March 23
1369: King Pedro of Castile who employed Abraham ibn Zaral
as his physician was beheaded by his rival and brother, Henry of Trastamara
marking the end of their civil war for control of the kingdom. Henry “was as
hostile to the Jews as Pedro had been friendly. His long-cherished hatred of
his brother burst forth when a Jew named Jacob, an intimate of the king,
praised the latter excessively to Henry. In his fury he stabbed the Jew with a
dagger. Pedro would have revenged himself on Henry forthwith, but his courtiers
restrained him by force. Henry saved himself by a hasty flight. This was the
immediate cause of the civil war which brought untold suffering upon the Jews
of the country. . He was as hostile to the Jews as Pedro had been friendly. His
long-cherished hatred of his brother burst forth when a Jew named Jacob, an
intimate of the king, praised the latter excessively to Henry. In his fury he
stabbed the Jew with a dagger. Pedro would have revenged himself on Henry
forthwith, but his courtiers restrained him by force. Henry saved himself by a
hasty flight. This was the immediate cause of the civil war which brought
untold suffering upon the Jews of the country. During their struggle for
control, Henry continuously depicted Peter as "King of the Jews," and
had some success in taking advantage of popular Castilian resentment towards
the Jews. During his reign, “Henry of Trastamara instigated pogroms beginning a
period of anti-Jewish riots and forced conversion] in Castile that lasted
approximately from 1370 to 1390.”
1475: Trent (Italy) was the scene of one of the more
notorious ritual murder libels. A Franciscan monk, Bernardinus of Feltre, had
recently arrived and began preaching Lent sermons against the Jews. A week
before Easter a boy by the name of Simon drowned in the river Adige. The monk
charged the Jews with using the body for its blood. The body washed up a few
days later near the house of a Jew who brought it to the Bishop Honderbach.
Seventeen Jews were tortured for over two weeks. Some confessed while being
tortured and 6 Jews were burnt. Two more were strangled. A temporary hiatus was
called by Pope Sixtus IV, but after five years the trial was reopened, and 5
more Jews were executed. The papal inquest agreed with the trial, Simon was
beatified, and all Jews were expelled for 300 years. The trial served as the
basis for anti-Semitic writings for hundreds of years. Only in 1965 was Simon
de –beatified
1490: The first dated edition of Maimonides' “Mishneh
Torah” was published. Maimonides was born in Cordova, Spain in 1135. His family
fled as one group of Moslem rulers replaced another. Eventually he settled in
Egypt where he was a distinguished physician for the ruling Moslems as well as
head of the Egyptian community. According to one source he provided medical
advice for both Saladin and Richard the Lionhearted. He died in 1204 and is
buried in Tiberias in Israel. Simply put, the Mishneh Torah was "an orderly
restructuring of the entire legal literature of the Talmud." The Mishneh
Torah (Repetition of the Law) is "one of the most distinguished codes of
Jewish law...”
1555: Pope Julius III passed away. Despite opposition,
Julius allowed Jewish refugees from Spain settle in Ancona in northeast Italy.
He spoke out against the blood libel and opposed baptism of Jewish children
without the approval of their parents. At the same time, he was unable to stand
up to the power of the Inquisitor General from the Holy Office, and he
acquiesced in the burning of numerous copies of the Talmud and other Jewish
books.
1556: Paul IV issued the Papal Bull “Dudum postquam”
1712(15th of Adar II): Rabbi Zevi Hirsch Koidonover, the
Wilna born “son of Rabbi Aaron Samuel Kaidanover and a pupil of Rabbi Joseph
ben Judah Jeidel” who “with his whole family, was thrown into prison on account
of a base denunciation, and was forced to languish in chains for years until he
was pardoned” after which he moved to Frankfurt where he authored of Kav
ha-Yashar passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9132-kaidanover-zebi-hirsch
1714: Duke Ferdinand expelled the Jews from Courland
1732: In Niederwiesen, Germany, Hindle and Moses Levi gave
birth to Philip Moses Faist Rosenheim the husband of Dreile Schwiezer and the
father of Samuel, Moses, Simon, Hindle and Abraham Rosenheim.
1766: In Lower Saxony, Germany, wealthy tobacco merchant
and philanthropist Isaac Jacob Gans, the “son of Jacob Salomon Gans and Freude
Katz Gans and his wife Pesse Pauline Leah Gans gave birth to Abraham Isaak
Gans,
1758(13th of Adar II, 5518): Ta’anit
Esther; erev Purim
1769(14th of Adar II, 5529) Purim
1777(14th of Adar II, 5537) Purim
1780: Birthdate of German native Loeb Feigenbaum, the
husband of Ida Bach with whom he had nine children.
1784: Reverend Gershom Mendes Seixas returned to New York
City from Connecticut and took up his position as “Minister.” He returned while
New York City was evacuated by the British, and most of the members of the
Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue were in the safety of Connecticut and
Philadelphia. Seixas was very patriotic and was thanked by President George
Washington at one time. Seixas instituted a recital of a prayer for the
government in English, it having been always read in Spanish prior to this time.
1796(13th of Adar II, 5556): Fast of
Esther; erev Purim
1796: In Jebenhausen, Germany, Marget Isaac and Aron
Abraham Arnold gave birth to Joseph Aron Arnold, the husband of Therese Kaufman
with whom he had seven children.
1799(16th of Adar II, 5559):Parashat Tzav
1801: Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then
strangled, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael's
Castle. Paul’s reign was a comparatively short one, starting in 1796 with the
death of his mother Catherine the Great. The shortness of his time on the
throne was a good thing for the Jews of Russia. In 1799, Paul sent one of his
closest advisors, Gabriel Derhavin to Belorssia. Derhavin decided that the
problems in that part of the realm, as well as the rest of Russia were caused
by the Jews “who were irredeemably corrupt.” He was planning on urging the Czar
to move most of the Jews to the “frontier territories or drive them from the
empire altogether.” These and other harsh measures would have become the law of
the land if Paul had not been killed and replaced by his comparatively more
enlightened son, Alexander I.
1806: Rachel and Moses David Friedman gave birth to Zanwel
Friedman.
1807(13th of Adar II, 5567): Ta’anit Esther is observed as
Parliament is acting to abolish the Atlantic slave trade.
1811(27th of Adar, 5571): Shabbat HaChoesh
1811: Birthdate of German medical doctor Carl Friedrich
Stahl.
1814: Sarah Mayes, the daughter of Esther Etting and David
Barrack Hays married Benjamin Etting Hays today.
1816(23rd of Adar, 5576): Parashat
Vayakhel-Pekudei; Shabbat Parah observed as the 14th Congress
of the United States was meeting during its first session.
1818: In Charleston, SC, Isaac and Rachel Mordecai Harby
gave birth toDr. Samuel Harby, the
editor of the New Orleans Bee, husband of Frances Levy Harby and the father of
Octavia Rachel Harby Pollock.
1819: Today “the liberal Burschenschaft student Karl Ludwig
Sand murdered the conservative writer August von Kotzebue” which provided the
excuse for Metternich to call for a meeting of Austrian ministers which led to
the passage of the “Carlsbad Decrees,” a package of reactionary rules which
were passed during “The Hep-Hep riots which were pogroms
against Ashkenazi Jews, that began in the Kingdom of Bavaria, during the period
of Jewish emancipation in the German Confederation.”
1820: Abraham Wiesel Gompertz, the father of Harriet
Gompertz was buried today.
1821: The General Council of the Holy Office of the
Inquisition in Portugal whose primary victims were Jews and Muslims which had
been established in 1536 was disbanded today
1822: In St. Thomas, Virgin Island, Sarah Cohen Naar and
Judge David Naar gave birth to Sarah Miriam Biaz, the wife of Abraham Baiz and
“ mother of Leita Naar; Sarah Baiz; Jacob Baiz Naar; Nanette Hannah Seixas;
Rachel Baiz; David Naar Baiz; Joseph Levi Baiz; Moses Baiz; Isaac Baiz; Samuel
Baiz; Zipporah Baiz; Esther Baiz; Rebecca Naar and Moses D'Azevedo Naar” who
was living in Brooklyn when he died in 1900.
1826(14th of Adar II, 5586): Purim
1826: In Philadelphia, PA, Abraham Arnold, the German born
son of Marget Isaac and Aron Abraham Arnold married Maria Abrahams, the
daughter of Roseanna Linderman and Levi Abrahams,
1827: Marcus De Vries married Kaat Van Rook
1827: Rabbi David Aaron de Sola, the Amsterdam born son of
Rafael Aron (v. Haim David) de Sola and Sara v. Isaac Namias Torres who was the
first rabbi to preach a sermon in English at Bevis Marks Synagogue and his wife
Rebecca de Sola gave birth to Isaac de Sola
1830: One day after he had passed away, Trespole Myers was
buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1831: Eighty-eight-year-old Christian-Hebraist Giovanni
Bernardo De Rossi passed away.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12896-rossi-giovanni-bernardo-de
1833(3rd of Nisan, 5593): Vayikra
1836: Birthdate of German native Gertrude Hyman Felsenthal,
the wife of Herman Felsenthal with whom she had six children – Eli, Judith,
Flora, Hannah and Emily.
1836: Birthdate of Norfolk, VA, and University of Virginia
and University of Berlin educated Crawford Howell Toy, the American Christian
Orientalist who “became Hancock professor of Hebrew and Oriental languages at
Harvard University and was the author of "The Religion of Israel"
(and "Judaism and Christianity"
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14467-toy-crawford-howell
1837: Birthdate of Joseph Wieniawski, Russian pianist and
composer.
1845(14th of Adar, 5605): Purim is observed
for the first time during the presidency of James K. Polk.
1846: In New York, Moses and Esther Lazarus gave birth to
Josephine Lazarus.
1847: Samuel Joans married Esther Cashmore, the daughter of
Moshe Kashman at the Great Synagogue.
1848: In Manchester, UK, Charles Sydney Grundy and his wife
gave birth to English dramatist Sydney Grundy who combined with Edward Solomon
to produce two comic operas – “The Vicar of Bray” and “Pochoantas” - and
produced “An Old Jew” at the Garrick in 1894, five years before Zangwill’s
“Children of the Ghetto.
1849(29th of Adar, 5609):
Fifty-four-year-old Hananeel de Castro, the husband of Deborah de Jacob Mendes
da Costa who was the President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews at the
time of the Damascus Blood Libel in 1840 passed away today.
1853: In Pribram, Bohemia, Markus Saphir, the Bohemian born
son of Joseph Saphir and his wife Anna Saphir gave birth to Theresia Saphir
1853: While delivering a speech welcoming Father Gavazzi,
the celebrated Roman patriot and orator to the United States, Reverend Dowling
pointed out a peculiarity of the American experience. “This government, alone
of all others, never persecuted or endeavored to persecute Jews.”
1854: In Louisville, KY, Adolph and Frederick Brandeis gave
birth to Alfred Brandeis, the husband of Jennie Brandeis and brother to Louis
D. Brandeis, the first Jewish Justice to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1855: Birthdate of Sherman, CT native and Columbia
University Professor Sociology Franklin Henry Giddings who 1907 told a group
attending a lecture at the People’s Institute in Cooper Union that he favors
“the recent movement by the Jews to keep Christian ceremonies out of the public
schools” and that while “he favored the Zionist movement, he feared that could
it not be made attractive to the Jews to be successful.
1856(16th of Adar II, 5616): Purim
Meshulash
1856: In Philadelphia, Isaac and Henriette Kohn gave birth
to Sophie Kohn who became Sophie Pfaelzer when she married Philadelphia jeweler
Morris Moses Pfaelzer.
1859: In New York City, Kathie Steinhardt and Solomon J.
Spiegelberg gave birth to civil engineer turned stock broker Isaac Newton
Spiegelberg, the husband of Stella Friedlander and member of the NYSE and the
brokerage firm of Chase and Seligsberg who was a member of Temple Eamnu-El in
New York.
1861: “The Hebrew Son” is scheduled to be performed at the
Winter Garden Theatre in NYC.
1862: In Hungary, “Pauline and Dr. Jacob Jacques Heinrich
Hirschfeld” gave birth to Adele Amalie Hirschfeld who became Adele Amalie
Schmidt when she married August Schmidt.
1862: During the American Civil War, Judah P. Benjamin
completed his short stint as “acting” Secretary War. Benjamin continued to
serve as Secretary of State.
1862: Eighty-one-year-old Count Karl Robert Nesselrode, the
Russian foreign minister who successfully thwarted the plan of Jacques Isaac
Altaras to settle 40,000 Russian-Jewish families in Algeria passed away today.
1863: According to “The Books of the Week” column published
today, Scribner’s has published "Lectures on the History of the Jewish
Church, -- Part 1, Abraham to Samuel" by Arthur Penryn Stanley, D.D.,
Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford, and
Canon of Christ Church. According to this Stanley “the roots of the Jewish
Church must be sought deep in the Patriarchal Age, its prelude commencing with
the Call of Abraham, then from the time it takes determinate shape and
recognized status with the Exodus, the first great period extends to the
absorption of the ancient and primitive constitution in the new institutions of
the Monarchy. This “period is generally called by the name of the Theocracy;
its great characters are Abraham, Moses and Samuel. It embraces the first
revelation of the Mosaic Religion, and the first foundation of the Jewish
Church and polity." Two future volumes will continue to describe the
history of the Jews up to Roman times. The second volume will describe the period
of the Monarchy. The third will describe the period “from the Captivity to the
destruction of the Jewish Capital and State by the Emperor Titus.”
1864(15th of Adar II, 5624): Shushan Purim
1864: “Purim: Our Jewish Citizens in Their Glory” published
today reported that Purim Association has given their “third Grand Fancy Dress
Ball, at the Academy of Music. The Association was formed in 1862 by nine young
men of the Jewish faith, its first ball was given at Irving Hall in 1862, its
second at the Academy of Music in 1863, and its third at the same hall last
evening. The festival of Purim is one of the oldest and most important
festivals recognized by the Jews, commemorating, as it does, one of the most
important events in their history as a nation. It was instituted by Queen
Esther and by Mordecai about the year 510 B.C. and commemorates the remarkable
deliverance of the children of Israel from the tyranny and machinations of
Haman, who was Prime Minister to King Ahasuerus, who reigned from India unto
Ethiopia, over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces. Mordecai had been carried
captive from Jerusalem, and with him the fair and beautiful maiden Hadassah or
Esther, whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own
daughter. Esther being exceedingly beautiful and pleasing found favor in the
eyes of King Ahasuerus, who married her and made her his Queen. About this time
Haman was appointed to the high position of Prime Minister to the King, and he
demanded and received homage from all except the Jew Mordecai, who not only
refused to pay homage, but also refused to give any reason why he would not.
Haman, highly incensed at the conduct of Mordecai, ordered made a gallows of
extraordinary height, on which to hang him for the insult be had offered to one
in high office and favored by the King. Queen Esther, hearing of this, informed
the King of the relation which existed between her and Mordecai, and also of
the great benefit Mordecai had done the King some time previous in informing of
two men in his confidence, Bigthana and Teresh, who sought to lay violent hands
upon the King and kill him. The King remembering all these things and the
iniquity, or Haman, ordered him hanged upon the gallows erected for Mordecai,
placed Mordecai in the position held by Haman, made him chief over the house of
Haman, and released the children of Israel from bondage. This was celebrated by
great rejoicing all over the land and, in every way the joy and happinees of
the people was exhibited. From that to the present the festival of this
deliverance of the Jews has been celebrated by the most extravagant expressions
of happiness, calling upon each other at their houses, in every dress and guise
which could possibly add merriment or joy to the occasion, and using every
means they could devise for the utmost enjoyment and celebration of this great
and happy event. Of late years their number has so increased that time would
not allow them to visit all the friends they wished, nor would their houses
hold all the friends they wished to entertain. To obviate this difficulty, nine
young gentlemen on the Jewish faith, in the year 1862, organized the
"Purim Association," the object of which was to collect all the
parties together for the general enjoyment of the festival, and that all
friends might meet. Thus far they have been particularly fortunate nothing has
occurred to mar their pleasure, and they have also by this means been enabled
to do a great deal of good. Last year they presented to the Orphan Asylum and
other charitable institutions a handsome sum, and this year they intend, first,
to present to the Sanitary Fair a good round sum, and then take care of the
charitable institutions, as is their custom. The officers of the association,
who have been and are working hard and steadily for the promotion of this
society and its good influence, and to whom, in a great measure, the success of
the ball is due, are as follows: M.H. Moses, President; Jos. A. Levy, Vice-President;
A.H. Schutz, Treasurer. The hall was crowded with a most brilliant assemblage,
who entered into the enjoyments of the occasion with a zest seldom equaled; the
costumes were very rich and beautiful; the diamonds worn by the ladies
magnificent and in brilliancy almost rivaled the bright eyes of their fail
owners. Among the best of the characters represented were those of Mrs.
Partington, Lucretia Borgia, Penobscot Squaw, Chippewa Chief, and Joan of Arc,
several beauties of the Court of Charles H., the Duke of Buckingham, Faust, a
Priest, and several Jewish maidens. Merriment reigned supreme within the hall.
Wives, well-disguised, teased their liege lords almost to distraction;
sweethearts by sly winks and actions, drove their devoted lovers almost frantic;
husbands thinking they were not known or noticed, paid sweet compliments to
fair maidens only to be rapped over the knuckles for not reserving them for
their wives, and staid old bachelors and maidens entered into the spirit of the
fun in a manner which fairly astonished themselves. Two Bands gave constant
music, to which the feet of the merry dancers kept time. At twelve o'clock they
unmasked and then what surprise was created. Husbands found they had been
flirting all the evening with their own wives; lovers had been confidentially
extolling the beauties of their sweethearts to their-sweethearts themselves;
old maids had been telling old bachelors how disagreeable they thought that
class of men to be, and old bachelors had been sympathizing, perhaps, with the
old maids themselves, upon the unhappy condition of these unfortunate ladies.
The mistakes, however, were speedily and amicably settled, and after the
excellent supper prepared by the caterer, M.S. Cohen, had been fully enjoyed,
were entirely forgotten.” New York Mayor Charles Gunther was among the
dignitaries who attended the event.
1865: In Philadelphia, Joseph and Louisa Berg gave birth to
Hart O. Berg, “a pioneer in the manufacture of machine guns, submarines,
automobiles and airplanes” who married the former Lena Willets and was made a
Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by France in 1901.
1865: Birthdate of Posen born and Columbia trained
physician Henry Heiman who had come to the United States in 1880.
1866: James Disraeli who resided in Cromwell Place wrote
his will today.
1867: Birthdate of Arthur Bornstein, the native of Breslau,
Germany who was a dentist by training but whose real passion was writing as can
be seen by the volumes of short stories he published starting in 1894.
1867: In Vienna, Dr. Michael Reiner and Agnes Reiner gave
birth to Dr. Maximilian Max Reiner, the husband of Paula Reiner and the father
of Herbert and Heinrich Reiner.
1867: In Zabno Galicia, Solomon and Rosa Malter gave birth
to Henry Malter, the husband of Bertha Freund and the holder of Ph.D. from the
University of Heidelberg who was the professor of medieval
philosophy and Arabic at the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, rabbi of the
Sheerith Israel Congregation of Cincinnati and Professor of Rabbinical
Literature at Dropsie College
1868(15th of Adar II, 5624): Shushan Purim
1868: In Cardiff, Esther Lyons, “18 year old Jewess” who
was running away from her family “knocked on the door of Croome Villa, Roath,
the home of the Reverend Nathanial Thomas, minister of the Baptist Tabernacle”
in what would be the first act of a cause celeb that would sour relations
between Jews and Baptists in South Wales “for years to come.{
1868: The University of California is founded in Oakland,
California when the Organic Act is signed into law. Today the University of
California at Berkley has approximately 3000 Jewish students out of a student
population totaling approximately 24,000. The school offers ten Jewish studies
courses and a Major in the field.
1869: In New York City, Henry and Clara (Mayer) Hahn gave
birth to German and Bohemian trained violinist and composer Frederick E. Hahn
the first violinist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1892 to 1896, the
founder and leader of the Hahn String Quartet and the founder and director of
the Hahn Conservatory of Music who was a member of Mikveh Israel Congregation
in Philadelphia.
1869: In Pila, Sieradz, Poland, Szaja Pilichowski and his
wife gave birth to painter Leopold Pilichowski.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0016_0_15770.html
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Pilichowski_Leopold
1869: Rosetta Moses, the daughter of Martha and Joseph
Jonas and the husband Dr. Montefiore Moses gave birth to Walter Jonas Moses.
1869: In New York City, Clara Mayer and Henry Hahn gave
birth to Eastburn Academy and Leipzig, Germany trained violin soloist and
composer , “the winner of 1st prize for violin solo playing in
1890 at Leipzig and first violinist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra who was
founder of the Hahn String Quartet and the Hahn Conservatory of music before
become the president of the Zeekwer-Hahn Philadelphia Musical Academy,
1870: Jay Gould appeared before the New York State Senate
Railroad Committee and that his opponents were being financed by “Jewish
bankers” from London. (“Robber Baron” Jay Gould was attempting to use
anti-British and anti-Jewish prejudice to deflect attacks on his unscrupulous
business tactics when dealing with the Erie Railroad.)
1870: Herman W. Hellman, who in 1866 sold out his interest
in a book and stationary business and then went into business for himself “sold
his entire stock and fixtures to Harris and Jacoby” and left for a trip to
Europe.
1871(1st of Nisan, 5631): Rosh Chodesh Nisan observed on
the same day that President “Grant formally requested legislative action “to
deal with the menace of KKK “in a special message to Congress.
1872: “Persecution of Jews In Romania” published today the
reporter compared the attacks on the Jews with the suffering “in England in the
days of Isaac of York” and calls upon the European Powers to intervene on
behalf of the Jews if the government of Romania will not stop the attacks on
its Jewish citizens.
1872: This evening, as Jews celebrated Purim, synagogues in
New York “were all crowded” as they listened to the unique musical narrative of
the story of Esther. “In the…strictly Orthodox synagogues such as those on
Chrystie and Allen Streets, the audience stamped their feet or struck the
ground with the heavy sticks whenever the detested name of Haman was
pronounced.”
1873: In Ibbenbüren, Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia,
Germany, Johanna Rosenthal, the German born daughter of Abraham Bendix
Weinberg and Frieda Sophia Weinberg and her husband Leffmann Rosenthal gave
birth to Alfred Rosenthal who passed away during the same month that Hiter came
to power.
1876: The Young Men’s Hebrew Association will host its
final “entertainment of the season” this evening at the Standard Hall in New
York City.
1877: Isaac Artom “was elected senator of the kingdom”
today making him “the first Jew to sit in the Italian legislative body.”
1878: In Monaco Jewish court photographer Ignaz Schrecker
and his wife Eleonore von Clossmann gave birth to Austrian composer and
conductor Franz Schreker.
1879: It was reported today that 800,000 Philadelphians are
served by 564 houses of worship including 9 synagogues.
1879: Dr. Henry S. Jacobs will deliver a lecture this
evening at the Norfolk Street Synagogue sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew
Union.
1880: In Russia an editorial entitled “The Yid is Coming” was
published in the anti-Semitic journal Novoe Vermie.
1881(22nd of Adar II, 5641): Forty-five-year-old
Moscow born Jewish “pianist, conductor and composer” Nikolai Rubenstein, the
younger brother of Anton Rubenstein whose accomplishments are beyond the scope
of this simple blog passed away today in Paris.
Category:Rubinstein,
Nikolay - IMSLP
1881: Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Lubny, Russia. This
would not be the first or the last time that death would strike the Jews of
Lubny which is actually located in the Ukraine, In 1648 during the horror known
as the Chmielnicki Massacres, thousands of Jews died at Lubny and other nearby
towns. In October of 1941, the Nazis massacred the Jewish population as the
German armies swept across the Ukraine. The rioting in 1881 probably was a
mini-pogrom sparked by the killing of Czar Alexander II "at the hand of
revolutionary bomb throwers." They presaged a series of such riots that
would sweep much of Russia during the Spring and Summer of 1881.
1882: In Erlangen, Bavaria, mathematician Max Noether and
Ida Amalia Kaufman gave birth to mathematician Amalie Emmy Noether.
https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/noether.htm
1882: In Papa Hungary, the former Sophie Hirsch, the
youngest daughter of Rabbi Shamshon Raphael Hirsch and “Rabbi Shlomo (Solomon)
Zalman a talmid of the Ksav Sofer” gave birth to Joseph Bruer, the husband of
Rika Eisenmann of Antwerp, granddaughter of Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins, the
Rosh Yeshiva of Torah Lenranstalt, the rabbi of the Klaus Synagogue in
Frankfurt, and after fleeing the Nazis, the founder and leader of Khal Adath
Yeshurun, the Washington Heights congregation established to meet the needs of
the large German-Jewish community that had been created due to the rise of
Hitler.
1883(14th of Adar II, 5643): Purim
1886(16th of Adar II, 5646):
Eighty-two-year-old Bina Oppenheimer, the daughter of David and Schiele Kahn
and the wife of Lob Oppenheimer passed away today in New York City.
1886: Swindler, pickpocket, thief and fence sixty-four-year-old
Abraham Greenthal began serving a five year term in Crow Hill prison in
Brooklyn after having pleaded guilty to second-degree grand larceny.
1886: Birthdate of Austrian native Benjamin Waxelbaum and
the husband of Dorothy Waxelbaum who in 1893 came to the United States where he
became a “publishers’ representative with offices at 180 East Broadway in New
York, worked for 14 years as the advertising manager of New York Jewish Morning
Journal and became a founding partner in Keilson and Waxelbaum
1886: Secretary Taylor of the American Yacht Club called
the members together in a special meeting this evening to listen to a lecture
by the popular Sephardic raconteur Mr. R.J. de Cordova on "The New York
Stock Exchange." Instead of of lecture, Mr. de Cordova amused the
"twoscore members" of the club humorous rhyming story about a stock
broker in search of a rich wife, the daughter of a Pennsylvania farmer made
rich by the discovery of petroleum on his farm and "a rejected bucolic
lover" who happily marries the maiden after she loses her fortune while
pursuing an extravagant urban lifestyle.
1887: Birthdate of Sidney Hillman. Sidney Hillman was a
major figure in the American labor movement and became a leading advisor to
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was President of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America, one of the two major unions in the garment
industry from 1915 until his death in 1946. An untiring champion of the working
class and the underprivileged, Hillman was a founder of the Congress of
Industrial Organization, the CIO. Unfortunately, with the passage of time, we have
lost a sense of appreciation for the improvement in the American way of life
wrought by Hillman and similar giants of the American labor movement, many of
whom were Jewish.
1887(27th of Adar): Seventy-year-old Posen born Rabbi
Eliezer Landshuth, author of Amudei ha-Avodah passed away today at Berlin.
http://newspaperslibrary.org/articles/eng/Leser_Landshuth
1888: An attorney in Kovno, gave birth to Bundist and
Russian Revolutionary Leon Savidzh, a French army veteran of the Battle of the
Marne and starting in 1915 a resident the United States where he “wrote under
such pen names as: A. Nitsuts, L. S., and Yoysef Levin. In 1918 he published a
series of sketches” graduated from Columbia University Law School, became in
the Zionist movement and the Democratic Party.
https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/2610/Savidzh-Leon-March-23-1888
1889: Birthdate of Lithuanian native Florence R. Dolowitz,
the Hunter College graduate and mathematics teacher who founded the Women’s
American ORT while raising two children – Grace and David – with her husband
Alexander Dolowitz, passed away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/dolowitz-florence
1890: “Art Notes” published today described the ten
illustrations of “The Merchant of Venice” by Edwin Abbey that will appear in
the April edition of Harper magazine. They include “the figure of
Portia exhorting the Jew” to show mercy and a “frontpiece” showing the Ducal
Palace “with the Jew demonstrating why he does not love Christians.”
1890: The late Solomon Adler bequeathed $500 to both the
Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Mount Sinai Hospital and $250 to each of the
following: Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids, the Home for Aged and Infirm
Hebrews and the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York.
1891(13th of Adar II, 5651): Ta’anit
Esther; erev Purim
1891: Alice Goldmark, the niece of composer Karl Goldmark,
married Louis Brandeis at her parent’s home in New York City and the moved “ to
Boston’s Beacon Hill district” where their two daughters – Susan and Elizabeth
– were born.
1891: “The Baron de Hirsch Club” published today described
the accomplishments of the newly formed social club. Among the
seventy-five charter members are Dr. Leon Sherurg, Elias Gluskin, Morton
Britton, John W. Jacobus, William Bellamy, Louis Henderson and M.J. Rosinski
1892: Twenty-four-year-old Abraham Gussow, the Russian born
of son of Herman Gossow, was the founder of A. Gussow and Company, on of “the
largest manufacturers of women’s underwear in New York and a president of the
Cotton Garment Association today married Emma Iserlson with whom he had five
children – Pansy, Minnie, Anna, Isidore and Alfred.
1892: It was reported today that after the claim of Adolf
Grube for 1,600,000 rubles has been satisfied J.E. Guenxburg will only have 14
million rubles in his accounts with which to satisfy the rest of his creditors.
1893(6th of Nisan, 5653):
Seventy-six-year-old Adolf Fischoff, the doctor turned Austrian political
leader and author passed away today.
http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6153-fischhof-adolf
1893: Max Judd of Missouri has been nominated to serve as
Consul General at Vienna. Judd, a native of Austria, came to the United States
as a child and has lived in St. Louis for the last twenty-five
years. A man of “well and fine education” “his appointment is the
result of the almost universal request of the people of” St. Louis which speaks
well of Judd and the regard in which the Jews of Missouri are held by the
general population.
1893: W.H. Helm of Dumfries and his wife gave birth Sir
Alexander Knox Helm, the United Kingdom’s first ambassador to Israel.
1893: A case involving the seizure by police of liquor
which members of Boston’s Adath Israel’s congregation claimed was intended for
use on Passover began making its way through the court system. The Jews claim
that the vice president of the congregation was holding the liquor for his
co-religionists which he will be distributing during Passover. The police claim
that this is a ruse and is merely a way for the Jews to get around local liquor
ordinances.
1893: Kosher slaughtering was prohibited in Saxony, which
is in a part of Germany that Martin Luther had dominated during his rise to
power. Some claim that the ban was part of the anti-cruelty to animal movement,
but this claim has a very hollow sound to it considering what else was going on
in the society.
1895: Edwin Einstein, a New York Republican, was appointed
to serve as Dock Commissioner today by a mayor who was a Democrat.
1895: It was reported today that the bazaar held recently
by the ladies of Temple Emanuel in Birmingham raised nearly one
thousand dollars .
1895: In Budapest, the House of Magnates rejected the
clause of the Religious Freedom Bill that gave Jews equal rights with the
Christians by a vote of 117 to 111.
1896: Birthdate of Jacob “Jake” Friedman, the native of
Bridgeport, CT who in 1926 played “end” in three games for the Hartford Blues,
an NFL team that existed for only year.
1896: Congregation B’nai Shalom which held services on
“Sabbath and holidays,” included a Ladies Hebrew Association as an “auxiliary
society” and was served by Rabbi Max Lewinthal was founded in Brookhaven,
Mississippi today.
1896: In Lithuania, Rose Fiensinger and Louis Sachs gave
birth to Chicago clothing manufacturer Morris Benard Sachs, the father of
Rhoda, Zenia and Morris Sachs and founder of the Amateur Hour radio show
1896: “What Is A Christian Nation?” published today
described the views of Dr. Gustav Gottheil who “claims that the so-called
Christian nations are not so in fact and that the Jews are, from the ethical
standpoint, the true Christian nation.” A Christian nation would
make the Sermon on the Mount the basis for its Constitution entailing “the
returning of good for evil, the breathing of a blessing upon those who curse
us, the rendering of good for evil.” (Editor’s note –This view should provide
food for thought for those who claim the U.S. is a “Christian nation.”)
1897: Mrs. Rebecca Kohut gave a talk today on “The Training
of Children in Reverence in Jewish Homes” at the Manhattan Congregational
Church.
1897: Birthdate of Jackson, MS native and Millsap College
graduate Julian B. Feibelman, the Hebrew Union College trained rabbi who was
the long-time leader of Temple Sinai in New Orleans where he could be seen
striding up St. Charles Avenue in spats sometimes accompanied by his wife, the
former May Anna Fellman.
1897: Oscar S. Straus, the former U.S. Minister to Turkey
who has just returned to the United States said that he had met with Baroness
de Hirsch while in Europe but did not care to discuss the details of continued
financial assistance for immigrants from Europe who will be settling in the
Western Hemisphere.
1897: One day after he had passed away, 36-year-old Julius
Pearl, the son of Haskel and Miriam Pearl was buried today at the Plashet
Jewish Cemetery in London.
1899: Birthdate of Russian native and Washington, DC
automobile dealer Joseph Cherner the husband of Ruth Cherner who was a major
financial contributor to Israel during the early days of the Jewish State,
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/04/18/84884426.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1899(12th of Nisan, 5659): Fast of the
First Born
1899: Dr. Joseph Silverman delivered a lecture on the
“Longevity of the Hebrews.”
1899(12th of Nisan, 5659):
Twenty-eight-year-old Sergeant Morris J. Cohen, the New Jersey resident serving
with the 20th Kansas Regiment “was killed today in an
engagement at Calcoocan, Philippine Islands.
1899: It was reported today that during the month of
February the United Hebrew Charities had received 2,815 applications for
assistance which covered 9,377 individuals. Jobs were found for 477
applicants while over 1,800 people were seen by either a doctor or a
nurse. The charity raised over $17,000 during February and spent
almost $13,000 in providing aid to the needy.
1900: Birthdate of Erich Seligman Fromm, the German born
American psychoanalyst
http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell9.htm
1901(23rd of Nisan, 5661): Parashat Vayikra
1901: It was reported today that General Louis Botha, the
leader of the Boers, was “generally in favor of the terms of the settlement” he
was “greatly concerned about the position Jewish capitalist would occupy in the
country and” he “was told that Jews and Christians would enjoy equal rights,”
with “no distinction being made in the matter of concessions.
1901: The former Annie Pauline Alberts and Phillip Sihisky
who were married by Rabbi David Shane at the Sons of Israel Synagogue in Camden
are “on a bridal tour” after which they will return to Camden, the home of the
bride’s father Isaac Alberts.
1902(14th of Adar II, 5662): Purim
1902: Russian native and Philadelphian Dora (Weinstein)
Aronoff and her husband Isaac Aronoff gave birth to Ida Aronoff
1903: According to a report filed today by the St.
Petersburg correspondent of the London Times, “the four points on which reforms
are required in Russia – education, local government, peasant’s rights and
finances – the Czar’s manifesto is worthless” and “and the manifesto obviously
did not apply to the Jews…”1904: “Hamilton Odell, the referee appointed to
determine what institution should be paid the reside of the estate of the late
Simon Goldenberg upon the death of his widow Mary Goldenberg reported to the
Supreme Court” in New York today “in favor of the Hebrew Technical Institute.”
1903: It was reported today that Dr. Joseph Silverman of
Temple Emanu-El had said that “it is certainly high time that a more liberal
form of government should be inaugurated in Russia, the land of ignorance and
poverty, of political corruption and bribery, of social religious oppression
and persecution, of intolerance and bigotry, the land where it has been said
that more deaths have occurred in recent years than in all Napoleonic wars.”
1904: “Hamilton Odell, the referee appointed to determine
to what institution should be paid the residue of the estate of the late Simon
Goldenberg upon the death of the widow, Mary Goldenberg, reported to the
Supreme today in favor of the Hebrew Technical Institute.
1905: Penultimate session of the convention of the
Constitution Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith meeting in
New Orleans.
1905: Julius Loeb, the Frankfurt-on-Main bon son of Minna
Cahn and Adolf Loeb and Vice President and Treasurer of the American Metal
Company who was a trustee of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and the Central Synagouge
married Hilda Neuberger today in New York.
1906: In New York, Carrie Wasserman gave birth to Edith Lee
Wasserman who became Edith Lee Kamsler when she married Charles Albert Kamsler.
1907: In New York this evening, enough poor Jews presented
their tickets which could be exchanged for 10 pounds of Matzoth and 5 pounds of
floor to the store on Attorney Street, that 20,000 pounds of matzoth and 10,000
pounds of Matzah floor were needed to meet the demand.
1907(8th of Nisan, 5667): Parashat Tzav;
Shabbat HaGadol
1907: Birthdate of Solomon “Sol” Furth, the Brooklyn born
track star nicknamed “Happy” who competed in the 1932 Olympics.
1907: Today, in Paris, Dr. Max Nordau told a meeting of
French Zionists “that it was necessary to immediately prepare for the next
Zionist Congress” and that they need “to organize the plans for the future of
the Zionist movement.”
1907: Birthdate of Latvia native Moses Cyrus Weiler, the
HUC trained rabbi referred to as “an unsung hero of the struggle for black
emancipation in South Africa.
http://www.unitedsisterhood.org.za/index.php/about-us/rabbi-moses-cyrus-weiler
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0215/ms0215.html
1907: When “a small boy with red brick hair” presented his
ticket entitling him to 10 pounds of Matzah and 5 pounds of Matzah flour, he
was told that “these matzoth are only provided for person of true Hebraic
faith.” The lad replied, “Me name is Mickey O’Brien, but sure me mother needs
the matzoth. We’re most staring and if it’ll do any good I’ll be an Irish
Hebrew.” The lad got his matzoth and flour. [It was not unusual for non-Jews to
show up for when free food was passed out at Passover time. The Jews did not
seem to mind apparently remembering the words of the Haggadah inviting the poor
to come and join us in eating at the Seder.]
1908(20th of Adar II, 5668): Seventy-two-year-old Nathan
Stix, the German born son of Deborah Cohen and Solomon Stix who in 1861 at
Cincinnati, OH married Ricka Iglauer with whom who had six children, passed
away today after which he was buried at the Walnut Hills Jewish Cemetery in
Evanston, OH.
1908: It was reported today that “for the ninth time in two
months” an attempt has been made by unfriendly Chinese tongs to burn the
tenement at 42 Division Street which is occupied by Jews as well as Chinese.
1909: “The unions of Jewish choristers, musicians, ushers
and bill posters in the east side theatres order a strike” today “of their
members in the Thalia Theatre, involving about eighty persons against a notice
of a reduction in wages.”
1910: Birthdate of Avraham Givelber, the secretary of the
Polish branch of HeHalutz (The Pioneer), “Jewish youth movement that trained
young people for agricultural work in Israel” who joined Kibbutz Afek when he
made Aliyah in 1941 and “who was appointed Deputy Speaker of the Knesset while
serving as an MK from 1974 to 1977.
https://main.knesset.gov.il/en/MK/APPS/mk/mk-personal-details/337
1910(12th of Adar II, 5670): Hume, Germany
native Joseph Brandestein, the San Francisco tobacco and cigar merchant and
leader in the Jewish community as can be seen by his service to the Pacific
Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Mt. Zion Hospital Association and Congregation Emanu-El
who married Jane Rosenbaum with whom he had eleven children including Max,
Manfred and Edward passed away today.
http://www.jmaw.org/brandenstein-jewish-san-francisco/
1911(23rd of Adar, 5671): Daniel Abramovich Chwolson passed
away.
1912(5th of Nisan, 5672): Ninety-year-old
communal worker Hezekiah Kohn passed away today in New York.
1913(14th of Adar II, 5673): Purim
1913: Eighty-year-old Civil War veteran Adam Mayer passed
away today in New Orleans.
1913: Dr. George Gershon Jacob Gordon, the Minneapolis born
on of Abraham Bear Gordon and Sarah Beulah (Shub) Beulah Gordon and his
wife Sophie Gordon gave birth to Bonny Selz, the wife of Joseph
Selz.
1914: Birthdate of Spencer Bernard Witty, the native of
Waccabuc, NY who with his four brothers Frederic, Ephraim and Arthur, and a
cousin, Irving expanded the business created by their grandfather David Witty
into a “chain” of six store that sold classy, high-end clothing for men.
1914: It was reported from St. Petersburg
“that as …Passover approaches more blood ritual allegations are being
circulated.” In Uman, in the Ukraine, reports are circulating “that a Christian
boy, Anton Zummer, who was working in a bakery at a machine for making
matzoth…had his hand thrust in the machinery by the Jewish boys and lost a
large quantity of blood which went to the making of the bread…Another report
speaks of the finding of an 8-year old boy’s body under a railway bridged at
Kovel…with the head, neck and chest pierced with wounds.” [This is the same
Uman that is the burial site of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov which Jews visit each
year at Rosh Hashanah.]
1915: The United Hebrew Community has sent out an appeal
for more funds to so it can distribute matzoth and other food to the poor Jews
of the Lower East Side before the beginning of Passover. Moses H. Phillips,
President of the Hebrew Community said that the demand is greater this year
than in years past and at least 90,000 pounds of food will be needed to feed
the needy. The United Hebrew Community is only one of several Jewish
organizations that will be distributing food at Passover time to their less fortunate
co-religionists.
1915: Adelphi College and NYU alum Milton M. Adler, the New
York City born son of Rebecca Bamberger and David Adler and Treasurer and
General Manage of the Essex Specialty Company as well as the executive director
of the Williamsburg Y.M.H.A. married Florine Wolf today in Newark, NJ.
1915: The fund of the American Jewish Relief Committee has
collected $579,996. 53 as of today.
1915: The Zion Mule Corps, consisting of Jewish volunteers
from Palestine, was formed to serve with the British Army. This was the first
Palestinian Jewish military unit attached to a regular army in the modern
times. The unit was organized under the command of Joseph Trumpeldor, an early
military hero of the future state of Israel and Vladimir Jabotinsky who would
become leader of what was known as the Revisionist Movement, forerunner of
today's Likud part. The united fought against the Turks who were allies of the
British. The success of the Zion Mule Corps paved the way for the Jewish Legion
which was formed in 1918.
1915: Sixty-six-year-old “Judge Leonard S. Roan of the
Court of Appeals of Georgia before whom Leo M. Franks was convicted and by whom
he was sentenced to death on August 16, 1913 for the murder of…Mary Phagan”
passed away today.
1915: According to family legend, today, in Brooklyn “Louis
and Sarah Rabinowitz, Yiddish-speaking immigrants from Russia” gave birth to
Jacob Rabinowitz who gained fame as producer and talent-maven Jack Rollins. (As
reported by Robert D. McFadden)
1916: In St. Louis, at Rabbi Masliansky and Rabbi
Abranowitz told those attending “a relief meeting” at “B’nai Emuno Synagogue”
about “the sufferings of the Jews in the war zones” “more than $1,000 was
raised through the sale of certificates bearing the recent proclamation of
President Wilson naming a Jewish Relief Day.”
1916(18th of Adar II, 5676):
Seventy-two-year-old Colonel Felix Rosenberg, the Civil War veteran who “came
to Cleveland after the Civil War, was a brevet colonel in the Spanish-American
War” and the “editor of Town Topics, a weekly publication devoted to local high
society news” passed away today in Cleveland.
1917(29th of Adar, 5677): Fred Lazarus, the
Wurtenburg, Germany born son of Amelia and Simon Lazarus, and husband of Rose
Eichberg who with was the “F” in F. and R. Lazarus Company passed away today in
Columbus, OH.
https://www.columbusmonthly.com/news/20190603/from-archives-end-of-lazarus-dynasty
1917: As of today, it was reported that the People’s and
Central Relief Committees are raising funds for the relief of Jews in war-torn
Europe along with the American Jewish Relief Committee led by Henry Morgenthau,
Louis Marshall and Herbert Lehman.
1917: The United States Ambassador to Russia today sent a
cablegram to the State Department stating, “that the new Russian Government had
taken its first important step toward the emancipation of the Jews by removing
the education restrictions previously imposed under the old regime.”
1917: In a letter to the British and French Ambassadors to
the United States, Oscar Straus, Chairman of the Public Service Commission
expressed the opinion that “the great majority of the Jewish citizens of the
United States are pro-Ally and not pro-German.”
1917: Birthdate of Yevgeny Khaldei the Soviet born Jewish
World War II combat photographer whose work included one of the most famous of
that genre showing a Soviet soldier raising a flag over the Reichstag as the
Red Army triumphed in the Battle of Berlin. According to
some reports Khaldei patterned the picture after the one of the flag raising
over Iowa Jima, another iconic WW II photo taken by a Jewish photographer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reichstag_flag_original.jpg
1918(10th of Nisan, 5678): Parashat Tzav;
Shabbat HaGadol
1918: Fifty-eight-year-old Clara Mitnick Massell, the
Russian born wife of Raphael M. Massell and the mother of Benjamin, Levi,
Samuel, Rebie and Jacob Massell passed away today after which she was buried in
the Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, GA.
1918: Rabbi Samuel Schulman is scheduled to deliver the
sermon this morning at Temple Beth-El on-5th Avenue.
1918: Rabbi Krass is scheduled to deliver a sermon “A
Lesson from The Copperhead” at Central Synagogue.
1918: Rabbi Enelow is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The
Basic Doctrines of Reform Judaism” at Temple Emanu-El.
1918: Rabbi M.H. Harris is scheduled to deliver a sermon
“The Great Sabbath” this morning at Temple Israel of Harlem
1918: Today’s issue of The Publisher’s Weekly included Jewish
Fairy Stories by Gerald Friedlander and illustrated by Beatrice
Hirschfeld among its listings.
https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Fairy-Tales-Gerald-Friedlander/dp/0486419827
1919: Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political
movement in Milan, Italy. The ashes of the First World War were not even cool,
yet when the seeds for World War II and the Holocaust were being planted.
1919: Birthdate of Marvin “Mickey” Rottner the Chicago
native who played guard for the Loyola University basketball team from 1939 to
1942 after which he played professional basketball from 1945 to 1948.
1919: Birthdate of Henry Foner, the native of Brooklyn’s
Williamsburg neighborhood who was a decorated veteran of the United States Army
whose labor organizing activity included serving as president of the Joint
Board of Fur, Leather and Machine Workers Union.
http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_254/
http://ilgwu.ilr.cornell.edu/archives/oralhistories/henryfoner.html
1920: “Poster displayed at Damascus, where the Syrian
Congress proclaimed the independence of that country declared: ‘In spite of
himself the Moslem is brother to the Christian and the Jew.”
1920: It was reported today that Henry Morgenthau, the
former Ambassador to Turkey and ally of President Wilson, is the leading
candidate to become the Ambassador to Mexico.
1921(13th of Adar II, 5681): Ta’anit
Esther; Erev Purim
1921: Today is the second day of “The Palestine Bazar”
organized by the Manchester Branch of the Jewish National Fund Commission for
England
1921: The Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary held
commencement ceremonies today.
1921: KH-UIA was registered as a British limited company,
whose members, together with the Chairman of the Board of Directors, were
chosen by the WZO's Executive Board. KH-UIA's founders included such luminaries
as Chaim Weizmann, Aharon, and Isaac Naidich. The first Directors were Barth
Berthold Feiwel, Georg Halpern, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Shlomo Kaplansky,
Shemaryahu Levin, Issac Naidich, Israel M. Sieff (later Lord Sieff) and Hillel
Zlatopolsky.
1921: Accompanied by Sir Herbert Samuel and T.E. Lawrence
(Lawrence of Arabia) Winston Churchill left Egypt for Palestine to begin his
projected four week long fact finding tour.
1922(23rd of Adar, 5682):
Eighty-one-year-old Harav Moshe Nachum Wallenstein who was born in Pupa,
Hungary, in 1841 and moved to Israel in 1864 where he served the community as a
rabbi passed away today.
1922: In Pittsburgh, PA, Louis and Elsie Alpern gave birth
to Morton Alpern who gained fame as comedian Marty Allen.(As reported by Peter
Keepnews)
1923: Yorkshire native Gertrude Berger and Albert Halson
gave birth to Dennis Charles Halson who passed away before he reached the age
of two months.
1923: “Louis Marshall was the guest of honor at a dinner
given by the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities at which campaign plans of
the Charities were discussed.” (As reported by JTA)
1924(17th of Adar II, 5684): Moses Cattaui Pashe, President
of the Jewish Kehillah of Cairo, Egypt passed away.
1925: It was reported today that the newly elected officers
of the New York branch of the United Synagogue of America are President Sol
Mutterperl; Vice Presidents, Leo J. Goldberger, Alfred Goldfarb, Jacob Monsky,
Hyman J. Reit, Albert Rosenblatt, Morris Stern and Harris Sussman; Secretary,
Rabbi Samuel M. Cohn; and Treasurer, Joseph Durst.
1926: Mrs. Jacob H. Schiff, the Honorary Chairman of the
Women’s Division of the United Jewish Campaign of New York hosted a tea at her
Fifth Avenue home for “the women who are organizing teams of workers for the
campaign to raise six million dollars that will start in April.
1926: Birthdate of Norman Clifford ‘Norm” Mager whose
accomplishments with CCNY and the
Baltimore Bullets of the NBA were over-shadowed by his involvement in the point
shaving scandal.
1927: In Detroit, anti-Semite and automobile manufacturer
Henry Ford and his Dearborn Independent was an important point
today in the trial of Aaron Sapiro’s libel suit…when Judge Raymond banned a
series of letters” that proved Mr. Ford and his weekly newspaper had been
warned of the “falsity of the articles which are the basis for this trial.
1928(2nd of Nisan, 5688):
Forty-four-year-old grocery store owner John Peykel who came to Sheboygan, WI
thirty years ago and who was a member of Ahavas Sholum congregation and of
Davis Lodge, B’nai B’rith passed away today.
1928: Birthdate of Mortimier H. Rydell, the multi-talented
New York known as Mark Rydell whose accomplishments including directing one of
the greatest westerns ever made – The Cowboys in which John Wayne actually acts
instead of just portraying John Wayne.
1929(11th of Adar, 5689): Parashat Vayikra;
Shabbat Zachor
1929: A week after being “named to the three-man
Secretariat at the helm of the Communist Party and assuming the post of
Executive Secretary.” Benjamin Gitlow, the son of Katherine and Lewis Albert
Gitlow who were Jewish immigrants to the United States from the Russian Empire,
“boarded an ocean liner for Moscow as part of a 10-person delegation seeking to
appeal the Comintern's decision to expel Jay Lovestone , the son of Lithuanian
Jewish immigrants Emma Liebstein and Barnet Libstein, a rabbi turned “shammas,”
from the Communist Party.”
1929: Birthdate of author James Maxwell whose works include
“The Night Everything Was Simple” in which “Zionist plans for Palestine are
viewed with approval” and “Village Incident” and “Strictly From the
Mississippi” in which “the Jewish characters are presented sympathetically.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/03/25/94941819.pdf
1930: ““The Administrative Committee of the enlarged Jewish
Agency is meeting in London today.
1930: The front page of the New York
Times sports section featured a picture of Penn State Boxer David
Stoop knocking out his opponent as Penn State University successfully defended
its intercollegiate title.
http://images.rarenewspapers.com/ebayimgs/3.90.2015/image078.jpg
1931: In Warsaw, Mordechai Bernstein, a journalist and “the
former Zelda Goldin, a seamstress and Spanish teacher” gave birth to Masha
Bernstein who survived the Holocaust and Siberia to gain fame as Masha Leon,
“the society columnist for The Forward.” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1932(15th of Adar II, 5692): Shushan Purim
1932(15th of Adar II, 5692):
Sixty-five-year-old Boris Schatz, the Lithuanian born sculptor who became known
as the "father of Israeli art," founded the Bezalel School in
Jerusalem passed away today.
http://www.schatz.co.il/en/boris
1933: Hitler “told the Reichstag today that Positive
Christianity was the "unshakeable foundation of the moral and ethical life
of our people” and promised not to threaten the churches or the institutions of
the Republic if granted plenary powers.”
1933: “The Enabling Act of 1933 a law that gave
the German Cabinet – most importantly, the Chancellor – the power to make and
enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or President Paul von
Hindenburg” went to effect today as Hitler and the Nazis legally eliminated
democracy in what had been called the Weimar Republic.
1933: The Jewish War Veterans (JWS) launched a boycott of
German goods in the United States today making it the first organization in the
U.S. to launch such an economic action
1933: Birthdate of Shlomo Ofek the native of Poland who
perished aboard the Submarine Dakar in 1968.
1933: Birthdate of Abraham “Abe” Cohen who after playing
football and wrestling at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga went to play
professional football for the CFL Hamilton Tiger Cats and one season for the
newly minted AFL Boston Patriots in 1960.
1934(6th of Nisan, 5694): Birthdate of
Chappaqua, NY native Victor Guinzburg, the “developer of a formula for treating
rubber for gas masks.”
1934: In what has to be one of the biggest lies of this
period, “Hans Frank, the Nazi Commissioner said at a police meeting today” that
“overzealous anti-Semites will be relentlessly curbed.
1934: It was reported today “that a number ‘non-Christian’
doctors have been informed” that their contracts will not be renewed which is
consistent with the anti-Semitic government in Vienna to reduce the number of
Jewish doctors and to impoverish the Jewish community.
1935(20th of Adar I, 5695) Parashat Ki Tisa
1935: The lower house voted to accept the New Constitution
which Jewish leaders complained about because “Jews will be left without
representation in the next parliament if the proportional vote is not
restored.”
1935: Speaking before the Union of American Hebrew
Congregation, Jacob W. Mack of Cincinnati said that “Jewish unity and
self-help: were the “only present strength and future hope” of the Jewish
people.
1936: Darius Paul Dassault was promoted to the rank of
Division General (général de division) in the French Army.
1936: In Hackensack, NJ, “the Board of Education voted
unanimously at its meeting tonight not ban the ‘Merchant of Venice’ from the second-year
high school English course because of complaints” voiced “by Rabbi Irving
Silman of the Hackensack Hebrew Institute.”
1936: Jack Singer and Harry Kovner were elected co-captains
of next year's City College basketball team, according to an announcement made
today by the, faculty athletic manager.
1936: “David J. Schweitzer, vice chairman of the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee outlined the problems facing the committee
which is engaged in a $3,500,000 drive in this county, $1,500,000 of which” is
supposed to come from New York,
1937: Two days after he had passed away funeral services
were held today for sixty-four-year-old British born historian and Zionist
leader Jacob De Haas in his home where per his request Rabbi David De Sola Pool
of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue officiated at a simple, private
ceremony followed by burial at Cypress Hills Cemetery in Queens, NY.
http://www.amazon.com/History-Of-Palestine-Thousand-Years/dp/1406709301
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/03/22/94345411.pdf
1937: It was reported today that sixty-four-year-old Jacob
de Haas one of the last surviving founding fathers of the Zionist movement had
passed away
1937: The French Fascist, led by “La Cagoule” were thwarted
in their attempt to overthrow the Third Republic when Leon Blum’s Popular Front
government avoided a vote of “no confidence.”
1938: In New York, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland
delivered his first address as national chairman of the United Palestine
Appeal. After being introduced by Louis Nizer, associate chairman of the
division and chairman of the Film Board of Trade, Rabbi Silver asked a luncheon
meeting of more than 100 theatrical and motion picture executives to support
the drive to raise $4,500,000 to support Zionist activities. He gave a glowing
account of the progress that had been in creating a Jewish Homeland. He spoke
specifically about the challenges created by the worsening situation in Europe
and the efforts that have been to settle refugees, especially those from
Germany, in Eretz Israel. Silver equated the Zionist work in Palestine with the
fight against the rise of totalitarianism.
1938. Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver spoke to a meeting of the
Long Island Conference for Palestine at the Jamaica Jewish Center this evening.
The more than 1,000 attendees representing thirty-four communities in Queens,
Nassau and Suffolk counties adopted a resolution agreeing to raise $75,000 for
the United Palestine Appeal.
1938: “Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife,” a romantic comedy directed
and produced by Ernst Lubitsch and a screenplay co-authored by William Wilder
was released today in the United States.
1938: In Paris, Adam and Pauline Kaufman gave birth to
Michael Kaufman a “foreign correspondent, reporter and columnist for The New
York Times who chronicled despotic regimes in Europe and Africa, the fall of
Communism and the changing American scene for four decades.”
1939: “The Hot Mikado,” an adaptation of the Gilbert and
Sullivan opera “The Mikado” starring Bill “Bojangles” Robinson produced by Mike
Todd, the son of “Chaim Goldbogen (an Orthodox rabbi), and Sophia
Hellerman, both of whom were Polish Jewish immigrants” opened on Broadway today
at the Broadhurst Theatre.
1939: Erich Maria Remarque, the author of All Quiet
on the Western Front whose books were burned by the Nazis arrived
in New York today and “said he had come here to study America, learn the
language and write a book dealing with the persecution of the Jews”
1939: “Eleven members of the old and prosperous Italian
Fornari family,” including forty year old Raffaele, his wife Celesete and their
two children Vitoria and Alberto, “that traces its history in Rome back for 300
years arrived yesterday on the Italian liner Rex as refugees from the recent
anti-Semitic edicts of the Fascist party.”
1940: The All-India-Muslim League called for a Muslim
homeland in the Indian sub-continent. The British response would be to
partition India into a Hindu state of India and a Moslem state, Pakistan. The
demands of the by the Muslims living in India were part of a wave of Muslim
nationalism that had been sweeping the lands of North Africa and the Middle
East since the start of the 20th century. The conflict in Palestine should be
viewed within that context. The similarity of the British response in Palestine
and India (Partition) is also worth noting.
1940: David Samuel Margoliouth, the Oxford University
Professor whose father Ezekiel had converted from Judaism to Anglicanism passed
away today.
1941: “An elaborate German "show trial," to be
held after the war in an effort to reveal a world-wide Jewish-Masonic plot to
kill many high Nazi leaders, is being organized by Heinrich Himmler, chief of
the Gestapo [secret police], it was reported in Vichy tonight.”
1941: It was announced today that “representatives of
Jewish organizations in forty-eight cities and twenty-six states have
associated themselves with the Jewish section of the Interfaith Committee for
Aid to Democracies.
1942: Of the approximately 4,000 remaining Jews in Lublin,
Poland 2,500 were massacred and the rest of them were deported to Majdanek for
extermination. At the start of the war, 40,000 of the 125,000 inhabitants of
Lublin had been Jewish.
1942: Birthdate of Yevhen Lapinsky who played on the Soviet
Union Volleyball Team that won the Gold Medal at the Olympics in 1968.
1943 (16th of Adar II, 5703): Twenty-nine Jewish orphans at
La Rose Orphanage in Les Accates, France, as well as Alice Salomon, the
guardian who refused to leave them two months before, were gassed at the
Sobibor death camp. The Alice Salomon mentioned here is not to be confused with
the famed German intellectual who fled Nazi Germany before World War II and
passed away in New York in 1948. At the same time, one must wonder who says
Kaddish for this otherwise unknown brave soul and the 29 youngsters who were in
her care.
1943: The Gestapo arrested Henri Krasucki, his mother and
other members of the French resistance.
1943: In France, 4000 Jews were deported from Marseilles,
interned briefly at Drancy, France, and then deported to Sobibór
1943: The Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple stood up
in front of the House of Lords in London and pleaded with the British
government to help the Jews of Europe. "We at this moment have upon us a
tremendous responsibility," he said. "We stand at the bar of history,
of humanity, and of God." Ever since news of Hitler's plan to annihilate
the Jews of Europe reached the public in late 1942, British church leaders and
members of Parliament had been agitating for something to be done. Temple's
plea marked the culmination of the clamoring.
1944: British Major-General Orde Wingate died in airplane
crash while fighting the Japanese in Burma during World War II. ”Wingate was an
unconventional person in many respects. Among his other unique qualities was
that he was an officer in the British Army, who, while serving in Palestine
during the 1930's supported the Jewish cause. Then Captain Wingate served in
Israel from 1936 until 1939. Born in 1903 to a religious Christian family and a
firm believer in the Bible, Orde Wingate passionately embraced the prophetic
vision of Jewish redemption and the Jews' ultimate return to Eretz Yisrael.
During his service in Eretz Yisrael, he worked to help realize that ideal. The
son of a British officer, Wingate was born in India, received a military
education, and was commissioned in 1923. He served in India and then in the
Sudan, where he studied Arabic and Semitics, and acquired a familiarity with
the Middle East. Wingate was recognized as a talented officer, and by 1936 he
had earned the rank of captain. That same year he was transferred to Eretz
Yisrael, and served there for the next three years. Wingate arrived in Eretz
Yisrael as an intelligence officer at a time when small bands of Arab rioters
were regularly attacking both the British and the Jews. To counter this
offensive, Wingate organized and trained “Special Night Squads,” comprised
primarily of Haganah fighters, which were successfully employed throughout the
Yishuv. Their tactics were based on the strategic principles of surprise,
mobility, and night attacks and they served effectively both as defensive and
offensive units, successfully pre-empting and resisting Arab attacks. Wingate
maintained good contacts with the heads of the Yishuv and the Haganah. He
learned Hebrew, and he demonstrated his ardent belief that the Jews were
entitled to their homeland in Eretz Yisrael. He also recognized the need for a
working military force, and he dreamed of heading the army of the future Jewish
state. Because of his efforts and support, he was called in the Yishuv “ha-yedid,”
the friend. Wingate's intense support for the Zionist viewpoint, however, was
controversial, and in 1939 the British succumbed to Arab pressure and
transferred Wingate from Eretz Yisrael. His passport was stamped with the
restriction that he not be allowed to re-enter the country. His personal
involvement with the Zionist cause was thus curtailed, but many of those he
trained became heads of the Palmach and, later, the Israel Defense Forces
Wingate returned briefly to Great Britain, but, recognized for his military
talent, he was transferred to further active duty. In 1941 he led the force in
Ethiopia against the Italians and was a major figure in liberating the country.
He then worked in Burma, organizing and training the Chindits, a special jungle
unit that operated behind Japanese lines. Wingate was killed in an airplane
crash in Burma in 1944 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in
Virginia. Wingate's friendship for the Yishuv and his contributions to its
defense has been recognized through the several places in Israel named for him,
including the College of Physical Education near Netanya."
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/wingate.html
http://www.zionism-israel.com/bio/Charles_Orde_Wingate.htm
1944: At Ioannina in Greece, 1,860 Jews were seized by the
Nazis and deported to Auschwitz.
1944: Birthdate of Michael Laurence Nyman the native
Stratford, London the multi-talented musician who has done it all from concert
pianist, to composing movie scores and to the creation of operas.
1945: In Buffalo, Elmer and Mollie Milch gave birth to Yale
Phi Beta Kappa graduate David Sanford Milch the husband of Rita Stern, the
screenwriter and television producer who created “NYPD Blue” with Steven Bocho.
1945: Forty-three-year-old Elisabeth de Rothschild, the
Catholic wife of Baron Philippe de Rothschild was murdered today at Ravensbruck
concentration camp.
1945: It was reported that the police and the District
Attorney's office are still seeking to solve the mystery surrounding
the fatal stabbing of Samuel Zuckerman, 50 years old, outside the doorway of
his sixth floor home in the Euclid Apartments, 2345 Broadway, early yesterday,
when he was summoned to answer a telephone call and that the police had
questioned 45-year-old Dorothy Zuckerman his wife of six months, his daughter
Helen Meyer, her husband Private Leo Myer and his brother Leo Zuckerman about
the murder without gaining any additional information.
1946(20th of Adar II, 5706): Parashat Tzav;
Shabbat Parah
1946: The American Joint Distribution Committee announced
today in Paris that it “has arranged to prove 1,866,000 pounds of unleavened
bread to Jewish communities in nearly every country” in Europe.
1947: The executive committee of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine ended its deliberations today. The committee has been meeting in
Jerusalem to plan tactics for the upcoming special session of the United
Nations being held to deal with the issue of Palestine.
1947: Birthdate of classical pianist Yoheved Kaplinsky, the
native of Tel Aviv who became a professor of music at Julliard.
https://www.juilliard.edu/music/faculty/kaplinsky-yoheved
1948: “The Search” a “film directed by Fred Zinnemann which
tells the story of a young Auschwitz survivor and his mother who search for
each other across post-World War II Europe” was released today.
1948: David Ben-Gurion “cabled the United States State
Department a warning that he and his colleagues would with all of their
strength oppose any postponement of Jewish independence.” The U.S. State
Department, the body that had done so much to keep Jews from getting to the
United States during the Hitler period, was busy trying to sabotage President
Truman’s support of partition and the creation of a Jewish state.
1949(23rd of Adar,5709): Rabbi Louis M.
Epstein the Lithuanian bon son of Rebecca Mehle and Rabbi Ezriel Epstein, the
husband of Minnie Hannah Winner, the holder of earned degrees from JTS,
Columbia and Harvard and President of JTS from 1921 to 1925 who began leading
Kehillath Israel in 1925 and was the author of “The Jewish Marriage Contract”
passed away today.
1949: “Detective Story” a three act play by Sidney Kingsley
opened on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre.
1949: Israel and Lebanon signed an armistice agreement.
Israeli troops withdrew from border towns they had occupied during the
fighting. Lebanon would not become a major area of operations until decades
later when the PLO was thrown out of Jordan and took refuge in Lebanon.
1949: In an attempt to break the deadlock between Israel
and Transjordan over the shape of the border between the two states, Yigael
Yadin, Walter Eytan, Moshe Dayan and Yehoshafat Harkabi (future director of
Israeli Military Intelligence) went to meet King Abdullah at his villa in
Shuneh Yigal. Yadin’s flawless recitation of a poem in Arabic served as an
icebreaker. Despite initial setbacks, the two sides would reach an
understanding that night.
1950: “The new Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Msgr. Alberto
Gori, paid his first official visit to Israel today. He met the diplomatic
corps and senior officers of the Foreign Affairs, Interior and Religious
Affairs Ministries at a reception in Jaffa.”
1951(15th of Adar II, 5711): Shushan Purim
1951(15th of Adar II, 5711): Michael H. Cardozo Jr. of 163
East Eighty-first Street, veteran attorney, passed away today in his office at
115 Broadway at the age 70. He was a cousin of the late Associate Justice
Benjamin N. Cardozo of the United States Supreme Court.
1951: After premiering in New York City and Los Angeles,
“Royal Wedding, the Alan Jay Lerner musical comedy directed by Stanley Donen
was released throughout the rest of the United States today.
1954: Mathematician Jacob Bronowski, the father of Lisa
Jardine, “delivered his own Conway Memorial Lecture today.”
1956(11th of Nisan,
5716): Cantor and composer Isaac Hirshow, (aka Yitzak Gershov, the
Russian born son of Simon Gershov ) “the first person to obtain a Bachelor of
Music degree at the University of Glasgow and of the cantor at the
Chevra Kadisha synagogue in the Gorbals area of Glasgow” before moving to
Garnethill Synagogue in 1925, where he served for the next thirty years passed
away today after which he “was interred at Garnethill Hebrew Burial Ground.”
1956: New York State Supreme Court Justice Henry Epstein
officiated at the wedding of actress Rita Gam, to Yale Graduate and WW II
Marine Corps veteran “Thomas H. Guinzburg, the son of Harold K. Guinzburg,
publisher of the Viking Press” today.
1957: The University of North Carolina led by Lennie
Rosenbluth won the NCCA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament in Kansas City,
MO.
1959(13th of Adar II, 5719): Fast Esther;
Erev Purim
1959: “Stars” a movie directed by Konrad
Wolf that “tells the story of a Nazi officer who falls in love with
a Greek Jewish girl while escorting Jewish prisoners through Bulgaria to a
concentration camp was released in Bulgaria today.
1959(13th of Adar II, 5719): Sixty-seven
Sam Born, the Russian born American “candyman” who founded Just Born Company,
maker of such sweet treats as Peeps passed away today.
1960: Carole King and Gerry Goffin, the grandson of
Russian-Jewish furrier gave birth singer-songwriter Louis Goffin who along with
her sister began her musical career by providing vocals for the song
"Nightingale", on her mother Carole King's album Wrap Around Joy,
which was released in 1974.
1960: Seventy-eight-year-old Franklin Pierce Adams, the
Chicago born son of Moses and Clara Schlossberg Adams and writer known simply
as F.P.A. who was a member of the famous Algonquin Round Table passed away
today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/03/25/105423068.pdf
1962: Abraham Ellstein’s only opera, “The Golem” which he
created with his wife Sylvia Regan premiered today at the New York City Opera a
year and a day before he passed away under the baton of Julius Rudel who had
fled his native Austria when the Nazis took over.
1962: Arthur Fiedler and his wife visited the Marshal Space
Flight Center today.
1962: In its review of the Broadway musical “I Can Get It
for You Wholesale,” The New York Times proclaimed "The
evening's find is Barbara Streisand, a girl with an oafish expression, a loud
irascible voice and an arpeggiated laugh. Miss Streisand is a natural
comedienne" By the time Streisand made her Broadway debut in “I Can Get It
for You Wholesale,” she had already developed a loyal following as a singer. In
performances at the Lion Club, one of New York City's premier gay clubs, and in
other clubs around the country, the young Streisand developed her trademark
outsider persona, impromptu one-liners, and theatrical delivery that brought
audiences to their feet. Streisand's performance as Miss Marmelstein in I Can
Get It for You Wholesale was so successful that the role was expanded for her,
with new songs added. Despite national acclaim for her performance, she was
considered too Jewish, too eccentric, too unattractive, and too marked by her
Brooklyn upbringing for a record contract. When Columbia Records finally
released The Barbra Streisand Album in 1964, however, it remained on the charts
for eighteen months. Streisand's movie debut in Funny Girl four years later, in
the Oscar-winning role of comedian Fanny Brice, cemented her place among the
stars of American theatre and film.
1963: Duke’s Art Heyman was named the outstanding player at
the 1963 NCC Men’s Division I Basketball tournament which came to a close today
1963: Rolf Hochhuth's "Der Stellvertreter" (The
Deputy), premiered in Berlin. The Catholic Church was outraged at the portrayal
of Pius XII as being complicit in the murder of the Jews of Europe.
1964(10th of Nisan, 5724): Actor Peter Lorre passed away
passed away at the age of 59. Born Ladislav (László) Löwenstein in what was
then the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Lorre gained fame as a
character actor with parts in such films as Casablanca and Arsenic and Old
Lace. In the 1930’s he played the title character in the Mr. Motto detective
films.
http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/wiki/The_Times_(25/Mar/1964)_-_Obituary:_Peter_Lorre
1968(23rd of Adar, 5728) Parashat
Vayakhel-Pekudi
1969: Birthdate of Donte Phillip Spector, one of three
children adopted by Phil Spector and his second wife.
1970(15th of Adar II, 5730): Shushan Purim
1970: Birthdate of Justin Craig Duberman, the native of New
Haven who after growing up in Highland Park Illinois went on to play ice hockey
for the University of North Dakota and made it to the NFL as a right wing for
the Pittsburgh Penguins.
1970: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for
seventy-two-year-old Cornell University Phi Beta Kappa
graduate Murray Graham, the husband of the former Eleanor Kahn who
rose from being a sales clerk at Macy’s to be being a senior vice president for
the retail giant and who “was suporter of the Conference of Christians and
Jews, the Greater New York Fund, the United Jewish Appeal, the Red Cross, the
Salvation Army and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies.
1971: NBC broadcast the final episode of “Julia,” the
ground-breaking sitcom created by Savannah native Hal Kanter, co-starring Ezra
Stone and with music by Elmer Bernstein.
1972 (8th of Nisan, 5732): Rabbi Chaim Meir Hager, who had
been revered as Vizhnitzer Rebbe for 35 years, passed away in Israel tonight.
1972: In Paris, “a psychoanalyst whose parents were
Holocaust survivors from Poland and Russia” and his wife, a child therapist
gave birth to author and actress Judith Godreche, the wife of French actor
Danny Boon.
1973: CBS broadcast the last episode of daytime soap opera
“Love Is a Many Splendored Thing” created by Chicago native Irna Phillips.
1974(23rd pf Adar. 5734): Shabbat HaChodesh
1974: Senator Ted Kennedy arrived in Moscow today where he
spoke with Brezhnev about the Middle East and immigration, two topics of
importance to Jews in the United States and Israel.
1974: “”Leonid Zabelishensky was released from prison
today.”
1975: In “Major Book on Holocaust” published today, Gerald
F. Lieberman described the negotiations that are “under way between Israel and
an American company for the publication of The Diary of Adam Czerniakow,” a
document that a leading Jewish scholar in Brooklyn College termed of major
importance in understanding the near destruction of European Jewry under the
Nazis.
1978: The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for
peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line. The Blue Line was a demarcation
between Israeli and PLO forces.
1979(24th of Adar, 5739): One person was murdered and 13
more injured in a terrorist bombing at Zion Square in Jerusalem.
1979: Abraham David Sofaer began serving as Judge of the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York,
1980: In “The Two Faces of Israel’s Masada: Glory and
Tragedy,” Carmia Borek describes the varying view of this famous Jewish
landmark.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FB061EFA395C11728DDDAA0A94DB405B8084F1D3
1980: Birthdate of Asaf Avidan an Israeli folk/rock
musician known for his breakthrough debut album, "The Reckoning",
which was created with a group of backup musicians under the name "Asaf
Avidan and the Mojos". The album received positive critical reviews and
earned Avidan a nomination for Best Israeli Artist at the upcoming MTV Europe
Awards.
1980: Release date in the United States for “Christ Stopped
at Eboli” (Italian: Cristo si è fermato a Eboli), a 1979 film adaptation of the
book of the same name by Carlo Levi.
1981(17th of Adar II, 5741):
Ninety-five-year-old German born American Chess champion Edward Lasker who had
been trained as an engineer and was a close friend of fellow chess champion and
distant relative Emanuel Lasker passed away today in New York.
https://worldchesshof.org/hof-inductee/edward-lasker
1981: Shimon Peres said in Tel Aviv today his party would
make an effort to negotiate the future status of Jerusalem with Saudi Arabia
and would look seriously at the possibility of peace with the Saudis.
1983(9th of Nisan, 5743):
Eighty-four-year-old Rabbi Saul Lieberman passed away.
http://www.joshyuter.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Saul-Lieberman-and-the-Orthodox-31.pdf
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/slieberman.html
1985: Jewish singer Billy Joel wed supermodel Christie
Brinkley
1986(12th of Adar II, 5746): Twenty days after celebrating
his 91st birthday, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein passed away.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/feinstein-rabbi-moses
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/25/obituaries/thousands-mourn-talmudic-scholar.html
1987(22nd of Adar, 5747):
Eighty-five-year-old Morton Minsky, the last of the Minsky brothers, passed
away today.
1987: CBS broadcast the first episode of the long running
soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful” which would feature Tracey E. Bregman
in the role of “Lauren Fenmore.”
1988: In Wellington, NZ, Israel national football team
defeated Chinese Taipei, nine to nothing.
1988(5th of Nisan, 5748): Fifty-eight-year-old “Jim Jacobs,
a boxing historian and a co-manager of Mike Tyson, the heavyweight champion”
passed away today.
1989: In Philadelphia, Dr. Richard Cohen, who played tennis
for the University of Pennsylvania and played professional tennis for two years
and his wife gave birth to professional tennis player Julia Cohen, the sister
of All-American tennis player Josh Cohen.
1989: Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann (who was a Jewish
refugee from Nazi Europe) announced that they had unlocked the mystery of cold
fusion at the University of Utah.
1990(26th of Adar, 5750):
Sixty-five-year-old Rabbi Eli Chaim Carlebach, the Berlin born on of Paula
(Pesse) Cohn and Hartwig Naftali Carelbach, the twin brother of Shlomo
Carlebach, the husband of Hadassah Schneerson, and son-in-law of Schneour
Zalman Schneerson, the first cousin to the father of the Menachem Mendel
Schneerson who along with his brother was one of the leader of Congregation
Kehilath Jacob, the so-called Carlebach Shul, passed away today in New York
1990: Release date of “Pretty Woman” the comedy filmed
under executive produce Laura Ziskin and co-starring Jason Alexander (born Jay
Scott Greenspan).
1991(8th of Nisan, 5751): Dr. Samuel Garrow
Werlin, the Pearland, TX born son of Jacob Baer Werlin and Sarah Chaya Childs
and the husband of Marcelle M. Werlin passed today after which he was buried in
the Beth-El Plot of the Greenwood Memorial Park, in Ft. Worth, TX.
1991(8th of Nisan, 5751): Parashat Tzav;
Shabbat HaGadol
1991: It was reported today that “Israel's foreign debt
rose by $260 million in 1990, to $24.1 billion, reversing a decline since
1987…”
1991: “Congress today approved but modified the revocation
of $55 million in aid to Jordan and a ban on military sales to allies who
failed to fulfill their pledges of financial assistance for the Persian Gulf
war.”
1992: “Broadway Bound” a made for television movie based on
Neil Simon’s play co-starring Jonathan Silverman, featuring Jerry Orbach and
Michele Lee and with music by David Shire was broadcast for the first time
tonight.
1993: Judith Kaye began serving as Chief Judge of the New
York Court of Appeals
1993: A third revival of “3 Men On A Horse” a play
co-authored by George Abbott with a cast that included Tony Randall, Jack
Klugman and Jerry Stiller began previews at the Lyceum Theatre.
1994(11th of Nisan, 5754): Victor Lashchiver, employed as a
guard at the Income Tax offices in East Jerusalem, was shot and killed by
terrorists near Damascus Gate on his way to work. The Popular Front claimed
responsibility for the attack.
1994: “Above the Rim,” “a sports film co-written, stored
and directed by Jeff Pollack” was released in the United States today.
1995: “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book co-authored by Abe Burrows
opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.
1995(21st of Adar II, 5755): Author and screenwriter Irving
Shulman passed away at the age of 81.
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-03-28/news/mn-47894_1_irving-shulman
1996: Thirty-four-year-old Magid al-Molqi, the hijacker convicted in the
1985 murder of sixty-nine-year-old wheel-chair bound Leon Klinghoff, an
American tourist aboard the Achille Lauro cruise ship whom he said was singled
out because he was a Jew was recaptured in southern Spain today, three weeks
after he disappeared during a "good conduct" leave from an Italian
prison.
1997(14th of Adar II, 5757): Purim
1997: The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including "The Vulnerable Observer Anthropology That Breaks Your
Heart" by Ruth Behar and "The Journey Home Jewish Women and the
American Century" by Joyce Antler. Among the more than 50 Jewish women
chronicled in this tome are: Sonya Abuza, an overweight immigrant in Hartford
who had been deserted by her husband, later became famous as a ''Gypsy of the
footlights'' named Sophie Tucker. Henrietta Szold, the eldest of five daughters
of a distinguished Baltimore rabbi, established Hadassah, the largest women's
Zionist group in the world, in 1912. Ruth Gruber, who at 20 was declared the
youngest person in the world to hold a doctorate, flew a secret mission for
President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II to help 1,000 refugees find
asylum in Oswego, N.Y. Goldie Mabovich Meyerson was born in Kiev, was raised
and married in Milwaukee, then moved to Palestine in 1921, where, known as
Golda Meir, she became Prime Minister of Israel. In this unique volume, Joyce
Antler, who teaches American studies at Brandeis University, blends history,
anecdote and biography to emphasize the achievement of these women, who
attempted to satisfy family, God and their own dreams at the same time. The
book illuminates their struggles for identity as well as the sexism and
anti-Semitism they encountered.
1998(25th of Adar, 5758):
Eighty-one-year-old American poet Hilda Morely and cousin of Isaiah Berlin
passed away today.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/hilda-morley
1999: Emanuel Zisman left The Third Way and continued
serving as independent MK.
1999(6th of Nisan, 5759): Sculptor and
“resident artist” artist and teacher at Reed College in Oregon Martha Gold
Littman, the daughter of Austrian writer, theatre critic, journalist, art
collector, and dealer Alfred Gold and the former Margarethe Zadek and the
estranged wife of Frederick Littman with whom “she had her fist solo show in
1940” passed away today.
2000: During his meeting with President Ezer Weizman, Pope
John Paul II “blessed the state of Israel” after which he visited Yad Vashem.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/events/pope/john_paul/
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/events/pope/john_paul/speech.asp
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/events/pope/john_paul/portrait.asp
2001(28th of Adar, 5761):
Eighty-seven-year-old Janice Levin, the art collector and philanthropist whose
husband attorney Philip J. Levin passed away in 1971, passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/27/nyregion/janice-levin-87-philanthropist-of-the-arts.html
2002(10th of Nisan, 5762): Parashat Tzav;
Shabbat HaGadol
2002(10th of Nisan, 5762):
Seventy-three-year-old Oscar Winning set designer Richard Sylbert passed away
today.
2003(19th of Adar II, 5763): Fritz Spiegl the Austrian-born
musician, journalist, broadcaster, humorist and collector who fled to England
in 1939 to escape the Nazis passed away today.
2003: The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of interest to Jewish readers including
Regarding "The Pain of Others" by Susan Sontag and "Ending the
Vietnam War: A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication From the
Vietnam War" by Henry Kissinger.
2004: Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said the New
York Department had increased uniformed and plainclothes patrols at synagogues
and in predominately Jewish neighborhoods following an attack on Sheik Ahmed
Yasssin, a founder of Hamas, in Gaza City.
2005: March Madness, the popular name for the national
American collegiate basketball champion competition took on a Jewish twist. A
sixteen year old feud was reignited by comments made by Deon Thomas a
professional basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv about University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee Coach Bruce Pearl, whose skill at bringing his unheralded
hoopsters to the Sweet Sixteen may mark him as the next Red Auerbach.
2005: The Ensemble for the Romantic Century presented Fanny
Mendelssohn: Out of Her Brother’s Shadow, a theatrical concert featuring the
music of Fanny Mendelssohn at the Jewish Museum in New York.
2005(12th of Adar II, 5765):
Seventy-three-year-old Naftali Halberstam “the grand rabbi of the Bobov
Chasidic Sect” passed away today.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2005(12th of Adar II, 5765):
Eighty-five-year-old award-winning British actor David Kossoff passed away
today in Hatfield, Hertforshire, England.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1486283/David-Kossoff.html
2006: Judith Martin, known professionally as “Miss Manners”
today “was a special guest correspondent on The Colbert Report, giving her
analysis of the manners with which the White House Press Corps spoke to the
President.”
2007(4th of Nisan, 5767: Paul J. Cohen, American
mathematician, and winner of the Fields Medal, passed away.
2007: Tal Friedman sang with “The Krayot” band in Tel Aviv
today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tal_Friedman_23032007.jpg
2007: An international conference for Jewish theater
professionals, artists, and aficionados hosted by The Association for Jewish
Theatre in conjunction with the Jewish Theatre of Austria comes to an end.
2008: An exhibition organized by guest curator Murray
Zimiles entitled “Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the
Carousel has its last showing at the American Folk Art Museum.
2008: The Sunday New York Times book
section featured a review of "Liberty Of Conscience: In Defense of
America’s Tradition of Religious Equality" by Martha C. Nussbaum.
2008: The Washington Post book section
featured a review of Mark Evanier’s "Kirby: King of Comics" that
describes the life and times of Jack Kirby, the son of Austrian Jewish
immigrants who had such an impact on the comic book genre including the
creation of The Fantastic Four, The Hulk and Captain America.
2008(7th of Nissan, 5778): In Paris, 85
year old Holocaust survivor was murdered allegedly by Yacine Mihoub and Alex
Carrimbacus who shouted “Allah Akbar” as they stabbed her.
2008: As pilots began undergoing tests for cancer, a team
of technical personnel from the Israel Air Force flew to Fort Worth, Texas, for
consultations with their American counterparts and Lockheed Martin concerning
the recent discovery of carcinogenic material in an Israeli F-16I.
2008(16th of Adar II, 5768): Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum, an
ultra-Orthodox educator and innovator who created a series of dial-in phone
lines with lectures on sacred texts, died today at the age of 68 http://forward.com/articles/13039/rabbi-eli-teitelbaum-dial-a-daf-creator--/
2009: At Rutgers University, Professor Martin Bunzl,
director of the Program in Jewish Culture and Society, University of Illinois
at Urbana delivers a lecture on Israel, Islamophobia, and the Right Wing in
Europe entitled “The New Philo-Semitism.”
2009: Sports Illustrated magazine reported
on the recent death of 86-year-old Bill Davidson who amassed a fortune in the
glass business owner the Detroit Pistons for 35 years and free spending
philanthropists. The magazine also noted that Davidson had run track at
Michigan and “was a charter member of the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
2009: The Aviv String Quartet, founded in Israel in 1997,
performs at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa.
2009: In the on-going saga of what was once the country’s
leading kosher slaughtering operation four companies bid for the assets of
Agriprocessors in an auction that began today. The bidding ended this evening
night with offers reaching as high as $5.5 million.
2010: The AIPAC Policy Conference comes to a close.
2010: The New York Times Knowledge Network and the Israeli
Consulate are scheduled to team up together to present the opening night of a
weeklong event entitled The New Israeli Cuisine in which participants will take
a tour through the fascinating evolution of Israel's culinary scene. A melting
pot of more than 60 different ethnicities - from India to Morocco to Argentina
- Israeli cuisine is one of the world's fastest emerging kitchens.
2010: The Temple Mount Human Rights Group has scheduled a
gathering for today in front of the Mashbir department store in Jerusalem. The
theme of the gathering is, "The time has come for our liberation - to be a
free people on our mountain" which plays on the chorus of the national
anthem Hatikvah, which talks about the Jews being "a free people in our
land". The group will call for freedom of religion for all groups on the
Temple Mount, including the Jews. The group's chairman, Yehuda Glick, says the
state, in response to the Supreme Court, determined there was no preventing
freedom of religion at the site but was concerned about the security
consequences. He added, "We will come with lambs and goats and demand that
we be allowed to offer a Pesach sacrifice on the Temple Mount.
2010: The President of the United States and the Prime
Minister of Israel met this evening in Washington, D.C.
2010: The UK expelled an Israeli diplomat owing to claims
that an embassy official from that country forged passports, and David Miliband
gave a public warning against travel to Israel because of identity theft
concerns
2010: As German authorities pursue suspected Nazi war
criminals to the last, a court in Aachen convicted an 88-year-old former SS
soldier today on charges of killing three Dutch civilians in reprisal for
attacks by Dutch resistance fighters in 1944. The case against the former
soldier, Heinrich Boere, who is now a stateless person, was depicted by German
analysts as one of the last major war crimes trials.
2010: The ex-convict who killed a Canadian Jewish leader in
Barbados last year was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Curtis Joel Foster, 25,
was sentenced today in a Barbados court for killing Terry Schwarzfeld, who had
just started her term as president of Canadian Hadassah WIZO and was executive
director of Ottawa's largest synagogue, Agudath Israel.
2011: The 75-minute dramatic oratorio, “From the Fire,” is
scheduled to be presented in New York City to mark the anniversary of the
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and bring attention to contemporary examples
of unsafe working conditions.
2011: Kathryn Gleason, a professor of Archaeology and
Landscape Architecture at Cornell, who has excavated at Herod's tomb and other
sites in Israel is scheduled to deliver a lecture at the 92nd St Y entitled
“Archaeology In Israel: Herod's World .”
2011: Today a committee of the Knesset is scheduled to
debate whether J Street is sufficiently "committed" to Israel to be
called a pro-Israel organization.
2011: “Two rockets exploded in Beersheba this morning, and
ten mortar shells fell in the Sha'ar Hanegev and Eshkol Regional Councils
2011: Seventy-nine-year-old actress Elizabeth Taylor who
converted to Judaism in 1959, had two Jewish husbands (producer Mike Todd and
crooner Eddie Fisher) and was such an ardent supporter of Israel and Jewish
causes such as the right of Soviet Jews to emigrate, that her films were “were
banned by Muslim countries throughout the Middle East and Africa” passed away
today.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/23/local/la-me-elizabeth-taylorlong-20110324
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/mar/23/elizabeth-taylor-obituary
2011(17, Adar II, 5771): “One woman died and 50 were
injured after an explosion took place at a bus station in central Jerusalem
this afternoon.
2011: It was reported today that “The U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum is trying to identify more than 1,000 children in photos that
date from when they were scattered across Europe at the end of World War II and
taken in by relief agencies. The museum’s “Remember Me” project seeks the
public’s help in identifying 1,100 children among tens of thousands who were
uprooted by the war. The museum is posting the pictures, which are part of its
collections, online and plans to publish many of the images in newspapers and
online forums. Museum officials hope to learn who the children are, what
happened to them and help reconnect them to relatives who may also have been
scattered. The museum says the number of Holocaust survivors is dwindling with
time.” (Associated Press)
2011(17th of Adar II, 5771): Famed defense
attorney Leonard I. Weinglass passed away today at the age of 77. (As reported
by Bruce Weber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/us/25weinglass.html
2012: “Gripsholm,” a movie about Berlin cabaret life in the
inter-war years featuring the life of a German-Jewish publisher as the leading
character, is scheduled to be shown in Atlanta, GA.
2012: “Remembrance and “Ahead of Time” are schedule to be
shown at the NoVA International Jewish Film Festival in Fairfax, VA.
2012: As a part of the movement started by National Day of
Unplugging Jews will begin a weekend complying with the Sabbath Manifesto.
2013: Barak Obama is scheduled to return to the United
States after completing his first trip to Israel since being elected President.
2013: Violinist Vadim Gluzman and pianist Agnela Yoffe are
scheduled to perform at the High School of Fashion Industries.
2013(12th of Nisan, 5773): Shabbat HaGadol
2013: “After the Houston Astros put him on waivers,” today
“the Oakland A’s picked up Nate Freiman, “the 26-year-old first baseman, who
dominated opposing pitchers during Team Israel’s World Baseball Classic bid
last year and who hit .278 for Houston during Spring Training, with 1 HR, two
doubles, no walks and 7 whiffs in 36 at-bats.
2013(12th of Nisan, 5773):
Ninety-three-year-old Canadian born American bodybuilder Joe Weider who along
with his brother carved a special niche in the world competitive bodybuilding
passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/sports/joe-weider-founder-of-a-bodybuilding-empire-dies-at-93.html
2013: The worsening crisis in Syria necessitated restoring
relations with Turkey, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu wrote on his Facebook
page this evening, explaining the reasoning to his apology to Ankara over the
death of nine Turkish activists on board a Gaza-bound flotilla.
2013: US Secretary of State John Kerry began
nitty-gritty efforts at re-starting talks between Israel and the Palestinians
with a late-night meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
2013: An IDF jeep on patrol near the Syrian border was hit
by gunfire this evening. The IDF said the shots were fired from Syria, and that
it was "checking the circumstances surrounding the incident."
2014: Maestro Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic
Orchestra are scheduled to return to Miami, for a concert featuring Bruckner’s
Symphony No.8 in C minor which is being dedicated in memory of Dr. Shulamit
Katzman, who was a devoted supporter of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
2014: A youth center in Jönköping in southern Sweden is
vandalized with anti-Semitic slurs, including “Jewish pigs,” “you’ll burn in
hell,” and swastikas.
2014: “Billionaire diamond magnate Lev Leviev” one of the
“most successful Bukharian Jews” and “Israeli philanthropist” was photographed
today “writing in a Torah scroll wit Rabbi Eliyahu Yaakov and defense minister
Moshe Yaalon.”
2014: Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman is scheduled to
perform his only New York recital at 8 p.m.
2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host
“Jewish Poetry Now: Celebrating the Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish
American Poetry”
2014: In New Orleans, the Jewish Children’s Regional
Service (one of America’s premiere provider of social services for the Jewish
community) is scheduled to hold its Annual Meeting this morning at the Uptown
Jewish Community Center.
2014: In Springfield, VA, Congregation Adat
Reyim is scheduled to host Robert H. Gillette, author of The Virginia Plan that
described the plan of department store own William B.
Thalhiemer’s plan to rescue the students of Gross Breesen Institute
and create “a safe haven on Burkeville, VA farm.
2014: “The Jewish Cardinal” with “Moses on the Mesa” are
scheduled to be shown at the Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.
2014: “The Zigzag Kid” is scheduled to be the last picture
shown at this year’s Houston Jewish Film Festival.
2014: The Tulane University Jewish Studies Department under
the Chair of Professor Brian Horowitz is scheduled to host a lecture “Tortosa”
presented by David Goldstein
2014: “The mystery of where Islamist hackers got phone
numbers and email addresses to send threatening text and email messages grew
today, when it emerged that a database belonging to the IsraelDefense magazine
and web site had been hacked over the weekend.” (As reported by David Shamah)
2014: “The Foreign Ministry’s Workers Union today declared
a full-blown general strike, shutting down the ministry’s headquarters in
Jerusalem and all Israeli embassies and consulates across the world.´(As
reported by Raphael Ahren)
2014: “Art Spiegelman’s Co-Mix: A Retrospective,” is
scheduled to come to a close at The Jewish Museum in New York City
2015: “Touchdown Israel – Tackle Football in the Holyland”
is scheduled to be sown at the Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival
2015: Dr. Tom Barton is scheduled to deliver a lecture on
the Battle Over Jews in Medieval Spain” in Carlsbad, CA.
2016: The Jews in the American South is scheduled to stop
in Beaufort, South Carolina, for a visit to Beth Israel Congregation – formerly
Orthodox, now “all-inclusive” – to talk with community members about
maintaining religious traditions and Jewish identity in a small town.
2016: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled
to present “France, Jewish Identity and the Holocaust: Yellow Stars of
Tolerance and Cojot.”
2016: YIVO is scheduled to present “Mixed-Sex Dancing in
Yiddish Culture.”
2016: Hadassah Humanitarian Mission to Cuba is scheduled to
begin today.
2016: “Next Stop” a “play that follows two Israelis
humorously navigating the confusion of dating life in New York City” is
scheduled to open at the Broadway Comedy Club.
2016(13th of Adar II, 5776): Fast of
Esther; in the evening read the Megillah – for more see
2017: The ten-day Israel Culinary Trip to Israel sponsored
by the Streicker Center is scheduled to begin today.
2017: “A months long wave of bomb threats against Jewish
institutions in the United States that prompted evacuations, heightened
security and fears of rising anti-Semitism gave way to an unexpected twist”
today when a Jewish 18 year old who holds dual Israeli and American citizenship
who reported has a brain tumor was arrested and “His father was ordered held
for eight days on suspicion that he might have been aware of the threats…”
2017: Today “The Republican-led Senate confirmed President
Donald Trump's pick to be U.S. ambassador to Israel, ignoring objections from
Democrats that David Friedman lacked the temperament for such an important
diplomatic post.”
2017: The American Society for Jewish Music is scheduled to
present “Your New House: Wedding Songs, Gender and Memory in an Indian Jewish
Community.”
2017: The Leo Baeck Institute is scheduled to host George
Prochnik speaking on “Stranger in a Strange Land – Searching for Gershom
Scholem and Jerusalem.
2018(7th of Nisan, 5778):
Eighty-six-year-old Lawrence K. Grossman, the former President of PB and head
of NBC news passed away today. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
2018: Daylight saving time begins at 2:00 A.M in Israel
2018: A Hebrew language performance of the Israeli play
“Scoop” is scheduled to take place this evening at the Roy Arias Theatre in New
York City.
2018: Liquidation sales of “Toys R Us; the chain founded by
Charles Lazarus began today.
2018: This morning, the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to host a screening of “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story.”
2018: BowTie theatres in Hartford and New Haven, CT.
are scheduled to host screenings of “Itzhak,” a film about the life of
violinist Itzhak Perlman.
2019(16th of Adar II,
5779): Parashat Tzav;
2019(16th of Adar II, 5779):
Eighty-two-year-old Larry Cohen, the Manhattan born son realtor Irving Cohen
and Carolyn Cohen, the prolific movie and television director, producer and
screenwriter (as reported by Neil Genzlinger) passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/obituaries/larry-cohen-dead.html
2019: The Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to
host the “East Coast US premiere” of “The Bird Catcher” which tells the tale of
Jews fleeing the Nazis in Norway.
2019: In Jerusalem, the Bible Lands Museum is scheduled to
host the last day of its special gallery displays designed to celebrate Purim.
2019: The Bloomfield Science Museum is scheduled to host
the final day of “Mirror Image – A Purim of Mirrors and Reflections.
2019: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is
schedule to host “Running Breathless: An Untold Story of WWII and the
Holocaust.”
https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/MAMTAKOGUL0319
2020: Tikvah is scheduled to host Webcast with Caroline
Glick on “The New Arab Bloc and the Future of Israeli Sovereignty.”
2020: The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to
host an on-line version of “Explaining Exodus: Building a House of God – with
Rabbi Joseph Dweck.”
2020): 27th of Adar, 5780):
Eighty-eighty-year-old Yale trained attorney and “legal crusader” Stanley
Sporkin, the Philadelphia born of the former Ethel Weiner and Court of Common
Pleas Judges Maurice Sporkin and the husband of Judy Imber with whom he had
three children “who, as the chief enforcement officer at the Securities and
Exchange Commission, held American corporations accountable for making illicit
campaign contributions in the United States and for bribing public officials
abroad,” passed away today in Rockville, MD (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2020: The 2nd Jewish Africa Conference and
Morocco Trip which was scheduled to begin today has been canceled due to the
Pandemic.
2020: “#inthistogether: Jewish Unity in History With Natan
Sharansky” is scheduled to be presented on-line today at noon, eastern time.
https://www.jewishboston.com/events/inthistogether-jewish-unity-in-history-with-natan-sharansky/
2021: Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to present
online “Leaving Egypt: Passover Prep.”
2021: The Boston-Area Jewish Education Program is scheduled
to present online, the “Great BJEP Matazah Bake” during which attendees will
“learn the history of this 18-minute bake as they return to their roots like
the Israelites in Egypt, now with running water and electricity, to say the
very least.”
2021: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to
host “One Night At A Time” during which
Arianna Huffington and Marina Khidekel will discuss the
insights gained while writing Your Time to Thrive.
2021: The Jewish Community Center of the North Shore is
scheduled to present online “Nafshi Yeshovev: What Lifts My Spirit – An
Exploration of Text, Poetry, Music and More” with Rabbi Michael Ragozin.
2021: Paul George Feinman, the Columbia grad and University
of Minnesota trained attorney completed his service as an Associate Judge of
the New York Court of Appeals.
2021: Today, “Joseph Samuels gave a lecture titled “The
Farhud Massacre & the Jews of Baghdad: Through the Eyes of A Child
Survivor” as part of the Holocaust Lecture Series.
2021: As Israelis go to the polls for the fourth time in
two years, Prime Minister Netanyahu will see if he can “remain in power while
on trial on corruption charges.”
2022: “Today we express Iowa’s enduring support for
the State of Israel and our categorical rejection of anti-Semitism,” Reynolds
said in a statement as she signed a bill that “builds on an existing section of
the state code that prohibited it from investing in “companies that boycott
Israel,” by expanding the definition of a “company” to include subsidiaries and
parent companies.”
2022: UK Jewish Film is scheduled to host a screening of
“Cinema Sabaya,” the winner of Best Israeli First Feature at The Jerusalem Film
Festival in 2021
2022: Governor Reynolds of Iowa signed a bill that “calls
for the state to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s
definition of antisemitism in discrimination and anti-bias training.”
2023: Prime Minister Netanyahu is scheduled to begin his
visit to the United Kingdom.
2023: YIVO is scheduled to host “an evening of Yiddish
music celebrating the memory of Musicologist, song collector, and writer Chana
Mlotek, the longtime YIVO Music Archivist, who played a key role in crafting
the historical memory of Yiddish songs in our time.”
2023: Rabbi Uri Pilichowski, the Zionist Education
Initiative Senior Educator, Nefesh B’Nefesh, is scheduled to deliver the final
lecture on “Zionism Today.”
2023: In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah is scheduled to
hold its monthly Board Meeting.
2023: The Jewish Museum in London is scheduled to host its
Virtual Teachers CPD that explores what it really means to be Jewish and how
best to teach an authentic and inclusive Judaism in your classrooms.
2023: In Coralville, IA, Congregation Agudas Achim is
scheduled to host a seniors get-together including a presentation from Alan
Weinstein.
2023: JWA Booktalk is scheduled to host Loolwa Khazzoom,
editor of The Flying Camel, a book of essays on identity by women
of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish heritage, recently reissued
celebrating the book's 20th anniversary.
2023: The Belzberg Program in Israel Studies at the
University of Calgary and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis
University in collaboration with the American Sefardi Federation, Centro
Sefarad Israel, and the International Network for Jewish Thought present “How
Do Judeo-Spanish Proverbs and Tales Communicate with Us and How Do We
Communicate With Them?”
2023: At 2 a.m. tomorrow morning Israelis are scheduled to
move their clocks forward by one hour.
2023(1st of Nisan, 5783): Rosh Chodesh
Nisan
2024: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by
David Herman on “Jewish Writers and the Holocaust: '60s and '70s.”
2024: Temple Emanu-El scheduled is to host a “Mardi Gras
Masquerade Purim Party where the celebrations of Shushan meet the revelry of
the French Quarter!”
2024: Temple Judea, is scheduled to “celebrate Havdalah
with Rabbi David Azoulay – from Congregation Yozma in Modi’in Israel.”
2024: In Columbus, OH, Jacob Levin, the world’s greatest
grandson and a real mensch, davened Kriyat Hatorah at Tifereth Israel.
2024: The LGBTQIA+ group is scheduled to host a queer Purim
party on Saturday, at 9:30 p.m. (after the Megillah reading) at Studio 13 in
Iowa City
2024: The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host a
Toscanini Quartet, Ensemble in Residence and Friends
2024(13th of Adar II, 5784): Shabbat Zachor
2024(13th of Adar II, 5784) In the evening
read the Megillah
2024: In Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah is scheduled to host an
in-person only Purim Service and Megillah Reading for which “costumes are
encouraged.”
2024: As March 23rd begins in Israel, the Hamas held
hostages begin day 169 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 Eldridge Street Museum is scheduled to host the
concert “The Borscht Belt—Remains of America’s Jewish Vacationland”
https://www.marisascheinfeld.com/book
2025: In New Jersey, the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth
County is scheduled to host part of two of the two-part series “The Role of
Jews in the U.S. Military” a lecture by David Mallach, the Chair of the Society
for the Advancement of Education in Jerusalem.
2025: In Atlanta, The Breman is scheduled to host “Mazel,
Yiddish classics with a backbeat.”
2025: The Israeli Film Festival is scheduled to continue
for a second day at the Weitzman
2025: The Museum of Jewish Heritage in partnership with the
American Sephardi Federation are scheduled to present the “Spring Equinox
Festival.”
2025: The first in the online lecture series in “Apartment
in Berlin: Residence, Literature and the Passing Life in the Footsteps of Agnon
and before him
with Prof. Galili Shachar is scheduled to take place.
2025: The final performance of “Parade” is scheduled to
take place at the Emerson Colonial Theatre.
2025: “The Maccabeats: A Musical Celebration of Israel,” a
fund raiser for the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company is scheduled to take
place in Canada.
2025: “Marom 2025: Cultivating Jewish Minds in an Age of
Distraction,” a program for professional and lay leaders is scheduled to open
in Miami, FL.
2025: The Old Broadway Synagogue in Manhattan is scheduled
to host “The Magic of Kelzmer Flute” with Adrianne Greenbaum and Pete
Rushchefsky
2025: As March 23rd begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave
of ant-Semitism sweeps across the globe, the reality is that the remaining
Hamas held hostages begin day 534 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: Amihai & Debra Glazer; Josh Greene;
Phyllis Klein; Philip Sternberg are scheduled to facilitate the virtual News in
Review Roundtable Discussion Group hosted by the Pozez JJC of Northern Virginia
2026: Beit Agnon is scheduled to hold an online reading
event in the story "Face to Face" after which Agnon House guides Ofir
Lifshitz, Uri Grinshpon and Ido Nitzan, will look at the absurd reality
described in the story, wonder about the connection between the plot and
Agnon's personal biography, and examine the meaning of the title.
2026(5th of Nisan); On the Jewish
calendar Yahrzeit for fifty-four year old Amy Barnum, the wife of Joel Barnum
with whom she raised three daughters – Emma, Sasha and Gail – and daughter Jack
and Bette Kozlen of Omaha, who was a pillar, in the truest sense of that term,
of the Jewish community in Cedar Rapids and a driving force behind the
Traditional Services at Temple Judah whose untimely passing can only
be described as a tragic loss for all of us.
https://www.cedarmemorial.com/Obituary/2017/Apr/Amy-M-Barnum/
2026: As March 23rd begins in Israel, residents of Arad and
Dimona, 200 of whose citizens were injured in Iranian missile attacks, continue
to try and “pick up the pieces,” the IDF plans further attacks on Hezbollah and
president Trump announces plans for coming to Israel to accept the Israel
Prize.(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we
are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
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