73(15th of Nisan, 3833): The Great Revolt came to an end today when the
defenders of Masada completed their murder/suicide pact
217: Assassination of Roman Emperor Caracalla. Some Romans may Caracalla who was officially
known as Antonius, as a disgrace to his office.
Caracalla extended the right of citizenship to all of those living in
the empire as a way of raising additional taxes. Under the “law of unintended consequences”
this improved the status of the Jews.
While Caracalla showed no special affection for his Jewish subjects, he
did not single them out for any special disabilities or punishments except for
one matter of taxation. This was an improvement over life under some of his
predecessors and many of his successors. When it came to taxes, Caracalla took
as much as he could. Since the time of
Julius Caesar, the Jews of Palestine had been exempt from paying certain taxes
during the Sabbatical Year. The taxes
were paid in produce which was used to feed the army. Caracalla put an end to the exemption. Caracalla
was fighting the Parthians in 216 which was a Sabbatical Year. Rabbi Janni, a contemporary of Judah haNasi,
ruled that it was permissible for the Jews of Palestine to grow crops during
the Sabbatical Year so that they could pay these taxes. He made it clear that this was a special
exemption and in no way was intended as an abrogation of the Sabbatical Year.
426: Emperors Theodosius II and Valentinian III decree that Jewish
parents and grandparents cannot disinherit any children and grandchildren who
convert to Christianity. This was
designed to enhance the spread of Christianity since under the decree those who
converted to other religions could be disinherited.
1094(19th of Nisan): Mathematician and astronomer Rabbi Isaac ben Baruch
Albalia, author of “Kuppat ha-Rochlin, passed away.
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112370/jewish/Rabbi-Yitzchak-Ben-Baruch-Albalia.htm
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Albalia.html
1139: Roger II of Sicily is
excommunicated. Roger may have had his problems with Innocent II, but for a
monarch of his time, the Jews benefited from his rule. Roger allowed the Jews to be tried under
their own legal system; the same privilege that he had extended to his Greek
and Saracen subjects. One of his close
advisors was known to be sympathetic to the Jews going so far as to visit their
synagogues and to donate money for the support of the community. Finally, Roger brought a significant
contingent of Greek Jews to Palermo, the capital of Sicily, who were supposed
to tend silk-worms in an attempt to develop the silk trade.
1455: Pope Callixtus III who after
“his coronation, rode a white horse through the streets of the city and
followed the ancient custom, known as Monte Giordano, where representatives of
the Jews met with the pope and presented him with the roll of the law.
Callixtus III then read from the law and stated "We ratify the law, but
condemn your interpretation", which instigated a riot at the ceremony that
endangered the pope's life.”
1484: Local farmers of Arles, France, led by the town's monks attacked
the Jewish section of the town. A number of people were killed and 50 men were
forced to accept Christianity.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Arles.html
1492: Forty-three-year-0ld
Lorenzo de’Medici around whose court included Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol,
“the Jewish-Italian geographer, cosmographer scribe and polemicist” passed away
today.
1559: “Dominican monks
distributed inflammatory pamphlets in Cremona, Italy, urging the populace to
kill the Jews.” (As reported by Abraham P. Bloch)
1594: The two acting groups,
Sussex’s Men and Elizabeth’s Men, performed the “Jew of Malta” today.
1582: Today, Giles Fletcher, the Eton and Cambridge educated “poet,
diplomat and MP” who while serving as the English “minister of Musovy claimed
to have discovered the Ten Lost Tribes among the Tartars” and his wife Joan had
their son Phineas baptized today.
1605: In the Royal Palace of Valladolid, King Phillip III of Spain and
Maragaret of Austria gave birth to King Philip IV who delegated the regulation
of affairs of state to his favorite, D. Gaspar Guzman, Count de Olivares, whom
he made a duke and his prime minister who wished to remedy the scarcity of men and money
which had been brought about in Spain by the expulsion of the Jews and Moors
and by continual wars. For this purpose, he invited Jews from Salonica and
other cities, who, being descendants of those exiled from Spain, could speak
Spanish, to come to Madrid.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12096-philip-iv
1661: Today, Henrque de Caceres who had been living in England for
approximately the last fifteen years and Benjamin de Caceres “petition the king
to permit them to live and trade in Barbados and Suriname.
1730: In New York, the (first) Mill Street Synagogue which is known as
Shearith Israel was consecrated. It was the first structure designed and built
to be a synagogue in continental North America. During the time the
congregation was at Mill Street, the Sephardic leadership worried it might
become Ashkenazic. The compromise within the Jewish community was they agreed
the president of the congregation would be Ashkenazi, while the services would
remain under the traditional Spanish and Portuguese rite, under the guise of a
Sephardic chazzan. It is now known as the Spanish and Portuguese
Synagogue. One of its most famous leaders was Gershom Menes Seixas, a
patriot during the Revolution, who had to leave when the British took the city.
A 1744 visitor noted that
congregation's women "of whom some were very pretty, stood up in the
gallery like a hen coop."
1744(7th of Iyar, 5504): Today, in South Carolina, “the
Charles-Town, one of the Government’s Gallies, having sailed over the Bar to
convoy a Sloop, met with a sudden Gale of Wind, overset and sunk, 10 men were
drowned, and among them was Mr. Hart the Jew.”
1754(16th of Nisan, 5514): Second Day of Pesach
1754: As Jews munched
on their matzah, a, party of French soldiers continued its march to stop the
English from building a fort at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela
Rivers (modern day Pittsburgh) which would lead to the battle in May in which
George Washington led the British forces and which is considered by historians
to being the start of the French and Indian War.
1762(15th of
Nisan, 5522): Pesach
1765(17th of
Nisan, 5522): Third Day of Pesach
1768(21st of
Nisan, 5528): Seventh Day of Pesach
1768: Haham Moses Cohen d'Azevedo, the Amsterdam born son of
Daniel David Cohen d'Azevedo and Sara Cohen d'Azevedo and his wife and Sara de
Haham Moses Cohen D'Azevedo gave birth to Abigail Dias and wife of Isaac Haim de Abraham de
Jacob Dias with whom she had six
Children
1769(1st of
Nisan, 5529): Parashat Tazria; Rosh Chodesh Nisan; Shabbat HaChodesh
1769: As the Jews greet
the month in which they celebrate their freedom from bondage, the Inquisition
continues to find fresh ground to grow as two parties of Spaniards continue
their march across “Alta Califrona” where they are to build forts and missions.
1772: Ester Alvares and Bordeaux native Daniel Nones gave birth to Leah
Nones
1773(15th of Nisan, 5633): Pesach
1773: Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal, the native of Palestine who was
reported to be the first ordained Rabbi to visit the colonies that would become
the United States was described by Ezra Stiles as wearing "a high Fur Cap,
exactly like a Woman’s Muff, and about 9 or 10 Inches high, the Aperture atop
was closed with green cloth" at Passover services today.
1774: Jitte Glückstadt, an unmarried Jewish woman in Altona, had her last
will and testament recorded today.
1775(8th of Nisan, 5535): Parashat Metzora; Shabbat HaGadol
1775: In Savannah, GA, Judith Polock and Philip Minis who were married in
1774 at Newport, RI, gave birth to Abigail Minis.
1776(19th of Nisan, 5536): Fifth Day of Pesach observed on the
same day that during the American Revolution Gurdon Saltonstall, the Governor of Connecticut wrote to General
George Washington describing the arrival of Commodore Esek Hopkins at the
harbor in New London, CT.
1777(1st of Nisan, 5537): Rosh Chodesh Nisan observed on the
same day that future President John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail describing
conditions related to the American Revolution
1779(22nd of Nisan, 5539) Eighth Day of Pesach is observed
while the French and Americans are conducting negotiations with Spain that
will, in four days, lead to the signing of a secret treaty that will make all
three of them allies in the war with Great Britain.
1780(3rd of Nisan, 5540) Parashat Tazria
1780:Today, during the American Revolution, General Schuyler wrote to
Alexander Hamilton, who was thought to be Jewish because his mother was Rachel
Levine and because he went to a Jewish school since he had never been baptized,
about a variety of subjects including the general’s prediction that the war
would be over with the year.
1787(20th of Nisan, 5547): Sixth Day of Pesach observed on the
same day that James Madison who as
President appointed Mordecai to serve as U.S. Counsel to Tunis, wrote a letter
to Edmund Randolph, discussing the upcoming Constitutional Convention and the
need for a strong national government with the power to act decisively in
matters requiring uniform measures.
1790: According to some sources, birthdate of Ruth Luzzatto, who gained
fame as “Rachel Morpurgo: Queen of the Hebrew Sonnet.”
http://www.mishpacha.com/Browse/Article/1435/Rachel-Morpurgo-Queen-of-the-Hebrew-Sonnet
1792(16th of Nisan, 5552): Second Day of Pesach
1797(12th of Nissan, 5557) Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol
1797: Birthdate of Hesekias Stern, the son of Levy Stern and husband of
Guthel Adler with whom he had two children – Jette and Rebecca Stern.
1798: Miriam Levy and London native Samuel Hyams who settled in Louisiana
gave birth to Moses Kosciusko Hyams who passed away in Pointe Coupee, a Parish
near Baton Rouge, LA.
1801: Soldiers rioted and killed
128 Jews in Bucharest.
1803(16th of Nisan, 5563): Second day of Pesach; first day of
the Omer
1805: Birthdate of London native Mathilda Simmonds, the wife of Jacob
Daniel Levy with whom she had eleven
children, the first three of whom were born in London and the last eight of
which were born in New York City.
1806(20th of Nisan, 5566): Sixth Day of Pesach observed that
Lewis and Clark wrote about the violent winds they encountered at Dalton Point,
OR.
1809(22nd of Nisan, 5569) Shabbat shel Pesach; Yizkor observed
on the same day that “Austrian troops invaded Bavaria, launching a campaign to
liberate neighboring countries from Napoleon's rule, marking the beginning of
the War of German Liberation” which would ultimately threaten the liberalizing impact
of the French Revolution on European Jewry
1811(14th of Nisan, 5571): Ta’anit Bechorot; erev Pesach
1817(22nd of Nisan, 5577): 8th day of Pesach observed on the
same day that Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Monroe congratulating him on
ascending the Presidency of the United States three days earlier.
1819: A traveler who stopped in Joannina (Yanina), Greece acknowledged
the following:
"In going out of the village this morning, soon after the sun rose, we
passed a Turk, richly dressed, sitting upon a carpet, under a fig tree just
budding…I know of no European habit of life so picturesque, as the Eastern one.
Greek, Turk, and Hebrew enjoy nearly an equal protection."
1824: In Bayreuth, Germany, Samson Schimschon Wilmersdoerffer and Julie
(Jale) Ida Wilmersdoerffer gave birth to Bavarian banker to Max Mayer Wilmersdoerffer the husband of
Karoline Wilmersdörffer (Oberndörffer) and father of Ida Selz; Julius Sigmund
Wilmersdoerffer and Doctor of Philosophy Theodor Wilmersdoerffer who “was an
authority on numismatics, as well as a patron of art and of many charitable
institutions” and for two years, the president of the Jewish congregation in
Munich. was an authority on numismatics, as well as a patron of art and of
many charitable institutions.
https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14932-wilmersdorffer-max-ritter-von
1826(1st of Nisan, 5586): Shabbat HaChodesh; Rosh Chodesh
Nisan
1830(15th of Nisan, 5590): Pesach
1833(19th of Nisan, 5593): Fifth Day of Pesach
1835: John Singleton Copley, the 1st Baron Lyndhurst who in
1852, as a member of the House of Lords favored a bill design to remove the
disabilities imposed upon persons refusing to take the “oaths of abjuration”
which kept Jews from serving in the House of Commons completed his second term
as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
1836(21st of Nisan, 5596): Seventh Day of Pesach
1841: In London, Rachel and Joseph Rosinbloom, both of whom were natives
of Poland, gave birth to Harriet Rosinbloom.
1842: Lean and Judah Bensadon gave birth toe Isabella Bensadon who died
in Walterboro, SC before reaching her second birthday.
1843(8th of Nisan, 5603): Parashat Metzora; Shabbat HaGadol
celebrated as The Great Comet continues, which is now only visible in the
Southern Hemisphere, continues to move away from the earth.
1844(19th of Nisan, 5604): Fifth Day of Pesach observed for
the last time during the Presidency of John Tyler.
1845(1st of Nisan, 5605): Rosh Chodesh
1845: Temple Emanu-El, “whose name is Hebrew for ‘God is with us’” which
“grew out of a culture society started by poor German merchants who found
themselves increasingly interested in the nascent Reform Movement, the liberal
form of Judaism” “was officially created today.
1845(1st of Nisan, 5605): Solomon Rosenthal, the younger son
of Naftali Rosenthal -one of the most important leaders of Hungarian Jewry- who
was “active in Haskalah and Jewish culture life” passed away today in
Pest.
1847(22nd of Nisan, 5607): Eighth Day of Pesach
1847: Birthdate of Karl Wittegenstein, the Austrian steel tycoon who was
often compared to his friend Andrew Carnegie.
Like so many 18th European Jews, Wittegenstein
converted. For him Vienna was apparently
well worth a Mass.
1848(5th of Nisan, 5608) Parashat Tazria
1851: Abraham
Abrahamsohn arrived in San Francisco. A
baker by trade, Abrahamsohn had left his wife and children in Pomerania
(Germany) to seek his fortune in America.
On his first day in San Francisco, he “set up a canvas-roofed store” on
the Long Wharf” where he made $85 in one day.
After several exciting years, Abrahamson returned to Germany where he
published Interesting Accounts of the Travels of Abraham Abrahamsohn to
America and Especially to the Gold Mines of California and Australia in
1856.
1853: One day after he
had passed away, 9-month-old John Hart, the “infant son of Aaron Hart” and
Rebecca Crawcour was buried today in the Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.
1855(20th of
Nisan, 5615): Sixth Day of Music
1855: Birthdate of
Amsterdam native William Philip de Jongh who settled in London some time before
his death three months before his twentieth birthday.
1856: Birthdate of New
York native, composer and theatrical manger Rudolph Aaronson.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1811-aronson-rudolph27
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/02/06/106359373.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1857(14th of
Nisan, 5617): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach
1857: Birthdate of
Albany native Henry Emanuel Stern , “a senior member of the law firm of Stern
and Hirschfeld” and a “former City Court judge.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/09/26/96749391.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1857: In New York City,
Rabbi Simon Brenner and Caroline Alexander gave birth to Jacob Brenner, the
product of the Brooklyn public schools and Chairman of the Executive Committee
of the Kings County Republican Committee who served as a city magistrate in New
York City, Commissioner of Jurors of Kings County, NY and President of Temple
Beth-Elhoim and was the husband of Louise Blumeanu, “the daughter of real
estate developer of Levi Blumenau.
1859: In San Francisco,
Regina Wasserman and August Wasserman, the native of Munich and graduate of the
University of Munich who came to San Francisco in 1849 where he founded the
Alaska Commercial Company gave birth to New York Stock Exchange member Edward
Wasserman the founder of Wasserman Brothers York stockbroker, husband of Emma
Seligman, with whom he had three children – Jesse, Renee and Edward Jr. – and
son-in-law of financier Jesse Seligman.
1860(16th of
Nisan, 5620): Second Day of Pesach; First Day of the Omer
1860: Count István
Széchenyi who organized the National Casino, which when it reached minority
nationalities including Jews which “contributed to national divisions in
Hungary’s ethnically diverse population” passed away today.
1863(19th of
Nisan, 5623): 5th Day of Pesach
1863: Birthdate of
Jules Huret who authored Sarah Bernhardt, a biography
of the famous Jewish performer
https://archive.org/details/sarahbernhardt00rapegoog
1864: During the Civil
War Captain Charles E. Etting, the Philadelphia born son of Edward J. Etting
and Philippa Minis of Savanah was ordered to reported to Captain James Biddle,
the commander of Camp Cadwalader.
1865(12th of
Nisan, 5625): Shabbat HaGadol
1865: Professor Hermann
G. Ollendorff, the Polish born the “son of Gerschon Gerschel Ollendorff and
Minna Ollendorff, the husband of Dorothea Ollendorff; Mathilda Ollendorff and
Margaret Ollendorff, the father of Mina Casevitz; Gustave Ollendorff; Paul
Ollendorff; Bertha Victoria Ollendorff and Herrmann Ollendorff passed away
today in Paris
1867: Rabbi Joseph
Perles, the Munich born on of Ethelka and Rabbi Baruch Asher Perles and his
wife Rosalie Perles gave birth to Dr. Max Perles.
1868(16th of
Nisan, 5628): Second Day of Pesach3
1868: Birthdate of Paul
Bornstein, the native of Berlin where he earned his Ph.D. and published and
edited numerous works, the most important of which “was an encyclopedic review
of achievements in every sphere of activity and thought in Germany during the
nineteenth century.”
1869: Jacob Bibo, an
orphan who was the brother of Isaac R. Bibo and who had been working for a
pawnbroker in the Bowery after leaving the Hebrew Orphan Asylum “went out on
the Bowery to meet some other boys of his own aged” tonight “and has never been
seen or heard of by any of his friends or relatives since.”
1871: In Buffalo, NY,
Samuel and Marie Weil Desbecker gave birth to Louis Eugene Desbecker
1872: In Hungary,
Edward and Johanna (Neulander) Roth gave birth to NYU trained physician Henry
Roth, the husband of Rebecca Low who was the consulting physician at Rockaway
Beach Hospitial and clinical professor of surgery at Fordham University Medical
School who was “author of numerous articles on surgical subjects” and a member
of Temple Rodoph Sholom.
1873: Sir Julius Vogel begins serving his first term as Prime
Minister of New Zealand. Vogel was the
first practicing Jew to hold this position.
1873: In Minsk, Gute
Lubalin and Mayer David Zvirin gave birth to NYU Law School graduate and
journalist Nathan Zvirin the husband of Ida Levine and starting in 1921 a
practicing attorney who had previously worked as a writer for the Forward,
assistant city editor of the Jewish Daily News and editor of the Bronx-Harlem
Press while serving as a vice president of the Jewish National Workers Alliance
of America and vice president of the National Advisory Council of HIAS.
1874(21st of
Nisan, 5634): Seventh Day of Pesach observed on the birthdate of Polish General
Stanisław Taczak who “was imprisoned in the Oflag VII-A Murnau POW camp in
Germany after the Nazi invasion in September of 1939/
1875: In Syracuse, NY,
Solomon Silverstein and Esther Shevelson gave birth to Albert Silverstein the
Yale graduate, “the assistant professor Orthopedic Surgery at the Denver and
Gross College of Medicine” who served in the medical department of the United
States Army…during the Spanish-American War and the Filipino Insurrection.”
1876(14th of
Nissan, 5636): “Passover: The Jewish
Feast of Unleavened Bread” published today stated that “this evening will be
marked by the peculiar ceremonies incident to the Jewish festival of
"Pesach" or Passover. This festival, which is also known as the
"feast of unleavened bread," continues for eight days, and, with the
exception of the New-Year feast and the Day of Atonement, is more generally
observed than any of the very numerous festal days in the Hebraic calendar.”
1876: In Amsterdam, Karel
Abraham Wertheim and Henriette van Heikelom gave birth to Gustav Abraham
Wertheim van Heukelom
1876: Birthdate of Belorussia
born Yiddish “writer, poet and editor Avrom Reyzen , the veteran of the Russian
Imperial War and brother of Zalman Reyzen who used the pen name Abraham
Reisen and who came to the United States in 1911
https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article/1133
1877: Two days after
she had passed away, 84-year-old Katherine Van Noorden, the wife of Moses
Ezekiel Van Noorden with whom she had had ten children was buried today at the
“Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1879(15th of
Nisan, 5639): Pesach1879(15th of Nisan, 5639): In New York, Rabbi Frederick De
Sola Mendes delivered the sermon at Shaarai Tefilla, Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs
delivered the sermon at B’nai Jeshurun and Rabbi H.P. Mendes delivered the
sermon at Shearith Israel.
1880(27th of
Nisan, 5640): Eight days before his 35th birthday, Solomon Brachman
passed away today after which he was buried at the Hills of Eternity of
Memorial Park in Colma, CA.
1880: Birthdate of
Minsk native Leopold Dubov, “the founder and first executive director of the
Jewish Braille Institute of America who was blind since the age of six and
raised on son, Mark, with his wife Regina.
1884: The Turkish
government issed a proclamation today “forbidding the immigration of Jews of
any nationality, except for pilgrims who were restricted to a stay of thirty
days.”
1884: In New York,
German native Marks Arnheim and Fannie Arnheim gave birth to Minnie Z. Arnheim.
1885: In New Haven, CT,
Helen Bretzfelder and Isaac L. Kleiner gave birth to Isaac Simon the Yale
educated biochemist and husband of Alma Kempner who was a pioneer in the field
of insulin.
1887(14th of
Nisan, 5647): Ta’anit Bechorot; erev Pesach
1887(14th of Nisan,
5647): Rabbi Gustav Gottheill led the well-attended Passover eve services at
Temple Emanu-El in New York City.
1887: Prince Ferdinand
of Bulgaria was “among the mourners at Lucien Hirsch’s funeral” which was held
today.
1887: Birthdate of
Walter Supper, the native of Hamm who refused to divorce his Jewish his wife
which ended his successful career as a screenwriter,
1887(14th of Nisan,
5647): “The Feast of the Passover” published today stated that “the celebration
of Pesach, or the Passover, will begin at sunset this evening. The feature of the celebration is the
substitution of the matzoth or unleavened cakes for bread…”
1888: The tenth annual
meeting of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum Society of Brooklyn was held today
1888: As of today,
there were 57 boys and 20 girls living at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in Brooklyn.
1890: Among the victims
of a riot by 8,000 unemployed workers in Vienna were the several shops owned by
Jews which were plundered by the mob.
1890:
Twenty-eight-year-old Julius Rosenwald, the Springfield, IL born son of Samuel
and Augusta Rosenwald, the future president of clothing manufacturers Rosenwald
and Weil and Vice President and Treasurer of Sears, Roebuck and Company married
Augusta Nusbaum today in Chicago.
1891: In Australia, Sir
John Monash, who would lead the Aussies during World War I, married Hannah
Victoria Moss. Their only child, Bertha, would be born 2 years later in 1893.
1891: John Duncan is
the architect for the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society’s building now being
built by Lynd Brothers. The new building will be 66 feet wide and 125 feet and
will enable the society to double its capacity from 400 t0 800 orphans. The $90,000 cost will be covered by raised by
board members and prominent supports including Philip J. Joachimsen, the
founder of the society and Moses Lauterbach, Chairman of the Advisory Board.
1891: U.S.N. Lt.
Jonathan M. Emanuel, the native of England and current resident of Philadelphia
retired today having served at sea for 15 years and 3 months.
1891: It was reported
today that the self-inflicted gunshot wounds have proven to be fatal in the
case of Siegfried Lewisohn, 28-year-old German Jewish cheese importer who fired
two bullets into his left breast after having grown despondent over the death
of his wife.
1892: In the
“Persecuted Jew” published today, a writer using the nom de plume “American
Girl” expresses her belief that we can do more for the Jews whom she describes
as persecuted outcast than answer “their call for bread” and calls upon the
press to help right the wrongs done against these people.
1892: In Leopoldstadt,
Vienna, Samuel Neutra, the “proprietor of a metal foundry” and Elizabeth
“Betty” Glaser Neutra gave birth to “Austrian-American architect Richard Joseph
Neutra.
http://www.transatlanticperspectives.org/entry.php?rec=28
1892: During today’s
lecture on Jerusalem and the Holy land, John L. Stoddard displayed a large,
rare photographic collection that included views of Jaffa and Jerusalem not
seen by most Americans.
1892: Birthdate of
Austrian native Michael Blaustein who moved to London sometime before his death
in 1918.
1893(22nd of Nisan,
5653): 8th day of Pesach
1893: Birthdate of Ft.
Wayne, Indiana native Samuel James Pearlman the graduate of the University of
Chicago and Rush Medical College, the ear, nose and throat specialists who
practiced in Chicago after serving in the Army during WW I both a Camp Grant and
the U.S.A. base hospital at Sarenay, France.
1893: Karl Luger, a
deputy in the Austrian parliament addressed an anti-Semitic rally in Vienna
tonight “at which the Jews were violently denounced.”
1893: Cardinal Herbert
Alfred Vaughn was appointed Archbishop of Westminster. According to Lawrence
Jeffrey Epstein, once when Vaughn was having lunch with Dr, Hermann Adler, the
Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, he asked "Now, Dr. Adler, when may I
have the pleasure of helping you to some ham?" The rabbi responded: "At
Your Eminence's wedding".
1895: Birthdate of
Barney Gorodetsky who gained fame as comedian Bert Gordon known as “the Mad
Russian.”
1895: “A package of
clothing addressed to the United Hebrew Charities” was sold for $23 at today
unclaimed parcels auction held by the American Express. It was the highest price paid for any of the
unclaimed items.
1895 (14th of Nisan,
5655): “The Feast of the Passover” published today describes the current status
of the observance of Pesach. “The
celebration of Pesach…will be begun by the Jewish people throughout the world
this evening…Those of the Jewish community who still cling to the orthodox
observances of the Hebraic ritual continue the celebration of the festival for
eight day, the first two and last two days of that period being observed as
strict holy days. Those who have
accepted the modern or reform ritual celebrate only the first and the last day
of the festival.”
1896: Lewis May,
President of Temple Emanu El has sent “a communication” to the Union Veteran
Hebrew Association offering the use of the city’s synagogues for memorial
services. Among those planning for the
Memorial Day celebration are Isaac Eckstein, Isaac J. Siskin and Otto Lassner.
1896: A committee of
the New York State Board of Charities that has been investigating the Ladies’
Deborah Nursery and Child Protectory submitted its report this afternoon.
1896: “Jews In Our
Wars” published today provided a detailed review of The American Jew As A
Patriot, Soldier and Citizen, a book written to counter the claims of
anti-Semites had shirked their role as soldiers in the United States.
1896: “Scenes in the
Orient” published a review of A Cruise Under the Crescent a travel book
that includes descriptions of visits to Jerusalem, by Charles Warren Stoddard
in which the author “tells of that vexation all travelers feel as the
authenticity of the shrines in Palestine”
1897(6th of Nisan, 5657):
Eighty-two-year-old Hungarian rabbi and Talmudic scholar Samuel Low Brill
passed away.
1897(6th of
Nisan, 5657): Annie Aaronheim passed away after which she was interred in the
Plashet Jewish Cemetery/
1897: Birthdate of
Zhovka native Sir Hersh Lauterpacht, “a member of the United Nations'
International Law Commission from 1952 to 1954 and a Judge of the International
Court of Justice from 1955 to 1960.”
1897: Karl Lueger, the
anti-Semitic politician, began his services as Mayor of Vienna. Historians do
not agree as to the depth of Lueger’s anti-Semitism. Some, including Amos Elon contend it was more
of a political ruse designed to garner votes and power.
1897: Birthdate of Joseph
Swerling, the native of Berdichev who grew up on the Lower East Side and gained
fame as Jo Swerling, a leading lyricist and writer known for such epic films as
“Pride of the Yankees,” “Lifeboat” and “Guys and Dolls” who was “the husband of Florence Mason, and father of father of Peter Swerling, the world's leading
radar theoretician of the second half of the 20th century, and Jo Swerling Jr.,
producer of such television series as Alias Smith and Jones, The Rockford
Files, Baretta, The Greatest American Hero, The A-Team, and Profit.”
1897: In an article describing the Jewish observance of the Blessing of
the New Sun, the New York Times reports that synagogue records “show that the
new sun service has been conducted by orthodox Hebrews in this country at
intervals of twenty-eight years for 180 years.”
1898(16th of Nisan, 5658): Second Day of Pesach
1898: Birthdate of E Y
"Yip" Harburg. Born Isidore Hochberg, to Orthodox Jewish
parents on New York's lower east side, Harburg appears to have enjoyed a
reasonably happy childhood with his parents exposing to him art, literature and
the Yiddish theatre. After trying his hand at everything from journalism
to selling appliances, Hochberg began a successful career as a lyricist during
the depths of the Great Depression. His first financial and artistic
angel was Ira Gershwin. Harburg wrote the words to the Depression hit
"Brother Can You Spare A Dime." While you may not know his
name, anybody who has seen the Wizard of Oz, has heard several Harburg
hits. Harburg's career disintegrated during the Red Scare of the
1950's. He died in an automobile accident in 1961.
1899: “The Young Folks’ League of the Hebrew Infant Asylum” is scheduled
to “give its fourth annual amateur performance” this “evening at the Lexington
Opera House.”
1899: The approximately 10,000 members of various trade unions who were
taking part in the Socialist and Organized Labor Day Parade paused at Greene
Street and Washington Place, and stood in front of the ruins of the Asch
Building where 145 people many of them young Jews lost their lives in the
recent Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
1899: A review published today of The Bible and Its Transmission
by Dr. W.A. Coplinger which is an historical and bibliographical view of the
Hebrew and Greek texts, notes that it contains illustrations from the first
printed portion of the Hebrew Bible which was completed in 1447 in Bologna
1899: Benjamin Weinstein and official of the Hebrew Trades Union was
among the speakers who addressed those participating in the Socialist Labor Day
Parade.
1900: Birthdate of Gavriel Mullokandov, the native of Samarkand who was
regarded by some “as the greatest Bukharian Jewish singer and musician.”
1901(19th of Nisan. 5661): Fifth Day of Pesach
1901: As Harriman and Hill fought for control of the Union Pacific, the Great Northern, the Great
Northern and Burlington Railroad, following yesterday’s contentious meeting
Schiff, Harriman and Hill, Jacob Schiff wrote a letter to his long-time friend
James Hill expressing his desire to continue their friendship regardless of the
outcome of the business deals relating to control of a major block of the
American railway system.
1901: In Sommerville, TN, Louis and Hattie Lipsky gave birth to Dr.
Merrill David Lipsky, the surgeon and member of the NYU faculty who was married
to Judith Doniger.
1901(19th of Nisan, 5661): Forty-nine-year-old I.H. Goldblatt
who resided at 154 Attorney Street passed away today
1902: In Pensacola, FL, Solomon and Nettie Kahn gave birth to Tulane alum
and retail grocer Lewis Kenneth Cahn, the husband of Eulalie Turer and the
father of Leah Kahn.
1902: Birthdate of Josef Alois Krips the Austrian conductor and violinist
who left his homeland during the Nazi period because his father’s Jewish would
have precluded him from pursuing his career (and might have led to an eventual
trip to a concentration camp.)
1903: Birthdate of Boston native and
Harvard trained geologist Arnold Hoffman, the mining engineer and President of
the Mesabi Iron Company whose brother David died during WW I and who was
married to the former Patricia McGreevy with whom he had a two children,
Michael and Jacqueline.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/08/26/90578021.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1903: “A Servian Coup D’Etat “published today described King Alexander’s
moves to undermine the Serbian Constitution which would lead to his
assassination in June of 1903 which would lead to the assassination in 1914
that started the flow of blood, including Jewish blood that did not stop until
the end of the Holocaust.
1904(23rd of Nisan, 5664): In Frankfort-on-Main, author Chaim
M. Horowitz passed away.
1905(3rd of Nisan, 5665): Parashat Tazria
1905(3rd of Nisan, 5665): Seventy-seven-year-old Philadelphian
Barnett Phillips, the son of London native Isaac Phillips and husband of Sarah
Moss who was a banker, member of the Philadelphia City Council and founder of
the American Jewish Historical Society passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1905/04/09/101324100.pdf
1906(11th of Nisan, 5666): Solomon Marks, the London born son
of “Elizabeth and George Joel Marks” and the husband of Benvenida “Welcome”
Marks passed away today in the United Kingdom.
1906: Ninety-three-year-old “American educator, diarist, slave owner,
outspoken supporter of the Confederacy and the values of the Old South, and
active member of the Jewish community in 19th-century Richmond, Virginia” Emma
Mordecai, the North Carolina born daughter Rebecca Myers Mordecai, the second
of wife of her father Jacob Mordecai passed away today in Brevard, NC after
which she was buried in the Hebrew Cemetery in Richmond, VA.
https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/the-civil-war-diary-of-emma-mordecai-2024/
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/mordecai-emma
1907: A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Federation of American
Zionist was held this evening in New York where the attendees discussed “the
finances of the Federation and the upcoming convention at Tannersville.
1908: Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
Among its Jewish graduates are Donna Dubinksy, Gabi Ashkenazi, Len Blavatnik,
Michael Bloomberg, Stephen Allen Schwarzman and Robert Kraft.
1908: Today, St. Lous Browns pitcher Barney Pelty,”known as the Yiddish
curver” became the first Jewish pitcher “to draw an opening day assignment” as
his Browns beat Cleveland.
1908: The Passover
Relief Association of Harlem distributed 2,000 pounds of Matzah, 300 pounds of
coffee and other items necessary to celebrate the upcoming holiday of Passover
to the needy east side Jews today.
1909: “A special
dispatch received” in St. Petersburg “from Pyatigorsk, a town in Ciscaucasia
said the that he Governor…has issued orders that Jews are to be denied
admission to the heal restorts in the Caucasus during the coming season” and
that “Jewish musicians are barred from playing in Government Orchestras.
1910: In New York City
Saul Henry Ganz, a native of Junction City, KS and Ruth Ganz gave birth to Paul
Henry Ganz.
1910: Large Jewish owned mercantile houses in Salonika announce 1% of all
cash takings will go toward the cost of new Turkish warships.
1911(10th of Nisan, 5671): Shabbat HaGadol; Parashat Tzav
1911: In St. Paul, MN, Russian immigrants Elias Calvin and Rose Herwitz
gave birth to Nobel Prize Winner Melvin Ellis Calvin.
http://www2.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/Melvin-Calvin-obit.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/10/us/melvin-calvin-dies-at-85-biochemist-won-nobel-prize.html
1911: In the Bronx, Morris Kaplan a candy store owner who worked as a
textile cutter and his wife gave birth to Judge Benjamin Kaplan, “who as an
Army officer helped craft the indictment of the Nazi war criminals who were
tried at Nuremberg, and who later became a Harvard law professor and served
nine years on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.” (As reported by Bruce
Weber)
1912(21st of Nisan, 5672) Seventh Day of Pesach
1912(21st of Nisan, 5672): Sixty-four-year-old Andrew Sachs,
the Baltimore born son of Helena and William Saks and founder of Saks Fifth
Avenue who was the husband of Jennie Rohr with who he had two sons William and
Horace who “sold a majority interest in Saks & Company to Gimbel Brothers,
Inc. for $8 million which included Saks & Company's $4.5 million flagship
store that was under construction” and a daughter Leila Saks Myer who survived
the sinking of the RMS Titanic but whose husband Edgar J. Meyer did not, passed
away today in New York City.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/04/09/100529290.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1912: A Congressman from Missouri introduced a bill today supported by
Jewish and other charitable organizations that would create “a special board of
inquiry to examine those aliens who have failed to pass the tests imposed by
immigration officials.
1913: Twenty-nine-old Rabbi Samuel Buchler, the Budapest born son of
Morris and Fanny (Reiner) Buchler and chaplain at Sing Sing Priso who served as
deputy attorney general for the State of New York who was disbarred after
having been charged with grand larceny for taking money from clients and then
not performing the promised services married Ida Frost today.
1913: Today, Dr. David Monash married Edith Mayer, the daughter of Ida
Mayer at her home at 3814 Grand Blvd.
1914: In the Bronx, William Popper, the Vienna born son of Johanna and
Herman Joseph Popper and his wife “Annie Popper” gave birth to Herman Popper.
1915(24th of Nisan, 5675): Sixty-five-year-old New York
William Gans who had been a partner with fellow attorney Samuel B. Hamburger
for 35 years and who was active in numerous Jewish charities and fraternal
organizations including the Maimonides Library of which he was President,
passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F10814F83F5C15738DDDA00894DC405B858DF1D3
1916: As of today, The Special
Million Dollar Fund of the American Jewish Relief Committee “is nearing the
$4,000,000 mark.”
1917(16th of Nisan,
5677): Second Day of Pesach as the United States gears up to fight in World War
I.
1917: Dr. Felix Adler delivered a
talk on “The National Crisis” today in which he expressed his “disagreement
with the pacifists and upheld the country’s right to enter the war” as long as
American did not lose “their horror of war and fought with a sense of shame
that the state of the world was such they had to fight.”
1917: “The Jewish League of
American Patriots announced that Samuel Untermyer, head of the league” will be
going to Washington, D.C. “to confer with the Secretary of War.”
1917: The Jewish League of
American Patriots “sent a request to the Park Department” in New York City,
“for the use of Seward Park and Jackson Park for drilling grounds.”
1917: “Ambassador Gerard spoke
for a few minutes” today “at a fair and concert at the Star Casino” which was
being held to “raise $5,000 for Jewish war sufferers at Warsaw” and “said he
had made arrangements before leaving Switzerland for continuation of the
transmission of funds to Jewish victims of the war in Poland.”
1917: Today, Herbert S. Goldstein
announced “his resignation as Associate Rabbi Congregation Kehilath Jesharun at
117 East Eighty-Fifth Street.
1917: Sir Mark Sykes wrote to the British Foreign Secretary, Lord
Balfour, “That the French were hostile to the notion of bringing the United
States into Palestine as a patron of Zionism.”
1917: Chaim Weizmann cabled Louis Brandeis, advising that "an
expression of opinion coming from yourself, and perhaps other gentlemen
connected with the Government in favor of a Jewish Palestine under a British
protectorate would greatly strengthen our hands."
1918: The Immigration Restriction League was instrumental in getting
Congress to consider a legislation that was designed to reduce the number of
immigrants coming from Southern Eastern Europe including the large number of
Russian and Romanian Jews whose co-religionists had been finding refuge in the
United States since the 1880’s.
1918: University of Cincinnati grad and HUC trained rabbi, Henry Joseph
Berkowtiz the Philadelphia born son of Clara Landman and Albert Berkowitz
married Claire Henle who in 1925 became the spiritual leader of Temple B’nai
Jehudah in Kansas City, MO.
1918: In Philadelphia, Clair Henle married University of Cincinnati
graduate and HUC ordained cleric Rabbi Henry Joseph Berkowitz , the
Philadelphia born son of Clara Landman and Albert Berkowitz who went from
serving as Assistant Rabbi for Temple Beth-El in Detroit to Leading Temple
B’nai Jerhuda in Kansas City, MO where he was also directed of the Y.M.H.A. and
the Hebrew Orphanage of Kansas City.
1918: During World War I, Charlie
Chaplin led a group of Hollywood stars in selling war bonds on the streets of
New York City’s financial district.
1919: According to a message received
in Copenhagen today from the Press Bureau, “the German national government will
not recognize the new Soviet Republic of Bavaria” whose leaders included Ernst
Toller.
1920(20th of Nisan, 5680):
The Sixth Day of Pesach
1920: After days of Arab rioting, Jews
in Jerusalem are able to observe a day of the holiday in peace.
1921: A dispatch today from Jerusalem
said, that following a conference between Winston Churchill, the Minister for
the Colonies and Nahun Sokolow, Chairman of the Zionist World Executive
Committee, it was announced that “the Zionist organization will support a
number of Jewish regiments in Palestine in order to relieve the British
administration of some of its financial obligations.”
1922(10th of Nisan, 5682):
Parashat Tzav
1922(10th of Nisan, 5682):
Seventy-one-year-old Fanny A. Amberg Hart, the daughter of Moses and Sophia
Neumann Amberg, the wife of Sidney A. Hart and the mother of Moses and Walter
Hart passed away today after which she was buried at the Woodmere Cemetery in
Detroit, Michigan.
1923(22nd of Nisan, 5683): 8th
day of Pesach observed for the last time during the Presidency of Warren
Harding who would die in office in August of 1923.
1923: “With the arrival in Jerusalem of
Professor Fodor of Halle University the first real step toward the organization
of the Hebrew University which the Zionists hope to make the crowning
institution of its kind in the East, has been taken.”
1924: The first meeting of new
Construction Fund Committee which is taking over the worked carried out by the
American Joint Distribution Committee is scheduled to take place in London
today.
1924: The London Times
correspondent reported from Jerusalem that “the work of the Jewish Palestine
Exploration Society in the ancient cemeteries to the east of Jerusalem has made
interesting progress during the past month” and that “the cleaning up of the
so-called tomb of Absalom and the tomb of St. James – which Jewish tradition
believes to be the leper house of King Azariah but which proves to be the
burial place of the Jewish priestly family of Khezer – has been completed and
various small adjacent rock tombs have been cleared of the rubbish accumulated
during the last 2,000 years.”
1924: “Sitting Pretty,” with music by
Jerome Kern, produced by Morris Gest and with Max Steiner Serving as Musical
Director opened today on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre.
1925(14th of Nisan, 5685):
Fast of the First Born; Erev Pesach
1925: In New York, Temple Emanu-El held
a Seder for its members “under the auspices of the Women’s Auxiliary of which
Mrs. Jacob Wertheim is President and Mrs. William Cowen is chairman 1926: “Mrs.
Abram I. Elkus, Chairman of the Women’s Division in the United Jewish Campaign
in New York to raise $500,000 of the city’s $6,000,000 quota fro relief and
rehabilitation of Jews in Eastern Europe announced” today “that Mrs. Alfred E.
Smith, the wife of the Governor and Mrs. James. J. Walker, wife of the Mayor,
would in association with Mrs. Jacob H. Schiff as honorary chairman of the
Women’s Division in” New York City.
1925: CCNY and Columbia educated
chemist, Dr. Harry Langman, the chief statistician of the Ocean Accident and
Guarantee Corporation and the New York born son of Eva Lifflander and Max
Langman married Rebecca Javitz today.
1926: On the north side of Chicago, Carl and Bessie Greenfield gave birth
to Fred Sheldon Greenfield who gained fame as comedian Shecky Greene.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/31/arts/television/shecky-greene-dead.html
1927: “Bishop Dunn Praises Work In Palestine” published today described
the views of “The Right Reverend John J. Dunn, Bishop Auxiliary of the Diocese
of New York who had just returned to the United States who “spoke with
enthusiasm of the improvements brought about” in Palestine “by the Zionists”
and said “it is impossible to say enough for the work done there” under the
leadership of Nathan Straus which will “within ten years” make “Palestine…one
of the most thriving sections of the world.
1928: In Manhattan, Anna Evelyn (née Gritz) and Harry Ebb the lyricist
best known for his work with composer John Kander which gave the world the
long-running Broadway musical “Cabaret.”
1929: The three-day diamond jubilee celebration of the Congregation of
Israel, led by Rabbi Harry W. Ettleson came to an end today (JTA)
1929: In Tel Aviv, Sir John Chancellor, the High Commissioner to
Palestine, presided over the opening of the fourth Palestine and Near East
exhibition.
1930: Mickey Cohen fought his first professional bout in Cleveland, Ohio
1930: During a visit to Palestine where he is gathering material for a
novel based on Jacob and Joseph, Nobel Prize winning author Thomas Mann
compared Zionism “in its ideals and purposes to the Romantic movement among the
Germans in the 19th century.”
Mann was especially impressed by the Jews of Tel Aviv who seemed “freer
and happier” than Jews living elsewhere.
“He believes that Tel Aviv has a bright future because of the
wide-awakeness and intellectuality of its people.”
1931(21st of Nisan, 5691): Seventh Day of Pesach
1931: Publication of “When Judge Cardozo Writes” by Felix Frankfurter, a
case of one future Jewish Supreme Court Justice writing about another future
Jewish Supreme Court Justice.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/when-judge-cardozo-writes
1932: It was reported today that Supreme Court Justice Alfred
Frankenthaler has “reserved decision on the application to have a receiver
appointed for the New York State asses of the New York United Hotels, Inc.
1932: In Frankenburg, Germany, Paula and Walter Jacobson gave birth
writer and painter Ruth Jacobse who survived the Holocaust by being hidden by
Christian families in the Netherlands after which she was reunited with her
parents who committed suicide and who came to the United States where she began
her career as a “textile designer and film projectionist.
https://www.lbi.org/collections/ruth-jacobsen/
https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/5/resources/20060
1933(12th of Nisan, 5693): Shabbat HaGadol
1933: Ludwig Kaas met Vice Chancellor Von Papen who was on his to offer a
Reichskonkordat to the Vatican met on the train to Rome
1933: The Nazi German Student Association “drafted it twelve ‘theses’
which attacked ‘Jewish intellectualism’” and which claimed they were “a
response to a worldwide Jewish smear campaign against Germany.”
1934: “A threat to organize Jewish householders of New York into a
one-night-a-week boycott of gas, electric and telephone service unless public
utilities abandon alleged discrimination against Jews at their employment
office were made today by attorney Samuel Leibowitz.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/04/09/95040857.html?pageNumber=2
1935: Birthdate of Broadway lyricist Fred Ebb. Along with John Kinder he created numerous
musicals including Chicago and Cabaret.
1935: “Sanders of the River” produced by Alexander Korda and directed by Zoltán
Korda, who received “the first of his four nominations for Best Film at the
Venice Film Festival” for this effort was released today in the United Kingdom.
1935: Congressional legislation created the Works Progress
Administration, which developed millions of jobs for the unemployed. WPA
agencies placed 8.5 million Americans on the federal payroll, including
hundreds of Yiddish actors, writers, scene designers and theater directors
hired for the administration’s Federal Theatre Project. Among those directly
employed by the WPA was economist Solomon Adler.
1936(16th of Nisan, 5696): 2nd day of Pesach; 1st
day of the Omer
1936(16th of Nisan, 5696): Robert Bárány, who won the Noble Prize for Medicine in 1914, passed away.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/barany.html
1936: “A total world Jewish population of 16, 240,000 of whom 5,000,000
or 30 percent live in the Americas was reported to by the Jewish Scientific
Institute.”
1936: “A feature of Reich Bishop Ludwig Mueller’s Germanization of
Christ’s Sermon on the Mount is the elimination of all references to Jerusalem,
King Solomon, Pharisees and scribes, laws and prophets and the Ten Commandments
as made in the Gospel according to Mathew” because “these references were held
to be Jewish and therefore to be rejected.”
1936: It was reported today that effective April 12, Easter Sunday, “all
Jewish school children from 6 to 14 years of age must leave public schools.”
1936: For the second day in a row Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Buttenweiser
opened their home to the public where visitors paid a dollar to view their art
collection with the proceeds going to the fund being raised in the United
States to settle Jewish refugees from Europe in Palestine.
1936: “A Strange Guest,” the last film made by German Jewish actor Karl
Falkenberg was released in Germany today.
1937: Birthdate of Seymour
Hersh. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Hersh is a
Pulitzer Award winning reporter for the New York Times.
1937: The Palestine Post
reported from London that there was some concern among members of the House of
Commons over rumors of the possibility that the Royal (Peel) Commission on
Palestine might propose partition. Col. J.C. Wedgwood, MP, declared that the
proposed partition of Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state meant "the
scuttling of British responsibilities under the Mandate."
1938: In Laupheim, Germany as the Nazis tightened the economic noose
around the neck of the Jews, “the Jewish cattle traders were allocated a
separate part on the weekly cattle market
1938: It was reported today that Louis Blaustein, a leader in the oil
industry whose estate was valued at $1,500,884 left a half million dollars for
“charitable foundation to be known as the Louis and Henrietta Blaustein
Foundation” and left the rest of the estate to his wife Henrietta, a son Jacob
and two daughters, Ruth and Fanny.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/04/08/96812661.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1939(19th of Nisan, 5699): Shabbat Shel Pesach
1939(19th of Nisan, 5699): Erhard Mayer who had “been elected
chairman of the administrative board of the Zionist Organization” in New
Orleans in 1930 passed away today.
1939: In Philadelphia, PA, Margaret Doris Bruck and Albert H. Schart gave
birth to Trina Schart Hyman, artist and book illustrator who won the Caldecott
Medal in 1985.
1939: In Hungary, “the First Jewish Bill was tabled today about a month
after the annexation of Austria.”
1940: Soviet troops began the massacre of what would finally total
26,000 Polish officers in Katyn Forest near Smolensk, Russia. Many Jews were among
the victims.
1940: Just weeks after the end of the Winter War in which the Soviet
Union successfully attacked and defeated Finland in New York, the Consul
General of Finland and the President of Manischewitz attended a ceremony where
it was announced that the company was donating 5,000 pounds of unleavened bread
that is being shipped to the little country’s Jewish population just in time
for the observance of Passover.
1940: Today at 1:00 pm today FDR had lunch with New York Governor Herbert
H. Lehman at Hyde Park.
1941: According to some sources the Nazis established Kielce (Poland)
ghetto today. Others report that the ghetto was actually established on March
31, 1941. Regardless, there is no conflict that the ghetto
was liquidated in August, 1942 when 21,000 Jews were sent to
Treblinka. A remnant was shipped to Auschwitz in August of
1944. Kielce's real claim to fame is that on July 4, 1946, the
returning Jews were subjected to "an old-fashioned Nazi Pogrom"
complete with tales of the blood libel.
1942: Two year old Eldad Davidovics was deported from Brno to Terezin
today.
1942: The Crimean Peninsula was declared Juednfrei or Jew Free.
When the Nazis and their allies took the Crimea (part of the Soviet Union) in
October of 1941, the Jewish population numbered between fifty and sixty
thousand. The Einsatzgruppen Units (special squads assigned to murder
Jews) with the help of the local population took part in what was to date, the
worst "ethnic cleansing" of the war.
1942: Nora Kaye's performance as Hagar in the world
premiere of "Pillar of Fire" at the Ballet Theatre established her as
one of the world's prima ballerinas.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/apr/08/1942/nora-kaye
1943(3rd of Nisan, 5703): Itamar Ben-Avi the son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who revived Hebrew as a
modern language, passed away while working as journalist in New York City. (For
more see Itamar Ben-Avi by Frederick P. Miller)
1943(3rd of Nisan, 5703): The Nazis began executing Jews near Ternopol in
the Ukraine. By the time they finish on
the following day, one thousand Jews will have been murdered. One thousand
Jews are executed near Ternopol, Ukraine.
1943: In Buffalo, NY, Helen Ternoff who was Jewish and her husband
Salvatore DiFiglia who was not gave birth to Michael Bennett DiFiglia who
gained fame as seven-time Tony Award winning choreographer Michael Bennett.
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/30/arts/from-friends-and-associates-a-tribute-to-michael-bennett.html
1944(15th of Nisan, 5704): Pesach
1944: The Jewish Agency telegraphed from Istanbul to Jerusalem that the
steamship Maritza carrying 244 Jewish refugees from Romania had arrived that
day in the Turkish port and that the passenger would be leaving in two days’
time by train for Palestine.
1945: At Buchenwald at noon Polish engineer Gwidon
Damazyn, an inmate since March 1941, and Russian prisoner Konstantin Ivanovich
Leonov sent the Morse code message prepared by leaders of the prisoners'
underground resistance.
1945: Hans von Dohnányi, who would be recognized as one of the Righteous
Among the Nations, was executed today at Sachsenhausen concentration camp for
his role in resistance to Hitler.
This included smuggling Jews out of Germany, seeing to it that their
funds were transferred to where they could access them and for his role in the
plot to kill Hitler.
1945: Betty Warner and Milton Sperling gave birth to their second child
Karen who was one of the granddaughters of Harry Warner.
1945: On the night before he was hung by the Nazis, along with General
Hans Oster and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris “tapped
out a coded message on the wall of his cell on the night before his execution,
in which he denied he was a traitor and said he acted out of duty to his
country.
1946: A revival production of “Hamlet,” produced by Michael Todd which
had begun on December 13, 1945, was performed for the last time on Broadway at
the Columbus Circle Theatre which was owned and operated by Todd.
1946: Golda Meir, a leader of the Jewish Agency received the following
telegram. “We are 1100 Jewish
refugees. We sailed from Spezia for
Palestine-our last hope. Police arrested
us on board. We won’t leave the
ship! We demand permission to continue
to Eretz-Israel Be warned: we will sink
with the ship if we are not allowed to continue to Palestine, because we cannot
be more desperate.”
1946: Margaret and Hans Rey (the creator of Curious George) became United
States Citizens. [Louise Borden has written a cute, fascinating tale about the
Rey’s entitled “The Journey That Saved Curious George”.
1947: Henry Ford, the creator of
the Model-T passed away. Ford may have
had his moments as an industrialist, but he proved to be a notorious
anti-Semite. Among other things, he
published and disseminated untold numbers of copies of the Protocols of the
Elders of Zion. Ford actually believed
this notorious fabrication. His later
apology was treated with various degrees of belief and disbelief. For several decades, there were many Jews who
would not by a Ford product.
1948: In New York, about 1,500 large concerns in the garment and needle
trades industries closed shop at 4 P.M. to allow employees to take part in”
“the special services of prayer and intercession for Palestine” being held in
temples and synagogues throughout the city.
1948: “Rabbi Irving Miller, chairman of the administrative council of the
Zionist Organization of America “denounced the arms embargo that forbids the
shipment of weapons to the Jewish people in Palestine” while “speaking at the
Congregation Sons of Israel at Woodmere, Long Island.
1948: As the Arabs fought to destroy the partition plan voted on by the
UN and annihilate the Jewish population Abdul Kader Husseini was killed while
working to block the convoys trying to end the illegal siege of Jerusalem.
1949: “Again” a popular song with music by Lionel Newman which had been
recorded by Mel Tormé reached the Billboard
magazine Best Seller chart today and lasted 15 weeks on the chart, peaking at
#11
1949: Mel Tormé recording of “Blue Moon” by Rogers and Hart reached the
Best Seller chart today where it lasted for five weeks.
1950(21st of Nisan, 5710): Seventh Day of Pesach and Shabbat
1950: In Tel Aviv, Australian Jack Harper won the singles title of
Israel’s International Open Tennis Tournament.
1950: After 380 performances the curtain came down on the original
Broadway production of “Miss Liberty” directed my Moss Hart , with music and
lyrics by Irving Berlin and choreographed by Jerome Robbins
1950:
As the condition of the Jews in Iraq worsened, today, "the Zionist
organization in Iraq call on all Iraqi Jews who wished to do so to register for
emigration” to Israel. The plight of the Jews of this ancient community had
become so desperate that within three weeks "47,000 Jews" would
present "themselves at registration centers in the main synagogues.
They did so despite the fact that they had to sign a declaration renouncing
their Iraqi citizenship forever and effectively surrendering most of their
property and goods.
1951(2nd
of Nisan, 5711): Sixty-eight-year-old Chicago native Harry Salinger, the Jenner
Medical College trained physician who pursued a career a banking which led him
to be Vice President of the First National Bank of Chicago who married Ciel
Gruneweald after the death of his first wife Rae Davis passed away today.
1952:
It was reported today that Hungarian born author and playwright Ferenc Molnar
had died intestate and that his third wife Lili Darvas Monar and his daughter
Martha were seeking to be recognized as the heirs to his estate.
1952: The Jerusalem Post
reported from The Hague that reparations talks were suspended after Germany
found only a $750m.justification for the joint Jewish-Israeli claim for
$1,000m. Later Germany expressed surprise at the Israeli claim that the talks
were suspended. The Israeli delegation reported that it had found the German
statement completely unsatisfactory and that it would report fully to the
Israeli government for consideration, review and decision.
1952: The Jerusalem Post
reported that The IDF graduated 600 cadets of all services, the largest number
ever trained to become officers
1953: Sixteen-year-old J. David Bleich walked outside of his father’s
synagogue in Lewiston, PA where he joined congregants in Birkat Hachmah,
Blessing the Sun.
1954: “By the Beautiful Sea,” with “Music by Arthur Schwartz; Book by
Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields; Lyrics by Dorothy Fields” opened on Broadway
at the Majestic Theatre.
1955(16th of Nisan, 5715): Second day of Pesach; first day of
the Omer
1955(16th of Nisan, 5715): Eighty-five-year-old Mathilde
Fanta, the Czech born daughter of Julie and Josef Kahn and the wife Emile
Fanta, the Doctor of Jurisprudence passed away today in Brooklyn, NY.
1956(27th of Nisan, 5716): Seventy-five-year-old “Jacob M.
Pincus board chairman of Pincus Brothers, Inc, the Philadelphia clothing
manufacturers” which has retail outlets in several cities including Pittsburgh
and Detroit passed away today at “his winter home in Miami Beach.”
1956(27th of Nisan, 5716): Sixty-seven-year-old Lithuanian
native Zee (Wolf) Gold who served as a rabbi for congregations in Chicago, San
Francisco and New York passed away today.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/05/zeev-wolf-gold.html
1957: Four years after opening on Broadway with the help of Anna Sakolow,
“Camino Rea”l opened in London today.
1957(7th
of Nisan, 5717): Eighty-eight-year-old NYU and Oskaloosa College (IA) alum
Rabbi Adolph Spiegel the Galicia born son of Mathias and Sarah Leah (Fassberg)
Spiegel and the husband of Anna Krebs whose
quarter of a century of as rabbi included serving as a chaplain during the
Spanish American War during which he “started the first Jewish Congregation in
Puerto Rico” passed away today.
1958(18th of Nisan, 5718): Fourth
Day of Pesach
1958(18th of Nisan, 5718(:
Seventy-six-year-old Cornell University trained drama critic and magazine
editor George Jean Nathan the Fort Wayne, IN born son of Ella Nirdlinger and
Charles Naret Nathan, the co-founder of The American Mercury and The
American Spectator who was the husband of Jule Haydon passed away today.
1959(29th of Adar II, 5719): Yom Kippur Katan
1959: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward gave birth to Elinor Teresa “Nell”
Newman who run’s “Newman’s Own Organics.”
1960: “Wake Me When It’s Over” directed and produced by Mervyn LeRoy and
co-starring Dick Shawn was released in the United States today.
1961(22nd of Nisan, 5721): Eighth Day of Pesach and Shabbat
1961: In Sheffield, UK, South African-born psychiatrist Professor Issy
Pilowsky and his wife Marl gave birth to Lyn Sara Pilowsky who followed in her
father’s footsteps and became a doctor of psychiatry.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/sep/20/guardianobituaries.health
1962: Governor Ralph M Paiewonsky of the Virgin Islands and son of Jewish
Lithuanian immigrants who had settled in the Danish West Indies of expressed
gratification today over the message President Kenney sent to Congress
recommending that the islands get the right to elect their own Governor.”
1962(4th of Nisan, 5722): Lwow native and University of
Lemberg trained doctor of jurisprudence Dr. Adolf Berger, the author of the
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law and lecturer on Roman Law at the
University Berlin who “came to the United States in WW II, joined the Ecole Libre
es Hautes Etude as a Professor of Roman Law” and joined the faculty of CCNY in
1922 where he served until his death ten years later passed away today.
https://www.abaa.org/book/63120617
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/04/09/82043779.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25776413
1963(14th of Nisan, 5723): Ta’anit Bechorot and Erev Pesach
1963(14th of Nisan, 5723): Rayle Schupper, the former head of
the Women’s Division of the American Jewish Committee who as “a member of its
foreign affairs department attended the founding meeting of the United Nations
in San Francisco in 1945” and “helped to establish the European Office of the
American Jewish Committee Paris” passed away today at her home on 61st
in Manhattan.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/04/09/90553559.html?pageNumber=32
1963: “Harry Weinberg, lead of the group that won control of the Fifth
Avenue Coach Lines in 1962as ousted as chairman of the board today by some of
his former associates.
1963: ABC broad cast “The Rifleman,” an improbable 30-minute western created by Arnold Laven, with music by Hershel
Burke Gilbert and produced by “Levy-Gardner-Laven
1964: “The Strangler” produced by Samuel Bischoff was released in the
United States today.
1965(6th of Nisan, 5725): Sixty-seven-year-old Manitoba native
and U. CA. trained attorney Henry Joseph Sapper, the social worker with the
YMHA and the Jewish Commission for Personal Service passed away today in
Oakland, CA.
https://oac.cdlib.org/search?style=oac4;titlesAZ=h;idT=UCb239063090
1966(18th of Nisan, 5726): Fourth Day of Pesach
1966(18th of Nisan, 5726): Attorney Jacob Gilbert, the husband
of the former Susan Brandeis who was his law partner with whom he had three
children – Louis, Alice and Frank -- and the son-in-law of Supreme Court
Justice Louis Brandeis and who along with his wife Susan Brandeis Gilbert was
deeply committed to the founding of Brandeis University passed away today.
1966: Al Davis became Commissioner of the American Football League today.
1966: At a time when theologians such as Richard Rubenstein were
questioning the role of God in a post-Holocaust world, Time magazine published
its famous “Death of God” issue today.
1967(27th of Adar II 5727): Parashat Tazria; Shabbat HaCodesh
1968(10th of Nisan, 5728): Sixty-nine-year-old Bialystok native Jacob
Perlman who came to the United States in 1912, earned all three of his college
degrees at the University of Wisconsin and went on to become a world class
economist while raising two children with “his wife, the former Helen Aronson”
passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/04/10/89131020.pdf
1968: In the aftermath of the riots that followed the assassination of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Larry Rosen, the owner of Smith’s Pharmacy in
Washington, D.C. returned to find his family-owned business gutted by looters.
1969(20th of Nisan, 5729): Fifth Day of Pesach
1969: The Montreal Expos Baseball team, which were owned by Charles
Bronfman from the team's formation in 1968 until 1990, beat the Mets at Shea
Stadium in the team’s first game.
1970: During “The War Of Attrition” while carrying out a bombing mission
that struck an “Egyptian military target west of the Suez Canal, the IAF
mistakenly hit a school at Bahr el-Baqar killing 46 school children and
injuring another fifty.
1970: “Entertaining Mr. Sloane,” a comedy filmed by cinematographer
Wolfgang Suschitzky was released in the United Kingdom today
1970: “Cry for Us All” directed by Albert Marre with music by Mitch Leigh
opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre.
1971(12th of Nisan, 5731): Eighty-eight-year-old Norman
Bentwich “a British barrister,” committed Zionist, who “was the
British-appointed attorney-general of Mandatory Palestine” passed away today.
1971: San Francisco Giants pitcher Steve Stone appeared in his first
major league baseball game.
1972(24th of Nisan, 5732): Parashat Shmini
1972(24th of Nisan, 5732): Eighty-three-year-old Benjamin
Sivitz (Binyamin ben Harav Moshe Shimon), the son of Rabbi Moses Simon Sivitz
and Maita Banke Sivitz ,the brother of Sam Sivitz and the father of Florence
and Sanford Sivitz passed away today in Pittsburgh after which he was buried at
the Shaare Torah Cemetery in Whitehall, PA.
1973: “No Hard Feelings,” Produced by Orin Lehman, Joseph Kipness and Lawrence Kasha, Directed by Abe Burrows and
for which Frank Goodman served as General Press Representative opened at the
Martin Beck Theatre where it apparently only ran for one night on Broadway
1974(16th of Nisan, 5734): Second Day of Pesach
1974(16th of Nisan, 5734): Eighty-five-year-old Columbian
trained hematologist Dr. Lester Unger “who head the Blood and Plasma Exchange
Bank” passed away today in New York.
1974: “Lost in the Stars,” directed by Daniel Mann and produced by Ely A.
Landau was released in the United States today.
1975(27th of Nisan, 5735): Yom HaShoah
1977:
The Jerusalem Post reported that Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin had resigned from his post and said that he would not lead the
Labor Party into the May elections.
1977: The Jerusalem
Post reported that Tel Aviv Maccabi won the European basketball championship
in a thrilling victory, 78-77, over Mobilgirgi of Varese, Italy.
1980(22nd of Nisan, 5740): 8th day of Pesach
1980(22nd of Nisan, 5740): Fifty year old Vanderbilt
University Phi Beta Kappa graduate Peter Farb, the linguist and author of such
books as Man’s Rise to Civilization and Word Play: What Happens
People Talk, the New York City born son of Solomon and Cecilia Farb and the husband of the former Oriole
Horch with whom he had two sons – Mark and Thomas – passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/04/09/111149566.pdf
1981: Rabbi J. David Bleich, a professor at Yeshiva University, climbed
to the roof a converted brownstone that doubled as a small synagogue on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan to lead the service Birkat Hachamah.
1981(4th of Nisan 5741): Eighty-four-year-old Duquoin, IL
native and Washington University trained attorney Milton Tucker, a veteran of
WW I and a director of the Jewish Federation St. Louis, MO passed way today.
1982(15th of Nisan, 5742): Pesach
1982: According to his notebook, Daniel
Shechtman, made his breakthrough discovery while studying a metal mix of
aluminum and manganese. Shechtman, a professor of materials science at Technion
went on to win the Noble Prize for Chemistry.
1984: At the Kane
Street Synagogue in Brooklyn, Rabbi Jonathan Ginsburg officiated at the wedding
of Legal Aid Yale trained attorney Laura Ellen Potter and Morton David Cahn 2d,
the New England Conservatory of Music grad turned “computer consultant.”
1984: CBS broadcast the
first episode of the miniseries “George Washington” co-starring Stephen Macht
as “General Benedict Arnold.”
1985(17th of
Nisan, 5745): Third Day of Pesach
1985: “Leader of the
Pack,” a musical with lyrics and music by Ellie Greenwich and co-starring Dinah
Manoff which New York Times reviewer called “an embarrassment” opened on
Broadway at the Ambassador Theatre.
1986(28th of
Adar II, 5746): Lithuanian born American Labor activist Pauline Newman who as a
child work at the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and “the first woman
general organizer of the International Ladies Garment Worker, who should not be
confused with the American jurist with same name, passed away today.
1986: The funeral for
Yiddish actor Pesach Burstein is scheduled to be held today at Riverside
Memorial Chapel.
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/08/obituaries/pesach-burnstein-yiddish-star-dies.html
1988: “18 Again!” a
comedy co-starring George Burns and Red Buttons and featuring Pauly Shore was
released today in the United States.
1989(3rd of
Nisan, 5749): Parashat Tazria
1989: After having been
diagnosed with liver cancer, Dahn
Ben-Amotz “held a farewell party
at the "Hamam" club in Jaffa, to which he invited 150 acquaintances”
including “Amos Keinan (a former rival), Amos Oz, Meir Shalev, Gila Almagor,
Yaakov Agmon, Shlomo Artzi, Yosef Lapid, Yehudit Ravitz and Nurit Galron” after
which “he made a trip to the US, to say goodbye to his children from his first
marriage.
1991: Michael Landon announced he has inoperable cancer of the pancreas.
1991: Jerome Apt was one of two astronauts who “made the first scheduled
EVA since Mission STS-61-B in November 1985.”
1991: “I Hate Hamlet” written by Paul Rudnick premiered at the Walter
Kerr Theatre today.
1993: Eli Ben-Menachem became Deputy Minister of Housing and
Construction.
1994: Pope John Paul II welcomed the Chief Rabbi of Rome
to the Vatican today as guest of honor at a concert to honor the memory of the
victims of the Holocaust
1994: “Leprechaun 2” a slasher film directed by Rodman Flender was
released in the United States today.
1995(8th of Nisan, 5755): Parashat Metzora
1995: A staged concert of “Anyone Can Whistle, a musical with a book by
Arthur Laurents and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim” “was held at Carnegie
Hall in New York City as a benefit for the Gay Men's Health Crisis that “was
recorded by Columbia Records, preserving for the first time musical passages
and numbers not included on the original Broadway cast recording.”
1996(19th of Nisan, 5756): Argentine film director León Klimovsky passed away. “A trained dentist,
born in Buenos Aires on October 16, 1906, his real passion was always the
cinema. He pioneered Argentine cultural movement known as cineclub and financed
the first movie theater to show art movies. He also founded Argentina's first
film club in 1929. After participating as scriptwriter and assistant director
of 1944's Se abre el abismo he filmed his first movie, an adaptation of Fyodor
Dostoyevsky's The Player. From this first phase, it can be also highlighted the
adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo and Ernesto Sabato's
The Tunnel. On the 1950s Klimovsky settled in Spain, where he becomes a
"professional" director. He went into spaghetti westerns and
so-called exploitation films, filming in Mexico, Italy and Egypt. Perhaps he is
best remembered for his contribution to Spain's horror film genre, beginning
with La noche de Walpurgis. León Klimovsky confessed to have always dreamt of
doing great vanguard movies but ended on filming commercial ones, but without
remorse, as doing cinema was a vocational mandate for him. On 1995 he won the
"Honor Award" of the Spanish Film Director Association. He died in
Madrid of a heart attack. He was brother to the Argentine mathematician and
philosopher Gregorio Klimovsky.”
1997: Tory politician Toby Henry Francis Jessel, the son of Winifred and
Commander Richard Frederick Jessel, D.S.O., a Royal Navy officer, the
great-grandson of Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted, and his great-great nephew
of the judge George Jessel completed his service as an MP for Twickenham.
2000: “Israel Plans a Test for Wagner” published today described plans
for an upcoming concert by the Israel Orchestra of Rishon Lezion which will
include Richard Wagner’s “Siegfried Idyll.”
2001(15th of Nisan, 5761): American Jews observe the first
Pesach under President George Bush.
2001: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish
authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “Spontaneous
Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958-1996” by Allen Ginsberg; edited by David Carter,
“Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland” by Jan
T. Gross and “After Progress: American Social Reform and European Socialism in
the Twentieth Century” by Norman Birnbaum.
2002: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon conveyed the goals to the Knesset as
being "to catch and arrest terrorists and, primarily, their dispatchers
and those who finance and support them; to confiscate weapons intended to be
used against Israeli citizens; to expose and destroy facilities and explosives,
laboratories, weapons production factories and secret installations.
2002(26th of Nisan, 5762): During Operation Defensive Shield “St.-Sgt. Matanya Robinson, 21, of
Kibbutz Tirat Zvi, and Sgt. Shmuel Weiss, 19, of Kiryat Arba were killed by
terrorist in Jenin
2002: Efraim "Effi” Eitam was appointed Minister without Portfolio
2002: “Just after the conclusion of Passover, United Jewish Communities, a
national group of 160 Jewish federations, announced a special Israel emergency
fund. The organization has already collected $100 million.
2003:
2003(6th of Nisan, 5763): Eighty-eight-year-old Franz Rosenthal, the
Sterling professor emeritus of Arabic at Yale, passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/nyregion/franz-rosenthal-88-interpreter-and-scholar.html
2004: Three days after he had passed away funeral services are scheduled
to be held for Abraham Altus, the husband of Lillian AltusZ”L and “esteemed
member” of The Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Center at the Boulevard Riverside
Chapels.
2005: “Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said that Israel should consider not
demolishing the evacuated buildings in the Gaza Strip, with the exception of
synagogues (due to fears of their potential desecration, which eventually did
occur), since it would be more costly and time consuming. This contrasted with
the original plan by the Prime Minister to demolish all vacated buildings.”
2005: The alphabetic ordering of leaders during the funeral of Pope John Paul
II resulted in Moshe Katsav sitting near Iranian President Mohammad Khatami
who, like Katsav, was born in the Iranian city of Yazd
2006: Observance of Shabbat Hagadol.
2006: Harvard grad and Marine Corps veteran Joel David Kaplan began
serving was White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy today.
2006: Haaretz reported that Algeria,
Israel and Morocco have agreed to join NATO counter-terrorism naval patrols in
the Mediterranean, the organization. The announcement was made in Rabat after
the NATO group’s first meeting in an Arab country.
2007: At The Jewish Museum
of Maryland an exhibition styled “The Other
Promised Land: Vacationing, Identity, and the Jewish - American Dream” closes.
This exhibition, the first of its kind
in the U.S., evokes the experiences and meanings in Jewish vacationing
from the 1880s to the present. The Other Promised Land highlights legendary
"Jewish" vacation destinations including Miami Beach, Atlantic
City, and the Catskills -- showing how vacations represented the excitement and
promise of America while shaping notions of Jewish and American
identities. A full-color, book-length catalog accompanies the exhibition.
2007: The
Sunday Washington Post book section featured a review of The Grand
Surprise:
The Journals of Leo Lerman written by Leo Lerman and edited by Stephen
Pascal and My Holocaust by Tova
Reich, “a shocking novel rips those who trivialize the Holocaust.”
2007: The New York Times reviewed books by Jewish authors and/or
of special interest to Jewish readers including “The Polish Woman” by Eva Meker
“a meticulous, raw study of the uneasy relationship between Catholic and Jewish
Poles. In New York in 1967, Karolina Staszek, a Polish immigrant, becomes
consumed with the suspicion that she is a Jew who had been placed with a
Catholic family during World War II. The Jewish family in question, the
Landaus, find the story seductive but improbable — until Karolina reveals a
battery of memories unlikely to be the invention of even the canniest con
artist. Told without artifice or irony, Mekler’s story of multigenerational
immigration owes more to coolly composed novels like Lore Segal’s “Her First
American” than to impressive acts of literary contortion like Nicole Krauss’s
“History of Love.” Despite its literary trappings, “The Polish Woman” is also a
straightforward mystery, littered with clues, red herrings and narrators who
always know less than the reader. When Karolina first confides in Philip
Landau, he suddenly recalls the warning of his parents, who escaped Poland:
“The Poles were the worst, they’d declared over and over, with the pain and
bitterness of personal betrayal, the worst.” When the two eventually travel to
Poland to prove Karolina’s claim, they are also chasing these brief flashes of
recognition, which tell the story of their shared past better than a tattered
birth certificate — and explain why they have both become phantoms in their own
lives. By the time the ending veers into John Grisham territory, Mekler has
already transcended plot in favor of uncompromising examination.”
2008(3rd of Nisan, 5768): Eighty-five-year-old Bible scholar
David Noel Freedman passed away. (As reported by Barry Jagoda)
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/archive/newsrel/general/04-08FreedmanObit.asp
2008(3rd of Nisan, 5768): Thirty-two-year-old Major Mark Rosenberg was today, in Baghdad when his vehicle was
struck by a makeshift bomb. (As reported by Maia Efrem)
Read more: http://www.forward.com/articles/135331/profiles-of-our-fallen/#ixzz1rOSSPxsW
2008: The Foreign Affairs Symposium at
Johns Hopkins University hosts a lecture by Nobel Prize-winning economist
Joseph E. Stiglitz co-author of “The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True
Cost of the Iraq Conflict”, at the university's Homewood Campus in
Baltimore, Md.
2008: Standing up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary
Times by Amy and David Goodman was published today.
2008: Today, schools from kindergarten
through 12th grade participated in a nationwide Home Front drill simulating a
surprise missile attack during which a warning siren will sound for a minute
and a half.
2008: Publication of the paperback
edition of A Tragic Legacy by Glenn Greenwald.
2008: “Rothko Kin Sue to
Transfer His Remains” published today describes the dispute over attempts to
move the body of Mark Rothko, the Jewish abstract expressionist.
For 38
years the body of the artist has rested in an unassuming cemetery on the North
Fork of Long Island, a quiet reminder of both the Abstract Expressionist legacy
and one of the harshest legal battles ever to rock the art world. Now, in a
potential addendum to the history books that threatens to resurrect bitter
memories of the long fight over Rothko’s estate, the artist’s daughter and son have petitioned a New York State judge to clear the way to have
their father’s remains disinterred and reburied in a Jewish cemetery in
Westchester County. The
request has met with resistance from the owner of the burial plot, the sister
of one of Rothko’s friends. It also comes as a disappointment to some residents
of East Marion, a hamlet of 800 nestled between Greenport and Orient Point. The potential loss of the Rothko burial place
“is a big deal,” said Nancy Poole, secretary-treasurer of the East Marion
Cemetery Association. “He’s our only notable person.” “There’s quite an artistic community out
here,” she said. “And when this first started, people who knew who he was were
quite alarmed that this was being contemplated.” The cemetery association’s
board voted nonetheless in March 2007 to allow the exhumation. (Ms. Poole cast
the sole dissenting vote.) To protect itself against potential community wrath,
board members decided to require Rothko’s daughter, Dr. Kate Rothko Prizel, to
obtain a court order permitting the removal of the remains. She and her
brother, Christopher Rothko, declined to comment on their legal petition. Arthur G. Pitts, a State Supreme Court justice
in Riverhead in Suffolk County, received the paperwork from all of the parties
in recent days and has three months to reach a decision. After Rothko’s suicide
on Feb. 25, 1970, he was buried in a plot belonging to the painter Theodoros
Stamos, a friend and one of three executors of his estate. The following year,
guardians acting on behalf of Rothko’s children filed a lawsuit against the
executors regarding the artist’s assets that would drag on for more than a
decade. Dr. Prizel and Dr. Rothko are
also seeking to exhume the body of their mother, Mary Alice, who died six
months after their father and was buried in Knollwood Cemetery and Mausoleum in
Cleveland. Their goal is to reinter her remains with Rothko’s in Sharon Gardens
in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, N.Y. “Petitioners
have long wished to reunite their parents in a final resting place consistent
with their parents’ wishes and Mark Rothko’s Jewish faith,” their petition
reads. Mark and Mary Alice Rothko were estranged and living apart when Rothko
died. To remove Rothko’s body from East
Marion, Dr. Prizel and Dr. Rothko need the approval of not only the cemetery
association but also of Georgianna Savas, a sister of Stamos and the executor
of his estate. Ms. Poole said that in October 2006 Dr. Prizel asked to have her
father’s remains moved to another part of the cemetery so that her parents
could be buried together but changed her mind soon afterward. Ms. Savas has
said that she would offer Dr. Prizel and Dr. Rothko an additional burial plot
among the Stamos holdings. According to Dr. Prizel’s and Dr. Rothko’s petition,
the family sought to have their mother buried next to their father in 1970 “but
this request was refused.” But neither Ms. Poole nor Ms. Savas said they had
any knowledge of a request for Mary Alice Rothko to be buried alongside her
husband at the time of her death. “Stamos would never have refused such an
offer,” Ms. Savas said. “They were the very, very best of friends. This was only
six months afterwards. The trial had not begun, and there was no animosity
anywhere.” There soon would be. Dr. Prizel was 19, and Dr. Rothko was 6 when
their father died. In 1971 their guardians sued the estate’s three executors:
Stamos; Morton Levine, an anthropology professor; and Bernard J. Reis, chief
accountant of the Marlborough Gallery in Manhattan. They accused them of
selling or consigning paintings to the Marlborough Gallery at less than market
value while collecting exorbitant commissions and dividing the proceeds. In
1975 the men were found guilty of negligence and conflict of interest, removed
as executors and fined, along with Marlborough, $9.2 million. As payment, Stamos signed over his Manhattan
home to the Rothko estate but was granted tenancy for life. He died in 1997 on
the Greek island of Lefkada. In a letter to Ms. Poole Ms. Savas recalls being
notified in November 2006 by Lee V. Eastman, a lawyer for Dr. Prizel, that the
Rothko children had decided to move their father’s remains and was asked if she
objected. “Feeling that I had no say in the matter, I agreed with their
decision, and he told me he would send me a letter for my signature,” Ms. Savas
wrote. She said she signed that letter. But a year later, when she received a
call telling her that another letter would need to be signed and notarized, Ms.
Savas reconsidered. “This is a very
traumatic ordeal for me, reliving all of Stamos’s feelings and the suffering he
went through with the suicide of his best friend,” she wrote. Although her
brother was shunned by the art world after the Rothko court case, Ms. Savas
says her stance was not motivated by hurt or retribution but rather by the
desire to preserve a piece of history. “Oh, absolutely not,” she said. “This is
the Rothko history saga.” Regardless of whether the court rules in favor of Dr.
Prizel and Dr. Rothko, she has two requests.
The first
is to put a historical marker at the East Marion site indicating that Rothko
was “buried there through the good graces and efforts of his best friend and
artist Stamos,” she wrote to Ms. Poole. “With
all the agony and suffering Stamos went through,” she continued, “with the
Rothko trial and his loss of everything including property, reputation,
financial losses and failing health, in the name of justice, this historical
marker will be a reminder of the Stamos-Rothko friendship that existed between
two major artists, both pioneers in the Abstract Expressionist movement.”
The second
request is the placement of a historical marker on land adjacent to the East
Marion plot, an empty grave where she wishes her brother had been buried. George
Morton, the president of the East Marion Cemetery Association, said that in
some ways he now regrets his decision to vote in favor of the exhumation. “I knew nothing, really, about him,” he said
of Rothko. “Since then, I’ve become more familiar. Now if we were to vote, I
know my hand would go up to say, ‘Let’s leave him here.’ ”
2009: In “A
Bread Line (Unleavened, Please) for Passover” published today, Alison Cowan
described the baking of matzo in 19th century New York as well as
the distribution of this Pesach necessity to the city’s Poor.
2009: Birkat Hachamah – Blessing The Sun (once every 28 years)
2009: At 6:22 a.m. this morning the sun will peak over the imposing
800-million-year-old mountains of Edom, bathing the Arava Valley below in
light, and triggering one of the rarest and least-known Jewish rituals: Birkat
Hahama, the Blessing of the Sun, is celebrated every 28 years in Jewish
communities around the world, across the spectrum of Jewish observance.
2009 (14th of Nissan 5769):
Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
2009(14th of Nissan, 5769: Fast of the First Born; In the
evening, first Seder
2010: David Remnick appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart where he
promoted “The Bridge,” his biography of Barak Obama.
2010: An exhibition entitled “Painting to Remember: The Destroyed
Synagogues of Germany by Alexander Dettmar” sponsored by the Leo Baeck
Institute is scheduled to open tonight.
2010: A Qassam rocket fired by Palestinian militants today hit an open area
along the coast of Ashkelon. No injuries or damage were reported. The rocket
struck Israel just hours after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged
Hamas political chief Khaled Meshal this week to stop militants in the Gaza
Strip from firing rockets against Israel.
2010: Paul Goldberger delivered the keynote address “Preservation: Where
Do We Go From Here?” at the Indiana State Preservation Conference.
2010: A month after previews had begun at the Lunt-Fontaine Theater, “The
Addams Family” with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and a book by Marshall
Brickman with Bebe Neuwirth as “Morticia” and Jackie Hoffman as “Grandma
Addams” officially opened tonight on Broadway.
2011: “The biggest sports event in Israel” is scheduled to take place
today with the running of the Tel Aviv Marathon.
2011: Esterika Gourmet Cuisine and Larry & Mindy are scheduled to celebrate
the end of winter and coming of spring with a culinary and musical Kabbalat
Shabbat in Jerusalem.
2011(14th of Nisan, 2011): Fast of the First Born
2011(14th of Nisan, 2011): Hedda Sterne, “an artist whose
association with the Abstract Expressionists became fixed forever when she
appeared prominently in a now-famous 1951 Life magazine photograph of the
movement’s leading lights” passed away today at the age of 100. (As reported by William Grimes)
2011(14th of Nisan, 2011): Sixty-six year old
Eddie Phillips, a
successful liquor industry entrepreneur and the son of classic advice columnist
Dear Abby, (aka Pauline Phillips), died at home in Minneapolis today. Phillips
was active as a philanthropist, expanding the Phillips Family Foundation of
Minnesota started by his grandfather and pouring money into community needs,
African-American heritage and medical research, including engineering a $10
million donation for research into Alzheimer’s at the Mayo Clinic after his
mother contracted the ailment.
http://tcbmag.com/news/articles/2011/mn-businessman-edward-phillips-dies-at-66
2011(4th of Nisan): On
the Jewish calendar, Yahrzeit of the 77 civilian doctors, nurses and other
medical workers who were murdered by Arab attackers as they drove to Hadassah
Hospital on Mt. Scopus in Jerusalem.
2011: Four additional rockets were fired at Ashkelon today and three were
intercepted by the Iron Dome defense system, the IDF announced, adding that it
had bombed the terror cell that had fired the rockets, identifying a direct
hit.
2011: Today marks the 100th birthday of French-language aphorist Emil Cioran,
and the celebrations in Paris include the publication of “Cioran: Mystical
Short Prayers,” a philosophical appreciation by Stéphane Barsacq from Les
Éditions du Seuil. A colloquium, “Cioran: Jubilatory Pessimism,” was held at
this year’s Paris Book Fair.
2011: In an air strike that was executed this afternoon, IAF jets bombed
smuggling tunnels in Rafah. Palestinian sources reported that a fire broke out
in the area, and postulate that the bomb hit a pipeline through which fuel was
being smuggled.
2012: The New York Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including ‘No Time Like the Present’ by Nadine Gordimer.
2012(16th of Nisan): Second Day of Pesach; first day of the
Omer
2013(28th of Nisan, 5773): Yom Hashoah
2013(28th of Nisan, 5773): Fifty-one-year-old Greg Kramer
passed away.
2013: The Yiddishspiel Theater is scheduled to hold a ceremony to mark 70
years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on the morning of Yom Hashoah, with
actors reading and telling about the days prior to the rebellion
2013: The Mediatheque Theater in Holon is scheduled toperform Gila
Almagor’s autobiographical play, “Summer of Aviya,” about a summer in the life
of child of survivors, during the early days of statehood.
2013: “50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus,” is
scheduled to be aired this evening. on HBO.
2013: Much of Israel stood still for two minutes this morning in memory
of the six million Jews who were killed during the Holocaust.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-stops-to-remember-6-million-killed-in-shoah/
2013: IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz led today’s March of the Living
ceremonies at Auschwitz-Birkenau, along with Tel Aviv’s Chief Rabbi Israel Meir
Lau, himself a child survivor of the camp.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/march-of-the-living-sets-out/
2014: “Israeli
superstar” is scheduled to deliver “an intimate piano performance at the Edmond
J. Safra Hall at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.
2014: “An 18-year-old
Jewish student in Gothenburg spoke out about anti-Semitic abuse in her high
school, reading aloud the slurs she’s received on social media, including “Go
gas yourselves, you Jew bastards,” and death threats from classmates. “I have
been in hell,” she tells a local TV station. “I feel bad, can’t sleep, and have
nightmares.” (As reported by Yair Rosenberg)
2014: “Zaytoun” is
scheduled to be shown at the JCC Rockland International Jewish Film Festival.
2014: “Ida” and
“Eagles” are scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2014: Holocaust Survivor, Cesare Frustaci whose appearance is
sponsored by the Thaler Holocaust Memorial Fund is scheduled to speak at
Kirkwood Community College and Mt. Mercy University in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2015: Holocaust
survivor Henry Greenbaum is scheduled to speak about his experiences at United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
2015(19th of
Nisan, 5775): Fifth Day of Pesach
2015(19th of
Nisan, 5775): Ninety-eight year old Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac the director of
Free French propaganda broadcast from Britain during WW II, passed away today.
2015: The Westchester
Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to open at the Jacob Burns Film Center.
2015: A small plane
erupted into flames before takeoff at the Ben Gurion International Airport today.
The plane was scheduled to take off for Russia at noon. The six passengers
aboard the aircraft escaped without injuries.
2015: “An IDF soldier
was stabbed in the neck and seriously injured near the West Bank settlement of
Shiloh today, and a second was stabbed and lightly injured.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-soldier-stabbed-in-west-bank-attacker-shot/
2016(10th of
Nisan): “According to the Book of Joshua the Israelites crossed the Jordan
River into the Promised Land today ending their 40 years of wandering in the
desert.”
2016(10th of
Nisan, 5776): Israelis are scheduled to observe the first ever Aliyah Day, “an official day of national celebration
in which Jewish immigration to Israel is honored and noteworthy immigrants are
recognized for their contributions to the nation
2016: In
Asheville, at Congregation Beth HaTephila,Rabbi David Ellenson, chancellor
emeritus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati,
Ohio, will reflect on “A Time to Pause and Remember, A Time to Celebrate and
Look Ahead — Reflections on a 125th Anniversary," at 7:30 p.m. today.
2016:
“Raise the Roof” and “Bulgarian Rhapsody” are scheduled to be shown at the
Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.
2016:
“Tamar Ettun and The Moving Company” are scheduled to perform in Bryant Park.
2016(29th
of Adar II, 5776): Seventy-nine-year-old Charles S. Hirsch the “September 11
Coroner” passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2016:
“Youth” is scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2017: The
first Charlotte Jewish Playwriting Contest is scheduled to take place at the
JCC in Charlotte, NC.
2017(12th
of Nisan, 5777): Shabbat Hagadol;
2018: The
reception marking the official opening of “City of Numinous Light” featuring
“the urban impressionism of Lawrence Kushner is scheduled to take place this
afternoon in the Isaacs Gallery at the Osher Marin JCC in San Rafael.
2018: In
Des Moines, IA, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host the “Community-wide
Holocaust Remembrance Program” this afternoon
2018: The New York Times published reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
Common Good by Robert B. Reich, Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of
Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump by Michael Isikoff
and David Corn, Never Remember: Searching for Stalin’s Gulags in Putin’s
Russia by Masha Gessen with photographs by Misha Friedman and The Female
Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer.
2019: The
Yeshiva University Museum and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research are
scheduled to present “literature scholar Ruth Wisse on a Yiddish-language tour
of Lost & Found, exploring the remarkable story of a pre-war family photo
album that was owned by a woman (Wisse’s aunt) who was deported from the Kovno
Ghetto in 1943.”
2019” The
Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center hosted screening of “Three Identical
Strangers.”
2019: The
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host “The Unwanted:
America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between.”
https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/maunwantedppgdc0419
2019: The
Skirball Center is scheduled to host the first session of Dr. Diane Sharon’s
“Other Gods Before Me: Ancient Near Eastern Myths and the Evolution of the God
of Israel.”
2019: The
Jerusalem Arts Festival is scheduled to come to a close this evening.
2019: The
London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to host “The Four Daughters of
Seder Night” with Rabbi Dr. Raphael Zarum.
2019: In
“How Gold’s Horseradish Came to Be a Passover Staple” published today Joan
Nathan provides background on the “chrain that on your best table cloth leaves
a stain.”
2019: The
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present an evening of conversation
with Robert Alter, author of The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary
and The Art of Bible Translation. https://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=4294996777 and https://press.princeton.edu/titles/13444.html
2019: As most Israelis
wait to go to the Polls and vote tomorrow, ballots have already been cast by
Israeli military personnel thanks to the 643 ballot boxes that were set up for
this purposed by the Central Elections Committee.
2020(14th of
Nisan, 5780): Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach; For more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2020(14th of
Nisan, 5780): Yahrzeit of Rabbi Chaim Heller
https://www.yu.edu/riets/about/mission-history/historic-roshei/chaim-heller
2020: The Chabad Jewish
Center of Petaluma, CA is scheduled to host “A Seder Warmup” on Zoom where
participants can “set up our Seders together, talk about the Passover story,
the four questions, and more.”
2020: Among the many
venues offering virtual Seders, Congregation Shir Hadash in Los Gatos, CA is
scheduled to host a “Don’t Be Alone Seder Night” during which Rabbi Melanie
Aron and Cantor Devorah Felder-Levy will lead a Zoom Seder using the Haggadah
“A Different Night.”
2020: Due to the
Pandemic, “Israelis will not be permitted to leave their houses this evening,
the night of the Passover Seder, from 6 p.m. until 7 a.m. the following day,
April 9/ (As reported by Mary Oster.)
2020(26th of
Nisan, 5781): Yom Hashoah
2021: In one of those
“calendar coincides,” at the same time that Yom Hashoah is being observed, “Two
of Germany’s top athletics officials are advocating a joint Berlin-Tel Aviv bid
to host the summer Olympics in 2036, so as to send “a strong signal of peace
and reconciliation” a full century after the infamous Nazi-hosted Olympic Games
in the German capital.”
2021: In Cedar Rapids,
IA, Temple Judah is scheduled to host a virtual Yom Hashoah Serving during
which attendees will a number of readings in remembrance of the Six Million and
will be encouraged to light a Yahrzeit Candle.
2021: JWA is scheduled
to host via Zoom a Book Club talking with “Judy Batalion, author of The
Light of Days, on women resistance fighters, in commemoration of Yom
Hashoah
2021: In Palm Beach
Gardens, FL, Temple Judea is scheduled to host a “morning Minyan lead by Abbie
Straus honoring Yom HaShoah, followed at noon by Keerryn Lehman, who will share
her grandmother’s stories “from life in the Kovno Ghetto and the five concentration
camps” to which the Germans shipped her.
2021: The Jewish
Heritage Museum is scheduled to co-sponsor Chhange's annual Yom HaShoah Program
“Rescuers during the Holocaust featuring Dr. Deborah Dwork, the founding
Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Crimes
Against Humanity and author of Saint and Liars.
2021:
Holocaust memorial events will begin with a two-minute siren that will sound
throughout Israel at 10 am.
2022: Kan KolHamusika is scheduled to broadcast a
Young Artist Concert with David Roth, violin; Shira Shushan, viola; Hadas
Atzmon, cello and Malachi Rozenbaum, piano.
2022: In Wellesley, MA, Temple Beth Elohim is
scheduled to present an evening with Hazzan Alberto Mizrahi, world-renowned
cantorial artist, who will share Jewish music from around the world.
2022: The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO),
under the direction of conductor Benjamin Zander, is scheduled to conclude its
43rd season with Gustav Mahler’s “Symphony No. 3,” the Jewish composer’s
expression of the essence of his relationship to nature.
2022: As Jews gather to begin the observance of
Shabbat, they mourn the loss of Tomer Morad 28, Eytam Magini 27 and Barak
Lufan, 35 who were murdered in Tel Aviv last night, the latest in a string of
terrorist attacks that have claimed eleven victims and pray for a “perfect
healing” for those wounded in this murderous attack.
2022: Eytan Meir Stibbe “an Israeli former fighter
pilot, businessman and commercial astronaut” “took off for the International
Space Station (ISS) from Cape Canaveral as a space tourist. Stibbe is the 583rd
space traveler in the world” making him “the second Israeli in space, after
Ilan Ramon, who died onboard Columbia while returning from space”
2022(7th of
Nisan, 5782): Barak Lufan, 35, the head coach on Israel’s national kayak team
and the married father of three children passed away today after having been
shot by a terrorist in Thursday’s night attack in Tel Aviv.
2023(17th of
Nisan, 5783): Shabbat Shel Pesach
2023: Bank Hapoalim is
scheduled to continuing sponsorship of free entrance to 170 museums, national
parks, and heritage sites in Israel, including ANU - Museum of the Jewish
People.
2023: At Temple Judea,
Rabbi Feivel Strauss is scheduled to lead a morning Torah study.
2023: The Asya Geisberg
Gallery and New Discretions is scheduled to present "Epic, Heroic,
Ordinary" for the last time.
2023: Israelis and all
decent people pray for the “perfect healing” of the mother who was wounded when
terrorists attacked the car in which she was riding – an attack that left her
two daughters dead.
2024: The 92nd
Street Y in New York is scheduled to host Arab-Israeli news anchor Lucy Aharish
and Avi Issacharoff, journalist and co-creator of Netflix’s Fauda, as they go
behind the headlines for an in-depth examination of the state of Israel
post-October 7.
2024: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by William Tyler on “Roman
Palestine.”
2024: In another
lecture in the online lecture series "The Character of Joseph", Bilha
Ben-Eliyahuwill is scheduled to read together with Assaf Ofekin the story
"The Mistress and the Peddler" after which “both will talk about the
tremendous power of the story that attracts and stirs the heart to this day.”
2024: “Picking up a
recent initiative begun in Israel, where volunteers at Hadassah Hospital Ein
Kerem and Hostages Square painted nails yellow as an act of solidarity designed
to raise international awareness to #EndTheSilence. Today marks the first day
of push by Hadassah that includes painting fingernails in a bright, bold
yellow; posting a photo of the painted nails on social media pages and
including the hashtags #EndtheSilence#Hadassah. https://www.hadassah.org/endthesilence
2024: The Stuart &
Suzanne Grant Center for the American Jewish Experience and Tulane's Jewish
Studies department are scheduled to host a screening of the Israeli film, Late Summer
Blues, “an Israeli feature film directed by Renen Schorr, written by Doron
Nesher and produced by Ilan de Vries.”
2024: As April 8th
begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day
185 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: JCC Greater
Boston is scheduled to present “The Trump Effect: Examining the Impact on the
Jewish Community.”
2025: YIVO is scheduled
to host a host a conversation with historian Elisheva Carlebach and Nora
Shashar author The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850, which
“sheds light on Jewish family life in the early modern era and on the Jewish
legal rulings of rabbis, which determined the fate of these marginalized agunot.”
2025: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to a conversation between Joe Klie and David Denby author
of Jews at the Pinnacle: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan and Mailer.
2025: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by David Herman on “Jewish Refugees
in Britain in the 30s and 40s.”
2025: As April 8th
begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of ant-Semitism sweeps across the
globe, the reality is that the remaining Hamas held hostages begin day 550 in
captivity (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so
we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
2026: The Newbury Town
Hall in Byfield MA, is scheduled to host journalist Juilie Masis, “the editor
and publisher of the Russian Boston Gazette” as she talks about “How My
Grandfather Stole a Shoe (And Survived the Holocaust in Ukraine)”
2026: In Louisan, Rabbi
Yossie Nemes is scheduled to host a Pesach holiday lunch for the 55+Club.
2026: The Tamid
Center’s Cantor Abbie Strauss is scheduled to lead a service of “Healing and
Wholeness” on-line and in person
2026(21st of
Nisan, 5786): Seventh Day of Pesach
2026: As April 8th begins in Israel, Iran is firing “ballistic missile salvos at central, southern Israel on this Jewish holiday” and based on published, but unconfirmed reports, the Gaza Board of Peace is demanding that Hamas finalize an agreement to demilitarize Gaza by the end of this week” which would mean Hamas has to “give up its weapons and disclose the locations of its tunnels.” (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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