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1027: The King of Georgia, Giorgi I, passed away.Jews were among the subjects of this monarch who ruled over a country situatedin the Caucuses, on the eastern edge of the Black Sea. Leonti Mroveli, an eleventh centurychronicler of Georgian history, offers various dates for the arrival of theJews including the period after the destruction of the First Temple or afterthe destruction of the Second Temple.Other sources claim that the first Jews arrived during the time ofAlexander the Great or during the Sixth Century of the Common Era when theywere fleeing persecution of the Byzantines.No matter which source you choose to believe, The Jews were there whenKing George died and remain there to this day.
1097: Peter I married Bertha of Aragon inHuesca, marking the transfer of the Aragonese capital from Jaca.
1157:Ramiro the Monk died. Petronilla succeeded him as queen regnant of Aragon.
1284:A year before he began his reign as King of France, Philip IV, who expelled theJews from his realm to avoid paying his debts began his reign as King ofNavarre and Count of Champagne.
1399:Today, Yom Tov Lipmann and many other Jews were thrown into prison at theinstigation of a converted Jew named Peter, who accused them of insultingChristianity in their works.
1419:Wenceslaus IV, the Emperor who failed to continue the Imperial protection ofthe Jews of Luxembourg which led to their expulsion in 1391 passed away today.
1458:Coronation of Ferdinand I of Naples, who provided a refuge for Jews expelledfrom Spain.
1486:Twenty men and five women were burned after being sentenced at an auto-de-fe inToledo on the charge of Judaizing. Among them were Dr. Alonso Cota and manyother notables of the town. They were marched through town being humiliatedwearing the dreadful san benito, with their hands tied to their neck behindtheir backs.
1648(28thof Av, 5408): Rabbi Joshua Höschel ben Joseph passed away in Cracow. Born at Vilnius in 1578, he studied both theKabbalah and the Talmud. He wrote MaginneShelomoh and She'elot u-Teshubot Pene Yehoshua'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_H%C3%B6schel_ben_Joseph
1532: John Frederick I began his reign as Elector of Saxony during which, fouryears later in August of 1536, in response to the teaching of Martin Luther“issued a mandate that prohibited Jews from inhabiting, engaging in businessin, or passing through his realm.”
1571:Today Spanish born Hebraist Casiodoro de Reina, the author of one of the firstbooks that opposed the Inquisition and the translator of a Spanish languagebible that was a source for the creators of the King James Bible “was granted citizenshipby Frankfurt.
1599(25thof Av, 5359): Isaiah Menahem Ben Isaac passed away today while serving in therabbinate in Cracow.
1664:Sixty-five-year-old Christian Hebrew language student and author JohannesBuxtorf the Younger who “employed Abraham Braunschweig to purchase Hebrew booksfor him and for many years corresponded with the scholarly Jacob Roman ofConstantinople regarding the acquisition of Hebrew manuscripts and rare printedworks” passed away today.
1648(28thof Av, 5408): Rabbi Joshua Höschel ben Joseph, a student of Rabbi Samuel benPhoebus of Cracow and Rabbi Joshua Falkwhose students included Rav Shabbatai HaKohen, passed away today.
1675:Ukrainian leader Bogdan Chemlnicki (with the blood of over 300,000 Jews on hishands) died.
1724:In London, Bavarian immigrants Yehezkel (Ezekiel) and Judah Hirsh gave birth totheir son Aaron Hart. The family changed their name from Hirsh to its Englishversion, Hart. Hart would go on tobecome a successful businessman and “is considered the father of CanadianJewry.”
1755:Today, one of the sons of Veitel Ephriam, the “Jeweler to the Prussian Court”who had successfully operated the Konigsberger mint, took charge of the mint inCleves.
1761:During a period of internecine communal conflict in the London JewishCommunity, today “after consultation with their colleagues of the Hambro'Shool, the wardens and elders (presumably with their Rabbi's concurrence)passed the following resolution:
‘Whereascertain persons unworthy of our countenance and protection have formedthemselves into a society calling themselves a congregation at Bucklers' Hall;we do hereby strictly charge our Priest, now and hereafter, that he does notdirectly or indirectly, or other in his name or with his knowledge orpermission, officiate either publicly or privately in the service of marriages,burials, circumcisions, or other acts of priesthood, for any persons whateverbelonging to the said society. And to prevent any persons from unwarily joiningwith that Society, we order that this resolution be read publicly two Sabbathssuccessively in our synagogues, that none may plead ignorance thereof. And wefurther order that a copy of this resolution be forthwith delivered to theMahamad of the Portuguese Synagogue, desiring their concurrence in supportingand maintaining with us the good order of our respective communities.’”
1772:In New York City, Joseph Abrahams and his wife gave birth to Abraham de LyonAbrahams who reported lived in Savannah, GA from 1791 to 1795 but who shouldnot be confused with Abraham de Lyon who settled in Savannah in 1733 when JamesOglethorpe was founding the colony of Georgia.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10207-lyon-abraham-de
1772:Israel Abbady was appointed Chazan in Barbados – a position he held until 1794when he was replaced by David Sarfaty De Pien
1776(1stof Elul, 5536): Rosh Chodesh Elul; for the first time the shofar is sounded inthe newly independent United States of America.
1799(15thof Av, 5559): Tu B’Av
1799:“The Prague Jew Pzřibram bought a house in the village of Hanichen (Hanychov)from Joseph Porsche but was ordered by Count of Clam-Gallasto sell it within ayear to a gentile.”
1799:In Amsterdam, Rachel Cornelia Bernard and Abraham Levy gave birth to futureHouston resident Lewis A. Levy, the husband of Mary A Levy whom he married atLondon in 1817.
1807:During the “Gunboat Wars” which helped lead to the “complete emancipation ofthe Danish Jews, the British began the bombardment of Copenhagen.
1807:Today, under the chairmanship of Samuel Marx, the Jewish community of Trierheld a celebration in honor of Napoleon.
1817(4thof Elul, 5577): Parashat Shoftim
1817(4thof Elul, 5577): Benjamin Mendez Seixas, the Newport, RI born son of IsaacMendez Seixas, who was a prominent merchant in Newport, Philadelphia, and NewYork, and was one of the founders of the New York Stock Exchange passed awaytoday.
1827:In Richmond, VA, Hayman Levy Seixas and Abigail Nunez Seixas gave birth to BenjaminHayman Seixas, the “husband of Isabella Seixas and father of Lewis DanielMendes Seixas; Rachel Seixas; Franklin Pierce Seixas; Jessica DavisOberndorfer; Isaac Cardozo Seixas; Henry Evan Seixas and Frederic BenjaminSeixas.
1834:In Amsterdam, Joseph Barend Stokvis, Jr., a Jewish physician and obstetricianand his wife gave birth to Barend Joseph Stokvis a physician and professor ofphysiology and pharmacology at the University of Amsterdam who was the husbandJulia Elisabeth Wertheim and a leader of the Dutch Jewish community.
1837(15thof Av, 5597): Tu B’Av
1837:Birthdate Mariane Dreyfus Baer, the wife of Marx Baer, the “dealer ingroceries, liquors and dry goods” with whom she had six children - Anna, Stella, Faie, Hattie, Leon and Maurice- and who was buried in the Shreveport’sHebrew Rest Cemetery.
1837:Birthdate of German native Joseph Cahn, the “husband of Miriam Cahn” and thefather of Bertram, Army, Stella and Morton Cahn.
1840:During the Damascus Affair, in a move supporting the Jewish prisoners, theBritish led European powers issued a stern warning to the Egyptian Khedive thathe should move his forces away from the Turkish frontier.
1840:In Iowa, Alexander Lewis, the Charleston, SC born son of David and RachelBenjamin Lewis and his wife Rebecca Lewis gave birth to confirmed bachelorDavid Lewis.
1842:In Canterbury, England, Fanny Nathan and Joel Abrahams gave birth to FannyAbrahams.
1842:Birthdate of Jakob Rosanes, the native of Brody who gained fame as amathematician and chess master.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12827-rosanes-jacob
1843(20thof Av, 5603): “Polish banker and philanthropist Jacob Epstein, the founder ofthe Jewish hospital at Warsaw whose service as an officer in theinsurrectionist army during the Polish uprising did keep him from beingapponted “banker of the treasury commission of the Kingdom of Poland” and namedas a “hereditary honorary citizen” by Czar Nicholas I passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5825-epstein#anchor4
1845(13thof Av, 5605): Shabbat Nachamu
1845:In Bonnevoie, Luxembourg, Miriam Rose (Lévy) and Isaïe Lippman, the manager ofthe family glove-making business gave birth to Gabriel Lippman, Frenchphysicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908.
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1908/lippmann-bio.html
1845:Jonathan and Rebecca Gratz Nathan gave birth to Jonathan Nathan, the “brotherof Seixas Nathan; Gratz Nathan; Benjamin Nathan; Rachel Gratz Nathan; EdmundNathan; Lucien Nathan and Rebecca Gratz Nathan.”
1845:In what might have been the first mention of potato blight in the BritishIsles, today Gardeners' Chronicle and Horticultural Gazette reported "ablight of unusual character" in the Isle of Wight the home of the Isle ofWight Jewish Society
1847:Oneday after she had passed away,71year old Grace (nee Da Costa) Cohen, the widow of Judah Cohen was buriedtoday in the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1848:William Flatau married Rebecca Meseena today.
1849:Birthdate of Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau, the French anti-Semite and“anti-Dreyfusard” who wrote under the pseudonym of GYP. While testifying in a court case she “gaveher profession as ‘anti-Semite’ rather than ‘writer.’”
1850:In Hungary, Josephine Weiss and David Sessler, gave birth to University ofPennsylvania graduate Rabbi Morris Sessler the husband of Louisa Cahn whoserved congregations in Alexandria, VA, Wheeling, W.Va., Providence, R.I. andNew Orleans, LA before coming to Jonesboro, AR in 1904 where he began servingTemple Israel.
1851:In Buffalo, VA, Robert and Anna Harvey gave birth to William Hope"Coin" Harvey the populist leader who wrote the anti-Semitic Tale ofTwo Nations, “the story of a wealthy London banker, Baron Rothe, who engineersa plot to keep the United States from ever using a silver as currency.”
http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/antisemitism.html
1852:In reporting on the clash between Sir Robert Peel and Benjamin Disraeli overthe issue of Free Trade "Items of Foreign News" column publishedtoday quotes the following disparaging remarks that appeared in The MorningChronicle. "When Mr. Disraeli attempts to trade on the policy of SirRobert Peel, it will be difficult to refrain from challenging him in the wordsof the Hebrew prophet, 'Hast thou killed and also taken possession.'" [Editor's Note: the quote is from 1 Kings21:19]
1855:Birthdate of Russian born chemist Harry Mann Gordin, the holder of a Ph.D. fromthe University of Berne who served on the faculty of Northwestern in Evanston,Illinois.
1858:In Konigsberg, Prussia, Michaelis Spicker and Flora Rosenthal gave birth to MaxSpicker the pianists and conductor who came to the United States in 1883 wherehe eventually became the “Musical Director at Temple Emanu-El in New York City.
https://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/max-spicker/
1859(16thof Av, 5619): Loeb Bendel, the son of Henry and Mary Anker Bendel passed awaytoday after which he was buried in Beth Emeth Cemetery in Loudonville, NY.
1859:In London, birthdate of “communal worker” Ernest Louis Franklin
1860:David Wemyss Jobson was found guilty of libeling the character of Sir JamesFurgurson in the London Central Criminal Court today. Among the many prominent witnesses to appearwas Benjamin Disraeli. When asked by the Defendant “Are you a Jew now ornot?” Mr. Disraeli repIied, “I am what Ialways was -- a Christian.” This is an interesting answer since Disraeli wasactually born a Jew. Was he beingdisingenuous or was he taking poet license in writing his own biography.
1861:Jacob Miller, who would be killed at South Mountain in 1862 began serving inCompany A of the 45th Regiment.
1862:The Chicago Tribune published a tribute to the Jews of Chicago.
1864:Two days after he had passed away, sixty-one-year-old John Levy, the son ofDavid Levy and Hannah Solomons was buried today the “Brompton (Fulham Road)Jewish Cemetery.”
1868(28thof Av, 5628): Fifty-five-year-old Ruben Joseph Wunderbar the author whosucceeded Max Lilienthal as principal the Jewish school at Riga passed awaytoday in his hometown of Mitau.
1872:In the Ukraine, Phillip and Fishberg and Gittel Mauerman gave birth to MauriceFishberg, who came to the United States in 1890 and earned his medical degreefrom New York University in 1895 after which he married Bertha Fishberg withwhom he had two children – Dr. Arthur Maurice Fishberg and Dr. Harriet Fishberg– and became “a professor of clinical medicine of the University and BellevueHospital Medical College.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6159-fishberg-maurice
1873(23rdof Av,5634): David Margittai, the “son of Rabbi Yitzchok Tzvi Margaretten andRachel Lea Margaretten, the the husband of Rachel Rozalia, Juli Margittai andthe father of Ignatz Margittai; Chaim Jacob Margittai; Sarah Zali RozaliaWeiss; Isak Hirs Ignac Margittai; Eva Schwartz; Fani Hani Schwartz and RoseSchwart” passed away today in Szarvas, Békés, Hungary
1873:Lipman “Lip” Pike, one of the first Jewish major league baseball players,“raced a fast-trotting horse named Clarence in a 100-yard sprint at Baltimore'sNewington Park, and won by four yards with a time of 10 seconds flat, earning$250 ($4,570 today).”
1873:It was reported today that the Governor of New York has offered a $500 rewardfor the apprehension of Emil Lowenstein who allegedly murder John Weston inAlbany, NY. Mrs. Weston has already beenarrested for her role in the killing.Lowenstein, a German Jewish barber’s assistant, is thought to be headedfor an unnamed “Western city.”
1875(15thof Av, 5635): Tu B’AV
1875:It was reported today that of the 57,200 children attending primary schools inAlgeria, 5,646 “are native Jews.’
1875:In Prague, Moritz Moses Piesen and Rosalia Piesen gave birth to Hugo Peisen thehusband of Annie Piesen and treasurer of the Brooklyn Federation of JewishFederation.
1875:It was reported today that 40-year-old Joseph Samuels and 15 year old SallieMossheim were arrested in New Jersey. This tangled tale of two Jews includes amarried man (Samuels) and the daughter of a successful businessman, who fell inlove and ran off together. The case iscomplicated by the fact that Sallie’s father reported that $500 was missingfrom his safe and this same amount was found in his daughter’s possession.
1878:Birthdate of Adolph Lebovitz, the husband of Charlotte “Sadie” Lebovitz andbroth of “Molly and Dora Lebovitz.”
1879:In Indianapolis, Indiana, Mark C and Rebecca Davis gave birth Indiana LawSchool trained attorney Lawrence Bowen Davis, a member of the law firm ofNewberger, Simon and Davis and a member of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregationwho was the husband of Isabel Haas.
1880:Sir Saul Samuel completed his second term as a Member of the LegislativeCouncil of New South Wales
1880:“Hebrew Poetry” published today provided a detailed review of The HistoricalPoetry of the Ancient Hebrews, a two volume work by Michael Heilprin.
1880:Based on information that originally appeared the Journal de St. Petersburg it was reported today that Jews accountfor 0.22 of the illegitimate births in the European portion of the RussianEmpire
1881:In Washington, IN, Sigmund and Lena Sterberger Eckhouse gave birth to futureNew Jersey resident Elmer Louis Eckhouse who married Lillie Rothschild Eckhousein 1905.
1881:It was reported today that Count Kutisoff, who is investigating the causes ofthe anti-Jewish riots met with a deputation of Jews from Kharkoff. The Jews told him that the causes were notjust economic. The count said that thegovernment was determined to stop the violence.He said that they needed “to regulate the abnormal conditions” in theWestern provinces where “the Jews outnumber the Christians and monopolizetrade.” (The Western provinces includedthe Pale of Settlement, and it is inconceivable that the Russian leader did notknow that there were so many Jews there because that is where the governmenthad confined them)
1882(1stof Elul, 5642): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1882:Today, in St. Louis, printer and journalist Adolph Ungar the German born son ofLoeb Leopold Ungar and Adelheid Edel Ungar his wife Henrietta Ungar gave birthto Adele Ungar.
1882:It was reported today that the speech by Congressman Cox on the persecution ofRussian Jews that appears in the Congressional Record was in fact never givensince Congress had already adjourned. Cox had apparently taken advantage of thetime-honored practice of entering remarks in the Record that has gone into the20th century.
1884:In Luxembourg City, “Berta (Durlacher), a housewife and Mortiz Gernsbacher, awine maker” gave birth to Hugo Gernsbach, “an inventor, author, editor andpublisher who has been called the father of modern science fiction.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/08/20/107196605.pdf
1885:Birthdate of Kiev native and New York City “merchant” Jacob Ravinovich.
1885:Beth Hamedresh Hagadol, an Orthodox congregation formed by Polish Jews 30 yearsago, dedicated its new sanctuary on Norfolk Street this afternoon. RabbiAbraham Ash, the spiritual leader of the congregation, was the driving forcebehind the project.
1885:The Associate Members’ Literary Society of the Young Men’s Hebrew Associationheld a Grant-Montefiore Memorial Meeting this evening in New York City. G.A.Ettinger delivered a speech in which compared both of these saying thatalthough one was a man of war and the other a man of peace, “they were alike inone respect, that both labored for the emancipation of the human race.”
1886:Based on information that first appeared in the Warsaw Courier two Polish peasants have been sentenced to sixmonths in prison after having been found of disinterring two Jewish corpses, cutting off their handsand then grinding them into “little morsels for…medicinal purposes.”
1886(15thof Av, 5646): Tu B’Av
1886(15thof Av, 5646): Seventy-two-year-old Henry M. Hirschberg, the husband of FrancesFrancks Hirschberg and the father of Georgina, Michael and Isabella Hirschbergpassed away today after he was buried at the Temple Beth Jacob Cemetery inNewburgh, NY,
1886:“Last of the Roman Ghetto” published today reported that within the next coupleof weeks the Jew’s quarter of Rome, “a picturesque piece of antiquity” willdisappear. The reporter of the Pall MallGazette (a British publication) described the ghetto as a place where “the Jewshad made themselves…a sort of second fatherland” where they could observe“their habits and traditions…in a little town” they had all to themselves.
1887:Joseph Froehlich of Davenport, Iowa donated $4.00 to the Union of AmericanHebrew Congregations.
1887:The will of Jonas Heller which was filed for probate today gave $10,000 for theHome for Aged and Infirm Hebrews on the condition that the Directors erect aprominently placed tablet saying “In Memoryof Jonas Heller, Trustee, from______ to ______ Bequeathed Ten ThousandDollars.”
1888:It was reported today that Levi Davis, a prominent Jewish citizen living in NewBrunswick, NJ, has filed a suit seeking $10,000 in damages from Charles Scheede“for ruining his daughter Jennie.” Schweede, who is a partner in the clothingfirm of Schweede Brothers denied the charge.
1888:It was reported today that Siegfried Porter, a native of Bohemia who is now anAmerican citizen, testified before Congressman Ford’s Immigration Committeethat he was now able to earn seven or eight dollars a week as a cigar makerbecause of the influx of Russian and Polish Jews. According to the embittered witness the Jewswere willing to work for four or five dollars a week and that they lived insuch poor conditions that they were able to save three dollars of that.
1888:Birthdate of T.E. Lawrence, known to history as “Lawrence of Arabia.” In the popular mind, Lawrence is rememberedas a driving force behind Arab nationalism.However, Lawrence was not anti-Zionist.In “The Changing East” he wrote of the way in which the Zionist settlerswould help improve the economic and social condition of the Arabpopulation. “In 1919 he drafted a letterfor Emir Feisal for a meeting with Felix Frankfurter, a leader of AmericanZionists. In his letter Feisal wished ‘the Jews a hearty welcome home’ andasserted ‘our two movements complete one another.’ ‘There is room in Syria forboth of us’ he concluded.”
1889:Birthdate of Maurice Copisarow, the Russian born Chemist who came to England in1908 where he received his education and co-authored a paper with fellowchemist Chaim Weizmann.
1889:Birthdate of Chicago native and University of Michigan Law School graduateSigmund David.
1890(30thof Av, 5650) Rosh Chodesh Elul
1890:Rabbi Gustave Gottheil is scheduled to deliver a sermon today entitled “WhoNeeds Converting?”
1890(30thof Av, 5650): On Shabbat, New York attorney Montague L. Marks passed awaytoday.
1891:The funeral for Emilie J. Frank, the widow of Joseph Frank, is scheduled to beheld at the home of her daughter Mrs. William Rosenberg at 40 West 95thStreet.
1891:As local merchants expressed their indignation over the high-pressure tacticsof salesperson working for the “Jewish Times” the publishers said that theagent had sent in the ads but that they “were not aware of his making falserepresentations” to obtain them.
1891:“Russian Jew Question” published today described the impact the articles thatGeorge Kenan has written on this subject have had including Prime MinisterGladstone urging Continental to conduct“a full and fair” investigation of the issue.
1892:“Charges Against Edward Pollock” published today described events surroundingMeyer Reinherz’s an agent of the United Hebrew Charities, decision to file acomplaint against Edward Pollock for allegedly attacking him while writingstories for Austro-Hungarian newspapers.”
1893:A circular was disturbed today setting forth the rights of the thousands ofunemployed Jewish workers and the wrongs done to them and calling for a massmeeting tomorrow at the Walhalla Hall on Orchard Street.
1894:Birthdate of “historian, literary and theater critic, editor, bibliographer,lexicographer, lecturer, teacher and librarian” Dr. Jacob Shatzky the native ofWarsaw who came to the United States in 1923 and helped to found “the U.S.Section of the YIVO Institute for Jewish research.”
1894(14thof Av, 5654): Just two days before her 74th birthday Elisa “Elka”Hirschfelder Bodenheimer, the daughter of Fradel and Jakob Hirsch MosesHirschfelder and the wife of Hermann Bodenheimer with whom she had eightchildren passed away today in Germany
1895:In Massachusetts, the Worcester Hebrew Benevolent Society which had beenfounded in 1891 received its charge today.
1895: Birthdate of novelist Albert Cohen. A native of Greece, Cohen worked for variousinternational organizations located in Switzerland. He became a Swiss citizenafter World War I and based some of his fiction on experiences with the Leagueof Nations. The Greek native, who was aSwiss citizen, wrote in French.
1896:In Lemberg, Austria, “Louis and Ethel (Schaumann) Salpeter gave birth to artdealer and art critic, Harry Salpeter, the husband of Betty Berkowitz.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/11/14/90417644.pdf
https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/harry-salpeter-papers-9052
1896:Birthdate of Buffalo native wood engraving artist Asa Cheffetz.
http://rogallery.com/Cheffetz_Asa/cheffetz-biography.html
https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.3742.html
1896:“Heat and the Babes” published today described various steps being taken tobeat the August heat including the decision of the Hebrew Institute to open afree roof garden on the top of its building.
1897:Birthdate of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht the Austro-Hungarian born British Juristwho served as a member of the United Nations Internal Law Commission and aJudge of the International Court of Justice.
1897:In Missouri, Russian born Joseph Lazarus Kranson and Caroline Kranson gavebirth to Bernard J. Kranson today.
1898:Children are being removed from the Hebrew Orphan Asylum at 138thStreet and Amsterdam Avenue because of an epidemic of dysentery.
1898:“For Jewish Worshippers” published today described a letter J.E. Bloom,Assistant Adjutant General, Third Brigade, Second Division, Third Army Corpswrote to the President and Executive Committee of the Young Men’s HebrewAssociation in New York suggesting that they raise funds to be used to “providea large tent for holding religious services for Jewish soldiers” attending there-union at the Chickamauga Battlefield this Fall.
1898:“Great Charity Enterprise” published today described plans for a fundraiser tobe sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Charity Association in Chicago. Half of the funds will go to Michael ReeseHospital and the other half will go to the United Hebrew Charities.
1899:It was reported today that “the leading Jews of Europe are” planning on holdinga meeting “in Switzerland in order to form an international association fortheir defense against the crusade of the anti-Semites and to protect the Jewsin France after the Dreyfus court-martial is ended.”
1899:The New York Federation of Zionists met at Cooper Union tonight. “They adoptedresolutions against anti-Semitism and for the rejuvenation of Zion.”
1899:“Jews Aid The Dewey Home Fund” published today described the “considerableinterest” that the Jews have shown in raising money to buy a home for the Heroof Manila Bay. “At least one-fourth ofthe names making up the list of contributors so far are Jews.”
1899:In South Africa, President Kruger “has issued a brochure supporting hisproposal regarding the removal of religious disabilities” which would thediscrimination against the Jews by the Protestant dominated government.
1899:Julius P. Witmark, J.W. Bratton, Sager Midgley, J. Leslie Gossing, J.J.Raffael, Miss Alic Magil, Smith O’Brien, Miss Grace L. Weir and Fred Rycroffproved the entertainment tonight at the Arverne Hotel Casino where afund-raiser was held for the benefit of the Hebrew Infant Asylum.
1899(10thof Elul, 5659): Abraham Cohen Labatt, native of Charleston, SC who foundedseveral Reform Congregations from South Carolina to Louisiana to California toTexas passed away in Galveston.
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fla72
1900:The Fourth Zionist Congress came to an end in London.
1901:“Items from Philadelphia” took note of the recent publication by Edward Sternand Company of A Rabbi’s Impressions of the Oberammergau Passion Play byRabbi Joseph Krauskopf of Philadelphia.
1902:In Dvinks Latvia, Mendel and Sarah (Einhorn) Siegel.to philosopher, educator,founder of Aesthetic Realism Eli Siegel
https://aestheticrealism.org/about-us/eli-siegel-founder/
1902:Birthdate of novelist Georgette Heyer, author of the 1950 Regency Roman, TheGrand Sophy which featured a “villainous moneylender named Goldhanger, whois described as a “swarthy individual, with long, greasy curls, a semitic nose,and an ingratiating leer” in a scene which has come to be seen as anti-Semiticand which was, “sanitized” in a posthumously revised edition much to thechagrin of those who think an author’s work should not be “modified” to complywith 21st century sensitivity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/books/georgette-heyer-romance-novel-antisemitism.html
1902: Several thousand persons greeted SamuelGompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, at Mountain Lake Park,Maryland where he delivered an address before the Chautauqua Assembly on"Labor and Capital -- the Workman's Side of the Story."
1903(23rdof Av, 5663): Seventy-one-year-old Moses Polock “a well-known and somewhateccentric antiquarian bookseller” who was the maternal uncle of Abraham SimonWolf Rosenbach as well as mentor passed away today.
1903:In Newark, NJ, The Young Ladies’ Zionist Society hosted an ice cream festivalthis evening at Foresters’ Hall where several “well-known Zionists” addressedthe attendees.
1903:Herzl stopped in Vilna where a tremendous ovation is awaiting him. Old RebShleimele lifted his hands over Herzl and pronounced the Priestly Benediction.After one day of rest in Altaussee, Herzl left for Basle and the SixthCongress.
1903:In Brooklyn, NY, “the annual ice cream festival of the Shosanath Zion was held”today “at the Arion Hall.”
1904:“Reports from the Governors of Radom and Syedlets, Russian Poland, which havebeen received by the Police Department of the Ministry of the Interior, statethat the reports of Jewish massacres in the small Polish towns of Parchevo andOstrovetz arose from affrays between the Jewish and Christian inhabitants, inwhich the Jews in both cases were the aggressors.”
1905(15thof Av, 5665): Tu B’Av
1905(15thof Av, 5665): Seventy-six-year-old Yetta Hacks the Bavarian born daughter ofZidone Wald and Joseph Hacks and the wife of Louis Stix who she marred atCincinnati in 1852 and with whom she had ten children, passed away today in FarRockaway, NY
1905(15thof Av, 5665): Tu B’Av
1905:The “District Grand Lodge No 1 of the Independent Order of the Free Sons ofIsrael, the larger Jewish fraternal institution in the United States isscheduled to hold its annual picnic” today “at the Manhattan Casino.”
1906:A telegram sent today from Warsaw to the Jewish Chronical says “250 Jews werekilled or wounded by the soldiery” and “in an orgy pf blood in the Jewishquarter” more than 300 “persons were clubbed or bayoneted…”
1906:In Philadelphia, “disturbances occurred between Jewish strikers and thenon-Jewish workingmen” who had been hired to replace them.
1907:“Reminiscences of the Breslau Seminary: Leyser Lazarus” appeared today in“Jewish Comment.”
1908:Birthdate of Philadelphia, PA native Fannie Turnoff Belsky the wife of AbrahamBelsky
1909:La Divorziata, the Italian version ofDie geschiedene Frau (The Divorcée),“an operetta in three acts by Leo Fall with a libretto by Victor Léon” openedtoday “at the Teatro Lirico Internationale in Milan.”
1909(29th Av): Rabbi Samuel “Shmuel” Salant Chief Ashkenazic Rabbi ofJerusalem, who was a leading Talmudist and a friend of Moses Montefiore passedaway and was buried on the Mount of Olives.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D04E3D6173EE733A25754C1A96E9C946897D6CF
1910:“Striking demonstrations by Nathan Straus of the efficacy of his method ofsaving babies lives” which included the drop in the death at Sandhausaen afterMr. Straus established an infant milk depot that began supplying pasteurizedmilk “aroused great interest at the German Imperial Health Office.
1911:Rabbis David de Sola Pool and H.Z. Masliansky and laymen Louis Lipsky andReuben Brainin were among those who spoke at “a mass meeting at the EducationalAlliance” marking the opening of the Tenth Congress of the Federation ofAmerican Zionists.
1912:In Harrisburg, PA, Rabbi Eliezer Silver, the Lithuanian born “son of R' BunimTzemach Silver, A.B.D. Dobel, Kamai & Dosat and Chaya Malka Zilber” and hiswife Bessie (Batya) Silver (Aronowitz) gave birth to Dr. Nathan Nata Silver,the husband of Lillian Silver.
1912:In Harrisburg, PA, Rabbi Eliezer Silver, the Lithuanian born “son of R' BunimTzemach Silver, A.B.D. Dobel, Kamai & Dosat and Chaya Malka Zilber” and hiswife Bessie (Batya) Silver (Aronowitz) gave birth to Fruma Pessia Gershuni, thewife of Rabbi Yehuda Gershuni.
1912(3rdof Elul, 5672): Seventy-year-old Elias Landauer who with “his spouse, BerthaBodenheimer Landauer, immigrated from Germany in 1866 settled in Harrisonburg,Louisiana where he operated a retail supply business for 22 years before comingto New Orleans and opening Landauer & Meyer, a wholesale hat store” passedaway today.
1913:“Potash and Perlmutter” a British comedy “featuring the characters Abe Potashand Mawruss Perlmutter, who are business partners in the garment industry”opened today in New York at the George M. Cohan Theatre.
1913:In “Brest, a town called Brest-Litovsk, then part of the Russian Empire, buttoday Belarus” Zeev and Hassia Biegun” gave birth to Menachem Begin, PrimeMinister of Israel and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. The life of Menachem Begin is too colorfuland controversial to be covered in this brief guide. His life became one of manycontradictions. Consider that thispolitical heir to Jabotinsky, the man who waged violent war against the Britishin the last years of the Mandate was the man who signed the peace accord withSadat.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/begin.html
http://www.biography.com/people/menachem-begin-37331
1914:As WW I expanded, the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) which would laterinclude Dr. Michael Adler as the first Jewish chaplain to serve with theBritish Army overseas, landed in France today
1915:It was reported today that Louis D. Brandeis and Nathan Straus will address theupcoming national meeting of Jews to be held at Cooper Union.
1915:Among those who were reported today to have addressed the mass meeting aimed atraising money for Jews in the war zone were Dr. M.S. Margolies, President ofthe Union of Orthodox Rabbis of New York, Dr. Moses Hyamson the rabbi ofCongregation Orach Cahim in New York and Rabbi Aaron Tietelbaum of Jerusalem.
1915:A lynch mob from Marietta, GA arrived at the prison in Milledgeville. After cutting the telephone wire emptying thegas from the prison’s automobiles and handcuffing the warden, they seized LeoFrank and drove away from the prison.
1916:Today, DePauw University graduate and University of Chicago trained attorneyBenjamin Blumberg the son of Max and Theresa Blumberg who served as an officerrealty and investment companies while being a member of Temple Israel and theTemple Israel Men’s Cub married Fannie Louise Burgheim.
1916:Neutral Romania continued its negotiations with the Entente Powers, as theAllies try to get her to declare war on the Central Powers – a move that couldhave profound effect on the suffering Jewish population of that easternEuropean nation.
1917:Two after she was killed in air raid along with her husband during WW I, LeahCohen, the wife of John Cohen was buried at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery inLondon.
1917:Two days after he was killed in an air raid along with his wife, 54-year-oldJohn Cohen was buried at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.
1917:The State Department instructed Ira Nelson Morris, the American Minister toSweden “to forward $25,000 for the continuation of soup kitchens and relief ofJews in Turkey.”
1917(28thof Av, 5677): Seventy-five-year-oldRabbi David Baer Kamaiky passed away today at Tiberias.
1917:In the East New York section of Brooklyn Benjamin and Bertha Taubman gave birthto “Dorothy Taubman, who developed a method to help pianists strengthen theirtechniques and avoid repetitive strain injuries.” (As reported by VivienSchweitzer)
1918(8thof Elul, 5678): Sixty-eight-year-old Dr. Adolf Rosenzweig, the rabbi at the NewSynagogue (Neue Synagoge) in Oranienburger Straße, Berlin passed away today andwas buried under a gravestone on which was written "The law of truth wasin his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips" (Malachi2:6).
1918:It was reported today Joseph Duveen, “a well-known member of the Anglo-JewishCommunity” has offered to provide the funds for a National Gallery for modernforeign art that had been planned for by a committee chaired by Lord Curzon in1915.
1919:“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” is distributed in Germany and the UnitedStates.
1920(2ndof Elul, 5680): Adolf Kahn, the son of Jacob Kohn and Franziska Kahn and thehusband of Elsie Kahn passed away today in Vienna.
1920:Morris Abrams, “who ran a successful company that produced machinery andfactory tools” and the former Freda Sugarman gave birth to Dr. Herbert LeroyAbrams “a radiologist at Stanford and Harvard universities and a founder ofInternational Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which won the NobelPeace Prize in 1985 for its work in publicizing the health consequences ofatomic warfare.” (As reported by William Grimes)
1921:In London, The Times published the first in a series of articles by it“Constantinople Correspondent” that “incontrovertibly demonstrated that ‘TheProtocols’ consist in the main of ‘clumsy plagiarisms’ from a French politicalpamphlet directed against Napoleon III and published in Brussels in 1865 by aFrench Lawyer named Maurice Joly and entitled ‘Dialogues in Hell betweenMachiavelli and Montesquieu.’”
1921:Rabbi Joseph Hertz, who had been the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom from1913 completed his tour of Canada today after giving a final lecture on theBible in St. John, New Brunswick.
1922:Birthdate of Herbert Vogel, the New York born postal clerk, who, along with hiswife, became “fabled art collectors. (As reported by Douglas Marin)
1922:“Theatrical release of ‘Up and at ‘Em’” a silent film which “marks the firstHollywood screenplay” by Lewis Mileston.”
1922:Edgar Raphael Meyer Spielman, the London born son of Sir Meyer Adam Spielmanand Gertrude Emily Spielman and his wife Mozelle Spielman gave birth to NancyLouise Lank, the wife of Herbert Lank.
1923:Rabbi Meir Shapiro “introduced his idea” of “a daily regimen” of studying theBabylonian Talmud “one day at a time in a cycle of seven and a half years” “atthe First World Congress of the World Agudath Israel in Vienna” today.
1923:Birthdate of Shimon Peres, Zionist leader who would hold numerous positionsincluding President of the Jewish state.There are as many views of Peres as there are candles on his birthdaycake.
1924(16thof Av, 5684): Parashat Vaetchanan
1924:A copy of the law which has been described as “the most important legislationenacted in Palestine…because it removes custom duties from all machineryintended for industrial purposes imported into the Holy Land arrived in NewYork today.
1925:The Palestine Foundation Fund reported that it had spent $8,646,750 in theeconomic rebuilding of Palestine during its four years of existence, justconcluded. More than 60 per cent of this sum has come from American Jews,according to the statement, the balance being collected from fifty-two othercountries. $2,570,785 was expended on farming enterprises and $1,624,695 forHebrew education. Samuel Untermeyer is President of the American branch of thefund.
1926:Today, Time magazine wrote: "If it is strange that Otto Hermann Kahn,sensitive patron of high art in Manhattan, should have a saxophone-tooting,banjo-plunking, clarinet-wailing, violin-jazzing son, it is stranger still thatthat son, Roger Wolfe Kahn, has become a truly outstanding jazzer at theperilous age of 18
1926:Sephardic and Oriental Jews at a Zionist conference in Vienna had theirdelegates gather for the purpose of furthering Zionist interests among theirpeoples.
1927(18thof Av, 5687): Forty-eight-year-old Jennie Weiner passed away today after whichshe was buried at the Waldheim Jewish Cemetery in Cook County, Illinois.
1927(18thof Av, 5687): Seventy-five-year-old Leopold Pick, the husband of Betty Pickpassed away today.
1928:“Jewish colonization work in Crimea for which a sufficient sum will be madeavailable through the $10,000,000 Rosenwald fund was given further impetus andopportunity by the decision of the All-Russian Zik, the Central ExecutiveCommittee, to allot an additional area in Crimea of 109,000 hectares where15,000 Jewish families may be settled as farmers.”
1929:In Amsterdam, neurologist “Herman H. DeJong” and psychologist “Marianna(Witteboon) De Jong whose “Jewish roots made them targets of the Nazis” gavebirth to Evelyn Yvonne DeJong who gained fame as corporate gadfly Evelyn Y.Davis. (As reported by Emily Flitter)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/business/evelyn-davis-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Obituaries
1929: Although warned by the Zionist Executive that the Arabs were preparing toattack the Jews of Jerusalem in massive riots, High Commissioner Sir JohnChancellor refused to cut his vacation short, declaring that relations betweenthe sides were improving. After Friday prayers on the day after the ninth ofAv, two thousand Arabs attacked Jews praying at the Western Wall. One Jewishyouth was stabbed in the back. The British Government refused to condemn theattack leading the Arabs again to believe that the British supported theirriots.
1930:“Dreyfus” or “The Dreyfus Case, “as it would be known when released in theUnited States, based on a novel about the French officer directed by RichardOswald and starring Fritz Kornter in the title role was released today in theWeimar Republic (Germany)/
1930(22ndof Av, 5690): Gustave Frohman who along with his brothers Charles and Danielworked together as theatrical producers and advanced men passed away.
http://www.jta.org/1930/08/19/archive/gustave-frohman-eminent-theatrical-figure-dead
1931:Birthdate of “piano prodigy” Michael “Mickey” Leonard the native of RockvilleCenter, NY who became a leading composer and arranger. (As reported by DanielL. Slotnik)
http://www.playbill.com/article/michael-leonard-broadway-composer-dead-at-84-com-371319
1932:In Washington, DC, “Marceline Gray and George Jackson Eder, a lawyer andeconomist who for a time worked in the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt”gave birth to Richard Gray Eder the NewYork Times foreign correspondent who “won a Pulitzer Prize for his bookreviews in The Los Angeles Times.”
1933:Following a baseball game in Toronto, six hours of violence broke out betweenHarbord Playground, which was predominantly Jewish, and St. Peter's, a baseballteam sponsored by a church at Bathurst and Bloor that became known as theChristie Pitts Riot.
1933:In New York, more than seventy thousand workers joined a strike called by theILGWU under the leadership of David Dubinsky.
1933:In Berlin Kurt Maschler, a successful publisher’s representative and Rita(Lechner) Maschler gave birth to Thomas Michael Maschler, the refugee from NaziGermany and swashbuckling British publisher who fostered the literary careersof more than a dozen Nobel laureates and conceived the coveted Booker Prize topromote fiction…” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1933:Three hundred Polish Jews including a group of 140 chalutzim leave forPalestine.
1933:Local authorities in East Prussia inform Jews that they must call for theirmail because Nazi postmen will be humiliated in delivering mail to Jews.
1934:In Liverpool, a homemaker VioletGreenberg and Harry Buxton, a jewelry trader in Leeds, gave birth to AngelaBuxton, a granddaughter of Russian Jews who had fled the pogroms in the early1900s, who forged barrier breaking relationship with fellow tennis player,Althea Gibson.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/sports/tennis/angela-buxton-dead.html?searchResultPosition=4
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/aug/19/angela-buxton-obituary
1934:Birthdate of Dr. Daniel Norman Stern “a psychiatrist who increased theunderstanding of early human development by scrutinizing the most minuteinteractions between mothers and babies” (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1936:The 1936 Olympics came to an end in Berlin.Calls for boycotting the Hitler Olympics fell on deaf ears.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005680
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=jewish_athletes_more&lang=en
1936:The New York Times published a lengthy review of Jewish Studies inMemory of George A. Kohut, 1874-1933, edited by Salo W. Baron and AlexanderMarx.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0F16F63C59167B93C4A81783D85F428385F9
1936(28th of Av, 5696): An eight-year-old Jewish boy “was killedand nineteen Jews were injured by the explosion of a bomb thrown by an Arabfrom a train window into one of the principal streets of Tel Aviv today as thetrain was passing the city en route to Jaffa.” In the last three days ten Jews– 7 adults and 3 children – have been killed in Safed, Haifa and on the highwaybetween Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.Authorities fear that this latest in a series of attacks that began fourmonths ago will finally provoke the Jewish population into acts of violenceaimed at their attackers.
1936(28thof Av, 5696): “Julius Vagshall, an employee of the Palestine Electric Companywas shot by assailants from the darkness near Mikveh Israel” and two otherswere wounded in what was the climax to a night of terror in which at leasttwenty people were wounded including British constable.
1936:“Saar Now Shares Reich Hardships” published today described the deterioratingconditions of the territory seized by the Germans 18 months ago including ascarcity of capital for investment that “has been greatly intensified by theemigration of approximately 5, 000 Jew…who under the Rome protocol were allowedto take all of their property with them…”
1936:In Cleveland, Ohio, between 25,000 and 30,000 followers of Father Charles E.Coughlin heard him this afternoon in Municipal Stadium describe “hisdisillusionment in President Roosevelt” and “challenge the Jews of America toaccept the doctrine of Christian brotherhood…”
1936:According to the Palcor Agency, the Palestine Government “was accused ofnegligence in the protection of Jews from Arab violence.”
1936:“The World Jewish Congress decided tonight to incorporate as a permanentorganization in Switzerland” with offices in Geneva, Paris and New York thatshould be financed by the $75,000 that will be raised in 1937.
1936:“A Yiddish Novel” published today provided a review of Noah Pandrewritten by Salman Schneour and translated by Joseph Leftwich.
1936:“Studies in Memory of George Kohut” published today provided a review of JewishStudies in Memory of George A. Kohut edited by Salo W. Baron and AlexanderMarx
1936:It was reported today that “all efforts of Emir Abdullah to mediate between thePalestine Government and the Arabs have been futile” because “none of the olderArab leaders dare accept the British Government’s proposal of a royalcommission in the fact of the militant Nationalist youths” who have beenattacking Arabs who oppose them.
1936:It was reported today that “a reign of terror is prevailing throughoutPalestine” where “Arab leaders, especially Arab police officer are just asexposed to the bullets” of Arab terrorists “as Britons and Jews.”
1936:In “Habimah in Emek,” published today Arthur Settel describes a recentperformance of “Jew Suss” in Ain Taun a village in the Valley Of Jezrel on thenorthern plain of Palestine.
1937:“Hammer Icons” published today tells the story of Armand and Victor Hammer,“two of the most startling characters in the U.S. art world.
1937:The 20th World Zionist Congress comes to an end with a resoundingvote of support for Dr. Chaim Weizmann who was re-elected as President withonly 8 delegates voting against him
1937:Talks are proceeding between Americans of Jewish and of Arab origin with a viewto-exploring the possibilities of bringing peace between their peoples inPalestine by applying the American federal principle, it was revealed by AdilArslan, one of the Arab High Committee's two delegates here.
1938(19thof Av, 5698): Arabs killed three people when they kidnapped a Jewish familytoday at Atlit.
1938:Andrej Hlinka, a Catholic Priest, a leader of the Slovak National Party and “asymbol of Slovak fascism” passed away.He opposed the democratic principles of Czechoslovakia and was anadmirer of Hitler and Mussolini.Although he died before the war, he was considered to be the spiritual“godfather” of Slovak nationalism that sent 70,000 Jews to the concentrationcamps, most of whom perished.
1938:Russian born, British trained Harry Mordecai Freedman began serving as the“rabbi of the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation at South Harra.”
1939:More than 600 Zionists from all parts of the world attend the twenty-firstWorld Zionist Congress, which opens in Geneva today. The congress will lastthirteen days.
1939:Birthdate of American banjo player Eric Weissberg best known for “DuelingBanjos” which provided the musical background for “Deliverance.”
1939(1stof Elul, 5699): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1940:“Foreign Correspondent” a spy film produced by Walter Wanger, with music byAlfred Newman and filmed by cinematographer Rudolph Maté was released in theUnited States today.
1940:The Vichy (France) government prohibited aliens from practicing as physicians,dentists or pharmacists. This destroyedthe livelihood for numerous Jews who had fled to France before the war and/orwere not living in Vichy at the time of the French surrender to the Nazis. The Jews living in Vichy France would learnthat anti-Semitism was part and parcel of the Petain government
1940:Today the building at 770 Eastern Parkway in the Crown Heights section ofBrooklyn, New York was purchased by Agudas Chassidei Chabad (theChabad-Lubavitch community) to house the living quarters, study and office,Yeshivah, and synagogue of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef YitzchakSchneersohn who had arrived in New York (following his rescue fromNazi-occupied Warsaw) five months earlier [It would later serve as theheadquarters of his son-in-law and successor, the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson,and become the vortex of Chabad-Lubavitch's global network of institutions ofJewish education and outreach.]
1941(16thof Av, 5701): Parashat Eikev
1941:Birthdate of Brooklyn native Vivian Hoffman who gained famed as VivianStromberg a champion of women’s rights around the world and founder of Madre.
1942:In the Warsaw Ghetto at today’s selection only two members of WładysławSzpilman’s family “were passed as fit to work” while “the rest of the familywas taken to the Umschlagplatz.
1942:Tonight, all the members of Władysław Szpilman’s family were shipped fromWarsaw to Treblinka where they were murdered.
1943: Nazi troops enter the Jewish ghetto atBialystok, Poland and over the next four days destroy the more than 30,000 Jewsinside. Hundreds of Resistance fighters, led by Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroffand Daniel Moszkowicz--who battle back with small arms, axes, and bayonets--areannihilated. Those who survive are transported to death camps, where 25,000 arekilled
1943:Inmates revolt at the slave-labor camp atKrychów, Poland.
1943:During World War II, the keel for the SS Oscar Strauss was laid today.
1943:Maurice H. Rindskopf was among the officers serving on ehe USS Drum, anAmerican submarine as she left Brisbane on her seventh war patrol
1943:The Spanish government stated that they would allow more repatriated Jews tocome to Spain, "only if those in Spain already left." The obviouslack of sentiment on the part of Spain was apparent to the Joint DistributionCommittee, which went ahead and placed a "priority" on emigration of"these so-called Sephardics." The Jews who did make it to Spain werenot in any way treated like citizens.
1944:In Newark, NJ, Dr. William Zimmer and Evelyn Zimmer gave birth Yale Law Schoolgraduate and Republican party leader Richard Alan “Dick” Zimmer “who served inboth houses of the New Jersey Legislature and in the United States House ofRepresentatives.”
1944:A train arrived at Birkenau from Athens with 1,651 Jews from Rhodes and 94 fromKos. Upon arrival and then separation, Sidney Fahn would see his wife and youngchild for the last time. Only 151 of these Jews would survive.
1945:In Chicago, Illinois, Eleanor (née Pottasch) and Elmer Balaban, who ownedseveral movie theatres and later was a pioneer in cable television gave birthto Robert Elmer “Bob” Balaban the “actor, author, producer and director whogave one of his most memorable roles in “The Monuments Men” as Private PrestonSavitz.
1945:Today, “President Truman called…for the free and open settlement of Palestineby Jews to the point consistent with the maintenance of civil peace.” For the first time he revealed that that U.S.government has informed the British who are attending the Big Three’s BerlinConference. (The Big Three were the U.S., U.K. and U.S.S.R.)
1945:Former Iowa Senator Guy Gillette who is President of the American League for aFree Palestine expressed his “disappointment at the inconclusive nature of theAmerican position” about Jewish settlement “as outlined by” President Trumantoday. According to Gillette, millionsof displaced persons have been returned to their homes. Yet, the Jews, who suffered the most, havebeen denied a clear solution to their plight.The League of Nations had already designated that Palestine should be afree and independent nation. Accordingto Gillette, Palestine “is the historic national territory of the Hebrew peopleand their right to enter it should nolonger be challenged.
1945:“Dr. Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland, Ohio and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of NewYork were elected member of the executive board of the Jewish Agency forPalestine by the general council of the World Zion Conference today in London,UK.”
1946:In New York City, “Margot (née Verblow), a singer, and William Warren, a realestate agent whose original surname was "Warrenoff" gave birth to actAcademy Award nominated actress Lesley Ann Warren.
1947(30thof Av, 5707): Parshat Re’eh: Rosh Chodesh Elul
1947:‘Lewis Neikrug, director of overseas activities, of the Hebrew Immigrant AidSociety, said today he had been informed that the Australian Government had inthe last few days asked organizations dealing with Jewish immigration not tosend any Jews to Australia on ships flying American, British or Panamanianflags.’
1948: Birthdate of Patrick Balkany, the native of Neuilly-sur-Seine, who is a member of the National Assembly of France
1948(11th of Av, 5708): Sixty-seven-year-old“Yiddish dramatist and novelist Peretz Hirschbein” lost his three year battlewith amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s Disease), and passed awaytoday in Los Angeles
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Hirshbeyn_Perets
1948(11th of Av, 5708): Fifty-five-year-old Harry Dexter White passedaway today after having answered accusations before HUAC that he was acommunist and a traitor.
http://spartacus-educational.com/Harry_Dexter_White.htm
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2000/wp00149.pdf
1948: Three months after the establishment of the State of Israel,an agreement was signed between the Bank Leumi and the temporary Government.The official charter appointing the Bank as the Government's financial agentwas signed by Hoofien and the Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. On that veryday, the official bank notes of the new state, bearing the name of theAnglo-Palestine Bank and the signatures of Hoofien and Barth, were distributed.The Israeli pound becomes legal tender.
1949: Herzl's remains are transferred to Jerusalemand reburied on Mount Herzl.
1949:Netiv HaLamed-Heh ( נְתִיב הַל"ה, Path of the 35) a kibbutz in central Israellocated in the Valley of Elah, was established today by demobilized members ofthe Daled Company of the Palmach's Harel Brigade. It was initially named Peled(an acronym for Plugot Daled, lit. Daled Company) It was later renamed afterthe 35 Haganah soldiers killed in a convoy to resupply the Gush Etzionkibbutzim during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine (Lamed-Heh is35 in Hebrew numerals).
1950:“No Way Out” a film noir directed by Joseph L. Mankeiwicz with music by AlfredNewman was released in the United States today by 20th Century Fox.
1951:“The Guy Who Came Back” featuring Zero Mostel was released in the United Statestoday by 20th Century Fox.
1955:Funeral services are scheduled to be held today at “The Riverside” for Louis H.Sobel, the executive director of the Jewish Child Care Association.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/08/16/79451228.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1956(9thof Elul, 5716): A squad of Fedayeen attacked Egged Bus 391 traveling fromTel-Aviv to Eilat murdering three soldiers and a female civilian passenger andwounding an additional three civilian passengers. (Editor’s Note – Fedayeen wasthe 1950’s name for the terrorists. Thenames have changed over the decades but the deadly attacks remain the same.)
1959:In Rochester, NY, at Temple Bethel, Rabbi Abraham Karp officiated at thewedding of Naomi Kitty Sachran, the daughter of former New York State SupremeCourt Justice Goodman Sacharan and University of Michigan trained EngineerWarren Singer.
1959(12thof Av, 5719): Harpsichordist and composer Wanda Landowska, who was creditedwith the 20th-century revival of harpsichord music passed away.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/16/1959/wanda-landowska
1960:Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom (Great Britain). Jews have lived on the island of Cyprus sincethe days of the ancient Greeks. Inmodern times, Cyprus provided a haven for Jews trying to escape from Hitler’sEurope. After the war, the British setup internment camps on the island where they detained Jews trying to run theblockade and reach pre-Israel Palestine.Israel established diplomatic relations with Cyprus and the Israeliembassy served as focal point for the small Cypriot Jewish community.
1960(23rdof Av, 5720): Seventy-five-year-old Martha Zadek, the wife of old“writer, theatre critic, journalist and art collector” Alfred Gold the Viennaborn son of merchant Samuel Gold and Sara Pipper and mother of sculptor MaraneGold Littman passed away today.
1961:Frank Robinson hit a homer off of Larry Sherry as the Jewish pitcher and theDodgers came out on the short end of game with the Reds losing 6 to 0.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/08/18/90177138.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://www.amazon.com/Doubleday-book-interior-decorating/dp/B0006BMVXM
1965(18thof Av, 5725): Eighty-four-year-old Russian born NYU Law School graduate HarryHandler, “the principal of the Stone Avenue Talmud Torah in Brooklyn” for 39years and the husband of “the former Esther Liskowsky” passed away today while“visiting his son Dr. Archie Handler.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/08/18/101562176.pdf
1965:David Katz, “the founder of the Queens Symphony Orchestra” and Jeanne DaleKatz, the founder of “the Queens Council of on the Arts gave birth to St.John’s University School of Law trained attorney Melinda R. Katz, the formerNew York City Councilwoman who went on to serve as the Queens BoroughPresident.
1966(30thof Av, 5726): Seventy-two-year-old Yale educated anthropologist Edwin Loeb, theManhattan born son of Albert and Rose Guggenheim and the husband of MarguriteGladys David Waldman whom he married 1916, Lisl Groag Davis whom he married in1930 and Ella-Marie Karr and the father of three children – Robert, Peter and Barbara –who served with OSS during WW II passed away today
https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/aa.1967.69.2.02a00070
1966:Simon and Garfunkel record “the 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’Groovy”I as the 6th cut on side one of “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary andThyme.”
1969(2ndof Elul, 5729): Parashat Shoftim
1969(2ndof Elul, 5729): Portrait painter Henry R. Rittenberg, the 1929 winner of theThomas R. Proctor portrait prize at the National Academy of Design and husbandof Rachel Rittenberg whose best known work may be his paint of “President HarryS. Truman in a group at the Potsdam Conference in 1945” passed away today.
1971(25thof Av, 5731): Seventy-six-year-old Edward Anthony, the former director ofpublic relations during Herbert Hoover’s successful presidential campaign andmagazine editor passed away today.
1972:“Two British girls, unaware that the gramophone given them by 2 Arabacquaintances in Rome was booby trapped” carried it on board an El Al Flightbound for Lod” where it exploded in the luggage compartment causing “slightdamage.” (Jewish Virtual Library)
1973(18thof Av, 5733): Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born American biochemist and recipientof the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine passed away.
http://www.jewoftheweek.net/?s=Selman+Abraham+Waksman+&submit=Search
1975(9thof Elul, 5735): Parashat, Ki Teitzei
1975(9thof Elul, 5735: Ninety-nine-year-old “Balance Frank Ittleson, a pioneer inmental health care” and the “the widow of Henry Ittleson, founder of theCommercial Credit and Investment Company” passed away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/ittleson-blanche-frank
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/08/17/archives/blanche-ittleson-99-dies-a-pioneer-in-mental-health.html
1976:In Washington, the national convention of Hadassah continued for a second day.
1978:Pitcher Ross Baumgarten makes his major league debut with the White Sox.
1978:In Moscow, the government continued its “anti-Zionist trials” today withAlexander Podrabinek as the prisoner in the dock.
1980(4thof Elul, 5740): Parashat Shoftim
1980:“The Israeli Government is pressing the Carter Administration to reachagreement before the November election on guidelines clarifying the Americanpledge to sell oil to Israel during an emergency.”
1984:Hadassah leader Bernice S. Tannenbaum brought “a five-member delegation” to theWhite House where they “met with President RonaldReagan for 40 minutes over tea, coffee and cookies, to lobby against theresolution linking Zionism and racism.” Reagan agreed “to publicly repudiate”“the United Nations resolution defining Zionism as a ‘form of racism and racialdiscrimination’” and “that the U.S. delegation would walk out of” the U.N.Conference at Nairobi “if the Zionism-equals-racism resolution was included inthe final conference declaration.”
1985:Lieutenant General Sidney T. Weinstein, one of the highest ranking Jewishsoldiers at that time, began serving “as the Deputy Chief of Staff forIntelligence, Headquarters Department of the Army
1985:Birthdate of Bensiyon Songavkar, the Indian born Jewish professional cricketer.
1986:Today, University of Michigan graduate Robert Present Tisch, the Brooklyn bornson of Sadye and Al Tisch and husband of Joan Hyman with whom he had threechildren – Steve, Jonathan and Laurie – “Who was the chairman and—along withhis brother Laurence Tisch—was part owner of the Loews Corporation” wasapponted 68th United States Postmaster General.
1988(3rdof Elul, 5748): Auckland City Councillor Harold Goodman, the husband of DameBarbara Goodman, passed away.
1988: Ed Koch, the Jewish Mayor of New York City sayshe plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers
1988:The New York Times included reviewsof Confessions of a Good Arab by Yoram Kaniuk, translated by Dalya Biluand The Road to Ein Harod by Amos Kenan, translated by Anselm Hollo.
1989:15th of Av, 5749): Tu B’Av
1989:Today, the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a telegram to Israelisecurity forces warning that Hezbollah terrorists were on their way to Brazil“in order commit attacks on diplomatic representatives of Israel.”
1991(6thof Elul, 5751): Sixty-six-year-old “Dr. Gerson D. Cohen, chancellor emeritus ofthe Jewish Theological Seminary” and the husband of scholar Naomi Choen passedaway today.
1992:In Buenos Aires, Ricardo and Silvana Schwartzman gave birth to Tennis ChampionDiego Schwartzman known as “El Peque.”
http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/diego-schwartzman-into-world-top-20-after-winning-rio-open/
1993: The two men who kidnapped Harvey Weinstein, a formalwearmanufacturer and chairman of Lord West Formal Wear are arrested in New Yorkwhen the go to pick up the ransom.Weinstein survives and lives to the ripe old age of 82.
1993(29thof Av, 5753): Eighty-eight-year-old grand prix driver Rene Dreyfus passed awaytoday.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/19/obituaries/rene-dreyfus-auto-racer-88.html
1994: Thefirst ever Papal Nuncio to Israel presented his credentials in Jerusalem
1994(9thof Elul, 5754): Seventy-two-year-old Pennsylvania born WW II Army VeteranAlfred Sachs, the longtime employee of the “Maryland Toll Authority’s HarborTunnel” and husband of Dorothy Sachs passed away today.
1995(20thAv, 5755): Sixty-six-year-old newspaper executive Stanley Asimov, the brotherof Isaac Asimov passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/17/obituaries/stanley-asimov-66-newsday-executive.html
1995:Seven months after premiering at Sundance, “The Usual Suspects” a dark crime moviedirected by Bryan Singer and filmed by cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel wasreleased in the United States today.
1996(1st ofElul, 5756): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1996(1stof Elul, 5676): Forty-seven-year-old composer Miles Goodman passed away today.
http://america.pink/miles-goodman_3015112.html
1996: “TheFan” a film that takes a dark look at celebrity produced by Wendy Fineman, withmusic by Hans Zimmer and co-starring Ellen Barkin was released in the UnitedStates today by TriStar Pictures.
1998: The New York Times featured a review of The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and theBirth of Public Relations byLarry Tye. Bernays is the Austrian bornJew who was the nephew of Sigmund Freud.
2000(15th of Av, 5760): Tu B’Av observed for the first time inthe 21st century.
2000(15th of Av, 5760): Rabbi Chanoch Dov Padow, the Galicianborn son of ToybePadwa and R’Eleazar Wolf Padwa” the Jerusalem rabbi who led London’s HarediJewish community for half a century passed away today.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1368138/Rabbi-Chanoch-Padwa.html
2000: Adocumentary film entitled “The Ballad of Rambling Jack Elliot” about the lifeof Brooklyn native Elliott Adnopoz the son of a middle class Jewish doctor whotransformed himself into a musical iconoclast opens at the Film Forum. The film was written and directed by hisdaughter Aiyana Elliot.
2001: Osama el-Baz “1Egypt's top foreignpolicy official warned today that the Bush administration's ''inaction'' in theMiddle East could allow extremists to take hold in moderate Arab countries” and“this would be a consequence far graver than the administration's apparentfear, he said, of risking its prestige with an Israeli-Palestinian peaceinitiative.”
2002: “The Adventures of Pluto Nash” a comedy produced by Martin Bregmanreleased in the United States today.
2002: As proclaimed by Mayor Martin O’Malley and Governor Parris N.Glendening today was observed as Eli Siegel Day.
https://aestheticrealism.org/eli-siegel-day-carrie-wilson-edward-green/
2002(8th of Elul,5762): Martin Deutsch the American physicist who studied positronium passedaway. Positronium is a temporary state in the decay of the positron which isthe antiparticle of the electron (and that is more than I really know aboutthis.)
2003: Idid Amin, theformer President of Uganda who had been trained as a paratrooper by theIsraelis and who provided a safe haven for the Palestinian hijackers in 1976passed away today.
2004: As“the ferment” produced by “Israel’s intention to withdraw unilaterally from theGaza Strip in a year” “Yasir Arafat survived the latest challenge to hisauthority from a younger generation of frustrated politicians, outmaneuveringan American favorite, Muhammad Dahlan, 42, a former security chief.” (Asreported by Steven Erlanger)
2005: Theevacuation of Gaza continued for a second day.
2005: TheJerusalem Post reported that Britain had played a major role in Israel’sdevelopment of a nuclear capability in the late 1950’s. According to the Post, the government of Prime Minister Harold McMillan sold 20 tonsof heavy water (necessary for making weapons grade plutonium) in 1958.
2006:As part of the cease-fire agreement, Israeli troops turn control of territoryin Lebanon over to UNIFL. At the sametime, in one of those many ironies of history, the army of Lebanon returns tothe southern part of the country for the first time since the 1970’s thanks tothe attacks of the IDF on Hezbollah strongholds.
2007:Israel and the United States signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the newAmerican defense package for Israel. Under the new aid agreement, the U.S. willtransfer $30 billion to Israel over 10 years, compared with $24 billion overthe past decade. The aid deal signed at represents a 25 percent rise in U.S.military aid to Israel. Israel is slated to receive the first pay out inOctober 2008, amounting to $2.55 billion. That sum will grow each year by $150million, until it reaches $3.1 billion in 2011.
2008:At Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Bar Mitzvah of Daniel Finn.
2008: Today, Itai Magidi will be the first Israeli totake part in the athletics competitions, running the 3000m Steeplechasequalifiers and all seven of Israel's sailors are scheduled to race at theBeijing Olympics.
2008, Martha Nussbaum—University of Chicagoprofessor and Boston Review contributing editor—became a bat mitzvah “in a service at Temple K. A. M. Isaiah Israelin Chicago's Hyde Park, chanting from the Parashah Va-etchanan and the HaftarahNahamu, and delivering a D'var Torah about the connection between genuine,non-narcissistic consolation and the pursuit of global justice.”
2009: The Washington Post features reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Rashiby Elie Wiesel.
2009: TheMassachusetts secretary of state’s office has rejected a proposed settlement byan investment firm to repay nearly $6 million to state investors who lost moneyin Bernard L. Madoff’s fraudulent investment scheme.
2009: “Can Game Theory Predict When Iran Will Getthe Bomb” published today describes Bruce Bueno de Mesquita’s answer to thisquestion.
2009: Led by his widow, Betty Levin, a true AshishChayil, the family and friends of Dr. Jacob Levin, of blessed memory, gather todedicate a classroom named in his honor at North Suburban Beth ElSynagogue. Dr. Levin taught in this roomfor several years and his time as a Religious School teacher was but oneexample of his contributions to the Jewish community. He will always bemissed. He will always be remembered.
2010: KlezKanadais scheduled to open in Lantier, Quebec.
2010: An IDFsoldier was lightly wounded today in clashes with Palestinian terrorists in theGaza Strip.
2010: A bombsquad checked out two unattended suitcases outside the consulate Mondaymorning, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Police cordoned off part ofWilshire Boulevard, where the consulate and other Jewish organizations arelocated, for several hours. Police declared the area safe shortly after noonPacific time, according to reports. As videos of closed-off streets begansurfacing on YouTube, police told several news agencies of the bomb threat. Thecity's Israeli Consulate has been the target of previous bomb threats. On Dec.18, 2007, the entire building, which houses the consulate, the Jewish Agencyfor Israel, Young Judea and the Israeli Scouts, was evacuated due to a bombthreat that was later found to be a false alarm.
2011: Today is therelease date for The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbathby Senator Joe Lieberman
2011: Today, “in ajailhouse interview with Yahoo! Sports, Nevin Shaprio” who was imprisoned forrunning a huge Ponzi scheme” made good on the promise for the revelationsexposing a lack of NCAA-mandated institution oversight at” the University ofMiami “which allowed his illegal and unethical behaviors to continue unimpededfor years.”
2011: The 2ndAvenue Deli reopened at its new location on 1st Avenue and 75th Street in theUpper East Side much to the joy of those who enjoy the best kosher meat knishesand tongue sandwiches imaginable.
2011: Wendy Turman, JHSGWCurator/Archivist is scheduled to deliver “an illustrated lecture tracing thehistory of the Jewish community in the Washington area from the arrival of thefirst Jewish Washingtonian in 1795 to today, when the region's Jewish communityhas grown to more than 215,000 people.
2011:Representativesfrom the National Union of Israeli Students and leaders of the tent cityprotest movement met this morning with former chief rabbi of Israel and currentHead Rabbi of Tel Aviv Yisrael Lau, where they held a discussion on the ongoingsocial justice protests.
2011: Israel'sparliament interrupted its summer recess today to debate popular protestsagainst high living costs but there seemed to be little sense of urgency amongthe smattering of lawmakers, some of whom tapped away on mobile phones andiPads. During the session dozens of protesters tried to break into the buildingthrough the back gate. Knesset Guard officers held them back but theconfrontation soon turned violent.
2012: The Knesset isscheduled to convene in a special session during its summer recess to approveAvi Dichter as Home Front Defense Minister (As reported by the Jerusalem Post.)
2012(28th of Av): Yarhtzeit ofLarry Rosenstein – gone to soon but never forgotten
2012(28th ofAv): HaRav Akiva Ehrenfeld, president of the Chasam Sofer Institutions in theU.S. and President of Kiryat Mattersdorf passed away tonight at Shaare ZedekMedical Center and was buried that night on Har HaMenuchot near the grave ofhis father
http://www.chareidi.org/archives5772/shoftim/arehrnfldshf72.htm
2012: Bulgarian policereleased a computer-generated image and a fake driver's license photo of a manbelieved to be an accomplice in the bombing of an Israeli tour bus in Burgasthat killed six. (As reported by JTA)
2012: “Shimon Peres,Israel’s president and elder statesman, spoke out against the prospect of alone Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, a message thatcontradicts the hawkish, go-it-alone line emanating from the offices ofIsrael’s prime minister and defense minister.” (As reported by Isabel Kirshner)
2012: Police resumed searching for the remains ofGrad rockets in the desert outside Eilat this morning, hours after two loudblasts rocked the resort town.
2013: In Montgomery, AL, the Capri Community FilmSociety is scheduled to show “Fill the Void,” a cinematic treatment of the lifeof a Chasidic family from Tel Aviv.
2013: Amir Levy is scheduled to perform at the NewYork International Fringe Festival.
2013: Seven months after premiering at the SundanceFilm Festival, “Jobs” a biopic co-starring Jose Gad as “Steve Wozniak” andfeaturing Brett Gelman and Lesley Ann Warren was released in the United Statestoday.
2013: In Herndon, VA, Congregation Beth Emeth isscheduled to host a special Shabbat Community BBQ where everybody can meet thenew Rabbi – Michelle Goldsmith.
2013: In “Israel Keeps a Wary Eye on Turmoil inEgypt” published today, Isabel Kershner describes the Jewish state’s reactionto the violence going on within its neighbor with which it signed a peacetreaty that has held for more than three decades.
2014:In Mandeville, LA, the Northshore Jewish Congregation (NJC) is scheduled tohost “Havdalah on the River” to help welcome Rabbi Deborah Zecher who will beleading the congregation’s High Holiday Services.
2014:The Historic 6th & I Synagogue is scheduled to host #NoFilterfeaturing Grace Helbig, Hannah Hart and Mamrie Hart
2014:“A Hamas official today threatened Israel with a prolonged war of attrition ifthe group’s terms for a permanent ceasefire agreement, currently beingnegotiated in indirect talks in Cairo, are not met.” (As reported by Times ofIsrael)
2014:Following a declaration by Fatah’s military wing to “increase its terrorattacks against Israeli citizens” tonight Arab terrorists threw a Molotovco*cktail at an Israeli car near Bethlehem inflicting first and second degreeburns on the 40 year old driver who was also hit by stones.(As reported byUziBaruch and Ari Yashar)
2014:“Over ten thousand people assembled in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square tonight for thelargest pro-peace rally the country has seen since the start of the war in Gazain early July.”
2014:By today, the 101st anniversary of the birth of Menachem Begin, theIsrael State Archives, the Israel State Archives will have published “acollection of documents on the life the former Prime Minister best known as theleader of the Irgun and the signatory for the 1973 peace accords with Egypt.
http://israelsdocuments.blogspot.com/search/label/1913
2015(1st of Elul, 5775): Rosh Chodesh Elul
2015(1st of Elul, 5775): Eighty-two-year-oldart collector Melva Bucksbaum, whose first hubsband had been Iowa shoppingcenter and real estate mogul Martin Bucksbaum, passed away today. (As reportedby Sam Roberts)
2015(1st of Elul, 5775): Sixty-eight-year-oldJacob Bekenstein, the “physicist who revolutionized the theory of Black Holes”passed away today. (As reported byDennis Overbye)
2015(1st of Elul, 5775): One hundred fourteenyear old, “Goldie Steinberg, reportedly the world’s oldest Jew” passed awaytoday.
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/192938/goldie-steinberg-reportedly-the-worlds-oldest-jew-dies-at-114
2015: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authorsand/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Patricia Drucker’sSophie and the Sibyl in which “a novelist imagines an incident that inspiredGeorge Eliot’s Daniel Deronda which portrayed the concepts of what would becomeZionism in a positive light and Alice Hoffman’s The Marriage of Opposites, “anovel inspired by the painter Camille Pissarro’s parents.”
2015: UK Jewish Film which “aims todevelop a culture where Jewish and Israeli film is recognised and enjoyed bythe widest possible audience, and to bring Jewish related film to the heart ofBritish culture” is scheduled to host a screening of “She’s Funny That Way.”
2015: In Kiryas Joel, the school yearis scheduled to begin for the children whose parents have signed an affidavitstating “We the parents are confirming in writing that ourcellphones/smartphones are in accordance to the rules of the community and yeshiva,according to the guidance of our holy grand rabbi and the judge. We alsoconfirm that we do not possess in our home another cellphone/smartphone exceptfor the ones mentioned above.” (A reported by Brian Shaefer)
2015: The Illinois Holocaust &Education Center is scheduled to present “Soviet Composers Discovering A JewishSound” featuring violinist David Lisker, pianist Ani Gogovo and cellist RichardHirschl.
2015: The Jewish Museum of Marylandis scheduled to show “An American Tail,” the classic animation that “followsthe story of Fievel a young Russian mouse, who while emigrating to the UnitedStates, gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying tosurvive in a new country.”
2016: Today, “The Beth Din of Americawas added to the list of defendants in a $100 million class action suit againstRabbi Barry Freundel, the prominent Washington, D.C., spiritual leader who wasconvicted of secretly videotaping women in his synagogue’s ritual bath, andseveral Jewish institutions.”
2016: In Memphis, TN, Temple Israelis scheduled to host a session of “Don’t Worry, Be Happy! - The SpiritualWisdom of Judaism in Reducing Stress.”
2016: “Jewish-American gymnast AlyRaisman won the silver medal at the 2016 Rio Games today, competing againstteammate and reigning world champion Simone Biles who took gold.”
2016: “The Kind Words” a film byShemi Zarhin which has been “nominated for 12 Ophir Awards” is scheduled to beshown in Tacoma, Washington.
2017: Avraham Tal, a judge on Voiceof Israel is scheduled to host Rishon LeZion born singer and rapper Muki at theJerusalem Arts and Crafts Fair.
2017: “Jerusalem’s Tower of David isscheduled to host a White Night of music, art, and design in the largest eventof its kind in Israel this evening.
2017: In Cedar Rapids, the HadassahBook Club is scheduled to discuss Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner.
2017: The “organizers of the Marchfor Racial Justice” issued “a lengthy statement in which it said that the group“was unaware that the September 30 date it chose for its march” was the JewishDay of Atonement but that the date which has just been announced a few days agocould not be changed.
2017: Stephen Allen Schwarzman, thefounder of The Blackstone Group completed his service as the Chairman of theStrategic and Policy Forum today.
2018:In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the final screening of “Through Lotte’sLens” a documentary that tells the extraordinary story of the ‘Hitler Émigrés’,the refugees – mainly Jewish who escaped the Nazi regime in the 1930s and foundrefuge in the UK.”
2018:The report of “police officers foiling a stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s OldCity last week” “was cleared for publication today.
2018:“At the Security Cabinet Meeting” today “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahupresented a document titled "Security model 2030" which outlines thenew budgetary additions to the country's security budget, has been formulatedby Netanyahu over the past couple of years.” (As reported by Itamar Eichner)
2018:At UIHC, during GI/Hepatology Division Grand Rounds, Dr. Robert Silber was thepresenter for “Didactic: ‘Reflective Analysis of Clinical Behavior.’”
2019(15thof Av, 5779): Tu B’Av or in English simply the 15th Day of Av whichwas “originally a post-biblical day of joy, that served as a matchmaking dayfor unmarried women in the second Temple period which went virtually unnoticedfor almost 2,000 years before being “rejuvenated in recent decades, especiallyin Israel as Jewish Day of Love which at least one sabra likened to Valentine’sDay but which has “no formal legal status.”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/tubav.html
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/53680/jewish/15th-of-Av.htm
http://www.israeldailypicture.com/
2019:One-hundred sixth anniversary of the birth of Menachem Begin, the Nobel PeacePrize winner who went from leading the Jewish revolt against British rule togambling on the promises of the Egyptian President that he would keep his wordabout peace after he got back the Sinai.
2019:In Tel Aviv, “the Whiskey Bar Milk and Honey” is scheduled to host “afun-filled romantic Valentine’s evening sipping local whiskey.”
2019:In Seattle, WA, the Crest Cinema is scheduled to host a special screening of“The Spy Behind Home Plate.”
2019:The JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to lead a tour of the “Queens ofEgypt” at the National Geographic Museum.
2020:In an interview with YNET today, Dr. Ronni Gamzu, “Israel’s coronavirus czar”criticized what he said was the Arab community’s failure to prevent the spreadof the virus and the later “apologized” saying his words had beenmisunderstood.” (As reported by JTA)
https://www.jta.org/quick-reads
2021:Judy Batalion, author of The Light of Days: The Untold Story of WomenResistance Fighters is scheduled to speak on the Nonfiction and CreativeNonfiction panel at the Bryant Park Reading Room in New York.
2021:At the virtual “Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards Ceremony” 15 exceptional teensfrom across the nation are scheduled to be honored for their leadership andphilanthropy work and awarded with a $36,000 stipend each.
2021:Jonathan Sarna is scheduled to be one of the speakers at the National EducatorsInstitute sponsored by the National Museum of American Jewish History whichbegins today.
2021: Based on reports published last nightthat coronavirus infection rates among Israelis over the age of 60 seemed tohave declined in recent days, today Israel has the hope that “its vaccinebooster shot campaign may succeed in staving off severe illness.” (As reportedby Yaron Druckman,and Adir Yanko)
2022: In Boston, the Jewish Alliance For Lawand Social Actions is scheduled to present “An Evening of Art and Activism.”
2022:The Museum on Eldridge Street is scheduled to host another session of “Make Yourself at Home! Home, Exile, andReturn in the Hebrew Bible,” a lecture by Scholar-in-Residence Dr. ReginaStein.
2022: The Illinois Holocaust Museum, the Nancy& David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center; Evanston Public Library; TheSelfhelp Home are scheduled to host a lunch and learn “The Watchmakers,” a “conversationwith Scott Lenga in which he recounts the moving and harrowing story of theHolocaust through the eyes of his father and two uncles – the Lenga brothers,three young men whose watchmaking skills, rudimentary tools, and anentrepreneurial spark – helped them survive Nazi concentration camps and staytogether despite the odds.
https://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/events/lunch-learn-the-watchmakers/
2022:The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to hostthe second session of the NationalEducators Institute which will cover “The Art and Science of Teaching JewishHistory in America.”
2022:While Israelis bask in the glow of yesterday’s track triumphs at the EuroChampionships in Munich, they must also deal with last month’s “increase inconsumer price index which brings Israel’s yearly inflation rate to 5.2%.”
2023: The BostonSynagogue is scheduled to present “Camp NexGen: Old School Fun.”
2023: The Yiddish TheatreEnsemble and KlezCalifornia is scheduled to present “Between Worlds,” a “play based on the life and poetry of Holocaustsurvivor Irena Klepfisz, about the transformative power of poetry and awriter’s journey facing the traumas of war, displacement and identity.”
2023: Writer Haim Be’eris scheduled to deliver at lecture on “Agnon’s German Stories: ‘Another Faces’”at Beit Agnon in Jerusalem.
https://mailchi.mp/01427108e2e7/05x5v34yno-282700?e=b0fbcc2d98
2023: The StreickerCenter hosts a screening of “ Mamma Mia” as part of its Movies Under the Starsseries.
2024: Katrina Armstrongbegins her service as the new interim President of Columbia following the resignation of Nemat Shafik whose departurewas triggered by her response to pro-Palestinian and anti-Semitic at this IvyLeague one of whose earliest students was Alexander Hamilton.
2024: Gaza truce talksare scheduled to continue today in Doha.
2024: The Jewish BabyNetwork is scheduled to host Shabbat in the Park, in Oakland’s Dover Park.
2024: In Palo Alto, CA,Congregation Kol Emeth is scheduled to host an “Outdoor Shabbat Picnic.”
2024:AsAugust 16th begins in Israel, anunprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters callingfor Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps theUnited States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 315 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluidfor this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting atmidnight Israeli time)
