11 BCE: According to some sources, the day on which Herod
dedicates the renovated Holy Temple in Jerusalem. According to Heinrich Graetz,
the building project began in 20 BCE, the 18th year of Herod’s
reign. A year and half later, (18 BCE) the inner part of the Temple was
finished. It took another eight years to build the outer walls, courts and
galleries. The dedicatory celebration took place on “the very anniversary of
the day when twenty years previously, Herod, with blood stained hands, had made
himself master of Jerusalem.” Herod reportedly built this modernized
version of the Second Temple because he loved to build things and because he
was trying to show his Roman masters that he was the beloved ruler of his
people. Regardless, in one sense, Herod sealed the doom of the Temple and
the Jewish people because he placed it under the protection of Rome. What
Rome protected Rome could destroy.
364: Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor. He
was the last Emperor to rule the Empire alone. A month later, he would
appoint his brother Valens Emperor in the East, while he would rule over the
Western portion of the Empire. Valentinian belonged to a minority sect called
the Arians. In an attempt to keep peace in the Empire, in 371 he issued a
proclamation allowing Christians and Arians to practice their religious belief
without incurring any “political disadvantage. This toleration was extended to the
Jews.”
1147: The Crusaders massacred the Jews of Wurtzburg; so
much for all of those tales of knights and chivalry.
1226: At the Battle of Benevento, King Manfred of Sicily
was killed during the conquest of the Kingdom of Charles I of Anjou who in 1227
had Moses of Palermo “learn the Latin language in order that Moses might
translate a collection of medical works preserved in Castel dell' Novo at
Naples, the residence of Charles of Anjou.”
1266: Battle of
Benevento: Manfred, King of Sicily, the king of Sicily, was killed during the
conquest of the kingdom by Charles I of Anjou, count of Anjou.
Alicante was incorporated into Castile.
1361: Birthdate of Wenceslaus IV who as Emperor failed to
continue the Imperial protection of the Jews of Luxembourg led to their
expulsion in 1391.
1418: Emperor Sigsmund “issued commands to all the German
princes and magistrates, cities and subjects, to allow” the Jews the full
enjoyment of the privileges and immunities given them by the Pope who had
denounced attacks on the persons and property of the Jews and the practice of
forced conversion.
1498: Isaac Abravanel completed "Mashmia'
Yeshu'ah" (Proclaiming Salvation), one of three works “devoted to the
exposition of the Jewish belief concerning the Messiah and the Messianic age.”
1569: Pius V issued Hebraeorum gens, a papal bull that
accused the Jews of a variety of evil deeds including the practice of magic.
1569: Pope Pius V ordered the eviction of all Jews
from the Papal States (excluding Rome and Verona) who refuse to convert. Most
of the approximately 1000 Jewish families decided to emigrate.
1591: “Vespasiano I Gonzaga, Duke of Sabbioneta an enlightened
ruler, educated in Greek, Latin, history, Italian literature, the Talmud, and
even Kabbalah who permitted the rise of the Foà printing house, but also
remained an enlightened protector of the Jews and ruled over only one of two
Italitan cities not to “establish a Jewish Ghetto” passed away today.
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/the-fortunate-foas-of-sabbioneta
1592: First performance of “The Jew Malta” by Lord
Strange’s Men, an English theatrical group.
1757(6th of Adar, 5517): Parashat Terumah
1763(13th of Adar, 5523): Parashat Tetzaveh;
Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim
1766: Birthdate of Andover, MA native John Adams, the
husband of Dorcas Faulkner with whom he had eight children.
1767(27th of Adar I, 5527): Judith Jones, the
wife of Joseph Jones passed away today in New York City.
1770(1st of Adar, 5530): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1771: In Philadelphia, PA, Martha Lampley and Samson Levy
gave birth to Rachel Levy.
1776(15th of Adar, 5534): Parashat Tetzaveh;
Shushan Purim
1793(14th of Adar, 5553): Purim
1780(20th of Adar I, 5540): Parashat Ki Tisa
1781(1st of Adar, 5541): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1789(30th of Shevat, 5549): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1797(30th of Shevat, 5557): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1800(1st of Adar, 5560): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1801(13th of Adar, 5561): Fast of Esther; erev
Purim
1802 Birthdate of French man of letters Victor Hugo the
“preeminent biblical poet among the French Romantics.” He eulogized Isaiah and
Ezekiel in William Shakespeare (1864) and injected some basic knowledge of the
Kabbalah (probably gained from his Jewish admirer, Alexandre Weill) into Les
Contemplations (1856).
1803(4th of Adar, 5563): Parashat Terumah
1804(14th of Adar, 5564): Purim
1809: Birthdate of Rosanna Dyer Osterman, the native of
Germany who married Joseph Osterman who worked in his business in Galveston
until he passed away at the age of 57 when a steamboat exploded near Vicksburg,
MS.
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fos08
1812(13th of Adar, 5572): Erev Purim celebrated
for the last time before the outbreak of the War of 1812 between the United
States and Great Britain
1814: In Holland, a law was enacted officially ending the
French rule that had been overseen by Napoleon’s. The Jews supported the
new government under William I and the Netherlands proved to be a welcoming
home for the Jewish population which thrived there throughout the rest of the
19th century.
1818: In Georgia, Divinah Cohen and Isaac Minis gave birth
to Phillippa Minis, the wife Baltimore native Edward Johnson Etting, part of
one of the oldest and most prominent Jewish families in Philadelphia with whom
she had six children including Civil War hero Charles Edward Etting.
1819(1st of Adar, 5579): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1820(11th of Adar, 5580): Parashat Tetzaveh
1820: In London, Rabbi David Aaron de Sola, the Amsterdam
born son of Rafael Aron (v. Haim David) de Sola and Sara v. Isaac Namias Torres
who in 1818 had begun serving as the rabbi at Bevis Marks in London and his
wife Rebecca (Rica) de Sola gave birth to Sarah de Sola, the wife of Solomon Pool
and the mother of Helena (Eleanor) Blok; Eva Kahn; Eliza Oppenheimer; Eleazar
Solomon Pool; Adele Polak; Blanche Pool and Florence Pool.
1820: In Obernai,
Bas-Rhin, France, Moses Ries and the former Eleonore “Ella” Salomon gave birth
to Benjamin Ries who settled in New Orleans.
1821: In the Netherlands, Salomon Levie Goudsmit, the son
of Levie Emanuel Goudsmit and Magdalena Hartog Goudsmit and his wife and
Geertruida Abraham van Raalte gave birth to Levij Lion Goudsmit, the husband of
Leah Adelaide Aleida Themans.
1822, In Strasburg (which at this time was part of France,
Jacob and Caroline Ashelmann Lauff gave birth to their “youngest child, Charles
August Lauff.”
1823(15th of Adar, 5583): Shushan Purim
1825: Maryland removed the requirement of a Christian oath
for public office and substituted a declaration of belief in reward and
punishment and the World to Come. This obviously made life in Maryland easier
on its Jewish citizens. On the very last day of the session of the legislature
an act "for the relief of the Jews in Maryland," which had already
been passed by the Senate, was passed by the House of Delegates by a vote of
twenty-six to twenty-five. Only fifty-one out of eighty members were
present for the vote. The bill provided that "every citizen of this
state professing the Jewish religion" who shall be appointed to any office
of profit or trust shall, in addition to the required oaths, make and subscribe
a declaration of his belief in a future state of rewards and punishments
instead of the declaration now required by the government of the state.
1825: Thirty-one-year-old Hannah Aarons who passed away
yesterday was laid to rest today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery in London.
1827: “Lady Georgiana Mary Walpole, a descendant of Robert
Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain” married Joseph Wolff, the
son of Rabbi David Wolff, who was baptized in 1812 and whose missionary travels
and archaeological studies took him took him to the Sinai, Jerusalem and Aleppo
as well a large part of Central Asia when began searching for the Ten Lost
Tribes.
1829: In Bttenheim, Germany, “Hirsch Strauss and his
second wife Rebecca” gave birth to Loeb Strauss who as Levi Strauss made the
riveted blue denim trouser an icon of American fashion called “Levi’s”
http://lsco.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Levi-Strauss-Full-Biography.pdf
1830: Birthdate of Philip Bondi, the Bohemian born Rabbi
who “in 1857 received his doctor's degree from the University of Prague and his
rabbinical diploma from Aaron Kornfeld and Daniel Frank” and whose works
included “a Bohemian translation of the Pentateuch.”
1830: Birthdate of Holstein, Germany native Ernest Falck,
the husband of London born Helene Samuel with whom he had five children.
1832: Hayman Levy Seixas, the son of Zipporah and Benjamin
Mendes Seixas and his wife Abigail Nunez Seixas gave birth to Solomon Seixas.
1838(1st of Adar, 5598): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1844(6th of Adar, 5604): Sixty-five-year-old
Leah Lazarus Cohen, the daughter of Marks and Rachel Dorris Lazarus, the wife
of Mordecai Cohen and the mother of Eliza, Lucretia and Marx Cohen based away
today after which she was buried in the Coming Street Cemetery in Charleston,
SC.
1845: In Berlin, Rabbi Meyer Landsberg and his wife gave
birth to their eldest son Max Landsberg, a graduate of the Jewish Theological
Seminary of Bresalau who became Rabbi at B’rith Kodesh at Rochester in 1871
where he served for 44 years.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1927/12/10/98425024.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Landsberg
1845: In London, Sarah Joseph Tolano and Emanuel Samuel
Genese gave birth to Samuel Emanuel Genese.
1846(30th of Shevat, 5606): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1848: In the wake of revolutions that swept Europe, the
Second French Republic comes into being. The Republic last a mere four
years when it was swept aside when Louis Napoleon (Bonaparte’s nephew)
proclaimed the second empire. Just prior to the birth of the Republic,
the Jew’s Oath had been declared unconstitutional by the French courts.
This opened the way to further participation of the Jews in the general world
of French business, society and culture.
1850(14th of Adar, 5610): Purim
1850: In New Orleans, Rosina Meyer Dreyfus gave birth to
Pine Bluff, AR businessman Isaac Dreyfus, the husband of Bertha Simon Dreyfus.
1851: In Charleston, SC, Samuel Samson married Abigail
Goldsmith, the second daughter of Morris Goldsmith.
1851: In England, Phoebe Levy and Aaron Samuel gave birth
to Emanuel Samuel.
1851: Philadelphian Washington H. Nones was promoted from
Third Assistant Engineer to Second Assistant Engineer today.
1853: The New York Times published a portion of a
paper present by Dr. A.K. Gardner on "the meats of New York" that was
delivered before the Academy of Medicine and was published in the New York
Journal of Medicine. According to Dr. Garnder unlike the other butchers, the
Jewish butchers "do not prostrate the animal with the ax but first suspend
it and then cut this throat. This must be performed in a peculiar
manner. It is necessary to have along knife, which must be from rust,
nic, or any imperfection of the cutting edge." Only one cut is
allowed. If more cuts are required, “the animal is deemed unfit for food
for the Hebrews. After the animal is dead, he is upon the
fore-quarters. From the difficulty of removing the blood vessels, as
required by their law, from the hind quarters, this portion is rarely eaten by
the Hebrews, but the mark is placed upon them for the benefit of many
Christians, who prefer the meat thus examined. The butcher paid by the
Society in which he worships an annual salary and in addition he receives a
small sum per animal from the keeper of the slaughterhouse for his
services."
1854: Henry Cohen, a native of London who came to the
United States in 1844, and Matilda Cohen gave birth to “social economist” Mary
M. Cohen
1856(20th of Adar I, 5616): Mordecai Sheftall De
Lyon, the son Dr. Abraham and Sara Sheftall D’Lyon and the brother of Colonel
Isaac, Rina, Judge Levi, Abraham, and Joseph De Lyon passed away today after
which he was buried at the Levi Sheftall Cemetery in Savannah, GA.
1858: Disraeli began serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer
in a government led by Lord Derby and most of whose members sat in the Lords
which gave him an unusual amount of power since he led the Tory Party in the
House of Commons.
1859(22nd of Adar I, 5619): Parashat Vayakhel
1860(3rd of Adar, 5620): Seventy-seven-year-old
educator and author Michael Hess the brother of Mendel Hess and the son of
Rabbi Isaac Hess Kugelmann who among other accomplishments tutored “young Baron
James Rothschild” passed away at Frankfort-on-Main.
1861: “The Fundamental Law of February 26, 1861” was
promulgated in Austria today after which Raphael Basch, he served as the
official spokesman government of Anton Ritter von Schmerling. Born in Bohemia,
Basch alternated between being a journalist and political activist who actually
became part of successive Austrian governments. This latter element was
unusual for a Jew living in the Austrian Empire at this time.
1862: In Wilna, Joel Kopelovitz and Zine Danishevsky gave
birth to Victor Harris, founder and editor of the B’nai B’rith Messenger, the secretary of Congregation
Beth Israel and a court interpreter in Los Angeles, CA.
1863: Two days after he had passed away, 73-year-old
“Samuel Lawrence of St. Philips Terrace, Kensington” was buried today at the
“West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1865(30th of Shevat, 5625): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1865: Birthdate of Louisville, KY, native Bernard Flexner
the “founder and first president of the Palestine Economic Corporation and the
brother of “Dr. Abraham Flexner, former head of the Institute for Advanced
Study at Princeton, Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research and Mary Flexner.
1869(15th of Adar, 5629): Shushan Purim observed
for the last time during the Presidency of Andrew Johnson
1870(25th of Adar I, 5630): Shabbat Shekalim
1870: A “scheme of amalgamation” involving The Great
Synagogue, the Habmro Synagogue and the New Synagogue as well as their branches
on Portland Street and the Bayswater was incorporated in the Seventeenth Report
of the Charity Commissioners of England and Wales so it could be presented by
them to Parliament.
1870: In Augusta Georgia, Ellen Gobert and Phillip Lawrence
Cohen gave birth to journalist, Democratic Party leader and U.S. from Georgia
John Sanford Cohen who was raised as a Jew but raised in the Episcopalian faith
of this mother.
1871: Today, on his 26th birthday, Max
Landsberg, the Berlin born son of Rabbi Meyer Landsburg a graduate of the
Jewish Theological Seminary of Bresalau who became Rabbi at B’rith Kodesh at
Rochester in 1871 where he served for 44 years married Miriam Isengarten with
whom he had three children – Emil, Clara and Rose.
1872: Birthdate of New York City native Moses Henry Cohen,
the Tampa, FL, lawyer, Spanish-American War veteran and secretary for 28 years
of Schaarai Tzedek who married Julia Wolf, “whose family-owned Wolf Brothers.
1873: It was reported today that the recent Hebrew Charity
Ball in Philadelphia raised $7,920 after expenses. The money has already
been distributed to several of the city’s Jewish institutions.
1876(1st of Adar, 5636): Rosh Chodesh Adar and
the Sabbath of Shekel.
1876: The Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art
(PMSIA) who graduates included Ukrainian born Jewish “master blacksmith and
metal designer Samuel Yellin was chartered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
today,
1877(13th of Adar, 5637): Fast of Esther
1877: “The Home for Aged Hebrews” published today described
it as “one of the most delightful” institutions of its kind in New York
City. The building, which was originally a country home of the Astor
family, offers views of the East River and Long Island Sound. The facility
currently is home to 70 older men and women who live in “air well-furnished
rooms,” are well clothed and enjoy excellent food on a daily basis which is
complimented by wine if so desired.
1880(14th of Adar, 5640): Purim
1880: The Young Men’s Hebrew Association is scheduled to
host a Purim entertainment and reception this evening at the Harlem Music Hall.
1880: In New York, the Purim Association sponsored a ball
in the Academy. A tableaux featuring Queen Esther surrounded by the Muses,
preceded the evening’s dancing.
1880: Sixty-year-old Dr. Simon Rosenberger, a distinguished
Philadelphia, PA Jewish physician and Ida Smith, a servant girl working in his
house, were the victims of a mysterious malady. Miss Smith passed away after
suffering convulsions brought on possibly by coal gas that had seeped into the
house from the cellar. Rosenberger who is unconscious and near death is
thought to be a victim of the case or possibly an ingestion of poison.
1882: “The Hebrew Charity Ball” published today described
plans for the upcoming Purim Association’s upcoming fancy dress ball.
This ball, which has been a part of the New York Social Scene for two decades,
will be held at the Academy of Music under the leadership of M.H. Moses, the
association’s President.
1881(27th of Adar I, 5641): Parashat Vayakhel;
Shabbat Shekalim
1882: A review of “Divorce and Divorce Legislation” by
Theodore D. Woolsey notes that the volume includes a chapter devoted to the
history of divorce among the Jewish people.
1882(7th of Adar, 5642): German painter Moritz Daniel
Oppenheim passed away. He is often regarded as the first Jewish painter of the
modern era. His work was shaped by his cultural and religious roots at a time
when many of his German Jewish contemporaries chose to convert to Christianity.
Oppenheim is considered to be in sympathy with the ideals of the Wissenschaft
des Judentums (Science of Judaism) movement, because he remained "fair to
the present" without denying his past.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moritz_Daniel_Oppenheim_The_Return_of_the_Jewish_Volunteer.jpeg
http://www.jewishart.org/Oppenheim/wedding.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Moritz_Oppenheim.html
1884: Birthdate of Bialystok native Zusman Segalowitch, the
“Yiddish, poet, novelist and journalist” who found refuge in Tel Aviv during
the Holocaust.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/segalowitch-zusman
https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Segalovitsh_Zusman
1885(11th of Adar, 5645): Ta’anit Esther
observed today on the same day that the Berlin Conference also known as the
Congo Congress came to an end.
1887: In Cincinnati, OH, Rebecca and William Jacob Mack
gave birth to Robert Tandler Mack who had three children – Robert, Jr., Julian
and Susan – with his second wife Jeanette Mack.
1888(14th of Adar, 5648): Purim
1888: Birthdate of Alfons Klauber who was deported from
Prague in 1942 to Ujazdow where he was murdered.
1888: The grant of citizenship for businessman, banker and
philanthropist Jacob Noisotz was approved by the upper house of the Romanian
legislature today but would fail to gain his goal when the lower house rejected
the request in December.
1889: In Baltimore, founding of the Hebrew Free School
Society whose members included Joseph Eisner and Abraham S. Shochet, and which
sponsored a Talmud Torah that offers daily instruction for three hours from 4
until 7 and that “maintains a school for girls” as well
1890: In honor of a request made to Charles Frohman by
child acting star Elsie Leslie, 500 children from the Industrial Schools of the
Associated Hebrew Charities attended today’s matinee performance of the “Prince
and the Pauper (Frohman was one of three Jewish brothers from Ohio who were
involved with the Broadway theatre before World War I)
1891: The Purim Association hosted its 30th
annual charity ball at the Metropolitan Opera House tonight in New York City.
1892: The New York Times “has received $20 for
Russian Hebrew immigrants from ‘A.Y.E.’”
1893: In Newark, NJ, Clara Michaelson and Adam Frankel gave
birth to CCNY and Yale educated “chemical technologist” Edward M. Frankel, “the
holder of a series of U.S. and foreign patents” who married concert Saai Biro
and after the death of his first wife Dr. Florence Frankel.
1893: “New Things in Lawsuits” published today described a
lawsuit brought by Max Bronestein against three New Jersey constables for
desecrating his home “by cooking and eating meals which had not been prepared
according to the Hebraic usages and principles” including the use of “pork
sausage.”
1894: Birthdate of Baltimore native and John Hopkins
graduate Simon Cohen who was ordained a HUC and who served as a staff member at
the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia for twenty years starting in 1924.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0077/ms0077.html
1894: “Zangwill’s New Jewish Stories” published today
provided a review The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies by
Israel Zangwill.
1894: It was reported today that Rabbi Henry Berkowitz
offered the opening prayer and then presided over the non-denominational
memorial service held in Philadelphia at Keneseth Israel in memory of George W.
Childs who was a newspaper and public benefactor in Philadelphia, PA. Dr.
Joseph Krauskopf the rabbi at Keneseth Israel delivered an address that
highlight Mr. Child’s philanthropic work.
1895: Emily Speilman, the daughter of Sir Joseph
Sebag-Montefiore and Adelaide Sebag-Montefiore and her husband Sir Isidore
Spielmann gave birth Adelaide Cohen, Baroness Cohen the wife of Lionel Cohen,
Baron Cohen.
1895: Three days after he had passed away, Benjamin Lazarus
was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1896: More than 3,000 people are expected to attend
tonight’s charity ball sponsored by the Young Ladies and Gentlemen’s League of
the Montefiore Home. This ball is the successor to Purim balls which were
a popular social and fundraising event in New York City for many years.
Among the expected attendees are Mayor Strong and Governor Morton.
1898: “London Literary Letter” published today described
Israel Zangwill’s new novel as being “a Jewish story” similar to the one that
was his “first great success.” Zangwill’s attendance at the “congress
called to consider” “the project of colonizing Palestine with Jews” means “that
he intends to do more than write stories of the Ghetto.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1211-algazi-hayyim
1898: It was reported today that David Christie Murray, the
English author, “is emulating Zola in taking up the defense of Dreyfus.
1898: Marie-Georges Picquart, the Minister of War and
French Army Officer who “played a major role in proving Dreyfus’ innocence, was
dismissed from the Army.
1898: During the Dreyfus Affairs, Emile Zola appeals his
conviction.
1899(16th of Adar, 5659) Shushan Purim – the 15th
of Adar fell on Shabbat
1899: Two days after she had passed away, Bamberg, Germany
native Caroline Zimmer, the wife of Nathan L.D. Zimmer and mother of David,
Menki and Rebecca Zimmer was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in
London
1899: The children attending the religious school at
Congregation B’nai Jershurun on the corner of 65th Street and
Madison Avenue celebrated Purim today.
1899: Two days after he had passed away, Amsterdam native
Henry Waas, the husband of Mariam Waas with whom he had had nine children was
buried today at “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.
1899: In Syracuse, NY, Rabbi and Mrs. Simon J. Finkelstein
gave birth to Columbia Law School and Harvard Law graduate Dr. Maurice
Finkelstein, a member of the St. John’s faculty from 1926 until his death in
1957 and the father of Helen and James Finkelstein.
1900: Birthdate of Syracuse University college football
star and Medal of Freedom winner Harry Herbert, the director of the support and
development services the National Jewish Welfare Board and husband of “the
former Marian Seltzer” with whom he had one daughter Joanne Shebes.
http://www.jta.org/1974/10/09/archive/harry-herbert-dead-at-74-was-active-in-jwb-and-jdc
1901: Birthdate of Aharon Zisling, the native of Minks who
helped to found Youth Aliyah, the Palmach and Ahdut HaAovoda and was Israel’s
first Minister of Agriculture.
1901: Maurice Weil, the German born son of Marum and
Malchen Weil who in 1884 came to the United States where founded Weil Kalter
Manufacturing company, married Paula Kalter today and later became an active
leader in the St. Louis, MO Jewish community as can be seen by his founding of
the Jewish Loan Association of St. Louis, and serving as a director of the
Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Federation of Charities,
https://www.ojmche.org/oral-history-people/leon-feldstein/
1902: In Vienna, Ida Wolf and Siegfried Reginald Wolf gave
birth to Irma Wolf.
1903: Rabbi Kaummann Kohler was elected to the presidency
of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1903: Leopold Greenberg arrives in Brindisi and sends a
short telegram whose obscurity of wording strikes dismays Herzl.
1903: A paper by Victor Rosewater was read at The National
Convention on Municipal Ownership and Public Franchises which is meeting at the
Reform Club in New York City. Rosewater was arguing for the ownership of
electric lighting plants by municipalities. Rosewater was the editor of the
Omaha (Nebraska) Daily Bee, an important Republican political leader and an
active member of the Jewish community.
1904: It was reported today that David Blaustein of the
Educational Alliance will be one of the speakers at the upcoming meeting of the
University Settlement Society of New York.
1904: Today Saks and Company advertised that it “Spring
Topcoats for Men” at prices from $12.50 to $38.00.
1905(21st of Adar I, 5665): Abraham Adolphe Sée the attorney who “president of the
Jewish consistory of Colmar and was “the brother of Marc Sée and Gustave Sée”
passed away today in Paris.
1905: In Galicia, Naftaili and Sarah Pearl Taubes gave birth
NYU graduate and JTS trained rabbi, Morris Aaron Gutstein who in 1921 came to
the United States where he led “the famed Touro Synagogue of Newport, RI and
then went on to Congregation Shaare Tikvah in Chicago “which he led for
twenty-four years” while producing serval noteworthy articles, teaching at the
Spertus College of Judaica and winning several awards for his work one from
Valley Forge’s Freedom Foundation.
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Morris-Gutstein/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AMorris+A.+Gutstein
1906: The New York Times reported that the Motor
Yacht Club of Great Britain has received two challenges from E.J. Schroeder of
New York, owner of the Dixie, to compete in races for the Hamsworth Cup and the
International Cup which was won last year by Napier II, a vessel owned by Lord
Montague and Lionel Rothschild.
1906: “The Jewish congress for the attainment of full civil
and political rights of Jews which met” secretly in St. Petersburg “decided to
participate in the elections for members of the National Assembly and to for a
party to defend the interests of the Jewish masses.”
1907: Birthdate of Cyrus Sol “Cy” Malis the native of
Philadelphia who pitched in one game for the hometown Phillies.
1908: Birthdate of Bridgeport, CT native Yale trained
microbiologist and Boston University trained physician Louis Weinstein. (As
reported by Lawrence K. Altman)
1909: Birthdate of Claude Cahen a native of Parish who was
“a specialist in the studies of the Islamic Middle Ages, Muslim sources about
the crusades and the social history of the medieval Islamic Society.”
1910: Today, the board of commissioners of the City Park
received a letter from Isaac Delgado,” “a Kingston, Jamaica-born Jew who came
to New Orleans as a young man and made a fortune dealing in sugar and molasses”
“tendering to it a donation a sum of $150,000 for the erection of a building
where objects of art may be collected through gifts or loans and where exhibits
can be held from time to time by the Art Association of New Orleans…”
1910: In Germany, Isaac Plaut, the German born son of Simon
and Lina Plaut, and his wife Sophie Plaut gave birth to Julius Plaut
1911: Today’s final session of the Jewish Kehilla of New
York which has “238 constituent organizations including 138 congregations, 58
lodges, 44 educational and benevolent society and 3 federations” closed today
“with the election of seventy-nine members of the Executive Committee and the
Advisory Council.
1912(8th of Adar, 5672): Sixty-one-year-old Manheim,
Germany native Ernst Thalmmann who in 1867 at the age of 16 came to the United State where he became a
member of several exchanges including the NYSE and the Cotton and Produce
Exchange of New York while rising to being a “senior member of Landenburg,
Thalmann and Company, one of the leading international banking houses” in New
York and serving as a Trustee of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, passed away today.
1912: Forty-six-year-old Columbia Law School graduate and
Republican New York State Attorney General Julius Mayer began serving as “Judge
of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
1912: “Grand Officers of the Independent Order of B’rith
Abraham granted a sum of one thousand dollars to families of Jewish strikers in
Lawrence, MA.
1913(19th of Adar I, 5673): Seventy-seven-year-old,
the president of William Sicher Dry Goods Compan who had come to St. Louis in 1852
and was a member of Share Emeth Hebrew Congregation passed away today.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-william-sicher-2/12014315/
1914: “Five hundred unemployed Jewish garment workers held
a mass meeting presided over by M.B. Martin which sent a telegram to President
Wilson demanding jobs for the 150,000 unemployed workers.
1914: This evening, a group of unemployed Jewish workers
marched to City Hall in Chicago where M.B. read the following “Resolved, The
unemployed Jews of Chicago, comprising a part of the 150,000 jobless army,
demand a job.”
1914: “While a stormy meeting of depositors of the failed
bank of Henry Siegel Co. was being held in the temporary headquarters of the
bank at 43 West Thirteenth Street” today, “preferred stockholders of the Siegel
Stores Corporation at the Hotel Astor, discussed their standing and the plan
for reorganizing the New York stores.”
1915(12th of Adar, 5675): Seventy-year-old
Rosalie Steiner Schonberger, the Hungarian born daughter of Hannah Heller
Steiner and the wife of Herman Schonberger passed away today after which she
buried at the Hungarian Union Field Cemetery.
1915: For a second day, the Supreme Court of the United
States heard arguments concerning the granting of a writ of habeas corpus in
the case of Leo M. Frank who was found guilty of murdering a factory girl in
1913 in a courtroom “pervaded by mob spirit.”
1915: Arguments before the Supreme Court of the United
States on the appeal of Leo M. Frank from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus
by a Federal District Came to an end this afternoon” when Louis Marshall
concluded his speech for the defense and Attorney General Grice and Solicitor
General Dorsey argued for the State of Georgia
1916: Henry Morgenthau, the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, who
has just returned from Constantinople, is to be honored today by the public at
the Great Hall of the College of the City of New York. Cleveland H.
Dodge, acting on behalf of the Mayor, is chairman of the committee sponsoring
the event. Among the speaks will be Mayor Mitchell, Bishop Greer, Oscar
S. Straus, Rabbi Wise John H. Finley, President Sidney E. Mezes and Ambassador
Morgenthau himself.
1916: Birthdate of award-winning composer Mordecai
Seter. Born in Russia, he moved to Palestine in 1923 where he spent the
rest of his life. Among his earliest work was The Sabbath Cantata,
patterned after Renaissance music. Several of his most important works
included Biblical themes. These included music for the ballet Judith
commissioned by Martha Graham Jephthah’s Daughter commissioned for the
Bat Sheva Dance Company and a symphony simply entitled Jerusalem.
1917: A. M. Sharp is scheduled to lead the daily service at
Temple Emanu-El where Dr. Enelow will speak on “The Jewish Characteristics of
Jesus.”
1917: As the Romanoff dynasty hurtled towards its final
days, with all that that meant for the Jewish people, Tsar Nicholas “order the
Duma to close down” today
1918(14th of Adar, 5678): As World War I enters
its final year, Jews celebrate Purim
1918: “A memorial meeting in honor of the late Dr. Henry M.
Leipziger” the long time “Supervisor of Lectures in the public schools was
held” tonight “at Temple Emanu-El under the auspices of the Judeans, an
organization which he had been President for many years.
1919: Birthdate of Brooklyn native Mason Adams the
multi-talented actor who most famous role was as the anonymous voice of Smucker
jams and jellies which ended with his tagline - "With a name like
Smucker's, it has to be good."
1920: “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” “a silent horror
film…written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer” was released in Germany today.
1920: Major General Louis Bols, the Officer Administering
the Government of Palestine, issued an official proclamation that the British
government intended to carry out the terms of the Balfour Declaration
1920: Birthdate of Tony Randall. Born Leonard
Rosenberg in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Randall is best remembered for his role as Felix
Unger in the television version of The Odd Couple. Randall often
played light comedic roles in the movies but in reality, he was an accomplished
actor and very urbane, cultured individual. During the 1950’s, Randall
lived near the Met. In the evening he would take around the neighborhood
often stopping in to catch the last two or three acts of that evening’s
opera. As Ed Murrow said when visiting Randall’s apartment during “Person
to Person,” Randall’s apartment was not only filled with books, but Randall had
actually read the books.
1921(18th of Adar I, 5681): Parashat Ki Tisa
1921(18th of Adar I, 5681): Thirty-year-old
Russian born Professor of Philosophy and the Talmud in the Jewish Theological
Seminary Dr. Wilfred Phineas Kotkov, a graduate of the University of Chicago,
Dropsie College and JTS passed away tonight from the injuries he “received when
attacked by four hold-up men on” February 24th.
1922: It was reported today that according to the will of
Alfred S. Heidelbach, the “well-known banker of New York, London and Paris” who
had passed away on February 1, he has given $150,00 to Mount Sinai Hospital to
endow the Alfred and Julie Heidelbach ward” and left “bequests of $5,000 each
are left to the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum…”
1923: It was reported today that three thousand people had
filled Sinai Congregation to attend the memorial services which were held in
memory the late Emil G. Hirsch who had served the as the rabbi for the Chicago
congregation for 43 years.
1924: Carlos and Elizabeth, a silent film produced and
directed by Richard Oswald (born Richard Ornstein) and starring Conrad Viet who
“his new Jewish wife Ilona Prager left Germany in 1933 after the Nazis came to
power” was released today in Germany.
1924: The trial against Hitler began in Munich.
Hitler was on trial for his part in attempted coup that began in a Munich Beer
Hall. The coup failed. Hitler was found guilty and sent to
jail. While in jail, he wrote Mien Kampf. He was treated
like a celebrity while in jail and came out stronger politically than when he
went in.
1925: Seventy-four-year-old James Edgar who as U.S. Senator
from New Jersey succeeded in getting the Senate to adopt a resolution in 1916
“asking the President to set aside a day as Jewish relief day for Jewish war
sufferers” passed away today.
1925: As a sign of the growing power of the Nazi Party, The
Völkischer Beobachter the party’s official newspaper begins publishing again.
1926: In London, David and Rose Pollack gave birth to Dr.
William Pollack, who in 1980 along with his colleagues won the Lasker Award
“for excellence in biomedical research.”
1926: In New York City, Isaac and Bertha Belack, Jewish
immigrants from Russia, gave birth to Doris Belack, the veteran actress known
for her roles on “Law and Order” and the hit comedy “Tootsie” who was also the
wife of Philip Rose, the producer of “A Raisin in the Sun.” (As reported by
Paul Vitello)
1926: Fearing trouble now that students at Bucharest
University have gone on strike because the school has not acted to limit the
number of Jewish students, the government is having the streets of the city
“patrolled by military policy” who have orders to “prohibit” “all authorized
gatherings.”
1926: According to Menorah Journal Editor Henry Hurwitz,
while in “the last century many of the finest minds and spirits in Europe and
America turned their backs on Judaism, today, the intelligent Jew is seeking
not avenues of but the road to return to Judaism.”
1926: According to reports published today, that according
to H.J. Reit Chairman of the Washington Heights section of the United Palestine
Appeal, the organization has reached its goal of $125,000 after raising $90,000
at its recent one hundred dollar a plate dinner.
1926: According to the official figures of the British
Colonial Office published in the United States today, “during 1925 a total of
33,801 Jewish immigrants entered Palestine, 2,141 Jews emigrated from
Palestine” for a “net increase in the Jewish population for the year of
31,660.”
1927: Ten-year-old Yeudi Menuhin made his European debut as
a soloist with the Lamoureux Orchestra under the baton of Paul Paray in Paris
1928: In Kfar Malal, Shmuel Scheinerman of Brest-Litovsk
and Vera (née Schneirov) Scheinerman of Mogilev gave birth to Ariel
Scheinermann who would gain as soldier-statesman Ariel Sharon.
1929: Birthdate of Breslev native and Glasgow University
and LSE educated journalist and author Chaim Icky Bermant, the son of a rabbi
and husband of Judith Rose Weil with whom he raised four children – Aliza,
Evie, Azriel and Danie – who was a regular contributor to the Jewish Chronicle
and whose published works included two autobiographies – Genesis: A Latvian
Childhood and Coming Home.
1930: Birthdate of pianist Lazar Berman. Born
in Leningrad to Jewish parents, he placed third in the piano competition at
Budapest in 1956.
1930: Birthdate of Bronx native and DeWitt Clinton High
graduate Donald R. Siegel who gained fame as actor Don Devlin.
1930: Moe Berg received his LL.B. today.
1930(28th of Shevat, 5690): Rabbi Samuel Isaac
Andron, who for thirty years lived in New York where he founded the Rabbi Jacob
Joseph School and who had moved to Palestine in 1922 passed away today in
“Givoth Shaual.”
1931: In Buffalo, grocery store owner Max Bernhard “and the
former Katie Benatovich” gave birth to Melvin Bernhard who gained fame as Tony
and Pulitzer Prize winning director Melvin Bernhardt. (As reported by Bruce
Weber)
1931(9th of Adar, 5691): Otto Wallach passed away at the
age of 93. The German born chemist was a veteran of the Franco-Prussian
War and won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1910.
1932(19th of Adar I, 5692): Yosef Chaim Zonnenfeld, or
Sonnenfeld, passed away. Born in 1848. He “was the Chief Rabbi and
co-founder of the Edah HaChareidis, Haredi Jewish community in Jerusalem,
during the years of the British Mandate of Palestine. He was originally given
the name "Chaim", however, the name "Yosef" was added to
him while he experienced an illness. Sonnenfeld was born in Verbó, Hungary
(today: Vrbové, Slovakia). His father, Rabbi Avraham Shlomo Zonnenfeld, died
when Chaim was five years old. He was a student of Rabbi Samuel Benjamin Sofer
(the Ksav Sofer), the son of Rabbi Moses Sofer (the Chasam Sofer). He was also
a student of Rabbi Avraham Schag in Kobersdorf (who was himself a disciple of
the Chasam Sofer); Sonnenfeld moved from the latter city to Jerusalem in 1873.
He became an important figure in Jerusalem's Old City, serving as the
right-hand man of Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin and assisting the latter in
communal activities, such as the founding of schools and the Diskin Orphanage,
and the fight against secularism. He refused to meet with Kaiser Wilhelm of
Germany who visited the Old City because he believed that the Emperor was a
descendant of the nation of Amalek. Sonnenfeld sent a delegate, a former Dutch
diplomat and writer who had become a baal teshuva, Dr. Jacob Israël de Haan, to
Jordan with a peace proposal for King Abdullah.” Contrary to what some might
have claimed, “he had a warm relationship with and mutual respect for Rabbi
Abraham Isaac Kook, although the two were vigorous opponents in many areas.
Indeed, in 1913 the two traveled together to Northern Israel to try to return
lapsed Jews to Torah Judaism.”
1932: The three-day jubilation marking the 75th
anniversary of the founding of Mt. Zion Temple in St. Paul, MN is scheduled to
begin this evening with a special anniversary service led by Rabbi Harry S.
Margolis.
1933: Birthdate of Anglo-French financier Sir James Michael
"Jimmy" Goldsmith.
1933: A program marking the sixtieth anniversary of the
birth of Chaim Nachman Bialik,
national Hebrew poet, was held this evening in the auditorium of the College of
the City of New York. Bialik’s birthdate was actually January 9, 1873.
1933(30th of Shevat, 5693): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1933(30th of Shevat, 5693): Therese Loeb Schiff,
the daughter of Solomon Loeb and the wife of Jacob Schiff, who “organized a
literary series for wealthy German Jewish women, donated ten thousand dollars
to the National Council of Jewish Women to help cope with Jewish prostitution
among young immigrant women, and lectured for the Consumers League in support
of protective legislation to end child labor and the exploitation of women”
passed away today.
1934: In Germany “Fritz Abermayer, managing director of a
Nuremberg paper mill, has been taken into “protective custody” because he
employed the son of a Jewish refugee as a manager.”
1934: The New York Times featured a review of “’The
Dream of My People, a film described as “a screen trip though Palestine with
Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt” produced by the Palestine-American Film Company now
showing at the Acme Theatre which is also showing “Lot in Sodom.”
1935: In violation of the Versailles Treaty, Hitler orders
the rebuilding of the Luftwaffe. This is one of the many times the West
missed a chance to stop Hitler’s march that would lead to the Holocaust.
1935: The Jerusalem Shopkeepers Association announced today
that it will be conducting a one day work stoppage next week in a “a protest
against rising rents and the refusal of the Municipal Council to pass a rent
restriction law.”
1936: Today, Nathan Goldberg “staged a dramatization of
Jacob Botoshansky’s novel Buenos Aires at the Rolland Theatre.
1936: Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the Iowa native and
longtime leader for the emancipation of women, delivered an address today
“before the women’s division of the American Jewish Congress” said that Jews
and Christians “together must uphold the standard of individual rights” and
“singled out Germany for condemnation” because of “Nazi persecution of Jews,
Catholics and Protestants.”
1937(15th of Adar, 5697): Shushan Purim
1937: “Under the spur of Governor Lehman, the Senate Labor
and Industry Committee today reported the new Minimum Wage Bill” which be
subject to a floor of the New York State Legislature next week.
1937(15th of Adar, 5697): Sixty-six-year-old Pressburg
Yeshiva graduate Aaron Tanzer, the holder of a Ph.D. from the University of
Berlin and the “chief rabbi of Tyrol and Vorarlberg who served as Jewish
Chaplain on the Eastern Front with the German Army during WW I passed away
today.
1937: Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman was among those who addressed
the Women’s Committee of the National Women’s Conference of Jews and Christians
at the Hotel McAlpin where the theme was “Woman’s Contribution to Better Human
Relations.
1938(25th of Adar I, 5698): Parashat Vayakhel
and Shabbat Shekalim
1938: “Penrod and His Twin Brother” a comedy featuring Jay
Adler, the eldest son of Jacob and Sara Adler as “Johnson” was released today
in the United States.
1938: In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a meeting of the pro-Nazi
German-American Volksbund ends in a riot. (A meeting like this in America’s
heartland provides part of the background around which FDR made his decisions
about the Jews of Europe This is not an excuse. It is an explanation.)
1939: The first in a series of sponsored by the New Friends
of Music featuring the first of five symphonies, each of which has been
verified “as the work of the Austrian master by Dr. Alfred Einstein who has
restored them to their original form” is scheduled to place today in Carnegie
Hall.
1939: Jews held protest demonstrations in Jerusalem, Haifa,
Tel Aviv, and several of the large kibbutzim this evening. The demonstrations
were sparked by credible reports from London that the British government
intends to create an independent Arab State in Palestine which will be
structured in such a way to ensure that Jewish people will be permanently
relegated to “minority status.”
1939: Israel Rokach, the Mayor of Tel Aviv, sent a telegram
to Colonial Secretary of Malcolm MacDonald expressing the displeasure of the
150,000 citizens of his city over what is reported to be the British decision
to turn Palestine into an Arab State in which Jews will permanently be a
minority. He wrote that “establishment of a Jewish National Home in
the historic land of our ancestors was accepted by fifty-two nations as a
sacred trust” and the Jewish people would never agree to accept this newly
created permanent minority status.
1939: Professor Max Lerner of Williams College is scheduled
to deliver an address today on “Is It Later Than You Think” at Temple B’nai
Jeshurun
1939: Tehilla Lichtenstein is scheduled to deliver a
lecture on “The Uses of Adversity” today at the Jewish Science Society
1939: The sixth annual observance of Brotherhood Week which
is sponsored by the National Conference of Jews and Christians, and which has
been endorsed by President Roosevelt came to an end today.
1940: It was learned today in Paris that “deportation of
Jews to the Lublin Reservation in Central Poland near the German-Soviet border
has been resumed by the Nazis” who have shipped “nearly one thousand men and
women there from Northern Germany. (Reservation – what a quaint way to describe
a Ghetto)
1940: In Brooklyn Anne Rosenberg and jewelry store owner
Edward Drossman gave birth toe Alfred University graduate Neil Arthur Drossman
who gained fame as “ad writer” Neil Drossman, “famous for his wit and word play”
“who began his career in copywriting at the tail end of the “Mad Men” era and
went on to create some of the most admired tag lines and campaigns in the
history of the advertising business” for such “products such as Meow Mix cat
food, Einstein Moomjy Carpets, Airwick air freshener and Chemical Bank.”
1941: On the second day of deportations, 1,349 Jews were
shipped from Gora Klilwaria, Poland today to Warsaw where they either perished
or stayed alive long enough to be sent to Treblinka. (As reported by Yad
Vasehm)
1941: In the Netherlands, the citizens of Utrecht and
Zaandam staged strikes protesting Nazi raids on the Jews.
1942: Isidore Newman and Edward Zeff, two Jewish wireless
operators with the SOE began the trip that would end with them landing in
Occupied France by take a train to Bristol and then flying to Gibraltar.
1942(9th of Adar, 5702): Fifty-nine-year-old
Julius Fleischer, the German born son of Emilie and Samuel Fleischer, the
husband of Irma Fleischer and the father of Arnold Fleischer; Doris Sylvia*
Hurst; Susanne Fleischer and Richard Fleischer died today in ghetto in Riga,
during the Holocaust.
1942: For twelve hours today, between midday and midnight,
the Jewish population of Palestine observed a voluntary stoppage of all
commercial and business. During this period all persons remained indoors in a
self-imposed curfew, as a sign of mourning for the loss of the more than 700
Jews who died when the Struma, sank in the Black Sea north of the Bosporus. The
Jewish passengers were trying to escape from Nazi dominated Europe and settle
in Palestine, something opposed by the British and the Arabs.
1943(21st of Adar I, 5703): The former Beatrice
Freudenthal, the wife of Jewish businessman Gustav Kahn and the mother of Kindertransport
child Professor Robert Ludwig Kahn was murdered today at Auschwitz.
1943 The French Jewish Representative Committee which is
affiliated with the World Jewish Congress issued a statement today calling for
the “immediate and complete restoration of rights to the Jews of North Africa
following the precedent established in other territories liberated from the
Axis…”
1943: “More than 20,000 persons gathered” tonight “at 100
separate meetings throughout metropolitan New York to protest against the Nazi
persecution of the Jewish people in Europe.”
1944(2nd of Adar, 5704): Parashat Terumah
1944: Birthdate of Ronald Steven Lauder “an American
businessman, civic leader, philanthropist, and art collector. Forbes lists
Lauder among the richest people of the world with an estimated net worth of
$3.0 billion in 2007.”
1944: Primo Levy and Dr. Leonardo de Benedetti arrive at
Auschwitz after a four day trip from a detention camp at Fossoli in central
Italy.
1944: Shooting begins of the Nazi propaganda
film, "The Fuhrer Gives a Village to the Jews" in Theresienstadt.
1945: Birthdate of Ohio native Stephen Allan
“Steve” Hertz who played five games for the National League Houston Colt .45s
in 1964 and managed the Tel Aviv Lightning in the Israel Baseball League.
1946: As they searched for those responsible
for last night’s attacks on three RAF airfields that destroyed and/or severely
damaged 22 aircraft, British troops “seized 5,000 Jews today and imposed a
paralyzing night traffic ban throughout Palestine.” The British have already
found the body of a dead Jew near one of the airfields. The deceased is
assumed to have been one of the attackers.
1946: Birthdate of Ephraim Sidon the Jerusalem
born author of satirical and children’s books now living in Tel Aviv who in
2004 “was a co-recipient along with David Grossman and Haya Shenhav of the
Bialik Prize for literature.
http://www.jacketflap.com/ephraim-sidon/47232
1946(25th of Adar I, 5706):
Seventy-seven-year-old Albany Law School graduate and “former City Court Judge
in Albany, Julius Illch, the son of Simon and Celia Illch, who was “treasurer
of the Albany Jewish Social Service, a trustee of Temple Beth Emeth and a past
president of the Capital District Court B’nai B’rith” passed away today in
Coronado, CA while in vacation after which he was buried at the Beth Emeth
Cemetery in Albany County, NY.
1946: “Inveterate Los Angeles Gambler,
publicist and nightclub owner W.R. ‘Billy Wilkerson’” who had “bought a
thirty-three-acre site between the El Rancho Vegas and the airport” “signed a
contract with (Meyer) Lansky’s agent, Harry Rothberg, for a syndicate of
investors to buy 60 percent of Wilkerson’s property for one million dollars.
(The Mob meaning Lansky and Bugys Siegel, would completely buy-out Wilkerson)
1946: A resolution is scheduled to be
introduced today in the United States Senate that would call for a “Congressional
investigation of the Palestine situation…The measure calls for a joint
House-Senate committee to be sent to the Holy Land to investigate conditions
there and report its findings to Congress.”
1947: Jacob and Niza Gabbai arrived in New York from
Palestine today. The couple is here to continue their education.
The Gabbais were married in Tel Aviv in 1944 while Mr. Gabbai, who was serving
with the Jewish Brigade of the British Army, was home one leave. After
the war, Mr. Gabbai became co-editor of the Maavak (Struggle), “a
publication of the Young Palestinian League in Tel Aviv, which seeks to
integrate the country’s cultural resources.
1948: Members of the Irgun and the Haganah “clashed tonight
in the center of Tel Aviv.”
1948: “Former Governor Herbert Lehman and Senator Charles
Tobey, the New Hampshire Republican were among the speakers at a meeting of 400
delegates representing 62 organizations which demanded the “implementation of
the United Nations decision on the partition of Palestine.”
1948: “Me and Molly,” written by Getrude Berg with music
arranged b Lehman Engel opened on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre.
1949: “I Shot Jesse James” a low budget western directed by
Samuel Fuller and featuring J. Edward Bromberg as “Harry Kane” was released in
the United States today.
1950: In Fresno, CA, Lionel Steinberg, who ran the David
Freedman Company, the largest grape grower in the Coachella Valley and his wife
gave birth to award winning song-writer William “Billy” Steinberg, the husband
of Trina with whom he had two sons - Ezra and Max whose creations include “Like a Virgin and “True Colors.”
https://www.billboard.com/lists/billy-steinberg-biggest-billboard-hot-100-hits/lucky-love/
1950: Leonard Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety"
premiered in New York City.
1951: Monnett B. Davis presented his credentials as the
U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
1951: Birthdate of Brooklyn native and U. Cal, Berkley,
Ph.D. Michael Scott Kimmel the Stony Brook University Sociology Professor and “spokesperson
of the National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS) who ironically has
been accused of “sexual harassment, bullying and academic conduct while
remaining married to Journalism professor Amy Aronson.
1952(30th of Shevat, 5712): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1952: “The Knesset gave a first reading tonight to a
measure providing for the abolition of capital punishment for convicted murders”
but which “would retain the death penalty for treason and Nazi war criminals.
1953(11th of Adar, 5713): Ta’anit Esther
1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that an
agreement on the future status of the Haifa Refineries was initialed by the
representatives of the government, the Consolidated Refineries Ltd. and the
Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Ltd.
1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that the
fourth anniversary of the liberation of Eilat was celebrated by a military
parade attended by President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, and "a show of local
achievements."
1954: In New Haven, CT, Helen (née Gubin) and George
Bolotin gave birth to Michael Bolotin the younger brother of Orrin and Sandra
Bolotin who gained fame as singer and actor Michael Bolton and who won the
Grammy in 1990 and again in 1992 as the Male, Best Pop Vocal Performance.
1954(23rd of Adar I, 5714): Sixty-eight-year-old
Ukraine born Yiddish author and HIAS staff member David Ignatoff, the husband
of Minnie Radnitz Ignatoff with whom he had two children passed away today in
Brooklyn
http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=33701
https://yiddishkayt.org/view/ignatoff/
1954: Birthdate of Yuli Tamir the veteran of “Aman” who has
served as an MK and held various ministerial posts.
1955: Final performance of “Peter Pan” a musical version
the 1904 play “Peter Pan: with music by Mark Charlap and Jule Styne with lyrics
by Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
1956(14th of Adar, 5716): Purim
1956: “A Streetcar Named Desire,” that used scenery and
lighting “based on original designs Jo Mielziner,” the grandson of Rabbi Moses
Mielziner and for which Herman Shapiro served as production manager was
performed on Broadway for the last time at the City Center.
1957: The Diary of Anne Frank, which had been running on
Broadway at the Cort Theatre since October, 1955, re-opened at the Ambassador
Theatre after it had left the Cort four days ago.
1957: In Jerusalem, Geula Cohen, a prominent member of the
1940s underground group Lehi and later MK for Likud and Tehiya and Immanuel
Hanegbi, was the Operations Officer for the Lehi gave birth to MK, cabinet
member and security expert Yitzhak “Tzachi” Hanegbi
1958(6th of Adar I, 5718): Eighty-seven-year-old
“American illustrator and anarchist Modest Stein, the Kovno born son of
pharmacist Laza Aronstam, the husband of
photographer Marcia Mishkin and father of Luba Stein who in 1888 came to the
United States were he joined his cousin Alexander Berkman as a member of
the “Jewish anarchist group, the Pioneers of Liberty” before becoming “a
successful pen and ink artist for the New York World, New York Sun, and other
New York newspapers” and finding “even greater success as an illustrator for
periodicals such as Argosy, and drew numerous covers for other pulp magazines
including The Cavalier, All-Story Weekly, and People's Favorite Magazine”
passed away today.
1959(18th of Adar I, 5719): Eighty-five-year-old
agronomist Selig Suskin, a native of the Crimea who was one of the founders of
Be’er Tuvia, and a delegate to the Sixth Zionist Congress passed away.
1960: “Jewish leaders declared today that "Israel has
become a strong force for the democratic way of life in Asia and Africa” and “they
said this was because of the technical and scientific assistance Israel was
giving to under-developed countries on these continents.
1961: Fifty-one-year-old Mohammed V, the Sultan of Morocco,
who according to Meredith Hindley, found Vichy’s laws pertaining to Jews
“appalling” and did what he could given his limited power, to ameliorate their
affect, passed away today.
1961(10th of Adar, 5721): Sixty-five-year-old Uberto
De Morpurgo, the son of Julius Baron von Morpurgo and Mary Catherine and
husband of Claire Clara Maria de Morpurgo who was Italy’s leading male tennis
player during the 1920’s passed away today.
1961: “Today, the American Jewish Congress called on
President Kennedy to ‘fulfill promptly his pledges to deal effectively with
racial and religious discrimination by use of his Presidential powers.’”
1961: “Queen Elizabeth attended a special service held in
the Brussels Great Synagogue today to mark the the 25th anniversary
of Pinhas Kahlenberg, chief cantor who is also a Jewish chaplain in the Belgian
Army.”
1962(22nd of Adar I, 5722):
Eighty-three-year-old Riga native Rabbi Harris M. Lazarus, the longtime
“minister at the Brondesburgy Synagogue in northwestern London” and “who was
acting Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth from 1946 to 1948” passed away
today in London.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/02/27/81785586.html?pageNumber=33
https://www.jta.org/archive/rabbi-lazarus-former-deputy-chief-rabbi-of-britain-dies-in-london
1964(13th of Adar, 5724): Fast of Esther; Erev
Purim
1964: “The Deputy, “ directed and co-produced by Herman
Shumlin opened on Broadway today at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
1964: “He Rides Tall” a western with a musical score by
Irving Getz was released today in the United States.
1965: Mrs. David Fogel and Mrs. Bernard Friedman of the Sisterhood of Temple Israel are the
co-chairmen of luncheon and fashion show in the Terrace Room at the Plaza on
March 9 which will raise money for such projects as the Cancer Dressing
Committee, the Veterans Administration and Interfaith Neighbors.
1965: This year's first shipment of Jaffa oranges which are
seedless, easy to peel and juicy have arrived from Israel and they “will be in
local stores until the season draws to a close in late April.”
1966: “Slapstick Tragedy,” directed by Alan Schneider and
for which David Rothenberg served as General Press Representative was performed
for the last time on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre.
1968(26th Shevat, 5728): Sixty-seven-year-old
Harvard trained physician Joel J. Pressman, the Philadelphia born sone of Peter
and Rose Pressman, the husband of movie star Claudette Colbert and World War II
flight surgeon who was “an authority on the larynx passed away today.
1969(8th of Adar, 5729): Seventy-year-old
orthopedic surgeon and World War II veteran Philip Palew, the husband of Dr.
Stephanie Shick Palow passed away today.
1969(8th of Adar, 5729): Levi Eshkol passed away.
Eshkol is one of the ironic characters in Jewish History. He was the
Prime Minister sandwiched in between such giants as David Ben-Gurion and Golda
Meir. Yet this comparative political non-entity was the Prime Minister in
1967. He was the one who made the decisions that saved the state in those
fateful days of May and June. And he was the Prime Minister who
reunited Jerusalem and reclaimed the City of David.
http://research.haifa.ac.il/~eshkol/index.html
1970: “Beverly Hills developer Louis Lesser filed suit in
San Diego Superior Court today claiming half interest in the estimated $100
million Rancho Los Penasquitos Inc. development company.”
1970: “Georgy” “a musical with a book by Tom Mankiewicz,
lyrics by Carole Bayer” opened today at the Winter Garden Theatre.
1970: “The Dreyfus Fund announced today that Howard Stein, who
has been president had been given the additional office, of chairman.”
1971(1st of Adar, 5731): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1971: “Willard,” a horror movie directed by Daniel Mann was
released in the United States today.
1972(11th of Adar, 5732): Parashat Tetzaveh
1972(11th of Adar, 5732): Eighty-four-year-old
Margarete Caecilie Tietz, the Berlin born daughter of Albert Ariel
Dzialoszynski, a Jewish wholesaler from Kępno, and his wife Emma Sarah
Meyermann, who came from Vilnius, the wife “Cologne merchant Alfred Leonhard
Tietz and the daughter-in-law of the department store founder Leonhard Tietz
who was active in a number of social improvement organizations in Germany during
WW I and post-war Germany, who fled to Palestine when the Nazis came to power and
who eventually settled in the United States passed away today in London.
1973(24th of Adar I, 5733): Eighty-five-year-old
Nathan Kolko, the Polish born son of Solomon and Rose Goldstock Kolko, and the
husband of Sarah Alpert Kolko passed away today after which he was buried in
the Britton Road Cemetery in Greece, NY.
1974: At its founding convention The American Sephardi
Federation announced its goals: First to revitalize Sephardi heritage, and
second to provide for aid the underprivileged population in Israel.
1974(4th of Adar, 5734): Five days after his 68th
birthday Alameda CA born, Cal Berkley Law School grad Tevis Jacobs, the “senior
partner in Jacobs, Sills and Coblentz,” and active member of Congregation
Emanu-El in San Francisco who for 38 years was the husband of children’s right
advocate Jill Jacobs and the father of Diane, Leatrice, Lori and Stephen Jacobs
passed away today.
https://www.jweekly.com/1999/10/22/jacobs-advocate-for-children-s-rights-dies-at-85/
1975(15th of Adar, 5735): Shushan Purim
1975(15th of Adar, 5735): Ninety-four-year-old
Annie Elizabeth (Wannamaker) Strauss, the wife of Mordechai A. Strauss and
daughter-in-law of Amelia and Alfred Abraham Strauss passed away today and
after she was buried in Orangeburg, S.C.
1977(8th of Adar, 5737): Parashat Terumah;
Shabbat Zachor
1977(8th of Adar, 5737): Eighty-nine-year-old
Wharton graduate Morton Gustavus Thalhimer, the Richmond born son of Pauline
and Gustavus Thalhimer and husband of Ruth Wallerstein Thalhimer passed away
today after which he was buried in the Hebrew Cemetery in his hometown.
1978(18th of Adar I, 5738): Parashat Ki Tisa
1978(18th of Adar I, 5738): Joan Colb Fried, the
mother of Leanna Belson and Yael Fried passed away today in Israel.
1978: “Deathtrap” written by Ira Levin debuted on Broadway
at the Music Box Theatre with Marian Winters in the role of “Helga ten Dorp,” a
part that she would stop playing in October when she was diagnosed with Cancer
that would claim her life.
1978(18th of Adar I, 5738): Eighty-one-year-old
Vilna native Menahem G. Glenn who in 1914 came to the United States where he
graduated from Columbia and earned a Ph.D. from Dropsie Colle while pursuing a
career as a Yiddish author, poet and
journalist.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/09/menakhem-gershon-glen-menahem-g-glenn.html
1979: Officials in the Carter administration “said today
that President Anwar el‐Sadat's decision not to
participate in a new round of Camp David negotiations with President Carter and
Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel had aroused some Israeli suspicions and
had made it more difficult for the United States to appear evenhanded.”
1979: Hani al‐Hassan, a prominent
leader of Al Fatah and one of the
advisers closest to Yasir Arafat, said in Teheran tonight that the new
Government of Iran has made “the liberation of Jerusalem from Israeli
occupation one of its foremost religious and moral commitments and “that the
Iranian revolution had created a pincer movement around Israel that would be
completed when “a fundamental change takes place in Turkey” which will be “similar
to the Islamic revolt of Iran.”
1980: Egypt and Israel exchanged ambassadors for
the first time. This was one of the tangible outcomes of the
historic Sadat - Begin Peace Accords. While the peace may have
turned out to be a cold one, the peace has held.
1980: “Major Barbara,” opened on Broadway at the Circle in
the Square Theatre “under the direction of Theodore Mann and Paul Libin.”
1980: An Off-Broadway production of “Biography” written by
S.N. Behrman opened at Stage 73.
1981: According to Capitol Sources, the Reagan
Administration is planning to offer 15 additional F-15’s to Israel “to help
offset the planned sale of equipment to upgrade Saudi Arabia's F-15 warplanes.”
1982: It was reported today that Labor Party chairman
Shimon Peres had “told the party’s Central Committee that he had responded
negatively to a letter from Begin because he believed that before there could
be any talk of a national unity government there had to be a debate on a joint
policy.
1982(3rd of Adar, 5742): Sixty-two-year-old
Vilnius born Rutgers Ph.D. “Arcadius Kahan, the professor of economics and
history at the University of Chicago” who had two daughters – Vivian and Miriam
– with his wife Pearl passed away today.
1983(13th of Adar, 5743): Parashat Tetzaveh;
Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim
1983: It was reported today that “because it has become
increasingly difficult to find really first rate hamantaschen, those who want
the best will have to bake them” and it is recommended that a quality and
thicker prune jam, mixed only with sugar, is sold in bulk at H. Roth & Son,
1577 First Avenue, at 82d Street in NYC.
1984: Reverend Jesse Jackson acknowledged that he called
New York City, "Hymietown". (What can I say? Twenty years later
we get Mel Gibson and his dad.)
1984: ABC broadcast the first half of “Lace” a two-part
min-series featuring June Brown as “Mrs. Trelowney.”
1985: “Prime Minister Shimon Peres today cautiously
welcomed President Hosni Mubarak's call for direct negotiations between Israel
and a joint Jordanian- Palestinian delegation.”
1986: Seventy-four-year-old Czech jazz musician Karel Vlach
who had “a day job as a traveling salesman for Jewish notions firm until the
German occupation made it untenable” and who played with several Jewish
musicians including Fritz Weiss before the war when Weiss was ultimately shipped
to his death at Auschwitz passed away today.
1987: Israeli officials contended tonight that the Tower
Commission had played down the Israeli role in the Iranian arms deal as
secondary to that of the United States. ''At first glance, it doesn't seem to
stress especially the role of Israel; we are not being blamed,'' said Avi
Pazner, spokesman for Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. ''But that's at first
glance, and we have to study it in depth.'' Unofficially, Government members
appeared generally relieved that the report did not disclose any involvement deeper
than that already attributed to Israeli officials and middlemen.
1987(27th of Shevat): Eighty-three-year-old
Fredric R. Mann, an industrialist and patron of the arts who helped finance
music centers in Philadelphia and Tel Aviv, died of cancer this morning in
Miami. (As reported by Tim Page)
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/27/obituaries/fredric-r-mann-arts-patron.html
1988: Secretary George Shultz is scheduled to meet with
Israeli leaders today in an attempt to promote the Bush Administration’s latest
peace proposals for the Middle East.
1988: “Alien From L.A.” a sci-fi thriller produced by Yoram
Globus was released in the United States today.
1988: “Frantic” a fast-paced mystery directed by Roman
Polanski was released in France and the United States today.
1988: Settlers from the West Bank demonstrated in Jerusalem
today outside the office where Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was meeting with
Secretary of State George P. Shultz at the start of a new Middle East peace
drive. The demonstrations stood in stark contrast to the expression of other
Israelis, notably Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, who are willing to consider
trading occupied land for peace.
1988: Naum Meiman a 77-year-old Soviet Jew who battled for
13 years to leave the Soviet Union embraced his daughter when he arrived in
Israel today. Mr. Meiman hugged his daughter, Olga Plam, 50, of Boulder, Colo.,
who left the Soviet Union 14 years ago and had not seen her father since
then. Meiman, who is a mathematician, said, “Some of us managed to get
out. Many are still left behind.'' Soviet authorities said they delayed Mr.
Meiman's emigration request because of his ''access to state secrets.'' Mr. Meiman
had worked on classified calculations in 1955.
1989: In “Design: Imagine This,” published today, Carol Vogel describes
architect Ron Arad's gallery and office including the small back room in which
the architect is drafting his design for the new opera house in Tel Aviv.
1990(1st of Adar, 5750): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1990(1st of Adar, 5750): Ninety-seven-year-old
the widow of Arthur Hays Sulzberg and the mother of Arthur Ochs Sulzereberg “who
shaped the New York Times” passed away today.
1991: Forty-nine-year-old Karen Koslowtiz, the Bronx born daughter
of immigrants from Krakow and the mother of Heidi and Marcis began servings as
a member of the NYC Council from the 29th District.
1991: The Bank of Israel said today that it would permit
foreign companies to issue stocks and bonds on the Tel Aviv stock exchange. But
the amount of money a foreign concern could take out of the country would be
limited to 20 percent of any new issue. Previously the central bank had turned
down applications by foreign firms to issue shares on the stock market. The
change of policy "will make the Israeli stock market more
international," said Gideon Schurr, speaking for the Bank of Israel."Now
we need local investments, not Israeli investments abroad."
1992: Senator Bob Kasten Jr., Republican of Wisconsin;
Senator Dennis DeConcini, Democrat of Arizona; Senator J. Bennett Johnston,
Democrat of Louisiana; Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania;
Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, and Senator Alfonse M.
D'Amato, Republican of New York all strongly opposed the conditions that the
Bush administration attached to providing ten billion dollars in loan guarantees
for Israel.
1992: “New York State's highest court ruled that a Jewish
group did not violate state anti-discrimination statutes by urging that
restaurant owners and ministers refuse to rent space to Jews for Jesus Inc., a
missionary organization that recognizes Christ as the Messiah.”
1993: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North
Tower of the World Trade Center exploded, killing 6 and injuring over a
thousand. One of the bombers claimed the attack was in retaliation for American
support of Israel. The bombers were later found to be connected with
Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda.
1993: “Leon the Pig Farmer, “ a British comedy starry Mark
Frankel and Janet Suzman was released today in the United Kingdom.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104710/
1993(5th of Adar, 5753): Sixty-four-year-old
Carol Solomon author of Report from the Asylum: Afterthoughts of a Shock
Patient, “an account of the shock-therapy treatment used to treat patients
in asylums, drawn directly from personal experience.”
1994(15th of Adar, 5754): Parashat Ki Tisa;
Shushan Purim
1994: Eight-six-year-old Sofka Skipwith, the Russian émigré
and Communist who was honored by Yad Vashem for saving Jews during the Shoah
passed away today.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/righteous-women/skipwith.asp
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sofka-skipwith-1427738.html
1994: The Peace Now supporters rallied tonight in central
Jerusalem, demanding an independent inquiry into the Friday massacre and an
evacuation of the 400 Jewish settlers living in overwhelmingly Arab Hebron.
1994: Palestinians rioted and fought with Israeli soldiers
across the occupied territories and in predominantly Arab towns in Israel today
to protest the massacre here on Friday of at least 40 Arab worshipers by a
Jewish settler.
1995: Today, at Congregation Mount Sinai in Brooklyn, Rabbi
Aaron Raskin is scheduled to officiate at the wedding Kari E. Chin and Yeshiva
University Law School graduate Gil A. Chachkes, an associate at Kaufman and
Feit.
1995: “Avraham Burg, a young and outspoken Labor member of
Parliament, has been appointed acting chairman of the Jewish Agency, the
influential body that oversees Jewish immigration to Israel.”
1996(6th of Adar, 5756): Mieczysław Weinberg passed away.
Born in Warsaw in 1919, he moved to Moscow in 1943. He lived and composed
in the Soviet Union for the rest of his life. His musical virtuosity did not
keep him from being arrested during the period Stalin’s “Doctor Plot.” (He left
a large body of work that included twenty-two symphonies and seventeen string
quartets; according to one reviewer he ranked as, "the third great Soviet
composer, along with Prokofiev and Shostakovich".
1997: Local and Federal officials refused today to answer
numerous questions about yesterday’s arrest of “Harry Shapiro, 31, a former
kosher butcher and theological student” who was charged with a planting a bomb
at the Jacksonville, Jewish Center, a Conservative Synagogue where Shimon
Peres, the former Prime Minister of Israel was scheduled to speak.
1997: “The Semiotics of Rubber Bullets in Israeli Society”
published today provides a complete review of Rubber Bullets: Power and
Conscience in Modern Israel by Yaron Ezrahi.
1998(30th of Shevat, 5758): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1998: The Mossad intelligence agency, its reputation
already tarnished by a botched assassination attempt in Jordan, suffered
another ''very serious'' failure in Europe last week, Israeli radio and
television reported this evening” which has led to the resignation of Danny Yatom as head of the Mossad
1998: “In an effort to end the anger aroused when a
non-Jewish professor resigned as chairman of the Jewish studies program at
Queens College after complaints from Jewish critics, the college president has
announced the appointment of Prof. Benny Kraut, a widely published specialist
in modern European and American Jewish history and Judaica, to lead the
department.”
1999: Jewish American cultural historian Maurice Berger
when writing in the Los Angeles Times about “the flap at Inglewood High School
over Black History Month and Cinco de Mayo observances” reminded readers that “that
history can be a valuable force for social change.”
2000: ‘After a lull of close to a week, fighting resumed in
south Lebanon” with Israeli warplanes firing six rockets and an exchange of
ground fire near the Israeli border where “a mortar shell landed in a field in
northern Israel.”
2001: In Israel, the Labor Party joined a coalition
government with Ariel Sharon as Prime Minister, Shimon Peres as Foreign
Minister and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer as Minister of Defense.
2002(14th of Adar, 5762): Purim
2002: “Two pregnant women one Palestinian, the other
Israeli -- gave birth today after being shot and wounded in separate attacks
across their political divide, as violence proceeded unabated the day after
Israel decided to keep Yasir Arafat confined to the West Bank city of Ramallah.”
(As reported by James Bennet)
2002: “The Bank of Israel raised its monthly benchmark
interest rate for the first time in more than three years in a bid to stem
inflation, which has been accelerated by a two-month slide in the shekel.”
2003: The paperback edition of 1492: The Life and Times
of Juan Cabezon of Castile part of the Jewish Latin America Series was
published today
2004: A fourth Broadway revival of “Fiddler on the Roof”
today and ran for 36 previews and 781 performances at the Minskoff Theatre in
NYC.
2005(17th of Adar I, 5765): Henry Anatole Grunwald an
Austrian-born journalist and diplomat perhaps best known for his position as
managing editor of TIME magazine and editor in chief of Time, Inc passed away
today. (As reported by Richard Severo)
2005(17th of Adar I, 5765): Sixty-one-year-old
Jeff Raskin an America human-computer interface expert best-known for starting
the Macintosh project for Apple Computer in the late 1970s passed away today
2005: In “The Morning After the Tel Aviv
Bombing” Joseph M. Hochstein provided a portrait of the indomitable will of the
citizens of Tel Aviv in the face of senseless slaughter.
http://www.mideastweb.org/log/archives/00000337.htm
2006(28th of Shevat, 5766):
Sixty-six-year-old artist and photograph editor Sally C. Fox passed away.
http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch01175
2006(28th of Shevat, 5766): Sir Hans Singer, a
refugee from Nazi Germany and a well-known British development economist,
passed away.
2006: In “Betty Friedan's
Enduring 'Mystique'”, published today Rachel Donadio describes the importance
of the writings and career of the recently deceased author and feminist.
2006: The Jerusalem Post reported
that Israel's two chief rabbis, Rabbis Shlomo Amar and Yona Metzger have
“questions” for the Archbishop of Canterbury, but will not cancel plans to meet
the leader of Britain's state church this May in light of the vote by the
General Synod of the Church of England to divest its shares in companies whose
products are used by the Israeli government in the territories.
2007: Members of Histadrut remained on the job
giving authorities more time to affect an immediate solution to the problem of
salary debts in 40 local authorities.
2007: Starting today Diane Ravitch “participated in a ‘blog
debate’ called ‘Bridging Difference’ with Deborah Meier on the website of
Education Week.”
2007: “It was announced today that former Major League
Baseball player Steve Hertz would be the manager of the “Tel Aviv Lightning” a
team in the Israel Baseball League that would finish in second place at the end
of the 2007 season.
2007: Knesset members yesterday urged the legal authorities
to explore ways of indicting Professor Ariel Toaff over his book Pasque di
Sangue, which alleges a factual basis to a 15th-century blood libel.”
2008: In New York, The Center for Jewish
History and the American Jewish Historical Society presents distinguished
writer and journalist Janet Malcolm reading from her stunningly perceptive work
Two Lives, in which she pursues the charmed life of famed literary
couple Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas while living in a Vichy, France
village and pursues the larger question of biographical truth.
2008: The New York Times reports on the
results of a survey of
religious affiliation by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. http://religions.pewforum.org/. The
report indicates that the behavior of American Jews in terms of religious
affiliation may be more a function of their behavior as Americans as opposed to
their behavior as Jews. The report supports the bi-modal nature of
religious behavior in America – a quest for spirituality which is not
necessarily tied to usual patterns of denominational affiliation – which is
also apparent in the Jewish community.
2008(20th of Adar I, 5768): Lt. Gen. Dan Shomron, a former chief of Israel’s general
staff and the paratroop commander who planned and led the storied 1976 raid in
which Israeli troops freed 103 hijacked hostages at Entebbe Airport in Uganda,
in Israel. He was 70. He was the 13th Chief of Staff for the IDF.
2008: Rabbi Charles A. Klein, a Conservative rabbi and for the
last 30 years the spiritual leader of the Merrick Jewish Center-Congregation
Ohr Torah, will be installed today as the 59th
president of the New York Board of Rabbis, the world’s oldest and largest
interdenominational rabbinical board.
2009: Comedian and actor Eugene Mirman discusses and signs his
new book, The Will to
Whatevs: A Guide to Modern
Life, at Barnes
& Noble in Georgetown.
2009: The Nineteenth Annual KOACH Kallah,
sponsored by KOACH, the college program of The United Synagogue of Conservative
Judaism opens at the Brandeis-Bardin Campus of the American Jewish University
in Simi Valley, CA.
2009: In Venezuela, assailants threw an
explosive at a Jewish community center today, but nobody was hurt which was the
second assault against Venezuela's Jewish community this year.
2009: Today Sergio Widder of the Los
Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center criticized Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez for failing to take steps aimed at curbing anti-Semitism.
2010: U.S. premiere of “The Yellow
Handkerchief” produced by Arthur Cohen with music by Eef Barzelay.
2010: Harry Baron, the first Jewish justice to
serve on the Irish Supreme court whose wife Harriet had passed away 13 years
ago, was laid to rest today at “Dolphin’s Barn’s Jewish Cemetery.
2010: Rabbi Barry Baron, co-Director of Jewish Welfare Board is
scheduled to lead Purim festivities and services at Fort Belvoir.
2010: Today's issue of Haaretz Magazine is scheduled to
publish the exclusive story of Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Sheikh Hassan
Yousef, a Hamas founder and one of its leaders in the West Bank, who served for
over a decade as the Shin Bet security service's most valuable source in the
militant organization's leadership.
2010(12th of Adar, 5770): Eighty-eight-year
Daniel Kapilow, the “retired President of Teamster Local 966” and advocate for
providing aid to retired boxers who was predeceased by his wife Natalie with
whom he had two children – Susan and Gloria – passed away today.
2010: ABC News President David Westin confirmed in an interview
today that the network's ranks of bureau correspondents, which currently number
several dozen, would be cut in half and be replaced with "digital"
journalists who would be expected to shoot and edit their own stories. As part
of the deep cuts announced this week at ABC News, the network plans to close
all of its physical bureaus around the country except Washington and halve the
number of its domestic correspondents.
2010(12 Adar, 5770): Prof. David Bankier, one of the world's most renowned
Holocaust scholars who also served as the head of the International Institute
for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, died at the age of 63 today after a
four-year battle with cancer.
2011: Five Brothers, a film
about a brotherhood of Algerian Jews living in France who rally to defend
themselves while avenging the memory of their murdered father, is scheduled to
be shown at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival.
2011: In Iowa City, Benjamin Coelho and other
local musicians are scheduled to perform at Hillel’s Champagne &
Classical Evening, which is a fundraiser for this vital part of the University
Of Iowa and Iowa City Jewish communities.
2011: In Fairfax, VA, the Olam Tikvah Mens Club
is scheduled to host its Judaism is for Lover’s Party.
2011: Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan is
scheduled to perform as part of the People’s Symphony Concerts in NYC.
2011: Palestinians in Gaza reported today that IDF planes hit
targets in Gaza belonging to Islamic Jihad west of Khan Younis but the IDF did
not confirm the Palestinian reports.
2011: Iran and Syria have agreed to cooperate on naval training,
Reuters reported Iran’s official news agency saying today.
2011(22nd Adar I, 5771): Eighty-nine-year-old
“Judith Coplon, a former Justice Department employee who became a sensation in
1949 when she was accused of being a Soviet spy” passed away today.(As reported
by Sam Roberts)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/us/02coplon.html?_r=0
2011(22nd Adar I, 5771): Arnost Lustig, an acclaimed Czech author who drew on his
own harrowing experiences as a teenager in World War II to produce novels and
short stories laced with tales of young people who survive the Holocaust,
passed away today the age of 84. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/books/06lustig.html
2011(22nd Adar I, 5771): Ora Eyal, one of Israel’s most successful children’s book
illustrators, whose work included the Israeli classic “A Tale of Five
Balloons,” passed away today at the age of 64. “Eyal was born in Jerusalem in
1946 and studied at the Bezalel Academy in the city. She also worked as a
translator from Italian. Eyal won the 1994 Ben Isaac Prize for Illustration
from the Israel Museum. She was awaiting delivery of the final book she
illustrated, “Everyone Went for a Trip,” just before she died.” (As reported by
the Eulogizer)
2011(22nd Adar I, 5771): Howard R. Johnston, 86, a retired lieutenant colonel,
passed away today. A native of Bruce Lake, Indiana, he spent 23 years on active
duty, and was a combat veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam. He was a
senior aviator, qualified in fixed and rotary wing aircraft, and a certified
flight examiner. (As reported by the Eulogizer)
2012: The New York Times featured reviews of books
by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “The
Technologist” by Matthew Pear and the recently released paperback edition of
“Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall — From America’s Brightest
Prodigy to the Edge of Madness” by Frank Brady.
2012: Today, the IDF is expected to open the southwest
segment of a highway that leads to Eilat for the first time since a terror
attack near the border with Egypt left 8 Israelis dead after having made major
security improvements including the erection of 23-foot-high fence. (As
reported by Yoav Zitun)
2012: “The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg” is scheduled
to be shown at Temple Beth-El in Poughkeepsie, NY
2012: “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg” is scheduled to be shown at
the Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival in Scottsdale, AZ
2012: In London, Jeremy Ben-Ami, the founder and president
of J Street and the author of “A New Voice for Israel” and Jonathan Freedland
who writes a weekly column for The Guardian are scheduled to take part
in a panel discussion entitled “A New Voice for Israel” as part of Jewish Book
Week.
2012: The new edition of “IBM and the Holocaust” by Edwin
Black will be released today at a special Live Global Streaming Event at
Yeshiva University’s Furst Hall in New York. The Event can be seen at http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/
http://hnn.us/articles/new-ibm-correspondence-about-holocaust-revealed-edwin-black
2012(3rd of Adar): Anniversary of the completion of
the Second Temple. [Editor's Note – This ushers in one of the best
periods in Jewish History; we got to be Jewish and nobody tried to kill
us! It is puzzling that we celebrate the tragedy of the destruction of
the Temple but do not celebrate the joy of it completion. It is also
puzzling that we celebrate an invented moment in our history (Purim) and do
nothing to celebrate a real moment of joy.]
2012: One-hundred-one year old Canadian violinist Ethel
Stark founder of the Montreal Women’s Symphony Orchestra passed away.
http://www.jewishpubliclibrary.org/blog/?p=1296
2012(3rd of Adar, 5772): Ninety-four-year-old
Sol Schiff who so dominated his sport that he was known as “Mr. Table Tennis”
passed away today. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/sports/sol-schiff-mr-table-tennis-dies-at-94.html?hpw
2012: Workers at Haifa, Ashdod and Eilat ports called a
general strike starting at 6 A.M. this morning, after overnight talks between
representatives of the finance and transportation ministries, leaders of the
Histadrut labor federation and workers’ committees failed to reach an agreement
to prevent the strike.
2012: Israeli aircraft bombed two targets in the southern
Gaza Strip overnight, the military said today.
2013: “MAKERS:
Women Who Make America,” which is follow up to “Gloria Steinem: In Her Own
Words” is scheduled to be shown on PBS this evening
2013((16th
of Adar, 5773): Ninety-five-year-old Stéphane Hessel, the hero of the
Resistance, concentration camp survivor and French diplomat passed away.
2013: The 92nd
Street Y is scheduled to host “Political Earthquake In The Middle East: Are
There Any Good Options For The U.S. and Israel” with Walter Russell Mead and
Warren Kozak
2013: A rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip at
Ashkelon early this morning, breaking months of quiet between Israel and the
Palestinian enclave.
2013: US
President Barack Obama will not present a new peace initiative when he visits
Israel and the Palestinian territories next month, and instead is coming “to
listen,” Secretary of State John Kerry said today
2014: The Thaler Holocaust Committee under the leadership
of Dr. Bob Silber is scheduled to meet at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2014: Author and newswoman Hoda Kotb is scheduled to talk
about her memoir with Jonathan Tisch at the 92nd Street Y.
2014: Jordan warned today that it might review a 1994 peace
treaty with Israel after Israeli MPs began a debate on allowing Jewish prayers
at Jerusalem’s sensitive Temple Mount.
2014: Yad Vashem recognized Sebastián Romero Radigales as
Righteous Among the Nations.
2014: “It was announced today that actress Jessica Lange
would be the new face of Marc Jacobs Beauty (He is Jewish – she isn’t)
2014: Israeli troops along the border with Lebanon were on
high alert tonight after Hezbollah threatened action over what it said was an
Israeli air raid
2014: Pulitzer-prize winning author Philip Schultz is
scheduled to discuss The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse about a young man
translating his mother mother’s diaries that “concern the Jedwabne massacre.”
2015: The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center For Holocaust
Education is scheduled to host “The Hiding Place: A Queer Storytelling Tribute
to the Diary of Anne Frank.”
2016: In New York, the Jewish Museum is scheduled to host
45 minute tours of the exhibition “Unorthodox” led by the Museum’s docents.
2016: “Ten terrorist attack victims who won financial
claims against Iran can seize a $2.8 million judgment owed to that country’s
Defense Ministry, a federal appeals court said today.”
2016: “Feeling are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer” and
“Cremator” are scheduled to be shown at the 26th Washington Jewish
Film Festival.
2017(30th of Shevat, 5777): Rosh Chodesh Adar;
2017: The New York
Times published books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Almost Complete Poems by Stanley Moss, When
Police Kill by Franklin E. Zimring, A World in Disarray: American
Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Older by Richard Haass and the
recently released paperback edition of Not In God’s Name: Confronting
Religious Violence by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.
2017: “Cloudy Sunday,” a film that tells “of a war-time
romance in Thessaloniki between a Jewish girl and a young resistance fighter”
is scheduled to be shown for the last time at JW3 in London.
2017: Soprano Rachel Joselson and pianist Rene Lecuona are
scheduled to perform selections by composers who were prisoners of Nazi Germany
in Theresienstadt during the Holocaust, including Viktor Ullmann, Adolf
Strauss, Ilse Weber and Gideon Klein at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Education Center.
2017: Among those waiting to see if they will win an Oscar
tonight are actress Natalie Portman, actor Andrew Garfield and the creator of
“Joe’s Violin”
http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/a-violin-thats-a-survivor/
2017: “The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936” – an exhibition that
“explores whether a controversial proposed boycott might have strengthened
international resistance to Nazi tyranny and how the Nazis used the games as
propaganda to further their agenda” is scheduled to come a close at California
African American Museum.
2017: Efraim Halevy, the ninth director of the Mossad is
scheduled to be interviewed by David Horovitz tonight at the Hirsch Theatre in
Jerusalem.
2017: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to
host “An Evening with Wolf Blitzer.”
2018: The Center for Jewish History and YIVO Institute are
scheduled to host the opening of the exhibition of “Jews in Space: Members of
the Tribe in Orbit.”
2018: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to
host “An Evening with Israeli Master-Mentalist Lior Suchard.”
2018: “Prayer” is scheduled to be the topic for the
interdenominational scripture discussion group co-sponsored by the Oxford
University Jewish Society.
2018: The Jewish Women’s Group is scheduled to celebrate
Purim at the Brody Center at the University of Virginia.
2019: The “workshop at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish
History and Culture” on “Transdisciplinary Perspectives in the Field of Jewish
Cultural Studies” is scheduled to come to an end today.
2019: “The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the
National Museum of American Jewish History” are scheduled to host “Race and
Society in Nazi Germany and the US: From Swastika to Jim Crow” which will
include “a film screening that will explore the encounter between two groups
targeted by oppression, brutality, and forced segregation who were brought
together by World War II and racism in their societies” followed by a panel
discussion moderated by “Edna Friedberg, PhD, Historian, United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum.”
2019: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to
host “Woman in Gold: A Quest for Justice” during which “Helen Mirren, the star
of ‘Woman in Gold,’ discusses “the ironic transformation of the portrait of a
Jewish woman into an Austrian national treasure…and the importance of pursuing
truth.”
2019: In San Francisco, the Jewish Community Library is
scheduled to host a screening of “Above and Beyond,” “a feature-length
documentary, created from a mix of archival footage and special effects from
Industrial Light and Magic” that “tells the story of WWII volunteer pilots,
Jews and non-Jews alike, who risked everything to defend Israel in its War of
Independence in 1948.”
2019: At Berkeley, CA, “UC Berkeley professor John Connelly
is scheduled to discuss Poland between World War I and the Nazi invasion” as
part of the “Around Arthur Szyk” lecture series.
2020: In Berkley, Congregation Netivot Shalom is scheduled
to host a “Earth Seder Workshop” during which Rabbi Ellen Bernstein shares the
earthy wisdom of Passover through her new Haggadah, “The Promise of the Land.”
2020: Keren Ann is scheduled to host Avishai Cohen at the
Tzidkiyahu Cave.
2020: The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to host screenings of “Everytime We Say Goodbye” and the U.S.
premiere of “The Final Hour.”
2020: In San Rafael, CA, the Osher Martin JCC is scheduled
to host a screening of “Picture of His Life,” a “documentary that follows Amos
Nachoum, an underwater still photographer.”
2020: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to
Joanne Greenway, the Chief Excutive of the London School of Jewish Studies as
she talks about difficult cases of “Get Refusal she worked on while with the
London Beth Din.”
2020(1st of Adar, 5780): Rosh Chodesh Adar.
2021: In London, Highgate Synagogue is scheduled to host a
Morning Service followed by a Megillah reading that will finished “by 8:10
a.m.”
2021: The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to
begin hosting a virtual screening of “Here We Are” and “Love It Was Not.”
2021: In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah is scheduled to
host a virtual Purim Service and Megillah reading to which congregants are
encouraged to wear costumes.
2021: The final episode of “Losing Alice” starring Ayelet
Zurer as Alice is scheduled to be broadcast today.
2021: Congregation B’nai Torah is scheduled to present
online a “Post Purim Shabbat Service” followed by a “Purim After Party
featuring comedian Orli Matlow.”
2021: In Florida, Temple Judea is scheduled to host a
two-hour Noon Drive by Event where attended are encouraged to “bring Matanot
L’Evyonim.”
2021: Israel’s Purim Pandemic Curfew which began yesterday
evening continues to be in effect today as part “an effort to stop mass
celebrations during the ongoing” health crisis.
2021: Based on reports published yesterday, as of today
Israel will have halted shipment of vaccines to friendly nations following a
request for a clarification by Attorney General Mandelbit and criticism from
several sources including Defense Minister Ganz.
2021(14th of Adar, 5781): Purim
2022: In New York, KnJ Theatre at Peridance is scheduled to
host “Am I, an evening-length solo performance collaboration between
choreographer Michael Getman and dancer Talia Paz.”
2022: The Eden-Tamir Center is scheduled to host a
Multipiano Ensemble with pianists Tomer Lev, Berenika Glixman, Nimrod
Meiri-Haftel and Alon Kariv
2022: In another example of David and Goliath,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
leads his country in the fight against invading Russian forces whose President,
oddly enough justifies his action as a response to a need for de-Nazification
which sounds hollow when you realize that Zelensky is Jewish.
2022(25th of Adar I, 5782): Shabbat Shekalim
2023: In Haverhill, MA, Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to
present online a lecture by Rabbi Barbar Aneillo on “the remarkable story of the Jewish presence in southern Italy, including
Sicily and Calabria, and explain how Jewish families who fled the Spanish
inquisition and settled in those areas maintained remnants of their rituals and
traditions for nearly 500 years” as well as “her experiences as a “bat anusim,”
whose ancestors were forced to abandon Judaism and accept Christian
conversion.”
2023: The Jewish Film
Festival is scheduled to host the second an final day of the tenth annual
WinterFest in San Francisco.
2023: The National Library
of Israel is scheduled to host a lecture by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, the Crown
Family Professor of Jewish Studies and a Professor of Jewish History in the
History Department at Northwestern University on Five Shifts in
Ukrainian-Jewish Relations One Needs to Know.
2023: The Breman Museum is
scheduled to present a lecture Hungarian Holocaust survivor Robert Ratonyi as
part of the Bearing Witness program.
2023: The Limmud Festival
sponsored by Limmud of North America is
scheduled to begin today.
2023: Today, the Museum of
the Southern Jewish Experience and Chabad of Louisiana are scheduled to host a
family hamantaschen-making workshop in New Orleans.
2023: The New Jersey-Israel
Commission and COGIC are schedule to present “Symphony of Brotherhood,” a
special concert for Black History Month.
2023: The East Bay Jewish
Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Dream Girl: The Making of
Marilyn Monroe.”
2023: In San Mateo, CA,
Chabad North Peninsula is scheduled to host a “Violins of Hope,” a “concert subtitled
“Strings of Resilience” with Cantor Aryeh Hurwitz features violins played by
Jewish musicians during the Holocaust that have been restored.
2023: The New York Times
features reviews of books by Jewish authors including A Hacker’s Mind: How
the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend Them Back by Bruce
Schneier.
2023: Today, Jordan is
scheduled to host a "political-security" meeting between Israel and
the Palestinians to try and restore calm to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
after deadly violence, a Jordanian government official said.
2023: Temple Emanu-El, in
Sandy Springs, has an event entitled, “Georgia’s Fight Against Antisemitism,”
from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. today with speakers including Georgia House Reps. Esther
Panitch, from north Fulton County, and Long Tran, whose district includes most
of Dunwoody and part of Chamblee.
Vigilance
Urged for Saturday’s Anti-Jewish ‘Day of Hate’ - Atlanta Jewish Times
2024: In San Francisco,
Congregation Beth Shalom is scheduled to host Jennifer Lang discusses her
memoir, Places We Left Behind “which details her life as an American
married to a French man she met while living in Israel during the first
intifada and their family’s struggle to find a place to call “home.”
2024: Rabbi Fievel
Strauss and a cadre of his fellow clergyman are scheduled to begin a two-week
long “pilgrimage” to Israel.
2024: At the Green
Library in Stanford, CA Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is scheduled to discuss her novel,
The Wolf Hunt, “which explores themes of antisemitism and Black-Jewish
relations.”
2024: YIVO is scheduled
to present, live on zoom a conversation with historian Matthias Kuntzel and
Jeffrey Herf on “Hamas and the Origins of Islamic Antisemitism.
https://yivo-institute.myshopify.com/collections/the-origins-and-ideology-of-hamas
2024: As February 26th
begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day
143 in captivity. (Editor’s
note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just
providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
2025: The Weitzman, Gratz
College, Jewish Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation of
Greater Philadelphia, AJC Philadelphia, and ADL Philadelphia are scheduled to
host “Confronting Hate and Standing Strong Together” local leaders, including
Dan Tadmor, President and CEO of The Weitzman, will conduct an essential
discussion on rising antisemitism.
2025: The Jewish
Women’s Archive is scheduled to join with our partner organizations in the
first annual Jewish Justice Giving Day
2025: “A new series of JWI's Life$avings: Financial
Empowerment for Survivors of Abuse facilitator trainings is scheduled to come
to an end today.
2025: The Leo Baeck
Institute is scheduled to host the final presentation of the interdisciplinary
performance “The Archive” by Neta Pulvermacher which had its North American
preview on February 24.
2025: As February 26th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of
ant-Semitism sweeps across the globe, the reality is that the remaining Hamas
held hostages begin day 509 in captivity (Editor’s note: this situation is too
fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the
posting at midnight Israeli time)
2026: The National
Library of Israel is scheduled to host a live concert with “Micha Shitrit—one
of Israel’s most brilliant, beloved, and prolific songwriters.”
2026: JDC Archives is
scheduled to host a virtual book talk in which Jacob Daniels will introduce his
new book The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of
Borders
2026: In Newton, MA,
Temple Emanuel is scheduled to host Yisod Hamantaschen Bake.
2026: The LBI Book Club
is scheduled to host a discussion The Artificial Silk Girl with novelist
Irmgard Keun and Assistant Professor Didem Uca.
2026: The National Library of Israel is
scheduled to host a lecture by Professor Marcin Wodziński on “Enlightenments:
Jews, Poles, and Their Roads to Modernity.”
2026: Mexico, led by its first Jewish president
Claudia Sheinbaum continues to deal with the aftermath of “the recent killing
of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho," leader of the
Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) which has triggered violence in several
states” while President Sheinbaum decides how to deal with libelous remarks of
a tech mogul who claims she is in cahoots with the drug cartels.
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