693: Opening session of
the Sixteenth Council of Toledo which, before its close, would add more
regulations that would prove oppressive to the Jews living under the
Visigoths. This Visigoth anti-Semitism
would provide a major impetus for Jewish support of the Moors when they invaded
Spain in the early decades of the next century.
799: Leo III who during
his papacy “introduced public disputations between
Jews and Christians, resulting in forced conversions to Christianity” was today
attacked by relatives of Adir I as he “was making his way towards the Flaminian
Gate” “on the occasion of the procession of the Greater Litanies…”
1211: Birthdate of Duke
Frederick II the Quarrelsome who granted a privilegium
to the Austrian Jews in 1244.
1214: Birthdate of King
Louis IX of France. According to one historian Louis “hated the Jews so
thoroughly that he would not look at them.”
Considering the fact that Louis that Louis financed his Crusade from the
wealth he stole from his Jewish subjects, the fact that he expelled them from
his domain and that he burned 12,000 copies of the Talmud and other Jewish
texts, one would have to say that there is more than just a little credence to
this evaluation.
1221(2nd of
Iyar): Baruch ben Samuel, a leading Talmudist and author of religious poems
“who was one of the leading signatories of the Takkanot Shum, a set of decrees
designed to deal with the problems facing Rhineland Jews in the wake of the
Crusades passed away today. 1284: Sancho IV of Castile, who treated the story
of the affair between Rahel la Fermosa, a Jewish woman from Toledo, and King
Alfonso VIII as fact and not fable, began his reign today.
1284: Birthdate of King
Edward II of England Edward would be the first King of England since the Norman
Conquest, to reign over a Kingdom that had no Jewish subjects.
1288: At Troyes, thirteen
Jews chosen from among the richer members of the community were condemned by
the Inquisition to perish in the flames because of “the pretended murder of a
Christian child.”
https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11591-normandy#anchor37
1295: King Sancho IV of
Castile who treated the story of the affair between Rahel la Fermosa, a Jewish
woman from Toledo, and King Alfonso VIII as fact and not fable, began passed
away. Among the Jews who served Sancho were the Kabbalist Todros Abulafia and
the physicians of the Ibn Waqar family who were close enough to the king that
they served as witnesses to his last will and testament.
1333: Coronation of
King Casimir III of Poland. From the Jewish point of
Casimir III was seen as a cut above the average ruler. He was favorably
disposed toward Jews. On October 9, 1344 he confirmed the privileges granted to
Jewish Poles in 1264 by Boleslaus V. Under penalty of death, he prohibited the
kidnapping of Jewish children for the purpose of forcible Christian baptism. He
inflicted heavy punishment for the desecration of Jewish cemeteries. Although
Jews were living in Poland earlier, Casimir allowed them to settle in Poland in
great numbers and protected them as king's people.
1342: Pope Benedict XII
during whose Papacy a large number of Jewish communities were attacked in
Bavaria, Austria and Poland and Isaac ben Jacob of Lattes of Provence wrote
“Toledot Yitzhak” which provided a history of his community passed away today
1367: Poland's Casimir III "The
Great" expanded the "privileges" of 1334 to include the
Jews in Lesser Poland and Ukraine.
1599: Birthdate of Oliver Cromwell. Most
people remember Cromwell as one of the leaders in the revolt against
Charles I that left the latter a beheaded monarch and the former Lord
Protector. To the Jews, he is the English leader who enabled the Jews to
return to England after three and half centuries of exile. Despite a
great deal of opposition, Cromwell held fast to his commitment to the return of
the Jews. Although they came in secret at first, by 1657, one year before
the death of Cromwell, the Jews of London felt confident enough in their
position to purchase a building to be used as a Synagogue. Cromwell passed away
in September of 1658.
1607: During the Eighty Years' War, the
Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar. The Eighty Years' War, or Dutch Revolt,
was the war of secession between the Netherlands and the Spanish king that
lasted from 1568 to 1648. The war resulted in the Seven United Provinces being
recognized as an independent state. The United Provinces of the Netherlands, or
the Dutch Republic, became a world power for a time through its merchant
shipping and experienced a period of economic, scientific and cultural growth. The region now known as Belgium and
Luxembourg also became established as the Southern Netherlands, part of the
Seventeen Provinces that remained under royal Habsburg rule. The Spanish were Catholics. The Dutch were Protestants. More importantly, the Protestant Dutch were
willing to provide a safe haven for the Jews.
In fact, the early Jewish community in the Netherlands was dominated by
Sephardic Jews whose families had been driven out of Catholic Spain. It was this Dutch victory over the Spanish
that would mean that New Amsterdam would be Protestant and would be a haven for
the first Jewish community in what would become the United States. 1621 Birthdate of Roger Boyle, the 1st Early of Orrery, the
Anglo-Irish dramistis who works included “Herod The Great” and “Tryphon” which
“enacted the story of the pretender to the throne of Syria in the 2nd century
BC as related by Josephus in History of the Jews and in the First Book
of Maccabees passed away today.
1734: Jacob de Beer was employed by the
Dutch East India Company.
1744: Birthdate of German native
Juettle Kahn the daughter of David Kahn, and husband of Aron Loeb Regensburger
and the mother of Sara, Monathan, Esther and Madel Regegensburger all of whom
passed away in Jebenhausen, Germany.
1758(17th of Nisan, 5518):
Third Day of Pesach
1761(21st of Nisan, 5521):
Shabbat shel Pesach
1764(23rd of Nisan, 5524):
Eighty-one-year-old Judah Monis “the first Jew to receive a college degree in
the American colonies” and the author of “the first Hebrew textbook published
in North America who converted to Christianity so he could teach at Harbard
passed away today.
1770: Birthdate of Georg Sverdrup the
Norwegian who favored a constitutional ban on Jews living in his country
because he “felt that it would be incompatible with Judaism to deal honestly
with Christians, writing that ‘no person of the Jewish faith may come within
Norway's borders, far less reside there.’”
1772(22nd of Nisan, 5532):
Eighth Day of Pesach and Shabbat
1774(14th of Iyar, 5534): As
the Jews living in the 13 colonies observed Pesach Sheni as loyal subjects of
King George III, British forces which had orders to close the port of Boston
were making their way across the Atlantic.
1775: In Bedford, NY, David Barrack
Hays and Esther (Hetty Asher) Hays gave birth to Asher Hays.
1779(9th of Iyar, 5539): Isaac Lazarus
passed away today in New York.
1780: In Buchau, Johanna Ullman and
Jacob Dreifus gave birth to Moses Jakob Dreifus, the husband of Regina Maendle
with whom he had six children.
1785: in Newport, RI, Judith Rachel
Mears and Moses Isaacks, who were married in Philadelphia in 1764 gave birth to
Jacob Isaacks.
1785: Birthdate of Meyer Israel
Breslau, a notary by trade who “was a founding member and chairman of the
Hamburg Temple, one of the first Jewish reform congregations in Germany.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/a-topic/987007500794105171
1786: In Baltimore, Isaac Abrahams and
his wife gave birth to Joseph Abrahams who is not to be confused with Boston
native Joseph Abrahams Jr. who was born in 1800.
1791(21st of Nisan, 5551):
Seventh Day of Pesach
1791: Birthdate of Abraham Lazarus, the
husband of Mary Wilks whom he married in 1809 at London’s Great Synagogue.
1792: Claude
Joseph Rouget de Lisle composed La Marseillaise (French national anthem). One
hundred and eighty-one years La Marseillaise would become part of Jewish
liturgy. On Shemini Atzeres, 5734/1973, before the fourth hakafa, the Rebbe
stood on the edge of the bima and began to sing “Ha’aderes vehaemuna” to the
tune of the French national anthem, “La Marseillaise.” Rebbe’s
rendition of “Ha’aderes vehaemuna” to “La Marseillaise,” was related to the
concept of “Napoleon’s March,” when the Alter Rebbe took the theme of victory
from the March.
1794: Two days after the Vilna Gaon’s
74th birthday, the Great Hetman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Szymon Marcin Kossakowski was hanged as a traitor of the Commonwealth during
the Vilnius Uprising of 1974.
1795(6th of Iyar, 5555):
Parashat Tazria-Metzora
1795: After nineteen days of
imprisonment, German-Jewish author Saul Ascher was released by authorities in
Berlin.
1796(17th of Nisan, 5556):
Third Day of Pesach
1799(20th of Nisan, 5559):
Sixth Day of Pesach
1800(30th of Nisan, 5560):
Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1803: Wolf Breidenbach, a self-made man
who used his wealth and influence in the cause of Jewish emancipation in
Germany, succeeded today in having the Jewish "Leibzoll" abolished in
Isenburg. The "Leibzoll" was a
tax levied on Jews when they entered a town in which they did not leave or in
which the Jews had not been granted special priviliges.
1804(14th of Iyar, 5564)
Pesach Sheni
1804(14th of Iyar, 5564): Moses
Myers (Moses ben Meir Pollack, in Hebrew) who was born in Holland and must have
been quite young when he took up his position in England died passed away
today, possibly “as the result of a seizure brought on through the excitement
of having to give evidence in a Court of Law about the validity of a marriage.”
1808: Birthdate of Gustav Weil, the
native of Sulzburg who eschewed a career as a rabbi and instead became one of
the leading Orientalists of his time which, in those days meant a study of what
today we call the Middle East including studies of the world of Islam and their
leading prophet.
1810: Nineteen days after having been
arrested, 33-year-old Berlin native Saul Ascher was released by authorities.
1819(30th of Nisan, 5579):
Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1819: Two days after he had passed
away, 56-year-old Henry Alexander was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish
Cemetery.”
1820: Seventy-five-year-old Patrick
Colquhoun the Dumbarton native and
Scottish merchant and statistician according to whom “at the opening of the 19th
century,” “the Jewish population of London amounted to 20,000” who “worshipped
at six synagogues” while “various provincial centers held five or six thousand
additional Jews” who worshipped at twenty synagogues” passed away today.
(Jews of England 300)
1823: Birthdate of “German orientalist
and biblical scholar” whose works included commentaries on Genesis published in
1875, Exodus and Leviticus published in 1880, and the “Ascension of Isaiah”
published in 1877.
1823: Birthdate of Abdülmecid I, the
Ottoman Sultan under whom Yakir Gueron served as chief rabbi of Constantinople
1824: Birthdate of Samuel Mohilwer, the
native of Hluboka who became a rabbi and a supporter of Jewish settlement in
Palestine.
1825: Yenchiel Michael ben Samuel
married Hindela bat Eliezer today at the Western Synagogue.
1829(22nd of Nisan, 5589):
Eighth Day of Pesach and Shabbat; Yizkor is recited for the first time during
the Presidency of Andrew Jackson.
1830: In London, Rebeca Raphael Medola
and Rabbi David Aaron De Sola gave birth to Elizabeth David De Sola.
1834(16th of Nisan, 5594):
Second Day of Pesach; first day of the Omer
1837: Montague M. Hendricks, the New
York born son of Frances and Harmon Hendricks and his wife Rachel Siexas Nathan
gave birth to Mortimer M. Hendricks, the husband of Jessie Justina Brandly
Hendricks.
1838: In Germany, Deborah Cohen and
Solomon Stix gave birth to William Stix, the husband of Dinah Riche with whom
he had nine children.
1840(22nd of Nisan, 5600):
Eighth Day of Pesach and Shabbat
1840: Birthdate of Caroline Kaiser, who
married Alois Kaiser, the cantor of Baltimore’s Eutaw Place Synagogue while she
was living in Vienna
1843: Birthdate of Hungarian native and
University of Vienna educated botanist August Kanitz, the auth or of works on
the flora of Slavonia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Servia and Rumania who converted to
Christianity so that he could made a Knight of the Crown of Rumania.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9189-kanitz-august
1845:
Today, the Herald of Freedom published an article entitled
"The Jews and the Holy Land" in which Nathanial Peabody Rogers, a
leading abolitionist from New Hampshire "expressed his views of Mordecai
Noah's efforts at Jewish restoration in Palestine." Showing a complete
lack of understanding of Jewish feeling for Palestine, Rogers expressed his
opposition to "any American Jewish effort to rebuild a Jewish Palestine as
a weakening of the struggle for justice and equal rights in the United
States."
1845(18th
of Nisan, 5605): Fourth Day of Pesach
1845(18th
of Nisan, 5605): Thirty-one-year-old Rinah J. Otteolengui, the daughter of
Sarah Jacobs and Abraham Ottolengui and wife of Jacob I. Moses with whom he had
two children, Montefiore and William passed away today in Charleston, SC.
1846(29th
of Nisan, 5606): Parashat Shmini
1846(29th
of Nisan, 5606): As a prelude to the Mexican-American War, “a 2,000-man Mexican
cavalry detachment attacked a 70-man U.S. patrol commanded by Captain Seth
Thornton, which had been sent into the contested territory north of the Rio
Grande and south of the Nueces River. In the Thornton Affair, the Mexican
cavalry routed the patrol, killing 11 American soldiers and capturing 52.
1846(29th
of Nisan, 5606): Rabbi Judah ben Joshua Heskiel Bacharach, author of “Nimukei
Hagriv and a lineal descendent of Tobias Bacharach, passed away today
1846: The United Order of
True Sisters, the first independent national women's organization in America,
held its first meeting. Organized at Temple Emanu-El in New York City, the
United Order of True Sisters (UOTS) was conceived as a female counterpart to
the male Jewish B'nai B'rith organization (founded in 1843), but functioning
separately, UOTS claims to be the first independent national women's
organization in the United States. Some of the Order's goals resembled those of
earlier Jewish women's mutual aid and charitable societies. The Sisters sought
"refinement of the heart and mind and moral improvement," and paid
regular dues to be used for burial fees and material aid to members struck by
illness or sudden poverty. Unlike earlier charitable women's organizations,
however, the UOTS also had explicitly political goals. In the words of the
group's 1864 constitution, the Order sought "particularly the development
of free, independent and well-considered action of its members. The women are
to expand their activities, without neglecting their obligations as
housekeepers, in such a manner, that if necessary they can participate in
public meetings and discussions." The structure of the lodge, with secret
passwords, degrees of membership, and closely-guarded rituals, mirrored the
organization of men's fraternal organizations like B'nai B'rith, the Masons,
and the Odd Fellows. The members of UOTS were mostly middle-class German-Jewish
women, as evidenced by the fact that meetings at most lodges were conducted in
German until the end of the First World War. Many members were wives of B'nai
B'rith members. The UOTS provided these women a place to exercise their
leadership abilities and develop a role in the public sphere, without being
subject to the authority of men. Although most probably did not fear material
want, the system of mutual aid provided an unusual degree of security and
independence. Initiated under the leadership of Henriette Bruckman, and founded
with just ten other members, the original lodge counted over 100 members by
1851. In the same year, the UOTS established a Grand Lodge as an umbrella
organization to connect lodges in different cities and to centralize authority.
By the mid-1860s, lodges existed in Philadelphia, New Haven, and Albany as well
as New York. Active in public life from the beginning, the UOTS established its
own newspaper, Der Vereinsote, in 1884.Today, the UOTS continues to
maintain chapters across the country, although its focus has changed and is no
longer identified as an exclusively Jewish organization. Since 1947, the main
activities of the Order have been raising money for cancer research and
providing support to cancer patients. The most recent chapter was formed in
Suffolk County, New York, in 1978.
1846: “Charles VI” a
French grand opera with music composed by Fromental Halevy was performed at The
Hague for the first time.
1847: In New York, the
“Orthodox congregation…composed exclusively of natives of Holland” which was
found on April 14, 1847 and was led by Rabbi Simon C. Noot today “adopted the
name B’nai Israel today.
1848(22nd of
Nisan, 5608): Eighth and final day of Pesach
1848: The new Austrian constitution guaranteed
freedom of the Jewish religion.
1849: General Joseph von Radowitz began serving as the chief
minister for Frederick William IV “who declared in the beginning of his reign
that he desired to exclude the Jews from military service, believed strongly in
a "Christian" state.”
1850: Paul Julius
Reuter used 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices. Born Israel Beer
Josaphat, Reuter had left his uncle's bank just two years before
to establish what would become one of the world's greatest news gathering
organizations.
1850: In Gronigen,
Ravel Beer Jacobs, the Dutch born son of
Simon Jacob Jacobs and Marianne Abraham Hamming / Hammo and his wife Frouke
Jacobs gave birth to Salomon Levie Jacobs the husband of Frouke Jacob and the F-father
of Stillborn Jacobs; Diena Jacobs; Samuel Jacobs; Estella Jacobs; Ravel Salomon
Levie Jacobs; and Johan Jacobs
1851: In Hagerstown,
MD, Nathan and Isabella Kahn gave birth to Mayer Kahn, the brother of Solomon
Kahn and Rebecca Kahn Affelder.
1851: In Neuilly-sur-Seine,
Hauts-de-Seine, Nathaniel de Rothschild and Charlotte de Rothschild (née de
Rothschild) gave birth to Baron Arthur de Rothschild yachtsman and philatelist.
1852: Plymouth, England
native Esther Braham and Russian born Joseph Benjamin gave birth to David
Ezekiel Benjamin.
1852: Twenty-one Reform Jews formed
Washington Hebrew Congregation in Washington D.C.
1853(17th
of Nisan, 5613): Third Day of Pesach
1853:
Two days after she had passed away, 77-year-old Ann (Levy) Lazarus, the wife of
Aaron Lazarus was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1854:
In London, Rosetta Abrahams and Moses Joseph Martin gave birth to Judith
Martin.
1857(1st
of Iyar, 5617): Parashat Tazria-Metzora; Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1859(21st
of Nisan, 5619): Seventh Day of Pesach
1859:
Construction of the Suez Canal begins. The construction and operation of the
canal became entangled in the European power politics and imperial conflicts
between the French, who built the canal and the British who wanted to control
it. While serving as Prime Minister,
Benjamin Disraeli bought a controlling interest in the company that owned the
canal. This “extra-legal” purchase was
made possible by money from the House of Rothschild.
1860:
In Dayton, OH, Jacob Ach and the former Jeanette Guttman gave birth to Samuel
Ach, the husband of the former Esther Ruth Kahn who was the head of The Samuel
Ach Company of Cincinnati, OH, which included a Tailor Made Hat Department.
https://digital.cincinnatilibrary.org/digital/collection/p16998coll6/id/3457/
1861:
In New York City Joseph and Babette Steinhart gave birth to influential
political economist Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, the husband of Caroline
Beer who earned a B.A. Ph.D. and LL.B from Columbia University and who became the head of the faculty of economics and
sociology at his alma mater while authoring numerous works that works were
“translated into French, Italian and Japanese” including The Economic
Interpretation of History.
1861: At the outbreak
of the Civil War, Philadelphian William Moss, the son of Joseph and Julia Moss
enlisted for a three-month hitch with Company A of the Seventeenth Regiment.
1862: In London, Colonel
George Henry Grey and Harriet Jane Pearson gave birth to Sir Edward Grey, the
British Foreign Minister who expressed his support for “a homeland for the
Jewish people” and after the outbreak of WW I, for the “emancipation of the
Russian Jews.
1863(6th of
Iyar, 5623): Parashat Tazria-Metzora read on the eighth day of Grierson’s Raid
during the Civil War which was part of General Grant’s campaign to capture
Vicksburg.
1864(19th of
Nisan, 5624): Fifth Day of Pesach
1864: As Jews munched
on their matzah, in Arkansas, the Rebs and the Union clashed at the Battle of
Marks’ Mills.
1865: In, Girait
Hungary, Morris and Rosa (Friedlander) Moschcowitz gave birth to Columbia
trained surgeon, Alexis Victor Moschcowitz. the husband of Milly Lowei who
served as Lt. Col. In the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army and a Professor of
Clinical Surgery at Columbia.
1865 Birthdate of
Frannie Bernstine who was buried at the Temple Beth-El Cemetery in Pensacola
when she passed away
1867(20th
of Nisan, 5627): Sixth Day of Pesach
1867:
As Jews munched on their matzah, “Tokyo was opened for foreign trade” today.
1869(14th
of Iyar, 5629): Pesach Sheni observed for the first time during the Presidency
of U.S. Grant.
1872:
The New York Herald published a review of Shakespearean Soiree featuring
pianist Joseph Poznanski.
1875(20th
of Nisan, 5635): Sixth Day of Pesach
1876:
In Des Moines, IA. “from 1869 until today when the congregation B’nai Israel
was chartered services were held only on special occasions including a
Yahrzeits, holidays and fast days such as the ninth day of Av.
1878:
Birthdate of Kovno native Lous Luxenberg who in 1891 came to the United States
where he served as Mayor of Barnesboro, PA.
1879:
In Russia, Abraham Lurie and his wife gave birth to Michael Lurie, the husband
of Johanna Becker and the father of Josep and Adelaide Lurie,
1880(14th
of Iyar, 5640): Pesach Sheni
1880(14th
of Iyar, 5640): Joseph Seligman, founder of Seligman Brothers passed away today
in New Orleans.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13403-seligman
http://www.fau.edu/library/brody33.htm
1880:
In Ostrina, Russia, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Krensky gave birth to Harry Krensky who
came to the United States at age 13 and who would return to Russia to
facilitate his parents coming to America.
Krensky eventually settled in Waterloo, Iowa where he became a
successful merchant.
1880:
“The Falashas –Remnants of Jews in Abyssinia” published today provides a brief
history of the Jews of Ethiopia beginning with the generals who divided the
empire created by Alexander the Great.
1880: It was reported today that a correspondent
for the Jewish Messenger in Jerusalem
has described the attempt to develop a Jewish agricultural movement near Safed
has failed. The farms have been
abandoned and the would be-farmers have returned to live in Safed.
1881:
“Journeys in Asia Minor” published today includes a review of “The Land of
Gilead with Excursions in the Lebanon” by Laurence Oliphant.” According to the review the book describes
Oliphant’s mission to the land ruled by the Ottomans which included what some
saw as “nothing less than” an attempt to begin “a restoration of the Jews” in
Palestine.
1881: A petition signed by 250,000 Germans was
presented to the government requesting the barring of foreign Jews from
admission into Germany. The petition bore no less than two hundred and
fifty-five thousand signatures. This petition marked the opening of modern
German anti-Semitism.
1881: In what some say
marks the start of “modern anti-Semitism” in Germany, “a petition signed by
250,000 Germans was presented to the government requesting the barring of
foreign Jews from admission to the country
1882 “The Persecuted
Russian Jews” published today described a meeting that was held in Berlin
attended by Sir Julian Goldsmid and Dr. Herman Adler from London, Mortiz
Ellinger from the United States and several leading German Jews to decide the
roles that various Jewish communities should play in aiding their
c0-religiionists trying to escape the Czar’s oppression. The Jews of London and Berlin will take care
of raising funds for the efforts. The
Jews in the United States will be in charge of procuring employment for the
immigrants as they arrive in America.
1882: Tonight, in the
Russian town of Kamentz, shops and houses belonging to the Jews were destroyed
by a fire. Losses are reported to total
500,000 rubles.
1882: It was reported
today that four hundred “Jewish mechanics” who had left Warsaw for the United
Sates were stopped at the border between Russia and Germany because they did
not have passports. Several of them escaped but most of them are being held by
authorities and are waiting for a disposition of their cases. (The Russians did
not want to keep the Jews but they did not want to let them leave either.)
1883(18th of
Nisan, 5643): Fourth Day of Pesach
1883: In Brooklyn
Ceclia and Joseph Bacharach gave birth to Harvard graduate Clarence Grove
Bachrach the Brooklyn Law School trained attorney and partner in the firm of
Bachrach and Bisgyer who was the husband of Grace Baer.
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/24/archives/clarence-grover-bachrach.html
1883: In Duluth, MN,
Henry F. and Caroline NIrdlinger Leopold gave birth to University of
Pennsylvania graduate Morton F. Leopold, author of “Lining Up Our Silent
Salesman.”
1884(30th of Nisan,
5644): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1885: In Kishineff,
Samuel and Sarah Blanck gave birth to Phillip G. Blank who in 1903 came to the
United States where he eventually settled in Miami, FL and opened Blank’s
Department Store while raising three children – Minnie, Bernard and Saul – with
his wife, the former Jenny G. Ripper.
1885: In Cracow, Eva
Langer and Jacob Nachman Koplad gave
birth to University of Cincinnati graduate and HUC trained rabbi Louis Joseph
Koplad the husband of Elisa Rheinstrom and starting in 1912 the spiritual leader
of Temple Beth Zion in Buffalo, NY where
he was the founder and chairman of the “Interdenominational Thanksgiving
Service and the Chairman of the Buffalo Jewish Relief Committee while also
serving as the director of the Jewish Orphan Asylum in Rochester, NY and
lecturing “on Jewish themes at the University of Nebraska Summer School.
1885: In Cracow, Jacob
Nachman and Eva (Langer) Kopald, gave birth to University of Cincinnati
graduate and HUC ordained rabbi, Louis Joseph Kopald the husband of Elsa
Rheinstrom who began his career at Temple Israel in Stockton, CA before moving
on to Temple Beth Zion in 1912 where he also participated in numerous Buffalo,
NY civic organizations including the Mayor’s soldier’s Welcome Committee and
the Buffalo Jewish Relief Committee.
1886: Sigmund Freud
opened his practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna.
1886: Birthdate of
Lithuanian native, “author and artist” Samuel H. Siegel who in 1904 came to the
United States where he settled in New Jersey, served as secretary of the
“Yiddish Workmen’s Circle and editor of The Banner.”
http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=creators/creator&id=13758
https://archives.cjh.org/agents/families/13757
1887(1st of Iyar,
5647): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1888(14th of
Iyar, 5648): Pesach Sheni observed for the last time during the Presidency of
Grover Cleveland.
1889: The coroner began
an investigation into the death of a Jewish youngster named Tobias Hipper who
had reportedly been killed by some other boys in his neighborhood.
1890: It was reported
today that Jews in Oregon are expected to support the Democrats because the
Republican candidate had worked to unseat Joseph Simon as Chairman of the State
Central Committee. Simon was the law partner
of Solomon Hirsch who was appointed as U.S. Minister to Turkey by President
Harrison.
1890: The first meeting
of the working girls’ section of the Beth-El Society of Personal Service which
would be known as the Pansy Club was held today.
1891: Today, Fannie
Ingber, the mother of cartoonist William Erwin “Will” Eisner, was born on a
ship born bound for the United States.
1892: It was reported
today that D. Appleton & Co will be publishing The Jew at Home by
Joseph Pennell based on the author’s firsthand observations of life the Jews
living in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1893: It was reported
today that gentiles in Dennisville, NJ are organizing “a law-and-order society
for the purpose of making the Jews from Woodbine, the Baron Hirsch colony, show
proper respect for Sunday.” The people of Woodbine “trail their carts and
wagons through Dennisville” which reportedly upset the villagers who are all
“interested in church and temperance work.”
1894(19th of
Nisan, 5654): Fifth Day of Pesach
1894: In St. Louis, MO,
Julius and Rose (Schucat Baron gave birth St. Louis University and Washington
University trained attorney David Baron, the Vice President of the Y.M. and
Y.H. and member of the Jewish Orphan Home Men’s Club who was the husband of Mollie
Marshak.
1894: “The Samaritan
Pentateuch” published today described the text from 1232 which is in the
possession of the Lenox Library. It
contains thirty chapters of the Book of Genesis which are not found in the
copies of the Samaritan Pentateuch in the possession of the British Library or
the Vatican Library. The text is written in Hebrew and contains the Samaritan
version of the Five Books of Moses.
1895(1st of
Iyar, 5655): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1895: “Boston's
German-Jewish population establishes the Federation of Jewish Charities of
Boston to help the Russian-Jewish immigrants adjust to life in America. Member
organizations include the United Hebrew Benevolent Society, the Hebrew Ladies
Sewing Society, the Leopold Morse Home for the Aged and Infirm Hebrews and
Orphanage, the Free Employment Bureau, and the Charitable Burial Association.
Boston's Jewish population is estimated at 20,000, including 14,000 new
immigrants.”
1895: Three days after
she passed away, 34-year-old Constance Marion Salamon, “the second daughter of
Nahum Salamon and Amelia Bertram was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road
Jewish Cemetery.”
1896: The Reverend William H. Hechler brought a very nervous
Theodor Herzl to a private audience with the Grand Duke, Friedrich I of Baden,
the uncle of Kaiser Wilhelm II, It was the first time that Herzl was able to
share his vision of Political Zionism and his solution to the “Jewish Problem”
with German royalty. The Grand Duke was very taken with Hechler’s
eschatological predictions and with Herzl’s pragmatic solution to the Jewish
problem through restoration of the Jews to Palestine. The Grand Duke became a
lifelong advocate of Herzl and the Zionist cause. He used his office and his relationship
with his nephew…to support Herzl and Zionism. Hechler was an English clergyman
who fought against anti-Semitism and was an early and ardent supporter of
Zionism in general and Herzl in particular.
1896: Gustave May, a
French born Jew who had taken refuge in the United States after the
Franco-Prussian War was buried today.
May considered himself a “freethinker” and did not want a religious funeral.
His friend Columbia Professor Adolph Cohn delivered a eulogy in French.
1896: Yesterday’s
planned dedication of a new synagogue in Lancaster, PA did not take place
because of an explosion caused by a gas leak.
Isaac Grootfield, the “shamas” was injured when struck by flying
timbers.
1897: Rabbi Silverman
of Temple Emanu-El will officiate at the funeral of Simon Alexander Wolf the
long-time writer for The Hebrew Journal.
1897: Professor Felix
Adler delivered an address on “The Debt of the American People to Ulysses S.
Grant” at Carnegie Hall today.
1897: It is estimated
that the world’s Jewish population totals 7 million souls.
1897: In Boston, the
founding of the Utopian Club whose members included Isaac H. Peyser, Lew E.
Goldman and Arnold Hartman.
1897: The annual
meeting of the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum took placed at the asylum’s
building at 136th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. Emanuel Lehman who had recently donated
$100,000 to the asylum was re-elected as President.
1898: The newly elected
officers of the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society are: Emmanuel
Lehman, President; Henry Rice, Vice President; Abraham Wolff, Treasurer and
Meyer Stern, Secretary. Dr. Herman Baar
continues to serve as the superintendent.
1898(3rd of Iyar, 5658):
Michael Wormser, the son of a poor butcher from Lorraine, passed away in
Phoenix, Arizona, where he was the sole possessor of an agricultural empire
worth a quarter of a million dollars.
1899: The annual
meeting of the Society for the Aid of Jewish Prisoners was held tonight at
Temple Emanu-El.
1899: Birthdate of
Aversa, Italy native Sal B. Hoffman, the president of the Upholsters
International Union who used $2,500,000 of the union’s welfare-fund to build
the 634-acre community of Salhaven in Jupiter, FL which was a retirement
community designed to house 500 union members and their families and predicted
to cost $5,000,000 upon completion. The plans were to build 240 cottages that
would be air-conditioned and completely furnished. There
would also be 10
apartment lodges.
1900: Birthdate of Wolfgang Ernst
Pauli. The Austrian born physicist won
the Nobel Prize in 1945. Pauli shows up
on lists of Jewish scientists. In
reality, his father was born Jewish and his maternal grandfather was
Jewish. But like so many German and
Jewish intellectuals of the time, conversion had taken him out of the House of
Israel and only the blood laws of Hitler could have “brought him back.”
1900: The 27th Convention of the District Grand
Lodge No. 7 of B’nai Birth ended today in New Orleans.
1900: A two-day crisis began in the Jewish Colonial Bank. Herzl called a
meeting of the directors, and had the bank affairs reviewed by an accountant
and a bank expert.
1901: Today, “Marcus W. Marks, a member of the National Clothiers’
Association proposed a plan involving the formation of an organization who
members would not represent a particular branch of merchant trade, but all
branches.”
1902: The New York Times reported that Rabbi Morris Schreiber died
while being taken to Bellevue Hospital after suffering an apparent heart attack
when he was leaving the East Tenth Street Ferry House. Rabbi Schreiber whose
congregation was located on Bushwick Avenue was on his way to eat a Passover
meal with relatives living in Manhattan.
1902: The first step toward the creation of a permanent endowment fund
for the United Hebrew Charities was taken today by William Guggenheim, a member
of the Board of Directors, when he sent to the President of the organization.
Henry Rice, a check for $50,000 for that purpose and a promise of $50,000 more
upon the fulfillment of certain specified conditions.
1903: Herzl returns to Paris as he
continues to search for support for a Jewish home with the leaders of European
government and business. His approach
would stand in stark contrast with the methods of the leaders of the Second
Aliyah.
1903: A report from St.
Petersburg, that was published in spite of the censor, said that “the
anti-Jewish riots in Kishinev” were the product of “a well-laid out plan for
the general massacre on the Jews on the day following the Russian Easter” where
“a mob led by the priests” crying “kill the Jews” – something they did so well
that 120 were murdered and 500 injured including “babes who were literally torn
to pieces by the frenzied, blood-thirsty mob.
1904: A mass meeting at
Carnegie Hall the attendees who were “concerned with the plight of working
children overwhelmingly supported the formation of the National Child Labor
Committee one of the founding members of which was Felix Adler.
1904: Birthdate of
Polish born labor Zionist and Yiddish author Shmuel Perlmuter who settled at
Bat Yam.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2018/07/shmuel-perlmuter.html
1905(20th of
Nisan, 5665): Sixth Day of Pesach
1905: In Providence,
Rhode Island, James Edward Ingham and Elizabeth Whelan gave birth to Martha
Ingham Dickie who as Martha Sharp acted to save those at risk from Hitler and
the Nazis for which she was honored by Israel as one of the righteous among the
nations.
http://www.uuworld.org/ideas/articles/4057.shtml
1905: In New York,
Alfred Wolf Mack, the Cincinnati born son of Max and Eleanor Mack, and his wife
Frieda Theresa Mack gave birth to Frederick M. Mack, the brother of Harry
Ranger Mack.
1906(20th of
Nisan, 5667): Sixth Day of Pesach.
1906(20th of
Nisan, 5667): On her 66th birthday Caroline Kaiser, the wife of
Alois Kasier, the “cantor at the Eutaw Place Synagogue” who she had married
while living in Vienna passed away today in Baltimore ather which she was buried at the Oheb Shalom Cemetery.
1906(20th of
Nisan,5667): German native Caroline Meyer Steppacher, the wife of Wolf
Steppacher whom she married in 1851 and with whom she had four children –
Marcus, Walter, Emanuel and Oscar – passed away today after which she buried at
the Mount Sinai Cemetery in Philadelphia.
1906: Birthdate of Joel
Brand who gained fame for his role in negotiations with Adolf Eichmann in an
attempt to save the Jews of Hungary.
1907: Birthdate of
Helen Misener the Greenwich (UK) daughter of a Polish born Jew whose acting
career included appearing in “A Night to Remember” and starring in a 1939
staging of “Night Must Fall” which produced “for the benefit of deportees on
the German-Polish border” passed away today.
1907: Birthdate of
Estonia native Israel Shapiro who gained fame as Samuel H. Shapiro, the Lt.
Gov. of Illinois who became the second Jewish governor of “the Land of Lincoln”
when the incumbent resigned to become a federal judge.
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1968/05/12/page/242/article/mr-sam-of-illinois
1908(24th of
Nisan, 5668): Parashat Achrei Mot
1908: It was reported
today that the concert to be given tomorrow night at the Metropolitan Opera is
a benefit designed to help raise $25,000 for the United Hebrew Charities.
1908: Birthdate of
Edward R. Murrow. Most of the world
remembers him as Ed Murrow, the voice of CBS News. But before joining CBS,
Murrow served as Assistant Secretary of the Emergency Committee in Aid of
Displaced Foreign Scholars, which helped prominent German scholars most of whom
were Jews deal with the effects of the Nazi rise to power. When the committee issued its first report in
1934, Murrow compared the conditions with those reminiscent of “the expulsion
of the Jews from Spain in 1492.”
1908: In Birmingham,
AL, Temple Beth El adopted its first constitution today which “definitely
asserts that the congregation shall be associate with the Union of Orthodox
Congregations.
1908: Joseph Dulberg, a
leader of the Manchester Jewish Community, writes to Winston Churchill
expressing sympathy for Churchill’s failure to win re-election and reiterating
the strong support that Jews showed for him during the election.
1909: “Abraham Abraham,
a trustee of the Baron de Hirsch Fund, was the principal speaker” this
“afternoon at the dedication serves of the new gymnasium of the Young Men’s
Hebrew Association in Brooklyn.”
1910: In Philadelphia,
“physician Charles S. Hirsch and Fannie Wittenberg” gave birth to the
Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art trained “award winning painter,
illustrator, muralist and teacher” Joseph Hirsch, the husband of Ruth Schindler
with whom he had two sons Charles and Paul and Genevieve Baucheron with whom he
had one son Frederic and the creator of the famous “Till We Meet Again” WW II
war bond poster who fell afoul of the 1950’s Red Scare championed by such
Republican notables and Joe McCarthy.
https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/art/artists/the-art-of-joseph-hirsch.html
1910: “Rabbi in
Christian Pulpit” published today described “arrangements for the annual
Jewish-Christian Union Services in Pittsburgh” which will include Rabbi J.
Leonard Levy of Levy of Rodeph Shalom Congregation preaching at St. Mark’s on
the topic of “A New Gospel.”
1911: Cornerstones were
laid for new buildings at Hebrew Union College.
1911: Birthdate of Jack Ruby, the man who killed
presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Ruby was Jewish. Oswald was not.
1911: As part of “The
Case of Mendel Bellis,” two medical professors from Kiev University issued a
second autopsy of the thirteen-year-old boy who had been killed in March of
1911. The report “stated the victim had almost
been completely drained of blood…” and intimated that a ritual murder had been
committed. The autopsy was a fraud. The two medical men had received a
4,000-ruble bribe from the Russian Ministry of Justice.
1912: “A delegation of
Jewish rabbis from New York City obtained a hearing before the House Military
Committee today to speak in favor of the Sulzer bill which seeks to increase
the number of Chaplains in the army” because they hope that the increase will
lead to the appointment of at least one Jewish chaplain.
1912: In Berlin, today,
the Central German-Jewish Relief League has “private advices” stating that
10,000 Jews in Fez, Morocco are homeless and that the entire Jewish quarter of
Fez “has been plundered, demolished and partially burned.”
1913(18th of
Nisan, 5673): Fourth Day of Pesach
1913: J. Rosenberg, the
President of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Jacksonville, FL, wrote to
the Editor of the Reform Advocate in Chicago, asking him to inform the Jews of
that city his organization which was founded three years ago has purchased a
lot and raised $8,000 on which they will build “a substantial and creditable
building” to use in their cause of perpetuating “the cause of Judaism.”
1914: In the UK,
Isidore Abrahams, who would acquire Aquascutum, “the raincoat manufacturer and
retailer” and his wife gave birth to Sir Charles Myer Abrahams who served as
Vice President of Nightingale House of the Home for the Jewish Aged and Vice
President of the British Paraplegic Sports Federation.
1914: The Second Annual
Convention of the Jewish National Workers Alliance of America continued to meet
for a fourth day in Philadelphia, PA
1914: Birthdate of
screenwriter Arnold Manoff whose career was ruined by the infamous “blacklist.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9401EFD9143CE733A25751C1A9649C946491D6CF
1915: The Second Annual Convention of the Mizrahi of America continued
for a fourth day in New York City.
1915: Birthdate of
Mortimer Weisinger, the American magazine and comic book editor who edited the
Superman series and helped create such action heroes as Aquaman and Green Arrow
1915: The seventh
semi-annual Assembly of the Eastern Council of Reform Rabbis opened today in
New York City.
1915: The Anglo-French
invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula began. Almost 30,000 men landed
on the beach to fight the Turks for this strategic
position. Fighting with the British was a Jewish force known as the
Zionist Mule Corp. The Zion Mule Corps was a supply unit that carried
material from the beach up to the front lines.
The work was not glorious. The
founders of the corps had hoped to have a Jewish fighting force. That would come later. In the meantime, this was the first military
unit composed of Jews who fought as Jews since the second century of the common
ear. Unbeknownst to the Jews serving with the Allies, the Turkish army
had Jews fighting in Gallipoli at the same time.
1916(22nd of
Nisan, 5676): Eighth Day of Pesach
1916: On the day after
the end of Pesach for Reform Jews the Sinai Social center offered a much
demanded course in “First Aide to the Injured.”
1917: “A cablegram was
received in New York” today “from the Central Committee of the Bund at
Petrograd, one of the influential revolutionary bodies composed of Jews,
stating unqualified that the bund was opposed to a separate peace with
Germany.”
1917: At Minsk, Russia,
during the a great-army congress attended by representatives of the Council of
Workmen and Soldier Deputies and the Duma Executive Committee, one of the
leaders so of the Jewish question, “It is the shame of the twentieth century to
have to raise this subject. I as a
Russian am insulted when I hear it said, ‘Shut out the Jews from the
universities or they will take all the first places in science.’ The Jews
question was one of the chief tools of the autocracy. Russia must be rid of this nightmare.”
1918: Lieutenant
General Sir John Monash, the son of Jewish immigrants and the ranking member of
the Australian Army serving on the Western Front, described today’s recapture
of the town of Villers-Bretonneux as the turning point of the Great War.
1918: Three days after
she had passed away, 59-year-old Constance (Jessel) Stern, the daughter of Sir
George Jessel and Amelia Moses and the wife of Sir Edward David Stern was
buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1918: “With the
première of his opera Die Gezeichneten, in Frankfurt today, Franz Schreker
moved to the front ranks of contemporary opera composers.
1919: Formation of
Ha-Shomer ha-Za’ir
1919: The funeral of
Bertha M. Kahn, the wife of Max R. Kahn and the mother of Ludwig and Mrs. Anna
Schiller is scheduled to take place today in Chicago.
1919:
Thirty-one-year-old Cornell University educated
biochemist Dr. Aaron Bodansky, the Ukrainian born son of Pinchus and Chava
(Geiro) Bodansky” who worked at the Research Laboratories of Upjohn in
Kalamazoo while writing “numerous scientific papers on enzymes and hormones”
before going on to “enzymes and hormones, today married Marie Syrkin at Ithaca,
NY.
1919: The funeral of
Maier Neumann, the 74-year-old husband of Sera Neuman and the father of Fannie
M. Neuman is scheduled to take place today followed by “interment at Mount
Maariv.”
1920: At the San Remo
Conference, the Supreme Allied Council assigns mandates for Mesopotamia and
Palestine to Britain, and Syria and Lebanon to France. The Zionists scored a
triumph since, when awarding the mandate to the British it was stated that “the
mandatory would be responsible for putting into effect the declaration
originally made on the 8th November 1917 by the British
government.” In other words, “the
Blafour Declaration was affirmed in an international treaty.
1920: As the San Remo
Conference comes to an end, “Jewish and Arab delegations dined together in the
Hotel Royal, toasting each other as the British looked on benevolently at the
next table.” Enmity between Zionists and
Arabs was neither inevitable nor “present at the creation.”
1920: “The Paris Peace
conference formally confirmed the allocation of the Middle East’s Arab
rectangle to Britain and France. The Allies’ final boundaries for their
respective mandates in Palestine and Syria did not produce the viable frontiers
the Zionists had anticipated for their National Home.”
1921(17th of
Nisan, 5681): Third Day of Pesach
1921: The Daily Express
expressed its displeasure with the budget introduced in the House of Commons by
Austen Chamberlain, for a number of reasons including the fact that requires
taxpayers to pay “2 pence on the pound to supply British bayonets to the Jewish
republic,”
which can assume is the paper’s term for
Palestine.
1922(27th of
Nisan 5684): Less than a month from his 66th birthday, Austrian born
American rabbi Leopold Zinsler who had led the “Bohemian Congregation in
Newark” and Share Zedek (the Old Henry Street Congregation) before moving to
“Congregation Mr. Sinai Anshe Emeth” passed away today.
1923(9th of
Iyar, 5683): Seventy-four-year-old Elise Lehmann passed away today after which
she was interred at the Jewish Cemetery in Morgan City, LA.
1923: In Toronto Jacob
Herman and Kate Weinberg gave birth to Mildred Hayden who gained fame as
ballerina Melissa Hayden.
1924(21st of
Nisan, 5684): Seventh Day of Pesach
1924: “It was announced
from the offices of Nathan Straus tonight that he is recuperating from the
effects of a slight operation performed at his residence on 27 West 72nd
Street.
1925(1st of
Iyar, 5684): Parashat Tazria-Metzora; Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1925: “Professor Philip
M. Brown of Princeton today corrected widely published reports that he had
attacked the patriotism of Jews in a speech yesterday at a meeting here of the
American Society of International Law.” Professor Brown had described Jews
“internationalists” who “as whole did not owe allegiance to any land.”
1926: The first regular
meeting of the recently created Department of Industrial Economics of the
National Civic Federation was held at the Park Avenue Hotel. Speakers for the evening included Louis D.
Brandeis of the National Civic Federation and Samuel Gompers, President of the
American Federation of Labor. As the
last speaker of the evening, Gompers “reviewed the blessings which had come to
the individual through organized labor and expressed the opinion that the
beneficiaries would hardly agree to the proposition that association curtailed
their liberty. He said that labor could
not depend upon the courts for protection citing the recent decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States in holding the ten-hour day for bakers
unconstitutional. ‘I suppose bakers will
have to go back to the eleven and twelve hour and even longer day. If they do, I will urge them to strike.’”
1926: A campaign to
raise six million dollars led by the Mrs. Jacob H. Schiff, the Honorary
Chairman of the Women’s Division of the United Jewish Campaign of New York was
scheduled to begin today.
1926: The national
conference of the American Hebrew Christian Alliance which will be attended Sir
Leon Levison, President of the International Hebrew Christian Alliance is
scheduled to open today in Buffalo, NY.
1927:
Seventeen-year-old Eddie Wolfe, the Memphis born welterweight fought his first
professional bought today.
1927: Members of Temple
Emanu-El are scheduled to meet today to discuss the possible merger with Temple
Beth-El in New York.
1928: “The Asbury Park
Hospital, which closed a month ago because of financial difficulties, was
purchased today by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association and the Young Men’s
Hebrew School for used as a Jewish community center.
1928: In New York, “Irwin
S. Chanin, the architect and builder after whom the Irwin Chanin School of
Architecture at Cooper Union was named” and his wife gave birth to Albright
College and Columbia University graduate Doris Chanin Freedman, the wife of
Alan J. Freedman with whom she had three children – Karen, Nina and Susan – and
the chairman of the Public Art Fund Inc. and a cultural affairs and landmarks
preservation activist in New York City” who “was the first director of the New
York City Department of Cultural Affairs.” (As reported by Paul Goldberger)
https://www.centralparknyc.org/locations/doris-c-freedman-plaza
1929(15th of
Nisan, 5689): Last Pesach of the Roaring Twenties.
1929: “An appeal to the
Jews of New York to celebrate Passover by increasing their cooperation in the
rebuilding of Palestine as the Jewish national homeland…issued by Morris
Rothenberg” was read today in several synagogues.
1930: The Soviet Union
establishes the Gulag administration to coordinate the network of penal labor
camps for criminals and political prisoners many of whom were Zionists or Jews
who fell afoul of the Stalinist regime such as the members of the Jewish
Anti-Fascist Committee.
1930: “Around The
Corner” “a comedy-drama written Jo Swerling, produced by Harry Cohn and
starring George Sydney as “Kaplan” was released today in the United States.
1930: In New York, Jean (née Gerson), a piano
player for dance classes, and David Mazursky, a laborer gave birth to Irwin
Mazursky who gained fame as Paul Mazursky, director of “Down and Out in Beverly
Hills.”
1931(8th of
Iyar, 5691): Parashat Achre Mot – Kedoshim
1931: “Support toward
the upbuilding of Palestine by all Jews, including anti-Zionists, we urged
today by Dr. Julian Morgenstern, the non-Zionist leader and president of the
Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati.”
1931: “A review of the
medical and sanitary work of the American Joint Distribution Committee, which
is conducting a campaign to raise $2,500,000 from the Jews of American to carry
on its work of rehabilitating the suffering Jews of central and Eastern Europe
was made public today by Rabbi Jonah B, Wise, the committee’s national
chairman.”
1932(19th of
Nisan, 5692): Fifth Day of Pesach
1932: Rose Franken's "Another Language", premiered in New York
City.
1933(29th of Nisan, 5693): Forty-one-year-old Pauline S.
Horkeimer Lazaron, the daughter of Louis and Clementina Rosenberg Horkheimer,
the wife of Rabbi Morris Samuel Lazaron and the mother of Morris, Harold and
Clementine Lazaron passed away today after which she was buried in the
Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery in Baltimore, MD.
1933: The Law against the Overcrowding of German
Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning set a Jewish quota of 1.5 percent
of high-school and university enrollment and stipulated a limit of 5-percent
Jewish enrollment in any single school. Because a compulsory education law was
in effect, Jewish enrollment in primary schools was not limited for the time
being. However, growing numbers of Jews voluntarily moved to purely Jewish
settings by 1938, when they were totally barred from general institutions. In
autumn 1941, the Jewish schools were closed by administrative order.
Ironically, extra-legal discrimination against Jews seeking admission to
colleges and universities existed in the United States at this time. These quotas would hang on until the late
1960’s.
1933: Birthdate of songwriter Jerry Leiber who teamed with Mike Stoeller,
“another Jewish white boy” who also loved Jazz and Boogie Woogie to create some
of the greatest songs of the early days of Rock and Roll including Hound Dog, Love Potion #9, On Broadway
and most of the hits recorded by the Coasters.
If you recognize these classics, you are almost as old as the author and
if you are scratching your because you never heard them, then you are young,
very young and should be home practicing the Four Questions.
1934: “Princess
Charming” a comedy produced by Michael Balcon and filmed by cinematographer
Mutz Greenbaum was released today in the United Kingdom.
1934:
Sixty-six-year-old Prussian Army officer and American and German journalist
Eduard Golbeck, the husband of Lina Abarbanell, the German soprano who was a
descendent of Sephardic Jews from Bulgaria passed away today.
1935: Birthdate of Edna
Shavit the “Emeritus Professor in the Drama department in the University of Tel
Aviv, and Ha'Levi theatre prize winner for the year 2006.”
1936(3rd of
Iyar, 5696): Parashat Shmini
1936: As Arab violence
in Palestine continued a British policeman was injured when Arab demonstrators
stoned government officers at Tulkarem
1936: The policed
arrested three Arabs after “a fire in the Jewish quarter of the Old City of
Jerusalem tonight destroyed one of the largest wholesale groceries in the city”
causing damaged “estimated at $50,000.
1936: The Supreme Arab
Executive Committee led by the President, Mufti Haj Amin el Husseini “decided
that all Arabs in Palestine would continue their strikes until Jewish
immigration had been prohibited and the sale of land to Jews had been stopped.”
1936: Joseph C. Hyman,
the secretary of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee said today
that “the salvage of the Jewish community in Germany depends increasingly on
American aid” which will come to a total of two million dollars if the committee
is able to reach its goal of raising $3,500,000.
1936: In New Haven, CT,
Felix M. Warburg told a meeting of the New England Conference of Jewish
Communal Agencies meeting at Temple Mishkan Israel, that I “improved business
conditions in the United States” should help Jews to give generously to the
relief program designed to aid the suffering Jews in Germany, Russia and
Poland.
1936: Following a mass
meeting this morning at Columbus Circle in New York, “a resolution protesting
treatment of Jewish people and ‘bloody pogroms’ in Poland was presented’ this
afternoon “ to an attaché of the Polish Consulate by a delegation representing
the Peoples Committee Against Polish Pogroms.”
1936: “The Spokesman, a
Louisville, KY, Jewish newspaper today quoted Alfred P. Sloan Jr., president of
General Motors as saying ‘under no circumstances will I further, knowingly,
support The Sentinels of the Republic’” an organization recently identified by
a Senate investigating committee as being anti-Semitic.
1937: “Dr. Samuel
Buchler, founder of the Jewish Court of Arbitration, said tonight at a meeting
celebrating the court's sixteenth anniversary that since the court's inception
it had settled some 8,000 cases.”
1937: Benjamin Winter
announced today that “Jeremiah T. Mahoney, New York Supreme Court Justice,
president of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States and leader of the
forces which opposed American participation in the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany
has accepted the chairmanship of the current one million campaign of the
American Committee Appeal for the Jews in Poland” of which Professor Albert
Einstein is the honorary chairman.
(Editor’s note – for the revisionist in Poland, this entry serves as a
graphic reminder of the anti-Semitism that had swept Poland during the 1930’s.)
1938: Associate Justice
Louis Brandeis writes the majority opinion in the landmark case Erie Railroad
Co. v. Tompkins. Associate Justice
Benjamin Cardozo joins the majority in the 7 to 2 decision.
1938: “An exhibition
and sale of paintings by contemporary American artists…for the benefit of the
Joint Distribution Committee to aid needy Jews overseas” is scheduled to open
today at the Studio Gallery at 730 Fifth Avenue.
1938: The Palestine Post
reported that Arab terrorist gangs murdered two Arabs who refused to hand over
money and valuables in a village near Tulkarm.
1938: The Palestine Post
reported that there were isolated shooting incidents in Jerusalem and Haifa.
1938: In the Bronx, Judith Solo and Irving Feldman, “the President of a
drug company gave birth to Syracuse graduate and NYU trained attorney, Ira
Ronald Feldman, the husband of Frayda Futterman with whom he had three children
– Julie, Marak and Andy- and owner pf the Ronald Feldman Gallery in Soho which
thanks to his efforts was for “nearly 50 years” known as one of New York’s most consistently political,
forward-looking art galleries (As reported by Roberta Smith)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/02/arts/ronald-feldman-dead.html
1938: The Palestine Post
reported that Arturo Toscanini, the famous conductor who had just given a
series of concerts all over the country, and Bronislav Huberman, the great
violinist and the founder of the Palestine Symphonic Orchestra, were granted
the freedom of Tel Aviv.
1939: Birthdate of Dr Yaacov Maor, the native of Lithuania and son Ella
and Yehezckiel who at the age of the 29 passed away when the Dakar was lost on
January 25, 1968.
1939: In Harbin, China, Boris Skidelsky, a Russian Jewish British subject
and his Christian wife gave birth to award winning economic historian and
lecturer, Robert Jacob Skidelsky, the future Baron Skidelksy and author of the
definitive work on British economist John Maynard Kenyes.
1939: In Chicago Shirley Mazur Garrison and Henry Garrison gave birth to
cartoonist Niocle Hollander.
http://jwa.org/people/hollander-nicole
1940(17th of
Nisan, 5700): Third Day of Pesach
1940: It was reported
today that in his Passover address “Governor Herbert H. Lehman…expressed the
conviction that the ideals of democracy and of religious freedom would triumph
over the Forces of dictatorship.”
1940: “Budapest Hampers
Jews” published today described the announcement by the municipality of
Budapest “that henceforth Jews would be able to obtain the licenses granted by
city authorities” which includes the permits for opening shops and markets as well
as working as taxi drivers and filling-station operators.
1941: “Ziegfeld Girl,”
a musical produced by Pandro S. Berman and filmed by cinematographer Joseph
Ruttenberg was released today in the United States.
1941: “During a White
House press conference” President Roosevelt criticized Charles Lindbergh, the
popular American hero and a leader of the Isolationists for his opposition to
the Lend-Lease Bill calling him “a defeatist and appeaser.”
1941: “The Invisible
Ghost,” a horror film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and produced by Sam Katzman
was released today in the United States.
1942: Today “Berlin radio announced that French general Henri
Giraud” who was supposedly pro-Ally” but who, unbeknownst to most, sought to
limit the civil rights of Jews in Algeria and post-war France, had escaped from
Königstein Fortress
1943(20th of
Nisan, 5703): Sixth Day of Pesach
1943: As the Warsaw
Uprising raged on, Germans continued their invasion of the ghetto by lighting
fires to buildings. Escaping women and children were shot to death and
burned. Thus, the ancient Polish Jewish Community began its final descent
from greatness into oblivion.
As fires set by Germans
consume the Warsaw Ghetto, a German Jew named Hoch desperately leaps from a
fourth-floor window, breaking both arms and his spine.
1943: Birthdate of New
York City native and Hunter and Columbia educated billionaire and CEO of Omega
Advisors Leon “Lee” Cooperman the father of Wayne and Michael Cooperman and the
husband of Toby Cooperman with whom he signed the “Giving Pledge” in 2010 which
is just of the many philanthropic activities in which he and the Leon and Toby
Cooperman Family Foundation participate.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/leon-g-cooperman/#2b79998318f7
1943: Composer Ezra Laderman was inducted
into the U.S. Army where he served as a radio operator with the 69th Infantry
Division during World War II. In describing his wartime experiences Laderman
wrote "we were in Caversham, England poised to enter the war. It was here
that I learned that my brother Jack had been shot down and killed in Germany.
The Battle of the Bulge, crossing the Rhine at Remagen, liberating Leipzig,
meeting the Russians at Torgau on the bank of the Elbe were the points in this
constellation that was filled with tension and waiting, victory and grief. We became
aware of the horror, and what we now call the 'holocaust,' while freeing
Leipzig." During the weeks after the war was over, Laderman composed his Leipzig Symphony. This work brought him
recognition within the army, and subsequently he was assigned as orchestrator
of the GI Symphony Orchestra.
1944: At tonight’s “dinner of the food
division of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater of New York, Dr. Israel
Goldstein, the president of the ZOA who had just returned from England, said
that “Great Britain will meet its obligations to the Jewish people” and “that
British statesmen under the guidance of Prime Minister Churchill will be
mindful of its internationally covenanted obligations to the Jewish people
embodied in the Balfour Decelaration.”
1944: “Religious pioneers from Germany members
of the Ezra youth movement and Agudat Israel founded a new kibbutz which was
called Chafet Chaim.
1944: Birthdate of Nili
Priel, the wife of Ehud Barak.
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3430534,00.html
1944: Joel Brand, a member of the Relief and Rescue
Committee of Budapest, was summoned to a meeting with Adolf Eichmann, who
presented him with an offer that would be known as "Blood for
Trucks." Eichmann told Brand that the highest SS authorities had approved
the terms, in which Eichmann would barter "a million Jews" for goods
obtained outside of Hungary, including 10,000 trucks for civilian use, or, as
an alternative, for use on the eastern front. The 1 million Jews would have to
leave the country-since Eichmann had promised that Hungary would be
Judenrein-and might head for any destination other than Palestine, since he had
promised the Mufti of Jerusalem that no Jews would be allowed to emigrate
there. To negotiate the effectuation of the deal, Eichmann let Brand leave
Hungary. Although Brand was unaware of it at the time, the offer was evidently
connected with an attempt by Himmler to drive a wedge between the Western
Allies and the Soviet Union, and to conclude a separate peace with the former.
Brand did go to Ankara, Jerusalem, and Cairo, and he negotiated with American
officials and leaders of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. However, he was
arrested and imprisoned in Cairo, and the rescue scheme was never implemented.
1945: Ten months after
the Americans landed at Normandy, they successfully completed their drive
across Europe when they linked up today with Soviet troops on the Elbe River.
1945: In Italy, a partisan
uprising began that ended with the execution of Fascist Party dictator Benito
Mussolini. Members of the Jewish Infantry Brigade Group, an all Jewish fighting
force in the British Army, was part of the Allied forced that helped liberate
Italy.
1945: Forty-three-year-old Karl Ludwig von
Guttenberg who had been arrested after the failure of the plot to assassinate
Hitler in July, 1944 and who refused to name names despite being tortured by
was murdered in the early hours of this morning by order of “Gestapo chief
Heinrich Muller.”
1946: The French ship Champollion brought 880
Jewish refuges with Palestine immigration certificates to Haifa today from
Marseille. Of the group, 500 were
children, mostly orphans.” Many of the
immigrants were concentration camp survivors.
1946: A force of Jewish fighters attacked a
police station in northern Tel Aviv killing seven British soldiers and
policemen while wounding two other Britons and nine Jewish civilians. The Jewish fighters got away without
suffering any casualties and have apparently escaped the security cordon
created by the British.
1946: Several thousand Jewish youth marched
through the streets of Tel Aviv mourning the death of Braha Fuld who was killed
during the attack on the Sarona police mobile force headquarters. She was referred to as ‘a fighter for
immigration.’
1947: “The Private Affairs of Bel Ami” directed
by Albert Lewin who wrote the script, produced David Loew, the twin brother of
Arthur Loew who were the Jewish sons of Carrie and Marcus Loew and with music
by Darius Milhaud, “the Marseille born Jewish son of Sophie (Allatini) and Gad
Gabriel Milhaud” was released in the United States today.
1947: “Haven For Homeless Is Offered By Dutch”
published today described an offer from the Government of Surinam, Dutch
Guiana, “to open territory there for the colonization of 30,000 homeless
European Jews.”
1947: It was announced today that “the American
Council for Judaism will ask the United States to oppose any move by the Jewish
Agency for Palestine to become a non-voting representative at the United
Nations General Assembly session on Palestine.”
1948(16th of Pesach, 5708): Second
Day of Pesach
1948: A reporter for The Times of London (the voice of the British establishment)
described the efforts of the Jewish leaders in Haifa to convince the Arab
residents to remain. “The Jews wish the
Arabs to settle down again to normal routine, but evacuation continues.” While the Haganah was distributing leaflets
urging the Arabs to stay, the Arab High Command based in Damascus was urging
them to leave supposedly to avoid Arab casualties when Arab planes would bomb
Haifa. The planes never came, but the Arabs
took flight and the “refugee problem” was born.
1948: A comedic bit featuring funny man Don Wilson and opera
singer Dorothy Kirsten generates what would become the longest laughter pause
in the history of the Jack Benny Program.
1949(26th of
Nisan, 5709): Fifty-three-year-old Lodz native and Polish Army veteran, Jankel
Adler, the painter and printmaker who lost all nine siblings in the Holocaust
passed away today.
https://www.imj.org.il/en/search/site/Adler%20and%20+Jankel
https://www.pissarro.art/artistdetails/231833/jankel-adler
1949: Birthdate of Dominique
Gaston André Strauss-Kahn, a French economist, lawyer, politician, and member
of the French Socialist Party who became the Managing Director of the International
Monetary Fund (IMF).
1949: Berta Gersten is scheduled to be starring in the title role
of “The Silent Woman,” a dramatization of Louis Frieman’s new Jewish radio play
of the same which will open today at the Parkway Theatre in Brooklyn.
1949(26th of
Nisan, 5709): Eighty-seven-year-old Bernard Horwich, the Lithuanian born son of
“Keize and Yakov Yankel Horwich, “the husband of Mamie Horwich with whom he had
five children and the successful banker and businessman who was “the first
President of the Federated Jewish Charities of Chicago” and an early, ardent
who “worked closely with Chaim Weizmann, Nahum Sokolow and Shmarya Levin”
passed away today in Chicago.
1950: Following the
collapse of a building in Jaffa that killed nineteen and injured thirty mostly
recent Jewish immigrants, Mayor Israel Rokah “called for the immediate
evacuation of 1,700 people from unsafe houses in Jaffa.”
1950: Mohammed Pasha
Shureiki “formally notified the United Nations today that Jordan had annexed
eastern Palestine and the old walled city of Jerusalem.” This action is in complete violation of the
United Nations partition resolution which called for Jerusalem and Bethlehem to
be administered by the UN Trusteeship Council.
There was no motion of condemnation of the Jordanian action which was
really the “ratification of facts on the ground” created by the invasion of
Jerusalem in the winter of 1947/1948.
1950: Prime Minister
David Ben Gurion addressed the Zionist General Council on the sixth day of its
meeting in Jerusalem. Ben Gurion told
the leaders from around the world that “their financial and other aid to Israel
did not entitle them to a voice in the affairs of Israel.” While acknowledging the importance of aid and
support from the Jewish communities in the Diaspora, Ben Gurion took the
classical Zionist line that “only Zionists who came to Israel and assumed the
responsibilities of citizenship were entitled to a voice in determining policy.
1951(19th of
Nisan, 5711): Fifth day of Pesach
1951(19th of
Nisan, 5711): Sixty-seven-year-old Soviet composer Alexander Krein part of a
long line of Russian/Lithuanian musicians passed away today in Moscow.
https://www.universaledition.com/en/Contacts/Alexander-Krein/
https://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/en/content/alexander-krein
https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Krein_Aleksandr_Abramovich
1951: During the Korean
War, while serving with “UN Partisan forces behind enemy lines,” David Sharp, a
major in the British Army was captured today at the Imjin River after being
wounded three times by enemy fire.
1951: Today Abraham Polonsky
was summoned to appear before HUAC where he refused to answer questions,
instead invoking the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination while
also refusing to answer whether his wife Sylvia had been a CPUSA member.
1952: Sculptor Ivan
Mestrovic, a self-exiled from his native Yugoslavia who “who is currently
working on a sculpture to be erected next year in Riverside Park as a memorial
to the Jewish people” who were murdered “during WW II” turned over his two-ton
marble statue of Moses to the State of Israel.
1953: “Mid-Summer,” for
which Saul Richman served as Press Representative was performed on Broadway for
the last time at the Vanderbilt Theatre.
1954: It was reported
today that Frederick Marcus Warburg, a graduate of Harvard “and a partner of
the firm of Kuhn, Loeb and Co. since 1931 has been elected to” served a year
term as a member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College.
1954(22nd of
Nisan, 5714): 8th Day of Pesach and Yizkor
1954(22nd of
Nisan, 5714): Sixty-two-year-old Russian born “cantor and interpreter of Jewish
folk songs” Beryl Chagy, the husband of Esther Chagy with whom he had three
children who in 1913 came to the United States where he was cantor at
Congregation Adas Yisroel in Newark, NJ and Temple Beth El in Brooklyn while
serving as president of the Cantors and Ministers Association and writing “a
book of cantorial prayers” suffered a fatal heart attack today while attending
services at the Young Israel Synagogue.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/04/26/83752645.pdf
1955(3rd of Iyar, 5715):
Eighty-one-year-old to “essayist,
theatric critic, writer and translator” Alfred Polgar, the husband of Elise
Loewy (aka Lisl Polgar) and Viena born son of “Henriette and Josef Polak, a
piano school owner,” who was saved from
the Nazis by the Emergency Rescue Committee
and came to the United States where he first became a screenwriter for
MGM passed away today.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0689017/
https://androom.home.xs4all.nl/biography/p026603.htm
1956(14th of
Iyar, 5716): Pesach Sheni
1956: “President
Eisenhower told a press conference today that he would have be convinced that a
summit conference on the Arab-Israel issue would be useful before he would
consider such a proposal.”
1956: “The critical
shortage of teachers in Jewish education and new developments in adult Jewish
education came up for review today before the delegates at the 56th
annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly of America which was being held at
Grossinger Hotel” in Ferndale, NY
1957: Birthdate of
Bernard Rajzman, the native or Rio de Janeiro who became one of Brazil’s
leading volleyball players
1957: “The First
Gentleman,” co-produced by Alexander H. Cohen opened on Broadway at the Belasco
Theatre.
1957: In the U.K.,
premiere “Funny Face” directed Stanley Donen that included music by George and
Ira Gershwin.
1958(5th of Iyar, 5718): Sixty-year-old Adele Meltsner, the
daughter of Sarah Bach and Joseph Meltsner and the wife of Charles Pores passed
away today.
1958(5th of Iyar, 5718): Abraham Lincoln Messing, the
Indianapolis born son of Nica and Rabbi
Mayer Messing, the husband of Della Pottlitzer Messing whom he married in 1906,
and the father of Herman Meyer Messing passed away today in Rochester, MN after
which he was buried at the Jewish Cemetery of Greater Lafayette, in Lafayette,
IN.
1959(17th of Nisan, 5719): Third Day of Pesach
1959 (17th of Nisan, 5719): Ninety-three-year-old violinist, conductor
and “social activist David Mannes, the husband of Clara Mannes, the son-in-law
of Leopold Damrosch, and the father of musician Leopold Mannes and writer Marya
Mannes who left an accounting of his life in the autobiography Music is My
Faith passed away today.
https://www.newschool.edu/mannes/history/
1960(28th of Nisan, 5720): Yom HaShoah observed for the last
time during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1960: “Once Upon a Mattress,” for which Karl Bernstein served as
publicity director and which had premiered at the Phoenix Theatre, continued
its Broadway run today at the Cort Theatre.
1961(9th of
Iyar,5721): Seventy-three-year-old Moses Winkelstein, the Syracuse, NY born so of Meyer Winkelstein
and Ida Marquisse and husband of Martha M. Holstein who was a graduate of
Syracuse University and President of both the Community Chest and the Jewish
Welfare Federation passed away today.
1964: Birthdate of actor Hank Azaria, voice of Moe
and Comic Book Guy on “The Simpsons.”
1965: “Half A Sixpence”
a musical directed by Gene Sakes opened at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York.
1966(5th of
Iyar, 5726): Yom HaAtma’ut
1966: . Mrs. Arthur J.
Goldberg, wife of the United States representative at the United Nations, is
scheduled to be guest of honor at
the annual spring
luncheon of the Women's Division of the Jewish Guild for the Blind which will
be held today in the Americana's Imperial Ballroom.
1966(5th of
Iyar, 5726): Seventy-five-year Yiddish author and Jewish labor leader Jacob Pat
passed away today.
http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/P/pat-jacob.htm
1966(5th of
Iyar, 5726): Leonard Drucker, the husband of Anette Bloom Drucker with whom he
had two children, Rachel and Lynn, passed away today at Stamford, CT.
1967(15th of
Nisan 5727): Pesach
1967(15th of
Nisan, 5727): Sixty-two-year-old Ben Weissman, the St. Louis born son of
Charles and Rose Weissman, the husband of Esther Polinksy Weissman and the
father of Sandra and Harry Weissman passed away today after which he was buried
at the Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Cemetery in suburban Ladue, MO.
https://stljewishlight.newspapers.com/clip/22518464/weisman_ben_obit/
1967: Jules Feiffer's "Little
Murders", premiered in New York City.
1969: Birthdate of Israeli yachtsman Nir Shental. Shenatal and his
brother Ran won a bronze medal in 1995 in
the World 470 Sailing Class Championships. Nir and Ran also represented Israel in the
1996 Olympics.
1970(19th of Nisan, 5730)Shabbat Shel Pesach
1971: To the repeated, joyous chant of “Am Yisroel Chai” (the people, of Israel
live). thousands of men, women and children paraded up Fifth Avenue today in
celebration of Israel's 23rd anniversary as a nation.
1972(11th of Iyar, 5732): Seventy-five-year-old Israel
Mandelkern a member of the Yiddish Theatrical Alliance passed away today after
which he was interred at Mount Hebron Cemetery in Queens County, NY.
1974(3rd of Iyar, 5734): Yom HaAtama’ut
1974: Senator Ted Kennedy met with “leading Jewish activists in the
apartment of Professor Alexander Lerner.”
1974: “Jews all over the Soviet Union commemorated Israel’s 26th
Independence Day and sent messages to President Katzir and the Israeli people.”
1975(14th of Iyar, 5735): Pesach Sheni
1975(14th of Iyar, 5735): Twenty-eight-year-old Israeli singer
Mike Brant, the son of two Holocaust survivors passed away today. http://www.mikebrant.co.il/en/biography/
1975: ABC broadcast the final episode of “Hot I Baltimore” a sitcom
featuring Charlotte Ray and Richard Masur with music by Marvin Hamlisch.
1976(25th of Nisan, 5736): Markus Reiner“an Israeli scientist and a major figure in rheology” passed
away. Reiner was born in 1886 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, then part of
Austria-Hungary, and obtained a degree in Civil Engineering at the Technische
Hochschule in Vienna (Vienna University of Technology). After the First World
War, he emigrated to Palestine, where he worked as a civil engineer under the
British mandate. After the founding of the state of Israel, he became a
professor at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) in Haifa. In his
honour the Technion later instituted the Markus Reiner Chair in Mechanics and
Rheology. Reiner was not only a major figure in rheology, (the study of the
flow of matter: primarily in the liquid state, but also as 'soft solids' or
solids under conditions in which they respond with plastic flow rather than
deforming elastically in response to an applied force) he along with Eugene C.
Bingham coined the term] and founded a society for its study. As well as the
term rheology, and his publications, he is known for the Buckingham-Reiner
Equation, the Reiner-Riwlin Equation, (now usually spelled Reiner-Rivlin), the
Deborah number and the Teapot effect - an explanation of why tea runs down the
outside of the spout of a teapot instead of into the cup
1976: “Rex,” with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, a
book by Sherman Yellen, for which Mitch Miller served as a Technical Supervisor
opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontaine Theatre.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported
that Myron Marcus, an Israeli prisoner in Mozambique, was released in a
three-way prisoner exchange swap.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that in Washington the White House
officials declared that the U.S. President Jimmy Carter, will not consider any
compromise with Congress on the all-or-nothing aircraft package sale to Saudi
Arabia, Egypt and Israel that would change the number of planes involved. A
group of outspoken critics of the Carter Administration published a full-page
advertisement in the "New York Times" warning that any weakening of
Israel was in effect, a weakening of U.S. in the Middle East.
1979: Woody Allen’s
“Manhattan” with music by George Gershwin that included Helen Haft in “a cameo
role” was released today in the United States
1979: Peace treaty between Israel and
Egypt went into effect.
1979: In “Camp David:
Farseeing Diplomacy or Neocolonialism? ” published today Daniel Pipes expresses
his concerns about the newly signed peace agreement.
1980: Funeral services
are scheduled to take place at the Riverside Memorial Chapter this morning for
attorney Mary B, Tarcher, the wife of the late Jack D. Tarcher with whom she
had three children – Judith, Mimi and Jeremy – and the Chairman of the Personnel
and Labor Relations Committee of the United Jewish Appeal Greater New York and
an active supporter of HIAS “who played a significant role in strengthening its
hand on behalf of Jewish refugees seeking to begin new lives in freedom.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/04/24/111232788.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1980(9th of
Iyar, 5740): Norfolk, VA native and Virginia Polytechnic Institute graduate
Stanley Ragone, the president of Virginia Electric and Power Company who raised
three children with his wife Bertha died in a traffic accident in 1980.
1980(9th of
Iyar, 5740): Ninety-six-year-old Katia Mann, the wife of Thomas Mann, the
famous author who left Germany because his wife had been born Jewish.
1980(9th of
Iyar, 5740): Ninety-four-year-old Austrian born American conductor Richard
Lerft, the brother of director Ernst Lert passed away today in California.
1981(21st of
Nisan, 5741): Shabbat shel Pesach observed for the first time during the
Presidency of Ronald Reagan.
1982: The Sinai Peninsula was returned
by Israel to Egypt, as part of the 1979 Camp David Accord.
1983(12th of
Iyar, 5743): Seventy-eight-year-old Nathan Goldberg, the son of Montreal native
Nellie Goldberg Flexer and Russian born Jacob Flexer and the wife of Deanie
Pugh passed away today.
1984: “The weekly
HaOlam HaZeh (This World), which had appeared with blank spaces the week
before, published on its front page a blurred picture of a man being led away.”
1984: “Dangerous Moves”
the winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film produced by Arthur Cohn
was released in Switzerland and France today.
1985: Felipe Gonzalez
sent a personal letter to the secretary general of the Arab League informing
him of Spain’s plans recognize Israel.
1986: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held today for composer Harold Arlen at the Frank E.
Campbell Funeral Home in Manhattan
1988:
The popular ABC news program "Nightline" went on location to
Jerusalem Israel.
1988: In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to
death for war crimes committed in World War II.
1991: U.S. premiere of “The Punisher” an action
film directed by Mark Goldblatt with a script Boaz Yakin
1992(22nd of Nisan, 5752): Eighth Day of Pesach and Shabbat; Yizkor
1993(4th of Iyar, 5753): Yom HaZikaron
1993(4th of Iyar, 5753):
Sixty-two-year-old Canadian Doris Giller who went from being “a secretary with
a supermarket chain” to a career in journalism passed away today.
https://web.archive.org/web/20091009104037/http:/www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca:80/about.html
https://torontolife.com/from-the-archives/for-doris-jack-rabinovitch/
1994(14th of Iyar, 5754): Pesach
Sheni
1994: Baltimore born outfielder Brian Mark Kowitz, who had been drafted by
the Minnesota Twins as part of the Rule 5 draft was sent back to the Atlanta
Braves today “when he failed to stay on the 25-man major league roster.”
1995(25th of Nisan, 5755): Ninety-five-year-old
Polish born French director an actress Marie Epstein passed away today.
1996(6th of Iyar, 5767):
Seventy-five-year-old movie designer and corporate logo creator Saul Bass
passed away today.
1996: In “Germans, Jews and Blame: New Book,
New Pain” published today Alan Cowell described the German reaction to the
recently published "Hitler's Willing
Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust" by Daniel Jonah
Goldhagen. “The book's message is that
the Holocaust was a result of a deep strain of specifically German
anti-Semitism, growing from the 19th century onward that sought the elimination
of Europe's Jews and drew enthusiastic, willing support from possibly hundreds
of thousands of ordinary Germans who physically took part in Hitler's deadly
campaign against the Jews. The Holocaust, the book says, was a ‘national
project.’ The German response, in a flurry of published articles, has been to
condemn the book as lacking in scholarship, one-sided, derivative, downright
wrong and willfully provocative.”
1997: Launch of the INS Leviathan, a Dolphin
class submarine.
1997(18th of Nisan, 5757): Fourth
Day of Pesach
1997(18th of Nisan, 5757): Hagit Zavitzky, 23, of Kfar Adumim and Liat Kastiel, 23, of
Holon were found stabbed to death in Wadi Kelt.
1997: “Romy and Michele's High School Reunion” a
comedy starring Lisa Kudrow was released in the United States today.
1997: “In concert with the publication of
Lauren Greenfields’s debut monograph, Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of
Hollywood (Knopf 1997) her first major show, "Fast Forward" had its
US debut at the International Center for Photography (ICP) today.
1999: PGA golfer Bruce Fleisher won the Home
Depot Invitational
1999: “The Gershwin’s Fascinating Rhythm,” with
music by George Gershwin and yrics by Ira Gershwin opened on Broadway today at
the Longacre Theatre.
1999: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or special
interest to Jewish readers including The Lexus and The Oliver Tree by Thomas
L. Friedman
2000(20th of Nisan,
5760): Producer David Merrick passed away. Born in 1912 in St. Louis, Merrick's
name was originally Margoulis. He lived in what he described as a
mid-western Jewish ghetto. He had an extremely unhappy childhood.
He found solace and success working in stage production at The Young
Means Hebrew Association where his uncle was the director. Merrick
married well, moved to New York where he disassociated himself from his Jewish
origins and carved a successful career on Broadway. Some of his more
notable hits were Beckett and Hello Dolly.
2000: In initial DVD
release of “Little Women” starring Winona Ryder who won the Best Actress Oscar
for her portrayal of “Jo March.”
20012(2nd of
Iyar, 5761): Yom HaZikaron
2001: In “Making a Case
for Healing, Even of Holocaust Wounds” published today, Bruce Weber provided a
review of ''The Gathering'' by Arje Shaw.
2002: “Negotiations
over a possible guilty plea by Lemrick Nelson Jr.” who was a participant in the
killing of Yankel Rosenbaum in the Crown Heights riot have broken down, a
lawyer for Mr. Nelson said” today .
2003: “It Runs In the
Family” starring three generations of the Douglas family – Kirk, Michael and
Cameron – was released in the United States today.
2003: On the day after
Pesach had come to an end it is reported that in a unique partnership between
Chabad and the New York-based Manischewitz company, ten tons of Matzah reached
Lithuania’s 6,000 Jews in time for Passover.
2004: The
New York Times reviewed books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow and A
Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of
American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967 by Rachel Cohen
2004: The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and the Cohen Center for
Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University sponsor a program entitled “Double
or Nothing: Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage in the United States.
2004: Starting today “the
Lancaster City Museum and Art Gallery hosted the first show of the successful
touring exhibition: Hannah Frank: A Glasgow Artist.’
2005: For the first time since the Expulsion in 1492, a public,
rabbi led Passover Seder was celebrated in Piano Battaglia, Palermo by Rabbi
Barbara Aiello
2005(16th of
Nisan, 5765): Second Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer
2005(16th of
Nisan, 5756): Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe passed away in Jerusalem. Born in Berlin in 1914, he made Aliyah in
1946 and is remembered as the author of Alie
Shur
2006: In “Grits and
Gefilte: How did a southern Methodist college become a destination for
America's Jews?” author Steve Stein explains the phenomenal growth in the
number of Jews attending Atlanta’s Emory University. Jewish students now compromise almost one
third of the student body at a school once known primarily for its connection
with Coca Cola. http://www.emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=17852
2006(27th of Nisan, 5766): Observance of Yom Hashoah – Holocaust
Remembrance Day.
2007: “Makor Rishon started publishing
daily. At the same time, HaTzofe (also owned by Hirsch Media) stopped
publishing its daily edition, becoming instead a weekly religious insert in
Makor Rishon” Shlomo Ben-Tzvi's Hirsch Media had purchased the newspaper in
2003. His wife is the editor of Segula, a magazine about Jewish history and
culture that began publishing in 2012.
2007: At the Leo Baeck Institute Barbara Hahn, Distinguished
Professor of German at Vanderbilt University, previously Professor of German at
Princeton University, delivers a lecture entitled, “Kafka´s Wife - the Children
of Bruno Schulz - On broken Traditions.”
2007: “Yiddish
Theater: A Love Story" is scheduled to be shown at American Jewish
University (formerly the University of Judaism), as part of the Los Angeles
Jewish Film Festival
2008(20th of Nisan, 5768): Sixth Day
of Pesach
2008(20th of Nisan, 5678):
Ninety-nine year “painter and sculptor” succumbed to injuries “sustained in
taxi accident” and passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/arts/26donati.html
2008: The Jerusalem Cinematheque features a
screening of “The Decalogue” \ עשרת הדיברות.
2008: “Harold &
Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay” a comedy directed by Jon Hurwitz who also
co-authored the script was released today in the United States.
2008: In what would
be the start of a minor tempest, Entertainment Tonight reported that Annie
Leibovitz had taken topless pictures of a 15 year old actress for a layout in
Vanity Fair.
2009(1st of Iyar,
5769Rosh Chodesh Iyar
2009(1st of Iyar,
5769): Beloved television and
theater star Bea Arthur passed away today at her home in Los Angeles after a
battle with cancer. The 86-year-old was born Beatrice Frankel to a Jewish
family in New York City and became a household name on such TV shows as
"Golden Girls" and "Maude". Arthur began her career in the
theater, where she won a Tony Award for the musical "Mame" and played
"Yente the Matchmaker" in the Broadway premiere of Fiddler on the
Roof. Arthur was perhaps most well known for her role as Dorothy Zbornak on the
hit series Golden Girls. The show, which centered on the lives of four retired
women living together in a house in Miami, Florida, was a hit for six seasons
and won 10 Emmys, including one for Arthur in 1988. After Golden Girls ended
its run, Arthur appeared in guest spots on TV, including a part as Larry
David's mother on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Arthur was inducted into the Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in 2008.
2009: The
David Bromberg Quartet at MerleFest
2010: Agudas Achim in
Iowa City is scheduled to host its annual “Mitzvah Day.”
2010: The Jewish
Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to offer “A Walking Tour
of Downtown Jewish Washington” that will enable participants to visit the sites
of four former synagogues while learning what it was like to live and worship
as a Jew from 1850-1950 in the historic Seventh Street neighborhood, now known
as Chinatown.
2010: A revival
production of “Promises, Promises” with music by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David, and
book by Neil Simon opened at The Broadway Theatre.
2010: Wrestler Bill Goldberg and
Olympic swimmer Jason Lezak were among seven inductees into the National Jewish
Sports Hall of Fame. The five others inducted at the Hall of Fame in Commack,
N.Y., were Virginia Tech men’s basketball coach Seth Greenberg; female judo
champion Rusty Kanokogi; Penn State women’s volleyball coach Russ Rose;
Achilles Track Club founder Dick Traum; and former NFL offensive lineman Alan
Veingrad. Goldberg, an all-American defensive end at the University of Georgia,
was taken in the 11th round of the 1990 NFL draft by the Los Angeles Rams, but
he turned to wrestling and martial arts three years after an injury ended his
football career in 1994. During his seven-year career on the World Champion
Wrestling circuit, World Wrestling Entertainment twice recognized Goldberg as
the world heavyweight champion. In an often humorous and casually self-effacing
speech at the Hall of Fame ceremony, Goldberg sought to tie his unconventional
career choice in professional wrestling to Judaism."I wanted to try my
best to give the Jewish youth something to look up to, someone who's persevered
and somehow made a difference," Goldberg said. "What better way to
help Jewish youth in dealing with adversity than to parade around the ring on
national television in my underwear, demolishing every single person in my
path?"Goldberg did not address recent rumors of a return to professional
wrestling, instead saying that he wanted to focus on remaining on this season
of NBC's reality television show "Celebrity Apprentice." Lezak, a professional swimmer, came to
national prominence as the unassuming hero of the U.S. 4-by-100-meter freestyle
relay team that won the gold medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and set a world
record. His dramatic final lap of the race made international headlines and
helped teammate Michael Phelps notch a crucial victory on his way to a record
eight gold medals at the Games. Lezak has won numerous Olympic medals,
including an individual bronze at the '08 Games, and earned four gold medals at
the Maccabiah Games in Israel last summer
2011: “Twilight Becomes Night” is
one of two documentary shorts scheduled to be shown at Film Form in New York.
The documentary examines the widespread closing of independently-owned
businesses in New York City, and the significant impact this transformation has
on the people who live here. Russ & Daughters, a multi-generational Jewish
owned family business known for its quality and genial atmosphere, “is
presented in the film along with interview clips with Niki Russ Federman and
Russ & Daughters' longtime manager, Herman Vargas.”
2011: Yael Hedaya, “an Israeli
novelist, one of the head writers for In Treatment, the acclaimed Israeli TV
series adapted for HBO” is one of the writers scheduled to appear at “PEN
Speakeasy: Sex; Erotic Readings” on the opening day of the PEN World Voices
Festival.
2011(21 Nisan, 5771): Seventh Day
of Pesach – holiday ends for Israelis and Reform Jews.
2011: Politicians from left, right and
center put aside their political differences this evening to join in the
traditional Moroccan celebration of Mimouna marking the end of Pesach and the
beginning of spring.
2011: In New York, Russ &
Daughters is co-sponsoring a screening of The Vanishing City & Twilight
Becomes Night, two documentaries that trace the changing face of the city and
the reasons behind the morphing of Manhattan.
2012: “Common Sense Media honored
John David Leibowitz, the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission as a
Champion for Kids
2012: Israeli newspapers reported
today that Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz has said economic and diplomatic pressures
against Iran were beginning to succeed
2012: Filmmakers Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman
are scheduled to participate in a Q&A following a screening of “Between Two
Worlds” at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2012: The Embassy of Israel,
the Washington Jewish Film Festival and The Avalon Theatre are scheduled to
sponsor a screening of the Israeli film "Ha'lahaka"
2012: Ninety-six-year-old Inge Elsas who gave an
untold number of youngsters their first taste of Jewish education as the
Kindergarten Teacher at Temple Sinai, passed away today.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5696-ellinger-moritz
2012(3rd of
Iyar, 5772): Yom Hazikaron –Israel Remembrance Day
2013(15th of
Iyar, 5773): Ninety-six-year-old “inventor and philanthropist” Stanley Dashew
passed a way today
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/obituary-stanley-dashew-96-philanthropist-245607
2013: In Columbus,
Ohio, Congregation Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host a concert where the
winners of the 2012 Justine Hackman Memorial Young Artist Competition will
perform.
2013: The Jewish
Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to a lunchtime event
commemorating the 70th anniversary of the performance of “We Will
Never Die” at Constitution Hall.
2013: In London, the
Wiener Library is scheduled to present “The Human and the Inhuman: Writing in
the Wake of the Holocaust”
2013: Police today finished a probe of Rabbi Avraham Chaim Sherman, a judge on
the Great Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem. Officers from the National Fraud
Investigative Unit suspect Sherman of breach of trust, obstruction of justice
and abuse of power in his ruling in a divorce proceeding. Today Police handed
over the case to state prosecutors who will decide whether to pursue an
indictment.
2013: A court handed
the Women of the Wall a significant legal victory in a decision released today,
ruling that the state cannot arrest the women for their activities at the holy
site.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/legal-victory-for-women-of-the-wall-in-legal-ruling/
2014: In New York, the Centro Primo Levi is scheduled to host a
presentation by David Meghnagi and Barbara Spadaro on “The Jews of Libya
Between the 19th Century and the Colonial Era.”
2014: Funeral services for Canadian political leader Herb Gray ware
scheduled to held at Congregation Machzikel Hadas in Ottawa followed by
interment at the Jewish Memorial Gardens.
2015(6th of Iyar, 5775): Parashat Tazria-Metzora
2015(6th of Iyar, 5775): Ninety-three-year-old German born
screenwriter and novelist Don Mankiewicz passed away today.
2015: Today Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid received his award for best
director at the Buenos Aires Film Festival for the “Kindergarten Teacher.”
(JTA)
2015: “Assaf Evron’s
one person show “The sea was smooth, perfectly mirroring the sky” is scheduled
to close at the Andrea Meislin Gallery.
2015: “Theodore Bikel:
In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem” is scheduled to be shown at the Westchester
Jewish Film Festival.
2015: “The Arrest”
directed by Yair Agmon is scheduled to be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival.
2015: An Evening of
Songs and Stories In Tribute to Israel’s Greatest Music Legend Arik Einstein
In Celebration of Israel Independence Day is
scheduled to take place this evening at The Axelrod Performing Arts Center.
2016(17th of
Nisan, 5776): Third Day of Pesach
2016: The Halelu Choir
is scheduled to present a Pesach Concert at the Waldorf Astoria in Jerusalem.
2017(29th of
Nisan, 5777): One-hundred-eight year old Holocaust survivor Shobha Magdolna
Friedman Nehru passed away today at her home India.
2017: In Cedar Rapids,
IA, Holocaust survivor Jacob Eisenbach is scheduled to speak at Kirkwood
Community College, a Holocaust Memorial Event co-sponsored by David and Joan
Thaler Holocaust Memorial Fund
2017: The Oxford
University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a “3 course meals and a group
discussion focusing on ‘The countdown: Sefirat Ha’omer in halacha, thought,
history and memory.’”
2017: In Mt. Vernon,
IA, Holocaust survivor Jacob Eisenbach is scheduled to speak at Cornell
College, a Holocaust Memorial Event co-sponsored by David and Joan Thaler
Holocaust Memorial Fund
2017: Matti Friedman
and Hair Watzman are scheduled to discuss their new books – Pumpkinflowers;
A Soldier’s Story and Necessary Stories – at the Crusaders Hall at
the Tower of David at event sponsored by the Times of Israel.
2018: Dr. Frederick
Roden is scheduled to begin lecturing on “Reform Spirituality” this evening at
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center this evening.
2018: In Memphis, TN,
Temple Israel congregants are scheduled to participate in a community-wide
social action panel discussing “Food Insecurity.”
2018: A photo
exhibition showing “Elderly Jews and Holocaust Survivors” opened at the
Streicker Center.
2018: The American
Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host the book talk and the launch of Broadway:
A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles, where the author Fran Leadon
will talk about the extraordinary ways in which American Jews contributed to
making Broadway the iconic street that it is today.
2018: People took part
in the ‘Berlin Wears Kippa’ event, with more than 2,000 Jews and non-Jews
wearing the traditional skullcap to show solidarity with Jews today, in Berlin,
after Germany has been rocked by a series of anti-Semitic incidents. (As
reported by Tobias Schwarz)
2019: As part of
First-Person series, featuring “conversations with Holocaust Survivors, the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host an hour long
session with Manny Mandel
2019(20th of
Nissan, 5779): Sixth Day of Pesach; Fifth Day of the Omer
2020: Anzac Day which was
originally devised to honor the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army
Corps (ANZAC) who served in the Gallipoli Campaign, their first engagement in
the First World War which made them
comrades of the Zion Mule Corps, and which is now “a national day of
remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all
Australians and New Zealanders "who served and died in all wars,
conflicts, and peacekeeping operations" and "the contribution and
suffering of all those who have served" is scheduled to be observed today.
2020(1st of
Iyar, 5780): Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Nathan Shapiro of Horadno
2020(1st of
Iyar, 5780): Parashat Tazria/Metsora; Rosh Chodesh Iyar
2020(1st of
Iyar, 5780: Seventy-six-year-old Madeline Faith Kripke, the New London, CT born
daughter Dorothy (Karp) Kripke, “an author of children’s religious books” and
Rabbi Myer S. Kripke and the sister of philosopher Sol Krikpe passed away today
leaving behind “one of the world’s largest private collection of dictionaries,
much of crammed into her Greenwich Village apartment.” (As reported by Sam
Roberts)
2021: This afternoon for
a second time,“streaming live from the Vancouver Symphony with Maestro Ken
Selden, pianist Orli Shaham is scheduled to perform Beethoven's bright and
lyrical Piano Concerto No.2 in honor of the composer’s 250th anniversary.
2021: The Jewish
Community Library is scheduled to present “ facilitated discussion of Anna
Solomon’s 2020 novel, The Book of V, which is rooted in the Book of
Esther but involves modern narratives and is this year’s One Bay One Book
selection.
2021: Two Stony Brook U. professors who are
authors/editors of two books on Jewish Spain are scheduled to address the 2015
Spanish law granting nationality to descendants of Jews expelled in 1492 and
its implications.
2021: The Oshman Family JCC’s Israeli Cultural Connection is scheduled
to present an in-person treasure hunt/escape room with bands Plaster Band and
The Peatot, in honor of Israel’s 73rd birthday
2021; Congregation Etz
Chayim of Palo Alto is scheduled to present “Portland State professor Loren
Spielman who offers insight into daily Jewish life in ancient times and what
the rabbis thought about chariot races, theater, athletics and gladiator shows
in the Greco-Roman world.
2021: IDF Chief of
Staff Aviv Kohavi, is scheduled to travel to Washington today to meet with a number of top US defense
officials, in his first trip to the US since entering his position.
2021: The New York
Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including Empire of Pain: The Secret History of
the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe and Houdini and Me by
Dan Gutman
2022: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host a Tina Brown and Lesley Stahl as they discuss
“Windsor Castle: Behind the Closed Doors.”
2022: In New Orleans,
the federation is scheduled to host a Jewish Community Relations Council
Ukraine Event.
2022: The Baltimore
Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to begin today with a screening of “The Spy
Behind Home Plate.”
2022: Based on reports
published yesterday, the Gaza border crossings remain closed “following rocket
fire into southern Israel.”
2022: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host a presentation by Idan Chabasov, the Sephardic Jew
with roots in Turkey and Usbekistatn who “has become challah royalty worshipped
by 70,000 Instagram followers for his photos and videos about Jewish egg bread.”
2023: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host the second session of Naomi Miller’s “Beginner’s
Yiddish: Shopping, Cooking, Inviting and Eating For the Jewish Holidays.”
2023(4th of
Iyar, 5783): Yom HaZikaron; Israel’s official day of remembrance for fallen
soldiers and victims of terrorism.
2023: “The Jewish
Clergy Council of New Orleans are scheduled lead a Yom Ha'Zikaron ceremony
honoring those who have fallen during the wars and acts of terrorism since the
birth of the State of Israel
2023: In New Orleans,
the Jewish Community Center is scheduled to “celebrate Israel's 75th birthday
with an amazing concert by Gili Yalo and delicious Israeli foods.”
2024: The Jewish Studio
Project is scheduled to host the first session of “Creating with the Seasons:
Omer Series with Rabbi Bec Richman.”
2024: The Alliance for
Jewish Theatre is scheduled to host a “Bake-Off For Short Plays” which “is a
quickly written exercise on an assigned theme with assigned elements that folks
do within a short period of time.”
2024: The funeral for
Marsha Fensin, the widow of Lee Fensin and mother of Scott and Lori who was
“the former cantorial soloist at Temple Judah” in Cedar Rapids is schedule to
take place at Mount Zion Cemetery in Brookfield, WI.
2024: With this recital
of music by Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms, baritone Matthias Goerne is
scheduled to come together with superstar pianist Evgeny Kissin for the first
time in a special tour that includes the concert hall New York’s own Carnegie
Hall tonight.
2024: 109th anniversary of the Anzac
Landings at Gallipoli during WW I of which Sir Martin Gilbert writes so
poignantly in his First World War: A Complete History “On 25 April 1915,
a day of gas and demoralization for British and French alike on the Western
Front, the Anglo-French military landings, from which the Allies expected so
much, took place on the Gallipoli Peninsula.”
2024: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by Dr. Hilary Pomeroy on “The Jews of
Spain: A ‘Golden Age’? An Historical and Cultural Overview, Part 2.”
2024: In Palo Alto, CA,
the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host a screening the animated film “The
Prince of Egypt” complete KP Dr. Browns.
2024: As April 25h
begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day 202
in captivity. (Editor’s note:
this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a
snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
2024(17th of Nisan, 5784): Third Day of Pesach
Latino Shabbat Dinner” with Honored
Guests: Shmuel Steinhendler Chief Rabbi of Cuba and David Prinstein President
of the Casa de la Comunidad Hebrea de Cuba, El Patronato and Gran Synagoga Bet
Shalom, Havana, Cuba
2025: The Hadassah Midwest Conference with a theme of Anything is
Possible is scheduled to begin today.
2025: The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host a Walking Tour
“Jewish New Amsterdam” which will be a stroll through the Manhattan Financial
District with one of the expert Eldridge Street tour guides to trace the steps
of the first Jewish settlers who arrived in New Amsterdam in the mid-17th
century.
2025: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Rabbi
Jonathan Sippel on Parashat Shemini
2025: General Michael Kurilla, the head of U.S. Central Command is
scheduled to continue his visit to Israel where talks will include dealing with
Iran’s nuclear program.
2025: Viewers can access “The World Will Tremble” on Apple TV
2025: Today “in Tel Aviv visitors can explore historic Jaffa with its
old city, visit the bustling Carmel Market, relax on one of Tel Aviv's
beautiful beaches like Frishman Beach, or explore the vibrant Neve Tzedek
neighborhood. Consider visiting the Tel Aviv Museum of Art or the Eretz Israel
Museum for cultural experiences.”
2025: As April 25th begins in Israel, an
unprecedented wave of ant-Semitism sweeps across the globe that includes the
fire-bombing of the mansion housing the family of Governor Josh Shapiro on
Pesach, the reality is that the remaining Hamas held hostages begin day 567 in
captivity (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so
we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
2026: The Paula Lerner Visiting Artist Program at Beth El
Temple Center is scheduled to present “An Exploration of Belonging and
Othering: A Dance & Multimedia.”
2026: In Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to
celebrate the adult bat mitzvah of Brianna Hall.
2026: In Jerusalem, Agnon House is scheduled to host a reading
with Nir Binyamini in the eighth chapter of the novel Yesterday Yesterday,
in which Agnon described the artist's complex attitude towards the act of art
and the constant gap between the work and its recipients.
2026: As April 25th begins in Israel,
according to President Trump Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Joseph Aoun
are scheduled to meet for another round “peace talks” and the ceasefire between
their two countries has been extended for another three weeks even as Hezbollah
continues to fire rockets into Israel. (Editor’s note: this situation is too
fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the
posting at midnight Israeli time)
2026(8th of Iyar, 5786): Parashat Achrei-Mot;
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