383: The Roman Emperors ended the exemption Jewish
religious leaders enjoyed from compulsory public service. "The order which Jewish men flatter themselves with and which
gives them immunity from the compulsory public services of decurions shall be
rescinded. Not even the clergy are free to deal with divine service until they
have dealt with municipal service.”
1025: The Coronation of Bolesław Chrobry at
Gniezno as King of Poland marks the beginning of Poland as an independent
country. Boleslaw’s first contact with Jews may have come when he conquered the
town of Przemysl in 1018. According to some records, the town was already home
to a group of Jewish traders. Jews were welcome to settle in Poland at
this because the rulers so them as an economic and cultural asset. Jews
would find Poland a welcome refuge from the depredations that began with the
Crusades 70 years after coronation of Poland’s first independent monarch.
1165 (4 Iyar, 4925): Maimon ben Maimon and his
family leave Fez for Eretz Israel.
1279: Pedro III ordered his bailiffs to take
control of the property of Jahuda Cavalleria until "proper heirs can be
determined." Though in this case Jahuda's family ended up getting his
estate, the Jews essentially owned nothing, and were essentially considered,
"simply holding property for the Crown."
1389: A priest of Prague, hit with a few
grains of sand by small Jewish boys playing in the street, insists that the
Jewish community purposely plotted against him. Thousands were slaughtered, the
synagogue and the cemetery were destroyed, and homes were pillaged. King
Wenceslaus insisted that the responsibility rested with the Jews for venturing
outside during Holy Week.
1521: At the Diet of Worms, German reformer Martin
Luther proclaimed that a biblical foundation supported the theological position
of his "Ninety-Five Theses." Luther ended his defense with the famous
words: 'Here I stand! I can do nothing else! God help me! Amen.' Luther
had a profound effect on Western history in general and Jewish history in
particular. His inability to convert the Jews led him down the path of
virulent anti-Semitism. At the same, his split with the Catholic Church
led to centuries of religious warfare and conflict that found the Jews caught
in the middle. Luther is not considered infallible by the church that bears his
name. His attitude toward the Jews is not official doctrine of the
Lutheran Church. In Germany, the Lutheran Church proved to be an early
opponent of Hitler.
1577(1st of Iyar): Rabbi Nathan Shapiro of
Horadno, author of Mevo Shearim passed away.
1587: Boston born English Protestant clergyman
and historian John Foxe whose famous literary work, Book of Martyrs “included
stories of Jews” and whose writings on Jews show how a powerful writer
conceived of the place of Jews in a newly self-concious, Protestant English
national identity amidst conflicting currents of theology, race, and politics”
passed away today.
1590: Birthdate of Sultan
Ahmed I of the Ottoman Empire. During his reign Solomon Eskenaz,i Avraham Levi
Migas, and Naftali Ben Mansur all served as physicians at the palace.
When Solomon Eskenazi passed away, his wife, Buha Eskenazi replaced. When
Ahmed contracted smallpox, a disease that was often fatal at this time, his
regular physicians could not help. So he summoned Buha Eskenzai and she was
able to save him. The Sultan passed away in 1617.
1599: Phillip III who supported the
policy of making his realm Jew free and who gamed a free hand to the murderous
Inquisition married his cousin, Margaret of Austria, today.
1705, Luis Moses Gomez, who had
been in New York City since at least 1703, was officially declared a denizen
1735(26th of Nisan): Rabbi Ephraim Navon of
Constantinople, author of “Mahaneh Ephriam” passed away today
1753(14th of Nisan, 5513): Jews in
England observe the Ta’anit Bechorot; and sit down to their Seder under the
reign of Philo-Semitic King George II.
1756(18th of Nisan, 5516): Fourth
Day of Pesach
1756: In Philadelphia Mathias Bush and his
first wife Tabitha Mears gave birth to Nathan Bush
1761(14th of Nisan, 5721): Parashat
Achrei-Mot; erev Pesach
1764(16th of Nisan, 5524): Second
Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer is counted as Boston endures a
smallpox epidemic.
1767(19th of Nisan, 5527): Fifth Day
of Pesach and Shabbat observed as Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon are on the
verge of the survey of the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland that became
known as the Mason and Dixon Line.
1772(15th of Nisan, 5532): Pesach
1772: In London Abigail Delvalle and “her
husband, stockbroker Abraham Israel Ricardo” a “Sephardic Jew of Portuguese
origins who had moved to England from the Dutch Republic gave birth to English economist David Ricardo, the successful speculator
who along with Malthus and Adam Smith, Ricardo was one of the Big Three of
Classical Economists and who was disowned by his family for eloping with “a
Quaker, Priscilla Anne Wilkinson and converting to Christianity.
https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Ricardo.html
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/david-ricardo.asp
1773: In Tunis, Shalom Belais and
his wife gave birth to Rabbi Abraham Belais.
1775(18th of Nisan,
5535): Fourth Day of Pesach
1775: Tonight, as Jews recited the
blessing for the fourth day of the Omer “British troops were marching from
Boston, headed toward Concord where they were to confiscate the weapons and
leaders of the rebel movement.
1778(21st of Nisan, 5538): Seventh
Day of Pesach and Shabbat
1778: In Darmstadt, Germany, Guetel and Huna
Mormelstein gave birth Micahel MOrmelstein, the hus band of Adelheit Fuchs and
the father of Babe, Henry and Manuel Marblestone.
1783(16th of Nisan, 5543): Second
Day of Pesach and first day of the Omer observed on the same day that General
George “Washington issued General Orders to the Continental Army announcing the
"Cessation of Hostilities between the United States of America and the
King of Great Britain."
1786: Abraham Florentine, the New Yorker who
had moved to Nova Scotia and later returned to New York submitted his second
application for indemnification for the house in New York and the horses, dry
goods and household goods taken from him by “Rebels” during the war.
1787:In response to a request from Lyon Prager,
Israel Levin Salomons today asked the East India Company to adopt “certain
regulations” “to give effect to Lyon Prager’s appointment as the Company’s
Inspector and Purchaser of Drugs in Bengal.”
1789(22nd of Nisan, 5549): Eighth
Day of Pesach and Shabbat are observed 12 days before the inauguration of
George Washington.
1791(14th of Nisan, 5551): Ta’anit
Bechorot; erev Pesach
1791: As Jews sit down to their Seders to
celebrate their liberation from bondage, France continues to be rocked by the
Revolution which was the Gallic attempt to free themselves from Royal Bondage
that began two years ago as can be seen by today’s move by the National Guard
to keep the royal family from leaving Paris to celebrate Easter, probably
because they feared the King would try and leave the country and organize a
counter-revolutionary force.
1793: In Savannah, GA, Sarah Sheftall and
Abraham De Lyon, who had been married in their home town in 1785 gave birth to
Abraham De Lyon, Jr, the husband of Esther Nunes Ribeiro.
1797: Eighth Day of Pesach: Yizkor is recited
for the first time during the Presidency of John Adams
1801(5th of Iyar 5561): Parashat
Tazria-Metzora is read for the first time during the Presidency of Thomas
Jefferson.
1802(16th of Nisan, 5562): Second
Day of Pesach; first day of the Omer observed on the same that President Thomas
Jefferson wrote to Robert Livingston, the U.S. Ambassador to France about the
new cipher that Dupont de Nemours was bringing him that they would be using in
their communications going forward and expressing his concerns on the impact of
Spain returning the land that would later become the Louisiana Purchase to
France.
1805(19th of Nisan, 5565): Fifth Day
of Pesach
1805: As Jews munch on their Matzah, Lewis and
Clark met with the family Toussaint Charbonneau, the French Canadian trapper
and trader who was reported to the husband of Sacagawea, the guide who was the
eyes of the Corps of Discovery.
1806(30th of Nisan, 5566): Rosh
Chodesh Iyar
1806(30th of Nisan 5566):
Seventy-year-old Doctor Jonas Mischel Jeitteles who was born in Prague and who
was buried in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague after he passed away today. “He
studied medicine in Leipzig and Halle. He became the public health officer of
the Jewish community. He was nominated chief supervisor of the guild of Jewish
healers in Prague. In 1784 he obtained from the emperor Joseph in Vienna
permission that not only he himself but also other Jewish doctors could pursue
unrestricted medical practice. He suffered from periodic depressive disorders
with several exogenously provoked attacks.”
1809: Today, Wilhelm von Humboldt submitted a
draft constitution for Prussian Jewry which he had written and which demanded
“that emancipation of the Jews be complete and immediate.”
https://www.hu-berlin.de/en/university/history/wilhelm-von-humboldt
1810(14th of Nisan, 5570): Ta’anit
Bechorot; Erev Pesach
1810: In Kingston, Jamaica, Abraham Quixano
Henriques, Esq, the Kingston born son of Moses Israel Henriques and Abigail
Henriques and Leah Rachel Henriques gave birth to future London resident Sarah
Josephs, the wife of Walter Josephs.
1810: Leah Rachel De Leon, a native of the West
Indies and Abraham Quixano Henriques gave birth to Sarah Henriques.
1812(6th of Iyar, 5572): Parashat
Tazria-Metzora chanted as French troops under Napoleon prepare to invade
Russia.
1813(18th of Nisan, 5573): Fourth
Day of Pesach observed as the Americans were preparing to attack York during
the War of 1812.
1816(20th of Nisan, 5576): Sixth Day
of Pesach
1816: In Prussia, birthdate of English “Produce
Merchant” Alfred Benjamin Baumann, the husband of Priscilla Phineas Isaacs and
the father of Rebecca, Benjamin, John, James and Adela Bauman.
1818(12th of Nisan, 5576): Parashat
Achrei Mot; Shabbat Hagadol
1818: Birthdate of Salvatore de Benedetti, the
native of Piedmont whose works included Vita
e Morte di Mose, published in 1879 in which “he gathered and translated
the legends concerning the great Jewish leader.
1825(30th of Nisan, 5585): Rosh
Chodesh Iyar observed on the same day that General Lafayette met with African
American veterans of the War of 1812 in New Orleans.
1827(21st of Nisan, 5587): Seventh
Day of Pesach celebrated just six days after George Canning who favored “free
trade and Catholic emancipation” became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1831: The University of Alabama is
founded. The Psi chapter of ZBT founded in 1916 was the first Jewish
organization on campus. A Hillel chapter was founded in 1934. According
to recent figures the schools graduate and undergraduate population of 28,000
students includes 450 undergraduates and 75 grad students.
1833: In Vienna, Moritz Moses Jacob
von Goldschmidt and Nanette von Goldschmidt gave birth to Julius von
Goldschmidt.
1832(18th of Nisan,
5592): Fourth Day of Pesach observed on the same day of “the official start of
the 1832 United States presidential election, featuring Andrew Jackson versus
Henry Clay.
1835(19th of Nisan,
5595): Shabbat shel Pesach observed on the same day that “Lord Melbourne
succeeded Sir Robert Peel as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.”
1840(15th of Nisan,
5600): First Day of Pesach and Shabbat observed for the last time during the
Presidency of Martin Van Buren.
1843(18th of Nisan,
5603): Third Day of Pesach observed for the first time while William Wordsworth
was serving Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
1845(11th of Nisan,
5605): Seventy-eight-year-old merchant Simon Von Lämel, the native of Bohemia
who was elevated to the hereditary nobility in recognition for his aid in
provisioning the Austrian Emperor’s Army and lending him large sums of money,
passed away today in Vienna, a city in which he and his family were among the
legally limited number of Jewish residents.
1846(22nd of Nisan,
5606): Eighth Day of Pesach and Shabbat observed for the first time since the
dissolution of the Republic of Texas.
1848(15th of Nisan,
5608): As Jews observe the first day of Pesach, U.S. Forces under General
Winfield Scott defeat the forces of Santa Anna at the Battle of Cerro Gordo
during the Mexican-American War.
1851(16th of Nisan,
5611): Second Day of Pesach; Omer is counted for the first time during the
President of Millard Fillmore the last member of the Whig Party to serve in the
White House.
1855(30th of Nisan,
5615): Rosh Chodesh Iyar observed while Napoleon III, whose reign French
emperor coincided with improvement of the economic, social and political
conditions of his Jewish subjects, continued his tour of Great Britain
1856: Zachariah Hagedorn for many
years, one of West Point, Georgia’s leading merchants and one of its earliest
Jewish settlers was born today in the village of Giershagen, in the province of
Westphalia, in the Kingdom of Prussia.
1857(24th of Nisan,
5617): Parashat Shmini
1857(24th of Nisan,
5617): In Austria, Baruch Reichler and his wife gave birth to Moses Reichler,
the rabbi of Congregation House of Jacob in Utica, NY.
1857: Birthdate of famed defense attorney
Clarence Darrow one of whose most famous cases involved the Jewish thrill
killers Leopold and Loeb. Anybody who has seen “Inherit the Wind” has a
pretty good understanding of Darrow’s view of religion and the Bible.
However, Darrow represented the ACLU and those it supported at a time when the
cause of civil liberties was quite unpopular. This work with the ACLU
gave him a shared interest with many Jewish leaders of his day. He was a foe of
anti-Semitism as could be seen by his signing of “The Perils of Racial
Prejudice” which denounced “The International Jew” which was funded by Henry
Ford.
1857: In London Adelaide and Ellis Abraham
Franklin gave birth to Arthur Ellis Franklin, a
senior partner at Keyser & Co, a merchant bank, the son of banker Ellis
Abraham Franklin and Adelaide Franklin and the husband of Caroline Franklin
with whom he had six children.
1857: In Jackson, CA, “a meeting was held”
today at which “it was decided to build a synagogue” which was the first such
structure “erected in the mining districts.”
1859(14th of Nisan, 5619): Fast of
the first born is observed exactly one week to the day before “ground was
broken for the Suez Canal” which would be a game changer in so many ways.
1860: Louisa de Samuel married Baron George de
worms, the son of Baron Solomon Benedict de Worms and Henritta Samuel after
which she was known as Louisa de Worms
1860: Birthdate of Fernand-Gustave Gaston
Labori, the native Rheims, France who courageously defended Emile Zola in 1898
and Alfred Dreyfus at the court martial in Rennes during which he effectively
proved his client’s innocence and for which he was wounded by an assassin’s
bullet.
1861: This evening the 26th Regiment
of Pennsylvania Volunteers whose members included Dr. Jacob Da Silva Solis
Cohen “started from Philadelphia under orders requiring it to be taken through
Baltimore ‘at or before daylight.’”
1862(18th of Nisan, 5622): Fourth
Day of Pesach observed as U.S Naval forces under Admiral David Farragut began
their bombardment of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, the Confederate
installations that were key to holding to New Orleans.
1863: War knows no day of rest as can be seen
by the Battle of Fayetteville which was fought during the Civil War in the town
that became the home of the University of Arkansas and is today the home Chabad
of Northwest Arkansas.
1865: In Cedar Falls, IA, “William P. and Mary
(Taylor) Taubman, gave birth to Iowa State Normal School (University of
Northern Iowa) graduate Tom Taubman the husband of Minnie Samuels who was a
newspaper editor, Democratic politician and U.S. Marshall in the state of South
Dakota.
1865(22nd of Nisan, 5625): As Jews
observed the eighth and final day of Pesach General Sherman and General
Johnston met to finalize the terms of the surrender of the largest remaining
Confederate force remaining in the field following the surrender of Lee at Appomattox.
1866: Today, in Manhattan, Rabbi Adler laid the
cornerstone for a new synagogue that will be the home of Adas Jeshurun.
The building is located on 39th Street between 7th and 8th
Avenues. A tin box was placed in the cornerstone. Among the items
in the box were the Charter of the Congregation, a copy of the U.S.
Constitution, a list of the congregational officers, copies of several papers
including the New York World and the New York Times and photo of Moses
Montefiore.
1869(7th of Iyar, 5629): Adam
Spielmann, the son of Michele and Lewin (Judah) Spielmann and husband of Marian
Spielmann whose children included Sir
Isidore Spielmann passed away today in London.
1873(21st of Nisan, 5633): Seventh
Day of Pesach
1873(21st of Nisan, 5633):
Forty-seven-year-old British actor and theatre manager, the father of August
Harris passed away today and was buried in Brompton Cemetery, London
1873(21st of Nisan, 5633): The New York
Times reported that “the closing holiday of the feast of the Passover
commenced yesterday evening. Today and Saturday will be kept as strict
holidays and at sundown tomorrow the festival will terminate.” [Editor’s
Note: Based on the Times story, the Orthodox observance was considered
normative since it is describing the 7th and 8th days of
the festival.]
1874(1st of Iyar, 5634): Rosh
Chodesh Iyar; Parashat Tatzria-Metzora
1874: Birthdate of Abraham Pflaum, the Chicago
born lawyer and an officer with the United Hebrew Charities and the Jewish Aid
Society whose wife was the Recording Secretary of the Chicago Woman’s Aid which
met at Sinai Temple in Chicago and had been organized in 1882.
1875: The
New York Times reported that
“To-morrow evening the Israelites throughout the world will commence the
celebration of the important festival of "Pesach," or Passover, also
known as “Hag Hamatzos," or the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The festival
was instituted by divine command to commemorate the miraculous deliverance of
the Children of Israel from the captivity which, for hundreds of years, they
had endured in the land of Egypt.”
1875: In Syracuse, Solomon Silverstein and
Esther Shevelson gave birth to Dr. Albert Silverstein who graduated from Yale
and Gross Medical College of Denver where practice medicine and taught with the
exception of a one year stint with Medical Department of the United States Army
which he served in the Philippines during the Spanish American War and the
insurrection that followed.
1875: “The Feast of Passover: Interesting
Religious Ceremonies” published today described the celebration of Pesach
including the fact that during the Seder “any Jewish servants in the employ of”
a Jewish family “have on these occasions the privilege of sitting at the table
on a footing of perfect equality with their employers.”
1875: In Eichstein Leopold and Babette Bloch
gave birth to Julie Bloch who became Julie Moses after she married Moses Moses,
the son of Abraham and Rosa Moses.
1876: In New York City, “Sigmund and Linda
Mainster Galston” gave birth to NYU trained lawyer and federal judge Clarence
G. Galston who raised two children with his “the former Estelle Elkus.”
1877: Birthdate of Galicia native and glass
bottle manufacturer Samuel Mallinger who in 1894 came to the United States
where he settled in Pittsburgh and in addition to becoming a successful
businessman was a member of the Austro-Hungarian Congregation, “a staunch
supporter of Jewish education” while raising four children – Emanuel, Ruth,
Fannie and Benjamin – with his wife Anna Klee.
1878: Birthdate of Kovno native Hyman Aaron who
in 1900 came to the United States he formed “his own construction firm in
Brooklyn while serving on the board of directors of Beth El Hospital and the
Stone Avenue Talmud Torah and raising two sons Bernard and Dr. Jules Aaron and
one daughter with hiswife Mollie Spillie.
1878(15th of Nisan, 5638): Pesach
1879: Birthdate of Kharkov, Russian born
pianist Mark Gunzburg, the holder of a doctorate from the University of Leipzig
who in 1922 came to the United States where he served on the faculty of the
Detroit Institute of Musical Art.
1880: Two days after he had passed away, Isaiah
Joshua Simmons, the husband of Caroline Benjamin with whom he had had twelve
children was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1880: It was reported today that the Governor
of Morocco has ordered the destruction all houses belong to Jews facing
Mosques.
1880: An article published today about the
nature of Armenians includes the following quip attributed to Lord
Rothschild. “Shut up all the Jews and all the Armenians of the world
together in one exchange and within half an hour the total wealth of the former
will have passed into the hands of the latter.”
1881(19th of Nisan, 5641): Fifth Day
of Pesach
1881: In
Indianapolis, Indiana, an unnamed Jewish citizen sent a basket of flowers to
the Second Presbyterian Church with a note saying, “that it was ‘a token of
respect for the liberal sentiments that Reverend William A. Bartlett had
expressed in a talk on “the Jewish question.”
1881(19th
of Nisan, 5641): Sixty-one-year-old Hungarian born American physician and
chemist Joseph Jacob Goldmark who was “credited with the discovery of red
phosphorous” passed away today in Brooklyn.
1881: In Bialystok, “Morris and Julia (Getz)
Weber gave birth Pratt Institute and Julien Academy trained painter, the
husband of Frances Abrams, whose works were described as "fauvist and then
cubist inspired." From 1917 on he began introducing Jewish subjects
into his work. Starting in the 1920's his work became increasingly
abstract and he included contemporary social themes as subjects for his
painting. Weber's can be found in leading galleries throughout
the United States including the Whitney Museum and the Jewish Museum in New
York City. He passed away in 1961.
1882: Birthdate of Junction City, KS native and
Art Institute of Chicago and Academy of Fine Arts trained oil and watercolor
painter and sculptor C. Bertram Hartman who was the husband of Augusta “Gusta”
Hartman and whose works were hung in such galleries as the Hubbell Trading Post
and the Brooklyn Museum.
https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_S_NPG.91.203
https://grahamshay.com/artist/bertram-hartman
1884: Theodore Hoffman was hung in New York
today after having been convicted of murdering Zife Marks, a Jewish peddler
whom he had robbed on the road near Port Chester.
1885: In Evanston, IL, Nellie and Walter
Wheaton Augur gave birth to Barnard and University of Chicago educated “school
headmistress” Margaret Avery Augur.
1886: In New York City, over 500 women came to
Mrs. Rosendorff’s home on Eldridge Street to receive aid for the upcoming
holiday of Passover. Each of the women, many of whom were accompanied by
children of all ages, was given a yellow ticket which they could exchange for
supplies at local meat market. Mrs. Rosendorf is active in many causes designed
to assist the less fortunate including membership in the Downtown Hebrew
Ladies’ Benevolent Society and the Passover Relief Society while serving as the
Directress of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews.
1886: It was reported today that Lawrence
Oliphant has discovered two ruined synagogues on the northeast shores of the
Sea of Galilee.
1887: In New York City, Joseph and Babette
Seligman gave birth to Joseph Lionel Seligman.
1887: Birthdate of Russian native Joseph
Breslaw who came to the United States in 1907 who was simultaneously vice
president of the ILGU, manager of Local 35 of the Cloak and Pressers Union and
chairman of the Trade Union Division of the National Committee for Labor
Israel and was the husband of Rosa Breslaw with whom he raised three sons –
Alfred, Bernard and Leon
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/07/04/96954605.html?pageNumber=19
1887(24th of Nisan, 5647): Hungarian
teacher and author Ignaz Reich who taught for forty years at the Jewish
communal school for the blind and “ was the first Jew to translate the Bible
into Hungarian passed away at Budapest.
1889: Birthdate of Budapest native George Vajan
who “founded a bookstore and publishing in his home town in 1920” before coming
to the United States in 1939 where he founded Transatlantic Arts.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/05/23/76947985.pdf
1890: After 35 years of New York State officials
overseeing the arrival of more than 8 million immigrants (many of whom were
Jews from Eastern Europe) at Castle Garden the United States Government
“assumed control of immigration” today “and Congress appropriated $75,000” to
build the first facility at Ellis Island which would the entry point for untold
numbers of Jewish immigrants.
1891: In Manhattan, Daniel Henry Cardozo, Sr.,
the New York born son of Abraham Hart Cardozo and Sarah Naar Cardozo and his
wife Clara Cardozo gave birth to Clifford Danforth Cardozo.
1892(21st of Nisan, 5652): Seventh day of
Pesach
1892(21st of Nisan, 5652): Seventy-year-old
Isaac Hirsch passed away while visiting his daughter Mrs. Selig Meinhold in New
York City. A native of Germany, he had lived in Kingston, NY for the last
43 years where he was a successful paper dealer. Hirsch had served in the
same army company as famed reformer and political leader Carl Schurz.
1892: The newly dedicated home of Temple Israel
in Brooklyn was built in the style of “the famous Church of St. Sophia in
Constantinople.” The ground on which the building sits cost $20,000 and the
building itself cost $75,000. A.H. Geismar is the rabbi of what is considered
to be Brooklyn’s leading reform congregation.
1892: The body of Jacob Marks, a peddler who
had last been seen a month ago with Isaac Rosenswig and Harris Blank was found
“beneath a pile of rubbish in a deserted barn with two bullets in the head” on
Dutch Mountain
1893 (2nd of Iyar, 5653): Abraham Pereira
Mendes, a prominent English Rabbi, author and the father of two other Rabbis,
Frederick de Sola Mendes and Henry Pereira Mendes, passed away.
1893: Birthdate of Jessaja Granach, the native
of Galicia who became the popular German film actor Alexander Granach during
the 1920’s and early 1930’s. Forced to flee with the rise of Hitler he
spent the last years of his career playing “German bad guys” in several
Hollywood films.
1893: “Converts For Revenue Only” published
today described the aggressive efforts by Protestants to gain Jewish converts
and the indignant response of the Jewish community which object to the methods
as much as it does the effort itself. For example, Christian churches bribe
“Jewish children to go to their ‘conversion’ schools by gifts of cake and
candy…as well as with bribes of shoes and clothing” while workingmen are
offered jobs in turn for conversion.
1893(2nd of Iyar): Author Moses
Eisman passed away today.
1894(12th of Nisan, 5654): Lewis
Cohen the son of Sierlah and Barnett Cohen, the grandson of Judah Cohen and the
husband of Sarah Cohen passed away today.
1894: In New Haven, CT, Rabbi Judah L. and
Esther R. Levin gave birth to Harvard educated attorney and a member of AEF
field artillery during WWI with the rank of Captain, Isadore Levin, the
Detroit, Michigan attorney who served as a member of the legal advisory board
to the Zionist Delegation at the Versailles Peace Conference and a member of
Shaarey Zedek Congregation.
1894: Birthdate of Anna Maia Bernfield who was
deported to Wien/Izbica nine days before her 48th birthday.
1895: Dr. Maurice H. Harris delivered a
lectured on Shylock at a meeting of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association which
was followed by a series of recitations and the performance of musical
selections.
1895: As the price of beef continues to rise,
it was reported that kosher butchers are charging fourteen cents a pound for
chuck steak, a popular cut of meat that had had been selling for five or six
cents a pound. This has forced many of those living on the lower east
side to turn to fish and eggs which are more plentiful and less expensive.
1895: Birthdate of Latvia native Yiddishist
Zalman (Salman) Yefroiken who in 1921 came to the United States where he
eventually became the education director of the “Workmen’s Circle High School,”
editor of “Culture and Education and the author of Jews Do Not Surrender while
raising two children with his wife ‘the former Amy Goldberg.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/10/02/82905985.pdf
1896: The late Leonard Friedman made the
following bequests: $2,500 each to the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, the
Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum and Mt. Sinai Hospital; $1,500 to the
Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids; $1,000 each to the Hebrew Sheltering
Guardian Orphan Asylum and Sanitarium for Hebrew Children.
1897: Israel Zangwill, author of Children of
the Ghetto will deliver a lecture today in Jerusalem
1897(16th of Nisan, 5657): Second day of Pesach
and first day of the Omer
1897: Three days after he had passed away,
Nathan Jacob De Jongh, the husband of Henriette De Jongh and the father of
James and Benjamin De Jongh was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish
Cemetery.”
1897(16th of Nisan, 5657): Rabbi
Rudolph Grossman will officiate at the funeral of August Seligman who died of
pneumonia. Interment will be in Cypress Hills Cemetery
1897: “Making Passover Bread” published today
reports that three companies in New York “practically monopolize” the
manufacture and sale of Matzoth in the United States. While Matzah is
baked in other cities, many Jews rely on the trustworthiness of the New York
firms to manufacture a ritually acceptable product. The demand has gotten
to be so great that the firms start baking right after New Year’s in January
and do not start until the start of Pesach.
1898: Approximately 5,000 people attended the
opening night of a fair at the Grand Central Palace which is being held “for
the benefit of the building fund of Congregation Adath Israel of West Harlem.”
1898: In Washington, DC, Russian Jewish
immigrants gave birth to Baltimore, MD educated, Democratic Convention delegate
Sameul Nathaniel Friedel, the founder of the Industrial Loan Company a member
of the Maryland House of Delegates who served in U.S. House of Representatives
from 1953 until 1971
https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/F000384
1900(19th of Nisan, 5660): Fifth Day
of Pesach
1900: In his quest for governmental support for
the creation of Jewish home, Herzl met with Grossherzog Friedrich of Baden
receives Herzl. The Germans are reluctant to get involved but there is hope
that the Austrians will help him get an audience with the Sultan.
1900: The first public meeting of the Sabbath
Observance Association of New York was held this evening at Shearith Israel in
New York. The newly formed group already has 300 members. It was formed
to combat what its leaders view as a growing disregard for the observance of
the Sabbath. According to two of the speakers, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and
Dr. Mark Blumenthal, the observance of the Sabbath “has preserved Judaism
though all the centuries of persecution” and has made “the Jewish home and the
Jewish woman an emblem of sanctity and purity which has been held up to the
admiration of people of every religion.”
1901: Birthdate of lyricist Al Lewis whose most
famous work was “Blueberry Hill.” Written in 1940, it gained everlasting
fame when it was recorded by Fats Domino in 1956.
1902(11th of Nissan, 5662): Birthdate of Rabbi
Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known as “the Rebbe” who was the seventh
Lubavitcher Rebbe. [Editor’s Note: There is no way that any entry here could
even begin to do justice to his gifts and accomplishments, but readers are
encouraged to the innumerable sources available to examine the life of this
indomitable figures as well as to read his writings. His most famous and
long-lasting impact may be his outreach program. Anybody who has spent
time with one of his “Lamplighters” such as Rabbi Pinchas Ciment will
understand the meaning of this statement.]
https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/244372/jewish/The-Rebbe-A-Brief-Biography.htm
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691154428/the-rebbe
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/rabbi-menachem-mendel-schneerson-jewish-virtual-library
1902(11th
of Nisan, 5562: Seventy-two-year-old German businessman and politician Marcus
Wolf Hinrichsen passed away today in Hamburg.
1903: Apparently “the
bread of affliction” has taken on a new cache since The New York Times
reports that “Matzo, or Passover bread” can be found in small piles in the
city’s “bon-bon shops.”
1904: Cyrus Adler of
the Jewish Historical Society and English born Columbia trained attorney and
educator Henry M. Leipziger were among those sitting at the guest’s table at a
banquet where Japanese Consul General Uchida told the attendees the reason why
Japan is now fighting Russia.
1904(3rd of Iyar, 5664): Publisher,
bookseller and antiquarian Chaim Horowitz passed away today Frankfort on the
Main.
1905: Today is the
last day on which the First American Romanian Congregation is scheduled to
distribute Matzoth to the poor Jews living on the Lower East Side.
1906: In St. Paul,
MN, “Jacob and Mollie (Balkind) Ginsberg gave birth to University of Minnesota
trained physician and WW II Stewart Theodore Ginsberg, the “Clinical professor
of psychiatry at Emory University and husband of Ada Leach Leach with whom he
raised three children – Barbara, Janet and Mark.
1906: On the day after the end of Pesach, “San
Francisco and the entire Bay Area was struck by an epic earthquake, followed by
a fire which lasted almost three days and utterly destroyed most of the city.
Consumed in the flames were more than 3500 souls and hundreds of millions of
dollars in buildings and other property. The Jewish community lost Emanu-El's
great Sutter Street synagogue building, which burned to the ground. In
addition, much of Adolph Sutro's collection of Hebraica and documents of the
Spanish era in California were destroyed. Among the Jewish institutions that
responded to the city-wide emergency was Mount Zion Hospital, which was safely
located beyond the perimeter of the fire in the Western Addition. Jewish
doctors and nurses worked tirelessly in the days after the conflagration to
help injured citizens. In Golden Gate Park, where tens of thousands of homeless
citizens were temporarily housed in tents for months following the
conflagration, a Jewish couple named Victor and Anna Rosenbaum won a city-wide
award for having the tidiest domicile. Jewish merchants played a leading role
in getting San Francisco back on its feet, setting up a new commercial district
along Van Ness Avenue and making Fillmore Street a substitute for Market Street
for several years while the Downtown District was rebuilt. The Chicago
architect Daniel Burnham had proposed a progressive new street design for San
Francisco, modeled after those of Paris and Washington D.C. But Jewish and
other merchants were anxious to get back in business and the Burnham Plan was
dropped. San Francisco's rabbis were tireless in their relief efforts, and the
Jewish community pledged large sums to the city's reconstruction, figuring
prominently in its fulfillment. The reconstruction of the San Francisco was
also symbolized by the erection in 1912-1915 of a magnificent new Beaux Art
neo-Renaissance City Hall, designed by Arthur Brown, who would later design the
new Congregation Emanu-El in 1925. The legendary, long-serving Mayor "Sunny
Jim" Rolph would attend and speak at the dedications of both buildings.
1907: In San Francisco Jewish businessmen were
among those celebrating this morning when the Ferry Building clock which had
stopped at 5:12 a.m. a year earlier was started up again.
1907: Birthdate of Lublin native and painter
Josef Presser who at the age of 12 came to the United States where he “studied
at he Boston School of the Museum of Fine Ats, painted murals during the
Depression for the WPA, married fellow artist Agnes Hart with whom he shared a
studio at Woodstock, NY and passed away in Paris in 1967.
https://www.artnet.com/artists/josef-presser/
1908(17th of Nisan, 5668): Third Day
of Pesach and Pesach Shabbat Chol HaMoed
1908:”From interviews given today to a
correspondent for the New York Times by Lords Rothschild and Swaythling on the
controversy between the strictly orthodox Jews and the more liberal adherents
of the Jewish faith in England as to the divine origin of the Decalogue and the
Pentateuch…it seems plain enough that the participants in the quarrel are
rallying these two pillars of faith and financial giants as their leaders” with
Swaythling (Samuel Montagu) “representing the ultra-orthodox section…”
1909(27th of Nisan, 5669):Mrs. Rosie
Aronwold, the 107-year-old resident of the Home of the Daughters of Jacob on
East Broadway who claimed to have met Napoleon when she was seven years old
after the signing of the Treaty of Tilsit passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/04/21/101817247.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1909: Tonight, at the Pilgrim Church on Madison
Avenue, Reverend Frederick Lynch preached a sermon on “Christians and Jews in
New York City: A Warning” in which, among other things he “condemned bills,
which he said, the Jews were introducing at Albany to conduct secular business
on Sunday, as selfish and as tending to break down the great American
institution of Sunday for the benefit of a few.” i.e. the Jew.
1910: For a second day, the United Hebrew
Community was giving out supplies to the poor people of the lower east side for
the upcoming Passover Holiday.
1911: Birthdate of Maurice Goldhaber, the
native of Vienna ,a physicist who delved into the intricacies of atoms and
headed the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island for more than a decade
and was the father of physicist Alfred Scharff Goldhaber and the grandfather of
physicist David Goldhaber-Gordon.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/25/local/la-me-maurice-goldhaber-20110525
1912: Three days after
the sinking of the Titanic, The RMS Carpathia, carrying hundreds of the Titanic
survivors including journalist Edith Rosenbaum and Elizabeth and Martin
Rothschild, the aunt and uncle of Dorothy Parker, arrived in New York.
1913: “Jacob Furth, Chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Seattle National Bank” was found guilty today of aiding and
abetting in a conspiracy to accept deposits from a banker whose bank he knew to
be insolvent.
1913(11th of Nisan, 5673): Julius Neumark, the
President of the Jewish Community in Kortshin, a town in central Poland passed
away today.
1913(11th of Nisan, 5673):
Fifty-eight-year-old merchant Sigmund L. Bendit, the Bavaria born son of
“Lippmann and Jeannette Bendit passed away today in New York City.
1913: In Richmond, VA, the Southern Educational
Convention which Rabbi Max Raisin of Meridian, Mississippi was attending as a
delegate came to an end today.
1914(22nd of Nisan, 5674): Eighth
Day of Pesach; Shabbat; Yizkor
1914: German Jew-Baiter Dead” published
described the recent death of “Hermann Ahlwardt, once celebrated as a German
Jew-Baiter” who had one time had participated in a nationwide lecture tour in
the United States
1915: “Over 200 delegates representing 177
Jewish labor organization with a membership of over 300,000 attended” tonight’s
first ever convention of the National Women’s Committee for Jewish Rights in
Belligerent Counties which has been formed “to agitate for equal Rights for
Jews, especially those living in Russia.”
1915: It was reported today that Funk &
Wagnalls have published “John Foster Fraser’s new work, The Conquering
Jew which contains the results the author’s studies of the Jew, his
adaptability and vitality” and well as the views on the future of the Jews.
1915: “To-night’s the Night, a musical comedy
composed by Paul Rubens” with two songs composed by Jerome Kern opened at the
Gaiety Theatre in London for the first of 460 performances.
1915: In New York, Joseph Davidman and Jeanette
Spivack who had married in 1909, gave birth to “child prodigy” poet and author
Joy Davidman
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/davidman/bio.htm
1916(15th of Nisan, 5676): Pesach
1916: According to previously published reports
Jews in Russia will not have to worry about violent attacks based on “blood
accusation of ritual murder’ because “this year there will be neither Seder nor
pogrom” in Russia because the homes of Jews “are wrecked and deserted and their
inhabitants have been scattered an driven far away before the successive tidal
waves of war.”
1916: Because today is Passover, “collection of
bundles and bags for the United Hebrew Charities Bundle Day” will not take
place today.”
1916: In New York, approximately 175 Jewish
soldiers and sailors from Forts Totten, Wadsworth, Slocum, Hancock Terry and
Wright and battleships Delaware, Wyoming, Missouri and Maine who are here by
special permission of the Secretaries of War and Navy” are scheduled to attend
services at several synagogues today following which they will attend a second
Seder this evening.
1916: According to a report published today,
S.S. Rosenstamm, the Chairman of the Y.M.H.A. there are 6,000 Jews serving in
the army and navy for whom “Seders have been arranged all over the United
States.
1916: According to a letter written by John
Reed, he said that reports that he had accused “all Jews of being traitors to
Russia” were wrong since “as a matter of fact, they are astonishingly loyal.”
1916: It was reported today that “the Israelite
Alliance of Vienna will undertake the collection and forward of letters” from
Jews living in Galicia trying to contact people in the United States “at its
own expense.”
1917: It was reported today that the “chief
business discussed at the first congress of the Jewish Social Democrat was the
disabilities suffered by the Jews of Finland.”
1918: During WW I with Jewish soldiers on both
sides of the line the Germans tried to seize the heights at Kemmelberg as part
of the Great Spring offensive designed to end the war before the Americans
could make up for the loss of Russia.
1919(18th of Nisan, 5679): Fourth
Day of Pesach
1919: In London, Lithuanian refugee Rachel
Litvin and her husband gave birth to Natasha Litvin who gained famed as pianist
and author Natasha Spender the wife of Sir Stephen Spender.
1920: The Twelfth Conference of the Bund, the
Jewish labor organization, continued to meet in Gomel.
1921: Today, Albert Einstein wrote to Judah L.
Magnes concerning the latter’s invitation for him to attending a meeting of
intellectuals interested in organizing what would become Hebrew University.
https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol12-doc/242
1921(10th of Nisan, 5681): Sixty-four-year-old French
author and politician Joseph Reinach passed away. Born in Paris in 1856, he had
two famous siblings - Salomon and Theodore – who would become well-known in the
field of archaeology. After studying at the Lycée Condorcet he was called to
the bar in 1887. He attracted the attention of Léon Gambetta by writing
articles on Balkan politics for the Revue bleue, and joined the staff of the
Republique française. In Gambetta's grand ministère, Reinach was his secretary,
and drew up the case for a partial revision of the US Constitution and for the
electoral method known as the Scrutin de Liste. In the République française he
waged a steady war against General Boulanger which resulted in three duels, one
with Edmond Magnier and two with Paul Déroulède. Between 1889 and 1898 he sat
for the Chamber of Deputies for Digne. As a member of the army commission,
reporter of the budgets of the ministries of the interior and of agriculture he
brought forward bills for the better treatment of the insane, for the
establishment of a colonial ministry, for the taxation of alcohol, and for the
reparation of judicial errors. He advocated complete freedom of the theatre and
the press, the abolition of public executions, and denounced political
corruption of all kinds. However, he was indirectly implicated in the Panama
scandals through his father-in-law, Baron de Reinach; as soon as he learned
that he was benefiting by fraud, he made appropriate restitution. Reinach is
best known as the champion of Alfred Dreyfus. At the time of the original trial
he attempted to secure a public hearing of the case, and in 1897 he allied
himself with Scheurer-Kestner to demand its revision. He denounced in the
Siècle the Henry forgery, and Esterhazy's complicity. His articles in the
Siècle aroused the fury of the anti-Dreyfus party, especially as Reinach was
himself a Jew and accused by some of taking up Dreyfus's defence on racial
grounds. He lost his seat in the Chamber of Deputies, and, having refused to
fight Henri Rochefort, eventually brought an action for libel against him.
Finally, when the "Dreyfus affair" was resolved and Dreyfus was
pardoned, he wrote a history of the case, completed in 1905. In 1906 Reinach
was re-elected for Digne. In that year he became a member of the commission of
the national archives, and the following year a member of the council on
prisons. Reinach was a prolific writer on political subjects. On Gambetta he
published three volumes in 1884, and he also edited his speeches. For the
criticisms of the anti-Dreyfusard press see Henri Dutrait-Croyon, Joseph
Reinach, historien (Paris, 1905), a violent criticism in detail of Reinach's
history of the "affaire."
1921: In New York, Russian-Jewish immigrants
Jacob and Fanny Cahn gave birth to Miles Cahn who,
with his wife Liilian” founded the Coach Leatherware Company in 1961.
1922: In New York, a petition of bankruptcy was
filed against jeweler Abraham Silver.
1922(20th of Nisan, 5682): Fourth
Day of Pesach
1923: In Savannah, GA, Elinor Grunsfeld and Sam
G. Adler, the son of Leopold Adler, the founder of Adler’s Department store
gave birth to Georgia Bulldog and WW II Naval Air Corps veteran Lee Adler who
was an award-winning champion of historic preservation and an advocate for
“providing safe affordable housing for low-income” occupants.
1924(14th of Nisan, 5684): Ta’anit
Bechorot; Erev Pesach
1924: “A number of Jewish students at Harvard”
are scheduled to participate in a Seder this evening at the home of Professor
Harry K. Messenger, the Latin and Greek scholar who along with his wife
converted to Judaism.
1925(24th of Nisan, 5685): Parashat
Shmini
1925: “The plight of 15,000 men, women and
children, holders of American visas, who sold their homes and properties abroad
to come here and then were left stranded in European ports because of the
inelasticity of United States immigration laws, was related tonight by Louis
Marshall in an address over the radio from Station WEAF.
1926: “In Komorow, near Lublin, Poland, Hersz
Trost, “a butcher” and his wife Chaja gave birth to Frima Trost who gained fame
as Holocaust survivor and the driving force behind Café Edison Frances
Edelstein. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
1926: David A. Brown, the National Chairman of
the United Jewish Campaign said today that the organization would exceed its
goal after “the Association of Reform Rabbis” unanimously adopted a resolution
endorsing the campaign.
1926: “The completion of the first stage in the
development of Palestine as the Jewish homeland was announced” today “by Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise, the Chairman of the United Palestine Appeal following the
receipt of a cablegram from Dr. Chaim Weizmann” which said that “immigration
figures just compiled show that 100,000 new Jewish settlers entered Palestine
from 1919 to 1925.”
1926: Release date of “Madame Mystery”
co-starring Theda Bara (born Theodosia Burr Goodman)
1927(16th of Nisan, 5687): Second
Day of Pesach; first day of the Omer
1927: United States Senator James A. Reed of
Missouri who was “stricken last by a gastrointestinal attack, was too ill to
proceed this morning as chief counsel for Henry Ford in Aaron Sapiro's suit for
$1,000,000 libel damages.”
1927: “The Jazz Singer,” set in the Lower East
Side home of Cantor Rabinowitz,” featuring Geroge Jessel opened on Broadway at
the Century Theatre.
1927: Zionist
hopes in Palestine can never solve the "Jewish problem in Eastern Europe
which is threatening half the Jewish population of the world with
extinction," according to the debating team of the University Zionist
Federation of the British Empire which debated tonight with the Avukah American
Student Zionist Federation team in McMillin Theatre, Columbia University.
1928: Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, Chairman of the
United Palestine Appeal for Greater New York announced today that “New York has
contributed more than one million dollars to the campaign of the United
Palestine Appeal.”
1929: Clarence Galston, the son of Sigmund and
Linda Galston “was nominated by President Herbert Hoover today, to the United
States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, to a new seat
authorized by 45 Stat. 1409.”
1930(20th of Nisan, 5690): Sixth Day
of Pesach
1930: Macy’s advertises new shoes “new $6.94
shoes” which “break a tradition in combining both style and quality at this
price.”
1930: In Harrisburg, PA, at a meeting
“sponsored by the Ohev Shalom brotherhood as a part of the good-will program of
the organization” Reverend Everett R. Clinchy, a secretary of the Federal
Council of the Churches of Christ in American said that “we Christians must be
more careful in the past of telling the story of the cross” since
“generalization about the guilt of the Jews is sociologically disastrous.”
1931(1st of Iyar, 5691): Rosh
Chodesh Iyar
1931: “City Streets” a mystery film starring
Sylvia Sidney and Paul Lukas was released today in the United Sates.
1932: It was reported today that
seventy-eight-year-old Sir Patrick Geddes who had been chosen by Zionist
leaders to design the Hebrew University building in Jerusalem of which he said
“the equivalent of rebuilding the temple consists in the marvelous progress of the Hebrew
University had passed away at Montpellier, France “where he was director of the
Scots College.”
1932: “Samuel Wulfin, a twenty-year-old law
student at the University of Vilna was sentenced today to two years in prison
for participating in street riots that resulted in the death of a student named
Waclawski during anti-Semitic disturbances at Vilna last November.”
1933(22nd of Nisan, 5693): Eighth
Day of Pesach
1933(22nd of Nisan, 5693): Fifteen
days after celebrating his 63rd birthday, Eli F. Guggenheim, the
Greenfield, OH born son of Adeline and Albert Guggenheim, the husband of Mattie
Guggenheim and Eva Guggenheim and the father of Jack, Richard and James
Guggenheim passed away today in Cincinnati, OH.
1933: In Berlin, “the special court imposed a
nine months’ term upon Herman Beer, a Polish Jew,” because he told “friends
that the bodies of three mutilated Jews had been found in the streets of Berlin
and that twenty-eight Jews were dragged out of a synagogue and beaten until
blood flowed” “without taking into consideration whether Beer’s information was
accurate or not.”
1933: The Jerusalem YMCA, directly opposite the
King David Hotel, was opened by Field Marshall Lord Allenby.
1934: A tea and musicale sponsored by The
Palestine Lighthouse under the leadership of the president Mrs. Samuel D.
Friedman is scheduled to take place “this after afternoon at the Waldorf
Astoria to celebrate the completion of the New Shelter for Blind Children in
Palestine.”
1934: During today’s debate in the French
Parliament over offering Albert Einstein a professorship at the Sorbonne both
Premier Daladier and right-wing leader Louis Marin spoke in favor of the action
and praised the famed scientist who could not return to Germany
1934: Reverend Dietrich Bonhoeffer appeared to
recognize the threat posed by the Nazis when he wrote to a friend today that
National Socialism has “brought an end to the church in Germany.’
1935(15th of Nisan, 5695): Pesach
1935: Birthdate of
Paul A Rothschild record producer who
helped to build the Elektra record label.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/03/obituaries/paul-rothchild-record-producer-59.html
1936: After 233 performances, the curtain came
down on “Jumbo,” a musical produced by Billy Rose with music and lyrics by
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz with a book co-authored by Ben Hecht at the
Hippodrome Theatre.
1936: “Bury the Dead” an anti-war play written
by Irwin Shaw and produced by Alexander Yokel opened at the Ethel Barrymore
Theatre in New York City.
1936: The Chief Rabbi of Vienna, Dr. Feuchtwag”
issued “a strongly worded answer” in response to recent anti-Semitic attacks.
1936: In what may have been part of the attempt
to improve Germany’s image prior to this summer’s Olympic games, “The German
Calisthenics Association appears to have reversed the ruling of the Reich Sport
League no Jew may belong to a German sport organization” but at the same time
it empowered the directors of all local sport groups to expel any one for any
reason.”
1937: Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika are
scheduled to address the Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall today.
1937: Rabbi Louis I. Newman is scheduled to
deliver the sermon this morning at Temple Rodeph Sholom.
1937: Rabbi Lichtenstein is scheduled to
deliver the sermon this morning at the Jewish Science Society.
1937: Birthdate of Ed Parish (E.P.) Sanders the
New Testament Scholar whose works include Paul and Palestinian Judaism
in which he “argued that the traditional Christian interpretation that Paul was
condemning Rabbinic legalism was a misunderstanding of both Judaism and Paul's
thought,” Jesus and Judaism in which “he argued that Jesus began as a
follower of John the Baptist and was a prophet of the restoration of Israel”
and Judaism” Practice and Belief.
https://www.ibr-bbr.org/files/bbr/BBR_1996_13_Neusner_JudaismBySanders.pdf
1937: “Top of the Town” a comedy directed by
Sam White and featuring Gregory Ratoff and Mischa Auer was released in the
United States today.
1938(17th of Nisan, 5698): Third Day
of Pesach
1938: Plans for an upcoming “exhibition and
sale of paintings at the Studio Gallery for “the benefit of the Joint
Distribution Committee” were reported today.
1938:
Today, Hadassah reported contributions totaling $60000 and pledges amounting to
an additional $20000 had been made to the Youth Aliyah Fund
1938: The Palestine Post reported that 16 Arab terrorists, including their leader,
Aref Abdul Razzak, had been killed in a battle and scores were wounded. The
fighting between the British soldiers and Arab terrorists lasted more than six
hours in the notorious "Triangle of Terror" - the hilly region
between Nablus, Tulkarm and Jenin. Four Arab prisoners were taken. Only one
British soldier was slightly wounded.
1938: The Palestine Post reported that four young Jews, Joseph Rotblatt, 19,
Abraham Danielli, 23, David Ben Gaon, 25, and Ze'ev Anav, 24, died in an Arab
terrorist’s ambush attack, while returning in a taxi from Hanita to Nahariya.
1938: The Palestine Post reported that a bomb was thrown into an Arab cafe in
Haifa, one person had been killed and eight wounded.
1938: The Palestine Post reported that Eliahu Dawer, 58, was hurt by a bomb thrown
at him while leaving the synagogue in Rehov Mea She'arim in Jerusalem.
1938: The Palestine Post reported that the new high commissioner, Sir Harold
MacMichael, paid his first official visit to Tel Aviv.
1938: The Palestine Post reported that the public and the press were highly
enthusiastic about the visit and the series of festive concerts conducted by
Arthuro Toscanini.
1938: Superman, the creation of two Jews from
Cleveland – Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster – appeared for the first time in
Action Comics No. 1
1939: Anti-Jewish legislation in Slovakia defines Jews by
religion.
1939(29th
of Nisan, 5699): Just four weeks before her 65th birthday, American
Yiddish theatre star Bertha Kalich passed away today.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/may/17/1874/bertha-kalich
1939(29th
of Nisan, 5699): Seventy-seven-year-old Sir Matthew Nathan a British soldier
and diplomat who “served as the Governor of Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Hong
Kong, Natal and Queensland” passed away in Somerset, UK.
http://www.easter1916.ie/index.php/people/a-z/sir-matthew-nathan/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sir-Matthew-Nathan/228561157166481?sk=wall&rf=113712101972648
1940: In Kingstree, SC, Fannie (Alpert) and Isadore
E. Goldstein, who owned a clothing store gave birth to University of Texas at
Dallas trained M.D. and molecular geneticist Joseph Leonard Goldstein, the
Prize Winner who worked as a biomedical
researcher at the National Heart Institute and Washington University before
returning to the Southwestern Medical School of the University of Texas at
Dallas as professor. Goldstein and colleague Michael S. Brown researched
cholesterol metabolism and discovered that human cells have low-density
lipoprotein (LDL) receptors that extract cholesterol from the bloodstream. The
lack of sufficient LDL receptors is a major cause of cholesterol-related
diseases. In 1985, Goldstein and Brown, both of whom are Jewish, were jointly
awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1985/summary/
http://www4.utsouthwestern.edu/moleculargenetics/pages/brown/biogold.html
1940: “Heavenly Express,” produced
by Kermit Bloomgarden and with Scenic Designs by Boria Aronson opened on
Broadway at the National Theatre.
1940: President Roosevelt met with David
Lasser, the science fiction writer turned labor activist who was serving as the
President of the Worker’s Alliance of America today in the White House.
1941: During World
War II, the first British troops from India arrived at Basra. They were
part of the military force that would remove the recently installed pro-Nazi
government in Iraq. The rise of the pro-Nazi Arab government and the subsequent
military action taken by the British would literally have deadly consequences
for the ancient Iraqi Jewish community
1941(21st of
Nisan, 5701): Seventh Day of Pesach
1941(21st of Nisan, 5701):
Sixty-seven-year-old Hungarian
native Charles Gelman who in 1892 came to the United States where he settled in
Glens Falls, NY where owned and operated “the dry goods firm of Merkel and
Gelman” while raising his two daughters Elsa and Babette passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/04/20/85306832.pdf
1942(1st of Iyar, 5702): Rosh
Chodesh Iyar coincides with “The Doolittle Raid” one of the gutsiest moments in
WW II.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170124053707/http://www.doolittleraider.com/
1942: “Nathan the Wise,” produced by Lee and
J.J. Shubert was performed for the last time on Broadway at the Belasco
Theatre.
1942: Birthdate of Brooklyn native and Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame inductee Seymour Steinbigle who gained fame as Seymour Stein,
the music executive who rose from being a clerk at Billboard maagainze where he
“helped develop the Billboard Hot 100, launched in August 1958” to being a
co-founder of “Sire Records and a vice president of Warner Brothers Records.
1942(1st of Iyar,
5702): In the Warsaw
Ghetto, 52 people on a wanted list were dragged from their beds and killed.
This will become known as "The Night of Blood."
1942: One thousand Jews who left the Theresienstadt Ghetto
in Czechoslovakia, by train for a ghetto at Rejowiec, Poland, were diverted to
the death camp at Sobibór
1942(1st of Iyar,
5702): The death camp at
Sobibor went into operation. To mark the opening 2,500 Jews from Zamosc were
transported there and sent to their deaths. Only one was chosen to work and
live.
1942(1st of Iyar,
5702): Eighty-three-year-old
Moses Montefiore Kursheedt, the husband of Jennie Kurdsheet and the son of
Asher and Abigail Kursheedt passed away today.
1942: Pierre Laval became Prime Minister of the
French government of Vichy. The Vichy Government was really little more
than a German puppet state. Laval like many associated with Vichy was an
anti-Semite who was only too willing to turn French Jews over to the Nazis even
before they asked for them. Laval was executed at the end of the war.
1943: “Out of Gas” published today described
the challenges in the filming of “Somewhere in Sahara” the war movie directed
by Zoltan Korda.
1943(13th of Nisan, 5703):
Sixty-four-year-old Johns Hopkins and Columbia trained attorney Joseph N. Ulman
the jurist and Jewish communal leader who raised “two children – Joseph, Jr.
and Eleanor –“and his wife “the former Ella Guggenheimer” passed away today.
http://www.mdhs.org/findingaid/ulman-joseph-nathan-collection-1887-1960s-ms-1914
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/04/19/88525222.pdf
1943: At the Savoy-Plaza, Rabbi Milton
Steinberg of the Park Avenue Synagogue officiated at the marriage of Barbara
Lippman and Martin Steiner, the brother of Philip Steiner.
1943: Word leaked into the Warsaw Ghetto of German plans
for the ghetto's destruction. This information enabled the ZOB leadership
to marshal their pathetic defense force to meet the oncoming might of the Nazi
military machine.
1944:
Leonard Bernstein and Jerome
Robbins' ballet "Fancy Free" premiered in New York City
1944: Congressman Arthur Klein
entered into the Congressional Record a report by Laura L. Margolies, a
representative of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Shanghai
on the conditions of “Refugees in the Far East.”
1945: General Eisenhower, Supreme
Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces telephoned Winston Churchill to
describe the horrific sights that greeted his troops when they entered a
concentration camp at Ohrdruf near Gotha.
1945: A list of 801 Jews, that came
to be known as “Schindler’s List” was typed today. The people whose names were
listed on the 13 page document were spared from a trip to the gas
chamber. In 2009, employees at the New South Wales State Library found the
list in boxes containing German news clippings and manuscripts by the
Australian author Thomas Keneally, who wrote the bestselling novel “Schindler's
Ark,” which was the basis of the famous film about Oskar Schindler and his
efforts to save Jews during the Holocaust.
1945: Birthdate of
Joseph Bernstein, the native of Moscow who became a leading Israeli
mathematician.
1945: Robert Limpert,
the leader of the anti-Nazi underground in Ansbach, was hung by the
Germans for his attempts to get the garrison to surrender to the advancing
Allied armies.
1945: Following their liberation inmates Langenstein-Zwieberge,
a sub-camp of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp were taken by ambulance to
Halberstadt where barracks had been turned into a hospital.
1945: As World War II comes to an end, and
concentration camps were being liberated “an opinion survey” taken today
“suggested that 81 percent of the British population would answer ‘yes’ to the
question ‘Do you think the atrocity stories are true,’ whereas in December,
1944 the proportion had been only 37 percent.”
1946(17th of Nisan, 5706): Third day
of Pesach
1946(17th of Nisan, 5706): Northeastern University Law School trained attorney Harry
N. Guterman, the United States Commissioner and Assistant Attorney General who
divided his paychecks “equally among Catholic, Protestant and Jewish Charities”
who was “a director of the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society” while raising a
daughter, Paula, with his wife Henrietta Cooper Guterman passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/04/20/84636688.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1946: The Broadway production of “Call Me
Mister” a revue with music by Harold Rome opened at the National Theatre.
1946: The League of Nations
dissolved itself. Its services, mandates, and property were transferred
to the newly founded United Nations. Among the mandates transferred was
the British Mandate of Palestine. Dealing with the issues of Palestine
would become one of the first major tests for the newly formed UN. Within
two years, the Mandatory Government of Palestine created by the defunct League
of Nations would give way to the State of Israel and Arab zone governed by a
variety of nations and groups including Egypt, Jordan and the PA.
1947 (5th of Iyar, 5707): Natan
Alterman, Israeli poet, playwright, and future winner of the Biliak and Israel
prizes wrote,
“Yes, the death cell soared that night.
At its sight
The heads of a conquering nation
Caught by the light, like a mouse were drawn
back into their holes
Like a thief caught in the act.”
1947: Birthdate of Karen Lehmann, who as Kathy
Acker gained fame as author of “Blood and Guts In High School before she
passed away in 1997.
1947: “New Orleans,” a musical directed by
Arthur Lubin and produced by Jules Levey and Herbert Biberman who co-authored
the story was released in the United States today.
1947 (5th of Iyar, 5707): Boxer
Benny Leonard passed away at the age of 51. Born in 1896, Leonard was the
lightweight boxing champion from 1917 to 1925. This was the heyday of
Jewish pugilism with as many as seven Jews holding the championship of different
weight categories. Leonard lost his fortune in the Stock Market Crash.
1948: “Representatives of Jewish organizations
from twenty countries joined the Central Committee of Polish Jews today in
honoring the memory of 500,000 Jews who perished in the Warsaw Ghetto” by
opening “a museum recalling the Jews who fought in the final ghetto battle of
April, 1943.”
1948: Following a failed attempt by the
Arab Liberation Army to isolate the Jewish community in the lower quarter of
the town of Tiberius, the Haganah went on the offensive and secured the town
for the as yet un-born Jewish state. Most of the local Arab population
left with the assistance of British troops and crossed into Transjordan.
The events in Tiberius are part of a tragedy that has been repeated over the
decades in Eretz Israel. Prior to the appearance of the Arab Liberation
Army, the local Jewish and Arab populations had worked out a pattern of
peaceful co-existence. Today, commentators would say that outside
militants sabotaged local efforts to maintain communal harmony
1948: Operation Harel continued for a third
day.
1949(19th of Nisan, 5709): Leonard Bloomfield
passed away. Born in 1887, Bloomfield was a graduate of Harvard and the
University of Wisconsin. He began his career as Professor of
German. But he gained his greatest fame as a linguist, a
field populated by a disproportionate number of Jews. His most famous
work was “Introduction to Language” which was re-titled “Language” in
subsequent editions. For many decades, most linguists considered themselves
disciples of Bloomfield even if they had not studied with him.
1949(19th of Nisan): Mizrachi leader Rabbi Meir
Bar-Ilan passed away today.
1951: “Paris Vice Squad,” with a script by
Jacques Remy was released today in France.
1951(12th of 5711):
Seventy-three-year-old Eetta Amolsky Schatzkey, the Lulling, TX born daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Joseph Amolsky and the widow of Albert Schatzkey whom she
married in 1900 passed away today in Jefferson City, MO while living with her
daughter Mrs. Ben Czarlkinsky.
1953: Birthdate of Actor Rick Moranis, star of Honey I Shrunk the Kids.
1953: After 540
performances, the curtain came down on a revival of the Rogers and Hart hit
musical "Pal Joey.”
1953: A revival of
“Room Service,” produced by Bernard Hart closed today on Broadway at the
Playhouse Theatre.
1954: Colonel Gamal Abdal Nasser seized power
and became head of the government of Egypt. Nasser had masterminded the
coup that overthrown King Farouk. Up until now Nasser had been content to
play the role of the “power behind the throne” in the new government created by
the military. At this point in time, he was ready to complete his plans
and make himself supreme ruler of Egypt. He would never succeed in his
ultimate goals of destroying Israel which would be his steppingstone to
creating a Pan Arab “nation” that would stretch eastward from Morocco.
1954: “THE DRAMA OF THE HYDROGEN BOMB -- AND
DR. OPPENHEIMER'S KEY ROLE; Security Case Focuses Attention on Disputes That
Preceded First Successful Test of H-Bomb at Pacific Proving Ground” published
today.
1954(15th of Nisan, 5714): The Levin family
observed its first Pesach as residents of Washington, DC
1955:
Birthdate of banker Amschel Rothschild.
1955(26th of Nisan,
5715): Seventy-year-old Lithuanian born, and University of Pennsylvania Medical
School and University of Vienna trained cardiologist Dr. Aaron S. Cantor the
husband of Elma Cantor with whom he had two children and “a founder of the
Northeastern Hospital in Philadelphia where he served as chief in medicine” who
“also was prominent in Jewish organizations.
1955(26th of Nisan, 5715): Albert Einstein
passed away. Born in Ulm, Germany in 1879, Einstein received the Nobel
Prize in 1921 but not for relativity rather for his 1905 work on the
photoelectric effect. In 1920 Einstein's lectures in Berlin were
disrupted by demonstrations which, although officially denied, were almost
certainly anti-Jewish. During 1921 Einstein made his first visit to the United
States. His main reason was to raise funds for the planned Hebrew University of
Jerusalem. However he received the Barnard Medal during his visit and lectured
several times on relativity. During 1923 he visited Palestine for the
first time. Einstein had planned to come to Princeton in 1932 as visiting
lecturer. With the rise of Hitler, this became a permanent
position. Einstein sent his famous letter to Roosevelt in 1939 warning of
the impact of the German's developing the Atomic Bomb. The result was the
Manhattan Project. Einstein became a U.S. citizen in 1940. In 1952,
Einstein was offered the Presidency of the state of Israel, an offer he
declined, in part due to his failing health. Einstein left his scientific
papers to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a university which he had raised
funds for on his first visit to the USA, served as a governor of the university
from 1925 to 1928. The week before he died, Einstein wrote to Bertrand
Russell joining him in call for all nations to give up nuclear weapons.
Einstein saw himself as an advocate for international peace and understanding,
notwithstanding his support for building the bomb during World War II.
1956: “The Swan,” a re-make of the 1925 silent
film directed by Charles Vidor and produced by Dore Schary was released in the
United States today.
1956(7th of Iyar 5716):
Seventy-two-year-old Isaac Evans, the president of the Master Mechanics
Company, cofounder of the Acorn Refining Company and Union Products Company who
was “a founder of the Cleveland Zionist society and vice president of the Leo
Levi Memorial Hospital in Hot Springs, AR passed away today.
1956: Birthdate of New York native and Yale and
Harvard alum Jonthan Kaufman the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author
of the must-read The Last Kings of Shanghai.
https://www.harvard.com/book/9780735224438_the_last_kings_of_shanghai/
1957(17th of Nisan, 5717): Third Day
of Pesach
1958(28th of Nisan, 5718):
Eighty-four-year-old builder Joseph Gilbert, “who erected more than 18
skyscrapers in Manhattan before 1925 and who raised two children – Victor and
Helen – with his wife Beatrice passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/04/19/81989007.pdf
1959(10th of Nisan, 5719): Shabbat
Hagadol
1959: “The Rivalry,” with incidental music by
David Amram was performed on Broadway for the last time at the Bijou Theatre
1960(21st of Nisan, 5720): Seventh
Day of Pesach
1960(21st of Nisan, 5720): Victoria Rosalsky,
the Manhattan born daughter of Caroline and Victor Heimberger, the wife of Dr.
Harry William Rosalsky, DDS/
1961: In Paris, pharmacist Marguerite Lecesne
and Auschwitz survivor and member of the French resistance Joseph Bornstein
“whose father and younger brother were sent to the German gas chambers” gave
birth to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.
1961: In New York Norman Podhoretz and Midge
Decter gave birth to University of Chicago graduate and editor of Commentary
John Mordecai Podhoretz the speech writer for Ronald Reagan and George H.W.
Bush
1963(24th of Nisan, 5723): Columbia University
graduate Meyer Jacobstein who taught economics at the University of North
Dakota and the University of Rochester before serving as member of the House of
Representatives for three terms passed away today.
http://www.irwincollier.com/columbia-economics-phd-alumnus-meyer-jacobstein-1907/
https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/15741
1964: Sandy Koufax became the first pitcher to strike
out the side on 9 pitches
1964(6th of Iyar, 5724): Seventy-year-old playwright
and author Ben Hecht passed away. Born in 1893 in New York to Russian
Jewish parents, Hecht moved to Wisconsin where he went to high school.
Hecht then moved to Chicago where he worked for several newspapers. His
experiences provided the source material for his most famous work, The Front
Page which has been made into a movie on three different
occasions. Hecht's criticism of British policies in Palestine and support
of the Jewish resistance movement caused that his credits were removed from all
films shown in England for some years. In his honor an illegal immigrant ship
was named "Ben Hecht". A passionate believer in an independent Jewish
state, Hecht advocated swift action to attain this.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007040
http://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/The_Times_(20/Apr/1964)_-_Obituary:_Mr_Ben_Hecht
1965(16th of Nisan, 5725): Second Day of
Pesach; 1st day of Omer
1965: “The Bund and World Jewish Life Twenty
Years After the Nazi Holocaust” is the theme of the Fourth World Conference of
the Jewish Bund which opened today in New York with delegates coming from 12
countries.
1966(28th of Nisan, 5726): Yom
HaShoah
1966(28th of Nisan, 5726):
Seventy-three-year-old Yiddish author and editor Leon Goldin passed away today.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/05/osher-arye-goldin-leon-goldin.html
1966(28th of Nisan, 5726): Today
fifty-six-year-old Winnipeg, Manitoba and University of Manitoba graduate
William Chodorcoff who raise from being an actuary to serving as the executive
vice President of the Prudential Insurance Company “collapse and died of a heart
attack in New Orleans after he had finished addressing delete to Prudential’s
Canadian National Business Conferences at the Jung Hotel in New Orleans.
1966: A fire was discovered at the Jewish
Theological Seminary Library when smoke was seen pouring from one of the small
upper windows of the JTS library tower at Broadway and 122nd Street in New York
City.
1967: “A Budapest court-imposed death sentences
on Vilmost Kroeszi, Lajos Nemeth and Alajos Sander “convicted of murdering 250
Jews during World War II.
1967: “The Tiger Makes Out,” based on the book
by Murray Schisgal who also wrote the screenplay, starring Eli Wallach and
featuring “Dustin Hoffman in his film debut” was released today in the United
States.
1968(20th of Nisan, 5728): Sixth Day
of Pesach observed for the last time during the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson
1970: “Spirit in the Sky” written and
originally recorded by Norman Greenbaum “reached number three in the U.S.
Billboard chart.
1972(4th of Iyar, 5732): Yom
HaZikaron
1972: Birthdate of film director Eli Roth.
1973(16th of Nisan, 5733): Second
Day of Pesach
1973: In a phone call today “with Spiro Agnew
said Jews were holding American foreign policy ‘hostage to Jewish emigration
from the Soviet Union’” adding that “Some of the Jews picket can raise hell,
but the American people are not going to let them destroy our foreign policy –
never!”
1974(26th of Nisan, 5734): Yom
HaShoah observed.
1975: “Jacob the Liar,” an East
German-Czechoslovak Holocaust film based on the novel of the same name by
“concentration camp survivor Jurek Becker which had already been shown GDR TV was released in movie theatres today.
1975: “Basic
Dresses In Sexy Prints And Washable” published today descried Diane Von
Furstenberg latest triumph in the field of fashion.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F20817FC385E157493CAA8178FD85F418785F9
1976(18th of Nisan, 5736): Fourth
Day of Pesach
1976: The Bush Street Temple which had been the
home to Congregation Ohabai Shalome a congregation that had been formed in 1864
and which had been sold in 1934 was added to the list of San Francisco
Designated Landmarks.
https://sfplanninggis.org/docs/landmarks_and_districts/LM81.pdf
https://noehill.com/sf/landmarks/sf081.asp
1977: Stephen Sondheim’s “Sided by Side” opened
at the Music Box Theatres for what would be the first of 384 performances.
1978(11th of Nisan, 5738): On the Hebrew
calendar, birthday of the Rebbe.
1978(11th of Nisan, 5738): Education and Sharing Day was inaugurated today by
President Jimmy Carter to honor the efforts of Rabbi Menachem Mendel
Schneerson’s “efforts for education and sharing for Jews and non-Jews.
1978: NBC broadcast “The Final Solution,” the
third episode in the mini-series “Holocaust.”
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that in
accordance with the Cabinet's decision, the foreign minister, Moshe Dayan,
ordered Israeli envoys to explain that Israel regards the UN Security Council's
Resolution 242 as a basis of negotiations with all Arab States, including
Jordan.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that four
soldiers were wounded when an Arab assailant threw a Molotov cocktail into a
bus on the northern outskirts of Jerusalem.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that
“Holocaust,” NBC's new nine-and-half-hour TV drama series was reported to have
captured the imagination of the American public.
1978: Birthdate of Amanda Sthers the director
of “Holy Lands,” a film set primarily in Israel that tells the tale of (ready
for this) a dysfunctional Jewish family.
1979: CBS broadcast the last episode of “Kaz”
created by and starring Ron Leibman the Jewish son of Grace Marks and Murray
Leibman, who made the character “Polish” and not “Jewish”
1981(14th of Nisan, 5741): Shabbat
Hagadol; in the evening Jews sit down to the first Seder during the Presidency
of Ronald Reagan.
1982: “Two Decades of a Russian Giant” featured
reviews of “Tolstoi in the Sixties” by Boris Eikenbaum and “Tolstoi in the
Seventies” by Boris Eikenbaum.
1983(5th of Iyar, 5743): Yom HaAtzma'ut
1983: The Nożyk Synagogue which the Nazis had
partially destroyed during WW II was officially reopened today in Warsaw.
1983: Hundreds of Polish policemen, gathering
around the spot from which 400,000 Jews were sent to Nazi death camps in World
War II, today blocked an unofficial march called to mark the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto
uprising. But more than 1,000 people gathered anyway at a nearby monument.
1984(16th of Nisan, 5744): Second
day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer’
1984(16th of Nisan, 5744):
Seventy-eight-year-old French Torskyite Pierre Frank passed away.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/1984/04/frank.htm
1985(27th of Nisan, 5745): Yom
HaShoah
1987: Annette Greenfield Strauss won a run-off
to become the first elected woman mayor of Dallas, Texas.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/apr/18/1987/annette-greenfield-strauss
1987(19th of Nisan, 5747): Fifth Day
of Pesach and Shabbat
1987(19th of Nisan, 5747):
Ninety-six-year-old Austrian born California jurist and prison reform advocate
Isaac Pacht passed away today.
http://articles.latimes.com/1987-04-21/news/mn-25_1_prison-reform
1987: “ A Month of Sundays,” directed by Gene
Sakes and produced by Emanuel Azenberg and Jerome Minskoff was performed on
Broadway for the last time at the Ritz Theater
1987: Eighteen members of the pro-Iranian
Shiite Moslem Party of God militia were killed early today when they tried to
overrun a position jointly manned by Israel and its ally, the South Lebanon
Army, north of Israel's border with Lebanon. Four Israelis were wounded in the
incident.
1988:
Barbra Streisand recorded
"Warm All Over”
1988: The trial of Ivan Demjanjuk
which had begun in the Jerusalem District Court on November 26, 1986, before a
special tribunal comprising Israeli Supreme Court Judge Dov Levin and Jerusalem
District Court Judges Zvi Tal and Dalia Dorner came to an end.
1989(13th of Nisan,
5749): Sixty-three-year-old Brooklyn Melvin Annenberg, a loan officer with
Merchants Bank in Syracuse passed away today.
1990: Following today’s Niebuhr
Lecture at Elmhurst College, Franklin Littell wrote that
“Niebuhr's style as a churchman was
vigorous: esteemed for his intellectual leadership, he also worked with labor
leaders and liberal and Socialist politicians on many battlelines. He was the
leading — and at some points the sole — American theologian to understand the
crisis posed by Nazism and to intervene on behalf of the survival of the Jewish
people. His sources in Germany — including strong contact with Dietnch
Bonhoeffer, and in Europe — including close relations with Visser't Hooft, as
well as his excellent network (in good part through his wife, Ursula) with
British political and church leaders kept him well informed and deeply
concerned. He interpreted the issues in the German Church Struggle
(Kirchenkampf) and the Shoah as no other American of his generation and did so
along theological lines that are exciting participants in seminars and
conferences fifty years later. He championed the creation of a Jewish state in
1943, publicly criticized the targeting of Jews for Christian conversion in 1958
and maintained lifelong friendships with Jewish peers such as Abraham Joshua
Heschel.”
1991(4th of Iyar, 5751):
Yom HaAtzma’ut
1991: The orbiter of STS-37 whose
crew had included Jerome Apt, the Harvard and MIT trained physicist and
professor at Carnegie Mellon University landed at the Kennedy Space Center
today.
1992(15th of Nisan,
5752): Pesach is observed for the last time during the Presidency of George
Bush.
1993: Thousands of Holocaust survivors
and their families, many of them sobbing audibly, observed the 50th anniversary
of the Warsaw ghetto uprising with a memorial service at Madison Square Garden
that also honored the memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Nazi
concentration camps.
1993: Mark Ludwig, who has spent
the last five years reconstructing “the music of Jewish Czech composers who
died in Nazi concentration camps, and particularly those who spent time at
Theresienstadt and the Hawthorne Quartet are scheduled to commemorate Holocaust
Memorial Day with "Silent Voices, the Artists of Terezin," a concert that
will include works by Gideon Klein, Hans Krasa, Viktor Ullmann, Pavel Haas and
Ervin Schulhoff.”
1994: Roseanne Barr filed for
divorce today in Superior Court of Los Angeles County.
1995(18th of Nisan,
5755): Fourth Day of Pesach
1995: “By the thousands, Israelis
flooded into Hebron today to worship at the Cave of the Patriarchs shrine,
prayers that for many were also a bitter anti-Government protest.”
1996: During “Operations
Grapes of Wrath” Israeli artillery mistakenly shells a UN position killing 102
Lebanese civilians. The Israelis expressed regret for the loss of life
which occurred during an operation intended to destroy Hezbollah bases from
which rocket attacks had been launched against Israeli towns in the northern
part of the country.
1996(29th of Nissan,
5756): Ninety-two-year-old Boleslavs Maikovskis, who took part in the mass
execution of 200 Latvian villagers during WW II died today.
1997: “Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu went on the counteroffensive today against police recommendations
that he be indicted for breach of the public trust, defiantly vowing to a
gathering of political allies that ''this Government is not going anywhere.”
1998(22nd of Nisan,
5758): Eighth Day of Pesach; Shabbat
1998: U.S. premiere of “Since
You’ve Been Gone,” a made-for-TV movie directed by David Schwimmer and
co-starring Schwimmer, Jon Stewart and Joey Slotnick.
1999; The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “The Mercy: Poems” by Philip Levine.
1999: An exhibit styled “Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture” opens
at the Jewish Museum in New York City.
1999: The statue of Saint George fighting a serpent
was re-erected in St. Stephen's Park. Many gathered under a sea of umbrellas
for the unveiling, on the rainy Sunday morning. Speakers included Holocaust
survivor and poet, Gyorgy Somlyo who was saved by Raoul Wallenberg.
2000: A long-awaited study of
assets seized from Jews in wartime France begun three years ago by the Matteoli
Commission “said today that the Nazis and French collaborators stole far more
than previously assumed” but “that efforts to return the property or to
reimburse Jews after the war were extensive.” (As reported by Suzanne Daley)
2001: On the eve of Holocaust
Remembrance Day, President Bush and his wife Laura toured the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum.
2001: At Colgate University Barry Strauss, director of peace studies and a professor of history at
Cornell University delivered a talk titled "My Grandfather's First World
War, and my search to rediscover it," which focuses on the Jewish
experiences in the United States army and raise such issues as memory, identity
and military service.
2002: Judy Chicago's monumental sculpture "The
Dinner Party" was acquired by the Brooklyn Museum.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/apr/18/2002/judy-chicago
2003(16th of Nisan,
5673): Second Day of Pesach – 1st day of the Omer
2003(16th of Nisan,
5673): Sixty-one-year-old French television executive Jean Drucker passed away
at Mollégès, France
2003: A display of Marshmallow
Peeps at McCaffrey’s Supermarket in Southampton, PA, help to mark the 50th
anniversary of this all-American confectionary concoction. Peeps, which
originally were in the form of Easter chicks, are a product of Just Born, a
candy company started by Russian Jewish immigrant Sam Born who was followed in
the business by his son Bob Born and grandson Ross Born.
2004: The New York Times
reviewed books by Jewish authors and/or of interest to Jewish readers including
'Stalin' by Simon Sebag Montefiore.
2004: An exhibition entitled “Gate
of Death” opens at the Jewish Museum in New York City.
2005: Today, David Littman helped
to organize “a major Parallel NGO Day Conference.”
2006: Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert met with his Cabinet to decide on the response to the previous day
suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. The Israeli government response would have
to be measured against the fact that the PA government is now controlled by
Hamas, an organization that has publicly approved the attack.
2006: Six of the nine victims
of the Tel Aviv terrorist bomb were laid to rest including: David Shaulov, 29, of Holon,.
Philip Balasan, 45,. Benjamin Haputa, 47, of Lod, Victor Erez, a 60-year-old
taxi driver from Tel Aviv, Lily Yunes, 42, of Oranit, and 31-year-old Ariel
Darhi. The two Romanian victims of the bombing, Rosalia Basanya, 48, and Boda
Proshka, 50, will be laid to rest in their native country. Their bodies will be
returned to Romania after the Passover holiday. There are as yet no details on
funeral arrangements for the ninth victim of the attack, named by Israel Radio
as French tourist Marcelle Cohen, 75.
2007: Haaretz reported today that Members
of the Reform movement accused the former Sephardic chief rabbi of slander for
allegedly stating that the Holocaust happened because of the activity of Reform
Jews in Germany.
2007: In Chicago, WBEZ broadcast a program
“billed as a vision of peace” but in which the participants engaged “in
one-sided propaganda against Israel.”
2008(13th of Nisan, 5768): Ninety-one-year-old
William Frankel, the barrister and general secretary of the Mizrachi
organization who served as the editor of the “Jewish Chronicle and was the
author of several books including Friday Night’ and Israel Observed passed
way today.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/20/AR2008042002077.html
2008: “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” a romantic
comedy directed by Nicholas Stoller, co-produced by Judd Apatow and written by
Jason Segal who also starred in the film and featuring Mila Kunis was released
today in the United States.
2008: Ben Stein’s pseudo-documentary “Expelled:
No Intelligence Allowed” attacking Darwin’s Theory of Evolution arrives in
movie theatres throughout the United States. The film is being marketed
by Motive Entertainment, the same company that promoted Mel Gibson’s “The
Passion of Christ.”
2008: During his first papal trip
to the United States, Pope Benedict XVI visited a synagogue led by a rabbi who
survived the Holocaust. Benedict made a brief stop at Manhattan's Park East
Synagogue, whose leader, Rabbi Arthur Schneier, lived under Nazi occupation in
Budapest and immigrated to the US in 1947. The pontiff, 80, is a native of
Germany whose father was anti-Nazi. Benedict was enrolled in the Hitler Youth
as a teenager against his will and then was drafted into the German army in the
last months of the war. He wrote in his memoirs that he deserted in the war's
last days. It will be the pope's second visit to a synagogue as pontiff. On his
first papal trip abroad in 2005, Benedict visited a synagogue in Cologne,
Germany, that had been rebuilt after it was destroyed by the Nazis.
2009; In Maryland as part of the
Columbia Jewish Congregation’s (CJC) - Seventeenth Season of Movies a screening
of “Jellyfish” a Hebrew language film with English subtitles which was a prize
winner at the Cannes Film Festival
2009: A revival production of
“Ragtime,” a musical based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow “opened at the John F.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
2009: The Metro Library Network
Author Series presents “a conversation” with famed mystery writer, Sarah
Paretsky, a native of Ames, Iowa who has talked about what it was liked to grow
up Jewish in Kansas, at the Theatre Cedar Rapids in Lindale Shopping Center.
2009(24th of Nisan, 5769): Louis Lowenstein, an influential
business law professor and former corporate executive who for nearly three
decades dissected the excesses of Wall Street and warned of the dangers of
short-term investing, died at his home today at the age of 83. (As reported by
Dennis Hevesi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/business/26lowenstein.html
2010: A Broadway revival of Jerry
Herman’s “La Cage aux Folles” officially opened at the Longacre Theatre
2010: “Alon Nechustan” (A Way In) a
modern dance show, whose text and concept were inspired by the Kabbalistic
story of the Orchard featuring members of the Avodah dance company, is
scheduled to be performed at The LABA Festival 2010 at the 14th
Street.
2010: The New York Times
features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the
Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 by Kai Bird
2010(4th of Iyar): M.
Edgar Rosenblum, an arts executive who helped steer the Long Wharf Theater in
New Haven to prominence in the American theater landscape, developing work that
traveled to Broadway and elsewhere and that won Pulitzer Prizes and Tony Awards
along the way, passed away today at the age of 78. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
2011: A Kassam rocket fired from
the Gaza Strip fell in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council this afternoon.
2011(14th of Nisan,
5771): Fast of the First Born; Erev Pesach; in the evening, the first Seder
Zissen Pesach - זיססען פסח Chag Samayach - חג שמח
2011: The Immigrant Absorption Ministry will try to set a Guinness World
Record tonight by organizing – together with charity Aviv Hatorah – the world’s
largest Pesach Seder for some 1,300 recently arrived Ethiopian immigrants
living in Tel Aviv.
2011: Noble Energy has awarded the Expro
company a $27 million contract to conduct well-testing and provide sub-sea
services and equipment aboard the Transocean Sedco Express oil rig for the
Tamar natural gas field – and for a deepwater exploration program for the Pride
North America – Expro announced today.
2012: “Charles Rosen, the pianist, polymath and
author whose National Book Award-winning volume The Classical Style illuminated
the enduring language of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven” gave his last lecture today in the series
Music in 21st-Century Society, at the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research
and Documentation of the CUNY Graduate Center.
2012: Dr. Daniel Rynhold is scheduled to begin
teaching Judaism and the American Legal Tradition at the Skirball Center for
Adult Jewish Learning
2012: “Standing Silent” is scheduled to be
shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival
2012: Miriam Kelemen Solis, who grew up in
Budapest, Hungary during the 1930s, is scheduled to speak at tonight’s Yom
HaShoah Service at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2012(26th of Nisan, 5772): Hila
Bezaleli, a “20-year-old soldier from the Jerusalem suburb of Mevaseret Zion
was killed this afternoon when a light rigging system collapsed onto soldiers
rehearsing for the Independence Day celebration at Mount Herzl.
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=266815
2013: Voca People, the Israel based company, is
scheduled to perform at Strathmore Music Hall in Rockville, MD.
2013: Rabbi Hayyim Kassorla is scheduled to
officiate at the funeral of Jake Alhadeff at Greenwood Cemetery in Atlanta, GA.
2013: Daniel C. Kurtzer, the career diplomat
who served as U.S. ambassador to both Egypt and Israel is scheduled to speak at
the Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation.
2013: Adam Burstain, one of the finest young
members of the Cedar Rapids Jewish community is scheduled to appear in the
opening night performance of “Urinetown”
2013: The IPO is scheduled to begin its “Patron
Trip To Poland,” “an extraordinary musical and historical experience
commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
2013: 75th anniversary of the first
appearance of Superman, the man of steel created by two Jews from Cleveland.
2013: Paula “Abdul appeared on the Top 5
results show of season 12 of American Idol to compliment contestant Candice
Glover on her performance of Straight Up.”
2013: “U.S. Arms Deal With Israel and 2 Arab
Nations Is Near” published today described “a $10 billion arms deal with
Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.”
2013(8th of Iyar, 5773): Ninety-six-year-old
“Orville Slutzky, who with his brother founded the Hunter Mountain ski resort
in upstate New York, known in the 1960s for its celebrity clientele and in the
1970s and ’80s for its unmatched number of snow-making cannons” passed away
today. (As reported by Paul Vitello)
2014: Penultimate day for The International
Photography Festival at the Carmel Winery in Rishon Lezion
2014: Etan Morel is scheduled to conduct
“Jerusalem of Gold” a walking tour of Israel’s capital inspired by the song of
the same name.
2015(29th of Nisan,5775) : Parashat
Shemini and Chapter I of Pirke Avot
2015: Lewis Black is scheduled to perform at
the Peace Center Concert Hall in Greenville, SC.
2015: Poet and activist Elly Gross is scheduled
to share her experiences during the Shoan at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
2015: Lou Reed is scheduled to be inducted in
to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame today.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-lou-reed-20131028-story.html#page=1
2015: “Clouds of Sils Maria” and “While We’re
Young” are scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2015: A body matching the description of Max
Maisel, the son of Mobile, AL born ESPN sportscaster Ivan Maisel was found
today in Lake Ontario.
2016(10th of Nisan, 5776): Ninety-two-year-old
Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, the native of Radom, Poland “who came to America in 1947
and settled in Cambridge, MA, where he became Director of the Hillel at
Harvard.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=ben-zion-gold&pid=179663411&fhid=8784
2016: The Jewish Music Forum of ASJM, American
Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Center for Traditional
Music and Dance are scheduled to present “New sounds of Old Judeo-Spanish
Songs,” a talk by Edwin Seroussi, “about some of the oldest recordings of
Sephardic music (c.1906-1913), which have recently resurfaced in London.
Recorded in a variety of locations, they feature the voices of legendary
performers of the Judeo-Spanish song in the early 20th century.”
2016: Members of the Illinois Holocaust Museum
and Education Center are scheduled to enjoy a week’s worth of free viewing of
“Lincoln’s Undying Words” starting today.
2016: 2016: At Cornell
College, in Mt. Vernon, IA, The Thaler Holocaust Memorial Fund under the
leadership of Dr. Robert Silber and the Inter-Religious Council of Linn County
are scheduled to host a presentation be Magda Brown, who was 17 years old in
1944 when she and her family were deported on one of the final transports to
Auschwitz-Birkenau. In March 1945, Ms. Brown was sent on a 3-day death march
from Birkenau Concentration Camp. Magda and several other prisoners in her
group escaped and hid in a barn. A few days later they were discovered and
liberated by two American Armed Forces. Only Magda and her brother survived
from her immediate family and only six cousins survived from her extended
family of 70.
2016: “The Kind Words” and “The Grüninger File”
are scheduled to be shown for the last time at the Westchester Jewish Film
Festival.
2016: This evening, “at least 21 people were
injured in bus bombing in Jerusalem” which was “the first such attack in years.
2016: The IDF revealed today it had “discovered
a ‘terror tunnel’ inside Israeli territory” that had been dug by Hamas in Gaza.
2017(22nd of Nisan,
5777): /Eighth Day of Pesach; Yizkor -
2017: In Jerusalem,
the Abraham Hostel is scheduled to host Mimouna, “the traditional North African celebration that marks the
end of Passover typically marked with music and tasty, not-kosher-for-Passover
treats.
2017: After two weeks, The Art of Banksy
Exhibition in Herzliya is scheduled to come to an end.
2018: “J.K. Rowling, the non-Jewish author of
the Harry Potter series, decided to weigh in today, defining anti-Semitism for
her 14.4 million Twitter followers.
2018: Ninety-year-old
Howard Morley, the St Louis born son of historian and professor Abram L. Sachar
and Thelma Horwitz, who followed in his father’s footsteps by becoming an
author and History Professor at George Washington University while raising
“three children – Sharon, Michele and Daniel – with his wife Eliana Steimatzky
passed away today.
https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Eminent-historian-Howard-Sachar-passes-away-at-home-at-age-90-552524
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/author/howard-sachar/
2018: “Itzhak” a biopic
about the world famous violinist is scheduled to open in Tunkhannock, PA.
2018: The Jewish Center
and Park Avenue Synagogue are scheduled to co-sponsor a celebration of Israel’s
birthday featuring Cantor Chaim Dovid Berson, The Jewish Center; Cantor Azi Schwartz,
Park Avenue Synagogue and Cantor Mo Glazman, Temple Emanu-El
2018: The
Temple-Tifereth Israel is scheduled to celebrate Israel’s 70 anniversary with a
party at the Ritz Carlton in Cleveland.
2018: Holocaust
survivor Michael Bornstein who was only four years old when liberated and his
daughter Debbie Bornstein Holinstat are scheduled to speak at Kirkwood
Community College in Cedar Rapids and at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon as part
of the Yom HoShoah memorial which is being sponsored by The Thaler Holocaust
Education Programming Committee chaired Dr. Robert Silber
2018(3rd of
Iyar, 5778): Yom Hazikaron – Israel Remembrance Day (which like all Jewish
Holidays begins on the evening before the date on the secular calendar)
2019: In London, JW3 is
scheduled to host the last two screenings of “Holy Lands”
2019: The United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a presentation by Margit
Meissner as part of the First Person Holocaust Series.
2019: As Prime Minister
Netanyahu begins the work of forming a new government, Jews in general and
Israelis in particular are faced with the growing measles epidemic.
2020(24th of
Nisan, 5780): Parashat Shemini: in the afternoon study Pirke Avot Chapter One’
2020(24th of
Nisan, 5780: On the Jewish calendar yahrzeit of Rabbi David Ha-Kohen of
Jerusalem and Yiddish poet Moses David Gisser
2020: The political
deadlock which had drawn thousands of protestors to Habima Square on April 16,
is scheduled to continue without resolution.
2020: As Israelis mourn
the rising number of coronavirus fatalities, they take special notice 88 year
old Arie Even, the Holocaust survivor who became Israel’s first coronavirus
fatality.
https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/S19HeTU00I
2021: The New York
Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including Rock Me On The Water:1974 — The Year
Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics by Ronald
Brownstein and the recently published paperback edition of Warhol by
Blake Gopnik.
2021: The ASF Institute
if Jewish Experience is scheduled to present “Western Sephardi Synagogue Tours”
that will include lectures about the Jewish experience in the Dominican
Republic, Indonesia, and St. Thomas.
2021: The Contemporary
Jewish Museum is scheduled to present “Chutz-Pow! Superheroes of the Holocaust”
during which lead artist Marcel Walker will talk about the creation of American comic book
heroes by first-generation U.S. Jews whose parents had fled antisemitism
2022(17th of
Nisan, 5782) : Third Day of Pesach
2022: Pianist Yefim
Bronfman who has performed with Isaac Stern, Leonard Bernstein and the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra is scheduled to perform at Carnegie Hall.
2022: The Goldring
Center for Jewish-Multicultural Affairs, Jewish Pride NOLA (JP NOLA) and
Congregation Temple Sinai are scheduled to host a Pride Passover Seder for the
LGBTQ community and the allies who love and support them.
2022: Leket Israel’s
Passover Family Open Picking Days is scheduled to continue today.
2023: As part of the
“Women and Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto series, the Jewish Women’s Archive
and the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews are scheduled to host a
lecture by Katarzyna Person on “Warsaw Ghetto Through Women’s Eyes.”
2023: The Meitar
Ensemble is scheduled to perform a Holocaust memorial concert as part of the
Festival of Contemporary Music from Israel hosted by the Provost’s Global Forum
at the University of Iowa.
2023: As part of a three-concert
series designed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of
the State of Israel, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra is scheduled to perform
the world premiere of The Twelve Tribes, symphony composed by Benjamin Yusupov.
2023: In Atlanta, the
Breman Museum is scheduled to present poets Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris in
Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) program.
2023(27th of
Nisan, 5783): Yom HaShoah
2024: Temple Judea is
scheduled to host “Music Sharing” with former Cedar Rapids resident “Cantor
Abbie.”
2024: The Cleveland
Jewish News is scheduled to present “Sports Talk Live” from the Mandel JCC
Stonehill Auditorium.
2024: All Jewish
Theatre (AJT) is scheduled to host a workshop on “how to write a short play.”
2024: Qesher is
scheduled to present “Jewish Tunisia: At a Crossroads of Civilizations.”
2024: The Elie Wiesel
Foundation, chaired by the writer’s son Elisha, has joined the Uyghur Human
Rights Project and the World Uyghur Congress a two-day New York conference
entitled “Disrupting Uyghur Genocide” is scheduled to come to an end today.
2024: The Plaza Jewish
Community Chapel and the Museum at Eldridge Street are scheduled to host a “virtual
discussion about the emotional yet necessary task of getting your home in
order, parting with things that don't serve you, and securing your estate for
the future.”
2024: As April 18th
begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day 195
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.)
2025: The Museum at
Eldridge Street is scheduled to host a Walking Tour “All-of-a-Kind Family”
which is a “stroll through the story and into the streets to learn about the
real-life people and Lower East Side places that inspired Sydney Taylor to
write All-of-a-Kind Family and a Walking Tour “Activism on the Lower
East Side” that will trace the origins social activism in Eastern Europe,
explore its landmarks on the Lower East Side, and meet its leaders that stood
on the frontlines.
2025: On the secular
calendar, 70th anniversary of the death of Dr. Albert Einstein
2025: Following
yesterday’s rejection by Hamas of the “latest ceasefire proposal” Prime
Minister Netanyahu is faced with what steps to take next at the same time that
the United States is withdrawing troops from Syria despite Israel’s request
that they remain.
2025(29th of
Nisan, 5785): Sixth Day of Pesach; in the evening kindle the lights for Shabbat
and the seventh day of Pesach
2025: As April 18th
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 560 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: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by Professor David Peimer on
“Portrayals of Berlin in Films during Iconic Eras” which will include a look at
“Downfall,” the film that portrays “Hitler’s final days in the bunker.”
2026(1st of
Iyar, 5786): Shabbat and Rosh Chodesh Iyar
2026: As April 18th
begins in Israel, the government is faced with the challenge of defending the
country “after US Donald Trump declared Israel was “PROHIBITED” from bombing
Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.” (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)
