September 21
19 BCE:Virgil, the classical Roman poet passes away. Eclogue 4, the so-calledMessianic Eclogue, is the best known of Virgil’s Eclogues or “Selected Poemsalso known as Bucolics or “Pastorals.. Written in 40 B.C., during the consulshipof Pollio, Virgil's benefactor a year or two previously, it hails the birth ofa baby boy who will usher in a golden age of peace and prosperity in which evennature herself will participate. The golden age is the new era of peace forwhich Augustus was responsible, and the child is thought to be the expectedoffspring of Augustus and Scribonia (the infant turned out to be a girl). Thesimilarity of language in the poem to that of the Book of Isaiah gave rise tothe idea, in the early Christian period, that the fourth Eclogue was indeed aprophecy of the birth of Christ. The similarity may be due to the fact thatJewish ideas spread over Italy in the second half of the first century B.C.,and Virgil may have used his acquaintance with them to express the Romanequivalent of a Messianic expectation.
1104: Thefirst synagogue in Speyer was consecrated today, “eleven years after the pogromof 1096.
1177: Castileconquered Cuenca, Spain.
1235: Thereign of Andrew II of Hungary whose employment of Jews and Muslims toadminister the royal revenues led him into conflict with the Holy See and theHungarian prelates” came to an end today.
1348: The Jewsof Switzerland were charged with perpetuation of the Black Death epidemic.There were riots in Bern Chilon and Zurich. Jews held at Chilion were tortureduntil they "confessed" to having poisoned wells in the area aroundVenice, Italy. Many Swiss Jews were burned to death during the riots whileothers were expelled from their respective cities after the violence hadsubsided. The Black Death was supposed to have been caused by poisoned wellsand the Jews were the responsible for poisoning the wells. Of course, the BlackDeath was really Bubonic Plague, but the ignorant found it convenient to blamethe Jews for any inexplicable ill that befell them.
1451: Jews ofArnhem were ordered to wear the Jew-badge by the Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, theCardinal for that part of Holland.
1451,Cardinal Nicolaus de Cusa preached in Arnhem on absolution, and declared thatnone should ever receive absolution who permitted a Jew practising usury todwell alongside of or below him. At the same time he ordered, under penalty ofexpulsion, that all Jews should register at the burgomaster's office, and infuture wear a Jew-badge upon their outer garment. They were not allowed toexact interest on pledges, nor henceforth to lend money to Christians at all;every transgression of this regulation was punishable with a fine of 4 g. to bepaid by both Jew and Christian. Within the space of a year all existingloan-offices must be closed without stringency upon borrowers; and Jews mustleave the city, unless they earn their bread by labor and honest commercewithout usury, and wear a badge for recognition by all ("Oir broet methoeren Arbeide verdienen of regtveerdige koomanschap sonder woekeren, doenwolden, en mits zy dat Teyken boven heur Cleeden dragen, daer men se bi kennenmach"). Meanwhile it was ordered that no one should do them any injury byday or night, openly or secretly.
1486: Sixty-eight-year-oldJohannes Hinderbach, the Prince-Bishop of Trent who blamed the Jews for thedeath of Simon of Trent which was his justification for murdering “several ofthem” and working to canonize the boy in what was one of many of the bloodlibels, passed away today.
1553: TheTalmud was confiscated and publicly burned in Rome under the auspices ofCardinal Caraffa, later to be Pope Paul IV, a rabid counter-Reformationist. TheCardinal chose this day specifically because it was Rosh Hashanah so the Jewswould feel the grief more strongly. Talmud burning would spread to other partsof Italy.
1558: CharlesV, Holy Roman Emperor, passed. Charles wore two hats, or should we say twocrowns. While he was the Holy Roman Emperor he was also King of Spain. As theSpanish monarch he continued to enforce the ban against Jews living in hisrealm. But as Holy Roman Emperor, his rule over German Jewry was such that they“regarded the emperor as their benefactor and protector against theProtestants.”
1618(12thof Tishrei, 5379): In Holland, Dona Ester, wife of Moses Peixotto passed away.Her tombstone provides us with one of the earliest records of the Peixottos, aprominent Sephardic family who came to the United States in the first decade ofthe 19th century.
1645(1st ofTishrei, 5406): In Mogilev, Russia, rioters attacked the Jews during Tashlikhservices.
1676: InnocentXI begins his Papacy. “Innocent showed a degree of sensitivity in his dealingswith the Jews within the Italian States. He compelled the city of Venice torelease the Jewish prisoners taken by Francesco Morisini in 1685. He alsodiscouraged compulsory baptisms, which accordingly became less frequent underhis pontificate; but he could not abolish the old practice altogether. Morecontroversially he issued an edict by which all the money-lending activitiescarried out by the Roman Jews were to cease. Such a move would incidentallyhave financially benefitted his own brothers who played a dominant role inEuropean money-lending. However ultimately convinced that such a measure wouldcause much misery in destroying livelihoods, the enforcement of the edict was twicedelayed.
1677:Spanish born Dutch-Jewish printer Joseph b. Abraham Athias “succeeded, through a Jewish agent of thePolish crown in Holland, Simon by name, in gaining still more favorableprotection from the Council of the Four Lands at their meeting today inJaroslaw which since 1591 had been the meeting site for the Council, alternatingwith Lwow, for the honor.
1710(Elul,5470): Hodel, daughter of Moshe Kikinish of Lemberg, died a martyr's deathafter falsely confessing to blood-ritual charges in order to save the lives ofother Jews.
1723: Jamaicanative Grace Mears and Moses Raphael Levy gave birth to Hannah Levy.
1731: Jewswere granted the right to attend fairs in Smolensk provided that they limittheir transactions to wholesale business.
1734: Abrahamde Lyon, the Portuguese born son of Jacob de Leon and his wife Esther de Lyongave birth to Abraham de Leon.
1743(14thof Tishrei, 5504): Erev Sukkoth
1743(14thof Tishrei, 5504): Samuel Myers Cohen, the son of Emanuel Myers Cohen thehusband or Rachel Asher Levy and the father of Rebecca and Richea who “was elected constable in New York Cityin 1730,passed away today after which he was buried in the Third Cemetery ofCongregation Shearith Israel, in Manhattan.
1755(16thof Tishrei, 5516): Sukkot Second Day
1755: InLondon, Esther Hannah Magood Montefiore, the Italian born daughter of Judah Montefiore,and her husband Moses Vita-Haim Montefiore Medina gave birth to DavidMontefiore.
1758: InParis, Abraham Silvestre who was “of Jewish origin” and his wife gave birth tolinguist and orientalist Silvestre de Sacy who prepared texts for the Britishand Foreign Bible Society.
1759(29th ofElul, 5519): Erev Rosh Hashanah observed for the first time with British nowholding Quebec City which is one step on the road to creation of the Jewishcommunity in Canada.
1765(6thof Tishrei, 5526): Shabbat Shuva
1766: In Philadelphia,Martha Lampley and Samson Levy gave birth to Daniel Levy.
1768(10thof Tishrei, 5529): Yom Kippur observed as citizens of Massachusetts prepare toexpress the opposition to British troops being sent to the colony in what wasone of the steps down the road to the American Revolution.
1770(2ndof Tishrei, 5531): Second Day of Rosh Hashana
1774(16thof Tishrei, 5535): Second Day of Sukkoth observed for the first time while theContinental Congress was meeting in Philadelphia.
1776(8thof Tishrei): Shabbat Shuvah
1776: Duringthe British occupation of New York, a fire broke out that destroyedapproximately 25% of the city – a fire that the British claimed was started todisrupt their forces and that the Americans claimed the British started so that they could loot the city,most of whose Jewish inhabitants had fled with the departure of Americanforces.
1777: Germannatives Johanna Ullman and Jacob Dreifus gave birth to Samuel Dreifus.
1778(29th of Elul, 5538): Erev RoshHashanah observed for the last time while Henry Laurens was servings as 5thPresident of the Continental Congress.
1779:Birthdate of Count Wedel Jarlsberg, a Norwegian noble who supported banningJews from his country.
1784(6thof Tishrei, 5545): Haham Moses Cohen d'Azevedo, the Amsterdam born son ofDaniel David Cohen d'Azevedo and Sara Cohen d'Azevedo and husband of Sara deHaham Moses Cohen D'Azevedo and Sara de Abraham Cohen D'Azevedo passed awaytoday in London.
1787(9thof Tishrei, 5548): Kol Nidre chanted four days after “members of theConstitutional Convention signed the final draft of the Constitution.”
1789(1st ofTishrei, 5550): Jews celebrate Rosh Hashanah for the first time under thePresidency of George Washington.
1793(15thof Tishrei, 5554): Sukkoth
1793: InGeorgetown, SC, “Solomon and Rebecca (Moses) Harby gave birth U.S. Navy officerand War of
1797(1stof Tishrei, 5558): Rosh Hashanah observed for the first time during thePresident of John Adams.
1799(21stof Elul, 5559): Liel Selichot observed on the same day that President JohnAdams wrote to Secretary of State Timothy Pickering concerning negotiationswith Britain and France who were at war with each other.
1800(2ndof Tishrei, 5561): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah observed for the last timeduring the Presidency of John Adams.
1801(14thof Tishrei, 5562): Erev Sukkoth
1802: Anti-Jewishriots took place in Switzerland. Five centuries have passed since the blackplague but the Swiss behavior remained unchanged.
1802: InEaston, PA, Sarah Hart and Isaac Nunez Cardozo gave birth to Abigail NunezCardozo, the wife of Hayman Levy Seixas with whom she had nine children.
1804(16thof Tishrei, 5565): Second Day of Sukkoth
1804: InVirginia, L. Joseph & Company is scheduled to be closed today because of“their uniform practice to do no business on days ordained by Mosaic Law to beholy.”
1805(27thof Elul, 5566): Parashat Nitzavim read on the same day that several of the men,traveling with Lewis and Clark were reported “growing weak for the want offood” as the are camping on Lolo Creek in what is now Idaho
1806(9thof Tishrei, 5567): Kol Nidre
1808(29thof Elul, 5568): Erev Rosh Hashanah observed for the last time during thePresidency of Thomas Jefferson.
1811(3rdof Tishrei, 5572): Parashat Ha’Azinu; Shabbat Shuvah
1812(15th ofTishrei, 5573): First Day of Sukkoth
1812: LeviCharles Meyers Harby, who served in the “Texas Navy” during its war forindependence and in the Confederate Navy during the Civil War while findingtime to marry “Leonora Rebecca De Lyon, a member of the prominent Jewish familyfrom Savanah with whom he had three children.
1815:William I, whose father William V, the last Stadtholder was supported by theDutch Jews, was “inaugurated” asof King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
1819(2ndof Tishrei, 5580): Second Day of Rosh Hashana
1820(13thof Tishrei): Eighty-two-year-old Solomon Avigdor Moses passed away today afterwhich he was buried at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1822(6thof Tishrei, 5583): Shabbat Shuvah
1823(16thof Tishrei, 5584): Second Day of Sukkoth
1825(9th ofTishrei, 5585): Erev Yom Kippur observed for the first time during thePresidency of John Q. Adams.
1826:“Professor Hyman Hurwitz and Myers Joseph composed odes” for today’sconsecration service for The Western Synagogue in London which had been“arranged by Myer Solomon.
1827(29thof Elul, 5587): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1830: SamuelWiggins and Dinah Elizabeth Leoi who lived to the age of 61, were marriedtoday.
1831(14thof Tishrei, 5592): Erev Sukkoth
1833(8thof Tishrei, 5594): Shabbat Shuva
1836(10thof Tishrei, 5597): Yom Kippur
1836: JosephSamuels led services in the newly dedicated synagogue in Cincinnati, Ohio – thefirst such structure in the Queen City.
1838(2ndof Tishrei, 5599): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1838:Privileges granted the Jews of Sweden were revoked by the Swedish government.
1841: HassocksGate Railway Station which was designed by Anglo-Jewish architect David Mocattaopened today.
1842:Henrietta Delgado and David Judah Alberga gave birth to Theresa Alberga.
1842:Birthdate of Ottoman Sultan Murad V. During his reign, Jews migrated to Turkeyafter the signing of the Berlin Treaty. Also, his Jewish subjects celebratedthe 400th anniversary of their arrival from Spain. It took three tries, butHerzl finally got an audience with the Sultan in 1902 during which he makes hiscase for a Jewish Homeland under the protection of the Sultan.
1842:Birthdate of John B. Weber, Civil War veteran and New York Congressman who wasappointed the first Commissioner of Immigration at the Port of New York in 1890which meant he had a major impact on the flood of Jewish immigrants fromeastern Europe – deciding in some cases who could stay and who had to bereturned. Weber joined Dr. Walter Kempster in visiting Russia and preparing anofficial report on the conditions of the Jews living in that country and thepurposeful policy of deprivation and discrimination pursued by the Czar toimpoverish the Jews and force them to immigrate to the United States.
1843: InBromberg, Prussia, Moses Nathan Silberberg and Pauline Pulvermacher gave birthto Max Silberberg the husband of Dora Feder who came to the United States in1859, served in the Union Army and served for several years in the Ohio StateLegislature, representing a district from Cincinnati.
1845: Henry M. and Frances “Fanny” FrancksHirschberg gave birth to Newburgh, NY resident Georgina Hirschberg the sisterof Isabella and Judge Michael Henry Hirschberg.
1846(1stof Tishrei, 5607): In the first year of the Mexican-American War, Jews observeRosh Hashanah
1847:Birthdate of Yitzhak Isaac Halevy Rabinowitz the “rabbi, Jewish historian, andfounder of the Agudath Israel organization” who was raised by his grandfatherMordechai Eliezer Kovno, “after his father was killed by soldiers.”
1850(15th ofTishrei, 5611): Sukkoth
1853: RabbiJ.J. Lyons officiated at the wedding of T. Jefferson Tobias of Charleston, SCto Adelaide Hendricks, the daughter of Uriah Hendricks of New York City.
1853(18thof Elul, 5613): Elizabeth Gershon, the London born daughter of Zipporah andAaron Nathan Cohen and the wife of Samuel Gershon with whom she had sevenchildren passed away today.
1853: “GreatBritain: London Trade-American Sewing Machines” published today reported “ifthe clothing firm of E. Moses and Son has not begun using the sewing machine inits tailoring operation, it soon will, since the firm is always looking forways to be be more cost effective.” “London clothier Elias Moses was the firstto pioneer a retail model of massive advertising and deep discounts to create ahigh-volume business in low-margin ready-to-wear clothing…The Moses &Son store even looked different, fitted with” the “ then unheard-of plate-glassdisplay windows out front and fixed prices on clothing inside. But after thefather passed away, and the son retired, the store rather lost is heart. Whenthe son of Moses and Son died in 1884, the Times of London mourned, ‘The largepremises at Aldgate and Oxford Street know the name of E. Moses and Son nomore.’”
1855(9thof Tishrei, 5616): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre chanted for the last time duringthe Crimean War which would end in March of 1856.
1857: InWarsaw, OH, Nathan and Henrietta Becker gave birth to businessman AbrahamBecker, the husband of Katherine Becker with whom he had four children.
1857: Berthaand Marcus Goldman gave birth to Henry Goldman who joined Goldman Sachs &Co in 1885 where he “helped list retail companies like Sears and Woolworth” andhe refinanced Studebaker. He left thecompany during World War I over his support for Germany an attitude that wouldchange when he visited the country when the Nazis came to power and became atireless worker to help German Jewish intellectuals and children escape to theUnited States.
1857: Fourdays after he had passed away, 89-year-old Moses Mocatta was buried at theBalls Bond Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1858: InPhiladelphia, PA, Rebecca Baehr married Julius Israel of Camden, SC.
1859: BenjaminSzold arrived in the United States and began serving as the Rabbi for OhebShalom in Baltimore, Maryland. He would serve in that capacity until his deathin 1902. Szold moved the congregation from Minhag America (Reform) to MinchagAshekenaz (Traditional). For all of his own accomplishments, his greatest claimto fame may be that he was the father of Henrietta Szold.
1860: Seventy-two-year-oldGerman philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer who called the Jews "The GreatMaster of Lies" passed away today.
1863: At itsmeeting today the Board of Alderman referred to the Committee on Donations andCharities the Report of Committee on Finance, with resolution that theComptroller be directed to dispose of the following ground, belonging to theCorporation, and located adjoining the Orphan Asylum of the Hebrew BenevolentSociety, on Seventy-seventh-street, and extending from the westerly line orside of said Orphan Asylum to the easterly line or side of Lexington-avenue.being in extent one hundred and thirty-five feet front and rear, by one hundredfeet deep to the said- Hebrew Benevolent Society, to be held by the saidSociety upon the same tenure or conditions as the twelve lots of groundheretofore granted to the Bifid Society; the grant hereby made to said Societyto be sanctioned by the Legislature of the State at its next or any subsequentsession, in order to perfect the title thereto in the aforesaid Society, and toobviate the prohibition contained in the forty-first section of the AmendedCharter of one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in respect to disposingof the property or franchises of the City.
1864: InBaltimore, MD, “Dr. Aaron Friedenwald and Bertha Bamberger gave birth to JohnsHopkins alum Dr. Harry Friedenwald, the College of Physicians and Surgeonsgraduate and husband of Bertha Stein who was President of the AmericanFederation of Zionists and trustee of the Jewish Theological Seminary ofAmerica.
1865(1stof Tishrei, 5626): American Jews celebrate Rosh Hashanah for the first timeduring the Presidency of Andrew Johnson
1866: Emanueland Karolina Dreifuss gave birth to Nathan Dreifuss who died six months later.
1867:Birthdate of American statesman, Henry Stimson. By the time he passed away in1950, Stimson had amassed an incredible record of public service servingPresidents from Teddy Roosevelt to Harry Truman. Stimson served as Secretary ofWar from 1940 through 1945. This meant that he was the cabinet member whooversaw the Army and Army Air Force in the successful defeat of the Axismilitary. Towards the end of the war, there were some in the Rooseveltadministration who circulating a resolution opposing creation of a Jewish statein Palestine. Stimson came out against this move which helped to smother it ata time when American support for a Jewish state was a hotly debated issue inthe halls of government.
1869: InMayen, Prussia, Barbara and Benedict Loeb to Dr. Leo Loeb who “developed anexperimental approach to studying cancer and pioneered techniques for tissueculture and in vitro tissue transplantation which impacted early-to-midtwentieth century experimental embryology.”
https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/leo-loeb-1869-1959
1870: InCharleston, SC, Rabbi J.H.M. Chumaceiro officiated at the wedding of S.C.Peixtto of Columbia, SC and Hortense Levy, the “eldest daughter of Max Levy.”
1870: According to the Teachers’ Reading Room and Exchange in Manhattan thereare 7 Hebrew Schools below 59th Street with a total enrollment of 1,147 and 47teachers.
1871(6th ofTishrei, 5632): Sixty-four-year-old Rabbi Mendel Hess passed away. Born in1807, at Lengsfeld (now Stadtlengsfeld), Saxe-Weimar he was a German rabbi.Hewas one of the 1st Jewish theologians to combine a university education withTalmudical training. From 1828 until his death he was chief rabbi of the grandduchy of Weimar, residing first at Lengsfeld and later at Eisenach. Althoughthe measure had aroused great dissatisfaction among the Jews, he strictlyenforced the decree of the government (June 20, 1823) ordaining that Jewishservices should be conducted exclusively in the German language and that thereading in Hebrew of sections of the Bible should be followed by theirtranslation into the vernacular. The position of rabbi as government officialbecame very unpleasant, as he was required to inform against those who failedto attend the services, a requirement which even the progressive Jews, whoapproved of the ordinance, condemned. Intermarriages between Jews andChristians being allowed in the grand duchy, Hess officially consecrated suchnuptials, notwithstanding the proviso that the off-spring should be brought upin the Christian faith. In the consecration of Jewish marriages he likewiseignored time-honored traditional rabbinical regulations, and it is said that inhis disregard of Jewish sentiment he went so far as to attend a theater on theeve of the Day of Atonement ("Allg. Zeit. des Jud." 1845, p. 62).Hess was a member of the three rabbinical conferences which (1844-46) convenedat Brunswick, Frankfort-on-the-Main, and Breslau, and as such was an advocateof uncompromising radicalism. After 1848 he felt the illiberality of enforcedreforms, and petitioned the government to repeal the law which made attendanceat the Reform services compulsory ("Allg. Zeit. des Jud." 1853, p.474). He edited "Der Israelit des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts" from 1839to 1847, and, with Samuel Holdheim as coeditor, in 1847 and 1848. Hess alsopublished two collections of sermons and addresses (Eisenach, 1839, 1843).
1873(29th ofElul, 5633): Erev Rosh Hashanah observed as the New York Stock Exchangeremained closed for a second day in what would become the Panic of 73, a fouryear long economic depression that presage later such events as the one underPresident Hoover and President Bush
1874(10th ofTishrei, 5635): Yom Kippur
1874: InBaltimore, Herman Moses Cone and Helen Guggenheimer Cone gave birth to JohnsHopkins graduate and Columbia Law School trained attorney Bernard M. Cone, thehusband of Elain Wolf Cone who owned several mills in North Carolina which in1945 were “re-organized un Proximity Manufacauring” and the in 1948 merged withRevlution cotton to form Cone Mills, Corp., “the largest producer of flannel inthe world” passed away todayin Greensboro, NC after which he was buried in ConeCemetery.”
1874:Birthdate of Joe Levin, a founder of B'nai Abraham Synagogue in Brenham, Texas.
1875(17thof Tishrei, 5546): Third Day of Sukkot
1875: BertaSeligman and Abraham Weil gave birth to Theresia Weil who died before reachingher 21st birthday.
1876(3rd ofTishrei): Tzom Gedaliah
1876: InVladislavov, David and Marie Bernstein gave birth to Herman Bernstein, theRussian born American author and diplomat who wrote “History of a Lie,” a bookwhich exposed the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” as an anti-Semitic forgeryand served as U.S. Ambassador to Albania.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E04E1DC103EE733A25753C2A9679C946797D6CF
1876:Birthdate of Viennese actress Mathilde Sussin who died in 1943 atTheresienstadt.
1878: As aYellow Fever Epidemic gripped the Deep South, the officers of Hebrew HospitalAssociation in Memphis, Tennessee issued the following appeal: “Our fundshaving been entirely exhausted, and sickness still continuing with unabatedfury in our midst, we appeal to our co-religionists through the United Statesfor pecuniary aid. There are orphans to be cared for, in addition to relievingthe wants of the sick and the distressed. And our good work must bediscontinued unless aid is given us. All remittances should be addressed toDavid Eiseman, Treasurer of the Hebrew Hospital Association.”
1878: RaphaelD.C. Lewin delivered a lecture on the subject of “Life and Character of MosesMendelssohn, the German-Jew Philosopher of the Eighteenth Century.” Theproceeds of the lecture will go to aid those suffering from the Yellow FeverEpidemic.
1878: TheChamber of Commerce Relief Committee dispersed funds to various organizationsaiding victims of Yellow Fever including $1,000 to the Hebrew BenevolentAssociation of New Orleans, $500 to the Association for the Relief of JewishWidows and Orphans of New Orleans and $500 to the Hebrew Benevolent Associationof Memphis, TN.
1878(9th ofTishrei, 5548): Erev Yom Kippur
1879 (4th ofTishrei, 5640): Tzom Gedaliah
1879: InColumbus, Mississippi, founding of B’nai Israel, a congregation that holdsFriday night and Saturday morning services in the Odd Fellows Building,provides a religious school that meets twice weekly and owns a cemetery “onemile south of the courthouse.”
1879 (4th ofTishrei, 5640): Rabbi Meir Leibush ben Yechiel Michel also known as the Malbinpassed away. Born in 1809, he ultimately became the Chief Rabbi of Bucharest.He wrote a commentary on the Bible, showing the close relationship between theOral and the Written Law. He fought strongly against many reformist movementswhich he likened to modern day Kararites. While not very popular with the"enlighteners," he apparently was quite popular with the commonpeople of the various communities that he served.
1880(16thof Tishrei, 5641): Second Day of Sukkot
1880:Birthdate of photographer Marcia Mishkin, the wife of Modest Stein, theLithuanian born Jew whose birth name was Modest Aronstam who was known for hisfailed attempt to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick.
1880: It wasreported today that the Jewish festival of Succoth or Feast of Booths commencedon Sunday evening and will continue until next Monday night. The first and last days of the festival areonly regarded as holy days, the intermediate days being of no specialimport. His is the harvest of feast ofthe ancient Jews and is also commemorative of the Israelites dwelling inSuccoth of booths during their weary journey through the wilderness.”
1881: InRumania, Rebecca and Joseph Nusim gave birth to Columbia trained MechanicalEngineer and husband of Lillian Montrose who worked did turbine research forGeneral Electric and Westinghouse and who was “connected with the developmentand design of Turbo Blowers for Blast Furnaces.”
1882:Birthdate of Russian native Harry Shulman, the merchant who in 1905 came toChicago after which he moved to Iowa City where both he and his wife Anna wereburied in the Agudas Achim Cemetery.
https://peoplelegacy.com/harry_shulman-6b5b6F
1883:Birthdate of Robert Goldstein the producer of “The Spirit of ‘76” a film madebefore the United States entered WW I which portrayed the cruel treatment ofAmericans during the Revolution by British soldiers. Unfortunately for Goldstein and he wasprosecuted under Title XI of the Espionage Act, and received a ten-yearsentence plus a fine of $5000. The sentence was commuted on appeal to threeyears.
1883:Birthdate of New York City native and attorney Edwin Chester Vogel, a partnerin the firm of Elkus, Vogel, Gleason and Proskauer and prominent art collector.
1883: It wasreported today that while addressing a banquet being held in Grosswardein, theHungarian Prime Minister said “Jew-baiting affected the honor of theFatherland, and the Government was bound to protect the lives and property ofall citizens regardless of class prejudice.”
1884:Birthdate of Clarence Cleveland Dill, the United States Senator from the stateof Washington who was so supportive of Herbert Hoover’s nomination of BenjaminCardozo to serve on the Supreme Court that, on a radio broadcast he called it“the finest act of his career as President.”
1884: “TheEnglish Peers” published today, using information that first appeared in the Fortnightly Review, described theobstructionist role played by the House of the Lords in the past sixty yearsincluding their repeated oppositions to bills passed by the House of Commonsthat would have relived Jews of their “civil disabilities.”
1884: It was reportedtoday that in London, this week’s edition of the Jewish Chronicle contained a letter from Henry Rice, thePresident of the United Hebrew Society of New York and I.S. Isaacs, thesociety’s secretary, describing the opposition of Jews in the United States “tothe immigration of idle, weak people who expect to live on charity alone andurging that care be taken that none be sent save those able to earn aliving.” The Jewish leaders warned thatthe U.S. government would send back the former.The Chronicle called “theletter harsh and unsympathetic.”
1884: “Heine’s Memoirs”published today provides a detailed review of The Memoirs of Heinrich Heinewhich include “some newly discovered fragments of his writings” and “anintroductory essay by Thomas W. Evans”
1884: It was reportedtoday that unnamed Jewish peddler has been arrested in New Haven on chargesthat he had split open the head of John Carroll after being teased by a groupof boys last night.
1884: The Society ofUnited Hebrew Charities met at Wheatly Hall in Philadelphia to discuss theadditional street being place on its limited resources to the huge influx ofRussian immigrants.
1884: “Honoring An AgedPhilanthropist” published today described the “extensive preparations” beingmade by American Jews to celebrate the 100th birthday of Sir MosesMontefiore on October 24. At fouro’clock in the afternoon on that date synagogues throughout the United Stateswill hold services following the special liturgy first developed in the BritishEmpire.”
1886: Birthdate ofPolish native Esther Wachsmann who gained fame as America painter EstherHamerman, the great-grandmother of painter Nicole Eisenman.
https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/3659/Hamerman/Esther
1886: Birthdate ofLucian Leman Kahn, the native of Hamilton, Ohio, Virginia Military InstituteClass of 1906 who served as a Captain with the 8th Division of theAEF during WW I and then went on to serve as officer with the State StoveCompany of Hamilton while raising a daughter with his wife Clara Kahn
https://archivesweb.vmi.edu/rosters//search.php?VMIClass=Class%20of%201906
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/08/07/104327500.html?pageNumber=21
1889(25th ofElul, 5649): Leil Selichot
1890: In Vienna, asub-Lieutenant who had been arrested for attacking an old Jew appeared beforethe Police Commissioner today and explained his action by saying that “hehad…quarreled with a Jew and hated all the race so much that he had sworn hewould punish the first one he set eyes upon.”
1890: In New York“Nathan and Lina (Gutherz) Straus” gave birth to Princeton graduate andQuartermaster 1st Lt. Hugh Grant Straus, the husband of FloraStieglitz, whose career including working at R.H. Macy and Abraham & Strauswhile serving as the Direct of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities.
1890: Rabbis PereiraMendes and M.H. Harris officiated at the funeral of Benjamin F. Peixotto atTemple Israel of Harlem. Pall bearers include Julius Bien, Meyer S. Isaacs,Adolph Sanger, Daniel T. Hays, Michael H. Cardozo, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, M.M.Davis and Adolphus Solomons of Washington, D.C.
1890: Seventy-year-old VictorGuérin a French explorer and archaeologist whose seven trips to the “holy land”resulted in the seven volume Geographical, Historical, and ArchaeologicalDescription of Palestine and who used such Jewish sources “as the Mishna andTalmud, as well as Jewish travelers such as Benjamin of Tudela and Isaac Chelo”passed away today
1890(5thof Elul, 5650): Sixty-year-old Albert (Aaron) Siegfried Bettelheim, Hungarianborn American Rabbi died at sea while returning to the United States from avisit to Europe. Born in 1830, he led a rather colorful life beforecoming to the United States in 1867 where he had pulpits in Philadelphia,Richmond, San Francisco and finally in Baltimore, MD. While in Richmond,he studied medicine but accepted a position in San Francisco rather pursue amedical career. According to one source he was buried at sea under thesupervision of two Catholic priests that Bettelheim had met on thevoyage. The clerics reportedly recited the Kaddish as the body wasconsigned to the depths. (As reported by Isidore Singer, et al)
1890: “NewPublications” published today included a description of The Centurial: A JewishCalendar for One Hundred Years, a Jewish calendar and almanac compiled by E. M.Myers.
1891(18th ofElul, 5651): Henry Marks, a young Jew from Brooklyn who had served with TroopE, Fifth Cavalry, US Army, shot himself “on the lake shore at Edgewater”outside of Chicago.
1891: Seventy-year-oldVictor Guérin a French explorer and archaeologist whose seven trips to the“holy land” resulted in the seven volume Geographical, Historical, andArchaeological Description of Palestine and who used such Jewish sources“as the Mishna and Talmud, as well as Jewish travelers such as Benjamin ofTudela and Isaac Chelo” passed away today.
1892(29th ofElul, 5652): Erev of Rosh Hashanah
1892: Birthdate ofBrooklyn native Abraham Max Rabiner, the 1916 graduate of Albany MedicalCollege, and Assistant Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at New YorkUniversity.
1892: Polish Jews beingheld in quarantine at Sandy Hook “have been sent kosher food from their friendsin New York so they can begin their celebration of Rosh Hashanah
1892: “The Jewish NewYear” published today provided a description of the upcoming holiday thatincludes “a peculiar observance, the blowing of the shofar or cornet…”
1893: In Latvia, “Hirsch and Deborah (Lipkin) Bernhardt gave birth toUniversity of Rochester and Johns Hopkins University trained economist JoshuaBernhardt whose area of expertise was sugar related issues as can be seen byhis preparation of “A Statistical Survey of the Sugar and Trade of the U.S” in1920 and his preparation of a report forPresident Coolidge on the relation of the tariff on sugar to the rise in prices
1893: Solomon Breyer isat home with a scalp wound he suffered when the synagogue on Rivington Streethe was praying at Erev Yom Kippur caught fire and burned.
1893: According toreports published today, a concert will be held “to defray” the legal expensesof Jewish anarchist Emma Goldman.”
1894(20th ofElul, 5654): Bernhard Goldberg, the Krakow born son of Rose and AbrahamGoldberg, the husband of Marie Goldberg and father of Betty Cohn passed awaytoday in Berline.
1894: In Vienna,attorney Anton Paul Piëch and his wife gave birth to Anton Piëch, the attorneyand son-in-law of Ferdinand Porsche, who was a Nazi party member, member of theSS and a manufacturer of vehicles for the Germans.
1895: “Knows the HebrewBible by Heart” published today described the intellectual attainments ofProfessor Jacob Cooper, the Rutgers professor who claimed that he was so wellversed in the Old Testament that “if all the Hebrew Bibles in the world were destroyed,he could reproduce the text from memory and who was awarded an honorary LL.D.by Tulane for his work in ancient languages.
1895: Birthdate of NewYork native Samuel Salzman who at the age of 3 moved to Cleveland where hejoined “the 37th Division” which fought in France in WW I, foundedthe United Supply Company and was an active member of “the Temple on theHeights.”
1896(14th ofTishrei, 5657): Erev of Sukkoth
1896: “Santa Maria,” acomic or light opera created by Oscar Hammerstein is scheduled to open at theOlympia Theatre in New York.
1897: Today, at theirregular meeting The Trustees of the Normal College “accepted the Bernard Cohenprize in English Composition to be offered to students of the Normal College”which “was presented by David B. Cohen in memory of his father who was a schooltrustee, and consists of the income of a one-thousand dollar West ShoreRailroad 4 per cent bond.
1898: Boatswain EugeneM. Isaacs, a native of Pennsylvania who had joined the Navy in 1887 was“assigned” to the U.S.S. Iowa today.
1899: In Algiers,rioting that had been begun by Max Regis, the former mayor and notorious Jewbaiter yesterday continued today with the police making at least six arrests.
1900: A firein Constantinople, left 2000 Jews without shelter. One synagogue was destroyed.
1900: In n thetown of Potoki, near Kremenchuk, Ukraine, Hoda (Hadassah) and Yehuda LeibNissan Vilensky, a Zionist leader descended from a long line of rabbis gavebirth to Miriam Vilensky who gained fame as Israeli writer and poet MiriamYalan-Shteklis
1900: In NewYork City, pharmacist Dr. J. Leon Lascoff and his wife gave birth to Dr.Frederick Lascoff, the recipient of a pharmacy degree from Columbia where hetaught for 20 years and a Doctorate in Pharmacy from the Connecticut College ofPharmacy who operated the “Yorkville pharmacy started by his father” and whowas the husband of Emmy Lascoff with whom he had one son.
1901: Herzlwas granted an interview with British Colonial Minister Joseph Chamberlain.
1901: “The RedKloof,” whose cast included Clara Lipman opened on Broadway today at the SavoyTheatre.
1902: KaspareCohn Hospital, which “was a visual representation of the Jewish community'sgrowing concern with meeting the health needs of a growing Los AngelesCommunity” opened today on the east side of Los Angeles.
The Foundingof Kaspare Cohn Hospital, 1902-1920 · Founders Day Exhibit · Cedars-SinaiHistorical Conservancy Photographs (omeka.net)https://cedarssinai.omeka.net/exhibits/show/founders-day-exhibit/foundersday/kaspare-cohn-hospital
1902: “Membersof the Romanian Education Society met tonight and arranged for a meeting to beheld in Washington Hall” on September 28 “at which they indorse Secretary Hay’snote to the European powers regarding the condition of the Jews in Roumania”which will be attended by Judge Mayer Sulzberger, Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf andRecorder of Wills Jacob Singer.
1903(9th ofTishrei, 5738): Erev Yom Kippur
1903:Birthdate of Belarus native Arthur J. Katzman, the Brooklyn Law School graduateand long-time member of the New York City Council.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1993/09/01/694993.html?pageNumber=20
1903: “The St.Petersburg correspondent of The Daily Mail reported a cased which occurred atIrkutsk of a Russian officer shooting a Jew who refused to give him a match tolight his cigarette because the officer asked him in an insulting tone.”
1903(9thof Tishrei, 5738): Thirty-nine-year-old Dr. Richard Landau who combined thestudy of history with the practice of medicine passed away today in Nuremberg,Germany.
1903:Birthdate of Victor Alphonse Sachse, Jr., the LSU trained attorney and husbandof Janice Rubenstein Sachse who was the father attorney and Korean War VeteranVictor Alphonse Sachse III.
1904: “Czar’sConcession To Jews” published today reported that “the recent modifications ofthe legislations relating to the Jews” “provides that Jewish soldiers fightingin the Far East have equal rights with those of retired privates who haveentered the service under the recruiting law, the only difference being thatthe latter, upon retirement, have the right to live freely in any part of theempire, while the former can only secure this right by distinguishingthemselves in battle or give proof of irreproachable conducting during thecourse of the war” with Japan.
1905:Twenty-four-year-old Phillip Maslansky, the Pinsk born son of Rabbi Zwi Hirschand Yetta Maslansky who in 1896 emigrated to the United States where he beganhis business career with after having attended the Jewish Theological Seminarymarried Hattie Hattenbach today in New York City,
1905(21stof Elul, 5665): Berta Seligmann the wife of Abraham Weill passed away today inMannheim, Germany
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/09/21/101150542.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1906(2nd ofTishrei, 5667): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1906: In Frankfurt,Germany, Bertha Merzbach, the Offenbach born “daughter of Hermann Zwi Merzbachand Josephine Merzbach and her husband Heinrich Gotthilf Henry Rothschild gavebirth to Stella Luise Rothschild the future resident of Topeka, KS and wife of HeinzMoritz Graumann
1906:Birthdate of Hungarian-American historian Ladislas Farago whose books provide abetter insight into his skills than anything that could appear in this blog.(Start reading)
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ladislas-Farago
https://www.amazon.com/Ladislas-Farago/e/B001HOY0EK%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
1907(13thof Tishrei, 5668): Parashat Ha’Azinu
1907(13thof Tishrei, 5668: Fifty-five-year-old Harris Lebus, the native of Hull, whoafter learning the furniture making trade from his cabinet-maker father joinedwith his brother Herman Andrew Harris to form Harris Lebus, “the largestfurniture factory in the world” passed away today.
1908: “NathanStraus received many congratulations” today “on the occasion of the sixteenthanniversary of the starting his plan to save the babies of the poor by thedispensation of pasteurized milk at minimum cost and when necessary, at no costwhatever.”
1909:Birthdate of Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana from 1958 until 1966. Nkrumahwas President of Ghana when it gained its independence from Britain. UnderNkrumah, Ghana established strong economic and political ties with Israel. Likemany other newly independent African states, Ghana saw Israel as a source fortraining in modern technology that would attempt to establish a pseudo-colonialrelationship. Israel saw these joint efforts as a way of off-setting thepetro-power of the Arab nations. Among other things, Ghana and Israel formed ajoint ocean cargo and shipping line called Black Star. Unfortunately, Nkrumahlost his moral compass and was deposed in 1966l A year later, Israel’s Africanfriends would turn on her and succumb to threats of an Arab led shut off ofpetroleum following the Six Days War.
1909:Birthdate of Furth, Germany and University-trained radiologist EugeneFeistemann Lutterback, who served on the faculty of Northwestern University.
https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/abs/10.1148/111.1.238?journalCode=radiology
1910: “Ezrah,”the first Ashkenazi community organization is founded in Montevideo, Uruguay.
1911: This evening Joseph H. Hertz was formally installedas Rabbi of Congregation Orach Chayim in Manhattan.
1911(28thof Elul, 5671): Seventy-one-year-old CSA veteran Alexander Hart, the NewOrleans bon son of Isaac and Julia Cohen Hart, the husband of Leonora E. LevyHart and father of Amy, Albert and Horace Hart passed away today in Norfolk, VAafter which he was buried in the Jewish section of Forest Lawn Cemetery.
1912)10thof Tishrei, 5673): Yom Kippur
1912: Houdiniperformed “The Chinese Water Torture Cell” escape for the first time in publictoday at the Circus Bush in Berlin.
1913:Three days after he had passed away fifty-eight-year-old Czech born William W.Pollak, the husband of Marie Lederer Pollak with whom he had eight childrenpassed is scheduled to buried in Mayfield Cemetery in Cleveland Heights.
1913:Harry P. Fierst, the Kovno born son of Leba Yatskan and Reuben Fierst who in1900 came to the United States where he was a member of the executive committeeof the United Palestine Appeal, married Miriam Cohen today.
1914(1stof Tishrei, 5675): As Jews on all fronts of the Great War celebrate RoshHashanah, on the Western Front, German and Allied Forces plan their next movefollowing the Battle of the Marne – the fight that saved France from crushingdefeat in the first month of conflict.
1914: In anattempt to do away with “mushroom synagogues” – “temporary synagogues organizedfor unattached Jews for the observance of New Year’s and the Day of Atonement –the Kehillah in New York is hosting services at the Technical School for Girls,the Young Women’s Hebrew Association building on 5th Avenue andEducational Alliance with no charge for seats.
1915: It wasreported today that “Djemal Pasha is especially annoyed because of the ZionMule Corps which consists of volunteers from among the Jewish refugees fromPalestine who are engaged in transport work at Gallipoli.
1915: NewmanErb, the German born American-Jewish railroad executive “was able to leave hisbed for a short time this afternoon which was taken to indicate that he hadabout recovered from the bichloride of mercury that he took by mistake.”
1915: It was reportedtoday that “Djemal Pasha has announced he will extirpate Zionism root andbranch and that not a single Jew will be allowed to re-enter Palestine.”
1915: Today,“the American warship Chester arrived at Alexandria from Jaffa” carrying“nearly 400 British, French and Russian subjects.
1915: Universityof Pittsburgh trained medical doctor Joseph Hayem Barach, the Lithuania born sonof Dora Oppenheim and Zorah Barach and member of Temple Rodef Shalo married Edna Levy today.
1915: TheAmerican warship Des Moines is expected to arrive at Alexandria having leftJaffa with a large contingent of refugees that included 200 Jews, many of whomhave been expelled by Djemal Pasha because he thinks they are Zionists.
1916: “Therejection by ‘democratic’ Jewish organizations” in the United States “of thepeace plan for an American Jewish Congress to demand equal rights for Jews inother countries was considered at a meeting of the Executive Committee of theConference of National Jewish Organizations” led by President Louis Marshallwhich took place today at the Hotel Astor.
1916: U.S.Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis spoke at reception given in his honortonight by Zionist leaders during which he “pledged to give $6,000 to theZionist movement on the condition that Boston Jews succeed in raising theremaining $18,000 of the $24,000 pledged at the Hebrew Congress in Philadelphialast Spring.”
1916:“Congressman Meyer London, the only Socialist in Congress spoke briefly on theMexican situation at a dinner and reception given in his honor” tonight duringwhich “he praised President Wilson for having avoided war with Mexico andasserted that it was indeed a strange sensation to stand alone against all ofthe other Congressman when the Mexican Expedition was under discussion.
1916:Birthdate of Lea France Gourdji, the daughter of Turkish-Jewish parents whogained fame as Françoise Giroud, whose accomplishments included co-foundinginfluential political weekly L’Express to advance the agenda of French-Jewishpolitician Pierre Mendès France.
1917: It wasreported today that Djemal Pasha, the military governor of Syria has beendeposed the government.
1917: InRussia, proclamations were circulated today “accusing the Jews of attempting toassassinate Alexander Kerensky and overthrow the new regime.”
1917: InZhitomir, Russia, “peasants demanded a Tsar instead of a ‘Jewish ministry.’”
1918(15th ofTishrei, 5679): First Day of Sukkoth
1918:Birthdate of Connecticut native, director and producer Harold Loeb whose best-knownfilm maybe the comic war movie “Kelly’s Hero” who should not be confused withauthor and publisher Harold Albert Loeb the son of Kun, Loeb investment bankerAlbert Loeb and Rose Loeb a cousin of Peggy Guggenheim.
1918: DuringWW I, British cavalrymen under the command of General Allenby captured the 3,000-manTurkish garrison at Nazareth.
1918: DuringWW I, as British forces fought to liberate Eretz Israel from Ottoman rule, theRAF and RAAF conducted “the most devastating aerial attack of the war” in which“fifty aircraft bombed and machine gunned the Turks” who were trying to escapefrom Nablus and cross the Jordan River where they mistakenly thought they wouldbe safe from further attack.
1919: Based onthe study of Louis Marshall, Chairman of the sub-committee of the Fair PriceCommittee which has been investigating cost of labor and materials used in thebaking of bread by a million Jews in New York City, it was reported today thatthe full committee has “decided that the Jewish Master Bakers’ Federation ofGreater New York were not justified in increasing the price of their breachwhich sells at nine cents a pound maximum.”
1920(9thof Tishrei, 5681): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1920: RabbiMax Reichler is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “An Attuned Soul” this eveningat Sinai Temple.
1920: RabbiHarris is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Slander” this evening at TempleIsrael on Lenox Avenue.
1920: RabbiNathan Blichman is scheduled to deliver a sermon “Our Spiritual Reawakening” atCongregation Montefiore.
1920: RabbiNathan Stern is scheduled to deliver a sermon “Arresting a Catastrophe” thisevening at West End Synagogue.
1920: RabbiAaron Eiseman is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “A New Jew’s Motto” thisevening at the Mt. Neboh Congregation on Broadway.
1921: SirErnest Joseph Cassel, German-born, British merchant and banker passed away. Itwas not until he died that most people discovered that Cassel had converted toRoman Catholicism at the behest of his wife.
1921: AbrahamCalechman and his wife gave birth to Harold Ralph Calechman, “the brother ofMilton Calechman.”
1922: Today“virtually the same day the Palestine Mandate was approved by the League ofNations; “the US Congress passed a joint resolution stating its support for ahomeland in Palestine for the Jewish people but not at the expense of othercultures present at the time,”
1922: U.S.President Harding signed a joint resolution of congress expressing approval ofthe establishment of a national home for the Jewish People in Eretz Yisrael.Passing resolutions was just about all of the support that the Jews would getwhen it came to support for a Jewish Homeland in Palestine. Another elementthat is often overlooked is the lack of strong support for a Jewish Homeland inPalestine. Large segments of Orthodox Jews opposed the Zionists because themovement ran contrary to waiting for the Messiah. And large numbers of ReformJews opposed it because it ran contrary to their assimilation goals.
1923: ChinkaChana Zaid and Yosef Yechiel Zaid, HaKohen gave birth to Yehuda and IsraelZaid.
1924: InBrooklyn, “Benjamin Koslow, an electrician and the former Ruth Sachs” gavebirth to Howard Bertram Koslow, the painter and illustrator who gained fame asthe designer of stamps for the U.S. Postal Service. (As reported by WilliamGrimes)
1925(3rdof Tishrei, 5686): Tzom Gedaliah
1925:Patrolman Goldberg was among those who thwarted the attempted robber of therestaurant on 7th Avenue owned by Jennie and Benjamin Weinberg/
1926: HermanBernstein, the Polish born American author and editor of The Jewish Tribune wasinundated with telegrams and letters congratulating him on the celebration ofhis 50th birthday. The expression of best wishes came from a variety of Jewishand non-Jewish leaders including David Belasco, Colonel Edward M. House, LouisMarshall and Felix M. Warburg.
1926: InCleveland, Ohio, businessman William J. Glaser and his wife Lena gave birth toDonald Arthur Glaser an American physicist and neurobiologist who won the 1960Nobel Prize in Physics "for the invention of the bubble chamber."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/science/donald-glaser-nobel-winner-in-physics-dies-at-86.html?hpw
1926(13thof Tishrei, 5687): Sixty-three-year-old Louis Grossman the Austrian bornAmerican Reform Rabbi who served the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio forthirty years passed away today.
1927: “Oh,Kay!” a musical with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin opened atHis Majesty’s Theatre in London.
1927: “TheStudent Prince in Old Heidelberg” a silent film directed and produced by ErnstLubitsch starring Norma Shearer was released today in the United States today.
1928: CatcherIke Danning made his major league debut with the St. Louis Brown.
1928: Sam andAnnie Stein Lazarus gave birth to Irwin Milton “Bootsy” Lazarus their fourthson, the others being Jacob Mendel Lazarus, Leon Albert Lazarus and RalphLazarus.
1929: “TheOxford students who defended the Jews in the Arab attack in Jerusalem arrivedin London from Palestine today in charge of the Rev. Graham Brown principal ofWycliffe Hall. ..The father of one of the students who met them at the shipsaid that the Jewish community of Tel Aviv presented each with a specialmemento…The students are all young men studying for the ministry…They werepleased at having enrolled in the police force and at having aided in restoringorder in Jerusalem.”
1929:Birthdate of Elsa Rabinowitz, the native of Charleston, SC who gained fame asactress Elsa Raven who played “Ida Straus” in the blockbuster “Titanic.”
1929:“Illusion” an early “talkie” produced by B. P. Schulberg and featuring LillianRoth was released by Paramount Pictures today.
1929: Eighty-three-year-oldNathaniel E. Harris who was the governor of Georgia when Leo Frank was lynchedpassed away today.
1930(28thof Elul, 5690): Forty-two-year-old Ukrainian born Mania Krimgold Lispector, thewife of Pinkhas Lispector and the mother of author Clarice Lispector, passedaway today as a refugee in Brazil having had to live with the memories of rapeand the reality of paralysis.
1930(28thof Elul, 5690) Fifty-five-year-old philanthropist Florence Meyer Blumenthal,the daughter of Harriet Newmark Meyer and Marc Eugene Meyer and the sister ofEugene Meyer, Jr the owner and publisher who turned the Washington Post intoone of the nation’s leading newspapers in its day passed away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/blumenthal-florence-meyer
1931: “Graft”a thriller produced by Samuel Bischoff was released in the United States todayby Universal Pictures.
1931(10thof Tishrei, 5692) Yom Kippur
1931: “Adviceas to how to meet the business depression and the problems which it causes wasgiven by rabbis in New York City today in their sermons in celebration of YomKippur, the Day of Atonement, which began at sundown Sunday and closed atsundown today.
1932: It wasreported today that “Professor Albert Einstein and a number of other Germanscientists have issued a protest against the dismissal of Jewish professor EmilJ. Gumble from the University of Heidelberg faculty “who was ousted as a resultof Nazi agitation.”
1933(1st of Tishrei,5694): American Jews observe a New Year living for the first time under The NewDeal.
1933: InManhattan, at the Free Synagogue, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise is scheduled to delivera sermon on “Addicted to the Infinite.”
1933: On LongIsland, at the Rockaway Park Hebrew Congregation, Rabbi Robert Gordis isscheduled to deliver a sermon on “New Ideals for an Aging World.”
1934: In theWestmount neighborhood of Montreal, Nathan Cohen and Marsha (Masha) Klonitsky,the daughter of Rabbi Solomon Klonitsky-Kline gave birth to singer/songwriterLeonard Cohen
http://www.leonardcohen.com/us/home
1935:“Jubilee” a musical comedy with a book by Moss Hart at the Shubert Theatre inBoston today for a three-week pre-Broadway run.
1935(23rd ofElul, 5695): After a long illness Henry Samuel Morais passed away today at theHouse of the Incurables in the Bronx, New York. Born in Philadelphia, PA in1860, he was the son of Rabbi Sabato Morais, a well-known national Jewishleader, Rabbi of Congregation Mikveh Israel of Philadelphia, and founder of theJewish Theological Seminary in New York. Morais attended different private andpublic schools for his secular education, while he received a traditionalreligious education from his father. After his schooling he taught for twelveyears in the schools of the Hebrew Education Society and in the HebrewSabbath-Schools of Philadelphia. He was interested in a time in law butabandoned it to pursue a literary career. He contributed art icles on varioussubjects to secular and Jewish papers including current matters in Judaism,Jewish literary topics, and other general questions. He wrote for journals allover the United States, although, of course, most of his material was publishedalong the east coast, especially in Philadelphia. In 1887 he was the principalfounder of the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent, a weekly newspaper thatrepresented a traditional religious point-of-view, and served as managingeditor for its first two years. After leaving the Jewish Exponent he joined thespecial staff of the Philadelphia Public Ledger and became its editor in 1894.He was also the editor of two other journals in Philadelphia during this time:the Musical and Dramatic Standard and the Hebrew Watchword and Instructor.Along with his journalistic activities Morais took active part in the culturaland intellectual life of Philadelphia. He was the founder and president ofDoreshe Da'ath Society, a Jewish literary and intellectual group, founder andexecutive director of the Philadelphia Musical and the Philadelphia ConcertCompany, and was also involved with the American Jewish Historical Society,along with his father, during its formative years in the late 1890s and early1900s. Besides his journalistic efforts and the works which he published (seebelow for an annotated bibliography) Morais used his religious background andeducation along with his former teaching experience to enter the Rabbinatewhere he became known as an articulate speaker, as a Jewish educator to bothadults and children, and as a communal leader. He was asked quite often bydifferent synagogues to deliver guest sermons on special Sabbaths and theholidays. As a Rabbi, Morais was respected by and appealed to an American-born,English-speaking constituency committed to the ideals of traditional Judaism.Morais himself held strong views against the Reform movement in America andbecame embroiled in a number of controversies concerning statements which hemade against Reform Judaism. Morais was nevertheless unable to find security inthe Rabbinical profession and he held numerous pulpits. Morais' first positionwas in Philadelphia, where he became acting minister in Congregation MikvehIsrael, 1897-1898, upon his father's death. After a brief illness Morais leftPhiladelphia to accept a position in Congregation Adath Jeshurun, Syracuse, NewYork, where he served as Rabbi in 1899-1900, and 1902-1903. In 1900-1901 heserved as Rabbi to Congregation Jeshuath Israel, Newport, Rhode Island. Afterleaving Syracuse he came to New York where he remained for the rest of hislife. He founded and became Rabbi of Congregation Mikveh Israel in New YorkCity. Successive pulpits for Morais included: Congregation Sons of Israel,Brooklyn, New York; Congregation Derech Emunah, Arverne, Long Island;Congregation Pincus Elijah, New York City, and the Congregation of Bensonhurst,Brooklyn, New York. Morais never married; he kept in close contact with hisbrother and sisters and maintained a large group of friends with whom hecorresponded -- indeed many of these people were major figures within theAmerican Jewish community and their correspondence appears in this collection.
1936: Morethan seventy people including Benjamin Winter, chairman of the Federation ofPolish Jews in America, Sam Rosoff, Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney, HarryHershfield, Dr. Alexander Rosenfeld, the vice present of the MaccabeeAssociation and Egon Pollak, a former start of the Hakoah team of Vienna wereamong those who attended a luncheon at Jack Dempsey’s Restaurant today in honorof the visiting Maccabee Palestine soccer team.
1936: Havingspent the las four months in Europe and the Near East, half of which was spentin Palestine, “B. Charney Valdeck, president of the American Ort Federation andgeneral manager of the Jewish Daily Forward arrived back in the United Statesaboard the Queen Mary and declared that he was “more convinced than ever thatZionism is a political mistake.”
1936: “Becausehe had published a charge of ritual murder and other libels against the Jews,Arnold Spence Leese, a 57 year-old veterinary surgeon and editor of theviolently anti-Semitic newspaper The Fascist, was sentenced to six monthimprisonment at Old Bailey today” and his printer Walter Whitehead was fined 20pounds and ordered held in jail until the fine was paid.”
1936: Inaddress given tonight at Amsterdam, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the president of theJewish Agency “emphatically denied reports that he had consented to a temporaryhalting of Jewish emigration to Palestine” saying that “neither British policenor Arab terrorists can stop Jewish emigration to Palestine.”
1937(16thof Tishrei, 5698): Second Day of Sukkoth)
1937: The Palestine Post reported that DavidBen-Gurion, Moshe Shertok (Sharett), and Nahum Goldman were present at theopening meeting of the Sixth Committee of the League of Nations in Geneva. Inhis opening address M. Lange of Norway compared the Palestinian situation to'the squaring of a circle,' but added that 'humanity owes a debt of gratitudeto Jewry.' The Sixth Committee waited for the arrival of British ForeignMinister Anthony Eden to start the Palestine debate.
1937: CatcherHarry Chozen made his major league début with the Cincinnati Reds.
1937: Elias E.Sugarman, the editor of Billboard, married “Yiddish torch singer Belle Baker,”in what was her third trip to the altar.
1938: “Dr.Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, in a messagereceived today sent by the United Palestine Appeal, called upon American Jewsto engage in "sacrificial, national self-taxation" to provide$5,000,000 during the year for settlement and defense of the Jewish communityin Palestine.”
1938:According to a cablegram received in New York by Hadassah, “eighty-two Jewish childrenfrom 15 to 17 years of age left Germany and Austria the week for permanentsettlement in Palestine” and that children will join “2,400 0thers fromGermany, Austria and Poland” that have already been brought to Palestine byYouth Aliyah.”
1938: “RoomService,” a Marx Brothers comedy premiered today in New York.
1939: SigmundFreud, who is suffering acute pain fromcancer of the palate “asks his physician to administer enough morphineto end the pain.
1939: “TheSoviets and the Germans signed a formal agreement coordinating militarymovements in Poland including the ‘purging’ of saboteurs, after which “a jointGerman-Soviet parade was held in Lvov and Brest-Litovsk. (Two years later Nazitanks would be rolling towards Moscow and Stalin’s folly would be obvious toall except the most loyal Comrades who did not want a trip to Siberia orworse.)
1939:Heydrich, the Chief of the Reich Central Security Office, held a conference inBerlin to discuss the long-term future of Polish Jewry. During the conference,Heydrich stated that there was an ultimate plan for dealing with the Jews, thefirst step of which called for the concentration. He orders chiefs ofEinsatzgruppen to establish, in cooperation with German civil and militaryauthorities, Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland. He decrees that allJewish communities in Poland and Greater Germany with populations under 500 areto be dissolved, so that deportations of Jews to urban ghettos andconcentration camps can be accelerated. Further, Heydrich orders theestablishment of ghetto Judenräte (Jewish councils). The main goals of theghettoization process are to isolate Jews, force them to manufacture items forGermany, and provide easy Nazi access for murder and deportation.
1939: “Thefirst actual Judenräte were established in occupied Poland by ReinhardHeydrich's orders on 21 September 1939, soon after the end of the Germanassault on Poland.”
1940: “City ofConquest” a film noir directed and produced by Antole Litvak with music by MaxSteiner and featuring George Tobias was released in the United States today.
1940: Today, SirAlfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer “was commissioned second lieutenant intothe Welsh Guards from Officer Cadet Training Unit’
1941(29th ofElul, 5701): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1941:Birthdate of Paul Cowan, the husband of Rabbi Rachel Cowan and “a journalist ofstrong social passions whose book An Orphan in History influenced thousands ofassimilated Jews like himself to recover their Jewish heritage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/obituaries/rabbi-rachel-cowan-dead.html
1942(10th ofTishrei, 5703): Yom Kippur
1942(10th ofTishrei, 5703): Nazis sent over 1.000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) toBelzec extermination camp.
1942: On YomKippur the Germans ordered Konstantynów Jews (Poland) to permanently evacuateKonstantynów and move to the Ghetto - established in Biała Podlaska meant tohold Jews from nearby 7 towns including Konstantynów, Janów Podlaski, RossoszandTerespol
1942(10th ofTishrei, 5703): In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2588 Jews.
1942: Open-pitburning of bodies begins at Auschwitz in place of burial. The decision is madeto dig up and burn those already buried (107,000 corpses) to prevent thefouling of ground water and to hide evidence of atrocities.
1943: InGreece, Rabbi Barzilai was commanded to establish a Jewish Council and to takethe necessary steps to carry out the deportation of all the Greek Jews.
1943: TheAmerican Jewish Joint Distribution Committee announced today that “Max S.Perlman, the former New York City relief supervisor plans to depart soon toengage in rehabilitation activities for Jews in North Africa,” including thoseare natives to the area as well as refugees from Europe.
1943:Birthdate of Jerry Bruckheimer, movie and television producer. The CSItelevision series is one of his most famous “television franchises.”
1944: Today,in what would prove to be an ill-fated mission, “Haviva Reik, a Jewishparatrooper from pre-state Palestine and emissary of the Hagana… was droppednear Banská Bystrica, which was then the center of the Slovakian Rebellion. Hermission was to establish contact with Rabbi Weissmandel and Gisi Fleischmann,the leaders of the “Working Group.”
1945: “PopePius XII received WJC Secretary General Leon Kubowitzki in audience, whorecounted to the pope the "great losses" suffered by the Jews duringthe war and expressed gratitude for what the church had done to help "ourpersecuted people." Kubowitzki suggested a papal encyclical on theCatholic Church’s attitude toward the Jews and a condemnation of anti-Semitism."We will consider it," Pius XII reportedly replied, adding:"certainly, most favorably, with all our love." The WJC also urgedthe Vatican to assist in the recovery of Jewish children saved by Catholicsduring the Holocaust.”
1946(25thof Elul, 5706): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Leil Selichot
1946: “GeneralJoseph T. McNarney, the United States commander in Europe, said today that themovement of Jewish refugees from the American zone of Germany toward Palestinehad virtually ceased since the British blockaded Palestine.”
1947:Birthdate of Bulgarian born Israeli actress Levana Finkelstein.
1948:"Texaco Star Theater" with Milton Berle premieres on NBC-TV. UncleMiltie as he came to be called by his millions of fans was the son of Moses andSadie Berlinger.
1949(27th ofElul, 5709): Fifty-seven-year-old Elinor Morgentahau, the wife of TreasurySecretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr and close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt passedaway today.
1950(10thof Tishrei, 5711): Yom Kippur
1950(10thof Tishrei, 5711): Seventy-nine-year-old Dora Samson, the Frankfurt am Mainborn daughter of Rabbi Moses Jesaias Cohn and Rosa Cohn and the wife of AbrahamSamson passed away today in Copenhagen.
1950: “Tomorrow Is Too Late” directed by Leonide Moguy who at birth was LeonidMohylevskyi, the son of Odessa Jews, was released today in Italy.
1951: ReubenShiloah, special adviser to Israel on Arab affairs arrived in Paris thismorning bearing a copy of his government’s “offer to sign non-aggression pactswith each of her four Arab neighbors- Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.”
1951: MauriceFischer, a minster with the Israeli government presented Israel’s offer to signa non-aggression pact with her four Arab neighbors to the United NationsPalestine Conciliation Commission.
1951: “FiveIsrael soldiers were wounded, three of them seriously, in ambush south of theDead Sea” that was believed to have been conducted by Arab infiltrators fromJordan.
1952(2ndof Tishrei, 5713): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1952(2ndof Tishrei, 5713): Sixty-seven-year-old Sir Montague Maurice Burton, a refugeefrom the Russian pogroms and founder of Burton on London which became one ofthe UK’s largest clothing chain who married Sophie Marks and was knighted in1931 passed away this evening “while speaking after a dinner in Leeds.”
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported thataccording to the East German Minister of Agriculture, his country had so fardone nothing about compensating Israel for the Nazi persecution, because Jewshad made no concrete application. East Germany had 'no basic objection' todiscuss an appropriate compensation. East Germany, the Communist side ofGermany never did go through a de-Nazification program. Their contention wasthat by adopting Communism, they had atoned for any sins of the past. Inaddition to which, they contended that the West German government had all ofthe former Nazis and their regime was made up of those who had been anti-Nazis.As any honest reading of history would question many of these claims especiallywhen you consider that it was a pact between Hitler and Stalin that gave Hitlerthe green light for the attack on Poland and the subsequent attacks on thenations of western Europe and England.
1952: Jordanreturned, two Israeli soldiers kidnapped in the Latrun area, after three monthsof captivity.
1953: It wasreported today that the survivors of Abraham Panken include his sons Harold andMorton; his daughters Sylvia and Clara; two brothers Louis and Novie; and asister, Mrs. Celia Lieberman.
1953: TheFourth Maccabiah Games continue for a second day.
1954: InConcord, MA, Marian (née Goodrich), a teacher, and Cass Richard Sunstein, abuilder, gave birth to Cass Robert Sunstein, “a US legal scholar, particularlyin the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, andlaw and behavioural economics, who was the Administrator of the White HouseOffice of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration”
1955: Afterhaving been diagnosed with cancer of the jawbone while writing songs for “PipeDream,” Richard underwent surgery today that “required removal of part of thejawbone and tongue and some of the lymph nodes.”
1955:“Killer’s Kiss,” “directed by Stanley Kubrick who wrote the script along withHoward Sackler” premiered in New York today.
1955: As Egyptcontinued to contest the settling of a stable border with Israel, the IDFentered the dmz in the vicinity of Nitzana/Auja and “evicted the Egyptianmilitary personnel stationed there” and then withdrew when the Egyptians agreednot to interfere with the setting of border markers.
1955:Birthdate of Ashkelon native YIsrael Katz, the right wing MP who has served asMinister of Transportation and Minister of Intelligence.
https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=69
1956(16thof Tishrei, 5717): Second Day of Sukkoth
1956:Birthdate of Marta Fran Kauffman, the graduate of Brandeis who helped createthe sitcom “Friends.”
1956: “The LawWagon,” a westerner co-starring Susan Kohner and featuring music by LionelNewman was released in the United States today.
1957:Birthdate of writer and producer Marta Kauffman who co-created the popularsitcom “Friends” and who is married to Michael Skloff who composed the show’stheme song.
1957: In TelAviv, athletes began another day of competition in the Maccabiah Games
1957:Birthdate of film director Ethan Coen. He and his brother Joel are the filmmaking duo known as the Coen Brothers.
1957: InQueensland, Albert ("Bert") and Margaret (née DeVere) Rudd gave birthto “Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd who in 2008 told more than 1,000people at a memorial service at the Yeshiva Center in New South Wales thatRabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivkah, had “devoted their lives to actsof goodness and kindness and compassion for others ... but they lost theirlives in a senseless act of hatred
1959: CBSbroadcast of the first episode of The DuPont Show with June Allyson with musicby Herschel Burke Gilbert, the Milwaukee born son of Russian-Jewish refuges SamuelGilbert and Bertha Shevinsky, with some episodes directed by Arthur Hiller, producedby Aaron Spelling and written by Richard Levinson.
1959:Birthdate of Leonid Borisovich Nevzlin, a Russian-Israeli businessman
1959(18thof Elul, 5719): Ninety-two-year-old Kentucky born son of Ester and MoritzFlexner and Johns Hopkins graduate Abraham Flexner, the creator of the FlexnerReport which examined the state of American medical education passed away today
https://www.ias.edu/scholars/flexner
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2003/ms003042.pdf
1960(29th ofElul, 5720): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1961(11thof Tishrei, 5721): Eleven days after her68th birthday, Leola Brandeis, the daughter Zerlina Freedman andArthur D. Brandies, the President of the J. H. Brandeis Company of Omaha, Neb.,the biggest department store west of Chicago, and First Vice President of SternBrothers passed away today in Santa Clara County, CA.
1961:Birthdate of Queens native and Colgate educated multi-millionaire J.DariusBkoff the founder of Energy Brands.
http://www.boxnewsbox.com/the-20-worlds-richest-persian-entrepreneurs-2016/9/
1962: Eighty-year-oldPrincess George of Greece and Denmark, a financial supporter of Sigmund Freudwho played a major role in his escape from the Nazis in Austria and settling inEngland passed away today.
1963(3rdof Tishrei, 5724): Shabbat Shuvah observed for the last time during thePresidency of John Kennedy
1964(15thof Tishrei, 5725): Sukkoth
1964: Theisland of Malta gains its independence from Great Britain. The Jewish presencein Malta probably dates back to when Israelites accompanied Phoenicians ontrips across the Mediterranean. There is archeological evidence of Jewishpresence dating from the Hellenistic period in the form of carvings ofseven-branch candelabrums and inscription written in catacombs. By the timeMalta gained its independence, the Jewish community was a shadow of its formerself. Today the small community continues to exist observing the Shabbat andholding services led by lay people since there is no rabbi.
1964: SteveAllen replaced Gary Moore as host of “I’ve Got a Secret” the popular game showproduced by Mark Goodson, Bill Todman and Allan Sherman
1966: “The instrumental of the first version ofthe “Good Vibrations” was recorded today for the last time today by the BeachBoys, whose drummer was Hal Blaine, the son of Meyer Belsky and the former RoseSilverman.
1966:Birthdate of Tuscaloosa, AL native John Cohen “the former head baseball coachand current A.D. at Mississippi State.
1969(9thof Tishrei): Erev Yom Kippur
1969: InCamden, NJ, President Martin Odlen read Beth El’s Golden Jubilee Proclamationwhich began, "In the Beginning G-d created Beth El as a dream in thehearts of men".
1970: “Afterpushing the idea for ten years with a succession of publishers, John BertramOaks, initiated the first modernop-ed (so called because it appeared"opposite the editorial page"; the belief that the phrase stands for"opinion"-"editorial" is incorrect) page today, on whichthe op-ed page of other American newspapers is modeled.”
1970:Birthdate of Samantha Power, the wife of Cass Sunstein, who was the 28thUnited States Ambassador to the United Nations and whom Mike Abramowitz,Director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for the Prevention ofGenocide described as part of “a small group of people that really care aboutgenocide prevention and prevention of mass atrocities” and who is “a realchampion for those issue at the highest levels of government.”
1970(20thof Elul, 5730): Eliyahu Lopian, the native of Grajewo, Poland, known as RebElyah, who was among the most prominent rabbis of the Mussar Movement passedaway today.
http://matzav.com/rav-elya-lopian-ztl-on-his-41st-yahrtzeit-today-20-elul-2/
1970: ABCbroadcast the first episode of “The Young Lawyer” the legal drama with scriptsby Harlan Ellison, starring Lee J. Cobb and Zalman King and music by LaloSchifrin.
1970: MondayNight Football premieres. Monday night football redefined American viewing andsocial habits for at least two decades. The surprising hit program featuredthree voices in the broadcast booth, the most unique of which was HowardCossell. Once again, a Jew played a major role in creating a venue of Americanpop culture. While everybody thinks of Cossell as the quintessential “New YorkJew” he actually was born in North Carolina.
1971(2ndof Tishrei, 5732): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1971: Sixty-year-oldMax Merten who went from persecutor of the Jews of Salonika to a lawyer inpost-war West Berlin died today. (Justice?)
https://csus-dspace.calstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10211.3/182732/2016ArcherWilliam.pdf?sequence=1
1973(24thof Elul, 5733): Eighty-five-year-old Oscar award winning composer and arrangerCharles Previn who was the great-uncle of Andre Previn and Steve Previn passedaway today.
1973(24thof Elul, 5733): Seventy-seven-year-old Russian born Canadian politician JohnJudah Glass who “represented St. Andrew in the Legislative Assembly of Ontariofrom 1934 to 1943 as a Liberal member” passed away today in Toronto.
1973: The U.S.Senate confirmed Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State. Kissinger was the firstJewish person to hold the position.
1974(5thof Tishrei, 5735): Shabbat Shuva
1974(5thof Tishrei, 5735): Seventy-six-year-old Minsk born University of Missourigraduate Irving Fagan the journalist specializing in labor affairs who was an“editor of the Labor Press Association.
1975(5thof Tishrei, 5735): Fifty-tree year old best-selling novelist Jaqueline Susannpassed away today. (As reported by Laurie, Johnston)
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/01/04/home/susann-obit.html?mcubz=1
https://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/20/1921/birth-of-novelist-jacqueline-susanne
1975(16thof Tishrei, 5736): Seventy-one-year-old Russian born Harvard trained attorneyMorris Ploscowe passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E05EED61339E63BBC4A51DFBF66838E669EDE
1975: WarnerBrothers released “Dog Day Afternoon” directed by Sidney Lumet and co-producedby Martin Bregman.
1975: “Sovietauthorities intervened in Succoth picnic held in the woods near Moscow byRussian Jews and visiting Israeli athletes; tearing down Israeli flag.”
1976: ABCbroadcast the first episode of “Rich Man, Poor Man – Book II” which was asequel to “Rich Man, Poor Man” a television version of the novel by Irwin Shas.
1976: EastBerlin registered Rykestraße Synagogue as a monument, so public subsidiesflowed for the renovations in 1986/1987
1977(9th ofTishrei, 5738): Erev Yom Kippur
1977: “Shock Waves,”a horror film wit music by Richard Einhorn premiered in Los Angeles.
1977(9th ofTishrei, 5738): Ben-Zion Halfon an Israeli politician who served as a member ofthe Knesset for the Alignment between 1969 and 1977 passed away. “Born inTripoli in Libya in 1930, Halfon was a member of a Zionist youth movement. In1947 he attempted to make aliyah to Mandate Palestine via Italy, aboard theAliyah Bet ship Medinat HeYehudit. However, he was detained by the Britishauthorities and sent to an internment camp in Cyprus. The following year hereached Israel, and joined the Palmach's Yiftach Brigade, with whom he foughtin the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He was involved in helping other Libyan Jews whohad made aliyah, and in 1949 he was amongst the founders of moshav Hatzav. Hebecame involved in the Southern branch of the Moshavim Movement, and became themovement's representative in the Labor Party. He served as nationalco-ordinator of the movement's purchasing organization and on the board of theAgricultural Bank. In 1969 he was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list(an alliance of the Labor Party and Mapam), and was appointed Deputy Ministerof Agriculture on 22 December that year. He was re-elected in 1973 but lost hisportfolio. He lost his seat in the May 1977 elections and died in a trafficcollision near Gedera junction a few months later aged 47. In 2006, thearchaeological museum in Nitzana was named after him.
1981: Funeralservices are scheduled to be held today at the Park Avenue Synagogue for ninety-one-year-old real-estateexecutive and dress manufacturer,Abraham Gevirtz, the husband of DorothyGevirtz and the fathe of Harriet Weiner and Ruth Gevirtz “who was the presidentof the 1400 Broadway Construction Corporation, which owns and operates the36-story textile-apparel building at 38th Street” and who “was a founderof the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, where he establishedthe Gevirtz diagnostic wing.”
1981: AlbertShanker, the President of the American Federation of Teachers “had dinner witha personal friend who was also a member of the Federal Labor RelationsAuthority” today which later led charges that his had been an improper “exparte contact.”
1982(4thof Tishrei, 5743): Eighty-two- year-old New York City born C.P.A “Alfred R.Bachrach, former president of Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York anda longtime leader in Jewish charitable and civic affairs” and the husband of“the former Alice v. Rothschild” with whom he had three children – Robert, Johnand Ellin – passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/22/obituaries/alfred-r-bachrach-82-led-temple-emanu-el.html
1983(14thof Tishrei, 5744): Erev Sukkoth
1984: “All ofMe” a Carl Reiner comedy featuring Selma Diamond was released today in theUnited States.
1986: Jewishgolfer Corey Pavin won the Greater Milwaukee Open
1986:“Webster” a television comedy series create by Jewish screen writer Stu Silverand directed by Joel Zwick, the son of a cantor, was broadcast in syndicationfor he first time today.
1987: Threemolecular biologists who have helped revolutionize understanding of one of thebody's main immune defense systems and a psychiatrist whose research has hadprofound influence on the medical treatment of depression were named winners ofthe 1987 Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards yesterday. The winners are Dr.Susumu Tonegawa, a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology; Dr. Philip Leder, chairman of the department of genetics at HarvardMedical School and Dr. Leroy Hood, chairman of the division of biology ofCalifornia Institute of Technology and Dr. Mogens Schou, director ofpsychopharmacology research at Aarhus University Psychiatric Institute inDenmark. The awards were funded by Albert Lasker, the successful Jewishadvertising executive.
1988(10thof Tishrei, 5749): Yom Kippur
1988(10thof Tishrei, 5749): Eighty-three-year-old movie director Harvey Koster passedaway today. (As reported by Andrew L.Yarrow)
1989: “Spider'sWeb” a German film with a script co-authored by Joseph Roth and directed byBernhard Wicki who “was imprisoned for many months in the Sachsenhausenconcentration camp.”
1990: “TheTall Guy” starring Jeff Goldblum and featuring Jason Isaacs in his first movierole was released today in the United States by Miramax.
1991:Birthdate of actress Zoe Weisenbaum.
1991: NadineBrozan described the new role played by Evelyn Lauder in the fight againstbreast cancer.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/21/style/chronicle-657091.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm
1992(23rdof Elul, 5752): Seventy-six-year-old Harry J. Sonneborn, the child of HoosierJews who was “the first president and chief executive of McDonald’sCorporation” passed away today.
1992(23rdof Elul, 5752): Eighty-four-year-old Harvard graduate and philanthropist FelixWarburg who pursued a career in the field of art instead of banking passed awaytoday.
1993: At the Toronto Film Festival, premiereof “A Bronx Tale” produced by Jane Rosenthal.
1993: ABCbroadcast the first episode of “NYPD Blue,” which was co-created by David Milch
1994(16thof Tishrei, 5755): Second Day of Sukkot
1994(16thof Tishrei, 5755): Eighty-four-year-old Columbia Law School trained attorneyand WWII veteran Arthur Krim, the husband Mathilde Krim who combined a legalcareer with motion picture production and Democratic Party politics.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol20/vol20_iss4/record2004.15.html
1995(26thof Elul, 5755): Ninety-two year old Minnesota tackle Louis Gross whoseproficiency as an athlete and student during the 1920’s earned him Walter Camphonors as well as the Western Conference’s Medal for athletic and academicperformance, passed away today.
1995: NBCbroadcasts the first show of the seventh season of “Seinfeld.”
1995: NBCbroadcast the first episode of “The Single Guy,” a sitcom starring JonathanSilverman, the son of a sabra and the grandson of Rabbi Morris Silverman andJessica Hecht.
1996(8thof Tishrei, 5757): Shabbat Shuva
1996(8thof Tishrei, 5757): Eighty-six-year-old New York native and NYU trained attorneyLeo Isacson who appeared to upset the political applecart when he was electedto House of Representatives as a member of the American Labor Party in whatappeared to be a leg up for Henry Wallace’s bid to win the White House passedaway today.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=I000046
1997: The New York Times book section featuredreviews by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest includingAryeh Lev Stollman's first novel, The Far Euphrates and the latestcollection of short stories by Deborah Eisenberg entitled All AroundAtlantis.
1997:Broadcast of the first episode of Season Seven of “The Simpsons” developed byJames L. Brooks and Sam Simon and featuring the voice of Harry Shearer.
1998(1st ofTishrei, 5759): Rosh Hashanah
1998:Publication of Pulitzer Prize winning author A. Scott Berg’s biography of “theLone Eagle” simply titled Lindbergh.
1998: CBSbroadcast the first episode of “King of Queens” a sit-com co-starring JerryStiller as “Arthur Spooner.”
1999: NBCbroadcast the first episode of the second season of “Will and Grace” the sitcomcreated by David Kohan and Max Mutchnick.
2000: Today, aweek before Rosh Hashanah, Zvi Dershowitz whose family fled his nativeCzechoslovakia just before the Nazi invasion and who served as the rabbi forSinai Temple in Los Angeles led services at the Twin Towers CorrectionalFacility and the Men's Central Jail in Los Angeles/
2000: TheAppellate Court of Fars Province announced their decision on the appeal by theimprisoned Iranian Jews convicted of spying for Israel. In the days leading upto the announcement there were strong indications that the appeals court wouldoverturn the earlier decision or release a number of the defendants. Despitethese reports, the court only reduced the sentences of the 10 Jewish prisonersbut did not overturn the guilty verdicts or release any of the prisoners.
2001(4thof Tishrei, 5762): Seventy-four year old NYU graduate and WW II veteran LewisRudin the real estate mogul who founded NADAP with his brother Jack passed away today.
2001: JewishWomen Watching published an advertisement in The New York Times asking Jewish women tohold their community accountable for sexism.
2002(15thof Tishrei, 5763): Sukkoth
2002:Following two consecutive days of suicide bombings “the Israeli Army tightenedits choke hold on Yasir Arafat today, demolishing all but one building in hiscompound and digging a trench around it, according to Palestinians inside.”
2002: It wasreported today that “Harvard University's president, Lawrence H. Summers, useda quiet prayer meeting on the first day of classes here this week to condemnwhat he termed growing anti-Semitism at Harvard and elsewhere.”
2003: The New York Times featured reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including WhoKilled Daniel Pearl? by Bernard-Henri Levy; translated by James X.Mitchell, A Mighty Heart :The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, DannyPearl by Mariane Pearl with Sarah Crichton, An Execution in the Family:One Son's Journey by Robert Meeropol and Sixty-Six by BarryLevinson.
2004: “WriterFarideh Dayanim Goldin published her first memoir,Wedding Song.”
2004: In “APro-Nazi President, a Family Feeling the Effects,” published today MichikoKakutani reviews The Plot Against America in which author Philip Rothcreates a world where Charles Lindbergh had defeated FDR in the 1940 election.
2005: ComposerDanny Elfman Scores First Emmy Award published today.
http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/234561
2005: The Jerusalem Post reported that SimonWiesenthal the famed Nazi hunter who died on Tuesday at the age of 96 will beburied in Jerusalem on Friday. During the 1950’s the non-Jewish world (some inthe Jewish world as well) wanted to forget or ignore the Holocaust. Wiesenthalwould not let the world forget what had happened. At times it seemed as if hewere working almost single-handedly to bring those who had murdered six millionJews to Justice. When the world was ready to remember, Wiesenthal was therewith the facts, figures and information.
2006: As thecase against Moshe Katsav expanded, the number of complaints filed against himrose to a total of eight today.
2006: “BarbaraEpstein and ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’” published today.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2006/sep/21/barbara-epstein-and-the-diary-of-anne-frank/
2006: Today,“Alan Hevesi admitted that he used Nicholas Acquafredda as a state employee todrive and aid his ailing wife.
2007: The topten billionaires on Forbes magazine’s list of the400 richest Americans includes five Jews holding down four of these covetedpositions: at number 3, Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson; at number 4, LarryEllison CEO of Oracle Corp; tied for fifth Sergey Brin co-founder of Google;tied for tenth, Oil barons Charles and David H. Koch.
2007(9th ofTishrei, 5768): Erev Yom Kippur
2007: KickerJosh Miller, who had been released by the New England Patriots, was signed bythe Tennessee Titans.
2008: Israel’sTV industry was a big winner, if only indirectly, when this year’s Emmy awardwinners were announced today at the annual red carpet event in Los Angeles.Dianne Wiest, already a two-time Oscar winner, added an additional statuette toher collection by winning the best supporting actress award for “In Treatment,”HBO’s largely faithful adaptation of the hit 2005 Israeli drama “BeTipul.” TheAmerican version of the show features Wiest as Gina Toll, a therapistoriginally named Gila Abulafia and played on Israeli TV by stage and filmveteran Gila Almagor. Wiest’s victory, over nominees from ABC-TV’s “Grey’sAnatomy,” “Boston Legal” and “Brothers and Sisters,” marked the second Emmy forthe Israeli-inspired series. The win followed “In Treatment” performer GlynnTurman’s victory in the guest actor category
2008: InWashington, D.C., Darin Straus reads from his new novel, More Than It HurtsYou.
2008: The YIVOInstitute for Jewish Research presents “Nusakh Vilne Yizker and MemorialLecture,” a program marking the 55th anniversary of the founding of NusakhVilne, and the 65th anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilna ghetto.
2008: The New York Times featured reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Indignationby Phillip Roth, Left In Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarismby Bernard-Henri Lévy; Translated by Benjamin Moser, Bumping Into Geniuses:My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business by Danny Goldberg and Hitler’sEmpire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower.
2008: The Washington Post featured reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest includingAngler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman and The Trouble Begins at8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West by Sid Fleischman.
2008: Internationallyknown performer DJ AM is listed in critical condition, two days after hereportedly saved his life by jumping from a burning plane while it was skiddingdown a runway in South Carolina Friday.DJ AM, whose real name is Adam MichaelGoldstein, was airlifted from the scene suffering from serious burns.
2008: BernardLewis came to Tulane University in New Orleans to speak about the dangers tothe world of the present regime in Iran. He claimed that the unpopular regimethere would use its nuclear arms because it does not fear “mutual assureddestruction,” believing that we are already at the end of days. The 91 and ahalf year-old scholar amazed everyone with his analysis, wit, and erudition,although his message was frightening for the Big Satan—the USA-- and for LittleSatan—Israel.
2008, In an"epithet-laden" performance at Theater J of the Washington DC JewishCommunity Center, Sandra Bernhard warned Vice Presidential candidate SarahPalin that she would be gang-raped by Bernhard's "big black brothers"if she visited Manhattan
2009 (3Tishrei, 5770): Fast of Gedaliah
2009: Michael“Bolton released his album ‘One World One Love’ in the United Kingdom” today.
2009: TheCenter for Jewish History and Center for Traditional Music and Dance present alecture entitled "The Multi-Ethnic Music Cultures of Moldova" inwhich Walter Zev Feldman discusses the cultural history of this area of ethnictransformation and his recent expedition which discovered musicians of mixedancestry still performing traditional Jewish music in his father's hometown ofEdinets.
2009: TheDCJCC presents a screening of “Holy Land Hardball,” a film that tells “thestory of an unlikely group of players and executives who attempted to createIsrael’s first professional baseball league in the summer of 2007.
2009: Israel'sDavis Cup team returned home today with mixed emotions, but already focused onnext year’s competition. Despite the disappointment of losing 4-1 to Spain inthe semifinals of the competition, the players and captain felt they gave theirall in Murcia and were proud of reaching the last four of the prestigiouscompetition for the first time in Israeli history.
2009: TheCommission of Experts on Reforms of the International Monetary and FinancialSystem chaired by Joseph Stiglitz issued its final report today.
2009: MarkHelprin “ wrote a long defense of his book in today’s edition of National Review, which concluded:"Digital Barbarism is not as much a defense of copyright as it is anattack upon a distortion of culture that has become a false savior in an age ofmany false saviors.”
2010: TheCenter for Jewish History and Jewish Women's Archive are scheduled to presentRemembering Grace Paley: A panel discussion, with excerpts from Lilly Rivlin'snew film,
“Grace Paley:Collected Shorts”
2010: DavidGrossman’s novel Isha Borachat Mi’bsora (A Women Flees a Message) was publishedin English today under the name To the End of the Land.
2010: “SevenMinutes In Heaven” is scheduled to be shown at the 14th Annual Jewish FilmFestival of Dallas (TX).
2010: Hundredsgathered in the rain in Riga’s Old City today for a ceremony to mark thepartial opening of the Riga Ghetto Museum, which will commemorate the thrivingJewish community that was wiped out in the Holocaust.
2010(13thof Tishrei, 5771): Ninety-two-year-old Shabtai Rosenne, an eminent professor ofinternational law and Israeli diplomat passed away today in Jerusalem
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/12/shabtai-rosenne-obituary
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2010/sep/29/my-legal-hero-shabtai-rosenne
2011:Elizabeth Flock reviews the first book in 30 years that has been written andillustrated by Maurice Sendak.
2011: FormerPresident George W. Bush is scheduled to speak at Beth El Synagogue today.
2011: Thanksto the efforts of Johnson Reynolds, who considered Michael Levin both anIsraeli and American hero, a flag which had been flown over the U.S. Capitol inmemory of young soldier, was flown over his grave today at Mr. Herzl.
2011(22ndof Elul): Ninety-two-year-old Chicago native Marvin “Mickey” Rottner theAll-American basketball player at Loyola who played professional basketballafter serving in WW II passed away today.
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2011: JewishNews One (JN1), the world’s first Jewish global 24hr news channel "thatoffers a new vision of current affairs," is scheduled to beginbroadcasting today via satellite and will be available in Europe, America andthe Middle East
2011(22nd ofElul): Yahrzeit of Joseph B. Levin – if it weren't for him, in more ways thanone, none of this would exist proving that there is more than one way "tobe inscribed in the book of life."
2012: TeamIsrael is scheduled to play either France or Spain in its second game at theWorld Baseball Classic which “is considered to be the premier internationalbaseball tournament”
2012: TodayIsrael called on the international community in a special gathering at theUnited Nations to recognize the suffering of Jewish refugees from Arabcountries and their material claims the same way it acknowledges the plight ofdisplaced Palestinians
2012(5th ofTishrei, 5773: A heavily armed terrorist cell from the Sinai Peninsula openedfire on IDF soldiers on the Israeli - Egyptian border today, killing onesoldier and injuring a second, before the gunmen were killed in return fire.The IDF announced the name the 20-year-old victim, Netanel Yahalomi, andpromoted him posthumously to the rank of corporal.
2012: Israelisoldiers helped to save a Sudanese refugee today in the Sinai, near the sitewhere a soldier was killed in an ambush by three men at the Israeli-Egyptianborder.
2012: Iranianmilitary commanders today threatened the complete destruction of the State ofIsrael as the country unveiled a domestically manufactured air defense systemas part of a military parade, various Iranian news agencies reported
2013(17thof Tishrei, 5774): Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
2013:In the evening the 92nd Street Y is scheduled to sponsor an IsraeliFolk Dance Marathon.
2013:Residents of Tel Aviv and surrounding towns witnessed loud, low-flyingmaneuvers by Israel Air Force jets this morning when the planes scrambled tointercept what was initially believed to be an intrusion by enemy aircraft intoIsrael’s airspace but turned out to be a flock of birds.
2013: Rain wasreported along Israel's coast from Haifa in the north down to the Center area,including Tel Aviv today making it “first rain of the season.” (As reported byAmishai Gottlieb)
2013: In BatYam, “Tzachi Meats” remained closed this evening as an angry crowd gatheredaround the restaurant that illegally employed Nidal Amar, the Arab who luredTomer Hazan, a sergeant in the IAF and co-worker to his death last night. Amarhad originally planned to trade the body for terrorists in Israeli custody butchanged his mind and threw the body into the well.
2014:“Charlotte Salomon: Life? Or Theater” an exhibition that includes 300 of the1,300 “gouache paintings created by “a 23 year old Jewish artist from Berlinwho fled to south of France where she painted for two years before beingtransported to Auschwitz where she was murdered” is scheduled to come to anend.
2014(26thof Elul, 5774): Seventy-nine-year-old Sheldon Patinkin passed away today. (Asreported by Bruce Weber)
2014(26thof Elul, 5774): Eight-seven-year-old Israeli intelligence officer MichaelHarari passed away today.
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http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel/.premium-1.617199
2014: The New York Times features reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including BlackVodka: Ten Stories by Deborah Levy, Things I Don’t Want to Know onWriting by Deborah Levy, Quest, written and illustrated by AaronBecker, Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer and Nest by Esther Ehrlich.
2014: The “ILive. Send Help” exhibit which “walks through the century of JDC existence,giving a glimpse into the many ways the organizations has helped Jews andnon-Jews around the world” will have its final showing at the New YorkHistorical Society today. (As reported by Rebecca Borison)
2014: TheJewish Museum’s exhibit “Mel Bochner: Strong Language” which “explores themeaning of words” is scheduled to have its final showing today. (As reported byCathryn J. Prince)
2014: “Arabterrorists threw rocks at a bus carrying Jewish schoolchildren in theneighborhood surrounding the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem this morning, in thelatest terror-related incident in the capital.” (As reported by Orly Harari andTova Dvorin)
2014: Thegovernment of Israel “announced the establishment of a new cyber-dfenseauthority to coordinate cyber-security efforts among government, industry andcivilian sectors” which be head by Dr. Eviatar Matania. (As reported by DavidShamah)
2014: “Morethan 100 Jewish organizations participated in the People’s Climate March in NewYork as part of the Jewish Climate Campaign.”
2014: “Murder”written by Hanoch Levin and directed by Yadin Goldman is scheduled to have itsfinal performance at the American Theatre of Actors.
2015(8thof Tishrei, 5776): Eighty-six-year-old orthopedic surgeon Dr. Leon Root passedaway today. (As reported by William Grimes)
2015:“Crossfire,” an Academy Award-nominated film noir that was one of the firstfilms to raise the subject of anti-Semitism in the postwar U.S.” is scheduledto be shown at the Center for Jewish History.
2015: “EnglishNational Theatre of Israel (ENTI), is scheduled to present AN ILIAD - amodern-day retelling of Homer's classic poem, adapted by award-winning theatrepractitioners Lisa Peterson & Denis O'Hare.”
2015: Today,Ben Shapiro co-founded “The Daily Wire” which he serves as “editor-in-chief.”
2015: InKennesaw, GA, Kennesaw State University is scheduled to “The Leo Case: 100Years in the Media” a panel discussion which will examined “the role of theMedia in the Leo Frank Case, one hundred years ago and today.”
2015: Today,Ben “Shapiro founded The Daily Wiretoday.”
2015: A rocketwas fired from Gaza around 4:00 a.m., in the Hof Ashkelon region of southernIsrael, making it the third time in as many days that terrorists have launcheda missile from Gaza.
2016: PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama are scheduled to meet inNew York today during the United Nations General Assembly.
2016: SupremeCourt Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is scheduled to speak at the Temple Emanu-El Skirball[ML1] Center.
2016: AtTemple Emanu-El of Atlanta, Aaron Berger, the Executive Director of the BremanMuseum is scheduled to speak on the challenges and rewards of “leading anaward-winning museum that connects people to Jewish history, arts and culture”
2017: Today“Valerie Plame Wilson, a former CIA agent and author,” whose paternalgrandfather was Jewish “came under fire after she tweeted a link to a piecetitled “America’s Jews are driving America’s wars.”
2017: Premiereof the fourth season of “Transparent” starring Jeffry Tambor
2017: AsIsrael begins the New Year, her population stands at 8.743 million “up some156,000 people from the previous year with 6.5 million being Jewish, almost 1.8million being Arab and another almost 400,000 being a mixture of other groupsinclude Druze and non-Arab Christians.
2017: AsAmerica Jews observe the New Year, many of them may be wondering what their“portion in the House of Israel” is following Prime Minister Netanyahu’s latestdefense of “Orthodoxy’s religious monopoly in Israel.”
2017(1stof Tishrei, 5778): Rosh Hashanahשנה טובה, כתיבה וחתימה טובה.
2018:The Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts is scheduled to host a screeningof “Ôtez-moi d'un doute.”
2018: “The Couple Who Helped Decode Dyslexia” published today describedthe work of Sally and Bennett Shaywitz, co-directors of the Yale Center forDyslexia and Creativity, have been conducting a study of people with dyslexiasince 1983. (As reported by Katie Hafner)
2018: The Bezalel Art Fair is scheduled to begin this morning inJerusalem.
2018: In a week punctuated by incendiary attacks from Gaza, the murder ofan Israeli, and the downing of Russian plane by Syrians which was they tried topin on Israel, Israelis contemplate the comparative of accuracy of reportsprepared by “the IDF top brass and signed by Chief of Staff Gadi Eisnkot” and“IDF Ombudsman Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Brick, a medal of courage recipient from theYom Kippur War.”
2019(21st of Elul, 5779): Parashat Ki Tavo;
2019: In Oakland, the Duvin wine bar is scheduled to host “The RebbeSoulPower Percussion Trio Havdalah Concert.
2019: In Santa Rosa, CA, Congregation Shomrei Torah is scheduled to host“Warm Up for the Holy Days” featuring “storyteller Joel ben Izzy sharingtraditional and modern Selichot and high-holiday themed tales.”
2019(21st of Elul, 5779): In the evening Leil Selichot
2020: Chochmat HaLev and Makor Or are scheduled to sponsor Rabbi DorothyRichman as she “looks at stories from the High Holidays prayerbook, examininghow we communicate our needs and desires at this time of year.”
2020: The Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival is scheduled tobegin today.
2020: B’nai Jeshurun Congregation is scheduled to host Professor DoronCalir who will examine the implications of the Torah portion for today'scommunity and the meaning of Emunah (faith) in the 21st century.”
2020: Israelis are scheduled to deal with another day of lockdown thatbegan erev Rosh Hashanah and has led to almost three thousand fines being handout for a variety of infractions including “a Tel Aviv cafe that opened incontravention of restrictions and was catering to some 50 customers…”
2020: The battle of over the filling of Justice Ginsberg’s seat whichexploded less than hour after she died erev Rosh Hashanah will continue toexacerbate the highly volatile political and social environment in the UnitedStates.
2020(3rd of Tishrei, 5781): Tzom Gedaliah
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https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/tzom-gedaliah/
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-fast-of-gedaliah
2021(15th ofTishrei, 5782): First Day of Sukkoth; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2022: Today, PrimeMinister Lapid is scheduled to sit down with new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss,as well as local Jewish leaders in New York.
2022: In Palo Alto, CA,the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to hostPerla Batalla, who recorded and toured with the late Leonard Cohen for10+ years, performing a tribute show for Cohen’s Sept. 21 birthday.
2022: LockdownUniversity is scheduled to host online a lecture by Professor Jacob Goldberg on“Why is the Middle East So Unstable and Unpredictable.”
2022: In Berkely, CA HelenDiller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley is scheduledto present Yossi Shain, whose new book The Israeli Century: How the Zionist Revolution ChangedHistory and Reinvented Judaism examinesIsrael, its challenges and its burdens.
2023:The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to present the “season 4premiere of AT LUNCH where Julie Salamon sits down with New York Times Critic,A.O. Scott to discuss his return to reviewing books, his career in criticism,and thoughts on our current culture.”
2023:The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to host the Centre’sDirector Professor Shirli Gilbert, as she speaks as part of the series “TheHolocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry”.
2023:JWA is scheduled to host a session of“Book Talks” with Elizabeth Graver, author of Kantika, “a dazzlingSephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana,and New York” and “exploresdisplacement, endurance, and family as home.”
2024:In Cedar Rapids, at Temple Judah, Harding Middle School 8th grader OwenBenjamin Copeland the son Martin Copeland and Tracy Bilstein whose favoritesubject is meth, who loves baseball and soccer and who plays violin in theMetro Honor Orchestra is scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah.
2024:In Brookline, MA, Temple Beth Zion is scheduled to present “From Rock Bottom ToReturn With Rabbi Carol Glass.”
2024(18thof Elul, 5784): Parashat Ki Tavo (When you enter); for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2024:As September 21st begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism thathas included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New Yorksubway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas heldhostages begin day 351 in captivity.(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so weare just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
