April 4
188: Birthdate
of Cracalla, the Roman Emperor who allowed all free Jews within the empire to
become full Roman citizens.
397: Aurelius
Ambrosius, (Saint Ambrose) a bishop of Milan who became one of the most
influential ecclesiastical figures of the fourth century passed away. He lived
during a period when the Christian Church was still trying to establish its
identity. He was no stranger to Jews as we can see from the following three
examples. In “De Abrahamo” Ambrose warned Christians against intermarrying with
Jews. His strong opposition can be seen
in the following conflict he had with the Roman Emperor, Theodosius over the rebuilding
of synagogue. “It appears that in 388 a mob, led by the local bishop and
many monks, destroyed the synagogue at Callinicum. The emperor Theodosius the
Great ordered the rebuilding of the synagogue at the expense of the rioters,
including the bishop. Ambrose immediately issued a fiery protest to the
emperor. He wrote to Theodosius that "the glory of God" is concerned
in this matter, and that therefore he cannot be silent. "Shall the bishop
be compelled to re-erect a synagogue? Can he religiously do this thing? If he
obey the emperor, he will become a traitor to his faith; if he disobey him, a
martyr. What real wrong is there, after all, in destroying a synagogue, a 'home
of perfidy, a home of impiety,' in which Christ is daily blasphemed? Indeed, he
must consider himself no less guilty than this poor bishop; at least to the
extent that he made no concealment of his wish that all synagogues should be
destroyed, that no such places of blasphemy be further allowed to exist."
At the end, he succeeded in obtaining from Theodosius a promise that the
sentence should be completely revoked, with the very natural consequence that
thereafter the prospect of immunity thus afforded occasioned spoliations of
synagogues all over the empire. That Ambrose could nevertheless occasionally
say a good word for the Jews is shown by a passage in his "Enarratio in
Psalmos" in which he remarks, "Some Jews exhibit purity of life and
much diligence and love of study."
1081: Alexios
I Komnenos is crowned Byzantine emperor at Constantinople, beginning the
Komnenian dynasty. Most Byzantine Emperors of this period “expressed little
interest in combating…religious pluralism.
Alexios was the exception to the rule.
He took “an unusual interest in presenting himself as a defender” of the
dominant Christian Orthodox faith. During his reign, St. Nikon agreed to go to
Sparta if the Jews were expelled from the community. The town was enduring a
wave of unusual illness and Nikon said that cause was the contaminating effect
of “abominable” Jewish customs and the polluting effect of their worship.
1284: The
reign of Alfonso X as King of Castile and Leon who “employed Jewish, Christian
and Muslim Scholars…primarily for the purposed of translating books from Arabic
and Hebrew into Latin and Castilian” and who relied on Yehuda ben Moshe to
translate selected works of magic, came to an end today.
1284: The
reign of King Alfonso X of Castile who had Yehudah ben Moshe translate several
texts on magic into the national vernacular came to an end today.
1284: Sancho
IV of Castile, who treated the story of the affair between Rahel la Fermosa, a
Jewish woman from Toledo, and King Alfonso VIII as fact and not fable, began
his reign today.
1285: Philip
the Fair, King of France, began his policy of using Jews solely for his
financial benefit. He was called the Fair because of his complexion, not
his behavior. The Jews were caught up in the conflict called the
Albigensians Heresy, a conflict within the Catholic Church. Philip was
always looking for ways to enrich himself. Ultimately he expelled the
Jews from his kingdom, abrogating the debts he owed them and confiscating all
personal and communal property.
1292: Pope
Nicholas IV who had issued “Orat Mater Ecclesla,” a bull designed “to protect
the Roman Jews from oppression, passed away today.
1588:
Christian IV, “the first Danish king to establish connections with Jews” which
became a reality when he appointed Albert Dionis, a Sephardi Jew “to run the
mint in the newly planned town of Gluckstadt on the Elbe” began his reign
today.
1593: In
Wilshire, England, John Nicholas and his wife gave birth MP, attorney and “royalist”
Sir Edward Nicholas who in 1648 “wrote a pamphlet, An Apology for the
Honorable Nation of the Jews, which called for the readmission of the Jews
to England” which was “one of the few examples of pro-admission writing that did
not also call for the conversion of the Jews and ws cited by Menasseh Ben
Israel in his Humble Addresses, although Cecil Roth wonders whether the
pamphlet might actually have been written by a Jew.”
1609: English
navigator Henry Hudson set sail from Amsterdam harbor under direction from his
“employer,” the Duct East India Company to sail east in the quest for a shorter
water passage to the Indies. Fortunately
for the Jewish people, Hudson ignored these instructions and sailed west
seeking the fabled Northwest Passage to the Orient. As part of this quest, Hudson sailed past
what is now New York on his way up what we know as the Hudson River claiming
all of the surrounding for the Dutch.
This meant that the 23 Jews who arrived in New Amsterdam landed in a
territory controlled by the religiously tolerant Dutch as opposed to a colony
controlled Catholic Spain or Catholic France neither of whom would have allowed
the Jews to settle.
1660: King Charles II of England publishes the terms under
which he will return to the throne in a document known as the Declaration of
Breda. The restoration under Charles II bodes well for the Jews of England
since it
was Charles II who was the first to declare that the Jewish community could
remain in England without suffering harassment.
1687: King James II issued The Declaration of Indulgence,
one of the major steps towards the granting of full religious liberty in Great
Britain. Jews had returned to in 1655
and the next major step in the fight for full religious rights would come with
the passage of the short-lived Jewish Naturalization Act of 1753.
1693(27th of Adar II, 5453): Eighty-eight-year-old
Rabbi Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, a kabbalist, scholar and leader of
the Dutch Jewish community passed away.
http://www.dutchjewry.org/drieluik/isack_aboab_da_fonseca/isack_aboab_da_fonseca.htm
1718:
Birthdate of Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman
and Hebrew scholar who spent most of his life exploring and collating various
Hebrew texts. Unfortunately,
the final printing of his work rendered much of it nearly useless. One of the most positive outcomes was the recognition of the antiquity and
common origins of the text of the Hebrew Bible.
1733: Today in Saxony, “August II revived the decrees of the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, ordering in addition that the body-tax be
paid thenceforth by all Jews, regardless of sex or age, though Elijah Behrend
succeeded in securing the exemption of children under ten years of age. Behrend
furthermore obtained permission for all Bohemian, Moravian, and Hungarian Jews
to travel on any road through Saxony and secured the repeal of the edict
forbidding them to remain in any place longer than one day.”
1739: “Israel in Egypt,” “an oratorio by George Frideric
Handel that “it is composed entirely of
selected passages from the Hebrew Bible, mainly from Exodus and the Psalms premiered
at London's King's Theatre in the Haymarket.”
1754(12th of Nisan,
5514): Fast of the First Born held on Thursday because Pesach begins on
Saturday night.
1760(18th of Nisan,
5520): Fourth Day of Pesach celebrated as Willliam Pitt the Elder continues to
serve in the British cabinet and is the ex officio leader of that country’s
effort to win what became known as the Seven Year’s War.
1761: In London, Esther Hannah
Magood Montefiore, the Livorno, Tuscany born daughter of Judah Montefiore and
her husband Moses Vita-Haim Montefiore Median gave birth to Eliezer Jacob
Montefiore
1762(11th of Nisan,
5522): David Frankel, the chief rabbi of Berlin whose students included Moses
Mendelssohn, passed away today.
1763(21st of Nisan,
5523): Seventh Day of Pesach celebrated for the first time after the end of the
Seven Years War.
1768(17th day of
Nisan, 5528): Third Day of Pesach observed on the same that “Philip Astley, an enterprising
horse trainer and riding instructor in London, opened his first
equestrian-themed show.”
1771(20th of Nisan,
5531): Sixth Day of Pesach celebrated on the same that Okinawa was struck by
the Great Yaeyama Tsunami.
1772(1st of Nisan, 5532): Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1772(1st of Nisan, 5532): In Medzhybizh, Simcha, the son of Rabbi Nachman of Horodenka and his wife
Feiga gave birth to Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, a great-grandson of the Baal Shem
Tov who was “the founder of the Breslov Hasidic Movement.
1775: Birthdate of Samuel Elias, the native of Whitechapel,
London who gained fame as the boxer Dutch Sam, a name that might be attributed
to the fact that his parents had come to England from Holland.
1776: Celebration of the first Pesach after the firing of
the Shot Heard Round the World.
1778: In New York, Jessie Jonas and Samuel Judah gave birth
to Walter Jonas Judah, “the grandson of Baruch Judah” who was “the first
American-born Jew to enroll in medical school” and who died while “attending
Columbia College.
http://www.sephardicstudies.org/judah.html
1785: In New York City, Judith Myers and Mordecai who were
married in 1784 gave birth to Moses Mordecai, “a circuit-riding lawyer in eastern
North Carolina and Judge in Raleigh who owned the Mordechai House and died at
Sweet Springs, VA after which he was buried at Raleigh, NC.
1787(16th of Nisan, 5547): Second Day of Pesach
observed on the same day “that hearing that his father Leopold was seriously
ill, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote a bizarre farewell letter to his father,
full of half-digested church sermons and Freemasonry.
https://slippedisc.com/2020/10/mozarts-deathbed-letter-to-his-dad-finally-reaches-salzburg/
1790(20th of Nisan, 5550): Sixth Day of Pesach
observed on the same day that Vice President John Adams wrote to Dr. Benjamin
Rush, fellow American revolutionary and founder of Dickinson College.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-20-02-0181
1793: In London, Esther Abraham Bernal and Samson Isaac
Genese gave birth to Isaac Hiam Samson Genese.
1795(15th of Nisan, 5555): Pesach
1795: Birthdate of violinist Joseph Böhm, the native of Pest
who became a director of the Vienna Conservatory.
1799: Birthdate of grocer Marcus Samuel, the husband of
Kennington Surrey native Abigail Moss and the father of Samuel, Maria, Joseph
and Marcus Samuel.
1801: Twenty-year old Carel Asser married eighteen-year-old
Rosa Levin Amsterdam.
1804: Birthdate of Moravian native and Austrian pianist and
composer Joseph Fischoff, the nephew of Robert Fischoff who had studied
medicine at the University of Vienna before devoting himself to a musical
career following the death of his father in 1827 passed away today in Vienna.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6154-fischhof-joseph
1806(16th Day of Nisan, 5566): Second Day of
Pesach; 1st day of the Omer observed on the same day that Lewis and
Clark sent out hunting parties on the Columbia River.
1812(22nd of Nisan, 5572): Eighth Day of Pesach
observed on the same day that the Embargo bill which was one of the steps that
led to the War of 1812 was passed and
signed into law by President James Madison
1817(18th of Nisan, 5577): Fourth Day of Pesach
observed on the same day that royalists were defeated at the Battle of
Curapalihue in Chile.
1818: Birthdate of Moritz Kohner, the native of Neuern,
Bohemia, the merchants who was “elected president of the Leipzig Jewish
community in 1868 and founded the Deutsch-Israelitische
Gemeindebund in 1869.
1822: In Sierentz, Isaac Dreyfus and Gertrude
"Julie" Dreyfus gave birth to Sophie Dreyfus who became Sophie Picard
when she married Abraham Picard.
1825(16th of Nisan, 5585): Second Day of Pesach
1825: In Westminster, London, Rebecca Levy and Victor
Abraham gave birth to Lewis Abraham the husband of Hetty Mayer.
1828: In London, Sarah and Jacob Nunes Castello gave birth
to Esther Jacob Nunes Castello.
1829(1st of Nisan, 5589): Parshat Tazria; Rosh
Chodesh Nisan
1829: Moses Nathan Levy, the Hamburg born son Jette and
Nathan Levy and his wife Hannchen Levy gave birth Hirsch Levy.
1830: Samuel
Bettelheim, the Slovakia born son of Dr. Leopold Bettelheim and Éva Bettelheim
and his wife Chava Eva Bettelheim gave birth to Rabbi and Hebraist Albert (Aaron) Siegfried Bettelheim.
1834(15th of Nisan, 5593): Pesach observed as
those opposed to President Andrew Jackson coalesce around the banner of what
will become the Wig Party in the United States which is not to be confused with
the Wig Party in Great Britain.
1838: Birthdate of Lawrence Barrett the Shakespearian actor
who “portrays the character” of Shylock “with force, sincerity and at times
with splendid effect”
1838: Albert Moses Levy married Claudinia Olivia
Gervais. Levy was a Virginia born doctor
who moved to Texas where he played a prominent role in the revolt against
Mexico. Levy’s father, a Dutch born Jew
married an Episcopalian after coming to the United States. Levy was raised in the faith of his mother
and his wife, with whom he had five children, was also an Episcopalian. While
stories like this were not uncommon among 18th and 19th
American Jewry, it is amazing that there were not more such cases given the
fluidity of the American frontier.
1840: In Prague, Henriette and Marcus Simon Rosenbacher gave
birth to “Austrian lawyer” and “Hebrew scholar” Arnold Rosenbacher” a leader of
the Jewish community in Prague and “Hebrew scholar” who was the president of
the Union of Bohemian Jewish Congregation and vice-president of the Union of
Austrian Jews.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12838-rosenbacher-arnold
https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/arnold-rosenbacher-1904?cm_sp=det-_-srp-_-author
1841: In Augusta, GA, Gustavus V. Anker of Richmond, VA
married Abigail Rebecca Sampson, the daughter of the late Joseph Sampson, who
had lived in Charleston, SC.
1841: In London, Elizabeth Alexander and Israel Russell gave
birth to Sarah Russell, the wife of Morris Davidson.
1841: Birthdate of Ancona (Italy) native Frederico Consolo,
the violinist who “composed the arrangement for the national anthem of San
Marino, based on a 10th-century chorale” which “was adopted in 1894.”
1844(15th of Nisan, 5604): First Day of Pesach
1844(15th of Nisan, 5604): Pesach observed on the
same day that Mormon leader Joseph Smith met with “elven visiting Indians” at
Nauvoo, Illinois.
1847: In Sydney, Australia, Henrietta Levien and Edward
Salamon gave birth to Montague Levien Salamon.
1848: “An act incorporating ‘The Trustees of the Hebrew and
English Institute of the City of Richmond’” which listed the incorporators as
Naphtali Exekiel, Augustus Mailert, Isaac Scrhiver, Jacob A. Levy, Henry Hyman,
Isaac Lyon, Jacob Ezekiel and Isaac Hyneman “was passed by the Virginia
Legislature” today.
1850: Los Angeles is incorporated as a city. Jews
were active in Los Angeles from its earliest days as an American city. Jacob
Frankfort is reported to the first Jew to live in Los Angeles. He arrived in the city in December 1841, when
it was still part of Mexico. In the
early 1850’s seven prominent, unmarried Jewish merchants occupied space at the
Corner of Aliso and Los Angeles streets on what was called Bell’s row. Two were from Poland and five were from
Germany. They ranged in age from 19 to
28. For the trivia buffs, their names
were Abraham Jacobi, Morris Michaels, Morris Goodman, Phillip Sichel, Augustine
Waserman, Felix Bachan and Joseph Plumer.
1851: In
Prussia, Eva Cohen and Aaron Jacob gave birth to Pittsburgh resident Henry
Jackson the husband of Bessie Levy and President of the Zionist Council of
Allegheny County who was a member of Congregation Tree of Life and a delegate
to the Sixth Zionist Congress held at Basel.
1855(16th
of Nisan 5615): Second Day of Pesach observed for the first-time during Lord
Palmerston leading the U.K. as Prime Minister.
1856: In
Cincinnati, OH, Yetta Hackes and Louis Stix gave birth to Rosa Stix, the wife
of Carl Iglauer and the mother of Zillan an Florence Iglauer.
1859: Dinorah,
originally Le pardon de Ploërmel ("The Pilgrimage of Ploërmel"), a
French opéra comique in three acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer was first
performed at the Opéra-Comique (Salle Favart), in Paris.
1859: The New York Times reported that “the
number of Jews in Oregon, most of whom are engaged in commercial pursuits, is
quite large. In Portland, they have a synagogue recently incorporated by the
legislature under the name of ‘Congregation Beth Israel’ where religious worship
is conducted after the manner of German Israelites. A large portion of them are, however,
free-thinkers.”
1861: Two days
after she had passed away, Sara Elizabeth Phillips, the wife of Joseph Phillips
and the mother of Lewis Phillips was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham
Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1861: The
New York Times reported that M. Guranda, the Viennese Jewish editor of the Ost Deutsche Post was elected to
serve in the Provincial Diet.
1862:
Birthdate of Leonid Pasternak, the native of Odessa who became a noted
post-impressionist painter and was the father of Boris Pasternak.
http://pasternak-trust.org/leonid/biography/
1863(15th
of Nisan, 5623): Pesach observed as General Joe Hooker prepared the Army of the
Potomac for an attack on Richmond during the American Civil War.
1863: In
Lipovetz, Russia, Bella Gorkhovski and Khaim Isaac Fireman gave birth to
research chemist Peter Fireman, the holder of a Ph.D from the University of
Berne and husband of Ernestine Weiz who
in 1882 who came to the United States where he “farmed for several years in
western Oregon before going to work for the Elmer A. Sperry Electro-chemical
Research Laboratory in Washington in 1902.
1865: Private
Henry Strauss was discharged from the 10th Mississippi Infantry
today.
1866(19th
of Nisan, 5626): Sixth Day of Pesach
1866(19th
of Nisan, 5626): Twenty-two-year-old Heinrich Oppenheimer, the son of Marx and
Sarah Oppenheimer, passed away today.
1866:
Birthdate of Adolph Joachim Sabath, the native of Zabori who came to the United
States at the age of 15 and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from
1907 to 1952.
http://specialcollections.tulane.edu/archon/?p=collections/findingaid&id=499
1867: London natives
Selina Spyer and Arthur Lindo gave birth to Ernest Nathaniel Lindo who died at
the age of two years and eight months.
1868: In Frankfurt
am Main, Rabbi Moses Jesaias Cohn, the son of Doris and Rabbi Ruben Simon Cohn
and his wife Rosa Cohn gave birth to Fanny Cohn who became Fanny Salomon when
she married Siegfried Salomon.
1870: Joseph
Jacobs, the son of Abraham Jacobs and Rachel Raphael and the husband of
Catherine Jacobs was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1871: “Matzoth
Again: The Feast of Passover Unleavened Bread How They Make Passover Cakes,” published
today describes the process of making Matzah. [Ed. Note: Given the
comparatively small Jewish population, this article is remarkable for several
reasons.]
1872: Johann Jacoby
joined the Social Democrat Party in Prussia today.
1872: The Grand
Lodge of the Sons of Israel received a report today that 2,176 names were on
the rolls of the Endowment Fund which had been established to provide for
widows and orphans and that the fund was now capitalized at $69,604.40.
1874(17th
of Nisan, 5634): Shabbat shel Pesach
1874: In Poland,
Taube and Chaim Aharon Osserman gave birth to realtor Simon E. Osserman, “ a
founder in 1917 of the Federation of the Jewish Philanthropies of New York, the
President of both the Jewish Society for the Deaf and the Hebrew Free Loan
Society and the father of Beatrice Glenn and Ethel Coleman.
1875: In Paris,
Gustave Élie Monteux, a shoe salesman, and his wife, Clémence Rebecca née
Brisac , descendants of Sephardic Jews who had settled in the south of France
gave birth to violinist and composer Pierre Benjamin Monteux and WW I veteran
of the French Army who 1942 moved permanently to the United States where “he
founded a school for conductors and musicians in Hancock, ME.
1877(21st
of Nisan, 5637): Seventh Day of Pesach
1877: The third of
the annual special services for the Jews “held in Christ Church Spitafields”
which were part of the on-going attempts to convert Jews and which in the past
had provoked demonstrations by Jews of the area was led by Reverend A.I. McCaul
an included a sermon by Reverend Samuel Bardsley
1877: Birthdate of
Yiddish poet and songwriter Mordechai Gebirtig.
1878: In Chicago,
Adolph Loeb, the son of Jakob and Ester Loeb, and his wife Johanna Loeb gave
birth to Ludwig Mannheimer Loeb
1878: In New York
City, Albert Pulitzer, the brother of publisher Joseph Pulitzer and his wife
gave birth to Walter Pulitzer, the president of the Pulitzer Publishing
Company, the author of Chess Harmonies and composer of songs for light opera
who married Caroline Englehart and divorcing Lillian Hearne.
1878: In Singapore,
the new Maghain Aboth Synagogue on Waterloo Street which had been financed in
part by Menasseh Meyer, “supposedly the richest Jew in Asia,” was consecrated
today.
1879: Birthdate of
Ignacz Trebitsh the son of a Paks, Hungary merchant, who left his native land
in 1896, converted to Christianity and led a life as Lincoln Trebitsch whose
remarkable life included serving three years in a British jail for being a
German spy and as an MP from Darlington.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-Lives-Trebitsch-Lincoln/dp/0300040768
1879: A correspondent
for the Neue Zilricher Zeitgung described a
massacre of Jews in Satschcheri in the Caucuses. At the beginning of April the
body of a child was found in the woods. Seven Jews were accused by the
Christian villagers of having killed the child and then having hid the body as
part of their Easter Sacrifice. The
accused were taken before a local Judge who dismissed the charges after “a
medical witness” testified that the child had died of natural causes and that
the wounds on the body “were the work of wild animals. The Jews celebrated their deliverance with a
party which was interrupted by a an axe wielding Christian mob. The mob, which had been incited by an Orthodox
Priest broke into the house killing six of the Jews and injuring many more.
1879: A
correspondent for the Neue Zilricher Zeitgung described a massacre of Jews that
had taken place in Satschcheri, a town in the Caucasus region. The massacre was the result of a blood libel
based on claims by Christian villagers that seven Jews had killed a child whose
body was found in the woods.
1880: In
Marienpol, Poland, Nathan and Sarah Lamport gave birth to Samuel Charles
Lamport, a graduate of high school in Burlington, VT, City College and Brown
University, who is the owner of Lamport Manufacturing and Supply Company and a
leader of the Jewish community as can be seen by his service as a trustee of
the Jewish Publication Society and a director of the JTS and the Home of the
Daughters of Jacob.
1882(15th of
Nisan, 5642): First Day of Pesach
1882: As the
Jews of Tisza-Eszlar, Hungary, observe Pesach rumors are circulating that
Esther Solymosi, a 14-year-old Christian peasant girl who disappeared on the
first of the month has been killed by the Jews so her blood could be used in
baking matzah.
1883(26th
of Adar II): Menahem
Cattawi Bey, known as the "Egyptian Rothschild” passed away today.
1883: In Chicago,
Josephine Zuckerman and George J. Teller gave birth to Armour Institute Sidney Teller, the chemical engineer turned
social worker who began his new career as the superintendent of the Deborah
Boys’ Club and who, in 1906 married Julia Pines with whom he created the Sidney
and Julia Lecture Fund at the University of Chicago.
1884:
In Pest, The Supreme Tribunal has confirmed the acquittal of all the Jews who
were charged with murdering Esther Salomossy. It was alleged that they had
killed her to obtain blood to mix with “Passover Bread.”
1884:
In New York City, Esther Eichler and Pinkus Klein gave birth to CCNY and NYU
educated CPA, Joseph J. Klein the Fordham University trained attorney and
husband of Janet R. Frisch who “in collaboration with Harriet B. Lowenstein
established the accounting system for the New York Federation of Charities” and
who was “a senior member of the C.P.A firm of Klein, Hinds and Finke.”
1885:
In Mantua, Lodovico Mortara and his wife gave birth to “economist, demographer
and statistician” Giorgio Mortara, the grandson of Rabbi Marco Mortara.
1886(28th
of Adar II, 5646): Moritz Warburg, who was born in 1810 who represented his
native Altona in the Reichstag passed away today. He was survived by his first son Albert who
was born in 1843 but was pre-deceased by his second son Jacob who was born in
1848 and was killed during the Franco-Prussian War.
1886:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native and NYU grad Joseph Pulvermacher the banker who
decided not to follow in the footsteps of his doctor father and the husband of
the former Lucille Meyer with whom he had two children Mureil and Louis and who
was a director of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and President of
Congregation Rodeph Sholom.
1887(10th
of Nisan, 5647): Isaiah Morgenstern passed away.
1888:
In Mattapan, Massachusetts, founding today of the Leopold Morse Home For Infirm
Hebrews whose supporters included Godfrey Morse, Ferdinand Strauss, Joseph
Herman and Jacob Spitz.
1889:
Birthdate of New York native and Cornell University graduate Samuel B. Dicker,
the Republican political leader and 58th Mayor of Rochester who was
in office from 1939 to 1955.
1889:
Clarence Charles Minzesheimer, “who had entered the banking and brokerage
business of his father Charles Minzesheimer became a member of the New York
Stock Exchange today.
1889:
Banker and President of Sinai Congregation Moses E. Greenbaum, the Chicago born
son of Rosine Straus and Elias Greenbaum, and his wife Julia Greenbaum gave
birth to their first son, Moses Ernest Greenbaum, Jr.
1890(14th
of Nisan, 5650): Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach and Erev Shabbat
1890:
“The Jewish Feast of Pesach” published today continues a tradition of the New
York Times of writing about the holiday stretching back to the earliest days of
the paper’s founding before the Civil War.
1890:
“Meat Given To The Poor” published today described the distribution Passover
provisions the needy. While most of
those in line were Polish Jews, “there was also a number of poor
Gentiles.” They were given coupons to
take to local butchers since those distributing the food felt that there should
be no distinction to helping the poor regardless of religion.
1890(14th
of Nisan, 5650): As Jews begin the celebration of Passover this evening, the
less fortunate Jews living in New York will enjoy a happier holiday thanks to
the efforts of the Passover Relief Association which distributed 9,830 pounds
of Matzah, 1,000 pounds of sugar, 480 pounds of coffee and 50 pounds of tea at
Goodfellow Hall prior to the start of the holiday.
1890(14th
of Nisan, 5650): Felix Albert Bettelheim passed away in
Baltimore, Maryland. Born in Hungary in 1861 he was the son of the rabbi Aaron
Siegfried Bettelheim. He immigrated to the United States in the sixties. In his
seventeenth year he was graduated from the University of California with high
honors, and three years later from the Medical College in San Francisco. From
1880 to 1881 he was resident physician of the San Quentin state prison; from
1881 to 1883, ship's surgeon of the Pacific Mail steamship "Colima";
1883-89, surgeon-general of the Panama Railroad and CanalCompany. Through his
efforts the first hospital in Panama was built; and he became one of its staff
of physicians. He held several high offices and received a number of medals and
testimonials from the government in recognition of his services. Bettelheim was
the discoverer of a new germ peculiar to tropical countries, an account of
which is given in medical records. In 1889 he studied clinical methods in the
great European cities. On his return to America he died from a tropical liver
complaint which was held by American authorities to be unique and was described
by Professor Osler, of Johns Hopkins University, in a London medical journal.
He was a frequent contributor to the "Lancet" and other periodicals,
and left a posthumous work, "On the Contagious Diseases of Tropical
Countries," still unpublished. A text-book by Dr. Thorington of
Philadelphia, on the diseases of the eye, is dedicated to Bettelheim's memory.
1890
(14th of Nisan, 5650): The Jewish Messenger reports that “despite the
undeniable tendency to change in every direction, the festival of Passover,
which begins this evening survives with all its old time strength and
picturesqueness. Our Passover “is over
three thousand years old and likely to survive three thousand more.”
1890:
In the Ukraine, “Sura and Chaim Aaron Rabinowitz” gave birth to Isidore
Rabinowitz and the husband of Miriam Rabinowitz.
1890:
Erev Pesach, the American Hebrew
publishes a special Passover edition including an article entitled “Prejudice
Against the Jews; its Causes and Remedies.”
1892:
It was reported today that newly elected officers of the Purim Association are
M.H. Moses, President; Simon Schafer, Vice President; and Sol E. Solomon,
Treasurer. The $16,000 that the
association raised at its last charity ball has been donated to the United
Hebrew Charities.
1892:
It was reported today that “fever and diphtheria” are ravaging Jewish
communities on “both sides of the Russian-German border.”
1892:
Two todays after she had passed away, Russian born Betsy Cohen, the wife of
Myer Cohen and the mother of Hymen, Evelyne and Reuben Cohen was buried today
at the “Stockton Jewish Cemetery.”
1893(18th
of Nisan, 5653): Third Day of Pesach observed for the first time during the
Presidency of Grover Cleveland, the only American President to regain the White
House after losing his first bid for re-election.
1894(27th
of Adar II, 5654): Sixty-eight-year-old Rabbi Abraham Pereira Mendes passed
away in New York. A native of Kingston,
he was educated in England where he served congregations in Birmingham and
London and served as the Dayan for the Sephardic community. He came to the United States in 1883 to serve
as Rabbi at the historic Touro Synagogue in Newport, RI. He and his wife Eliza who was the daughter of
Rabbi D.A. de Sola had two sons Frederick de Sola Mendes and Henry Pereira
Mendes each of whom became rabbis.
1894:
Birthdate of Riga native and University of Petrograd lawyer Anatole Chujoy who
in 1924 came to the United States where he founded Dance Magazine in 1936 and
Dance News in 1942 where he was editor and publisher until he passed away in
1969.
https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095611725
1894:
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that in Camden, NJ, “the Hebrew Independent
Political Club has endorsed Isaac H. Weaver for Council and Harry Wolfe for
Freeholder in the Fifth Ward.”
1895:
In Galicia, Sarah and Abraham Teichman gave birth to Moses Teichman who came to
the United States with his mother in 1897 aboard the S.S. Friesland and who
gained fames as Arthur Murray the man who danced his way into a financial
empire of the Arthur Murray Dance Studios. He began teaching dance while
attending Georgia Tech as a way to pay for his college expenses.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/04/obituaries/arthur-murray-dance-teacher-dies-at-95.html
1895:
The will of Bernhard Bernhard who had passed away last week we filed for
probate today.
1896: Birthdate of poet Tristan Tzara [Samuel or
Sami Rosenfeld]. Born in Romania, he began publishing in 1912. In
1916 he moved to Switzerland where he a founder of Dadaism.
Tzara named this nihilistic movement by opening the dictionary and
choosing the first meaningless word. Tzara moved to Paris and was a
member of the Communist wing of the Resistance. He died in 1963.
1896:
Birthdate of Wolfgang Fürstner, the Wehrmacht officer who was in charge of the
Olympic Village in 1936 and who committed suicide after he was reclassified as
non-Aryan when it was discovered that his grandfather was a Jew who had
converted to Christianity.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9903E3D81E3FEE3BBC4951DFBE66838D629EDE
1897:
One day after he had passed away, Dutch born Jacob De Meza, the husband of
Adelaide De Meza with whom she had had seven children was buried today at the
“Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1897:
“Dr. Grossman on the Talmud” published today included the view Dr. Rudolph
Grossman of Temple Beth-El “that while there were many who knew what the Talmud
was they failed to thoroughly comprehend the many and interesting truths
contained in the book.”
1897:
“A new Sefer Torah will be dedicated this afternoon Congregation Adath Israel
of West Harlem.”
1897:
“Kosher Cooking School” published today described the opening of “school for
instruction in the art of kosher cooking;” kosher meaning prepared “in
accordance with the Jewish dietary laws.”
1897:
It was reported today that Ancient History of the Peoples of the East by
the French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero has been translated into Hebrew by a
publisher in Warsaw.
1897:
“In The Public Eye” published today described the phenomena of Hebrew “spring
up again as living literary language in Eastern Europe” as can be seen by,
among other things, the publication of monthly Hebrew language review now being
published in Berlin.
1897:
It was reported today that Israel Zangwill, author of Children of the Ghetto
will be speaking in Jerusalem later this month.
1897:
Birthdate of Sir Francis Edward Evans, the Belfast native who served as the
United Kingdom’s Ambassador to Israel from 1951 to 1954.
1898:
Three days after he had passed away, 63 year old Samuel Cowen was buried today
at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.
1899:
Rabbi B. A. Elzas officiated at the wedding of Israel D. Hart of Beaufort, SC
and Rosalie Cecile Levy at the Charleston home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles F. Levy
1899:
In Berlin, sociologist and economist Franz Oppenheimer and his wife gave birth
to Hillel Oppenheimer, the Israeli botany professor who helped to found the
“Faculties of Natural Science and Agriculture” at Hebrew University and passed
away in 1971.
1899:
In Albany, NY, the state Assembly passed a bill “exempting the real estate of
the Young Men’s Hebrew Association of New York City from taxation.”
1899:
In New York City, the trustees of the United Hebrew Charities offered Dr. Lee
K. Frankel of Philadelphia the position of manager of the organization.
1899:
Birthdate of Carmel Myers, the San Francisco native whose Australian rabbi
father used his connections with D.W. Griffith, to help her launch a movie
career that began with “Intolerance” in 1916.
1900:
Birthdate of St. Louis native Ernest E. Ellman.
1900:
French banker and horse breeder Michel Ephrussi, the Odessa born son of
Henriette Halperson and Charles Joachim Ephrussi, a trader in wheat “who
founded a bank, Ephrussi & Co” the half-brother of banker Ignace von
Ephrussi, the older brother of banker Maurice Ephrussi and the husband of
“Belgian-born Amélie Wilhelmine Liliane Beer, a niece of composer Jacob
Liebmann Beer,” who “was a close business associate of the Rothschild in Paris”
was injured today when he fought a duel with a French anti-Semite.
1901(15th
of Nisan, 5661): At Temple Israel in New York City, more than $100 was raised
after Rabbi Harris delivered a Passover sermon in which he called for funds to
be raised to alleviate those suffering through the horrific famine in
Bessarabia.
1901(15th
of Nisan, 5661): Pesach
1901:
Today, “The Morning Leader published the following dispatch from Vienna: ‘At
Smyrna, on the strength of rumors that the Jews had murdered a Greek lad for
ritual purposes 10,000 infuriated Greeks stormed the Ghetto” after which “the
Turkish troops charged the mob with bayonets, one person being killed and
fourteen others wounded.”
1901(15th
of Nisan, 5661): R. J. de Cordova passed away in London today at the age of
79. De Cordova, whose parents were
English, was born in the West Indies. He came to the United States in 1849
where he enjoyed a successful business career until the Panic of 1857. At that time he began a career as a humorist,
author and journalist who wrote for the New York Express and the New York
Times. Mr. de Cordova was a regular
speaker at Temple Emanu-El where he had a contract at one time to give a
lecture on every third Saturday of the month.
He moved to London in 1885.
1902:
Twenty-three year, Sam Zuckerman, the Ostrow born son of Sam and Jennie
Zuckerman who in 1896 came to the United States where he went from owning one
cigar store to owning “Zuckerman’s, one of the finest ladies’ ready-to-wear
garments stores in Jamestown, NY” married Ettie Schneider with whom he had one
son and one daughter.
1903(7th
of Nisan, 5663): Parashat Vayikra
1903:
Final performance the all-black musical “In Dahomey” at the New York Theatre
where George Washington Lederer, the Wilkes-Barre, PA born Jew was the manager.
1903:
“Genetic Philosophy of Judaism” published today speaks approvingly of the works
of S.M. Dubnow who “tries to answer the question, “What is Jewish History?”
1904(19th
of Nisan, 5664): Fifth Day of Pesach
1904:
Baroness Rosalie de Almeda, the wife of Harry Emanuel and the mother of
Ferdinand and Eugenie Emanuel was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish
Cemetery.”
1905:
In a speech delivered at a Zionist banquet in London, “Israel Zangwill declared
that in the whole history of the world the Jews never had a better friend than
President Theodore Roosevelt.” In the
same speech, Zangwill rejected Britain’s offer of territory in East Africa
(often referred to as the Uganda Plan) saying that the land might be useful
“for rearing goats” but that it “was doubtful if a settlement 500 miles from
the sea offered sufficient bais for a prosperous Jewish colony.”
1906:
It was reported today that the police authorities in Berlin are “conferring
with the local Jewish Auxiliary Society” as to how to deal with the 7,000
impoverished Russian refugees most of whom are alleged to be their
co-religionists.
1907:
“The Jewish Situation in Rumania” published today took issue with calling Jews
“rackrenterrs” and comparing them to Irish landlords” and said that Romanian
laws prohibiting Jews to hold title to land has forced them into the role they
are playing as “middlemen.”
1908(3rd
of Nisan, 5668): Parashat Tazria
1908:
In Great Britain, the conflict between those who believe in a literal
interpretation of the Bible and those who believe in a more liberal
interpretation heated up today when Sir Samuel Montagu, head of the banking
firm of Samuel Montague & Co threatened to withdraw his financial support
from the Jewish Religious Education Board unless it severed any further
relationship with two of its more “liberal members” – Calude Joseph
Goldsmid-Montefiore and Israel Abrahams. Montefiore and Abrahams are noted scholars. The former is the author of The Origin and
Development of the Religon of the Ancient Hebrews, and the latter is a
reader at Cambridge who is also editor of The
Jewish Quarterly Review. Montague, who is officially known as Lord
Swaythling, is an active leader and famed philanthropist in the Jewish
community. He is referred to as King of
the East End because of his generous support of the less fortunate and is
second only Lord Rothschild as its benefactor.
The Jewish Religious Education Board is a major communal organization
that “looks after the material welfare and religious education of more than
10,000 Jewish children in the great East End of London. According to some accounts, the whole matter
reached a boiling point over whether or not one really believes that Balaam’s
ass actually spoke to its master as described in the book of Numbers. Montefiore accepts the text literally. The two biblical scholars apparently think
there is room for interpretation.
1909:
Hashomer, the first Jewish self-defense organization was founded to protect
Jewish settlements in what was Palestine, a part of the Ottoman Empire.
Until then, local Arab militias had been paid to protect farmers and others
from marauding bands. The early Zionists had already begun providing
their own farm labor. Now they decided to provide their own protection as
well. Needless to say, this did not sit well with the local
population. This is one more example of how the Zionists were resented
not for being Jewish, but for failing to conform to the behavior acceptable to
the local power structure. From the Jewish perspective, Hashomer
represented yet another break with the European experience. Jews
would no longer be at the mercy of others. They would provide their own
protection. Having just experienced of wave of Pogroms in Russia,
this had an extra special meaning for the early members of Hashomer,
many of whose members were recent arrivals from Russia who had organized
self-defense organizations in Russia during the pogroms five years earlier. Its
founders included Itzhak ben Zvi, Israel Giladi, Israel Shohat and Alexander
Zeid. It was eventually absorbed into the Hagannah the Jewish defense force
formed in the 1920's that became the foundation for the modern IDF.
1909(13th
of Nisan, 5669): Seventy-four-year-old Budapest native Adolf von Sonnenthal the
tailor turned actor who was known for his portrayal of Nathan in “Lessing’s
Nathan der Weise” passed away today.
1910: Three
days after he had passed away, 46-year-old Claude Laurie Marks, “D.S.O., Major
4th Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry” the London born son of
Cecilia and David Woolf Marks and the husband of Canadian born Caroline
Hoffnung with whom he had had two children – Cecil and Astor – was buried today
Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1910:
Birthdate of Columbia Law School trained attorney and WWII veteran Arthur Krim,
the husband Mathilde Krim who combined a legal career with motion picture
production and Democratic Party politics.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol20/vol20_iss4/record2004.15.html
1911: In
Brooklyn, twenty-four-year-old Hot Springs, AR native Grover Moscowtiz, the
future federal judge married Miriam H. Moscowitz today.
1911: Marriage
of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Schwartz, members of the Euclid Avenue Temple in
Cleveland, Ohio.
1912: University
of Pennsylvania graduate and water polo player Bernard Feustmann Gimbel, the Vincennes,
IN, born son of Rachel Feustmann and Isaac Gimbel and grandson of Adam Gimbel,
the founder of the department store chain that bears his name married Alva Bermheimer
after which he became vice president of Gimbel Brothers and Saks and Company
1912: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today for Hannah Jacobs who passed away on
April 2.
1912: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today at 10 o’clock this morning for Rachel
Tannenbaum a member of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun and the wife of Lipman
Tannenbaum.
1913: Hannah
Roth, “widow of the late Samuel Roth” was laid to rest today at the Waldheim
Cemetery.
1913:
Sixty-nine year old Edward Dowden, the Irish author who claimed that “in the
original Persian” version of the Shylock story, “the Jew is not impelled to
cruelty because the money is not returned to him but for the reason that he in
love with his debtor’s wife” and whose daughter Hester “claimed to communicate
via various spirit guides including ‘Johannes,’ an ancient Jewish Neo-Platonist
who lived 200 years before Jesus, passed away today.
1913: Birthdate of Jerome Weidman “revered New York novelist and playwright who first
made a splash with his novel I Can
Get It for You Wholesale and later won a Pulitzer Prize with George
Abbott for their Broadway collaboration Fiorello!”
1913(26th of Adar II, 5673): Sixty-five-year-old
Frankfort banker “B. Oppenheimer” passed away today.
1914(8th
of Nisan, 5674): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol
1914:
It was reported today that Henry Berlin, Chairman of the Arrangements Committee
for the Passover celebrations to be held in” New York City “under the auspices
of the Jewish Soldiers and Sailors Passover Committee” has met with Commander
Moses of the United States Battleship Texas and Commander Jackson of the United
States battleship North Dakota who promised to lend their aid to make the
Passover celebration a success.
1915:
Four days after she had passed away, 67 year old Agnes Barnett, the London born
daughter of Israel and Elizabeth Mendoza and the wife of Bearmon Barnett with
whom she had had six children was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery”
in London.
1915(20th
of Nisan, 5675): Sixth Day of Pesach
1915:
“Twenty thousand Jewish children held simultaneous Passover celebrations” this
“morning in nine theatres in New York under the auspices of Young Judea.”
1916:
Blanche Wolfe and Alfred A. Knopf, whom she had first met in 1911 were married
to at the St. Regis Hotel after which they gave birth to the son Alfred A.
Knopf, Jr. in 1918
1916:
A bazar and fair designed to raise funds for “the Jewish war sufferers” which
had begun in March came to an end at the Grand Central Palace in New York.
1917:
The Russian revolutionary government headed by Kerensky granted equality to all
Russian Jews for the first time in Russian history. Since about 18 percent
of the world's Jews were living in areas controlled by the Russian
government, this decree would appear to have had a major impact on the fate of
the world's Jews. Unfortunately, such was not the case. Within
the year, the democratic Kerensky government was replaced
by Lenin and the Bolsheviks. That regime spelled the end of
real freedom for everybody although Stalin would later have some
special twists of evil for the Jewish population.
1917:
Dr. Avram Coralnik, who has been in the United States since last October
representing “an influential publication at Petrograd said today it “is well
known all over the world, the Jews were the most persecuted people in Russia.”
1918(22nd
of Nisan, 5678): 8th Day of Pesach
1918(22
Nisan, 5678): Seventy-five-year-old German Jewish-philosopher Hermann Cohen,
whose works included Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism passed
away in Berlin.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/HermannCohen.html
1919:
Rabbi David Lefkowitz of Dayton, OH, delivered an address on “Religious
Education and the Future of American Judaism at the convention of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis at the Hebrew Union College today” in which he
“pointed out” the “need for more religious education in synagogues and Jewish
Sabbath schools” in the United States.
1920(16th
of Nisan, 5680): Second Day of Pesach
1920:
Arab orators in Palestine roused crowds into a fiery mob which attacked and
killed Jews in three days of violent rioting that began today. At least five
Jews were killed and hundreds more were injured during the Arab riots in
Jerusalem. The riots were fomented to protest Jewish immigration.
In a portent of the future, the British arrested the Jewish leaders, including
Vladimir Jabotinsky and others for organizing a self-defense league. The origins of the Arab rioting stemmed from
intra-Arab conflicts – those who favored and opposed Feisal’s rule in
Palestine. Chaim Weizmann, who witnessed
the riots, wrote to British Prime Minister Lloyd George that British
authorities had done little to protect the Jews, a view that was supported by a
later commission of investigation.
1921:
A Jewish battalion and an Arab battalion are founded by the British.
1922: Birthdate of composer Elmer Bernstein. He wrote
the theme songs or other music for more than 200 films and TV shows, including The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Ten Commandments, The Man
with the Golden Arm, To Kill a
Mockingbird, and the fanfare used in the National Geographic television
specials. He received 14 Academy Award nominations, but his only win was for Thoroughly Modern Millie. Along with
many in Hollywood, Bernstein faced censure during the McCarthy era of the
1950s. He was "gray-listed"—not banned but kept off major
projects—due to sympathy with left-wing causes and had to work on a series of
low budget films.
1922: The Jewish industrial chemist and Liberal politician, Sir Alfred Mond, who was then Minister of Health, wrote to Sir Herbert
Samuel warning him that the Arab delegation currently visiting London to
express its opposition to the principles of the Balfour Declaration had become
‘a focus and a tool of the general anti-Semitic movement.’
1923(18th of Nisan, 5683): Forty-nine-year-old
Yuily Osipovch Martov, the Russian Revolutionary who led the Mensheviks – one
of the many parties to be outlawed by Lenin and his Bolsheviks – passed away as
an exile living in Germany.
1923: In Manhattan, Samuel T. Baron,
president of the Royal Paper Corporation, and Mabel (Levy) Baron gave birth to
WW II Army combat veteran Richard Baron, “the contrarian publisher of the Dial
Press” where “his editor in chief was E.L. Doctorow” and who encouraged James
Baldwin to finish his ground-breaking novel Another Country which he
then published.
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/new-york-ny/richard-baron-10186365
1923: Today “1923, following the
success of the studio's film “The Gold Diggers,” Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc.
was officially established, with. Harry Warner as president, Albert Warner as
treasurer and Jack Warner and Sam Warner as co-heads of production.
1924: The British and French end their dispute
over the northern border of Palestine. Metula and its environs are included in
the territory of the British Mandate.
1924: The first issue of the periodical "Kiryat Sefer" appears. It is
published by the National Library in Jerusalem.
1924:
In Hajdunanas, Hungary, Abraham Ornstein, an accountant, and the former Frieda
Sziment gave birth to Holocaust survivor and psychoanalyst Paul Hermann
Ornstein. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1925:
“Them Days Are Gone Forever,” a comic strip created by Alvah Posen was
published for the last time.
1925:
Henry Malter, the Galicia born son of Solomon and Rosa Malter and the husband
of Bertha Freund and the holder of Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg who
was the professor of medieval philosophy
and Arabic at the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, rabbi of the Sheerith
Israel Congregation of Cincinnati and Professor of Rabbinical Literature at
Dropsie College passed away today.
1926:
Louis Lipsky, the Chairman of the Zionist Organization of America announced
today “the beginning of a nation-wide movement for the promotion of Jewish
education” that will be designed in cooperation with the “more than 2,000
Jewish schools in the United States.
1926:
In Berlin, real estate investor Oskar Rohr and Perla Gelbard Rohr gave birth to
Sami Rohr who would survive the Holocaust to become a real estate mogul and
philanthropist.
1927:
William H. Gallagher, the attorney representing Aaron Shapiro in his suit
against Henry Ford “served notice that he will call Mr. as the next witness” to
which Ford’s attorney responded that the anti-Semitic automaker would not be
available because of medical reasons.
1927:
Samuel Untermyer is scheduled to return to Cairo from Jerusalem this morning.
1927:
Birthdate of Sam Adams, the native of Chicago who became a leading literary and
Hollywood agent.
1928(14th
of Nisan, 5688): Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach
1928:
In London’s East End, Annie Berlin and Abraham Noserovitch gave birth to Monty
Noserovitch, who gained fame as composer Monty Norman, the creator of “The
James Bond Theme.”
1928:
“Eve’s Daughters” a drama starring Wolfgang Zilzer and filmed by
cinematographer Otto Keller was released today in Germany and Czechoslovakia
1929:
According to a dispatch issued today by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, “three
Old Prussian lodges declared that they were ‘100 per cent free of Jews.’”
1930:
Birthdate of “American classicist and philosopher and long-time member of the faculties of New York
University and The New School” Seth Benardete, the New York born son of Mair
Jose Benardette, an expert on Sephardic and culture and the husband of Jane
Benardete, an English profess at Hunter with whom he had two children, Ethan
and Alexandra.
1931(17th
of Nisan, 5691): Shabbat Shel Pesach
1931:
U.S. premiere of the action film “Dirigible” produced by Harry Cohn with a
script co-authored by Jo Swerling.
1931:
In New York, “120 delegates and about a thousand visitors were present at the
opening session today of the Conference of Yiddish Writers convoked by the I.L.
Peretz Yiddish Writers Club.”
1931:
U.S. premiere of “Front Page” for which director Lewis Milestone received an
Oscar nomination.
1931:
In New York City, premiere of “Cracked Nuts” with music by Max Steiner.
1932:
In Brooklyn Herman and Florence Davies gave birth to Clive Davis.
1932:
“Zion, Ten Years Later” published today described the fundraising efforts of
the Jewish Agency to raise $2,500,000 “of which hone million is to be raised in
New York City” to go toward rebuilding the Jewish National Home in Palestine.
1933:
In Germany, a Civil Service Law prohibiting Jews from holding public service
jobs was adopted.
1933:
Maximilian “Max” Cohen, who had fallen out of favor with the Communist Party in
the United States chaired the Rose Pastor Stokes Testimonial Committee “which
held a dinner” today on her behalf “in an effort to raise funds to pay” for the
cancer treatment of this Russian born American Jewess.
1933: A front-page article in the German-Jewish
newspaper Jüdische Rundschau exhorted Jews to wear the identifying
Yellow Star with the headline, Tragt ihn mit Stolz, den Gelben Fleck!
(Wear it with Pride, the Yellow Badge!). The article was one of a series
written a German Jew, Robert Weltsch, all of which were based on the same
theme:"Say 'yes' to our Jewishness." The original article was written
in response to the to the April 1, 1933
Nazi-led boycott of Jewish shops, which was the first meaningful anti-Jewish
action of the newly-empowered Nazis.
1933(8th of Nisan, 5693):
Forty-five year old Romanian born “vegetable huckster” Isaac Alpert, the
husband of Fanny Alpert and the father of Joseph, Jacob and Harry Alpert passed
late this evening in Syracuse, NY.
1934(19th of Nisan, 5694)
Fifth day of Pesach
1934(19th of Nisan 5694):
Sophie Newman Casper, the daughter of Kallman and Ernestine Newman, the husband
of Kaskil Casper and the mother of Melville and Ervin Casper passed away today
after which he was buried at the Hills of Eternity Memorial Park, in Colma, CA.
1935: Sixty-eight-year-old
Bettino Levi, “an intimate friend of Theodor Herzl” who has working to provide
relief for Jewish refugees from Germany passed away today. (As reported by JTA)
1935:
American competitors at the 2nd Maccabiah in Tel Aviv came in first
in their respective events. Sybil Koff
continued her winning ways in the 400-yard hurdles while “Abe Rosenkrantz
captured the 1,500-meter run.” Julius
Finkelstein took the top spot in the shot put and James Sandler tied the
Maccabiah record as he claimed first place in the high jump. Lilian Copeland, who had done so well at the
1932 Olympics, won “both the javelin and discuss throws in the women’s
division.”
1936(12th
of Nisan, 5695): Shabbat HaGadol
1936(12th
of Nisan, 5695): Forty-three-year-old Budapest born American “violinist,
conductor and composer, Sandor Harmati best known for his song "Bluebird
of Happiness" written in 1934 for Jan Peerce” passed away in Flemington,
NJ today.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/527c5c18-ce55-4a5f-aa80-cefe9b2e8934
1936:
“The United Palestine Appeal issued a statistical analysis showing that 36,372
Jews from Germany entered Palestine from January 1933 to December, 1935.”
1936:
“The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee announced” today “that
$10,000 had been sent to Jews in Poland and Germany for Passover relief and the
purchase of kosher meat.”
1936:
“At a dinner given his honor by a committee head by Stephen S. Wise and
attended by 900 persons” “Eddie Cantor announced tonight at the Hotel Astor
that he intended to go ‘from one end of the country to the other’ in an effort
to raise funds to take as many German Jewish children out of Germany as
possible.”
1936:
One of the letters meant to reply to a political whispering campaign aimed at
Secretary of Labor Perkins released tonight said that “there were no Jews in
her ancestry” and that “If I were a Jew I would not secret of it” and “would be
proud to acknowledge it.”
1936:
It was reported today that “even under present restrictions the flight of
Jewish capital is so serious a factor that any Jewish capitalist wishing to
emigrate from Germany now is being visited by the Gestapo.” (Talk about gross
rationalization for anti-Semitism)
1937(23rd
of Nisan, 5697): Seventy-nine-year-old Henry Goldman the only member of
Goldman-Sachs to support Germany during World War I and who moved to Germany in
the early 1930’s only to barely escape back to the U.S. in 1936, passed away
today.
1937:
Twelve organizations participated in a meeting organized by the American Ort
Federation to honor the memory New York civic leader Henry Moskowitz during
which Mayor La Guardia testified to “his public service and intellectual
honesty” and Governor Lehman said that “his sympathies knew no limits of race,
color, creed or nationality.”
1937: The Palestine Post commented on the text of the 300-page
memorandum submitted by the Jewish Agency to the Royal (Peel) Commission on
Palestine. The agency pointed out that the duty of the Mandatory government was
to establish the Jewish National Home in Palestine, to encourage Jews to
immigrate, to help them to settle down and to develop self-governing
institutions. The Crown Colonist, published in London, advocated Jewish
settlement in Transjordan, as a means of getting that country out of its economic
plight.
1938: Today “during a heated House of Commons debate
in which he had been criticizing the government's foreign policy, Manny
Shinwell slapped the face of the Conservative MP Commander Robert Tatton Bower
after Bower told him to "go back to Poland" because “Shinwell said he
had taken this to be an anti-Semitic remark.”
1938: Arthur Sweetser, a director of the
secretariat of the League of Nations met with President Roosevelt to discuss
the fate of the Jews of Europe and proposal for a “rescue plan. According to Mr. Sweetser, during the
meeting, Roosevelt took credit for this latest proposal to deal with the
problem. “Then Roosevelt turned more expansive and said ‘Suddenly it struck me:
why not get all the democracies to unite to share the burden? After all, they
own most of the free land of the world, and there only…what would you say, 14,
16, million Jews in the whole world of whom about half are already in the
United States. If we could divide up the
remainder in groups of 8 or 10, there wouldn’t be any Jewish problem in three
or four generations.’”
1939(15th of Nisan, 5699): Pesach
1939: Four-year-old Faisal II becomes King of
Iraq. Faisal is the King of Iraq during the Israel War for Independence. Iraq was the largest Arab state without a
border with Israel that sent a major contingent “to drive the Jews into the
sea.” More importantly, Faisal was the
last king of Iraq. He was overthrown and
murdered in a brutal revolt in 1958 when the Ba’ath Party (the party that would
give us Saddam Hussein) came to power.
1939: The Institut
zur Erforschung des jüdischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben
(Institute for the Study of Jewish Influence on German Church Life) was
founded.
1940: FDR met in the White House today Michigan
Senator Prentis M. Brown, the future senior partner of Brown, Lund and Levin.
1940: “I Love a Mystery” sponsored by
Fleischmann’s Yeast and featuring Tony Randall (Aryeh Leonard Rosenberg)
expanded to a 30-minute broadcast format today on NBC.
1941: In Vichy, today’s Journal Officiel listed the names “of more than eighty government
employees who were removed from office under the Jewish statute of unoccupied
Zones” while today’s new list of Jewish-owned shops in the occupied zone of
France for which “Aryan manager have been appointed included “the sporting
goods store formerly operated by Jeff Dickson, the American sports promoter who
also operated the Palais des Sports in Paris” and “two music stores of Encoch
and Company on the Boulevard des Italiens and the Senart Societe in the Rue
Dragon.
1942: Birthdate of New York native Elizabeth
Levy, the author of over “eighty children’s books.”
http://elizabethlevy.com/booksall/
1943: In the Bronx, Jack Espstein, a Toronto
born salesman and his wife Evelyn gave birth to Michael Peter Epstein, the
product of Fairfax High in Los Angeles and U.C., Berkeley who gained game as
Major Leaguer first baseman Mike “SuperJew” Epstein.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/epstemi01.shtml
1944: An Allied spy plane flying over Poland
happened to photograph Auschwitz while documenting construction of a
synthetic-fuels plant providing photographic proof of the existence of the
death camp.
1944: German Holocaust victim Anne Frank, 14,
wrote in her diary: 'I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore,
I am grateful to God for giving me this gift...of expressing all that is in
me.'
1944(11th of Nisan, 5704): “Miss
Irene Lewisohn, founder and co-director of the Neighborhood Playhouse School”
passed away tonight.
1944(11th of Nisan, 5704): After
having been shipped from Prague, 60 year old
Gustav Althoff was murdered today at Terezin.
1945: After being imprisoned at Dachau, Emil
Carlbach, an inmate at Buchenwald issued a “call to mutiny” today.
1945: The 4th Armored
Division and the 89th Infantry Division liberated Ohrdruf concentration
camp. It was the first Nazi
concentration camp liberated by the U.S. Army. General George S. Patton, Old
Blood and Guts, described it as "one of the most appalling sights that I
have ever seen."
1945:
Birthdate of Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit who gained famed as student protester in France known as "Danny the Red". Like many
other radicals, this son of refugees from Hitler’s Germany later sought
political respectability. In his case, he
became a lead of the European Greens and a member of the European Parliament.
1946: As international postal service is begun
after a six-year hiatus, large numbers of letters and postcards are sent to
numerous locations including Tel Aviv.
1946: Eitan Livini was arrested today on
charges that he had participated in the “Night of the Trains,” an Irgun led
sabotage operation aimed bringing the British transportation infrastructure to
a halt.
1947: After premiering in Miami, “The Sin of
Harold Diddlebock,” a comedy featuring Lionel Stander and Julius Tannen was
released in the United States today.
1948: Birthdate of Michael Kleiner, the native
of Munich who made Aliyah in 1951 and whose career in politics led him to be
elected President of the Supreme Court of Likud, “the party's highest judicial
body in all matters pertaining to its constitution, and party members and
divisions are subject to its decisions.”
1948: Following an attack in the Northern
Negev,a Palmach Unit destroyed "nine Bedouin lay-bys and one mud
hut."
1948: The Arab Liberation Army opened an attack
on kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek with a barrage from 7 artillery pieces supplied by
the Syrian Army which elicited a successful counter-attack by the Haganah.
1948: “As National Commander of the Jewish War
Veterans, Julius Klein organized an enormous show of strength for the
establishment of the State of Israel in the form of a JWV parade down New
York's Fifth Avenue.”
1949: “Gabriel Haritos, as the Mayor of Rhodes,
was the local partner for the proceedings for the initial talks between Israel,
Egypt and Jordan, under the auspices of United Nations, at the Grande Albergo
delle Rose (Hotel of Roses) in Rhodes” which had begun in January and came to
an end today.
1949: French Labor Leader
Leon Jouhaux, who is visiting Israel as a guest of the General Federation of
Jewish Labor, was pelted with tomatoes and oranges by Communist hecklers
tonight when he made a public address in Tel Aviv Museum.
1949: Israeli President and Mrs. Chaim Weizmann
are scheduled to leave Tel Aviv today for a trip to the United States by way of
Paris.
1949: Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion addressed
the Knesset on the impact of the armistice signed yesterday with Trans-Jordan.
http://www.jcpa.org/art/knesset2.htm
1950: Birthdate of 1953 Kentucky Derby winner
Dark Star by Harry F. Guggenheimer.
1950: Birthdate of “American poet, essayist,
editor and literary scholar Charles Bernstein who is the husband of artist
Susan Bee and father of Felix and Emma Bee Bernstein.
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bee/
1951: U.S. premiere “I Can Get It for You
Wholesale” a film adaptation of Jerome Weidman’s 1937 novel directed by Michael
Gordon, produced by Sol C. Siegel, with a script by Abraham Polonsky and Vera
Caspary and music by Sol Kaplan.
1951:
In what was the first outbreak of anti-Semitism in postwar Austria, 26 Jews
were wounded in Salzburg. The first outbreaks of anti-Semitism in postwar
Europe actually began in Poland. This episode reinforces the notion that
the Nazis were so successful because they had willing help from the local
populations.
1951:
Seven soldering were killed today in what is known as the “el-Hamma incident.”
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported from The Hague that a critical stage
had been reached in the reparations talks held there, after the German
delegation, upon its return from Bonn, claimed that it had been denied any
authority by the West German Federal Government.
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that four Israeli passengers aboard a
Cyprus Airways ended up in the Beirut airport. They were flying from Nicosia
when heavy fog forced the emergency landing. The four Jewish passengers were
allowed to proceed to Lod unharmed.
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that on the eve of rather frugal
Pesach holidays, Dr. Dov Joseph, minister of commerce and industry, promised a
richer menu, better organization and more supplies for the forthcoming summer.
1953:
Birthdate of Simcha Jacobovici the Israeli born “Canadian film director,
producer, free-lance journalist, and writer.”
1953:
Birthdate of Laurie Hope Beecham the Philadelphia native whose short career on
Broadway included appearances in “Annie” and “Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat.”
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/10/arts/laurie-beechman-dies-at-44-played-grizabella-in-cats.html
1953:
Eleanor Roosevelt, the widow of FDR, met with Lazarus Joseph “to advocate for
the preservation of social welfare projects.”
1954:
Paddy Chayefsky’s teleplay “Mother” was broadcast by The Philco Televison
Playhouse.
1958(14th of Nisan, 5718): Ta’anit
Bechorot; Erev Pesach
1958: More than 600 residents at the two
locations of the Brooklyn Hebrew Home” are scheduled to “partake in traditional
Seders” while the 400 bedridden residents will be served the Passover meals in
their rooms.”
1958 Tonight, “at the seventy-fourth annual
Seder at the United HIAS Service on Lafayette Street, Carlos L. Israels,
president of the agency, told the celebrants that the ‘story of the Jewish
exodus is as much alive today as it was in Biblical times.’”
1958: New York Rabbi David Eichhorn, the
director of field operations for the Jewish Welfare Board’s Commission on
Jewish Chaplaincy is in Korea to celebrate Passover with United States service
men and women stationed there.
1960: Seventy-six-year-old German historian
Wilhelm Herzog the author of Die Affäre
Dreyfus (The Dreyfus Affair) which “was adapted as the British film
“Dreyfus” in 1931 and as the 1937 play “I Accuse!” passed away today.
1960(7th of Nisan, 5720): Seventy-four-year-old
Nathan Pincus, the “founder and president of Pincus Borthers-Maxwell, Inc,
manufacturers of men’s clothing” and the husband of Pauline Pincus with whom he
had four children, Irwin, David, Maxine and Sylvia, passed away today in
Philadelphia, Pa.
1960: “A Palm Tree in a Rose Guardian produced
by David Susskind was broadcast as “The Play of the Week.”
1960: Actress
Shelley Winters (Shirley Schrift) won her first Academy Award for her
performance as Mrs. Van Daan in the film version of “The Diary of Anne Frank.”
1961(18th of Nisan, 5721): Fourth Day of
Pesach
1961: “The
assistant defense counsel for Adolf Eichmann reported today that he had failed
to get any witnesses to testify on behalf of the former Nazi at his coming
trial in Israel.”
1962: “A
Thousand Clowns” featuring Gene Sakes as “Leo Harman” had a “preview” Broadway
performance today.
1963:
New York City’s “Commission on Human Rights heard testimony today that Jews,
diplomats and "theatrical people" were being barred as owners in some
of the higher-priced cooperative apartment buildings on Park and Fifth Avenues.”
1963: It was reported today that “Jews entering or returning to
South Africa will no longer be required to state their race as ‘Hebrew’ on the
official passenger declaration” and “Interior Minister Man Deklerk has promised
abolition of the ‘Hebrew’ race classification and said that Jews henceforth
will be able to list themselves as ‘European’ –that is white.”
1964(22nd
of Nisan, 5724): Eighth Day of Pesach; Shabbat
1964: “Anyone Can
Whistle,” a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents and music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim” opened on Broadway today at the Majestic Theatre.
1966(14th
of Nisan, 5726): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach
1966 (14th of Nisan, 5726): Rabbi Alan Greenspan, a
Chaplain in the United States Army, leads a Seder for 135 Americans in Saigon. This simple statement does not do justice to
the efforts of Rabbi Greenspan who overcame a wide range of obstacles to pull
off this fete.
1966 (14th of Nisan, 5726): General William Westmorland
issued a Passover greeting to Jewish soldiers in which he compared the Freedom
theme of the holiday with the American effort to provide freedom and security
for the people of Viet Nam.
1966: “Morgan – A
Suitable Case for Treatment,” directed by Karel Reisz and co-starring Bernard
Bresslaw was released today in the United Kingdom.
1965: “Seven shofars
sounded piercingly seven times this afternoon on East 67th Street as a symbolic
reminder of the collapsing wall at the Battle of Jericho and in denunciation of
the Soviet Government's suppression of Jewish religious and cultural rights.”
1966(14th
of Nisan, 5726): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach
1967(23rd of Adar II, 5727): Lyricist Al Lewis whose
most famous work was “Blueberry Hill” passed away. Written in 1940, it gained
everlasting fame when it was recorded by Fats Domino in 1956.
1967(23rd
of Adar II, 5727): Eighty-three-year-old Columbia University trained chemist
Herbert Abraham, the New York born son of Samuel and Rosalie Abraham who became chairman of the board of Ruberoid Company and
author of authoritative Asphalt and Allied Substances who was the husband of
the former Dorothy Jacoby passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/04/05/90311878.pdf
1967:
Dr. Martin Luther King opened his “Beyond Vietnam” speech at Riverside Church
in New York City by welcoming Rabbi Abraham Heschel.
1968:
Larry Rosen, the owner of Smith’s Pharmacy at 14th and Clifton
Streets, N.W. in Washington spent his last day at his business which would be
burned down in the rioting that began tonight after the assassination of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1968:
The riots that erupted in several cities today led to the writing of Making
the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 in which
historian Arnold R. Hirsch analyzed the impact of “institutional forces during
World War II and the decades that followed, when millions of African Americans
migrated to cities outside of the South, high-rise towers sprouted up in
predominantly black neighborhoods and policymakers announced a cheery-sounding
doctrine known as “urban renewal” — what writer James Baldwin would later dub
“Negro removal.”
1969(16th
of Nisan, 5729): Second Day of Pesach; first day of the Omer
1969:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held in the Bronx for Nathan Goodman, the
husband of Eva Goodman with whom he had three children – Joseph, Sidney and
Golda.
1970: CBS
broadcast the last episode of the long-running sit com “Petticoat Junction,”
starring Bea Benaderet, “the daughter of Samuel David Benaderet, a Turkish
Sephardic emigrant who settled his family in San Francisco.
1971(9th
of Nisan, 5731): Seventy-year-old Shlomo Yisrael Ben-Meir the native of Warsaw
who arrived in Israel in 1950 after having worked as a lawyer in the United
States and then served as an MK from 1952 until his death, passed away today.
1971:
“Follies” “a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim,a book by James
Goldman” and scenic designs by Boris Aronson opened on Broadway at the Winter
Garden Theater.
1972(20th
of Nisan, 5732): Sixth Day of Pesach
1972(20th of Nisan,
5732): Sixty-nine-year-old German born, American composer Stefan Wolpe, passed
away.
1972: Le Monde
described Charles Bettelheim as "the most visible Marxists… in France as
well as in Spain, Italy, Latin America, and India.”
1973: Attacks by four
Arabs “on the Israeli Ambassador’s residence in Nicosia” and an Arkia plane at
the Nicosia airport was thwarted today.
1973: Birthdate of Magician David Blaine “the son
of Patrice White, who may or may not have been a gypsy, but was certainly a
Russian Jew living in Brooklyn” and is sometimes called a modern day Harry
Houdini.
1974(12th
of Nisan, 5734): Fast of the First Born observed on Thursday because erev
Pesach falls on Shabbat.
1974: “A
prominent Jewish leader, Rabbi Alexander Schindler, speaking for more than
200,000 Reform Jews, asked President Nixon today to obtain a public apology
from Attorney General William B. Saxbe or to force Mr. Saxbe to resign for
remarks the Attorney General made yesterday about Jewish intellectuals whom he
equated with Communists during the McCarthy era.
1975(23rd
of Nisan, 5735): Ninety-five-year-old Edith Rosenbuam Russell, the Cincinnati
born of the former Sophia Holstein and merchant Harry Rosenbaum, the American
fashion buyer, stylist and correspondent for Women's Wear Daily, best
remembered for surviving the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic with a music box
in the shape of a pig passed away today in London.
https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/edith-louise-rosenbaum-russell-1879-1975.html
https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/edith-russell.html
1976(4th of
Nisan, 5736): Sixty-seven-year-old Chicago native Louis James “Lou” Gordon who
played tackle for Illinois from 1927 through 1929 so well that “football
historian Dr. L.H. Baker to the All-Time Illini Team” and whose nine-year NFL
career including playing for the Green Bay Packers when they defeated the
Boston Redskins for the Championship, passed away today.
1977: CBS
broadcast the final episode of season five of “Maude” starring Bea Arthur in
the title role
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
ended talks with French and German leaders by saying that he saw encouraging
signs for the reconvening of the Geneva Peace Conference and the establishment
of a permanent peace in the Middle East.
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that El Al planes took off for overseas
flights without cabin crews who had absented themselves to protest against El
Al's refusal to compensate them for duty on holidays.
1978: Kahal Kadosh Beth
Elohim Synagogue was added to the National Register of Historic Places
1979:
Birthdate of actress Natasha Lyonne who appeared in Slums of Beverly Hills and
FreewayII
1979: Joseph
Stephen Stanford began serving as Canada’s Ambassador to Israel.
1980(18th
of Nisan, 5740): Fourth Day of Pesach
1980(18th
of Nisan, 5740): Seventy-one-year-old movie director Aleksander Ford who was
born Mosze Lifszyc in Kiev, passed away today.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Ford_Aleksander
1980: “Sitting
Ducks,” a comedy directed and written by Henry Jaglom was released today in the
United States.
1981(29th of
Adar II, 5741): Icko Wakmann, retired president of the Relide
Clock Company in Manhattan and founder of the Wakmann Watch Company and father
of Tel Aviv resident Margalit Zwiebel passed away at the age of 86.
1982: The
New York Times publishes a review of “Kibbutz Makom Report From an Israeli
Kibbutz” by Amia Lieblich.
1982: In
recognition of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's 80th birthday, the Senate and the House
of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled have issued House
Joint Resolution 447 to set aside today as a "National Day of
Reflection."
1983: A
Broadway revival of “You Can’t Take It With You” by Moss Hart opened today at
the Plymouth Theatre,
1983: Responding to Iraqi charges that Israel was
guilty of ''mass poisoning'' of Palestinian schoolgirls in the West Bank, the
Security Council tonight called on Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar to
investigate ''the causes and effects of the serious problem of the reported
cases of poisoning.'' The ambiguous language, necessary to win the approval of
all 15 Council members, left open the question of whether the schoolgirls had
actually been poisoned and left up to the Secretary General to decide whether
the outside medical teams summoned by Israel meet the demand for ''independent
inquiries.'' The Council issued its statement through this month's president,
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick of the United States. A presidential statement has less
political force than a resolution, but the arrangement spared the Council an
open meeting. Some Arab diplomats said they would not welcome inflammatory
speeches, particularly if the inquiries disclose no poisoning has taken place.
Mrs. Kirkpatrick had arranged the outlines of this solution in meetings last
Friday with Riyadh al-Qaysi of Iraq, chairman of the Arab group, and Abdullah
el-Salah of Jordan, the Council's Arab member. In his letter convoking the
Council, Mr. Qaysi charged that ''mass poisoning'' had struck ''more than 1,000
Palestinian schoolgirls.'' He said the poisoning was ''caused by a yellow
substance containing sulfur concentrates which emitted poisonous gases with
dangerous physical and psychological consequences.'' Yehuda Z. Blum, the
Israeli delegate, who termed the charges ''irresponsible and unfounded,''
rejected the Council statement and said references in it to poisoning were
''completely unwarranted.''
1984: NBC
broadcast the first episode of “Double Trouble” a sitcom starring Jean and Liz
Sagal whose executive producers including Saul Turteltaub.
1984: Today,
“Rev. Jesse Jackson disavowed ‘violence’ and ‘intimidation’ after a supporter
threatened to ‘make an example’ of” Milton Coleman the Washington Post
reporter, who is black” and who was the first report of Mr. Jackson's reference
to Jews as ''Hymies'' and to New York City as ''Hymietown.''
1985: Birthdate
of Israeli tennis player Dudi Sela
1987(5th of
Nisan, 5747): Michael Redstone, the media mogul whose companies included CBS
and Viacom, passed away.
1987: Annette
Greenfield Strauss won a plurality of the vote for Mayor of Dallas. Winning a
run-off election on April 18, she became the city's first elected woman mayor.
1988(17th
of Nisan, 5748): Third Day of Pesach
1988(17th
of Nisan, 5748): Eighty-two year old Mark “Mike” Cohen, the Irish born son of
Lillian and Joseph Cohen and the brother of Louis Cohen and Pauline Cohen
Singer passed away today after which he was buried at the Riverside Cemetery in
Albany, GA.
1988:
Publication of “Chasing a Chameleon - Trebitsch Lincoln” in the 38th
Volume of History Today.
http://www.historytoday.com/bernard-wasserstein/chasing-chameleon-trebitsch-lincoln
1991(20th
of Nisan, 5751): Fourth Day of Pesach
1991: It was
reported today that the “immigration of Jews from the Soviet Union last month
reached a total of almost 15,000 and will climb to 25,000 this month…” (As
reported by Henry Kamm)
1992(1st of
Nisan, 5752): Rosh Chodesh Nisan/Shabbat Ha-Chodesh
1992(1st of
Nisan, 5752): Samuel "Sammy" Herman Reshevsky, a
chess prodigy and grand chess master who was an Orthodox Jew who did not play
on Shabbat, passed away today.
1993: Israeli
tennis star Amos Mansdorf was the runner-up at today’s tournament in Osaka,
Japan.
1995: In
Washington, DC, the Garfinkel’s Department Store building at 14th
and F Street was put on the National Register of Historic Places. (For those of
us growing up in D.C. in the 1950’s Garfinkels was the height of posh, to say
the least.)
http://www.streetsofwashington.com/2012/11/garfinckels-washingtons-fashion-arbiter.html
1996(15th
of Nisan, 5756): Pesach
1996: It was
reported today, that, according to Mrs. Alla Nazarova, on the day before
Passover, “the food supply store in Moscow’s largest synagogue” “sold three and
a half tons of Matzoh.”
1997: Today’s
edition of The Jewish Press “quoted from ‘A Historic Declaration’, issued by
the Union of Orthodox Rabbis on March 31” which began “Reform and Conservative
are not Judaism at all.”
1998(8th
of Nisan, 5758): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Hagadol
1998(8th
of Nisan, 5758): Eighty year old Minneapolis born and Johns Hopkins trained
cardiologist and internist Dr. Abraham Genecis, the World War II Army Medical
Corps veteran and professor at his alma mater who was the husband of the father
of “the former Rita Gisent” and father of Victor and Dr. Paul Genecin, passed
away today.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1998-04-07-1998097108-story.html
1999: The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including
“Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story” by Michael Isikoff and “The Rise and Fall of the
House of Barneys: A Family Tale of Chutzpah, Glory and Greed” by Joshua Levine.
1999: In an
article by Bill Kent, John Mulloy, president of Ginsburg's bread
bakery laments the fate of his company’s sales during Pesach.
'What happens to our bread business during
Passover?'' sighed John Mulloy, president of Ginsburg's bread bakery here. ''It
dies!'' During the eight days of Passover, Jews refrain from eating all foods
made from grains except matzah, a flat, cracker-like wheat bread that Mr.
Mulloy does not make. ''In the old days the Ginsburgs would just close up and
take a vacation when Passover came around,'' Mr. Mulloy went on. ''We never
close.'' What started as a family-run business on Atlantic Avenue in 1903 that
made bread and cakes for Boardwalk hotels now employs 120 and occupies an
entire city block at Mediterranean and New York Avenues. All of the casino
hotels use Ginsburg's baked goods. The bread is also sold in six supermarket
chains in the area. And eight regional distributors put the bread on grocery
shelves as far away as Flordia and California. In the 20 years Mr. Mulloy has
owned the bakery, Ginsburg's three Israeli-made, natural gas-fired Thermatron
ovens have never grown cold. ''There were some bad years when the business went
up and down,'' said Mr. Mulloy, who owned a delicatessen in Philadelphia and
''raised four sons on corned beef specials.'' He bought the bakery from the
Ginsburgs with a partner in 1979 partly because of its Jewish rye bread. ''Even
in Philadelphia, where you could get all the good Jewish rye you wanted, my
customers would rave about the Ginsburg rye. For some of them, before the
casinos opened up, it was the only reason to go to Atlantic City.'' Two years
later, after moving to the area, Mr. Mulloy bought out his partner and turned
over the management of the bakery to his sons -- John, 33; Michael, 32; Dan,
30; and Chris, 29 -- who learned the peculiar difficulties of doing business
with a casino industry whose buyers can be notoriously fickle and take four
months to pay their bills. An attempt to sell the bread through a retail
storefront failed, he said, when ''tourists just couldn't find us.'' ''There
were other times when we didn't think we'd make it,'' Mr. Mulloy said. ''But, as
locations go, this one has been very good to us.'' The plant uses no milk
ingredients in its dough and is inspected yearly by a panel of local rabbis who
assure that its preparation techniques and products are in accordance with
Jewish dietary laws. Beyond saying that his plant uses about 75 tons of flour
each week, Mr. Mulloy would not disclose how much bread his bakery produces, or
how much sales decrease during Passover. ''But there is enough of a downturn
for us to use the holiday to make improvements to the plant,'' he said.
Ginsburg's has just begun a $1.5 million renovation ''that will just make us a
little bit more efficient'' -- in time for September, when the demand for chalah peaks at Rosh Hashanah.
2000: Rabbi Ismar
Schorsch, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary delivered the first
public lecture sponsored by the John Cardinal O'Connor Distinguished Chair in
Hebrew and Sacred Scripture at St. Joseph's Seminary.
http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/pilgrims_progress_new_yorks_jews
2001: In “Transformed
on the Trail of the Patriarchs” published today Richard Bernstein reviewed Walking
the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce
Feller.
2001: Today “mortar
fire wounded an Israeli baby in the Gaza Strip and the Israelis retaliated by
shelling…”
2002(22nd
of Nisan, 5762): 8th day of Pesach and 7th day of the
Omer
2002(22nd
of Nisan, 5762): During Operation Defensive Shield a member of the Israel
Border Police was killed by terrorists when they went to arrest a member of the
Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade at Hebron.
2002(22nd
of Nisan, 5762): “Rachel Charhi, 36, of Bat-Yam, critically injured in a
suicide bombing in a cafe on the corner of Allenby and Bialik streets in
Tel-Aviv on March 30, died of her wounds. Some 30 others were injured in the
attack. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.”
2002(22nd
of Nisan, 5762): During Operation Defensive Shield Border Police Supt. Patrick
Pereg, 30, of Rosh Ha'ayin, head of operations in an undercover unit, was
killed Thursday while attempting to arrest a wanted member of Fatah's al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigade.
2002(22nd
of Nisan, 5762): During Operation Defensive Shield Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Einan
Sharabi, 32, of Rehovot; Lt. Nissim Ben-David, 22, of Ashdod; and St.-Sgt. Gad
Ezra, 23, of Bat-Yam were killed today.
2003: After
premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival six months ago “Phone
Booth” an urban terror film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by David
Zucker and written by Larry Cohen was released in the United States today.
2004: “Itche
Goldberg, who turns 100 today, is the editor of Yiddishe Kultur, one of the last
Yiddish literary journals” which has been a voice of Yiddish creativity since
it was established in 1938” and for which Mr. Goldberg, who lives on the Upper
West Side, has been the editor for 40 years.
2005(24th of Adar II,
5765): Edward Bronfman, Canadian
financier and philanthropist passed away at the age of 77. Part of “the other Bronfmans” to distinguish
him and his brother from the more famous Edgar Bronfman family, Edward Bronfman
amassed business holdings valued at $80 million. His generosity and in recognition of his
other contributions to the civic good earned Bronfman the Order of Canada, the
nation’s highest civilian honor.
2006: Eightieth
birthday of Sami Rohr.
2006: “While turning
the pages of The Miami Herald” Sami Rohr “was surprised by a large
advertisement announcing a new literary award” – The Sami Rohr Prize – that his
three children had created without his knowledge to honor him. “It’s the
largest prize of its kind in North America, in terms of the amount,” and gives
“authors an opportunity to take time off to pursue their craft’” which
furthered Rohr’s desire “to make sure that Jewish literature would thrive for
generations.”
2006: Paula Abdul
filed a report at a Hollywood police station claiming she had been a victim of
battery at a private party…"According to Abdul, the man at the party
argued with her, grabbed her by the arm and threw her against a wall," L.A.P.D.
Lt. Paul Vernon said. "She said she had sustained a concussion and spinal
injuries
2006: The Justice Ministry confirmed that Yona Metzger
would not be able to continue as chief rabbi if the dayanim Appointment
Committee disqualifies him from serving as a judge in the High Rabbinic Court
2006: In “With Yoga,
Comedy and Parties, Synagogues Entice Newcomers,” published today Michel Luo
reports on the development of Jewish outreach programs
2007: New Mexico’s
Bosque Redondo State Monument, a site commemorating “The Long Walk” hosts the
traveling exhibition “Anne Frank: A History for Today.”
2007: “A little over
three weeks after Robert “Bob” Levinson was arrested, an article today by
Iranian state-run PressTV stated that he "has been in the hands of Iranian
security forces since the early hours of March 9" and "authorities
are well on the way to finishing the procedural arrangements that could see him
freed in a matter of days". The same article explained that it was
established that Levinson's trip to Kish "was purely that of a private
businessman looking to make contact with persons who could help him make
representations to official Iranian bodies responsible for suppressing trade in
pirated products which is a major concern of his company.”
2007: An exhibition
styled “Landmarks” presented by students of the Jewelry and Fashion department
at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design comes to a close.
2007916th
of Nisan, 5767): Second Day of Pesach.
2007: Florida
Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehinten, the ranking Republican on the House (of
Representatives) Foreign Affairs Committee “stated at a Congressional Hearing”
that “‘Jews who were born in Arab countries have lost their resources, their
homes, their heritage, and their heritage sites.’” During these same hearings,
Irwin Cotler, a member of the Canadian Parliament and a former Justice minister
argued that “’the rights for Jewish refugees from Arab countries have to a
party of any peace process if tht peace process is to have any integrity.’”
2007: Today “a little
over three weeks after Robert Levinson was arrested, an article by Iranian
state-run PressTV stated that he "has been in the hands of Iranian
security forces since the early hours of March 9" and "authorities
are well on the way to finishing the procedural arrangements that could see him
freed in a matter of days
2008: The Youth
Department of Congregation Beth Judea holds a special Friday Evening Shabbat
Service led by the Kadinkers, the Kadima and the members of USY. The service is preceded by a traditional
kosher dinner. Founded in 1969, the
synagogue is in Long Grove, Il and serves families located in nearby Wheeling
and Buffalo Grove. Its website provides
an on-line entry into the world of synagogue music.
2008: Army radio
reported that Palestinian militants had opened fire on farmers working in the
fields of Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha, near Gaza. Thirty of the fieldworkers being
shot at were volunteers from kibbutzim from different parts of Israel who had
come to aid their counterparts at Ein Hashlosha, which has been the target of
repeated sniper attacks.
2008: Hamas spokesman
Abu Obeida announced today that sniper fire from Hamas' military wing, which
wounded Public Security Minister Avi Dichter's bureau chief near Gaza, was in
fact aimed at the minister himself.
2008: The city of
Montreal stated it planned to allow demolition of the building that housed Bens
De Luxe Delicatessen and Restaurant originally opened by Ben and Fanny Kravitz
in 1908.
2009(10th
of Nisan, 5769): In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at Temple Judah, the Traditional
Saturday morning minyan celebrates Shabbat Hagadol
2009: Eighty-four-year-old
actress Maxine Cooper Gomberg, the wife of screenwriter and producer Sy Gomberg
passed away today.
https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-maxine-cooper15-2009apr15-story.html
2009: Rabin Square in central Tel Aviv hosts the city's Centennial Opening
Gala. A showcase for top Israeli and International artists, the event includes
an impressive 360-degree audiovisual display and performances by the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra and Israeli Opera.
2009: Retired
American soccer play Daniel Jacob "Dan" Calichman “was honored by the
Galaxy in a pre-game match ceremony.”
2009: Several hours after
IDF soldiers killed two Palestinian terrorists who were trying to plant a bomb
along the Gaza border fence, Border Police forces killed a terrorist who tried
to carry out a shooting attack at their base in the Negev this afternoon.."
2010: The New York
Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including the recently published paperback edition
of One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict by
Benny Morris, “the father of Israel’s ‘new historians’” who “was convinced by
the failed 2000 Camp David summit that Israel could do nothing to make Arab
Muslims agree to its existence as a Jewish state” and “ now sees the two-state
solution as a fantasy” while rejecting
“the so-called one-state solution as a call for Israel’s elimination.”
2010: “Tulane
University President Scott Cowen receives the Times-Picayune Loving.”
http://www.nola.com/living/index.ssf/2010/04/tulane_university_president_sc.html
2011: Larry Page
“officially became chief executive of Google.”
2011: A revival
production of “The House of Blue Leaves” starring Ben Stiller began its preview
performances at the Walter Kerr Theatre.
2011: YIVO Institute
for Jewish Research and Leo Baeck Institute are scheduled to present a rare
interview with Nobel Laureate Elfriede Jelinek as part of a program entitled
“Rechnitz: Austria's Dirty Little Secret.”
2011: SheshBesh - The Arab-Jewish Ensemble of the IPO – is
scheduled to perform in New York City.
2011: “La Rafle,” a film described as “a European
Schindler’s List” is scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film
Festival.
2011(29th
of Adar II, 5711): Actor Juliano Mer-Kham was gunned down in Jenin.
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=215116
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-actor-juliano-mer-khamis-shot-dead-in-jenin-1.354044
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/apr/11/juliano-mer-khamis-obituary
2011(29th
of Adar II, 5711): Fifty-one-year-old John Adler who “was a U.S. Representative
for New Jersey's 3rd congressional district, serving from 2009 until 2011”
passed away today.
2011(29th
of Adar II, 5711): Ninety-year-old William Prussoff “a pharmacologist at the Yale School of Medicine
who, with a colleague, developed an effective component in the first generation
of drug cocktails used to treat AIDS” passed away today. (As reported by
William Grimes)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/health/research/07prusoff.html
2011(29th
of Adar II): Anniversary of the giving of the first commandment to the Jewish
people. “Shortly before sundown on the 29th of Adar, G-d commanded Moses
regarding the mitzvah of sanctifying the crescent new moon and establishing a
lunar calendar. This is the first mitzvah the Jews were given as a nation.”
2011: Dirar Abu Sisi was Hamas's leading missile developer
according to an indictment filed today at the Beersheba District Court. Abu
Sisi was reportedly abducted by Israel over a month ago as he was traveling on
a train in Ukraine and brought to Israel for interrogation.
2011: The Lehi considered
killing Winston Churchill, The Telegraph reported today, citing declassified
MI5 files.
2011: Requests from
charities around the country for food aid packages to help feed the country’s
growing needy population have nearly doubled this year compared to last year,
Israel’s largest food bank, Leket, reported today. (As reported by Ruth Eglash)
2012: “The Kid With a Bike” is one of the films scheduled to be shown at
the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2012: The Yuval Ron Ensemble is scheduled to present a program that explores music of the ancient biblical Hebrew,
Yemenite and Babylonian musical traditions, in Manhattan, Kansas.
2012(12th of Nisan, 5772): On the 12th of Nissan, 3412, Ezra departed from the river of Ahava, for
Eretz Israel. This was part of the return from the Babylonian Exile that would
lead to the building of the Second Temple and the regular, public reading of
the Torah.
2012: Ruth Goodman and Gabi Gabay are scheduled to lead a program of
Israeli Dancing at the 92nd Street Y.
2013: “Palestinians again fired a rocket and three mortar shells at
Israel. A rocket landed in an open area in the Eshkol Regional Council at
around 2 am, triggering alarms in nearby communities, while two of the mortars
fell within the Gaza Strip.”
2013: A renewal contract for the “Judge Judy” television show with Judith
Sheindlin in the title role extended the show through the 2016-2017 season.
2013: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “At the Edge
of the Jewish World: Central Asia’s Bukharan Jews.
2013: As part of the lecture series 'FilmTalk: The Jewish Villian', the
Wiener Library is scheduled to present “Reviewing Fagin, 1948-2005.”
2013: The Jewish Theological
Seminary is scheduled to host “a concert starring the Juilliard Jazz Ensemble”
that “will feature the music of prominent Jewish and African American jazz
composers” and “will explore the singular connections between the compositions
and the cultures.”
2013: The White House will not hold a Jewish History Month event this
year because of the sequester
2013: More than 100 U.S. Jewish leaders urged Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu to make clear "Israel’s readiness to make painful
territorial sacrifices for the sake of peace."
2013: Women who recite the Mourner's Kaddish at the Western Wall will not
be arrested, Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky said he has been assured,
despite a police vow to enforce a ban.
2014: Congregants at
Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa are scheduled to take a trip down memory
lane with “Retro-Reform” Shabbat Evening Services featuring Gates of Prayer,
the prayerbook which was considered
ground-breaking when introduced just a few decades ago.
2014: The 12th
annual Austin Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end today.
2014: “The Prime
Ministers: The Pioneers” and “Aya with Wherever You Go” are scheduled to be
shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2014: The Cedar Rapids Gazette is scheduled to
publish a feature story about Cesare Frustaci the survivor of the Nazi ghetto
in Budapest who will be the featured speaker at the upcoming Yom Hashoah
Service sponsored by The Thaler Holocaust Remembrance Fund.
2014: In Spain, a
Family Reunion, Centuries Later
2014: “A Legendary
Mossad Commander Steps from the Shadows” published today explores the life and
times of Mike Harari.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/a-legendary-mossad-commander-steps-from-the-shadows/
2015:
Francis J. Pruitt, the author of Faith and Courage in a Time of Trouble,
“a memoir of a Belgian-Jewish girl and her family who were saved during the
Nazi occupation of France through the compassion and heroism of French peasants
from the southern part of the country” is scheduled to appear at the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
2015(15th
of Nisan, 5775): Eighty-two-year-old actor and playwright Ira Lewis passed away
today.
2015(15th of Nisan, 5775): First day of Pesach
coincides with observance of Shabbat.
2016:
“In Search of Israeli Cuisine” and “Are You Joking?/ The Plagues” are scheduled
to be shown at the Hartford, CT, Jewish Film Fest.
2016:
Today, Jerry Reinsdorf, the owner of the Chicago Bulls “was elected to the
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor.
2016:
“Aliyah Dada” and “The Prime Ministers II: Soldiers and Peacemakers” are
scheduled to be shown today at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2017:
Publication of Survivor: A Portrait of the Survivors of the Holocaust by
Harry Borden
2017:
In Des Moines, The Iowa Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host a
luncheon featuring three Israelis – Sandee Illouz, the founder and director of
EREZ College Shlomi; Noa Kali of the Kadar Center for Innovative Learning
Approches and Yoram Poslinsky, the director of the community Center Network in
Akko and the found of the Rosh Pinnna Music School and Orchestra.
2018(19th
of Nisan, 5778): Fifth Day of Pesach
2018:
In Memphis, TN, Rabbi Feivel Strauss is scheduled to focus on Jesus as part of
the Great Jewish Renegades series.
2018:
In Jerusalem, The Tower of David is scheduled to host a public reading of
“Young David and the Pitcher.
2018:
The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host the NYC premiere
screen of “GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II,” a documentary ‘Directed
by Lisa Ades, Produced by Amanda Bonavita, and Written by Maia Harris” that
tells the story of the more than half a million Jewish Americans “who served in
WW II.”
2018:
“Remember Baghdad,” “an exploration of the rich Jewish life and culture that
had flourished in Iraq before the events of the 20th and early 21st centuries
dramatically changed the course of the country – and the fate of its Jews” and
“The Outer Circle,” “a portrait of four generations of the Fattals as they
gather for their annual feast in Mama’s house on Rosh Hashanah” are scheduled
to be shown at the CCA Glasgow, in Glasgow, Scotland.
2019:
Funeral services were held today at the Lincoln Square Synagogue for seventy-seven-year
Cantor Sherwood Goffin followed by burial at the Cedar Park Cemetery in
Paramus, NJ.
2019:
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to present a lecture
by Holocaust survivor Susan Warsinger as part of its “First Person Series.”
2019:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the final screenings of “Humor Me”
co-starring Elliot Gould.
2019:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a screening of “The City
Without Jews,” a film based on the Hugo Bettauer novel.
2019:
In London, the Jewish Museum is scheduled to host “British Jews Go Pop” during
which Nathan Abrams, a Professor in Film at Bangor University in Wales “shed
light on how Jews transformed the British entertainment industries, creating
some of the most iconic characters and images of the 20th century
including James Bond, Doctor Who, Carry On and so many others.”
2019:
As The Kinneret continued its rise following an extended period of draught, for
the first time today’s forecast only calls for season temperatures under partly
cloudy skies with no rain.
2019:
The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to co-host a book launch of
A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America
with the author Kirsten Fermaglich.
2020(10th
of Nisan, 5780): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol
2010(10th
of Nisan, 5780): On the Hebrew calendar, Yahrzeit of Rabbi Aaron of Neustadt
“who was martyred in Vienna.” (Abraham Bloch)
2020:
“Anne Germanacos of S.F. indie Jewish community The Kitchen” is scheduled to
lead “a casual discussion on Zoom on the events of the day.”
2020:
Because of emergency regulations approved two days ago by the cabinet naming
Bnei Brak a “restricted zone” due to its high rate of infections residents of
the city observe Shabbat in a state of lockdown which means that “police will
prevent in or out of the city.”
2021(22nd
of Nisan, 5781): Eighth Day of Pesach; Yizkor
https://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/yizkor/
2021:
The New York Times published reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or
of special interest to Jewish readers including Life’s Edge: The Search for
What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer
2021:
The Mimouna Project is scheduled to present “The International Mimouna: Jews
& Muslims:which is The Story of Neighbors in Morocco.”
2021:
Kol Hadash, a community for Humanistic Judaism, is scheduled to host a
Holocaust survivor from the JFCS William J. Lowenberg Speakers Bureau talking
about her experiences in the Netherlands and beyond.
2021:
Temple Beth Avodah is scheduled to host “The Great Afikoman Hunt.”
2021:
Israelis awoke to a slightly more unstable world this morning following
yesterday’s thwarting of an attempted coup in neighboring Jordan.
2021:
New England Yachad is scheduled to present online “Rayim Lounge Night.”
2022:
Friends and family prepare to celebrate the birthday of Temple Judah’s Stephen
Eckert, a great guy and a true artist with the camera who has provided an
ongoing photographic record of the Jewish community’s activities.
2022:
The Center for Jewish History and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research are
scheduled to host journalist Javier Sinay as he discusses “The Murders of Moises Ville: The Rise and
Fall of the Jerusalem of South America.”
2022:
The “San Francisco Freedom Seder,” Outdoor, participatory, cross-cultural,
interfaith seder focused on taking action to confront rising antisemitism,
racism, xenophobia and hate is scheduled to take place at Grace Cathedral in
San Francisco.
2022:
The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled present a lecture by Senior
Rabbi Joseph Dweck on “The Timing of Freedom” during which he will “present a
new perspective on time and freedom as expressed in the Pesach story.”
2022:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to present conversation between Matti
Friedman, author of Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai and Abigail
Pogrebin
2022:
The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screen of
“Alegria” and “Persian-Israeli-American Fashion Night with Elie Tahari.”
2023:
The Mexican Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to continue today at the TriBeCa
Synagogue on White Street in New York City.
2023:
As his friends and family prepare for Pesach, they are not too busy to
celebrate the natal day of Stephen Eckart, a great guy and an artistic genius
with the camera.
2023:
The JCC of Greater Boston is scheduled to present a ninety minute introductory
Pickleball Clinic.
2023:
At the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, “Daniel Kohanski is scheduled to discuss
his book, A God of Our Invention: How Religion Shaped the Western World,
which explores the history of Western religions and explains how Christians
used — and misused — Jewish ideas to become the leading power in Europe and
dominate much of the world.”
2023:
Based on action taken by the Bank of Israel on April, Israelis dealing with a
benchmark interest of 4.5 percent, “the highest level since before the 2008
crash…” (As reported by Sharon Wrobel)
2024:
In San Francisco, the Contemporary Jewish Museum is scheduled to host “Sparking
Your Inner Big Bang: A Meditation Circle for New Beginnings.”
2024:
YIVO and he American Society for Jewish Music are scheduled to present lecture
by Amanda Ruppenthal-Stein on “Juden, Baptized and Unbaptized: Jewishness and
Ferdinand Hiller’s ‘Israel’s
Siegesang.’”
2024:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Daniel Snowman on “Conflicting
Dreams: Jew and Arab Through History.”
2024:
“18th Anniversary ‘Coming of Age’ Film Gala celebrating 18 incredible years of
the Pears Short Film Fund at UK Jewish Film” is scheduled to be held at he
Curzon Bloomsbury and attended by such notables as Sir Trevor Pears, Same
Maureen Lipman DBE and Tracy Ann Oberman.
2024:
Following their sold-out performances in October, the Fort Greene Orchestra, led
by the young Israeli conductor and impresario Daniel Zinn, is scheduled to perform
a new grand production: "Titan Symphony” at the “St. Joseph’s Co-Cathedral
in Brooklyn, NY” for a second time.
2024:
Fifth session of “Walking in the Valley of the Shadow,” an “eight-part workshop
series sponsored by New Lehrhaus focusing on Jewish approaches to death, dying,
burial, grief and comforting the bereaved, with both traditional and
contemporary concepts and practices” co-presented by Sinai Memorial Chapel, Ben
Zakkai Institute and Bay Area synagogues.
2024:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host online “a panel discussion
about the power of music to confront injustice and intolerance, featuring son
of Holocaust Survivors and former Chicago Tribune arts critic, Howard Reich,
along with composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer.”
2024:
Friends and family are scheduled to celebrate the natal day of Steve Eckert, a
true artist with the camera and all-around-good-guy who always has time for questions
from lay people about his craft.
2024:
YIVO is scheduled to host a lecture live and on zoom by Winston Chu on “The
Lodz Ghetto and Kriminalpolizei: Jews, Neighbors and Perpetrators in the Holocaust.”
2024:
As April 4th begins in Israel, the Hamas held
hostages begin day 181 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.)
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