag on
restricting the immigration of Jews from Russia and Austria which one deputy
described as being “so great as to amount to a national plague.” Deputies from
the Social Democrats and National Liberty Party voiced their opposition to any
restrictive measures which led to an end to the debate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
Birthdate of New York City native and Johns Hopkins trained obstetrician and
gynecologist Jacob Pearl Greenhill, the author <u>Office Gynecology</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5656): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: Two days
after she had passed away, Sarah (Levy) Moses, the wife of Moses Moses, 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;">1897: One day
after she had passed away, 71-year-old Henrietta Cohen, the wife of Marcus
Cohen, was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897(26<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5657): Fifty-eight-year-old the Cracow born Austrian physician
Blumenstock von Halban who was raised to nobility in 1891 in recognition of his
service as chairman of the forensic medicine department passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: In New
York City, Polish Jewish immigrants “Clara (née Ostrow), a wardrobe mistress,
and Louis Opiekun, a shirtmaker” gave birth Malka Opiekun who gained fame as
actress Molly Picon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/molly-picon"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/molly-picon</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.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Mi-So/Picon-Molly.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Mi-So/Picon-Molly.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;">1898: Two days
after he had passed away 63-year-old Nathaniel Nathan was buried today at the
“Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: In
Lisrobin, Kiskeam, County Cork James and Margaret O’Flaherty gave birth to Hugh
O’Flaherty, the priest and Roman Curia official who risked his life to save
Allied P.O.W.’s and Italian Jews <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-unbelievable-heroic-story-of-irelands-overlooked-oscar-schindler/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-unbelievable-heroic-story-of-irelands-overlooked-oscar-schindler/</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(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5658): Eighty-two-year-old Joseph Baron von Morpurgo passed away today
at Trieste.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: “The
Get-Together Clubs” of New York and Brooklyn met this evening where the general
discussion of “The Problem of the Unemployed” including a presentation by N.S.
Rosenau, the Director of the United Hebrew Charities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native and WW I veteran Jacob Ark, the George Washington
University graduate and Georgetown trained attorney who began serving as New
York State Supreme Court Judge in 1961.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: In Ukraine,
Victor (Avigdor) Kramer and his wife Rochel gave birth to future Boston resident
Rose Snyder, the wife of Henry Snyder with whom she had two children—Elaine and
Marvin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899: It was
reported today that Oscar S. Straus was member of the Executive Committee of
the Civil Service Reform Association of the City New York which will become the
official agency of New York designed to promote a system based on the notion
that “a public office is public trust.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: During
the Second Boer War the 118-day siege of Ladysmith came to an end. Major Karri
Davies was one of the Jewish soldiers who fought in defense of the British
position at Ladysmith. There were at least 2,800 Jews fighting for the British
and an untold number fighting for the Boers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: Attorney
and University of Cincinnati graduate Isadore Rosenthal, the HUC trained rabbi
and Long Island born son of Ernestine Witkowski and Bernard Rosenthal who
served congregations in Lancaster, PA and McKeesport, PA married Florence
Rosenstein today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901:
Birthdate of Vilem Bribram, a member of the Czech Army who was buried in the
East Ham Jewish Cemetery in 1944.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar I, 5662): Fifty-two-year-old Gratz Mordecai, the Washington, D.C. born
son Sarah Ann Hays and West Point graduate Alfred Mordecai, the youngest
brother of Civil War hero Alfred Mordecai and the husband of Frances Kingsland
Gifford whom he married in 1900 and who was the author of A Report on the
Terminal Facilities for Handling Freight of the Railroads Entering the Port of
New York passed away today in Swarthmore, PA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: Two days
after she had passed away, Elizabeth Michaels 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;">1903: Max
Nordau meets Leopold Greenberg in Paris and sends a wire to Herzl:
"Greenberg had obtained everything that can possibly be conceded in an
official agreement."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: The
first entry was made on the marriage register of the Artillery Lane Synagogue. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: In New
York, the initial meeting of a “Choral Society for Ancient Hebrew Melodies” was
held at the rooms Young Men’s Hebrew Association under the direction of Mr.
Rosenblatt. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: Twenty-two-year-old
Sarah Manilla, Paris France born daughter of Benjamin and Miriam Manilla became
Sarah Lewis today when she married Max J. Lewis in Cleveland, OH where she
served as the President of the Cleveland Chapter of Hadasah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a name="28"></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1906:
In the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn Jennie (Riechenthal) and Max Siegel
gave birth to Benjamin Siegel who gained fame as mobster Ben “Bugsy” Siegel
considered by some to be “the father of Las Vegas.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.biography.com/people/bugsy-siegel-9542063"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.biography.com/people/bugsy-siegel-9542063</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;">1907(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5667): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5667): Ninety-two-year-old Canadian “businessman and financier” Jacob
Henry Joseph passed away today in Montreal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/biology-physics-cooper-westinghouse/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/biology-physics-cooper-westinghouse/</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;">1907: In
Hillsboro, OH, John and Elizabeth Caniff gave birth to cartoonist Milton Arthur
Paul Caniff the creator of “Steve Canyon” and “Terry and the Pirates.”<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;">1907(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5667): Eighty-year-old Wilhelm Rapp passed away. Born in Germany
in 1827, he moved to the United States in 1852 after having participated in the
failed Revolutions of 1848. Rapp edited newspapers in several cities before the
Civil War. An outspoken abolitionist and Unionist he was forced to flee
from Baltimore to Washington, DC in 1861. Rapp turned down President Lincoln’s
offer to make him postmaster general and moved to Chicago, Illinois where
worked as a newspaper editor until his death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: In
Milwaukee, WI, Henry and Anna Gattman gave birth to Marie Louise Gattman the
“ex-wife of Hyman Hirsh.”<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;">1908(26<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5668): Sixty-four-year-old
Hungarian native of Rabbi Sigmund Drechsler who was hired “at the salary of
$1,000 per year” to serve as the spiritual leader of Congregation B’nai
Jeshurun when it moved into its new building in Cleveland, OH” passed away today.<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;">1909: In
Kensington (UK) Edward Harold Spender and Violet Hilda Schuster who was
consider “half Jewish” because her father’s family had been German Jews before
converting gave birth to Poet Laureate Sir Stephen Spender whose identification
with the Jewish people was strengthened by the fact that his second wife was
English Pianist and author Natasha Spender.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: “Leon
Kamarky and Jacob Faphirstein of New York told President Taft today that for a
number of years the Jews of” the United States “had been endeavoring to secure
action that would give American citizens freedom from political arrest in
Russia” and “President Taft said he was deeply interested in the matter and had
instructed Mr. Rockhill,” the American Ambassador to St. Petersburg “to make
strong representations to the Russian Government looking to the inviolability
of America of American passports” in Russia.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: Akron,
Ohio businessman Bert A. Polsky and the former Hazel Steiner gave birth to
their daughter Peggy who was the wife of H.C. Dodge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911:
Birthdate of Judah Leon Bernstein who gained fame as photographer Lou
Bernstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/lou-bernstein?all/all/all/all/0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/lou-bernstein?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-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912(10<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5672): On the Jewish calendar, yahrzeit of Rabbi Joseph Chajes of
Lamberg who passed away in 5445 on the Jewish calendar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912:
Birthdate of Isabella Harris, the native of Bethnal Green, London the wife of
Harry Weinberg, the son of Betsy Cohen and Emanuel Weinberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar I, 5673): Fifty-seven-year-old Phil Phillips passed away in Cardiff,
Wales.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913: Seventy-seven-year-old,
the president of William Sicher Dry Goods Company who had come to St. Louis in
1852 and was a member of Share Emeth Hebrew Congregation is scheduled to be
buried at Mt. Cemetery following a funeral service to be conducted at his home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar, 5674): Parashat Terumah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914: “Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob H. Schiff sailed today on the United Fruit steamer Calamares for a three-week
cruise to the West Indies including a visit to the Panama Canal.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5675): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: “One
thousand members of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association attended” services at
Temple Beth-El in New York this “morning to celebrate the festival of Purim.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: Tonight
“The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Congregation, the oldest in the United States”
presented “a series of tableaux representing the influence of Jews on the early
history of America.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: The
Church Peace Union founded by Andrew Carnegie whose trustees are 29 prominent
clergymen including those from Jewish organizations made public an address
cautioning the clergy “against partisanship in discussing the European War and
protesting against the agitation for increased armaments.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 1915: In
Brooklyn, NY, Israel Mostel and Cina "Celia" Druchs gave birth Samuel
Joel "Zero" Mostel an actor known for his roles in the original
version of “The Producers” and “Fiddler on the Roof.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://spartacus-educational.com/USAmostel.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://spartacus-educational.com/USAmostel.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.tcm.com/this-month/article/179731%7C179732/Zero-Mostel-Profile.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/179731%7C179732/Zero-Mostel-Profile.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: “Aid For
Polish Jews” published today described efforts that have been organized in the
United States and Petrograd to provide aide for the approximately 500,000 Jews
of Galicia who have been “ruined” by the war.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: It was
reported today that “the large number of Jewish refugees arriving in Moscow
from various parts of” war torn Poland are given “a sympathetic reception”
while “the situation is quite different for Jewish refugees…who arrive in
Petrograd” who now “are all being sent back to the pale of settlement.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916(24th of
Adar I, 5676): Morris Lasker, aged 76, millionaire miller, pioneer, Indian
fighter and philanthropist died in Galveston, Texas, this afternoon. Mr.
Lasker won wide fame when he led the Jews of the South in a fight for the life
and vindication of Leo Frank, who was convicted in Atlanta for the murder of
Mary Phagan. Mr. Lasker came to America from Germany at the age of
16. He “was in the mercantile business in George for three years, and
then came to Texas, settling at Weatherford, where he engaged in many
expeditions against the Indians.” He settled in Galveston in 1867 and
married Miss Nettie Davis of Albany, NY, the widow who survives him, along with
six children including Albert Lasker of Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: The
Board of Trustees of Congregation Orachim held a special meeting today where
they adopted resolutions expressing their sorrow at the death of Henry Glass,
the President of Henry Glass and Company.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: On the
same day that it was reported that the Czar has granted freedom of travel to
Jews from the United States, Judge Leon Sanders said that as a result of the
work of New York lawyer Isidore Hershfield “sums of money are now being sent to
Russia by Jewish immigrants in” in the United States “which will far surpass
the amounts thus far collected for relief purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: Henry
James, one of the literary giants of the 19<sup>th</sup> century, passed
away. For more about how James viewed Jews including his review of George
Eliot's <u>Daniel Deronda</u> see Milton Kerker’s Henry James on the Jewish
scene/ <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;">1917: “The 5,000 members of the Federation of
Hebrew Grocers’ Association have been advised by their executive committee”
“which met last night” “to close the 8,000 retail grocery stores which they
operate unless the housewives, now boy boycotting certain foodstuffs, are force
to change their tactics.”<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;">1917: Two days after she had passed away today,
58 year old Kate Samuel, the “wife of Ralph Samuel” was buried today at the
“Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.<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;">1917: Today, fearing a violent revolution, “the
High Command of the Russian tried to convince Czar Nicholas II to abdicate in
favor Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, his younger brother.<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;">1917: Two days after he had passed, 46 year old
Morris Hymovitch was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.<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;">1918: “The 150 recruits for the Jewish units in
the British Army who have enlisted” in the United States “were mustered into
the service at the British and Canadian Recruiting Mission” in New York City
“and led by mounted policemen, a band and British and Canadian officers down
Fifth Avenue to the Fall River line pier from which point they embarked on
their way to way<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;">1919: Birthdate of Leo Cantor who “played
halfback at the University of California-Los Angeles from 1938-1941. He then
played defensive back, halfback, and fullback in the NFL with the New York
Giants in 1942 and for the Chicago Cardinals in 1945.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://scjewishsportshof.com/cantor.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://scjewishsportshof.com/cantor.html</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.nfl.com/player/leocantor/2511023/profile"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nfl.com/player/leocantor/2511023/profile</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;">1919: Following the decision to combine two
Yiddish newspapers whose readers were “the younger and more progressive
Orthodox Jews, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Day-Warheit</i>
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;">1919: In
Paris, Dr. Sikolow, the head of the Zionist delegation to the Peace Conference
who summed up the aspirations of the Jews as comprising the recognition of the
historic title of the Jews people to Palestine and the right to re-establish
national home” “said today that the Supreme Council gave an attentive hearing
to the Zionist case.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5680): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: Oscar S.
Straus, the former Ambassador to Turkey said today that the people of the
United States “should demand immediate ratification of the Paris Peace Treaty”
and that “the responsibility for delaying the reconstruction of the world rests
upon the United States of America” and those who wish to make ratification the
issue in the upcoming Presidential campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Fire
destroys 120 homes and a large amount of shops in the Jewish quarter of
Kouskoundjouk, Constantinople. Most of these belonged to poor Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921:
Conference of rabbis in Jerusalem elects a court of Justice and chooses four
Ashkenazi and four Sephardi rabbis with Rabbi Kook (Ashkenazi)
&amp; Jacob Meir (Sephardic).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: In
Passaic, NJ, “Morris and Goldie Zaentz, Jewish refugees from a shtetl in
eastern Poland” gave birth to Oscar award winning movie producer Saul Zaentz
whose work included “One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Next” and “Amadeus” (As reported
by Robert McFadden)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: David A.
Brown, director of the Jewish war relief campaign today told the volunteer
workers at meeting “that one million dollars had been subscribed since last Thursday
and that the lists carried the names of a about ten thousand person who had not
contributed to previous Jewish funds.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: It was
announced today that “the portrait painter Seymour S. Stone had informed the committee
that he would paint the portrait of any person who would pay ten thousand dollars”
to the Jewish war relief campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: “Campus
discussion of the senior council's reported informal recommendation that steps
be taken to limit admission of Jewish students to Syracuse University had
practically subsided tonight after Chancellor Charles Wesley Flint had
reiterated that no discrimination had been tolerated at the university and that
none would be.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: At the
Hotel Almanac, Rabbi Gabriel Schulman officiated today at the wedding of Helen Kaffeman
and Alan S. Cohen, the son of New York residents Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Cohen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: “The
Chief Rabbi of Palestine, Abraham Isaac Kook” left Jerusalem for an official
visit to America.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: Tonight,
at the St. Regis Hotel, Judge Joseph M. Proskauer officiated at the wedding of Florence
A. Harris whose matron of honor was Mrs. Louis Bloom and Louis N Messing, the nephew
of Aaron Naumburg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: In
Hamilton, Ontario, an immigrant Hebrew teacher from the Ukraine and his wife
gave to McGill University graduate and NYU Ph.D. Louis Nirenberg, “a
mathematician who explored the complexities of equations commonly used by
physicists and engineers, and who shared the 2015 Abel Prize, a top math award
modeled after the Nobles.” (As reported by Kenneth Chang)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/science/louis-nirenberg-dead.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/science/louis-nirenberg-dead.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.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00449-y"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00449-y</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(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5686): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926 Programs
celebrating Purim are scheduled to take place at all of the 91 institutions
affiliated with the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic
Societies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: “Young
Judaea Clubs throughout” the United States presented plays as part of their
Purim celebrations.<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, the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews held an open house on Purim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: “An
exclusively Jewish program was offered this evening from the pulpit of the Park
Avenue Baptist Church, Park Avenue and Sixty-fourth Street” which included the
singing of three Hebrew melodies that preceded the introduction of the speaker,
James Waterman Wise, son of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, who spoke on the Jews'
contribution to Western civilization.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928:
The Soviets decided to set up a Jewish district in Biro-bijanin Eastern
Siberia. Most of its 14,200 square miles were uninhabitable due to floods. It
was to be used as a buffer zone against China.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: In
Malden, Massachusetts, “Katherine (Hellerman) Greenfield” and Nathan
Greenfield, who “was in the wool and waste business” gave birth to Joshua
Joseph Greenfield “the Oscar nominated screenwriter” who chronicled the life of
his autistic son. (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/2018/05/30/obituaries/josh-greenfeld-who-chronicled-his-sons-autism-dies-at-90.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/2018/05/30/obituaries/josh-greenfeld-who-chronicled-his-sons-autism-dies-at-90.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><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: “The
Jewish Immigrant Aid Society of Canada issued an official statement to the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent” in Montreal “denying the previous
report that the Society had received 2,500 permits for the admission of Jewish
immigrants to Canada and that there is a 5,000 quota for Jewish immigrants
under present regulations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise is scheduled to officiate at the wedding today at the Savoy
Plaza of Luara Plaut, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Plaut and Leonard
Celler Herzig<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: In
Toronto, Thelma (née Kaplanski/Caplan) and Irving Goldberg gave birth to architect
Frank Gehry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gehry#/media/File:Dr_Chau_Chak_Wing_Building_from_The_Goods_Line_(27438092220).jpg"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gehry#/media/File:Dr_Chau_Chak_Wing_Building_from_The_Goods_Line_(27438092220).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;">1930:
Birthdate of Bronx native and Columbia trained Nobel Prize laureate Leon N.
Cooper, the husband of Kay Allard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060316094457/http:/physics.nobel.brainparad.com/leon_neil_cooper.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://web.archive.org/web/20060316094457/http://physics.nobel.brainparad.com/leon_neil_cooper.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.scientificamerican.com/article/biology-physics-cooper-westinghouse/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/biology-physics-cooper-westinghouse/</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;">1931(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5691): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: “A
letter from Professor Albert Einstein commending the work of American Jewry in
its efforts to rehabilitate the Jews of Eastern and Central Europe was made
public” today “by Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, chairman of the 1931 fund of the
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee which is seeking $2,500,000 to
continue reconstruction work among destitute European Jews.”<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 Eugene Meyer, Jr., chairman of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation would be one of the witnesses to be called by the Senate Banking
and Currency Committee which is holding hearings on the behavior the stock
markets flowing the passage of “the Glass-Steagall credit stimulus.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar, 5693): Eighty-four-year-old Lautenburg, Germany native David Davidson,
the Breslau educated Rabbi who came to the United States in 1880 where he
served on the “faculty of Hebrew Union College” and led several congregations
including Temple B’nai Jeshurun in Des Moines from 1881 to 1885 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: In
Germany promulgation of the Reichstag Fire Decree, legislation that suspends
civil liberties, enabling "the cabinet to take any necessary measures to
protect public safety"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5694): 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;">1934(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5694): In the depths of the Great Depression, for some Jews, the fast
of Esther was just one more day without food.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935(25th of
Adar I, 5695): Jeannette Miriam Goldberg, who organized Texas chapters of the
National Council of Jewish Women and the Jewish Chautauqua Society, passed
away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: The
celebration of the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the founding the Young Men’s
Hebrew Association took place today in Atlantic City, NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1936:</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Otto David Tolischus,
the Prussian born Pulitzer Prize winning correspondent today wrote a
description of the Nazi regime that began with the withering words: “Like every
successful revolution that wants to be more than successful in ousting the ins
by the outs the National Socialist revolution is eagerly seeking to creates its
own style of living which shall visibly demonstrate its totalitarian character
and wean the populace from any longing to return to ‘the good old day,’ thereby
helping to assure the permanence of the new regime.<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 today that Rabbi Sidney E. Goldstein of the Free Synagogue will chair
“a community program on ‘Marriage and the Home’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: “More
than 100 Jews of German origin attended a service held in memory of the Jews
who have died as a result of Nazi persecution sponsored by the German Jewish
Congregation and led by Rabbi Max Malina.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: In
“Jewish Literature” published today John Cournos provided a review of Volume
III of <u>A History of Jewish Literature from the Close of the Bible to Our Own
Days</u> by Meyer Waxman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/02/28/118958393.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/02/28/118958393.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;">1938: During
the Arab revolt, “an armed Arab mob” attacked Tirat Tzvi, “a kibbutz in the
Beit She’an Valley.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: As the
latest wave of Arab violence continued, <i>The Palestine Post</i> reported that
the "representatives" of armed bands were regularly visiting Arab
towns and villages, demanding money for their "activities" and
issuing "receipts." A bridge on the Jenin-Afula road was damaged by
an explosion and there were numerous shooting incidents throughout the country.
A curfew was imposed on a number of villages after armed Arab terrorists
stormed isolated police posts and stole arms and ammunition, intimidating the
local Arab constables. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: <i>The
Palestine Post</i> reported that The Union of Romanian Journalists expelled all
Jews who became members after December 1919. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: The
curfew that had been imposed on all of the Arab quarters starting on February
26 following the murder of 3 Jews by Arabs was scheduled to come to an end
today at 6 A.M.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: The
British adopted the MacDonald White Paper that included restriction of sale of
Arab land to Jews in Eretz Yisrael. This document nearly voided the Balfour
Declaration<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: Ben
“Auberbach and his NYU squad played against in Georgetown University in a
doubleheader at Madison Square Garden in one of the first two college
basketball games to ever appear on television.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5701): Rosh Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: “A gold
medal for the most creative idea submitted in a poster contest for Brotherhood
Weed, conducted by the National Conference of Christians and Jew was presented”
today “to Joseph Hess, a senior in the School of Industrial Art.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: It was
reported today that ‘the immigration quotas of the United States” and other
countries “remain unfilled because Jews” in Vienna who are in a position to
meet immigration requirements have not the money to pay for transportation
which means they will be “transferred” Poland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: In Tel
Aviv, Aharon Werba, a civil servant who made Aliyah in 1933 and his wife Chava
gave birth to Dorit Werba who as Dorit Beinish was the first woman to serve as
president of the Supreme Court of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/Madam-Chief-Justice"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/Madam-Chief-Justice</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: George
Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" opened on Broadway with Anne Brown and
Todd Duncan. The musical originally premiered in 1935 and survived for a
mere 124 performances. The musical was revised after Gershwin's death and
slowly gained popular and critical acclaim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943:
Brotherhood Week 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;">1943: In
Kovono Ghetto, thousands of Jews attend the funeral of Rabbi Avraham Duber
Shapiro, Chief Rabbi of Kovno despite an order from the Nazis forbidding them
to do so.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944(4<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5704): Sixty-three-year-old Kishinev native Semion Portugeiz who camed
to the United States in 1941 after the Nazis conquered France and “who for many
years wrote in the Jewish Daily Forward under the name of S. Ivanovitch” passed
away today, (JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5705): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5705): Siegried Adler, one of the last Jews surviving in Berlin, died
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: Author
Heinrich Eduard Jacob “gained American citizenship” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5705): Walter Süskind, the German born Dutch Jew who saved over six
hundred Jewish children died either at Auschwitz or one of the death marches
inflicted on Jews by their Nazi captors as the war came to a close.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/survivor/suskind.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/survivor/suskind.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.morsephotography.com/suskindfilm/home_welcome.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.morsephotography.com/suskindfilm/home_welcome.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.castelfilm.ro/node/202"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.castelfilm.ro/node/202</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:
Fifty-four year old “Bela Imredy, the father of the anti-Jewish bill intended
to exclude Jews and those Christians with Jewish parentage from the Hungarian
civil service and liberal professional while radically curtailing their
position in trade and industry who resigned as Premier in 1939 because “he was
compelled to admit…that he was of Jewish descent” since “his mother’s
grandfather was born a Jew” 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: The
group of 600 Jewish passengers who were going to sail on the Abril, a ship
intending to run the British Blockade arrived at Port de Bouc from Grenoble.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: Jacob
and Niza Gabbai, a husband and wife couple who have just arrived in New York
City from Palestine, enrolled at Fordham University. The Gabbais are part
of the Young Palestinian League which is working to develop a new cultural
environment in their homeland. They chose Fordham “because it is a
complete university and not just a drama or radio school, and also because it
located in the world capital of the theatre.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: The
famed Golani Brigade was formed today during the Israeli War for Independence
when the Levanoni Brigade in the Galilee split into the 1st Golani Brigade and
the 2nd Carmeli Brigade<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: “Problems
of racial and religious discrimination cannot be solved by statutes or speeches
but require a militant personal living of brotherhood, former Governor Herbert
H. Lehman said today at the eighth annual luncheon of the rayon division of the
National Conference of Christians and Jews at 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;">1949: A
delegation from Trans-Jordan which is scheduled to negotiate an armistice with
Israel was greeted by Dr. Ralph S. Bunche today at Rodes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949:
Following evacuation by an Egyptian brigade, today Israel too control “of the
Faluja pocket.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949: “1950:
Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett presented the cabinet with the draft of five-year
non-aggression pact between Israel and Jordan. The pact is the product of
several months of secret negotiations. It includes most of the terms of
the armistice agreement without setting final boundaries. Some additional
points include the opening of the Israeli held road to Bethlehem to Arab
traffic, the opening of the road to Mt. Scopus to Israelis and an Israeli
promise to supply electricity to the Arab held sections of Jerusalem.
Israeli opposition to the agreement will be limited to a handful of leftists
who oppose King Abdullah because they think he is a puppet of the British
imperialists and the rightwing nationalists who believe that all of the land
west of the Jordan should be part of a Jewish state. Jordanian approval
is much more problematic since it will face serious opposition from numerous
sources including those who want a second war with the Jews so that they can
destroy the Zionist entity. [Abdullah would be assassinated in the following
year for conducting these negotiations and it would take another four decades
before Israel and Jordan finally concluded a peace agreement.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Birthdate of William Alan Finn the Boston
born musician whose “musical Falsettos received the 1992 Tony Awards for Best
Music and Lyrics and for Best Book.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5713): 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;">1953:
Birthdate of Paul Krugman, leading U.S. economist, <i>New York Times</i>
columnist and Nobel Prize Winner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953(13th of
Adar, 5713): Israeli archeologist and Hebrew University professor,<b> </b>Eleazar
Lipa Sukenik passed away. His life reads like an early history of the Zionist
movement. Born in Bialystok in 1889, Sukenik made Aliyah in 1911. He served in
the British army in World War I in the 40th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers
which became known as the Jewish Legion. He played a central role in the
establishment of the Department of Archaeology of the Hebrew University. He
recognized the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls to Israel and worked for the
Israeli state to buy them. In 1948, he published an article tentatively linking
the scrolls and their content to a community of Essenes, which became the
standard interpretation of the origin of the scrolls, a theory that is still
probably the consensus among scholars, but has also been widely questioned. He
was the father of soldier, politician and archeologist Yigael Yadin, the actor
Yossi Yadin, and Mati Yadin, who was killed in action during the 1948
Arab-Israeli War.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954: “Riot in
Cell Block 11,” a crime film directed by Don Siegel 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;">1954:
Birthdate of Tulane graduate and Renaissance man Alan Smason whose interests
have led to serve as everything from a theatre reviewer to the founder of the
Crescent City Jewish News, the source for everything Jewish along the bayou.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com</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://koshercomputing.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://koshercomputing.blogspot.com/</span></a><u><span style="color: #467886; 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;">1955: Three
days after Arab terrorists had murdered an Israeli civilian at Rehovot,
paratroopers from a brigade under the command of Ariel Sharon implemented
Operation Black Arrow that included an attack on an Egyptian base in Gaza and
the ambushing of the relief column – an action in which the Israelis lost eight
men while he enemy lost 37 men with “many more wounded.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5715): On his 81<sup>st</sup> birthday Brooklyn native Benjamin Britton
Gottsberger, an engineer and Yale faculty member who was the husband of Helen Majorie
Beadle Gottsberger whom he married in 1898 passed away today in New Haven, CT
after which he was buried at the Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, DC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959: In
Atlantic City, NJ, “Jane (née Divac) and Franklin Abramoff, who was president
of the Franchises unit of Diners Club Credit Card Company” gave birth to
crooked lobbyist Jack Allan Ambramoff.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1960: The
Second Annual Concert of Jewish Music was held this evening at Congregation
Beth-El in Camden, NJ, for the benefit of the Cantors Institute of the Jewish
Theological Seminary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961: Recently
elected President Kennedy named Henry Kissinger as special advisor.
Before being the first Jew to be named Secretary of State, Kissinger followed a
path that took him from Kennedy, to Rockefeller, to Nixon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961: Twelve
days after premiering in London, “Jungle Fighters” produced by Michael Balcon,
with a screenplay by Wolf Mankowitz, music by Stanley Black and starring
Laurence Harvey was released today in the UK.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962: “A trial
of former SS leader Felix Landau on charge of ordering the shooting of twenty
Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland in July of 1941” which opened yesterday in
Stuttgart is scheduled to continue today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1963: “Hot
Spot,” a musical with “lyrics by Martin Charnin, music by Mary Rodgers, and
additional lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim” opened at the Shubert Theatre
in Philadelphia, PA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5724): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5724): Sixty-two year old mining engineer Samuel Grossman Laskey, the
Denver, CO, born son of Ida Grossman Lasky and Juda Eisen Lasky who graduated
from the Colorado School of Mines and earned an MS from Yale while marrying
Leon Lasky in 1927 and the former Melba Beale in 1944 passed away today in
Luxembourg after which he was buried at Home of Peace Cemetery and Emanu-El
Mausoleum in Colma, California.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966: The New
York City debut of The Guarneri Quartet whose members included 1<sup>st</sup>
Violinist Arnold Steinhardt, Violist Michael Tree and Violoncellist David Soyer
took place today at the New School for Social Research.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5727): Ninety-year-old Eleanor Kuh, the daughter of Samuel and
Rosalie Peck, the wife of Millar F. Kuh and “mother of Howard Michael Kuh”
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968(29<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5728): Sixty-seven-year-old Philadelphia born University of Virginia
graduate and Harvard Medical School trained surgeon whose big claim to famed
was that he was the second husband of actress Claudette Colbert whom he married
in 1935 in a union that lasted until he passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb229003hz;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00004&toc.depth=1&toc.id=&brand=calisphere">http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb229003hz;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00004&toc.depth=1&toc.id=&brand=calisphere</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969: “The
State’s Chief Watchdog” published today provided a detailed profile of Vilna
native and Harvard trained attorney Goodman Alexander Sarachan, the acting
chairman of the State Investigation Commission. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: “Georgy”
“a musical with a book by Tom Mankiewicz, lyrics by Carole Bayer” closed today
at the Winter Garden Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1971: ITV broadcast
the first episode of</span> “<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Doctor
at Large” a British television comedy which included an early performance by
Dame Maureen Lippman, the Hull born daughter of Maurice Julius Lipman, a tailor
and Zelma Pearlman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972(13th of
Adar, 5732): Fast of Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972: “Israeli
forces withdrew today from southern Lebanon after a four-day reprisal operation
against Palestinian commandos based there, an Israeli Army spokesman reported.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974: Nigel
Lawson began serving as a Member of Parliament for Blaby<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974: The
United States and Egypt renew diplomatic relations. This was one of the steps
from the Yom Kippur War to the Camp David Peace Accords.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974: Greville
Ewan Janner began serving as an MP for Leicester on the same day he completed
his services MP for Leicester North West.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1976(27<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5736): Parashat Vayakhel; Shabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977: The
family and friends of Joseph M. Hyman, the producer and co-producer with the
late Bernard Hart of nearly a score of Broadway plays who passed away last week
are scheduled to gather this morning at Frank E. Campbell’s in Manhattan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978: <i>The
Jerusalem Post</i> reported that the majority of the plenum of the 29th Zionist
Congress, held in Jerusalem, approved a resolution calling for a Jewish
education program in the Diaspora, based on the principle of equality for all
trends in Judaism, and specifically including the Conservative and Reform
movements. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978: <i>The
Jerusalem Post</i> reported that the Liberal Faction of the Likud in the
Knesset described the recent action taken by Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon
in the settlement of the Yamit (Rafiah) area as injurious to the national
interest, "idiotic" and "crazy."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978: David
Mamet’s “The Water Engine” “transferred to the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway as
a double-bill with a short Mamet play entitled Mr. Happiness, and ran for 24
performances”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1979: Six
people were injured in a terrorist bombing in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981(24<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5741): Parashat, Vayakhel<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981(24<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5741): Fifty-nine-year-old New York native and CCNY and Columbia
educated geneticist Dr. Arnold Warren Ravin, the WW II veteran and Director of Morris
Fishbein Center for the Study of History of Science and Medicine passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/db.xqy?one=apf7-00511.xml"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/db.xqy?one=apf7-00511.xml</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;">1983(15th of
Adar, 5743): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983:
Ninety-year old Dutch born, Englisn“writer and translator” Joseph Leftwich one
of “The Whitechapel Boys” whose career included stints with the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency and the Palestine Post, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/leftwich-joseph"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/leftwich-joseph</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.jta.org/1983/03/07/archive/joseph-leftwich-dead-at-90"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jta.org/1983/03/07/archive/joseph-leftwich-dead-at-90</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;">1986: John
Demjanjuk was deported to Israel today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986: The
first issue of The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles “appeared today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986: Laura Z.
Hobson who wrote <u>Gentlemen’s Agreement</u>, the novel about anti-Semitism
that was turned into a 1947 film classic starring Gregory Peck, passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987(29<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5747): Sixty-seven-year ballerina Nora Kay, born Nora Koreff, passed
away. (As reported by Jennifer Dunning)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/01/obituaries/nora-kay-is-dead-leading-ballerina.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/01/obituaries/nora-kay-is-dead-leading-ballerina.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;">1991(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5751): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: A
twenty-five-year-old Jewish religious student, Elhanan Atali, was found in an abandoned
storeroom in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. His throat
had been slit and he had been stabbed in the back.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993: At the
Mitzi Newhouse Theatre, “The Sisters Rosensweig…a play by Wendy Wasserstein”
that “focuses on the lives of three Jewish-American sisters” closes after 149
performances. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993: Actor
Tony Curtis, born Bernard Schwartz, wed Lisa Deutsch. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994: Jeffrey
Dinowitz began serving as a member of the New York State Assembly from the 81<sup>st</sup>
District.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5754): Seventy-eight-year-old geographer Jean Gottman passed away
today. (As reported by Richard D. Lyons)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/02/obituaries/jean-gottman-78-a-geographer-who-saw-a-northeast-megalopolis.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/02/obituaries/jean-gottman-78-a-geographer-who-saw-a-northeast-megalopolis.html</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;">1997:</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“The Portrait of a
Lady,” the cinematic version of the novel of the same name starring Nicole
Kidman, Barbara Hershey and Shelley Winters which had premiered at the Venice
Film Festival 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;">1999(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5759): Eighty-four-year-old “millionaire British industrialist” Sir
Emmanuel Kaye, Russian born son of wheat merchant Zelman Kagarlisky and
botanist Chassia Annie<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
“philanthropist known for founding Lansing Bagnall” and the husband of
Elizabeth Kaye, the daughter of Mark Cutler passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="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 of
special interest to Jewish readers including <u>The Amateur: An Independent
Life of Letters</u> by Wendy Lesser and <u>Turbo-Capitalism: Winners and Losers
in the Global Economy</u><b> </b>by Edward Luttwak<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000(22nd of
Adar I, 5760): Kariel Gardosh, the prominent Israeli political cartoonist known
by the pen-name "Dosh," died in his home in Tel Aviv from a cardiac
arrest. He was 79 years old. “Gardosh was best known for cartoons featuring his
character Srulik. Srulik was a small boy in short, sandals and a traditional
Tembel hat. Gardosh's character, always intended by the caricaturist to act a
symbol for Israel, was a blank slate upon which to reflect the changing
national mood and a perfect emblem for the emerging nation's view of itself in
the 1960s and 1970s as a small nation surrounded by hostile aggressors. The
small boy facing down representative from a hostile Arab world left an
indelible impression upon several generations of Israelis allowing the character
to remain popular through several changes in the political climate. The
character is still a presence in various licensed formats such as posters and
stickers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: “Bolstered
by the Labor Party's agreement to join him in a unity government, Prime
Minister-elect Ariel Sharon shifted his attention today to satisfying the
demands of potential partners from religious and right-wing political factions.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002:
Hungarian premiere of “An American Rhapsody” starring Brandeis graduate Tony
Goldwyn, the grandson of Samuel Goldwyn and featuring Emmy Rossum as “Eva.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003(26th of
Adar I, 5763): “Alfred Bernstein, a New Deal lawyer who led the movement to
unionize government workers and later helped desegregate the lunch counters,
restaurants, public swimming pools and playgrounds of Jim Crow-era Washington,
died today at his home in Washington. He was 92.Mr. Bernstein attended public
schools in Manhattan and graduated from Columbia College and Columbia Law
School. Inspired by the social ferment of the New Deal, he moved to the capital
in 1937 to work as an investigator for the Senate Commerce Committee's inquiry
into the monopolistic railroad industry. ''What all of us were interested in
was the transformation of the political process -- drafting regulations,
establishing Social Security, making regulatory agencies work,'' he once told
an interviewer. ''There was a lot of idealism at the time.'' After serving in
the Army Air Transport Command in the South Pacific in World War II, Mr.
Bernstein returned to Washington where he helped lead the successful effort
against Jim Crow laws in the capital.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: Ariel
Sharon begins serving as Communications Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: Eliezer
Sandberg began serving as Science and Technology Minister<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003. Reuven
Rivlin completed serving as Communications Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: Benjamin
Netanyahu completed his service as Minister of Foreign Affairs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: Silvan
Shalom begins serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: Natan
Sharansky completed his service as Minister of Housing and Construction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: Eli
Suissa completed his service Jerusalem Affairs Minister<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: Tzachi
Hanegbi succeeded Uzi Landau as Minister of Public Safety.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: Yosef
Paritzky replaced Effi Eitam as National Infrastructure Minister<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: Avraham
Poraz replaced Eli Yishai as Minister of Internal Affairs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: David
Azulai competed his service as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004(6th of
Adar, 5764): Daniel Boorstin passed away at the age of 89. He was one of
America's most renowned historians and, between 1975 and 1987, the Librarian of
Congress in the world's largest library in Washington. The son of
Russian-Jewish immigrants, Daniel Joseph Boorstin was born on October 1, 1914,
in Atlanta. He was educated at Tulsa Central High School and Harvard, from
where he graduated with honors in Law. Boorstin wrote more than 20 books,
including a trilogy on the American experience and one on world intellectual
history. <u>The Americans: The Democratic Experience</u><i>,</i> the final book
in the first trilogy, received the 1973 Pulitzer Prize in history.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/mar/01/guardianobituaries.obituaries"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/mar/01/guardianobituaries.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;">2004(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5763): Forty-seven-year-old “poet and published of avant-garde
magazines” Elzabeth Perl Nasaw, he sister of historian and author David Nasaw
passed away today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: In
Hackensack, NJ, funeral services were held for Ella Nagle, the widow of Isidore
Nagle and mother of “Harvey Nagler and Claire Harmon.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006(30<sup>th</sup>
of Elul, 5766): Rosh Chodesh Adar (first of a two day Rosh Chodesh).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: Johanna
van Schagen, a woman who helped Jews escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust
and later was honored by Israel died at the age of 91. Johanna van Schagen, who
had suffered a series of strokes, died at Friendship Village in nearby
Trotwood, where she lived. Van Schagen and her husband, Cornelius, moved to the
United States from the Netherlands in 1956. She told the <i>Dayton Daily News</i>
in 1994 that she and her husband sheltered Jews out of anger toward Germans who
were taking over their native Netherlands. "We were afraid many times ...
there were lots of raids and if they had found them in your home, you would be
taken to concentration camps, too," she said. Israel honored the couple in
1987 and a tree along the Avenue of the Righteous in Jerusalem is named for
Johanna van Schagen, the newspaper said. Her funeral was scheduled for Friday
at Polk Grove United Church of Christ in Dayton, which sponsored the van
Schagens when they moved to the United States, said Jacob van Schagen, a son.
She is survived by four sons and a daughter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: The
second International Eilat Chamber Music Festival opens. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: One day
after the anniversary of the birth of his father and historian Arthur
Schlesinger, Sr. the son of Prussian Jew, 89-year-old historian Arthur M.
Schlesinger, Jr. whose Unitarianism is an oft told tale of the assimilation of
American Jewry passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/04/16/83750756.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/04/16/83750756.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://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/10/31/98543706.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/10/31/98543706.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="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2008:
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Rabbi Lane Steinger, Regional Director of the Union for
Reform Judaism,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: black;">teaches an adult education class at Temple Judah on
the Reform Movement's New Prayer book, <u>Mishkan Tifillah.</u></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2008:
In New York City, the 92<sup>nd</sup> Street Y presents “Witness to Nuremberg”
featuring Richard W. Sonnenfeldt the chief interpreter for the American
prosecution at the Nuremberg trials who discusses startling new information
about the Nazi war criminals and the origins and development of the Holocaust. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2008:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “<span style="color: black;">The Diary of Anne Frank: A Song To Life” a musical
that tells the story of Anne Frank's life in German-occupied Holland and her
death in a concentration camp, using songs that sound like a combination of
Fiddler On the Roof and Spanish tunes (complete with flamenco guitar) opens in
Spain.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2008(22
Adar 1, 5768): Israel Prize-winning author and translator Aharon Amir passed
away at age 85. Amir, who was born in Lithuania, grew up in Tel Aviv and was a
member of both the Irgun and the Lehi. He was one of the founders of the
Canaanite movement, which saw geographical location rather than religious
affiliation as the defining element of Hebrew or Israeli culture. He studied
Arabic language and literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem but
translated works of literature mainly from English and French. Authors whose
work he rendered into Hebrew include Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Herman
Melville, Lewis Carroll, Albert Camus, and Charles de Gaulle. Amir won the
Tchernichovsky Prize for translation in 1951 and the Israel Prize for
translation in 2003.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2008:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> ‘<span style="color: black;">Eyes Wide Open,” a documentary film that chronicles the
preconceptions and revelations of American Jews as they visit Israel, is held
at the Jerusalem Cinematheque.</span><span style="color: teal;"><span class="msoIns"><ins> </ins></span></span><span style="color: black;">The film was
directed by veteran filmmaker Paula Weiman-Kelman and written by award-winning
journalist Stuart Schoffman</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2008(22
Adar 1, 5768):</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: black;">Esra Shereshevsky, 92, noted Hebrew-language scholar
and educator, died in Jerusalem. As founder and former chairman of the
Department of Hebrew and Near Eastern Languages and Literature at Temple
University, Shereshevsky was one of the first professors to establish Hebrew as
a full course of study at an American university. His classes were exciting
events. Whether discussing Bible, medieval manuscripts or 20th-century poets,
his teaching was seasoned by his love of the Hebrew language.</span><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;">According to <i>Reform Judaism</i> magazine, Brandeis
University, Harvard University and RadcliffeCollege, Tufts University, Boston
University, and Northeastern University are among the "Top 60</span> <span style="color: black;">Schools Jews Choose."</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2009:
In Barbados, 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, was mortally by an ex-con when he tried to rob her
and her daughter-in-law, Lauana Cotsman.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2009:
In Chicago, the Harris Theatre presents “Pinchas Zukerman in Recital” along
“with his long time collaborator, pianist Mark Neikruug.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2009:</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Rabbi
Ellen Weomberg Dreyfus is installed in Jerusalem during the CCAR's 120th Annual
Convention. She is the second female Rabbi to be elected to this position and
the first female leader of a major rabbinic organization to begin her tenure in
Israel. She succeeds Rabbi Peter S. Knobel, 66, Rabbi of Beth Emet in Evanston,
IL, who will complete his two-year term as CCAR President.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2009:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #333333;">From January 1 through today, there were 64 terrorist
attacks that took place in the West Bank or were carried out by terrorists from
the West Bank</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2009:
In “His Story Told, Koch Makes His Peace and Dares to Look Ahead,” published
today former New York May Ed Koch ruminates on his concerns as he reaches the
twilight years and describes his plans for a funeral that will leave no
question as to his profound attachment to his Jewish faith</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5770): Purim</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5770): Ninety-five-year-old Chicago born child-welfare advocate
Natalie Goldstein Heineman passed away today.</span><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.examiner.com/article/natalie-goldstein-heineman-died-just-18-days-after-her-96th-birthday"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.examiner.com/article/natalie-goldstein-heineman-died-just-18-days-after-her-96th-birthday</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/weremember/heineman-natalie"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://jwa.org/weremember/heineman-natalie</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="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:
An exhibition at the Center for Jewish History in New York entitled “In the
Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis” is scheduled to come to a close.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:
Final performance of Rinne Groff’s “Compulsion” is scheduled to take place at
the Yale Repertory Theatre.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:
<i>The Los Angeles Times</i> features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or
of special interest to Jewish readers including <u>The Ask</u>, a novel by Sam
Lipsyte</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:
<i>The New York Times</i> features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including <u>Devotion: A Memoir</u> by Dani
Shapir.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5710): Jose Mindlin, a Jewish bibliophile who owned the largest
private library in Latin America has died today in Brazil. He was 95. Born to
Ukrainian parents, Jose Mindlin owned over 38,000 books and was a member of the
prestigious Brazilian Academy of Letters. In 2006, he donated about half of his
collection to the University of Sao Paulo, mostly on topics related to
Brazilian studies. A building will be built in the university's campus
specifically to maintain this massive library and will be named after the Guita
and Jose Mindlin Foundation. After retiring from the business world, Mindlin
was able to dedicate his time to a passion he had since he was 13 years old:
collecting and preserving rare books. The first rare edition in his collection
was "Discours sur l'Histoire Universelle," by Jacques-Benigne
Bossuet, published in 1740. Mindlin had occupied several public positions in
the cultural field in Sao Paulo, including that of secretary of culture.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> "He
was a giant of the Brazilian culture. His legacy is the library he left; the
result of a life dedicated to the books. Today it's an asset of all
Brazilians," said Sao Paulo Mayor Gilbero Kassab. Henry Sobel, emeritus
rabbi of Latin America's largest Jewish congregation, the 2,000-family
Congregacao Israelita Paulista, declared that Mindlin's life was book itself.
"He was a righteous man who could see ethics in politics and culture. I
felt so little when I was in his library. His greatest book was called Jose
Mindlin," Sobel said.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #333333;">Israeli police entered the Temple Mount compound today
after Palestinians began throwing stones during rioting in Jerusalem's Old City</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:
Two Jewish athletes took home medals at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in
Vancouver which ended today. Steve Meisler won a gold medal for the United
States in the four-man bobsled, pushing his team to a combined time of 3:24:46
in the four-heat race. Jewish ice dancer Charlie White claimed a silver
medal in ice dancing along with partner Meryl Davis. White's victory
edged a fellow ice dancer and American Jew, Ben Agosto, off the medal podium.
Agosto and his partner, Tanith Belbin, finished fourth. The pair won a silver
medal at the 2006 games. Other Jewish competitors in ice dancing, the Israeli
brother-sister duo Roman and Alexandra Zaretsky, finished 10th. Their routines
included music from "Schindler's List" and "Hava Nagila,"
and in one performance, Roman wore a yarmulke. Israel's third Olympic athlete,
skier Mikail Renzhin, finished 35th in the slalom and 55th in the giant slalom.
Laura Spector, a Jewish biathlete from Massachusetts, finished 65th and 77th in
the two races in which she competed.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Ethan Bronner wrote
the following obituary describing the life of Holocaust scholar <span style="color: #333333;">David Bankier. “David Bankier, who helped expand the
contours of Holocaust research by examining the participation of ordinary
Europeans in the extermination of their Jewish neighbors, died over the weekend
after a long illness, Yad Vashem, the Jerusalem Holocaust center, announced. He
was 63. Mr. Bankier, who was head of the International Institute for
Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, focused his scholarly work on anti-Semitism,
especially its use by the Nazis to promote and sustain a broader ideology. He
was the author of “Germans and the Final Solution: Public Opinion Under Nazism”
as well as a collection of essays, “Hitler, the Holocaust and German Society:
Cooperation and Awareness.” Born in Germany just before the state of
Israel was created, Mr. Bankier grew up and was educated here, earning his
doctorate in Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He held a
professorship at Hebrew University and had served as a visiting professor in
Britain, the United States, South Africa and South America. He spoke excellent
English and Spanish, in addition to German and Hebrew. A rumpled, somber man
who sought to understand the most bewildering aspects of genocide — how someone
could play soccer with an acquaintance one day and assist in his murder the
next — Mr. Bankier insisted both on the uniqueness of the Nazi Holocaust of six
million Jews and on its applicability to other cases of mass murder. For
anti-Semites, ‘Jews represent mysterious, mythic and evil forces,” he said at a
recent lecture, “an omnipotence playing a sinister role in world history.’ At
another lecture he noted that for Hitler, “Nazism was a doctrine of world
salvation to redeem humanity from the Jewish-Christian-Marxist doctrine. The
acquisition and maintenance of total suppression of the German race, Hitler
believed, must be through total war of Germans against the Jews.” At the same
time, Mr. Bankier said last year in an interview with The New York Times that
the work he was overseeing at Yad Vashem on the role of bystanders and neighbors
in numerous smaller mass killings across the former Soviet Union in the early
1940s had important implications for contemporary genocide in Africa and other
places. He argued that the world was a different place as a result of what the
Nazis had done, that if genocide in far-off places shocked average people today
it was partly because of their knowledge of the details of the Holocaust. In
other words, Holocaust deniers aside, Holocaust awareness was central to
contemporary sensibility. Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad Vashem, said that with
Mr. Bankier’s death, the world had lost one of its most important scholars in
the field. He noted that Mr. Bankier, who had fought his illness over a long
period, kept a regular schedule until his last day.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #333333;">“Korach: The Biblical Anarchist” is scheduled to have its
final performance tonight at the Living Theater on New York’s Lower East Side.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011:
Theodore Bikel and Jim Brochu are scheduled to do a concert reading of The
Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon at a fundraiser for Theatre J in Washington, DC.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “<span style="color: #333333;">A host of charities and social action organizations from
across the Jewish world” are scheduled to meet at the Nalaga’at Theater in
Jaffa ttoday “to discuss the future of their field and hear from a wide range
of professionals who will guide them on improving their services</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011:
<i>The New York Times</i> featured a review of “Then Everything Changed:
Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford,
Reagan” by Jewish author and political pundit Jeff Greenfield.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011(24th
of Adar I, 5771): Eighty-two-year-old “prolific writer, editor and popular
radio broadcaster Netiva Ben Yehuda passed away in the early hours of this
morning.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #333333;">The prosecuting attorney in the trial of Adolf Eichmann,
retired Supreme Court justice Gabriel Bach, said today that a psychiatric
evaluation conducted on the Nazi leader following his capture in 1960 suggested
that the man responsible for the deaths of millions during the Holocaust had
ambivalent sexual tendencies. (As reported by the Jerusalem Post).</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011(24<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5771): Ninety-two year old Louis Sachwald, the former resident of
Pikesville, MD who survived the Bataan Death March and 42 months as a POW
passed away today. He was a member of Baltimore’s Beth-El Congregation.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://philippine-defenders.lib.wv.us/html/sachwald_louis_bio.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://philippine-defenders.lib.wv.us/html/sachwald_louis_bio.html</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="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011(24<sup>th</sup> of
Adar I, 5771): Seventy-five-year-old Harvey Dorfman who worked with many Major
League Baseball stars and wrote books on sports psychology, including “The
Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance,” passed away today. (As
reported by the Eulogizer)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Actress
Natalie Portman condemned Christian Dior chief designer John Galliano for
anti-Semitic comments made at a bar in Paris, France which appeared on an
online. “I am deeply shocked and disgusted by the video of John Galliano’s
comments that surfaced today," Portman said in a statement. "In light
of this video, and as an individual who is proud to be Jewish, I will not be
associated with Mr. Galliano in any way." The Oscar winning actress is
currently under an endorsement contract with Dior for its "Dior
Cherie" fragrance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: The
United States Senate confirmed the nomination of Amy Totenberg to serve as
Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Ballet
de Genève's stunning artists are scheduled to perform a work by Israeli born
choreographer Emanuel Gat at the Joyce Theatre 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;">2012: Israeli
trained clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein is scheduled to perform at Lincoln
Center tonight. The program will include a work by American Jewish composer
Aaron Copland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Megillat
Ha-Manginot (The Scroll of Melodies) a musical celebrating Israel and its songs
is scheduled to be performed at the Jerusalem Theatre on Rechov Marcus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Publication of “Faye Schulman – the Jewish Girl Who Fought the Nazis”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.blogwrath.com/jewish-issues/faye-schulman-the-jewish-girl-who-fought-the-nazis/2585/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.blogwrath.com/jewish-issues/faye-schulman-the-jewish-girl-who-fought-the-nazis/2585/</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: Supreme
Court President Dorit Beinisch put down her gavel this morning, ending a
45-year legal career, and urged in her farewell remarks that it is crucial to
maintain the independence of court. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: The IDF
said today that soldiers patrolling the border overnight spotted a group of
people who had breached the frontier. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #003300; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2013:
Jack Lew, an observant Orthodox Jew, was sworn as Secretary of the Treasury.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #003300; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2013:
It was announced today that Idina Menzel would make her return to the Broadway
stage, starring as Elizabeth in the new musical “If/Then.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #003300; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2013:
Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot “performed with violinist Itzhak Perlman at a
Jewish Music concert at the Barclay's Center in Brooklyn.”</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;">2014: The
exhibition, “Passages through the Fire: Jews and the Civil War,” comes to a
close at the Jewish Museum of Maryland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: In
Bethesda, MD, Congregation Adat Shalom is scheduled to start a hosting a
weekend devoted to exploring “The Enduring Legacy of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Niv
Sheinfeld and Oren Laor are scheduled to perform at Abrons Arts Center
Playhouse.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: In
Denver, CO, “45 Israeli and North American Jewish Artists are scheduled to show
and sell their creations: under the auspices “Jewishcolorado.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: The IDF
has reportedly issued a stern warning to the Lebanese government, clarifying
that the government will be held response and be a target for response should
Hezbollah carry out its threats to attack Israel. (As reported by Ari Yashar)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: The
Israeli Air Force attacked an underground rocket launcher in the northern Gaza
Strip tonight in an effort to eliminate “an imminent threat” of rocket fire
towards Israel. (As reported by Yoav Zitun)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: The
Islamist Basij militia force in Tehran ran a special military exercise
yesterday and today preparing for an Iranian takeover of Jerusalem. (As
reported by Dalit Halevy and Tov Dvorin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: In
Rockville, MD, Magen David Sephardic Congregation is scheduled to host “Bling
Bling Like A Persian King…..A 21+Purim Extravaganza.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: In a bit
of homecoming, Lewis Black is scheduled to perform at the Warner Theatre 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;">2015: This
evening in Iowa City, Hillel is scheduled to host its Annual Fundraising
Concert.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“Stitching History” “a remarkable exhibit about the late Hedy Strnad, a
Jewish-Czech dressmaker who with her husband, Paul, attempted to immigrate to
the United States on the eve of the Holocaust” is scheduled to come to a close
at the Jewish Museum in Milwaukee. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jta.org/2014/10/05/arts-entertainment/the-jewish-dressmaker-fdr-turned-away"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jta.org/2014/10/05/arts-entertainment/the-jewish-dressmaker-fdr-turned-away</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;">2015: The
Igael Shemtov Exhibition which has been on display for the last three weeks at
Baxter St at CCNY is scheduled to come to an end<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.baxterst.org/exhibitions-3/igaelshemtov/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.baxterst.org/exhibitions-3/igaelshemtov/</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;"> 2016:
The Andalusian Orchestra is scheduled to perform with Berry Sakharov and
Raymonde Abecassis <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tonight at 10 p.m. at
Zappa Herzliya.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: “The
first major documentary about legendary director about Claude Lanzman who has
never won an Oscar entitled ‘Claude Lanzmann: Specters of the Shoah’ is among
the nominees for this year’s Academy Awards” which are scheduled to be
announced at tonight ceremony in Los Angeles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> 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
Right Wrong Man:</u></span><u> </u><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> by Lawrence Douglas<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5776): Ninety-three-year-old Chicago born real estate developer and
“banker to the stars” Bram Goldsmith whose philanthropies included Jewish
Federal Council of Greater Los Angeles and the National Conference of
Christians and Jews passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jta.org/2016/03/02/news-opinion/united-states/arts-jewish-causes-philanthropist-bram-goldsmith-dies-at-82"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jta.org/2016/03/02/news-opinion/united-states/arts-jewish-causes-philanthropist-bram-goldsmith-dies-at-82</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;">2017: The
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “No Shushing Allowed” an event
designed to introduce the general public to the institution’s librarians and
archivists in an informal atmosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar, 5777): Ninety-two-year-old Marion Javits, the widow of Senator Jacob
K. Javits passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/nyregion/marian-javits-dead.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/2017/03/02/nyregion/marian-javits-dead.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><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://nypost.com/2017/03/01/marion-javits-found-dead-in-her-apartment/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://nypost.com/2017/03/01/marion-javits-found-dead-in-her-apartment/</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;">2017: “Israel’s
state comptroller took military and political leaders to task for their failure
to prepare adequately for the threat of attack tunnels ahead of the 2014 war
with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in a pair of long-awaited, highly critical
reports published” today. (As reported by Judah Ari Gross)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: The
headstone of Staff Sgt. Jack Weinger, a navigator for the 345<sup>th</sup>
Bombardment Group killed during an air raid over Japan in 1945 was replaced
today “with one bearing a Star of David” “at the National Memorial Cemetery of
the Pacific in Honolulu.” (JTA/TOI)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: Dr.
Robert Silber, a pillar of the Jewish community and chair of the Thaler
Holocaust Committee is scheduled to begin his career as a professor at the
University of Iowa Medical School.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: The
Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host Rabbi Norman Cohen’s
lecture “Cain and Abel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: “Israel’s
state comptroller took military and political leaders to task for their failure
to prepare adequately for the threat of attack tunnels ahead of the 2014 war
with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in a pair of long-awaited, highly critical
reports published” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: Today
Marc “Trestman was named the head coach of the Toronto Argonauts,”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: J
Street’s annual convention is scheduled to come 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;">2017: The Leo
Baeck Institute is scheduled to host a screening of the iconic film
“Casablanca” followed by a discussion of We’ll Always Have Casabalanca by Noah
Isenberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Well-Always-Have-Casablanca/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Well-Always-Have-Casablanca/</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.noahisenberg.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.noahisenberg.com/</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(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5778): Fast of
Esther; Megillah reading in the evening; <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: Today, “Olympic gymnast Aly Raisan” filed
papers in California Superior Court suing “the United States Olympic Committee
and U.S.A. Gymnastics…saying that they should have prevented the former team
doctor, Lawrence G. Nassar, from sexually abusing her and other athletes.<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: Hillel of Iowa and Augdas Achim are
scheduled to join forces to observe Purim complete with Megillah reading, face
painting, hamentaschen baking and carnival games.<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: Following a community breaking of the
fast and the reading of the Megillah, the Oxford University Jewish Society is
scheduled to host a Purim Party.<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 Oxford University LBBTQ Society is
scheduled to host a panel on “Gender, Diversity and Religion.”<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: “Professor Ora Paltiel, a haematologist
and epidemiologist at Hadassah-Hebrew University, and Professor A Mark
Clarfield, a geriatrician at Ben-Gurion University,” are scheduled to speak at
UCL today in the United Kingdom.<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(23<sup>rd</sup> of Adar I, 5779): Eighty-nine-year-old
award musician Andre Previn passed away today. (As reported by James Barron)<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/2019/02/28/obituaries/andre-previn-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/obituaries/andre-previn-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="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The Town and Village Synagogue Social
Hall is scheduled to host Ken Maltz, Lauren Brody and Aaron Alexander as part
of the New York Klezmer Series.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In
London, JW3 is scheduled to host the last two screenings of “On the Basis of
Sex,” a biopic about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In the
Negev, the Darom Adom (Red South Festival) is scheduled to come an end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: Professor
of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University, Dr. Deborah
Lipstadt is scheduled to discuss her latest book <u>Antisemitism: Here and Now</u>
this evening at the Streicker Center.<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 24<sup>th</sup> annual East Bay
International Jewish Film Festival is schedule to open “with ‘Riphagen,’ a
drama about a Nazi collaborator” “who help the Nazis round up Jews, stealing
their treasures for himself” while destroying “Resistance groups.”<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: Friends and family are scheduled to
celebrate a milestone-birthday for Tulane grad and CCJN published Alan Smason,
a mensch and Renaissance man<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: After testifying publicly yesterday
before the House Oversight Committee, Michael Cohen is scheduled to testify
today in a closed session before House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence.<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: Erev Shabbat, The New York Sephardic
Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to “go dark” for the evening.<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, Congregation Shir
Hadash is scheduled to host a Shabbat service followed by historian Benny
Morris lecturing on “A New Look at the 1948 Arab Israeli War”<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: The Oxford University Jewish Society is
scheduled to host both “an orthodox minyan and a student-led egalitarian
minyan” followed by an interfaith Friday night dinner.<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: “Friends of Bezalel are schedule to
present “Growing a Garden for an Unknown Lover by Boaz Aharonovitch” a
photo-diary “documenting a gardening project that took place in his studio.”<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: Erev of Shabbat is especially joyful for
the friends and family of Alan Smason, the multi-talented bon vivant who
publishes the Crescent City Jewish News, as he celebrates another natal day.<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 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to host a screening of Howie Mandel: But, Enough About Me.”<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: Addison-Penzak JCC in Los Gatos is
scheduled to host a Purim CARnival, “a drive-in event in its parking lot.”<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 Jewish Federation of Greater New
Orleans and the Birmingham Jewish Federation, in partnership with the Jewish
Agency for Israel's Partnership2Gether program” is scheduled to host Mitchell
Barak and Robert Mann “for an informative and engaging discussion on how civics
and governance structures work in Israel and in the United States - and what we
can do when those mechanisms become stuck.”<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: As part of Jewish Book, the Jewish Book
Council is scheduled to sponsor Delphine Horvilleur, only France’s third
female rabbi, as she” discusses antisemitism and more with Philippe Sands.”<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: In Ohio, Temple Emanu El and five other
area synagogues are schedule to sponsor “a concert by Nefesh Mountain,” this
afternoon.<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: In New Orleans, the Jewish Community is
scheduled to host a Purim Celebration.<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 “live on Zoom, “Sephardic Culinary History with Chef
Hélène Jawhara-Piñer.”<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: In Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Temple Judea
is scheduled to host a Purim Party “for all kids 0-13.”<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 Jewish Community Library is scheduled
to present Historian David Nasaw talking “about the difficult times and lives
in limbo for the last 1 million Eastern Europeans in Germany after WWII,
including 250,000 Jews, stuck in displaced persons camps for three to five
years.”<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: KlezCalifornia is scheduled to present Instructor
Bruce Bierman teaching “a class on how to inject shtick and special, old-time
styles of exaggerated acting to the characters in the Purim story.”<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: In London, at Highgate Synagogue Rabbi
Liss is scheduled to lead a “Sunday Morning Discussion” on the topic of “Is It
Ever Ok to Lie?”<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: Based on published reports Israel has
“posted 4,574 new virus cases with 31 deaths over the weekend.” <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: Private graveside services are scheduled
to be held at noon today for <i>Eishes Chayil</i> Diane Levin, age 60, beloved
wife of Stephen Levin, happily married for 35 years; loving mother of Amy Levin
and Allison Levin (Max Affrunti); much loved sister of Sharon Finegood.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://legacy.suntimes.com/obituaries/chicagosuntimes/obituary.aspx?n=diane-levin&pid=197889662&fhid=4243"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://legacy.suntimes.com/obituaries/chicagosuntimes/obituary.aspx?n=diane-levin&pid=197889662&fhid=4243</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 2022: The Streicker Center is scheduled
to present the first lecture on “Poland, The Holocaust and Cinema” by Dr. Eric
Goldman.<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;">2022: The American Sephardi Federation is
scheduled to present a lecture by Dr. Sarah Benor, a Professor of Contemporary
Jewish studies at HUC on “Jewish Languages Today: Endangered, Surviving and
Thriving.”<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;">2022: The Streicker Center is scheduled to
present the first lecture on the “Agony of the Latter Prophets” by Diane M.
Sharon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2022: </span><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001WUEbjZ84XvJgdNCaebG6zXPuoWn1HHqTgC_nEevth5hLrXP5JGELO0ie85gZUt7zGljzqT2qYnrCLNoReTgrDKDt51L105b9ROxtGHWNLlpSMReOvG-yd23dDZsq60LECY7fQ3_pYM7mRz_mP77Re3u9rhDLJIqDPG8VFa7io3iFWb4K_MpW2CJK4cIi_53l1wioS0bxz19G3zq2-cLQwrj0syHUSYeeuTFxgSKZsLn_svY2qYyfFIp7uk7jfB1IwbiWIsQ4Wus=&c=tYwyTMKMlDdBkTCf8TE6Wr-eC2pe4uWZafcvXdpVErxRy89Iz17mrg==&ch=J6p7d3p8c20QY17fluCG-_bc0299A7xxwp6eAxlXAgV7cfNeyRXZ1g==" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Floating Walls</span></i></a><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001WUEbjZ84XvJgdNCaebG6zXPuoWn1HHqTgC_nEevth5hLrXP5JGELO0ie85gZUt7zGljzqT2qYnrCLNoReTgrDKDt51L105b9ROxtGHWNLlpSMReOvG-yd23dDZsq60LECY7fQ3_pYM7mRz_mP77Re3u9rhDLJIqDPG8VFa7io3iFWb4K_MpW2CJK4cIi_53l1wioS0bxz19G3zq2-cLQwrj0syHUSYeeuTFxgSKZsLn_svY2qYyfFIp7uk7jfB1IwbiWIsQ4Wus=&c=tYwyTMKMlDdBkTCf8TE6Wr-eC2pe4uWZafcvXdpVErxRy89Iz17mrg==&ch=J6p7d3p8c20QY17fluCG-_bc0299A7xxwp6eAxlXAgV7cfNeyRXZ1g==" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, curated by Aya Goshen, which presents a multidisciplinary
survey of works made by seven NY-based Israeli artists: Dana Levy, Gal Cohen,
Lee Tal, Michal Geva, Naomi Safran-Hon, Noa Charuvi, and Zac Hacmon. Image:
Michal Geva, </span></a><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">is scheduled to have its last showing at the Laurie M. Tisch
Gallery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: It was reported today that
the Israeli drama “Shtisel” is scheduled to begin streaming on Netflix for a
third season on March 24.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: “A Polarizing French
Philosopher Chooses War Zones Over Salons” published today provides a review “Slava
Ukraini” in which “the writer and filmmaker Bernard-Henri Lévy warns of a heavy
price if the West fails to defeat Putin in Ukraine.”<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;">2024: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Cultural Center
is scheduled to host the second night of a two-night virtual summit on “Anti-Semitism:
The Dangerous Reality We Must Confront.”<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;">2024: YIVO is scheduled to present a talk by
Aleksandra Jakubczak on “East European Jewish Women in Their Quest for a Dowry
in the First Half of the Twentieth Century.”<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;">2024: The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience
is scheduled to host a screening of “Rosenwald,” that tells the incredible
story of how businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald joined forces with
Booker T. Washington and African American communities in the segregationist Jim
Crow South to build more than 5,000 schools. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As
February 28th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held
hostages begin day 145 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="line-height: normal;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><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-30924584724488416582024-02-25T23:21:00.000-06:002024-02-26T16:08:30.551-06:00This Day, February 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L<p><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">February
27</span></span></b></p><p><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">272:
Birthdate of Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor from 306 to
337. Constantine adopted Christianity as the state religion for
the Roman Empire which marked a turning point (negative) for the Jews of
Europe.[ There is plenty of agreement that Constantine was born on February 27
but there is not agreement on the year. It ranges from 272 to 289]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">380:
Theodosius I, Gratian, and Valentinian II jointly issued The Edict of
Thessalonica which made Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1514:
King Sigismund I appointed Michael Yosefovich “senior” of all Lithuanian Jews<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1562:
Pius IV issued Dudum e felicis recordationis, a papal bull that confirmed the
papal bulls of Paul IV including those that put restrictions on where Jews
could live and how they could earn a living.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 1670:
Leopold I ordered the Jews expelled from Austria.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1680:
Seventy-nine year old Puritan theologian Thomas Goodwin the author of <u>Moses
and Aaron: Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, Used by the Ancient Hebrews </u>passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/mosesandaaronci00goodgoog"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;">https://archive.org/details/mosesandaaronci00goodgoog</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1717:
Birthdate of German bible scholar Johann David Michaelis one of whose
“dissertations was a defense of the antiquity and divine authority of the vowel
points in Hebrew.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1719:
In London, Moses Raphael Levy, a native of Germany and Grace Mears, a native of
Jamaica gave birth to Rachel Franks Levy, the wife of Isaac Mendes Seixas. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1733:
The Prattenburg, which had left Amsterdam in November of 1732 arrived today at
the Cape of Good Hope with Jacob de Beer serving as a ship’s gunner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1755:
Birthdate of Shalom Ullman, the Hungarian born rabbi and Talmudist whose son
and grandson followed in his footsteps by serving as rabbis at Lackenbach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1719:
In London, Grace Mears and Moses Raphael Levy gave birth to Rachel Franks Levy,
the wife of Lisbon native Isaac Menes Seixas whom she married in New York City
in 1740.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1771(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5531): Ta’anit Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1771:
“Mr. Isaac De Peza presented the Synagogue in Barbados with 6 Silver Purim
Cups.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1774(16<sup>th</sup>
of Ada, 5534): Purim Meshulash observed on the same that French sailor and
explorer Thomas Vasse was born in Dieppe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1777:
In Baltimore, Congress adjourns and makes plans to return to Philadelphia now
that General Washington has eliminated the British threat to the city.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1790(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5550): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1790:
Birthdate of Sara Ballin who was buried at the Hosens Jewish Cemetery in
Denmark when she passed away in 1876.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1791:
In New York City, Zipporah Levy and Newport, RI native Benjamin Mendes Seixas
gave birth to Sarah Seixas, the wife of Isaac Mendes Seixas Nathan whom she
married in New York City in 1808, and with whom she had fourteen children
1792(4<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5552): After he passed away today, Moses ben Meir
was buried at the “Alderney Road (Globe Road) Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799:
Birthdate of Frederick Catherwood the English artist architect. In
1833, he made a detailed survey of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. He
probably was the first westerner since the days of the crusades to have access
to this shrine which is located on the Temple Mount. Catherwood was one
of a veritable army of English visitors to “the holy land” who helped to
excavate and map the area in the 19<sup>th</sup> century.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1801:
Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is
placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress. “The first recorded Jewish
resident of the city was Isaac Polock. He arrived in 1795. Polock, a grandson
of a founder of the Newport, Rhode Island synagogue, was a small time real
estate developer. He built a number of fine homes along present day
Pennsylvania Ave. An early renter of one of Polock's houses and his neighbor
was James Madison, a later President.” Major Alfred Mordecai was another
of D.C.’s first Jewish residents. The North Carolina native entered West Point
at the age of 15 and was in the first graduating class when he completed his
studies in 1823. Mordecai came to Washington in 1828 where he served as
the commander of the Washington Arsenal. Washington Hebrew Congregation founded
in 1852 was the city’s first Jewish Congregation. Adas Israel, which was
originally founded as an Orthodox synagogue in 1869 received a donation from
President Grant for its building fund. The congregation later switched to the
Conservative movement. Today the downtown location of Adas Israel is
remembered as the Historic 6<sup>th</sup>& amp; I Synagogue. For me,
the synagogue at 6<sup>th</sup> &amp; I was the place in the late 1940’s
and 1950’s where I went for my first Simchat Torah Services, my first Megillah
readings and a whole lot more. The synagogue at 5<sup>th</sup>& amp;
I was famous because Al Jolson’s father had been its cantor and Jolson sang
their as a little boy. Adas Israel moved to its Connecticut and Porter
where it remains today. During the 1950’s Ambassador Eban spoke from its pulpit
on more than one occasion much to the congregation’s joy and delight. For
more about the history of the Jewish community in Washington you might want to
look at the website of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1805(28th
of Adar I, 5565): Naphtali Herz (Hartwig) Wessely passed away. Born in Hamburg
in 1725, he “was a 18th-century German Jewish Hebraist and educationist born at
Hamburg.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1807:
In Portland, Maine Zilpah Wadsworth Longfellow and Stephen Longfellow gave
birth to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow the poet famed for such famous poetic works
as “Paul Revere’s Ride” and “Evangeline” as well as “Judas Maccabaeus” an
1872 five-act verse tragedy a Hebrew version of which was published in
1900.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.readbookonline.net/title/2821/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;">http://www.readbookonline.net/title/2821/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1811:
In Charleston, SC, Mr. Solomon Hyams officiated at the wedding of Montague
Jackson to Hannah Hyams.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1812(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5572): Purim celebrated on the same day that the Argentine flag
created by Manuel Belgrano was first the first tie in city of Rosario during the
Argentine War of Independence. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1821:
Birthdate of Selig Cassel, the brother of Jewish historian and author David
Cassel, who converted and became Paulus Stephanus Cassel who was then able to
further his academic career as well as taking on the role of being a missionary
trying to convert other Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827(30<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5587): Rosh Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1827(30<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5587): Samuel Marx, the chief rabbi of Trier and an uncle of Karl
Marx passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1828:
In New York City, Esther B. Seixas and Naphtali Phillips gave birth to Rachel
Seixas Phillips the wife of Adolphus S. Solomons whom she married in 1851 at
New York City and the mother of NYC native Aline Esther Solomons. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1831(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5591): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1831(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5591): “Austrian historian and educator” Adolf Beer passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1833:
Two years after she had passed away, Catherine Raphael, the wife of Joseph
Raphael, was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1837:
In Speyer, Bavaria, Rebecca Adler ad Joseph Moses gave birth University of
Louisiana trained attorney and veteran of the CSA, Adolph Moses the husband of
Matilda Wolfe who began practicing law in Chicago in 1869 while being an active
member of B’nai B’rith. (Not to be confused with rabbi in Louisville, KY with
the same name)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841:
In the Netherlands Eliezer Eduard Hirschel Kann and Hyacintha Kann gave birth
to Livia Amalia Kann.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1844:
The Dominican Republic (then known as Santa Domingo) on the island of
Hispaniola gained its independence from Haiti. During the 16<sup>th</sup>
and 17<sup>th</sup> century Sephardic merchants settled on the island, many of
them coming from Curaco. “The oldest Jewish grave (on the island) is dated
1826.” Jews of this period assimilated into the general population and
lost their identity. In the 1930’s the Dominican Republic became a haven
for Jews escaping Hitler’s Europe and most of today’s vibrant Jewish community
traces its origins to this period.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1844:
Birthdate of Moses Ha-Levi Horowitz, the Romanian born Yiddish actor and
playwright who came to the United States in 1882 where he was known as the
famous Morris Horowitz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/03/07/104923916.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/03/07/104923916.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1845:
A “Reise-Pass” was issued to Bernhard Behrend today which he was required to
carry with him at all times as he traveled “from his native Rodenberg to
Frankfurt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jhsgw.org/exhibitions/online/jewishwashington/exhibit-images/behrend-travel-document?utm_source=GivingTuesday+2016&utm_campaign=GivingTuesday&utm_medium=email"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.jhsgw.org/exhibitions/online/jewishwashington/exhibit-images/behrend-travel-document?utm_source=GivingTuesday+2016&utm_campaign=GivingTuesday&utm_medium=email</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1846;
“In Darmstadt-Eberstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, Emanuel Bamberger and the
former Helen Fleisch gave birth to Simon Bamberger, “the fourth Governor of the
state of Utah who was the first non-Mormon, the first Democrat and the first
(and so far only) Jew to hold this post.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Bamberger.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Bamberger.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5607): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847:
Sarah Moses and Alexander Jones gave birth to Adelaide Jones.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847:
Birthdate of English actress Ellen Terry, whose portrayal of Portia in the
Merchant of Venice was one of her signature roles. She performed with Sir
Henry Irving whose greatest dramatic success came with his performances in “The
Bells.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852:
Benjamin Disraeli began serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer for <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the first of three times which also meant that
he was the leader of the Tories in the House of Commons<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1850(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5610): Shushan Purim observed for the last time during the Presidency
of Zachary Taylor, the first U.S. chief executive to die in office.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853(19th
of Adar I, 5613): Sixty-eight-year-old Jacob Aaron passed away in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855:
A concert designed to raise funds for the Hebrew Benevolent Society is
scheduled to be held today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar 5615): Seventy-five-year-old American educated, Canadian businessman, militia
office and justice of the peace Benjamin Hart, the Montreal born son of Dorothea
Judah, “the daughter of stockbroker Ephriam Hart and merchant Aaron Hart who
served with the Canadian Third Milita during the Ware of 1812 “supported his
brother Ezekiel in his thwarted political career, helped push for a law, passed
in 1831, that granted equality of civil liberties to Jews and was active member
of Montreal's Jewish congregation” passed away today in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=3958">http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=3958</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1856:
Estra (Therese) Wiesner and Rabbi Jonas Wiesner gave birth to Emilie Wiesner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1856:
Adolphe Salomon married Esther Russell today in the United Kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859:
Birthdate of Bertha Pappenheim “the founder of the Jüdischer Frauenbund (League
of Jewish Women).”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861(17th
of Adar): Rabbi David Tevele ben Moses of Minks author of Bet David passed away
today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861:
In Frankfurt, Selig Meir Goldschmidt and Clementine Fuld, the daughter of Herz
Salomon Fuld and Caroline Schuster gave birth to Hedwig Goldschmidt who after
her marriage was known as Hedwig Cramer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862:
In Russia, Avraam-Abel Khaymovich Zeliksohn and Shterna Slava Zalmanovna
Zelikson gave birth to Shneur Zalman Zalman זלמן Seligson<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1864(20th
of Adar I, 5624): Chaia Basia, the daughter of Rabbi Yehoshua Usher Rabinowicz
of Parysow passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865(1st
of Adar, 5625): Rosh Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865:
Birthdate of Jacques Mieses, the native of Leipzig who became a journalist and
world-class chess champion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865:
In Pittsburgh, PA, Meyer and Henrietta (Lehrberger) Hanauer gave birth to
Duff’s College graduate and gold medal award winning distiller Albert M.
Hanauer, the husband of Carrie Marx who was a partner and Secretary-Treasurer
of the Hamburger Distillery and a member of the American Jewish Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865:
Birthdate of Armand Bloch, the native of Strasbourg who was the grandson of
Rabbi Moses Bloch known as of 'Hokhom (the Wise) of Uttenheim, who served in a
variety of rabbinic and communal roles in France and Algeria. In 1931, the
French government named him as Chevialier of the Legion of Honor in recognition
of his service to his co-religionists and his country.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868:
Benjamin Disraeli begins serving as Prime Minister for the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870:
In New York City, James (Jacob) Seligman, the son of Fanny and David Seligman,
and Rosa Seligman gave birth to Fleurette Guggenheim, the future wife of Wife
of Benjamin Guggenheim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870:
The Chicago Tribune reported that the Constitutional Convention will not be
amending the Illinois State Convention mandating a day of the week for
observing the Sabbath. The Jews and the Seventh Day Adventists had
petitioned the convention include a provision making the 7<sup>th</sup> day of
the week the Sabbath. Since this would be based on the 4<sup>th</sup>
commandment of the Decalogue, the biblical source would make it more likely
that the populace would enjoy a day of rest. Other groups wanted to disregard
the literal biblical reading and follow the first day of rest practice.
Rather than offend any group, the committee hearing the matter decided the
convention should take no action.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871:
In Newark, NJ, the Ladies’ Temple Association opened a grand fair at Turn
Hall. The fair is scheduled to be open for the next four nights and is a
fund-raiser for the Temple on Washington Street.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1872:
In New York, Abraham and Amelia Stein Abrahamson gave birth to Dr. Isador
Abrahamson, a graduate of Columbia’s School of Medicine and husband of the
former Stella Heidelberg who was one of New York City’s “foremost neurologists”
and a “founder and director of the Jewish Mental Health Society”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/07/19/105401195.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/07/19/105401195.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873:
A national convention of those who want to amend the U.S. Constitution so that
it will state that the United States is a Christian nation met today in
Pittsburgh, PA. There were 500 people at the opening session and more
than a thousand attending the evening session. Attendees claim that their
move is part of a fight against atheism, something that Catholics and Jews of
the time might have found difficult to believe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873:
In New York, Isaac and Adeline Phillips gave birth to portrait painter J.
Campbell Phillips whose last work was a portrait of his cousin Bernard Baruch
completed just two months before his death in 1948.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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=9C06E1DC153DE03ABC4D51DFBF668383659EDE"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9C06E1DC153DE03ABC4D51DFBF668383659EDE</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.artprice.com/artist/60852/john-campbell-phillips"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.artprice.com/artist/60852/john-campbell-phillips</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874:
It was reported today that the annual Purim reception at the Home for Aged and
Infirm Hebrews in New York will be held on March 1<sup>st</sup> and 2<sup>nd</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874:
Birthdate of Dr. David Nunes Nabarro, the son of London merchant who became
President of the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases, President
of the Association of Clinical Pathologists and President of the London Jewish
Hospital Medical Society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC479864/pdf/jclinpath00048-0102.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC479864/pdf/jclinpath00048-0102.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877(14th
of Adar, 5637): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877:
The Young Men’s Hebrew Association hosted a Purim Ball this evening at Cooper
Hall in Jersey City, New Jersey.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877:
Birthdate of Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski “the head of the Council of Elders in
the Lodz Ghetto who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1944.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878(24<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5638): Fifty-six-year-old Lazare Lazad, the Lorrain, France born son
of Elie ben Abraham Lazard and Esther Cahn – Lazard, the husband of Eugénie
Lazard and father of Elie Lazard; Claire Haas and Jules Lazard passed away
today Paris.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878:
The parents of Lucy Shereck, a young Jewess, “wept bitterly” as they watched
the baptism of their daughter at the Marcey Avenue Baptist Church.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879:
Constantine Fahlberg discovered the artificial sweetener saccharine which Ellen
Glotz described in <u>The Accidental Epicure.</u><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880(15th
of Adar, 5640): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880:
Over 4,000 people attended the fancy dress ball given by the Purim Association
at the Academy of Music. This year’s annual event raised an estimated $18,000
for Mount Sinai Hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880:
It was reported today that “the war which has for some time raged in Germany
between the natives and the Jews, seems to increase rather than to diminish…The
crime of the Jews appears to be…their financial prosperity.” “If the Jews in
Germany were poor, they would not be attacked.” But many of them are very
rich “and this is their offense.” [Editor’s note – this is fifty years before
Hitler came to power]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881:
It was reported today that the second edition of the “History of Egypt Under
the Pharaohs” by Dr. Henry Brugsch-Bey is now available. The description
of the Exodus presented in this edition is one of the many improvements made in
this edition. In a special preface to the new volume, Brugsh-Gey claims that he
bases his description of the change in direction taken by the Jews on
“contemporary records and the evidence of the Egyptian monuments” to establish
“the veracity of the scriptural record.” He also co-authored “The True
Story of the Exodus of Israel: Together with a Brief Review of the History of
Monumental Egypt” with Francis Henry Underwood.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882:
In Hudson, Mass., Mary Elizabeth Rice (née Tyler) and Asa Leonard Wheeler, gave
birth to Burton K. Wheeler, the U.S. Senator from Montana who in 1936 “said
that anti-Semitism has not only gained a foothold in European countries like
Germany, Poland, Rumania, Austria and Hungary, but has been imported in the
Western Hemisphere by Mexico, Brazil and Ecuador” and that the “capacity for
persecution” as embodied in anti-Semitism is not “foreign to American soil.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882:
A review of “The Electorate and the Legislature” by Spencer Walpole, one of a
series of books on the rights and responsibilities of an English Citizen,
published today notes that “The House of commons kept one of the members
elected for the city of London out of his seat for 11 years because he was a
Jew.” This was based on the “historic intolerance and prejudice” of the Commons
and its members which has not been fully overcome.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883:<span style="color: black;"> </span>Oscar Hammerstein patented the 1st cigar-rolling
machine<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5643): Sixty-two year old Julius Stern co-founder of the Stern
Conservatory and conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra from 1869 to 1871
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885:
In Dublin “Maurice Solomons, an optician who practice is mentioned in Ulysses
and his wife gave birth to Dr. Bethel Solomons who played rugby for Ireland was
a “supporter of the 1916 Rising.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irishman-s-diary-on-bethel-solomons-a-pioneering-doctor-and-rugby-international-1.2340700"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irishman-s-diary-on-bethel-solomons-a-pioneering-doctor-and-rugby-international-1.2340700</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886:
Birthdate of Cedar Rapids, IA native and Indiana University alum Albert Y.
Aronson who was “the managing editor of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Louisville Times</i> for nearly thirty years.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887
Birthdate of Latvia native and naturalized American citizen Solomon Golub the
composed of Yiddish songs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5648): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888:
In Xenia, Ohio, Bernhard Schlesinger, a Prussian Jew and Kate Feurle, an
Austrian Catholic gave birth to historian Arthur Meir Schlesinger, the Harvard
professor who was the father of historian and Kennedy aficionado Arthur M.
Schlesinger, Jr. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/10/31/98543706.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/10/31/98543706.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/04/16/83750756.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/04/16/83750756.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888:
Birthdate of Lotte Lehman German opera star who eventually moved to the United
States and became known for the foundation in her name. Lehman was not
Jewish. But her stepchildren (on their mother’s side) were Jewish.
When Hitler marched into Austria, Lehman got the children out, moved them to
Paris and eventually brought all of them to the United States. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889:
In Robinson, Illinois Lydia Myers and Edward Rosenbaum gave birth to Purdue
University trained Civil Engineer and husband of Marsha M. Ten Eyck<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889:
In Soroki, Bessarabia, Mindel and Yechiel Bronfman gave birth to Samuel
Bonfaman founder of Distillers Corporation Limited which was renamed Seagram
Co., Ltd whose products included Dewars scotch and a leader of the Canadian
Jewish committee.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890:
In Michigan, Hattie Houseman Amberg and David Moses Amberg gave birth to Julius
Houseman Amberg the husband of Callie Smith Amberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891:
Birthdate of David Sarnoff. Born in Russia, Sarnoff became the head of
R.C.A. and N.B.C.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891:
It was reported today that the Purim Association raised $15,000 at its annual
ball which it will donate to the United Hebrew Charities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892(30<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5652): Rosh Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892:
In Buffalo, NY, Esther Freedman and Nathan Aaron gave birth to University of
Buffalo trained attorney A. Howard Aaron, the husband of Arline Schwartz who
was a mbmer of Temple Beth Zion and the Jewish Federation for Social Service in
Buffalo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892(30<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5652): Seventy-three-year-old Chazan Moritz German passed away in
Bresalua<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893:
“Coming Exodus of Russian Jews” published today compared the doubling of the
Jewish population in the United Kingdom over the last twenty years to the
projected redoubling of that number in only another five years because of the
mass migration of Jews from the lands of the Czar due to their cruel treatment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893:
While working as an assistant professor of Germanic and romance Languages at
the University of Missouri, today, Leo Wiener, the Bialystok born son of Simeon
Wiener and the former Frieda Rabinowicz marred Bertha Kahn today in Kansas
City, MO.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893:
In Boston, Louis D and Alice (Goldmark) Brandeis gave birth to Bryn Mawr
graduate Susan Brandeis the University of Chicago trained attorney, Hadassah
member and wife Jacob H. Gilbert.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gilbert-susan-brandeis">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gilbert-susan-brandeis</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894:
Thirty-seven-year-old Cincinnati native Jessie Myers married forty-seven-year-old
Richmond native and auctioneer Henry Clay Ezekiel today in her hometown.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
“Elsie Leslie’s Little Guests” published today described an afternoon at the
theatre enjoyed by several hundred Jewish children who saw “The Prince and the
Pauper” who were there as guest of the famous child actress. As a sign of
their appreciation they gave her an a bag which was elegantly embroidered with
her initials – “E.L.L.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
A debate opened in the Reichstag today over a motion to restrict the
immigration of Jews from Russia and Austria.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
A large number of prominent Jewish citizens attended “the third reception for
the season of the Young Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s League of the Montefiore Home
took place this evening at Carnegie Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
Rabbi Joseph Silverman of Temple Emanu-El delivered a speech tonight entitled
“Charity” in which he said that charity was “the language of the heart…the very
poetry religion.” “The Jewish sages of old had said that the world
existed on three pillars – education, religion and charity. Some might be
willing to strike of education, others would be willing to strike of religion
and even some would go so far as to strike off both religion and education, but
where is the man who would be willing to strike off the pillar of charity?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5656): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim observed William McKinley and
William Jennings Bryan prepared to run for the President of the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897:
A visit to “the Hebrew theatres” was included in the tour of the Lower East
Side slums by a group of Yale University divinity students which was followed
by a symposium on the methods of organized charities that included Nathaniel S.
Rosenthal of the United Hebrew Charities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898:
“Jews Defended In Reichstag” described the debate during which “deprecated the
promotion of Jews to the rank of officers and surgeons, on the ground of their
‘un-soldier like spirit.’” Herr Eugene “Richter vigorously repudiate this” He
said that during the war with France in 1870,83 Jewish soldiers received the
Iron Cross and 36 of the 70 Jewish surgeons received the same decoration.
General Heinrich von Gossler, the Minister of War, defended the Jews against
the false accusation that they had sold defective rifles to the government. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899:
Two days after he had passed away, 64 year old Nathan Hallel was buried today
at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899:
“A Bible Story Up To Date” published today described Abraham Gruber’s updated
version of the Purim story which equated the behavior of Haman with
anti-Dreyfus forces in France and the European bigots who falsely claim that
Jews have their own laws which makes them disloyal of whatever country they are
living in.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899:
In his on-going attempt to create a Jewish homeland, Herzl meets with
Grossherzog Friedrich of Baden in Karlsruhe. He offers the Grossherzog the
protectorate over the land company and requests another audience with the
Kaiser. Herzl receives a recommendation to the Deutsche Bank in Berlin to act
as a subscription agency for the Jewish Colonial Bank.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900(28<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5660): Seventy-five year old Austrian born Abraham Woolner, the
husband of Magdelena Woolner and father of Sophe, Hannah, Isabella, Gisela and
Maximillian Woolner <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901:
Birthdate of Chicago native and University of Illinois trained Otolaryngologist
Melvin Reese Guttman the husband of Eleanor Guttman and the son-in-law of Pearl
and Bernard Given.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902:
In London, a group of Zionists formed the Anglo Palestine Company which became
the Bank Leumi.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903(30<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5663): Rosh Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903(30<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5663): Fifty-seven-year-old Antwerp born French composer Albert
Cahen passed away today in La Turbie.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3897-cahen-albert">https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3897-cahen-albert</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903:
In Pruzhany, Rabbi Moshe Soloveichik and Pesya Feinstein, the daughter of Rabbi
Elihyahu Feinstein gave birth to Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.manfredlehmann.com/news/news_detail.cgi/110/0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.manfredlehmann.com/news/news_detail.cgi/110/0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/10/nyregion/no-headline-684393.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/10/nyregion/no-headline-684393.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/10/nyregion/no-headline-684393.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/10/nyregion/no-headline-684393.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5664): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904:
Henri Daniel Mayrargue and Eveline Bethsabée Lattès gave birth to Mayrargue
Marel Mayrargue <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905:
“A dispatch to a news agency from Odessa says it is rumored there that ten Jews
have been killed and thirty wounded in an anti-Jewish riot a Theodosia,” “a
seaport on the southeast cost of the Crimea seventy miles east of Simferopol.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1905/02/27/117950862.html?pageNumber=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1905/02/27/117950862.html?pageNumber=1</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906:
As the Russian rulers issued an “imperial ukase” calling for the first meeting
a Russian Parliament, some Jewish leaders have decided to form a political
party and participate in the elections for members of this National Assembly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5667): Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907:
In Hamburg, Rosalia Rothschild and Hermann Simon Bass gave birth to Julius Bass
who was murdered<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at the Neuengamme
Concentration Camp.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907:
Jockey Walter Miller, the native of Brooklyn born in 1890 who rode his first
race at the age of 14 and passed away in 1959 after having rode 1,094 winners,
today road “winners in all vie races at Oakland Race Course.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908:
Zionist leader Arthur Ruppin delivered an address to the Jewish Colonization of
Vienna.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909:
Birthdate of New York native and NYU trained research chemist Samuel Natelson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.aacc.org/-/media/Files/Divisions/Dividers/sameatelson.pdf?la=en&hash=679D3485042B1A1E7FD6CE67EA0F7FE37959FAC2"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.aacc.org/-/media/Files/Divisions/Dividers/sameatelson.pdf?la=en&hash=679D3485042B1A1E7FD6CE67EA0F7FE37959FAC2</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.aacc.org/-/media/Files/Divisions/Dividers/natelson_stories.pdf?la=en&hash=61B9F263EADBE5255C91316B3024F9F14BF89137"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.aacc.org/-/media/Files/Divisions/Dividers/natelson_stories.pdf?la=en&hash=61B9F263EADBE5255C91316B3024F9F14BF89137</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910:
“Under the auspices of the Jewish Religious Union, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, rabbi
of the Free Synagogue, New York, delivered at Hampstead to-day the second of a
series of addresses which is expected to bring to a head the controversy
between the Liberal and Orthodox sections of the Anglo-Jewish Union. “<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1910/02/28/archives/wise-appeals-to-jews-rabbi-in-second-address-in-england-urges.html?searchResultPosition=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1910/02/28/archives/wise-appeals-to-jews-rabbi-in-second-address-in-england-urges.html?searchResultPosition=1</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911:
It was reported today that the Jewish Kehilla of New York has 238<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>constituent organizations including 138
congregations, 58 lodges, 44 educational and benevolent societies and 3
federations.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/02/27/104820562.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/02/27/104820562.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 1911:
Twenty-four-year-old Matt Wells fought a twenty round bout at the National
Sporting Club in London “to win the lightweight championship of Great Britain
and take home the Lonsdale Belt.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912:
It was reported today that Oscar S. Straus, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor
under President Theodore Roosevelt was among those providing financial backing
for his current run for the Republican nomination against President Taft.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912:
It was reported today that “after 18 opinions by the New York /state courts on
the right of Isidor Straus and Nathan Straus, dealing as a firm, tell
copyrighted books at cut prices, the United States Supreme Court” has “declined
to dismiss as frivolous an appeal from the latest New York decision adverse to
them” and that the high court will hear the case “next year.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
A telegram from Sofia published in Paris today, “state that the Central
Consistory of Jews of Bulgaria addressed a petition to the Bulgarian Premier
against the cession of any territory to Rumania because the latter country,
contrary to the Treat of Berlin refuses civil rights to Jews and these
disabilities might apply to Bulgarian Jews living in the ceded territory.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/02/27/100389861.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/02/27/100389861.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
In Brooklyn, “hat-trimming salesman” William Shamforoff and his wife Rose gave
birth to Irwin Gilbert Shamorfoff who gained fame as author Irwin Shaw two of
whose most<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>famous works were The <u>Young
Lions</u>, a novel about World War II that became a popular movie and <u>Rich
Man, Poor Man</u>, a saga about department store tycoon that provided the basis
for a television mini-series of the same name.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/17/obituaries/irwin-shaw-extolled-for-short-stories-dies.html?pagewanted=all"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/17/obituaries/irwin-shaw-extolled-for-short-stories-dies.html?pagewanted=all</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5674): Rosh Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914:
“Films Show Charity Work” published today described plans of the Brooklyn
Federation of Jewish Charities to host screenings this weekend of “How the Jews
Care for Their Poor.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5675): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5675): Abraham Forsch passed away today in Cleveland, OH.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915:
“The Rech, the organ of the Constitutional Democratic party in Russia reports
that “the large number of Jewish refugees arriving in Moscow from various parts
of the Kingdom of Poland finder there a sympathetic reception” while “the
situation is quite different for Jewish refuges from Poland…who arrive in
Petrograd” who “are all being sent back to the pale of settlement.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/02/28/301786712.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/02/28/301786712.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
“Dr. Stephen S. Wise spoke at the Free Synagogue” this morning on ‘Marriage and
After,’ the fourth of his series of addresses on the deeper things of life”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
“The twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Temple Israel Sisterhood
of Personal Service was formally observed” this evening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
Prior to Mark “Sykes’s departure to meet the Russian Foreign Minister in
Petrograd today, Sir Herbert Samuel approached Sykes with “a plan in the form
of a memorandum” concerning Palestine which later led Sykes to write to Samuel
“suggesting that if Belgium should assume the administration of Palestine, it
might be more acceptable to France as an alternative to the international
administration which France wanted and the Zionists did not.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
“E.M. Newman of Chicago delivered he first of his illustrated lectures for the
current season at Carnegie Hall” tonight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
The Morris Loeb Memorial Building and the Joseph B. Bloomingdale Memorial
Auditorium were formally dedicated today during “the annual meeting of the
Hebrew Technical Institute.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During his speech this afternoon at the
annual meeting of the Young Women’s Hebrew Association, Dr. Cyrus Adler “said
he did not altogether approve of young women soliciting for the relief funds on
the street in the manner exhibited” during “tag day.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
At today’s annual meeting of The Widowed Mothers’ Fund Association, Mrs.
William Einstein, the President “made a plea against ‘machine ready’ charity.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
“The new Hebrew Technical Institute” was dedicated today in New York<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
This afternoon, “at the annual meeting of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant
Aid Society…President Sanders announced that Jacob H. Schiff had donated
$25,000 to the organization as the nucleus of a fund with which to erect a new
building” to help the society meet its increased needs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917:
The Russian Revolution broke out in Petrograd. After three years of ruinous war
the old regime collapsed. By March a provisional government under Kerensky was
set up. During the ensuing revolution, the Jews were caught in the middle. Much
of the conflict centered around the south and west where over 3 million Jews
lived. It is estimated that over 2000 pogroms took place, especially in the
Ukraine, leading to the death of 100,000-200,000 Jews within the next 3 years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917:
Three days after defeating the Ottomans at Kut, the British forces under
Frederick Stanley Maude arrived at Aziziyah on their way to Baghdad with all
that this will mean to creation of what we have come to call the modern “Middle
East.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917:
Assemblyman Nathan D. Pearlman sponsored a bill today in the New York State
legislature to allow New York City “to buy and sell food” “as an emergency
measure” to relieve shortages,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918:
“A dinner,” attended by “officers of the British Recruiting Mission and many
rabbis” “for the 150 Jewish soldiers in the battalion recruited for service in
Palestine was given at the Hotel Imperial tonight by the Zionist Lunch Club.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918:
Morris Weinberg, the publisher of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Day
</i>announced that in the future, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Day</i>
and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Warheit </i>would appear as one
publication, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Day-Warheit.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919:
During the Versailles Peace Conference, today the Dr. Weizmann, Nahum Sokolow,
Professor Sylvain Levi of the College of France, Andre Spire of the French
Zionist organization and Mr. Syzsyahkin representing the Jews of Russia
presented their case before the Supreme Council which at a “minimum” called for
the “establishment of communities Palestine and guarantee of special rights and
sovereignty for these communities” and which at a “maximum” called :for the
creation of a Jewish state in order that the Jews may have a national home
where they can live in peace.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5680: Today, Vic, the wife of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sir John Monash, the leading military man of Australia succumbed to
cervical cancer just weeks after he had returned from Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921:
“On a farm in Calgary, Alberta, Samuel and Zelda Cohen gave birth to “Morton
Cohen, a scholar of Victorian literature.” (As reported by Richard Sandomir)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/04/books/morton-cohen-scholar-of-lewis-carroll-and-his-wonderland-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/2017/07/04/books/morton-cohen-scholar-of-lewis-carroll-and-his-wonderland-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 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922:
Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones and his wife gave birth to Mervyn Jones the British
author whose works included <u>Joseph</u>, a fictional tale based on the life
of Stalin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923:
Birthdate of Reichel “Rae” Kushner along with her brother led 350 people out of
the local ghetto by digging a tuner and who married Joseph Kushner, the
grandfather of Jared Kushner, in 1945.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923:
In Newy York, Marsha “Minnie Bromberg and Harry Bromberg gave birth to Louis
Bromberg, not to be confused with the scenic designer of the same name.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924:
“The Johnson immigration restriction measure was characterized as ‘the most
un-American and discriminatory bill ever presented to Congress’ in a telegram
from Supreme Court Justice Salvatore A. Cotilla received” tonight “at a meeting
in the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York of the sustaining members of the Zionist
Organization of America.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1924/02/28/104243617.html?pageNumber=4"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1924/02/28/104243617.html?pageNumber=4</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925:
Birthdate of Sam Dash. The Georgetown Law Professor would gain fame as
the Chief Counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate
Scandal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5686): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
Young Judea Clubs throughout the United States presented Purim plays.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
“The Einstein Theory of Relativity is not valid under a strict mathematical
analysis according to a statement made” today by Charles Lane Poor, the
Professor of Celestial Mechanics at Columbia University who attacked the
mathematics of theory and “criticized Einstein for his errors in logic saying
that he would prove the laws of logic false in order to make his theory hold.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927:
In Detroit, MI, Abraham and Ruth Jaroff gave birth to Leon Morton Jaroff, “a
science writer and editor who persuaded Time Inc. to start Discover magazine in
1980, became its top editor and for many years wrote the popular Skeptical Eye
column challenging pseudo-sciences…” (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927:
“Nearly 271 years after Baruch Spinoza…was excommunicated by the Jewish
community of Amsterdam, the ban was revoked when Dr. Joseph Klausner of the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem uttered the formula of release at” today’s
meeting of the university faculty. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928:
In Malden, MA, Nathan and Katherine (Hellerman) Greenfield gave birth to Joshua
Joseph Greenfield, the Brooklyn College, University of Michigan and Columbia
University educated author and screenwriter best known for writing about his
autistic son. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/obituaries/josh-greenfeld-who-chronicled-his-sons-autism-dies-at-90.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/2018/05/30/obituaries/josh-greenfeld-who-chronicled-his-sons-autism-dies-at-90.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" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928:
Abie Bain, the St. Petersburg born Jewish-American middleweight Abie Bain was
knocked out in the fifth round by “KO” Phil Kapla.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929:
As a sign of respect for his success, today’s issue of Variety was dedicated to
Abraham Joseph (A.J.) Balaban, the co-founder of the theatre chain of Balaban
and Katz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930:
In Los Angeles, silent film writer and producer John Stone and the former Hilda
Ness gave birth to Peter Hess Stone, the writer who won an Oscar, and Emmy and
a Tony<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/28/movies/peter-stone-award-winning-writer-of-1776-dies-at-73.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/28/movies/peter-stone-award-winning-writer-of-1776-dies-at-73.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931:
Arnold Zweig and Jakob Wassermann were among the German writers and scholars
who “who published a join manifesto today addressed to those 186 French men of
letters who recently appealed to German intellectuals to join them in work for
a Franco-German understanding a new Europe.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931(10<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5691): Eighty-seven- year-old Rudolf Hirsch, the German born son of
Leopold Hirsch and Therese Tölzele Hirsch (Wormser), the husband of Pauline
Hirsch and father of Julie Lina Moos passed away today in San Francisco.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932:
Today, “Chef Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo summoned the Court of Appeals to meet in
special session in Albany” on March 3<sup>rd</sup> which has led many to
believe that a decision has been reached in a case regarding the investigation
of the government of New York City by a joint state legislative committee.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932:
In Hampstead Garden Suburb, London “art dealer Francis Lenn Taylor” and retired
actress Sara Sothern gave birth to American actress Elizabeth Rosemond 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.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1933: Germany’s parliament building in Berlin,
the Reichstag, was set on fire. The Reichstag Fire was started by the
Nazis who used the fire as an excuse to begin their subversion of the German
legal and political system.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933:
As a result of the Reichstag Fire which he saw as the confirmation of the Nazis
rise to power, Walter Benjamin left Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933:
Along with all the Jewish and leftist actors, Wolfgag Heinz (David Hirsch) was
dismissed from his work mark the start of an exile that would lead him from
Holland to Britain and finally to Switzerland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934:
“The American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Birobidjan (Ambidjan) was
established today, at a meeting held in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York
City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935:
Lazar Kaganovich began serving his first term as People’s Commissar for
Transport.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935:
In the Bronx, Jeanette Efron and Sol Fineman gave birth to Eleanor Fineman, an
“American photographer, author, and artist” whose works included “Vilna Nights”
with dealt with lost Jewish culture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935:
Harry Hoffman, who works at the Curb Exchange, is scheduled to compete in the
400-meter run at tryouts for the American Maccabi Team being held at the 102<sup>nd</sup>
Engineers Armory today. The “Jewish Olympics” are scheduled to be held in
Tel Aviv starting on April 2 and finishing on April 7.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935:
Birthdate of Uri Shulevitz American author and illustrator. Born in Poland, he
survived the bombing of Warsaw in 1939 and moved with his family first to Paris
and finally to Israel, in 1949. During the Sinai War in 1956, Mr. Shulevitz
joined the Israeli Army. Later, he joined the Ein Gedi kibbutz. He moved to New
York City in 1959, studying painting at Brooklyn Museum Art School and working
as an illustrator for a Hebrew children's book publisher. In 1962, an editor at
Harper &amp; Row saw his freelance portfolio and suggested he write
children's book. He won the Caldecott Medal in 1969 for his illustration of <u>The
Fool of the World and the Flying Ship</u>. He created his first picture book, <u>The
Moon in My Room,</u> in 1963. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
U.S. premiere of Liebelei a German film directed by Max Ophüls which
was based on a play of the same name (Liebelei (de)) by Arthur Schnitzler,
the Austrian playwright was the son of laryngologist Johann Schnitzler.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
“The Goes ‘Round” a musical comedy with a script co-authored Jo Swerling and
starring Harry Richman was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1936:</span>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Mathematician Issai Schur returned from
Switzerland via Karlsruhe, where his sister lived, to Berlin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
“A very agreeable "Concertino" in F minor by Giovanni Pergolesi,
edited by that true musician and exceptional investigator of old music, Sam
Franko, opened the Philharmonic-Symphony concert, tonight in Carnegie Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1936/02/28/archives/pergolesi-played-by-philharmonic-lange-directs-concertino-in.html?searchResultPosition=10"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1936/02/28/archives/pergolesi-played-by-philharmonic-lange-directs-concertino-in.html?searchResultPosition=10</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
“The plight of the Christian men and women who fled from Germany because of
Nazi persecution and terrorism was described this afternoon and evening at a
conference and dinner under the auspices of the American Christian Committee
for German Refugees at the Hotel Astor.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
“A street fight broke out today in front of a Warsaw synagogue when a group of
Jews tried to prevent a number of Jewish tradesmen, who they alleged were
continuing to import German goods, from entering the synagogue.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
During a press conference today Count Henri de Baillet-Latour of Belgium,
president of the International Olympic Committee sportswriters asked if Germany
had lived up to all her promises and agreements to which he answered, “In every
respect, the International Olympic Committee had not fault to find.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There Jews on the teams, among the officials
and among the spectators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were no
signs of discrimination.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936(4<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5696): Eighty-one-year-old Rachel H. Hays, the Utica, NY born wife of
attorney Daniel Peixotto Hays, a member of one of New York’s oldest Jewish
families who among other things as a trustee and secretary of the Jewish
Publication Society, passed away today in Pleasantville, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hays-daniel-peixotto"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hays-daniel-peixotto</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5697): Parashat Ki Tisa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937:
<i>New York Times</i> columnist Arthur Krock had an award winning “exclusive
interview with the President of the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937:
In Rumania, thirty people were hospitalized after having been injured today
“when members of an anti-Semitic Nazi party sought to prevent Jews from voting
in municipal elections” while another thirty-five people suffered injuries that
were not serious enough to require hospitalization.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:
<i>The Palestine Post</i> reported that during his last day in Palestine, the
departing High Commissioner, Sir Arthur Wauchope, laid the foundation stone of
the Andrews Memorial Hospital in Netanya, and visited Pardess Hana, Hadera and
Haifa. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a name="_Hlk65167436"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1938: One day after he had passed away,
sixty-four-year-old merchant and philanthropist Herman Lissner, the German born
son of Pesse Pauline Lissner and Machol Michael Lissner and the husband of
Gerda Lissner was buried today</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938:
<i>The Palestine Post</i> reported that In New York the Joint Distribution
Committee announced that the Soviet government's firm opposition to the
immigration of Jews from outside of the Soviet Union to Birobidjan ended the
practical prospect of the development, if not of the entire existence, of what
was expected to become an autonomous Soviet Jewish republic. The report
mentioned that out of some 27,000 foreign Jews who immigrated to Birobijan,
20,000 had later left the area. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
Birthdate American Formula One driver Peter Revson, who won the 1973 British
and Canadian Grand Prix events and was runner-up at the 1971 Indianapolis 500.
He was killed during a practice run in 1974. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
In Milwaukee, WI, Harry Cutler, the Russian born son of Meyer and Elda Cutler
and his wife Rose Cutler gave birth to Joel Leslie Cutler<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
As the multi-year Arab wave of violence continues, 32 people were killed today
and another fifty persons were wounded in a series of explosions and shootings
throughout Palestine today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940:
Jewish scientists Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered carbon-14, the critical
material for the method known as “carbon dating.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940:
The Land Transfer Regulations aimed at ending Jewish property acquisition in
Palestine were put into effect by the British government.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941:
“So Ends Our Night” the movie version of the novel by the same name featuring
Erich von Stroheim, Alexander Granach and Ernst Deutsch with music by Louis
Gruenberg was released in the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941:
The Nazis completed the suppression of “the February Strike,” the
first even if unsuccessful direct action taken against the “treatment of
Jews in Europe.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941:
In retaliation for an innocent incident in Amsterdam, the Germans arrested 425
Jewish men, beat them and deported 389 of them to Buchenwald concentration
camp. Two months later 364 of them were transferred to Mauthausen concentration
camp. Ten of them committed suicide. By autumn, none of the men were alive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
In Kovno, the German issued an order stipulating “that the Jews were to submit
all books in their possession” – which resulted in the confiscation of over
100,000 books. (Yad VaShem_<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
The first transport of French Jews was sent to Nazi-Germany <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
A group of Aryan women staged a protest in Berlin against the arrest of their
Jewish husbands whom the government was planning to ship off to concentration
camps. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar I. 5703): Parashat Ki Tisa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943:
Birthdate of Jonathan Rosenbuam, the native of Florence, Alabama whose
“childhood home was the Rosenbaum House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright” who
“was the head film critic for the Chicago Reader from 1987 until 2008.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://colinmarshall.libsyn.com/the-consummate-cinephile-jonathan-rosenbaum-on-the-changing-film-culture"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;">http://colinmarshall.libsyn.com/the-consummate-cinephile-jonathan-rosenbaum-on-the-changing-film-culture</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.wellesnet.com/rosenbaum_interview.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;">http://www.wellesnet.com/rosenbaum_interview.htm</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943:
Work orders were increased in the Lodz Ghetto increased, easing tensions within
the ghetto since more Jews would be needed to work and less would be exposed to
deportation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943
(22nd of Adar I, 5703): On Shabbat, Rabbi Avraham Duber Shapiro, Chief Rabbi of
Kovno, died in the Kovno Ghetto. Shapiro was a famous Talmudic
scholar. He had been Chief Rabbi of Kovno since before World War I.
At the outbreak of World War II he was in Switzerland under a doctor’s
care. He insisted on returning to Kovno in Lithuania and revisited one of
his son’s efforts to join in him in the United States. Shapiro stayed
with his fellow Jews. When he died, the Nazis forbade any public
demonstrations. Thousands of Jews defied the decree and showed their
affection by attending his funeral on the next day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943:
U.S. premiere of “The Hard Way” “a musical drama directed by Vincent Sherman,”
produced by Jerry Wald with a screenplay by Daniel Fuchs and Peter Viertel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5704): Byelorussian born American Yiddish writer Shmuel-Gershon
Slobodkin passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/5998/Garson,%20Sh.%20S.%20(1861%E2%80%93February%2027,%201944)">https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/5998/Garson,%20Sh.%20S.%20(1861%E2%80%93February%2027,%201944)</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944:
This morning, there were reports of explosions at the income tax office in
Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa. There were no reports of casualties.
The Irgun Zvai Leumi is thought to have set off the devices that caused the
explosions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945:
During “The Hunting Season,” “Yaakov Tavi who was in charge of Irgun’s
intelligence service was kidnapped at 11 a.m. at the corner of Dizengoff and
Yirimiyahu streets.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5705): Final Purim celebrated during World War II.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945:
In Mt. Clemens, MI, an “Orthodox rabbi” and his wife gave birth to
dermatologist Arnold William “Arnie” Klein known for his star-studded Hollywood
clientele<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/24/us/arnold-klein-dermatologist-who-smoothed-stars-wrinkles-dies-at-70.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/2015/10/24/us/arnold-klein-dermatologist-who-smoothed-stars-wrinkles-dies-at-70.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" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1946:</span>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">La Bataille du rail </span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(Battle of the Rails), French film about the
sabotage of railroads prior to the Normandy invasion was released in France
today almost three year before Arthur Mayer and Joseph Burstyn released it in
the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
Louis B. “Mayer auctioned of his horses” today after having thrown Mendel
Silberberg and “a gaggle of Jewish Leaders” when they “suggested that Mayer
give up his involvement in horse racing because it was bad for the image of the
Hollywood Jew.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948:
The International Agriculture Institute which had been co-founded by David
Lubin in 1908 “to help farmers share knowledge, produce systematically,
establish a cooperative system of rural credit, and have control over the
marketing of their products” was dissolved today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949:
“The United Jewish Appeal announced tonight the opening of its 1949 campaign
for $250,000,000.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949:
“The nation-wide campaign of Histadrut, the Israeli Labor Federation, to raise
$10,000,000 this week for its work in Israel, was started here today at a
luncheon of presidents of 500 benevolent and fraternal societies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949:
It was learned today in Cairo that “Egypt and Syria are seeking the means of
mobilizing the Arab community of nations against any settlement of the
Palestine question that would give Arab Palestine to Trans-Jordan.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950:
In Detroit, Mrs. John C. Hopp is scheduled to chair a meeting of the Women’s
Division of the Jewish Welfare Division which is intended insure the active
participation of all women’s organization in the 1950 Allied Jewish Campaign,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950:
In the UK, Walter and Liesel (Alice) Schwab gave birth to Julia Schwab, the
wife of Professor Anthony Neuberger, who gained fame as Rabbi Julia Babette
Sarah Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger, the first female rabbi to have her own
congregation (South London Liberal Synagogue) and the “full-time Senior Rabb at
the West London Synagogue.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar I, 5711): Rabbi Azriel Nehemiah Flax, the father of public-school
teacher Mrs. Rose Lee Wind and the father-in-law of Rabbi Solomon Wind passed
away today after which he was buried at the Beth David Cemetery on Long Island.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1951:
Three years after having been released in Sweden.</span> <span face="Arial, sans-serif">“The Little Ballerina”
a British drama featuring Anthony Newley was released in the United States.
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">1952:
In New York Emanuel Applebaum and Jaqueline Applebaum gave birth to David
Leslie Applebaum who at the age of 51 while in Jerusalem was “kil</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #333333;">led in terrorist attack together with daughter, Nava, on the eve of her
wedding.)</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953:
<i>The Jerusalem Post</i> reported that an Israeli soldier was killed when
Jordanians opened fire on an Iraeli patrol in the frequently infiltrated Beit
Guvrin area. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953:
<i>The Jerusalem Post</i> reported that A Nahal group established a settlement
at Ein Gedi, on the shores of the Dead Sea. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953:
<i>The Jerusalem Post</i> reported that A festive meeting celebrated the
establishment of the first local council of Ashkelon, the Afridar housing
suburb near Migdal Ashkelon. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 236.95pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954(24<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5714): Parashat
Vayakhel<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 236.95pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954(24<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5714):
Eighty-one-year-old Russian born Jacob J. Lubell, the founder of Lubell
Brothers, “a boy’s manufacturing concern” and a founder and director of the
Central Jewish Institute as well as a member of the founders’ committee of
Yeshiva University passed away today at the Home of the Daughters of Jacob.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 236.95pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/02/28/92546864.html?pageNumber=92"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/02/28/92546864.html?pageNumber=92</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 236.95pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956:
Final broadcast on NBC of “The Tony Martin Show,” a 15 minute musical variety
hosted by Tony Martin and produced by Bud Yorkin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957:
Lazar Kaganovich completed his final term as a “Full Member” of the Politburo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958:
The original Broadway production of “Blue Denim” co-starring Warren Berlinger
opend today at the Playhouse Theatre where it “ran for 166 performances.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958(6th
of Adar, 5718): Sixty-six-year-old Harry Cohn, CEO of Columbia Pictures, the
New York born son Joseph Cohn, a tailor from Germany, and Bella Joseph from
Pale of Settlement, one of several Jewish movie moguls who shaped
Hollywood and the entertainment business passed away after suffering a fatal
heart attack.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=89"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;">http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=89</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5721): Eighty-six-year-old Detroit native and University of Michigan
trained attorney Leo M. Butzel who “in the early days of the automotive
industry was the representative of Ford, Durant, Chrysler, Willis, Dodge and
the Fshers” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/03/01/101449936.html?pageNumber=33"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/03/01/101449936.html?pageNumber=33</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962:
“A proposal to ban pig breeding in Israel” which is “assured” of passed “was
debated heatedly last night and today on a first reading in Israel’s
Parliament.” (JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://pdfs.jta.org/1962/1962-02-28_041.pdf?_ga=2.109261445.1077139652.1677283807-797596441.1672592463"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://pdfs.jta.org/1962/1962-02-28_041.pdf?_ga=2.109261445.1077139652.1677283807-797596441.1672592463</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964:
“An alarming rise in births involving schizophrenic parents was described here today
by Dr. Franz J. Kallman, psychiatrist and researcher in the genetics of mental
illness.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964,
Steve Lawrence opened at the 54th Street Theatre in a Broadway musical version
of “What Makes Sammy Run?” which ran for 540 performances.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5725): Parashat Vayahkel; Shabbat Sheaklim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965:
Dr. Samuel Baskin, the president of Antioch College was named to serve as
President of the Union for Research and Experimentation in Higher Education.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967:
Funeral services were held in Cleveland Heights for seventy-five-year-old
Shaker Heights resident Louis Gottlieb, the Polish born son of Ida Ravitz and
Morris Gottlieb and the husband of Clara Gottlieb with whom he had three
children – Lillian, Florence and Harvey – after which he was buried in the Park
Synagogue Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967:
Two days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held
today at Yeshiva University’s Lamport Auditorium for fifty-eight-year-old
chemistry professor Dr. Samuel Soloveichik, the Bealrus born son of Rabbi Moses
Soloveichik and Pescha Soloveitchik and the brother of Dr. Joseph B.
Solveitchik, the professor of Talmud at Yehsiva’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan
Theological School and Rabbi Aaron Soloveichek, the dean of the Hebrew
Theological Seminary in Chicago as well as two sisters, Shulamith Meiselman and
Anna Gerber.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/02/27/90281353.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/02/27/90281353.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967(17<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5727):
Sixty-five-year-old <span style="color: black;">Norman Tishman, the New York born
son of Julius and Hilda Karmel Tishman and the husband of Rita Valentine
Tishman who was “the chairman of the board of Tishman Realty” passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/02/28/83581694.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/02/28/83581694.pdf</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jta.org/1967/03/01/archive/norman-tishman-new-york-philanthropist-dead-active-in-jewish-groups"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.jta.org/1967/03/01/archive/norman-tishman-new-york-philanthropist-dead-active-in-jewish-groups</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: Today,
Goodman Alexander Sarachan is presiding at the State Investigation Commission’s
public hearings on the infiltration of organized crime into legitimate
businesses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970: Three
days after he had passed away, funerals services are scheduled to be held for
eighty-one-year-old Allen Kander, the Kansas City, MO born son of “Felix Victor
and Matilda Epstein Kander the newspaper reporter turned “award winning”
newspaper broker and husband of “the former Jeanette Unger” with whom he had
three children – Kenneth, Carol and Margaret.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/27/archives/allen-kander-81-newspaper-aide-consultant-and-exhearst-executive-is.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/27/archives/allen-kander-81-newspaper-aide-consultant-and-exhearst-executive-is.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970:
Birthdate of science fiction writer Michael A. Burstein. According to
some, Burstein is not unique because he is a Jewish science fiction
writer. He is unique because he is a practicing Jew who writes science
fiction. “Burstein appears at a number of science fiction conventions
throughout the year, which can be a problem because they are inevitably held on
weekends. “It can be difficult, but it is manageable," he said. He and his
wife Nomi either bring kosher meals or arrange to have them delivered to the
hotel. Other issues are more complicated. "One of the biggest problems is
that a lot of hotels use electronic key cards," he explained. Burstein
arranges with a non-Jewish friend to handle unlocking his room during Shabbat,
when such usage might not be deemed appropriate. There are a number of
Shabbat-observant fans at local science fiction conventions, and they often
congregate in Burstein's room for a festive Friday night meal, complete with
wine and challah. As for his science fiction, Burstein said there's been
nothing particularly Jewish about it... so far. Although there are many Jews
who have made it big in science fiction, including Robert Silverberg, Harlan
Ellison, and Asimov himself, Burstein is one of the few who has succeeded in
the genre who takes his religious obligations as seriously as his scientific
ones.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar, 5731): Parashat Terumah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a name="_Hlk159779365"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971(2<sup>nd</sup> of Adar, 5731):
Eighty-seven-year-old Cornell alum and New York Law School graduate Frank
Aranow, the son of Pauline Slepien and Max Arnow and husband of Blanche
Bodenheimer, a Democratic Party activist and member of the New York State
Assembly passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159779365;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar, 5731): Seventy-year-old Russian born American producer Oscar Serlin
whose most famous play was “Life With Father” pass away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/28/archives/ocarsbrlin-70-produger-isdead-stage-hit-life-with-father-i-made-him.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/28/archives/ocarsbrlin-70-produger-isdead-stage-hit-life-with-father-i-made-him.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5732): Sixty-two-year Vienna born, American expert on “medieval Islam”
Gustave Edmund von Grunebaum, the husband of Giselle von Grunebaum with whom he
had had two daughters, Claudia and Tessa, passed away today after a prolonged
illness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/01/archives/gustave-e-von-grunebaum-medieval-scholar-is-dead.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/01/archives/gustave-e-von-grunebaum-medieval-scholar-is-dead.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb9t1nb5rm;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00068&toc.depth=1&toc.id=&brand=calisphere"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb9t1nb5rm;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00068&toc.depth=1&toc.id=&brand=calisphere</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Classical_Islam.html?id=93wIOnFD6q4C"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://books.google.com/books/about/Classical_Islam.html?id=93wIOnFD6q4C</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5735): One day before his 86<sup>th</sup> birthday, Hyman Levy passed
away in Wimbeldon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst836.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;">http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst836.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5735): Seventy-six-year-old Lithuanian born Rabbi and JTS graduate
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.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/01/archives/abraham-heller-rabbi-dies-at-76-conservative-led-flatbush-jewish.html?searchResultPosition=3"><span face="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 face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1976:
The World Sephardi Federation headed by Nessim Gaon met with King Juan Carlos
of Spain. The WSF goal of helping to normalize relations with Israel and Spain
did not come to fruition immediately, but over time a relationship developed
and eventually the two countries recognized each other.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5738): Seventy-one-year-old University of Pennsylvania graduate and
WW II veteran Irving J. Feist, the “president of the real estate concern of
Feist and Feist and the Boy Scouts of America who was the husband of Dorothy
Feist with whom he had two children, John and Margaret, passed way today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1978/02/28/archives/irving-j-feist-71-president-of-manhattan-real-estate-concern.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.nytimes.com/1978/02/28/archives/irving-j-feist-71-president-of-manhattan-real-estate-concern.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978:
After premiering at The São Paulo International Film in 1977, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lucio Flaviom</i> a Brazilian film directed
by Héctor Babenco was released in Brazil today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978:
<i>The Jerusalem Post</i> reported that the cabinet had agreed on a new
settlement policy which apparently implied a virtual moratorium on new
settlements in the administered territories. The cabinet, however, actually
failed to make this statement official. At the same time the cabinet rejected
any phrasing of the Palestine question in the declaration of principles, now
being discussed with Egypt, which would go significantly further than the West
Bank and Gaza autonomy scheme, already proposed to Egypt and the US by Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980:
Egypt and Israel exchanged ambassadors for the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980(9th
of Adar, 5740): Seventy-eight-year-old character actor George Tobias
passed away. Despite a long career that included performing in such hit movies
as “Yankee Doodle Dandy” and “Sergeant York” most Americans will remember him
as Abner Kravitz, the husband of the busybody neighbor Alice Kravitz on the
television sitcom “Bewitched.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980:
At Mercer Island, Washington Julie Mahdavi and her “Iranian” husband gave birth
Ben Mahdavi, the “running back, linebacker and long snapper” at the University
of Washington who went on to an NFL career with the Colts and Falcons while
also earning “his BA in Communications and an MBA from University of Washington
Michael G. Foster School of Business.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://gohuskies.com/news/2013/4/18/208223488.aspx"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://gohuskies.com/news/2013/4/18/208223488.aspx</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980:
Today the lights dimmed at the Shrine Auditorium and Barbara Streisand and Neil
Diamon took the stage to sing one of the classic television duets of all time.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980:
Birthdate of Israeli MK Bazalel Yoel Smotrich, the conservative attorney who
opposed the disengagement from Gaza and organized anti-LGBT events.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981
(22nd of Adar I, 5741): Former New York Congressman Jacob Gilbert passed away
at the age of 60. Gilbert served in Congress from 1960 to 1971.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar I, 5741): Forty-nine-year-old Jerry Gerd Landauer, the German born son
of Adolph and Meta (Marx) Landauer who in 1938 came to the United States where
he graduated from Columbia and worked as an award winning reporter for UPI, the
Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://prabook.com/web/jerry_gerd.landauer/1090997"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://prabook.com/web/jerry_gerd.landauer/1090997</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5743): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983:
“Invisible Father” published today provided a detailed review of <u>The
Invention of Solitude</u> by Paul Auster, the Columbia educated author and
movie director who was the Newark, NJ born son of Queenie and Samuel Auster<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/06/20/specials/auster-solitude.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/06/20/specials/auster-solitude.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983:
In Philadelphia, Benjamin Bloom, an eye doctor, and Esther Stern-Bloom a
retired Hebrew and French teacher gave birth to Yale trained baseball executive
Chaim Bloom who had led the Tampa Bay Rays and the Boston Red Sox while raising
two sons – Isaiah and Judah—with his wife, the former Aliza Hochman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984:
ABC broadcast the second and final episode of “Lace” featuring June Brown as
“Mrs. Trelowney.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1985:
“Prime Minister Shimon Peres told Egyptians envoys” in Jerusalem “today that
Israel supported President Hosni Mubarak’s call for direct talks between Israel
and delegation of Jordanians and Palestinians.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987:
The Israeli Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres, announced today that he had agreed
with Egyptian officials that there should be an international conference on
Middle East peace this year. The agreement, reached after two meetings here
with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, reaffirmed in writing a call the two men
made in Alexandria last fall, when Mr. Peres was the Israeli Prime Minister.
Mr. Peres's commitment, announced at the end of a three-day visit here, was
expected to provoke strong reaction from the current Israeli Prime Minister,
Yitzhak Shamir, who vehemently opposes such a conference. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5748): Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5748): Seventy-six year old economist Moe Frankel who earned his
doctorate from Rutgers University passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/01/obituaries/dr-moe-frankel-76-economics-educator.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/01/obituaries/dr-moe-frankel-76-economics-educator.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988:
Today, “TV presenter Esther Rantzen announced live on air that the people in
the audience sitting around Nicky Winton were some of the children he had
saved” which “was an overwhelming, unexpected and emotional moment and became
the catalyst for an outpouring of written material tributes and accolades,
including a knighthood in 2003…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989:
U.S. premiere of “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors” with a script by
Bruce Wagner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5750: Rosh Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5750): Eighty-two year old Brooklyn born NYU Law School graduate
Samuel Perlman, the husband of the former Lucille Rabinowitz and “chief
executive of L.M. Rabinowitz and Company” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990
(1st of Adar, 5750): Nahum N. Glatzer passed away. Born in the Austro-Hungarian
Empire and educated in Germany, Glatzer moved to the United States in 1938
where he furthered his reputation as a literary scholar, theologian, and
editor. A list of his works includes <u>The Schocken Passover Haggadah</u>, <u>The
Complete Stories of Franz Kafka</u> and <u>Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and
Thought<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5751): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5751): Eighty-five-year-old Nathan Perilman who served as the rabbi at
Manhattan’s Temple Emanu-El passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/28/obituaries/nathan-perilman-retired-rabbi-of-temple-emanu-el-dies-at-85.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/28/obituaries/nathan-perilman-retired-rabbi-of-temple-emanu-el-dies-at-85.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991:
President George H.W. Bush announced the end of the first Gulf War. During the
war, the Israelis agreed not to join the coalition and not to retaliate against
the Iraqi’s when they began firing Scuds into their country. It was the
first time that the Israelis had entrusted their security to another country.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995:
Uzi Baram replaced Yithak Rabin as Minister of the Interior<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995(27<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5756): Sixty-seven year old financier Bernard “Bernie” Cornfeld
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/02/obituaries/bernard-cornfeld-67-dies-led-flamboyant-mutual-fund.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;">http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/02/obituaries/bernard-cornfeld-67-dies-led-flamboyant-mutual-fund.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997:
Funeral services were held in Manhattan today for 97 year old May W. Hartman,
the widow of Judge Gustave Hartman and mother of Kenneth Hartman and Alicia
Ashe who was “founder of the Gustave Hartman YM-YWHA and for 25 years she was
President of the Gustave Hartman Home for Children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997:
Eighty-one year old Scottish painter William Gear who worked for the Monuments,
Fine Arts and Archives section, making him one of the Monuments Men who play a
major role in returning looted art, much of it taken by the Nazis from the
Jews, to the rightful owners or their heirs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998:
U.S. premiere of “Dark City” a sci-fi cinema with a script co-authored by David
S. Goyer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998:
The 25th European Athletics Indoor Championships in which Aleksandr Averbukh
placed sixth in the Heptathlon opened today at Valencia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1998:
The English-land edition of Hadmodia which is published by Rabbi Yitzhak-Meir
Levin’s daughter Ruth Lichtenstein was first printed today as a weekly paper
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000:<span style="color: black;"> </span>The opening ceremony of the temporary exhibition of
photographs and artifacts, “The Jewish Community of Volos” took place, at the
Jewish Museum of Greece.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: The
European Indoor Championships during which Aleksandr Averbukh placed first in
the Pole vault came to an end today in Ghent, Belgium.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000:<i>
The New York Times</i> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including <u>Stroheim</u> by Arthur
Lennig.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/27/reviews/000227.27basingt.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;">http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/27/reviews/000227.27basingt.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/lennig-stroheim.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;">http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/lennig-stroheim.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001:
One of the groups of opposing the efforts to privatize five New York City
public schools if the Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, not as previously
reports Jews for Economic and Racial Justice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001:
“Despite warnings that they were selling their souls for a scrap of power,
leaders of the Labor Party agreed today to join a unity government led by Ariel
Sharon.” (As reported by Susan Sachs)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002:
Thirty-four year old Gad Rejwan was shot by a Fatah terrorist north of
Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003:
Today, Daniel Libeskind “won the competition to be the master plan architect
for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center Site in Lower Manhattan.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003(25th
of Adar I, 5763): Eighty-nine year old Rabbi Noah Golinkin, the former
spiritual leader of a Columbia synagogue who earned a national reputation for
programs that taught Hebrew literacy to more than 150,000 Jewish adults, passed
away today at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center &amp; Hospital of
complications after surgery. .His one-day Hebrew Reading Marathon and its
forerunner, the Hebrew Literacy Campaign, is credited with quickly giving
adults enough knowledge of the language to follow the Hebrew prayer book. He
wrote textbooks widely used to teach adults because he could not find any
suitable for his programs. He is best known for his crash course, an eight-hour
program that uses familiar Hebrew words, repetition, exercise, humor and
encouragement to bring Hebrew reading familiarity to those who did not learn it
as children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.wymaninstitute.org/articles/2003-02-golinkin.php"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;">http://www.wymaninstitute.org/articles/2003-02-golinkin.php</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004:
Today, in a case of a Jew honoring a Jew, actress Lauren Bacall, spoke at the
posthumous induction of screenwriter Peter Stone into the American Theatre Hall
of Fame.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005:
<i>The New York Times</i> included reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers <u>i</u>ncluding <u>The Orientalist: Solving
the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life </u>by Tom Reiss<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006:
The Harlem Globetrotters, the creation of Abe Saperstein, extended their
overall record to 22,000 wins.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006:
<i>The Jerusalem Post</i> reported that a new Israeli tourism campaign will
take center stage at Emirates Stadium, the London home of English soccer giants
Arsenal, starting in August. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007:
Holocaust survivors from around the world gather in Warsaw to urge the Polish
government to compensate them for property confiscated by the former communist
regime. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007:
Ninety-three year old Hitler aide Baron Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/world/europe/01loringhoven.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/world/europe/01loringhoven.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5767): Ninety-three year old Rabbi Marcus Schachter, the Romanian born
son of Morris and Mary Schachter<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
husband of Claire Schachter “who, for 46 years, was the central pillar of the
Halachah L'Maaseh program at RIETS where he held the Rabbi Dr. and Mrs. Leon Katz
Professorship in Rabbinics” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9C03E3D7173AF934A15751C0A9619C8B63.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9C03E3D7173AF934A15751C0A9619C8B63.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007:
Israel got its first Arab President. Acting President Dalia Itzik left
for a weeklong trip to the United States. During that time, Jajallie
Whbee, a Druse who had attained the rank of Lt. Colonel before retiring from
the IDF, served in the largely ceremonial post.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007:
Commander Mark Polansky visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to meet
Sophie Turner-Zaretsky. He presented the replica of the bear called
Refugee that had comforted Sophie during the Holocaust and a photo of an orphan
from war-torn Dafur -- along with NASA space travel certificates -- to U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum chief of staff Bill Parsons, who said the Museum
wanted to provide something that would be a timely reminder of history’s
relevance. "Although we can send people into space, we still can’t seem to
stop them from hating and killing one another. A child’s stuffed toy from the
Holocaust and a photograph of a refugee from the genocide today in Darfur
remind us the lessons of the Holocaust have yet to be learned."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007:
David Bromberg released “Try Me One More Time,” the first new studio album he
had recorded since 1990.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007:
Teapacks performed four songs in a TV special, and the song "Push The
Button" was chosen as the Israeli entry for the 2007 Eurovision Contest by
popular vote<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008:
The Finalist Grand Prize portion of The Second Annual Simply Manischewitz
Cook-Off takes place in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008
(21 Adar I 5768): Anthony Bernard Blond passed away. The British
publisher and author’s mother was a Sephardic Jew from Manchester and he was
the cousin of Harold Laski, the noted British socialist and Laborite.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1580358/Anthony-Blond.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1580358/Anthony-Blond.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008(21
Adar I): Myron Cope, "the voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers" passed
away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sports/uncategorized/obituary-myron-copes-career-spanned-newspapers-magazines-radio-and-tv-382354/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;">http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sports/uncategorized/obituary-myron-copes-career-spanned-newspapers-magazines-radio-and-tv-382354/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008
(21 Adar I 5768): <span style="color: black;">Approximately 50 Palestinian
rockets hit the western Negev today, with one of them slamming into Sapir
College near Sderot</span><span style="color: teal;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>,</ins></span></span><span style="color: black;"> killing a 47-year-old student. Another exploded on the
helipad of Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, while the hospital was treating
casualties from Sderot. The deceased, Roni Yechiah from the town of Btecha in
the western Negev, was inside his car in Sapir's parking lot. He died of
shrapnel wounds to the chest. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Yechiah is survived by his wife, Esther, and four children: Niv, who is
currently serving in the Israel Defense Forces, Lital, a 17-year-old high
school pupil, her 14-year-old sister Coral and 8-year-old brother Idan.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">2009:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
<span style="color: black;">Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip continued
their attacks on Israeli civilian areas early this morning when they fired a
Kassam that hit an open area in the Sdot Negev region.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">2009: Rick Recht returns to Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for
another incomparable Musical Shabbat. Rick is joined by the talented Abbe
Silber, daughter of Dr. Bob &amp; Laurie Silber, pillars of the Jewish
community.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">2009:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">Robert M. Morgenthau, the long-serving Manhattan district attorney
and an institution in New York City politics, will not run for re-election this
year. Outside New York, Mr. Morgenthau is most well-known as the model for the
original district attorney, Adam Schiff, on the television show “Law &amp;
Order.” Mr. Morgenthau had a cameo on the show, portraying a judge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">2009: Former Iowa State University quarterback Sage “Rosenfels was
acquired from the Texans by the Minnesota Vikings.”</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">2010: An Egyptian court overturned a lower court ruling today that
called for a halt to natural gas exports to Israel, saying the deliveries
should continue unhindered. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">2010:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
<span style="color: black;">An Israeli Arab rights committee sent a petition to
the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) today opposing
the addition of Israel to the organization. After two years of official talks,
the OECD will vote in May on whether to admit Israel.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">2010: Shabbat Zachor!</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">2010: In the evening, Purim and the reading of the Megillah.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;">2010:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
<span style="color: #333333;">Glass falling from the atrium roof of the Sony
Building in New York interrupted a Purim party. Ice reportedly broke through
the glass roof of the midtown Manhattan building after 11 p.m. Saturday,
injuring at least 10 of the 300 guests, according to reports.The party,
reportedly given by Aish Hatorah, was attended by "Sex and the City"
actor Chris Noth, as well as reality show "Jersey Shore" cast members
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Vinny Guadagnino. "Omg roof just
collapsed!" Polizzi Tweeted from the party."I think me and @sn00ki
felt the wrath for not being Jewish," Guadagnino Tweeted.The actors were
not injured. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;">2010(Adar 13, 5770):</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> <span style="color: #333333;">Eighty-nine year
old Hank Rosenstein, who played in what is considered the National Basketball
Association’s first game, in 1946, as an original member of the New York
Knicks, died today in Boca Raton, FL. (As reported by Vincent M.
Mallozzi)</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/sports/basketball/03rosenstein.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/sports/basketball/03rosenstein.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;">2010: Opening of Jewish Book Week in London, UK.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;">2011(27<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5771): Eighty-nine year old
Philip Burgher, a World War II Army veteran passed away in Buffalo Grove,
Illinois.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;">2011(27<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5771):</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> Brazilian born author <span style="color: #333333;">Moacyr Scliar, whose “The Centaur in the Garden,” was
included among the 100 Greatest Works of Modern Jewish Literature by The
National Yiddish Book Center, passed away today. (As reported by William
Grimes)</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/books/06scliar.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/books/06scliar.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;">2011: The Prince of Kosher Gospel, Joshua Nelson, is scheduled
to perform at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;">2011: Closing night of the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;">2011: Closing night of The “Voices From a Changing Middle East”
festival.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;">2011: <i>The Los Angeles Times</i> features reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including <u>Modigliani:
A Life</u> by Meryle Secrest and Endgame<u>: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise
and Fall — From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness </u>by Frank
Brady</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">2011: Among the Jewish winners are tonight’s Oscar ceremonies
were:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">Israel-born Natalie Portman for her portrayal of a tortured
ballerina in “Black Swan” </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">Emile Sherman one of the co-producers of “The King’s Speech” which
was named best picture</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">David Seidler of “King’s Speech” winning for original screenplay </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">Aaron Sorkin of “The Social Network” for adapted screenplay</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">Danish director-writer Susanne Bier, took the best
foreign-language film statuette for “In a Better World,” </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">American filmmakers Kirk Simon and Karen Goodman won in the short
documentary category for “Strangers No More” - a film based on the work of the
Bialik-Rogozin School in south Tel</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">Director-writer Lee Unkrich accepted the award for his animated
feature “Toy Story 3,” </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">Randy Newman won for his song “We Belong Together.”</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">Lora Hirschberg was one of the co-winners for the work of
sound-mixing for “Inception.”</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;">(As reported by JTA)</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Anna Kantar is scheduled to give a reading of poems by Leah Goldberg at the
Stern College for Women in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Open Women’s Mic Night featuring Poetry, Music, Comedy, whatever you do to
entertain the ladies at David Lilimnick’s Off the Wall Comedy Club in Jerusalem<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
The Tal Law cannot be extended by even one hour, and any attempt to ignore the
issue is a mistake, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said at a press
conference in the Knesset today (As reported by Lahav Harkov)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Workers at the Haifa, Ashdod and Eilat ports who had held a one-day strike over
pension-related demands yesterday will return to work today after a truce was
reached at a late-night National Labor Court meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012:
Nurses across Israel went on a 24-hour strike this morning, after overnight
negotiations between the Finance Ministry and the chairman of the national
nurses’ union failed to reach an agreement to <span style="color: #003300;">prevent
the strike.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
L'Chaim Kosher Vodka is scheduled to sponsor the reception that follows The
SHUFFLE Concert that will feature performances by Eliran Avni, piano, Moran
Katz, clarinet, Linor Katz, cello, Hassan Anderson, oboe, Francisco Fullana,
violin, and soprano Ariadne Greif<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
“The Mexican Suitcase” Rediscovered Spanish Civil War Negatives by Capa, Taro
and Chim is scheduled to open at the Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
The Weiner Library is scheduled to sponsor a lecture by Mary Fulbrook, author
of A Small Town Near Auschwitz<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
In Portland, the Oregon Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a reception marking
the opening of “Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photographs of Jewish
Partisan Faye Schulman.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
A panel of judges at the International Convention Center Haifa awarded the
title of Miss Israel to 21 year old Yityish Aynaw “the young and gorgeous
model, who came to Israel only about a decade ago from Ethiopia.” (As reported
by Yori Yanover)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
The Consulate General of Israel in New York, the Jewish Community Relations
Council of New York and the Jewish National Fund are scheduled to honor Dr.
Clarence B. Jones, co-author of the “I Have A Dream Speech” at the annual
commemoration of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen are scheduled to discuss their bestseller <u>The
New Digital Age</u> at the Historic 6<sup>th</sup> &amp; I Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“In the wake of an alleged attack by Israel on a Hezbollah arms convoy, the
organization’s chief, Hassan Nasrallah, warned key military personnel of the
possibility of war with the Jewish state, a Lebanese journalist with close ties
to the organization said today. (As reported by Spencer Ho and Elhanan Miller)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
Soldiers are searching for the two Palestinian Arab men who robbed and stabbed
an Israeli cab driver this evening near Ariel junction. (As reported by Maayana
Miskin)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
In London, Jewish Book Week at the Jewish Museum is scheduled to come to an
end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“A Happy End” by Iddo Netanayahu, the younger brother of Benjamin and Yonatan
Netanyahu is scheduled to be performed at Abingdon Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015:
“Deli Man” “Erik Greenberg Anjou’s forthcoming documentary about the dying (but
perhaps reviving!) culture of Jewish delicatessens is a meal with many courses”
is scheduled to being “its theatrical run in Florida and Arizona” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/pastrami-on-wry-with-the-texan-macher-keeping-deli-culture-alive/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/pastrami-on-wry-with-the-texan-macher-keeping-deli-culture-alive/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2015(17<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5775): Eighty-three year old Leonard Nimoy passed away today. (As
reported Virginia Heffernan)<br />
</span><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=0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&amp;smprod=nytcore-ipad&amp;_r=0</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br />
<br />
2015: “After the Ball,” a romantic comedy co-produced by Jane
Silverstone-Segal<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was released in
Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2016:
Shabbat Ki Tissa; for more see </span><a href="http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Einstein in the Holy Land” and “One in a Lifetime” are scheduled to be shown
at the Washington Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
In North Carolina, “Apples from the Desert” is scheduled to be shown at the
Charlotte Jewish Film Festival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(A
reminder that there are thriving Jewish communities all over the United States)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5777): Rosh Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
“Through the Wall” a melodrama starring Noa Koller is scheduled to be shown at
JW3 in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
“More than 200 Israelis attended the funeral of a complete stranger,” Holocaust
survivor Hilde Nathan “from the Canary Islands who fulfilled a final wish to be
buried in Israel alongside her mother.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: The Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to host
“Nuclear Weapons in the Trump Era.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: The J Street annual convention is
scheduled to continue for a third day at the Washington Convention Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: In Paris, “The State of Deception,” an
exhibition that examines the Nazis use of “propaganda to win broad voter
support, implement radical programs, and justify war and mass murder” is
scheduled to come to an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: Yiddish folk singer Cindy Paley is
scheduled to lead a sing-along of Yiddish love songs at the Beverly Hills House
Concert.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: Today, Stephen Mandel was elected Leader
of the Albert Party…with 66% of the vote.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2018:</span> <span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is
scheduled to host a presentation by Rabbi Joy Levitt and Rabbi Michael
Strassfeld on “Wife and Husband: Ruth and Boaz”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: In Washington, D.C., the Tabard Inn is
scheduled to host a screening of “Rosenwald” followed by “further readings and
discussion with poet E. Ethelbert Miller and director, producer and writer
Aviva Kempner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018(12<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5778): Ninety-one
year old Alan Gershwin, who claimed to be the “long-lost son of George Gershwin
passed away today. (As reported by David Margolick)<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/2018/03/06/obituaries/alan-gershwin-who-claimed-a-famous-father-is-dead-at-91.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/2018/03/06/obituaries/alan-gershwin-who-claimed-a-famous-father-is-dead-at-91.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" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: “According to an ADL audit released”
today, “there were 1,986 acts of anti-Semitism in the U.S. last year…comprising
the largest one-year increase in recorded history.” (JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: In Des Moines, Temple B’nai Jeshusrun is
scheduled to host Shayna Steinger speaking “about her professional experiences
with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: The Oxford University Jewish Society is
scheduled to host a Hamantashen Bake-Off followed by a sale of the pastries for
the benefit of the Oxford Food Bank.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: JW3 is scheduled to host the penultimate screening
of “Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Indian Cinema.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: The Hillel Jewish Leadership Council at
the University of Virginia is scheduled to host an evening of “Hamantaschen
Making: Bake Action Against Gun Violence.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/352979081774565/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://www.facebook.com/events/352979081774565/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: After expressing “contrition” and
“apologizing to the Senate Intelligence Committee for the lies that he told
during his 2017 testimony” when he appeared behind closed doors yesterday,
Michael Cohen, “President Trump’s former fixer and personal attorney Michael
Cohen is scheduled to testify publicly before the House Oversight Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The American Jewish Historical Society is
scheduled to present a “Panel Discussion with Lila Corwin Berman (Temple
University), Tony Michels (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Jonathan Sarna
(Brandeis University), moderated by Samuel G. Freedman (Columbia University)
discussing “Is American Different?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Anti-Semitism in the United States.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In Washington, DC, the Jewish Study
Center is scheduled to host “The Secrets of Ashkenazi Comfort Food.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The JCC of Northern Virginia scheduled to
host historian David Weinstein, author of <u>The Eddie Cantor Story: A Jewish
Life in Performance and Politics </u>in a discussion of the “banjo-eyed
entertainer” and “the history of American Jewish popular entertainment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/E/bo43630294.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/E/bo43630294.html</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of
“Wanderings: A Journey to Connect” and “The Wolf of Baghdad.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
In San Francisco, the Jewish Community Library is scheduled to host “a talk by
educator Tamar Zaken about how many immigrants to Israel had their names
changed upon arrival.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: In Berkley, the Haas Pavilion is
scheduled to host “Jewish Heritage Night at Cal,” where the Cal vs Colorado
basketball game will include the giving away Jewish Heritage Night t-shirts and
a “post-game question and answer with a former Cal and B’nai Herzilya
basketball player Sam Singer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2020:
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129;">JSoc
is scheduled to host pre-drinks tonight ahead of a big Bridge night with
President Sheinman!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129;">2021:</span> <span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129;">Addison-Penzak JCC in Los Gatos is scheduled to presents Zumba
with instructor Joanna to celebrate Purim. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: In Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Temple Judea is scheduled to
host a Torah Study session with Rabbi Feivel Strauss.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host via
zoom a Happy Hour and Game Night, filled with “fun cocktail recipes and online
games for adults.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: Congregation Beth Am is scheduled to present online Santa
Clara Law professor Michael Asimow leads a discussion of “The Trial of the
Chicago Seven,” the 2020 film about the 1969 trial that had a Jewish judge,
three Jewish defendants and a Jewish defense lawyer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Cocktail enthusiast Arah Rasp is scheduled to present online, a Purim-themed
cocktail recipe, with a Purim conversation led by Addison-Penzak JCC’s Rabbi
Laurie Matzkin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Israel is prepared to observe Shabbat under the terms of the curfew that began
on the evening of February 25<sup>th</sup> and is scheduled to last through
tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021:
Temple Emanuel of Newton is scheduled to host online a screening of “Crip
Camp,” a “feel-good documentary, executive produced by Barack and Michelle
Obama, which recounts the ties of a Catskills summer camp to American
disability rights activism in the 1970s.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021(15<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5781): Parashat
Tetzaveh; Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: The Jewish Community Library is schedule
to present Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers discuss their book “American
Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel” which focuses on the origins of a Hasidic
village in upstate New York, the community’s religious, social and economic
norms, and the roots of Satmar Hasidism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: In London, the LSJS matching campaign is
scheduled to begin this morning.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: As part of the Chabad “Zooming around the
World” program Rabbi Yosef C. Kantor is scheduled to host a tour of Bangkok.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: <i>The New York Times</i> features
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including <u>Campaign of the Century: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960</u>
by Irwin F. Gellman and <u>The Books of Jacob</u>, Olga Tokarczuk’s novel based
on the life and times of Jacob Frank <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: Israel Engage Winter 2022, a “student-led
conference that includes session with the leading experts on Israel
advocacy,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>antisemitism and Zionism is
scheduled to take place this afternoon online.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: The Jewish Historical Society of the
Upper Midwest is scheduled to host the fourth, in the four part series “The
Jewish-American Experience: Connecting Jewish Institutions Together.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: Temple Beth Torah in Fremont is scheduled
to host a three-package online tour with a licensed Israeli tour guide that
will immerse participants in daily life and culture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: Lappin Foundation and Gregg Philipson are
scheduled to host on Zoom for an exploration of the 1939 New York World’s Fair
from a social, political and Jewish perspective as the world was on the brink
of WWII. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: YIVO is scheduled to present Sandra Fox
and Philissa Cramer as they discuss Fox’s new book <u>The Jew of Summer: Summer
Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: In New Orleans, Chabad is scheduled to
host a wine tasting with Certified Wine Professional, Hank Fanberg and Purim
insights with Rabbi Yossi Cohen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: The East Bay International Jewish Film
Festival is scheduled to host screenings in theatres of “The Forger” and “Where
Life Begins.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: The Stanford Taube Center for Jewish
Studies is scheduled to present Rowan Dorin, an assistant professor of history
at Stanford University, discusses his book <u>No Return: Jews, Christians and
the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe</u> and its contributions to
medieval history and Jewish studies with University of Washington Emeritus
Professor of History Robert Stacey.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2023: All decent people mourn the death of Hallel
Yaniv, 21 and Yagel Yaniv, 19, two brothers who were murdered in yesterday’s
terror attack.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: Friends and family of Cedar Rapids
resident Jeanne Michaelis, a survivor of the WWII Blitz who has been in active
contributor to each Jewish Community in which she has lived, are scheduled to
celebrate “a milestone birthday.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: During a private event for the Men's
Engagement Division of the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford, Joel Haber is
scheduled to join “chef Yosi Awad at his Yosi's Kitchen for a demonstration,
lecture, and discussion. In addition to sampling various Israeli specialties
from Yosi's mind, we will also be sampling a cholent.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: Based on a previous announcement by the
Interior Ministry, welve municipal authorities will not take part in the
nationwide municipal elections slated for today due to the conflict with Hamas
and Hezbollah, while voting booths will be set up in the Gaza Strip to enable
soldiers currently on combat duty in the war-torn territory to vote. (As
reported by Jeremy Sharon)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Cultural Center
is scheduled to host the first night of a two-night virtual summit on “Anti-Semitism:
The Dangerous Reality We Must Confront.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: Congregation Tifereth Israel is scheduled
to hold it weekly evening minyan in Northeast Columbus at the JCC New Albany
Library.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As part of its Women on the Move Series,
the Streicker Center is scheduled to host a conversation with Pulitzer Prize
winning writer Anna Quindlen and Maggie Haberman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The Executive Committee of the National
Council of Jewish Women is scheduled to meet in New Orleans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As
February 27th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held
hostages begin day 144 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-47497781005009268452024-02-25T17:17:00.000-06:002024-02-25T17:17:08.649-06:00This Day, February 26, 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;">February
26</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">11
BCE: According to some sources, the day on which Herod dedicates the renovated
Holy Temple in Jerusalem. According to Heinrich Graetz, the building project
began in 20 BCE, the 18<sup>th</sup> year of Herod’s reign. A year and half
later, (18 BCE) the inner part of the Temple was finished. It took another
eight years to build the outer walls, courts and galleries. The dedicatory
celebration took place on “the very anniversary of the day when twenty years
previously, Herod, with blood stained hands, had made himself master of
Jerusalem.” Herod reportedly built this modernized version of the Second
Temple because he loved to build things and because he was trying to show his
Roman masters that he was the beloved ruler of his people. Regardless, in
one sense, Herod sealed the doom of the Temple and the Jewish people because he
placed it under the protection of Rome. What Rome protected Rome could
destroy.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">364:
Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor. He was the last Emperor to rule the
Empire alone. A month later, he would appoint his brother Valens Emperor
in the East, while he would rule over the Western portion of the Empire.
Valentinian belonged to a minority sect called the Arians. In an attempt
to keep peace in the Empire, in 371 he issued a proclamation allowing
Christians and Arians to practice their religious belief without incurring any
“political disadvantage. This toleration was extended to the Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1147:
The Crusaders massacred the Jews of Wurtzburg; so much for all of those tales
of knights and chivalry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1226:
At the Battle of Benevento, King Manfred of Sicily was killed during the
conquest of the Kingdom of Charles I of Anjou who in 1227 had Moses of Palermo
“learn the Latin language in order that Moses might translate a collection of
medical works preserved in Castel dell' Novo at Naples, the residence of
Charles of Anjou.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1361:
Birthdate of Wenceslaus IV who as Emperor failed to continue the Imperial
protection of the Jews of Luxembourg led to their expulsion in 1391.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1418:
Emperor Sigsmund “issued commands to all the German princes and magistrates,
cities and subjects, to allow” the Jews the full enjoyment of the privileges
and immunities given them by the Pope who had denounced attacks on the persons
and property of the Jews and the practice of forced conversion.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1498:
Isaac Abravanel completed "Mashmia' Yeshu'ah" (Proclaiming
Salvation), one of three works “devoted to the exposition of the Jewish belief
concerning the Messiah and the Messianic age.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1569:
Pius V issued Hebraeorum gens, a papal bull that accused the Jews of a variety
of evil deeds including the practice of magic.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1569:
Pope Pius V ordered the eviction of all Jews from the Papal States (excluding
Rome and Verona) who refuse to convert. Most of the approximately 1000 Jewish
families decided to emigrate. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1591:</span>
“<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Vespasiano I
Gonzaga, Duke of Sabbioneta an enlightened ruler, educated in Greek, Latin, history,
Italian literature, the Talmud, and even Kabbalah who permitted the rise of the
Foà printing house, but also remained an enlightened protector of the Jews and
ruled over only one of two Italitan cities not to “establish a Jewish Ghetto”
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/the-fortunate-foas-of-sabbioneta">https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/the-fortunate-foas-of-sabbioneta</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.j-italy.org/foa/">https://www.j-italy.org/foa/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1592:
First performance of “The Jew Malta” by Lord Strange’s Men, an English
theatrical group.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1766:
Birthdate of Andover, MA native John Adams, the husband of Dorcas Faulkner with
whom he had eight children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1767(27<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5527): Judith Jones, the wife of Joseph Jones passed away today in
New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1771:
In Philadelphia, PA, Martha Lampley and Samson Levy gave birth to Rachel Levy.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1776(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5534): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1802
Birthdate of French man of letters Victor Hugo the “preeminent biblical poet
among the French Romantics.” He eulogized Isaiah and Ezekiel in William
Shakespeare (1864) and injected some basic knowledge of the Kabbalah (probably
gained from his Jewish admirer, Alexandre Weill) <i>into Les Contemplations</i>
(1856).</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1809:
Birthdate of Rosanna Dyer Osterman, the native of Germany who married Joseph
Osterman who worked in his business in Galveston until he passed away at the
age of 57 when a steamboat exploded near Vicksburg, MS.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fos08"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fos08</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1812(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5572): Erev Purim celebrated for the last time before the outbreak of
the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1814:
In Holland, a law was enacted officially ending the French rule that had been
overseen by Napoleon’s. The Jews supported the new government under
William I and the Netherlands proved to be a welcoming home for the Jewish
population which thrived there throughout the rest of the 19<sup>th</sup>
century.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1818:
In Georgia, Divinah Cohen and Isaac Minis gave birth to Phillippa Minis, the
wife Baltimore native Edward Johnson Etting, part of one of the oldest and most
prominent Jewish families in Philadelphia with whom she had six children
including Civil War hero Charles Edward Etting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1820:
In London, Rabbi David Aaron de Sola, the Amsterdam born son of Rafael Aron (v.
Haim David) de Sola and Sara v. Isaac Namias Torres who in 1818 had begun
serving as the rabbi at Bevis Marks in London and his wife Rebecca (Rica) de
Sola gave birth to Sarah de Sola, the wife of Solomon Pool and the mother of
Helena (Eleanor) Blok; Eva Kahn; Eliza Oppenheimer; Eleazar Solomon Pool; Adele
Polak; Blanche Pool and Florence Pool.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1821:
In the Netherlands, Salomon Levie Goudsmit, the son of Levie Emanuel Goudsmit
and Magdalena Hartog Goudsmit and his wife and Geertruida Abraham van Raalte
gave birth to Levij Lion Goudsmit, the husband of Leah Adelaide Aleida Themans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1822,
In Strasburg (which at this time was part of France, Jacob and Caroline
Ashelmann Lauff gave birth to their “youngest child, Charles August Lauff.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1825:
Maryland removed the requirement of a Christian oath for public office and
substituted a declaration of belief in reward and punishment and the World to
Come. This obviously made life in Maryland easier on its Jewish citizens. On
the very last day of the session of the legislature an act "for the relief
of the Jews in Maryland," which had already been passed by the Senate, was
passed by the House of Delegates by a vote of twenty-six to twenty-five.
Only fifty-one out of eighty members were present for the vote. The bill
provided that "every citizen of this state professing the Jewish
religion" who shall be appointed to any office of profit or trust shall,
in addition to the required oaths, make and subscribe a declaration of his belief
in a future state of rewards and punishments instead of the declaration now
required by the government of the state. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1825:
Thirty-one-year-old Hannah Aarons who passed away yesterday was laid to rest
today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery in London.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1827:
“Lady Georgiana Mary Walpole, a descendant of Robert Walpole, the first Prime
Minister of Great Britain” married Joseph Wolff, the son of Rabbi David Wolff,
who was baptized in 1812 and whose missionary travels and archaeological
studies took him took him to the Sinai, Jerusalem and Aleppo as well a large
part of Central Asia when began searching for the Ten Lost Tribes.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1829:
In Bttenheim, Germany, “Hirsch Strauss and his second wife Rebecca” gave birth
to Loeb Strauss who as Levi Strauss made the riveted blue denim trouser an icon
of American fashion called “Levi’s” </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://lsco.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Levi-Strauss-Full-Biography.pdf"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://lsco.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Levi-Strauss-Full-Biography.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1830: Birthdate of Philip Bondi, the Bohemian
born Rabbi who “in 1857 received his doctor's degree from the University of
Prague and his rabbinical diploma from Aaron Kornfeld and Daniel Frank” and
whose works included “a Bohemian translation of the Pentateuch.” <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;">1830: Birthdate of Holstein, Germany native
Ernest Falck, the husband of London born Helene Samuel with whom he had five
children.<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;">1832: Hayman Levy Seixas, the son of Zipporah
and Benjamin Mendes Seixas and his wife Abigail Nunez Seixas gave birth to
Solomon Seixas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1844(6<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5604):
Sixty-five-year-old Leah Lazarus Cohen, the daughter of Marks and Rachel Dorris
Lazarus, the wife of Mordecai Cohen and the mother of Eliza, Lucretia and Marx
Cohen based away today after which she was buried in the Coming Street Cemetery
in Charleston, SC.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1845: In Berlin, Rabbi Meyer Landsberg and his
wife gave birth to their eldest son Max Landsberg, a graduate of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of Bresalau who became Rabbi at B’rith Kodesh at Rochester
in 1871 where he served for 44 years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1927/12/10/98425024.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1927/12/10/98425024.pdf</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="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Landsberg"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Landsberg</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;">1845: In London, Sarah Joseph Tolano and
Emanuel Samuel Genese gave birth to Samuel Emanuel Genese.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848:
In the wake of revolutions that swept Europe, the Second French Republic comes
into being. The Republic lasted a mere four years when it was swept aside
when Louis Napoleon (Bonaparte’s nephew) proclaimed the second empire.
Just prior to the birth of the Republic, the Jew’s Oath had been declared
unconstitutional by the French courts. This opened the way to further
participation of the Jews in the general world of French business, society and
culture. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1850(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5610): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1850:
In New Orleans, Rosina Meyer Dreyfus gave birth to Pine Bluff, AR businessman
Isaac Dreyfus, the husband of Bertha Simon Dreyfus.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851:
In Charleston, SC, Samuel Samson married Abigail Goldsmith, the second daughter
of Morris Goldsmith.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851:
In England, Phoebe Levy and Aaron Samuel gave birth to Emanuel Samuel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1851:
Philadelphian Washington H. Nones was promoted from Third Assistant Engineer to
Second Assistant Engineer today.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853:
<i>The New York Times</i> published a portion of a paper present by Dr. A.K.
Gardner on "the meats of New York" that was delivered before the
Academy of Medicine and was published in the New York Journal of Medicine.
According to Dr. Garnder unlike the other butchers, the Jewish butchers
"do not prostrate the animal with the ax but first suspend it and then cut
this throat. This must be performed in a peculiar manner. It is
necessary to have along knife, which must be from rust, nic, or any imperfection
of the cutting edge." Only one cut is allowed. If more cuts
are required, “the animal is deemed unfit for food for the Hebrews. After
the animal is dead, he is upon the fore-quarters. From the difficulty of
removing the blood vessels, as required by their law, from the hind quarters,
this portion is rarely eaten by the Hebrews, but the mark is placed upon them
for the benefit of many Christians, who prefer the meat thus examined.
The butcher paid by the Society in which he worships an annual salary and in
addition he receives a small sum per animal from the keeper of the slaughter
house for his services."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1854:
Henry Cohen, a native of London who came to the United States in 1844 and
Matilda Cohen gave birth to “social economist” Mary M. Cohen<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1858:
Disraeli began serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer in a government led by
Lord Derby and most of whose members sat in the Lords which gave him an unusual
amount of power since he led the Tory Party in the House of Commons.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1860(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5620): Seventy-seven-year-old educator and author Michael Hess the
brother of Mendel Hess and the son of Rabbi Isaac Hess Kugelmann who among
other accomplishments tutored “young Baron James Rothschild” passed away at
Frankfort-on-Main.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861:
“The Fundamental Law of February 26, 1861” was promulgated in Austria today
after which Raphael Basch, he served as the official spokesman government of
Anton Ritter von Schmerling. Born in Bohemia, Basch alternated between being a
journalist and political activist who actually became part of successive
Austrian governments. This latter element was unusual for a Jew living in
the Austrian Empire at this time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862:
In Wilna, Joel Kopelovitz and Zine Danishevsky gave birth to Victor Harris,
founder and editor of the B’nai B’rith <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Messenger,
</i>the secretary of Congregation Beth Israel and a court interpreter in Los
Angeles, CA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1863:
Two days after he had passed away, 73-year-old “Samuel Lawrence of St. Philips
Terrace, Kensington” was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865(30<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5625): Rosh Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865:
Birthdate of Louisville, KY, native Bernard Flexner the “founder and first
president of the Palestine Economic Corporation and the brother of “Dr. Abraham
Flexner, former head of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Dr.
Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and Mary
Flexner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5629): Shushan Purim observed for the last time during the Presidency
of Andrew Johnson<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870:
A “scheme of amalgamation” involving The Great Synagogue, the Habmro Synagogue
and the New Synagogue as well as their branches on Portland Street and the
Bayswater was incorporated in the Seventeenth Report of the Charity
Commissioners of England and Wales so it could be presented by them to
Parliament.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870:
In Augusta Georgia, Ellen Gobert and Phillip Lawrence Cohen gave birth to
journalist, Democratic Party leader and U.S. from Georgia John Sanford Cohen
who was raised as a Jew but raised in the Episcopalian faith of this mother. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871:
Today, on his 26<sup>th</sup> birthday, Max Landsberg, the Berlin born son of
Rabbi Meyer Landsburg a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary of Bresalau
who became Rabbi at B’rith Kodesh at Rochester in 1871 where he served for 44
years married Miriam Isengarten with whom he had three children – Emil, Clara
and Rose.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1872:
Birthdate of New York City native Moses Henry Cohen, the Tampa, FL, lawyer,
Spanish-American War veteran and secretary for 28 years of Schaarai Tzedek who
married Julia Wolf, “whose family owned Wolf Brothers.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1873:
It was reported today that the recent Hebrew Charity Ball in Philadelphia
raised $7,920 after expenses. The money has already been distributed to
several of the city’s Jewish institutions.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1876(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5636): Rosh Chodesh Adar and the Sabbath of Shekel. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1877(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5637): Fast of Esther</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1877:
“The Home for Aged Hebrews” published today described it as “one of the most
delightful” institutions of its kind in New York City. The building,
which was originally a country home of the Astor family, offers views of the
East River and Long Island Sound. The facility currently is home to 70 older
men and women who live in “air well-furnished rooms,” are well clothed and
enjoy excellent food on a daily basis which is complimented by wine if so
desired.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1880(14th
of Adar, 5640): Purim</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1880:
The Young Men’s Hebrew Association is scheduled to host a Purim entertainment
and reception this evening at the Harlem Music Hall.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1880:
In New York, the Purim Association sponsored a ball in the Academy. A tableaux
featuring Queen Esther surrounded by the Muses, preceded the evening’s dancing.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1880:
Sixty-year-old Dr. Simon Rosenberger, a distinguished Philadelphia, PA Jewish
physician and Ida Smith, a servant girl working in his house, were the victims
of a mysterious malady. Miss Smith passed away after suffering convulsions
brought on possibly by coal gas that had seeped into the house from the
cellar. Rosenberger who is unconscious and near death is thought to be a
victim of the case or possibly an ingestion of poison.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1882:
“The Hebrew Charity Ball” published today described plans for the upcoming
Purim Association’s upcoming fancy dress ball. This ball, which has been
a part of the New York Social Scene for two decades, will be held at the
Academy of Music under the leadership of M.H. Moses, the association’s
President.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1882:
A review of “Divorce and Divorce Legislation” by Theodore D. Woolsey notes that
the volume includes a chapter devoted to the history of divorce among the
Jewish people.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1882(7th
of Adar, 5642): German painter Moritz Daniel Oppenheim passed away. He is often
regarded as the first Jewish painter of the modern era. His work was shaped by
his cultural and religious roots at a time when many of his German Jewish
contemporaries chose to convert to Christianity. Oppenheim is considered to be
in sympathy with the ideals of the Wissenschaft des Judentums (Science of
Judaism) movement, because he remained "fair to the present" without
denying his past.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moritz_Daniel_Oppenheim_The_Return_of_the_Jewish_Volunteer.jpeg"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moritz_Daniel_Oppenheim_The_Return_of_the_Jewish_Volunteer.jpeg</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishart.org/Oppenheim/wedding.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishart.org/Oppenheim/wedding.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Moritz_Oppenheim.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Moritz_Oppenheim.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884:
Birthdate of Bialystok native Zusman Segalowitch, the “Yiddish, poet, novelist
and journalist” who found refuge in Tel Aviv during the Holocaust.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/segalowitch-zusman"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/segalowitch-zusman</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Segalovitsh_Zusman"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Segalovitsh_Zusman</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5645): Ta’anit Esther observed today on the same day that the Berlin
Conference also known as the Congo Congress came to an end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887:
In Cincinnati, OH, Rebecca and William Jacob Mack gave birth to Robert Tandler
Mack who had three children – Robert, Jr., Julian and Susan – with his second
wife Jeanette Mack.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5648): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888:
Birthdate of Alfons Klauber who was deported from Prague in 1942 to Ujazdow
where he was murdered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888:
The grant of citizenship for businessman, banker and philanthropist Jacob
Noisotz was approved by the upper house of the Romanian legislature today but
would fail to gain his goal when the lower house rejected the request in
December.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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 Baltimore, founding of the Hebrew Free School Society whose members included
Joseph Eisner and Abraham S. Shochet and which sponsored a Talmud Torah that
offers daily instruction for three hours from 4 until 7 and that “maintains a
school for girls” as well<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a name="_Hlk159767337"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: In New York City, Jake and Hulda Pilzer
gave birth to conductor and composer Maximilian Pilzer, the husband of Ilona G.
Liptak who among other accomplishments was concert master of the N.Y.
Philharmonic and musical director at New York’s Rialto Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159767337;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1890:
In honor of a request made to Charles Frohman by child acting star Elsie
Leslie, 500 children from the Industrial Schools of the Associated Hebrew
Charities attended today’s matinee performance of the “Prince and the Pauper
(Frohman was one of three Jewish brothers from Ohio who were involved with the
Broadway theatre before World War I)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1891:
The Purim Association hosted its 30<sup>th</sup> annual charity ball at the
Metropolitan Opera House tonight in New York City.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892:
<i>The New York Times</i> “has received $20 for Russian Hebrew immigrants from
‘A.Y.E.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893:
In Newark, NJ, Clara Michaelson and Adam Frankel gave birth to CCNY and Yale
educated “chemical technologist” Edward M. Frankel, “the holder of a series of
U.S. and foreign patents” who married concert Saai Biro and after the death of
his first wife Dr. Florence Frankel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1893:
“New Things in Lawsuits” published today described a lawsuit brought by Max
Bronestein against three New Jersey constables for desecrating his home “by
cooking and eating meals which had not been prepared according to the Hebraic
usages and principles” including the use of “pork sausage.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894:
Birthdate of Baltimore native and John Hopkins graduate Simon Cohen who was
ordained a HUC and who served as a staff member at the Universal Jewish
Encyclopedia for twenty years starting in 1924.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0077/ms0077.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0077/ms0077.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1894:
“Zangwill’s New Jewish Stories” published today provided a review <u>The King
of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies</u> by Israel Zangwill.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894:
It was reported today that Rabbi Henry Berkowitz offered the opening prayer and
then presided over the non-denominational memorial service held in Philadelphia
at Keneseth Israel in memory of George W. Childs who was a newspaper and public
benefactor in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Joseph Krauskopf the rabbi at Keneseth
Israel delivered an address that highlight Mr. Child’s philanthropic work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895:
Emily Speilman, the daughter of Sir Joseph Sebag-Montefiore and Adelaide
Sebag-Montefiore and her husband Sir Isidore Spielmann gave birth Adelaide
Cohen, Baroness Cohen the wife of Lionel Cohen, Baron Cohen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1895:
Three days after he had passed away, Benjamin Lazarus was buried today at the
“Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896:
More than 3,000 people are expected to attend tonight’s charity ball sponsored
by the Young Ladies and Gentlemen’s League of the Montefiore Home. This
ball is the successor to Purim balls which were a popular social and
fundraising event in New York City for many years. Among the expected
attendees are Mayor Strong and Governor Morton.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1896:
Birthdate of Portsmouth, VA native Moses Abraham Jacobson, the 1916 graduate of
Virginian Polytechnic Institute, the holder of an M.S. in Agriculture from
Purdue University and a medical degree from the University of Chicago where he
pursued a career as a bacteriologist.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1898:
“London Literary Letter” published today described Israel Zangwill’s new novel
as being “a Jewish story” similar to the one that was his “first great
success.” Zangwill’s attendance at the “congress called to consider” “the
project of colonizing Palestine with Jews” means “that he intends to do more
than write stories of the Ghetto.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898:
It was reported today that David Christie Murray, the English author, “is
emulating Zola in taking up the defense of Dreyfus. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898:
Picquart is dismissed from the Army.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1898:
Emile Zola appeals his conviction.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5659) Shushan Purim – the 15<sup>th</sup> of Adar fell on Shabbat<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1899:
Two days after she had passed away, Bamberg, Germany native Caroline Zimmer,
the wife of Nathan L.D. Zimmer and mother of David, Menki and Rebecca Zimmer
was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899:
The children attending the religious school at Congregation B’nai Jershurun on
the corner of 65<sup>th</sup> Street and Madison Avenue celebrated Purim today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899:
Two days after he had passed away, Amsterdam native Henry Waas, the husband of
Mariam Waas with whom he had had nine children was buried today at “Plashet
Jewish Cemetery” in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899:
In Syracuse, NY, Rabbi and Mrs. Simon J. Finkelstein gave birth to Columbia Law
School and Harvard Law graduate Dr. Maurice Finkelstein, a member of the St.
John’s faculty from 1926 until his death in 1957 and the father of Helen and
James Finkelstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900:
Birthdate of Syracuse University college football star and Medal of Freedom
winner Harry Herbert, the director of the support and development services the
National Jewish Welfare Board and husband of “the former Marian Seltzer” with
whom he had one daughter Joanne Shebes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jta.org/1974/10/09/archive/harry-herbert-dead-at-74-was-active-in-jwb-and-jdc"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jta.org/1974/10/09/archive/harry-herbert-dead-at-74-was-active-in-jwb-and-jdc</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901:
Birthdate of Aharon Zisling, the native of Minks who helped to found Youth
Aliyah, the Palmach and Ahdut HaAovoda and was Israel’s first Minister of
Agriculture.<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;">1901: Maurice Weil, the German born son of
Marum and Malchen Weil who in 1884 came to the United States where founded Weil
Kalter Manufacturing company, married Paula Kalter today and later became an
active leader in the St. Louis, MO Jewish community as can be seen by his
founding of the Jewish Loan Association of St. Louis, and serving as a director
of the Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Federation of Charities,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a name="_Hlk65082933"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: In Bucharest, Adolf Feldstein and his
wife gave birth to Portland, OR resident Leon Feldstein who in 1908 came to the
United States where he eventually married Esther Gumbert opened Hollywood
Furniture, “where he worked until he retired.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65082933;"></span><a href="https://www.ojmche.org/oral-history-people/leon-feldstein/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65082933;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.ojmche.org/oral-history-people/leon-feldstein/</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65082933;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65082933;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1902:
In Vienna, Ida Wolf and Siegfried Reginald Wolf gave birth to Irma Wolf.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1903:
Rabbi Kaummann Kohler was elected to the presidency of Hebrew Union College in
Cincinnati, Ohio.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1903:
Leopold Greenberg arrives in Brindisi and sends a short telegram whose
obscurity of wording strikes dismays Herzl.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1903:
A paper by Victor Rosewater was read at The National Convention on Municipal
Ownership and Public Franchises which is meeting at the Reform Club in New York
City. Rosewater was arguing for the ownership of electric lighting plants
by municipalities. Rosewater was the editor of the Omaha (Nebraska) Daily Bee,
an important Republican political leader and an active member of the Jewish
community.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904:
It was reported today that David Blaustein of the Educational Alliance will be
one of the speakers at the upcoming meeting of the University Settlement
Society of New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904:
Today Saks and Company advertised that it “Spring Topcoats for Men” at prices
from $12.50 to $38.00.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1905(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar I, 5665):</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Abraham Adolphe Sée the
attorney who “president of the Jewish consistory of Colmar and was “the brother
of Marc Sée and Gustave Sée” passed away today in Paris.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905:
In Galicia, Naftaili and Sarah Pearl Taubes gave birth NYU graduate and JTS
trained rabbi, Morris Aaron Gutstein who in 1921 came to the United States where
he led “the famed Touro Synagogue of Newport, RI and then went on to Congregation
Shaare Tikvah in Chicago “which he led for twenty-four years” while producing serval
noteworthy articles, teaching at the Spertus College of Judaica and winning several
awards for his work one from Valley Forge’s Freedom Foundation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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.amazon.com/Books-Morris-Gutstein/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AMorris+A.+Gutstein">https://www.amazon.com/Books-Morris-Gutstein/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AMorris+A.+Gutstein</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906:
<i>The New York Times</i> reported that the Motor Yacht Club of Great Britain
has received two challenges from E.J. Schroeder of New York, owner of the
Dixie, to compete in races for the Hamsworth Cup and the International Cup
which was won last year by Napier II, a vessel owned by Lord Montague and
Lionel Rothschild.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906:
“The Jewish congress for the attainment of full civil and political rights of
Jews which met” secretly in St. Petersburg “decided to participate in the
elections for members of the National Assembly and to for a party to defend the
interests of the Jewish masses.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907:
Birthdate of Cyrus Sol “Cy” Malis the native of Philadelphia who pitched in one
game for the hometown Phillies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908:
Birthdate of Bridgeport, CT native Yale trained microbiologist and Boston
University trained physician Louis Weinstein. (As reported by Lawrence K.
Altman)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/21/health/louis-weinstein-92-infectious-disease-expert.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/21/health/louis-weinstein-92-infectious-disease-expert.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909:
Birthdate of Claude Cahen a native of Parish who was “a specialist in the
studies of the Islamic Middle Ages, Muslim sources about the crusades and the
social history of the medieval Islamic Society.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910:
Today, the board of commissioners of the City Park received a letter from Isaac
Delgado,” “a Kingston, Jamaica-born Jew who came to New Orleans as a young man
and made a fortune dealing in sugar and molasses” “tendering to it a donation a
sum of $150,000 for the erection of a building where objects of art may be
collected through gifts or loans and where exhibits can be held from time to
time by the Art Association of New Orleans…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910:
In Germany, Isaac Plaut, the German born son of Simon and Lina Plaut, and his
wife Sophie Plaut gave birth to Julius Plaut<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911:
Today’s final session of the Jewish Kehilla of New York which has “238
constituent organizations including 138 congregations, 58 lodges, 44
educational and benevolent society and 3 federations” closed today “with the
election of seventy-nine members of the Executive Committee and the Advisory
Council.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5672): Sixty-one-year-old Manheim, Germany native Ernst Thalmmann who
in 1867 at the age of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>16 came to the
United State where he became a member of several exchanges including the NYSE
and the Cotton and Produce Exchange of New York while rising to being a “senior
member of Landenburg, Thalmann and Company, one of the leading international
banking houses” in New York and serving as a Trustee of the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912:
Forty-six-year-old Columbia Law School graduate and Republican New York State
Attorney General Julius Mayer 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 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5673): Seventy-seven-year-old, the president of William Sicher Dry
Goods Compan who had come to St. Louis in 1852 and was a member of Share Emeth
Hebrew Congregation passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-william-sicher-2/12014315/">https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-william-sicher-2/12014315/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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=william+sicher.+st.+louis&sca_esv=3020367edbd259b4&ei=e63bZaGeBauKp84Pss68-Ao&oq=William+Sicher.+st.+&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiFFdpbGxpYW0gU2ljaGVyLiBzdC4gKgIIADIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABSLVBUI8JWKYxcAR4AJABAJgBdKABtQaqAQM2LjO4AQHIAQD4AQGYAg2gAs0GwgIJEAAYBxgeGLADwgIIEAAYgAQYsAPCAgcQABgeGLADwgIGEAAYFhgemAMAiAYBkAYGkgcEMTAuMw&sclient=gws-wiz-serp">https://www.google.com/search?q=william+sicher.+st.+louis&sca_esv=3020367edbd259b4&ei=e63bZaGeBauKp84Pss68-Ao&oq=William+Sicher.+st.+&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiFFdpbGxpYW0gU2ljaGVyLiBzdC4gKgIIADIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABSLVBUI8JWKYxcAR4AJABAJgBdKABtQaqAQM2LjO4AQHIAQD4AQGYAg2gAs0GwgIJEAAYBxgeGLADwgIIEAAYgAQYsAPCAgcQABgeGLADwgIGEAAYFhgemAMAiAYBkAYGkgcEMTAuMw&sclient=gws-wiz-serp</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a name="_Hlk159766770"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1913: Dr. Nathaniel I. Rubinkam is scheduled to
deliver a lecture on “Faust” this evening at the Chicago Hebrew Institute.</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914:
“Five hundred unemployed Jewish garment workers held a mass meeting presided
over by M.B. Martin which sent a telegram to President Wilson demanding jobs
for the 150,000 unemployed workers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914:
This evening, a group of unemployed Jewish workers marched to City Hall in
Chicago where M.B. read the following “Resolved, The unemployed Jews of
Chicago, comprising a part of the 150,000 jobless army, demand a job.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914:
“While a stormy meeting of depositors of the failed bank of Henry Siegel Co.
was being held in the temporary headquarters of the bank at 43 West Thirteenth
Street” today, “preferred stockholders of the Siegel Stores Corporation at the
Hotel Astor, discussed their standing and the plan for reorganizing the New
York stores.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5675): Seventy-year-old Rosalie Steiner Schonberger, the Hungarian
born daughter of Hannah Heller Steiner and the wife of Herman Schonberger
passed away today after which she buried at the Hungarian Union Field Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1915:
For a second day, the Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments
concerning the granting of a writ of habeas corpus in the case of Leo M. Frank
who was found guilty of murdering a factory girl in 1913 in a courtroom
“pervaded by mob spirit.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1915:
Arguments before the Supreme Court of the United States on the appeal of Leo M.
Frank from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus by a Federal District Came to
an end this afternoon” when Louis Marshall concluded his speech for the defense
and Attorney General Grice and Solicitor General Dorsey argued for the State of
Georgia</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1916:
Henry Morgenthau, the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, who has just returned from
Constantinople, is to be honored today by the public at the Great Hall of the
College of the City of New York. Cleveland H. Dodge, acting on behalf of
the Mayor, is chairman of the committee sponsoring the event. Among the
speaks will be Mayor Mitchell, Bishop Greer, Oscar S. Straus, Rabbi Wise John
H. Finley, President Sidney E. Mezes and Ambassador Morgenthau himself.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
Birthdate of award-winning composer Mordecai Seter. Born in Russia, he
moved to Palestine in 1923 where he spent the rest of his life. Among his
earliest work was <i>The Sabbath Cantata</i>, patterned after Renaissance
music. Several of his most important works included Biblical
themes. These included music for the ballet <i>Judith</i> commissioned by
Martha Graham <i>Jephthah’s Daughter</i> commissioned for the Bat Sheva Dance
Company and a symphony simply entitled <i>Jerusalem</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917:
A. M. Sharp is scheduled to lead the daily service at Temple Emanu-El where Dr.
Enelow will speak on “The Jewish Characteristics of Jesus.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1917:
As the Romanoff dynasty hurtled towards its final days, with all that that
meant for the Jewish people, Tsar Nicholas “order the Duma to close down” today</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5678): As World War I enters its final year, Jews celebrate Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918:
“A memorial meeting in honor of the late Dr. Henry M. Leipziger” the long time
“Supervisor of Lectures in the public schools was held” tonight “at Temple
Emanu-El under the auspices of the Judeans, an organization which he had been
President for many years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native Mason Adams the multi-talented actor whose most
famous role was as the anonymous voice of Smucker jams and jellies which ended
with his tagline - "With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1920:
“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” “a silent horror film…written by Hans Janowitz
and Carl Mayer” was released in Germany today.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1920:
Major General Louis Bols, the Officer Administering the Government of
Palestine, issued an official proclamation that the British government intended
to carry out the terms of the Balfour Declaration</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 1920:
Birthdate of Tony Randall. Born Leonard Rosenberg in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
Randall is best remembered for his role as Felix Unger in the television
version of <i>The Odd Couple. </i> Randall often played light comedic
roles in the movies but in reality, he was an accomplished actor and very
urbane, cultured individual. During the 1950’s, Randall lived near the
Met. In the evening he would take around the neighborhood often stopping
in to catch the last two or three acts of that evening’s opera. As Ed
Murrow said when visiting Randall’s apartment during “Person to Person,”
Randall’s apartment was not only filled with books, but Randall had actually
read the books.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5681): Parashat Ki Tisa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5681): Thirty-year-old Russian born Professor of Philosophy and the
Talmud in the Jewish Theological Seminary Dr. Wilfred Phineas Kotkov, a
graduate of the University of Chicago, Dropsie College and JTS passed away
tonight from the injuries he “received when attacked by four hold-up men on”
February 24<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922:
It was reported today that according to the will of Alfred S. Heidelbach, the
“well-known banker of New York, London and Paris” who had passed away on
February 1, he has given $150,00 to Mount Sinai Hospital to endow the Alfred
and Julie Heidelbach ward” and left “bequests of $5,000 each are left to the
Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923:
It was reported today that three thousand people had filled Sinai Congregation
to attend the memorial services which were held in memory the late Emil G.
Hirsch who had served the as the rabbi for the Chicago congregation for 43
years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924:
Carlos and Elizabeth, a silent film produced and directed by Richard Oswald (born
Richard Ornstein) and starring Conrad Viet who “his new Jewish wife Ilona
Prager left Germany in 1933 after the Nazis came to power” was released today
in Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924:
The trial against Hitler began in Munich. Hitler was on trial for
his part in attempted coup that began in a Munich Beer Hall. The coup
failed. Hitler was found guilty and sent to jail. While in jail, he
wrote <u>Mien Kampf</u>. He was treated like a celebrity while in jail
and came out stronger politically than when he went in.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925:
Seventy-four-year-old James Edgar who as U.S. Senator from New Jersey succeeded
in getting the Senate to adopt a resolution in 1916 “asking the President to
set aside a day as Jewish relief day for Jewish war sufferers” passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1925:
As a sign of the growing power of the Nazi Party, The Völkischer Beobachter the
party’s official newspaper begins publishing again.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1926:
In London, David and Rose Pollack gave birth to Dr. William Pollack, who in
1980 along with his colleagues won the Lasker Award “for excellence in
biomedical research.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
In New York City, Isaac and Bertha Belack, Jewish immigrants from Russia, gave
birth to Doris Belack, the veteran actress known for her roles on “Law and Order”
and the hit comedy “Tootsie” who was also the wife of Philip Rose, the producer
of “A Raisin in the Sun.” (As reported by Paul Vitello)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
Fearing trouble now that students at Bucharest University have gone on strike
because the school has not acted to limit the number of Jewish students, the
government is having the streets of the city “patrolled by military policy” who
have orders to “prohibit” “all authorized gatherings.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
According to Menorah Journal Editor Henry Hurwitz, while in “the last century
many of the finest minds and spirits in Europe and America turned their backs
on Judaism, today, the intelligent Jew is seeking not avenues of but the road
to return to Judaism.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
According to reports published today, that according to H.J. Reit Chairman of
the Washington Heights section of the United Palestine Appeal, the organization
has reached its goal of $125,000 after raising $90,000 at its recent one
hundred dollar a plate dinner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926:
According to the official figures of the British Colonial Office published in
the United States today, “during 1925 a total of 33,801 Jewish immigrants
entered Palestine, 2,141 Jews emigrated from Palestine” for a “net increase in
the Jewish population for the year of 31,660.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1927:
Ten-year-old Yeudi Menuhin made his European debut as a soloist with the
Lamoureux Orchestra under the baton of Paul Paray in Paris</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928:
In Kfar Malal, Shmuel Scheinerman of Brest-Litovsk and Vera (née Schneirov)
Scheinerman of Mogilev gave birth to Ariel Scheinermann who would gain as
soldier-statesman Ariel Sharon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1929:
Birthdate of Breslev native and Glasgow University and LSE educated journalist
and author Chaim Icky Bermant, the son of a rabbi and husband of Judith Rose
Weil with whom he raised four children – Aliza, Evie, Azriel and Danie – who
was a regular contributor to the Jewish Chronicle and whose published works
included two autobiographies – <u>Genesis: A Latvian</u> <u>Childhood</u> and <u>Coming
Home.</u></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930:
Birthdate of pianist Lazar Berman. Born in Leningrad to Jewish parents,
he placed third in the piano competition at Budapest in 1956.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930:
Birthdate of Bronx native and DeWitt Clinton High graduate Donald R. Siegel who
gained fame as actor Don Devlin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930:
Moe Berg received his LL.B. today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930(28<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5690): Rabbi Samuel Isaac Andron, who for thirty years lived in New
York where he founded the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School and who had moved to
Palestine in 1922 passed away today in “Givoth Shaual.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=MIEzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA452&lpg=PA452&dq=Jacob+L.+Andron&source=bl&ots=ieUDqFW1Hc&sig=AUosYAFS3643Wavto3_vaavlFdk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjqroqtu-7fAhVLG6wKHe4SCR8Q6AEwAnoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=Jacob%20L.%20Andron&f=false">https://books.google.com/books?id=MIEzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA452&lpg=PA452&dq=Jacob+L.+Andron&source=bl&ots=ieUDqFW1Hc&sig=AUosYAFS3643Wavto3_vaavlFdk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjqroqtu-7fAhVLG6wKHe4SCR8Q6AEwAnoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=Jacob%20L.%20Andron&f=false</a> start on pg. 450<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931:
In Buffalo, grocery store owner Max Bernhard “and the former Katie Benatovich”
gave birth to Melvin Bernhard who gained fame as Tony and Pulitzer Prize
winning director Melvin Bernhardt. (As reported by Bruce Weber)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1931(9th
of Adar, 5691): Otto Wallach passed away at the age of 93. The German
born chemist was a veteran of the Franco-Prussian War and won the Nobel Prize
for Chemistry in 1910.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1932(19th
of Adar I, 5692): Yosef Chaim Zonnenfeld, or Sonnenfeld, passed away.
Born in 1848. He “was the Chief Rabbi and co-founder of the Edah HaChareidis,
Haredi Jewish community in Jerusalem, during the years of the British Mandate
of Palestine. He was originally given the name "Chaim", however, the
name "Yosef" was added to him while he experienced an illness.
Sonnenfeld was born in Verbó, Hungary (today: Vrbové, Slovakia). His father,
Rabbi Avraham Shlomo Zonnenfeld, died when Chaim was five years old. He was a
student of Rabbi Samuel Benjamin Sofer (the Ksav Sofer), the son of Rabbi Moses
Sofer (the Chasam Sofer). He was also a student of Rabbi Avraham Schag in
Kobersdorf (who was himself a disciple of the Chasam Sofer); Sonnenfeld moved
from the latter city to Jerusalem in 1873. He became an important figure in
Jerusalem's Old City, serving as the right-hand man of Rabbi Yehoshua Leib
Diskin and assisting the latter in communal activities, such as the founding of
schools and the Diskin Orphanage, and the fight against secularism. He refused
to meet with Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany who visited the Old City because he
believed that the Emperor was a descendant of the nation of Amalek. Sonnenfeld
sent a delegate, a former Dutch diplomat and writer who had become a baal
teshuva, Dr. Jacob Israël de Haan, to Jordan with a peace proposal for King
Abdullah.” Contrary to what some might have claimed, “he had a warm
relationship with and mutual respect for Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, although the
two were vigorous opponents in many areas. Indeed, in 1913 the two traveled
together to Northern Israel to try to return lapsed Jews to Torah Judaism.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1933:
Birthdate of Anglo-French financier Sir James Michael "Jimmy"
Goldsmith. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1933:
A program marking the sixtieth anniversary of the birth of Chaim <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Nachman Bialik</span>, national Hebrew poet,
was held this evening in the auditorium of the College of the City of New York.
Bialik’s birthdate was actually January 9, 1873.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1933(30<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5693): Rosh Chodesh Adar</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1933(30<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5693): Therese Loeb Schiff, the daughter of Solomon Loeb and the
wife of Jacob Schiff, who “organized a literary series for wealthy German
Jewish women, donated ten thousand dollars to the National Council of Jewish
Women to help cope with Jewish prostitution among young immigrant women, and
lectured for the Consumers League in support of protective legislation to end
child labor and the exploitation of women” passed away today.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1934:
<i>The New York Times</i> featured a review of “’The Dream of My People, a film
described as “a screen trip though Palestine with Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt”
produced by the Palestine-American Film Company now showing at the Acme Theatre
which is also showing “Lot in Sodom.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1935:
In violation of the Versailles Treaty, Hitler orders the rebuilding of the
Luftwaffe. This is one of the many times the West missed a chance to stop
Hitler’s march that would lead to the Holocaust.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935:
The Jerusalem Shopkeepers Association announced today that it will be
conducting a one day work stoppage next week in a “a protest against rising
rents and the refusal of the Municipal Council to pass a rent restriction law.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the Iowa native and longtime leader for the
emancipation of women, delivered an address today “before the women’s division
of the American Jewish Congress” said that Jews and Christians “together must
uphold the standard of individual rights” and “singled out Germany for
condemnation” because of “Nazi persecution of Jews, Catholics and Protestants.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5697): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937:
“Under the spur of Governor Lehman, the Senate Labor and Industry Committee
today reported the new Minimum Wage Bill” which be subject to a floor of the
New York State Legislature next week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5697): Sixty-six-year-old Pressburg Yeshiva graduate Aaron Tanzer, the
holder of a Ph.D. from the University of Berlin and the “chief rabbi of Tyrol
and Vorarlberg who served as Jewish Chaplain on the Eastern Front with the
German Army during WW I passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937:
Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman was among those who addressed the Women’s Committee of
the National Women’s Conference of Jews and Christians at the Hotel McAlpin
where the theme was “Woman’s Contribution to Better Human Relations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5698): Parashat Vayakhel and Shabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1938:
“Penrod and His Twin Brother” a comedy featuring Jay Adler, the eldest son of
Jacob and Sara Adler as “Johnson” was released today in the United States.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1938:
In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a meeting of the pro-Nazi German-American Volksbund
ends in a riot. (A meeting like this in America’s heartland provides part of
the background around which FDR made his decisions about the Jews of Europe
This is not an excuse. It is an explanation.)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
The first in a series of sponsored by the New Friends of Music featuring the
first of five symphonies, each of which has been verified “as the work of the
Austrian master by Dr. Alfred Einstein who has restored them to their original
form” is scheduled to place today in Carnegie Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1939:
Jews held protest demonstrations in Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel Aviv, and several of
the large kibbutzim this evening. The demonstrations were sparked by credible
reports from London that the British government intends to create an
independent Arab State in Palestine which will be structured in such a way to
ensure that Jewish people will be permanently relegated to “minority
status.” </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
Israel Rokach, the Mayor of Tel Aviv, sent a telegram to Colonial Secretary of
Malcolm MacDonald expressing the displeasure of the 150,000 citizens of his
city over what is reported to be the British decision to turn Palestine into an
Arab State in which Jews will permanently be a minority. He wrote
that “establishment of a Jewish National Home in the historic land of our
ancestors was accepted by fifty-two nations as a sacred trust” and the Jewish
people would never agree to accept this newly created permanent minority
status.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
Professor Max Lerner of Williams College is scheduled to deliver an address
today on “Is It Later Than You Think” at Temple B’nai Jeshurun<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
Tehilla Lichtenstein is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “The Uses of
Adversity” today at the Jewish Science Society<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939:
The sixth annual observance of Brotherhood Week which is sponsored by the
National Conference of Jews and Christians, and which has been endorsed by
President Roosevelt came to an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940:
It was learned today in Paris that “deportation of Jews to the Lublin
Reservation in Central Poland near the German-Soviet border has been resumed by
the Nazis” who have shipped “nearly one thousand men and women there from
Northern Germany. (Reservation – what a quaint way to describe a Ghetto)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1940:
In Brooklyn Anne Rosenberg and jewelry store owner Edward Drossman gave birth
toe Alfred University graduate Neil Arthur Drossman who gained fame as “ad
writer” Neil Drossman, “famous for his wit and word play” “who began his career
in copywriting at the tail end of the “Mad Men” era and went on to create some
of the most admired tag lines and campaigns in the history of the advertising
business” for such “products such as Meow Mix cat food, Einstein Moomjy
Carpets, Airwick air freshener and Chemical Bank.</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://adage.com/article/agency-news/neil-drossman-remembered-lee-garfinkel/2531671">https://adage.com/article/agency-news/neil-drossman-remembered-lee-garfinkel/2531671</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyjewishweek/p/C0utGC_ssLB/">https://www.instagram.com/nyjewishweek/p/C0utGC_ssLB/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1941:
On the second day of deportations, 1,349 Jews were shipped from Gora Klilwaria,
Poland today to Warsaw where they either perished or stayed alive long enough
to be sent to Treblinka. (As reported by Yad Vasehm)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941:
In the Netherlands, the citizens of Utrecht and Zaandam staged strikes
protesting Nazi raids on the Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1942:
Isidore Newman and Edward Zeff, two Jewish wireless operators with the SOE
began the trip that would end with them landing in Occupied France by take a
train to Bristol and then flying to Gibraltar. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942:
For twelve hours today, between midday and midnight, the Jewish population of
Palestine observed a voluntary stoppage of all commercial and business. During
this period all persons remained indoors in a self-imposed curfew, as a sign of
mourning for the loss of the more than 700 Jews who died when the Struma, sank
in the Black Sea north of the Bosporus. The Jewish passengers were trying to
escape from Nazi dominated Europe and settle in Palestine, something opposed by
the British and the Arabs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943
The French Jewish Representative Committee which is affiliated with the World
Jewish Congress issued a statement today calling for the “immediate and
complete restoration of rights to the Jews of North Africa following the
precedent established in other territories liberated from the Axis…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1943:
“More than 20,000 persons gathered” tonight “at 100 separate meetings
throughout metropolitan New York to protest against the Nazi persecution of the
Jewish people in Europe.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1944:
Birthdate of Ronald Steven Lauder “an American businessman, civic leader,
philanthropist, and art collector. Forbes lists Lauder among the richest people
of the world with an estimated net worth of $3.0 billion in 2007.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1944:
Primo Levy and Dr. Leonardo de Benedetti arrive at Auschwitz after a four day
trip from a detention camp at Fossoli in central Italy.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-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: Shooting begins of the Nazi propaganda film, "The
Fuhrer Gives a Village to the Jews" in Theresienstadt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">1945: Birthdate of Ohio native Stephen Allan “Steve” Hertz who
played five games for the National League Houston Colt .45s in 1964 and managed
the Tel Aviv Lightning in the Israel Baseball League. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-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: As they searched for those responsible for last night’s
attacks on three RAF airfields that destroyed and/or severely damaged 22
aircraft, British troops “seized 5,000 Jews today and imposed a paralyzing
night traffic ban throughout Palestine.” The British have already found the
body of a dead Jew near one of the airfields. The deceased is assumed to
have been one of the attackers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-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 Ephraim Sidon the Jerusalem born author of
satirical and children books now living in Tel Aviv who in 2004 “was a
co-recipient along with David Grossman and Haya Shenhav of the Bialik Prize for
literature.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jacketflap.com/ephraim-sidon/47232"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jacketflap.com/ephraim-sidon/47232</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5706): Seventy-seven-year-old Albany Law School graduate and “former
City Court Judge in Albany, Julius Illch, the son of Simon and Celia Illch, who
was “treasurer of the Albany Jewish Social Service, a trustee of Temple Beth
Emeth and a past president of the Capital District Court B’nai B’rith” passed
away today in Coronado, CA while in vacation after which he was buried at the
Beth Emeth Cemetery in Albany County, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">1946: “Inveterate Los Angeles Gambler, publicist and nightclub
owner W.R. ‘Billy Wilkerson’” who had “bought a thirty-three-acre site between
the El Rancho Vegas and the airport” “signed a contract with (Meyer) Lansky’s
agent, Harry Rothberg, for a syndicate of investors to buy 60 percent of
Wilkerson’s property for one million dollars. (The Mob meaning Lansky and Bugys
Siegel, would completely buy-out Wilkerson)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">1946: A resolution is scheduled to be introduced today in the
United States Senate that would call for a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“Congressional investigation of the Palestine
situation…The measure calls for a joint House-Senate committee to be sent to
the Holy Land to investigate conditions there and report its findings to
Congress.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
Jacob and Niza Gabbai arrived in New York from Palestine today. The
couple is here to continue their education. The Gabbais were married in
Tel Aviv in 1944 while Mr. Gabbai, who was serving with the Jewish Brigade of
the British Army, was home one leave. After the war, Mr. Gabbai became
co-editor of the <i>Maavak</i> (Struggle), “a publication of the Young
Palestinian League in Tel Aviv, which seeks to integrate the country’s cultural
resources.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948:
Members of the Irgun and the Haganah “clashed tonight in the center of Tel
Aviv.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948:
“Former Governor Herbert Lehman and Senator Charles Tobey, the New Hampshire
Republican were among the speakers at a meeting of 400 delegates representing
62 organizations which demanded the “implementation of the United Nations
decision on the partition of Palestine.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1949:
“I Shot Jesse James” a low budget western directed by Samuel Fuller and
featuring J. Edward Bromberg as “Harry Kane” was released in the United States
today.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1950:
Leonard Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety" premiered in New York City.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951:
Monnett B. Davis presented his credentials as the U.S. Ambassador to Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1951:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native and U. Cal, Berkley, Ph.D. Michael Scott Kimmel
the Stony Brook University Sociology Professor and “spokesperson of the
National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS) who ironically has been
accused of “sexual harassment, bullying and academic conduct while remaining
married to Journalism professor Amy Aronson.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5713): Ta’anit Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1953<b>:
</b><i>The Jerusalem Post</i> reported that an agreement on the future status
of the Haifa Refineries was initialed by the representatives of the government,
the Consolidated Refineries Ltd. and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Ltd. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1953<b>:
</b><i>The Jerusalem Post</i> reported that the fourth anniversary of the
liberation of Eilat was celebrated by a military parade attended by President
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, and "a show of local achievements."</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954: In
New Haven, CT, Helen (née Gubin) and George Bolotin gave birth to Michael
Bolotin the younger brother of Orrin and Sandra Bolotin who gained fame as singer
and actor Michael Bolton and who won the Grammy in 1990 and again in 1992 as
the Male, Best Pop Vocal Performance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar I, 5714): Sixty-eight-year-old Ukraine born Yiddish author and HIAS
staff member David Ignatoff, the husband of Minnie Radnitz Ignatoff with whom
he had two children passed away today in Brooklyn. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/02/27/84109362.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/02/27/84109362.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=33701"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=33701</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://yiddishkayt.org/view/ignatoff/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://yiddishkayt.org/view/ignatoff/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1954:
Birthdate of Yuli Tamir the veteran of “Aman” who has served as an MK and held
various ministerial posts.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1955:
Final performance of “Peter Pan” a musical version the 1904 play “Peter Pan:
with music by Mark Charlap and Jule Styne with lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, Betty
Comden and Adolph Green. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957:
The Diary of Anne Frank, which had been running on Broadway at the Cort Theatre
since October 1955, re-opened at the Ambassador Theatre after it had left the
Cort four days ago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957:
In Jerusalem, Geula Cohen, a prominent member of the 1940s underground group
Lehi and later MK for Likud and Tehiya and Immanuel Hanegbi, was the Operations
Officer for the Lehi gave birth to MK, cabinet member and security expert
Yitzhak “Tzachi” Hanegbi<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5718): Eighty-seven-year-old “American illustrator and anarchist
Modest Stein, the Kovno born son of pharmacist Laza Aronstam, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the husband of photographer Marcia Mishkin and
father of Luba Stein who in 1888 came to the United States were he joined his
cousin Alexander Berkman as a member of the “Jewish anarchist group, the
Pioneers of Liberty” before becoming “a successful pen and ink artist for the
New York World, New York Sun, and other New York newspapers” and finding “even
greater success as an illustrator for periodicals such as Argosy, and drew
numerous covers for other pulp magazines including The Cavalier, All-Story
Weekly, and People's Favorite Magazine” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/thelivingshadow/images/3/3b/Shadow_Magazine_Vol_1_265.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121129231826"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/thelivingshadow/images/3/3b/Shadow_Magazine_Vol_1_265.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121129231826</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5719): Eighty-five-year-old 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 passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961:
Fifty-one-year-old Mohammed V, the Sultan of Morocco, who according to Meredith
Hindley, found Vichy’s laws pertaining to Jews “appalling” and did what he
could given his limited power, to ameliorate their affect, passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1961(10<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5721): Sixty-five-year-old Uberto De Morpurgo, the son of Julius Baron
von Morpurgo and Mary Catherine and husband of Claire Clara Maria de Morpurgo who
was Italy’s leading male tennis player during the 1920’s passed away today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar I, 5722): Eighty-three-year-old Riga native Rabbi Harris M. Lazarus,
the longtime “minister at the Brondesburgy Synagogue in northwestern London”
and “who was acting Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth from 1946 to 1948”
passed away today in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/02/27/81785586.html?pageNumber=33"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/02/27/81785586.html?pageNumber=33</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jta.org/archive/rabbi-lazarus-former-deputy-chief-rabbi-of-britain-dies-in-london"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jta.org/archive/rabbi-lazarus-former-deputy-chief-rabbi-of-britain-dies-in-london</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1964:
“He Rides Tall” a western with a musical score by Irving Getz was released
today in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a name="_Hlk65076096"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1967(16<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5727):
Seventy-five-year-old Shaker Heights resident Louis Gottlieb, the Polish born
son of Ida Ravitz and Morris Gottlieb and the husband of Clara Gottlieb with
whom he had three children – Lillian, Florence and Harvey – passed away today
after which he was buried at Bet Olam Cemetery in Beachwood, OH. (Some sources
show February 24)</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65076096;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65076096;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968(26<sup>th</sup>
Shevat, 5728): Sixty-seven-year-old Harvard trained physician Joel J. Pressman,
the Philadelphia born sone of Peter and Rose Pressman, the husband of movie
star Claudette Colbert and World War II flight surgeon who was “an authority on
the larynx passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5729): Seventy-year-old orthopedic surgeon and World War II veteran
Philip Palew, the husband of Dr. Stephanie Shick Palow passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1969(8th
of Adar, 5729): Levi Eshkol passed away. Eshkol is one of the ironic
characters in Jewish History. He was the Prime Minister sandwiched in
between such giants as David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir. Yet this
comparative political non-entity was the Prime Minister in 1967. He was
the one who made the decisions that saved the state in those fateful days of
May and June. And he was the Prime Minister who reunited Jerusalem
and reclaimed the City of David.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://research.haifa.ac.il/~eshkol/index.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://research.haifa.ac.il/~eshkol/index.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970:
“Beverly Hills developer Louis Lesser filed suit in San Diego Superior Court
today claiming half interest in the estimated $100 million Rancho Los
Penasquitos Inc. development company.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970:
“Georgy” “a musical with a book by Tom Mankiewicz, lyrics by Carole Bayer”
opened today at the Winter Garden Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970:
“The Dreyfus Fund announced today that Howard Stein, who has been president had
been given the additional office, of chairman.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5732): Parashat Tetzaveh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5732): Eighty-four-year-old Margarete Caecilie Tietz, the Berlin born daughter
of Albert Ariel Dzialoszynski, a Jewish wholesaler from Kępno, and his wife
Emma Sarah Meyermann, who came from Vilnius, the wife “Cologne merchant Alfred
Leonhard Tietz and the daughter-in-law of the department store founder Leonhard
Tietz who was active in a number of social improvement organizations in Germany
during WW I and post-war Germany, who fled to Palestine when the Nazis came to
power and who eventually settled in the United States passed away today in
London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973(24<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5733): Eighty-five-year-old Nathan Kolko, the Polish born son of
Solomon and Rose Goldstock Kolko, and the husband of Sarah Alpert Kolko passed
away today after which he was buried in the Britton Road Cemetery in Greece,
NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1974:
At its founding convention The American Sephardi Federation announced its
goals: First to revitalize Sephardi heritage, and second to provide for aid the
underprivileged population in Israel.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974(4<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5734): Five days after his 68<sup>th</sup> birthday Alameda CA born,
Cal Berkley Law School grad Tevis Jacobs, the “senior partner in Jacobs, Sills
and Coblentz,” and active member of Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco who
for 38 years was the husband of children’s right advocate Jill Jacobs and the
father of Diane, Leatrice, Lori and Stephen Jacobs passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jweekly.com/1999/10/22/jacobs-advocate-for-children-s-rights-dies-at-85/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.jweekly.com/1999/10/22/jacobs-advocate-for-children-s-rights-dies-at-85/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5735): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5735): Ninety-four-year-old Annie Elizabeth (Wannamaker) Strauss, the
wife of Mordechai A. Strauss and daughter-in-law of Amelia and Alfred Abraham
Strauss passed away today and after she was buried in Orangeburg, S.C.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5737): Parashat Terumah; Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5737): Eighty-nine-year-old Wharton graduate Morton Gustavus
Thalhimer, the Richmond born son of Pauline and Gustavus Thalhimer and husband
of Ruth Wallerstein Thalhimer passed away today after which he was buried in
the Hebrew Cemetery in his hometown.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5738): Parashat Ki Tisa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5738): Joan Colb Fried, the mother of Leanna Belson and Yael Fried
passed away today in Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1978:
“Deathtrap” written by Ira Levin debuted on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre
with Marian Winters in the role of “Helga ten Dorp,” a part that she would stop
playing in October when she was diagnosed with Cancer that would claim her
life.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5738): Eighty-one-year-old Vilna native Menahem G. Glenn who in 1914
came to the United States where he graduated from Columbia and earned a Ph.D.
from Dropsie Colle while pursuing a career as a Yiddish author, poet and
journalist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/09/menakhem-gershon-glen-menahem-g-glenn.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/09/menakhem-gershon-glen-menahem-g-glenn.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980:
Egypt and Israel exchanged ambassadors for the first time. This was
one of the tangible outcomes of the historic Sadat - Begin Peace
Accords. While the peace may have turned out to be a cold one, the
peace has held. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980:
An Off-Broadway production of “Biography” written by S.N. Behrman opened at
Stage 73.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1982:
It was reported today that Labor Party chairman Shimon Peres had “told the
party’s Central Committee that he had responded negatively to a letter from
Begin because he believed that before there could be any talk of a national
unity government there had to be a debate on a joint policy.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5742): Sixty-two-year-old Vilnius born Rutgers Ph.D. “Arcadius Kahan,
the professor of economics and history at the University of Chicago” who had
two daughters – Vivian and Miriam – with his wife Pearl passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/01/obituaries/arcadius-kahan-a-professor-of-economics-at-chicago-u.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/01/obituaries/arcadius-kahan-a-professor-of-economics-at-chicago-u.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984:
Reverend Jesse Jackson acknowledged that he called New York City,
"Hymietown". What can I say? Twenty years later we get Mel
Gibson and his dad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984:
ABC broadcast the first half of “Lace” a two part min-series featuring June
Brown as “Mrs. Trelowney.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1986:
Seventy-four-year-old Czech jazz musician Karel Vlach who had “a day job as a
traveling salesman for Jewish notions firm until the German occupation made it
untenable” and who played with several Jewish musicians including Fritz Weiss
before the war when Weiss was ultimately shipped to his death at Auschwitz
passed away today.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1987:
Israeli officials contended tonight that the Tower Commission had played down
the Israeli role in the Iranian arms deal as secondary to that of the United
States. ''At first glance, it doesn't seem to stress especially the role of
Israel; we are not being blamed,'' said Avi Pazner, spokesman for Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir. ''But that's at first glance, and we have to study it
in depth.'' Unofficially, Government members appeared generally relieved that
the report did not disclose any involvement deeper than that already attributed
to Israeli officials and middlemen.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1987(27<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat): Eighty-three-year-old Fredric R. Mann, an industrialist and patron
of the arts who helped finance music centers in Philadelphia and Tel Aviv, died
of cancer this morning in Miami. (As reported by Tim Page)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/27/obituaries/fredric-r-mann-arts-patron.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/27/obituaries/fredric-r-mann-arts-patron.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988:
Secretary George Shultz is scheduled to meet with Israeli leaders today in an
attempt to promote the Bush Administration’s latest peace proposals for the
Middle East.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988:
“Alien From L.A.” a sci-fi thriller produced by Yoram Globus was released in
the United States today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1988:
“Frantic” a fast-paced mystery directed by Roman Polanski was released in
France and the United States today.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1988:
Settlers from the West Bank demonstrated in Jerusalem today outside the office
where Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was meeting with Secretary of State George
P. Shultz at the start of a new Middle East peace drive. The demonstrations
stood in stark contrast to the expression of other Israelis, notably Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres, who are willing to consider trading occupied land for
peace. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1988:
Naum Meiman a 77-year-old Soviet Jew who battled for 13 years to leave the
Soviet Union embraced his daughter when he arrived in Israel today. Mr. Meiman
hugged his daughter, Olga Plam, 50, of Boulder, Colo., who left the Soviet
Union 14 years ago and had not seen her father since then. Meiman, who is
a mathematician, said, “Some of us managed to get out. Many are still left
behind.'' Soviet authorities said they delayed Mr. Meiman's emigration request
because of his ''access to state secrets.'' Mr. Meiman had worked on classified
calculations in 1955.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1989:
In an article entitled “Design: Imagine This,” Carol Vogel describes architect
Ron Arad's gallery and office including the small back room in which the
architect is drafting his design for the new opera house in Tel Aviv.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1991:
The Bank of Israel said today that it would permit foreign companies to issue
stocks and bonds on the Tel Aviv stock exchange. But the amount of money a
foreign concern could take out of the country would be limited to 20 percent of
any new issue. Previously the central bank had turned down applications by
foreign firms to issue shares on the stock market. The change of policy
"will make the Israeli stock market more international," said Gideon
Schurr, speaking for the Bank of Israel."Now we need local investments,
not Israeli investments abroad."</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993:
In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade
Center explodes, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand. One of the bombers
claimed the attack was in retaliation for American support of Israel. The
bombers were later found to be connected with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993:
“Leon the Pig Farmer, “a British comedy starry Mark Frankel and Janet Suzman
was released today in the United Kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104710/">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104710/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1993(5<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5753): Sixty-four-year-old Carol Solomon author of <u>Report from the
Asylum: Afterthoughts of a Shock Patient</u>, “an account of the shock-therapy
treatment used to treat patients in asylums, drawn directly from personal
experience.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5754): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994:
Eight-six-year-old Sofka Skipwith, the Russian émigré and Communist who was
honored by Yad Vashem for saving Jews during the Shoah passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/righteous-women/skipwith.asp"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/righteous-women/skipwith.asp</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sofka-skipwith-1427738.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sofka-skipwith-1427738.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1994:
The Peace Now supporters rallied tonight in central Jerusalem, demanding an
independent inquiry into the Friday massacre and an evacuation of the 400
Jewish settlers living in overwhelmingly Arab Hebron.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1994:
Palestinians rioted and fought with Israeli soldiers across the occupied
territories and in predominantly Arab towns in Israel today to protest the
massacre here on Friday of at least 40 Arab worshipers by a Jewish settler.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1996(6th
of Adar, 5756): Mieczysław Weinberg passed away. Born in Warsaw in 1919, he
moved to Moscow in 1943. He lived and composed in the Soviet Union for
the rest of his life. His musical virtuosity did not keep him from being
arrested during the period Stalin’s “Doctor Plot.” (He left a large body of
work that included twenty-two symphonies and seventeen string quartets;
according to one reviewer he ranked as, "the third great Soviet composer,
along with Prokofiev and Shostakovich".[1</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999:
Jewish American cultural historian Maurice Berger when writing in the Los
Angeles Times about “the flap at Inglewood High School over Black History Month
and Cinco de Mayo observances” reminder readers that “that history can be a
valuable force for social change.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000:
‘After a lull of close to a week, fighting resumed in south Lebanon” with Israeli
warplanes firing six rockets and an exchange of ground fire near the Israeli
border where “a mortar shell landed in a field in northern Israel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001:
In Israel, the Labor Party joined a coalition government with Ariel Sharon as
Prime Minister, Shimon Peres as Foreign Minister and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer as
Minister of Defense.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5762): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002:
“Two pregnant women one Palestinian, the other Israeli -- gave birth today
after being shot and wounded in separate attacks across their political divide,
as violence proceeded unabated the day after Israel decided to keep Yasir
Arafat confined to the West Bank city of Ramallah.” (As reported by James
Bennet)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002:
“The Bank of Israel raised its monthly benchmark interest rate for the first
time in more than three years in a bid to stem inflation, which has been
accelerated by a two-month slide in the shekel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2003:
The paperback edition of <u>1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castile</u>
part of the Jewish Latin America Series was published today</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2004:
A fourth Broadway revival of “Fiddler on the Roof” today and ran for 36
previews and 781 performances at the Minskoff Theatre in NYC.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2005(17th
of Adar I, 5765): Henry Anatole Grunwald an Austrian-born journalist and
diplomat perhaps best known for his position as managing editor of TIME
magazine and editor in chief of Time, Inc passed away today. (As reported by
Richard Severo)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/business/media/27grunwald.html?scp=1&sq=Henry+Grunwald&st=nyt"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/business/media/27grunwald.html?scp=1&amp;sq=Henry+Grunwald&amp;st=nyt</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2005(17th of Adar I, 5765): Sixty-one-year-old Jeff Raskin an
America human-computer interface expert best-known for starting the Macintosh
project for Apple Computer in the late 1970s passed away tody</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2005: In “The Morning After the Tel Aviv Bombing” Joseph M.
Hochstein provided a portrait of the indomitable will of the citizens of Tel
Aviv in the face of senseless slaughter.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.mideastweb.org/log/archives/00000337.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.mideastweb.org/log/archives/00000337.htm</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2006(28<sup>th</sup> of Shevat, 5766): Sixty-six-year-old artist
and photograph editor Sally C. Fox passed away.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch01175"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch01175</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jwa.org/thisweek/feb/26/2006/this-week-in-history-death-of-artist-and-photograph-editor-sally-fox"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://jwa.org/thisweek/feb/26/2006/this-week-in-history-death-of-artist-and-photograph-editor-sally-fox</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2006(28th of Shevat, 5766): Sir Hans Singer, a refugee from Nazi
Germany and a well-known British development economist, passed away.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2006: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In
“Betty Friedan's Enduring 'Mystique'”, published today Rachel Donadio describes
the importance of the writings and career of the recently deceased author and
feminist.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2006: <i>The Jerusalem Post</i> reported that Israel's two
chief rabbis, Rabbis Shlomo Amar and Yona Metzger have “questions” for the
Archbishop of Canterbury but will not cancel plans to meet the leader of
Britain's state church this May in light of the vote by the General Synod of
the Church of England to divest its shares in companies whose products are used
by the Israeli government in the territories.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2007: Members of Histadrut remained on the job giving authorities
more time to affect an immediate solution to the problem of salary debts in 40
local authorities. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007:
Starting today Diane Ravitch “participated in a ‘blog debate’ called ‘Bridging
Difference’ with Deborah Meier on the website of Education Week.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007:
“It was announced today that former Major League Baseball player Steve Hertz
would be the manager of the “Tel Aviv Lightning” a team in the Israel Baseball
League that would finish in second place at the end of the 2007 season.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2007:
Knesset members yesterday urged the legal authorities to explore ways of
indicting Professor Ariel Toaff over his book <u>Pasque di Sangue</u>, which
alleges a factual basis to a 15th-century blood libel.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2008: In New York, The Center for Jewish History and the American
Jewish Historical Society presents distinguished writer and journalist Janet
Malcolm reading from her stunningly perceptive work <u>Two Lives,</u> in which
she pursues the charmed life of famed literary couple Gertrude Stein and Alice
B. Toklas while living in a Vichy, France village and pursues the larger
question of biographical truth.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2008: <i>The New York Times</i> reports on the results of </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="msoDel"><del> </del></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">a survey of religious affiliation
by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://religions.pewforum.org/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://religions.pewforum.org/</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">. The
report indicates that the behavior of American Jews in terms of religious
affiliation may be more a function of their behavior as Americans as opposed to
their behavior as Jews. The report supports the bi-modal nature of
religious behavior in America – a quest for spirituality which is not
necessarily tied to usual patterns of denominational affiliation – which is
also apparent in the Jewish community.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2008(20th of Adar I, 5768):</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black;">Lt. Gen. Dan
Shomron, a former chief of Israel’s general staff and the paratroop commander
who planned and led the storied 1976 raid in which Israeli troops freed 103
hijacked hostages at Entebbe Airport in Uganda, in Israel. He was 70. He was
the 13<sup>th</sup> Chief of Staff for the IDF.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2008:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: black;">Rabbi Charles A. Klein, a Conservative rabbi and for
the last 30 years the spiritual leader of the Merrick Jewish
Center-Congregation Ohr Torah,</span> <span style="color: black;">will be
installed today as the 59th president of the New York Board of Rabbis, the
world’s oldest and largest interdenominational rabbinical board.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2009:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: black;">Comedian and actor Eugene Mirman discusses and signs
his new book, <i><u>The Will to</u></i></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><u><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life</span></u></i><u><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">,</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> at Barnes
&amp; Noble in Georgetown.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2009: The Nineteenth Annual KOACH Kallah, sponsored by KOACH, the
college program of The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism opens at the
Brandeis-Bardin Campus of the American Jewish University in Simi Valley, CA.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2009: In Venezuela, assailants threw an explosive at a Jewish
community center today, but nobody was hurt which was the second assault
against Venezuela's Jewish community this year. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2009: Today Sergio Widder of the Los Angeles-based Simon
Wiesenthal Center criticized Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for failing to
take steps aimed at curbing anti-Semitism. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2010: U.S. premiere of “The Yellow Handkerchief” produced by
Arthur Cohen with music by Eef Barzelay.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2010: Harry Baron, the first Jewish justice to serve on the Irish
Supreme court whose wife Harriet had passed away 13 years ago, was laid to rest
today at “Dolphin’s Barn’s Jewish Cemetery.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2010:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: black;">Rabbi Barry Baron, co-Director of Jewish Welfare
Board is scheduled to lead Purim festivities and services at Fort Belvoir. </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2010:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: black;">Today's issue of <i>Haaretz Magazine</i> is scheduled
to publish the exclusive story of Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Sheikh Hassan
Yousef, a Hamas founder and one of its leaders in the West Bank, who served for
over a decade as the Shin Bet security service's most valuable source in the
militant organization's leadership.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2010(12<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5770): Eighty-eight-year Daniel
Kapilow, the “retired President of Teamster Local 966” and advocate for
providing aid to retired boxers who was predeceased by his wife Natalie with
whom he had two children – Susan and Gloria – passed away today.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2010:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: black;">ABC News President David Westin confirmed in an
interview today that the network's ranks of bureau correspondents, which
currently number several dozen, would be cut in half and be replaced with
"digital" journalists who would be expected to shoot and edit their
own stories. As part of the deep cuts announced this week at ABC News, the
network plans to close all of its physical bureaus around the country except
Washington and halve the number of its domestic correspondents.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2010(12 Adar, 5770):</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black;">Prof. David Bankier,
one of the world's most renowned Holocaust scholars who also served as the head
of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, died at
the age of 63 today after a four-year battle with cancer. </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/david-bankier-renowned-holocaust-scholar-dies-of-cancer-at-63-1.263945"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/david-bankier-renowned-holocaust-scholar-dies-of-cancer-at-63-1.263945</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2011:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
<i><span style="color: black;">Five Brothers</span></i><span style="color: black;">,
a film about a brotherhood of Algerian Jews living in France who rally to
defend themselves while avenging the memory of their murdered father, is
scheduled to be shown at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2011: In Iowa City, Benjamin Coelho and other local musicians are
scheduled to perform at Hillel’s Champagne &amp; Classical Evening, which
is a fundraiser for this vital part of the University Of Iowa and Iowa City
Jewish communities.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2011: In Fairfax, VA, the Olam Tikvah Mens Club is scheduled to
host its Judaism is for Lover’s Party.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2011: Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan is scheduled to perform as
part of the People’s Symphony Concerts in NYC.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2011:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: black;">Palestinians in Gaza reported today that IDF planes
hit targets in Gaza belonging to Islamic Jihad west of Khan Younis, but the IDF
did not confirm the Palestinian reports.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2011:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: black;">Iran and Syria have agreed to cooperate on naval
training, Reuters reported Iran’s official news agency saying today. </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2011(22<sup>nd</sup> Adar I, 5771): Eighty-nine year old “Judith
Coplon, a former Justice Department employee who became a sensation in 1949
when she was accused of being a Soviet spy” passed away today.(As reported by
Sam Roberts)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/us/02coplon.html?_r=0"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/us/02coplon.html?_r=0</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2011(22<sup>nd</sup> Adar I, 5771):</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black;">Arnost
Lustig, an acclaimed Czech author who drew on his own harrowing experiences as
a teenager in World War II to produce novels and short stories laced with tales
of young people who survive the Holocaust, passed away today the age of 84. (As
reported by Dennis Hevesi)</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/books/06lustig.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/books/06lustig.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2011(22<sup>nd</sup> Adar I, 5771):</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black;">Ora Eyal, one
of Israel’s most successful children’s book illustrators, whose work included
the Israeli classic “A Tale of Five Balloons,” passed away today at the age of
64. “Eyal was born in Jerusalem in 1946 and studied at the Bezalel Academy in
the city. She also worked as a translator from Italian. Eyal won the 1994 Ben
Isaac Prize for Illustration from the Israel Museum. She was awaiting delivery
of the final book she illustrated, “Everyone Went for a Trip,” just before she
died.” (As reported by the Eulogizer)</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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;">2011(22<sup>nd</sup> Adar I, 5771):</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black;">Howard R.
Johnston, 86, a retired lieutenant colonel, passed away today. A native of
Bruce Lake, Indiana, he spent 23 years on active duty, and was a combat veteran
of World War II, Korea and Vietnam. He was a senior aviator, qualified in fixed
and rotary wing aircraft, and a certified flight examiner. (As reported by the
Eulogizer)</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2012:
<i>The New York Times</i> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including “The Technologist” by Matthew Pear
and the recently released paperback edition of “Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s
Remarkable Rise and Fall — From America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of
Madness” by Frank Brady.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2012:
Today, the IDF is expected to open the southwest segment of a highway that
leads to Eilat for the first time since a terror attack near the border with
Egypt left 8 Israelis dead after having made major security improvements
including the erection of 23-foot-high fence. (As reported by Yoav Zitun)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2012:
“The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg” is scheduled to be shown at Temple
Beth-El in Poughkeepsie, NY</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2012:
“Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg” is scheduled to be shown at the Greater Phoenix Jewish
Film Festival in Scottsdale, AZ</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2012:
In London, Jeremy Ben-Ami, the founder and president of J Street and the author
of “A New Voice for Israel” and Jonathan Freedland who writes a weekly column
for <i>The Guardian </i>are scheduled to take part in a panel discussion
entitled “A New Voice for Israel” as part of Jewish Book Week.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2012:
The new edition of “IBM and the Holocaust” by Edwin Black will be released
today at a special Live Global Streaming Event at Yeshiva University’s Furst
Hall in New York. The Event can be seen at </span><a href="http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://hnn.us/articles/new-ibm-correspondence-about-holocaust-revealed-edwin-black"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://hnn.us/articles/new-ibm-correspondence-about-holocaust-revealed-edwin-black</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2012(3rd
of Adar): Anniversary of the completion of the Second Temple.
[Editor's Note – This ushers in one of the best periods in Jewish History; we
got to be Jewish and nobody tried to kill us! It is puzzling that we
celebrate the tragedy of the destruction of the Temple but do not celebrate the
joy of it completion. It is also puzzling that we celebrate an invented
moment in our history (Purim) and do nothing to celebrate a real moment of
joy.]</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2012:
One-hundred-one year old Canadian violinist Ethel Stark founder of the Montreal
Women’s Symphony Orchestra passed away.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishpubliclibrary.org/blog/?p=1296"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.jewishpubliclibrary.org/blog/?p=1296</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2012(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5772): Ninety-four-year-old Sol Schiff who so dominated his sport that
he was known as “Mr. Table Tennis” passed away today. (As reported by Dennis
Hevesi)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/sports/sol-schiff-mr-table-tennis-dies-at-94.html?hpw"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/sports/sol-schiff-mr-table-tennis-dies-at-94.html?hpw</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2012:
Workers at Haifa, Ashdod and Eilat ports called a general strike starting at 6
A.M. this morning, after overnight talks between representatives of the finance
and transportation ministries, leaders of the Histadrut labor federation and
workers’ committees failed to reach an agreement to prevent the strike. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2012:
Israeli aircraft bombed two targets in the southern Gaza Strip overnight, the
military said today. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2013:
</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“MAKERS: Women Who Make America,” which is
follow up to “Gloria Steinem: In Her Own Words” is scheduled to be shown on PBS
this evening</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2013((16<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5773):
Ninety-five-year-old Stéphane Hessel, the hero of the Resistance, concentration
camp survivor and French diplomat passed away.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/world/europe/stephane-hessel-author-and-activist-dies-at-95.html?hpw&_r=0"><span lang="EN" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/world/europe/stephane-hessel-author-and-activist-dies-at-95.html?hpw&amp;_r=0</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2013: The 92<sup>nd</sup> Street Y is
scheduled to host “Political Earthquake In The Middle East: Are There Any Good
Options For The U.S. and Israel” with Walter Russell Mead and Warren Kozak</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2013:</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #333333;">A rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip at Ashkelon early
this morning, breaking months of quiet between Israel and the Palestinian
enclave.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2013: US President Barack Obama will not
present a new peace initiative when he visits Israel and the Palestinian
territories next month, and instead is coming “to listen,” Secretary of State
John Kerry said today </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2014:
The Thaler Holocaust Committee under the leadership of Dr. Bob Silber is
scheduled to meet at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2014:
Author and newswoman Hoda Kotb is scheduled to talk about her memoir with
Jonathan Tisch at the 92<sup>nd</sup> Street Y.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2014:
Jordan warned today that it might review a 1994 peace treaty with Israel after
Israeli MPs began a debate on allowing Jewish prayers at Jerusalem’s sensitive
Temple Mount. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2014:
Yad Vashem recognized Sebastián Romero Radigales as Righteous Among the
Nations.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/es/righteous/stories/romero.asp&prev=/search%3Fq%3DSebastian%2Bde%2BRomero%2BRadigales,%26biw%3D1137%26bih%3D496"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=es&amp;u=http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/es/righteous/stories/romero.asp&amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3DSebastian%2Bde%2BRomero%2BRadigales,%26biw%3D1137%26bih%3D496</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2014:
“It was announced today that actress Jessica Lange would be the new face of <i>Marc
Jacobs Beauty </i>(He is Jewish – she isn’t)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2014:
Israeli troops along the border with Lebanon were on high alert tonight after
Hezbollah threatened action over what it said was an Israeli air raid</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2014:
Pulitzer-prize winning author Philip Schultz is scheduled to discuss <u>The
Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse </u>about a young man translating his mother
mother’s diaries that “concern the Jedwabne massacre.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><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 “The Hiding Place: A Queer Storytelling Tribute to the Diary of Anne
Frank.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
In New York, the Jewish Museum is scheduled to host 45 minute tours of the
exhibition “Unorthodox” led by the Museum’s docents.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Ten terrorist attack victims who won financial claims against Iran can seize a
$2.8 million judgment owed to that country’s Defense Ministry, a federal
appeals court said today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016:
“Feeling are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer” and “Cremator” are scheduled to
be shown at the 26<sup>th</sup> Washington Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2017(30<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5777): Rosh Chodesh Adar; for more see </span><a href="http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><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 books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including <u>Almost
Complete Poems</u> by Stanley Moss, <u>When Police Kill</u> by Franklin E.
Zimring, <u>A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the
Older</u> by Richard Haass and the recently released paperback edition of <u>Not
In God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence</u> by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
“Cloudy Sunday,” a film that tells “of a war-time romance in Thessaloniki
between a Jewish girls and a young resistance fighter” is scheduled to be shown
for the last time at JW3 in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2017:</span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Soprano Rachel
Joselson and pianist Rene Lecuona are scheduled to perform selections by
composers who were prisoners of Nazi Germany in Theresienstadt during the
Holocaust, including Viktor Ullmann, Adolf Strauss, Ilse Weber and Gideon
Klein at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Among those waiting to see if they will win an Oscar tonight are actress
Natalie Portman, actor Andrew Garfield and the creator of “Joe’s Violin.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/a-violin-thats-a-survivor/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/a-violin-thats-a-survivor/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
“The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936” – an exhibition that “explores whether a
controversial proposed boycott might have strengthened international resistance
to Nazi tyranny and how the Nazis used the games as propaganda to further their
agenda” is scheduled to come a close at California African American Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
Efraim Halevy, the ninth director of the Mossad is scheduled to be interviewed
by David Horovitz tonight at the Hirsch Theatre in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “An Evening with Wolf
Blitzer.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The Center for Jewish History and YIVO Institute are scheduled to host the
opening of the exhibition of “Jews in Space: Members of the Tribe in Orbit.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “An Evening with
Israeli Master-Mentalist Lior Suchard.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
“Prayer” is scheduled to be the topic for the interdenominational scripture
discussion group co-sponsored by the Oxford University Jewish Society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
The Jewish Women’s Group is scheduled to celebrate Purim at the Brody Center at
the University of Virginia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The “workshop at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture” on “Transdisciplinary
Perspectives in the Field of Jewish Cultural Studies” is scheduled to come to
an end today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
“The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Museum of
American Jewish History” are scheduled to host “Race and Society in Nazi
Germany and the US: From Swastika to Jim Crow” which will include “a film
screening that will explore the encounter between two groups targeted by
oppression, brutality, and forced segregation who were brought together by
World War II and racism in their societies” followed by a panel discussion
moderated by “Edna Friedberg, PhD, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Woman in Gold: A
Quest for Justice” during which “Helen Mirren, the star of ‘Woman in Gold,’
discusses “the ironic transformation of the portrait of a Jewish woman into an
Austrian national treasure…and the importance of pursuing truth.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
In San Francisco, the Jewish Community Library is scheduled to host a screening
of “Above and Beyond,” “a feature-length documentary, created from a mix of
archival footage and special effects from Industrial Light and Magic” that “tells
the story of WWII volunteer pilots, Jews and non-Jews alike, who risked
everything to defend Israel in its War of Independence in 1948.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019:
At Berkeley, CA, “UC Berkeley professor John Connelly is scheduled to discuss
Poland between World War I and the Nazi invasion” as part of the “Around Arthur
Szyk” lecture series.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
In Berkley, Congregation Netivot Shalom is scheduled to host a “Earth Seder
Workshop” during which Rabbi Ellen Bernstein shares the earthy wisdom of
Passover through her new Haggadah, “The Promise of the Land.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
Keren Ann is scheduled to host Avishai Cohen at the Tzidkiyahu Cave.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of
“Everytime We Say Goodbye” and the U.S. premiere of “The Final Hour.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
In San Rafael, CA, the Osher Martin JCC is scheduled to host a screening of
“Picture of His Life,” a “documentary that follows Amos Nachoum, an underwater
still photographer.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to Joanne Greenway, the Chief
Excutive of the London School of Jewish Studies as she talks about difficult
cases of “Get Refusal she worked on while with the London Beth Din.”<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(1<sup>st</sup> of Adar, 5780): Rosh
Chodesh Adar. <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: In London, Highgate Synagogue is scheduled
to host a Morning Service followed by a Megillah reading that will finished “by
8:10 a.m.”<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 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to begin hosting a virtual screening of “Here We Are” and “Love It
Was Not.”<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: In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah is
scheduled to host a virtual Purim Service and Megillah reading to which
congregants are encouraged to wear costumes.<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 final episode of “Losing Alice”
starring Ayelet Zurer as Alice is scheduled to be broadcast today.<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: Congregation B’nai Torah is scheduled to
present online a “Post Purim Shabbat Service” followed by a “Purim After Party
featuring comedian Orli Matlow.”<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: In Florida, Temple Judea is scheduled to
host a two-hour Noon Drive by Event where attended are encouraged to “bring
Matanot L’Evyonim.”<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: Israel’s Purim Pandemic Curfew which
began yesterday evening continues to be in effect today as part “an effort to
stop mass celebrations during the ongoing” health crisis.<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: Based on reports published yesterday, as
of today Israel will have halted shipment of vaccines to friendly nations
following a request for a clarification by Attorney General Mandelbit and
criticism from several sources including Defense Minister Ganz.<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(14<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5781): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2022: In New York, KnJ Theatre at Peridance is
scheduled to host <b>“</b>Am I, an evening-length solo performance
collaboration between choreographer Michael Getman and dancer Talia Paz.”</span><b><span style="font-family: Gisha, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022: The Eden-Tamir Center is scheduled to
host a Multipiano Ensemble with pianists Tomer Lev, Berenika Glixman, Nimrod
Meiri-Haftel and Alon Kariv<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;">2022: In another example of David and Goliath,
Ukrainian<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>President Volodymyr Zelensky
leads his country in the fight against invading Russian forces whose President,
oddly enough justifies his action as a response to a need for de-Nazification
which sounds hollow when you realize that Zelensky is Jewish.<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;">2022(25<sup>th</sup> of Adar I, 5782): Shabbat
Shekalim<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;">2023: In Haverhill, MA, Temple Emanu-El is
scheduled to present online a lecture by Rabbi Barbar Aneillo<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on “<span style="background: white; color: #1e2322;">the remarkable story of the Jewish presence in southern Italy, including
Sicily and Calabria, and explain how Jewish families who fled the Spanish
inquisition and settled in those areas maintained remnants of their rituals and
traditions for nearly 500 years” as well as “her experiences as a “bat anusim,”
whose ancestors were forced to abandon Judaism and accept Christian
conversion.”<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;">2023: The Jewish
Film Festival is scheduled to host the second an final day of the tenth annual
WinterFest in San Francisco.<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
National Library of Israel is scheduled to host a lecture by Yohanan
Petrovsky-Shtern, the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and a Professor
of Jewish History in the History Department at Northwestern University on Five Shifts
in Ukrainian-Jewish Relations One Needs to Know.<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 Breman
Museum is scheduled to present a lecture Hungarian Holocaust survivor Robert
Ratonyi as part of the Bearing Witness program.<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 Limmud
Festival sponsored by Limmud of North America<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>is scheduled to begin today.<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: Today, the
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience and Chabad of Louisiana are scheduled
to host a family hamantaschen-making workshop in New Orleans.<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 New
Jersey-Israel Commission and COGIC are schedule to present “Symphony of
Brotherhood,” a special concert for Black History Month.<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 East
Bay Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Dream Girl: The
Making of Marilyn Monroe.”<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 San
Mateo, CA, Chabad North Peninsula is scheduled to host a “Violins of Hope,” a
“concert subtitled “Strings of Resilience” with Cantor Aryeh Hurwitz features
violins played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust that have been restored.<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: <i>The New
York Times</i> features reviews of books by Jewish authors including <u>A
Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend Them Back</u>
by Bruce Schneier.<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/2023/02/07/books/review/a-hackers-mind-bruce-schneier.html?campaign_id=69&emc=edit_bk_20230224&instance_id=86274&nl=books&regi_id=57747426&segment_id=126271&te=1&user_id=2c930c5636ea27f82410440938800f2f"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/books/review/a-hackers-mind-bruce-schneier.html?campaign_id=69&emc=edit_bk_20230224&instance_id=86274&nl=books&regi_id=57747426&segment_id=126271&te=1&user_id=2c930c5636ea27f82410440938800f2f</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: Today, Jordan
is scheduled to host a "political-security" meeting between Israel
and the Palestinians to try and restore calm to the West Bank and the Gaza
Strip after deadly violence, a Jordanian government official said.<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: Temple
Emanu-El, in Sandy Springs, has an event entitled, “Georgia’s Fight Against
Antisemitism,” from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. today with speakers including Georgia
House Reps. Esther Panitch, from north Fulton County, and Long Tran, whose
district includes most of Dunwoody and part of Chamblee. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.atlantajewishtimes.com/vigilance-urged-for-saturdays-anti-jewish-day-of-hate/">Vigilance
Urged for Saturday’s Anti-Jewish ‘Day of Hate’ - Atlanta Jewish Times</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: In San
Francisco, Congregation Beth Shalom is scheduled to host Jennifer Lang
discusses her memoir, <u>Places We Left Behind</u> “which details her life as
an American married to a French man she met while living in Israel during the
first intifada and their family’s struggle to find a place to call “home.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: Rabbi
Fievel Strauss and a cadre of his fellow clergyman are scheduled to begin a
two-week long “pilgrimage” to Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: At the
Green Library in Stanford, CA Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is scheduled to discuss her
novel, The <u>Wolf Hunt,</u> “which explores themes of antisemitism and
Black-Jewish relations.”<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 present, live on zoom a conversation with historian Matthias
Kuntzel and Jeffrey Herf on “Hamas and the Origins of Islamic Antisemitism.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://yivo-institute.myshopify.com/collections/the-origins-and-ideology-of-hamas"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://yivo-institute.myshopify.com/collections/the-origins-and-ideology-of-hamas</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
February 26th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held
hostages begin day 143 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;">161 BCE:
Jewish soldiers led by Judah Maccabee defeated Nicanor, the Syrian general who
had boasted that he would destroy the Temple and mount Judah’s head on the
gates of Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">138: The
Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
For Jews Hadrian stands out as one of the cruelest of the Roman emperors.
He is the one who defeated Bar Kochba. It is said that Hadrain was more
evil than Titus because he did not just make war against the Jewish
people. He made war against Judaism by banning its practice. In one
of those many ironic twists of fates, Antionious Pious, his hand-picked
successor reversed the decrees of Hadrain. He allowed the Torah to be studied
and is laws obeyed. He reinstituted the ban on imperial statues in
synagogues and he allowed the Jews to practice the rite of circumcision.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">628: The reign
Persian Shah Khosrau II who “conquered Jerusalem after a brief siege in 614
during the Byzantine – Sasanian War” 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;">1308:
Coronation of King Edward II. One of this uniquely incompetent monarch’s
claim to fame is that he was the first King of England to reign over a realm
without any Jews since the Norman Conquest in 1066. Edward’s father,
Edward I, had expelled the Jews in 1290.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1304:
Birthdate of Ibn Battuta, the Moslem Moroccan explorer who visit large segments
of Asia and Africa where he chronicled meetings with various groups including
Jews in India and China.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1333: Ibn
Batuta, the Arab traveler, visited Jewish communities in India<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1336: Alfonso
X of Castile was persuaded by the apostate Alfonso of Valladolid to ban the
prayer Aleinu. Alfonso alleged that the prayer was anti-Christian. As a result,
many Jewish communities excised a sentence from the prayer which has only been
printed in recent years in only some prayer books. The offending line
which was taken out comes just before the time when everybody bows and recites
“Va-ananchnu Kor’im – But we bend our knees…” The line that was taken out reads
“For they bow to vanity and emptiness and pray to a god which helps not.”
If you read the entire prayer and insert this line, the following line makes a
lot more sense. According to several commentators the offending line had
nothing to do with the Christians but had been placed there to refer to all
heretics and that its origins were found in Isaiah (30:7 and 45:20). Further
evidence refuting the claim that it was anti-Christian can be found in the fact
that it was composed in the third century by Rav Abba Arucha head of the
Academy of Sura (Persia) which was not a Christian country. Ashkenazi
prayer books dropped the line but Sephardic prayer books i.e. those in the land
of Islam, retained the line. Today it can be found in some Ashkenazi
prayer books including those in the Artscroll Series.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 1451:
Nicholas V issued a papal bull banning all social intercourse between
Christians and Jews probably caused by a fear of Christians being attracted to
Judaism. A Christian who converted to Judaism and the Jews who helped him were
usually subject to the death penalty in most Catholic and Eastern Orthodox
countries. It is amazing that with the Church's attitude towards Judaism,
and with the contempt that Jews in which Jews were held, that there should be
such a fear of "Jewish missionizing".<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1570:
Pope Pious V excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I. This was one of the steps
on the road to loosening the stranglehold that doctrinal Christianity had on
Western Europe. As the Church’s grip on Europe weakened it opened up the
way to a religious toleration that was highly beneficial to the Jewish people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1593: Pope
Clement VIII issued “Caeca et Obdurata Hebraeorum perfidia” (the blind and
obdurate perfidy of the Hebrews) a papal bull which expelled the Jews from the
Papal States, effectively revoking the bull Christiana pietas issued in 1586 by
his predecessor Pope Sixtus V.The bull was a culmination of Clement VII's
tightening of the anti-Jewish measures of his predecessors which began with his
elevation to the papacy in 1592. The bull gave Jews three months to leave the
Papal States (with the exception of Rome, Ancona, and the Comtat Venaissin of
Avignon). The main effect of the bull was to evict Jews who had returned to
areas of the Papal States (mainly Umbria) after 1586 (following their expulsion
in 1569) and to expel Jewish communities from cities like Bologna (which had
been incorporated under papal dominion since 1569). For the Jews remaining
within Rome, Ancona, or the Comtat Venaissin, the bull re-established mandatory
weekly sermons. The bull also resulted in the relocation of Jewish cemeteries
to Ferrara and Mantua. The bull alleged that Jews in the Papal States had
engaged in usury and exploited the hospitality of Clement VIII's predecessors
"who, in order to lead them from their darkness to knowledge of the true
faith, deemed it opportune to use the clemency of Christian piety towards
them" (alluding to Christiana pietas).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1634: Albrecht
von Wallenstein, a Bohemian military leader during the Thirty Years War who
permitted a variety of non-Catholic sects, including Jews, to worship freely,
refused to enforce” the Edict of Restitution which “essentially turned back the
religious clock to pre-reformation days,” passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1713: The
reign of Frederick I, who in 1709 appointed Aaron ben Benjamin Wolf “to the
office of chief rabbi of Berlin with jurisdicition over all the Jews living in
the mark” 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;">1742:
Birthdate of Nachum the son of David who died before reaching the age of five.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1774(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5534): Purim celebrated as the Parliament in London prepares to enact
measures punishing the colony of Massachusetts for the act of rebellion known
as “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: In
Kingston, Jamaica, Moses Israel Henriques and Abigail Henriques gave birth to Abraham
Quixano Henriques, Esq the thrice married husband of Leah Rachel Henriques;
Rebecca Henriques and Ann Henriques<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1790(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5550): Ta’anit Esther on the same day that Eldridge Gerry addressed
the United States House of Representatives on the issue of the national
government assuming responsibility for debts incurred by the various States of
the Union.<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.consource.org/document/elbridge-gerry-in-the-house-of-representatives-1790-2-25/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.consource.org/document/elbridge-gerry-in-the-house-of-representatives-1790-2-25/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1795: First
New York City performance of “Sheva, The Benevolent” by English playwright
Richard Cumberland which features, Sheva, “the Jewish moneylender as the
benevolent hero.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799: Napoleon
defeated the army led by Al Jazzar as he made his way from Khan Younis to Gaza.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1799: Napoleon
captured Gaza. (Yes, the same place in the news today). This was his first
encounter with "Palestinian" Jews.” It is said that he offered “the
reestablishment of ancient Jerusalem” as a Jewish homeland in return for Jewish
loyalty.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1803: A major
redistribution of territorial sovereignty within the Holy Roman Empire is
enacted, via an act known as the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1806:
Birthdate of Rabbi Salomon Ulmann the French rabbi who among other things
organized the Central Conference of the Chief Rabbis of France<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1806: Baptism
of German theologian Johann August Wilhelm Neander who had been born David
Mendel, the son of a Jewish peddler Emmanuel Mendel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1808:
Eighteen-year-old Caroline Lazarus, the daughter of Marks Lazarus married Aaron
Phillips today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1809(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5569): Parashat Tetzvaeh; Shabbat Zachor observed for the last time
during the Presidency of Thomas Jefferson, a strong proponent of religious
freedom and according to some, the person who popularized the expression
“separation of Church and State.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1810: Simcha
De Lara Cohen and London native Isaac Crawcour gave birth to Solomon Crawcour.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1824: Moritz
Bertram married Sophia Boss at the Hambro Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1825(7<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5585): Thirty-one-year-old Hannah Aarons (Hannah bat Aharon be Jacob
ZL) passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1826: In
Charleston, SC, Rebecca Phillips and Isaiah Moses gave birth to Adeline Moses,
the wife of Adolph J. Brady with whom she had five children – Matilda, Isaiah,
Illiee, Edwin and Rosa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1830: In
Charleston, SC Moses and Isabel Mordecai gave birth to future Baltimore
resident Hortensia Mordecai.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1832: Kitty Etting
and Richmond born Benjamin I. Cohen who were married in 1819 gave birth to Kate
Frances Cohen today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1834: The
“wife of Shmuel bar Shlomeh” was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road)
Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1840:
Birthdate of German philosopher, the Kantian, Otto Liebmann <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_12511.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_12511.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841:
Birthdate of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the French artist who painted “Alice and
Elisabeth Cahen d’Anvers” (most commonly referred to as Pink and Blue).The
painting portrayed the 2 daughters of the banker Louis Raphael Cahen d'Anvers,
the blonde, Elisabeth, born in December 1874, and the younger, Alice, in
February 1876, when they were respectively six and five years old. The artist
produced many portraits for the families of the Parisian Jewish community at
the time. Renoir was commissioned to paint many portraits for this family,
which he had met through the collector Charles Ephrussi, proprietor of the
"Gazette des Beaux-Arts."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_and_Blue_(Renoir)"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_and_Blue_(Renoir)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Renoir_Mlles_Cahen_d_Anvers.jpg"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Renoir_Mlles_Cahen_d_Anvers.jpg</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1842:
Birthdate of Elias Landauer who with “his spouse, Bertha Bodenheimer Landauer,
immigrated from Germany in 1866 settled in Harrisonburg, Louisiana where he
operated a retail supply business for 22 years before coming to New Orleans and
opening Landauer & Meyer, a wholesale hat store’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1844:
Birthdate of Leó Frankel, the Hungarian born revolution who active in the First
International and a member of the Paris Commune that was formed in the wake of
the Franco-Prussian War.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1846: Henry
Hyman Defries married Dinah Samson in Liverpool today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847: State
University of Iowa was approved. What is now called the University of
Iowa has certainly provided employment and educational opportunities for a fair
number of Jews from the land of the Hawks as well a number of other places. The
28,000-student body includes approximately 600 Jewish undergrads and 200 Jewish
grad students. The school offers ten Jewish studies courses and the
campus offers students a choice of Hillel or Chabad. They also have
access to Agudas Achim and its Rabbi, Jeff Portman, a mensch in the truest
sense of the word. Several distinguished Jewish scholars have taught at the
university including the late Dr. Jonathan A. Goldstein who provided the
introduction and commentary for <u>The Anchor Bible's Book of Maccabees</u> and
Dr. David Schoenbaum who has authored numerous works about German history as
well as The <u>United States and the State of Israel</u>, a diplomatic history
of relations between the United States and Israel from 1948 to 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848:
Birthdate of Eugène-Melchior, vicomte de Vogüé the French diplomat and
archaeologist who provided “much of the earliest documentation about the Temple
Mount. Because his work was done with the “full consent of the Muslim Counsel”
he “work included the most complete and detailed mongraphs on how the mosques
looked and their relationships to ancient Temple of Jerusalem.” De Vogue
“was also known for his architectural studies of Jerusalem and its
surroundings.” (For more on this<u> Digging Through the Bible</u> by Richard A.
Freund<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848:
Birthdate of Hungary native Josef Schiff, the “Austrian stenographer” who was
“appointed teacher of stenography at the Vienna Academy of Agriculture in 1874”
and “lecturer on Gabelsberg’s system of stenographer at the University of
Vienna in 1898” which led to him receiving “the title of professor from the
Emperor of Austria.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1850(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5610): 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;">1850: In South
Carolina, Alexander Abrams, the son of Elias and Catherine Abrahams, and his
wife Elizabeth Abrams gave birth to Isabella (Belle) Brady who became Isabella
Brad when she married Isaiah Abram Brady.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1851: Elias
Landauer, the German born son of Raphael Löb Landauer and Lucia Pessel
Landauerm and his wife Karoline Kehle Landauer gave birth to Raphael Landauer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1855: The
Jewish residents of Lancaster PA organized Congregation Shaarai Shomayim which
then took possession of the old Jewish cemetery. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1856(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5616): Eighty-three-year-old Anglo-Jewish poet Isaac Gompertz, the
Middlesex born son of Solomon Gompertz and Lydia Cohen whose works include <span style="background: white; color: #202122;">"The Modern Antique",
"Time, or Light and Shade" and "Devon,” the husband of Charlotte
Florence Wattier </span>with whom he had three children and the brother of
Barnet Gompertz and animal rights activist Lewis Gompertz passed away today after
which he as interred at the Exeter Jewish Cemetery. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=J6v3p_cYpYEC">https://books.google.com/books?id=J6v3p_cYpYEC</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Jkg_AQAAMAAJ">https://books.google.com/books?id=Jkg_AQAAMAAJ</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/devonapoem00gompgoog/page/n9/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/devonapoem00gompgoog/page/n9/mode/2up</a><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.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6797-gompertz-isaac">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6797-gompertz-isaac</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1856:
Professor O.M. Mitchell is scheduled deliver a lecture tonight entitled
"Critical Examination of the Astronomical Allusions and Illustrations
Employed by the Writers of the Sacred Books of the Hebrews" at the
Brooklyn Athenaeum. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1858: Sir
Anthony de Rothschild, Louis Nathan, Ephraim Alex and Marcus Samuel, the father
of the first Lord Bearsted were among those who attended a conference designed
to deal with the problems of “the strange and foreign poor” held in the
chambers of the Great Synagogue in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859: The
first formal meeting was held at 31 New Bridge Street of the Board of Guardians
which consisted of delegates from the London’s three leading congregations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860:
Birthdate of Professor Hirsch Loeb Sabsovich, the native Berdiansk, Russia who
came to the United States in 1888 to serve as an agricultural chemist at
Colorado State Agricultural College before becoming the “General Agent of the
Baron De Hirsch Fund and the first mayor of the Jewish Agricultural Colony at
Woodbine, NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/03/24/100147007.pdf"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/03/24/100147007.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861(15<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5621): Shushan Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861: Judah P.
Benjamin began serving as Attorney General in the cabinet of Jefferson Davis. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5622): German educator Emanuel Hecht passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7469-hecht-emanuel"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7469-hecht-emanuel</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862:
Birthdate of Stanisław Głąbiński Polish attorney and political leader who
shared a cell in Lubyanka Prison with Rabbi Moses Schorr with whom he formed a
close friendship before the Jew and Gentile met the same fate – murder by the
NKVD in 1941.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862: A fire
broke at 6 o'clock this morning in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, on
Lamartine-place. Damages which are valued at three hundred dollars,
should be fully covered by insurance. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1862: During
the American Civil War commissioning of the USS Monitor, the U.S. Navy ironclad
with the revolving turret that revolutionized naval war and whose crew included
William Durst, the Austrian born “coal heaver” who was the last surviving
member of the ship’s crew.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865(29th of
Shevat, 5625): Shabbat Shekalim observed as Union calvary included General
George Armstrong Custer prepared to move up the Shenandoah Valley in the
closing months of the Civil War.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1867: Ralph
Disraeli and his wife gave birth to British political leader Coningsby
Disraeli, the nephew of Benjamin Disraeli.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868: In
Portsmouth, Isaac Phillips, the rabbi of the Portsmouth Hebrew Congregation and
his wife gave birth to Jacob Phillips, the author of <u>A Peep Into the Talmud </u>and<u>
Jewish Rites and Ceremonies </u>who served as the rabbi of congregations at
Tredegar, Swansea, Sunderland and Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony and was “Justice
of the Peace for the Division of Port Elizabeth’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5629): Purim observed for the last time during the Presidency of
Andrew Johnson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869: “In
Sagor, Russia, Etta and Solom Etta Levene” gave birth to Dr. Phoebus Aaron
Levene, “the internationally recognized authority in biochemistry and husband
of Anna Erickson Levene who in 1892 came to the United States where he began
practicing medicine 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;"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Phoebus-Levene"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Phoebus-Levene</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870(24<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5630): Seventy-two-year-old Danish poet Henrik Hertz passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1870: As a
reminder that the battle over the separation of church and state which has been
a cornerstone of Jewish success in the United States is on-going, a meeting was
held at the Reformed Presbyterian Church in New York in which the attendees
called for a national convention that would promote “constitutional recognition
of Almighty God and the Christian religion 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;">1871(4<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5631): Parashat Terumah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871: London
native Dinah Abrahams and William Benjamin Collins gave birth to Alexander
Solomon Collins.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871(4<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5631): Seventy-two-year-old Maurice Schlesinger (born Moritz Adolf
Slesinger) <br />
“a German music editor” who followed in the footsteps of his father Adolf
Martin Schlesinger and founding a music publishing house passed away today in
Baden-Baden.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1871: Rabbi
Stephen Wise of Cincinnati delivered a lecture on the Apostle Paul, the third
and final in a series of addresses on the Origin of Christianity. The well
attended event took place at Steinway 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;">1874: Jonas
Hart married Amelia Cohen in Dublin today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1875: Today
eleven-year-old pianist Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler made her debut “at a concert
of the Wolfsohn’s Beethoven Society.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876(30<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5636): Rosh Chodesh Adar observed during the U.S. Centennial
Celebration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876: In
Birmingham, England, 30-year-old Bernhard Hast and 28 year old Fanny Nelken
gave birth to Walter Hast, the husband of Margaret Lennie.<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 that the Purim Association will host a masked ball at Delmonico’s on
March 1<sup>st</sup> in celebration of this minor Jewish festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1877: A
reception celebrating Purim was held today at the Home for Aged and Infirm
Hebrews. The event was hosted by the lady managers of the well-maintained
facility located at 87<sup>th</sup> Street and Avenue A 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;">1877:
Professor Felix Adler delivered a detailed laudatory address to a mostly Jewish
audience at Standard Hall on the life and teachings of Baruch Spinoza.
The 200<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the death of the famous Jewish Dutch
philosopher provided the impetus for the “panegyric.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879”
Birthdate of German silent film actor and director Julius Falkenstein who
passed away the same year 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;">1880(13th of
Adar, 5640) Ta'anit Esther observed as James A Garfield and Winfield S. Hancock
prepare their Presidential campaigns.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: It was
reported today that the will of Louis Strauss of San Francisco includes
bequests to the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home Society of San Francisco
($10,000), and the Jewish Orphan Asylum of New York ($5,000) as well as three
other non-Jewish institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1881: It was
reported today that Marion Calisch, young Jewess kindergarten teacher who
disappeared mysteriously, has been re-united with her parents and taken
home. The police are still investigating the matter since they do not
find Ms Calisch’s explanation of events creditable.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882: A mass
meeting is scheduled to be held at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia during
which the attendees will express their outrage at the treatment of Russian Jews
by the Czarist government. The multi-denominational array of speakers
will be expressing their sympathy with the plight of the refugees, some of whom
have just arrived in the City of Brotherly Love.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882: It was
reported today that John W. Foster will be deliver a lecture on “The Czar and
His People” before the Young Men’s Hebrew Association in Chickering Hall.
The New York event will be a benefit for Jewish refugees who have fled
persecution in Russia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882: A Purim
celebration for the Temple Beth-El Sunday School students was held at the
Terrace Garden this afternoon 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;">1882: The
Young Men’s Association of Temple Beth-El sponsored a grand ball in Terrace
Garden. This Purim celebration was organized by Nathan Ullman, Louis
Lowenfels and Samuel Eiseman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883: At
Frank-fort-on Main, Germany, Joseph H. and Ida (Kopp) Rossbach gave birth
University of Munich Ph.D. Max J.H. Rossbach, the husband of Mabel Limburg, who
went to work in New York in 1905 for J.H. Rossbach and Brothers which he became
President of in 1919 while also serving as President of the Hide and Leather
Association of New York and the the President of the National Association of
Importers of Hides and Skins.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884:
Birthdate of Else Feldman, the native of Leopoldstadt (Austria) who overcame
poverty to become a leading socialist author and writer which did not keep the
Nazis from murdering her Sobibor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884:
Birthdate of Chicago native and University of Michigan educated advertising
executive Louis H. Hartman, the husband of Ann Hoffman Hartman and the father
of Robert H. Hartman who had begun his career with Sears, Roebuck and Company
and was known for his activities as beekeeper.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1885:
Birthdate of Princess Alice of Battenberg, the mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth
II, who personally saved Rachel Cohen and two of her children from the Nazi
death camps.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><a name="_Hlk65054654"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1886:
In San Francisco, Louis I and Deborah (Wise) Ostroski gave birth Houston
College and Stanford University alum Herbert M. Ostroski, the Major in the
United States Cavalry and an associate in the law firm of Turner and Geraghty
who was the husband of Helen D. Pupkin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65054654;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: In Sheffield, England, David and Jochebed
(Chaim) Benedict gave birth George Benedict, an alum of Jew’s College and the
University of London and husband of Pauline Lewin with whom he had two children
– Harold and David Jr – who organized and served s the first Rabbi of
Congregation Beth El in Philadelphia, before moving on to Shaari Zedek in Tampa
before settling in at Congregation Emanu-El in Roanoke, VA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65054654;"></span>
</span><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: Relief
expedition to rescue the apostate Jew turned Ottoman official Emin Pasha, under
the command of Henry M. Stanley, left Zanzibar for its next stop, Banana at the
mouth of the Congo River.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5648): Parahat 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;">1888(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5648): Prague born Austrian journalist Michael Klapp, a special
correspondent in Italy and Spain for the <i>Neue Freie Presse</i> and
co-founder of <i>Montagrsrevue</i> with Jacob Herzog, passed away 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.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9363-klapp-michael"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9363-klapp-michael</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1888:
Birthdate of John Foster Dulles, Eisenhower’s Secretary of State from 1953
through 1959. No, Dulles was not Jewish. But this patrician Cold Warrior
did play a major role in American Israeli relations and his effect was less
than positive. He sided with the Soviets in their support of Nasser
during the Suez crisis of 1956. He led the forces that put pressure on
Israel to withdraw from the Sinai and Gaza leaving the terrorist bases in tact
while propping up the Egyptian dictator. Dulles and Eisenhower’s
misguided action led to the development of the independent French nuclear
capability and to the Six Day War in 1967.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889:
Birthdate of Warsaw native and University of London alum Aaron Glanz-Leyeless
the Yiddish journalist, poet, playwright and author whose works included the
play “Shlomo Molcho and the award-wining A Jew at Sea and who had married “the
former Sophia Kupfer” after his first wife “the former Fannie Wolynsky.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890:
Birthdate of Kilburn, London, native Julia Myra Hess the accomplished concert
pianist remembered by many as the artist who “gave almost 2,000 lunchtime
concert” during the six years of WW II – a performance time brought about by
the wartime blackout and the need for moral building activities.<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.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/history/myra-hess-concerts/myra-remembered"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/history/myra-hess-concerts/myra-remembered</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891: Charles
W. Foster began serving as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, a position which
gave him considerable control over the increasing influx of Jews from Russia
and Poland; a fact that would be duly noted later in appeals made to him by
leaders of the American Jewish Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1892: “No
Mercy For the Jews” published today provided a detailed account of the report
prepared by Colonel John B. Weber who had represented the 33<sup>rd</sup>
District of New York in the 49<sup>th</sup> and 50<sup>th</sup> Congresses and
Dr. Walter Kempster on the “conditions and treatment of the Jewish subjects of
the Czar. The report which was prepared for the House Committee on
Immigration, “sets forth calmly, dispassionately and with a careful regard to
accuracy...a state of things unheard of in modern times.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5653): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: In
Newark, NJ, “Max Bornestien, a Polish Jews…has retained counsel in a suit for
damages alleging that the defendants, three constables “brought pork sausage
into his house and ate them therein” defiling his property in such a manner
“that he can no longer make use of it.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1894: In
Philadelphia, PA, a non-sectarian memorial service in memory of the late George
W. Childs was held at Keneseth Israel.<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 a member of the Women’s Literary Club of Baltimore has
contributed a paper on the “The Booth” the famous family of 19<sup>th</sup>
century thespians. According to the paper, they were originally a Jewish
family from Spain named “Cabana.” When one of the ancestors settled in England,
he translated the family name into English and that back the family name – Booth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: “Once
Famous, Now Forgotten” published today described the life of Bernard Bauer, the
Hungarian Jew who converted to Catholicism, where, as Father Maria Berhnard he
became a popular preacher in France and the confessor of Empress. This
meant that he was following in the footsteps of Hermann Cohen, the Jewish
pianist who converted and gained fame as Father Hermann.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896: In Abterode,
Germany, Isaak Rothschild, the son of Perez and Jettchen Rothschild and his
wife Malchen Amalie Rothschild gave birth to Hilde Hoflich, the wife of Nathan
Hoflich and the mother of Gerda Hoflich each of whom would be murdered in the
Holocaust.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897:
Birthdate of Irving Maidman, “the New York real estate investor who offered
$1,000 to each of the 200 passengers who rode the New York Susquehanna and
Western Railroad which he had purchased so that he could develop the division
passenger stations “as small business concerns.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1897(23<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar I, 5657): Sixty-two-year-old author and historian Michael Bernays
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3120-bernays-michael"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3120-bernays-michael</span></a><u><span style="color: #467886; mso-themecolor: hyperlink;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: A social
event is scheduled to be held today to raise funds for Jewish hospital to be
built in Brooklyn. Currently there are no Jewish hospitals in Brooklyn
and Robert Strahl, Sigmund Wechsler and Charles Levy are among those leading
the drive to remedy this deficiency.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5658): Before reaching his second birthday, Albert Weil, the son of
Abraham and Berta Weil pass away today in Oppau.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a name="_Hlk96531195"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1898:
In Jerusalem, Rabbi Chaim and Yetta Faige (Wieder) Kohn gave birth to Rabbi
Hersch Kohn , the husband of Leah Sternberg who in 1921 came to the United
States where he organized “Congregation and Talmud Torah Degel Jerusalem and
Congregation Tifereth Israel and Talmud Torah of Riverside, NY</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;">1899: It was
reported today that the Junior Association of the Home for Aged and Infirm
Hebrews had participated in the annual Purim reception that had been held at
the home on 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;">1899: Paul
Julius von Reuter founder of the news agency Reuters passed
away. Reuter was born in 1816 and his name was Israel Beer
Josaphat. He left his uncle's bank in the German town of Gottingeng and
established what would become the world's greatest wire service in 1848. No
Kaddish was said since he had converted and became a Lutheran in 1845 after
having moved to London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: It was
reported today that Hermann Adler, the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire “has
been elected a member of the Athenaeum Club, after having been proposed for
membership by Reverend Mandell Creighton, the Bishop of London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: Job
Harriman, a former Baptist minister now running for President as the Socialist
Labor’s Party candidate spoke to 1,500 Jewish Socialists today in the Windsor
Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: Ten days
after his 24<sup>th</sup> birthday, University of Cincinnati graduate and HUC
trained rabbi, Martin Zielonka the Berlin born son of David and Bertha Zielonka
married Dora Schatzkey today in San Antonio, TX while serving as the spiritual
leader of Temple Mt. Sinai in El Paso, TX.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: In New
York, Samuel and Minnie Schoenberg Marx gave birth to Herbert Manrfed Marx
known as Zeppo Marx, the youngest of the Marx Brothers.<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.biography.com/people/zeppo-marx-21181001"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.biography.com/people/zeppo-marx-21181001</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.marx-brothers.org/biography/zeppo.htm"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.marx-brothers.org/biography/zeppo.htm</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: Abraham
Abraham, Felix Adler, Jacob Schiff, Isaac N. Seligman, Adolph Ochs and Oscar
Straus are members of the committee that has planned the festivities for the
launching the yacht owned by Prince Henry of Prussia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: In South
Carolina Rabbi B.A. Elzas officiated at the marriage of James Dundas and
Rebecca Bowman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: In
Sweden, Albert and Alma Mallin gave birth to Ivar Mallin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: On
Broadway, final performance of “Frocks and Frills” starring Rose Eytinge. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: Dr.
Kaufmann Kohler, the senior Rabbi at New York’s Temple Beth-El has been asked
to serve as President of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, the first and
until recently, when a conservative seminary was established in New York, the
only college in America designed for the education of Rabbis. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: “Zionist
committees set out today to investigate the feasibility of a British proposal
to have Jews colonize El-Arish” which is located on the Mediterranean coast of
the Sinai Peninsula. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: Herzl
receives a telegram from the commission in El Arish: "Vicinity has made a
favorable impression."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904: Two days
after she had passed away, Flora Goldsmid, the daughter of Frederick David
Goldsmid and the former Caroline Samuel 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;">1905(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5665): Parashat Ki Tisa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5665): Sevent-eight-year-old Pauline “Barbara” Victor Barth the wife
of Gottlied “Leopold” Barth and the mother of Victor, Simon, Gustav, Moses,
Alexander and Solomon Barth passed away today after which she was buried at the
Illingen Jewish Cemetery in the Saarland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905: “The
Jewish Church” was one of the many buildings destroyed tonight as fire swept
through downtown Hot Springs, AR. (Editor’s note: This would be a reference to
the Jewish congregation known as The House of Israel which had purchased land
for a cemetery in 1876 and “constructed” it first congregational home in 1885)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: In New
York, today’s annual meeting of the Independent Order of Free Sons Israel
included a business meeting followed by a dinner at the Harlem Casino where
School Commissioner M.S. Stern and Coroner Julius Harburger were the principal
speakers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: In “Why
France Sought Separation of Church and State” published today Yvest Guyot
traced attempts by the Catholic Church to gain unique total power from the
Napoleonic era, including the importation “of anti-Semitism from Austria” which
was intended to purge Army of non-Catholics starting with the Jews, followed by
Protestants and Freemasons.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907:
Birthdate of actor Shimen Rushkin, the native of Poland who gained famed in
America in televisions and a variety of films including <i>Fiddler on the Roof</i>
and the original version of <i>The Producers.</i> He passed away in 1967.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: “In the
Bishop’s Carriage” starring Rose Eytinge opened on Broadway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908:
Continued massacres in Setatt drive Jews to Casablanca for safety. During this
period the Jewish population of all Morocco is somewhere between 100,000 and
150,000.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909:
Birthdate of Chicago native and Northwestern trained surgeon, Dr. Leon Judah
Aries, the husband of Marie L. Aries with whom he had three daughters – Jane,
Elizabeth and Nancy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909: In
Washington, D.C., Myer Solomon Cohn the Russian born son of Leo and Sarah Cohn
and his wife Sadie Cohn gave birth to Robert Cohn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910: In
London, “under the auspices of the Jewish Religious Union, Dr. Stephen S. Wise
the rabbi of the Free Synagogue” delivered the first of a series of addresses
which is expected to bring to a head the controversy between the liberal and
orthodox sections of the Anglo-Jewish Union,” “which was founded by C.G.
Montefiore, L.S. Montague and other well-known members of the Jewish Community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911(27<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5671): Parshat Mishpatim; Shabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911:
“Important Meeting of Jews” published today described plans for an upcoming
meeting of “representatives of widely different Jewish interests in New York
from small and scarcely organized Jewish gatherings on the east side to such
important bodies as the United Hebrew Charities, the American Jewish Committee,
and the Congregation Temple Emanu-El.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912(7<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5672): Eighty-one year old Rabbi Nachum Paltiel Bromson passed away
today in Baltimore, MD.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
“Reciprocity Day” Echoes of the Bicentennial Meeting of the Union of America is
scheduled to be the topic at today’s regular meeting of the K.A.M. Auxiliary in
Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913:
Birthdate of Herman L. “Reds” Bassman, the native of Philadelphia who ran
track, wrestled and played football for Ursinus before playing professionally
for the Philadelphia Eagles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.profootballarchives.com/bass02000.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.profootballarchives.com/bass02000.html</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150430215549/http:/articles.philly.com/2010-08-05/sports/24971315_1_ursinus-virginia-75th-anniversary"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://web.archive.org/web/20150430215549/http://articles.philly.com/2010-08-05/sports/24971315_1_ursinus-virginia-75th-anniversary</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1913(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5673): Forty-nine year old Boston merchant Maurice Newman passed
away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914:
Birthdate<span style="color: black;"> </span>Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman,
whose donation of artworks by the likes of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning,
Robert Motherwell and Alexander Calder greatly bolstered the Metropolitan
Museum of Art’s standing as an exhibitor of modern art. Muriel Kallis was on
the only child of Maurice and Ada Nudelman Kallis. Her father was an engineer.
As a child she studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; she later
took art courses at the University of Chicago. Mrs. Newman did not turn her
back on her hometown; according to The Chicago Tribune, she donated more than
170 works to the School of the Art Institute. As an aspiring artist in her
early years, Mrs. Newman became a denizen of New York’s artistic haunts,
befriending noted Abstract Expressionists like de Kooning, Pollock, Motherwell,
Mark Rothko and Franz Kline. By the late 1940s, while married to a successful
businessman, Jay Z. Steinberg, she began acquiring works by those rising stars,
paying, for example, $2,700 for a de Kooning canvas and $3,000 for a Pollock.
Mr. Steinberg died in 1954, and a year later Mrs. Newman married Albert Hardy
Newman, another successful businessman. The walls of their Chicago apartment
were resplendent with her growing collection. In 1980, to the consternation of
art institutions in her native Chicago, Mrs. Newman bequeathed her collection
to the Metropolitan in New York. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Asked why, she
said at the time: “I’m so involved with New York, and besides, the artists I
knew loved the Met, particularly Franz Kline, who used to go there and study
Ingres by the hour. I find the idea that their work should hang there now
rather touching.” Eventually Mrs. Newman decided not to complete the gift
before her death. In 2004 Gary Tinterow, the Met’s curator of 19th-century,
modern and contemporary art, received a surprise call from Mrs. Newman, asking
that he start planning the transfer. “I’m about to turn 93,” she told <i>The
New York Times</i> last year, “and I think now is a great time to do it.” Mr.
Tinterow said that Mrs. Newman’s donation “created, with one fell swoop, an
extraordinary representation of postwar American Abstract Expressionism.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The collection
of more than 70 works includes the 5-foot-by-9-foot “Number 28,” one of the
great canvases of Pollock’s classic period; de Kooning’s “Attic”; Motherwell’s
“Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 35”; a Calder mobile, “Four Directions”;
“Mecca,” a painting by Hans Hofmann; and an abstract version of Kline’s
portrait of the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. It also includes 30 examples of
primitive art from Oceania, the Americas and Africa, among them a phallic house
post from the Dogon people of Mali. Estimated to be worth $12 million to $15
million when first bequeathed in 1980, the collection is now valued in the
hundreds of millions. “Mrs. Newman’s collection remains paramount in its
quality, having been acquired by her soon after most of the works were made,”
Mr. Tinterow said. “She had this extraordinary insight into the importance of
this radical new style of art, and she acted upon it, seeking out the best
examples of the best artists.” Mrs. Newman’s second husband died in 1988. Her
son from her first marriage, Glenn Steinberg, died in 2004. Besides her
grandson Peter, of Manhattan, she is survived by four other grandchildren and
10 great-grandchildren. Speaking of her kinship with the great Abstract
Expressionists, she told The Times in 1980, “I knew them well and loved their
work.” She added: “At first I began to hang my own things next to them, but I
soon realized I wasn’t making much of a statement. I really am not at heart a
collector. I’m a failed artist — there’s no other way to describe it.” She died
in Chicago, her hometown at the age of 94. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5675): Ta’anit Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: “The
Supreme Court of the United States today heard” Louis Marshall “head counsel
for Leo Frank…on his appeal from the denial by the Federal District Court of
Georgia of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.”<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;">1915: Birthdate <span style="color: black;">Philadelphia
native and Temple University and MIT trained physicist Samuel Silver , a
professor of Engineering Science at UC, Berkley.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1141576">https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1141576</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nae.edu/189499/SAMUEL-SILVER-19151976">https://www.nae.edu/189499/SAMUEL-SILVER-19151976</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: “Tales
of Hoffman” a silent film directed by Richard Oswald was released in Germany
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: Simon
Wolf wrote to Rabb C.H. Rubenstein of Baltimore, MD, expressing his
appreciation for the role he has played in opposing measures to allow the
reading of the Bible in Maryland public schools and asking to be kept informed
of the next steps he plans on taking.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: Based on
reports published today, that 35,000 Jews living in Palestine including those
at settlement started by Wolf Gluskin, are “in dire straits” because, among
other things, “the wine industry which” had been developed “before Turkey
entered” the World War “had been destroyed.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: A list
of the accomplishments of Rabbi Henry Pereira Menes published today included
helping to found The American Hebrew, initiating the movement to found the
Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids and the School for Crippled Jewish
Children and helping to found the Jewish Theological Seminary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Among
the contributions acknowledged today by the American Jewish Relief Committee
included $200 from the Jewish Women of East Chicago, $100 from the United
Hebrew Organization of South Bend, Indiana and $500 from the Committee in
Council Bluffs, Iowa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Dr.
Samuel Schulman is scheduled to deliver an address on “The Jew’s Service to the
World” at Temple Beth-El.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: At
Temple Emanu-El, Dr. Silverman is scheduled to speak on “What the Hew Jews
Should Know about Jews and Judaism: the Patriotism of the Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: At
Carnegie Hall, Dr. Wise is scheduled to deliver a sermon to the Free Synagogue
entitled “Marriage Ideals, True and False.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: Today “a
dispatch appeared in the daily newspapers to the effect that the Italian
Government had notified its Ambassadors that it approved of the stand on
Palestine taken by the Allies” making this “the first authorized announcement
by the Italian Government to the Zionist organization.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: The
funeral for the Abraham Jesse Dittenhoefer, the native South Carolinian who was
the last living elector to have voted for Lincoln in 1864, will be held at his
home this morning at ten o’clock.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919:
Birthdate of Brooklyn born cellist Fred Katz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: In
Germany, the Nazi party endorsed its own platform consisting of twenty-five
points. Seven of these points concerned the Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920:
Twenty-one-year-old Parisian native Benny Valgar “won the Featherweight Boxing
Championship of the World today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5681): Twenty-six-year-old Harold Frederick Epstein, the son of
Ephraim and Sallie Lasker Epstein passed away today in Pulaski Country after
which he was buried in Oakland and Fraternal Historic Cemetery Park in Little
Rock<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: Greek
authorities expropriate the old Jewish cemetery in Smyrna.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922: In New
York, “the city committee in direction of the work of gathering $5,000,000 for
the relief fund for Jewish war sufferers reported today that the campaign was
progressing favorably and that in a few days a large part of the quota would be
raised.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923:
Birthdate of Viennese native Jacob Taubes who taught Jewish studies at Harvard,
Columbia, Princeton and the Free University of Berlin who was the husband of
author Susan Tabes with whom he had two children - Ethan and Tania.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/2672/i-am-impossible-an-exchange-between-jacob-taubes-and-arthur-a-cohen/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: In Los
Angeles, Mildred Rosenkranz, the “daughter of Emil and Benvenida Solis Firth”
and her husband Elias Victor Rosenkranz gave birth to Marjorie Ruth Rosenkranz<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: The
price of bread rose to 2,000 marks in Berlin. This hyper-inflation wiped
people’s life savings and destroyed the basic faith of the middle class in many
of the existing political and social institutions. It laid the groundwork
for the rise of political extremism that would make the Communists and the
Nazis the dominant political forces in the 1930’s.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: In New
York City, Louis Glazer, “a garment worker” and his wife Tilly, “a homemaker”
gave birth to sociologist Nathan Glazer. (As reported by Barry Gewen)<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.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/obituaries/nathan-glazer-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/2019/01/19/obituaries/nathan-glazer-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: In
“Palestine Relief Work Extended,” published today Doctor Isaac M. Rubinow, the
director of the Hadassah Medical Organization describes the positive changes
that the work of the Hadassah doctors and nurses has had on the citizens of
Palestine including Jews, Arabs, Moslems and Christians. When Dr. Rubinow
went to Israel in 1919 the unit consisted of 43 nurses and doctors. Today
four hundred medical personnel sponsored by Hadassah support five major
hospitals and several field hospitals. As a sign as of its commitment to
“heal the wounds of prejudice” all Hadassah hospitals and clinics are open to
Moslems and Christians as well as Jews. To ensure equality of treatment,
the staff members do not maintain a private practice and there are no private
rooms in the medical facilities. Everybody is treated in a democratic
fashion on modern hospital wards. The Hadassah Medical Organization has
established a modern infant welfare plan under the management of pediatricians
at Rothschild Hospital in Jerusalem and a department of school hygiene “which
has saved thousands of children from blindness and other ailments by regular
examination for and treatment of trachoma and various forms of skin diseases.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1924: It was
reported today that Rabbi Stephen S. Wise had delivered a sermon at Carnegie
Hall in which he said that “the Balfour declaration in support of a Jewish
homeland in Palestine would never have been issued except for the support of
President Woodrow Wilson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: In
Camden, NJ, Congregation Beth-El and the Council of Jewish Women hosted its
Fourth Annual Ball.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: New York
Mayor James J. Walker received the advance delegates of Europe’s champion
soccer team whose creation “was the direct result of the formation of the
Hakoah organization in Austria fourteen years ago and that Hakoah had been
created because of a realization of the need for building up the physical
health of the Jews in Europe.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: The
Student’s Union gave as the reason for its strike which began today as being
“the authorities’ refusal to meet its repeated demand for limiting the number
of Jewish students admitted to the university.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: Three
hundred guests attended “the Hundred-Dollar-Dinner of the Washington Heights
United Palestine Appeal held tonight at the Hotel Astor” 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;">1926: “The
country home of Milton F. Untermeyer, a member of the brokerage firm of Henry
Henck and Company situated on the top of a mountain about five miles from
Butler, NJ, was struck by lightning tonight and destroyed by fire.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: Henry
Hurwitz, the editor of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Menorah
Journal</i> was the principal speaker at “the third of a series of ‘plain-talk’
dinners tonight at the Aldine Club.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: Among
those reported today to have recently met with President Coolidge are Jacob
Rosenheim, the President of Agudath Israel, Dr. Leo Jung, the rabbi of the
Jewish Centre in New York and New York state legislator Samuel H. Hofstadter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: In Philadelphia,
Wharton graduate Milton Rabinowitz and his wife gave birth to WWII Army Air
Forces veteran, Syracuse undergrad and Harvard Law School trained attorney, Jay
Andrew Rabinowitz, the husband of Anne Rabinowitz with whom he had four children
including cross-country skier Judy Rabinowitz, who rose to become Chief Just of
the Alaska Supreme Court.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: “Maccabi
Tel Aviv defeated Hapoel-Allenby in the first Soccer Derby in Tel Aviv” today.
(As reported by Al Wechsler)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: In New
York City, Dr. and Mrs. Henry Stern gave birth to Richard Gustave Stern, the
best American author of whom you have never heard…” (As reported by Bruce
Weber)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928: In
Chicago, Harry Gelbart, a Latvian born barber and Frieda Sturner gave birth to Larry
Gelbart, television producer responsible for the hit show “MASH.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928:
Birthdate of Shlomo Kalo, a native of Bulgaria who survived the Holocaust and
made Aliyah in 1949. He gained fame as a microbiologist as well as a poet
and an author of works of fictions and non-fiction.<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 I, 5689): Shushan Purim Katan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: In
Newark, NJ “Joseph and Myrtle (Lieberman) Kagan who ran a shoe store in Rahway,
NJ gave birth to “Prof. Jerome Kagan, a Harvard psychologist whose research
into temperament found that shy infants often grow up to be anxious and fearful
adults because of their biological nature as well as the way they were nurtured.”
(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;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/science/jerome-kagan-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/2021/05/21/science/jerome-kagan-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: “Urges
Bible As Guide” published today quoted Louis Marshall as saying that “It is the
duty of Jewish parents to educate themselves so they may…discuss things Jewish
them” because if they do not, “all that our ancestors and our glorious
tradition have too for will have been for nothing and we as Jews will become a
degenerate people.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930:
“Declaring that at least three million Jews will remain in Russia to become
producers under the Russian law and system James N. Rosenberg, president of the
American Society for Jewish Farm Settlements in Russia, Inc., protested” today
“against what he called ‘dragging problems of Jewish reconstruction and relief
in Russia in to politics and controversies.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931: Today,
the violent ant-Semitic attacks were renewed at Pecs University in Budapest
which resulted in the rector suspending lectures for two days<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: Adolf
Hitler who had been born in Austria and whose Germanic connection was ethnic
rather than political until he joined the Kaiser’s army in 1914 officially
became a German citizen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: Premiere
of “Behind the Mask” produced by Harry Cohn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: In
Brooklyn, Harold Spitzer and the former Gertrude Schwartz gave birth to Lincoln
High graduate and Army veteran Elton Leopold Spitzer who created the
“broadcasting phenomenon at WLIR.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: <i>The
Literary Digest</i>, the magazine that would go out of business after picking
Alf Landon to win the election in 1936, published “Israel’s Alarm at Hitler’s
Rise.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/Jewish_reaction_to_the_rise_of_ADOLF_Hon%20ITLER_pdf"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/Jewish_reaction_to_the_rise_of_ADOLF_Hon
ITLER_pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: After 31
performances, the curtain came down at the 44<sup>th</sup> Street Theatre “Face
The Music,” the Irving Berlin musical with a “book” by Moss Hart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934:
Birthdate of Meir Har-Zion a sabra who “was an Israeli military commando” and
“a key member of Unit 101.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934:
Today the “Tel Hey Memorial,” known as the “Roaring Lion” which had been
fashioned from a 22-ton block of stone by Abraham Melnikov which took the form
of a “lion facing eastward and roaring to the heavens” was officially dedicated
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1934: In
London, two second-generation Jewish immigrants from Poland gave birth to 6’7”
British actor Bernard Bresslaw.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-bernard-bresslaw-1491593.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-bernard-bresslaw-1491593.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/bernard_bresslaw.htm"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/bernard_bresslaw.htm</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1935:
Birthdate of Sally Lowenthal, better known to most Americans as talk show
hostess Sally Jesse Raphael. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: In
Brooklyn, Max and Marion (Smith) Reinsdorf gave birth tax attorney turned
sports mogul (Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox) Jerry M. Reinsdorf.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Messages
from David Lloyd George, the former British Prime Minister, English
philanthropist Simon Marks and Leopold Amery, the former British Secretary of
State for the Colonies, “congratulating the Palestine Foundation Fund on its
fifteenth anniversary were made public” in New York today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: In
Magdeburg, Germany, “three Jewish employees of the Barasch Department Store
were sentenced to four years, one year and give months imprisonment,
respectively, on charges of immorality” that had been brought salesgirls or
members of their families.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: Rose
Pesotta joined the Goodyear Rubber workers' sit-in as an organizer of the
strike which temporarily closed the largest tire factory in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jwa.org/thisweek/feb/25/1936/rose-pesotta"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://jwa.org/thisweek/feb/25/1936/rose-pesotta</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5697): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: Children
in Herrlingen, Germany dressed in Bedouin costumes as part of the Purim
celebration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/02.asp"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/02.asp</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: In
London, Winston Churchill met Emery Reves for the first time. Reeves was a
Hungarian born Jew whose birth name was Imre Rvesz who had become a leading
literary agent for European democratic leaders, a role he would soon assume for
Churchill.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 1938: <i>The
Palestine Post </i>reported that <i>The Times of London</i> criticized, in its
leading article, the delay shown by the Colonial Office in appointing a new
technical commission which would advise how to implement the proposed by the
Royal (Peel) Commission and the League of Nations partition of Palestine. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5699): Parashat Terumah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: “I
Married An Angel,” a Rogers and Hart musical closed today at the Schubert after
338 performances.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><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 “Is There Anything
Sacred to the Modern Mind” today at Temple Emanuel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><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 Gift of Faith” at the
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;">1939: Rabbi
Louis I. Newman is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “We Are All Semites
Spiritually” this morning at Temple Rodeph Sholom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Rabbi
William F Rosenblum is scheduled to deliver a sermon on American Jews Have a
Right to Be Proud” this morning at Temple Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Rabbi
Nathan Stern is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Facing Life’s Sanctuaries” at
West End Synagogue today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Rabbi
Alexander Segel is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Treasures in the
Sanctuary” at Fort Washington Synagogue today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Rabbi
Harold Mashioff is scheduled to deliver a sermon “If This Be Freedom of Speech”
at the Temple of the Covenant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: Heinrich
Himmler reportedly issued a secret decree designed to get of Germany’s Jews by
encouraging emigration. This report would seem to lack credibility given the
impediments that the German government placed in the way of Jews leaving Nazi
control.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: U.S.
premiere of “Wife, Husband and Friend’ a comedy directed by Gregory Ratoff,
co-starring Binnie Barnes with music by Alfred Newman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: In
Britain, <i>the Picture Post</i> published the first of two photo-journalist
presentations that supported the call for Winston Churchill’s return to an
active role in the Government. Stefan Lorant was the editor and designer
for the Picture Post was the moving force behind the article. Lorant was
a Hungarian born Jew who had worked in Germany before being imprisoned at
Dachau in 1933.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: Two days
after he had passed away funeral services are scheduled to be held for
seventy-seven year old businessman and philanthropist Henry Frederick Samstag,
the Washington, DC born son of Samuel and August Samstag who moved to New York
in 1895 where founded Samstag and Hilder, co-founded the Federation for the
Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies” and raised three children – Henry,
Katherine and Matilda – with his wife Belle Samstag.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: Bertha
Aaronson is scheduled to marry Dr. A.H. Green is scheduled to take place in the
Hotel St. Moritz 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;">1941(28<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5701): Fifty-seven-year-old New York Eton educated real estate
manager and insurance agent Theodore Badman, the son of Herman and Rosa
Frandenfelder Badman, the husband of Hortense Goldsmith and mother of Carl and
Adolph Badman who had been a member of the Washington Lodge of B’nai B’rith and
Free Sons of Israel passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: The 1941
February Strike (aka The Strike of February 1941) which was organized in the
Netherlands as protest following pogroms that had taken place in Amsterdam’s
Jewish neighborhoods began today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941: One
thousand, six hundred Jews were deported from Gora Kalwaria to the Warsaw
Ghetto.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: In Toronto,
Ontario, Herbert Dick "Hyman" Sherman a business partner for a zipper
company and Sara "Sarah" Sherman (née Winter) an occupational
therapist gave birth to billionaire Bernard Charles “Barry” Sherman the holder
of a Ph.D from MIT, the chairman and CEO of Apotex, Inc, the pharmaceutical
corporation and the husband of Honey Reich, who was found alongside his dead
body and with whom he had four children – Jonathon, Lauren, Alexandra and
Kaelen.<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.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2017/12/15/canadian-pharmaceuticals-billionaire-and-wife-found-dead-in-toronto-mansion/#31b2588f7fe2"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2017/12/15/canadian-pharmaceuticals-billionaire-and-wife-found-dead-in-toronto-mansion/#31b2588f7fe2</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/two-legacies-one-dark-mystery-toronto-elite-reeling-after-violent-deaths-of-barry-and-honey-sherman"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/two-legacies-one-dark-mystery-toronto-elite-reeling-after-violent-deaths-of-barry-and-honey-sherman</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: For the
second time this month, Reverend Chait of the Army Chaplaincy visited Isidore
Newman who was in the hospital after having broken his leg while going through
parachute training for SOE agents<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943:
Birthdate of Detroit native and Wayne State alum Barry David Kramer, the owner
Full Circle, a Detroit record shop and Mixed Media, “a head shop” who founded
the music magazine <i>Creem.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5703): Sixty-three-year-old New York native Dr. Lawrence Satenstein,
the College of Physicians and Surgeons trained dermatologist and husband of
Victoria Satenstein passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Robert
F. Wagner, the U.S. Senator from New York said today that “The American
Palestine Committee will sponsor a national conference here on March 9 to
promote "American Christian" support for the opening of Jewish
immigration into Palestine.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945: <u>The
Faith of a Liberal</u> by Morris R. Cohen and <u>The House Near Paris</u>
“written by M.R. Werner that tells the personal adventures of an American woman
in German-occupied France” were published today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945:
Birthdate of Amram Mitzna “an Israeli politician and former general. He is the
acting mayor of Yeruham, the former mayor of Haifa (1993–2003) and lead the
Labour Party from 2002 to 2003.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946(24<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5706): Thirty-nine-year-old Beaver Falls, PA native and U. of
Cincinnati and HUC graduate Rabbi Abraham Feinberg who in 1942 succeeded Rabbi
I. Edmund Philo as the leader of Rodef Sholom Temple in Youngstown, OH, passed
away 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://books.google.com/books?id=dQtODgAAQBAJ&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205&dq=Rabbi+Abraham+Haskel+Feinberg&source=bl&ots=GsuwER66dD&sig=ACfU3U1rzklXXtFJfUiGnY_1FNpYEM10xA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiWvOqg4tXgAhVFc98KHQ-0AdoQ6AEwCnoECAEQAQ#v=onepage&q=Rabbi%20Abraham%20Haskel%20Feinberg&f=false"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://books.google.com/books?id=dQtODgAAQBAJ&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205&dq=Rabbi+Abraham+Haskel+Feinberg&source=bl&ots=GsuwER66dD&sig=ACfU3U1rzklXXtFJfUiGnY_1FNpYEM10xA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiWvOqg4tXgAhVFc98KHQ-0AdoQ6AEwCnoECAEQAQ#v=onepage&q=Rabbi%20Abraham%20Haskel%20Feinberg&f=false</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.vindy.com/news/2017/mar/21/today-is-tuesday-march--the-th-day-of--t/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.vindy.com/news/2017/mar/21/today-is-tuesday-march--the-th-day-of--t/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: Three
RAF installations were attacked in Palestine tonight resulting in damage valued
at $2,000,000,000. Fourteen planes were destroyed outright and another 8
planes were damaged so badly that they were beyond repair.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
Birthdate of Gary Rosenblatt who has served as editor for the <i>Baltimore
Jewish Times</i>, <i>The Jewish News of Detroit</i>, <i>The Atlanta Jewish
Times</i> and <i>The Jewish Week of New York</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: British
Foreign Minister Bevin continues his anti-Semitic rhetoric attacking Zionism
and defending the<b> </b>Arabs who have been in Palestine “for 2,000 years.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
Birthdate of Buffalo native Anne Beatts, the comedy writer who converted to
Judaism while a McGill University and “was the first female editor of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">National Lampoon</i> magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947: The <i>SS
President Warfield</i> set sail from Baltimore, MD on a voyage which would sail
her into the history books as <i>The Exodus</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: The
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of the government in
Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends. The Communist
seizure of power was a major step in the hardening of positions during the
early days of the Cold War. It galvanized pro-western forces in Europe to
participate in what would become NATO. It also helped internationalists
(many of whom were Jewish) in the United States to overcome isolationist
opposition America taking the lead in opposing Soviet imperialism. For
the Jews of Palestine who were already facing Arab attacks prior to the pending
departure of the British, this turn of events was beneficial. With the
approval of their Soviet masters, the new Czech government would allow the
shipment of surplus ME-109 aircraft that was stored in Czechoslovakia to Israel
at the moment of the creation of the Jewish state. In one of the great
ironies of history, the first combat aircraft flown by Israeli pilots were
former German fighter planes shipped from Communist Czechoslovakia. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949(26<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5709): Noted portrait painter Alfred Joseph Praga, a native of
Liverpool born in 1861 and the husband of journalist Teresa Prager, “who
revitalized the art of miniature painting in Britain” and “was one of the
founders in 1895 of the Society of Miniaturists” passed away 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.google.com/search?q=Alfred+Praga&biw=974&bih=590&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjGtrO_wI_LAhXJsIMKHZDWALIQsAQIJQ#imgrc=32_z3AbTQJRr9M%3A"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.google.com/search?q=Alfred+Praga&biw=974&bih=590&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjGtrO_wI_LAhXJsIMKHZDWALIQsAQIJQ#imgrc=32_z3AbTQJRr9M%3A</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar,5710): Parashat Terumah; Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950:
"Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca premiered on
NBC. Writers included Mel Brooks, Neil Simon and Woody Allen. This
was an early hour-long variety - primarily comedy - show that dominated the
airwaves in its weekend time slot. And it was live, when live meant
live. Yes, three of those mentioned above were Jewish. But by now
you have come to expect a connection between Jewish and Humor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5711): Eighty-one-year-old Tuini, Russia native and Yiddish author
and paper bag and packaging manufacturer Pincus Puchkoff, the husband of Braian
Puchkoff with whom he had five children – Abraham, Louis, Theodore, Morris and
Rose – whose autobiography was entitled My Four Homes passed away today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Some sources show February 26)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2018/07/pinkhes-pushkof-pincus-puchkoff.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2018/07/pinkhes-pushkof-pincus-puchkoff.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: Pan
American Games, during which Byron “Krieger won gold medals in team foil and
team sabre and the team silver in épée” opened today in Buenos Aires.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953: <i>The
Jerusalem Post</i> reported that after Jordan asked Britain to intervene
against what he called Israeli "aggression" and invoked the
Jordanian-British pact of mutual assistance, the British government officially
disclosed that it considered the possibility of stationing its armed forces on
Jordanian territory. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953:<i> The
Jerusalem Post</i> reported that Hevrat Ovdim (the Histadrut's General
Cooperative Society), together with the Histadrut's pension funds and other
organizations, mobilized funds for the construction of the first huge hotel and
rest house in Eilat. Eilat is Israel's southern port. Early on, the
Israelis sought to make it a tourist haven as well as a port that would be a
gateway to Africa and Asia. The blockade of Eilat by the Egyptians in
1967 was the official act of war that provided the justification under
international law for what would become the Six Days War.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954: Nasser
became Egyptian premier. The “man behind the throne” who had masterminded the
downfall of the Egyptian monarchy now took center stage and took his country
down a road to repeated war with Israel as well as doom and disgrace.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar I, 5715): Sixty-year-old Cornell and Brooklyn Law School alum Solomon
Abelow the husband of Anna Abelow and father of Sanford Abelow who served as a
field artillery officer during WW I and who served as state commander of the
Jewish War Veterans passed away today after which he was buried at Mt. Hebron
Cemetery in Queens.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1955: “The End
of the Affair,” a film version of the novel produced by David Lewis 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;">1955(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar I, 5715): Arab terrorists, one of whom “was found to be in possession
of documents linking him to Egyptian military intelligence” murdered an Israeli
civilian in Rehovot.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956: Nikita
Khrushchev delivered a “secret speech” at the Twentieth Communist Party in
which he denounced Stalin and his “cult of personality” – a denunciation that
would lead to the posthumous rehabilitation of the victims of past purges many
of whom were Jewish. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957(24th of
Adar I, 5717): Mark Aldanov, aka Mark A Landau, Russian born author and chemist
passed away at the age of 70.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1957(24th of
Adar I, 5717): B. P. Schulberg passed away. Born Percival Schulberg in
Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1892, he took the name Benjamin from the boy in
front of him when registering for school to avoid mockery for his British name.
He worked in the fledgling film industry in New York City until 1919 when he
moved to Hollywood, California where he operated "Preferred Pictures"
and was responsible for making Clara Bow a star. He joined Louis B. Mayer to
form "Mayer-Schulberg Studio" but after Mayer became part of MGM,
Schulberg would join with Adolph Zukor and became the head of Paramount
Pictures. In an era when the film industry was filled with conservative studio
executives, B.P. Schulberg was a "New Deal" liberal, described by
Moving Pictures magazine as "a political liberal in the reactionary world
of Mayer and Hearst." His wife Adeline Jaffe-Schulberg founded a talent
agency taken over by her brother, producer/talent agent Sam Jaffe. She spent
little time with Hollywood society women, instead working for charities that
aided the poor and promoting socialism. She subsequently had a literary agency
in New York. They were the parents of renowned novelist and screenwriter, Budd
Schulberg, producer Stuart Schulberg, and writer Sonya Schulberg O'Sullivan.In
a power struggle at Paramount, Schulberg left the studio in 1937 and remained
out of the business until 1940 when he began producing for Columbia Pictures.
He produced six films for Columbia in three years until he retired in 1943.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958(5<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5718): Just seventeen days after celebrating her 87<sup>th</sup>
birthday Lillian Burkhart Goldsmith, the Pittsburgh born daughter of Adolph and
Rosalia Burkhart, and Curry Institute and University of Southern California
alum who married George Goldsmith and gained fame as Lillian Goldsmith, the
vaudeville performer turned social reformer who was member of the national
board of the Council of Jewish Women and President of the Los Angles Section of
the National Council of Jewish Women 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: Lillian
Hellman's "Toys in the Attic" premiered 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;">1963: “The
Barbra Streisand Album,” “the debut album by Barbra Streisand was released
today on Columbia Records.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1963(1st of
Adar, 5723): Melville J. Heskovits passed away. The American born
anthropologist established African and African American studies in American
academia. Herskovits's controversial classic <u>The Myth of the Negro Past </u>is
about African cultural influences on American blacks. He also helped forge the
concept of cultural relativism, particularly in his book <u>Man and His Works</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On New York’s Upper East Side, Jane and
Gerald Finerman gave birth to Karen Lisa Finerman, the sister of Wendy, Leslie,
Stacey and Mark Finerman and the wife of private equity manager Lawrence Golub,
who was the “co-founder and President of Metropolitan Capital Advisors, INC as
well as a panelist on “Fast Money.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1965: During
the height of the Civil Rights struggle, Rabbi Max Nussbaum and his wife Ruth
welcome the Reverend Martha King Jr. to the pulpit of Temple Israel in
Hollywood.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1966(5<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5726): Seventy-five-year-old University of Maryland Medical School
graduate and WW I Army Medical Corps veteran Dr. Herbert L Langer, “the
president of the medical board of Peninsula General Hospital” and the husband
of “the former Helen Stein” with whom he had “two sons, Howard and Irwin”
passed away today.<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 I, 5727): Parashat Ki Tisa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967: Today,
the former Anne Elfenbein and Dr. Murray B. Pincus gave birth to the daughter
Beth Susan Pincus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967:
Birthdate of Jonathan Saul Freedland “a British journalist, who writes a weekly
column for <i>The Guardian</i> and a monthly piece for the Jewish Chronicle.
Freedland has previously written for The Daily Mirror and as of September 2005,
he writes each Thursday for the London Evening Standard. He is the son of
Michael Freedland, the biographer and journalist. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967: “Enter
Laughing” a comedy directed and co-produced by Carl Reiner “based on his
autobiographical novel and the stage play of the same name” with a screenplay
by Carl Reiner and Joseph Stein and co-starring Shelley Winter, Elaine May,
Jack Gilford, Janet Margolin, David Opatoshu and Don Rickles 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;">1969: One
person was injured during a bombing at the British consulate in East Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969: “Does a
Tiger Wear a Necktie?” produced by Philip Rose opened at the Belasco Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1970(19th of
Adar I, 5730): Latvian born American painter and print maker Mark Rothko born
Marcus Rothkowitz passed away whose unusual work<span style="color: red;"><span class="msoDel"><del>.</del></span></span> includes the 1961 painting “Blue,
Orange, Red.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1971: Part One
of a two-part production of Clifford Odette’s “Paradise Lost,” co-starring Eli
Wallach was broadcast for the first time on American Public Television.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972:
Birthdate of Argentine attorney and activist Myriam Bregam who was elected as a
national deputy in 2015 as a member of the Workers’ Left Front.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973: Steven
Sondheim's musical "Little Night Music" premiered at the Shubert
Theater in New York NY for the first of its 601 performances.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1974(3<sup>rd</sup>
of Adar, 5734): Seventy-nine-year-old Lothar Mendes “the German born
screenwriter and film director who moved to the Hollywood in 1926 and is best
known as the director of Jew Süss, the British film adaptation of the novel by
Lion Feuchtwanger which is not to be confused with the viciously anti-Semitic
film made by the Nazis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975(14<sup>th</sup>
of Purim, 5735): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1975: In
Livingston, NJ, the former Rita Stoecker, a Mormon housewife and Seymour
Handler an Ashkenazi Jewish used car dealer gave birth to multi-talented
Chelsea Joy Handler who, in 2012, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Time </i>magazine
named as “one of the 100 most influential people in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://pagesix.com/2019/04/07/chelsea-handler-not-embarrassed-by-her-feelings-for-robert-mueller/?_ga=2.109297991.370971077.1554560444-1684604245.1537203133"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://pagesix.com/2019/04/07/chelsea-handler-not-embarrassed-by-her-feelings-for-robert-mueller/?_ga=2.109297991.370971077.1554560444-1684604245.1537203133</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1976: BBC2
broadcast the last episode of “The Glittering Prizes” a drama series written by
Frederic Raphael.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977(7<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5737): Eighty-year-old producer Joseph Hyman, who collaborated with
Moss Hart to create several successful Broadway plays passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1980: The
first episode of the British sitcom “Yes Minister” created by Jonathan Lynn was
broadcast today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982: Today “Labor
Party chairman Shimon Peres today rejected Premier Menachem Begin’s latest
offer to form a national unity government.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983:
Birthdate of “French-Israeli journalist” Jonathan-Simon Sellem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986:
Birthdate of actor Justin Berfeld who plays Reese on “Malcolm in the Middle.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987(26<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5747): Seventy-nine-year-old Alfred Plaut, the German born son of
Isaac and Sophie Plaut and the “husband of Fanny K. Kasper” passed away today
in El Paso, TX.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988(7<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5748): Eighty-year-old William G. Braude who has served as a rabbi for
40 years at Congregation Sons of Israel and David, Temple Beth-El in
Providence, R.I., passed away today. A native of Lithuania, he came to the
United States in 1920 where he earned degrees from the University of Cincinnati
and Hebrew Union College. He also taught at Yale, Brown, Hebrew University and
Leo Baeck College in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.fold3.com/page/3884072_william_g_braude/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.fold3.com/page/3884072_william_g_braude/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988: Eighty-four-year-old
Kurt Mahler, the German Mathematician who met Kurt Hirsch while in a British
internment camp for “enemy aliens” (a strange appellation for somebody who had
fled the Nazis) and eventually settled in Australia where he passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988:
Secretary of State George Schultz arrived in Israel today on the first of four
day mission to the Middle East designed to explore reaction to recent American
peace proposal. Shultz called on Israel to make ''decisions of historic
proportions'' to help change the status quo in the Middle East when greeted by
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres who responded by saying that this is ''a most
demanding period of our life, facing probably the most complicated issue of the
day.''<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1990: In
“Cafritz v. Cafritz” published today, Marjorie Williams described the attempt
of two sons of the late Gwendolyn Cafritz to have her will overturned.<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.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1990/02/25/cafritz-v-cafritz/9f486a14-9672-4802-802e-0e470a9f1507/?utm_term=.edf7eee05775"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1990/02/25/cafritz-v-cafritz/9f486a14-9672-4802-802e-0e470a9f1507/?utm_term=.edf7eee05775</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: The
barrage of Iraqi scud attacks that began on January 18<sup>th</sup> came to an
end today. During that period 39 missiles were fired into Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1992: In
Scottsdale, AZ, Mindy Aaron, “a nurse” and pediatrician Neil Aaron gave birth
to figure skating champion Maxwell Theodore “Max” Aaron, brother of Molly Aaron
and ice skater Madeline Aaron.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5754): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994 (14th of
Adar, 5754): Eighty-year-old Sam Eisenstadt was assaulted with an axe while
walking in the center of Kfar Saba. Sam died of his wounds shortly afterwards.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994: In one
of the most shameful acts committed by a Jew, American-born Baruch Goldstein
opened fire inside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank, killing 29
Muslims before he was beaten to death by worshippers. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5755): Parashat Vayakhel; Shabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996(5<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5756): One person died in the bombing of the Ashkelon bus station
for which Hamas claimed responsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996: Today, “45
Los Angeles Jews, all at a stage of life when cemeteries seem like distant
destinations, set out to clean up Mount Zion Cemetery.”<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.nytimes.com/1995/02/26/us/at-overgrown-cemetery-some-jews-find-ancestors-others-themselves.html?searchResultPosition=1">https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/26/us/at-overgrown-cemetery-some-jews-find-ancestors-others-themselves.html?searchResultPosition=1</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996(5<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5756): Seventeen civilians and nine soldiers were murdered and
forty-eight people were injured when a Palestinian terrorist set off a bomb “on
a No.18 bus traveling down Jaffa Road near the Jerusalem Central Bus Station.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999: The
Reuters News Agency commemorated the 100th anniversary of the death of its
founder, Paul Julius Reuter, by launching a university award in Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999:
Eighty-eight-year-old Margaret Meagher, who when was appointed to be Canada’s
ambassador to Israel in 1958 became the first Canadian woman to reach that
diplomatic rank.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1999: Disney
named Bob Iger president of Walt Disney International, the business unit that
oversees Disney's international operations, as well as chairman of the ABC
Group. Disney called the change a promotion for Iger. But the company's
insistence was initially viewed with skepticism, as some thought Iger was
merely being removed from day-to-day authority at ABC since ABC had been
struggling.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: The
European Indoor Championships during which Aleksandr Averbukh placed first in
the Pole vault opened today in Ghent, Belgium.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2000: Hilary
Koprowski, a Polish Jew, was honored with a reception at Philadelphia's Thomas
Jefferson University celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first
administration of his oral polio vaccine. At the reception, he received
commendations from the United States Senate, the Pennsylvania Senate and
Governor Tom Ridge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001(2<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar, 5761): Ninety-five year old Lithuanian born and education American
philanthropist Jacob “Jack” Hiatt, the son of Joshua and Leah Hiatt who died in
the Holocuast, the husband of Francis Hiatt with whom he had two children Myra
and Janice and the father-in-law of Patriot’s owner Robert Kraft passed away
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.holycross.edu/departments/publicaffairs/hcm/spring01/in_memoriam/mem-spr01-hiatt.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.holycross.edu/departments/publicaffairs/hcm/spring01/in_memoriam/mem-spr01-hiatt.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5762): Sixty-five-year-old Avraham Fish and forty-six year old
Aharon Gorov were murdered by members of Fatah outside of Tekoa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: “The new
government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took shape today as a three-party
coalition that is expected to take a tough line on the Palestinian uprising and
on restarting peace negotiations.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003: “A
wide-ranging Middle East storm dumped almost a foot of slushy snow on Jerusalem
today, shutting schools, closing roads and temporarily infusing a tense city
with the feel of a tranquil alpine village.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004: “Israeli
security forces raided four branches of Palestinian banks, seizing $6.7 million
they said was sent by Iran, Syria and Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas to fund
Palestinian militants.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5765): Yael Orbach, 28, of Rehovot, Yitzhak (Itzik) Buzaglo, 40, of
Mishmar HaYarden, Aryeh (Arik) Nagar, 37, of Kfar Saba,Ronen Reuvenov, 30, of
Tel Aviv and Odelia Hubara, 26, of Jerusalem were murdered today and fifty more
people were injured when a Palestinian terrorist detonated a bomb “at the
entrance to "Stage", a popular Tel Aviv nightclub, on the corner of
Herbert Samuel and Yonah Hanavi streets, opposite the Israeli beachfront.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006(27<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5766): Parashat Mishaptim and Shabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006(27<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5766): Graphic artist Sally Fox passed away 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://jwa.org/thisweek/feb/26/2006/this-week-in-history-death-of-artist-and-photograph-editor-sally-fox"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://jwa.org/thisweek/feb/26/2006/this-week-in-history-death-of-artist-and-photograph-editor-sally-fox</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch01175"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch01175</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2006:
Tens of thousands of people marched through Paris in memory of Ilan Halimi, who
was kidnapped, tortured and killed two weeks ago in an attack that authorities
say was partly motivated by anti-Semitism.</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;">2006: American
cellist Yo-Yo Ma, a group of four journalists and a pair of U.S. cancer
researchers have each won $1 million Dan David awards<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: In
Amsterdam, an exhibition styled “<i>Looted, But from Whom?</i>,” an exhibition
about art objects which were either acquired by forced sale or stolen from
their Jewish owners by the Nazis during the Second World War, closed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: Yaakov
Edri “was appointed be responsible for Israel’s sixtieth anniversary
celebrations. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: Yaakov
Edri “was questioned under caution on suspicion of having tried to receive
personal benefits in return for promoting a police commander, Ya'akov Zigdon,
whilst he was Deputy Minister of Internal Security” and denied the charges.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007: <i>The
Sunday New York Times </i>features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including <u>Bambi vs. Godzilla<b> </b>On
the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business </u>by David Mamet, <u>George
Gershwin His Life and Work</u> by Howard Pollack and <u>Overture </u>by Yael
Goldstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007:
Corresponds to the 7<sup>th</sup> day of Adar which “traditionally marks the
birth and the death of Moses. This is a minor fast date “observed by
members of Jewish burial societies to atone for any acts of disrespect which
they may unwittingly have committed toward the dead.”<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 City, the 92<sup>nd</sup> Street Y presents “Life is a Cabaret: A Tribute
to Fred Ebb” highlighting the decades long collaboration between Jewish
lyricist Fred Ebb and composer John Kander that produced such works as <i>Cabaret,
Zorba, Chicago, Woman of the Year, Kiss of the Spider Woman </i>and<i> Curtains</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: <i>Newsweek</i>
reported on the financial loss suffered by the New England Patriots owner,
Jewish businessman Robert Kraft, as a result of the Pats failure to have a
perfect 19-0 season. Anticipating a Super Bowl victory, Kraft had applied
for trademarks to use phrases such as “19-0” and Perfect Season” on a litany of
gear including greeting cards, jigsaw puzzles, kites and temporary tattoos. <span style="color: red;"><span class="msoDel"><del> </del></span></span>The
trademarks are worthless and sale of the merchandize never materialized.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2008: <i>Time</i>
reported on the recent death of 14 term California Congressman Tom Lantos the
only Holocaust survivor to serve in the U.S. Congress. Lantos was sixteen
when the Nazis occupied his native Hungary where he escaped the death camps and
fought against the Nazis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: In New
York, famed Italian performer Moni Ovadiahis presents a performance “<b>Kavanah</b>”
(intention and participation through a chant), a reflection on the Hebraic
liturgical tradition and its complex maze of meanings and sources.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Another
stage of “Le Bœuf sur le toit, Op. 58 (English title, The Ox on the Roof: The
Nothing-Doing Bar) a surrealist ballet made on a score composed by Darius
Milhaud” took place today “as part of the Montreal Highlights Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: A fresh
exhibition in New York that has put a spotlight on postcards used during and
after the turn of the 20th century meant to depict important aspects of Jewish
life comes to a close<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Rosh
Chodesh Adar 5769<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: Two
Kassam rockets were fired across the Gaza border into Israel today. One of the
rockets fired from Gaza hit an agricultural area near a kibbutz in the Sha'ar
Hanegev region, and rescue services were yet to find the second rocket.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009: A
British bishop whose denial of the Holocaust led Argentina to order him out of
that country returned to England today. Richard Williamson, a bishop with the
conservative Society of St. Pius X, was told to leave Argentina or face
expulsion amid criticism over a television interview in which he said no Jews
were gassed during the Holocaust. The controversial bishop had been
excommunicated 20 years ago, but Pope Benedict XVI last month lifted the
excommunication decree on Williamson and three other bishops. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: During a
hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee held today, Illinois Rep. Don
Manzullo, a Republican, asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to intervene
on behalf of a gefilte fish factory in his district. The factory, Schafer
Fishery is located in Thomson, Illinois. Manzullo is concerned about several
hundred jobs at the fishery in his district and he said Israel had imposed a
120-percent tax on nine containers of Asian carp that had been made into
gefilte fish patties. Drawing laughs, Clinton said she was up to a job that
“sounds to me like one of those issues that should rise to the highest levels
of our government.” “If not, we’re going to have to figure out what to do with
nine containers of it,” she said, prompting Rep. Howard Berman, chairman of the
House committee, to quip that perhaps the fish would end up at the next state
dinner. Fresh and processed foods are subject to tariffs under the trade
agreement between the US and Israel. “Carp is not exempt from customs in the
framework of the free trade agreement between Israel and the United States,”
said Jonathan Peled, a spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington. “Having
said that, we are obviously looking into the request by Congressman Manzullo
and are trying to see whether something can be done.” Peled said two containers
of gefilte had already arrived at the port in Haifa.“I don’t think there’s a
lack of gefilte fish either in Israel or in the United States regarding
Pessah,” Peled said. Nonetheless, he said, “we’re seriously looking at this
request by a member of Congress.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: As he
arrived at Jerusalem District Court for the opening of his trial today Ehud
Olmert became the first former prime minister in Israel's history to stand
trial for alleged corruption.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010(11th of
Adar, 5770): Fast of Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 2010(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5770): “David Bankier, Professor of Holocaust History at the Institute
of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, head of the
International Institute for Holocaust Research and holder of the John Najmann
Chair at Yad Vashem passed away” today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/institute/studies/issues/38-1/michman.pdf"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/institute/studies/issues/38-1/michman.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5770): Eighty-one year old Irish jurist Henry Barron who served as a
justice on the Irish Supreme Court from 1997 until 2000 passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/respected-judge-who-led-bomb-inquiries-1.633921"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/respected-judge-who-led-bomb-inquiries-1.633921</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/news/former-supreme-court-judge-dies-1.853881"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.irishtimes.com/news/former-supreme-court-judge-dies-1.853881</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: “Andy
Warhol's Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century: In Retrospect” is
scheduled to open at the Washington DCJCC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010:
Novelist, critic and broadcaster Howard Jacobson is scheduled to appear at the
Washington DCJCC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010: Just one
day after his 87<sup>th</sup> birthday, David Soyer, “the founding cellist of
the Guarneri String Quartet” who raised two sons – Daniel and Jeffery – with
his wife Janet passed away.<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.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/arts/music/27soyer.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/arts/music/27soyer.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010(11th of
Adar, 5770): Ninety-two-year-old Eugene L. Moore, a past commander of the
Department of Florida Jewish War Veterans, passed in Boynton Beach, Florida.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/palmbeachpost/obituary.aspx?n=eugene-l-moore&pid=148892651&fhid=5124"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/palmbeachpost/obituary.aspx?n=eugene-l-moore&amp;pid=148892651&amp;fhid=5124</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010(11th of
Adar, 5770): Herta Herzog-Massing, “Austrian-American social scientist
specializing in communication studies,” passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar I, 5771): Ninety-two-year-old Eugene Moore, a past commander of the
Department of Florida Jewish War Veterans passed away in Boynton Beach, FL.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: Ahead of
Time, “graceful portrait of the extraordinary life of 99-year-old American
journalist and humanitarian Ruth Gruber whose efforts led to the rescue of
1,000 Jewish Holocaust refugees” and The Judge, a documentary featuring the
former Chief Justice of Israel's Supreme Court, are scheduled to shown at the
Atlanta 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: Today,
the IDF instructed teachers to keep children from going outside to play in
kindergartens located in towns near Gaza after two Grad rockets landed in
Beersheba <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: “The
Death of Klinghoffer” an American opera, that critics including the two
daughters of the late Leon Klinghoffer have described as anti-Semitic and as
glorifying terrorism was performed in London 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;">2012: In
London, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jeffery Goldberg and Maureen Kendler are
scheduled to a new Haggadah edited by Foer and translated by Englander as part
of Jewish Book Week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012; “Jewish
solders in Blue and Gray” is scheduled to be shown at Young Israel of Woodmere
in Woodmere, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: “Making
Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women” is scheduled to be shown at
B'nai Sholom Reform Congregation in Albany, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: HaOlam
II, at the end of which the second official National Collegiate Jewish A
Cappella will named, is scheduled to take place at Adas Israel in Washington,
DC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Indian
intelligence services have considerable evidence that Iran was behind this
month's New Delhi terrorist attack but are not releasing it in a bid to avoid
public confrontation with the Islamic republic, an Israeli security source
says. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Hundreds
gathered in front of Ministry of Interior offices in Tel Aviv today to protest
the deportation of families whose petitions for residency permits were
rejected. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The Leo
Baeck Institute is scheduled to co-host “Arnold Bernstein and Gerd Bucerius,” a
lecture and discussion on the relationship between shipping pioneer Arnold
Bernstein and Gerd Bucerius, the lawyer and published who defended him against
the Nazis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Burglars
broke into the home of an employee at the Prime Minister's Office today.
Initial reports indicate a computer was taken from the house, which is located
in Moshav Beit Yitzhak in the Sharon.. (As reported by Yaniv Kubovich)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Israel
carried out a successful test of its upgraded Arrow III missile interceptor
today. Defense sources said it was the first flight test of the advanced
interceptor. (As reported by Gil Cohen)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Graham
Spanier who was president of Penn St. during the “child sex scandal” “was
granted a stay in his defamation lawsuit until his criminal case is resolved.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Dr.
Daniel Rynhold is scheduled to deliver a lecture “Rav Kook and the Heroism of
the Holy” at the Skirball Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: German
Chancellor Angela Merkel is scheduled to complete her two day trip to Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 2014:
Kay Menchel is scheduled to lecture on “The Short Stories of Bernard Malmud” at
the JCC of Northern Virginia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would neither confirm nor deny reports that
the IAF had destroyed a shipment of weapons being sent from Syria to Hezbollah
forces in Lebanon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014:
“Participants in programs that bring young Diaspora Jews to visit Israel should
be allowed to extend their stay without proving they are Jewish enough to make
aliyah, a Knesset committee recommended. (As reported by JTA)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2014: The
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “</span><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">YIVO, Freud, and American Jewry: Discourse on Eastern
Europe as a Talking Cure” for American Jewish Ambivalence” in which</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Marcus Krah explores how American Jews in the 1940s-50s used competing
narratives of aspects of the East European Jewish past - from the shtetl, to
pogroms, to Hasidism and Socialism - to find meaning in their American present.</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;">2015: On the
heels of the terrorist attacks in Paris, The UK Jewish Film festival is
scheduled to host a showing of “Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: Rosenwald
is a 2015 documentary film directed by Aviva Kempner about the career of
American businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald debuted today at the
Washington Jewish Film Festival<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: The
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “Argentina and the Nisman Case:
Why is it so Hard to Understand What Really Happened?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2015: Jewish
Disability Advocacy Day<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://blogs.rj.org/rac/2015/01/13/join-us-in-washington-for-jewish-disability-advocacy-day/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://blogs.rj.org/rac/2015/01/13/join-us-in-washington-for-jewish-disability-advocacy-day/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: The
Temple Emanu-El Skirball Center is scheduled to host a screening of “Footnote”
followed by a discussion with director/screenwriter Joseph Cedar moderated by
historian Eric Goldman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5776): Seventy-five-year-old “radical lawyer” William H. Schaap and
the brother of sports broadcaster Dick Schaap passed away 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.nytimes.com/2016/03/03/nyregion/william-h-schaap-radical-lawyer-author-and-publisher-dies-at-75.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/2016/03/03/nyregion/william-h-schaap-radical-lawyer-author-and-publisher-dies-at-75.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 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5776): Ninety-year-old U.C.L.A. grad and developer of medical
devices Alfred E. Mann passed away 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.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/business/alfred-e-mann-pioneer-in-medical-devices-dies-at-90.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/business/alfred-e-mann-pioneer-in-medical-devices-dies-at-90.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: “Yona”
and “On the Banks of the Tigris: The Hidden Story of Iraqi Music” are scheduled
to be shown at the Washington Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017(29<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5777): Parashat Mishpatim; Shabbat Shekalim <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: “The
Eagle, a news site covering the Bryan-College Station area reported today that
US authorities came close to deporting Henry Rousso, “an Egyptian-born French
Jewish Holocaust-era scholar on his way to speak at a symposium at Texas A
& M University” because he appeared to fit the profile of those who had
been banned by President Trump’s executive order banning entry to refugees and
travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: The
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to present a
“Survivor Talk” featuring Frankfurt native Frank Stern who survived
Kristallnacht at the age of ten, following which lived in Switzerland and
England before leaving from Southampton aboard an armed merchant bound for the
United States in 1940.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017:
“Broadway actress Ruthie Ann Blumstein, whose stage name is Ruthie Ann Miles,”
attended FX’s <br />
“The Americans” season five premiere at the DGA Theatre today. (As reported by
Andy Kropa)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: Virginia
Sen. Tim Kaine, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, California Rep. Nancy Pelosi and
chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat are some of the speakers scheduled to
speak at the annual meeting of J Street opening today at the Washington
Convention Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: The Exhibition:
Semi(te) Sweet: On Jews and Chocolate is scheduled to come 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;">2018: A final
closing reception celebrating Yiddish New York’s 2017 Visual Arts Exhibition is
scheduled to take place today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><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 a
production of “We Are the White Rose” written and directed by “local teens”
that tells the story of the German resistance movement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: In New
Orleans, the JCC is scheduled to the community’s annual Purim Carnival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: In Iowa,
Congregation Agudas Achim is scheduled to host its annual Purim Carnival<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 2018 Winter Olympics in which figure
skater Aimee Buchanan competed with the Israeli team ended today in Korea.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Eighty-six-year-old Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, who died in the night, is scheduled
to be buried 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.timesofisrael.com/shmuel-auerbach-leader-of-anti-draft-ultra-orthodox-group-dies-aged-86/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=9f7b4774fb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-9f7b4774fb-53921877"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.timesofisrael.com/shmuel-auerbach-leader-of-anti-draft-ultra-orthodox-group-dies-aged-86/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=9f7b4774fb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-9f7b4774fb-53921877</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: In
Memphis, TN, Ti Chai and MEFTY are scheduled to present the Purim Carnival at
Temple Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In
Walnut Creek, CA, Emmy winning “writer-produced Mike Reiss” is scheduled to the
Jewish themes and characters in the television show “The Simpons” while also
signing copies his book <u>Springfield Confidential.</u><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The
Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “How To Fight
Anti-Semitism” in which Bari Wess of the New York Times discuss its appearance
at places including at “the Tree of Life Synagogue, in her native Pittsburgh,
on the streets of Paris, in the Labor Party in England, or in the leadership of
the Women's March.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In San
Francisco, CA, the Commonwealth Club is scheduled to host Hungarian-American
Jewish Holocaust Dr. Edith Eva Eger, the clinical psychologist who will discuss
her memoir The Choice: Embrace the Possible.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In
Highland Park, IL, North Suburban Synagogue Beth El is scheduled to host
survivor Paul Beller filmmaker Steve Pressman and USHMM Acquisition Curator
Fred Wasserman discuss issues related the documentary “50 Children” The Rescue
Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus.”<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.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/mwrescevidhgpk0219"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/mwrescevidhgpk0219</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In
London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “On the Basis of Sex,” a biopic
about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: In
Washington, Adas Israel is scheduled to host “a Ruderman Foundation-sponsored
conversation about how different institutions in the Conservative Movement (the
Jewish Theological Seminary, the Camp Ramah network, the Rabbinical Assembly,
the Ziegler School) can be more inclusive” which stands in stark contrast to
the moves being by Prime Minister Netanyahu as he “boosts Otzma Yehudit.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The
American Sephardi Federation and the Muslim American Leadership Alliance are
scheduled to present “Looking In, Speaking Out: Commemorating the Khojaly
Tragedy.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://programs.cjh.org/event/looking-in-2019-02-25?bblinkid=142070325&bbemailid=12236208&bbejrid=948019291"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://programs.cjh.org/event/looking-in-2019-02-25?bblinkid=142070325&bbemailid=12236208&bbejrid=948019291</span></a><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(30<sup>th</sup> of Shevat, 5780): Rosh
Chodesh Adar First Day; <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: Celebration of Mardi Gras. For more about
Fat Tuesday and the Jewish people see <a href="https://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/">https://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/</a>
the authoritative and informative source of information for all things Jewish
in New Orleans and the land of the bayou as well as <a href="https://forward.com/culture/214736/the-secret-jewish-history-of-mardi-gras/">https://forward.com/culture/214736/the-secret-jewish-history-of-mardi-gras/</a>and
<a href="https://www.myjewishlearning.com/southern-and-jewish/is-mardi-gras-more-jewish-than-you-think/">https://www.myjewishlearning.com/southern-and-jewish/is-mardi-gras-more-jewish-than-you-think/</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020: The Oxford University Jewish Society is
scheduled to host a Chinese Dinner followed by a discussion of “Jewish
practice, theology, pluralism and more!”<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 Berkeley, CA, “Urban Adamah’s Becca
Heisler is scheduled to lead a rosh chodesh ritual in the Hebrew month of Adar.<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: The New York Sephardic Jewish Film
Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “Shalom Italia,” <br />
“The Hug of Destiny” and “The Last Jew in the Village.”<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: As Israelis awake today, they will be
looking to see if yesterday’s fifty rocket barrage from the terrorists was the
last of it, or if this will be another day of terror attacks which tragically
are not considered newsworthy by any major news outlets in the United States.<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: Rutgers University’s Allen and Joan
Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life are scheduled to screen “The
Adventures of Saul Bellow,” the first documentary about the life of
20th-century novelist and Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winner Saul Bellow this
evening at Rutgers Cinema, 105 Joyce Kilmer Ave., Piscataway (Livingston
campus).<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: In Florida, Temple Judea is scheduled to
host a morning minyan with Abbie Strauss followed by an afternoon Hamantashen
Contest.<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 Boston Synagogue is scheduled to
present online “Purim with Klezmer Music” provided with the Klezmer duo
“Mamaliga.”<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: In addition to the traditional reading of
the megillah and a Virtual Hamantaschen Bake Off, in London, the Highgate
Synagogue is scheduled to host an interactive, live Megillah reading on zoom
this evening.<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 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to begin a virtual screening of “The Chosen,” a film based on the
Chaim Potok novel of the same name.<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 Friends of Bezalel are scheduled to
present a discussion with Elie Shamir and Ben Shani of “A Lullaby for the
Valley, a documentary that “focuses on the story of acclaimed artist Elie
Shamir, as an unforeseen danger threatens to rob him of his talent.”<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: As part of the Atlanta Jewish History
Talks series, the Breman Museum is scheduled to host biographer David Lower “as
he discusses the life and career of one of Atlanta’s most prominent and
trailblazing Jewish politicians, Morris Abram, the civil rights lawyer who
worked to end segregation in Georgia and played a key role in the Supreme
Court’s “one man, one vote” ruling.<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: In Columbus, OH, Tefireth Israel is
scheduled to a reading of the Book of Esther via Zoom during which there will
be a showing of photos from clergy, staff, and congregants acting out scenes
from the narrative. <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: San Francisco Bay Area instructor James
Sokol is scheduled to lead a journey through a diverse array of music as part
“Songs of Victory and Triumph: A Multi-Genre Musical Celebration of Purim.”<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: In Coralville, IA. Agudas Achim
congregants are scheduled to “grab their groggers, round up the kids and join
the wonderful spielers for a Pandemic in Persia, a Zoom Purim Spiel.”<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: “In honor of the recently launched
Association of Jewish Communities of the Gulf, the Diarna Geo-Museum proudly
presented a preliminary exhibit of Jewish historical sites in GCC countries.”<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;"><a href="https://diarna.org/exhibits/gulf-jewish-heritage-sites/">https://diarna.org/exhibits/gulf-jewish-heritage-sites/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2021: In Cedar Rapids, IA, the Hadassah Book
Club is scheduled to discuss Sacred and Profane by Fay Kellerman.<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: As part of the “Who Inspires the Women
Who Inspire Us” series the Streicker Center is scheduled to an evening Mayim
Bialik, the holder of a PhD in neuroscience best known for her role on as a
neurobologist married to a narcissist in the sitcom “The Big Bang Theory.”<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(13<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 7801): Fast of
Easter; in the evening reading 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;">2022: The Combined Jewish Philanthropies are
scheduled to present a “Key Security Concepts Webinar” which <span style="background: white; color: #1e2322;">provides training for those who welcome
people to Jewish institutions with strategies and tools to foster a welcoming
atmosphere while maintaining security.</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;">2022: As part of the Young Artists in Concert
series, the Kan Kol Hamusika is scheduled to broadcast “Three Award Winning
Pianist” – Dani Dvorkin, Yoav Sened and Amir Ron<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;">2022: The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Center is
scheduled to present a lecture by <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shirli
Gilbert, Professor of Modern Jewish History at University College London on “Wandering
Jews: Migration in Modern Jewish History.”<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;">2022: Today, before Shabbat, The Case Western
Reserve University Chabad is scheduled to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>present a talk by Lily Brasch, a Orthodox
woman from Chicago about how she is overcoming a rare form of muscular
dystrophy and the diagnosis that she would never walk again.<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;">2023: Temple Judea is scheduled to host a Zoom
Torah study with Rabbi Feivel Strauss.<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;">2023: The East Bay International Jewish Film
Festival is scheduled to begin in-theatre screenings.<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;">2023: The Boston Synagogue is scheduled to
present “La Commedia Performance” its <span style="background: white; color: #1e2322;">first ever multi-media Visual and Performing Arts Benefit Concert!<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;">2023: The Eden
Tamir Center is scheduled to host a chamber music concert with Ilya Schwartz,
clarinet; Kirill Mihanovsky, cello and Julia Gurvitch, piano.<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
Georgia, the Henry County Performing Arts Center is scheduled to host a
screening of Rosenwald.<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;">2023: “White supremacist hate groups” have
declared today a “a national day of hate targeting Jews.”<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;"><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/nypd-to-up-security-at-religious-sites-after-white-supremacists-declare-antisemitic-day-of-hate/">https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/nypd-to-up-security-at-religious-sites-after-white-supremacists-declare-antisemitic-day-of-hate/</a><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;">2023(4<sup>th</sup> of Adar, 5783): Parashat
Terumah<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;">2024: The Jewish Gun Violence Prevention
Roundtable is scheduled to sponsor a panel discussion during which
“individuals, families and communities” will find out what they “need to know
when considering gun ownership.<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;">2024: In Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah is
scheduled to host the first in series of chapter-by-chapter review of <u>Communities
of Meaning: Conversations on Modern Jewish Life</u> Inspired by Rabbi Larry
Hoffman<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;">2024: YIVO is scheduled to present an
informational program for those interested in participating in the Uriel
Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture.<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;">2024: In Atlanta, the Breman is scheduled to
host “an incredible afternoon of Jazz as the Oran Etkin Quartet takes the stage
with their captivating Open Hands Project.”<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;">2024: The Alliance for Jewish Theatre and
Theatremachers are scheduled to have an opportunity to network and discuss
potential collaborative opportunities online.<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;">2024: <i>The New York Times</i> features
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including <u>Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York</u> by
Barbara Weisberg, the Philadelphia born daughter furrier Samuel Wiesberg and
the artist Miriam Weisberg who is the wife of writer David Black<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;">2024: St. John’s Wood Synagogue and Saatchi Synagogue
are scheduled to present “In Support of Israel: Music or the Soul” featuring
“your favourite Israeli medleys from Broadway to the bima” with guest Chazanim
Simo Cohen, Netanel Hershtik and Avraham Kirshenbaum.<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;">2024: JHMOC’s exhibition “If These Barn Walls
Could Talk: An 18-Year Journey at the Jewish Heritage Museum” is <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: The
Chazak Meetup “Brunch at the Trolly” sponsored by Tifereth Israel is scheduled
to take place today in Columbus, OH.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: As
February 25th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held
hostages begin day 142 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-77161770962751383552024-02-23T12:47:00.002-06:002024-02-23T16:03:34.388-06:00This Day, February 24, 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;">February 24</span></span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">303: The first
official Roman edict for the persecution of Christians was issued by Roman
Emperor Galerius Valerius Maximianus. This was part a contest between
Pagans and Christians for control of the Roman Empire. The Jews were not involved.
But they would be the ultimate losers when Christianity became the state
religion of the Roman Empire and the Church unleashed the power of the state on
all religious groups that opposed it, including the Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1147: In
Wurzburg, Germany, a rumor began that a Christian corpse was found in the river
which could perform miracles. The Jews were accused to killing the person. In
the ensuring riots, twenty-two Jews were murdered including the rabbi, Isaac
ben Elyukem. After the riot the survivors fled to a local Castle<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1221: Alice de
Montmorency, wife of Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester passed
away. In 1217, Alice ordered the arrest of all of the Jews living in
Toulouse. They could either convert or be killed. Children
under the age of six were taken from their parents, baptized and raised
Christians. Her actions violated the promise her husband had made to
the Jews of Toulouse guaranteeing them their freedom and right to practice
their religion. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1304:
Birthdate of Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battutah commonly known as Ibn Battuta,
a Maghrebi traveler, explorer and scholar whose travels took him to the Sinai
Peninsula, Gaza, Hebron, Jerusalem and Bethlehem and some of whose travels
mirrored those taken by Benjamin of Tudela, the 12<sup>th</sup> century Jewish
author of <u>The Travels of Benjamin</u>, the Hebrew language text, which
provided “a description of Jewish communities” but also <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was a
reliable source about the geography and ethnography of the Middle Ages which “some
modern historians credit Benjamin with giving accurate descriptions of everyday
life in the Middle Ages. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/benjamin-of-tudela#google_vignette">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/benjamin-of-tudela#google_vignette</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;">1463: At
Mirandola, near Modena, Gianfrancesco I Pico, Lord of Mirandola and Count of
Concordia, by his wife Giulia, daughter of Feltrino Boiardo. Count of Scandiano
gave birth to Italian Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola who
studied Kabbalah with Johanan Aleman and was one of the first Italian nobles to
collect Hebrew manuscripts and who “was convinced that the literature of
Kabbalah was the true transcript of what Moses heard at Sinai , that
Christianity and Judaism were one with Kabbalah as the point of connection and
that the differences between Judaism and Christianity were superficial” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1479: After
four years of conflict and intrigue, Queen Isabella of Castile secured her
throne. Isabella’s machinations to gain control of the kingdom show her
as every bit as other female monarchs as Elizabeth of England or Catherine the
Great of Russia. Later in the year, she would marry Ferdinand of Aragon,
a move that would lead to the creation of the modern Spanish state.
Contrary to popular misconception, she was the abler of the two monarchs.
In fact, it was only because Ferdinand was a man in a male-dominated society
that saved his reputation. Isabella’s accession to the throne was the
first in a series of events that would end with the expulsion of the Jews from
Spain in 1492.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1500: In
Ghent, Philip the Handsome and Joanna Castile gave birth to Charles V, the Holy
Roman Emperor who provided Josel of Rosheim with “a charter or letter of
protection from for the whole of German Jewry but who alos<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“issued a proclamation again the Jews who had
not been baptized” which may have applied to the Jews he ruled as King of
Spain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1510:
Pope Julius II excommunicated the Republic of Venice. Many remember Julius II
as the Pope who commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel.
Julius II, like at least one of his predecessors, had a Jewish physician; in
this case Samuel Sarfatti. From the Jewish point of view, Julius clashes
such as the one that brought on the above mentioned excommunication and
aesthetic projects meant that he did not have time to waste on persecuting his
Jews. Out of sight out of mind or benign neglect placed Julius on the
list of one of the “better Popes.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1530:
Coronation in Italy of Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor who provided Josel of
Rosheim with “a charter or letter of protection from for the whole of German
Jewry but who alos “issued a proclamation again the Jews who had not been
baptized” which may have applied to the Jews he ruled as King of Spain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1536:
Birthdate of Ippolito Aldobrandini who became Pope Clement VIII during whose
Papacy Jews were forced to attend “conversionist sermons,” prohibited from
“dealing in new articles of clothing” and forced to allow copies of the Talmud
to be burned in 1601.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1590: Accused
“Judaizer” Catalina de Leon, the wife of Antonio Dias de Caceres, did penance
at an auto da fe held in Mexico City today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1597:</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, who, in 1588
sent Mantua born engineer Abraham Colorni to Prague married his third wife
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1582:
Pope Gregory XIII announced the Gregorian calendar. This replaced the
Julian Calendar which explains why there is some confusion about various dates
in history. Of course the Jews use their own calendar, but as a people
who “live in time” it is useful to know when other parts of the Western world
began changing the way they keep track of the years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1590: An
entire family of Marranos named de Carabaja “was forced to confess and abjure
at a public auto-da-fé, celebrated” today. “Luis de Carabajal the younger, with
his mother and four sisters, was condemned to perpetual imprisonment, and his
brother, Baltasar, who had fled upon the first warning of danger, was, along
with his deceased father, Francisco Rodriguez de Matos, burnt in effigy.”
(According to some accounts this happened in 1599)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1688(23rd of
Adar): Portuguese poet and grammarian Moses Gideon Abudiente passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1739: The army
of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India,
Muhammad Shah at the Battle of Karnal. Nadir Shah’s rise to power marked
an improvement in the lives of the Persian Jewish community. The last
half of the 17<sup>th</sup> century had been a period of persecution for the
Jews when many of them actually outwardly converted to Islam. Under Nadir, the
Jews were once again free to practice their religion in public.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1749(16h of
Adar I, 5509): Sahara Helbert, the Daughter of Philip Helbert and the second
wife of Baruch Judah passed away today in NewYork City<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1763:</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Today “a mob protesting the abolition of half-price
admissions stormed the theatre in the middle of the performance of
“Artaxerxes,” an opera which would in the next decade feature the tenor voice
of Michael Leoni who was also known as Myer Lyon, the Chazan at the Great
Synagogue in London.</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;">1765: David
Tevele Schiff was named as the Rabbi to lead the Great Synagogue in London
succeeding Hart Lyon in that position. Hart had actually been the rabbi
for the Great Synagogue and the Hambro Synagogue. The two congregations were
supposed to continue this practice. But they could not agree on a
successor. Once the Great Synagogue had made its decision, the Hambro
Synagogue chose Israel Meshullam Solomon to serve as their rabbi.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1774(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5534): Erev Purim, celebrated on the same day that American patriot
Richard Henry Lee wrote to Arthur Lee that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"North America is now most dimly united
and as firmly resolved to defend their liberties ad infinitum against every
power on Earth that may attempt to take it away” which was one of the defining
statements on the road to the fight for independence from Great Britain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1781: In
Newport, RI, Jochabed Levy and Moses Mendes Seixas, who were married in 1770,
gave birth to Bella Seixas who never married.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1789: Emanuel
de la Motta and his wife gave birth to Doctor Jacob de la Motta, “a member of
the South Carolina Medical Society, a U.S. Army Surgeon during the War of 1812
who lived in Savannah where he was instrumental in erecting the building that
housed Mikveh Israel and serving as a lay leader before returning to Charleston
“where he became one of that city’s leading physicians while taking an active
role in community affairs<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11188-motta-jacob-de-la">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11188-motta-jacob-de-la</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;">1793: Zipporah
Isaacs and Hymen Cohen gave birth to Frances Cohen, the wife of Aaron Joseph
with whom she had seven children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 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 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1798(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5558): Parashat Tetzaveh: Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1803: In Marbury
v. Madison decided today, The Supreme Court of the United States establishes
the principle of judicial review which would be part of the judicial arsenal
when Jewish justices starting with Justice Brandeis began serving on the High
Court.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1809(8<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5569): Lea Landauer, the wife of Raphael ben Isser Landauer and the mother
of Joseph Löb Arjeh Landauer; Löb (Leopold) Raphael Landauer; Israel Isser
Landauer and Moses Landauer 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;">1816(25<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5576): Parashat Mishpatim; Shabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1816: In
Germany Sara and Isaac Fried gave birth to Friederike Feist, the wife of Moses
Feist and the mother of Leopold, Salomon and Sarphan Feist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1817: Two days
after he had passed away, Zvi, the son of Isaac HaCohen was buried today at the
“Brady Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1818: In
London, “actor-manager Henry John Wallack and Fanny Jones” gave birth to
American actor James William Wallack<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-William-Wallack-II">https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-William-Wallack-II</a></span><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;"><a href="http://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1801197">http://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1801197</a></span><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;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1873/05/25/80319891.pdf">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1873/05/25/80319891.pdf</a></span><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;">1829: Lyman and Achsah Wells Granger gave birth
Fanny R. Granger who became Fanny Granger Kanter when she married Breslau
native Edward Kanter, the Detroit banker with whom she had four children –
Henry, Charles, Edward and Jessie.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1831:
Birthdate of Leo von Caprivi, who as Chancellor of Germany earned the enmity of
the anti-Semites, who were a growing force, when he attacked their leaders in a
speech before the Reichstag in 1893.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1831: One day
after he had passed away, Same Benjamin was buried today at the “Brompton
(Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1835:
Birthdate of Sir Julius Vogel, the eighth Premier of New Zealand and the first
Jew 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;">1836: Louis
Goodman married Julia Salamon today at the Western Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1839: Birthdate
of Hanover, Germany native and future Yazoo City, Mississippi resident Emile
Schaefer, the husband of Julia Marx Schaefer and Caroline Weinschenk Schaefer <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1841: David
ben Jacob married Rachel bat Aaron HaLevi today at the Western Synagogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1842:
Birthdate of German Egyptologist Émile Brugsch who in 1881 “discovered the
tomb at Deir el Bahir” which included the mummy of Ramses II, the Pharaoh of
the Exodus. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1844: In New
York, Isabella Lloyd and Henry Russell gave birth to William Clark Russell.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1847: Moss
Ansell married Mary Cantor 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;">1847: Asher
Solomon married Anna Russel 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;">1848:
Louis-Philippe, “King of the French,” abdicates the throne. Louis’s reign began
with a revolution in 1830 and ended with a revolution in 1848. This
monarch from the house of Orleans was a rather dull character when compared to
the glory of the Bourbons and Bonaparte but it was his very dullness that got
him to the throne. As is so often the case, Louis’ record in dealing with
the Jews is a mixed bag. As Elliot Rosenberg points, by the time Louis
came to the throne French Jews were well on their way to full
emancipation. Under Louis, “rabbis joined other clerics paid from the
state exchequer.” While English Jews were still denied entry to Oxford
and Cambridge, the doors “opened widely” at French universities. “Jewish
communities joined in praising” him as the monarch who “’had enlarged our
liberties.’” In 1835, Louis defended the rights of French Jews in a diplomatic
conflict with the Swiss. James de Rothschild, head of the French branch
of the House of Rothschild was “a royal intimate” who according to his brother
Salomon “goes to the palace whenever he wishes. James was not only a
pillar of the French government, he was also the man who handled the “personal
investment accounts” of the French monarch. All this good will was
tainted by the Damascus Affair in which the French sided with those who
supported the claim of the Blood Libel against Jews living in Syria. The
French were trying to establish their sphere of influence in the Middle East
and North Africa and if the price was that of a few Jews, so be it.
Regardless, by the time of the abdication, Jewish emancipation in France was so
ingrained that nothing would stem that tide. Of course, the Dreyfus
Affair, fifty years later would demonstrate the illusory nature of that emancipation.
Louis’s successor, Napoleon III would prove to be “bad for the French people”
and therefore “bad for the Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1848: As the
revolutionary forces took power, the Republicans named Adolphe Cremieux, a
prominent lawyer, statesman and leader of the French Jewish community, to serve
as the minister of justice. During his time in office, he “secured the decrees
abolishing the death penalty for political offenses, and making the office of
judge immovable.” “He was instrumental in declaring an end to slavery in
all French Colonies, for which some have called him the French Abraham
Lincoln.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1849: One day
she had passed 62-year-old Catherine, “the wife of Shimson bar Tuvya” was
buried today at the “Brady Street Jews Cemetery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1852: In
Richmond, VA, Joseph and Caroline (Waterman) Myers gave birth University of
Richmond graduate Lee Roy Myers, the husband of Julia Davis who in 1869 went to
the cigar business in Savannah GA where he served as president of Lee Roy Myers
Company and Cortez Cigar Company.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1853: Lord
John Russell, the last Whig to serve as prime minister of Great Britain spoke
in a favor of the bill to remove the political “Jewish Disabilities.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/feb/24/jewish-disabilities">JEWISH DISABILITIES. (Hansard, 24 February 1853) (parliament.uk)</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;">1857: In
England, Phoebe Levy and Aaron Samuel gave birth to John Samuel<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1859: In
Michigan, Julius and Jennie F. Ringuette Houseman gave birth to Hattie Houseman
Amberg, the wife of David Moses Amberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860(1st of
Adar, 5620): Rosh Chodesh Adar observed on the day Henry David Thoreau wrote in
his journal, “A fact state barely is dry” but “it must be the vehicle of some
humanity in order to interest us.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1860: In
Lithuania, “Chaim and Golde H. (Purvin) Bluestone game birth to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NYU trained medical doctor and organizer of
the ZOA Joseph Isaac Bluestone, the organizer and president of Choveve Zion in
American and an organizer and member o f the board of Beth Hospital in New
York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bluestone-joseph-isaac">https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bluestone-joseph-isaac</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;">1861(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5621): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1861: As the
Jews celebrated Purim for the first time during the Civil War, President
Lincoln sat for a photographic portrait by Alexander Gardner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/2toz5j/president_abraham_lincoln_seated_on_february_24/">https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/2toz5j/president_abraham_lincoln_seated_on_february_24/</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;">1862: Sergeant
Elias Reubenthal began a three-year enlistment with Company I of the 113<sup>th</sup>
regiment of the 12<sup>th</sup> Cavalry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863: In New
York City. Adolphe and Ida (Deutsch) Blum gave birth to merchant and banker
Edward Charles Blum, the First Vice President of Abraham and Strauss Department
Store and husband of Florence Abraham.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1863: In
Vienna, Austria, Rabbi Ignatz and Nettie (Rosenbaum) Grossman gave birth to
Louis Grossman who graduated from Hebrew Union College and served as the rabbi
at Detroit’s Temple Bethel and Congregation B’nai Yeshurun in Cincinnati, Ohio.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0092/ms0092.html">http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0092/ms0092.html</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;">1864: During
the Civil War, Joseph B. Greenhut, who had been fighting as a member of the
Union Army since April of 1861, resigned his commission and returned to
civilian life. Greenhut had fought at a series of famous battles including Fort
Donelson, Gettysburg and Lookout Mountain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1865: 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 Bernard Flexner the founder and first president of the
Palestine Economic Corporation” and husband of Mary Flexner and younger brother
of Dr. Simon Flexner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://library.princeton.edu/special-collections/collections/bernard-flexner-papers">https://library.princeton.edu/special-collections/collections/bernard-flexner-papers</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;">1868(1st of
Adar, 5628): Rosh Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1868:
Alphonse, Baron de Rothschild and his wife Leonora, the daughter of Baron
Lionel de Rothschild of London gave birth to their only son Edouard who fought
a duel during the Dreyfus case.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5629): Erev Purim observed for the last time during the Presidency of
Andrew Johnson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1869:
Birthdate of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rochester, NY native and
clothing manufacturer turned banker, Max I Holtz, the president of the
Rochester Clothiers Exchange who in 1918 settled the strike with the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers and who resigned as head of Louis Holtz and Sons
which had been founded by his father so he could devote more time to serving as
President of the Columbia Banking, Savings and Loan Association while also
serving as leader of the Republican party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1873: In New
Orleans, Theodore and Frances “Fanny: Hellman gave birth to Editi Cecilia
Hellman who became Edith Cecilia Beer when she married George Louis Beer, the
New York born son of Julius and Sophia Beer and award-winning historian.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1874: Three
days after he had passed away, George John David Jonassohn, the young son of
“Moses John Jonassohn” and Mathilda Jonassohn was buried 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;">1874:
Birthdate of Moshe Smilansky, the native of Telepino and brother of Meir and
Anna Smilansky who first came to Palestine in 1890 as part of the First Aliyah,
became an author who wrote in Hebrew and was a proponent of a bi-national state
in the 1930’s.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1876: Two days
after he had passed away, Frederick Augusta Cowen, the husband of Emily Cowen
and the father of Lionel, Emma and Frederick Cowen 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;">1877: An
agreement was reached today between the Ottoman rulers and the Serbian envoys
led by Prince Milan. The Serbians agreed to all of the conditions set by the
Turks except two, one of which was the requirement that the Jews of Serbia be
granted the same rights as all other Serbs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878: “Is
Disraeli A Jew” was published today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878: In
Halle, Germany, Julius Bernstein, “the Chair of Physiology at the Martin Luther
University of Halle-Wittenberg and was the Director of the Physiological
Institute at the University of Halle” and his wife gave birth to Felix
Bernstein the “mathematician known for proving in 1896 the Schröder–Bernstein
theorem” who was forced to flee Hitler’s Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1878: The
Young Men’s Hebrew Association met tonight in New York to discuss the proposal
made by Thomas Grady to abolish the Free College.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1879(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5639) Rosh Chodesh Adar observed on the same day it is reported
President Hayes will use the pocket veto to deal with Anti-Chinese Immigration
Bill.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1880(12<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5640): Seventy-nine-year-old Judge David Naar, the St. Thomas born
sone of Sarah and Chazan Joshua Naar and the husband of Sarah Cohen<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Naar passed away today in Trenton, NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/naar-david">https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/naar-david</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;">1881:
Seventeen-year-old Marion Calish, the Hebrew teacher at Professor Felix Adler’s
kindergarten who has been missing since the 19<sup>th</sup>, was found just
before midnight tonight by a traveling salesman who took her to the local
police precinct.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882: A man
who claimed to be named Rothschild and is thought to be Jewish attempted to use
a bogus check to pay for purchases at A and C Myer 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;">1882: Two of
the Jewish refugees from Russia who arrived in Philadelphia, PA on the <i>SS
Illinois</i> are the only ones who have been identified as being sick – that is
two out over three hundred men, women and children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1882: A cable
sent to the Toronto Globe from London stated that at a meeting of the Committee
on the Fund for the Relief of Russo-Jewish Refugees, Sir A.T. Galt suggested
that two or three of the Jewish refugees should be allowed to go to Canada’s
Northwest Territories to make arrangements for the arrival of their
co-religionists. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1883: In
Columbia, MO, Bertha Myer and Bernhard Loeb gave birth to University of
Missouri graduate and St. Louis University trained physician and oral surgeon
Virgil Loeb, the husband of Therese M. Metzler and professor of oral surgery at
St. Louis University as well as a professor of stomatology at the Washington
University Dental school who rose to the rank of Major while serving in France
during WW I as member of Medical Corps of the United States Army.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1884(28<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5644): Fifty-four-year-old Alsatian born French painter Benjamin
Ulman passed away today in Paris.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14574-ulmann-benjamin">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14574-ulmann-benjamin</a></span><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;"><a href="https://www.invaluable.com/artist/ulman-benjamin-7j27ldsgaq/">https://www.invaluable.com/artist/ulman-benjamin-7j27ldsgaq/</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;">1884: Harold
Emmanuel Levy, an infant, 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;">1885:
Birthdate of Joseph Sprinzak, first Speaker of Israeli Knesset. “Born in
Moscow, Sprinzak's father was active in the Hovevei Zion. When Jews were
expelled from Moscow in 1891, the family moved to Kishinev and then Warsaw. The
home was a center for young Hebrew writers and Zionists. In the early 1900s, he
was one of the organizers of HaTehiyah, a Zionist group led by Yitzhak
Gruenbaum. During this period, he worked in a Hebrew publishing house as well
as on Hebrew and Yiddish newspapers in Warsaw. In 1905 he returned to Kishinev
where he was active in Zionist affairs. In 1908 he spent several months in
Constantinople where he was in contact with Zionist leaders, and then went to
Beirut to study medicine. His studies were cut very short when, after just a
few months, he was asked to become secretary of HaPoel HaZair. During World War
I he was in Eretz Yisrael and after the war, was instrumental in founding Hitahdut,
a world movement which joined HaPoel HaZair and Zeirei Zion. A delegate to the
11th and 12th Zionist Congresses, Sprinzak became the first representative of
the yishuv's labor movement to be elected to the Zionist Executive. When
independence was declared in 1948, he was elected to the Provisional State
Council as well as the first three Knessets, serving as speaker for 10
years. Joseph Sprinzak was known as a Zionist leader who strongly
identified with the rank-and-file, both in Israel and abroad. His conception of
Zionism was based on socialism and the process of national rebirth. During his
tenure as secretary of HaPoel HaZair, he was involved in the absorption of Jews
from Yemen. During World War I, he helped organize the yishuv's Jewish workers.
In the 1920s, as a member of the Zionist executive, he was head of the Labor
and then the Aliyah Departments. He also helped found the Histadrut labor
federation and was a member of the Tel Aviv municipality. In the 1930s, as a
member of the Histadrut executive, Sprinzak was instrumental in the formation
of Ben-Gurion's Mapai political party. In the 1940s he became a leading member
of the Zionist General Council and eventually was general secretary of the
Histadrut. As Knesset speaker during the body's first 10 years, Sprinzak had a
major influence on the country's emerging democracy. He died in 1959.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><a name="_Hlk64914086"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887:
Birthdate of Furth native and German trained mathematician Arthur Rosenthal who
was lucky enough to escape from the Nazis and in 1939 settle in the United
States where he taught at the University of Michigan, the University of New
Mexico and Purdue University where a scholarship “is named in his honor.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p>
<p><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64914086;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: In Louisville, KY, Morris and Ray Forst
Kaluber gave birth to medical school student turned journalist and broadcaster,
Edward Kaluber, who married Doris Larson Klauser two years after the death of
his first wife Gladys Gustafson Kaluber and served as the city of <i>the New
York Times</i> before eventually becoming an executive vice president of the
Columbia Broadcasting System<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64914086;"></span><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/09/24/93409711.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64914086;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/09/24/93409711.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64914086;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64914086;"></span>
</span><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1887: Three
days after he had passed away, Phineas Abraham, the husband of the former
Caroline Simon 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 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889:
Birthdate of Aleksei Denisovich Dikiy, the native of the Ukraine and brother of
actress Maria Sukhodolska – Dikova who was a Soviet actor and director during
the Stalin era.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889:
Birthdate of Arne Laurin the graduate of the “Technical Academy of Prague,” the
editor-in-chief of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Prager Presse</i>, a
German language newspaper regarded as the mouthpiece of the Czech government
who was forced to flee because of opposition to the Nazis and Conrad Henlein,
leader of the Sudeten Germans and who “took charge of the index department of
the Czechoslovak Information Service” after arriving in New York in 1939 with
his wife “Olga Weiss Laurinova.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/02/19/84628244.pdf">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/02/19/84628244.pdf</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;">1889: In
“eastern Galicia,” Shmaryahu Imber, the Hebrew author and Bella Miriam Imber
gave birth to Samuel Jacob Imber the “husband of Nussia Imber, the nephew of
Naphtali-Herz Imber, the author of “Hatikvah” who wrote poetry in Polish and
was Yiddish author who in 1942 was murdered by anti-Semites “during pogroms
following the Nazi occupation of the Ukraine.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/imber-samuel-jacob">https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/imber-samuel-jacob</a></span><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;"><a href="http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2014/06/shmuel-yankev-samuel-jacob-imber.html">http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2014/06/shmuel-yankev-samuel-jacob-imber.html</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;">1889: In the
United States, Arthur Richard Rosson and Helene Rochefort gave birth to actress
Ethel Rosson, who became Ethel Rosson Daly, the wife John Daly and whose
siblings cinematographer Harold Rosson and actor/director Richard Rosson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1889:
Birthdate of Jacques (Jacob) Presser “a Dutch historian, writer and poet best
known for his book <u>Ashes in the Wind: The destruction of the Dutch Jews</u>
which descried “the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands 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;">1890: It was
reported today that Sarah Bernhardt will be returning to the United States in
October to perform at the Broadway Theatre 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;">1890: It was
reported today that at the request of Elsie Leslie, 500 hundred children from
the Industrial Schools of the Associated Hebrew Charities will attend one of
her final matinee performances of “The Prince and the Pauper at the Broadway
Theatre. (Elsie Leslie was a noted child actress of her time. Born in
1881, she passed away in 1966. I cannot find any reason why she singled
out a school for Jewish students for this treat.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1890: It was
reported today that the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society is caring for nearly
600 children, 200 of whom were girls and 400 were boys.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1891:
“Elevated Funeral Trains” published today described the decision of the
Directors of the Union Elevated Railroad in Brooklyn to extend service to
Cypress Cemetery and the “numerous Jewish cemeteries in the neighborhood and to
establish funeral trains consisting of a car for the coffin and two or three
cars for the funeral party. Most of the directors are Jewish and Edward
Lauterbach who is counsel for the company is attempting to establish contracts
with various synagogues to convey the funeral parties from the ferries or
bridge to the cemetery.<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;">1892: Birthdate of Moscow native, vaudeville
monologist and radio and Broadway performer Joe Laurie Jr. who formed the
vaudeville team of Laurie and Bronson with his first wife Aleen Bronson and was
the father of Joseph Bryant Hughes Laurie.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0491385/">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0491385/</a></span><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;"><a href="https://archives.nypl.org/the/22632">https://archives.nypl.org/the/22632</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://the-lambs.org/club_member/laurie-joseph-jr/">https://the-lambs.org/club_member/laurie-joseph-jr/</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;">1893: The
American University, a private Methodist university in Washington, D.C. is
chartered by an act of the Congress of the United States of America. A.U. has
over one thousand Jewish undergraduate students out of a total of almost
6,000. Out of an estimated 4,700 grad students, 1,000 are Jewish.
The school offers a minor in Jewish Studies, a university program in Israel and
the services of an authorized Hillel House.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893(8th of
Adar, 5653): Benjamin Henry Ascher, Hebrew scholar and author passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1893: “At the
second session of the 52<sup>nd</sup> Congress…a bill was presented to the
House ordering that a gold medal be struck off in recognition of the services
rendered by Haym Solomon during the Revolutionary War, in consider of which the
Salomon heirs waived their claims upon the United States for indemnity.” The
full House never took action on the resolution.<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 that Kuhn, Loeb &amp; Co is among the contributors to the
Citizens’ Relief Committee which has raised $94, 065.50 for those suffering
from the effects of the economic depression.<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 Jacob H. Schiff, Solomon Loeb and Abraham Wolff are among
the prominent citizens who have joined a movement led by Cornelius Vanderbilt
“to establish a pawn broking establishment” in New York modeled on “public pawn
broking establishing that have been of great help to the poor in several large
European cities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1895: “A Most
Noble Charity” published today described the work of the Montefiore Home for
Incurables which “was originally intended as home where incurable patients
should be received and made comfortable during their lives” has not taken on
the additional role of providing treatment for chronic invalids” many of whom
“were hopelessly stricken by disease” but have left the facility “in the full
possession of health.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896:
“Religion In Large Cities” published today described the conditions of
religious institutions in New York City including the fact that there “51
Hebrew organizations” in the city.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1896:
According to Emily Crawford of the Associated Press, Prince Henry of Orleans is
hoping to capitalize on the anti-Dreyfus spirit as a way of bringing about the
downfall of the Republic which he no doubt hopes will be replaced with a
Monarchy.<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 he had passed away, 84-year-old Harris Silver was buried today at
“Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898:
Birthdate of Romanian born American political scientist and Fabian Socialist
Herman Finer the University of Chicago professor and author who is the brother
of Samuel Finer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1898: “Prison
and Fine For Zola” published today described the scene in the courtroom when
Emile Zola was convicted. The verdict was handed down at seven in the evening
but the jury had agreed on its decision days ago in response, in part to
threats from the mob that surrounded the court during the trial. In response to
the sentence which stemmed from his defense of Captain Dreyfus the defamed
Jewish officer Zola compared himself to Christ saying that he too was “a victim
of mob violence office cowardice and a grand miscarriage of justice.”
(Considering that the Catholic Churc were one of the groups arrayed against
him, this was a bold, fitting, comparison.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1899(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5659): Last Purim celebration of the 19<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;">1900(25<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I 5660): Parashat Vayakhel; Shabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1900: In
London, Chief Rabbi Adler has been elected a member of the Anthenaeum Club
after having been proposed for membership the Most Reverend Mandell Creighton,
Bishop of London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/02/25/101975306.html?pageNumber=8">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/02/25/101975306.html?pageNumber=8</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;">1901(5<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5661): Twenty-six-year-old Joseph Herzfeld the Bad Konig, Deutschland
son of Regina and Moses Herzfeld passed away today in his hometown.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1901: It was
reported today that Jews have been excluded “from all the professional schools
in Romania” as well as “the college for preceptors,” the naval and military
schools” and “from all boarding schools.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1902: In
Berlin, the ninth meeting of the Union of Judæo-German Congregations came to
end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1903: It was
reported today Nathan Straus’s trotter Ted “established a remarkable record for
himself by defeating the crack pacer Bell Boy at the Speedway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1904:
Herzl writes, "Yesterday I had a most curious visitor: Ali Nuri Bey ...
His proposal ... comes to this: Sail into the Bosporus with two cruisers,
bombard Yildiz, let the Sultan flee or capture him, put in another Sultan
(Murad or Reshad), but first form a provisional government - which is to give
us the Charter for Palestine...."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1905(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5665): Sixty-six year old Florida born Israel Moses Nunez who rose
to the rank of Major in the CSA and founded a stage line at Stonewall, TX in
1870 passed away today Austin, TX after which he was buried at the Beth Israel
Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906(29<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5666): Parashat Mishpatim; Shabbat Shekalim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1906:</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Russian Communist leader Leon Trotsky and his
second wife Natalia Sedova gave birth to Lev Lvoich Sedov.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="http://spartacus-educational.com/Lev_Sedov.htm">http://spartacus-educational.com/Lev_Sedov.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;">1906:
Birthdate of Yosef Serline, the native of Bialystok who served as personal
secretary Nahum Sokolow before making Aliyah in 1930 following he which he
served as an MK in the first seven Knessets. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906:
Birthdate of Yosef Serlin, the native of Bialystok who made Aliyah in 1933 and
worked as lawyer in Tel Aviv while pursuing a political career that included
serving as member of the First Knesset.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1906: “Their
Stores to Close Saturdays” published today described the decision of the East
Side Dry Goods Merchants’ Association to give their employees the day off on
Saturday because they did little or no business because the vast majority of
customers were Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907(10th of
Adar, 5667): Composer Otto Goldschmidt passed away at the age of 87.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1907: In New
York, Hyman Novick, a Russia Jewish immigrant<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>operator of a Borscht Belt hotel and his wife Sadie gave birth Ben
Novick who was Ben Novack moved to Miami Beach where he co-owned the Sans Souci
Hotel before he built and owned the luxurious Fontainebleau hotel, one of the
most famous hostelries on Collins Avenue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908: Muller
v. Oregon in which Louis Brandeis “as additional counsel for the state of
Oregon” filed the first of its kind of brief now known as the “Brandeis Brief”
which relied “more on a compilation of scientific information and social
science than on legal citations” was decided today by the Supreme Court in
favor of the state of Oregon<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1908(22nd of
Adar): Rabbi Jehiel Michal Epstein of Novogrdok, Russia author of Arukh
ha-Shulhan passed away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1909:
Birthdate of Max Black. Born in Azerbaijan, raised and educated in
England, Black became a U.S. citizen in 1948. It is hard to classify him
because his interests were so varied. “Black was famed for his contributions to
the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mathematics and science, the
philosophy of art, conceptual analysis, and his studies of the work of several
major philosophers. Black was a prolific author and lists of his publications
contain over 200 items. He passed away in 1988.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1910:
Birthdate of Fred Sington, the native of Birmingham, Alabama, who as an
all-America tackle at the University of Alabama, led the Crimson Tide to the
national championship in 1930 before going on to a major league baseball career
with the Washington Senators and Brooklyn Dodgers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1911: As the
issue of Russian treatment of American Jews wishing to go the land of the Czar
for business purposes heated up, “Senator Culberson to-day introduced a
resolution declaring it to be "the sense of the Senate that the treaty of
1832 between the United States and Russia should be abrogated because of the
discrimination by Russia between American citizens in the administration of the
treaty." (Editor’s Note- The irony is that this philo-Semitic behavior was
going on at the same time efforts were being made to heavily restrict Jewish
immigration, especially from Russia)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: “The
Sunshine Girl” a musical comedy “with a book by Paul A. Rubens” opened at the
Gaiety Theatre in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1912: “At a
meeting at Temple Emanu-El in New York City today, Henrietta Szold together
with other Zionist women, proposed to the Daughters of Zion study circle that
they expand their purpose and embrace proactive work to help meet the health
needs of Palestine's people” which resulted in the birth of Hadassah, the
largest women's organization in America.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="http://jwa.org/thisweek/feb/24/1912/hadassah">http://jwa.org/thisweek/feb/24/1912/hadassah</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;">1913: Dr.
Stephen Wise of New York is scheduled to deliver an address on “Moral and
Religious Aspects of the Woman’s Movement” at a joint meeting of the Chicago
Association of Jewish Women and the Chicago Woman’s Aide this afternoon at
Sinai Temple <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914:
Birthdate of Esta Saltzman the native of Boston, MA who gained fame as Yiddish
actress Esta Saltzman Lubin<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1914(28<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5674): Sixty-one year old Joseph Fels, the Virginia born son of
Susannah and Lazarus Fels and the husband of Bavarian born, Iowa raised
“philanthropist, Zionist”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WW I anti-War
activist, Mary Fels passed away today in Philadelphia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1915: It was
reported today that Jews were among the hundreds of thousands who were
suffering and has lost everything because they lived along the borders of
between Russia and Germany where much of the fighting was taking place on the
Eastern Front and were now fleeing to avoid the advancing and retreating
armies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916:
Representatives from the National Jewish Workmen’s Committee on Jewish Rights
are scheduled to attend “a public hearing before the Committee on Foreign
Relations of the House of Representatives called for the purposed of
considering a resolution…urging that all legal disabilities of the Jews be
removed in the countries now at war.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: In
Congress, “the Committee on Foreign Relations” is scheduled to hold a public
hearing on a joint resolution offered by Representative London and Senator Lane
supporting the cause of peace and “the removal of discriminations against Jews
wherever they exist.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1916: The
Zionist Council of New York held a mass meeting at Cooper Union tonight.
Louis Lipsky, who presided over the meeting, attacked the critics of the
Zionist movement, including fellow Jews who had called it a “partisan
issue.” He said that “Zionism is the essential ingredient of any policy
the Jewish people may adopt at this time time for the protection of Jewish
interests.” Wolf Gluskin, who has only arrived in the United States from
Palestine where he had helped to establish one of first Zionist settlements,
told the assembly about the suffering being experienced by 35,000 Palestinian
Jews as a result of the World War. The wine industry, which the Jewish
settlers had worked so hard to develop, was on the verge of destruction.
The New York Zionists also heard from Dr. Ben Zion Mossinsohn, a teacher living
in Jaffa and Dr. Schmaraya Levin of the International Zionist Committee. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: H.
Pereira Mendes celebrates his 40th anniversary as rabbi of Congregation
Shearith Israel of New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Dr.
Samuel Schulman is scheduled to leader Saturday morning services at Temple
Beth-El in Manhattan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: Dr.
Enelow is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “How Can We Gain the Benefits of
Religion” 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;">1917: At
Temple Israel of Harlem, Dr. M.H. Harris is scheduled to deliver a Sabbath
sermon on “The Temple and Israel.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: The
Judeo-Spanish newspaper <i>El Emigrante</i> was established in New Jersey.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: The
Russian Revolution begins in earnest when troops of the Czar fire on the
citizens of St. Petersburg. This is the first, non-Bolshevik Russian
Revolution. Jews played an active role in the various upheavals that would
bring an end to the reign of the Czars. The Jews did not realize that
anti-Semitism was such an integral part of the Russian psyche that it would
survive and flourish under the next wave of autocrats – the Communists who
replaced the Czars.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1917: The
German plan to bring Mexico into World War on the German side is exposed.
The incident is referred to as the “Zimmerman telegram.” Zimmerman was
the German foreign minister. This bit of arrogance and ignorance was one
of the causes of the United States entering the war in April of 1917. The
Jewish author Barbara Tuchman wrote a very readable and informative book on
this subject.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918:
Einstein wrote “to an academic correspondent who had rebuked him for his
dislike of war, ‘Your ostentatious Teutonic muscle-flexing runs rather against
my grain. I prefer to string along with my compatriot Jesus Christ, whose
doctrines you and your kind consider to be obsolete. Suffering is indeed
more acceptable to me than resort to violence.’” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: It was
reported today that the Joint Distribution Committee has appropriated an
additional $100,000 to help pay for “the medical unit being formed by Hadassah”
which is to be sent to Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1918: It was
reported today that Joint Distribution Committee has allocated $500,000 “for
the general relief” of Jews living “in the occupied parts of Russia, including
Poland, Lithuania and Lublin” and $800,000 to help “the wives and children of
American Jews stranded in Harbin to join their husbands” 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;">1918: Lenin’s
newly installed government decided today that Russia would have to sign a
“treaty of capitulation” with the Germans and that since nobody would lead the
delegation Jewish born Bolshevik Grigori Sokolnikov was forced to lead the
delegation that would sign the humiliating Brest-Litovsk Treaty.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1919: “Jews
Point in Pride to Record in War” published today reported that “the total
number of Jews in the military and naval service during the war was between
165,000 and 200,000, or from 4 to 5 per cent. of the total personnel of the
American forces at the time the armistice was signed.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1920: The Nazi
party held it first major meeting in Munich, Germany during which they adopted
a platform that stated “Jews could never be citizens or a part of the German
Volk or German people.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1921: In New
York City, two Jewish immigrants from Russia – Samuel Vigoda and the former
Lena Moses gave birth to actor Abraham “Abe” Charles Vigoda known to many as
“Tessio” the mobster who betrayed Michael Corleone in the “The Godfather” and
Detective Fish in the comedy cop show “Barney Miller.”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/arts/television/abe-vigoda-actor-of-godfather-fame-dies-at-94.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/arts/television/abe-vigoda-actor-of-godfather-fame-dies-at-94.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</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;">1921: In
Cincinnati, Ohio, the Board of Governors announced that Dr. Kaufman Kohler,
President of the Hebrew Union College, will retire at the end of the current
academic year. Dr. Kohler has been serving as President since February
1903.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1921: As head
of the Colonial Office, Winston Churchill makes his first commitment to
practical Zionist enterprise by approving Pinchas Rutenberg’s plan to harness
the waters of the Jordan and Yarkon rivers for electrical power enabling the
Jews to begin to make further plans for substantial urban and rural
development.1922: Birthdate of actor Steven Hill. Born Solomon
Krakovsky in Seattle Washington, he is best known for his role as Adam Schiff
on the television series “Law and Order.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1922:
Birthdate of Seattle, Washington, native Solomon Krkovsky, who gained fame as
actor Steven Hill who was the “original team leader” on “Mission: Impossible”
and the long-serving New York District Attorney Adam Schiff on “Law and Order.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.biography.com/people/steven-hill-9542271">http://www.biography.com/people/steven-hill-9542271</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;">1922(26<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5682): Sir Ellis Kadoorie passed away today and was buried in
keeping with Jewish ritual was buried on the same day at the Jewish Cemetery in
Hong Kong. Born in 1865, he was part of prominent Jewish family from Baghdad
that moved to Bombay and eventually made their fortune in a variety of
enterprises many of which were located in China and Hong Kong.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: Karl and
Helene Neubauer gave birth to Otto Neubauer who was murdered at an
extermination camp in Belarus in 1942 at the age of 19.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923:
Birthdate of David Soyer, “the founding cellist of the Guarneri String Quartet”
who raised two sons – Daniel and Jeffery – with his wife Janet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1923: In New
York Hungarian born composer George Steiner and his wife gave birth Frederick <br />
“Fred” Steiner whose most famous musical accomplishments may be creating the
theme song for the ironic cartoon comedy show featuring Rocky and Bullwinkle
and CBS’s popular series “Perry Mason.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-fred-steiner-20110625-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-fred-steiner-20110625-story.html</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;">1924:
Birthdate of Warsaw native Simcha (Szymon) Rathajzer the ZOB fighter later
known as Simcha Rosten who when he died had been known as the last surviving
Warsaw Ghetto fighter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/simcha-rotem-last-surviving-fighter-in-warsaw-ghetto-uprising-dies-at-94/">https://www.timesofisrael.com/simcha-rotem-last-surviving-fighter-in-warsaw-ghetto-uprising-dies-at-94/</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;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1924: In “Banker to the Beggars of Berlin”
published today Joseph Gollomb tells the rags-to-riches story of a man reduced
by the Great War to selling matches on the Kurfuerstendamn.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1924/02/24/archives/banker-to-the-beggars-of-berlin-a-ragstoriches-story-of-a-man.html?searchResultPosition=8">https://www.nytimes.com/1924/02/24/archives/banker-to-the-beggars-of-berlin-a-ragstoriches-story-of-a-man.html?searchResultPosition=8</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;">1925(30th of
Shevat): Rabbi Isaac Jeroham Diskin passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1925: Ida M.
Frances Ehrich, the daughter of Lazarus and Seline Babette Morgenthau, the
wifoe of William Joseph Ehrich and the mother of Lilian and Joseph Ehrich
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;">1926: An ad
for Cass and Rosenthal, a business owned by Israel Cass and Max Rosenthal that
produced closes for “children and juniors” appeared in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Women’s Wear</i> today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1926: In
Washington, DC, President Calvin Coolidge received a delegation from “Agudath
Israel, the world organization of Orthodox Jewry, who extended the
felicitations of the organization.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1927: It was
reported today, W.L. Lewis of he Bethlehem Steel Company Football Club and
Morris Vanderweghe of the New York Giants Football Club have made arrangements
to “conduct a tour in America of the Hakoah Soccer team of Vienna this Spring.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1928:
Birthdate of Ezat Delijani, a 1979 refugee from Iran’s Islamic Revolution who
became a prominent Los Angeles businessman (As reported by Dennis McLellan)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5689): Purim Katan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929: This
morning, Rabbi Louis Novick is scheduled to open “a joint session of
constituent Zionist Organizations” after which Harry T. Kellman will deliver
the President’s annual message and Mrs. Israel Shapiro will render a report, as
Chairman of the Seaboard Hadassah Region followed by Judge William M. Lewis, of
Philadelphia, National Chairman of the United Palestine Appeal who will be a
principal speaker at the sessions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1929(14<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I) 5689): Twenty-nine-year-old Sophie Josephine Franks, the daughter of
Louis and Emma Sachs and the wife of Siegfried Frank passed away today in
Winschoten.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1930: In
Moscow “reports emanating from Berlin to the effect that the Chief Rabbi of
Minks had been sentenced to death on a charge of speculating on foreign
exchange” are declared to be absolutely false.1931(7<sup>th</sup> of Adar,
5691): Seventy-nine-year-old Isaac Ottenberg, the Bavarian born son of Rosa and
Maier Ottenberg<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and the husband of
Regina Ottenberg passed away today 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;">1932: Senator
George Norris, the Republican from Nebraska who chairs the Senate Judiciary
Committee was reported today to have said that he did not know of any plans for
speeches being given in the Senate expressing opposition to the confirmation of
Benjamin Cardozo as a Supreme Court Justice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: Benjamin
N. Cardozo was confirmed by a unanimous voice vote in the Senate to be an
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Compare the ease with which Cardozo’s
name sailed through the approval process with the contentious combat that
surrounded the confirmation of Justice Brandeis. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1932: The
Maccabee Association of the United States hosts a benefits concert at Carnegie
Hall to raise funds for an athletic stadium in Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1933: “Perfect
Understanding” a comedy directed by Cyril Gardner 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;">1934: Litzi
Friedman, the daughter of Viennese Jews Israel and Gisella Kohlman, married Kim
Philby the British communist spy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="http://spartacus-educational.com/Litzi_Friedmann.htm">http://spartacus-educational.com/Litzi_Friedmann.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;">1935: “A drive
to place 10,000 new contribution boxes in homes and offices was begun” tonight”
by the Jewish National Fund in conjunction with its campaign to raise $500,000
this for land purchases in Palestine.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5696): Rosh Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936:
“Henrietta Szold…replied today to Palestine Jewry’s greetings on her
seventy-fifth birthday, stating that without their assistance she could have
achieved nothing.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1936: In
Jaffa, Arabs picketing construction sites where schools were being built
“stoned Jewish laborers and policemen, dangerously wounding one British
constable and seriously damaging” at least one building.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5697): Ta’anit Esther and Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: <u>Thy
Neighbour</u> by Lord Melchett which provided “a survey of the history of the
persecution of Jews, a description of the rise and progress of Zionism and the
position of Jews in the world today” was included on the “Books Published
Today” listing.<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 today that funeral services have been held in Prague for Dr.
Maxmillian Reiner “a founder of the Czech-Jewish movement and active member of
Sokol, the Czech national gymnastic organization.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1937: The
anti-Semitic student demonstrations that took place today in Hungary included
driving Jews from classrooms, interrupting professors’ lectures, smash windows
in Budapest’s main synagogue, and the rector of the University of Budapest
forcing threes Jewish students to “absent themselves from graduation ceremonies
in order to prevent disturbances.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1938: Three
speakers – Reverend Edward Lodge Curran, head of the International Catholic
Truth Society; Rev. Dr. Mark Depp of Christ Methodist Church in Pittsburgh;
Rabbi Philip D. Bookstaber of Ohev Sholom Temple in Harrisburg --- representing
Catholics, Protestants and Jews “today addressed Dickinson College’s Forum on
Interreligious Cooperation which is designed to opposed attempts by
dictatorships to get a foothold in America.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: An
informal meeting that lasted less than half an hour “between Jewish delegates
to the Palestine conference and representatives of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iraq
was held today in St. James’s Palace on the same day that Dr. Stephen S. Wise
and Louis Lipsky met with United States Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939: <u>Europe’s
Conscience in Decline</u> by Charles E. Shulman which provided “a survey of the
vicissitudes of the Jews in Europe” was included on the “Books Published Today”
listing<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940(15<sup>th</sup>
Adar I, 5700): Parashat Ki Tisa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: “Stop Me
If You've Heard This One,” a comedy radio series hosted by Milton Berle and
featuring Harry Hershfield (the Jewish Will Rogers) as a panelist was broadcast
for the last time today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940:
Winston Churchill shared a telegram with the War Cabinet in which Chaim
Weizmann described the “deplorable” effect that adoption of the Land Transfer
Regulations would have. The War Cabinet was unmoved by the plea.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1940: In
Elizabethtown, NJ, Gregor Piatigorsky and Jacqueline de Rothschild gave birth
molecular biologist Joram Pitaigorsky, the author of <u>Jellyfish Have Eyes</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jellyfish-Have-Eyes-Joram-Piatigorsky/dp/0989562263">https://www.amazon.com/Jellyfish-Have-Eyes-Joram-Piatigorsky/dp/0989562263</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;">1941: Today’s
issue of Time magazine recalled 1928 as a time when people “danced to Leo
Reisman’s orchestra at the Central Park Casino” while the New Yorker said “the
reason for going” to the Central Park Casino” is the fact that Leo Reisman’s
orchestra is what it is.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941:
Following a two-long pogrom in Amsterdam, “an open-air meeting was held on the
Noordermarkt to organize a strike to protest against the pogrom as well as the
forced labor in Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: The
Struma was torpedoed and sunk by the Soviet submarine SC 213.
Approximately 769 illegal Jewish immigrants aboard the <i>Struma</i>
perished on their way to Palestine. The <i>Struma</i> was one of a
series of ships filled with Jews that attempted to run the British
blockade. The blockade was part of the British commitment to the Arabs to
keep Jews out of Palestine in violation of the Balfour Declaration and
the terms of the Mandate. The British slavishly enforced the
blockade during and after World War II. The Struma traversed the Black
Sea and attempted to stop at Istanbul. But the British told the Turks
that the Jews would not be allowed to land in Palestine, so they turned the
ship back in the Black Sea. It was there that the ship was sunk,
reportedly torpedoed by a Nazi submarine. <u>Exodus</u> by Leon
Uris is based on another blockade running episode that took place in 1947. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1942: In
Stamford, CT, liquor store owner Henry Lieberman and Marcia (nee Manger)
Lieberman gave birth to Joseph Isadore “Joe” Lieberman the U.S. Senator from
Connecticut and the first Jew to run for Vice President of the United States on
the ticket of a major political party. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1943: Hitler
sent Nazi members a message on the anniversary of the establishment of the Nazi
Party, "The struggle will end . . . with the liquidation of Jewry in
Europe."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: At
Birkenau, 200 of the 800 prisoners in the Sonderkommando were sent to Majdanek
where they were shot.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944:
Birthdate of Bucharest native Dan Manor (Menes) who perished when the Dakar was
lost in 1968.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1944: Max
Jacob a French artist, who was born Jewish but converted to Catholicism, was
arrested by the Gestapo and put into Orléans prison. He was then transferred to
a holding camp in Drancy for transport to a concentration camp in Germany. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5705): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5705): Thirty-two-year-old Italian physicist and anti-Fascist Eugenio
Curiel who had been a prisoner of the Mussolini government was gunned downed
today by members of the Black Brigades, a fascist para-military unit that
continued to flourish even though Italy was supposedly on the side of the
Allies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946: In Tel
Aviv, a throng of more than 50,000 Jews attended the funeral of four men killed
during an attack on several RAF airfields. For more than six hours, this
“all-Jewish” city was truly in control of the Jewish people as there were no
signs of any British police or soldiers. Jewish newspapers published
black-bordered obituaries for each of the deceased. During the funeral,
the Haganah distributed leaflets, giving further proof that the airfield
attacks were not the work of the Irgun, but were the work of a broader-based
Jewish resistance movement. The attack and the public outpouring of grief
seemed to indicate a change in mood among the Jewish population who were now
apparently willing to support more aggressive tactics designed to secure their
national home in light of what they have come to view of as the British
betrayal of the Zionist cause and their support for the Arabs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1946:
Birthdate of Michael Radford the New Delhi born son of an Austrian Jewish
mother who became a successful director and screenwriter who directed the 2004
film version of the Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino as Shylock.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
Birthdate of Lawrence Bailey Bogdanow an architect whose love for natural
materials and fine craftsmanship brought a sense of warmth and ease to the
interiors of dozens of Manhattan’s most popular restaurants, including Union
Square Café, Savoy and the Cub Room (As reported by William Grimes)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1947:
Birthdate of Juval Aviv, the native of kibbutz Kfar Menachem who is known as an
Israeli-American security consultant and writer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1948: At Lake
Success, NY, the home of the United Nations, “the tensest atmosphere yet felt
in this international headquarters accompanied the long-awaited Palestine
debate that opened today in the United Nations Security Council as disrupting
crowds twice forced the Council's president to rap angrily for silence.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1949:</span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">"Under the
auspices of the United Nations Mediator Dr. Ralph Bunche, an armistice was
signed between Egypt and Israel." This marked, more or less, the end
of Israel's War for Independence. "It was the first such agreement
between Israel and any of its warring neighbors. The aim of the armistice
was not merely to end the fighting but, as its terms stated to 'facilitate
the transition...to permanent peace'. The phrase was taken from the
United Nations Security Council resolution of November 16." Unfortunately,
the Egyptians and the other Arab nations only viewed this as a cease
fire. Over the next several decades they would violate the spirit and the
agreement as they sought to destroy the state of Israel. For the Israelis
the armistice was a great victory won against seemingly impossible odds.
When asked to explain the reason for this victory which sealed the creation of
the Jewish state, Yigal Yadin replied, "If we are to condense all the
various factors, and they are many, which brought about victory, I would not
hesitate to credit the extraordinary qualities of Israel's youth, during the
War of Independence, with that victory." In other words, it was the
spirit of the people that provided the will to hold out in the early dark days
and then to take advantage of later breakthroughs to turn toward victory.
As we study Jewish History, it will be interesting to see the similarity
between the causes of Jewish victories in ancient and modern times.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1949:
President Weizmann entrusted David Ben-Gurion with the task of forming Israel’s
first government.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: Ada
Maimon, a member of the Knesset, is spearheading the drive to tighten Israel’s
marriage laws. She is seeking to raise the minimum age of consent from 15
to 18 and tighten up on rules concerning the exceptions. Current law,
which is left over from the British mandate allows girls to marry at the age of
15 but allows for marriage at a younger age with parental consent. Miss Maimon
would limit exceptions to girls at the age of 17. Miss Maimon, who is a
member of the Knessett, is most concerned about ending what she considers the
abuse of this “loophole” that has girls as young as 12 getting married.
Primary opposition is coming from Jews of Oriental orign who are offended by
Miss Maimon’s characterization of Oriental mothers as “breeding delinquents.”
The fifty-seven-year-old Miss Maimon is the sister of Rabbi Judah L. Maimon
Israel’s Minister for Religious Affairs and is in charge of the agricultural
training farm at Ayanot that was founded in 1930.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1950: It was
reported today that “St. Louis University, a Roman Catholic Institution…presented
its ninth honorary degree in half a century and the first in its 132-year-old
history to a faculty member, Professor Gustave Kaydsh Klausner,’ the Jewish
refugee who came to the United States because of the pogroms in White Russia
1907.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1951: A month
after premiering in New York City, “The Enforcer” co-starring Zero Mostel was
released today in the rest 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;">1952: Mrs.
Ralph A. Freundlich, the widow of Ralph A. Freundlich, “announce the engagement
of her daughter Miriam” to WW II veteran and Brooklyn College graduate Bernard
Weinstein, an NYU trained attorney associated “with the law firm of Rabkin and
Johnson.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1952:
Birthdate of Simon Weinstock, British businessman and racehorse owner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1953:
Birthdate of March Feinstein the native of Mitchell, South Dakota who has
served as the Representative from the 14<sup>th</sup> District in the South
Dakota House of Representatives.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1954:
Birthdate of Dutch author Leon de Winter whose works include the novels <u>Kaplan</u>
and <u>Hoffman’s Hunger</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956: “Churchill
received the Israeli Ambassador, Eliahu Elath, who presented him with a
portfolio of woodcuts depicting ancient Jerusalem as an eightieth birthday gift
from the Prime Minister and Government of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1956:
Birthdate of television journalist, Paula Zahn, the ex-wife of Jewish realtor
Richard Cohen, who decided with him to raise their children in the faith of
their father.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1958: In
London, Katherine Margaret McAdam and Lucian Freud gave birth Jane McAdam the
“winner of the 2014 European Trebbia Award” who is the great-grand daughter of
Sigmund Freud.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959(16<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5719): Eighty-two-year-old Hyman Cantor “secretary-treasurer and a
founder of Cantor Brothers, wholesale paint and hardware company and the
husband of Lena Cantor with whom he had four daughters – Dorothy, Helen, Ruth
and Martha – passed away today in Long Island.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1959:
Twenty-one-year-old “Roughhouse Rudy” LaRusso scored 29 points as Dartmouth
defeated Holy Cross.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1962: “After
113 performances and three previews” at the Shubert Theatre, the curtain came
down on the original Broadway production of “The Gay Life,” “a musical with a
book by Fay and Michael Kanin, lyrics by Howard Dietz, and music by Arthur
Schwartz,” “directed by Gerald Freedman” and co-starring “Jules Munshin as
Max.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1967(13th of
Adar I, 5727): German born, American composer Franz Waxman passed away.
Waxman was nominated for 12 Oscars. In back-to-back victories he won for
“Sunset Boulevard” and “A Place in the Sun.” These two films give us a
sense of the breadth of Waxman’s skills since the first film was classic cinema
noir and the second was a Western.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1968(25<sup>th</sup>
of Shevat, 5728): Parashat Mishpatim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1969(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5729): Seventy-four-year-old Riga native and University of Petrograd
lawyer Anatole Chujoy who in 1924 came to the United States where he founded
Dance Magazine in 1936 and Dance News in 1942 where he was editor and publisher
until he passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095611725">https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095611725</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;">1970(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5730): Eighty-one-year-old Allen Kander, the Kansas City, MO born
son of “Felix Victor and Matilda Epstein Kander the newspaper reporter turned
“award winning” newspaper broker and husband of “the former Jeanette Unger”
with whom he had three children – Kenneth, Carol and Margaret – passed away
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-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: “The Shooting,” directed by Monte Hellman (Monte Jay
Himmelbaum) premiered today at Dallas, TX.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1972(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5732): Ninety-year-old Sidney Hollander, a 1902 graduate of the
University of Maryland, President of the Maryland Pharmaceutical Company and
the national president of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds
from 1939 to 1956 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;">1973(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar I, 5733): Parashat Ki Tisa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1973(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar I, 5733): Sixty-five year old Cracow native Martin Klein who in 1938
came from Nazi Vienna to the United where he co-founded Barton’s Candy
Corporation and became the benefactor of many Jewish institutions including the
Crown Heights Yeshiva and the Pressburger Yeshiva in Jerusalem while raising a
son, Robert, with his wife, “the former Regina Ischhof” passed away today in
the Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.brandlandusa.com/2008/12/22/bartons-candy-and-chocolate/">https://www.brandlandusa.com/2008/12/22/bartons-candy-and-chocolate/</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;">1973: First
screening today of “A Brand New Life” starring Martin Balsam with music by
Billy Goldenberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1976: Jules
Feiffer's "Knock Knock" premiered 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;">1976:
Birthdate of Kiryat Ata native Yuval Noah Harari, a professor of History at
Hebrew University and the history of two major works<u>: Sapiens: A Brief
History of Humankind</u> and <u>Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/24/homo-deus-by-yuval-noah-harari-review">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/24/homo-deus-by-yuval-noah-harari-review</a></span><u><span style="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;">1977(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5737): Fifty-five-year-old Milton “Milt” Kaimen who was a successful
French horn player and occupied a French horn chair at the Metropolitan Opera”
before pursuing his career as a comedic actor and standup comedian passed away
today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="http://cscottrollins.blogspot.com/2013/03/milt-kamen-stand-up-guy.html">http://cscottrollins.blogspot.com/2013/03/milt-kamen-stand-up-guy.html</a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5737): Seventy-five-year-old North Carolina born Johns Hopkins alum
Louis Clark the member of the American relay team that won the gold medal at
the 1924 Summer Olympics passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1978(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5738): Lionel Jacobson, the son of Lithuanian immigrant Moses
Jacobson and the brother of Sydney Jacobson with whom he created a major
European textile business when he combing Jackson the Tailor with the Burton
Tailoring Group and who was President of the Newcastle Jewish Representative
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;">1981(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5741): Eighty-two year old Moshe Nathanson, the Jerusalem born son
of Rabbi Nahum Nathanson, who moved to Canada in 1922 before settling in New
York where “he became the cantor for the Society for the Advancement of Judaism
(Mordecai Kaplan's Synagogue in New York) passed away today,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981: Fannie
(Stein) Schwartz the widow of Harry Schwartz, the maternal grandmother of Rabbi
Fred Davidow, whose home was where the family celebrated all holidays including
Passover, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur passed away. (Editor’s note – Fred was
my college roommate. A lover of history and a really decent human being whose
voice had the same sweet sound of the South as Shelby Foote, another
Mississippi born Jew, has done a marvelous job of creating a family history
which he has been kind enough to let me use.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981: Jean
Harris as convicted of murdering Dr. Herman Tarnower, the Jewish author of the
bestselling <u>The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet</u>. From “eat, eat my
children eat” to a mania for weight watching; such is the Jewish experience in
the last hundred years. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1981: Two
bronze doors, weighing about 200 pounds, were stolen from a mausoleum at the
Baron Hirsch Cemetery on Staten Island cemetery today. The police estimated the
value of the doors at $600.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5742): Rosh Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1982: <span style="background: white; color: #333333;">The Israeli Government approved plans
today to add $2.3 billion to the budget for the current fiscal year which cabinet
officials said, “was to cover a rise in food subsidies, civil service wage
increases and higher compensation for settlers scheduled to evacuate Sinai next
month under the peace treaty with Egypt.</span>”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983(11<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5743): Ta’anit Esther<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1983: “Moshe
Arens, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States, was confirmed as Defense
Minister by the Israeli Parliament today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984(21<sup>st</sup>
of Adar I, 5744): Eighty-eight-year-old Florence Zellermayer Silverman the
Austrian born daughter of Abraam and Bella Altshuler Zellermayer and the widow
of George Silverman passed away toady in Boston, MA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1987(24th of
Shevat, 5747): Marian Gerber Greenberg, who worked closely with Henrietta
Szold, the founder of the Hadassah, the Woman's Zionist Organization of
America, and its Youth Aliyah to help rescue thousands of Jewish children from
Nazi Germany, died of congestive heart failure at the Cooley-Dickenson
Hospital, Northampton, Mass. She was 89 years old and lived in Amherst, Mass.
Mrs. Greenberg was the first national chairman of Youth Aliyah, serving in the
post from 1936 to 1941. A national board member of Hadassah since 1927, she was
a national vice president and a Hadassah delegate to five world Zionist
Congresses between 1931 and 1952. She was also national chairman of the
Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Building Fund. She edited the Hadassah newsletter
(now a magazine) and, from 1943 to 1946 was editor of the monthly bulletin of
the Citizens' Housing and Planning Council of New York. A former resident of
Manhattan, she retired to Amherst in 1976, where she taught courses in the
Bible and modern Jewish thought, sponsored by the Judaic Studies department of
the University of Massachusetts. She was born in Philadelphia and graduated
from Cornell University in 1919. She was the widow of David Greenberg, a writer
on wildlife and conservation, who died in 1968. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988(6<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5748): Sixty-one-year-old Seymour Siegel, the Rabbi who has been a
major force in Conservative Judaism for the last four decades passed away
today. (As reported by Ari L.Goldman)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/25/obituaries/rabbi-seymour-siegel-61-leader-in-conservative-judaism-is-dead.html">http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/25/obituaries/rabbi-seymour-siegel-61-leader-in-conservative-judaism-is-dead.html</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;">1989(19<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I): Sergeant Binyamin Meisner, an Israeli paratrooper, was killed today
when he was struck in the head by a concrete block thrown from a building in
Nablus, in the West Bank, the army said. Meisner, a 24-year-old reserve
sergeant, is the sixth Israeli soldier to die in the current Arab wave of
violence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989: Premiere
of “My Left Foot” starring Daniel Day-Lewis with music by Elmer Bernstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: <i>The
New York Times</i> reviews <u>To Know A Woman</u> by Amos Oz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991: Allied
forces began their ground offensive in Gulf War – a war which was unique for
the Israelis because they had trust the United States to protect them from the
Iraqi Scud attacks that were cheered by Palestinians.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994(13<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5754): Erev Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1994(13th of
Adar, 5754): Dinah Shore passed away. Born Francis Rose Shore in 1916, the
Tennessee native gained fame as a singer and star of her own television variety
show. (As reported by Stephen Holden)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/shore-dinah">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/shore-dinah</a></span><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;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/25/obituaries/dinah-shore-homey-singer-and-star-of-tv-dies-at-76.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm">http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/25/obituaries/dinah-shore-homey-singer-and-star-of-tv-dies-at-76.html?pagewanted=print&amp;src=pm</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;">1995: “New
Director of Museum Was Censured by Cornell” published today described the
reaction of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s to allegation that
Steven Katz, the director-designate has falsified his record of academic
achievement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1995(24<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5755): Sixty-nine year old Ellen Louise Sulzberger Straus, the New
York born daughter of David Hays Sulzberger and Louise Mayer Sulzberger and wife
of Ronald Peter Straus, whose good works included starting the first telephone
help line in the United States passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/26/obituaries/ellen-sulzberger-straus-founder-of-first-telephone-help-line-69.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/26/obituaries/ellen-sulzberger-straus-founder-of-first-telephone-help-line-69.html</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;">1996: <span style="color: black;">Andrew Beckerman-Rodau a Jewish professor at Suffolk
University Law School flew from Detroit to Kiev. His visit to Kiev was at the
invitation of the Ukrainian Supreme Court in cooperation with USAID, an agency
of the United States government. USAID's mission is to assist this newly
independent country in developing a democratic government.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996:
For the first time, HBO televised “The Late Shift” featuring Bab Balaban and
Sandra Bernhard for the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1997(17<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5757): Ninety-one-year-old Harvard graduate and businessman Robert
Straus, the son of Jesse Isador Straus, who was president of R. H. Macy &
Company and an Ambassador to France and the grandson of Isador Straus and
husband of Barbara Flower Straus passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://archives.nypl.org/mss/2905">https://archives.nypl.org/mss/2905</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1997:
<i>Time</i> published “Echoes of the Holocaust” that describes attempt for
victims regain some of the wealth stolen from them be bankers during the Nazi
domination of Europe.</span><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;"><a href="http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,985946,00.html">http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,985946,00.html</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;">1998(27th of
Shevat, 5758): Comedian Henny Youngman passed away at the age of 92.
Youngman was famous for his tagline “Take my wife please.” Youngman did
not have a Bar Mitzvah as a child. When he was in his seventies, he
finally had one much to his joy and delight. (As reported by Mervyn Rothstein)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/25/arts/henny-youngman-king-of-the-one-liners-is-dead-at-91-after-6-decades-of-laughter.html">http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/25/arts/henny-youngman-king-of-the-one-liners-is-dead-at-91-after-6-decades-of-laughter.html</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;">1999(7th of
Adar, 5759): David Daube, a world-renowned Biblical law scholar who charmed
generations of students while teaching at the University of California,
Berkeley's law school passed away at the age of 90. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/10358/noted-bible-scholar-david-daube-dies/">http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/10358/noted-bible-scholar-david-daube-dies/</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;">2000(18<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5760): Eight-four-year-old Bronx born Bernard Opper, the All SEC
Guard for the pre-WWII University of Kentucky Wildcats who went on to play for
nine years in the pros passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/Statistics/Players/Opper_Bernard.html">http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/Statistics/Players/Opper_Bernard.html</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;">2001(1st of
Adar, 5761): Rosh Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001: “On the
eve of Colin L. Powell's first visit to the region as secretary of state,
officials in Israel today rebuffed his pleas for an easing of the blockade of
Palestinian territories, while Palestinian militants burned him in effigy.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002: Bruce
Fleisher won the RJR (Golf) Championship<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002(11th of
Adar, 5762): Leo Orenstein, Russian born American composer and pianist
passed away at the age of 89.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1387072/Leo-Ornstein.html">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1387072/Leo-Ornstein.html</a></span><span style="color: black; 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;"><a href="https://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/leo-ornstein/">https://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/leo-ornstein/</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;">2002: “An
exhibition of the work of colonial silversmith Mike Myers, one of the most
accomplished craftsmen working in pre-industrial America” is scheduled to open
today at the Skirball Cultural Center.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2002: In Salt
Lake City, the Winter Olympics where Sarah Hughes won a Gold Medal for Ladies’
Figure Skating 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;">2002:<i> The
New York Times</i> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including <u>A Life in Pieces: The Making
and Unmaking of Binjamin Wilkomirski</u> by Blake Eskin and <u>Kindred Souls:
The Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and David Gurewitsch</u> by Edna P.
Gurewitsch. (Gurewitsch, the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia was “Eleanor
Roosevelt's friend, confidant, personal physician, housemate, and traveling
companion during her post-White House years.”)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003(22<sup>nd
</sup>of Adar I, 5736): Ninety-two-year-old 10-time Oscar nominated composer
Walter Scharf passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2003/feb/28/local/me-scharf28">http://articles.latimes.com/2003/feb/28/local/me-scharf28</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;">2003: An
International Conference hosted by the Dubnow Institute on “Transforming
Religious and Ethnic Emblematics of Judaism and Jewishness” ended today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2003(22<sup>nd</sup>
of Adar I, 5736): Ninety-two-year-old composer and arranger Walter Scharf, “the
son of Yiddish theatre comic Bessie Zwerling” who worked with everybody from
George Gershwin to Rudy Valle, to Al Jolson to Elvis Presley passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2003/feb/28/local/me-scharf28">http://articles.latimes.com/2003/feb/28/local/me-scharf28</a></span><span style="color: #333333; 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;">2004(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5764): Rosh Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2004(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5764): Eighty-three-year-old Albert “Albie” Axelrod the leading
American fencer during the middle of the 20<sup>th</sup> century who won the
Bronze at the 1960 Summer Olympics passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/05/sports/albert-axelrod-83-a-champion-in-fencing.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/05/sports/albert-axelrod-83-a-champion-in-fencing.html</a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="http://usfencinghalloffame.com/wp/axelrod-albert/">http://usfencinghalloffame.com/wp/axelrod-albert/</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;">2005: Roger
Ebert’s review of “Paper Clips” was published today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/paper-clips-2005">https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/paper-clips-2005</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;">2005: It was
reported today that “a recent string of racist incidents in France” including swastikas
on the walls of a Paris mosque, an arson attack on a railway carriage
commemorating French Jews who were deported to Nazi camps in World War II and blatant
anti-Semitic comments by a comedian “has shaken the political establishment at
a time when the country is battling its image abroad as a country where
anti-Semitism is making a powerful comeback and anti-Arab sentiments are
rising.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005: The
Seville Hotel which was designed by New York City native and Columbia School of
Mines trained architect Harry Allan Jacobs, the winner of the Prix de Rome,
husband of Elsie Wolfe Jacobs and the father of investment banker Harry Allen
Jacobs, Jr. and architect Robert Allan Jacobs, was added to the NRHP today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006: <span style="color: black;">London Mayor Ken Livingstone was suspended from office for
four weeks after being found guilty of bringing his office into disrepute by
comparing a Jewish reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006:
“After the Wedding” directed by Susanne Bier was released today in Denmark.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2006:
"Growing Up Jewish In Nogales: Memories Of a Bygone Era," by Renee
Claire and "Tucson Was a Wonderful Place to Grow Up In the '40s and
'50s," by Lori Olshansky Sobel err published today in the Arizona Jewish
Post.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2007:
Israel Non-Stop “seven days of cutting edge Israeli music, theatre, film, art,
food and more” began in New York with the appearance of Israeli music
phenomenon Mosh Ben-Ari. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2007:
“West Bank Story” won the Academy Award for Short Film-Live Action. The 21
minute musical has a “West Side Story” motif. “In this case the confrontation
is between competing West Bank Falafel stands, the Israeli Kosher King and the
Palestinian Hummus Hut.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2008:
Rabbi Avrohom Yitzchok Ulman was one of the main speakers at a major protest
rally against the growing influence of nationalistic (Zionist) thought and
philosophies in the Haredi world” </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2008: “Burnt
Diary Yields Horror of Warsaw Ghetto” published today described the recovery of
the writings of person known only as “Debora” who chronicled life in one of the
most infamous places of Jewish captivity.</span><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;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/25/secondworldwar.usa">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/25/secondworldwar.usa</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2008:
In Australia at Parliament House, Rabbis Reisenberg, Rubinfeld and Gutnik are
scheduled to officiate at the marriage of Federal Labor MP Michael Darby and
Amanda Mendes Da Costa “in the first Jewish wedding to be held in the big
house” with the bedecken taking place in the Marble Hall followed by the trip
to the chuppah which was erected at the Queens Terrace. (As reported by Jehane
Sharah)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2008:
<i>The Sunday New York Times</i> book section featured a review of a biography
about Jewish author and playwright David Mamet entitled <u>David Mamet: A Life
In The Theatre</u> by Ira Nadel.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2008:
An exhibition styled “CHIM: The Photography of David Seymour (1911 – 1956)”
came to an end at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2008:
<i>The Washington Post</i> book section featured a review of <u>Alfred Kazin: A
Biography</u> b<i>y </i>Richard M. Cook and <u>Staring At The Sun Overcoming
the Terror of Death</u> b<i>y </i>Irvin D. Yalom, the award winning Jewish born
psychiatrist and author.<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2008:
Israelis (and many others) wonder if <i>Beaufort</i> directed by Joseph Cedar
will win the Oscar for best Foreign Language Film. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2009:
Dalia Itzik completed her term as Speaker of the Knesset</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2009:
Paul Finkelman, a professor of law and public policy who had reviewed Eli
Faber’s <u>Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight</u><i>
</i>and is the author <u>of <i>Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in
the Age of Jefferso</i>n,</u> presents a lecture on abolitionist John Brown as
part of the "Great Lives Lecture Series" at the University of Mary
Washington, Fredericksburg, VA.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2009:
More than 300 rabbis gather at the 120th annual Central Conference American
Rabbis convention opens in Jerusalem, Israel.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2009(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5769): Rosh Chodesh Adar </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2009(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5769): Eighty-seven-year-old choreographer Pearl Lang, the founder of
the Pearl Lang Dance Theatre passed away today. (As reported by Jack Anderson)</span><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;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/arts/dance/27lang.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/arts/dance/27lang.html</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">More than three months after the 17th Knesset was
dispersed, the 18th Knesset was sworn in this afternoon, in a ceremony that
began with a moving speech by President Shimon Peres, during which he paid
tribute to the IDF for the recent Gaza operation, hailed US President Barack
Obama's election and called for a peace deal with the Palestinians during the
next Knesset's term.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2009:
<i>The Jerusalem Post</i> reported that an archive of over 10,000 works of
modern Yiddish literature has gone on-line. The collection of full texts,
comprising the National Yiddish Book Center's Steven Spielberg Digital Library,
can be read, downloaded and printed free at</span><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;"><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/nationalyiddishbookcenter">www.archive.org/details/nationalyiddishbookcenter</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><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;">The Israel Ballet, Israel's foremost classical ballet
company which was founded in 1967 by Berta Yampolsky and Hillel Markman is
scheduled to perform "Don Quixote" in Elmira, NY.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><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;">Ted Leonsis, the AOL entrepreneur and the owner of the
Washington Capitals as well as a partner in the Washington Wizards franchise,
is scheduled to discuss his new book, "The Business of Happiness: 6
Secrets to Extraordinary Success in Life and Work," at the Sixth &amp;
Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><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;">A bill that allows civil marriage in Israel to couples who
could not be married by the rabbinate failed by a large margin in its initial
reading. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><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;">Today, the Israel Flower Growers Association reported a
30-percent drop in exports for Valentine’s Day compared to last year. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2010:
Forty-year-old Dawn Brancheau who was “pulled into a tank and killed by a
six-ton orca” at Seaworld – a death which Stephen A. Schwarzman blamed on her
because he claimed “that the veteran animal trainer” had broken “multiple
safety rules,” a claim which the company later disclaimed.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2011:
<i>Gainsbourg</i>,<i> “</i>the boldly imaginative and wildly entertaining
biopic of Jewish French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, one of the most
iconic and diversely talented music artists of the 20th Century” and <i>Chariots
of Fire</i> are scheduled to be shown at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival</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;">2011: Ruth
David, Professor Peter Davies (Edinburgh) and Dr Andrea Hammel (Aberystwyth)
are scheduled to present a program entitled “Holocaust Texts and Translation”
at The Wiener Library in London, UK.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: The San
Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to continue its year-round
programming in Berkeley with an encore presentation of 2010 Festival sleeper
hit Father’s Footsteps– a gripping coming of age drama about a Tunisian-Israeli
family threatened by violence and crime.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present: "Integrale
Yidishkeyt": Modern Yiddish Culture's Turn Inward in Response to the
Holocaust.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present a discussion of Joseph
Roth's <u>Job</u><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: IAF
aircraft struck against a number of terrorists in the southern Gaza Strip today
in a joint IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) operation following a
rocket being fired into Beersheba. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011: With
Israeli Apartheid Week a week away, Israel seems to have found an unexpected
champion in Michael Lucas, a popular gay columnist and porno producer with dual
US-Israeli citizenship who told The <i>Jerusalem Post</i> by phone from New
York today that “I defeated a group of anti- Semites” who sought to equate
Israel with the former South African apartheid regime at an event slated to be
held at the city’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Center. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2011(20<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5771): Jerrold (Yoram) Kessel passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=209791">http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=209791</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;">2011: Judy
Gross, the wife of Alan Gross “pleaded with the Cuban government to release her
husband on humanitarian grounds. Gross' daughter, 26, has breast cancer, and
his mother has been diagnosed with lung cancer.” (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;">2012(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5772): Rosh Chodesh Adar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012(1<sup>st</sup>
of Adar, 5772): Ninety-two-year-old mathematician Benedict Freeman who
co-authored the novel <u>Mrs. Mike</u> with his wife Nancy passed away today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-benedict-freedman-20120305-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-benedict-freedman-20120305-story.html</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;">2012: In
London, Claudia Roden is scheduled to talk about discoveries she made while
researching her new book “The Food of Spain” as part of Jewish Book Week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: As many
as 100 college students who are part of the Kol HaOlam competition are
scheduled to attend the Ruach Minyan at Adas Israel in Washington, DC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: In New
York City, Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to host a Friday night service that
will include a commemoration of the 100<sup>th</sup> Anniversary of the
founding of Hadassah attended by Marcie Natan, National President of Hadassah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Tensions
continued to escalate in the South early this morning with the Israel Air Force
making two separate forays into the Gaza Strip to bomb terror targets in
response to the firing of Kassam rockets into Israeli communities. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2012: Security
forces used force to disperse hundreds of Muslim worshipers at the Temple Mount
today who rioted and threw stones following a tense week in the Old City. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: <i>The
New York Times </i>featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including <u>The Searchers: The Making of an
American Legend</u> by Glenn Frankel, <u>City of Angels Or, the Overcoat of Dr.
Freud</u> by Christa Wolf and the recently released paperback edition of <u>God’s
Jury; The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World </u>by Cullen Murphy<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Center
for Jewish History, YIVO Institute and the International Center of Photography
are scheduled to sponsor a screen of Eleanor Antin’s “Man Without a World.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Temple
Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa is scheduled to celebrate Purim complete with a
megillah reading and separate costume contests for children and adults. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013:
Dedication of the Jacobs Family Education Center is scheduled to take place at
Agudas Achim in Iowa City, Iowa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: The
Maccaebeats are scheduled to perform at The Moriah School Purim Chagiga in
Englewood, NJ<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013(14th of
Adar, 5773): Purim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013: Purim’s
carnival atmosphere spread out across Israel today, with revelers of all types
and ages soaking up the holiday cheer, many bedecked in bright, loud and
extravagant costumes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 2014:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is scheduled to begin a two-day visit to
Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: At the
Center for Jewish History, Henry L. Feingold is scheduled to speak on “American
Jewish Political Culture and the Liberal Persuasion.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: “Dancing
Alfonso” is scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014: Israel
Apartheid Week, a week-long orgy of anti-Semitism hidden under the guise of
anti-Israel lectures and workshops is scheduled to begin today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014(24<sup>th</sup>
of Adar I, 5774): Sixty-nine-year-old comedy screenwriter Harold Remis passed
away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/25/movies/harold-ramis-who-helped-redefine-what-makes-us-laugh-on-screen-dies-at-69.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/25/movies/harold-ramis-who-helped-redefine-what-makes-us-laugh-on-screen-dies-at-69.html?_r=0</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-harold-ramis-dead-20140224,0,4983189,full.story">http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-harold-ramis-dead-20140224,0,4983189,full.story</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">2014:
Ian Heath Gershengorn, Principal Deputy Solicitor General, U.S. Department of
Justice, is scheduled to address the Hadassah Attorneys Council in Washington,
DC.<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;">2014:
In New Orleans, the Jewish Studies Department of Tulane University is scheduled
to present a lecture by Tome Beller entitled “J.D. Salinger’s Late Barmitzva.”<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;">2014:
According to a report today on the news site timenews.in.ua, the Giymat Rosa
Synagogue in Zaporizhia located 250 miles southeast of Kiev was firebombed
overnight.<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;">2014:
Israel is facing the driest winter since 1927, Ma'ariv reported today, leaving
experts concerned. The Kinneret (Sea of Galilee)'s water level has dropped by
four centimeters since the rainy season began, compared to a 1.97 meter rise
over the same five-month period in 2013. (As reported by Tova Dvorin)<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;">2015:
The Tulane University Jewish Studies Department chaired by Professor Brian
Horowitz is scheduled to host a lecture by Antony Polonsky entitled “Writing
the History of the Jews of Poland and Russia.”<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;">2015:
Robin Renwick, former British Ambassador to South Africa is scheduled to
discuss Helen Suzman’s extraordinary life and achievements with her daughter,
art historian Frances Suzman Jowell and niece, actress and director Janet
Suzman at the Jewish Museum in London during Jewish Book Week.<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;">2015:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Roads Taken: The
Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way.”<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;">2015(5<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5775): One hundred- and nine-year-old Wall Street investor Irving Kahn
passed away today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/business/irving-kahn-oldest-active-wall-street-investor-dies-at-109.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/business/irving-kahn-oldest-active-wall-street-investor-dies-at-109.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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;">2016:
<span style="color: #333333;">Itzik Barak </span>the <span style="color: #333333;">executive
chef from Jerusalem’s Waldorf Astoria is scheduled to prepare 150 plated dishes
of the Seven Species for the panel of judges </span>at the annual Tastes of
Waldorf Astoria competition.<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;">2016:
“The Breman Museum is scheduled to sponsor "Fitting In: A Short History of
Jewish Film in America" at The Temple in Atlanta, GA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2016: “Baba
Joon” “Israel’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award” is
scheduled to be shown on the opening night of the 26<sup>th</sup> Annual
Washington Jewish Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: In
London, JW3 is scheduled to host a pre-Shabbat celebration combining singing
and challah baking.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: “Major
roads and key thoroughfares were blocked to traffic in Tel Aviv today for the
city’s marathon, with an estimated record number of 40,000 runners from across
the country and abroad taking part in the annual event” which was won by Ethiopian
runner Balata Mekonnen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: The
Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host both Orthodox and
Egalitarian Kabbalat Services, followed by Shabbat dinner and voting for next
term’s president and vice president.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2017: At
Agudas Achim, Professor Robert Cargill is scheduled to deliver a lecture in
which he “unfolds biblical verses talking about the kind of life one ought to
live and about the origin of the z’’l tradition.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5778): Shabbat Zachor. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018(9<sup>th</sup>
of Adar, 5778): Ninety-three-year-old Latvian born Kalman Aron, the “American
portraitist” who used skill as a sketch artist to survive the concentration
camps passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/obituaries/kalman-aron-whose-art-spared-him-in-the-holocaust-dies-at-93.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/obituaries/kalman-aron-whose-art-spared-him-in-the-holocaust-dies-at-93.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</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;">2018: Agudas
Achim is scheduled to host the Hillel Adult B’nai Mitzvah Service.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018:
Twenty-one-year-old Miss Internet Tamar Morali is scheduled to take part in
“the final stage of the Miss Germany Contest today in Germany’s Europa Park.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2018: “Israeli
company Roy Assaf Dance is scheduled to perform at the Norman Rothstein
Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: “Roman
Vishniac Rediscovered,” the first UK retrospective of the Russian born American
photographer” is scheduled to come to an end London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://jewishmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/roman-vishniac/">https://jewishmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/roman-vishniac/</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;">2019: The
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “From Cairo to
the Cloud: The World of the Cairo Geniza” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2019: The JCC
of San Francisco is scheduled to host Bernard-Henri Lévy as he “discusses his
book <u>The Empire the Five Kings”</u> which examines “the U.S. withdrawal from
world leadership.”<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p><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> features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including <u>Separate:
The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey From Slavery to
Segregation</u> by Steve Luxenberg, <u>Good Riddance</u>, a novel by Elinor
Lipman, <u>Willa and Hesper</u>, the debut novel of Amy Feltman, <u>At The
Wolf’s Table</u> by Rosella Postorino and <u>Annelies</u>, a novel by David
Gillham as well as a “By the Book” interview with Isaac Mizrahi.<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: The New York Sephardic Jewish Film
Festival is scheduled to host the New York premiere of “Say Amen” and “Life
Will Smile.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2020:</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Harvey
Weinstein, who long reigned as one of the most influential producers in
Hollywood, was found guilty today of two felony sex crimes but was acquitted on
charges of predatory sexual assault.<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 San Francisco, the American Jewish
Committee is scheduled to host a “Lunch and a report on reconciliation and
interfaith relations from Rabbi David Rosen and Michael Pappas, director of
S.F. Interfaith Council.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2020: The London School of Jewish Studies is
scheduled to host </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Senior Rabbi Joseph Dweck as he lectures “Meeting
God at Mt. Sinai” as described in Shemot.</span><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;">2020: In Palo Alto, CA, Congregation Etz Chayim,
“The San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society is scheduled to host a
workshop to learn how to publish your family stories without being a
professional author.”<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: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is
scheduled to host “Create Meaning or Fade Away: The Dilemma Facing American
Jews.”<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: Israeli Prize recipient Professor Asa
Kasher, one of the authors of <u>The Spirit of IDF</u> is scheduled to be one
of the speakers at the Begin Center during the program “Giving the Fallen a
Face – Rescuing Combatants from Anonymity.”<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 London, JW3 is scheduled to host a
screening of “Leona” directed by Isaac Cherem.<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 Jewish Federation of Greater New
Orleans is scheduled to host the JNOLA Purim/Mardi Gras Event.<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 Atlanta Jewish Films Festival is
scheduled host virtually, “Adventures of a Mathematician” and “Atlanta: The
City Too Busy Wait.”<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 Lappin Foundation is scheduled to
present online “Masking and Unmasking: A Purim Experience with Ariela HaLevi”
the “director of healing, intuitive guide and energy healer at Soul Centered.”<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 Cass Tech High School is scheduled to
host a screening of “Rosenwald” followed by a panel discussion with Aviva
Kempner.<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: In Pepper Pike, OH, Park Synagogue is
scheduled to hold three Purim evets: a Purim car parade, a Zoom Megillah
reading including a costume contest, and “an interactive Purim comedy show on
Zoom” presented by the Bible Players.<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 Maltz Museum is scheduled to “kick
off the Notorious RBG Exhibition” with a discussion by Irin Carmon and Shana
Kniznik, authors of the biography of Justice Ginsburg.<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 Temple Emanu-El Streiker Center is
scheduled to host “A Journey Across The Jewish Past “which provides look
“Inside the Jewish Theological Seminary’s Rare Book Collection” lead by Dr.
David Kraemer, Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and Professor of Talmud and
Rabbinics at JTS.<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: In Florida, Temple Judea is scheduled a
lunch and learn with Rabbi Feivel Strauss who will discuss Abraham, “the
founding father of Reform Judaism as part of the “Great Jewish Leaders Lecture
Series.<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: Staff at the Sea Turtle Rescue Center in
Michmoret, are scheduled to continue with their efforts to treat 11 eleven sea
turtles which is part of a larger effort that will last for several months to
clean up Israel’s beaches that have been polluted by the “country’s worst oil
spill.<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;">2022: Congregation Beth Ami and the Sanoma
County Israel Committee are scheduled to present online “Jonah Cohen, director
for CAMERA, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis,
discussing strategies for reacting effectively and tactfully to provocative
statements” which are in fact anti-Semitic.<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;">2022: Israeli President Isaac Herzog is
scheduled to “depart for a state visit to Greece” today at the invitation of
his counterpart Katerina Sakellaropoulu” which will include meetings with the
Prime Minister and “members of the Greek Jewish Community.”<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;">2022: The Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to present online access to the Arolsen Archives: the International
Center on Nazi Persecution formerly known as the International Tracing Service.<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;">2022: The Vilna Shul, “Boston’s Center for
Jewish Culture” is scheduled to present “Museum Nights on Beacon Hill” which
will focus on an exploration of the Boston Athenaeum.<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;">2023: Temple Judea is scheduled to host Friday
night services with Rabbi Yaron and Cantor Abbie “honoring all 10+year Temple
Judea Members.<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;">2023: Israelis brace for more violence after
IDF responded to six rockets being launched from Gaza by attacking a weapons
storage facility that the Gaza rulers operated near a mosque, health clinic and
school.<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;">2023: The West Newton Cinema is scheduled to
host the first screening of “Four Winters,” “a documentary about Jewish
partisans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2023: First anniversary of the Russian invasion
of Ukraine.<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://jdcorg-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Shabbat_for_Ukrainian_Jews_Blessings.pdf?_hsmi=247032745&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9Cq6vXVv8gNBII9uaOXZ8RMEzjtff7xpGXUe-Sl6kHTk2LCDpBmCdg0fs5WnnFqgfkIDArkYk-falXwwd7q86qqZjDpA">https://jdcorg-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Shabbat_for_Ukrainian_Jews_Blessings.pdf?_hsmi=247032745&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9Cq6vXVv8gNBII9uaOXZ8RMEzjtff7xpGXUe-Sl6kHTk2LCDpBmCdg0fs5WnnFqgfkIDArkYk-falXwwd7q86qqZjDpA</a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: In
Jerusalem, the Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host a concert “The Best of
Chamber Music” with Vika Gelman, Omer Herz, violins; Leikie Glick, Tali
Kravitz, viola; and Gali Knaani, May Endy, cello with discounted tickets for
evacuees.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: “On
behalf of the AJC (and by extension, the Atlanta Jewish community), Rabbi Scott
Colbert, Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanu-El, is scheduled to read a passage from
the Book of Ruth, in the Hebrew Bible, at today’s funeral Mass” for Reverend
Henry Gracz, “a friend and an ally of the Jewish community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: Second
anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine which has a long history of
anti-Semitism and whose leader against its larger totalitarian leader is
ironically President Volodymyr Zelensky “was born to a Ukrainian Jewish family.”
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: At
Temple Judea, Rabbi Feivel Strauss is scheduled to lead the Torah Study after
which Piper Segalowitz will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: In Coralville,
IA, Agudas Achim Congregation is scheduled to host a luncheon honoring Rabbi
Esther Hugenholtz followed in the evening with a Havdalah Bowling Party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: In Des
Moines, Temple B’nai Jershurun is scheduled to host its 150<sup>th</sup>
anniversary celebration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: In New
Orleans, Virtuoso pianist and scholar Dr. Astrith Baltsan is scheduled to perform
her original show about Israel's National Anthem, Hatikvah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: At
Tifereth Israel in Columbus, OH, as part of “Shabbat with JTS,” “Claire Miller,
a rabbinical student from the Jewish Theological Seminary” is scheduled to
deliver the sermon this morning followed by a discussion later in the day led
by Claire Miller on “What on Earth are Tzitzit?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: In
Tenafly, NJ the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades is scheduled to host an exclusive
screening of. The Monkey House, “an award-winning film by Avi Nesher, one of
Israel's foremost filmmakers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024: At noon
today at the Agnon House in Jerusalem, following a reading of “The Picture,” Ofir
Lifshitz is scheduled to “examine the connections that are forged between the
various characters and the narrator, and wonder about the meaning of the
pictures of life that Agnon places side by side.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024 (15th of
Adar I, 5784): Parashat Tetzaveh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">For more see </span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/">https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/</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;">2024: As
February 24th begins in Israel, the<b><span style="color: red;"> Hamas held
hostages begin day 141 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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