Tuesday, August 20, 2024

This Day, August 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

August 21

1157: Alfonso the Emperor died. His kingdom was divided between his two sons with Sancho III the receiving Castile and , Ferdinand II, “who granted the Jews special privileges” receiving León.

1165: Birthdate of Philip II Augustus, the French king who first imprisoned his Jewish subjects; then extorted ransom from them before banning them from Paris and its environs.

1321: Jews in France were accused of encouraging lepers to poison Christian wells. This directly led to the graver accusations of the same kind during the Black Plague. This time, five thousand Jews were killed. At Chinon, 160 Jews were burned in a pit on an island outside of town. Eventually the King, Philip the Tall, admitted that the Jews were innocent. The island is still known as Ile de Juifs (Island of the Jews).

1379: In Spain, Fernan Martin, King John’s executioner accompanied by Don Zulema Solmon and Don Zag Isaac, went to the home of Joseph Pinchon, Martin beheaded Pinchon per the order of the king.  Because of the scandal surrounding the event it led to the repeal of Jewish jurisdiction in criminal cases in Castile

1486: Volume II of a Mahzor, using the Roman Rite was printed for the first time at Casal Maggiore, Italy.

http://cojs.org/cojswiki/Mahzor_(Roman_rite),_Soncino/Casal_Maggiore:_Benei_Soncino,_1485/6,_Heb-73,_Vol._2,_fol._117v-118r.

1569: Cosimo I de' Medici, who had invited the Jews to settle in Tuscany but who also gave in to pressure from the Pope to burn the Talmud, became Grand Duke of Tuscany today.

1669: “The priest of the Russian church made a complaint against the Jews of Brest for reconverting to Judaism a baptized Jewess of the name of Judith, whose baptismal name was Anastasia, a daughter of Shemuel, at one time leaseholder of taxes.”

1684: In response to a letter from the Dutch commander of Essequibo and Pomeroon explaining that the trade in vanilla had come to an end because of the death of a Jew named Salomon de la Roche, representatives of the Dutch West India company wrote “As to the vanilla trade, which we recommend you carry on for the company, where you answer us saying this trade has come to an end through the death of a Jew, Salomon de la Roche...a meager and poor excuse.” This correspondence is one example of the important role that Jews played in the vanilla trade.

1736: Isaac Levy arrived in Savannah from London today.

1765: King George III and Queen Charlotte gave birth to his third son King William IV during whose reign he opposed a bill that would freed Catholics from their Civil Disabilities which would have benefited the Jews and whose death led to a general election in which Benjamin Disraeli scored his first electoral victory gaining a seat in the House of Commons as one of the two Tories representing the constituency of Maidstone.

1770: Marcus Herz, the German Jewish physician and philosopher traveled to Berlin to Königsberg so he could as respondent when Emmanuel Kant presented his inaugural dissertation at the University of Königsberg

1772: A coup d'état by King Gustav III is completed by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden, and making him an enlightened despot.

1775: Daher el-Omar who ruled the Galilee as an autonomous region during the days of the Ottoman Empire passed away today.

1785: In Denmark Isac Hartvig Ree, the Danish born son of Hirsch Isac Philip Rée and Mirjam Marie Rée and his wife Sara Wulff von Essen gave birth to Berend Isaac Ree.

1802: Birthdate of Moravia native Hirsch Bar Fassel who gave up a career in business for the rabbinate, eventually leading the congregation at Nagy-Kanizsa, Hungary while contributing to various Jewish publications in the Orient.

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6032-fassel-hirsch-bar

1806: In Charleston, SC, Isaac Clinton Moses and Hanna Lazarus Moses gave birth to future New Orleans resident Cecilia Frances Moses Moise, the wife of Major Theodore Sidney Moise and the mother of Theodora Sydny Moise  

1811(1st of Elul, 5571): Rosh Chodesh Elul

1811: Birthdate of Joseph Derenbourg, or Joseph Naftali Derenburg, Franco-German author, historian and a prime mover in the rehabilitation of Jewish education in France

1811: Barnet Joseph married Elizabeth Emanuel at the Great Synagogue today.

1811: In London, Abigail Montefiore and Benjamin Gompertz gave birth to Justina Lydia Gompertz, the wife of Jacob Montefiore.

1820(11th of Elul, 5580): Haim Farhi who known as the Hakham Haim, a prominent Palestinian Jewish leader in the days of the Ottoman Empire passed away.

http://www.farhi.org/Documents/HaimFarhi_1.htm

1822: In Badan, marriage of Marx and Henriette Oppenheimer.

1823: Birthdate of “Rosa Hanne.”

1829: In Hamburg, Germany “author and prominent social reformer Johanna Schwabe and prosperous merchant Moritz David Goldschmidt  gave birth to “composer, conductor and pianist, Otto Moritz David Goldschmidt known for his piano concertos and other piano pieces” who “married the ‘Swedish Nightingale’, soprano Jenny Lind” whom he married in 1852 shortly after he had been baptized.

1831(12th of Elul, 5591): Rose “Rosey” Nathan, the Exeter, England born daughter of Sarah and Abraham Ezekiel, “wife of Philip Eliezer Lipman ben Nathan and mother of Nathaniel Nathan; Anna Phillips (Nathan); Rachel Louise Arnold; Jacob Philip Nathan; Isabella Solomon; Julia Cohen and Harriett rose Nathan” passed away today in Portsmouth, England

1831: In Buttenwiesen, Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, Seligmann Pinchas Luchs, the German born son of Moses and Maianne Marie Luchs, and his wife Judith Marx Luchs gave birth to future Tennessee resident Mina Bissinger, the wife of Baruch Ben Bessinger and the “mother of Gussie Augusta Lefkovits and Abraham Bissinger.”

1832(25th of Av, 5592): Seventy-two-year-old Zipporah Levy Seixas, the New York born daughter of Hyman and Sloe Myers Levy and the wife of Benjamin Mendez Seixas with whom she had three children – Rebecca, Esther and Grace --

 passed away today in New York.

1835: Parliament passes the Sheriff’s Declaration Bill which allowed Jews to hold the ancient and important office of Sheriff. Passage of this bill was an intermediate step in Parliamentary efforts to pass the so-called Jew Bill.

1837: In Wollstein, Dr. Marcus Mosse, the son of Salomon Moses and Henriette (Jette) Marcus Levin and Ulrike Mosse gave birth to Salomon Mosse

1837: “Mr. Hart Lyon presented a Sefer Torah to the Kaal today.

http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/library/events/EventsCalendar/Pages/docutext-04.aspx

1839(11th of Elul, 5599): Sixty-year old to Zalegman Phillips the son of Jonas Phillips and Rebecca Machada, a successful lawyer and husband of Arabella Solomon whom he married when she was nineteen years old passed away today.

1840: Persecution of the Jews of Damascus brought together Congregation B'nai Jesheran in New York City to declare: "Resolved, that we do most emphatically and solemnly deny, as well in our own name as in that of the whole Jewish people, that murder was ever committed by the Jews of Damascus, or those of any other part of the world for the purpose of using the blood or any part of a human being in the ceremonies of our religion."   U.S. President Van Buren instructed his officer at Constantinople to help the persecuted Jew of Damascus

1841(4th of Elul, 5601): Parashat Shoftim

1850: David Cohen married Julia Nathan at the New Synagogue today.

1850: John and Adelaide wed today at the West London Synagogue.

1852:  Birthdate of British historian Arnold Toynbee.  Toynbee was baffled by the continued existence of the Jewish people whom he described as a fossil of history.  Not only was he baffled by the Jews continued existence, he did not approve of it either.

1852(6th of Elul, 5612): Marchand Ennery passed away.  Born at Nancy in 1792 he studied Talmud under Baruch Guggenheim and at the rabbinical school of Herz Scheuer, in Mainz. He went to Paris, became teacher in the family of a wealthy coreligionist, and in 1819 was appointed director of the new Jewish school at Nancy. At this time he published his Hebrew-French lexicon, the first of its kind to appear in France. In 1829 he became chief rabbi of Paris; in 1846 chief rabbi of the Central Consistory; in 1850 chevalier of the Legion of Honor. He was succeeded as chief rabbi by Salomon Ulmann.

1852: “Bohemia: A Visit to Prague” published today included a description of the current conditions and history of the Jews living in this ancient central European City.

 1855: In Adrian, Michigan, William J. and Hannah May Schloss gave birth to New York businessman Henry W. Schloss the President and general manager of Castle Braid Company and President of Eltsac Realty Corporation in Brooklyn who was the husband of Isabella Frankfield with whom he had three children – William, Alfred and May.

1858(11th of Elul, Parashat Ki Teitzei

1858: In Safed, Sarah Bela Zartkis and Jacob Mordecai Hirschensohn, the principal of the “Maor Jacob Academy in Jerusalem,  gave birth to Hayim Hirschensohn, “the teacher in an orphan asylum in Jerusalem, a student of hierographics  in Egypt and the “director of a Sephardic school in Constantinople before coming to the United States in 1903 and beginning his service s the Rabbi of Congregation Etz Hachayim in Hoboken, NJ and serving as a delegate to the Sixth Zionist Congress while serving as the editor of the monthly Hebrew publication Ha-Misderonah.”  

1859: In “Rose Law Cottage Kennington Oval,” Rebecca Crawcour and Aron Hart gave birth to Bernard Hart.

1859: Birthdate of Westmorland Davis who in 1919, while serving as Governor of Virginia “designated October 14 through October 24 as the days for the Jewish relief campaign and urged “citizens, irrespective of race or creed, to contribute liberally” to the Jewish relief campaign – a move that surely was not motivated by the “large number of Jewish voters in the Old Dominion.

1860: The “Hebrew Son” is scheduled to be performed tonight at the New Bowery Theatre in New York City.

1861: According to a report placed on board the the steamer Saladin which is sailing from Kingston, Jamaica tonight for New York City, Commercial matters seem to become worse every day. Fresh failures are announced before people have time to recover the shock occasioned by previous ones. The greatest of all has been that of Mr. Lucas, a prince among the Jews, whose books, it is said, show a very unpleasant state of things for his creditors, and whose self is now non est inventus. There will, doubtless, be very great depression for a time in the trade of the country; but a conviction is felt that a crisis like the present was necessary to correct the fictitious and corrupt business that was for some time done here by a certain class of merchants, and that when the country has passed over the trials of the present ordeal, there will be a healthy state of things, and the prosperity indicated by our agriculture will be permanent and lasting.

1862: Philadelphian Samuel B. Salsburg began serving a three year hitch with Company C of the 138th Regiment during which he was wounded during fighting at Monocacy, MD.

1863: In describing his uneventful trip down the Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans, the New York Times correspondent offers as proof the peaceful conditions that "This circumstance is shown by the crowds of civilians -- Jews and others -- who may be seen besieging the authorities at every point from Cairo to the Gulf, asking only the permission to bring in clothing, drugs, staples, to buy cotton, or, in short, do anything whereby they can realize quick sales and a thousand per cent profits. There are many long faces and much cursing, but all uselessly, for Gen. Grant will, so long as he can influence the matter, refuse to open trade at any point in his Department."

1864(19th of Av, 5624): Isaac J. Levy (CSA) was killed in the trenches at Petersburg, He was 21 years old. Isaac is buried in the Hebrew Cemetery on Shockoe Hill in Richmond, in the Levy family plot.

1864: “Turkey: The Missionary Difficulty at Constantinople”  published today recounts the failure of the European missionaries to convert the locals. Citing information supplied by the Times of London correspondent in the Turkish capital the article reports that the efforts of missionaries - both English and American -"The influence of these preachings among the Jews and Greeks, with the exception of isolated cases, some of which do not bear much examination as regards the conviction and good faith of the proselytes, has been comparatively a failure."

1865: As evidence of how the Jew’s Hospital is now serving the general population, a maid named Ellen Murray was rushed to the hospital for treatment after she was burned when trying to start a fire in a stove.  Unfortunately, “she suffered mortal injuries” and died at the hospital. The hospital, which would be re-named Mt. Sinai, came into general use during the Civil War when it was used to treat the Union soldiers wounded during McClellan’s ill-fated Peninsula Campaign in 1862.

1865: In Germany, Goetz and Johanna (Strauss) Oppenheimer gave birth to Baltimore merchant Henry Oppenheimer, the husband of Cara Hutzler, who would serve as President of Har Sinai Congregation in Baltimore and who was a member of the Associated Jewish Charities in Baltimore.

1866: In New York City, Esther Hellman Wallenstein and Solomon Wallenstein gave birth to Jennie Wallenstein Kohstamm, the oldest of their four children.

1866: In New York City, Solomon and Jael Belais gave birth to David Belais

1867: At the residence of the bride's parents, John Hart of 7 St Paul's Rd., Canonbury, son of Isaac Hart, married Maria Hannah, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Moses Angel of 1 King St., Finsbury. Moses Angel was the headmaster of the Jews Free School (JFS)

1868: In Galicia, Helen Bader and Yiddish writer Isaac Moses Bader gave birth to Hebrew and Yiddish journalist and playwright Gershom Bader.

https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Bader_Gershom

1868(5th of Tishrei, 5629): Sixty-two-year-old Louis Loew Leopold Affelder, the Bavarian born son of Samuel Lazarus Affelder and Nanni Nanette Affelder and the husband of Regine Rosalie Affelder passed away today in Furth.

1869(14th of Elul, 5629) Parashat  Ki Teitzei

1869(14th of Elul, 5629): Fifty-three-year-old Mozes Jesajas de Vries, the son of Mozes Jesajas de Vries and Judik Mozes Blog passed away today in Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland,

1870: One day after he had passed away, three-month-old Frederick Louis Makower, the son of Moritz Makower and the former Jessie Isaac was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1870: It was reported today that of the 31 chaplains serving with the Army of the Rhine, 3 of them are Jews.

1871: It was reported today that Rabbi Elkan Herzman has been fired from his position at an Orthodox synagogue in Chicago for eating ice cream on the Jewish fast day of Tish’a B’Av. According to the report first published in the Jewish Times, the issue was not so much one of violating the law about the fast as one of hypocrisy.

1871: It was reported today that of the 21 chaplains serving in the Army of the Rhine, 3 of them are Jews.

1872: In New York City, Louis B. and Katie (Barnett) Davis gave birth Columbia alum and NYU Law School trained attorney Harry Benjamin Davis, the husband of Sarah Barnett who a member of Sinai Temple in Mount Vernon and the Republic Party nominee for a judgeship in 1907.

1873: Birthdate Ogdensburg, NY native, Yale graduate and NYU trained realty lawyer, the husband of the former Adele Morgenthau with whom he had a son and a daughter and a director of the Seixas Corporation who “was one of the foudr of the Educational Alliance’s Surprise Lake Camp for Boys and a member of the Free Synagogue of New York.”

1873: The Grand lodge of the Kesher She Barzel reopened this morning at Pythagoras Hall under the leadership of Grand Saar Rosenthal. 

http://forward.com/articles/7288/man-of-the-book-reading-a-life-of-salman-schocken/

1874: It was reported today that Sol Mortiz, a prominent Jewish merchant from Indianapolis, Indiana has denied all the charges that he had an improper relationship with the 18-year-old daughter and wife of George C. Harding.  Harding and Mortiz were friends, but this did not keep the enraged newspaper proprietor from shooting the merchant several times. Moritz said he will prove his innocence once he has recovered from his wounds.

1875: Birthdate of Karl Neubauer, the Czech born son of Adolf and Klara Neubauer and Helene Neubauer, who died at Treblinka some time “after October 1942.”

1876: Birthdate of Elizabeth, NJ native and NYU trained attorney Abe J. David who served as district court judge and country prosecutor and who was the husband of Anna Kampner David.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/11/22/85067540.html?pageNumber=52

1878: The London World published a commentary about the Earl of Beaconsfield’s (Benjamin Disraeli) religious beliefs and his plans for his burial.  According to a Jewish source, Beaconsfield will pull of the greatest surprise of his life by having himself buried beside his father at the “graveyard of the Jews at Mile-end.”  After all he had been baptized by trickery and “no Jew is ever sincere in renouncing” his religion. The correspondent for the World takes the opposite view and is sure that he will be “true to the religion of his knighthood” and will be content to be buried beside his wife instead of beside his father.

1878: In Washington, DC, Simon Wolf served as chairman of a meeting attended by Jews who had gathered to raise money for southerners suffering from the current Yellow Fever Epidemic.  The meeting was poorly attended because of a lack of notice so only $180 was raised.

1879: Justice Flammer sent  5-year-old Liba and 2-year-old Louis Wildever to a Jewish charitable institution after they were discovered along with their mother Sarah starving in a room on Franklin Street.  According to Mrs. Wildever, an immigrant from Russia, the children’s father (and her husband) and had deserted them.

1879: An assignment for the benefit of creditors by Nathan Mayer, to Isaac D. Einstein, with $16,110 preferences was filed in the County Clerk’s office today

1881: It was reported today that the Young Men’s Hebrew Union is planning to sponsor a concert in New York’s Washington Park.

1881: In Savannah, GA, Edmund H. and Cecilia Solomons Abrahams gave birth to Edmund Hezekial Abrahams, the husband of Mildred Guckenheimer Abrahams and the father of Marion Cecile Abrahams Mendel who “was a descendant of Benjamin and Perla Sheftall who were among the 41 Jews whom General Oglethorpe welcomed to settle in the Georgia Colony in July 1733.

1882: It was reported today that Florence Templeton, the daughter of the banker John Templeton is engaged to marry Jack Springfield the adopted son of an Anglo-Jewish financier.

1884(30th of Av, 5644): Rosh Chodesh Elul

1884: Alexander Labotsky, a Polish Jew was arrested today after his Frieda had charged him with abandonment.

1884: It was reported today that Annie Lifcawitz, a young girl living in an apartment above the store owned by Solomon Ellinsohn was the first one to discover the fire that local ruffians had started.  Ellinsohn had complained to the police about these young ruffians terrifying people living on the Lower East Side, but the authorities had taken no action.

1885: Dr. Cyrus Edson, Chief of the Second Sanitary division made another raid on the Jewish owned truck stores on the Lower East Side.  Edson and his staff seized “a half ton of bad fish and some unwholesome meat” along with seven boxes of fruits and vegetables.

1887(1st of Elul, 5647): Rosh Chodesh Elul

1887: Birthdate of Levie Van Praag, the native of Zaandam, Holland and husband of Sabiena Cohen both of whom were murdered at Sobibor.

1887: Three days after she had passed away, 78 year old Miriam Spyer, the widow of Lawrence Spyer with whom she had three children – Rachel, Frederick and Nathaniel – was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1887: Abraham Trombitsky’s right leg was fractured during a melee that resulted when Patrolman John Etterick moved to disperse a crowd of Polish and Russian Jews at the corner of Hester and Ludlow Streets.

1887: Three-year-old Ella Hortense Alberga, the daughter of Eugene Alberga and the former Celia Morrice was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1887: “The Treaty of Berlin” published today described the multiple violations of this agreement including the persistent persecution of the 400,000 Jews of Romania “with the connivance of the Romanian Government”

1887: “Old World News By Cable” published today described a letter from George Blyth, the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem in which he reports that the Jewish population in Palestine has grown from 15,000 to 42,000 in the past few years and “that they are very friendly to him and his church.”

1887(1st of Elul, 5647): In London, Israel Lipski whom some confused with the killer “Jack the Ripper” was hanged at Newgate Prison after having been convicted of murdering Miriam Angel.

http://www.whitechapelsociety.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=157:israel-lipski-the-verdict-&catid=1:latest&Itemid=35

1888: Congressman Ford’s Immigration Committee completed its hearings in New York and made plans to move on to Boston.  The thrust of the hearings is that immigrants, especially Jews from Russia and other parts of eastern Europe, are responsible for depressing wages for American workers.

1888: Henry Russell married Hannah de Lara at Paddington, London.

1888: Funeral services will be held at one o’clock this afternoon for Marks Laski, a prominent Jewish merchant who had passed away unexpectedly with internment in Cypress Hill Cemetery. The 52-year-old Laski arrived in New York from Poland in 1850 and entered into the wholesale dry goods business where he enjoyed enough success to become a prominent philanthropist.

1889(24th of Av, 5649): A man thought to be Adolph Cohn a resident of the Hebrew Home for the Aged in New York City appeared to have jumped overboard as the Hoboken ferryboat Hopatcong was pulling into the slip at Christopher Street.  The identification is based on papers and memos that the man placed on the cabin floor just before jumping.

1889: The 9th free excursion sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children is scheduled to leave this morning at 9 o’clock.

1889: Birthdate of Russian native Jacob J. Heller, “a vice president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and author of two volumes of poetry – My Union, My Life and Moments of Meditation who was the husband of Rose Heller and father of Mrs. Gertrude Adler.

1890(5th of Elul, 5650): Albert (Aaron) Siegfried Bettelheim, Hungarian born American Rabbi died at sea while returning to the United States from a visit to Europe.  Born in 1830, he led a rather colorful life before coming to the United States in 1867 where he had pulpits in Philadelphia, Richmond, San Francisco and finally in Baltimore, MD.  While in Richmond, he studied medicine but accepted a position in San Francisco rather pursue a medical career.  According to one source he was buried at sea under the supervision of two Catholic priests that Bettelheim had met on the voyage.  The clerics reportedly recited the Kaddish as the body was consigned to the depths. (As reported by Isidore Singer, et al)

1891: The United States Commissioner of Immigration Owens visited the SS Slavonia at Lower Canton outside of Baltimore and examined the baggage and tickets of the fifty-one Jews detained by order of Inspector Davis. He decided that twelve of them could land because they had tickets to other parts of the United States and “a few dollars” (which meant they would not become public charges).

1891: At the Barge Office, the Acting Superintendent of Immigration refused to honor the bond that Coroner Levy had come to post for ten Russian Jews who had been detained because it was believed “that they were liable to become public charges.”

1892: The first train belonging to the Jaffa-Jerusalem Railway reached Jerusalem today.

1892: Three days after he had passed away, Bavaria native Nathan Kahn, the husband of Isabella Jeri Levy Kahn with whom he had six children –Caroline, Rebecca, Solomon, Mayer, Harriet and Gerson – was buried at Mt. Sinai Cemetery in Philadelphia, PA.

1892: “The Old Dutch Farmhouse” described the fate of agriculture in Holland including that “enterprising Jews” have bought up the “heirlooms of the old “agricultural” families.

1892: “Agriculture in Russia” published today reported that in Russia, “the Jews are blamed for avoiding agriculture and not wishing to live by the sweat of their brow;” but they are not allowed to settle outside of the Pale where there is arable land. 

1893: “Literary Notes” published today described plans for the upcoming publication of The Settlement of the Jews in North America by Judge Charles P. Daly which will soon appear in Hebrew.

1893: The Park Department has issued a permit allowing mass meeting of unemployed Jews to be held tonight in Union Square

1893: “Light On Bible Records” published today provides a detailed review of The Sacred Books of the Old Testament including a Hebrew text and English translation edited by Paul Haput, a Professor at Johns Hopkins University.

1893: Following last night’s meeting of the United Hebrew Trades during which a fight broke out between socialists and anarchists a saloon keeper at 162 Broadway in New York sent out circulars offering free food to unemployed workers.

1893: Twenty-five-year-old Sigmund Maier, the German born son Jacob Maier, “a cattle dealer” and his wife Dina, the manager of Mill Brothers married married Charlotte Lowenstein with whom he had four boys and one girl.

1893: Emma Goldman “spoke to a crowd of nearly 3,000 people in Union Square, where she encouraged unemployed workers to take immediate action.”

1893: Joseph Peel was held by authorities today while the veterinarian examined two dead horses owned by his former business partners, Feinberg and Cooper, to determine if they had been poisoned.  The three had been partners in Feinberg, Cooper & Peel, a vegetable peddling firm.  The two Orthodox Jews claimed that Peel threatened to poison the horses after they ended their relationship with him; a relationship that had begun when the two men let Peel join them even though he lacked any capital.

1893: According to the New York Times the custom of throwing a slipper at wedding stems from a custom “ancient Jews had of handing over a shoe to complete a bargain” as demonstrated in the Book of Ruth.

1894(19th of Av, 5654): Twenty-three-year-old Julius Marcus “a handsome and romantic young” Jews shot 17-year-old Juliette Fournier, a French Protestant, through the heart and “then put a bullet in his temple.”

1895: In the Czech Republic Karl Low, the son of Helene and Daniel Low and his wife Rosa Low gave birth to Bernhard Bernard Low

1895: A list of bequests of the late Joseph Lewis published today included $100 for each of the following: Mount Sinai Hospital, Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids, Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society, Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews and the United Hebrew Charities. 

1896: “Successful Festival of District Grand Lodge No. 1 of Free Sons of Israel” published today described the successful fundraiser which raised several thousand dollars “to enlarge the fund of the order devoted to sick and distressed members.”

1897: “In an article on an old Jewish Treasure House” that appeared in today’s issue of The Time’s Saturday Review, “an account was given of what might have been considered a charnel house of decayed literature.” In fact it was a description of the Geniza “of the old synagogue in Cairo.

1897: “The Trouble At Jerusalem” published today described a dispute in that city over the distribution of funds from America.  The amount in question is approximately $500 which Rabbi Salant can be given to “worthy poor Jews” regardless of their nationality.  The problem comes from the fact that American Jews living in Jerusalem incorrectly think that the money should be used to help them since it comes from the United States.

1897: Birthdate of Berdichev native Albert Milton Mallin, who came to the United States in 1908 where he earned a bachelor’s degree at CCNY before going on to do post-graduate work at Columbia and teach in the New York City public schools.

1899: Rehearsals of “The Children of the Ghetto” by Israel Zangwill will begin today in New York.

1899” “For A Hebrew Sanitarium” published today described the successful package arranged by the guests of the Cedars that included a “surprise auction” which raised funds for the Hebrew Sanitarium of Rockaway, NY.

1899: A summary of the report showing the July activity of the United Hebrew Charities published today showed 1,623 applications for aid had been received which affected the lives of 5,410 people. The society received donations of $8,640.55 but spend $11,085.58 in providing aid and assistance.

1900: In Milwaukee, WI, Carrie Marks and Isaac Schiff gave birth to University of Chicago trained attorney and history teacher Sydney Kaufman Schiff who was a history instructor and law schoolteacher at his alma mater.

1900: Birthdate of NYC native and NYU trained attorney Chester Rohrlich, the husband of “the former Edith Wacthel with whom he raised two daughters and the author “Organizing Corporate and Other Business Enterprises who endowed the Chester Rohrlch chair in corporate law and finance at NYU and who was the “president of the Jew Child Care Association of New York” for three years.

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/18/archives/chester-rohrlich-lawyer-and-author.html

1901: Birthdate of Wellesley College graduate and social worker Henriette Cooper  Gutennan, the wife of attorney Harry Nathaniel Gutennan with whom she had one daughter, Paula.

1901(5th of Elul, 5661): Fanny Brooks, the wife of Julius Gerson Brooks and the mother of George, Eveline, Edgar and Milton Brooks passed away today in Salt Lake City after which she was buried
“Bnai Israel Cemetery.”

https://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/21/1901/this-week-in-history-death-of-pioneer-fanny-brooks

http://www.jmaw.org/brooks-jewish-slc-utah/

1902: It was reported today that that the public hearings being held by the committee appointed by Mayor Low to investigate the recent riot surrounding Rabbi Joseph, for which three policemen have been indicted for misconduct, have been concluded.

1903: Herzl reported on the Uganda offer and the Russian journey to the Greater Actions Committee at Basle

1904: “The United States Government has again formally proposed to Russia the opening of negotiations for the unrestricted recognition of American passports. In accordance with the law of the empire only foreign Jews of specified classes -- merchants having business connections in the country, -- are allowed to enter Russia, but quite a liberal policy has been pursued in making exceptions to the rule where legitimate reasons therefore are given.”

1905(20th of Av, 5665): French-German Assyriologist Julius Oppert passed away. Born in 1825 at Hamburg, he studied at Heidelberg, Bonn and Berlin, before graduating at Kiel in 1847. In 1848, Oppert went to France, where he was teacher of German at Laval and at Reims. In his spare time he continued his Oriental studies which he had begun while living in German. In 1851, he joined the French archaeological mission to Mesopotamia and Media under Fulgence Fresnel. On his return in 1854, he was naturalized as a French citizen in recognition of his services. He occupied himself with analyzing the results of the expedition, with special attention to the cuneiform inscriptions he had collected. During 1855, he published Écriture Anarienne, advancing the theory that the language spoken originally in Assyria was Turanian (related to Turkish and Mongolian), rather than Aryan or Semitic in origin, and that its speakers had invented the cuneiform writing system. Although the classification of the "Casdo-Scythian" inscriptions as Turanian would later be rejected by scholars, research would confirm Oppert in his identification of the distinctness of the Sumerian language (as he renamed it in 1869) and the origin of its script.During 1856 he published Chronologie des Assyriens et des Babyloniens. During 1857, he was appointed professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology in the school of languages connected with the National Library of France, and in this capacity he produced his Grammaire Sanscrite (1859). But his attention was chiefly given to Assyrian and cognate subjects. His account of the Fresnel mission and the results of his consequent study were published as Expédition Scientifique en Mésopotamie (1859-1863), with the second volume entitled Déchiffrement des inscriptions cunéiformes. During 1865 he published a history of Assyria and Chaldaea (Histoire des Empires de Chaldée et d'Assyrie) in the context of new archaeological findings. His Assyrian grammar, Éléments de la grammaire assyrienne, was published in 1868. During 1869 Oppert was appointed professor of Assyrian philology and archaeology at the College de France. During 1876, Oppert began to focus on the antiquities of ancient Media and its language, writing Le Peuple et la langue des Médes (1879). During 1881, he was admitted to the Academy of Inscriptions and in 1890, he was elected to its presidency.

1906(30th of Av, 5666): Rosh Chodesh Elul

1906:  Birthdate of Kansas City native Fritz Frelang one of the great cartoon animators who worked at Warner Brothers for over thirty years and was the man behind such icons as Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and Yosemite Sam to name but a few and was also the husband of Lily Freleng

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-friz-freleng-1621602.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/28/obituaries/isadore-friz-freleng-dies-creator-of-cartoons-was-89.html

1907: Dr. David Wolffsohn of Cologne, Germany “delivered the closing speech” today at the final session of the eighth International Zionist Congress in The Hague.

1907(11th of Elul, 5667): Arthur A. Housman, the son of Sigmund Housman, the husband of the former “Mrs. A.C. Hamilton and the head of the highly influential brokerage firm of A.A. Houseman and Company whose senior partners  included Sailing Baruch, the brother of Bernard Baruch, passed away unexpectedly today at his summer home in Babylon, Long Island.

1908: The Championship Committee of the Amateur Athletic Union including Theodore E. Straus, the Baltimore born son of Solomon and Rosalie Straus has decided this year to distribute the different swimming championship events among the clubs that make application for them.

1909(4th of Elul, 5669): Parshat Shoftim

1909: “Rabbis for Palestine Colony Plan” published today described plans for an upcoming meeting, the object of which is to start a movement to enlist the co-operation of the Jews” in the United State in the establishment of colonies in Palestine.”

1910: It was reported today that “the entry of Russian Jew immigrants at the port of Galveston, Texas will be regulated more closely in the future” because Department of Commerce and Labor officials “are convinced “the laws had been loosely enforced at the port where “three shiploads of Russian Jews have landed since June 24.”

1911: Following the outbreak of anti-Semitic riots in New South Wales, the British Home Secretary assured local Jewish leaders that no precautions would be overlooked by the civil and military authorities to prevent a recurrence of such outbreaks.

1911: Dedication of Temple Ahavath Israel in Trenton, NJ.

1911: The invitations for the wedding of John Nathan Levine of Waterville, Maine, a former Yale football player “were received” in New York City today.

1912: It was reported today that letters of administration have been granted to Percy, Jessie and Herbert Straus, the three sons of Mrs. Isidor Straus who died aboard the Titanic and did not have a will.

1913: Closing arguments in the Leo Frank case began today.

1914: In Vienna Dora Angel and her first husband Otto Soyka gave birth to Hedwig Soyka

1915: Birthdate of Sir Joshua Abraham Hassan, the first mayor and chief minister of Gibraltar.

1915: According to a report received in London from Petrograd, “owing to the occupation by the Germans of a great part of the pale of Jewish settlements and the inclusion of the remainder in the sphere of military operations, the condition of the Jews is critical.”

1916: The Jewish Academicians of America whose members included Bernard Drachman, David I. Macht, Georges Bacarat, J.D. Eisenstein and Meyer Waxman was organized today in New York City.

1917: After winning his two professional bouts featherweight Danny Frush lost for the first time today.

1917: It was reported today that the “Committee of Dutch Jews that has been formed in Amsterdam under the Chairmanship of Frederick Solomon Van Nierop, President of the Amsterdamsche Bank in Amsterdam” will work with Dr. Boris Bogen and Max Senior, American representatives the Joint Distribution Committee to distribute funds “transmitted from America for the relief of Jews in the warring countries. (Editor Note – the Netherlands was neutral in WW I which made them a good conduit for sending money to European Jews from the United States now that the U.S. was a belligerent)

1917: Birthdate of Leonid "Leo" Hurwicz the Polish born American economist and mathematician who won the Nobel Prize at the age of 90 – making him the oldest person to do this.

1918: The Second Battle of the Somme, the offensive that would lead to the end of WW I and in which Sir John Monash played a leading role began today.

1918: It was reported today the Secretary of Navy has issued a general order granting furloughs to Jewish sailors so that they can observe the high holy days which fall on September 7, 8, 14 and 15 which “a similar order has been issued by the War Department granting furloughs to Jewish soldiers in this country, in the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Panama and when possible on the Western Front.

1919: Rabbi Henry Barnston, the Dover, England born of Isadore and Eve (Mendelson) Barnston, who became the Rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel in Houston Texas and a lecturer at Tulane University married Ruth Kennard  after his first wife Ethel Kennard had passed away in 1917

1919: Today, The Committee on Public Information for which Walter Wanger made short propaganda films designed “to combat anti-war or pro-German sentiment in Allied Italy” and for which Edward Bernays served of its Latin News Service “was formally disestablished by an act of Congress”

1920(7th of Elul, 5680): Parashat Shofteim

1921: Birthdate of Reuven Feuerstein the Romanian born Israeli clinical, developmental, cognitive psychologist who is renowned for his theory of intelligence which states “it is not ‘fixed’, but rather modifiable”.

1921: Birthdate of Ruth Charlotte Barcan Marcus, “a philosopher esteemed for her advances in logic, a traditionally male-dominated subset of a traditionally male-dominated field…” (As reported by Margalit Fox)

1921: A Sephardic organization which was to include all Sephardic Jews from around the world was founded in Madrid. It planned to defend Jewish interests everywhere.  

1922: “Luise Millerin” a “silent historical film” featuring Fritz Kortner (born Fritz Nathan Kohn) and Reinhold Schunzel was released today in Germany.

1922: An appeal signed by Samuel Gompers, President, and eight Vice Presidents of the American Federation of Labor was issued today to organized labor, urging the fullest moral and financial support of the railroad shopmen now on strike.

1923: It was reported today that a bequest in amount equivalent to $5,500,000 was left by Jewish millionaire Jacques Elias “for Rumanian cultural and charitable purposes “has been formally handed over to the Rumanian Academy.”

1924: Birthdate of County Cork native David Marcus, “the Irish Jewish Editor” and husband of Ita Daly who described their life in I’ll Drop You a Line: A Life With David Marcus.

 

1925:Tumultuous scenes occurred at the Zionist Congress when Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of the Jewish Legion, which fought together with the British Army in Palestine during the war, took the floor. When the majority gave Jabotinsky permission to continue his speech after his time limit had expired, the Labor groups renewed their protest.”

1926: In Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Dawid Buschell and Miriam-Manya Zuckermann gave birth to Ben-Zion Büschel who has family moved to Palestine in 1933 where he gained fame as Israeli composer Ben-Zion Orgad

1927: It was reported today that Sacco and Vanzetti will be executed tomorrow after United States Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis refused to their request for a stay of execution.

1928: Twenty-five-year-old banker Herman F. Hahn, the Chicago born son of “Harry W. and Daisy (Kohn) Hahn” married Louise Getz with whom he had four children – Mary, Peter, John and Ann Hahn.

1928: “The Big Pond” the first play to be produced by Edwin H. Knopf” with a cast that included Kenneth MacKenna was scheduled to open at the Bijou Theatre today.

1928: Two days after they had passed away, Fanny (Jacobs) Michaels and her husband Max Michaels were buried at the Wilesden Jewish Cemetery.

1929(15th of Av, 5689): Tu B’Av

1929: “A funeral cortège, taking the form of a public demonstration for the dead Jewish boy, wound its way through the old city, with the police blocking attempts to break into the Arab quarters.”

1930: In an attempt to keep the peace on the first anniversary of the riots in which 133 Jews were killed, “the Palestine Government today confiscated all the issues of Aljamea al Arabis, the mouthpiece of the grand mufti which called for a general strike.

1931(8th of Elul, 5691): Seventy-seven-year-old Augusta Louis Ernst, the California born daughter of Samuel and Ernestine Anspach Louis,  the wife of Louis M. Ernst and the mother of Milton and Irving Ernst passed away today in New York after which she was buried at the Machpelah Cemetery in Ridgewood, NY.

1932: Birthdate of Menashe Kadishman, the native of Tel Aviv who became a renowned, award winning sculptor and painter.

http://new.menashekadishman.com/

http://www.timesofisrael.com/famed-israeli-artist-menashe-kadishman-dies-aged-82/

1933: Dr. Nahum Sokolow, president of the World Zionist Organization, asserted in opening the eighteenth world Zionist congress in Prague tonight that as a result of the persecutions in Germany the Jewish question must be brought before the international forum and fugitives must find a refuge in Palestine.

1934: Magistrate Benjamin Greenspan, the president of the Wall Street Synagogue announced today that “President Roosevelt has sent a greeting to American Jews preliminary to the observance of Rosh Ha Shanah which falls early next month.”

1934: “Bolstered by the advice of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York to reject all peace offers from Nazi Germany, the boycott commission of the third World Jewish Conference issued a communique tonight declaring the boycott would be intensified until German Jews got back all their rights of citizenship.”

1935: Speaking in Lucerne, Switzerland, David Ben-Gurion, Palestine labor leader, accused the British Government today of having committed "robbery" by artificially cutting the immigration quota of Jews seeking to enter Palestine.

1935: The “swing era” of the Big Band Sound starts when Jewish Jazz clarinet player Benny Goodman performs at the Palomar Theatre in Los Angeles.

1936: “Sing, Baby, Sing” a musical staring Gregory Ratoff, Tony Martin and the Ritz Brothers was distributed today in the United States by 20th Century Fox.

1936: “Synagogues and Jewish Temples in St. Paul announced special prayers would be said tonight” for the recovery of Governor Floyd B. Olson who has been hospitalized at Mayo Clinic.

1936: It was reported today that “the whole story of the sudden death of Captain Wolfgang Fuerstner has come to light and that contrary to the original reports he had actually committed suicide in his home “after he had been informed of his dismissal from active military service because he had Jewish Blood.”

1936: Tel Aviv Mayor Meier Dizengoff charged the British government with “playing a ‘diabolical game’ in handling its mandate over Palestine.  He told the British High Commissioner for Palestine that evidence showed the (British) administration was blocking the Jewish National Home.”  He was especially critical of the government’s behavior during the latest wave of Arab violence which has “introduced demoralization, anarchy and lawlessness into the country…”

1936: Thirty-nine-year-old Louis Billig a native of London, “a noted Islamic scholar and lecturer in Arabic was found shot to death at his home where authorities believe he was murdered “by terrorists as he sat as his study table.”

1936(3rd of Elul, 5696): Arab gunmen attacked a car filled with five Jews traveling towards Tel Aviv.  Seventeen-year-old Shoshana Laznicki was wound in the attack and three other Jews were killed by the Arabs.

1937: The Toronto Daily Star reported that Lou Herman will be appearing on a new program, the “Jewish Variety Hour” along with his three sisters who perform as a trio.

1937: The General Zionist Council Executive meeting in Zurich composed of both Zionist and non-Zionist members authorized the Jewish Agency's Executive to seek the establishment of a Jewish state and to try to arrange a Jewish-Arab conference to discuss the matter.

1937(14th of Elul, 5697): Parashat Ki Teitzei

1937(14th of Elul, 5697): Sixty-eight-year-old Polish born, Ohio State University graduate, Myer Applebaum who in 1885 came to the United States where “he maintained a real estate and insurance office in Cleveland” and served as “first secretary of the Hebrew Immigrants Aid Society” while raising a son, Saul who is a rabbi in Bradford, PA, passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/08/22/468912142.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1937(14th of Elul, 5697): Sixty-six-year-old Élie Halévy the French historian who was part of a distinguished Franco-Jewish family passed away today.

1937: A watchtower was built at Sha’ar Ha-Golan today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Gur#/media/File:Sha%27ar_Ha_Golan_003.jpg

1937: The Hon. Cyril Asquith, in a letter to The Times of London wrote that the pledges given to Jews by the British government explicitly promised to establish a Jewish state in the whole of Palestine. He explained that after the separation of Transjordan, the offer made to Jews under the Royal (Peel) Commission Report granted them less than 10 percent of the country's territory.

1938: Italy banned Jews from teaching in public and high schools.

1938: Thirty Jewish refugees from Austria arrived in Shanghai today, amidst reports that untold numbers more were on their way which would swell the Chinese city’s growing refugee population that include a large number of Jews from “Greater Gerrmany.”

1939: As Stalin maneuvers between the Germans on the one hand and the Poles, Brits and French, he ended talks with the latter about military cooperation and secretly agreed to the German’s “proposed non-aggression pact that would place half of Poland (east of the Vistula river), Latvia, Estonia, Finland, and Bessarabia in the Soviets' sphere of influence.” (The War and the Shoah were almost upon us.)

1939: When the World Zionist Congress reconvened its plenary session this morning Joshua Suprasky, leader of Group B of the General Zionists, one of the minority parties, announced that his party had decided to abstain from further participation

1940: Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger, the son of Ashkenazi Jews who would become Archbishop of Paris was baptized today.

1940: Junior Hadassah, the Young Women's Zionist Organization of America will award gold keys to forty-one members at the seventeenth annual convention which begins this evening in Chicago

1940(17th of Av, 5700): Leon Trotsky dies as a result of wounds suffered on August 20th at the hands of an assassin working for Stalin. Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in 1879, Trotsky was the son of a Jewish farmer from Odessa (Russia). Believing there was no future for the Jewish people as a people, he became a contemporary of Lenin's, helping him with his publication of Iskra (Spark). He was exiled and arrested many times before the revolution. Trotsky played an important role in the Communist government and only after Lenin's death did Stalin expel him from the party. He was exiled in 1928 first to Turkey, then Norway, and finally Mexico. Trotsky’s Jewish origins helped buttress the claims of anti-Semites that Communism was part of Jewish conspiracy.  At the same time, Trotsky Jewish origins were used by Stalin to demonize his opponents in the Soviet Union.

1940: Those being held at Gurs because they were sympathetic to the Nazis were released today, the same day on which the German inspection team arrived at what would become a French concentration camp for Jews.

1940: Étienne Szabo, an officer with the Free French married Violee(Bushnell) Szabo, an agent with SOE who would eventually be murdered at Ravnsbruck, a fate met by many non-Jewish as well as Jewish women.

1941: In Brooklyn, Abraham Block, a certified public accountant, and Ruth Block, a paralegal, gave birth to economist Walter Edward Block who holds a Ph.D. from Columbia and “is best known for his 1976 book Defending the Undefendable.”

https://mises.org/library/defending-undefendable

1941: “Specifications charging 3,409 cases of forgery in the designating petitions filed for John R. Davies candidate for the Republican nomination for Mayor against Mayor La Guardia, were filed today with the Board of Elections by Louis J. Lefkowitz and A. David Benjamin, chairmen of the law committees of the New York and Kings County Republican organizations.”

1941:  The authorities send 5,000 Jews to Drancy, the detention camp outside Paris.  This will be their last stop as the move to “the East” for “Re-settlement.”

1941: The German Army occupied the Black seaport city of Kherson which had a large Jewish population since the 19th century.

1941: “The Jadovno concentration the “first of 26 concentration camps operation by the Independent State of Croatia in which thousands of Serbs and Jews were imprisoned was closed today and turned over to the Italians.

1941(28th of Av, 5701): The Nazis murdered 3500 Jews from Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland, at Treblinka.

1941(28th of Av, 5701): Sixty-three-year-old Hadassah leader and Zionist Bella Pewsner leader passed away today.

http://www.jta.org/1941/08/22/archive/bella-pewsner-noted-zionist-dies-after-accident

1941: “Sun Valley Serenade” a musical produced by Milton Sperling and starring Milton Berle

1942(8th of Elul, 5702): The Jewish community at Ozorków, Poland, is destroyed.

1942: At Siedlce, Poland, “400 Ukrainians, joined by the Polish police and SS troops, surrounded the ghetto” as they prepared to ship the Jews to Treblinka and/or slaughter the rest of them. (Yad Vashem)

1942: Etty Hillesum returned to Westerbork.

1943: While serving in the U.S Army, Ed Koch, the future Mayor of New York, snapped after being taunted with the anti-Semitic epithet ‘Yiddy’ by a fellow soldier named LaRue. He challenged the bigot to a fight, which went down in full view of the entire company. According to Koch, “(The lieutenant) wanted to stop the fight but I wouldn’t let him. Even though I took the beating, I’m glad I fought.” (As reported by Forward staff)

1943: “The Seventh Victim” a horror film directed by Mark Robson and produced by Val Lewton was released in the United States by RKO.

1943: “Someone to Remember,” directed by Robert Siodmak and with music by Walter Schart was released today in the United States.

1944: “Song of Norway” a musical with a book co-authored by Milton Lazarus and featuring a performance by Siegfried “Sig” Arno opened today at the Imperial Theatre in New York where it ran for 860 performances.

1944: Rudolf Kastner “travelled from Budapest under German escort to the Swiss frontier and acted as intermediary for the first conversation between Kurt Becher and Saly Mayer, Swiss representative of the Joint D.C to discuss the price of abandoning the gassing.

http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/kastner.html

1944: Photo-journalist Julia Pirotte participated in the Marseille Uprising which began today.

http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/1134/features/faces-and-hands/

1944(2nd of Elul, 5704):  Sarah Vasen, first Jewish woman doctor in L.A. and first superintendent and resident physician of Kaspare Cohn Hospital (later Cedars-Sinai Hospital) passed away.

http://home.earthlink.net/~nholdeneditor/Sarah%20Vasen.htm

1944(2nd of Elul, 5704): Private Irwin Handled “perished” today “when U.S. Army Air Corps YB-29 Superfortress #41-36966 flew into ground 25 miles northeast of Alamagordo Army Airfield, New Mexico, on a training flight during

World War II.

1945: At the urging of Lt. Colonel Judah Nadich, the rabbi serving as senior Jewish chaplain in Europe, General Eisenhower issued an order reversing the policy that would have required Jewish displaced persons to return to their native countries. 

1945: In Harbin, Dr. Abraham Kaufman, was invited to attend formal reception by the Soviets to mark the end of WW II after which they kidnapped this “Russian-born medical doctor, community organizer and Zionist who helped protect some tens of thousands of Jews seeking safe-haven in East Asia from Nazi atrocities during World War II” and shipped off to a Gulag labor camp where he languished for eleve years.

1946: The cornerstone for Beit Berl, which has named after Berl Katznelson, was laid today.

1946(24th of Av, 5706): Rising Sun, IN native Dr. Louis Heyn, the internist who served on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati passed away today in Petoskey, MI.

1947: Today, 295 of the large number of Jews and part Jews, who left Berlin for Shanghai in 1939 after “having been told by the Nazi regime to get out” returned to Berlin today.

1948: Mitchell “Mike” Flint, a WW II naval combat pilot who had volunteered to fly with the IAF transferred out of squadron 101 to a dive-bombing squadron where he would be the most experienced pilot in this form of aerial combat.

1949; Nine Friedman “an Alabama-born civil rights activist of Mizrahi Jewish (Syrian Jewish) descent who worked full time to support her three kids after Aaron's father, who was of Sephardic Jewish (Lebanese-Jewish) descent, passed away” gave birth to “ American stage director, film director, and producer” Josephine R. "Josie" Abady, the holder of a BA from Syracuse and MFA from Florida State University who created “To Catch a Tiger,” “a short film inspired by the life of her Nina Friedman Abady before she died tragically at the age of 52 from breast cancer.

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/30/theater/josephine-abady-52-director-of-plays-on-and-off-broadway.html

1949: Gertrude Samuels describes the story of one group of participants in the seventh aliyah to Israel who are traveling from Munich, the home of Nazism, to Haifa. Of all the aliyot -- waves of immigration to Palestine -- the present is the most dramatic and, in terms of numbers and ultimate goals, perhaps the most important. To the desperate and the idealistic streaming in the new State of Israel is a miracle born of years of longing

1950: “My Daughter Joy” a film version of a novel by Irène Némirovsky, produced and directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Edward G. Robinson was released today in the United Kingdom.

1951(19th of Av, 5711): Fifty-five-year-od Rose Hirsch, the daughter of Harry and Minnie Hirsch ad the wife of Moris B. Wolf passed awa.

1956: Arthur Schwartz, “the Broadway and Hollywood composer and producer” and his wife gave birth to a son today at Mt. Sinai Hospital.

1959(17th of Av, 5719): Eighty-one-year-old Publisher and businessman Salman Schocken passed away. 

http://forward.com/articles/7288/man-of-the-book-reading-a-life-of-salman-schocken/

1959(17th of Av, 5719): Seventy-eight-year-old Sir Jacob Epstein, the American born British sculptor passed away.

http://www.academia.edu/732537/Carving_a_Legacy_The_Identity_of_Jacob_Epstein_1880-1959_

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/08/23/88813259.pdf

https://www.theartstory.org/artist-epstein-jacob.htm

1959: President Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. Today Hawaii has a Jewish population of 10,000 out of a total population of about 1.2 million people.  In 2002, Linda Lingle, 49, won the Hawaii governor's race.  Lingle was the first Republican to win the job in forty years and she was the first Jewish governor of the state. “Lingle says her Jewish heritage has aided her political career in Hawaii because it has given her a better understanding of diversity, helping her connect with citizens of different religious and ethnic backgrounds. Lingle is a member of a Jewish congregation on the island of Maui and attends Lubavitch services in Honolulu on the island of Oahu. There also are a Reform synagogue and a Conservative synagogue in Honolulu.”

1960(28th of Av, 5720): Seventy-four-year-old CCNY and Columbia educated award winning structural engineer David Barnard Steinman, the husband of Irene Hoffman and New York born son of “Louis Kelvin and Eva (Scollard) Steinman” passed away today.

https://www.asce.org/templates/person-bio-detail.aspx?id=11213

https://www.michigan.gov/mdot/0,4616,7-151-9623_11154-126386--,00.html.

1961(9th of Elul, 5721): Sixty-one-year-old Galveston born Mose M. Feld the “onetime newsboy who became a millionaire industrialist” and a leader of the Houston Jewish Community and supporter of Brandies University and the National Jewish Hospital in Denver suffered a fatal heart attack today.

1963: In a column published today in the Herald Tribune, Rowland Evans and Robert Novak charged that “The Jewish Telegraphic Agency had accused Senator Barry Goldwater, Arizona Republican, of anti-Semitism.”

https://www.jta.org/archive/jta-takes-issue-with-herald-tribune-report-on-goldwater-anti-semitism

1961: In what may have been some sort of record two Jewish hurlers, Sandy Koufax and Larry Sherry, pitch their team to defeat as the Giants beat “the Bums.”

1964: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for 53 year old Bernard Hart, the producer and stage manager whose hits included Broadway shows “Dear Ruth” and “Anniversary Waltz” who often worked with his more famous brother Moss Hart.

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/19/archives/bernard-hart-producer-dead-cosponsor-of-dear-ruth-53-worked-with.html

1964: In New York, Rabbi Seymour Fox who would become a professor of Jewish education at Hebrew University and Sara Kaminker-Fox who would become head of the Jerusalem City Council gave birth to Israeli director Eytan Fox who made Aliyah at the tender age of two.

1965:Wolfgang Lotz, the Mannheim, Germany born son of Hans and Helen Lotz who gained fame as the Israel spy Z’ev Gur-Aire who took on the persona of German businessman and supplied valuable information to Israel until his arrest by the Egyptians in 1965 was released from an Egyptian prison today, along with his wife, following the 1967 Six Day War.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/wolfgang-lotz

1967: In the Eastern District, David Feinstein formerly doing business as Eastern Distributors who claims to have no assets filed for bankruptcy today.

1969: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Rabbi Simon Federbush, the former chief rabbi of Finland.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/08/21/89023110.pdf

1969, Michael Dennis Rohan, a tourist from Australia and a member of the "Church of God," a Protestant sect, set fire to the mosque on the Temple Mount in an attempt to hasten the coming of the Messiah. He was judged insane and deported by Israel.

1971(30th of Av, 5731): Rosh Chodesh Elul

1971(30th of Av, 5731): Sixty-seven-year-old St. John’s University trained attorney Milton J. Goell, the holder of a BA from Harvard and Ph.D. from Yeshiva University and son Jacob Goel and Mary Samowitz who raised two children – James and Martha – with his wife Amy passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/23/archives/milton-j-goell.html

1972(11th of Elul, 5732): Ninety-two-year-old Pueblo, CO, born Yale graduate Eugene H. Lehman, a former instructor in English Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary and president emeritus of Monmouth College who was the husband of Elizabeth Novitzky Meyer with whom he had four children, Eugene, Jr., Godfrey, Rodger and Carol – passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/08/23/archives/eugehe-lehmah-headed-college-expresident-of-monmouthi-once.html?searchResultPosition=1

1973: In Moscow, Evgenia and Mikhail Brin, both graduates of Moscow State University (MSU) gave birth to Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google.

1974(3rd of Elul, 5734): Sixty-three-year-old Dr. Edward R. Schlesinger, who earned his M.D. at Columbia and Masters of Health Degree from Johns Hopkins before going to “head the maternal and child health programs at the University of Pittsburgh and who was the husband of Sylvia Schlesinger and the father of Doctors Stephen Schlesinger and Ann Louise Silver, passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/22/archives/e-r-schlesinger-63-child-health-expert.html

1974: Today, Abraham Hirschfeld, one of three candidates in the Democratic primary seeking to unseat Senator Jacob Javits in November, “attacked President Ford’s nomination of Nelson A. Rockefeller for the Vice Presidency.”

1975(14th of Elul, 5735): Eighty-eight-year-old educator Fanny Cohen, the New South Wales born daughter Dr. Algernon Aaron Cohen and Priscilla Cohen who “who was appointed M.B.E. for for her services to education passed away today in Sydney, Australia.

https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cohen-fanny-5709

1977: A small group of young West Bank intellectuals tried to set up a political faction aimed at challenging the Palestine Liberation Organization’s claim of being the sole representatives of the Palestine Arabs in the administered territories. The group vehemently opposed Yasser Arafat and blamed him for plunging Palestine into bloody strife and for the failure to safeguard the Arab people's political interests. (Sounds an awful lot like what some of Arafat’s critics are saying 25 years later.)

1977: In Washington the US State Department announced that the current disagreements on the question of the settlements in the administered areas did not harm the long-standing Israeli-American friendship.

1977: Moshe Dayan met secretly with King Hussein in London marking the first time that any member of the Begin government had direct talks with any Arab leader.

1979(28th of Av, 5739): “Department store executive” David W. Davidson passed away today.

1980(9th of Elul, 5740): Ninety-six-year-old Walter E. Sachs, who has been a partner in Goldman-Sachs since 1910 and who married actress Katharine Williamson in 1939 passed away today.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=990CE1DF1E3BE732A25750C2A96E9C94619FD6CF

1981: “An American Werewolf in London,” a “horror comedy film” directed by John Landis, with music by Elmer Bernstein was released in the United States by Universal Pictures.

1981: “Honky Tonk Freeway” a comedy directed by John Schlesinger, with music by Elmer Bernstein and co-starring Daniel Stern was released in the United States today by Associated Film Distribution.

1982: “350 French paratroopers arrived in Beirut, followed by 800 US Marines and Italian Bersaglieri plus additional international peacekeepers (for a total force of 2,130) to supervise the removal of the PLO, first by ship and then overland, to Tunisia, Yemen, Jordan, and Syria after which 8,500 PLO men were evacuated to Tunisia, and 2,500 by land to other Arab countries which ended the most recent attempt by Arab terrorist to take over a country having failed in the attempt to do the same thing in Jordan.

1983 La Cage aux Folles opened on Broadway at the Palace Theatre today. It could be seen as “Jewish affair” since the book was by Harvey Fierstein, the music and lyrics were by Jerry Herman and the director was Arthur Laurents

1983: Eighty-six-year-old Sir Francis Edward Evans, the Belfast native who served as the United Kingdom’s Ambassador to Israel from 1951 to 1954, passed away today.

1987: In Santa Monica, Jody and Taylor Kasch gave birth to actor Cody Kasch the brother of Max Kasch.

1987: “The Big Easy” a crime movie set in New Orleans starring Ellen Barken was released today in the United States by Columbia Pictures.

1988(8th of Elul, 5748): Seventy-eight-year-old H.G. Adler who survived three different concentration camps, escaped from the Communists and became an award winning author passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/24/obituaries/hans-g-adler-78-survived-nazis.html

1988(8th of Elul, 5748): Eighty-seven-year-old Lena Shimshak, the wife of Morris J. Clurman and the mother of Bernice and Herman Clurman passed away today after which she was buried in the Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, Queens.

1990(30th of Av, 5750): Rosh Chodesh Elul

1991: As violence continued for another day following a traffic accident that had resulted in the death of a seven year old boy, hundreds of marchers led by Al Sharpton gathered at 770 Eastern Parkway--Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters, carrying anti-Semitic signs, attacking police with bricks, bottles and bullets while burning an Israeli flag. Lubavitchers took to the streets in response. Groups of blacks and Jews assailed each other with bottles.

1991: After premiering at Cannes in May, “Barton Fink” directed, produced and written by ty Joel and Ethan Coen and starring Michael Lerner was released today in the United States.

1992: “Lightsleepers” featuring Victor Garber as “Tis Brooke” was released today in the United States by Fine Line Features.

1994(14th of Elul, 5754): Seventy-two-year-old legal scholar Albert P. Blaustein passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/23/obituaries/albert-p-blaustein-a-drafter-of-constitutions-dies-at-72.html

1994(14th of Elul, 5754): German born American sociologist Rose Laub Coser passed away.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0005_0_04652.html

1995(25th of Av, 5755): Five Israelis – 26-year-old Rivka Cohen, 56 year old Hannah Naeh, 46 year old Joan Davenney, 35 year old Police Chief Superintendent Noam Eisenman - were killed and at least 100 injured including 38 year old Yona Peter Malina who would die ten years later,  when an Arab bomb ripped apart a bus in a residential neighborhood of Jerusalem.

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/22/world/bus-bombing-kills-five-in-jerusalem-100-are-wounded.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

1996: “Waiting for Guffman” with a screenplay co-authored by Eugene Levy who also co-starred in the comedy along with Bob Balaban premiered today at the Boston Film Festival.

1998(29th of Av, 5758): Ninety-year-old Wanda Toscanini Horowitz, the daughter of Conductor Arturo Toscanini and the wife of pianist Vladimir Horowitz passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1998/08/22/473278.html?pageNumber=13

1998: “The Blade” a film based on the Marvel comics character created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan, produced by Avi Arad, written David S. Goyer and co-starring Stephen Dorf whose father was Jewish was released today in the United States.

1999(9th of Elul, 5759): Ninety-one-year-old Leo Castelli, the son of a Jewish family from Trieste, who became a leading New York art dealer passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/23/arts/leo-castelli-influential-art-dealer-dies-at-91.html

2000: “Remembering Kunianksky, A Loyal Friend” published today provided a tribute to Harry P. Kuniansky, a standout on the University of Georgia Bulldog football team.

http://onlineathens.com/stories/082100/dog_0821000032.shtml#.V7fJS4-cF9B

2001: Hamas claimed responsibility for today’s bombing in downtown Jerusalem during which one person was injured.

2001: Palestinian terrorists exploded at least one bomb in the Russian Compound neighborhood in Jerusalem.

2003: “Because Roy Moore, Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, refused to remove his Ten Commandments monument by the August 20th deadline, the associate Justices of Alabama Supreme Court unanimously overrule Moore and order the monument removed by the building's manager.” (Anybody who remembers Governor Wallace and his ilk know that officials in Alabama have a lot of trouble with the Constitution and obeying the law)

2004: “Fire swept through a Jewish community center in eastern Paris in the early morning hours today after arsonists broke into the building and scrawled swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans inside. It was the latest in a wave of neo-Nazi acts sweeping the country.”

2005: The Sunday edition of the Washington Post featured a review of A History of the Jews in the Modern World by Howard M. Sachar that covers events from the 18th century to present times. 

2005: The New York Times featured a review of The Tatoo Artist by Jill Ciment and Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth by Steven G. Kellman.  Roth is best known as the author of Call It Sleep which is now considered a classic in Jewish-American Literature.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/21/books/review/the-tattoo-artist-an-illustrated-woman.html

2005: Israeli poet Dahlia Ravikovitch was found dead in her apartment. Initial reports speculated the cause of death to be suicide, but the autopsy determined the cause to be sudden heart irregularities. A literary celebrity in Israel, Dahlia Ravikovitch who was born in 1936 is barely known in the United States, and far too small a presence in the English-reading world. Ravikovitch is not only one of the towering figures of 20th-century Israeli poetry, but also one of the strongest female poets in the history of Hebrew verse; she was so present here that she used to make frequent appearances on television, in which she was asked for her views on political or military developments. Long active in the peace movement, she often mixed the contemporary with the ancient and the biblical in her poetic responses to the news. While Ravikovitch is not an easy poet or a simple one, there is an approachability to the best of her work, and also, fortunately, to the best of a new translation entitled Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch; translated by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld. One of her strongest poems “Like Rachel” is quoted below.

Like Rachel

To die like Rachel

when the soul shudders like a

bird,

wants to break free.

Behind the tent, in fear and

dread,

Jacob and Joseph speak of her,

a-tremble.

All the days of her life

turn head over heels inside her

like a baby that wants to be

born.

How grueling. How

Jacob's love ate away at her

with a greedy mouth.

As the soul takes leave now,

she has no use for any of that.

Suddenly the baby screeches,

Jacob comes into the tent -

but Rachel does not even sense

it.

Rapture washes over her face,

her head.

* * *

Then did a great repose descend

upon her.

The breath of her nostrils would

not stir a feather.

They laid her down among

mountain stones

and made her no lament.

To die like Rachel,

that's what I want.

2006 (27 Av, 5766): Yahrzeit of Mathilde Schechter. Schechter “was the United States founder of the US National Women's League of Conservative Judaism in 1918. She was married to Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schechter, a prominent rabbi who was Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary. She founded and taught at the Columbia Religious and Industrial School for Jewish Girls. After assisting Henrietta Szold in creating Hadassah, Schechter later served as its national chairwoman of education. The Mathilde Schchter Residence Hall (MSRH), named for Schechter, contains undergraduate housing for students of the Jewish Theological Seminary's List College.” She passed away in 1924.

2006 (27 Av, 5766): Yizhar Smilansky passed away. Known by his pen name S. Yizhar or Samech Yizhar, he was an Israeli writer and a great innovator in Modern Hebrew literature. His pen name S. Yizhar was given to him by the poet and editor Yitzhak Lamdan, when in 1938 he published Yizhar's first story Ephraim Goes Back to Alfalfa in his literary journal Galleons. From then on, Yizhar signed his works with his pen name.

2006: On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Friz Feleng, Dan Miller remembered the great animator in “Puttin’ On the Friz.”

http://danmiller.typepad.com/dan_millers_notebook/friz-freleng.html

2006: The New York Times reported that Dina Najmin aged 38, a wife; mother of three and an expert in Jewish bioethics will become the spiritual leader of Kehilat Orach Eliezer. 

2006: Starting today, Max, Kellerman did at least two nights of audition shows at 7 PM for WEPN (1050) 1050 ESPN Radio in New York City, hosting one night with Sid Rosenberg

 Rabbi David Weiss Halivni is a scholar of Talmud and a Holocaust survivor, originally of Sighet, Romania. ...2007: The man accused of stalking Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel and dragging the Holocaust scholar out of a hotel elevator earlier this year was ordered to stand trial for hate crimes. A San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled there was enough evidence to try 23-year-old Eric Hunt on six felony charges including attempted battery, stalking, kidnapping, false imprisonment, elder abuse and false imprisonment of an elder. Each charge carries a hate crime allegation.

2007: Fatah’s armed wing, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades announced that it would no longer honor understandings reached with Israel and called on its members to carry weapons to defend themselves against the IDF.  The announcement was seen as a challenged to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ efforts to dismantle the Aksa Martyrs Brigades and other Fatah-linked armed groups in the West Bank.  In other words, this more internecine Arab feuding camouflaged as part of the war against the Zionist entity.

2008: The New York Times included a review Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power by Jonathan Mahler managing editor of The Forward

2008 (20 Av 5768): President Shimon Peres is spending his 85th birthday in southern Israel's Negev desert as part of his crusade to promote growth in the sparsely populated arid region. Peres is celebrating his birthday based on the Hebrew Calendar, not the secular calendar.  He was born on August 2, 1923, which was 20 Av.

2008: Today the state of Israel informed the High Court of Justice that it will shift the route of the separation barrier in the Judean desert so that 4,000 dunams of the roughly 70,000 dunams that were until now to be located on the "Israeli" side will now be on the West Bank side. At the same time, it made clear that the settlement of Kedar would remain on the "Israeli" side of the barrier in accordance with the original route.

2008: The Beaux Arts Trio with Menahem Pressler on piano performed its final American concert today at Tanglewood.

2009: In Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah hosts a Special Welcoming Friday Night Service for Rabbi Todd Thalblum as he settles in to his new pulpit.

2009: Today The London Beth Din ordered the board of an Orthodox synagogue in Sydney to make a six-figure payout to a prominent rabbi it tried to lay off. The ruling by the rabbinical court ends a bitter dispute between the Mizrachi Synagogue in Bondi and Rabbi Moshe Gutnick, who won an injunction in the New South Wales Supreme Court in March to stop synagogue members from voting on a resolution to lay him off. In a statement, Gutnick, who worked part time as the synagogue's rabbi while also serving as a judge on the Sydney Beth Din and rabbinic administrator of the New South Wales Kashrut Authority, said he had been “fully vindicated” by the ruling. The cash-strapped synagogue's board had argued that it could no longer afford to retain the services of the rabbi, who was first appointed to his post in 1987.But Gutnick had argued that he was granted life tenure, which entitled him to retain his salary until he is 80. The board argued there was never a formal agreement. The three judges ruled that although there was no “clear indication as to what was agreed between the parties,” Gutnick should receive his annual salary of $67,000 until he reaches the normal retirement age of 65 -- a total of $1 million over 15 years. But because the synagogue is facing financial ruin, the judges then ruled that Gutnick should be paid $168,000 immediately and about $4,000 a month from 2012 until 2024.The judges also said Gutnick is entitled to recover costs incurred during the injunction proceedings because the synagogue board “bluntly refused” to resolve the issue in front of a rabbinical court “despite repeated requests.” Gutnick is the brother of Joseph Gutnick, who was a special emissary of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe and a close confidant of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

2009(1st of Elul, 5769): Rosh Chodesh Elul

2009(1st of Elul, 5769): Edward René David Goldsmith widely known as Teddy Goldsmith, an Anglo-French environmentalist, writer and philosopher passed away. The eldest son of Major Frank Goldsmith, and elder brother of the financier Sir James Goldsmith, Edward Goldsmith was the founding editor and publisher of The Ecologist. Known for his outspoken views opposing industrial society and economic development, he expressed a strong sympathy for the ways and values of traditional peoples.  His father was Jewish.  His mother was not.

2009: “My One and Only” a comedy biopic starring Logan Lerman was released in the United States today.

2009(1st of Elul, 5769): Ninety-three-year-old Robert Bendheim, “the former president and chairman of he textile company M. Lowenstein Corporation and the president of the Leon Lowenstein Foundation, a charity named for his uncle passed away today after having led a full life that included graduating from Princeton, attending the Harvard Business School and serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy during WW II.

2010: A revival of Ira Levin’s “Deathtrap” opened at the Noel Coward Theatre in London.

2010: Adam Burstain, son of Todd and Jennifer Burstain, was called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA.

2010: During today’s national elections in Australia, Joshua Frydenberg, became Australia’s first Jewish lawmaker for the federal Liberal Party.

2011: Beth El Hebrew Congregation in Alexandria, VA, is scheduled to host its Perspective Members Brunch

2011: Israeli and New York-based choreographer Deganit Shemy & Company are scheduled to present a Work-in-Progress Performance of 2 Kilos of Sea at LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island.

 

2011: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Submission by Amy Waldman

 

2011: Members of Knesset from Israel's leading opposition party, Kadima, urged the cabinet today to launch a military campaign in the Gaza Strip, following the barrage of rockets that struck Israel over the weekend and the deadly terrorist attack that had taken place on August 18.

2011: The escalation in southern Israel continued this morning when six rockets and a barrage of mortars hit near the city of Ashkelon. The Iron Dome system successfully shot down three rockets. Rockets also fell in several open areas, and hit a school building in Be'er Sheva, causing no injuries as students are currently on summer break. Earlier, a Grad rocket directly struck a home in the southern city of Be'er Sheva last night, killing one person and seriously wounding four. 26 people are being treated for shock.The Popular Resistance Committees claimed responsibility for the Be'er Sheva rocket attacks while Hamas claimed responsibility for the Ofakim rocket attacks. More than 70 rockets and mortar shells were fired at southern Israel from the Gaza Strip since August 18, killing one person and injuring a large number of people. Extensive property damage has also been reported. Last night, the forum of eight senior cabinet ministers convened to discuss the escalation in the south. A senior diplomatic official in Jerusalem said participants discussed the possibility of additional military strikes against terror organizations in the Gaza Strip. The anonymous source also stressed containment efforts. “No one wants an Operation Cast Lead 2,” he said.

2011: Over a thousand people crowded a Kfar Saba cemetery today, to bid farewell to four people gunned down during Thursday’s combined terror attack near Eilat that left eight Israelis dead. Moshe Gez, 53, and Flora Gez, 52, as well as Dov Karlinski, 58, and Shula Karlinski, 54 were on their way to Eilat for a holiday on August 18 when they came under fire from terrorists who had infiltrated Israel from the Sinai Peninsula. Mourners described sisters Shula and Flora as almost angelic figures, two career nursery schoolteachers who were also the best of friends. The two and their husbands Moshe and Dov were described as the best of friends who spent nearly every day together. It appeared that some also took some solace in knowing that they passed away alongside those who they were closest to. During his eulogy, family friend Itzik Yoel said “they were always together in life, and they’re together again now. They helped each other in their daily lives, and there’s no way to describe how great they were or how much love they shared, or how many great friends they had from across the entire Israeli spectrum.” Yoel continued “they were on heir way to a vacation, when they [terrorists] hurt them. They hurt innocent people, happy people, who died in a hail of gunfire without any ability to defend themselves.” He finished “fate destined that you would be taken together and that even in the heavens, the four of you will be together forever, and spend your days like you did here: together.” Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon told the mourners that they were killed at the hands of cowards who struck at civilians….These are the same blood-drenched hands of the terrorists living in the Gaza Strip, who are a continuation of the generations of Israel haters. There goal is only to murder Jews because they are Jews.” Ayalon added “our response to the terror is that the state of Israel will liquidate anyone who harms or even asks to harm its citizens.” Other politicians in attendance included Labor Mks Shelly Yachimovich, Amir Peretz, and Isaac Hertzog, as well as businessman and Labor Party member Arel Margalit. Shula and Dov’s son Yaniv Karlinsky told the crowd that “there is no way to describe the sorrow and the pain. There aren’t other people like you in the world - full of light, warmth, and love. You were picked apart like flowers in a field by murderous, heartless terrorists. There is nothing that can fill the space you left behind.” Idan Gez, said that ever since he heard the news of his parents’ death “it has been very difficult for me to look forward, everything is full of question marks. We have been left here alone.” Addressing his deceased parent, Gez said “thanks to you, I know what it means to be a family, and the meaning of love, happiness, and a strong work ethic. You must know that I will build a house in Israel and I will raise children like you raised me. Thank you for everything you did, and for raising me to be the person I am today.” In a special message to this father, Gez said “father, just like I was everything to Mom, you were everything to me and I never told you that enough.” He added that he took some solace knowing “that Shula and Dubik are with you.” 

2011: Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly was among those who spoke at the funeral of Sally Goodgold, the civic leader who lobbied for affordable housing. (As reported by David Dunlap)

2011: The annual ceremony commemorating “George Washington’s famed letter to the Jews of Touro Synagogue was held today in Newport, RI.

http://forward.com/articles/141627/pressure-grows-to-display-george-washingtons-famed/

2012: Shlomo Bar, Dan Shtag, Sharona Elimelech and the Desert Drummers are scheduled to perform songs by Uzi Hitman, Yoni Rechter, Nurit Hirsh, Miriam Yellin Shteklis, Nahum Vardi and Leah Goldberg in Hazan Hall as part of the Oud Festival.

2012: Fifty-seven-year-old legal scholar Cass Sunstein completed his three years of service as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

2012: “Israel is “troubled” by the entry of Egyptian tanks into the northern Sinai Peninsula without coordination with Israel, a violation of the terms of the 33-year-old peace treaty between the two countries, and has asked Egypt to withdraw them, an Israeli government official said today.”

2012: For the first time, criminal charges have been pressed against a German rabbi for performing circumcisions, a Jewish weekly reported today.

2012: More than 600 rabbis displayed their support for US President Barack Obama's reelection bid today joining a campaign initiative called Rabbis for Obama. Obama for America announced today that Rabbis for Obama is designed to “engage and mobilize grassroots supporters.”

2013: A letter, of questionable authenticity  which describes the transportation of 5,000 Jews daily to the Treblinka extermination camp is scheduled to be auctioned off today in London (As reported by JTA)

2013: The Washington, DC JCC is scheduled to host “Atonement: Stories about Confession, Redemption and Making Amends” in which 8 “morally challenged individuals tell true stories about holding themselves accountable for their mistakes and wrong-doings.

2013(15th of Elul, 5773): Ninety-five-year-old Sid Bernstein who played a key role in the early American visits of the Beatles passed away today.(As reported by Allan Kozinn)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/arts/music/sid-bernstein-who-helped-import-the-beatles-dies-at-95.html

2013(15th of Elul, 5773): Seventy-two-year-old Eddie Goldstein – “little Honest Joe King Edward” – who “opened the first swap shop in Dallas, TX passed away today.

http://andersonclaytonbrosterrell.tributes.com/our_obituaries/Eddie-King-Edward-Goldstein--96298719

2013: In “Hasidic Jews Turn Up Pressure on City to Accommodate Their Traditions” published today, Joseph Berger examines the growing power of the Ultra-Orthodox in New York City while offering no differentiation in the use of the term “Hasidic.”

2013: “Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Israel’s chief envoy to peace talks, met clandestinely this morning with Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel, Israeli officials said. A second meeting, which took place Tuesday evening at an undisclosed location in Jerusalem, included Washington’s point man Martin Indyk, the officials said.

2014: L.A.’s Yiddish Tango Club which “infuses klezmer with the fresh sensuality of Argentine tango” is scheduled to perform this evening in Los Angeles.

2014: Two days after the latest cease fire was broken Hamas rockets, “Israel approved the call-up of 10,000 IDF reservists today.”

2014(25th of Av, 5774): Eighty-nine-year-old Helen Bamber, “the comforter of torture victims” passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/world/helen-bamber-therapist-to-torture-victims-dies-at-89.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHedThumbWell&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2014: The armed wing of Hamas announced today that three of its senior commanders - Mohammed Abu Shamalah, Raed al-Attar and Mohammed Barhum - were killed in a pre-dawn Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.(As reported by Uzi Barach)

2015: In Atlanta, Timothy Frilingos the Berman Museum’s Director of Exhibitions is scheduled to lead a tour of the museum’s latest Southern Jewish History Exhibition “Eighteen Artifacts: A Story of Jewish Atlanta.”

2015: “Jewish American singer Matisyahu confirmed his participation in a Spanish music festival” today “two days after organizers apologized for canceling his appearance following an uproar by pro-Palestinian groups.”

2015: “A former Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak, revealed new details to his biographers about how close Israel came to striking Iran’s military facilities in 2010, 2011 and 2012 and why it did not despite his and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s desire to do so, according to interview excerpts aired on Israeli television” tonight. (As reported by Jodi Rudoren)

2015: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the funeral of Joan Lipsky is scheduled to take place at Temple Judah followed by burial at Eben Israel Cemetery.

http://www.cedarmemorial.com/Obituary/2015/Aug/Joan-M-Lipsky/

2016: “From The Deep” a play “inspired by the story of Gilad Shalit and Ilan Shaliach” is scheduled to be performed for the last time at The New York International Fringe Festival FringeNYC.

2016: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe by Joseph E. Stiglitz

2016: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center a performance by Dwight Sora who is playing the role Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara saved thousands during the Holocaust by issuing visas that allowed them to leave Lithuania.

2016: The UKJF is scheduled to host a screening of “We’ll Never Have Paris” directed by Simon Helberg at the JW3 Cinema.

2016: “One Crown Heights,” a neighborhood festival “sponsored by civic groups and elected officials including the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Children’s Museum” but disapproved of by Norman Rosenbaum whose brother Yankel was killed during the riots is scheduled to be held today to commemorate the 25th anniversary of what one source euphemistically described as “the racial unrest that tore through the Brooklyn neighborhood.”

2016: The Chicago production of “War Paint, a “musical focuses on the lives and rivalry between Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubenstein” came to an end today.

https://www.goodmantheatre.org/warpaint

2016: In Newport, RI, The Annual Meeting of the Touro Synagogue Foundation is scheduled to be held this morning at the Levi Gale House followed by the annual reading of George Washington's historic letter "To the Hebrew Congregation at Newport" 1:00 pm.

http://www.tourosynagogue.org/

2017: The Hillel at the University of Iowa is scheduled to host and evening of hot dogs, hamburgers and whole lot more for incoming freshman and returning Hawkeyes.

2017 Five police officers were lightly injured overnight as dozens of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators who do not want to serve in the IDF pelted them with stones and bottles during rioting in Jerusalem, police said in a statement today

2017: In Louisiana, “The East Jefferson Interfaith Clergy Association (EJICA), a group of Metairie and Kenner clergy men and women representing a number of denominations and faith groups including Congregations Beth Israel (Orthodox), Gates of Prayer (Reform) and Shir Chadash Conservative Congregation” is scheduled to held a prayer vigil tonight “in order to denounce the white nationalists, anti-Semites and neo-Nazis who marched last week in Charlottesville, which resulted in the overflow of violence and the death of a counterprotestor as the hands of one of the so-called alt-right.” (As reported by CCJN the source for everything Jewish on the Louisiana Gulf Coast.

2017: In response to poplar demand, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Dough” in London

2017: American University graduate Ross B. Levinsohn, the “son of Joyce (née Salton) and WW II veteran Jay Douglas Levinsohn” “was named the publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times by tronc” today.

2018: Following yesterday’s skirmish on the Gaza border that began when a terrorist fired “live rounds” at IDF troops in Israel, “talks on a long-term ceasefire between Israel and Hamas” appeared to be stalled with no end in sight.

2018: Yad Vashem is scheduled to continue hosting its newest exhibition “Flashes of Memory – Photography During the Holocaust.”

2018: The Penultimate session of “the four annual Docu. Text festival” is scheduled to take place at the National Library of Israel.

http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/library/events/EventsCalendar/Pages/docutext-04.aspx

2019: Two days after he had passed away funeral services are scheduled to held for Sol Maikon, “the dean of traditional Judaism” in Cedar Rapids and one of the last surviving members of Beth Jacob at Eben Israel Cemetery.

2019: Klezkanada is scheduled to host an evening of dancing preceded by the presentation “Yiddish Glory – The Lost Songs of World War II.

2019: Those attending the McGill/Klezkanada Academic Seminar are schedule to being their day study “The Music of the Hasidim” and end with an “interview with Irena Klepfisz.”

2019: In the morning the JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to off Intermediate Bridge Lessons” following in the evening by a dinner theatre performance of “Rogers and Hammerstein’s ‘South Pacific”

2019: “Carry/jump/catch by Club Guy & Roni‘s Poetic Disasters Club” is scheduled to open in Amsterdam.

https://aicf.org/event/carry-jump-catch/

2020(1st of Elul, 5780): Rosh Chodesh Elul

2020: “A team of three Israeli scientists has pioneered a virus testing procedure that they say is faster and more efficient than any now in use, testing samples in pools of as many as 48 people at once.” (As reported by David M. Halbfinger)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/health/fast-coronavirus-testing-israel.html

2021(13th of Elul, 5781): Parashat Ki Taytzay

2021: Temple Sinai is scheduled host an “Accessible Havdalah Hike” at the Redwood Regional Park in Oakland, CA.

2021: Temple Beth David of the South Shore is scheduled to host and Open House Barbecue and Havdalah service.

2021: “A surge in COVID-19 cases in Israel is fueling a black market for counterfeit coronavirus tests and vaccination certificates, with some selling for several hundred dollars apiece.”

2021: Recent law school Geula Malka spends her first Shabbat as member of law officer after having “officially joined the police on August 19 as to honor the memory of her daughter Hadas Malka, a Border Policewoman who was murdered four years ago during a terrorist attack in Jerusalem.

2022: The Museum of Jewish Heritage is scheduled to host author Rita Gabis discussing her latest work A Guest at the Shooter’s Banquet.

https://mjhnyc.org/events/a-guest-at-the-shooters-banquet-book-talk/

2022(24th of Av, 5782): Observance of the Yahrzeit of Deb Levin, an ashish chayil and some much more

2022: LIVE AT MISTER KELLY'S the true story of two visionary Jewish nightclub owners working side by side to change the face of entertainment is scheduled to be screened today as part of the Neranenah Concert and Culture Series

2022: As part of its “In Her Majesty's Kingdom - Celebrating the Rich History of Anglo-Jewry” series, the National Library of Israel is scheduled to host a lecture by art historian Monica Bohm-Ducehn on “Insiders/Outsiders: Jewish Artists in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day.”

2022: Due to the possibility of inclement weather, in Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel has decided to hold its annual picnic indoors with family fun and games scheduled to take place in the Melton Gymnasium and with food and snacks in the Schottenstein Auditorium.

2022: “Israel is scheduled to raise the quota of work permits for Gazan Palestinians to 15,500 today, expanding a policy that defense officials view as a means of maintaining quiet on the country’s southern front.”

2022: The 42nd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy is scheduled to begin today.

2022: The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host a walking tour on the Lower East Side which explores “landmarks in the movement for social and economic reform on the Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century.”

2022: Yochi Rappeport, executive director of Women of the Wall, is scheduled to speak about the group of Jewish women from Israel and around the world who strive to achieve equal rights in prayer and religious practice, as well as her own journey today at The Temple-Tifereth Israel in Beachwood, OH.

https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/local_news/women-of-the-wall-s-rappeport-to-speak-on-sacred-feminism/article_281f7eb8-18c5-11ed-8d1f-7f319148cb24.html

2023 : Collector Robert Hartman is scheduled to lead a guided tour of "The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries," illuminating the life and impact of the multifaceted luminary and great Jewish sage across continents and cultures through rare manuscripts and books. Exhibition highlights include manuscripts in Maimonides’s own handwriting, a carved 11thcentury door to the Torah ark from Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue, and beautifully illuminated medieval manuscripts.

2023: The Boston Synagogue is scheduled to host the next session of “Not Your Bubbe’s Book Club” hosted by Richelle Gewertz who combines a discussion of a book from the Jewish Book Council’s list of hottest new reads with a good glass of wine.

2023: Chef Mark Liberman of Mägo and chef Aliza Grayevsky Somekh of Bishulim SF are scheduled to team up to showcase the culinary charms of their homelands of Colombia and Israel, respectively at the Mago Restaurant in Oakland, CA.

2023: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Baroness Ruth Deech on “Jews, Israel and the House of Lords.

2023: The Reading Room and Exhibition of the Wiener Holocaust Library is scheduled to be closed today for the first of two days of “maintenance works.”

2024: Chabad is scheduled to host “The Foundation of Wisdom: Rambam on Torah Study,” which this week will look at “No Famine, No War: Rambam on the Messianic Era.’

2024; Temple Judea in Palm Beach Gardens, FL is scheduled to host a “Lunch and Learn with Rabbi Rose on the topic of The Spirituality of Self-Care.”

2024: The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to hold ‘a virtual seminar with urban historian Bradley Shaw on the life of businessman and philanthropist Jacob Schiff!’ who always donated “at least 10% of his earnings to charity.’

2024: As the pro-Hamas demonstrators are scheduled to continue their protests during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago all decent people mourn “Alex Dancyg, 75, Yagev Buchshtav, 35, Chaim Peri, 79, Yoram Metzger, 80, Nadav Popplewell, 51, and Avraham Munder, 78 whose corpses were recovered yesterday who had died as captives of Hamas.

2024: “Water Tower Murder,” “The Little Prince: A Star is Born” and “Agent of Happiness” are three of the movies scheduled to be shown on the fourth night of the Documentary Film Festival at the National Library of Israel.

2024: Rabbi David Cohn-Henriquez is scheduled to conduct “a short Torah Study session” at the Wrong Iron” after the “You Adults of Shir Chadash” have had “a couple o drinks” the first of which is “on the house.’

2024:As August 21st  begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 320 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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