614: Today the fifth Council
of Paris “prohibited the Jews from asking or from exercising civic or
administrative rights.”
680: At the Battle of Karbala,
Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was decapitated
by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Shi'a Muslims as
Aashurah. This is part of the split between the Shiites and the Sunnis that has
led to so much violence and had an impact on the terrorist war against Israel
and other nations of the world.
732: At the Battle of Tours
which was fought near Poitiers, France, the leader of the Franks (modern day
French) Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the
Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. This meant that the territory south
of the Pyrenees – Spain – would remain in Islamic hands for the better part of
the next seven centuries while the rest of Europe would remain in Christian
hands for the time being. This demarcation would lead to the development of
different variants of Judaism depending upon whether the Jews lived in Moslem
and Christian dominated parts of Europe.
1290: Today, during the
expulsion of the Jews from England, a ship of poor London Jews had chartered,
which a chronicler described as "bearing their scrolls of the law", sailed
toward the mouth of the Thames near Queensborough en route to France and “while
the tide was low, the captain persuaded the Jews to walk with him on a
sandbank; as the tide rose, he returned to the ship, telling the Jews to call
upon Moses for help.”
1384: A judicial inquiry was
held in a castle at Châtel, by order of Prince Amadeus, Count of Savoy with
purpose of confirming the charges by his Christian subjects that the Jews were
guilty of poisoning the wells, springs “and other things which the Christians
use.” Numerous Jews of both sexes have been imprisoned based on these charges.
The case rested, in part, on the admission of Jew named Agimet from Geneva, who
confessed after having been subject to only “a little” torture that he had
engaged in such practices.
1619(2nd Cheshvan, 5380):
Rabbi Joseph Pardo passed away today in Amsterdam.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_15416.html
1674(10th of
Tishrei, 5435): David Cohen de Lara, the “Haham, lexicographer and writer on
ethics” passed away today in Hamburg.
1723: The party responsible
for slandering a group of Jews was put to death in an auto-de-fe at Lisbon. The
person had alleged groups of men were assembling to practice Jewish customs.
The men were later arrested and jailed where many of them had died.
1740(19th of
Tishrei, 5501): Joseph Moses Schiff, the husband of Brendle Schiff, passed away
after which he was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Frankfurt Am Main today.
1744: Sampson Gideon, “a
banker in the city of London” and his wife Jane gave birth to Sampson Eardley,
1st Baron Eardley.
1751: In “Amersfoot, Utrecht,
Netherlands,” Eva Jacob Cohen and Benjamin Jonas Cohen gave birth to Abraham
Benjamin Cohen who was the husband of “Elisabeth Gompertz and Eva Gompertz.”
1755: In a 4-month period
ending today, eight Jewish merchants were listed in the Custom House records of
New York.
1762(23rd of
Tishrei, 5523): Simchat Torah
1764(14th of
Tishrei, 5525): Erev Sukkot
1767(17th
of Tishrei, 5528): Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkoth observed for the first time that
Lord North, of American Revolutionary War fame, was serving as Chancellor of
the Exchequer.
1770(21st of
Tishrei, 5531): Hoshana Raba
1772(13th of
Tishrei, 5533): Parashat Ha’azinu
1775(16th of
Tishrei, 5536): Second Day of Sukkot
1777(9th of
Tishrei, 5538): The sounds of Kol Nire might have clashed with the feelings of
joy and relief over the recent American victory at Saratoga.
1778(19th of
Tishrei, 5539): Shabbat shel Sukkoth observed on the same day that General
Washington dictated a letter to his aide Alexander Hamilton to the Continental
Congress War Board concerning uniforms for his soldiers.
1783(14th of
Tishrei, 5544): Erev Sukkot
1788(9th of
Tishrei, 5549): Erev Yom Kippur and Erev Shabbat
1792: One day after she had
passed away, “Breindla bat Joseph” was buried at the “Alderney Road (Globe
Road) Jewish Cemetery” today.
1792(24th of
Tishrei, 5553): Seventy-nine-year-old Dutch born businessman, Talmudist and
Hebrew language poet David Franco Mendes passed away after spending the last
six months of his life as honorary secretary of the Spanish-Portuguese
community at Amsterdam.
1792(24th
of Tishrei, 5553): Mrs. Abigail Lopez, the wife of Abraham Lopez passed away
today in Newport, R.I.
1800(21st of
Tishrei, 5561): Hoshana Raba observed for the last time during the Presidency
of John Adams.
1802(14th of
Tishrei, 5563): Erev of Sukkot
1802(14th of
Tishrei, 5563): Rabbi Sholom Shachne of Prohobisht, “also known as Rabbi Sholom
the Great, the son of Rabbi Avraham HaMalch and the grandson of “Dov Ber, the
Maggid of Mezeritch (the most prominent disciple of the Baal Shem Tov)” the
husband of Chava and the father of Israel Friedman of Ruzhyn, “also called
Israel Ruzhin” passed away tody
1802: In Philadelphia, a group
of German Jews formed a society that they called the “Hebrew German Society
Rodef Shalom” which was one of the earliest German Jewish congregations in
America. “The society was reorganized and chartered in 1812. Among the earliest
rabbis were Wolf Benjamin, Jacob Lipman, Bernhard Illowy, Henry Vidaver, Moses
Sulzbacher, and Moses Rau.”
1805(17th of
Tishrei, 5566): Third Day of Sukkoth observed on the same that the Lewis and
Clark and the Corps of Volunteers for Northwestern Discovery enters what is now
the state of Washington, at the confluence of what they call the "Koos
koos ke " (Clearwater River) and the "Kimooenem" or
"Lewis’s River" (Snake).
1806: Twenty-four-year-old Moravian
born “physician and chemist” Nicolaus Wolfgang Fischer “obtained his doctor's
degree at Erfurt” today after which he rose to become a professor of chemistry
at the University of Breslau and along with his whole family “embraced
Christianity” in 1815.
1807(8th
of Tishrei, 5568): Shabbat Shuva
1808(19th of
Tishrei, 5569): Fifth Day of Sukkoth observed for the last time during the
Presidency of Thomas Jefferson.
1810: Benjamin Gompertz
married Abigail Montefiore at the Hambro Synagogue today.
1811(22nd
of Tishrei, 5572): Shmini Atzeret
1811:
Beile Sibilla Duelkin, the daughter of Reichel and Israel Elias and her husband
Markhus Deulken gave birth to Elias Elieser Elieser Duelken.
1812(4th
of Cheshvan, 5573): Parashat Noach
1813(16th
of Tishrei, 5574): Second Day of Sukkot
1816(18th of
Tishrei, 5577) Fourth Day of Sukkoth is observed during The Year Without a
Summer.”
1817(30th of
Tishrei, 5578): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1818(10th of
Tishrei, 5579): Yom Kippur
1818: 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 Hester Goudsmit,
the “wife of Jacob Abraham Keijzer and mother of Abraham Jacob Keijzer.”
1819(21st of
Tishrei, 5580): Hoshana Rabba
1821(14th of
Tishrei, 5582): Erev Sukkot
1823: Birthdate of Russian
scholar and philanthropist Joshua ben Aaron Zeitlin.
1824(18th of
Tishrei, 5585): Fourth Day of Sukkoth observed for the last time during the
Presidency of James Monroe.
1825: In London, Rebecca
Montefiore and Joseph Solomon gave birth to Sophia Solomon.
1826(9th of
Tishrei, 5587): Erev Yom Kippur observed on the same day that in the United
States “Ohio’s 10th congressional district held a special election”
created by the resignation of the incumbent.
1827(19th of
Tishrei, 5588): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1827: In Trenton, NJ, Judge
David Naar, the St. Thomas born son Chazan Joshua Naar and Sarah Naar who was
Mayor of Elizabeth, NJ and his wife Sarah Cohen Naar gave birth to Abraham
D’Azevedo Naar.
1829(13th of
Tishrei, 5590): Parashat Ha’azinu read
for the first time during the Presidency of Andrew Jackson
1830(23rd of
Tishrei, 5591): Simchat Torah
1831: One day he had passed
away, “Samuel Solomo” was buried at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish
Cemetery.”
1832(16th of
Tishrei, 5593): Second Day of Sukkot
1831: In what is now the Czech
Republic Markus Löbl Zentner, the “son of Josef Zentner and Karolina (Golde)
Juliana Zentner” passed away two months before his third birthday,
1834(7th of
Tishrei, 5595): Sixty-nine-year-old Dr. Abraham D’Lyon, the South Carolina born
son Rinah Tobias and Isaac De Lyon and the husband of Sarah Sheftall
D’Lyon with whom he had seven children –
Isaac, Rina, Levi, Abraham, Joseph, Joseph and Mordecai – passed away today
after which he was buried in the Colonial Park Cemetery in Savannah, GA.
1836: Abraham Hart and Rebecca
Cohen Hart, the New York born daughter of Catherine and Sampson Mears Isaacks
gave birth to Edward Carey Hart.
1837: Löbl
Strakosch and Julia Schwarz gave birth to their son Ferdinand, the younger
brother of Maurice and Max Strakosch.
1838(21st of
Tishrei, 5599): Hoshana Raba observed nine days after the start of the First
Anglo-Afghan War, one of the little-known events in World History
1839: Francis Henry Goldsmid
married Louisa Sophia Goldsmid at the Great Synagogue today.
1840:
In Philadelphia, Benvenida Valentina Nathans, the Wilmington, DE, born daughter
of Sarah Helen Solis and Daniel da Silva Solis and her husband Moses Nathans
gave birth to Horace Augustus Nathans.
1842: Three days after she had
passed away, “Golda Isaacs, the wife Isaac Isaacs” was buried today at the
“Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”
1844: Birthdate of Hungary
native and noted painter Mihali Munkacsy, the son of a revolutionary who died
in prison in 1849 and passed away himself in a mental institution in 1900.
(Editor’s Note- This birthdate is supplied from a newspaper account written at
the time of his death. Other sources show February 20, 1844)
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1900/05/02/102591952.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1845(9th of
Tishrei, 5606): Erev Yom Kippur and Erev Shabbat
1845: Founding of the U.S.
Naval Academy. Today there are approximately 140 Jewish Midshipman at the Naval
Academy. The dedication of the multi-million-dollar Uriah P. Levy Jewish Center
and Chapel in 2005 marked a major milestone in the development of Jewish life
at the Annapolis institution. For more about the history of the Jews at the
U.S. Naval Academy see “The Judaic Experience at the U.S. Naval Academy” by
Joel Ira Holwitt
1846(20th of
Tishrei, 5607): Shabbat Shel Sukkot observed on the same that an English
astronomer discovered Triton, first moon of the planet to have been discovered
since the recent discovery of the planet itself.
1847: In Hamburg, Germany,
Julie and Samuel Lewishon gave birth to Leonard Lewisohn, the husband of
Rosalie Jacobs Lewisohn with whom had ten children – Jesse, Julia, Samuel,
Lillie, Florence, Walter, Frederick, Alice, Aaron and Irene -- who gained fame
and fortune in the United States as a businessman, philanthropist and treasurer
of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9931-lewisohn-leonard
1847: A constitution was
adopted forming 'The Ladies Sewing Association, of the Congregation Shearith
Israel, of New York.' The society consisted of an initial fifty members who
would make garments for the needy.
1848: Two days after he had
passed away, 24-year-old Benjamin Nathan, the son of Barnett Nathan and the
former Julia Solomons was buried today at the “Canterbury Jewish Cemetery.
1851: Communications pioneer
Paul Julius Reuter “established a telegraph office at the I Royal Exchange
Buildings, near the London stock exchange. From this location he transmitted
stock market quotations between London and Paris, using the new Calais-Dover
telegraph cable under the English Channel. Recognizing the need for a news
service, Reuter would the next seven years working hard to build the agency and
promote his services to newspapers.”
1853: “Jewish Educational
Institute” published today described the cornerstone laying ceremony for a
Jewish Educational Institute to be built in New York next to B’nai Jeshraun
Synagogue on Greene Street. Rabbi Morris Raphall’s address to the attendees included
the statement that he was as proud of the establishment of this academy for
Jewish study as he was of the role he had played in establishing a similar such
institution in Birmingham, England. He stressed the importance of Jews
receiving both a secular and religious education. He spoke of the unique
benefits Jews enjoyed in the United States. And he predicted that a day would
come when the United States would surpass the United Kingdom and when the Jews
of the United States would have to assume a leadership role for Jews throughout
the world.
1854(18th of
Tishrei, 5615): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1854: The Jewish Theological
Seminary, “the first rabbinical seminary in Central Europe, opened today in
Breslau.
1855: Isaac Hart married
Louisa Levy at the Great Synagogue today.
1856: Members of the
“Philadelphia Battery,” a unit Max Einstein formed as the Philadelphia Flying
Artillery Company, presented him with “a magnificent silver sword, encased in a
scabbard of gold.”
1857(22nd of
Tishrei 5618): Shmini Atzeret
1857:
Twenty-four-year-old Frank Marx Etting, the Philadelphia born son of Henry
Etting began practicing law today, but he would give up this career when joined
the Army serving both during and after the Civil War.
1858:
Dutch born Rabbi Samuel Myer Isaacs, the “head of B’nai Jeshurun in New York”
and founder of Congregation Shaaray Tefila and his wife Jane Simons gave birth
to Rachel Isaacs.
1860: In London, Mr. Joseph
Isaacs and his wife gave birth to Rufus D. Isaacs the nephew of Sir Henry
Isaacs and the husband of Alice Edith Cohen, the third daughter of Albert Cohen
who “entered Middle Temple in 1887” and began serving as the Liberal MP from
Reading in 1904
1860: Joseph M. Montefiore,
the President of the Board of Deputies and his wife gave birth to Sir Francis
Abraham Montefiore “who became high sheriff of the country of Kent in 1894 and
Sussex in 1895” while serving as “chairman of the executive committee of the
English Zionist Federation” and “chairman of the Elders of the Spanish and
Portuguese congregation.
1860: In “Schklov, Russia,” Chwole
Meingardt and Moses Baroway gave to Solomon Baroway, the husband of Florence
Balser 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.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Solomon-Baroway-1860-1918-Pioneer-Baltimore/dp/B0006WLT98
1862: In Crawley, West Sussex,
England Joseph Montefiore, the president of the Board of Deputies and his wife
gave birth to Sir Francis Abraham Montefiore who served as the high sheriff of
Kent and Sussex as well as the “chairman of the executive committee of the
English Zionist Federation.” (The Jewish Encyclopedia and The Palgrave
Dictionary of Anglo –Jewish History show the date as October 10, 1860)
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=90079144
1862: Philadelphian William
Moss, the son of Joseph L. and Julia Moss completed his one year of service as
the Surgeon for the 70th Regiment “which he helped to raise) today
after which “he became Surgeon of United
States Volunteers.”
1862: Zillah and Samuel Henry
Beddington gave birth to Ada Beddington who married Ernest Leverson and as Ada
Leverson became a noted British author and friend to the famous as well as the
mother of George and Violet Leverson.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/leverson-ada
1863(27th of
Tishrei, 5624): Parashat Bereshit
1863(27th of
Tishrei, 5624): Fifty-two-year-old Jonathan Nathan, the New York City born city
of Sarah Seixas and Isaac Mendes Seixas Nathan, the husband of Rebecca Moses
with whom he had seven children passed away today.
1864(10th of Tishrei, 5625):
Yom Kippur
1864: Jews gathered at the
home of a merchant in Salt Lake City to observe Yom Kippur. This was probably
the first communal Jewish activity to take place in this Mormon dominated
regioned.
1864: The New York Times reported that “To-day will be generally
observed by our Jewish fellow-citizens as a rigid fast-day and period of strict
religions observance. It is known as Your Kippur Day of Atonement. Every
Israelite in every part of the world, who believes in the Law of Moses and the
doctrine of a future world, keeps the day as a strict fast-day. From sunset
yesterday till sunset to-day no food or drink is indulged in. Every Jew and
Jewess, and children above thirteen, must observe the fast. According to Jewish
tradition, on the first day of the New Year, the Israelites are summoned in
judgment before their Creator, but sentence upon their misdeeds is reserved
till the tenth day Your Kippur. If, during the ten intermediate days, called
the Arsareth Yermi Tersluaro, ten day of repentance, penitence is made, and the
"sinner turneth from the evil of his ways," the anger of the Lord is
assuaged, and on the day of atonement forgiveness is accorded. When the
Isralites worshipped in the Temple at Jerusalem, the service of this day was
equally solemn and splendid. It was the only day throughout the year on which
even the Cohen Hagodol (High priest,) presumed to enter the most holy sanctuary
of the temple, or to pronounce the renevated and deladed name of the Deity
which at any other time it was unlawful even for him to utter. The glories of
this day are commemorated in the musaf or midday service of the synagogue.
According to Jewish tradition, also the Your Kippur even before the giving of
the law was a day of atonement and pardon. Adam did penance and was pardoned on
this day. Abraham entered the covenant of the circumcision on this day. Moses,
after he had broken the first tables, ascended the Mount again on the first day
of Elul, so that the second forty days expired with the Your Kippur. The eve is
allotted to solemn feasting, and at sunset the twenty-four hours fast and
continued prayers commence. It is also customary in the evening for parents to
bestow a solemn benediction on their children. Whosoever meet on that day, be
they previously acquainted or complete strangers, salute each other with
brotherly love and sincerity. If any dispute exists between the Jews, it is
obligatory on them to become reconciled before either of them presumes to
appear in the presence of his God. The law which ordains the observance of the
day likewise commands the Jew "to afflict his soul." The affliction
of the soul by means of the body, according to Jewish custom, consists in
abstaining from five indulgences -- eating and drinking, bathing, perfuming,
wearing shoes and sexual enjoyment. The observance of the festival is most
strict by everyone who claims the name of Jew, and even those who make light of
other observances throughout the year, pay due regard to this day. The
exercises in the synagogue are of a striking and impressive character, the
edifice is thronged with worshippers, the ministers and officials are draped in
white shrouds while prayers of lamentation and penitence are heard on all
sides. The services are divided into five parts the kol nidri, or eve service
for last night; the sharcheris, or morning service; the musaf, or midday
service, the mincha, or afternoon service; the nela, or conclusion. The
synagogues open to-day at 6 A.M., and remain open till sunset.
1864(10th of Tishrei, 5625):
Jews of Tunis and Tripoli were massacred.
1865(20th of
Tishrei,5626): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1865: Joseph M. Montefiore,
the President of the Board of Deputies and his wife gave birth to Sir Francis
Abraham Montefiore who served as the High Sheriff of the counties of Kent and
Sussex and as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the English Zionist
Federation.
1866: One day he had passed
away, 65-year-old Moses Emanuel, the husband of Elizabeth Moses, with whom he
had five children – “Joshua, Joseph, Simeon, Abraham and Henry” – was buried
today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1868: Carolina Wassman Laski
gave birth to Brooklynite Caroline Laski Schwarz, the wife of Joseph Schwarz
whom she married in 1883 and with whom she had four children – Isaac, Mortimer,
Abraham and Ceclia.
1869(5th of
Cheshvan, 5630): Eighty-five-year-old Rabbi Abraham Sutro who was an ardent
advocate for Jewish emancipation in Prussia passed away today.
1870: In Vienna, “Anna Sara
Hinda Halban and Philipp Halban gave Josef von Halban the pioneer obstetrician
and gynecologist who was marred to “Austrian operatic soprano” Selma Kurz.
1870: “Rabbi Gabriel of
Shereshev and his wife Haya” gave birth to the first of their eleven children,
Rabbi David Almond, the Polish trained Talmudist and graduate of London
University and Jew’s College where he was ordained who was admitted to the bar after
earning an LLD from John Marshal Law School in Chicago where “he served the
North Shore Congregation B’nai Israel until its consolidation with the First
Hungarian Congregation Agudas Achim in 1923, after which he led several
congregations on Chicago’s South Side.”
http://www.agudasachimnsc.org/history/index.html?history3.html
1871(25th of Tishrei, 5632): Sixty-seven-year-old
Joseph Zedner passed away. Born in
Germany, he served as librarian of the Hebrew Department of the British Museum
from 1845 until 1869 when he resigned and returned to Germany due to his
failing health.
1871: Birthdate of “German
rabbi and folklorist” Max Grunwald.
1871(25th of
Tishrei, 5632): Sixty-seven-year-old Joseph Zender the German born librarian of
the Hebrew department of the British Museum in London passed away today.
1871: On the last day of the
Great Chicago Fire, it was noted that a void now existed in the city. The
Hebrew Relief Association’s Hospital had been destroyed during the catastrophic
conflagration.
1872: Birthdate of Harold
Phillips who would be buried in the Jewish cemetery at Natchitoches, LA when he
passed away at the age of 13.
1872: IN New Orleans, L.H. and
Regenia E. Levy gave birth to Charles Frank Levy who went from a partnership
with his father in the Olive Street Furniture to founding the Hub Furniture
while raising two children with his wife, the former Dorothy Watson.
1873: Birthdate of American
philosopher and intellectual historian, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy the developer of
“the methodology of the History of Ideas” which Isadore Twersky used in
his pioneering work on “ Jewish intellectual history.”
1874: Ceremonies were held
this evening in New York City marking the formal opening of the Young Men’s
Hebrew Association. Lewis May, the president of the organization opened the
event with a brief address followed by Dr. Mark Blumenthal’s speech provided a
brief history of YMHA. Judge Philip J. Joachimsen and Rabbi Isaacs of the 19th
Street Synagogue were among the dignitaries who attended the event.
1875: Today, the officials of
the Kane Street Synagogue, or Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes,in Brooklyn
“set forth the rules for the congregation’s Sunday school” including “from the
opening to closing of school children are not allowed to speak unless
permission be given by the teacher,” to “scholars absenting themselves for four
consecutive Sundays shall be discharge, unless good excuse be given” to a
requesting that “scholars bring two cents each and every Sunday” which the
teachers of the “different class are to collect.”
1875: In Paducah, KY, Isaac
"Ike" W. Bernheim and Amanda "Mandie" Bernheim gave birth
to Leon “Lee” Solomon Bernheim, the husband of Grace Solomon who died in New
York at the of 48.
1875: According to reports
published today that while the Moslems have political control of Jerusalem, the
Jews, who number 8,000 souls and even more during festivals, make up a majority
of the city’s population.
1875: “Jerusalem” published
today provides a thumbnail sketch of the city
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B0DE5DC133BEF34BC4852DFB667838E669FDE
1876(22nd of Tishrei, 5637):
Shemini Atzeret
1876(22nd of
Tishrei, 5637): Thirty-one-year-old Edward E. Sheftall, the Savannah, GA born
son of Emanuel and Jane L. Sheftall, the husband of Maggie Sheftall and the
father of Daisy Mary Jane Mackendree passed away today.
1876: In New York, Dr. Isaac
Adler and the former Frieda Brumbacher gave birth to Herman Morris Adler the
nephew of Felix Adler and the husband of Frances Porter who graduated from
Columbia and Harvard Medical School who went on to a career as a “psychiatrist
and criminologist.”
http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb9q2nb5z2&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00002&toc.depth=1&toc.id
1878: Birthdate of Lithuanian
born tailor Simon Ackerman the founder of a clothing chain that bears his name
and the founder of “Chester Barrie is a semi-bespoke gentleman's tailor located
at No19 Savile Row, London.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/02/15/83669598.pdf
1879(23rd of Tishrei, 5640):
Simchat Torah
1879: Daniel Edward Bandmann
played Shylock in tonight’s opening performance of “The Merchant of Venice” at
the Standard Theatre in New York City. His portrayal of Shakespeare’s Jew
differs from that of Edwin Booth who creates an “over-tragic and impassioned”
figure.
1879: Birthdate of Eugen
Täubler who wrote his dissertation on Josephus and lectured at the Higher
Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin.
1882: Birthdate of Lithuania
native and Omaha businessman Harry Lapidus, the president of the Omaha Fixture
Supply Company and leader of the Jewish community who “was a member of the
American Jewish National Council of Americanization and a member of the
executive committee of the United Palestine Appeal while raising two children –
Earl and Estelle – with his wife, the former Minnie K. Kooler.
1883(9th of
Tishrei, 5644): Erev Yom Kippur
1883: Three hundred boys
attended Kol Nidre services at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum that were led by Dr.
Herman Baar, the Superintendent.
1884(21st of Tishrei, 5645):
Hoshanah Rabbah
1884(21st of
Tishrei, 5645): Seventy-six-year-old Johanna Goldschmidt the wife of Moritz
David Goldschmidt who was a philanthropist, author and an advocate for the
right’s of women passed away today in Hamburg.
1884(21st of Tishrei, 5645):
Dr. Adolph Huebsch, “one of the most popular and influential…rabbis” in New
York “died suddenly from heart disease from heart disease” from “heart disease”
at 4:30 this morning. Born in Hungary in 1830, earned a doctorate at the
University of Prague after which he took a pulpit in that Czech city. In 1886, he came to the United States where
began serving as rabbi at Ahaveth Chesed. In addition to leading his
congregation through a period of growth that included the building of a new
sanctuary, he was a noted scholar.
1885: Birthdate of Dr. Ernst
Eylenburg who was transported from Berlin to Terezin in 1943 and from Terezin
to Auschwitz in 1944 where he was murdered.
1885: George S. Stinson, a
special agent of the Internal Revenue Department discovered today that “crooked
whiskey was being manufactured by four Hebrews at Bruynswick, NY.
1886(11th of Tishrei, 5647):
David Levy Yulee, the first Jewish United States Senator passed away. David
Yulee (also spelled Yule) was known simply as David Levy for the first three
and half decades of his life. He had been born on the West Indian island of St.
Thomas and brought to Florida by his father Moses Levy. The younger Levy turned
Yulee was a successful planter and lawyer, a perfect background for a further
career in politics. When Florida became a state in 1845, Yulee was chosen to
serve as one of her senators. Yulee was not active in Jewish communal life and
married a non-Jew. However, his political opponents did not ignore this fact.
When the Civil War broke out, Yulee joined the other Jewish senator, Judah P.
Benjamin in secession. During the war he served in the Confederate Congress.
After the war, he served a year in prison on for reasons not recorded. He had
been arrested while on his way to Washington, D.C. in an effort to gain
Florida’s re-entry into the Union. It is ironic that the only claim to fame of
a Jew who sought to assimilate is tied to that very Jewishness.
1886(11th of Tishrei, 5647):
In St. Louis, Frank Sandmeyer, a Jew who was employed as a waiter at Esher’s
Variety Theatre took his own life after killing his wife.
1886: Birthdate of Kamila
Adelová who was transported from Prague to Terezin in 1942 and from Terezin to
Maly Trostine where she was murdered.
1886: Birthdate of New York
native and Columbia trained attorney Philip Goldfarb.
1886: It was reported that an
actor named “Curtis” will be appearing at the 14th Street Theatre in
New York. His forte is his comic
portrayal or “caricature” of “the superficial traits of the modern German” Jew.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D04E5D81E3EEF33A25753C1A9669D94679FD7CF
1887: Birthdate of
Schenectady, NY, native Lester Louis Bauer, the Northwestern University Law
School graduate, “publisher of the Jewish Standard” and the “President of the
Federation of the Reformed and Conservative Temples.”
1888: In Georgetown, OH,
Philip and Fanny Raphael Polasky gave birth to Doris Polasky Berger, the wife
of Morris “Mori” Berger with whom she had two children – Helen and Jerome – who
was buried in Mayfield Cemetery when passed away at the age of 51 in Cleveland
Heights, OH
1889(15th of
Tishrei, 5650): First Day of Sukkoth
1889: In Hungary Adolph and
Tillie Wirtschafter gave birth to Cleveland resident Dr. Zolton Tillson
Wirtschafter, the research
director of the Veterans Admin. Hospital, Portland, and Associate Prof. of
Medicine of the University of Oregon Medical School who was the husband of
Reita Dine and the father Dr. Jonathan Dine Wirtschafter.
1890: The Vossiesche Zeitung declared that the charges published in the Das Volk attacking the committee
honoring Count von Moltke as being Jews seeking to make money from the event
are “a calumny.”
1890: The anti-Semitic May
Laws were modified to allow Jews to rent, but not buy, lands within certain
city limits that will be used for grazing purposes only.
1890: It was reported today
that “Mr. Charles Frohman’s newly-organized company will soon be appearing in a
new play called ‘Men and Women’” featuring among its characters “a rich Hebrew,
President of a national bank.”
1890: “Plans were filed with
the Building Bureau…for the erection of a five-story orphan asylum for the
Hebrew Shelter and Guardian Society” in New York City.
1891(8th of
Tishrei, 5652): Shabbat Shuva
1891: In Paris, author and
humorist Tristan Bernard and his wife gave birth to director and screenwriter
Raymond Bernard.
1891(8th of
Tishrei, 5652): Thirty-five-year-old Anna Hilkofsky who suffered from epilepsy
died this evening when she died in a fire that started while she was cooking
and fell into the stove.
1891: “Alleged Great
Expectations” published today described the action being taken by 23-year-old
Charles Horowitz, a Jewish peddler who came to the United States from Russia
two years ago to obtain his share of his late uncle’s estate who reportedly
died in San Francisco leaving his heirs $30,000,000.
1892(19th of
Tishrei, 5653): Fifth Day of Sukkoth observed for the last time during the
presidency of Benjamin Harrison
1893(30th of Tishrei, 5654):
Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1893: In St. Louis, MO, Flora
Isaacs Strauss and Julius Caesar Strauss gave birth to Charles Leon Strauss the
husband of Florence Kahn Strauss.
1893(30th of Tishrei, 5654):
Lipman Emanuel "Lip" Pike, the first professional Jewish baseball
player passed away.
1893:
In St. Louis, Flora Isaacs Strauss and Julius Caesar Strauss gave birth to
Charles Leon Strauss, the husband of Florence Kahn Strauss who settled in
Houston before his death.
1893: In Jersey City, NJ, the
Moral Reform Society, an organization composed of representatives from various
Protestant Churches met for the first time and decided to include Jews and
Catholics in its membership.
1894(10th of
Tishrei, 5655): Yom Kippur
1894: “Died at the Services”
published today described the death of sixty-year-old Wolf Cohn who passed away
during Kol Nidre services.
1894: In North
Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Holocaust victim Herz Elkan the son of Joseph and
Caroline Carla Evalina Elkan and his wife Rosa Elkan gave birth to Selma
Wolffs, the wife of Jakob Wolffs both of him were murdered during the
Holocaust.
1894: Due to the observance of
the Day Atonement, the 1,000 Jewish registrars who would have served both the
Republicans and Tammany Hall will not be able to serve.
1894: “Business on the Stock
Exchange…was restricted owing to the absence of many operators who were away
observing the Hebrew fast of the Atonmenet.”
1894: In New York, Temple
Beth-El will use “the new order of services for Yom Kippur adopted at the
Central Conference of American Rabbis at the meeting in Atlantic City. In a more shocking move, German will no longer
be used and all prayers will be in English or Hebrew.
1895(22nd of
Tishrei, 5656): Shmini Atzeret
1895(22nd of
Tishrei, 5656): Sixty-eight-year-old Rebecca Goldschmidt the “wife of Abraham
L. Bechhoefer and “mother of Joseph Bernard, Frances, Lena, Charles, Bertha,
Lea, Paulina, Jacob Emanuel and Moses” passed away today after which was buried
at Mt. Sinai Cemetery in Altoona, PA.
1895: “Two Wills In A Week”
published today described a dispute over the estate of Mrs. Babet Karl
involving Rabbi Aaron Wise of Congregation Rodoph Sholom and his son Otto
Irving Wise on one side family members including her nephew Abraham Stern on
the other side.
1896(3rd of Cheshvan,
5657): Parashat Noach
1896: It was reported today
that a rare copy of William Blake’s “Jerusalem” had been sold at action by
Bangs & Co for $14.50.
1896: In Pinsk, Rachel Leah
Berman and Abraham Osher Feinstein gave birth to Cooper Union and NYU education
author and educator Moses Feinstein, the husband of Esther Friedland and the
principal of the Herzliah Hebrew High School and Teachers’ Academy in New York
who was a “contributor of poems, essays and book reviews” to numerous Hebrew
language periodicals.
1896: The University of
Wisconsin football team led by first year head coach Philip King, a Jewish
native of Washington, DC defeated Lake Forest today in the season opening game.
1897(14th of
Tishrei, 5658): Erev Sukkoth
1897: In Manchester Israel
Cohen and the former Annie Eugenie Seligmann gave birth a baby girl.
1897: Six days after he had
passed away, 20 year old “Ernest Vivian Eskell Kennard, the second son of Eva
and Alfred Kennard” was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1897: At Temple Israel on 125th
Street and 5th Avenue Rabbi Maurice Harris officiated at services
which included an address by Daniel P. Hays, President of the congregation.
1897: Samuel D. Levy presided
over the 18th annual meeting of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
Society
1898(24th of
Tishrei, 5659): Author and numismatist David Henriques de Castro passed away in
Amsterdam the city where he was born in 1832.
1898: “Birthdate of Esther
Falkenstein, the wife of Harry Falkenstein and mother of Edith Falkensein who
was murdered a Auschwitz in 1943.
1898(24th of
Tishrei, 5659): Seventy-three-year-old author and philosopher Fabius Mieses
passed away today.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Mieses_Fabius
1898: Samuel Elfenbein, the
son of Moses and Rosa Elfenbein and Ceilia Elfenbein gave birth to Hiram
Elfenbeim
1899: The New York Times begins publishing a supplemental section devoted to reviewing
books. The New York Times Book Section has provided numerous reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers for over a century. It
has been an invaluable resource for this blog.
1900: During the “Konitz
Affair,” an episode of Jewish blood libel, “Jacob Jacoby of Tuchel, was
sentenced to confinement for one year in the penitentiary for perjury.”
1900: Forty-three-year-old
Columbia trained physician Joseph Mayer Rice, the Philadelphia born son Mayer
and Fanny Rice who was the author of The Rational Spelling Book married
Deborah Levinson today.
1900: In Detroit, Congregation
Beth El made the decision to build a new Temple which will be located at the
corner of Woodward Avenue and Eliot Street.
1900:
In Vilna, Reuben and Sarah (Fisher) Gordon, gave birth to University of
Cincinnati graduate and Hebrew Union College trained rabbi, Samuel Henry Gordon
who married Irene Olive Philippe at Saginaw, MI in 1925 and began serving as
the Rabbi for Temple B’nai Israel in Salt Lake City in 1925.
1901: The former Jennie
Gertrude Cohen, the daughter of Simon Cohen and Dr. Zama Feldstein, formerly of
Calcutta who were married yesterday at the Tuxedo are “on a tour through the
United States and Canada” after which “they will make their home in New York.”
1901: Birthdate of Polish
native Mordka Narcyz who was shipped to Auschwitz in 1942.
1902 (9th of
Tishrei, 5663): Erev Yom Kippur
1902: Birthdate of Russian
born U.S. Jewish educator Samuel Dinin
who in 1909 came to the United States where he earned a Ph.D from
Columbia and taught at JTS before moving to Los Angeles in 1945 where he “played
a central role in shaping Jewish education in Los Angeles, including
institutions such as the University of Judaism and Los Angeles Hebrew High
School.”
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-dec-11-me-dinin11-story.html
https://www.bjela.org/dr-samuel-dinin
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/dinin-samuel
1903: The Young Men’s Zionist
Society of Newark, NJ, is scheduled to host a ball tonight.
1903: Within the Pale,
Irish Republican “Michael Davitt’s book dealing with the anti-Semitic
persecutions in Russia” was published today A.S. Barnes and Company.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/10/10/102025767.html?pageNumber=39
1904(1st of
Cheshvan, 5665): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1904: Phi Delta Epsilon
Medical Fraternity was founded at Cornell by Aaron Brown, Henry Aaronson,
Michael Halpern Barsky, Bernard Hyle Eliasberg, Irving Harold Engel, Philip
Frank.,Abraham Leon Garbat and William Isidore Wallach
1904: The Liberty Theatre
which was “built for Klaw and Erlanger, the partnership of theatrical producers
Marc Klaw and A. L. Erlanger” opened today on Broadway at 42nd
Street.
1905: Maurice J. (Moses)
Mandelbaum, the Cleveland born son of “Jacob and Amelia (Lehman) Mandelbaum and
“philanthropist, banker and interurban-railway magnate” married his second
wife, Florence S. Levy, died today.
1906(21st of Tishrei, 5667):
Hoshanah Rabah
1906: “No Equality For Jews
Yet: published today reported that Premier Stolypin said “to give the Jews the
right to buy land and circulate freely throughout Russia would in practice
create a very grave state of affair” and “The Duma would have to” make a
decision on this matter” while the Ministerial Council would “examine” the
“desired way to treat the Jews with justice.”
1907: Ernesto Nathan, a Jew,
was elected Mayor of Rome.
1907(2nd of
Cheshvan, 5668): Seventy-four-year-old Zipporah Phillips, the daughter of
Esther B. Seixas and Naphtali Phillips and the husband of Lewis Benjamin passed
away today.
1908(15th of
Tishrei, 5669): Sukkoth
1908: Movie mogul Harry Warner
and his wife, Rea Levinson gave birth to their first child, Lewis Warner.
1909: The coffin “covered with
the blue and white flag of Zion” carrying the body of Naphtali Herz Imber “the
east side poet and author of ‘Hatikvah,’ the Zionist national hymn” who had
died erev Shabbat “was followed from the Educational Alliance Building on East
Broadway to the Mount Zion Cemetery by 10,000 sincere mourners including Rabbi
J.L. Magnes.
1910(7th of
Tishrei, 5671): Mrs. Chawe Wolpe passed away today.
1910: Birthdate of
Photographer Julius Shulman. Born in Brooklyn, the son of Russian Jewish
immigrants, his family moved to a farm in Connecticut, where Shulman first
developed a love of nature that, he said, awakened him to light and shadow and
influenced his life's course. When Julius was 10, his father moved the family
to the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, which at that time was
predominantly Jewish, and opened the New York Dry Goods Store. His father died
of tuberculosis in 1923, leaving Julius' mother to run the business and raise
five children.
1910: Ten Jewish men founded
Tau Episolon Phi (TEP) fraternity at Columbia University.
1911(18th of
Tishrei, 5671): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1911(18th of
Tishrei 5671): Fifteen-year-old Miss Schlowe Stein passed away today.
1912(29th of
Tishrei, 5673): Sixty-one-year-old Posen native Henry Jonas who came to the
United States in 1871 after which he settled in Butte, MT where he worked as a
tailor and helped organize the Jewish community passed away today.
1912: Today, Dr. Joseph
Silverman officiated at the funeral of Professor Morris Loeb. The funeral which
was attended by more than 500 people representing most of the Jewish charitable
and religious organizations of New York and many of its educational institutions
was held at Temple Emanu-El Cemetery, Salem Fields, Cypress Hills. Dr. Samuel
Schulmann of Temple Beth-El gave the closing prayer.
1913(9th of
Tishrei, 5674): Erev Yom Kippur – Kol Nidre
1913: Today, “just in time for
the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur Jim Novy arrived in Galveston” after which.
“with the assistance of Rabbi Henry Cohen, he made transit from Galveston to
Dallas to meet his older brothers Louis and Sam who had arrived a year earlier.”
1913: Based on Judge Roan’s
ruling on August 26, today was to be the day when Leo Frank was to be hung.
1914: Birthdate of Amsterdam
native and “member of the underground” Roelof Tak who survived the war by “concealing
his Jewish identity” and was liberated by the Canadian Army.
https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=4978171
1914: Birthdate of Pinchas
Anchipolovsky, the native of the shtetl of Krevoe Ozero who gained fame as
Pinchas Ben Porat one of the first pilots in what became the IAF who actually
flew in support of Jewish settlers before the declaration of independence and
who died when his El Al aircraft was shot down by the Bulgarian Air Force in 1955.
1915(2nd of
Cheshvan, 5676): Alfred Hyman Louis, the native of Birmingham and son of Hyman
T. Louis, “a well-to-do merchant and his wife Maria” who “was called to the Bar
in 1855 and who claimed to have been the inspiration “for the consumptive
mystic Mordecai” in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda passed away today
after which he “was buried as a Jew” having renounced his previous conversion
to Christianity.
1915: Today, 29-year-old Louis
Lefkowitz, the brother of Aaron Lefkowitz and founder of “Louis Lefkowitz and
Brother, manufacturers of leather belts” and other such items, “married Miss
Sadie Leah Weiss” with whom he had one child, a daughter named Doris.
1915: Today was designated as
the deadline for various Jewish organizations to name those who will be
attending the “general congress of American Jews” to be held next month under
the auspices of the American-Jewish Committee.
1915: It was reported today
that “the Jews of Russian Poland, now in the hands of the Austrians and
Germans, appear to have suffered, prior to the Russian retreat more than the
normal amount of hardship imposed by war” which included “a rather promiscuous
execution by the Russians of the Jews accused of espionage…and the plundering
of Jewish shops and houses by the Russian soldiery.
1915: The list of “Five
Hundred Leading Books This Fall” published today included Forest Izard’s Sarah
Bernhardt which provides “a brief sketch of her career and an appreciative
criticism of her work and her genius, Israel Friedlander’s The History of
the Jews In Russia And Poland in which “the author traces the restrictions
placed, the oppressions exercised against and the accusation made respecting
the Jews in Poland up to the time of the partition of that country in 1772 and
thereafter the treatment of the Jews under Russian Role” and Morris Jastrow’s The
Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria
1915: “The Neighborhood’s
Year” published today provided a preview of the attractions that will be
offered this season by the little Neighborhood Playhouse on Grand Street which
will include performances by the Yiddish Folksong Singers of Boston.
1915: In the Ukraine, Elie
Gottmann and Sonia-Fanny Ettinger gave birth to their only child French
geographer Jean Gottman.
1915: It was reported today
that “there are 1,846 students in the Teacher’s College” at Columbia University
“this year and since many of them are interested in settlement and church work”
the school has proposed that Catholics, Jews and Protestants work together “in
devising means for making religious instruction more efficient.”
1915: The chairman of the
Interchurch Committee on Religious Education which includes Jewish members said
that its members are ready to help implement William Wirt’s “Gary Plan” for the
schools in New York City.
1916: In Petah Tikva, Isaac
and Hemda Diskin, “the husband of Dinah Diskin.”
1917(24th of
Tishrei, 5678): Eighty-three-year-old German born Jacob Bacharach the husband
of Betty Bacharach with who he had five children – Bertha, Benjamin, Rachel,
Isaac and Harry – passed away today after which he was buried at Mt. Sinai
Cemetery in Philadelphia.
1917: “After traveling for six
months by sea and leaving and encountering many hardships ninety-one Jewish
refugees” including “ten old men, forty women and forty-one children” arrived
today “at an Atlantic port from Palestine to join their relatives in his
country
1917: In Brownsville, Pincus Schacter, “a seventh
generation shochet” and his wife “the former Miriam Schimmelman” gave birth to
Herschel Schacter the first US Army Chaplain to enter and participate in the
liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp and the chairman of the
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
1918: During the final Allied
offensive on the Western Front, the 165th Regiment, including Sergeant Abraham
Blaustein hiked to Excamont where they found the Prussian Guards holding their
strong points just beyond the town.
1918:
Samuel Gitlow, the Belarus born son of Elke and Herschel Gitlow and his wife
Esther Gitlow gave birth to USSAF WW II veteran Dr. Abraham Leo Gitlow, the
holder of a Ph. D from the Columbia School of Economics and Anthropology and
Dean at the NYU Stern School of Business
https://obits.lohud.com/us/obituaries/lohud/name/abraham-gitlow-obituary?pid=171760779
1919(16th of
Tishrei, 5680): Second Day of Sukkoth
1919: In the aftermath of WW I,
British troops, which had been sent to Russia in an attempt to keep her in the
war were withdrawn from Murmansk which strengthened the hand of the Bolsheviks
with all that that meant for the Jewish people of Eastern Europe.
1920: The Goldman Concert
Band, “which recently concluded its most successful series of Summer concerts
at Columbia University” is scheduled to “give its one and only concert at
Carnegie Hall” this evening.
1920: In Chicago, Illinois,
Hugo M. Friend, the Judge who presided over trial of the so-called Chicago
Black Sox (the players who threw the World Series) was appointed judge of the
Circuit Court today.
1921: Today,
thirty-five-year-old Harold Kinder, the Missouri born son of Marie Epstein
Kander and Felix Victor Karder and the president of the Aaron Corporation
married Bernice Aaron with whom he had one son, Edward Felix Kander
1921: “Ambush” written by Arthur
Richman opened on Broadway at the Garrick Theatre.
1921: In Jersey City, David
Gross, a haberdasher and his wife, the former Fay Kushner gave birth to Gerald
Jeremiah Gross, a Jewish World War II veteran who was responsible for the
publishing of Albert Speer’s memoirs. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
1922(18th of
Tishrei, 5683): Fourth day of Sukkoth
1922: In Poland, Chana and
Moshe Berkowitz gave birth to Joseph Berkowitz who gained fame as Joseph
Kushner, the husband of Rae Kushner, the father of American real estate moguls
Murray and Charles Kushner, the grandfather of Jared Kushner, President Trump’s
son-in-law, Joshua Kushner and Marc Kushner.
1922(18th of
Tishrei, 5683): Sixty-eight-year-old Isaac Guggenheim, the Philadelphia born
son of Meyer and Barbara Guggenheim and husband of Carrie Sonneborn, who
““director of the American Smelting and Refining Company, the National Park
Bank” and a “member of the firm of M. Guggenheim’s Sons” passed away today
after which he was buried at the Salem Fields Cemetery in Brooklyn.
1923: “The Unknown Tomorrow,”
a German silent film directed and produced by Alexander Korda was released
today in German.
1923: Birthdate of major
league pitcher, Saul Rogovin.
1924: In Lodz, Poland, Shaya
(Sruel, Stanley) Wattenberg, a local gallery owner and his wife Lea Wattenberg,
an American citizen who parents Mr. and Mrs. Benno Zold lived in Long Branch NJ
gave birth to Miriam Wattenberg, who survived the Holocaust and gained fame as
Mary Berg the author of The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing up in the Warsaw
Ghetto,
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/what-happened-to-mary-berg
https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Mary-Berg-Growing-Warsaw/dp/1851685855
1924(12th of
Tishrei, 5685): After being “hit on the head by a line drive” yesterday,
thirty-seven year old “Dutch diamond polisher and baseball player” Hartog
Hamburger, an infielder for OVVO in Amsterdam and the father of psychiatrist
and future resistance fighter Max Hambruger, died today making him the one of
the few, if not the only European to die from an injury sustained while playing
the American national pastime.
1925(22nd of Tishrei, 5686):
Shemini Atzeret
1925: Birthdate of Mark
Shulman the husband of Margaret A. Shulman
1926:
A conference of State and city chairman who will be leading United Jewish
campaign to raise twenty-five million dollars is scheduled to come to an end
today at the Standard Club in Chicago.
1926: In the Bronx, Edward
Marshall and “the former Ethel Tilzer” gave birth to Joan Evelyn Marshall who
gained famed as “Joan Helpern, the creative half of the husband-and-wife team
that combined comfort and class as the eponymous owners of the Joan & David
line of shoes.” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1926: The weeklong campaign of
the Jewish Welfare Board to raise $150,000 is scheduled to come to an end
today.
1927: “A Harp in Rock,” a
melodrama written by Sonya Levien and starring Rudolph Schildkraut as “Isaac
Abrams” was released in the United States today.
1927(14th of
Tishrei, 5688): Erev Sukkoth
1927: “A Night in Spain” a
revue which featured “Did You Minute” with music by Jean Schwartz and lyrics by Sid
Silvers transferred from the 44th Street Theatre to the Winter
Garden Theatre today.
1927: According to Rabbi Lewis
Browne of New York City, today he officiated at the marriage ceremony of writer
Hendrick von Loon and actress Francis Goodrich at Elizabeth, NJ even neither of
them are Jewish but are good friends with the cleric.
1927: The original Broadway
production of “The Five O’Clock Girl” with music by Harry Ruby and lyrics by
Bert Kalmar opened at the 44th Street Theatre today.
1928:
When New York Mayor Jimmy Walker’s “plan was sketched to Sam Harris…tonight,
the producer gave it his full approval” saying “I think it is a good plan, and
I would be willing to accept the decision of the Mayor’s representatives.”
(Harris was Jewish, Walker was not)
1929: Frederick Margareten,
the Manhattan born son of Regina Horowtiz and Ignatz Margareten who was chairman of Horowitz-Margareten
Kosher Food and his wife Mary Margareten gave birth to Rene (Margareten) Berger
1929: Ten Days before the
Stock Market crash that triggered the Great Depression, Abraham Strauss opened
its renovated store on Fulton Street, during the same year in which “the
company also joined Filene's, Lazarus, and Bloomingdale's to form Federated Department
Stores.
1929: Die gelbe Jacke (The
Yellow Jacket) an operetta with a libretto co-authored by Fritz Lohner-Beda was
performed, at the Metropol Theatre, Berlin for the first time today.
1929: “The Land of Smiles,” an
operetta by Franz Lehar who always used Jewish writers to create the librettos
for his works but also received a medal from Hitler and with a libretto written
in part by Fritz Löhner-Beda, a member of Kadima who died at the Monowitz
concentration camp, was first performed, at the Metropol Theater today.
1930(18th of
Tishrei, 5691): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1930: In San Francisco, the
city-wide fund raising drive for the Jewish Welfare Fund is scheduled to come
to an end today at which time it is hoped that $265,000 will have been raised.
1930: In Hackney, east London
"Jack" Pinter, a ladies' tailor and his wife, Frances (née Moskowitz)
gave birth to English playwright and Nobel Prize Winner, Harold Pinter.
1931: “Marius,” a film version
of the 1929 play, produced by Alexander Korda was released today in France.
1931: Sid Gillman was among
the Buckeyes who were miserable following Vanderbilt’s victory over Ohio State
in the second game of the college football season.
1932: The Supreme Court, whose
members included Louis Brandeis and Benjamin Cardozo heard arguments in Powell
v. Alabama, a case in which Walter H. Pollack represented the petitioners who
were known as “the Scottsboro Boys.”
1933(20th of Tishrei, 5694):
Sixth day of Sukkoth
1933(20th of Tishrei, 5694):
The Nazis killed Dr. Theo Katz at Dachau. According to Martin Gilbert, Katz had
worked in the camp hospital before his murder.
1934(1st of
Cheshvan, 5696): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1934: Sufi Abdul Hamid “said
to have styled himself an Egyptian Black Hitler” appeared before Magistrate
Overton Harris in Harlem Court for another hearing on charges of disorderly
conducting for allegedly urging Harlem Negroes to persecute the Jews
1934: Ella Driori and Amnon
Drori gave birth to Alexander (Alex)
Drori
1935: In New York, Norman and
Betty Hirschfield gave birth to studio executive Alan James Hirschfield.
1935: George Gershwin's
"Porgy & Bess" opened on Broadway. The Jewish music master
used his talents to bring the life of African-Americans to mainstream
entertainment.
1936(24th of
Tishrei, 5697): Parashat Bereshit – on Shabbat begin the Torah reading cycle
again
1936: At Temple Emanu-El Rabbi
Nathan Perlman is scheduled to deliver a sermon entitled “Ways of Pleasantness
and Paths of Peace.”
1936: At the West End
Synagogue, Rabbi Nathan Stern is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Driven From
Paris.”
1936: In New York, many rabbis
are scheduled to deliver sermons describing “the work of the New York section
of the National Council of Jewish Women” including “the religious work done on
Welfare Island under the chairmanship of Mrs. A. H. Goodman” and “the very
important classes for deaf children.”
1936: In the Bronx, religious
classes and services are being held at the Council House under the chairmanship
of Mrs. Julius Wolff.
1936: At Temple Rodeph Sholom,
Rabbi Louis Newman is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Where Do We Stand
Together?”
1936: In Philadelphia, a
tailor named Joseph Cohen and his wife the former Gertrude Schwab gave birth to
David Pesach Cohen whose work “in the public interest” included serving as
President of Common Cause. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
http://www.594.com/tributes/binder/aw.html
1937: The Palestine Post reported that the Mandatory
Administration assured the British government that no question of security
would interfere with the plans to send a new commission to Palestine. This new
commission will be well protected and will be well able to consider how to
implement the country's partition, as requested by the Mandatory Commission of
the League of Nations at their General Assembly meetings in Geneva.
1937: The Post reported that a tax collector's van was
robbed by armed Arabs on the Nablus-Jenin road.
1938: Sh'chita (Jewish ritual
slaughter) is banned in Italy.
1938: In accord with the terms
of the Munich Agreement signed in September, German troops took control of the
Sudetenland and gained de facto control over the rest of Czechoslovakia. The
agreement gave the Nazis direct control over another portion of Europe’s Jewish
population. More importantly, it was one more bloodless victory for Hitler. It
helped drive the Soviets to sign a non-aggression pact with Hitler’s Germany
which led to the invasion of Poland which led to…well you know the rest.
1938: In statement issued
today, U.S. Representative Emanujel Celler of New York urged President
Roosevelt “to remind Prime Minister Neville Chamerlain of Great Britain’s
solemn pledge in the Balfour Declaration for a Jewish national homeland in
Palestine and to declare that the United States ‘views with great conern and
alarm a departure by Great Britain from its obligations under that pact.’”
Celler went on to express concern that the promise of the Balfour Declaration
was about to be “scrapped.”
1939: “A memorial to Felix
Warburg will be started today when foundations are laid for seventy farms at
Kfar Felix Warburg in southern Palestine.
1939: The period of forced
labor for Jewish men in Slovakia is scheduled to come to an end today.
1939: The Germans created a
Generalgouvernement in Poland. It is an administrative area not incorporated
into Greater Germany. The Germans will locate their death camps in the
Generalgouvernement.
1939: A one-hour adaption of
“Lilom” which had been translated into English by Benjamin Glazer for a
production starring Joseph Schildkraut, was broadcast by the CBS Campbell
Playhouse Program.
1940: “Yugoslavs Defend Jews”
published today reported that “the first organized protest against Yugoslavia’s
anti-Jewish decrees was made at a week-end meeting of high school teachers from
all parts of the country.”
1941(19th of Tishrei, 5702):
Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1941: Marshal Walther von
Reichenau instructed his troops that, "The soldier must fully understand
the need for severe but just atonement of the Jewish sub-humans." Contrary
to one of the myths surrounding the Holocaust, the German army was a willing
accomplice in the slaughter of the Jews. The use of gas vans by the roaming
Eisengruppen would not put an end to the involvement of German soldiers in the
destruction of European Jewry.
1941(19th of Tishrei, 5702):
Eliaho Hayeem Victor Cohen, a Lieutenant with the 9th Jat Regiment of the
British Indian Army was killed in an accident today during World War II.
Although he is buried in the Penang Jewish Cemetery which is believed to be the
oldest Jewish cemetery in Malaysia, his grave is maintained by the Commonwealth
War Graves Commission.
1941: Thousands of Slovak Jews
are sent to labor camps at Sered, Vyhne, and Nováky.
1941: Slovak, Bohemian, and
Moravian Jews are forced from their homes and into ghettos.
1941: “Great Guns” a comedy
produced by Sol M. Wurtzel and featuring Ludwig Stössel, one of the many Jewish
artists forced to flee Europe after the Nazis came to power, was released today
by 20th Century Fox.
1941: The Philip Morris
Playhouse broadcast an adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s “The Little Foxes.”
1942: “Eva-Marie Buch, a book
seller who was part of the Schutze-Boysen-Harnack Resistance Group, also known as
The Red Orchestra was arrested today for passing messages to French slave
laborers working in factories.”
1942: Dr. Tamarath Knigin
Yolles, the 1939 NYU Medical School graduate and “daughter of Max H. and Bessie
(Krokoff) Knigin” married Stanley Fausst Yolles with whom she had two children
– Jennifer and Melanie.
1942: Chil (Enrique) Meyer
Rajchman was rounded up today along with other ghetto inmates, loaded onto a
Holocaust train, and sent to Treblinka extermination camp where he took part in
the 1943 uprising which he survived and as a survivor provided evidence against
the guards at the camp.
1942: The SS issued a decree
to “cleanse all concentration camps of Jews.”
http://www.natzweiler-struthof.com/OrianenbergOctober101942.htm
1943(11th of
Tishrei, 5704): Twenty-six-year-old German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon died
today at Auschwitz.
1943: A non-Jewish Latvian
named Yanis Lipke rescues three Jews in Riga by offering ghetto guards two
packs of cigarettes for "some Yids to work in my kitchen garden"
1943: At the Sobibór death
camp, a revolt is planned by Jewish laborers and Jewish Red Army POWs.
1943(11th of
Tishrei,5704): On the day after Yom Kippur, a pilot who had spent -the Day of
Atonement praying at the Grande Synagogue in Tunis “flew on a mission and never
returned.” (As reported by Louis Werfel,
“the flying chaplain”)
1944(23rd of Tishrei, 5705):
Simchat Torah
1944: Fourteen men from the
Sonderkommando who escaped during the revolt of October 7 are found. They are
tortured along with many other picked up during the prior two days. But none
gave away the locations of the hiding survivors. None of the men would survive
the interrogation.
1944: Four additional women
involved in smuggling explosives used in the October 6-7 uprising at Auschwitz
are arrested, including an inmate named Roza Robota. Fourteen men from the
camp's Sonderkommando unit also are arrested. The sole surviving conspirator, a
Greek Jew named Isaac Venezia, will later die of starvation after Auschwitz
inmates are evacuated by their captors to Ebensee, Austria.
1945: According to reports
from Jerusalem, Dr. Chaim Weizmann will resign as President of the World
Zionist Organization if the British government reaches decisions that are
“unfavorable to the Jewish cause in Palestine.” David Ben Gurion, who is
expected to return from London next week, is mentioned as his most likely
successor.
1945: The Palmach freed two
hundred “illegal” Jewish immigrants who had been rounded up by British troops
and were being held at a detention facility near Haifa.
1945: Birthdate of Chicago
native Bruce Karatz, the Boston University undergrad and USC Law School grad
turned businessman – Chairman and CEO of KB Home – and philanthropist who
contributed funds to rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
1945: Joseph Darnard who had
served under Pierre Laval as the commander of the Vichy militia was executed by
a firing squad today.
1946: Birthdate of Arnold E.
Resnicoff the Washington D.C. native who became a Conservative Rabbi and served
as a chaplain in the U.S. Navy for a quarter of a century.
1946: Release of “The Jolson
Story,” a biopic that gives the Hollywood treatment to the life of Al Jolson.
1947: “Deputy Mayor John H.
Bennett spoke at the presentation of a piece of fire apparatus to the volunteer
fire brigade of Tel Aviv” which a gift from the New York City Fire Department.
1948: “The intensity of the
Egyptian shelling on the southern suburbs (of Jerusalem) was such that the
United Nations observers believed that a full-scale Egyptian assault on the
city was imminent.
1949: U.S. premiere of
“Thieves’ Highway” directed by Jules Dassin, co-starring Lee J. Cobb (Leo
Jacob) as “Mike Figlia” with music by Alfred Newman.
1949: Two days after closing
at the Schubert Theatre, “Lend An Ear” a
musical revue with sketches by Joseph Stein opened at the Schubert Theatre.
1950: Dr. Sam Winograd, the
faculty athletic managers announced today that City College's national
basketball champions will play 21 games this season.
1951(10th of
Tishrei, 5712): Yom Kippur
1951: Birthdate of Avichai
Rontzki “the former Chief Military Rabbi of the IDF” who “served in the
position from 2006 to 2010 with a rank of Brigadier General” – a service marked
by several controversies.
1951: Twentieth Century Fox
released “Love Next,” an American comedy-drama directed by Joseph Newman and
written by I.A.L. Diamond
1951: Mrs. Alfred F. Hess read
a statement at today's meeting of the Board of Trustees of Barnard College
expressing their sorrow at the recent death of Mrs. Annie Nathan Meyer, one of
the founders of and original trustees of Barnard.
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Palestine Conciliation
Commission had announced that Israel agreed to release one million in sterling.
These funds belonged to Palestinian Arabs who had fled Israel during the
fighting when the Arabs tried to destroy the state of Israel at the moment of
its birth. The commission commented that the Israeli move was "an
important step towards the settlement of the differences existing between
Israel and her neighbors." The Israelis hoped that this act of good will
would help lead to a peace agreement and that the Arab states would now give
the Jews who had fled such places as Iraq would now have access to the funds
they had been forced to leave behind. As has happened so many times, the hope
proved illusory.
1952(21st of
Tishrei, 5713): Hoshana Raba
1952(21st of
Tishrei, 5713): Eighty-two-year-old Russian born Morris Orenstein, the husband
of Bessie Orenstein and the “father of Rose Oberlander; Anna Gittleman; Katie
Orenstein Aronoff; Goldie Stein; Yetta Rahinsky; and Samuel Orenstein” passed
away today in Philadelphia.
1953(1st of
Cheshvan, 5714): Parashat Noach; Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1953(1st of
Cheshvan, 5714): Seventy-three-year-old “Lemuel F. Bernheim, the former
vaudeville comedian” who performed under the name of Lem Welch and was the
husband of Stella Babka Bernheim with whom he had three children – Louis,
Bernard and Esther – passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/10/12/84426717.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1954: In Bloomington, IN,
ophthalmologist Nathan Lee Roth and teacher Sibyl Roth gave birth to “American
rock singer” David Lee Roth.
1954: CBS broadcast the first
episode “Honestly, Celeste!” a sitcom written by Larry Gelbart and Norman Lear
1954:
In Chicago, Rosa Lee and Hal Rothblatt, DDS gave birth to UCLA trained attorney
Martin Rothblatt, now known as the author, entrepreneur, and transgender rights
advocate Martine Rothblatt.
1955: “Joyce
Grenfell Requests the Pleasure….” for which Norman Maibaum served as Company
Manager and Martin Schwartz served as Press Representative opened on Broadway
at the Bijou Theatre.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/10/11/87198472.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1956: “The Boss” a crime thriller
produced by Frank N. Seltzer, the brother of award-winning producer Walter
Seltzer and advertising director Julian Seltzer.
1956: At the urging of Moshe
Dayan, the cabinet agreed to an attack aimed at destroying the Kalkilya police
fort in response to murders at Even Yehuda. The attack would be led by
Mordechai Gur who would later be IDF Chief of Staff. The attack was costly in
terms of Israeli casualties and brought an end to the period of night-time
tit-for-tat reprisal raids.
1956: In response to a
terrorist attack launched from Jordan on October 4 that claimed the lives of
four civilians, “the Israeli military conducted a counterattack
codenamed Operation Samaria in which the IDF attacked the Qalqilya police
station at the Tegart fort. After a fierce battle the fort was blown up. 18 IDF
soldiers died in the operation and 68 were injured. About 88 Jordanians were
killed and 15 were wounded.”
1957(15th of
Tishrei, 5718): Sukkoth
1960(19th of
Tishrei, 5721) Fifth day of Sukkoth
1961: Today, while he was serving as
mayor, the “Toronto City Council named the future civic square at New City Hall
Nathan Phillips Square in his honor.”
1961: Seven months after
having premiered in Germany “Town Without Pity” directed by Gottfried
Reinhardt, the son of director Max Reinhardt (AKA Max Goldman starring Kirk
Douglas and with music by Dimitri Tiomkin was released in the United States
today.
1961: U.S. premiere of
“Splendor in the Grass,” with music by David Amram and filmed by Boris Kaufman.
1961: Milk and Honey opened on
Broadway in the Martin Beck Theatre and ran for 543 performances. “Milk and
Honey is a musical…music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. The story centers on a
busload of lonely American widows hoping to catch husbands while touring Israel
and is set against the background of the country's fight for recognition as an
independent nation.”
1962: “Charmaine” a song
written by Lew Pollack for “What Price Glory?” was recorded today.
1962:
After premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in May, Long Day's Journey into
Night, a 1962 American drama film adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's 1956 play
which was directed by Sidney Lumet, and produced by Ely Landau, with Joseph E.
Levine and Jack J. Dreyfus Jr. as executive producers was released today in the
United States.
1963(22nd
of Tishrei, 5724): Shmini Atzeret
1963(22nd
of Tishrei 5724): Seventy-one year old Romanian born and NYU trained physician
Dr. George Ornstein, the former director of medicine at Sea View Hospital where
he “directed a research program on the new anti-tuberculosis drugs and former
“former professor of medicine at New York Medical College and Columbia’s
Post-Graduate School of Medicine” who was the husband of “the former Claire
Rosenstein” with whom he raised two children, Betty Ann and George, Jr. passed
away today.
1963(22nd of
Tishrei, 5724): Shmini Atzeret
1963: In Princeton, NJ, Ruth
and Judea Pearl gave birth to journalist Daniel Pearl who was
kidnapped by Pakistani terrorists and later murdered by Al-Qaeda member Khalid
Sheikh Mohammed in Pakistan.
https://www.washingtonian.com/projects/KSM/
1964: The Summer Olympics in
which Volleyball player Georgy Mondzolevski represented the Soviet Union opened
today.
1964(4th of Cheshvan, 5725):
Eddie Cantor passed away. The comedian with the “banjo eyes” enjoyed a career
that ran from vaudeville to the crazy days of live television variety shows.
One of Cantor’s famous running gags centered around the fact that he had five
children – all girls. He passed away at the age of 72.
http://www.eddiecantor.com/bio.html
1965(14th of
Tishrei, 5726): Erev Sukkot
1965: In Cambridge, MA, Carl
R. Pidgeon, a visiting professor at MIT and his wife Elaine, a yoga teacher
gave birth to singer-songwriter Rebecca Pidgeon the wife of David Mamet.
1965: “Drat! The Cat!” a
musical “with a book and lyrics by Ira Levin” with a cast that included Elliot
Gould and co-produced by Jerry Adler opened on Broadway today at the Martin
Beck Theatre, “where it ran for only eight performances.”
1966: Seventy-one-year-old
Abraham Wolf Binder who served as music director of the Stephen Wise Free
Synagogue for forty years and was a lead in the Reform Movement passed away
today.
http://www.594.com/tributes/binder/aw.html
1966: “The Big Bright Green
Pleasure Machine,” a song by Simon and Garfunkel was released today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/10/12/90406565.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1968:
“Barbarella” a science fiction film co-starring Marcel Marceau was released
today.
1970(10th of Tishrei, 5731):
Yom Kippur
1971(21st of
Tishrei, 5732): Hoshana Raba
1971(21st of
Tishrei, 5732): Eighty-five-old University of Pennsylvania trained attorney and
newspaper publisher Julius David Stern the Philadelphia born son of Sophie Muhr
and David Stern and husband of Juliet Lit who was owner and publisher of The
Philadelphia Record for almost twenty years and who supported Al Smith and
Franklin Roosevelt passed away today.
https://turtledove.fandom.com/wiki/J._David_Stern
1971: After having premiered in London, “The
Go-Between” with a screenplay Harold Pinter and co-produced by John Heyman, the
Leipzig born son of German-Jewish parents was released throughout the UK today.
1971: Birthdate of child piano
prodigy Evgeny Kissin
http://www.kissin.dk/biography.html
1972: Jews in Moscow held a
press conference expressing their support of the Senator Henry Jackson’s
legislation granting trade benefits to the East Bloc nations in turn for
liberalization of their immigration policies (which would make it possible for
Jews to leave the Soviet Union and go to Israel)
1972(2nd of
Cheshvan, 5733): Sixty-nine-year-old Russian born American and Radcliffe
trained political scientist who worked for such luminaries as Governor Herbert
H. Lehman and General Lucius D. Clay passed away today.
1973: 14th of Tishrei, 5734):
Economist Ludwig von Mises passes away at the age of 92.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=25164836
1973: 14th of Tishrei, 5734):
Erev Sukkoth; as Jews around the world prepare to celebrate Sukkoth, all
thoughts are turned to Israel’s fight for survival that had begun on Yom
Kippur.
1973: Fighting continued
during the Yom Kippur War. A morning counter-attack launched against the
Syrians drove their tanks back to line from which they had launched their sneak
attack four days ago. General Elazar wanted to push on, but Defense Minister
Dayan wanted to stop lest penetration towards Damascus upset the Soviets. Golda
Meir sided with Elazar who made plans to attack across the old cease fire line.
In the evening, Mrs. Meir addressed the nation describing Israel’s perilous
position. The Soviets had armed the Arabs with all matter of modern weaponry
and were re-supplying them even as Mrs. Meir spoke. She urged King Hussein not
to repeat his mistake of 1967 when he joined the Egyptians and the Syrians. She
said that Jews could not allow themselves “the luxury of despair.” She had but
one prayer in her heart, “that this will be the last war.
1973: In an effort to relieve
Israeli pressure on the Syrian front, where the IDF has gained back the
southern Golan, Egyptian forces move further into the Sinai, beyond the range
of their SAM umbrella which creates an opportunity for the IAF to go on the
offensive.
1973: “A minister
in government and former chief of the IDF General Staff, Chaim Bar-Lev, was
effectively put in control of the southern front instead of Shmuel Gonen.” (As
reported by Mitch Ginsburg)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/remembering-a-man-slowly-killed-by-the-yom-kippur-war/
1973: 14th of Tishrei, 5734):
Israeli political leader and former MK Ada Maimon passed away at the age of 80
today.
1974(24th of
Tishrei, 5735): Just two months shy of his 64th birthday, historian
and Holocaust survivor Joseph Wulf passed away.
http://stevenlehrer.com/joseph_wulf.htm
1974: Birthdate of Asi Cohen,
the native of Ashdod who gained fame as a comedian and actor.
1974: “The National Health,” a
British play starring Leonard Frey, the Brooklyn born Jew, opened at the Circle
Theater “where it ran for 53 perfromances.”
1975: Parliamentarians from 12
Western European countries formed a committee in support of Soviet Jewish
emigration.
1975: As the Soviets sought to
strengthen their position in the Middle East and the Syrians look for aid in
destroying Israel, President Assad completed his visit to the USSR.
1975: “Shivers” a science
fiction produced by Ivan Reitman and directed by David Cronenberg who also
wrote the script was released today in Canada.
1975: “Lisztomania” a biopic
about Franz Liszt co-starring Sara Kestelman and filmed by cinematographer
Peter Suschitzky was released in the United Kingdom today.
1976(16th of
Tishrei, 5737): Second day of Sukkoth
1976: Mr. and Mrs. Max
Gerstein, the president the Petrie Stores Corporation, a national chain of
women’s retail clothing stores announced the engagement of their daughter Nancy
Ellen Gerstein to John Camper Novogrod an attorney whose father Leonard is a
“retired president of W & J Sloane, Inc.”
1978(9th of
Tishrei, 5739): Erev Yom Kippur
1979(19th of
Tishrei, 5740): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1979: “Once A Catholic” with scenic
designs by William Ritman, the son of Rose and Hyman Benjamin Ritman opened on
Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre whose managing director is Lester Osterman
1979(19th of
Tishrei, 5740): Seventy-nine-year-old composer and Cantor David Josef Puttennan
passed away today.
1980(30th of
Tishrei, 5741): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1980(30th of
Tishrei, 5741): Eighty-three-year-old Jackson, Mississippi born Reform Rabbi
Julian Beck Feibelman, the longtime spiritual leader of Temple Sinai, New
Orleans leading Reform Congregation passed away today after which he was buried
at the Metairie Cemetery.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0094/ms0094.html
http://crdl.usg.edu/people/f/feibelman_julian_beck_1897/?Welcome
1980: Private Benjamin, a
comedy directed by Howard Zeiff and produced by Nancy Meyers who helped to
write the script and produced by Goldie Hawn who also starred in the title role
was released in theaters across the United States.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/oct/10/1980/goldie-hawn
1982: The New York Times book section included a review An Orphan in History:
Retrieving a Jewish Legacy by Paul Cowan describing the “beautiful and
moving account of his search for his religious and cultural roots.”
1983: Ruby Myers, who was the
Indian actress known as Sulochana passed away today.
http://www.oldindianphotos.in/2011/09/actress-sulochana-real-name-ruby-myers.html
1983: Israel's Knesset voted
60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as Prime Minister. Shamir was part of the Right-Wing
Likud and a successor to Menachem Begin.
1983: Mordechai Tzipori
completed his service as Deputy Minister of Defense.
1983: Haim Meir Drukman “broke
away from the NRP and attempted to form a Knesset faction by the name of
Zionist Religious Camp but was refused permission to do so by the House
Committee.”
1983: As Israel changed
governments, David Levy retained his position as Deputy Prime Minister.
1984: In the U.K. premiere of
“1984” Michael Radford’s cinematic treatment of George Orwell’s novel by the
same name.
1984: Birthdate of New York
City native Matthew “Matt” Shear the St. John’s College graduate and actor best
known for his role as “Detective Lucius Isaacson” on TNT’s hit series “The
Alienist.”
1985: U.S. fighter jets forced
an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille
Lauro to land in Italy, where the gunmen were taken into custody. This was part
of a farce that resulted in the hijackers getting off without punishment for
their murderous act of piracy.
1986: Israel Prime Minister
Shimon Peres resigned. Peres was and is a leader of what was the original Labor
Zionist movement that dominated the governments of Israel for the first two
decades of its existence.
1986: Jumpin' Jack Flash, a
comedy featuring Jon Lovitz was released in the United States today by 20th
Century Fox.
1987: Birthdate of Danny
Rosenbaum who played for Xavier University and was drafted by the Washington
Nationals.
1987: CBS broadcast of Everything’s
Relative a sitcom starring Jason Alexander, the New Jersey born son of Ruth
Minnie Simon and Alexander Greenspan who had named him Jay Scott Greenspan
1989: St. Joseph, MO native
and Northwestern University graduate Melvin Floyd Sembler who “is of Jewish
descent” began serving the United States Ambassador to Australia.
1990(21st of
Tishrei, 5751): Hoshana Rabah
1990(21st of
Tishrei, 5751): Eighty-three-year-old Broadway producer Irene Mayer Selznick
passed at today at the Pierre Hotel in NYC.
(As reported by Eric Pace)
1992(13th of
Tishrei, 5753): Parashat Ha’azinu
1993: “Witchboard 2: The
Devil's Doorway” a horror film starring Laraine Newman and featuring Marvin
Kaplan was released today by Blue Rider Pictures.
1994(5th of Cheshvan, 5755):
Tzvi Gal-chen, the father of author Rivka Galchen, and a scientist known for
his work on wind and thermodynamic variables passed away today.
1995(16th of
Tishrei, 5756): Second day of Sukkoth
1995(16th of
Tishrei, 5756): Ninety-year-old Sigmund Jeselsohn, the German born son of
Samuel and Malchen Jeselsohn and husband of Karolina Jeselsohn passed away
today in New York.
1995: As part of Israel’s
agreement with the PLO, two members of the PLO’s former Jerusalem Committee
crossed into Israel from Jordan as a prelude to becoming Governors of Ramallah
and Nablus. Twenty years earlier these same to men had masterminded the bombing
in Zion Square which killed fourteen civilians, including three Arabs.
1995: As Israel turned over
control of 460 West Bank villages to the Palestinian Authority, a banner flew
over the village of Salfit declaring “Today Salfit, tomorrow Jerusalem.”
1996: Yad Vashem decided to
recognize Baron Friedrich von Oppenheim as Righteous Among the Nations
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/righteous/stories/oppenheim.asp
1996(27th of
Tishrei, 5757): Ninety-two-year Harry Rosen the founder of Junior’s Restaurant,
home to what some claim is the best cheesecake in the world passed away today.
(As reported by Eric Asimov)
1996: It was reported today
that United States Judge Kimba M. Wood has refused to stop the extradition of Hamas
leader Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, to Israel “where he faces criminal charges
that he financed and helped organize terrorist attacks.”
1997(9th of
Tishrei, 5758): Erev Yom Kippur.
1997: After having premiered
at the Toronto International Film Festival, “Boogie Nights” featuring Nina
Harley, the daughter of Blanche (Gelders) Hartman and the granddaughter of University
of Alabama physics professors “and civil rights activist Joseph Geolder, “as
Little Bill’s wife” was released in the United States today.
1999(30th of
Tishrei, 5760): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1999(30th of
Tishrei, 5760): Four days after he passed away, graveside services are
scheduled to be held at Beth Moses Cemetery for Alfred Cohn, the husband of
Joan Cohn with whom he three children – Darcy, Alexandra and Cathy.
1999: Bruce Fleischer won The
Transamerica golf tournament.
1999: The Sunday New York
Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics related to Judaism
including We Can Report Them by Michael Brodsky, When Pride Still
Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss and The Magic of
Dialogue: Transforming Conflict Into Cooperation by Daniel Yankelovich.
2000: “Two Paris synagogues
were set on fire overnight today and one of them partially destroyed in attacks
police fear could be linked to the violence in the Middle East.”
2001(23rd of
Tishrei, 5762): Simchat Torah
2001: “Jon Lovitz sang a duet
of the song “Well, Did You Evah” at the Royal Albert Hall.
2001: First broadcast of
season four of “Felicity” a drama star created by J.J. Abrams and co-starring
Greg Grunberg.
2001: “A Man of Good Fortune”
published today tells the story of the Moussaieff family.
http://www.haaretz.com/a-man-of-good-fortune-1.71559
2002: Hamas took credit for
today bombing at the Bar-Illan interchange on the Geha Road.
2002: Richard Blumenthal was
awarded the Raymond E. Baldwin Award for Public Service by the Quinnipiac
University School of Law.
2002: Representative Shelley
Berkley of Nevada was among the 81 House Democrats who voted in favor of
authorizing the invasion of Iraq.
2003(14th of
Tishrei, 5764): Erev Sukkoth
2003(14th of
Tishrei, 5764): Sixty-year-old Atara Chana Beile Marmor the daughter of David
Feuerwerker and Taube Rachel Feuerwerker passed away today.
2003(14th of
Tishrei 5764): Eighty-five-year-old Max Rayne the British businessman and
philanthropist who was knighted and later made a life peer so that he was known
as Baron Rayne passed away.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/oct/14/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries
http://www.raynefoundation.org.uk/
2003: Seventy-five-year-old
retired dairy William F. “Bill” Schueller, a resident of Zwingle, IA, an ardent
Cubs fan and the husband of the former Eleanor Neyens whom he married in 1953
and with whom he had four children, Deb, Steve, Liz and David, passed away
today.
2004: The Sunday New York
Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics related to Judaism
including Harold Blum’s Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
2004: In an article designed
to encourage gardeners to follow proper transplanting procedures, the Times of London writes approvingly of the practices of “the great
rhododendron enthusiast Lionel de Rothschild who used to move fully mature
rhododendrons around his garden at his estate.”
2005: Sociology professor Majd
el-Haj was named Haifa University's next dean of research, making him the first
Arab faculty member to serve at the vice presidential level of an Israeli
university.
2005: With a sigh of great
relief the feared Lulav Shortage has been avoided. Thanks to aggressive action
by the Ministry of Agriculture, the sound of shaking frond will be heard at
Sukkah time after all. As part of a long range solution, the Agriculture
ministry will work to encourage domestic production of this religious
necessity. Hopefully, the Israeli will develop a lulav that will not lose its
leaves and an etrog with a stem that UPS cannot break
2006: H.B.O presents the
premiere of The Journalist and the Jihadi: the Murder of Daniel Pearl.
2006(18th of
Tishrei, 5767): Sixty-eight-year-old “writer, director and producer” Jerry
Belson passed away today.
http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2006/10/jerry-belson-1938-2006.html
2007: In Australia, Richard
Pratt was formally accused of price fixing in what would be that nation’s
largest case of its kind.
2007: The third and final
performance of “Idan Raichel Songs for Peace: The Acoustic Series” takes place
at the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York
City.
2007: Johtje Vos, a modest
Dutch woman who saved three dozen Jews during World War II passed away in
Saugerties, NY at the age of 97.
2007: Nearly 200 Israeli
sailors who served in the British Royal Navy during World War II gathered at
the home of the British ambassador to Israel who, together with Deputy Defense
Minister Matan Vilnai, awarded them the Veterans Badge to commemorate the
victory over the Nazis..
2007: Attendees at a
conference in Jerusalem hope to revive Ladino.
2007 The New York Times reported that the Israelis had shared the
dossier showing proof of their strike on the Syrian nuclear reactor in the Deir
–ez Zor region with Turkey.
2008: While in Paris for the,
inaugural meeting of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation - a
forum established by European Jewish Congress head Moshe Kantor and former
politicians from 10 European countries whose stated goal is to further initiatives
that promote dialogue and coexistence Aleksander Kwasniewski, the former
president of Poland sat down with The Jerusalem Post to talk about his own
vision of tolerance and the special connection Poland has with the Jewish
people.
2008: USA network broadcast
the first episode of “The Starter Wife” starring Debra Messing
2009 (22 Tishrei, 5770):
Shemini Atzertz
2009: Drew University hosts
lunch and discussion with graphic artist and author David Stromberg who is also
the book review editor for Zeek.
2010(2nd of
Cheshvan, 5771): Ninety-two-year-old Shlomo Eidelberg, the Polish born son of
Rabbi Mordechai Dov Eidelberg , WW II resistance fighter and at the time of his
death Professor Emertius of Jewish History at Yeshiva University in New York
passed away today.
https://biblio.co.uk/the-jews-and-the-crusaders-by-eidelberg-shlomo/work/2165583
2010: As part of Sigid, the
Ethiopian Jewish Festival and Dance Performance is scheduled to take place at
the 92nd Street Y.
2010: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish
authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Nemesis
by Phillip Roth, Final Verdict: What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case
by Walter Schneir and The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who Gave the Soviets
the Atom Bomb by Allen M. Hornblum
2010: The Los Angeles Times featured reviews of books by Jewish
authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Great House
by Nicole Krauss
2010: Earth: A Visitors
Guide to the Human Race by Jon Stewart, the fake newsman who was the
subject of an anti-Semitic diatribe earlier in the week tops the October 10 LA
Times Best Seller List.
2010: Cabinet ministers today
approved by a majority vote a controversial amendment which would require every
non-Jew wishing to become a citizen of Israel to pledge loyalty to "the
State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state." Twenty-two ministers
voted in favor of the amendment, including most of Likud, Shas and Yisrael
Beiteinu. Eight ministers were opposed, five of them from the Labor Party and
three - Benny Begin, Dan Meridor and Michael Eitan - from Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud.
2010: Israeli artists, writers
and intellectuals held a demonstration today against the cabinet's approval of
a controversial amendment to the citizenship bill, requiring non-Jews seeking
citizenship to pledge allegiance to Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.
2010: During today’s radio
show, Glen “Beck described how Soros, who was born in Hungary to Orthodox
Jewish parents, ‘used to go around with this anti-Semite and deliver papers to
the Jews and confiscate their property and then ship them off. And George Soros
was part of it. He would help confiscate the stuff. It was frightening. Here’s
a Jewish boy helping send the Jews to the death camps.’” [This statement would
draw a response from ADL national director Abe Foxman who released a statement
slamming the Fox News commentator's criticism of Soros.]
2011: Aluf Ram Rothberg
assumed command of the Israeli Navy.
2011: The Lo Tishkach
Foundation is scheduled to sponsor memorial services in the Ukrainian town of
Tarascha in honor of the Jews who were slaughtered there in 1941 during World
War II.
2011: Center for Jewish
History and Center for Traditional Music and Dance are scheduled to present The
Hidden Musical Treasures of Romania –A Fulbright Scholar’s Quest a program that
explores “the deep roots that connect Romanian music and klezmer music.”
2012: A reception sponsored by
the Hebrew Union is scheduled for tonight to mark the opening of “The Sexuality
Spectrum,” “a groundbreaking exploration of sexual orientation through the
creativity of over fifty international contemporary artists.”
2012: The Jewish Community
Relations Council of Greater Washington and The Israel Project is scheduled to
present “A Presidential Candidate Surrogate Debate featuring Congressman Robert
Wexler, representing the Democrats and Under Secretary Dov Zakheim representing
the Republicans.
2012: Robert Lefkowitz, a
Jewish physician and biochemist, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry with Brian
Kobilka, a Stanford University researcher. Lefkowitz, 61, and Kobilka, 57, won
for “groundbreaking discoveries that reveal the inner workings of an important
family ... of receptors: G-protein-coupled receptors,” a posting on the website
of the Nobel Prize stated today. Understanding how these receptors function
helped further explain how cells could sense their environment, according to
the text. They will share a $1.2 million grant from the Nobel Prize Committee.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/science/2-american-scientists-win-nobel-prize-in-chemistry.html?hp
2012: French police found an
explosives lab that they say was used by a "jihadist cell" in the
bombing of a kosher store near Paris. Francois Molins of the Paris prosecutor’s
office said at a news conference today that the firearms and “all the elements
necessary to produce explosive devices” were discovered the previous day at a
parking lot in the eastern Paris suburb of Torcy
2012:
The exhibition, “Zionism 2000 Collection, 1920-1960,” which has been on
displayed at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Ramat Gan, is
scheduled to come to an end.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/iconic-posters-of-a-nation-under-construction/
2012: The National Book Award finalists announced today
included Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe by Anne Applebaum and The
Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Joseph Caro
2013: In the best sense of Tikun Olam, Agudas Achim is
scheduled to host “Interfaith Gathering for Prayer and Sharing co-sponsored by
the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Johnson County and the Consultation
of Religious Communities of Johnson County.
2013: Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids is scheduled to host
the first in a series of lectures “Engaging Israel, Foundations for a New
Relationships”
2013: The JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to sponsor
the Middle East Forum on “Iran – The Nuclear Threat and Implications for the
Greater Middle East.”
2013: Arkadi Zaides, an independent choreographer born in
the Soviet Union in 1979, who immigrated to Israel in 1990, is scheduled to
perform his interpretation of “Dig Deep” in New York City.
2013: “In a display of muscle-flexing to Tehran ahead of
nuclear talks between Iran and world powers, Israel made a rare announcement
today that its air force had conducted a series of drills in which fighter
aircraft practiced midair refueling and a simulated strike on a distant
target.” (As reported by Gavriel Fiske)
2013(6th of Cheshvan, 5774): Colonel (Res.)
Seraiah Ofer was killed in an attack outside his home in the Jordan Valley
settlement of Brosh Habika at 10 P.M. tonight and his wife Monique was moderately wounded, but
managed to escape and contact police. (As reported by Chaim Levinson, Gili
Cohen and Eli Ashkenazi)
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.551845
2013: The clandestine World War II work of champion cyclist Gino Bartali was
recognized today when a ceremony was held in Jerusalem to mark his help in
rescuing Jews in his native Italy. (As reported by Andrew Dampf)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/italian-cycling-legend-gino-bartali-honored-by-yad-vashem/
2014(16th
of Tishrei, 5775): Second day of Sukkoth
2014:
Moishe House, OJMCHE and MJCC are scheduled to bring you a party under the
sukkah canopies in NW Portland, with live music, beer and great vegetarian food
as part of Shabbat in the Sukkah.
2014:
Professor Robert Cargill is scheduled to deliver a lecture on the Book of
Ecclesiastes at Agudas Achim in Coralville, Iowa.
2014:
“A Jewish girl is among some 100 girls and young women from France who have
left to join jihad fighters in Syria in recent months, a French intelligence
official said today.”
2014:
“Israel beat Cyprus in Nicosia 2-1 to successfully open its UEFA European
Championship qualifying campaign today.”
2014:
In Israel, Channel 2 reported today “the United Nations last month secured the
release of 45 Fijian peacekeeping soldiers, kidnapped on the Syrian side of
Golan Heights by the Nusra Front, through the payment of a $25 million ransom
by Qatar.” (As reported by Ilan Ben
Zion)
2015:
Today, shortly before 11 a.m., a 16-year-old Arab stabbed two Jewish men in
their 60s some 150 meters from Damascus Gate, leaving them moderately and
lightly wounded followed by a second attack at approximately 3 p.m when a
19-year-old Palestinian stabbed two officers from the police’s Special Patrol
Unit near Damascus Gate.
2015:
The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host “The Best of Chamber Music”
featuring the Elysee String Quartet from France.
2015:
The Jewish Museum of Maryland is scheduled to host a “members only” opening of
“Paul Simon, Words & Music, featuring The Guthrie Brothers.”
2015:
The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans is scheduled to sponsor a
screening of “Rosenwald”
2015:
The Vertigo Dance Company is scheduled to appear at The Performing Arts Center
in NYC.
https://tickets.artscenter.org/single/eventDetail.aspx?p=5526
2016:
In London, JWE and UKJF are scheduled to host a screening of “Anthropoid” a
cinema version about the mission to assassinate Nazi General Reynhard
Heydrich.
2016:
‘In the predawn hours, Israeli troops conduct a raid at Azzun as part of their
campaign to “rid the West Bank of arms used by terrorists including “the Carlo”
a crude but effective “handmade submachine gun.”
2016:
At the London Jewish Cultural Centre Sir
Ralph Kohn is scheduled to “discuss his new book, Recital of a Lifetime
with Jewish historian Trudy Gold.
2016:
“The Accountant” a crime thriller with a twist co-starring Jeffrey Tambor
premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.
2016(8th
of Tishrei, 5777): Oliver Hart, a member
of the distinguished Montagu family, was one of two economist awarded the Nobel
Memorial Prize in Economic Science today for “insights into how best to write
contracts, the deal deals that bind together employers and their workers, or
companies and their customers.”
2017(20th of Tishrei, 5778): Sukkoth Chol Ha’moed;
2017: Today, “The State Department announced a $7 million reward
for information about Talal Hamiyah, who runs Hezbollah's External Security
Organization, and $5 million for information about Fu'ad Shukr, a senior
operative who helped plan the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in
Beirut, Lebanon.” (As reported by Jeff Seldin)
2017:.The three Solomon’s Pools near Bethlehem which were built by
Herod that “provided water to Jerusalem and the Second Temple” are to be
restored in a $750,000 project funded by the United States, officials said
today.”
2017:Today, “Ehud Barak, the former Israeli leader known for his
hawkish views on Iran, said it would be a “mistake” for President Trump to
decertify the Iran nuclear deal, both because it would play to Iran’s advantage
and because it would scuttle any hope of a negotiation with North Korea.” (As
reported by Mark Landler.
2017:
Today Tens of thousands of participants from 80 different countries took part
in the annual march in Jerusalem marking the 50th anniversary of the city's
unification.
2017:
The Chaplains at Oxford are scheduled to host “Pizza in the Hut” for Sukkoth
2017:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “In Between” a film about
“three young Arab-Israeli women” sharing “a flat in Tel Aviv.
2017:
“Beyond Chicken Soup: Jews and Medicine in America” which “was created by the
Jewish usuem of Maryland in Baltimore and includes more than 200 artifacts and
phots and documents” opened at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage in
Beachwood, Ohio.
2018(15th
of Tishrei): On the secular calendar, Yarhrzeit of William “Bill” Schueller,
beloved husband of Eleanor Schueller, father of Deb Levin, father-in-law of
Mitchell Levin and dairy farmer “par excellence.”
2018: As part of the “Who We Are” film
series, the Streicker Center is scheduled to host a screening of a film about
“the private side of playwright Arthur Miller” followed by a discussion with is
daughter Rebeca Miller and the film’s producers.
2018:
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to host “On Radical Jewish
Female Voices In Eastern Europe, a lecture by Professor Elissa Bemporad and
Professor Natalia Aleksium that “will examine the dynamics of Jewish women’s
entry into politics in modern Eastern Europe.”
2018(1st of Cheshvan, 5779): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
2019: Today Jews around the world are left to wonder what
5780 will actually be like in the wake of the armed attack on a German
synagogue filled with those attending Yom Kippur services yesterday.
2019: JW3 is scheduled to host three screenings of “Curtiz”
one of which will take place in Glasgow.
2019: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to
host a “special pub meet up this evening at the Oxford Retreat for all Brookes
Jewish freshers.”
2019: Israeli pianist and the Shanghai Quartet are
scheduled to perform at the Elebash Recital Hall.
2019(15th of Tishrei): On the secular
calendar, Yarhrzeit of William “Bill” Schueller, beloved husband of Eleanor
Schueller, father of Deb Levin, father-in-law of Mitchell Levin and dairy
farmer “par excellence.”
2020(22nd
of Tishrei, 5781): Shmini Atzeret
2020:
In Bexley, OH, Tiftereth Israel is scheduled start celebrating Simchat Torah
with around of Israelis Dancing, a socially distanced invent in the TI parking
lot.
2020:
Kol HaLev, “Cleveland’s Reconstructionist Jewish Community is scheduled to
begin celebrating Simchat Torah at seven this evening.
2020:
Via Zoom, Temple Judea in Palm Beach Gardens is scheduled to host Torah Study
with Rabbi Yaron Kapitulnik
2021: The American Sephardi Federation is
scheduled to present the Mizrahi Dance Series with Jackie Barzvi.
2021: At the Jacob Burns Film Center, the Jewish
Film Festival is scheduled to host the first screening of “Breaking Bread.”
2021: The London School of Jewish Studies is
scheduled to host an innovative educational event “Noah on Trial.”
https://www.lsjs.ac.uk/noah-on-trial-1521.php
2021: The dedication of the gravestone of Diane
Levin of blessed memory, the wife of Steve Levin is scheduled to take place at
Shalom Memorial Park in Arlington Heights, IL this morning.
2021: Members of the Cedar Rapids Jewish
community are scheduled to travel to Kansas City to see the exhibition at Union
Station “Auschwitz: Not Long Ago, Not Far Away.
2021: Sukkah City x DC, a public display of
creative of Sukkahs which had been extended for another week is scheduled to
come to a close today.
2022(15th of Tishrei, 5783): Sukkoth;
2022(15th
of Tishrei, 5783): On the Jewish calendar, Yahrzeit William F. “Bill” Schueller,
the husband of Eleanor Schueller and the father of Deb Levin Z”L, Steven
Schueller, Elizabeth “Liz” Schueller and Paul Schueller.
2022: The
IDF shut down of borders crossing is scheduled to end today at 11:59 p.m.
2022: In Jerusalem,
visitors will have their first chance to “sit” in what “is reportedly the
largest sukkah in the world at Jerusalem City Hall, coming in at 800 square
meters and with room for 650 guests.”
2022:
The “Skolnik Family Sukkot Celebration” is scheduled to begin this afternoon at
the home of Tifereth Israel’s Rabbi Skolnik in Columbus, OH.
2023:
For those who cannot make it in-person, the Museum at Eldrige Street is
scheduled to host a “Virtual Tour of the Lower East Side” this evening.
2023:
In New Orleans, the Jewish Endowment Foundation Executive Committee is
scheduled to meet today.
2023:
As part of its “Women on the Move” series, the Streicker Center is scheduled to
host a lecture by Ann Napoltiano, author of Hello Beautiful.
2023:
In an example of Tikun Olam, members of Temple Judea are scheduled to gather to
“make sandwiches for the food insecure.”
2023:
Because of an order issued by Gov. Kim Reynolds all flags in Iowa have
been lowered to half-staff and will
remain at half-staff until sunset on Sunday, October 15, 2023, to honor the
lives lost – including at least nine Americans – in the horrific attacks
committed against Israel by Iran-backed terrorist organization Hamas.”
2023: As October 10
begins in Israel, the country is dealing with a cascade of problems including,
but not limited to, threats by Hamas to kill the hostages they have taken,
attacks from Lebanon and rocket attacks near Jerusalem while the United States must deal with the
reality that American citizens have been killed and taken hostage by Hamas.
(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)
2024: The United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a lecture by Dr. Margaret
Polizos Peterson on “Holocaust Survivors and the Long Shadow of Trauma.”
2024: Lockdown University
is scheduled to host a lecture by Judge Dennis Davis on “The Music of Yom
Kippur: Its Potential for Healing and Inspiration.”
2024: In Cedar Rapids,
the Hadassah Book, led by Nancy Margulis is schedule to “discuss All My
Mother's Lovers by Ilana Masad.”
2024: In San Francisco,
City Arts and Lectures is scheduled to present Israeli-born British chef,
restaurateur and food writer Yotam Ottolenghi who is scheduled to discuss his
new book Comfort and leads a cooking demonstration with audience
participation.
2024: The Center for
Jewish History is scheduled to host a concert by the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble,
founded in 2005 by pianists Vassa Shevel and Inessa Zaretsky, performing “The
Expressive Piano Trios of Brahams, Mendelssohn and More.”
2024: As part of the Cathy
and Morris Bart Jewish Cultural Art Series: Lecture & Photo Exhibit, Erez
Kaganovitz, photojournalist, TEDx speaker and the human behind the "Humans
of Tel Aviv", "Humans of Israel”, and "Humans of the
Holocaust" projects are scheduled to speak about his most recent exhibit
"Humans of October 7" at the New Orleans JCC to commemorate the
one-year memorial of October 7th.
2024: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host “Elizabeth Naftali Interviewed by Carly Maisel:
Saving Abigail: The Story from October 7, Her 51 Days in Captivity and the
Continuing Work to Release the Remaining 101 Hostages.”
2024:
As October 10th begins in the Middle East, Israel is confronted with fighting a
four-front-war following the attacks from Iran. (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)
2024:
As October 10th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that
has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New York
subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas held
hostages begin day 369 in captivity while Jerusalem braces for more rocket
attacks by Hezbollah (Editor’s note:
this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a
snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
2025:
The three-day long Agnon Festival at the Kahn Theatre in Jerusalem is scheduled
to come to an end.
2025:
The exhibition “Looted: Two Families, Nazi Theft and the Search for Restitution”
is scheduled to close today at the Wiener Holocaust Library,
2025
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host a Walking Tour: The Gilded
Age Upper East Side and a Food Tour of the Lower East Side.”
2025: "The
government has now approved the outline for the release of all the hostages -
the living and the dead," the Prime Minister's office announced early this
morning, announcing the ceasefire which took effect immediately.” (As reported
by Keshet Neev and Amichai Stein)
2025(18th
of Tishrei, 5786): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
2025:
As October 10th begins in Israel, the
remaining Hamas held hostages begin day 735 in captivity although “according to
an Arab diplomat “mediators are currently planning for an agreement to be
signed today between Israel and Hamas that will see the immediate release of
remaining living hostages in exchange for a Gaza ceasefire (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)
