This Day, July 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

July 24

1148:  Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade. The Second Crusade gained nothing for the Christians.  The failure of the crusade may help explain “the long period of persecution that included French clergyman giving frequent anti-Semitic sermons. In some cities, such as Beziers, Jews were forced to pay a special tax every Palm Sunday. In Toulouse, Jewish representatives had to go to the cathedral on a weekly basis to have their ears boxed, as a reminder of their guilt. France’s first blood libel took place in Blois in 1171 and 31 Jews were burned on the stake.”

1263: Today, at the end of the Disputation of Barcelona, “King James I awarded Nachmanides a prize of 300 gold coins and declared that never before had he heard ‘an unjust cause so nobly defended’” and then addressed the Jews in their synagogue in Barcelon.

1298(14th of Av): During the Rindfleisch massacres, the Jewish community of Bischofsheim on the Tauber, Germany perished

1349(8^th of Av): The Jews of Frankfort were killed in what would be called the Black Death Massacres

1518: Sefer ha-Harkavah, a Hebrew grammar written by Elijah Levita (Bahur) was published in Rome today.  

1567: King James VI, who as James I the ruler of England, Ireland and Scotland oversaw the creation of the “King James Bible” a project for which he insisted that Hebrew Scholars play a prominent role and who treated The World’s Great Restoration, or Calling of the Jews as libel, began his reign as king of Scotland today.

1716: Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Posin.

1768(10^th of Av, 5525): Tish’a B’Av observed

1786: In New York, Jacob and Judith Myers Mordecai gave birth to their second son Samuel Mordecai, the successful Virginia merchant  and War of 1812 veteran who had taught at the Mordecai Female Academy in Warrenton, NC and wrote a history of Richmond, VA entitled Richmond in By-Gone Days.

1793(15^th of Av, 5553): Tu B’Av observed on the one month anniversary of the adoption by French Constitution of 1793.

1806: Henry Collins, the son of Hyman and Mary Collins was circumcised today in the UK.

1809: In Utrecht, Holland, Hannah Rebecca Israel and Ezekiel Jacob Ezekiel gave birth to Martha Ezekiel the husband of Jacob Abraham Levy who she married on her 19^th birthday and with whom she had nine children.

1812(15^th of Av, 5572): Tu B;Av observed on the one month anniversary of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia.

1819: Eliezer Cohen the son of Elyakum Cohen, was circumcised today at Chelmsford, Essex today.

1823: In London, Benjamin Barent Cohen the London born son of Levi Barent Cohen and Lydia Barent-Cohen and his wife Justina Sebag Cohen gave birth Hannah Benjamin Leonino, the wife of Italian resident Ippolito Leonino

1825(9^th of Av, 5585): Tish’a B’Av observed for the first time during the Presidency of John Quincy Adams.

1828: Nineteen-year-old Martha Ezekiel, the Dutch born daughter of Hannah Rebecca Israel and Ezekiel Jacob Ezekiel married Jacob Abraham Levy today.

1832: Wolfgang Mack the son of Sara Aub and Alexander Mack married twenty-four year old Louis Geldrsheimer in her native Bamberg, Germany.

1833(8^th of Av, 5593): Erev Tish’a B’Av observed on the same day that “The Beagle” carrying Charles Darwin sailed from Maldonado bound for the Rio Negro.

1836(10^th of Av, 5596): Tish’a B’Av

1836: Birthdate of Radom, Poland native and Jewish convert to Calvinism Jan Gotlib Bloch the banker and railway financier who “spent considerable effort to opposing the prevalent Anti-Semitic policies of the Tsarist government and was sympathetic to the fledgling Zionist Movement.”

1836: Birthdate of Jan Gotlib Blich the Polish banker who converted to Calvinism to avoid the disabilities the Czar placed on Jews but who remained sympathetic to the plight of his people and who was an eaerly supporter of the Zionist Movement.

1840: Birthdate of Abraham Goldfaden, a Russian-born Jewish poet, playwright, stage director and actor in the languages Yiddish and Hebrew, author of some 40 plays who is considered the father of the Jewish modern theatre

https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Goldfadn_Avrom

http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/06/avrom-abraham-goldfaden.html

1842: Henry Nathan married Sarah Costa at the Great Synagogue.

1844(8^th of Av, 5604): Erev Tish’a B’Av

1845: An advertisement for Organ Sonatas by Felix Mendelson appeared in today’s issue of The Musical World.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Mendelssohn#/media/File:Mendelssohn_oregan_sonatas.jpg

1844(8^th of Av, 5604): Erev Tish’a B’Av observed as authorities investigate the causes of the Southwark Riots which featured “nativist” attacks on Roman Catholics and Irish immigrants in Philadelphia,

1848: The will of Mr. Isaac D ’Israeli was “proved” today by Benjamin D ’Israeli, his son and “sole executor.”

1850(15^th of Av, 5610): Tu B’Av observed for the last time while Alphonse Henri, comte d'Hautpou was serving as Prime Minister of France during the Second Republic.

1853(18^th of Tammuz, 5613): Tzom Tammuz observed

1855(9th of Av, 5615):  Tish'a B'Av observed as pro-slavery forces seek to impose their will from the newly created territorial capital of Shawnee Mission – all a part of the episode known as “Bloody Kansas.”

1857: In Rotterdam, Benjamin Moses Verveer, the Hague born  of Mozes Abraham Verveer and Saartje Isaac van der Velden and his wife Clara de Bok gave birth to Sara Verveer.

1858(13^th of Av, 5618): Parashat Vaetchanan: Shabbat Nachamu

1858: In New York City Babetta New and Israel Altmayer gave birth to NYU trained attorney and Democratic Party activist Max Altmayer, the husband of Rosa Sickles who was a member of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York and Temple Israel.A

1858: In reporting on a case of alleged war profiteering in the boot business that took place at Weedon in England, the New York Times correspondent writes that “if the Jews are excluded from Parliament, they are certainly compensated in some measure by the handsome share the Government allows them in the pretty pickings of such places as Weedon.”

1861: In London was Nathan Marcus Adler, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire gave birth to historian and solicitor Elkan Nathan Adler who had a unique knowledge of the Jews of Persia and whose works included Jews In Many Lands.

1861: In New York City, Elizabeth Cohen, the Dutch born daughter of Emanuel Levie Goldsmith and Alijda Joseph Joel Goldsmith and her husband Moses S. Cohen gave birth to Solomon Henry Cohen who gained fame as author and lecturer S.H.Clark.

1862: Martin Van Buren, 8^th President of the United States passed away.  “Martin Van Buren was the first President to order an American consul to intervene on behalf of Jews abroad. In 1840 he instructed the U.S. consul in Alexandria, Egypt to protect the Jews of Damascus who were under attack because of a false blood ritual accusation.”  Van Buren ordered his diplomats “to extend ‘the active sympathy and generous interposition of the Government of the United states’ on behalf of ‘an oppressed and persecuted race, among whose kindred are found some of the most worthy and patriotic of our citizens.’”

1864: Union General James A. Mulligan was mortally wounded as he led his troops Second Battle of Kernstown, near Winchester, Virginia. The last entry in his diary read, “The last thing in it, written that day, is: "Well, our cause is gloomy; we will conquer the South about the time the Jews all return to Jerusalem." (The general was not Jewish.  But his statement shows the depth of his despair and the universal symbolism that Jews had come to represent.)

1865: On this date, Baron Lionel de Rothschild signs his last will and testament.  The will is in his own handwriting.  Among the terms of the will is a request that “‘my good wife’ shall give 10,000 pounds to Jewish charities.”

1865(1st of Av, 5625): Rosh Chodesh Av

1865: In Vienna, Ignatz and Anna Rosenbaum Grossmann gave birth to Rudolph Grossman who would serve as associate Rabbi at Temple Beth El before becoming the spiritual leader of Rodef Sholom in New York City.

1866: In Dulendurf, Germany, Jacob Maier, “a cattle dealer” and his wife Dina gave birth to Sigmund Maier who at the age of 16 came to the United States where he worked in Appleton, Milwaukee and Warsaw Wisconsin before settling in Fort Wayne IN where he became a manager with Will Brothers and Married Charlotte Lowenstein with whom he had four boys and one girl.

1867: In Vienna Rabbi Ignatz and Anna Rosenbaum Grossman gave birth to Hebrew Union College trained rabbi Rudolph Grossman and the husband of Martha Keller who began his career with at Temple Beth El in New York and Temple Rodeph Sholom and was a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis.

1871: Birthdate of Paul Epstein, the native of Frankfurt who followed in the footsteps of his professor father by becoming a professor in 1919 but who would lose his career when the Nazis came to power.

1873:In Cardiff, Wales Rabbi Solomon S. Philo gave birth to Isador E. Philo, the holder of  a BA from CCNY and a doctorate from the University Illinois who went on to become a Rabbi in Akron, Ohio and Youngstown, Ohio.

http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/obits/p1/philo-isador.txt

1874: Today’s “Foreign Notes” column reported that “Jaffa is to be dismantled.  The walls and turrets are advertised for sale and the old fortifications will soon be utterly razed.”

1874(10^th of Av, 5634): Seventy-one year old Baron Anselm Salomon von Rothschild, a member of the Vienna branch of the famous banking family who founded Creditanstalt passed away today.

1875: Gabriel Lippmann's PhD thesis, presented to the Sorbonne today, was on electro-capillarity

1875: In Odessa, Joseph Grubman and Flora Franckman gave birth to Adolph Joseph Grubman, the husband of Minnie Freid  who arrived in the United States in 1887 after which he worked as a jeweler and master machinist before attending NYU, passing the bar, serving in leadership roles at various Jewish organizations including assistant superintendent and had master of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society Orphan Asylum in New York, assistant superintendent of the Educational Alliance in New York Vice President of B’nai B’rith’s Liberty lodge, Number 550.

1876: In New Haven, CT, Mark Fisher and his wife gave birth to Henry M. Fisher the graduate of Yale and HUC and the husband of the former Madeline Schubart who became the Rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in Atlantic City.

1876(3^rd of Av, 5636): Nine month Mabel Myers passed away today after which she was buried at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1877: Henry Ward Beecher, a friend of Joseph Seligman's, preached a sermon against anti-Semitism. Beecher was the father of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.  He was an ardent abolitionist and a champion of what today we would call civil rights. Despite this appeal to reason, the policy of social discrimination soon became widespread. Though the Grand Union Hotel was not the first incident in the U.S., it received a great amount of publicity. Seligman was a renowned philanthropist and helped the Union cause during the Civil War. In recognition, President Grant offered him the post of Secretary of Treasury.

1877: The New York Times published a letter from Edgar M. Johnson, a prominent Jewish lawyer from Cincinnati, Ohio.  He stated that he did not like to engage in a “newspaper controversy…especially one on such a disagreeable topic as the Seligman-Hilton imbroglio.”  However, he took issue with the false statements that he had tried to hide his religion when making reservations to stay at the Grand Union or that Judge Hilton’s employees did not know he was Jewish when they offered to let him stay at the hotel. He included the text of the communication in his letter and ended by saying that hotel owners in Saratoga Springs  had not had any problem accepting his “Jew money” when he had stayed there in the past.  But they need not concern themselves with the matter, since he had no intention of ever visiting again.

1878: In Oakland, CA, Michael Harris Coffee and Rosa (Abrahamson) Coffee gave birth to Rudolph Isaac Coffee, the holder of degrees from Columbia, JTS and the University of Pittsburgh who served as the rabbi of several congregations including Temple Judea in Chicago and Temple Sinai in Oakland.

1880: Birthdate of Swiss-born American composer Ernest Bloch.

1880:  The Rochester (NY) Union reported that Rabbi Max Moll has officiated at the conversion ceremony of Mrs. Morse. Her husband is a member of Aitz Raanon.  The ceremony included a detailed examination on Jewish customs and laws which the young woman promised to obey.  The ceremony ended with the appropriate benedictions and the announcement that her name was now Sarah.

1881: “Notes of Foreign Life” reported that funds have been collected in Brussels to aid the persecuted Jews of Russia.

1882(8^th of Av, 5642): Erev Tish’a B’Av

1882: Professor Felix Adler sent a check for one hundred dollars to the striking freight handlers.

1883: “Burdened With an Insane Wife” published today described the attempts of David Holtz, a young Jewish immigrant to annul his marriage to Pauline Moses on grounds that he was misled as to the nature of the ceremony, that he has had to have her committed to an asylum and that he family concealed her history of mental illness from him prior to the marriage.

1883: In Munich artist Alfred Pringsheim and Hedwig Dohnm Pringsheim gave birth to musical marvel Kalus Pringsheim ,Sr.

1883 In Munich artist Alfred Pringsheim and Hedwig Dohnm Pringsheim gave birth to Katharina "Katia" Pringsheim, the twin sister of Klaus Pringsheim, Sr. who was the wife of author Thomas Mann.

1883: It was reported today Jews dominated a recent chess tournament.  Six of the fourteen players were Jewish and the Jews won first, second and fifth place.  This should come as no surprise because since “the times of the Talmud, Jews have been pre-eminent at games similar to chess, while in modern time” Jews have been some of the best players for several generations.

1884: “A Queen Among Thieves” described the career and capture of Mrs. Fredericka Mandelbaum, a German born Jewess who is one of the most important and famous receiver of stolen goods.  Her reputation and criminal activities which have been going on for 25 years, are national in scope. The Pinkerton detectives have been tracking her for years and said that some of her confederates include her husband,, her brother-in-law Hirsh, “Mose” Erich and “Jew” Harris.  Don’t be deceived by the names; she dealt with crooks of a variety of ethnic origins.

1885: In San Nicandro, Italy,  Giuseppe Manduzio and Concetta Frascaria, gave birth to Italian WW I veteran Donato Manduzio the convert to Judaism who founded “ small Jewish Sabbatarian Sect” which the chief rabbi in Rome later officially converted to Orthodox Judaism.

1888 In Russia, Sarah Levine and Morris Reder gave birth to Northeastern University School of Law trained attorney and Republican party leader Joseph Reder, the President of the Lawrence, MA Zionist District and a member of Temple Emanuel.

1888: Mrs. Solomons, one of the Jews who had been on an excursion to Raritan Beach, went to the police to complain about a scheme by one of the organizers to force the patrons to buy beer and other drinks to slake their thirst.

1889: In Baltimore, MD, Solomon and Eva Levin Altfeld gave birth to Emanuel Milton Altfeld, a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1914 to 1916 and a member of the Maryland State Senate from 1930 to 1934 who was the author of The Jew’s Struggle for Religious and Civil Liberty in Maryland

1890: In Kippenheim, Germany, Dr. Julius and Emilie (Durlacher) Stern gave birth to historian and archivist Selma Stern-Taeubler.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/stern-taeubler-selma

1891: W.D. Owens, the Superintendent of Immigration arrived from Washington, DC and met for several hours with the Acting Superintendent of Immigration at the Barge Office to discuss policies related to the detention of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland.

1891: In New York, Coroner Ferdinand Levy succeeded in finding bondsman who would post $1,000 for the six Jewish families Russia being held at the Barge Office so that they could enter the United States.

1892: “Berkmann An Anarchist” published today provided a profile of Alexander Berkman, the Lithuanian born Jewish anarchist who attempted to assassinate  Henry Clay Frick whom he held responsible for the murder of nine striking steelworkers during the infamous Homestead Steel Strike.

1892: In commenting on the shooting of Henry Clay Frick by Alexander Berkman, one “workingman was heard to say, “Served him right to be shot by a Russian Jew!  He was a Pole and” Frick “has brought thousands of pauper Polish laborers in this country.” (Frick was one of the many industrialists who used the contract labor system to bring in workers from eastern and southern Europe with a view to driving down the pay for workers.)

1893(11^th of Av, 5653): Sixty-one year old Priscilla J. Joachimsen, the widow of Judge Joachimsen passed away today.  Born in Plymouth, England, she married the Judge when she was eighteen. The marriage last forty seven years during which they founded the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and were active in the Hebrew Lying-In Asylum, the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews and the Deborah Nursery.

1893: Simon Bernheimer, the senior partner of Bernheimer and Schmidt, is among those mourning the passing of Isaac Burnheimer, the founder of the real estate and property management firm.

1894: “Meeting In Clarendon Hall” described the lecture delivered by Charles Wilfred Mowbray, “the English labor agitator and anarchist” to an audience that included a contingent of Jewish anarchists as can be seen by the fact that literature printed in Hebrew was distributed to throng.

1894: Two days after she had passed away, 69 year old Polly Levy was buried at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.

1895: “While on vacation, Sigmund Freud carries out his first lengthy dream analysis”

1895(3rd of Av, 5655): Twenty-nine-year old Columbia trained attorney Abram C. Bernheim of the firm of Shekan & Bernheim who was a member of Temple Emanu-El passed away today.

1897: The Special Board of Inquiry approved the entry of Adolf Bernstrom a Polish Jew who had arrived aboard the SS Lahn after his son, an east side tailor, had given “the necessary assurance that” he “would become a charge on the community.”

1897(3^rd of Av, 5655): Less than two weeks before his 45^th birthday Hungarian Rabbi Julius Klein one of the first to introduce preaching in Hungarian into the synagogue service” and whose” chief work, besides his collection of material for a history of the Jewish community of Alt-Ofen, which appeared in the periodical "Magyar Zsidó Szémle," was his translation of the Talmud into Hungarian, with notes” passed away today. (Editor’s note: He is not to be confused with Hungarian Rabbi Julius Klein who moved to Cleveland, OH)

1897: In Silesia which was then part of Germany, Marie Kallmann and Bruno Kallman, a surgeon and general practitioner gave birth to Breslau University trained psychiatrist Franz Josef Kallman the husband of Helen J. Bruger who was forced to flee to the United States in 1936 because he was classified as a Jew due to the fact that his father who had converted to Christianity was born Jewish.

https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/franz-josef-kallmann-1897-1965

1897: It was reported today that the dispensary of the Brooklyn Hebrew Hospital, under the direction of Dr. Solo, which is open from 3 to 5 in the afternoon, provides free treatment to 40 or 50 patients each day.

1898: “The Persecution of Polish Jews Still Going On” published today described “the pillaging of Jews” and the burning of Jewish property which has been going on for the past three weeks.

1898: Following his funeral today, Benjamin Marks, who is survived by his widow Esther Cohen Marks and six children, will be buried in Cypress Hills Cemetery.

1898: In Atlantic City, NJ, the second Summer Assembly of the Jewish Chautauqua Society is scheduled to come to an end.

1899: Emil Worms, the German born of Babbete and Gabriel Worms and his wife Clara Worms gave birth to Gilbert Worms.

1899: According to a summary of the annual report of the Bureau of Immigration for the fiscal year ending last June, most of the 29,000 immigrants from Poland and the 2,000 immigrants from Russia were Jewish.

1899: In San Francisco, Dahlia Levy and Solomon Loeb gave birth to Gerald Martin Loeb the husband of Rose Lobree Benjamin and a “founding partner of E.F. Hutton and Company.”

1899: “Mistakes Made in Philippines” published today described the challenges facing the Americans in this Pacific Island change including the fact that the many of the military units are composed of unqualified recruits including “a low class of Romanian, Russian and Polish Jews.”

1900: Birthdate of Russia native Ralph Astrofky, who came to the United States where earned degrees from Columbia, Fordham Law School and Brooklyn Law after which he pursued as a career as a playwright and a social worker.

1901(8^th of Av, 5661): Erev Tish’a B’Av

1901: In Haverhill, MA, Flora Craft and Leopold Albertson gave birth to actress Mabel Ida Albertson, the sister of actor Jack Albertson.

1902: “Simon Sterne Fountain” published today included a description of Sterne’s affection for horses and his support for the Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.”

1902: Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore, the son of Nathaniel Montefiore, the great-nephew of Sir Moses Montefiore and “the founding president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism” – an outgrowth of his leadership of “Anglo-Liberal Judaism – married Florence Fyfe Bereton Ward at the West London Synagogue after his first wife – Therese Alice Schorstein –had died in 1889

1903: John C. Rice, Sally Cohen and Minnie Seligman are among the volunteers scheduled to take part in the benefit being given to raise funds for the Hebrew Infant Asylum of New York on Long Island.

1904: Today, Lee Kohns of L. Straus and Sons was reported to be a member of the newly formed National Importers Association.

1905: Birthdate of Brooklyn native and  Brooklyn Law School trained attorney Nat Lefkowitz, the husband of Sally Feigelman  with whom he had three daughters – Dorothy, Rona and Helene – who was the “co-chairman of the William Morris Agency” .

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/06/obituaries/no-headline-145877.html

1905: Official circles in Paris are not worried about the Czar’s visit to the Kaiser who is undoubtedly trying to undermine the alliance between France and Russia which will become critical during World War I with all that this meant for civilization in general and the Jews in particular.

1906: Birthdate of Julius Raskin, the CCNY basketball star known as “Little Tubby” because his older basketball playing brother Morris was known as “Big Tubby.”

1907: B. Altman and Company is having a sale today on the “balance of several discontinued line of women’s low cut shoes.’

1907: The fourteenth annual assembly of the Jewish Chautauqua Society under the leadership of President George W. Ochs is scheduled to continue in Atlantic City, NJ.

1908: In “Correction from Jewish Federation” published today, Manuel F. Behar, the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Federation of Jewish Organizations is quoted as saying that there are no plans to hold a mass meeting on August 2 to “discuss” the attitude of Republican Presidential candidate William H. Taft sponsored by the federation since “the federation is not a political body.”

1909: On the Saturday before his 60^th birthday The New York Times reviews an anniversary volume of essays and speeches by the Zionist leader Max Nodeau. In the chapter on Zionism, the Hungarian born leader writes “Zionism is but a new name for a very old cause, in as much as it merely expresses the longing of the Jewish race toward Zion.”

1909: George Picquart, the French officer who risked everything to expose the falsehood of the Dreyfus Conviction completed his service as Minister of War in the cabinet of Georges Clemenceau.

1910: Birthdate of Harry Horner, the native of Holitz, the Austro-Hungarian city now part of the Czech Republic, the Academy Award winning art director who garnered Oscars for “The Heiress” in 1949 and “The Hustler” in 1961.

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/08/obituaries/harry-horner-84-designer-of-films-plays-and-operas.html

1911: Fire in Balata district of Constantinople destroys Boys' and Girls' Schools of the Alliance Israelite Universelle, four synagogues, and 1,000 houses, about 600, which belonged to Jews.  

1912: In Chicago, Professor Berthold Louis Ullman whose teaching positions included serving as head of the Latin Department at the University of Iowa and his wife, the former Mary Louise Bates gave birth to University of Chicago geographer Edward Louis Ullman, the WW II OSS transportation specialist who worked for several governmental agencies after the war who developed a tri-part theory of trade.

http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv01385

1913(19^th of Tammuz, 5673): On the Jewish calendar Yahrzeit of Rabbi Aaron Samuel Koidonover of Cracow, author of Birkat Shumel who died in 1676.

1914(1^st of Av, 5674): Rosh Chodesh Ave

1914: In Charlevoix, Michigan, a summer resort community, over 400 persons attended services led by Rabbi I. E. Marcuson of Charleston, SC where Dr. J. Leonard Levy of Pittsburgh delivered the sermon.

1914: In Konstantynów Łódzki, Russian Empire, ”Tzvi Yitzchok Abramowicz, who had been the shochet for Rav Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin, the Rebbe of Alexander, and had been a chosid of the Chidushei Harim of Ger” and his wife gave birth to Israeli rabbi Yehuda Meir Abrmowicz who made Aliyah in  1935 where “he served as general secretary of Agudat Yisrael, which he represented in the Knesset from 1972 until 1981, and as Deputy Speaker of the Knesset between 1977 and 1981.”

1914: Birthdate of Jan Kozielewski, who as Jan Karski, risked his life to infiltrate the Warsaw Ghetto and then escaped to the West bringing a first-hand account of the Holocaust.

1914: In Colonial Beach, Virginia, David and Anna Mirvish gave birth to Yehuda Mirvish, who gained fame as Canadian businessman and philanthropist Edwin “Honest Ed” Mirvish.

1915: Having arrived in Milledgegville, GA yesterday today Governor Harris and the state prison authorities began their investigation into the attack on Leo M. Frank.

1915:  This morning “William Creen told Governor Nat E. Harris that he tried to kill Leo M. Frank…because he believed that in doing so he would rid the Georgia State Prison of a man who presence would result in the attack by a mob on the prison and loss of live in a battle with the guards” – an opinion he said he had formed from reading newspapers. 2=

1915(13^th of Av, 5675): Twenty-year-old 2^nd Lieutenant Philip Brydges Gutterez Henriques, the son of Philip Joseph Gutterez Henriques and Beatrice Rachel Faudel-Phillips who attended Eton and Oxford was killed today Ypres while serving with the 8^th Battalion of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

1915: Warden Smith wants those investigating the recent attack on Leo M. Frank today to examine charges “George Johnson, a prisoner whose term has recently expired that Frank had been treated at the prisons as if he was on a social visit and the he had been provided with a roll-top desk.”

1916: “According to a message received” tonight in New York “from Boston” Justice Louis D. Brandeis has resigned from the Executive Committees of the American Jewish Relief Organization and the Jewish Congress Organization” saying that his “official duties would not permit him to give the organizations the time they demanded.”

1916: In New York City, Alfred and Georgina (Ballin) Braun gave birth to Susan Braun, “the founder and director of Dance Films Association” today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/07/obituaries/susan-braun-79-dance-archivist.html

1916: Today, “in the town of Lokachi, the Province of Volinski,” “the Cossacks and the Dragoons” order the Gentiles to put ikons in their windows” so that they would not suffer during today’s pogrom which began when a Jewish tobacconist could not fill a Cossack’s order for high priced tobacco and the angry Cossack killed the Jew with his lance.

1916: It was reported today that the most important bill drafted by the new Minister of Interior in Russia, Alexei Khvostoff, “related to the admission of Jews to the practice of law…”

1916: “The Joint Distribution Committee of Funds for Jewish War Suffers” today received from the State Department a report sent from Albert Haistead, the American Consul General at Vienna that “$130,000 had been received in June by the Israelitische Allianz in Vienna from the American Jewish Relief Funds” of which $70,000 is to be spent for the relief” of Jews in Galicia and $50,000 for Jews living in the part of Poland under Austrian occupation.

1917: As the Kerensky government contends with competing views of what the new regime should look like, the peasants who “are no friend of the Jews” are calling for a new monarchy while “it is possible that the Jewish question, especially n view of the attitude of the Jews in political organizations of Petrograd, will play an important part in deciding the future Constitution of Russia.” 

1917: “The Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War announced” today “that a special nation-wide appeal in behalf of the $10,000,000 Jewish war relief campaign would be made this Sunday which is the 10^th of Av but which will be observed as Tish’a B’av because the 9^th of Av falls on Shabbat.

1917(5^th of Av. 5677): Twenty-nine year old Captain Charles Lauff passed away today in Marin County, CA

1917(5^th of Av, 5677:  Ninety-five year old Charles August Lauff, a native Strasbourg, the son of Jacob and Caroline (Ashelmann) Lauff and the husband of Maria J. Cibrian with whom he had nine children and who wrote a book of reminiscences in 1916 passed away today.

1918(15^th of Av, 5678): Tu B’Av

1918: The Paris Zionist Committee, led by its President, Baron Edmond de Rothschild greeted the American Zionist Medical Mission which is on its way to Palestine this afternoon “at the Synagogue on the Rue de la Victorie.”

1918: Colonel Harry Cutler, the Chairman of the Jewish Welfare Board “received a letter from the Third Assistant Secretary of War” Frederick Keppel stating that his suggestion for placing “a double triangle” above the graves of the Jewish soldiers killed in France instead of the cross has been adopted.

1918: Funeral services were held this afternoon for Henry Roth, the President of the Henry Roth Building Company and “one of the most influential Jews in Brooklyn.

1918: On Mt. Scopus in Jerusalem, Dr. Chaim Weizmann laid the cornerstone for Hebrew University. It would be several more years before construction began and the university would actually become a reality.

1919: “Louis Marshall, the chairman of the Committee of Jewish Delegations at the Peace Conference” and Dr. Cyrus Adler returned to the United States from the Peace Conference in Paris aboard the La Touraine which was so filled with passengers that they were in “the second cabin and Mr. Marshall issued a statement saying that “he hoped the League of Nations Covenant would be adopted” because it was the only “sure” way to prevent wars.

1920: In New York, “Alexander H. Cohen senior, a successful businessman, and Laura Tarantous Cohen” gave birth to theatrical producer Alexander H. Cohen, older brother of Gerry Cohen and the father of producer Christopher A. Cohen.

1920(9^th of Av, 5680): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av

1920: Dr. Gerson B. Levi is scheduled to lead services this morning in Chicago at B’nai Sholom-Temple Israel.

1920: “Mr. Abraham Feinberg of the Hebrew Union College” is scheduled to conduct services this morning at Isaiah Temple in Chicago.

1920: It was reported today that in New York, “the Socialist Party has nominated Leon A. Malkiel, a local lawyer as its candidate for one of the two vacancies in the Court of Appels and Municipal Court Justice Jacob Panken for United States Senator.

1920: About 16 miles west of Damascus, in what is known as the Battle of Maysalun, the French Army defeated forces of King Faisel putting an end to the reign of this Arab leader who was sympathetic to the Zionist cause over Syria and Lebanon with consequences that can be seen on the nightly news of the 21^st century. 

1920: In the Bronx the former Esther Tanklefsky, “a homemaker” and Emanuel Savitzky who “ran the Live and Let Live Meat Market gave birth to Bella Savitzky, who gained fame as Columbia trained attorney and Congresswoman Bella Abzug, the wife of novelist and stockbroker Martin Abzug

https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/8276

1921(18th of Tammuz, 5681): Since the 17^th of Tammuz fell on Shabbat, observance of Tzom Tammuz.

1921: It was reported today that “the Council of Jewish Women, an organization, that now numbers 40,000 members, has in the last three years developed a special program of work for Jewish women on farms.”

1922: The League of Nations confirmed Britain’s mandate over Palestine.

1922: Three days after she had passed away, Rose Gorwitch was buried at the East Ham Jewish Cemetery today.

1923: In Switzerland, The Treaty of Lausanne was signed today officially ending the state of war between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies with the exception of the United States. The treaty marked the end of the Ottoman Empire, the reverberations of which are being felt in the 21^st century. Albert Karasu covered the negotiations leading up to the signing of the treaty for the French-language Istanbul newspaper Le Journal d’Orient he founded in 1918. Born at Salonika in 1885, he passed away in 1982, five years after the newspaper closed down.

1923: Birthdate of Gerard Irwin Nierenberg, the Queens born lawyer who authored The Art of Negotiating and How To Read a Person Like a Book.

1924(9^th of Av, 5680): Shabbat Chazon;; Erev Tish’a B’Av; Parashat Devarim

1924: Birthdate of Max Palevsky, a pioneer in the computer industry and a founder of the computer-chip giant Intel who used his fortune to back Democratic presidential candidates and to amass an important collection of American Arts and Crafts furniture.

1924: In London, Sir Herbert Samuel, High Commissioner of Palestine, told the Actions Committee of the World Zionist Organization that substantial progress in the building up of Palestine has been made in the past four years,

1924: The World Chess Federation FIDE is founded in Paris.  Approximately 47% of the world’s chess champions have been Jewish.)

1924: Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa became (acting) Governors-general of French Equatorial Africa at Brazzaville. The community had a population of 4,500,000. Alfassa served till 16 Oct 1924. Today the country is called Republic of the Congo.

1925: Based on previously published reports, the Downton Chamber of Commerce is enthusiastically supporting Senator Nation Straus, Jr. for the nomination of Aldermanic President.

1926: Birthdate of Zvi Dinstein, the Tel Aviv native who served as member of the Knesset from 1965 to 1974.

1926: Premiere of “Mantrap,” a product of the Famous-Players-Lasky Corporation co-produced by B.P. Schulberg.

1927: Birthdate of Brooklyn native Alex Katz “an American figurative artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints.”

https://www.alexkatz.com/

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/t-magazine/alex-katz.html

1927: “Tartuff” a screen version of the French play, with a script by Car Mayer and photographed by cinematographer Karl. W. Freund was released today in the U.S. 18 months after premiering in Germany.

1928: The Soviet Government and American Ort have signed a contract “making it possible for Russian Jews to receive American tools and machinery duty freed during the next five years…”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1928/07/24/91698270.html?pageNumber=32

1929: Nine days after celebrating his 86^th birthday William W. Morrow, the Indiana native who as a Congressman from California championed the cause of Adolph Kutner, the Russian born American businessman who was afraid to return to his native land because of the Czar’s policies regarding Jews passed away today.

1930: Birthdate of Charlotte Pomerantz, the author of The Prince and the Admiral which “won a Jane Addams Children’s Book Award.

1931: “The Flower of Hawaii,” “an operetta in three acts by Hungarian born Jew Paul Abraham and with a libretto by Alfred Grunwald and Fritz Lohner-Beda,” who was beaten to death at a concentration camp near Auschwitz, “premiered today at the Neues Theatre in Leipzig.”

1931(10^th of Av, 5691): Seventy-six year old Max Shloss, the son of Samuel Shloss and the former Mary Blenn and the husband of Rosa Shnerman passed away today and was buried in the Emanuel Cemetery in Des Moinses, the capital of the state of Iowa.

1932: In New York City, Clara and M.S. Bart gave birth to journalist Peter Benton Bart, the longtime editor in chief of Variety.

1932(20^th of Tammuz, 5692): Theatrical producer Max Tomashefsky, the husband of Rachel Tomashefsky, the father of Morris Tomashefsky and the grandfather of Louis Thomas passed away today.

1932: Hope for improvement in the serious water situation in Jerusalem is seen in an announcement by the High Commissioner, Sir Arthur Wauchope, that the concession previously held by a British firm had been terminated and immediate steps were being taken to float a loan to meet the cost of a new water supply which will be undertaken by the government. The project will take at least year to complete which means water rationing will be enforced to deal with any shortage. 

1933: Birthdate of George Martin Rosenkoff the native of  West Philadelphia, who as George M. Ross, became a Goldman Sachs executive and a philanthropist and the driving force behind the establishment a major museum of Jewish history in Philadelphia for which he raised  $154 million.

1933: Sir Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham was buried today at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.

1934(12^th of Av, 5694): Sixty-three year old Max James Kohler, the son of Reform Rabbi Kaufman Kohler and husband of Winifred Lichtenauer, the daughter of banker Joseph Lichtenauer, who was active in Jewish communal affairs and a partner in the firm Lewinson, Kohler, and Schattman passed away today.

http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6st7q85

1934 (12th of Av, 5694): Hans Hahn “an Austrian mathematician who made contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory” passed away.

1935: “Increasing anxiety is being caused among the Jews of Eastern Europe because a constantly rixing infant mortality rate according to a report made public” today “by the United Jewish Appeal” which had been prepared by Dr. Bernhard Kahn, the overseas director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

1936: The Palestine Post reported that Arab terrorists threw a bomb at a small religious school (Talmud Torah) in the Yemenite Quarter of Tel Aviv. Nine children were injured. One of the terrorists was later caught by a British constable and arrested. The British government had officially declared that there would be no change of policy in regard to the issue of Jewish immigration into Palestine until the Royal Commission was able to visit the country, study the subject and publish its findings. Britain expected that all Arab terrorist activities would stop before the commission's arrival in the country.

1936: The New York Committee of the People’s Delegation to Biro-Bidjan “announced today that Representative William I. Sirovich and James Waterman Wise, son of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, have been elected along with seven others to membership in the New York delegation to Biro-Bidjan, the Jewish autonomous territory in Soviet Russia”

1936: In commenting about the Olympic Games, Richard Wingate wrote today, “The Olympic team has arrived in Germany.  Avery Brundage now can rest comfortably, happy in his victory over ‘un-American’ forces which attempted to prevent the United States from competing in the Olympic Games.  Mr. Brundage has reached his destination, the Utopia of sportsmanship and good-will where Nazi beer and Jewish blood flow freely…”

1937: Thanks to the efforts of two Jewish lawyers from New York with connection to the Communist Party, Samuel Leibowitz and Joseph Brodsky Alabama dropped rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys

1937: It was announced today that “an elaborate anti-Semantic exhibition” “sponsored by the local district of the National Socialist Party” “which will be officially designated ‘The Eternal Jew’” “will be held in Munich this fall.

1938: “The words ‘kill the Jews’ were carved in letter three feet high on Bowling Green at Tottenham, while Nazi swastikas were smeared on the main door and red paint and tar were daubed on the wall of the synagogue at Finchley” tonight in London.

1938: Near Athlit, Arab snipers fired on a large party of American tourists who were returning to the liner Roma docked at Haifa. The fifteen shots did not claim victims. 

1938: At Acre, a Jew was wounded when a sniper opened fire on a Jewish owned bus.

1939(8^th of Av, 5699): Erev Tish’a B’Av

1939: Judge Jacob Panken, an active leader in the Jewish community administered the oath of office to Jane Bolin, “first black women to receive a law degree from Yale, who had been appointed two days earlier as a Judge of the Domestic Relations Court by Mayor La Guardia

1939: Birthdate of “Israeli writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter” Tamar Adar.

1940(18^th of Tammuz, 5700): Sixty-year old Mollie Kahn Fuchs, the German born daughter of Joseph and Rosalie Kahn, the wife of University of Michigan trained civil engineer Walter Mortiz Fuchs and mother Miriam, Elizabeth and Walter Paul Fuchs passed away today after which he was interred at Woodmere Cemetery in Detroit.

1940(18^th of Tammuz, 5700): Eighty-two year old Lizzie Black Kander, the Milwaukee born daughter of “Johan and Mary (Perles) Black”, the creator of The Settlement Cook Book: The Way to a Man’s Heart and the wife of Simon Kander to whom she was married for fifty years passed away today.

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/kander-lizzie-black

1941(29th of Tammuz, 5701): The entire Jewish male population of Grodz, Lithuania was killed by the Nazis.

1941 A ghetto is established in Kishinev, Ukraine.

1941: Today, Paul Shulman, the son of Herman and Rebecca Shulman, who would help the naval forces of Israel in 1948 “took the oath of office” after which he was appointed as a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis.

1941: Two days after he had passed away funeral services are scheduled to be held at noon in Manhattan for fifty-one year old Solomon Cutler the Russian born graduate of Kiev University who came to the United States in 1913 where he worked for several philanthropic organizations including the “Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York” which he served as director of the Budget Deparment.

1941: An Einsatzgruppe report stated that 4,435 Jews were liquidated in the town of Lachowicze.

1941: “The mass arrests of Jewish men in Liepāja continued for another day today while the The Arājs commando arrived from Riga to carry out the shootings of the Jewish prisoners.

1942. “Samuel Buchler, 60 years old, a disbarred lawyer and former rabbi at Sing Sing, was arraigned in General Sessions today on an indictment containing ten counts of grand larceny, two of petit larceny and one of practicing law in his Jewish court of arbitration, at 377 Broadway, although he had been disbarred ten years ago.”

1942: Opening of Treblinka II, which is a mile from Treblinka I.  The opening is part of Operation Reinhard, the Nazis’ plan for wiping out Polish Jewry.

1942: Fifty-nine year old Cacilie Altman today was transported from Hanover, Germany to the Terezin, the first step on the ultimate trip to Auschwitz.  

1942(10th of Av, 5702): Three thousand Jews were killed in the Dereczyn action

1942: Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot George Beurling, who would die while flying for the Israeli Air Force in 1948, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal today.

1942(10^th of Av, 5702): Forty-two year old Erich Klibansky, a schoolmaster from Franfurt am Main and his family were murdered near Minks today after having been deported from Cologne.

1942: Martin Luther, undersecretary of state at the German Foreign Ministry, alerts Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop to the fact that the Italian authorities are resistant to the German plan to deport Jews from Italian-held regions of Croatia.

1943(21^st of Tammuz, 5703): Parashat Pinchas

1943: The Spanish government saved 367 Sephardic Jews by diverting them in transport from the death camp of Birkenau to the camp at Bergen-Belsen. Six months later they were released back to Spain.

1943: During World War II, Operation Gomorrah begins. British and Canadian airplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. I do not know who was responsible for naming this round-the-clock bombing campaign. But it must have been somebody who had read the Book of Bereshit or Genesis. The name Gomorrah as in Sodom and Gomorrah conjures up the image of fiery destruction that the Allies sought to inflict on the Nazis.

1943: Twenty-one young Jewish partisans in Vilna, Lithuania, join forces with Soviet partisans fighting behind German lines. North of Vilna, nine Jews were killed in an ambush at the Mickun Bridge. Three days later, 32 relatives of the nine dead partisans are seized by the Gestapo at Vilna, taken to nearby gravel pits at Ponary, and executed. Bruno Kittel, head of the Gestapo in Vilna, announces that the entire family of any Jew who escapes the ghetto to the forest will be executed. If an escapee has no family or roommates, all residents of his building will be executed. Further, if any ten-man Jewish labor gang comes back short, the remaining gang laborers will be executed.

1944: The Russian army liberated the concentration camp at Lublin.

1944: The deportations continued from Sarvar, Hungary, despite the fact that the German Army was retreating. One thousand, five hundred were sent to Birkenau. The fact that a retreating army would take time and resources for this is just one more reminder that the War Against the Jews was an intrical part of the German military plan.  Contrary to what the Holocaust Deniers and their fellow-traveling Revisionist Historians say, the destruction of the Jews was a critical part of the Nazi program and not just a mere after-thought.

1944: Soviet forces entered Majdanek. For the first time, Allied soldiers saw the gas chambers, crematoria and the remains of thousands of charred human remains.

1944: The Nazis seize 258 Jewish orphans from Paris and the surrounding areas.  By now the Anglo-American armies have landed at Normandy, broken out of the hedgerow country and are sweeping across France.  If the war had only been about defeating the Allies, all German efforts would have been focused on stopping this advance.  This minor episode serves as a vivid reminder that the German war effort was indeed about wiping out the Jewish people. 

1944: At Bourges, France, Gestapo agents and militiamen massacre 28 Jewish men and eight Jewish women active in the Resistance. Some victims are thrown alive into a well.

1944: The German Army adopts the Nazi salute, abandoning the standard military salute.

1944: Time magazine reported that Louis “Waldman believes that the strength of Communism in the U.S. is now reaching a new peak in the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee ‘the catch-all for the political activities of unions dominated by Communists, militant Socialists and others willing to cooperate with them… Unless the New Deal casts out the seeds of left-wing totalitarianism, which it fosters today, it may either lead to an American variety of Communism, or, what is more likely, provoke an American expression of unadorned fascism.’"

 

1944: “The Seventh Cross” the cinematic adaptation of a novel by Anna Seghers, with a script by Helen Deutsch, directed by Fred Zinnemann, produced by Pandro S. Berman and filmed by cinematographer Karl Fruend was released in the United States by MGM.

 

1945: A letter written today addressed to Nathan Shilkret indicated that “Béla Bartók had received a down payment for writing the ‘Prelude’” the opening movement of the “Genesis Suit”, “a musical interpretation of the first eleven chapters of the Book of Genesis.”

 

1946: Today Andrei Gromyko told a closed session of the United Nations Security Council that the Soviet Union would not accept Bernard Baruch’s Plan to ban all further production of nuclear weapons

 

1946: “Son Dernier Rôle” (translated into English as “Her Final Part” or “Her Last Role”) co-starring Marcel Dailo was released today in France.

 

1946: “The Strange Love of Martha Ives” directed by Lewis Milestone, produced by Hal B. Wallis, with a screenplay by Robert Rossen and Robert Riskin and co-starring Kirk Douglas was released in the United States today

 

1947: “The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer” a comedy directed by Irving Reis, produced by Dore Schary and a script by Sidney Sheldon premiered today in New York City.

 

1948: During War of Independence, Israeli forces launched an assault as part of Operation Shorter on an area south of Haifa called the "Little Triangle." With “six 65 mm Napoleonchik cannons…stationed about 3 km to the west of the village and mortars placed to the southeast, a Golani company left a farm near Mazar (north of Jaba') to attack the Arab positions. “They encountered an ambush and retreated after 6–9 soldiers were injured.”

 

1948: At a Mapai Center meeting held today during the War of Independence, Prime Minister Ben-Gurion accused Mapam of hypocrisy regarding its treatment of Arabs in the combat zone.

 

1949: In “Poet of Exiles” published today Alfred Werner reviewed The World of Emma Lazarus by H.E. Jacob.

 

1950: Seth Glickenhaus, the founder of Glickenhaus & Co. and his wife gave birth investment professional turned movie maker James Glickenhaus.

 

1950: The first World Congress for the Promotion of the Hebrew Language and Culture met in Jerusalem

1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that thousands of mourners led the black-draped gun carriage carrying the coffin of King Abdullah of Jordan to the royal cemetery in Amman. The Jordanian police rounded over 70 suspects in connection with the king's assassination, including two relatives of the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini. There were clashes in the Jordanian-occupied Old City of Jerusalem between Arab Legion Bedouins and the local Arabs. The first immigrant from Russia, 73-year-old Tova Lerner from Soviet Bessarabia, arrived together with 993 newcomers from Romania. The committee appointed to study the cost-of-living index found that it was not a true judge of Israeli living standards.

1952: Premiere of Western classic “High Noon” directed by Fred Zinnemann, produced by Stanley Kramer, with a screenplay by Carl Foreman and a most memorable score by Dimitri Tiomkin that included “Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin’”

1952(2^nd of Av, 5712): Sixty-five-year-old “real estate investor and banker,” Richard M. Lederer, Sr., the husband of Mrs. Marguerite Kern Lederer with whom he had two children passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/07/26/84337845.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1952: In Jerusalem Zila née Segal and professor Benzion Netanyahu gave birth “physician and author Iddo Netanyahu” the younger brother of Benjamin and Yonatan Netanyahu.

1953(12^th of Av, 5713): Louis Levand, who along with his brothers Max and John purchased the Beacon a Wichita, Kansas newspaper on July 4, 1928 and who with his wife Lillian raised three sons – Elliot, Jack and Marvin – passed a way today.

1956 At New York City’s Copacabana Club, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy show together.

1956: Today, in the disputed armistice line of Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus demilitarized zone, Jordan’s Arab Legion occupied a house close to what was claimed as Jewish property on Mount Scopus which led to a fire fight when Israeli began shooting from their positions at the Hebrew University.

1957: Birthdate of Susan A. Gelman “a Heinz Werner Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan.”

1958: Daniel Melnick and Linda Rodgers gave birth to Harvard graduate  Peter Rogers Melnick who followed in the footsteps of his grandfather Richard Rodgers to become a composer

1960: “The Gazebo” produced by Lawrence Weingarten, featuring Carl Reiner, Mabel Albertson, Martin Landau and Robert Ellenstein, was released today in the United Kingdom after having been released in the United States in December of 1959

1961: The fifth and final convey of Jewish children left Morocco “under the guise of taking a vacation trip to Switzerland” which hid the reality that the children were being taken to leave in Israel as part of what is known as Operation Mural.

http://www.dhimmitude.org/books/operation_mural.html

https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Mural-David-G-Littman/dp/1618613405

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/codename-operation-mural-1.235412

1962(22^nd of Tammuz, 5722): Seventy-nine-year-old University of Pennsylvania trained dentist and physician Theodor Blum, the Vienna born son of Max and Elsie Blum the husband of Bertha Roth whom he married at Newark in 1909 and director and chief of the oral surgery department at the N.Y. Throat, Nose and Lung Hospital who was the consulting oral surgeon at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum passed away today.

https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/5/resources/7563

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/07/25/80420806.html?pageNumber=33

1963: Birthdate of Brooklyn native Alan Stuart Veingard, the NFL offensive lineman who played five seasons with the Green Bay Packers and two seasons with the Dallas Cowboys that included winning Super Bowl XXVII.

1964(15^th of Av, 5724): Tu B’Av – Jewish Valentine’s Day – is celebrated for the first time during the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson.

1965: In New York City, “Ellen (née Fogelson), a painter and writer, and Arthur L. Liman, a lawyer well known for his public service, which included serving as chief counsel for the Senate Iran-Contra hearings” gave birth to movie producer and director Douglas Eric “Doug” Liman best known for his work with the “Bourne” family of movies.

1967(16^th of Tammuz): Polish born Grand Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel passed away today in Brooklyn, NY.

1967: Zvi Dinstein was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance.

1968(28^th of Tammuz, 5728): Eighty year old Aleppo born Isaac I Shalom, who went from being a textile peddler on the Lower East Side to founding and running “the handkerchief firm of I. Shalom & Co., which developed into one of the leading manufacturers in its field in the United States” which provided him with the wherewithal to become a leading benefactor for “the Sephardi and Syrian Jewish communities in New York” and who raised five children with his wife, the former Alice Chabot, passed away today.

1969(9^th of Av, 5729): Tish’a B’Av

1969(9^th of Av, 5729): Sixty-four year old Carlos L. Israels, the Amherst Phi Beta Kappa and Columbia Law School Graduate, “a specialist in securities law,” “former President of United HIAS” and “a director of the United Jewish Appeal” who was the husband of “the former Ruth Goldstein” with whom he had three children – Charles, Michael and Elizabeth – passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/07/26/81552662.pdf

1969: Operation Boxer continued with IAF attacking a radar station at Gebel Ataka and SAM sites.

1969: IAF pilots Shmuel Gordon, Michael Zuk and Ran Goren were responsible for shooting down three Egyptian aircraft today.

1970(20^th of Tammuz, 5730): Eighty-eight year old Jesse Shwayder who grew a small Denver trunk manufacturing company into Samsonite passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/07/25/archives/jesse-shwayder-of-samsonite-dies-founder-of-luggage-firm-in-denver.html

http://www.jmaw.org/shwayder-jewish-samsonite-denver/

1971(2^nd of Av, 5731): Parashat Matot-Masei

1971: “Drive, He Said” the movie version of Brandeis University grad Jeremy Larner’s novel by the same name with music by David Shire was released in Finland today.

1972: “Marjoe,” a documentary film about an American evangelist co-produced and directed by Howard Smith was released in the United States today.

1973(24^th of Tammuz, 5733): Twenty-nine year old CCNY and NYU grad and award winning film producer David Bienstock, the son of Mrs. Charlotte Bienstock and the  “curator of films at the Whitney Museum of Art” passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/07/28/archives/david-bienstock-curator-of-films-at-whitney-dies.html?searchResultPosition=1

1976(26^th of Tammuz, 5736): Parashat Matot-Masei

1976(26^th of Tammuz, 5736): Sixty-eight-year-old psychoanalyst Eugene Pumpian-Mindlin passed away today.

http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb1199n68c;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00079&toc.depth=1&toc.id=&brand=oac4

1976: As conditions between Uganda and Kenya continue to worsen President Idi Amin cut off supplies to its African neighbor.  The core of the dispute is based on reports that Israeli planes that had conducted the raid on Entebbe had refueled in Nairobi.

1977(9^th of Av, 5737): Tish’a B’Av

1977: The funeral for Dr. Abraham J. Feldman who during his 84 years of life was a leader of the Reform Rabbinate, author and active in the nascent Civil Rights movement is scheduled to take place today at Temple Beth Israel in West Hartford, CT.

1979(29^th of Tammuz, 5739): Sixty-nine-year-old Columbia educated “literary critic, author and editor” David Maxwell Geismar, the husband of the former Anne Rosenberg with whom he had two daughters – Katie and Elizabeth – passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/25/archives/maxwell-geismar-book-critic-author-and-editor-dead-at-69-attacked.html

1979(29th of Tammuz, 5739): Eighty-three year old Dr. Jacob Furth, a pioneering pathologist passed away today. (As reported by George Goodman, Jr.)

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FA0A14FE3E5A12728DDDA10A94DF405B898BF1D3

1981: “William Wyler gave an interview with his daughter, producer Catherine Wyler for Directed by William Wyler, a PBS documentary about his life and career. A mere three days later, Wyler died from a heart attack. Wyler's last words on film concern a vision of directing his "next picture...Going Home". Wyler is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

1982: In Lakeland, FL, Adele and Scott Miller gave birth to FSU grad, screenwriter and actress Lauren Anne Miller, the sister of Danny Miller and the wife of Seth Rogen.

1982: “In Watt’s Warning to Jews” published today Dale Russakoff reported that “Interior Secretary James G. Watt cautioned in a letter” sent “last month to Israeli Ambassador Moshe Arens that American support for Israel could be jeopardized if ‘liberals of the Jewish community join with the other liberals of this nation’ in opposing the Reagan administration’s accelerated energy development policies.”

1983: Joel and Amy Barnum were married today in Omaha, Nebraska, the next step in a trip that would lead them to Cedar Rapids, where they raised three daughters – Emma, Sasha and Gail – and became pillars of the Jewish Community and a whole lot more!

1983: A Broadway revival of Jerry Herman’s “Mame” opened at the George Gershwin Theatre where “it ran for only 41 performances.”

1984: Radio Luxembourg reported that Ya'acov Nimrodi, an intimate of leaders across the Israeli political spectrum, had met in Zurich with the deputy defense minister and the top intelligence officer of Iran and with Rif'at al-Assad, the brother of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. Swiss government sources said that the meeting resulted in a deal to ship 40 truckloads of weapons a day from Israel to Iran, via Syria and Turkey.

1985: “The Black Cauldron” an animated feature film with music by Elmer Bernstein was released today in the United States.

1986(17th of Tammuz, 5746): Tzom Tammuz

1986(17th of Tammuz, 5746): Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine passed away.

1990: Today, the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors named a day in honor of comedian Sammy Shore.

1991(12th of Av, 5751: Author Isaac Bashevis Singer passed away. Singer was born near Warsaw.  His father was a rabbi, and his mother came from a family of rabbis.  He moved to the United States in 1935.  Singer’s genre of choice was the short story.  His language of choice was Yiddish.  Many of his works first appeared in the “Forwards,” the popular Yiddish language daily. Singer received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978.  He was the first Yiddish writer to win the prestigious award.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/01/25/home/singer-obit.html?_r=2

1992(23rd of Tammuz, 5752): Seventy-one year old Gavril Abramovich Ilizarov (a Soviet physician, known for inventing the Ilizarov apparatus for lengthening limb bones and for his eponymous surgery” passed away today.

1992: After already having premiered in the United States, “Beethoven,” the first in a series of dog comedy films co-produced by Ivan Reitman, starring Charles Grodin and with music by Randy Edelman was released today in the United Kingdom

1992(23rd of Tammuz, 5752):  Samuel “Sam” Berger passed away.  Berger was a driving force behind the Canadian Football League.  At different times he owed the Ottawa Rough Riders and the Montreal Alouettes. In 1986 he was made a Member of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honor, for "his commitments to the sport and to the City of Montreal".  In 1993 he was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.

1992: “Mom and Dad Save The World” starring Jon Lovitz as “Emperor Tod Spengo” with music by Jerry Goldsmith was released in the United States by Warner Bros. today.

1993(6^th of Av, 57530: On Shabbat Chazon, ninety-four year old “Dr. Abram Leon Sachar, a historian who led the Hillel Foundation for 22 years and was the founding president of Brandeis University” passed away. Sachar was a descendant of Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph the 16^th century Italian Talmudist whose ‘chief work was the Sefer Shalshelet ha-Ḳabbalah, called also Sefer Yaḥya, on which he labored for more than forty years.’ (As reported by Richard D. Lyons)

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/25/obituaries/dr-abram-l-sachar-historian-and-1st-brandeis-u-president-94.html

1995(26th of Tammuz, 5755): Mordechai Tuvya, 38, Nehama Leibowitz, 61, Zehava Oren, 60, Rahel Tamari, 65, Moshe Shkedi, 75 and Zvia Hacohen, 62 were killed and 30 Israeli civilians were injured when a Hamas suicide bomber detonated 33 pounds of TNT aboard No. 20 commuter bus in Ramat Gan near the Diamond Exchange.

1996(8^th of Av, 5756): Erev Tish’a B’Av

1996: “A Time to Kill,” the movie version of the novel of the same name directed by Joel Schumacher, with a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman and music by Eliot Goldenthal was released in the United States today.

1997: 15^th Maccabiah came to a close.

1999: In Kfar Saba, Israel, physical education teachers Ayala and Yossi Solomon gave birth to Manor Solomon “an Israeli professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or as a winger for English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Israel national team.”

2000: Medieval Hebrew Poetry in its Religious and Secular Context, a colloquia sponsored by The European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) is scheduled to being today.

2000: Negotiations that had begun on July 11 at Camp David between Barak and Arafat under the auspices President Clinton came to end with a final announcement to be made tomorrow.

2001: Jewish American real estate mogul Larry A. Silverstein signs a $3.2 billion, 99-year lease on the entire World Trade Center complex, 7 weeks before the September 11, 2001 attacks.

2001: In Jerusalem, the body of seventeen year old Ronen Landau which was covered with stab and bullet wounds was found today.

2002: Hadassah’s 88th annual national convention comes to a close

2002(15th of Av, 5762): Aaron Albert “Al” Silvera, a journeyman outfielder who played for two seasons with the Cincinnati Reds in the mid-1950’s passed away. This meant he was a teammate of such talented players as Johnny Temple, Roy McMillan and Slugger Ted Kluszewski. He was also the nephew of former Major League pitcher "Subway Sam" Nahem.

2003(24^th of Tammuz, 5763): Ninety-four-year-old Jesse Abrahams, the New York of Max and Fannie Danovitch Abrahams and the husband of Estelle Sheikowtz whom he married in 1938 passed away today after which he was buried at the Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, NY.

2003: At the Lincoln Center Festival, Israel’s Gesher Theatre gives its opening performance of of its adaptation of “Shosha.”

2004(6^th of Av, 5764): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon

2004: In a reminder that all violence in the Middle East is not caused by the Israelis, in the attack today,  “about 20 members of Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades seized the governor's office in the southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis around dawn” and demanded “that 11 Aksa members recently fired from the security forces be reinstated and that Mousa Arafat, a cousin of Prime Minister Yassar Arafat who was appointed the chief of general security in Gaza a week ago, be dismissed.”

2005: In “Giving Hitler Hell,” Matthew Brzezinski recounted the travels of Arnold H. Weiss from youthful refugee from Nazi Germany to his return as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army to his ultimate triumph as a successful businessman and philanthropist.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/21/AR2005072101680.html

2005: "Romantic Modernist: The Life and Work of Norman Jaffe, Architect", the first major exhibition examining Norman Jaffe's life and work opened today at “at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY.”

2005(17th of Tammuz, 5765): Shiva Asar Be-Tammuz (Fast of the Seventeenth of Tammuz).

2005: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Bernard Goldberg’s 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America which lists Jewish comedian Al Frankin as number 37.

2006: It was reported today that Randy Lerner, the son of the late Al Lerner intended to purchase Premier League club Aston Villa.

2006: During the 2006 Lebanon War, the IDF begins its attack on Bint Jbeil  

2006: "Army chief of staff Dan Halutz has given the order to the air force to destroy 10 multi-storey buildings in the Haret Hreik ("Dahiya") district (of Beirut) in response to every rocket fired on Haifa," a senior air force officer told army radio today.

2006:” The Association for Civil Rights in Israel appealed to Defense Minister Amir Peretz after IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz apparently said that “for every Katyusha barrage on Haifa, 10 more buildings in the Dahiya neighborhood of south Beirut will be bombed.”  (As reported by Aviram Zino)

2006: The following were among a total of 43 Israeli civilians (including four who died of heart attacks during rocket barrages) and 116 IDF soldiers were killed in the Israel-Hizbullah war: St.-Sgt. Koby Smileg, 20, of Rehovot; Col. Zvi Luft, 42, of Hogla; Sec.-Lt. Lotan Slavin, 21, of Hatzeva; Lt. Tom Farkash, 23, of Caesarea.

2007(9th of Av, 5767): Tish'a B'Av

2007(9^th of Av, 5767): Psychoanalyst Albert Ellis “a founder of the now widely practiced cognitive behavioral therapy” whose “blunt advice to patients included “forget god-awful pasts, face fears and change actions”  passed away at the age of 93.

2007: Jacques Attali was entrusted “with the presidency of a commission dedicated to the study of the obstacles to economic growth, known as "The Commission for the Liberation of the French Economic Growth".

2008: The three day Karmiel Dance festival comes to an end. www.karmeilfestival.co.il in English

2008: Begin reading the Ezekiel as part of the “Daf Yomi Program” on DownHomeDavar

2008: Tonight, “after returning to Earth, Gargett Reisman appeared in person on The Colbert Report as the night's featured guest” during which the Jewish astronaut gave the host “the WristStrong bracelet he had worn while in Space.”

2009 (3rd of Av, 5769): One hundred twenty-eighth anniversary of the arrival of “the first shipload of Russian Jewish immigrants who arrived in New York City” on 3^rd of Av, 1881. “This began the mass immigration of eastern European Jews to America, and in the next half-century over 2 million Jews would flee Russian pogroms for the safety of the U.S. This influx indelibly altered the demographics of American Jewry; according to the U.S. census of 1940, 1.75 million Jews spoke Yiddish at home.”

2009(3^rd of Av, 5769: Ninety year old George Weissman, the businessman and patron of the arts, who revamped Philip Morris, passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/business/28weissman.html

2009: The Junior Philharmonic gives its annual Jerusalem performance at the YMCA with a program that includes Beethoven’s Symphony #6 – Pastoral, Ravel’s Bolero and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.

2009: Scottish actress Ronni Ancona appeared on the BBC’s “The One Show”

2009: Amid another round of political scandals, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine named state Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Teaneck), a self-described “Jewish grandmother from Bergen County” as his new pick for lieutenant governor.

2010: In Cedar Rapids, Jacob Sarasin, son Amanda Colehour and Dr. Dan Sarasin (President of Temple Judah) is scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah.

2010: Opening night of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.

2010: Palestinian Authority terrorists in Gaza launched a number of rocket attacks on southern Israel today.

2011: Bruce Sundlin, the second Jew to serve as Governor of Rhode Island “was buried at Sons of David and Israel Cemetery (Temple Beth El Cemetery) in Providence, Rhode Island”

2011: The Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation is scheduled to host an Ice Cream Social For New and Prospective Members

2011: The Ritchie Boys Exhibit which will give visitors a chance to “witness how a small group of misfit intellectual Jewish boys formed a US Army intelligence unit and waged warfare against the Nazis during World War II” is scheduled to take place at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan Guy Stern, one of those "Ritchie Boys” is scheduled to attend the event.

2011: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine  by Howard Markel and the recently released paperback edition of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters, edited by Bill Morgan and David Stanford

2011: A group of university students interrupted a Knesset Finance Committee meeting in Ramat Gan today, as part of the current protests against housing prices.

2011: In New York, 85 year old Connie Kopelov married 76 year old  Phyllis Siegel “the same day that a state law took effect allowing same-sex couples to marry.”

2011(22^nd of Tammuz, 5771):  Four days after Bella Freud’s father, Lucien died, her 68 year old mother Bernardine Coverley lost her battle with cancer and passed away today.

2011: At the International Math Olympiad that came to an end today, “Israeli whiz kids walk away from competition with 1 gold, 4 bronze medals, as Israel reaches 23rd spot out of 101 teams.”

2012(5^th of Av, 5772): Eighty-eight year old Irvin Faust, the high school guidance counselor who found time to write novels and short stories that critics likened to the magic realist fiction of South America” passed away today (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/books/irvin-faust-author-and-guidance-counselor-dies-at-88.html?ref=books

2012: “God’s Fiddler,” a documentary about Jascha Heifitz and “The Moon is Jewish” are scheduled to have their west coast premieres at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.

2012: Marbin which first started in 2007 as an improvised music duo consisting of Israeli-American guitarist Dani Rabin and Israeli saxophonist Danny Markovitch, is scheduled to perform at the Bowery Electric in New York

2012: Today, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said any attempt by Hezbollah to attain non-conventional weapons from Syria would prompt Israeli military intervention (As reported by Raphael Ahren)

2012: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that the government will have to raise taxes by August 1. (As reported by Michal Shmulovich)

2013: The Oregon Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a screening of “REFUSENIK,” the first retrospective documentary to chronicle the thirty-year movement to free Soviet Jews

2013: “Broadway Babes,” a musical revue that “is a tribute to the female voice on Broadway” is scheduled to open at 9 pm in Modi’in.

2013: The exquisite dancers of L-E-V, including Sharon Eyal herself, are scheduled to perform the provocative work HOUSE in its U.S. debut

2013(17^th of Av): Yarhrzeit of Isidor Bush, publisher of Israel’s Herald, a German language publication that was the first Jewish weekly published in the United States.

2013(17^th of Av): Seventy-eight year old Art Ginsburg the founder of Art’s Deli passed away today. (As reported by Steve Chawkins)

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-art-ginsburg-20130726-story.html

2013:Bravo began the broadcast of  fifth season of “Top Chef Masters” with Ruth Reichl as one of the celebrity judges.

2013: Rabbis Yitzhak Yosef and David Lau defeated Shmuel Eliyahu and David Stav to win ten-year terms as chief rabbis of Israel today, in a victory for Shas and United Torah Judaism over religious Zionism and Bayit Yehudi (As reported by Gil Hoffman)

2013: A middle-aged Jewish man was stabbed in the upper torso and arm during an unprovoked attack in a public bathroom at Bloomfield Park in Jerusalem this afternoon, allegedly by an Arab assailant (As reported by Daniel K. Eisenbud)

2014: American-Israeli violist Gil Shaham is scheduled to perform at Tanglewood with the National Youth Orchestra of the United States.

2014: Today, visitors inspected “the destroyed Mosque of the Prophet Younis, or Jonah in Mosul” under which archeologist “found a previously undiscovered palace built in the seventh century BCE for the Biblical Assyrian King Sennacherib and renovated by his son Esarhaddon.”

2014: Poet Davi Walders and Dr. Jenna Weissman Joselit the Charles E. Smith Professor of Judaic Studies, The George Washington University  are scheduled to speak at the luncheon honoring Laura Cohen Apelbaum’s 20^th anniversary as Executive Director of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington.

2015: Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman is scheduled to perform at the Koussevitzky Music Shed in Lenox, MA.

2015: Scheduled “Opening of the End of Year Exhibition of the Architecture Department at1 Bezalel Street.”

2015: “What European Studies owe to J. M. Cohen (1903-1989)” published today described the literary contribution of this little known translator.

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/european/2015/07/what-european-studies-owe-to-j-m-cohen.html

2015: “Secretary of State John Kerry met today with the leaders of US Jewish organizations in New York, with the Iran nuclear agreement taking center stage, at the end of which the fears of the leaders which gripped them as Jews and as Americans were not allayed.

2016: “Aka Nadia” is scheduled to be shown at the 14^th annual Hampton Synagogue Film Series.

2016: The first of the weeklong Great Jewish Books Summer Programs sponsored by the Yiddish Book Center is scheduled to begin today.

2016: “Tikkun” is scheduled to be shown for the last time at the Cleveland (Ohio) Cinematheque.

2016: It was announced today that Debbie Wasserman Schultz is scheduled to resign as party chairwoman after her anti-Bernie Sanders e-mails were exposed. (As reported by JTA)

2016(18^th of Tammuz, 5776): Tzom Tammuz observed.

2016(18^th of Tammuz, 5776): Eight-six year old Polish born Australian businessman Abraham “Abe” Goldberg who, in 1948 arrived in Australia where found the Linter Group and then became embroiled in financial scandal passed away today.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/missing-magnate-surfaces-as-a-polish-property-tycoon-20051109-gdmeph.html

2016: “To Life!” a film about the reunion of two Holocaust survivors is scheduled to be shown for the last time at the Reel in Borehamwood sponsored by the UK Jewish Film.

2016: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Games: A Global History of the Olympics by David Goldblatt and the recently released paperback editions of The Seven Good Years: A Memoir by Etgar Keret and Days of Awe by Lauren Fox.

2017: The 9th International Conference on Borate Glasses, Crystals and Melts and The 2nd International Conference on Phosphate Materials where Dr. Steve Feller of Coe College in Cedar Rapids will honored is scheduled to begin at St. Anne’s College, Oxford University.

2017: Former Vice President Al Gore is scheduled to appear the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival today following a screening of “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.”

2017(1^st of Av, 5777): Rosh Chodesh Av

2018(9th of Av, 5778): Three days after he had passed away graveside services are scheduled to be held this morning for eighty-nine year old Philip Rosen, the Philadelphia born son Robert and Helen Rosen and husband of Lillian Schachter Rosen who was “curator and educational director of what is now the Esther Raab Holocaust Museum and Goodwin Education Center in Cherry Hill.

2018: In Des Moines, IA, AIPAC is scheduled to host its “Iowa Annual Event” featuring a speech by Dr. Jonathan Schanzer, the Senior Vice President for Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies whose major donors included Sheldon Adelson.

2018: DC Public Schools Interim Chancellor Alexander is scheduled to host a film screening and panel discussion of Rosenwald: The Remarkable Story of a Jewish Partnership with African American Communities. This powerful documentary tells the life story of Julius Rosenwald, a Jewish businessman and philanthropist who partnered with Booker T. Washington to build more than 5,500 schools that served African-American children in the south from 1915 – 1952.”

2018: Karlie Kloss, who had converted to Judaism and Joshua Kushner, the venture capitalist and brother of Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of Donald Trump “publicly announced their plans to wed” today.

2019: Today, Israelis ponder a vague offer made yesterday by Hamas “to negotiate for the return of Israeli MIAs and POWs” including the bodies of Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul who were killed five years ago during operation Protective Edge.

2019: Bar-Ilan University is scheduled to host an International School Information Session complete with Pizza.

2019: In New York, the Quad City Cinema is scheduled to host a screening “The Other” a Hebrew language fill with English subtitles that examines “the conflicts between secular and ultra-Orthodox Israelis.”

2019: The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Curitz” a documentary about Michael Curitz who won the Oscar as best director for “Casablanca” followed by discussion led by Eddie Muller, “founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation.

2019: In San Francisco, the Castro Theatre is scheduled to host a free screening of “The Rabbi Goes West,” a film “about a haredi guy,” Chabad Rabbi Chaim Bruk, “who uproots himself from everything he knows to move to” Montana.

2020: The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to present a live broadcast on Kan Kol Hamusika a concerter featuring Itamar Feinberg and Tomer Rubinstein, “young outstanding pianists of the Aldwell Institute who play selections from Beethoven, Chopin, Bach, Haydn, Brahms and Ravel.

2020: OneTable Live is scheduled to present Shabbat Cooking with Top Chef Katsuji Tanabe

2020: The Breman Museum in partnership with the Savannah Jewish Federation, Savannah Jewish Educational Alliance, and the Southern Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host via ZOOM journalist and author Ann Woolner as she “traces Georgia’s first Jews from the torture chambers of the Portuguese Inquisition through escape to London and then onto a forbidden voyage to Savannah.”

2020: After his appointment yesterday as the chief of the national coronavirus task force, today Professor Ronni Gamzu may begin to find out if his title as “coronavirus czar” is a public relations euphemism or a reality.

2021: The Eden Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host “The Best of Chamber Music” with violinist David Radzinsky, cellist Simca Heled and pianist Miachel Zarsekel

2021: The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a live screening of the U.S. premiere of the 2019 World War II concentration camp drama “Persian Lessons.”

2021: Urban Adamah is scheduled to host “A Midsummer Night’s Tu B’Av,” an “in-person celebration of Jewish Valentine’s Day.”

2021: Neta Elkayam and Amit Hai Cohen, who in recent years have appeared on the biggest stages between Jerusalem and Morocco, are scheduled to perform a Tu B’Av Virtual Concert.

2021: Rabbi David Freelund is scheduled to leave in-person Shabbat services at Cape Cod Synagogue.

2021: Drama therapy student Tova Abelman is scheduled to lead an online workshop for people experiencing pain related to their Jewish identity, such as antisemitism or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

2021(15^th of Av, 5781): Parashat Va’etchanan: Shabbat Nachamu; Tu B’Av;

2022: As of  today, Israel’s economic picture is a mixed bag with tourism in Israel is enjoying an exciting recovery with thousands of travelers expected this summer while “after a record-breaking year, Israel’s tech sector is headed for a slowdown, as hundreds of Israeli workers were laid off in recent weeks and investments have dropped amid global economic uncertainty.”

2022: LSJS is scheduled to host “A Stroll Through Bushey Cemetery: Celebrating Anglo-Jewry”

with Simon Goulden

2022: The National Museum of Israel is scheduled to present a lecture by Dr. Vivi Lachs on London Yiddishtown: A Glimpse into the Jewish East End Through Yiddish Song and Story which is part of the series In Her Majesty's Kingdom - Celebrating the Rich History of Anglo-Jewry

2022: Duo Amal, an acclaimed Israeli-Palestinian piano Duo of Yaron Kohlberg, President of Piano Cleveland, and Bishara Haroni, who “bear testament to the capacity of music to transcend conflicts that have proved intractable is scheduled to perform at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

2022: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Alabama V. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement by Dan Abrams and Fred D. Gray with David Fisher.

2023: In Swampscott, MA, Congregation Shira  Haaym is scheduled to hold “North Shore Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament.

2023: Doctors are dealing with the aftermath of implanting a pacemaker in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday morning.

2023: The Boston Synagogue is scheduled to present “ Not Your Bubbe’s Book Club.”