Wednesday, October 2, 2024

This Day, October 3, In Jewish History, by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

2024(1st of Tishrei, 5758):

Rosh Hashanah

שנה טובה, כתיבה וחתימה טובה.

2024: All decent people mourn the death of seven Israelis who were murdered by two terrorists yesterday while they were riding a light rail which is in keeping with a pattern of attacking Jews on their holidays as we saw last October.

2024: As October 3rd 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 3rd 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 363 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)

 

 

 

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

This Day, October 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

October 2

825 BCE (22nd of Tishrei, 2936): According to traditionKing Solomon bid farewell to the Jewish people who had come to Jerusalem for a 14-day ceremony dedicating the Holy Temple (1-Kings 8:66). King David had brought the Ark of the Covenant up to Jerusalem's Mount Moriah, but as a warrior he was not permitted by God to erect the Temple. However, his son Solomon did so. The Temple was the most important site in Israel -- a spiritual magnet for the Jewish nation's yearnings. The magnificent structure took seven years to build, and stood for 410 years

http://www.aish.com/dijh/Tishrei_22.html

322 BCE: The Greek philosopher Aristotle dies of indigestion.  (Is this what you get for eating traif?) Several Jewish philosophers and theologians would be influenced or be-deviled by Aristotelianism, not the least of whom would be Judah ha-Levi and Maimonides

1187: Sultan Saladin captured Jerusalem from the Crusaders.  While the Crusaders had held Jerusalem, they had barred Jews from living in the city.  Saladin allowed them to return.  Saladin’s physician was none other than Maimonides.

1264: The papacy of Urban IV who had written “Bela, the Hungarian King who was using Jews as agents” “reproaching him for giving opportunities to the people whose own sin had condemned them to eternal servitude, to exercise official authority over Christians” ended today.

1373: Wenceslaus IV who as Emperor failed to continue the Imperial protection of the Jews of Luxembourg led to their expulsion in 1391 was named Elector of Brandenburg today.

1535: French explorer Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec. The French did not allow Jews to settle in Canada.  Jews were only able to settle in Montreal until after the British defeated the French in the 18th century.  In 1768, 12 families arrive in Montreal from New York marking the start of one of the most vibrant Jewish communities in North America.

1596(10th of Tishrei, 5357): Yom Kippur

1596: For the first time in the history of Amsterdam, sixteen “met together for worship” at the house of Don Samuel Palache, ambassador of the emperor of Morocco to the Netherlands.”

1682: “John George III of Saxony issued a new decree, in which the onerous regulations relating to Jews passing through the country were somewhat modified, since those regulations were found to be detrimental to the yearly fairs at Leipsic.”

1724(Tishrei, 5485): Solomon Sasportas, son of Isaac Sasportas and grandson of Jacob Sasportas who had served as the Rabbi at Nice, France since 1690 passed away today.

1734: Based on the date on the document, Isaac Franks, the brother of Aaron Franks, wrote the final version of his will today.

1755: In Medfield, MA, Thomas Adams and Elizabeth Clark gave birth to Hannah Adams, “the first woman in the United States who” was a professional write and whose works included a History of the Jews: From the Destruction of Jerusalem published in 1812 making it one of the earliest books written in the United States on this subject.

http://www.notevenpast.org/discover/hannah-adams-historian-american-jews

http://books.google.com/books?id=_fQUPXmBJw8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/history/graduate/gradstudents/profile.php?id=aes2596

1762(15th of Tishrei, 5523): Sukkoth and Shabbat

1762: “Rabbi” Moses Lyon who “came to America from Poland” was buried today in New York City. (this must be an error)

1765(17th of Tishrei, 5526): Third Day of Sukkoth observed as delegates were traveling to New York for the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, one of the steps on the long road to American independence

1766: In York, PA, Elijah Etting and his wife gave birth to Fanny Etting the wife of Robert Taylor.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2002715362/

1767(9th of Tishrei, 5528): Erev Yom Kippur observed for the first time after the passage of infamous Townshend Acts which were part of the path that led to the American Revolution.

1768(21st  of Tishrei, 5529); Hoshana Rabba

1768: Myer Moses and his wife gave birth to Rebecca Moses who became Rebecca Moses Harby when she married London born Solomon Harby who had settled in South Carolina.

1774: Birthdate of Louis-Gabriel-Ambrose Bonald the opponent of the French Revolution whose anti-Semitism ran so deep that he believed the only way Jews could become morally fit was for them to convert to Catholicism.

1776(19th of Tishrei, 5537): Fifth Day of Sukkot

1777(1st of Tishrei, 5538): Rosh Hashanah observed two days before George Washington faced off against the British at the Battle of Brandywine and five days before the British lost the Second Battle of Saratoga, a major turning point in the American Revolution

1780(3rd of Tishrei, 5541): Tzom Gedaliah

1780: Colonel David Salisbury Franks, the aid-de-camp to General Benedict Arnold was arrested on suspicion of treason following the exposure of the Arnold’s plot to betray the Americans and turn West Point over to the British. Franks was the son of Jacob Franks, a prominent Jewish Philadelphia (PA) family.  [You have to wonder if Colonel Franks was fasting on the day of his arrest.]

1783 (or 1784): In London, Jacob Israel Bernal and Leah da Silva gave birth to Ralph Bernal, who began as an actor, moved to Parliament and end up as president of the British Archaeological Society.  Along the way he converted (the price of success?)

1784(17th of Tishre1, 5545): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth observed by David Hays of Bedford, the brother of New Castle Merchant Michael Hays.

1786(10th of Tishrei, 5547): Yom Kippur

1788(1st of Tishrei, 5549): Rosh Hashana

1789: George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification. The First Amendment had particular for the small America Jewish community and has loomed large for the growth of the modern Jewish community.  The Amendment opens with the following declaration “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;” In other words, the government would not establish a state religion and at the same time, the citizens were free to practice whatever religion they individually chose.  This simple clause, one part of a single sentence, is the legal underpinning for the reality that has made the American Jewish community different than all of its predecessors.

1791(4th of Tishrei, 5552): Tzom Gedaliah

1792(16th of Tishre, 5553): Second day of Sukkot on the same day that the National Convention in France “created the Committee of General Security” which sent an untold number of people to the guillotine.

1793: Joseph Friedberg married Matilda Joachim at the Great Synagogue.

1795(19th of Tishrei, 5556): Fifth Day of Sukkoth observed on the same day that the British scored a victory against the French at “the Île d'Yeu off the coast of Brittany.”

1796(29th of Elul, 5556): Erev Rosh Hashana observed for the last time during the presidency of George Washingto.

1798(22nd of Tishrei 5559: Shmini Atzeret

1798: Birthdate King Charles Albert of Piedmont-Sardinia who promulgated the Codice Albertino “which made Piedmont the first Italian state to grant its Jewish citizens equal rights and allow them to enter the military.”

1800(13th of Tishrei, 5651): Sarah Aguilar, a native of Bayonne who married Abraham Tores from Bayonne in Charleston, passed away today.

1803(16th of Tishrei, 5564): Second Day of Sukkoth

1803(16th of Tishrei, 5564): Letitia Lemon, the wife of Penzance merchant Lemon Hart, the grandson of Abraham Hart  died in a fire today along with the child which she was carrying.

https://www.penwithlocalhistorygroup.co.uk/on-this-day/?id=268#:~:text=There%20was%20a%20thriving%20Jewish,was%20built%20in%20the%20town.

1805(9th of Tishrei, 5566): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre  observed on the same day that that the Lewis and Clark expedition had nothing left to eat except a “small prairie wolf” that hunters brought back to camp today.

1806(20th of Tishrei, 5567): Sixth Day of Sukkot

1807(29th of Elul, 5567): Erev Rosh Hashanah observed as the French and the Spanish were negotiating what would become the Treaty of Fontainebleau.

1809(22nd  of Tishrei, 5570): Shemini Atzertz observed on the same day that British artist Thomas Rowlandson designed and etch a print of the “Vauxhaul Garden.”

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/744566

1811(14th of Tishrei, 5572): Erev Sukkoth

1811: In London, Samson Beck and his wife gave birth to Elizabeth Beck.

1811: Laura Block, the daughter of Abraham Block and the daughter of Frances Isaiah Isaacs was today in New York

1813(8th of Tishrei, 5754) Shabbat Shuva

1813: Birthdate of Rabbi Ephraim Israel Blucher, the native of Moravia who was “the author of Healing of the Aramaic Tongue, a Hebrew grammar and whose German translation of the Book of Ruth was published at Lemberg in 1843.

1814(18th of Tishrei, 5575): Fourth Day of Sukkot

1816(10th of Tishrei, 5577): Yom Kippur

1817(22nd of Tishrei, 5578) Shimini Atzeret

1824(10th of Tishrei, 5585): Yom Kippur observed for the last time during the Presidency of James Monroe.

1825(20th of Tishrei, 5586) Sixth Day of Sukkoth observed for the first time during the Presidency of John Q. Adams

1826(1st of Tishrei, 5587): Rosh Hashanah

1831: Birthdate of botanist Julius von Sachs, the native of Breslau, who held the chair of botany at the University of Wurzburg from 1868 until his death in 1897.

1835(9th of Tishrei, 5596): Erev Yom Kippur

1835: The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales. Jews were active participants in the Texas fight for freedom including Dr. Albert Levy became a surgeon to revolutionary Texan forces in 1835.

1835: Cécile Furtado, the daughter of Elias Furtado whose father had been a rabbi in Bayonne married banker Charles Heine, the son of Salomon Heine and the cousin of poet Heinrich Heine.

1836(21st of Tishrei, 5597): Hoshana Raba

1836: Barnett Lee married Diamond Foligno today at the Western Synagogue.

1837(3rd of Tishrei, 5598) Tzom Gedaliah

1838: MP Frederick D. Goldsmid and his wife gave birth to Sir Julian Goldsmid.

1836: In Bavaria, Seligman Baer Bamberger, the son of Shimon Simcha Bamberger and Judith Bamberger and Kela Bamberger gave birth to Judith Bamberger who became Judith Adler when she married Rabbi Immanuel Menachem Adler.

1841(17th of Tishrei, 5602): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth

1841(17th of Tishrei, 5602): Sixty-four-year-old  the Charleston born Aaron Marks Lazarus  son of Marks and Rachel Dorris Lazarus  and the husband of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus whom he married in 1821 and with whom he had six children – Gershon, Phila, Washington, Ellen, Julia and Anna – passed away today Petersburg, VA after which he was buried at the Hebrew Cemetery in Richmond, VA.

1842: In Prussia, Moritz Gruening and Bertha Thorner gave birth to Emil Gruening, the veteran of the Union Army and ophthalmic and aural surgeon who had graduated from the College and Physicians and Surgeons in New York and was the husband of Phoebe Fridenberg.

1845(1st of Tishrei, 5605): Rosh Hashanah

1845: “Charles VI,” an opera composed by Fromental Halevy was performed for the first time in French at Brussels.

1845: In New Orleans, LA, Daniel Goodman and the former Amelia Harris gave birth to Benjamin Franklin Goodman.

1846: Birthdate of German statistician Gottlieb Schnapper-Arndt.

1846: Birthdate of Southampton native and Anglican minster Samuel Rolles drive, the gentile Hebrew scholar whose works included “Notes on the Hebrew Text of the Book of Samuel,” “Isaiah, His Life and Times” and a lengthy list of commentaries on several books of the TaNaCh.

1847: In Posen, Prussian aristocrat Robert von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg and his wife Luise Schwickart gave birth to Paul von Hindenburg

1849(16th of Tishrei, 5610): Second Day of Sukkot

1849(16th of Tishrei, 5610): Fifty-year-old Samuel Hays Myers the Boston born son of Samuel and Judith Moses Myers, the husband of Eliza Kennon Myers and the father of Edmund Myers and Caroline Cohen passed away today in Richmond, VA.

1850: In New Orleans, Mala “Martha” Izig and Aaron Levy gave birth to Jeannette Levy Falk, the wife of Ferdinand Falk and the mother of Arnold, Gustave, Myron and Gertrude Falk.

1850: In California the Eureka Benevolent Association, whose embers included Charles Hirsch, Sam W. Heller, Albert Meyer and Meyer Levy was found today.

1852(19th of Tishrei, 5613): Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkoth

1852: “At Blank Place in Mallow, County Cork, “James O’Brien, a solicitor’s Clerk and his wife Kate the daughter of James Nagle” gave birth to “Irish nationalist” and Member of Parliament, William O’Brien, the husband Sophie Raffalovic, a Jewess and a friend and supporter of Michael Daivtt, the author of The True Story of Anti-Semitic Persecutions in Russia who “attacked those who participated in the riots at Limerick and visited the Jewish victims.”

1853(29th of Elul, 5613): Erev Rosh Hashanah

1853: Austria adopted laws forbidding Jews from owning land

1854(10th of Tishrei, 5615): Yom Kippur

1855*20th of Tishrei, 5616): Sixth Day of Sukkoth

1856(3rd of Tishrei, 5617): Tzom Gedaliah

1856: In the United Kingdom, Israel and Rebecca Marks gave birth to Isaac Marks.

1856: Birthdate of Hyman B. Isaacson, the native of “Kozlishon, on the outskirts of Kovno” and son-in-law of Russian cigar manufacturer Reuben Pupkin  who came to the United States in 1890 and who in 1896 “started manufacturing boy’s was suits with his son Nachum” which was such a profitable venture that it enabled him to become a leader in the Jewish community as can be seen by his service as “treasurer of the Order of the Sons of Zion,” Chairman of the Board of Education of the Uptown Talmud Torah and the “vice president of the Hunts Point Talmud Torah.”

1856: The New York Times reported that “The Hebrew New Year’s Festival ended yesterday and the shops and stores of Jews re-opened today. The ‘Reformed Jews’ do not carefully observe the occasion.”

1857(14th of Tishrei, 5618) Erev Sukkot

1858: A funeral notice was published today inviting the members of the Hebrew Mutual Benefit Society to attend the funeral of Mrs. Raphall the wife of Rabbi Morris Raphall which will be held tomorrow at her residence.

1859(4th of 5620): Tzom Gedaliah observed on Sunday

1862(8th of Tishrei, 5623): Fifty-five-year-old attorney Jonas Altamont Phillips the Philadelphia born son of Arbabella Solomon and Zalegman Phillips and husband of Frances Cohen with whom he had nine children who as a Democrat ran for mayor of Philadelphia and who declined an appointment to the federal bench by President Buchannan passed away today.

1862: The Board of Alderman in NYC referred to the Committee on Sewers a petition on behalf of the Hebrew Benevolent Society to build a drain on 77th street between 4th and 5th Avenue.

1863(19th of Tishrei, 5624): Fifth Day of Sukkoth

1864: "Prussia and Her Poles" published today described the trial of several Polish gentlemen from the Grand Duchy of Posen who have been charged with treason betrayed a strange admission about Germany's treatment of her Jews over the centuries.  Dr. Gueist, the defense attorney demanded of the court, "Where are the facts?"  And if there are no facts, then are these men being prosecuted for their thoughts and sentiments -- a mode of proceeding which would carry us back to the trials of the Jews in the dark ages." How strange to hear a German lawyer admit that the Jews had in fact been convicted of crimes when they were guilty of nothing else but being Jewish.

1866(23rd of Tishrei, 5627): Simchat Torah

1867(3rd of Tishrei, 5628): Tzom Gedaliah

1869: Today, the New York Herald praised the building housing Temple Emanu-El as an “extraordinary creating of art…combining with a rare, and it might say, an unconscious harmony of six different orders of architecture – Saracenic, Byzantine, Moresque, Arabesque, Gothic and Norman – has at length reached after great expenditure of money, taste and skill, its culminating effect in the dazzling splendor of its interior decoration.”

https://books.google.com/books?id=m54wAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA123&lpg=PA123&dq=rabbi+ludwig+merzbacher&source=bl&ots=S1lp-hoO9g&sig=qJ06tPJPq_TAlwh1wfImbmkw2Bg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lWQgVez0KIX3sAWu_4GgDA&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=rabbi%20ludwig%20merzbacher&f=false

1870: In Opava, Moravia, Charlotte and Samuel D. Klauber gave birth to Edmund Kaluber.

1870: As part of the climax to the Risorgimento or Rebirth, the name given to the unification of Italy, the Italian government annexed Rome and the Papal States. Rome was made the Italian capital.  Jews were active in the fight for the reunification of Italy.  Mazzini, Garibaldi and Cavour, the leaders of the movement believed in liberty for all Italians including their Jewish compatriots.

1870: “The oldest reform temple in Kansas City, MO, Congregation B’nai Jehuda was organized today by 25 Jewish pioneer residents who utilized acreage in Elmwood Cemetery for services until the first permanent sanctuary at 6th and Wyandotte was dedicated in 1875.”

1870: “A deputation, of which Samuel Alatri (the leader of the Jewish community in Rome) was a member, handed over to King Victor Emmanuel the result of the plebiscite by which the inhabitants of the Papal Territories declared in favor of annexation to the Kingdom of Italy.

1871: In Grand Rapids, Michigan, founding of Temple Emanuel which would employ Gustav N. Hausmann as its Rabbi.

1871:  Birthdate of Cordell Hull.  Among his other accomplishments, Hull was Secretary of State during World War II and winner of the 1945 Nobel Peace Prize.  Hull was not Jewish, but his wife Frances was described as being “half-Jewish.”  During the 1930’s when Hull entertained thoughts of following FDR to the White House, Hull’s opponents attacked him as a slave to Jewish interests.  Other critics contended that he was not as aggressive as he might have been in opening the gates of the U.S. to Jewish refugees because he feared attacks that he was a pawn of Jewish interests; that these Jewish interests had gotten us into the war; and that these charges would impair FDR’s plans to win the war.  Henry Morgenthau, who was Secretary of the Treasury at this time, was working to save the Jews of Europe.  At a meeting in 1943, he became so exasperated with Hull’s lack of action that he told him that if this were Germany, Hull would not be in the Cabinet Room.  Instead, he would be in prison and who knew where his wife would be.  Hull remained unmoved.  The State Department, led by Breckinridge Long continued its policy of polite anti-Semitism and untold numbers of Jews perished who might have otherwise been saved.

1872(29th of Elul, 5632): Erev Rosh Hashanah

1872: In Amsterdam, Karel Abraham Wertheim and Henriette van Heukelom gave birth to Henri Hendrik Pieter Wertheim van Heukelom

1872: Birthdate of Jacques Abady, the son of a stockbroker from Aleppo, who began his career as a gas engineer before being called to the bar.

1872: An article published today entitled “Rosh Hashono” reported that “this evening the Hebrews throughout the globe will commence the celebration of their New Year festival.  With..the solitary exception of the Day of Atonement…the New Year is more strictly observed than any other of the periods set apart for religious observances in the Jewish calendar.”

1874(21st of Tishrei, 5635): Hoshanah Rabbah

1874: In Poland, Jacobi Bornstein, the son of Aron and Sara Bornstein and Thelka Bornstein gave birth to Rosa Wittenberg.

1875: It was reported today that the cattle sale was off at the end of this with only a few carloads of Texas Cattle having been sold.  The reason for this drop off in business was the absence of the “Hebrew butchers” from the market due to the observance of “a high Jewish festival.”

1875(3rd of Tishrei, 5636): Shabbat Shuvah

1876(14th of Tishrei, 5637): Erev Sukkot

1876: In “Egeln, Germany, Selig Blumenthal, the “son of Salomon and Lea Blumenthal” and his wife “Julianne Blumenthal gave birth to Willi Blumenthal

1877(25th of Tishrei, 5638): Forty-year-old Lyon Levy Emanuel, the native of Philadelphia and brother of Louis Manly Emanuel, who served with the Eighty-Second Regiment during the Civil War after which he pursued a business career in New York City, passed away today.

1879(15th of Tishrei, 5640): Sukkoth

1881: “Current Foreign Notes” published today includes a synopsis of a circular from Russia’s Minister of the Interior in which  he says “The Government recognizes the detriment to the Christian population of the commercial activity, exclusiveness and religious fanaticism of the Jews, which are still predominate in spite of the 20 years’ efforts to blend the population.”  He goes on to say that recent violence is because “of the monopolization of trade…by the Jews” and that “energetic measures must be taken to shield Christians from the effects of” the Jews’  “injurious activity.”  (Anti-Semitism and the big lie existed decades before Goebbels)

1881: In Baltimore, MD, “Samuel and Eliza (Millhauser) Ullman gave birth to College of Physicians and Surgeons trained Dr. Alfred Ullman, he husband of Bertha Katz, the attending surgeon at Sinai Hospital and a member of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation.

1881: “The Jews in Germany” published today, described “the extent and progress of the new anti-
Semitic movement” and the motives of the men behind it.  They claim they are worried about “Jewish tyranny” and “Jewish domination” as if the land led by Bismarck and possession “the most powerful military machine” could be taken over by “a handful of ‘the outcast people.’”

1882(19th of Tishrei, 5643): Fifth Day of Sukkoth

1882(19th of Tishrei, 5643): French philanthropist Charles Netter passed away at Jaffa. Born at Strasburg in 1828, he” studied at Strasburg and Belfort, and then engaged in business in Paris. He was one of the founders of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, and for a long time his house was its only home. The work with which his name is most closely connected is the foundation of the agricultural school at Jaffa; and he devoted several years of his life to promoting agriculture among the Jews of Palestine. It was Netter who, at the end of 1876, submitted to the conference at Constantinople the memorandum in favor of the Jews of the East, prepared by the meeting convened about that time by the Alliance Israélite at Paris. In 1878 he went to Berlin, with some other members of the central committee, to lay before the congress the memoir of the Alliance in favor of the same Jews and to support their claims, which had been formally recognized by the Treaty of Berlin. With two other members of the committee he went to Madrid in 1880 to maintain before a European conference the right of the Jews of Morocco to protection.In 1881, when the disturbances in Russia drove thousands of unfortunate Jews from Brody and the Alliance was desirous of sending them assistance, Netter volunteered to discharge the difficult mission. He was the first to arrive there, and lived for weeks among the unhappy refugees, arranging a plan of emigration to America. On his return to Paris he was appointed secretary of the special committee established in that city for the Russian work. From morning till night his house was besieged by the Russian refugees, who found in him an untiring protector. When death overtook him he was visiting the agricultural school at Jaffa. A monument has been erected over his grave by the Alliance Israélite Universelle (As reported by Isidor Singer and Jaques Kahn

1883(1st of Tishrei, 5644): Rosh Hashanah

1883: In New York “the synagogues…were crowded during the day and evening and in many cases services were held in improvised houses of worship for the overflow from the congregations.”

1883: Rosh Hashanah “was observed by nearly all” of the Jewish “members of the New York Stock Exchange” and the market performed with “depressing dullness” due to their absence.

1883: In Lithuania, Miriam Harris and Samuel A. Ettleson gave birth to University of Cincinnati graduate and HUAC ordained rabbi, Dr. Harry W. Ettelson, the holder of Ph.D from your Yale and the husband of Nell R. Schwab who served as Chaplain in the U.S. Navy in WW I and led  congregations in Ft. Wayne, Hartford and Philadelphia before assuming the leadership of Temple Israel in Memphis, TN.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/ettelson-harry-william

https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/harry-w-ettelson/

1883: Rabbi Isaac Noot will deliver the Rosh Hashanah sermon at B’Nai Israel in New York City.

1883: Dr. Kaufman Koehler will deliver the Rosh Hashanah sermon, in German, at Temple Beth-El in New York City.

1884: Birthdate of  Halberstadt, Germany native Moritz Myrthenzweig who gained fame as screenwriter, producer and director Max Mack whose works began with “The Other” and who found refuge in England with the Nazis came power.

1885(23rd of Tishrei, 5646): Simchat Torah

1885: “In Memory of Montefiore” published today included  the views or Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler who felt that it ‘was quite unnecessary” to erect a memorial to the great philanthropist and that it would be more appropriate to donate the money that would be used for such an effort to Montefiore Home for Aged Hebrews in New York. Kohler believed that the works of Moses Montefiore, like those of his biblical namesake, spoke for themselves and were his true memorial.  (Ask your friends and your children who Sir Moses Montefiore was and see if Kohler was right)

1886: Having left her home in secret, Clara Prager, the eldest daughter of Jewish businessman Julius Praeger sent a telegram to her family that she had married Horace J. Young, whom she would later have arrested on charges of abandonment after he allegedly deserted her when she became pregnant.

1886: In Paris, Albert and Camille Lazard gave birth to Pauline Lazard who became Pauline Hirschfeld when she married Raymond Hirschfeld.

1887: The “New Books” column published today contains a detailed review of Job and Solomon: The Wisdom of the Old Testament by T. K. Cheyne who has already produced the two volume work The Prophecies of Isaiah and is working on volumes covering the Song of Songs, the Lamentations of Jeremiah and the Psalms of David. (Cheyne was an English Protestant minister who became a Bahia)

1888: In Washington, D.C. Judith Bensinger and Jacob Kronheim gave birth to Milton Stanley Kronheim, the husband of Meryl B. Goldsmith who moved to New York City in 1937.

1890: In New York City, the former Miene “Minnie” Schoenberg and Simon “Sam” Marx gave birth to Julius Marx, who gained fame as comedian Groucho Marx, the most famous of the Marx Brothers, who enjoyed success in vaudeville, movies, radio and television.  For millions of baby boomers, their first encounter with the famous Marx leer, cigar and wit including rapid fire double entendre came from watching his television show, “You Bet Your Life.”

https://www.biography.com/people/groucho-marx-594094

1890: “A Sanitarium Burned’ published today described the financial impact of the fire at Hebrew Sanitarium where there is $5,000 in insurance to cover the losses valued at $11,000.

1891(29th of Elul, 5651): Erev Rosh Hashanah

1891(29th of Elul, 5651): Charles Bruckner the first husband of Jennie Wallenstein passed away today following which he was buried in Beth El Cemetery in Ridgewood, Queen County, NY.

1891: “Seligman Honored” published provided a list of those responsible for the banquet given last night in honor of Jesse Seligman which included a veritable “who’s who of New York Jewry” among whom were Jacob H. Schiff, Lewis May, Emanuel Lehman, Myer L Isaacs, Oscar S. Straus, Hyman Blum, Henry Rice, Charles L. Bernheim and James. H. Hoffman.

1891: After taking a child staying at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum suffering from diphtheria to the Willard Parker Hospital yesterday, Dr. Cyrus Edson “that there need be no apprehension for the other inmates.”

1892: Sixty-nine-year-old French scholar, author and expert on ancient Middle East languages, Joseph Ernest Renan, passed away today. Nine years before his death he began work on the five-volume work History of Israel the first volume of which published in 1887 and the final volume of which was published after his death.In “his 1883 essay ‘Le Judaïsme comme race et religion’ he disputed the concept that Jewish people constitute a unified racial entity in a biological sense, which made his views unpalatable within racialized Antisemitism. Renan was also known for being a strong critic of German ethnic nationalism, with its anti-Semitic undertones.”

1892: The fire in New Jersey that threatens the agricultural colony established by the Jewish immigrants near May’s Landing continues to burn for a second day.

1893: “Hard Words for Samuel Gompers, et al” published today quoted Abraham Cahan criticizing “many of the present leaders of the working men” such as “Samuel Gompers, Joseph Barondess and Henry Weismann” as simple “intriguers” who “purposely keep the workingmen in ignorance of what is good for them.”  (Editor’s Note – this is a case of Jew versus Jews)

1893: Birthdate of Savannah, GA native Harvard trained attorney William Berman who rose to the rank of Captain during WW I and served as “commander in chief of the Jewish War Veterans.

1894(2nd of Tishrei, 5655): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah

1894: Birthdate of American cartoonist Alva “Al” Posen best known his comic strip Sweeny and Son.

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/posen_al.htm

1894: On the same day that Connecticut is holding “town elections” “politicians of both parties are looking at a circular claiming that when David Callahan, a candidate for State Senator from the New Haven District, was serving as Judge of the Police Courts he dismissed a case brought by an Israelite against an Irishman because “the Judge was influenced by race prejudices” or as the pamphlet said, “It is therefore to be understood that a descendant of the House of Israel can be persecuted with impunity, unless the poor Jew can explain to the satisfaction of an Irish Catholic Judge the reason why an Irish Catholic hoodlum, backed by his crowd, should assault a poor inoffensive Israelite.”

1894: “In the Real Estate Field” published today attributed yesterday’s lack of sales at auction and general lack of real estate transactions in New York to the fact that it “was a Hebrew holiday.” (Rosh Hashanah)

1898: An informal meeting of the members of the Hebrew Infant Asylum of the City of New York which is preparing to dedicate a new home at 161st Street and Eagle Avenue is scheduled to take place today.

1896: “Accused of Stealing a Horse” published today provided a description of charges that Samuel Burnstein, a Jewish dry goods peddler has brought the sons of Cortland D. Morse and Robert C. Livingston for stealing and abusing his horse.

1897(6th of Tishrei, 5658): Parsahat Vayeilech; Shabbat Shuva

1897(6th of Tishrei, 5658): In Richmond, VA, Lewis Gitner, who will included bequests to Jewish and Christian institutions passed away today.

1898(16th of Tishrei, 5659): Second Day of Sukkoth

1898: Rabbi Gustav Gottheil of Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan conducted the services today during which Leon M. Nelson was installed as the rabbi at Temple Israel in Brooklyn, NY.

1898: The public got its first look at “the new home of the Hebrew Infant Asylum of the City of New York” which is located at the old De Graff mansion at 161st Street and Eagle Avenue.

1898: In Detroit, Michigan, “a large gathering of citizens who are friends of Rabbi Louis Grossman was held this afternoon to testify to the high character and progressive citizenship of the rabbi who has been called by Congregation B’nai Yeshurun in Cincinnati where he will be associated with Rabbi Isaac M. Wise.”

1898: In Chicago, Illinois, during the Spanish-American War, members of Anshe Knesset Israel gathered to pray for victory for the forces under the command of Admiral Dewey.

1900(9th of Tishrei, 5661): Erev Yom Kippur

1900(9th of Tishrei, 5661): Forty-seven-year-old German sculptor Hugo Rheinhold creator of Ape With Skull passed away today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Rheinhold#mediaviewer/File:Affe_mit_Sch%C3%A4del.jpg

1900: Birthdate of Arturo Rosenblueth Stearns “a Mexican researcher, physician and physiologist, who is known as one of the pioneers of cybernetics.”

1900: Birthdate of Nicolai Poliakoff, the native of Dvinsk who gained fame as Coco the Clown.

http://www.circopedia.org/Coco

http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/latest-news/clowns-pay-tribute-on-40th-anniversary-of-death-of-coco-1-6340424

1901: Fifteen-year-old Maurice Gusman, the Russian born son of Jacob and Brucha (Cantor) Gusman today arrived in the United States where he rose from working in pocketbook factory to becoming President of Gusman Investment Company in Cleveland OH where he married Hanna C. Epstein.

1902(1st of Tishrei, 5663): Rosh Hashanah

1902: In Kimberly, the Memorial Road Synagogue was “first used for High Holyday services” today.

1902: The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter the children’s author and “social reformer” who “was also passionate about expressing the dangers of incorporating Jews in British society” as can be seen from her statement that “the strongest impelling motive of the Jewish race is love of profit from any other form of money earning” was published today. (As reported by Ilana K. Levinksky)

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-you-find-out-that-your-favorite-writer-was-an-anti-semite/

1903(11th of Tishrei, 5664): Just four days before his 65th birthday German art historian Friedrich Lippmann, the director of the Berlin State Museum passed away today.

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/friedrich-lippmann/g12ckhjv0g?hl=en

1903: Dorothy Levitt won her class (cars costing between £400 and £550) at the Southport Speed Trials driving S.F.Edge's 12 (or 16) hp Gladiator.

1904(23rd of Tishrei, 5665): Simchat Torah

1905(3rd of Tishrei, 5666): Tzom Gedaliah

1905: Rabbi Silverman of Tempe Emanu-El took exception to Bishop Potter’s staeemetn that the Hebrews are a “arace who do not hold to Sunday”  saying that “there are about 1,500,000 Hebrews in this country and 99 per cent of them do no work on Sunday” and “there are eighteen Jewish congreations in the United States that hold supplementary services on Sunday.

1906(13th of Tishrei, 5667): After having led the court of Sadigur for 24 years, Reb Yisrael, the youngest son of Reb Yitzchak, passed away.

1906: Thirty-one-year-old Georgetown University and George Washington University trained attorney, Julius I. Peyser, the Washington, DC born son of Phillip and Natalie (Rosenberg) Peyser who was a member of both Adas Israel and Washington Hebrew Congregation married Miriam I. Prince today in Washington, D.C.

1906: Birthdate of David Jacob Cohen, the Brooklyn native and University of Michigan trained lawyer.

1907: It was reported today, the day after Simchat Torah, that James S. Metcalfe, the dramatic critic of Life who had been barred by the managers of New York theatres from their established “on accounted his “cartoons and remarks about Jews printed in Life” “won his fight against the theatrical managers when the Court of Appeals “hand down a decision that Charles S. Burnham, the manager of Wallack’s Theatre had been properly arrested and confined in city prison on a charge of conspiracy brought by Mr. Metcalfe.”

1908 (7th of Tishrei, 5669): In Houston Texas Adath Yshurun Friday night services began at 7 p.m. with a sermon entitled “Ourselves.”

1909: The University of Tennessee coached by George Leven, tied Centre in a home football game in Knoxville, TN.

1910: In New York, Maurice Wertheim and his first wife Alma Morgenthau gave birth to Josephine Wetheim

1910(28th of Elul, 5670): Max Hamburger the long-time owner and editor of the Mobile Herald and a an Alabama State Senator  “ was found dead in a room at the Cawthon Hotel about 2 o’clock this afternoon” having, according to the county corner, died several hours earlier from “apoplexy brought on by exposure.”

1911(10th of Tishrei, 5672): Yom Kippur

1911: In London, the East End Guardians passed a resolution saying that “no child of the Christian faith is to be sent to service with persons of the Jewish Religion.”

1912(21st of Tishrei, 5673): Hoshana Raba

1912: The Council of Jewish Women meeting today at the Selling-Hersh Building heard an address today by its President, Mrs. Rose Selling who “pleaded for more cooperative work by the members” followed by the reading of a paper by Mrs. Isaac Swett which covered “the work done by the Jewish race in this past year.”

1912: Jacob Feuerwerker and Regina Neufeld gave birth to David Feuerwerker, the Swiss born Canadian Rabbi and Historian.  He was the husband of Antoinette Feuerwerker, a French jurist and member of the resistance during World War II.

1913(1st of Tishrei, 5674): Final observance of Rosh Hashanah before the madness of World War I and all the evil that has followed in its wake over the last one hundred years.

1913: Birthdate of Chaim Yosef Zadok, the native of Galicia who made Aliyah in 1935.  He pursued a career in government and jurisprudence that included service in the Knesset and government ministries including Religious Affairs and Justice.

1913: In New Haven, CT, the first annual convention of the Jewish Socialist Federation of America whose five thousand members included Jacob B. Salutsky came to an end today.

1913(1st of Tishrei, 5674): Elias Jankel Hellerman passed away today after which he was buried in the Liepaja Jewish Cemetery.

1914: Birthdate of Pennsylvania native Selma Kaizen Cogen the wife of Rabbi Marcus M. Cogan whom she married in 1936.

1914: “Refugees Crowd Vienna” published today described the flow of Jewish fugitives from Galicia which is overwhelming the resources of the Austrian capital and has been diverted to “various places in Moravia, Upper Austria and Salzburg.”

1914: Sixty-two-year-old Rabbi Daniel Lowenthal a native of Horfstenin who came to the United States in 1874 where he served as the Rabbi for B’nai Salem and then Etz Chaim passed away today.

1915(24th of Tishrei, 5676): Parashat Bereshit

1915(24th of Tishrei, 5676): Sixty-two-year-old Isador Carb, the Mississippi born son of David Charles Carb and Babette Rosenbaum Carb and the husband of Hattie Kahn Carb with whom he had three children – David, Meredith and Gladys – who helped Ft. Worth grow from “a clump of shacks to a busting city’ passed away today in Ft. Worth.

1915: “Louis Biel, who was Vice President of the United Cigar Stores Company, left personal property amounting to at least $800,000 and real estate worth at least $20,000 according to the statement of his widow, Mrs. Rose B. Biel, in her application for letters of administration on the estate filed’ today.

1916: The American Jewish Relief Committee, the Central Relief Committee and the People’s Relief Committee have raised a total of six million dollars as of today.

1916: in St. Louis, neurosurgeon Ernest Sachs and “playwright and poet Mary Sachs” gave birth to Harvard trained neurosurgeon Ernest Sachs, Jr. the Bronze Star winning WW II veteran who landed at Normandy, survived the Battle of the Bulge and helped liberate Buchenwald and who “started his career as an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurology at Tulane Unviersity.

1917(16th of Tishrei, 5678): Second Day of Sukkoth

1917: Just twelve days before his 21st birthday, William Shemin, who would win the Medal of Honor, enlisted in the U.S. Army.

1917: British Intelligence learned of a meeting in Berlin at which plans were made by the Germans and Turks to offer the Jews of Europe a German-sponsored Jewish National Home in Palestine.  (This stimulated the British to finalize what became known as the Balfour Declaration.)

1918: During WW I, “the ‘Lost Battalion’ made up of men from the 308th and 307th regiments including Abraham Krotoshinsky the recipient of a Distinguished Cross “was surrounded and cut off by the Germans” today.

1918: The 165th Regiment, including the recently promoted Sergeant Abraham Blaustein traveled by camion (truck) head for Mondrecourt.

1918: General Allenby leaves his headquarters at Tiberias and drives to Damascus to install the Emir Feisal as head of the local government.  Only later would the Arab leader learn that Syria was to be under French control and that his dreams of ruling the Arabs from this ancient city were merely that – dreams.  It was the mischief making by the British and French that destabilized the entire region, not the promise of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

1919: US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed. Wilson suffered the stroke during a cross-country speaking tour that was intended generate support for the ratification of the Versailles Treaty which included the creation of the League of Nations.  With Wilson out of the picture, the forces favoring ratification lost their champion.  The United States rejected the treaty and chose not to join the League.  There is a large body of opinion that the America’s failure to join the League doomed the organization even before it had its first meeting and this was one of the causes of World War II, the greatest catastrophe in Jewish history since the destruction of the Second Temple.

1920(20th of Tishrei, 5681): Shabbat and Chol Hamoed Sukkoth

1920: Mr. and Mrs. Herman Johl are scheduled to host a reception “to celebrate the engagement of their daughter Sadie Johl to Mr. F.S. Stern.

1921(29th of Elul, 5681): Erev Rosh Hashanah

1921: The newest Jewish house of worship in Camden, NJ, Beth-El Synagogue, “was formally opened” tonight with services marking the start of Rosh Hashanah led by Rabbi Solomon Grayzel.

1921: Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, first head of “the National Farm School” said “Our nation was conceived in simplicity and frugality, and nurtured in godliness and righteousness, and by those alone can it be preserved."

1922(10th of Tishrei, 5683): Yom Kippur

1922: It was reported today that Samuel S. Koenig, Chairman of the New York County Republican Committee opposed an attempt by some of his fellow party members to propose a slate of Republican nominees to serve as Justices on the State Supreme Court. He claimed that it was party policy to endorse justices who had served well in the position regardless of their party affiliation.  Koenig’s view carried the day.  Koenig was a Hungarian-born Jew who rose to a position of power in the New York State Republican Party.

1922(10th of Tishrei, 5683): Fifty-eight-year-old Fanny Printz, the Austrian born daughter of Abraham and Rosa Printz passed away today after which she was buried in the Rodef Sholom section of the Tod Homestead Cemetery in Youngstown, OH.

1922: It was reported today that Justice Irving Lehman, a Democrat, who has successfully served one full term on the bench is one of three judicial candidates endorsed by the Republican Party.  The Republicans base their endorsement for these positions on merit rather than party affiliation.

1923(22nd of Tishrei, 5684):Shmini Atzeret

1923(22nd of Tishrei, 5684): This morning, while he was on his way to his beloved "bondage," as he used to call his work, Abraham Solomon Freidus collapsed and died almost immediately at the foot of the Library stairs. He was the “custodian of the Jewish Room at the New York Public Library.”

1923: It was reported today the assessed value of real estate and person property of New York City for 1924 total $12,116,155,725, an increase of $1,153,669,747 over the assessment of 1923 according to figures made public by Henry M. Goldfogle, President of the Department of Taxes and Assessments.

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6749-goldfogle-henry-mayer

1924: “Every trade campaign interested in real estate operations in the metropolitan district was represented at a luncheon meeting of the Real Estate Club of the Business Men’s Council” today “at the Pennsylvania Hotel as its official entrance into the $1,250,00 campaign which the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies will inaugurate on October 26

1924: Felix M. Warburg, the associate chairman of the Business Men’s Council to the “real estate men, builders and architects that a careful survey had been made of all industries in New York in which Jews were active, with a view to a fair apportionment of the amounts each would be expected to raise” in the upcoming campaign to raise $1,250,000 for the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies

1925(14th of Tishrei, 5686): Erev Sukkoth

1925: Infielder Buddy Myer who would see action in the World Series, appeared in his fourth and final regular season game for the Washington Senators/

1925(14th of Tishrei, 5686): Nine-three Berhnhardine Wetzlar Warburg, the widow of Jonas R. Warburg, passed away today.

1926: In New York today, “Joseph M. Levy, manager for Clark’s Tours in Palestine and Syria” who has just arrived from Jerusalem, reported that there was “keen interest” revolving around the first municipal to be held “under the British mandate.”  According to his figures Jerusalem had a population of 60,000, 37,000 of whom were Jewish.  He also described progress being made on railroad being built between Jaffa and Haifa, with a junction at Tel Aviv that will connect the line with Jerusalem. 

1927: The New York Times describes the vibrant music scene among the Jewish community in Palestine which includes jazz bands playing at a dance hall near Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate and a group of musicians in Tel Aviv who have established a company that performs grand opera in which is described as “a most acceptable manner.”

1928(18th of Tishrei, 5689): Fourth Day of Sukkoth

1928: Field Marshal Lord Allenby “the hero of the Palestine campaign” during World War I and Lady Allenby are expected to arrive in the United States today “for a tour of the country which will include a visit the annual convention of the American Legion at San Antonio, TX.

1928: Hungarian photographer Rogi Andre began a “short-lived marriage” with photographer Andor Kertesz, the Budapest born son of book sell Lipot Kertesz and Enesztin Hoffman.

1929(27th of Elul, 5689): Seventy-three-year-old Lancaster, PA native and “clothing merchant” Abraham Erlanger, the president of the Society for the Welfare of the Jewish Deaf passed away today in New York City. (Not to be confused with the theatrical producer with a similar name)

1930(10thof Tishrei, 5691): Yom Kippur

1930: At the community house of Temple Emanu-El “Rabbi A. Felix Nash preached a sermon in sign language before the Congregation of the Death.”

1930: At the Institutional Synagogue Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein delivered a sermon in which he “declared” that “loyalty to Judaism” was “the chief concern of those dealing with the Jewish problem in America.”

1931(21st of Tishrei, 5682): Hoshana Rabba

1931: Birthdate of Barbara K. Adasm, the wife of Dr. Jerome J. Abrahams, the member of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation who was also a member of Hadassah and the National Council of Jewish Women.

1932(2nd of Tishrei, 5693): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah

1932: Universal Studios releases the screen version of the Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman play, “Once in a Lifetime.”

1933(12th of Tishrei, 5694): Thirty-six-year-old Ray Block who is interred at Ahavas Shalom Congregation Cemetery, passed away today.

1933: “Sweeny and Son” a comic strip created by Al Posen made its debut on the “Sunday page” today.

1934(23rd of Tishrei, 5695): Simchat Torah

1934: Pianist Rose Spiegel and Manuel Fredkin, who “ran a chain of radio stores that failed during the Great Depression” gave birth MIT and Carnegie Mellon educated  computer scientist, physicist and businessman” Edward Fredkin, the creator of  “Fredkin’s paradox which posits “that when one is deciding between two options, the more similar they are the more time one spends fretting about the decision, even though the difference in choosing one or the other may be insignificant” and “conversely, when the difference is more substantial or meaningful, one is likely to spend less time deciding.”

1934: In Philadelphia, “salesman Edward Isaac Zall” and “bookkeeper Esther (Perlestein) Zall gave birth to Deborah Miriam Zall the ‘dancer and choreographer who studied with Martha Graham.” (As reported by Marina Harss)

1935: Mrs. Richard Percy Limburg is the chairman of the women’s division of the United Jewish Appeal which is backing an emergency relief drive for Jews in Germany by presenting “Night of Stars” at Madison Square Garden tonight.

1935: Today, Hyman Barnett “Harry” Mizzzler, the East End born Jewish boxer “fought one of his most exciting bouts, a dramatic come from behind knock out in the eighth round against Gustave Hummery of France.”

1936: It was announced today that Leo Perper who has been with R.H. Macy & Co. for the last 25 years has been named to become the new president of the Roger Kent Stores.

1936: In Los Angeles, “Louis Siegel, a banker and the former Mildred Kaufman” gave birth to Stanley Milton Siegel the host of the live talk-show “The Stanley Siegel Show” (As reported by Sam Roberts)

1937(27th of Tishrei, 5698): Parashat Bereshit

1937: “Justice Black's "pious words may serve as atonement for him and some explanation to those who have been questioning his fitness to sit on the Supreme bench of the land," Rabbi William F. Rosenblum of Temple Israel said today in a sermon calling attention to ‘the rebirth and rapid growth’ of the Klu Klux Klan.”

1938: Pitcher Sam Nahem made his major league debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1938: Publisher Oscar “Dystel married Marion Deitler with whom he had two children John and Jane.

1938(7th of Tishrei, 5699): “Twenty-one Jews including three women and ten children, ranging in age from 1 to 12 years were killed and three others were wounded” tonight “on the shores of Lake Galilee in the old Jewish quarter of Tiberias in a massacre by stabbing shooting and burning perpetrated by Arabs.”  The Arab violence was described as the worst since 1929 when “Arabs fell on Jewish men, most of whom were rabbinical students as well woman and children in the ancient towns of Hebron and Safed.”  Among those killed by the Arab attackers were Jacob Zaltz, the beadle of the central synagogue; Menachem Kabin, “an elderly American Jew” who had recently moved to Palestine and his sister who was stabbed and then burned to death; Joshua Ben Ariah, his wife and two sons, one of whom was an infant; the three children of Shlomo Leimer, “aged 8,10 and 12” who “were stabbed and burned to death; Shimon Mizrahi, his wife and five children ranging in ages from 1 to 12 years; Jacob Gross  and two as yet to be identified Jewish constables.

1939: “New Yiddish Comedy” published today contained a review of “Chever Nachman,” I.J. Singer’s dramatization of his own novel East of Eden directed by Jacob Ben-Ami playing at the National Theatre on Houston Street as well as “In a Jewish Grocery” by Nuchim Stutchkoff playing at the Second Avenue Theatre.

1939: The text of a telegram which Edward Bernays sent to the secretary of the Executive Committee of the World’s Fair explaining his reasons for withdrawing as the non-salaried counsel on public relations for the fair was published today.

1939: “Dr. Bernhard Weiss formerly vice president of the Berlin police” and who fled when Chancellor Hitler came to power because he was Jew “deprived of his nationality and property by the Nazis” and who has been earning his living by running a small printing business in London “has been interned by a Special Branch of Scotland Yard because he is classified as “German national.”

1939: It was reported today that a recently published editorial in the “atheist organ, Bezbozhnik” that in Poland “rabbis (were) acting as police agents.”

1939: The funeral procession for Frank Margolis, the husband of the President of the Ladies Auxiliary of the East Side Hebrew Institute is scheduled to pass by that institution at 10:30 this morning.

1939: Congressman John Dingell of Michigan addressed the first meeting of the American Jewish Congress since the outbreak of WW II which was being held at the Edison Hotel in New York.  The 1,561 delegates representing 420 different organizations heard his denunciation of the Nazis followed by an impassioned speech from Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress.

1939: WEVD broadcast “Jewish Melodies at 2pm today.

1939: Cardinal George William Mundelein, the Archbishop of Chicago, who was an early critic of the Nazis, passed away.

1939: “Effective today, Jewish men in Slovakia are conscripted for labor service.”

1939: Academy award winning composer Bernard Herrmann, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants married Lucille Fletcher today.

1940(29th Elul, 5700): Erev Rosh Hashanah

1940: In New York, “the kosher kill was very light today” because “the Jewish new year holidays begin at sundown” today.

1940: In New York, the supplies of “kosher steer chucks and places” “were very light with only two large packers slaughtering” beef.

1940: Comedian Eddie Cantor and singer Dinah Shore are scheduled to perform on WEAF from 9 until 9:30 this evening.

1940: The Benny Goodman Orchestra is scheduled to perform on WABC between nine and ten this evening.

1940: “Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, urged the Jews of America to give greater support to the ‘embattled Palestine Jewry.’”

1940: Dr. Israel Weinstein is scheduled to deliver a talk on WYNC.

1940: In his New Year’s message, “William Weiss, president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America called for continued optimism and faith in the midst of a world crisis and for prayers for the preservation of American democracy.”

1940: In His New Year’s message, “Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the Jewish National Fund termed the Jewish national home in Palestine an outpost of democracy and stressed the importance of its wartime program.”

1940: “Edwin F. Jaeckle, chairman of the Republican State Committee” in New York, “said in a holiday greeting that “The period represents merely another tragic interlude in the onward march of a people whose will to live and prosper has never been successfully halted by passing tyrants or dictators since the dawn of civilization.

1940: With the presidential election just weeks away, “in a New Year’s Message to Paul Felix Warburg, vice president of the National Jewish Hospital at Denver,” “Wendell Wilkie joined with President Roosevelt in praising the hospital as ‘an effective symbol of the truly American ideals.’”

1940: “Abraham Herman, president of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society announced appeals would be made in Synagogues throughout the country for the society’s “Rescue Through Emigration Campaign” which has a goal of raising one million dollars.

1940: This evening WMCA is scheduled to broadcast Rosh Hashanah Services from Mt. Neboh Temple led by Rabbi Samuel Segal.

1940: “The New York and Brooklyn Federations of Jewish Charities prepared for special services this evening in each of its 116 welfare agencies including two series for the deaf.”

1940: “Junior Hadassah, the Young Women’s Zionist Organization of America voted” today “to contribute $5,500 for the care of underprivileged children in Palestine and cabled the first installment of $1,500 as a Rosh Hashanah offering.”

1940: At Temple Emanu-El Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson delivered a sermon on what constitutes a spiritual blessing” saying that “we are living at a time when groups of men under powerful leadership are trying to achieve the blessings of life without regard for the sorrows that their ambitions and their achievements are bringing to masses of men all over the world.”

1940: “Congregation Habonim, made up of 400 refugees from Germany affiliated with Central Synagogue will observe its first anniversary at Town Hall.”

1940: At the Free Synagogue meeting at Carnegie Hall, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise delivered a sermon in which he said “Not once to every man and nation but a thousand times has come the choice to Israel between self-destructive disloyalty and self-maintaining loyalty, despite everything and everything. The glory of England in this hour, unbroken and even unstooping, has been the glory of the Jewish people for not less than a thousand years.”

1940: At Temple Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Louis I. Newman told worshippers “The New Year despite its vast tribulations, should bring fresh courage and fresh hope not only to the household of Israel but to all mankind.”

1940: At Mount Zion Congregation, Rabbi B.A. Tintner addressed that issue of first time peace military draft in U.S. history saying that “Fathers and mothers in America should now be assured that the conscription policy will build up a mechanism of defense that will not plunge into war but hopefully keep war from our midst.”

1940: At the West Side Institutional Synagogue Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein said: “Let us pray that the New Year will bring new hope, new vision and a new and true interpretation of the universal Fatherhood of God and of the common brotherhood of man.

1940: At Temple Israel, Rabbi William F. Rosenblum took note of “Nazi threat to liberalism and tolerane” saying “Men are not yet awake to the real danger of losing with a decade what it took a century to gain.

1940: “The Republican National Committee made public today a message from Wendell L. Willkie addressed to Jewish citizens on the occasion of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year” in which he knew that “on this day in every land the Jewish people are gathering in their synagogues praying for peace and for the ultimate victory of right and justice” and asked “for the privilege of joining in your prayers and of pledging to you today that in so far as it is with my capacity to keep so sacred a pledge the United States will never harbor racial or religious intolerance and persecution.

1940: In compliance with War Department circular No. 5 all soldiers of the Jewish faith will be granted furloughs” starting at noon today until revile on October 5 (which ironically is Shabbat) “so they may observe the Jewish New Year.

1941:”One Foot in Heaven” a nominee for the Best Picture Oscar produced and directed by Irving Rapper and with music by Max Steiner was released in the United States today.

1941: SS Chief Helmut Knochen ordered the systematic destruction of synagogues in Paris (As reported by Aish.com)

1941:  Six Parisian synagogues were bombed.  At this time, Paris was occupied by the Nazis. As we have seen in our own time, bombing synagogues takes place in Paris regardless of who is in power.

1941(11th of Tishrei, 5702): In Zhager, a small town on the Lithuanian-Latvian border, over 3000 Jewish men, women and children were massacred by members of the Lithuanian militia. They lie in a mass grave in Naryshkin Park, the heart of the shetl.

1941(11th of Tishrei, 5702): A Nazi raid on the Jewish ghetto at Vilna, Lithuania, leaves 3000 dead at nearby Ponary. One victim, Serna Morgenstern, is shot in the back by an SS officer after he complimented her beauty and told her she was free to go.

1942(21st of Tishrei, 5703): Hoshana Rabah

1942(21st of Tishrei, 5703): At the Treblinka death camp, Jews from Zelechów, Poland, are murdered.

1942: In Moorestown, NJ, Edwin Milton "Ed" Sabol and his wife gave birth to Stephen Douglas "Steve" Sabol who, along with his father, was one of the founders of “NFL Films” which changed the way football fans experience the professional game.

1943: In Holland, the families of Jewish men drafted for forced labor are sent to the concentration camp in Westerbork, Holland.

1943: Eight-year-old Steen Metz and his parents were arrested today in Odense, Denmark and shipped to Theresienstadt.

http://www.steenmetzneverforget.com/my-story.html

1943: The first Jewish paratroopers from Palestine landed in the Balkans. Many of them had been chosen because they were born in the region and spoke the languages of the land like natives. These Jews agreed to help organize non-Jewish underground units on behalf of the British war effort. The British agreed to let them aid other Jews once they had completed their primary mission. The British also made it clear that they would not offer support for this secondary party of the mission.

1943(3rd of Tishrei, 5704): Shabbat Shuvah; given the events that took place on this date in Denmark –see item below – the day lives up to its name of The Sabbath of Return.

1943: The Danish people rescue about 7000 Jews, only 500 of whom are captured by the Germans. The 500 seized by the Germans are sent to the Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, camp/ghetto; all but 77 will survive the war. The Danish government will persistently check on the health and welfare of the Jews who were sent to Theresienstadt, enabling almost all of them to survive to war's end.

1943: “The Swedish government announced in an official statement that Sweden was prepared to accept all Danish Jews in Sweden.”

1943: “Some arrested Danish communists witnessed the deportation of about 200 Jews from Langelinie via the ship Wartheland. Of these, a young married couple were able to convince the Germans that they were not Jewish, and set free. The remainder included mothers with infants, the sick and elderly, chief rabbi Max Friediger, and the other Jewish hostages mentioned above, who had been placed in the Danish internment camp, Horserød, on August 28–29. They were driven below deck without their luggage while being screamed at, kicked and beaten. The Germans then took anything of value from the luggage.

1944 (15th of Tishrei, 5705): Sukkoth

1944:  On the first day of Sukkoth Jews in Palestine attempt to celebrate the Chag while dealing with a British curfew.

1944: Today, “Monuments Man” Major Ronald Edmond Balfour, the lecturer at King’s College, Cambridge who had been serving with the British Army since 1940 and who had reduced to hitch-hiking for the past five weeks in his quest to save such pieces of art as Michelangelo’s Bruges Madonna, got a truck which served him until the middle of the month when “it died” due to repeated mechanical problems.

1944: The original Broadway production of “Angel Street,” directed by Shepard Traube, transferred from the John Golden Theatre to the Bijou Theatre.

1945: “Several thousand troops of the British Sixth Airborne Division disembarked at Haifa” today.  For all intents and purposes, this elite military unit had been sent to Palestine to put an end to “illegal Jewish immigration.”

1946: Seventy-eight-year-old Ignacy Mościcki who in 1935 as President of Poland and despite the growing anti-Semitism in the country appointed Biblical scholar, historian and Jewish community leader Moses Schorr to serve in the Senate passed away today.

1946: “Hundreds of heavily armed British soldiers and police raided as fashionable Tel Aviv café today and seized fifty Jews, thirty of whom were immediately sent to the Rafa detention camp on the Egyptian frontier.” The raid at the Ginati Café was aimed at capture leaders of the Irgun.

1947: The Geula, which had been a U.S Coast Guard Cutter and had taken on “passengers at Burgas Bulgaria arrived in Haifa today after having been intercepted by the British Blockade and her 2,644 ‘illegals” were shipped to the camps at Cyprus.

1947: The “Jewish State which had been U.S. Coast Guard Cutter arrived in Haifa today after being intercepted by the British Royal Navy and it 2,644 passengers were then shipped off to Cyprus.

1947: Cleveland Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver and a leading spokesman for the Zionist cause appeared before the United Nations during hearings on the proposed partition of Palestine.  Silver spoke in a favor the partition, which was the two state solution that was rejected by the Arabs.

1947: Birthdate of Sergio Kerbis

1948: In Queens, Gabby Faske, “a tailor and haberdasher” and his wife Helen, nicknamed “Quennie: who had been a designer and model, gave birth to Donna Ivy Faske, the graduate of the Parsons School Design known to one and all as American fashion designer, Donna Karan.

https://donnakaran.com/

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/karan-donna

1948: Birthdate of Jack Leon Terpins, a native of Sao Paulo, Brazil, who serves as President of the Latin American Jewish Congress.

1949(9th of Tishrei, 5710): Erev Yom Kippur

1949: In Waterbury, CT, Marilyn Edith, née Heit and Air Force Lt. Col. Samuel Leibovitz gave birth to Anna-Lou Leibovitz, who gained famed as photographer Annie Leibovitz. Leibovitz was chief photographer for Rolling Stones Magazines for ten years.  She later moved on to Vanity Fair Magazine.  She was named Photographer of the Year in 1984 by the American Society of Magazine Photographers.

1950(21st of Tishrei, 5711): Hoshana Raba is observed for the first time during the Korean War.

1950(21st of Tishrei, 5711): Moses Feinberg, the husband of Elizabeth Rosenthal Feinberg, passed away today after which he was buried in the Montefiore Cemetery in “Springfield Gardens, NY.”

1951: Birthdate of Ashkelon native and Shas Party leader Rabbi Yitzhak Cohen.

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel had purchased 27 Mustang fighters from the Swedish Air Force. The propeller driven fighters, known as the P-51 during WW II, were obsolete in a world of Jet Age aircraft.  But for the fledgling Israeli Air Force, they would have to do as they confronted their better armed and equipped Arab neighbors.

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that the overwhelming majority of the 34,000 immigrants who arrived in Israel from October 1951 to the end of September 1952 were members of Oriental communities. There were 9,800 immigrants from Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, 3,800 from Libya, 1,350 from Egypt, 5,800 from Iran, 1,000 from Iraq, 650 from Turkey, 6,800 from Romania, 650 from Bulgaria, 160 from Poland, 170 from the US and the rest from other countries. This rapidly growing Sephardic population would eventually change the demographics of the new state.  The early settlers had been primarily of Russian, Polish and later German origins.   In other words the Ashkenazim, or those whose roots were found among the Ashkenazim, dominated the Yishuv and the state of Israel in its early decades.  Many Sephardim felt that they were treated like second-class citizens.  Interestingly enough, it would be Likud under the leadership of Menachem Begin that would give voice to these feelings.  And it would the votes of these Oriental Jews that would bring Begin to power in 1977.

1953(23rd of Tishrei, 5714): Simchat Torah is observed for the first after the guns have gone silent in Korea.

1954(5th of Tishrei, 5715): Lithuanian born Rabbi Mordechai Meir Zilberman, the “Rav, Congregation Bais Yaakov Tzvi Zichron Yosef” passed away today after he was buried at the Mount Judah Cemetery in Ridgewood (Queenx)

1954: Birthdate of Eran Riklis, the veteran of the Yom Kippur War and husband of Dina Riklis who went on to make such films as Cup Final, The Syrian Bride, Lemon Tree and Dancing Arabs.

1955: The Brooklyn Dodgers took a three to two lead over the Yanks when they won the fifth game of the World Series.

1955: Coach Sid Gillman’s Los Angeles Rams defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers today.

1957: “The Bridge on the River Kwai” the WW II epic produced by Sam Spiegel with a screenplay co-authored by Carl Foreman was released in the United Kingdom today.

1957: “Who’s Sorry Now?” a popular song with lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby published in 1923 and which “was featured in the Marx Brothers film A Night in Casablanca” was recorded today by pop star Connie Francis who is the only one of those mentioned who is not Jewish.

1958(18th of Tishrei, 5719): Fourth day of Sukkoth

1958(18th of Tishrei, 5719: Sixty-four-year-old Nathan Shulman, the Manhattan born son of Molka and Abraham Shulman passed away today in Houston, TX.

1958: CBS’s Playhouse 90 broadcast the original production of “Days of Wine and Roses” a chilling look at alcoholics starring Piper Laurie, born Rosetta Jacobs, the daughter of eastern European Jewish immigrants.

1959(29th of Elul, 5720): Erev Rosh Hashana

1959: The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television. The show was created by Rod Serling who was raised as a Reform Jew.At high school, where he edited the newspaper, Serling experienced anti-Jewish discrimination when he was blackballed from the Theta Sigma fraternity. In an interview in 1972 he said of this incident, "it was the first time in my life that I became aware of religious difference." Serling did not consider himself to be a practicing Jew and he and his future wife Carol Kramer became Unitarians.

1961(22nd of Tishrei, 5722): Shmini Arzeret

1961: In London Clive Milton, “one of the Jewish children rescued by the Kindertansport mission and brought to Britain in 1939” and Ruth Milton gave birth to Cambridge educated Conservative politician Sir Simon Henry Milton, “London’s Deputy Mayor for Policy and Planning.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/8446352/Sir-Simon-Milton.html

1965: Birthdate of David Nehaisi, the native of Holon who traces his lineage back to “Jews expelled from Spain” in 1491 and who gained fame as singer, composer and songwriter David D’Or

1965: Eight-six-year-old Julius W. “Nicky” Arnstein who, thanks the musical “Funny Girl” is best known as the husband of Fanny Brice, passed away today.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=40029578

1966(18th of Tishrei, 5727): Fourth Day of Sukkot

1966: Southpaw Sandy Koufax pitched his last game ending a brilliant career with the Dodgers.

1967(27th of Elul, 5727): Seventy-six-year-old dancer and choreographer Albertina Rasch who was the wife of Dimitri Tiomkin passed away today.

http://www.streetswing.com/histmai2/d2rasch.htm

1967: In Minneapolis, Paula Goldberg, “co-founder and executive director of the Pacer Center and Mel Goldberg the associate dean and professor at the William Mitchell College of Law gave birth to David Bruce "Dave" Goldberg the CEO of SurveyMonkey and the husband of Facebook executive of Facebook.

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-dave-goldberg-20150503-story.html

http://www.timesofisrael.com/husband-of-facebooks-sheryl-sandberg-dies-suddenly/

1968(10th of Tishrei, 5729): Yom Kippur

1968: Birthdate of actor Joey Slotnick who has appeared on Broadway, the movies and television including crime dramas “Blue Bloods” and “Law and Order SV,U

1968: U.S. Premiere of “Coogan’s Bluff” directed and produced by Don Siegel, co-starring Lee J. Cobb with music by Lalo Schifrin.

1969(20th of Tishrei, 5730): Sixth Day of Sukkot

1969: Robert Louis Rogers completed his service as Canada’s ambassador to Israel.

1969: Eighty-five-year-old William F. Bleakly the Republican who lost to Governor Lehman in 1936 and who “described David Dubinsky as a renegade Socialist who sent money to the Reds in Spain” when in fact he was sending funds raised by the International Ladies Garment Works to the Red Cross in Spain, passed away today.

1970(2nd of Tishrei, 5731): Second Day of Rosh Hashana

1971(13th of Tishrei, 5732): Parashat Ha’azinu

1971:A weekend revival program of Yiddishlanguage feature films with English subtitles, produced here and abroad will start today at the Anderson Theater, Second Avenue and Fourth Street” with a screening of the 1939 version of Sholem Aleichem's “Tevye,” directed by and starring Maurice Schwartz. The opening offering will be the 1939 version of Sholem Aleichem's “Tevye,” directed by and starring Maurice Schwartz.

1973: Birthdate of relief pitcher Scott Schoeweiss who played for the 2002 World Champion Anaheim Angels.

1972 "From Israel with Love" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 8 performances

1973: Senior military officials ignore the warnings of Lieutenant Binyamin Siman-Tov that Egyptians are in fact preparing to launch a military action that will take them across the Suez Canal.

1974: “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” produced by Edgar J. Scherick, co-starring Walter Matthau and Martin Balsom with music by David Shire was released today in the United States.

1974: “The Gambler” a dramatic film directed by Karel Reisz, produced by Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, written by James Toback, starring James Caan and with music by Jerry Fielding was released in the United States today.

1974: “Monument of Jewish sculptor Ernst Neizvestny was installed on the grave of Nikita Khrushchev.”

1975; “Dr. Mikhail Stern’s son Viktor arrived in London to launch a world-wide campaign for the release of his father from a Soviet prison camp.”

1975: In Moscow, Premier Kosygin told Sargent Shriver that “the very idea of creating a Jewish state originated in Russia and that the USSR was prepared to guarantee Israel’s integrity providing she withdraws to the 1967 border and conforms to all UN resolutions. (Editor’s Note – In the second decade of the 21st century we are still hearing about those “1967 borders” which in fact were nothing more than armistice lines from 1949)

1977: Three people were injured in Jerusalem when a bomb went off in a bus station.

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that the US and the Soviet Union, in a formal communiqué issued simultaneously in Washington and Moscow, announced that any Arab-Israeli peace settlement would have to ensure "the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people." Israel sharply criticized this statement as likely to harden the Arabs¹ stance and impede the peace-making progress. Jordan informed the US that it would not agree to the incorporation of Palestinian negotiators within its own Geneva Peace Conference delegation. Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who had a heart attack shortly before his election, was again admitted to hospital, suffering from exhaustion.

1978(1st of Tishrei, 5739): Rosh Hashanah

1978(1st of Tishrei, 5739): Fifty-four-year-old George Washington University trained attorney and U.S. Army Air Force WWII veteran Irving Abraham Levine, the Washington, DC, born son Minnie Cohen and Benjamin Levine the Maryland jurist and husband of Shirley Routhenstein with whom he had two children, Karen and Susan, passed away today.

1978: Syrians and  Palestinians battled in East Beirut, 1,300 killed

1979: In Manhattan, funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Benedict Kanter, the “husband of the late Ruth Kanter” and the father Dr. Joel Kanter.

1981: Birthdate of New York native Marek Ariel “Rel Schulman, best known for “directing the 2010 documentary ‘Catfish’” and the older brother of actor Nev Schulman.

1980(22nd of Tishrei, 5741): Shmini Atzeret observed for the last time during the Presidency of Jimmy Carter.

1981(4th of Tishrei, 5742): Harry Golden passed away passed away at the age of 79.  Born Harry Goldhirsch in what is now the Ukraine, Golden gained famed as the publisher of the Carolina Israelite.  Golden used his publication to advocate desegregation in the days when Jim Crow dominated the South and to provide folksy tales about his days growing up on the Lower East Side.  Two of his better known books were Only in America and for Two Cents Plain. Sometimes Golden combined his passion for social justice with his satiric wit.  One such example was the Vertical Negro Plan.  In the days of the segregated South, African-Americans were not allowed to sit down in a restaurant and eat their meals.  African-Americans were allowed to go to a window at the side or in the back of many eating establishments, order their food and take it to eat elsewhere.  Golden decided that the problem was with African-Americans and Whites eating together, but of sitting together while they were eating.  He proposed removing all chairs and stools from eating establishments.  That way, the races could eat in the same establishment without violating the time honored tradition of not sitting down to eat together.

1981: Soviet authorities in Kharkov summon factory workers to special meetings to inform them that they have “unmasked” a Zionist movement in Kharkov. They say the movement’s members will shortly be put on trial.

1981: “Paternity,” a comedy directed by David Steinberg, featuring Norman Fell and with music by David Shire was released today in the United States.

1982(15th of Tishrei, 5743): Sukkoth and Shabbat

1982(15th of Tishrei, 5743): Seventy-one-year-old NYU graduate William Bernbach “the founder and chairman of the Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency and the husband of the “former Evelyn Carbone with whom he had two sons, John and Paul – the New York attorney and patron of the arts – passed away today.

1982(15th of Tishrei, 5743): Seventy-year-old Sidney Z. Vincent, the Case Western Reserve University Graduate, executive director of the Cleveland Jewish Community Federation and husband of Ruth Vincent with whom he had two children – Jill and Norman—passed away today in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=p8yyW97cEsGItQWuqIzoDA&q=harry+golden&btnK=Google+Search&oq=harry+golden&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0l10.1009.2838..3561...0.0..0.405.1625.7j2j2j0j1....2..0....1..gws-wiz.......0i131j0i10.BndwjXyhdAQ

http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OCLWHi0289.xml;query=;brand=default

http://teachingcleveland.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/Personal-and-Professional-by-Sidney-Z.-Vincent.pdf

1983: The Israel Bank Stock crisis “erupted fully” today, “the first day after the Sukkoth holiday” when “the public sold more bank stocks than in the entire month of September.”

1983: Bonnie Franklin’s “One Day At A Time” begins its ninth and last season.

1984:Love on the Beat,” is an album by French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg featuring a duet with his daughter Charlotte was released today.

1985(17th of Tishrei, 5746): Third Day of Sukkoth

1985(17th of Tishrei, 5746): Eighty-four-year-old Bucharest native Leon Feldstein who in 1908 came to America where he settled in Portland, OR, married Esther Gumbert and owned and operated Hollywood Furniture.

https://www.ojmche.org/oral-history-people/leon-feldstein/

1987: Release date for “Big Shots,” a film edited by Sheldon Kahn and written by Joe Esterhas.

1987: “Near Dark” a horror film co-starring Jenette Goldstein and filmed by Israeli cinematographer Adam Greenberg was released in the United States today.

1987: Refusenik Ida Nuedl learned today that she had been granted an exit visa so she could leave the Soviet Union and go to Israel.

1988(21st of Tishrei, 5749): Hoshana Raba

1988: In “Goetz Estate on the Market” Ruth Ryon described the art and estate left behind by Hollywood producer William Goetz.

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-10-02/realestate/re-4661_1_william-goetz

1989(3rd of Tishrei, 5750): Tzom Gedaliah

1989(3rd of Tishrei, 5750): Abraham Alper passed away today after which he was buried in the “Beth Joseph Agudath Sholom Cemetery in Madison Heights, VA.

1991: Grigory Yavlinsky, the son of the former “Vera Naumonvna, a Russian Jewish Chemistry teacher” completed his service as “Deputy Chairman of the Committee on the Operational Management of the Economy of the Soviet Union” today.

1992(5th of Tishrei, 5753): Eighty-seven-year-old Harold Oscar Pressman, the New York born son of Peter and Rose Schless Pressman, a former deputy district attorney in Los Angles and the husband of former model Helen Woodhouse Pressman whom he married in 1939, passed away today in Palm Springs, CA.

1992: U.S. Premiere of “Hero” a dark comedy produced and written by Laura Ziskin and co-starring Dustin Hoffman.as the anti-hero “Bernie LaPlante.”

1993: BBC Radio 3 broadcast an adaptation of “The Jew of Malta” the play written by Christopher Marlow in the last decade of the 16th century whose lead character is “Barabas, a rich Jewish merchant living on the island of Malta.

1994(27th of Tishrei, 5755): “The Board of Trustee of Bene Naharayim honored Dr. Gourji Ray, the son of Meir and Mariam Raby “for his accomplishments both in Iraq and the United States.

1994: A revival production of Show Boat produced and directed by Harold Prince which had premiered in Toronto opened on Broadway at the George Gershwin Theatre where “it ran for 947 performance” making it the longest running Broadway production of the Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein musical based on Edna Ferber’s novel.

1995(8th of Tishrei, 5456): Seventy-five-year-old Quincy, Massachusetts native Bernard Adler, the stepfather of director Steven Spielberg who along with his wife of 28 years Leah Adler “operated the Milky Way kosher dairy restaurant in Los Angeles” passed away today.

1997(1st of Tishrei, 5758): Rosh Hashana

1997: Emmy award winning actress Rena Sofer completed her second round of guest appearances on “General Hospital.”

1997: Publication of Here on Earth, a novel by Alice Hoffman, the granddaughter of a Russian Jewish immigrants whose works included The World That We Knew based on a true story about a child whose Jewish parents “had her live with non-Jewish parents to escape the Nazis.

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/alice-hoffman/here-on-earth/

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780399143137

1998: “Divorcing Jack” a comedy co-starring Jason Isaacs premiered in the United Kingdom today.

1998: “Hideous Kinky” a film based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by Esther Freud, the great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud was released today by AMLF.

1999(22nd of Tishrei, 5760): Shmini Atzeret observed for the last time in the 20th century.

2000(3rd of Tishrei, 5761): Tzom Gedaliah

2000: Twenty-four-year-old Wichlav Zalsevky was shot by “an unknown Palestinian” today.

2000: CBS broadcast the first episode of season six of “King of Queens” co-starring Jerry Stiller.

2001(15th of Tishrei, 5762): Sukkoth

2001: Osama Awadallah, a college student with no criminal record who was one of dozens Arab men detained around the country in the days after 9/11 as potential witnesses in terrorism investigations appeared in the Federal District Courtroom of Judge Michael B. Mukasey. Responding to Awadallah’s claims that he had been beaten, the judge said, “I will tell you he looks fine to me…If you to file a lawsuit, you can file a lawsuit.”  Mukasey, an Orthodox Jew did not recuse himself from this case which should have come as no surprise since he did not recues himself during the trials of the “Blind Sheik” was part of the conspiracy to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993.

2001: In a statement issued today, Aipac officials criticized President Bush's advisers who advocated support for the creation of a Palestinian state. Those advisers ''are encouraging the president to reward, rather than punish, those that harbor and support terrorism,'' the statement said.

2002: Randy Lerner succeeded his father Al as the leader of the Cleveland Browns football team

2003: “Israel announced today it intended to build about 600 new homes in three large West Bank settlements, a move that contradicts the current Middle East peace plan.”

2003: In “Combing the Ashes of Another New York Disaster” published today” Mike Wallace provided a complete review of Triangle – The First That Change America” in which David Von Drehle gives a 21st century view of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.

2004(17th of Tishrei, 5765): Shabbat Chol HaMoed Sukkoth

2004(17th of Tishrei, 5765): Sixty-three-year-old Shaul Amor, the native of Morocco who served in the Knesset as “Minister without for Portfolio” passed away today.

2004: Amy “Goodman was presented the Islamic Community Award for Journalism by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.”

2005:  The New York Times reported that Franzi Groszman had passed away at the age of 100.  Mrs. Groszman is believed to be one of the last survivors of the parents who put their children on the Kindertransport, the London bound trains that took Jewish children out of Nazi Germany before World War II. 

2005:  Books by Jewish authors or on Jewish topics were featured in several newspapers.  The New York Times Book Review Section included a review of Party In The Blitz a memoir by Elijah Canetti.  The winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature is described as “a Spanish Jewish Viennese Swiss Bulgarian Refugee.  The Times also reviewed Blood Relation a biography of Harold “Heshy” Konigsberg, a Jewish racketeer and hit man.  As the review points out, Jews may be criminals, but they are not heroes.  Hehsy’s family describes him as a “shanda” which is Yiddish for ‘Shame.” 

2005: After fracturing his finger in September Boston Red Sox Kevin Youkilis returned to the lineup today the last day of the 2005 season during which he hit .278.

2006: The Washington Post reviewed Dogs of War by James Reston.  It is subtitled, “Columbus, the Inquisition and the Defeat of the Moors.”  As the reviewer says, “in 1492, Sapin expelled its Jews and crushed a caliphate.” Finally the Post also reviewed The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant.  In The Red Tent Diamant used a gaudy, Technicolor style to engineer her Old Testament visions of sex and violence, while The Last Days of Dogtown is as plain as sunlight on polished wood. But in both books, she has managed to find an appropriate (if not a true) vocabulary to conjure up a world. Like Las Vegas reproductions of old Venice or ancient Egypt, these novels are proudly inauthentic yet still entirely original.”

2006(10th of Tishrei, 5767:) Yom Kippur,

2006: The first Yom Kippur is observed with all IDF Troops out of Lebanon.

2006: As the sun set on Yom Kippur the last Rabbi in Baghdad, Emad Levy, sat down for his last “break the fast’ meal in Iraq.  As he ate the piece of cake and ranks the two glasses of milk he shared his thoughts with a Washington Post reporter realizing that next year he would be doing this in another land.

2006: Allegations arose that Alan Hevesi had fired Alexander McHugh, a receptions who had filed a sexual harassment charge.  Hevesi’s office contended that she had not cooperated with their investigation and that no evidence had been found to support her claim.

2007: Solomon Wachtler “was reinstated to the New York state bar.”

2007: The Special Olympics open in Shanghai where the 2,000-strong Jewish community has raised $20,000 to support Israel’s Special Olympics team.  The community, headed by Maurice Ohama, has provided the 38 Israeli athletes with uniforms, sports shoes as well as access to a Sukkah and kosher food.

2007: Israel eased a strict news blackout on an airstrike on stories related to the September airstrike against Syria that has been described as destroying shipments of arms for Hezbollah or a nuclear facility built with North Korean technology.

2007: Frank Lowy received the Henni Friedlander Award for the Common Good at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, United States.

2007: “Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel opens at the American Folk Art Museum under the aegis of guest cuator Murray Zimilies

2008: At Columbia University, the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies presents an address by renowned Israeli author Amos Oz, Agnon Professor of Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University entitled “A Tale of Love and Darkness” as part of the Syliva and Joseph Radov Lectures

2008(3, Tishrei, 5769): Fast of Gedaliah,

2008: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced today that he would abandon his earlier opposition to changing the term limits law and seek a third term as mayor, arguing that the economic crisis buffeting the nation called for continuity in municipal leadership.

2008 An “abridged version of Girl Crazy,” a 1930’s George and Ira Gershwin musical opened at the Kennedy Center.

2008: In “Rabbi Has Message, So Does Cellphone,” published today James Barron describes how Jewish businessmen are coping with the financial meltdown during the High Holidays.

Standing on the sidewalk outside the Park Avenue Synagogue after attending a service on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, Joel Beeler said, “I feel troubled.” Mr. Beeler is a real estate investor who has been trying to line up financing for a shopping center project. He said that an hour on the phone with a banker before the service had been fruitless. But he said he was not just thinking about the deal. “I’m praying for the whole world and the country,” he said as he headed to his office.  Escaping the worries of a chaotic world is often difficult in New York — a single ringing iPhone can spoil the quietest moments of a concert at Lincoln Center; a vibrating BlackBerry can deliver a message upsetting enough to make someone climb over a row of people and leave a Broadway show to go back to the office.  But this week, perhaps more than most, it was hard to check one’s worries at the door, hard to concentrate on what it means to mark a religious holiday during a financial crisis.  Some worshipers arrived at Rosh Hashana services carrying The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times. Others slipped out from time to time to check their voice mail and e-mail messages.  “I would never do this inside synagogue, but I needed to put my mind to rest,” said Gary Herman, a hedge fund manager who stepped out of the Tuesday morning service at Temple Emanu-El on Fifth Avenue at 65th Street and switched on his BlackBerry to see how the market was doing. Mr. Herman said it was trying to sit through a three-hour service on a nerve-wracking day for the markets. “Every time a person asks you, ‘How are you?’ what they are really eliciting are your thoughts about the market,” he said.  Some said they heard a low hum from cellphones, carefully set for vibrate mode, buzzing like bees swarming around a far-off rhododendron. Robert N. Levine, the senior rabbi at Congregation Rodeph Sholom, at 7 West 83rd Street, said he had begun his Tuesday sermon by saying that he was well aware that people attending the service were in “BlackBerry withdrawal.”  He said in an interview later that he was concerned about the economy, in part because a deepening downturn could affect the congregation’s social service work, in part because some members of the congregation had already lost jobs. “I think people are feeling both fragile and humble this year,” he said, “but every crisis is also an opportunity to assess your blessings.” Rabbi Levine said that he had not seen people checking their hand-held phones during the services. But at the Park Avenue Synagogue, on Madison Avenue and 87th Street, cellphone signals apparently caused problems for the public-address system on Tuesday. The speakers crackled, a security guard at the synagogue said.  So on Wednesday, the guards at the entrance told people to turn their cellphones off as they entered the sanctuary. That forced those who could not let calls and messages go unanswered — or, at least, unmonitored — to go outside. One investment banker who did so yelled into his phone during a 15-minute call. “I felt that I shouldn’t have come here today, but I needed to,” he said, refusing to give his name because his firm does not permit employees to talk to reporters.  The senior rabbi, Elliot J. Cosgrove, had mentioned economic worries on Tuesday, the day after the House of Representatives voted down the $700 billion bailout plan and the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 777 points. Rabbi Cosgrove had counseled the congregation not to be upset by the financial problems of the last few weeks. “Let go of your white-knuckled grip on reality, and let a new reality present itself,” he told the congregation. For some, that was easier said than done. One man in a gray suit spoke on his cellphone for nearly an hour before going into Central Synagogue, on Lexington Avenue at 55th Street, on Tuesday. When he emerged after the service, he was again on the phone. Outside the Park Avenue Synagogue, a man with a BlackBerry in his hand complained about “a dysfunctional government and a dysfunctional Congress.” “They don’t get it,” he said. He refused to give his name, saying he considered it inappropriate to talk business so close to his place of worship. Joe Zicherman, who left Morgan Stanley in the late 1990s and now works as a private money manager and consultant, prayed at Congregation Rodeph Sholom. “I felt it was more important to be here than it was to be at the office,” he said, “especially because being in the office doesn’t seem to be doing anyone any good these days.” He said that at the office, he tried to manage risk, but “the only thing you can manage is your blood pressure.” -Rob Blum, who sells medical equipment and lives on the Upper East Side, said that one message of the service he attended at Central Synagogue on Tuesday was, “Realize that you are blessed with the life you have.” He said that the New Year is generally thought of as a happy time, but that this year, so much seemed overshadowed by uncertainty. “My wife works on Wall Street,” he said. “Who knows what will happen with her job?” Joshua Levin, a manager at an athletic fitness company, said as he left Central Synagogue on Wednesday that just being inside had been an escape. “Outside,” he said, “we’re bombarded with all sorts of troubling news.”

2009: Singer-songwriter Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul & Mary fame) reads from and discusses his new song-inspired children's picture book, Day is Done, (illustrated by Melissa Sweet) at Politics and Prose Bookstore, in Washington, D.C.

2009: Icelandic experimental band mum (with a lower-case "m" and pronounced moom) is scheduled to open its European tour at Tel Aviv's Barby Club today.

2009: The Coen Brothers latest film, “A Serious Man,” opens in theatres throughout the United States.

2009: According to reports published in today’s Washington Post, “Israeli writer Amos Oz is the favorite to be picked for the 2009 Nobel literature prize next Thursday, but with the judging notoriously hard to predict, he is far from a safe bet.  Oz, who deals with life in modern Israel in his novels and reflects decades of commitment to the Israeli peace movement in his political writing, is quoted at 4/1 by the British bookmaker Ladbrokes, meaning he has one chance in five of winning.”

2009(14th of Tishrei, 5770): Erev Sukkoth

2009(14th of Tishrei, 5770): Captain Benjamin Sklaver was killed in Afghanistan.

2009: Thin and wan, but lucid and very much alive, Gilad Shalit, the captured Israeli soldier whose fate has gripped Israel for more than three years, appeared in a video today holding a Palestinian newspaper dated Sept. 14.

2009(14th of Tishrei, 5770): Seventy-six-year-old photographer of the famous, Nat Finkelstein, passed away today. (As reported by William Grimes)

2010: On Shabbat, the traditional minyan at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA joins the rest of the world in reading Parsha Bereshit, marking the start of the new Torah reading cycle.

2010: Miki Gavrielov, one of Israel’s leading singer/song writer is scheduled to perform at Beth El Synagogue Center in New Rochelle, NY. 

2011: Israelis change their clocks as daylight savings time comes to an end.

2011: The New York Times features books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern” by Stephen Greenblatt, “Gustav Mahler by Jens Malte Fischer, “All Our Worldly Goods” by Irène Némirovsky and “The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irène Némirovsky by Her Daughter” by Élisabeth Gille

2011: Gilo is not a settlement but an “integral part of Jerusalem,” Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon stressed during a tour of the capital’s third-largest neighborhood for 50 members of the foreign media today.

2011: Today, Israel formally accepted an international proposal to return to peace negotiations with the Palestinians, but any immediate resumption of talks appeared unlikely as the Israelis and Palestinians differed sharply over the letter and spirit of the proposal.

2012(16th of Tishrei, 5733): Second Day of Sukkoth

2012: This evening, Michael Stewart, author of The Gypsy Menace: Populism and the New Anti Gypsy Politics is scheduled to discuss treatment of Europe’s largest minority at the Wiener Library in London.

2012: Vandals attacked the Franciscan convent on Jerusalem’s Mount Zion early this morning, spray-painting it with anti- Christian graffiti in the third “price tag” attack against a Christian site this year. The vandals painted the words “price tag” and “Jesus is a bastard” on the door of the Franciscan convent, located adjacent to the Dormition Abbey cathedral.

2012: Funeral services for the late Stephen O. Frankurt, former President of Young & Rubicon will be held today

2012: “Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Julius Berman, Colette Avital and Rafi Eitan were among those who spoke at the funeral of Holocaust survivor and Israeli economist Moshe Sanbar which was held at the Kiryat Shaul Cemetery today.

2012: Five people, including Likud activist Moshe Feiglin, were arrested for a confrontation on the Temple Mount this morning during Feiglin’s monthly trip to Judaism’s holiest site. Towards the end of Feiglin’s visit, a group of Muslims surrounded the Jewish worshippers and started yelling “Alalu Akbar.”

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=286292

2012: Friends and Family will celebrate the birthday of Barb Feller today in Cedar Rapids, where her many accomplishments include being a Hebrew teach par excellence.

2013: In the UK, the Wiener Library is scheduled to host Bernd Koschland who will share his experiences of the Kindertransport, the humanitarian effort that brought 10,000 persecuted children to the UK from Europe in 1938-39.

2013: The Greater Washington Area Chapter of Hadassah is scheduled to host its Special Gifts Dinner this event at Woodmont Country Club.

2013: In a commemoration marking the 40th anniversary of the Yom Kippur a screening of “The Battle Over the Soul” followed “by a conversation with Dan Almagor, the producer and a soldier at the battle of ‘Tel Saki’ is scheduled to take place at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue.

2013: In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah is scheduled to host the Hadassah Book Club which will discuss The List by Martin Fletcher.

2013: In Budapest, the Conference on Jewish Life and Anti-Semitism in Contemporary Europe came to an end.

2013: “Poverty is the greatest menace to the Middle East, overtaking terrorism and conventional wars, Israeli President Shimon Peres told the Dutch parliament in a speech today.”

2013: “Finance Minister Yair Lapid y0day harshly condemned Israeli citizens who emigrate to improve their standard of living, saying he had “no patience” for people who leave the Jewish state behind for reasons of convenience.”

2013(28th of Tishrei, 5774): Ninety-four-year-old “Abraham Nemeth, the creator of a Braille Code for math” passed away today. (As reported by William Yardley)

2013: Based the media coverage, the most important Jew in the world today is fashion designer Marc Jacobs who announced that “he is leaving Louis Vuitton after 16 years to concentrate on his namesake line”

2014: The Kaufman Music Center is scheduled to host “An Evening with Paul Reiser.”

2014: In an interview published today IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz said “Israel achieved a decisive victory in this summer’s hostilities with Hamas, but maintaining a long-term ceasefire depends on improving the day-to-day conditions and economic conditions of Gaza residents.” (As reported by Gavriel Fiske)

2014: In an attempt to avoid armed clashes, a closure of the West Bank begins as ll:59 p.m. today (JTA)

2014: France joined the United States in condemning a plan to buid over two thousand new homes in east Jerusalem, thus worsening a pseudo –crisis created by Prime Minister Netanyahu who successfully shifted attention away from what he claimed was a primary security concern  i.e. keeping Iran from developing nuclear capability.

2015: Lewis Black is scheduled to perform at the Belle Mehus Auditorium in Bismarck, ND.

2015: Today, Spain approved the granting of “citizenship to 4,302 people who identified themselves as descendants of Sephardic Jews.”

2015: “Congo Beat the Drum,” a documentary about “two musicians from Tel Aviv who travel to Jamaica to record an album with forgotten reggae artists from the past” is scheduled to be shown at the Bushwick Film Festival.

2015: Erev Shabbat, Border Policemen shot a young Palestinian Arab man in the leg in the Issawiya neighborhood of Jerusalem, after he approached them with a firebomb in his hand and tried to throw it at them.

2015: As part of the International Balloon Festival, balloons are scheduled to be launched “early this morning from Eshkol Park in the northern Negev region.

2015: “Over 200 Palestinian Arabs waited for police forces at Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem this afternoon, throwing rocks and firebombs and burning tires at the Jewish holy site.”

2015: All decent people throughout the world mourn the deaths of Eitam and Haama Henkin who were murdered when terrorists opened fire on their car in which they were traveling with four of their children in an attack which Hamas praised as “heroic” followed by a call for “more high-quality attacks.”

2015: “As Syria Reels, Israel Looks to Expand Settlements in Golan Heights” published today described the changing face of Israel’s northern border.”

2015: Thousands attended the funeral in Jerusalem this morning for Eitam and Naama Henkin, who were killed in a shooting attack in their car near the settlement of Itamar yesterday evening during which nine year old Matan said Kaddish for his parents 

2016(29th of Elul, 5776): Eighty-three-year-old Brooklyn born director and producer Gordon Davidson who transformed the theatrical scene in Los Angeles passed away today.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/gordon-davidson-moses-of-las-theater-scene-dies-at-83/                                                                                                                                                                                                          2016: The first show of the seventh season of “Shameless” starring Emmy Rossum is scheduled to be broadcast tonight.

2016: In Moscow, police said they had arrested “a 40-year-old man” who had stabbed a security a guard during an attack at the central synagogue.

2016: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Iran Wars: Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals That Reshaped the Middle East by Jay Solomon, The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline by Jonathan Tepperman and Little Nothing by Marisa Silver

2016(29th of Elul, 5776): Erev Rosh Hashanah

שנה טובה, כתיבה וחתימה טובה.

2017:

2107: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the last screening “The Exception” a film that tells the tale of a Nazi officer sent guard Kaiser Wilhelm II after the start of WW II.

2017: The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and the Center for Jewish History are scheduled to host the final session of “Proust in Time: Sawnn’s Way” that examines Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.

2018:This evening the Illinois Museum and Education Center to host “cast members from the Victory Gardens Theatre production performing selections from Paula Vogel’s play ‘Indecent’” after which they will “discuss the responsibility of the artist in times of injustice, oppression and censorship.”

2018: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a Simchat Torah lunch today.

2018(23rd of Tishrei, 5779): Simchat Torah

2018: Today, Jason Kander, who had voluntarily served in Afghanistan dropped out of the race for Mayor of Kansas City, “citing symptoms of PTSD and depression.

2018: Having released the music video for “All of Tears” at the end of September, Z Berg released the single “on music platforms” today.

2019: The opening celebration for the exhibition “The Art of Exile: Paintings by German-Jewish Refugees presented by LBI is schedule to take place today.

2019: In New York, the School of Visual Arts is scheduled to host an “evening celebrating the 60th anniversary of ‘The Twilight Zone,’ the seminal show” of Jewish born convert to Unitarianism Rod Serling.

2019: In Mill Valley, CA, the Outdoor Art Club is scheduled to host Tffany Shalin, “the San Francisco based Jewish author who will discuss her new book, 24/6: The Power of Unplugging.”

2019(3rd of Tishrei, 5779): Fast of Gedaliah

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2316462/jewish/Tzom-Gedaliah-Fast-Day.htm

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/tzom-gedaliah/

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-fast-of-gedaliah

2020(14th of Tishrei, 5781): Erev Sukkoth and Erev Shabbat

2020: Despite the lockdown and the government promise of large fines, as Israelis prepare to begin observe Sukkot this evening “many major ultra-Orthodox communities in Jerusalem have said they will observe the communal living customs of the Sukkot holiday.” (As reported by Kobi Nachshoni)

2020: In Ohio, Congregation B’nai Jeshurun is scheduled to host Kabbalat Shabbat services via Zoom and livestream links.as well an evening service followed by a Kiddush with Rabbi Stephen Weiss.

2020: Contemporary Jewish Museum is scheduled to “present percussionist David Freeman, accompanied by sitar player Mustafa Bhagat, performing compositions that blend Indian raga, folk and jazz”.

2020: In Bexlely, OH Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host its Friday Book Club this morning

2020: JCC Boston is scheduled to present a “PJ Library Shabbat Circle Time Celebrating Sukkoth.”

2021: The Lappin Foundation is scheduled to present “Into the Ark Celebration” during which Rabbi Perry of Congregation Shalom “will lead a prayer over the animals” as part of an animal adventure show that tells the story of Noah.

2021: The Eden Tamir is scheduled to host its Season Opening Concert with Yevgenia Pikovsky, Asaf Maoz, violins;Dmitri Ratush, viola; Felix Nemirovsky, cello; Jonathan Hadas, clarinet; Dror Semmel, piano.

2021: The USS Carl M. Levin, a 510-foot-long Arleigh Burke-class destroyed named for Carl Levin Z”L, the long time Senator from Michigan is scheduled to be christened today at the Bath  Works in Maine, where his three daughters, Kate, Laura and Erica, will perform the actual christening ceremony.

2021(26th of Tishrei, 5782): Parashat Bereshit; The Cycle begins again.

2022: the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy and the Museum at Eldridge St a walking tour  “Shuls of Grandeur on the Lower East beginning at the Bialystoker Synagogue.

2022: The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to present “Prepare for Yom Kippur with Hazzan Yehiel Nahari.”

2022: The National Library of Israel is scheduled to present a lecture by Dr. Ariel Ziner on “You’re Never Alone: a Piyut for Yom Kippur.”

2022: The American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History are scheduled to host the book launch event for Yearning to Breathe Free, a “comprehensive volume, featuring contributions from twenty of American Jewish history’s most preeminent scholars, details Jewish life in Gilded Age America, and provides a much-needed glimpse into the political, economic, and social histories of Jewish Americans.”

2022: “ Leopoldstadt,” the semi-autobiographical work by acclaimed British playwright Tom Stoppard  is scheduled to begin its Broadway today

https://www.timesofisrael.com/stoppards-leopoldstadt-tackles-holocaust-intermarriage-zionism-for-ny-audience/

2022: The Breman Museum and Lumière are scheduled to host a  presentation by San Francisco filmmaker Jane Levy Reed, the director of the film :My Eyes Were Fresh: The Life and Photographs of John Gutmann” on the life and work of John Gutmann.

2022: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Red Widow: The Scandal That Shook Paris and the Woman Behind It by Sarah Horowitz.

2023(17th of Tishrei, 5754): Third Day of Sukkoth; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/

2023: In New Orleans, The Jewish Community Day is scheduled to hold its Sukkoth BBQ.

2023: The Haifa International Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of the silent class “A Woman of Paris” written by Charlie Chaplin and Walt Disney’s “Fantasia.”

2023: The Museum at Eldrige Street is scheduled to host “a Zoom exploration of Jewish activism at the beginning of the twentieth century” which “will trace its origins in Eastern Europe, explore its landmarks in the Lower East Side, and meet its leaders that stood on the frontlines.”

2023: In Metairie, LA, Beth Israel is scheduled to host a “Men’s Sukkoth Event” complete with “football and BBQ under the stars.”

2024(29th of Elul, 5784): Erev Rosh Hashana

2024: In Minneapolis/St. Paul today is the deadline for placing an order for Hadassah’s  Rosh Hashana Annual Honey Sale Fundraiser.

2024: In Cedar Rapids, the Jewish community is scheduled to celebrate a double-barreled simcha – erev Rosh Hashana and the birthday of Barb Feller, the patient Hebrew teacher par excellence.

2024: In New York, the West End Synagogue is scheduled to begin its hybrid Holy Days observances which have the over-archin theme of “Finding Our Way Together.”

2024: In Metairie, LA Shir Chadash is scheduled to host “a festive Rosh Hashana dinner following the evening service.”

2024(29th of Elul, 5784): Having returned to Cedar Rapids, Kathryn Levin resumes her role as a member of the choir at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA.

2024: As October 2nd 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 2nd 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 362 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)