This Day, November 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 24
166 BCE:
According to secular calculations this date marked “The Origin of Era of the
Maccabees.”
655: The Ninth Council of Toledo which was
held under the auspices of King Recceuith and would adopt a resolution “that
all conversos, not o…
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655: The Ninth Council of Toledo which was
held under the auspices of King Recceuith and would adopt a resolution “that
all conversos, not only converted Jews also others who had come during the
Migration Period, had to pass Christian festivals in the presence of their
bishop so as to prove the veracity of their faith” and that “lack of compliance
with this last rule would in flogging or forced fasting, depending on the age
of the offend” came to an end today.
380: Theodosius I made his”
adventus,” or formal entry, into Constantinople. Eight years later, in 388,
Theodosius attempted to intervene unsuccessfully on behalf of the Jews of his
Empire. “The bishop of a town on the
bank of the Euphrates was among those responsible for the burning of a
synagogue by a Christian crowd” When the
governor of the province refused to punish the bishop, Theodosius exercised his
imperial power and ordered the offending bishop to build the Jews a new house
of worship. However, Ambrose, the Bishop
of Milan and a leader of the Christian Church, overruled the emperor and
Theodosius folded like a cheap suit. This episode points to the worsening
conditions of the Jews. If a powerful
Emperor like Theodosius could not stand up to the Church, how could one expect
a lesser ruler to challenge the growing power of the prelates?
1105: Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of
Rome completes Talmudic dictionary.
According to Heinrich Graetz, Ben Yehiel is the only Italian who made a
contribution to Jewish literature during this period which was dominated by the
Jews of Spain. He published his
dictionary under the name Aruch. What
this work lacks in originality it makes up for in thoroughness. It became a standard text for Jews studying
the Talmud during the Middle Ages.
1190: Isabella of Jerusalem marries
Conrad of Montferrat at Acre, making him de jure King. This took place during
the period when the Crusaders controlled the City of David. Their “kingship” should not be confused with
the reign of the Davidic Dynasty.
1275: Edward I issued the Statute
of the Jewry which placed a number of restrictions on the Jews of England. See http://www.heretical.com/British/jews1275.html. for a
complete copy of the text.
1328: Levi
ben Gerson finished “Sefer Tekunah” his work on astronomy today.
1358:
Eleanor of Aragon-Gandia, the wife King Peter of Cyprus who sought to reconquer
the Holy Land, was crowned Queen of Cyprus a year and half before she was
crowned Queen of Jerusalem.
1359:
Pierre I de Lusignan was crowned Peter I of Cyprus today five years before
attended the Banquet of the Five Kings which included “a floor-show that was a
re-enactment of the Crusaders taking Jerusalem.
1493:
Gershon Soncino printed an edition of the Pentateuch at Brescia.
1533: Ercole
II d'Este and Renée de France, the daughter of Louis XII of France and Anne of
Brittany gave birth to Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara whom mathematician
and archaeologist Abraham Colorni served as an engineer and who with his Simon
“went to Mantua” to look after the Duke’s “private affairs.”
1615: Louis
XIII, who reaffirmed the ban on Jews living in France that had been in effect
since the fourteenth century, despite the fact that his mother had brought a
practicing Jew to France to serve as Louis’ doctor when he was a child, married
Anne of Austria, the daughter of Philip III of Spain
1631 (5 Kislev, 5392): Rabbi
Samuel Eliezer Edels, also known by the acronym, “MaHarSha,” passed away. Born
in 1555 in Krakow, he was one of the best known Talmudic commentators. His Chidushei Halachot is included in
almost every publication of the Talmud. He believed that many of the Agadot
(Talmudic legends) could be explained rationally and/or as parables. Edels also
served as the chief rabbi in Lublin and Ostrog. As
part of his commentary and explanation on the subject of guardian angel, Edels
wrote, “In the way you wish to go in life, so you will be led by your Guardian
Angels." According to the MaHarSha,” this passage explains that, in the
way you wish to go in life, so you will be led by your guardian angels. In other words every action, word and thought that you do in
this world creates an angel, so if you really want something good to happen in
your life, create enough angelic good angels with kindness, loving thoughts and
honest words . And then these angels you have attracted to you by your good thoughts,
words and actions will indeed lead you to your goal.” As you can see from this
commentary, all Rabbis living in Eastern Europe were not dry legalist. Those of you who think of them in that manner
will get a chance to re-consider that concept if you study this period of
Jewish History.
1632: Birthdate of Baruch Spinoza
(known also as Benedict De Spinoza). The life and philosophy of Spinoza are too
complex for this brief daily blurb and you are urged to read more about him on
your own) In brief Spinoza was born in Amsterdam to Sephardic Jews who had fled
from the Inquisition in Portugal, Spinoza received a rigorous Jewish education
including the study of such “modern” commentators as Maimonides and Ibn
Ezra. However his inquiring mind led to
learn Latin and to study with so-called free-thinkers. He became a disciple of Descartes and his
rationalist philosophic approach to life.
Spinoza was a pantheist believing that God was within nature and not
above nature with His own divine will.
To paraphrase Telushkin, Spinoza did not believe that God created
nature, but that God is Nature. In 1656,
while still in his twenties, Spinoza was excommunicated (in Hebrew “kerem”) for
denying the immortality of the soul and God’s authorship of the Torah. On this latter point, Spinoza was a
forerunner of modern Biblical critics.
He believed that the Torah had not been written by Moses, but by Ezra
the Scribe. The ban from the Jewish
community was total. Spinoza spent the
rest of his life moving from place to place in Holland studying and developing
his philosophical works. At one point he
joined a Mennonite sect and changed his name to Benedictus or Benedict. By the
time of his death in 1677, Spinoza had developed a philosophy of rational
pantheism in which to “know” nature is to know God. Over the centuries, many Jews have expressed
their displeasure over Spinoza’s excommunication. In the 1950’s no less a figure than David Ben
Gurion tried unsuccessfully to have the ban lifted. From the writings of Spinoza: “As long as a
man imagines a thing is impossible, so long will he be unable to do it.” “Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing
for themselves which they would not wish for all humankind.” (Sounds like Hillel).
1713: Birthdate of Barbados native Deborah de Leon who married Isaac Gomez
in 1738.
1750: Twenty-nine year old American patriot and future President of
Congregation Sherith Israel in New York Hayman Levy, the Hanover, Germany born
son of Moses Levy, was “naturalized” today in New York City.
1752: In Stratford, CT, “Isaac Menes Seixas and Rachel Franks Seixas” gave
birth to Grace Mendes Seixas who married Simon Nathan and as Grace Mendes
Nathan was the mother of four children
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/seixas-nathan-grace
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/43058337.pdf?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
1767: In Germany, Ellen and Solomon Levi gave birth to Maier Levi, the
husband of Juttle Trouble with whom he had elven children.
1767: IN London Ester Leon and Elias Judah Piza gave birth to Judah Elias
Piza, the husband of Rachael Piza and the father of Elias Judah Piza and David
Piza.
1768: Three years and 11 days after they were married in London, Ribca and
Daniel Brandon Seixas gave birth to Daniel Seixas.
1772: Lancaster, PA native Shinah Solomon and Frankfurt native Elijah Etting
gave birth to Elizabeth Etting, the wife of Robert Mickle.
1773: Birthdate of Elizabeth Etting, the daughter of Elijah Etting and wife
of Robert Mickle.
1783: In Poland, Sarah and Fishel Chohen gave birth to Hartwig Cohen who had
eleven children in South Carolina with his wife Deborah Marks.
1789: In a letter bearing today’s date, George Washington wrote to Lt.
Colonel Solomon Bush who had served with him at the Battle of Brandywine
thanking him for his letter of July 20 in which he congratulated his comrade in
arms on being elected to the presidency.
1799: In Prague, Judah Jeitteles and his wife gave birth to physician, poet
and author Aaron Ludwig Joseph Jeittles.
1813: Harmon and Eve Esther Gomez Hendricks gave birth to Frances Henrietta
Hendricks, the New York resident who was the sister of Justina and Joshua Hendricks.
1824: Gabriel Gabriel married Esther Reuben today at the Great Synagogue.
1827: Middlesex, England, natives Hannah Levy and Michael Emanuel gave birth
to Morris Emanuel.
1829: In Whitechapel, London, Mary Simha and David Isaac Joseph Belasco gave
birth to Rebecca Belasco.
1830: Birthdate of Bavarian native George Michael Decker Hahn who served as a
member of Congress and governor Louisiana after he had become an Episcopalian.
1835: Joseph Myers married Julia Isaacs at the Great Synagogue today.
1841: David Barnard married Kate Nathan today.
1841: Solomon Nathan, the son of Barnett Nathan and Julia Solomons and the
husband of Betsy Isaacs with whom he had had five children, was buried today at
the “Canterbury Jewish Cemetery.”
1841: In Charleston, Rabbi Poznanski officiated at the married Joseph H.
Marks of Columbia, SC and Cecile Abrahams of Charleston, SC.
1843: Birthdate of Maryland native Moses Fraley, the husband of Rose Harsch
Fraley and father of Sadie, Jessie and Edward Fraley who settled in St. Louis
where he served on the Board of Alderman and helped to found Temple Israel as
well as the United Jewish Charities.
1843: Birthdate of David Zvi Hoffmann, a rabbi and Torah scholar who was
active in the “Wissenschaft des Judentums” a German based movement that
attempted to apply scientific methodology to all aspects of Judaism. His
daughter Hannah married Alexander Marx who along with Max L. Margolis published
“A History of the Jewish People” which was a classic work of the inter-war
period. Rabbi Hoffiamn passed away in 1921.
http://seforim.blogspot.com/2012/01/rabbi-david-hoffmann-zl-by-eliezer-m.html
1843: Birthdate of Tammany Hall political leader Richard Croker, Jr. who
recognized the importance of the Jewish vote in the municipal elections of 1898
when he threatened to get rid of all the leaders who did not do enough to
deliver it to the Democratic Party machine.
1847: Martha Ezekiel Levy and Jacob Abraham Levy gave birth to Leonora E. Levy Hart, the resident of
Norfolk, VA and husband of Alexandar Hart.
1848(28th of Cheshvan, 5609): Seventy-eight year old Joseph
Mendelssohn the German Jewish banker who was the oldest son of Moses
Mendelssohn and the uncle of Felix Mendelssohn passed away today.
1850: Philippa Minis and Edward Johnson Etting were
marred at Savanah, GA in 1841 gave birth to Gratz Etting
1850(19th of Kislev, 5611): Two days before
her 67th birthday, Abigail de Leon, the daughter of Abraham de Leon
and the wife of Joseph Henriques whom she marred in 1802 passed away today in
New York City.
1851: "Acapulco" published today described the
high cost of living in the Mexican city provided the unusual comparison that
"a little crib not bigger than a Jew's clothing-shop in San Francisco,
brings $50 a month."
1851: Austrian physician Jakob Eduard Polak entered Iran
where he began teaching medicine at Dar al-Fonun
1853:
The cornerstone for a new Jewish Hospital was laid this afternoon in a two hour
long ceremony. At 2 pm a procession
including members of the Hospital Society, the Hebrew Benevolent Society and
other dignitaries left the Crosby street synagogue and walked to the site of
the new hospital on 28th street between 7th and 8th
avenues. At 3 pm, Henry Hendricks made a
few opening remarks in Hebrew and handed the trowel to Sampson Simpson who also
make a few remarks in Hebrew before actually laying the cornerstone. Rabbis Lyon and Helsen then delivered prayers
in Hebrews followed by an address given by Rabbi Isaacs in English. During the talk Isaacs assured listeners,
including NYC dignitaries that the hospital would offer its services to all –
Gentiles and Jews alike. Sampson Simpson
donated the land on which the hospital is being built. He has also promised that $30,000 bequest
will made to the hospital at the time of this death.
1853:
Rabbi Isaacs is scheduled to give a sermon this evening at 5 pm on the topic of
Charity.
1855:
An article published today entitled “The Merchants of London” described the
financial activities of the various banking houses in London. The House of Rothschild is reported to be
very active in the affairs of Spain where it is represented by Mr.
Weisler. The Rothchilds hold large
mortgages on the silver mines located in Spain
1858:
Under the guidance of Max Maretzek, Adeline Patti made her operatic debut at
age 16 in the title role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the Academy of
Music, New York. (He was the Jewish impresario and concert master. She was the native of Spain who went on to a
brilliant career.)
1858: A schochet named Aaron Friedman appeared before New York Mayor Daniel
F. Tiemann and accused Abraham Joseph Asch, Pesach Rosenthal and Moses Levi of
selling lottery tickets which is against the law. Abraham Joseph Asch served as Rabbi at Beis
Hamedrash Hagadol on Bayard Street. Founded in 1852, it was the first
congregation founded by Russian Orthodox Jews.
Pesach Rosenthal was the founder of the Downtown Talmud Torah, Yiddish
speaking school also founded in 1852.
1858: In New York City, Sergeant Birney and 12 officers of the law, armed
with a warrant to search and seize lottery tickets arrested Rabbi Abraham
Joseph Asch, Reb Pesach Rosnethal and Moses Levi. Rabbi Asch was arrested while he was leading
services at this synagogue. All three
were taken before May Tiemann to answer the charges lodged against them.
1858: Thanks to the efforts of Austrian born American-Jews impresario Max
Maretzek, “Adelina Patti made her operatic debut in the title role of
Donizetti’s “Luci de Lammermoor” in New York City.
1859: British naturalist Charles Darwin published On the Origin of
Species, which explained his theory of evolution. Ironically, Hitler was
greatly influence by Charles Darwin and his Theory of Evolution. Hitler
believed that the German people were the most advanced race of people, and all
others were inferior. For Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest to be
true, all other inferior species had to die. Hitler was making sure the
inferiors would die off rapidly, so his MASTER RACE would rule faster.
1862: Michel Levy publishes Gustave Flaubert’s "Salammbo." Levy
(not Flaubert) was Jewish.
1862: One day after he had passed away, 42 year old Solomon Benjamin the son
of Ephraim and Phoebe Benjamin and the husband of Sarah Harris was buried today
at the “Wolverhampton Old Jewish Burial Ground.”
1862: Charles Weissman, a Jew from Iowa serving with Company B of the
Sixteenth Infantry Regiment was promoted to the rank of commissary sergeant
while fighting to save the Union during the Civil War.
1863: In Vilna, Shmuel Hurwitz and his wife gave birth to Rabbi Tzvi Hrisch
(Herman) Hurwitz, the husband of Hannah Lilly Hurwitz who “was appointed Rabbi
at Yesna, Lithuania and eventually was elected Rabbi of the Beth Hamedrash of
Sunderland, in northern England in 1903.”
1863: During the Civil War, the 82nd Illinois Infantry under the
command of Edward S. Solomon took part in the Union Army’s victory over the
Rebels at the Battle of Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga, TN. Joseph B.
Greenhut, an Austrian born Jew, served as Captain of Company K during the Battle.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13855-solomon-edward-s
1864: Comte Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa and Adèle Tapié de Celeyran
gave birth to artist Henri de Tolouse-Lautrec whose work included “Reine de
joies.”
1867: In San Francisco, Augusta and Joseph Phillip Newmark
gave birth to Samuel Mark Newmark, the husband of Carolyn C. Newmark with whom
he had two children and who held a patent for “Newmark’s Pure,” a “coffee,
cinnamon, tea and lemon extract used for food-flavoring purposes.”
https://www.geni.com/people/Samuel-Newmark/6000000063371560861
1869(20th of Kislev, 5630): Jonathan Alexandersohn, a German born Hungarian
rabbi, passed away passed away in the Jewish hospital at Altofen.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1162-alexandersohn-jonathan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Alexandersohn
1869: Louis Moreau Gottschalk collapsed from having contracted malaria. Just
before his collapse, he had finished playing his romantic piece Morte!
(interpreted as "she is dead"), although the actual collapse occurred
just as he started to play his celebrated piece Tremolo.
1869: During a concert in Rio de Janeiro, having just completed playing
“Morte!” composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk collapsed from the
effects of Yellow Fever.
1870: Rabbi S.M. Isaacs is scheduled to deliver the sermon at the
Forty-Fourth Street Synagogue’s Thanksgiving Day services which will begin at
11 a.m. Children from Hebrew Orphan Asylum will attend the service after which
they will be fed Thanksgiving Dinner paid for by the synagogue’s trustees.
1870: In New York City, Lena Schweitzer and Leonard Leisersohn gave birth to
NYU trained attorney George W. Leisersohn, a secretary of the Machpelah
Cemetery Association, the husband of
Etta Davis and the father of Bessie and Lawrence Leisersohn.
1871(11th of Kislev, 5632): Fifty-three-year-old Bavarian born
Joseph Louis Swarts, the husband Caroline Stix Swarts and father of Solomon
Louis Swarts passed away today after which he was buried at the Walnut Hills
Jewish Cemetery in Evanston, OH.
1871: It was reported today that the Reorganization Committee meeting in St.
Petersburg has been discussing whether or not to allow Jews to serve as
officers in the Russian Army. The
majority of the committee favor postponing a decision until enough time has
elapsed to evaluate the recent decision to allow Jews to hold civil service
positions in the Russian government.
1873: Birthdate of Yuliy Osipovich Tsederbaum the scion of Jewish family living in
Constantinople who as Julius Martov became a leader of the Mensheviks during
the Russian Revolutions.
1873: In Baltimore, MD, Rosalie Ellinger and Solomon Straus gave birth to
John Hopkins graduate Theodore E. Straus, a member of the Board of School
Commissioners in Baltimore
1874: In Little Falls, NY, Harris L. and Rosa (Jackson) Joseph gave birth
Charles Homer Joseph, the editor of the Jewish Criterion in Pittsburgh, the
author of the syndicated column “Random Thoughts” which was published in
“twenty Jewish periodicals” who was the husband of Caroline Schoenfeld.
1874: It was reported today that Jacob Cohen has donated a printing press,
Hebrew type, non-Hebrew type and other printing office furniture to the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum in New York. [The printing
operation would prove to be a beneficial source of training an income for the
male orphans.]
1875: Birthdate of Jana Fürnbergová, the resident of Prague who was murdered
at Terezin.
1875: Today “money began coming in through donations to help fund the building
the Garnethill Synagogue in Glasgow, Scotland
1877(18th of Kislev, 5638): Eighty-three year old Rabbi Samuel
Bondi of Mayence the son of Rabbi Jonas Moses Bondi and Bella Bondi and thus
husband of Sophie Bondi passed away today.
1878: It was reported today that the Rothschilds in London have successfully
gained the right to underwrite the “new Numidian loan” for which they will
receive a premium commission.
1878: In New York Samuel Sachs and Louisa Goldman Sachs gave birth to Paul
Joseph Sachs, the partner in Goldman Sachs and associate director of the Fogg
Art Museum who enter American pop culture as one of the Monuments Men.
https://dictionaryofarthistorians.org/sachsp.htm
https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-harvard-group/sachs-paul-joseph
1878: In Austria, Alfred Abraham Finzi and Rachéle Finzi gave birth to Isak
Isidor Finizi
1878: It was reported today that Maggie de Rothschild has been receiving
religious instruction from a Roman Catholic priest in Frankfort, Germany. Conversion to Christianity is a condition set
by the family of her future husband, the Duc de Guiche for their approval of
the marriage. The family has no
objection to her Jewish money, just to her Jewish religion. If the trend of intermarriage continues, the
more numerous Christian will eventually absorb the Jews. “That is one way
getting rid of the Jews…but one which will take time.”
1879: It was reported that a confidence man identified a Hebrew from New
York has swindled several French businessmen out of 6,000,000 francs.
1879: It was reported today that Lord Beaconsfield has only been able to
gain promises of “moral support from Austria and Germany” in the current
conflict involving the Russian and Ottoman empires.
1879: Albert Lavergne, alias Abraham Levy, an Alsatian Jew, went to the 29th
Precinct in New York and confessed to having stolen $30,000 worth of diamonds
in France in 1876.
1879: Birthdate of Yitzhak Gruenbaum the native of Warsaw who was a leader
of Polish Jewry until he made Aliyah in 1933 and expanded his career to include
a leadership role that caused the British to arrest him during their
“leadership sweep” in 1946 and enabled him to become a signatory to the
Declaration of Independence in 1948.
1880: “The German War on the Jews” published today noted that “the
authorities are inclined to wink at, if not openly encourage, the movement for
stemming the rising tide of Jewish power and influence and in the Empire.” While Chancellor Bismarck has modified his
view that used to include opposition of “the admission of Jews into office” the
anti-Semitic movement has plenty of power as can be seen from the leadership
supplied by Reverend Stoecker, one of the Kaiser’s Chaplains.” (Editor’s note:
The emergency of the anti-Semitic movement paralleled the emancipation of Jews
in Germany and was in full flower long before a Bavarian Corporal came to
power.
1880: At today’s meeting of the New York State Senate Committee on City
Affairs, Judge P.J. Joachimsen defended the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society
from remarks made by Elbrdige T. Gerry
1881: J.S. Moore responded to the anti-Semitic attacks by Goldwin Smith, a
Professor at Oxford that appeared in the October issue of the Nineteenth Century.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B06E0D91038E033A25757C2A9679D94659FD7CF
1882 In Munich, Joseph Schülein, the son of Julius and Jeanette Schulen, and
Ida Schulein gave birth to Franziska (Mimi) Heinemann, the future wife of
Theobald Heinemann.
1882: In Cleveland, OH, Aaron and Theresa Hahn gave birth to Edgar Aaron
Hahn, Western Reserve University trained lawyer and Cleveland civic leader who
was the husband Irene Hahan with whom he had two daughters – Alice and
Katherine.
https://case.edu/ech/articles/h/hahn-edgar-a
1882: In New York, incorporation of the Passover Relief Association, which
was founded in 1877 whose officers included Morris Silbertstein, President;
Mrs. Fred Sobel, Vice President; Mrs. Eli Solomon, Treasurer and Adolph
Schwarzbaum, Secretary which supplied 490 families with groceries for Passover.
1884: Birthdate of Yitzchak Ben-Zvi,
the second President of Israel. After
the death of Chaim Weitzman, Ben-Zvi was elected in 1952. He served until his death in April of 1963.
1884: In Baltimore, MD, Julia Colbens and Philip (Feist) Joseph gave birth
to Jesse Montefiore Joseph, the husband of Gertrude Stern and the father of
Dorothy Joseph who was a member of board of American Hebrew Congregations and
the author of Heritage published in 1935.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Heritage.html?id=Sv80wgEACAAJ&hl=en&output=html_text
1885: Henry M. Leipziger, the principal of the Hebrew Technical Institute
presented a report at a meeting of the Industrial Education Association in New
York today during which he described what his school had during the past 18
months to meet the needs of boys ages 12 to 14.
1885: In Manhattan, David and Wilhemina (Minnie) Cohen gave birth to Bluma
Cohen who gained famed as Blanche Cohen Nirenstein, the wife of realtor
Alexander Schlang and Ellick Nirenstein whose civic work earned the title of
“Mother of Year” according to the RJJ School Ladies League.
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/04/archives/mrs-blanche-nirenstein-official-of-mizrachi-87.html
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/nirenstein-blanche-cohen
1885: In Friend, Nebraska, Sydney Dix Strong and his wife gave birth to Anna
Louise Strong, the wife Joel Shubin, the Jewish agronomist and “Soviet Deputy
Minister of Agriculture.”
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/strong-anna-louise/index.htm
1886: Joseph Schülein, the Bavarian born son of Joel (Julius) Schülein and
Jeanette Schülein and his wife Ida Schülein gave birth to Elsa Schulein who
became Elsa Haas when she married Dr. Alfred Haas.
1886: At the Star Theatre in New York, in front of a packed house, Edwin
Booth played Shylock in “The Merchant of Venice” part to which he brings a
unique portrayal.
1887(8th of Kislev, 5648): Forty-one-year-old dry goods dealer
Ansell Ullman, the husband of Maggie Ullman and the father of Sadie, Abraham
and Sanford Ullman passed away today after which she was buried at Hebrew
Friendship Cemetery in Baltimore, MD.
1887: In Philadelphia, Rose Strousse and Benjamin Lowenstein gave birth to
Haverford College graduate and University of Pennsylvania trained attorney
Sidney Lowenstein, the husband of Cecilia C. Steinberg and President of Congregation
of Adath Jeshurun.
1887: “La Tosca” a five-act drama by the 19th-century French playwright
Victorien Sardou “was first performed today at the Théâtre de la Porte
Saint-Martin in Paris, with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role.
1887: In a moment of honesty, Reverend Armitage delivered a sermon at the
Fifth Avenue Baptist church in which he “compared the American Thanksgiving
feast with joyous ‘Feast of Tabernacles’ of the ancient Jews. This Jewish feast
continued eight days, and commemorated the gather of fruits. With the Jews, it
was a joyous outpouring of religious feeling and in this quality of their
religion they set an example which will be followed by Christians.”
1887: On Thanksgiving, “bountiful dinners” were provided those under the
care of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society.
1887: Thanksgiving Services were held at Temple Emanu-El in New York City
1888: In Milwaukee, WI, Henry H. and Bertha (Feinberg) Rice gave birth to
Vassar and St. Louis School of Social Economy Edna Rice who became Edna Rice
Meisnner when she married Edwin B. Meissner and who was an active member of the
Council of Jewish Women and Temple Shaare Emeth in St. Louis.
1889(1ST of Kislev, 5650): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1889: “Jews of Bagdad” published today described the mistreatment of the
Jews of Mesopotamia during the recent cholera epidemic.
1889: It was reported today that The Conference of the Civic, Commercial,
Industrial and Educational Bodies will be presenting a “silk banner” to the
Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society.
1890(12th of Kislev, 5651): Seventy-six year old August Belmont, a Prussian
Jew who “came to the U. S. in the diplomatic service, became a representative
of the Rothschilds founded the banking house, August Belmont & Co., made a
vast fortune and kept a racing stable passed” away today.
1892: The SS Weimar a large number
of whose 1,906 passengers are Russian Jews is still detained at the Cape
Charles Quarantine facility at Baltimore in accordance with President’s order
this matter.
1892: On Thanksgiving Day Mrs. J. P. Jonchimsen will deliver the opening
speech at the dedication of the new Orphan Asylum of the Hebrew Sheltering
Guardian Society of New York will take place at 2 p.m.
1894: According to figures provided by Charles G. Wilson, the President of
the Board Health published today “the lowest death rate…is in the tenement
wards where the Hebrew population is densest.”
Wilson attributed this fact to the observance of “the Mosaic laws regard
cleanliness” and avoiding abuse of alcohol as well as the fact that Jews
“observe certain religious rules and regulations requiring them to keep their
apartments clean.”
1894: In London, premiere of “The Shop Girl” a musical comedy featuring "The Little Chinchilla" a
popular song written by Paul Alfred Rubens.
1895: In St. Louis founding of
the Prospect Club located at 2737 Locust which meets on the first and last
Tuesday of the month.
1895: “Flora’s Beautiful Gifts” traces the role of flowers in various
civilizations and cultures including the Hebrews who used the rose and the lily
and whose King Solomon “was a botanist” as can be seen from his gardens “which
are among the most ancient gardens of which we know.”
1895: Herzl expounds his plans at The Maccabeans Club, the first group to
hear his ideas. (In his diary he wrote, "Abends bei den 'Makkabäern'.
Mageres Dinner, aber guter Empfang." - In the evening with the
'Maccabaeans', skimpy dinner, but good reception.")
1896: As of today, it was reported that Mrs. Hannah Solomon is President of
the National Board of the National Council of Jewish Women and Miss Laura
Mordecai is President of the Philadelphia chapter of the organization.
1896: Birthdate of Russian native, WW I combat veteran and Yale graduate
Benjamin Labov, the “founder and president of the Union Company and president
of the Jewish Welfare Council of Bergen County who was the husband of “the
former Rhea White” with whom he had two sons, William and Richard.
1896: In Limirck, another of the sporadic attacks took place on the Jews of
the city.
1897: In Chicago, Illinois, Leopold Godowsky and Frederica Saxe gave birth
to silent film actress Dagmar Godowsky.
1897: In Brooklyn, Michael and Sarah Newman Phillips gave birth to future Minnesota resident
Arthur Nathaniel Phillips who was the husband of Rose Lieberman Phillips.
1897: “Thanksgiving Exercises for Orphans” published today described
upcoming holiday plans for those at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum on Amsterdam
Avenue.
1898: Birthdate of Pittsburg native Louis “Lou” Mervis” the Walter Camp
All-American lineman who played tackle on the undefeated 1918 University of
Pittsburgh football team.
1898 Simon Guggenheim and Olga Hirsch married today at the Waldorf Astoria;
an event they celebration by providing 5,000 poor children with a Thanksgiving
Dinner.
(Editor’s Note: The following four entries are examples of the
Americanization of the Jewish Community in the best sense of the term. It provides an indication of why American
Jews believe that their experience is different from that in Europe, North
Africa or the Middle East)
1898: Rabbi Silverman will deliver a sermon on “American Progress” at Temple
Emanu-El during Thanksgiving Services that start at 11 a.m.
1898: Rabbi Rudolph Grossman will deliver the sermon at Temple Rodeph Sholom
during Thanksgiving Services that start at 10:30 a.m.
1898: Shaarai Tephilla and B’nai Jeshurun
will hold a joint Thanksgiving Service at 10:30 a.m led by Rabbi Stephen
G. Wise that will include “the reading of the of the President’s proclamation
by Morris Wise, a speech by Washingtonian Simon Wolf and a performance by the
brass band of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society Orphan Asylum
1898: “The Young Men’s Hebrew Association” is scheduled to hold Thanksgiving
Services at 861 Lexington this morning starting at 10:30.
1899: Jacob Furth, the Jewish President of the Puget Sound National Bank of
Seattle, Washington, described economic conditions in the Northwest to a group
meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria. The seven banks in the area have more than 13
million dollars in deposits most of which has been investing in Eastern
commercial paper since there is so little demand for money in the Pacific Coast
region. Manufacturing and farming have been so profitable that there has been
little need for borrowing. Furth concluded his remarks by saying that he saw an
automobile for the first time while traveling through Chicago on his way to New
York. Furth is convinced that the
Pacific Northwest is too hilly “for the successful operation of the horseless
carriage.”
1900(2nd of Kislev, 5661): Parashat Toldot
1900: “Anti-Jewish Bill in Reichstag” published today described the
introduction of a bill “against the immigration of Jews” by “the anti-Semites
and a number of Conservatives.”
1901: “A Delightful Surprise to Connoisseurs” published today described the
availability of moderately prices “Carmel Wines and Carmel Cognacs imported
from Palestine” that won the Gold Medal in Paris in 1900.
1901: In “The Russian and the Turk” published today, F.S. Roes, Rear
Admiral, USN concluded by saying that “the Eastern Question is approaching a
crisis and it can only be solved by the expulsion of the Turk from Europe, Asia
Minor and we may hope also from Palestine.”
1902: In a decision that was “aimed directly at the Jews who formed the
majority of the lawyers and law clerks,” “the Disciplinary Council of the
Rumanian Bar published a decisions that only Rumanian citizens may hereafter
practice law or act as law clerks.”
1903: In Vienna, Carl and Emilie Popper gave birth to Hans Popper, “the
founding father of Hepatology” who was fortunate enough to escape arrest by the
Nazis during the Anschluss by making his way to the United States aboard the SS
New Amsterdam.
1904: In New York City, Minnie Dasnin gave birth to Olympic gold medal winning discus thrower Lillian
Copeland.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/copeland-lillian
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/lillian-copeland
https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/lillian-copeland-1.html
1904: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Joseph B.
Bloomingdale at Temple Beth-El this morning who passed away on November 21 and
who was the former president of Hebrew Technical Institute
1904: It was reported today that the police in Warsaw are expecting more
riots on November 27 of the kind which have already lead to the wounding of
Baroness Hirsch who “was shot while driving by in a carriage.
1905 (26th of Cheshvan): Nahum Meyer Shaikevich (Shomer) Yiddish novelist
and playwright, passed away
1906(7th of Kislev, 5667): Parashat Vayetzei
1906: “The threats of the reactionary parties that Jewish massacres will be organized
if the rights of the Jews are enlarged are becoming more definite” as can be
seen by the threats of the Central Council of the League of the Russian
People.”
1907: In Birmingham, AL, forty people including M.P. Engle and J.J.
Goldstein met to form Temple Beth El, met form Temple Beth El which was created
to the need for “a modern, yet traditional congregation in Birmingham.”
1907: “Roosevelt Seen by German Eyes published today provides a lengthy
reviews From Cavalryman to President, by Dr. Max Kullnick, “the first German
biography of President Roosevelt” which includes an anecdote about “a visit to
America in 1895 of Herr Ahlwardt, the notorious German Jew-baiter” which quotes
the then Police Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt as saying “the Jews are our most
peaceful citizens.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/11/24/issue.html
1907: Birthdate of mountain climber and author James
Ullman.
https://www.valancourtbooks.com/james-ramsey-ullman.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/06/21/archives/james-ramsey-ullman-writer-dead-at-63.html
1907: In Monroe, LA, Joseph and Clara Bloch Kern gave birth to World War II
veteran and president of Temple B’nai Israel Joseph “Joe” Kern, Jr, the husband
of Harriet Carolyn Hirsch Kern and the brother of Nathan Solomon Kern.
1908: Birthdate of Harry Kemelman, the Boston native who created the Rabbi
David Small mystery novels.
1908: “Argument in the contest of the will of the late Sigmund Rosenwald,
who was a wealthy importer of tobacco leaf, a Director of the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum, and a Vice President of the United Hebrew Charities, will be heard
today in the Surrogates' Court.”
1908: Birthdate of Mosze Lifszyc, the native Kiev who gained fame as movie
director Aleksander Ford.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080506105210/http://www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca/misi032.htm
1909: It was reported today that United Hebrew Charities “had in the last
year weathered the severest period of stress in the thirty-five years of its
existence, expending a larger amount than in the panic year of 1907, and on a
smaller number of applicants.”
1910: Led by Center Albert Lorch “Al” Loe, known as the Yiddish Wildcat,
George Tech defeated Clemson today in the final game of the season
1910: On Thanksgiving Day in Atlanta, GA, Leo Frank, who would be lynched in
the single worse episode of anti-Semitism in U.S. history, married Lucille
Selig, the daughter of Emil Selig.
1911: The Damascus newspaper Muktebis
attacked Jews, and in response readers wrote letters to the Grand Vizier to
condemn the attitude of the paper. On the same day the editor of
another newspaper, the Turkish Hikmet, insulted Jews in an 'open letter to the
Sultan.' As a result of the letter the editor was banished from Constantinople.
1911: Lazarus Klein was elected a member of the Divisional Council in Cape
Province, SA, for the district of Tulbagh.
1911: The members of the Monmouthsire Standing Joint Committee “strongly
criticized the attitude of police “during the “recent riots in Tredegar, Wales.
1912: In Rochester, NY, David Kanin and Sadie Levine gave birth to screen
writer and director Garson Kanin.
1912: In Antwerp Paul (Pinchas) Gluck-Friedman and Henia Shipper gave birth
to Antoinette Gluk who would marry a young Swiss-born French rabbi named David
Feuerwerker and who would become famous as a decorated hero of the Resistance
and as a jurist in post-war France.
1912: In the presence of an audience of 600 persons, including all of the
members of the Straus family, a memorial tablet in honor of Ida Straus was
unveiled this afternoon at the Home of the Daughters of Jacob, an institution
for aged men and women at 301 and 303 East Broadway. Impressive services marked
the official dedication of the tablet, which has been mounted upon the wall of
the large auditorium to the right of the main entrance. The large bronze
casting bears the raised profile of Mrs. Straus upon the center, directly under
the inscription; “The Ida Straus Memorial of the Home of the Daughters of
Jacob.” On one side are the words “Her life was beautiful” and the date in the
Hebrew calendar of Mrs. Straus’s birth, “Shebat 14, 5609.” On the other side is
the inscription “Her death was glorious,” and the date of the Titanic disaster,
“Nisan 28, 5672.” Below the profile are the words: To the everlasting memory of
Mrs. Ida Straus, one of the noble and heroic daughters in Israel, the hospital
wards of this home are dedicated. She perished on the high seas in the Titanic
disaster, together with her husband, Isidor Straus, statesman, philanthropist,
and merchant, persistently [sic] refusing to be saved that she might remain to
cheer the last moments of her life’s companion. Beneath is this quotation from
the Book of Ruth: Where thou Diest Will I Die, and There Will I Be Buried. Dr.
Nathan Abramson opened the dedication services with a hymn, in which he led a
selected chorus of sixteen voices. The Rev. H. Pereira Mendes delivered the
opening prayer, in which he expressed the hope that the example of the heroic
and devoted wife in whose memory the tablet was erected and to whose lasting
fame the wards of the hospital were dedicated might be forever an inspiration
to the women of her race and ancient creed. Dr. Henry Fleischman, President of
the Educational Alliance, made the principal address. He lauded the modest
charity and kindliness of Mrs. Straus and the great unselfish works of her
husband in the public service. Other speakers were Joseph Barondes of the Board
of Education, the Rev. Dr. Schulman, pastor of the Congregation of Beth-El; the
Rev. H. Masliansky of the People’s Synagogue, and Gustavus A. Rogers, who acted
as Chairman.The most impressive incident of the dedication occurred when the
186 inmates of the home, led by Supt. Albert Kruger, filed slowly into the
auditorium and took their seats in the front rows. The oldest of the feeble and
decrepit men and women was said to be almost 108, and the youngest in the
procession more than 70 years old. Just before the close of the exercises they
arose and with quavering voices chanted aloud in unison a prayer for the
eternal happiness of their departed benefactress. Among those seated on the
platform were Mr. and Mrs. Percy Straus, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar S. Straus, Mrs.
Nathan Straus, Herbert Straus, Jesse I. Straus, Mrs. Weil, Mr. and Mrs. Lazarus
Kohns, and Mr. Lee Kohns. At the close of the exercises the members of the
Straus family group, together with a few intimate friends, made a tour of
inspection of the new hospital wards of the home
1912: A meeting in honor of the late Dr. Morris Loeb is
scheduled to be held today at the Hebrew Technical Institute in New York.
1912: Services are scheduled to begin at 10:30 in Chicago
at Sinai Temple where Dr. Emil G. Hirsch will deliver a sermon “The Open
Window.”
1912: In Chicago, Rabbi Joseph Stoltz is scheduled to
deliver a sermon entitled “It Is Good to Give Thanks” at today’s service hosted
by the Isaiah Temple.
1912: Gerson Levi is scheduled to deliver the sermon at
The People’s Synagogue where services begin at 3:30 p.m. at the Ziegfeld
Theatre.
1912: Rabbi M.J. Gries of Cleveland delivered a sermon
today marking the 20th anniversary of his years of service followed
by a special musical program.
1912: “The elections for the Executive Council of the
Jewish community in London” which “for the last twelve years have given rise to
heated quarrels” between the Zionists “and the so-called official party much to
the delight of the anti-Semites are scheduled to take place today.
1913: A mass meeting was held in New York under the auspices of the
Federation of Oriental Jews that reside $58,000 for the relief of Balkan Jewry.
1914: Today’s contributions to the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews
suffering through the war amounted to $944.74 bring the total collected to day
to $25,010.
1914: Today, Herman Bernstein, editor of The Day, a Jewish daily newspaper
published in New York “made public telegraphic correspondence” between him and
Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice, the British Ambassador in Washington, D.C. in
which the editor asks if England will give protection to German and Galician
Jews living in Jaffa now that the British reportedly occupy the city formerly
controlled by the Ottomans. Spring-Rice
responded ‘Jews of all nationalities who may come under British control can of
course count on the same protection and liberal treatment which England has
always extended to them. I have,
however, no information that Jaffe is in the hands of England.” (The reality is that the Turks expelled the
Jewish population and the British did not take the city until 1917).
1914: “Let Jews Become Turks” published today described the decision of the
Ottoman government to grant citizenship to Russian Jews living in the empire –
a decision that would mean a great deal to many of the Jewish settlers in
Palestine because they came from Russia.
1914: It was reported to that “two members of the Serbian Legation who
remained at Constantinople to assist Henry Morgenthau,” the Jewish
philanthropist serving as the American Ambassador, “were ordered to leave the
city within 48 hours.”
1914: On the Western Front during WW I, Lieutenant F.A. De Pass, a Jewish
officer from London “led two of his Indian soldiers into the sap of a German
trench that had been pushed out to within ten yards of the Indian line” and
destroyed the sap after which de Pass carried a wounded comrade to safety – an
action that led him to being the first Jewish officer to receive the Victoria
Cross.
1915: As of today, “the contributions to the fund for the relief of the
sufferes from the Russian massacres reached a total of $734,494.
1915: Birthdate of Aleksandr Yakovlevich Novakovsky, the native of St.
Petersburg who gained fame as Alexander Nov, “a Professor of Economics at the
University of Glasgow and a noted authority on Russian and Soviet economic
history.”
1915: Jacob Bosniak, presided over a meeting of students at the Jewish
Theological Seminary where “resolutions expressing their grief were adopted.”
1915: The faculty of JTS met today for the first time since the death of
Solomon Schechter.
1915: In Manhattan, an exhibit sponsored by Bezalel that included rugs,
silver filigree work, copper inlaid articles, Torah Bells and Meghilloths came
to a close.
1916: At Temple Israel, Dr. M.H. Harris delivered a sermon on “The Fate of
the Jew After the War’ in which he talked about the fate of 1,500,000 Jews in
Poland and said he did not put any trust in Germany’s recent promise to create
an independent Kingdom of Poland.
1916: The Greek government considers calling on Jews to serve in military;
prior to this date they were exempt from service.
1916: Writing in The Jewish Chronicle, Dr. Joseph Kruk described his first
meeting with Alexander Protopopov, the Minister of the Interior, “on whom
depends the course of the policy towards the Jews of Russia” who said he
believes “in equal rights for the Jews” but believes that the lack of a
commercial treaty will be a hindrance towards his government reaching that
goal.
1917: For the first time since the United States entry into WW I, “With the cooperation of the Dutch
government” which was neutral, the Joint Distribution Committee of the American
Jewish Relief Committee began distribution “relief funds in territories
occupied by Germany.”
1917: In London, Harry Rowson and his wife gave birth to Sefton Wilfred
David Rowson who gained fame as Israeli diplomat and Professor of International
Law, Shabtai Rosenne.
1917: “A mass meeting” designed “to enroll men and women in the
International Zionist Organization” is scheduled to “held at the Morris High
School” at eight o’clock this evening.
1917: “Infantry from the 54th (East Anglian) Division and the Anzac Mounted
Division began their attack across the Nahr el Auja on the Mediterranean coast
to the north of Jaffa.”
1917: “The
advance by two infantry and one mounted division into the Judean Hills towards
Jerusalem was suspended in the area of Nebi Samwil today.
1917: “The Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America announced today
that Samuel Mason, as special representative of the organization, has started
for Japan to investigate conditions among the Jewish emigrants stranded in that
country.”
1918: Fordham University trained attorney and C.P.A. Joseph J. Klein, the
New York City born son of Esther Eichler and Pinkus Klein married Janet R.
Frisch today.
1918: Felix Warburg outlines plans for a December campaign designed to raise
funds for Jewish war suffers at a meeting of the People’s Relief Committee
which represents the working class of New York Jewry.
1918: The Jewish Welfare Board met today.
1918: “After suspension of aid to Germany that began when the United States
entered WW I, today, “with the cooperation of the Dutch government
“distribution of relief funds in territories occupied by Germany was resumed by
representatives of the JDC of the American Jewish Relief Committee.
1918: “The registration campaign” is scheduled to continue until today at
which time the district elections for the ZOA are scheduled to be held.”
1919: In London, a poor Russian immigrant tailor, Louis Kossoff and his wife
gave birth to award winning actor David Kossof who also became “an anti-drug campaigner” when
his son rock musician Paul Kossoff died as a result of drug abuse.
1920: The Jewish Press Bureau at Zurich today “received advices of a great
exodus of Jews from Southern Russia” that report “that 200,000 Jewish refugees
are wandering in groups slowing working their way toward Galicia…”
1921(23rd of Cheshvan, 5682): Seventy-one year old Isabel “Belle”
Wolfe Baruch, the Winnsboro, SC daughter of Sailing and Sarah Cohen Wolfe, the
wife of Dr. Simon Baruch and the mother of Hartwig, Bernard, Herman and Sailing
Barcuh passed away today after which she was buried at the Flushing Cemetery in
Flushing, Queens, NY.
http://www.gcdigital.org/digital/collection/p163901coll005/id/555/
1921: “Five congregations, three Christian and two Jewish held a union
Thanksgiving service at Temple Israel in Far Rockaway this morning.
1922: Seventy-five year old Italian politician and Prime Minister Sidney
Costantino Sonnino, the son of Isacco Saul Sonnino – a Jewish born son of a
banker – who converted to Anglicanism passed away today.(Ironically, one of his
big claims to fame is that he was regarded as unique because he was a
Protestant in country almost completely dominated by Roman Catholic political
leaders,)
1922: Birthdate of Claus Adolf Moser, the native of Berlin who was brought
to England in 1936 where his contributions to the world of statistics led to
his being made a Life peer with the title Baron Moser>
1922: In Akron, Ohio, Benjamin and Bertha Munitz Ovshinsky gave birth to
Stanford R. Ovshinsky, the inventor of the nickel-metal hydride battery. (As
reported by Barnaby J. Feder)
1923(16th of Kislev, 5684): Parashat Vayishlach
1923(16th of Kislev, 5684): Sixty-nine-year-old Columbia trained
attorney David Peixotto, the Pleasantville born so of Judith Peixotto and David
Hays and the husband of Rachel Hershfield “who was at one time or another had
been connected with every Jewish charity in New York City.”
1924: In New York, Barbara Stettheimer and “Maj. Gen. Julius Ochs Adler, who
was the president and publisher of The Chattanooga Times and the general
manager of The New York Times from 1935 until his death in 1955” gave birth to
Julius Ochs Adler, Jr “a business executive and public relations consultant who
ran a popular independent bookstore in Manhattan for 16 years.” (As reported by
Robert D. McFadden and Eric Pace)
1925: “Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, speaking in behalf of the Executive Committee
of the American Jewish Congress, of which he is President, issued another
challenge to the Joint Distribution Committee today to say clearly how it plans
to apportion the $15,000,000 it expects to raise for relief and land settlement
in Europe.”
1926: “Sol M. Stroock, President of the Federation for the Support of the
Jewish Philanthropic Societies, announced today that the workers in the $4,720,
000 campaign which the organization is conducting in behalf of its ninety-one
affiliated institutions, would rest in their efforts” on Thanksgiving.
1927: “After a week of anti-Semitic demonstrations, today was the first
quiet day in the Hungarian universities” possibly because “the Jewish students
have decided not attend lecutures until order is restored and the anti-Semitic
students guarantee” that there will be “no further trouble.”
1928(11th of Kislev, 5689): Parashat Vayetzei
1928(11th of Kislev, 5689): Semei Kakungulu who founded the
Abayudaya (Luganda: Jews) community in Uganda in 1917 passed away today.
http://puttivillage.org/history-of-abayudaya/
1928: According to dispatches from Bucharest received by the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, “Julius Maniu, the National Peasant Premier of Rumania
seems determined to maintain the promise he made…after assuming office to see
to it that all minority races in the Kingdom including the Jews” will “enjoy
the protection of the government in the exercise of their rights.”
1928: “Napoleon’s Barber” an early “talkie” written by Arthur Caesar and
featuring Michael Mark was released in the United States today.
1929: Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France during the final years of World
War I passed away. He provided the
stamina that helped France stay the course and defeat the forces of the Kaiser. For Jews, he will be remembered as a French
politician who risked his career to support Emile Zola as he worked to gain
justice for Colonel Dreyfus.
1930: In Essen, Germany “a Jewish father who was the director of a textile
company and a Lutheran mother gave birth to Inge Schönthal the photographer who
was the wife of “Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli.” (As reported by
Elisabetta Povoledo)
https://lithub.com/remembering-inge-feltrinelli/
1930: One day after he had passed away, eighty-three year old Russian born
American “Hebrew Poet” Israel Fine who was “an intimate friend of President
Roosevelt” and the author of “Ode to America” which was “written in Hebrew on
the occasion of the centennial celebration of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ in
1914” was buried this “afternoon in the Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery.”
https://www.jta.org/1930/11/26/archive/israel-fine-poet-zionist-friend-of-roosevelt-dead
1931(14th of Kislev, 5692): On the day before his 51st
birthday William Andrew Saks, the Baltimore born son the former Jennie Rohr and
Saks 5th Avenue co-founder Andrew Saks passed away today.
1932: A call to orthodox Jewry to unite to finish rebuilding Palestine as a
Jewish homeland was sounded today by Rabbi Wolf Gold of Brooklyn, president of
the Mizrachi Organization of America, at the opening session of the annual
convention of that body held in Buffalo, NY.
“Detailing the Mizrahi’s program for Palestine which calls for a
rebuilding along strict orthodox line, Rabbi “Gold held that the organization
was the only one in the world which could accomplish the task of taking back to
the homeland the ancient principles of Judaism.” On a more practical note, “Rabbi Gold
reported that…$40,000,000 has been invested in more than 63,000 acres of orange
groves in Palestine. Raising oranges is
one of the chief industries of the homeland he said.” Despite problems in the world economy, he
reported that orange exports have “increased tremendously” over the last year.
1933(6th of Kislev, 5694): Seventy-three year old Russian born
Rabbi Bernhard Rabbino who served congregations in several small towns
including Keokuk, IA and Brunswick, GA, before becoming a lawyer and champion
of the established of the “Domestic Relations Courts in New York” and who was
the husband of “the former Anna Ladewig” with whom he had had four daughters
passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/11/25/105822888.pdf
1933: The German Law Against Dangerous and Habitual Criminals adopted today
allows for compulsory castration of “hereditary” criminals.
1934: Lillian Hellman's drama “The Children's Hour” premiered on Broadway today
for the first of 691 performances
1934: In “Engels in the Volga German Republic of the Russian SFSR”,
Frankfurt born journalist and translator Harry Viktorovich Schnittke and Maria
Iosifovna Schnittke (née Vogel) gave birth to composer Alfred Schnittke, the
grandson of philologist and translator Tea Abramovna.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cyoungk/schnittkebio.htm
1934: In New York, Birdie (Blakeman) and William Charnin, an opera singer
gave birth to Martin Charnin, “best-known work is as conceiver, director and
lyricist of the musical Annie.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/theater/martin-charnin-who-helped-create-annie-dies-at-84.html
1934: “In Engels, in the Vogla-German Republic of the Russian SFSR”
Frankfurt born Jewish journalist Harry Viktorovich Schnittke and Maria Iosifovna Schnittke, gave birth to
Soviet composer Alfred Schnittke, creator of the oratorio “Nagasaki.”
1935: Birthdate of Los Angeles native Mordicai Gerstein the Caldecott Medal
winning illustrator whose works include The Man Who Walked Between the
Towers.
1936: According to testimony given today before the royal commission of
inquiry by officials of the Palestine government including B.G. Harris,
irrigation adviser to the development department; B.G. Harris, irrigation
adviser to the development department, F.G. Salman, Commissioner of Land and
Surveys and N.C. Bennett, assistant director of land surveys, “nothing has been
done by the mandatory government to fulfill Article VI of the Palestine
Mandate, calling for the facilitation of the settlement of Jews on government
land.
1936: “About 600 University of Warsaw students, a third of them girls,
locked themselves in the college building today and announced they would refuse
to leave until the university agreed to segregate the Jews.”
1936: The Jerusalem Arab daily newspaper al-Liwa demanded the Peel
commission should reach only one conclusion: ‘a National Arab Government’
throughout Palestine.
1937: The Reich is about to assume permanent control of the property of the
Jewish shipping operator, Arnold Bernstein, without awaiting his conviction on
"economic treason" charges. His trial before the Hamburg Emergency
Court has been going on for ten days
1938(1st of Kislev, 5699): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1938(1st of Kislev, 5699): Seventy-nine year old Russian born
Joshua H. Cohen, the Rabbi of the Woodbine, NJ Brotherhood Synagogue passed
away from heart disease at the Jewish Hospital in Philadelphia,
1938: Winston Churchill condemned the British stewardship of Palestine in
speech in the House of Commons.
1938: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Chicago native Sylvia Polisky, the daughter of
Samuel and Sarah Braverman Polisky became Sylvia Padzensky today when she
married Edward Padzensky in what became a “love affair that lasted for more
than fifty years.”
1939: “Catholic Welfare Council Helped Jews and Others in Reich” published
today described the organization’s efforts to refugees from “Germany and
countries under the sway of the German Reich” which has included raising
$285,486 to help those of Jewish extractions as well as “a large number of
Catholics classified as ‘non-Aryans’”
1939(12th of Kislev, 5700): Sixty-five year old New Orleans born
NYU trained attorney Mayer C. Goldman, the “New York lawyer who made a lifelong
flight to have public defenders attached to every court to handle free the case
of poor accused persons” and who was the husband of Mattie Marcosson Goldman
with whom he had two children, Allan and Helen passed away today in New York.
1939: “Links Zionist Aims to Democratic Way” published today described Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise’s belief that those “who really believed in democracy had no
choice but to support the establishment of a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine.”
1939: It was reported today that Junior Hadassah has raised “about $100,000
for its undertakings in Palestine” and that it will be a hospital for the
children’s Village at Meier Shfeyah to be named for Miss Alice Seligsberger”
who “was in charge of the Zionist medical unit which went to Palestine in the
World War and established a network of hospitals and similar institutions.
1939: Due in part “to the continued sales of stocks formerly owned by Jews
for the Reich’s account” in Berlin, “the share index advanced slightly to
102.07. (Anti-Semitism is good for business)
1940: Slovakia becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially
joining the Axis Powers. Regardless of the impact of Slovakian troops on the
fighting on the Eastern Front, this move helped lay the groundwork for the
Jewish community which saw 65,000 of its 77,000 shipped to the camps and their
death by 1945.
1940: The Atlantic, with 1,783
illegal Jewish refugees on board was escorted into the harbor at Haifa. How determined were the British to keeps Jews
out Palestine? Consider the following;
at this time in 1940, Britain stood alone against the Nazis. France had surrendered the previous June. The
Soviet Union was still an ally of Hitler and would not enter the fray until
June of 1941. The United States would
not enter the fight for another year.
The U-boat wolf-packs were sinking British ships in the North
Atlantic. Yet at a time when British
merchant vessels need all the protection they could get. British warships were
cruising the Mediterranean so they could keep a few thousand Jews out
Palestine.
1941: A ghetto was set up at Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia in the
old barracks and then in the walled town itself. All the 3,700 local
inhabitants were moved out. Although Theresienstadt was set up as a "model
settlement," its death rate reached 50% in 1942 through starvation and
epidemics. During an investigation by the Red Cross in June 1943 the Germans
changed the external appearance of the town and deported many so that there
would be less overcrowding. All the interviews were carefully orchestrated and
immediately after the visit most of the "actors" were then deported.
In all 140,937 Jews were sent to Theresienstadt, of whom 33,529 died in the
ghetto and 88,196 were deported to death camps. There were 17,247 persons left
in the ghetto when it was liberated.
1941: After premiering last month in London, “49th Parallel,” a
British war movie based on an original story by Emeric Pressburger who wrote
the screenplay and starring Leslie Howard was released in the United Kingdom.
1941: "Life Certificates" were distributed to some Jews of the
Vilna Ghetto. By now most of the Jews of Vilna had been slaughtered. Only about 15,000 Jews held “yellow
certificates” and these would do them little good. By the end of the war, 96% of the Jews of
Vilna would be dead.
1941: Karel Švenk “was one of the first artists to be deported to Terezín
today, and was among the 342 young Jewish men sent to prepare the previously
non-Jewish camp for the Jewish artist inmates to follow.”
1942: American born Zionist leader Rechaviah Lewin Epstein was buried in
Rehoboth today.
1942: Dr. Stephen S. Wise presided over a memorial service for the late
Rechaviah Lewin Epstein in the New York Offices of the American Emergency
Committee for Zionist Affairs
1942: During the Battle of Stalingrad Field Marshall Erich von Manstein
“advised Hitler not order the break out by the 6th Army” because his
forces could break through the Soviet lines and relieve the embattled group at
the same time that Goring boasted that the Luftwaffe could resupply the force –
two pieces of advice that Hitler wanted to hear but that sealed the fate of the
German forces and led to the loss that was a turning point in WW II.
1942: Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise, a founder and president of the World Jewish Congress, announces at a
press conference that the United States State Department has confirmed that
Europe's Jews are being slaughtered by the Nazis. Wise estimates that the
Germans have already murdered two million Jews, which is an understatement;
1942: Birthdate of Earl Leslie Krugel, the West Coast coordinator of the
Jewish Defense League.
1942: “Blood and Banquets: A Berlin Social Diary” by Bella Fromm is
scheduled to be published today. Fromm
is a German Jewish reporter who left Germany just before the outbreak of World
War II. The book is based on her
first-hand observations of the Nazi leaders in Berlin.
1943: Mordechai "Modi" Alon who had enlisted in the RAF in 1940
finally began his flight training today in Rhodesia. Alon would one of the IAF’s first pilots and
hero of the War for Independence.
1943: “Easy Aces” starring Goodman Ace and his wife Jane, two Jews from
Kansas City, became a one-half-hour-per-week broadcast at 7:30 PM on CBS radio.
1943: In Washington, DC, Theodore Rosenberg who worked at the Pentagon and
his wife Isabelle gave birth to Leslie Rosenberg, who gained fame as Leslie R.
Wolfe, “a longtime leader of the Center for Women Policy Studies.” (As reported
by Amisha Padnani)
1944: It was reported today the 21st annual conference of Junior
Hadassan had condemned the assassination of Lord Moyne.
1944: Birthdate of former congressman and Agriculture Secretary, Dan
Glickman.
1945(19th of Kislev, 5706): Parashat Vayishlach
1945: “The twenty-second annual convention of the National Labor Committee
for Palestine officially opened this afternoon, starting a drive for $3,000,000
to be forwarded to the Histadrut, the Palestine Federation of Labor, for the
promotion of agricultural and industrial projects in Palestine.”
1946(1st of Kislev, 5707): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1946: Fifty-one year old Hungarian born ”László Moholy-Nagy, “arguably one
of the greatest influences on post-war art education in the United States” and
convert to the Hungarian Reformed Church passed away today in Chicago.
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/laszlo-moholy-nagy
http://www.theartstory.org/artist-moholy-nagy-laszlo.htm
1946: Today’s concert, during which Dame Julia Myra Hess played Beethoven’s
Third Symphony with the NBC Symphony Orchestra “was preserved on transcription
discs and later issued on CD by Naxos Records.”
1946: “The formal installation of Joseph Smith as the new rabbi of Temple
B’nai Israel in Burlington, NJ is scheduled to take place this evening at 8
p.m. in the social hall.
1946: The Philadelphia Sphas led by Inky Lautman, Sol Schwartz and Bernie
Opper are scheduled to play the Brooklyn Gothams tonight in American Basketball
League game at the Broadway Brooklyn Arena.
1946: Birthdate of Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, the New York born Sephardic Jew
who became the director of New York University's Alexander Hamilton Center for
Political Economy
1946: “Report on the Sanitary and Medical Organization of the Monowitz
Concentration Camp For Jews (Auschwitz-Upper Silesia)” by Dr. Leonardo De
Benedetti, Physician and Surgeon and Dr. Primo Levi, Chemist was published in
the Turin-based medical journal Minerva
Medica. The material will be republished in 2007 as Auschwitz Report
by Primo Levi.
1947: The Jewish Agency (part of the de facto Jewish government in
Palestine) began registering “Jewish youths to work for and defend” the as yet
undeclared and unrecognized Jewish state.
1947: Birthdate of Eli Ben-Menachem, the native of Bombay who made Aliyah in
1949 and has served as an MK and as Deputy Speaker of the Knesset.
1947: A group of writers, producers and directors, known later as the
Hollywood 10, was cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer a
committee’s questions about alleged communist influence in the film industry.
This was viewed as part of right wing America’s war against “Jewish
Hollywood.” This was actually part of
the first round of what would later come to be called the Culture Wars which
have always had a taint of anti-Semitism to them.
1947: The House of Representatives overwhelming vote to approve citations
for contempt of Congress citations against the Hollywood Ten for the “defiance”
of the mis-named House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). “Of the
Hollywood Ten, six - John Howard Lawson, Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester
Cole, Albert Maltz and Samuel Ornitz — were Jews.”
1948: Dr. Maurice Finkelstein, the Professor at St. John’s University Law
School and Chairman of the Temporary Housing Rent Commission which had been
“set up to administer the local law freezing rents for permant guests of
hotels, apartment hotels, and rooming and lodging houses” in New York resigned
today “when an uproar followed sanction of hotel rent increases as high as 12
per cent.”
1948(22nd of Cheshvan): The seventy-one year old Odessa born
“dean of the New York dance teachers” Louis H. Chalif who had been “ballet
master of the Government Theatre in Odessa” before coming to the U.S. in 1905
and founding the Chalif Normal of School
while raising six children – Edward, Selmer, Amos, Vitalis, Helen and
Frances – with his wife, former Sarah Katzhof of Odessa, passed away today.
1948: New immigrants arrived today at Lod Airport on the day it reopened
after Israeli forces had liberated it from the hold of invading Arab Armies.
1948: The UN Truce Mission announces “a provisional…truce line” between Arab
and Israeli forces.
1949: “Israel and Egypt signed an armistice whereby the Nitzana region,
situated in Israel, was declared a demilitarized zone. The armistice agreement
also stipulated that on the Egyptian side of the border "no Egyptian
defensive positions shall be closer to El Auja than El Qouseima and Abou
Aoueigila
1950: Guys and Dolls a musical by Frank Loesser
and Abe Burrows opened at the 46th Street Theatre and enjoyed a
run of 1,200 performances.
1951(25th of Cheshvan, 5712): Parashat Chayei Sarah
1951(25th of Cheshvan, 5712): Seventy year old Dora Shubert Wolf,
the daughter of David and Gittel Shubert, the wife of Milton Wolf and the
sister to theatre owning Shubert brothers passed away today.
1952(6th of Kislev, 5713): Forty-eight year old Rutgers alum and
Columbia University trained attorney Alexander Feller, the “associate editor of
Current Legal Thought passed away today in New Brunswick, NJ.
1953(17th of Kislev, 5714): Sixty-year old Abraham Krotoshinsky
who earned a Distinguished Service Cross for his role in rescuing the “Lost
Battalion” during WW I passed away today.
http://www.hambourgconservatory.ca/bios/boris.html
https://www.discogs.com/artist/7600816-Boris-Hambourg
1956: After 1,063 the curtain comes down on the original Broadway production
of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross’ musical hit “The Pajama Game.”
1957(1st of Kislev, 5718): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1957(1st of Kislev, 5718): Seventy-eight year old Sir Alfred
Eckhard Zimmern, the Christian Oxford trained professor of “Jewish Descent” and
Laborite who became a supporter of Zionism passed away today in Avon, CT.
https://web.archive.org/web/20041029213157/http://www.aber.ac.uk/interpol/history/history_2.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/38730
1958: “Third Ave. Building Sold” published today described the sale by Idea
Gresiman and Gustave Rosenberg of a four-story story and apartment building to
Seymour Bernstein a client of attorney Ralph Bernstein.
1958: “Mischa Elman, the violinist, received a citation for distinguished
service from” the Mayor of New York City at City Hall today which “described
Mrs. Elman as an Ambassador of International Goodwill whose fifty years in the concert field had brought delight to millions
all over the world.”
1958: Yisrael Barzilai began serving as Minister of Postal Services in
Israel.
1959: CBS broadcast “Merman on Broadway” featuring songs from “Gypsy,” the
musical ‘with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by
Arthur Laurents” that included an appearance by Tab Hunter (born Arthur Andrew
Klein)
1959: In Havana Cuba, Charles R. “Nicky” Mayorkas, the Dartmouth alum,
Sephardi Jew and owner of a steel wool factory and his wife, the former Anita
Gabor, whose Romanian family had escaped the Holocaust gave birth to Alejandro
Nicholas Mayorkas, the U.C. Berkley graduate and Loyola Law School trained
attorney whose family had been forced to flee Cuba when he was one year old and
who was named Secretary of Homeland Security by President Biden one day his
birthday in 2020.
1960: In London, Nigel Kneale and Judith Kerr, the Berlin born daughter of
theatre critic Alfred Kerr and the former Julia Anna Franziska Weisman, gave
birth to novelist Matthew Kneale, author of English Passengers’
1963: Today, Life magazine
“purchased all rights” to Abraham Zapruder’s film of the Kennedy Assassination.
1963: Jack Ruby, born Jacob Leon Rubenstein, the Chicago born son of
Jewish immigrants from Poland, shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the
accused assassin of President Kennedy.
1965: The London Clinic said today that Eve Smith, “the wife of American
film producer Carl Foreman gave birth to a son last night.
1966(11th of Kislev, 5727): Seventy-two year old Romanian born,
Brooklyn Polytechnic trained chemist Samuel Abrams, the founder of Knomark, Inc
whose Esquire Brand shoe polish “became the largest selling brand in the United
States and “a founder of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva
University who was the husband of Tillie Abrams with whom he had two children,
Ira and Iris, passed away today at the Long Island Jewish Hospital in Queens.
1967: Life published selected frames Abraham Zapruder’s film of the Kennedy
Assassination.
1969: NBC broadcast the 1th episode of “My World and Welcome to it” created
by Melville Shavelson, produced by Sheldon Leonard and Danny Arnold.
1970: ITV broadcast “A Pipe and A Moustache” an episode of “The Lovers” a
British sitcom created by Jack Rosenthal who also served as the writer and
director.
1973: Eighty-one year old Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, “the first
Allied Medical Officer to enter Bergen-Belsen” and gained fame for care and
treatment of the victims passed away today.
https://www.bigredbook.info/hugh_llewellyn_glyn-hughes.html
https://www.befreiung1945.de/en/75-years-liberation/biografien/hugh-llewelyn-glyn-hughes/
1973: “Scream, Pretty Peggy” featuring Allan Arbus as “Dr. Eugene Saks” and
Tovah Feldshuh as “Agnes Thornton” was broadcast for the first time on ABC’s
Movie of the Week.
1974: American nuclear physicist and “ufologist” Stanton Friedman married
Stella M. Kimball today in Los Angeles
1974: Birthdate of Sam Kellerman, one of the four Kellerman brothers that
included sportscaster Max Kellerman, an aspiring playwright who wrote “The Man
Who Hated Shakespeare.”
1975: In Paris, Jews originally from Arab and Muslim
countries...to establish the Tel Aviv-based World Organization of Jews from
Arab Countries (WOJAC)
1976: Ninety-two refuseniks appealed to world Jewry for
help in protesting searches in the apartments of the organizers of the
symposium on Jewish culture.
1976: “Yevgeny Abezgauz, a leading Leningrad refusenik,
received permission to emigrate to Israel.”
1978(24th of Cheshvan, 5739): “Rabbi, author and
historian” Harry Sebee Linfield, Birzai, Lithuanian born son of Rabbi Pinchas
HaKoen Lintup
who
in 1905 came to the United States where he earned a Ph.D from the University of
Chicago, wrote a dissertation on “The Relation of the Jewish Law on Interest to
Babylonian Law” and became a demographer and statistician who studied the
Jewish people passed away today.
Collection: Harry S Linfield (1889-1978) papers | The
Center for Jewish History ArchivesSpace (cjh.org)
1979(4th of Kislev, 5740): Parshat Toldot
1979(4th of Kislev, 5740: Sixty-eight year
Brooklyn born Ralph R. Greenson, the psychiatrist and psychoanalysis for a
whole raft of celebrities including Tony Curtis and Marylin Monroe and role
model for the hero of the novel and movie Captain Newman: M.D., who attended
medical school in Switzerland because he was Jewish and who was the husband of Hildegard Troesch
Greenson and the father of Daniel Peter Greenson, passed away today in Los
Angeles after which he was buried at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City.
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6w1024rs/
1982(8th of Kislev,
5743): Seventy-seven year old Benny
Friedman passed away. The University of Michigan football star was considered
the first of the great professional passing quarterbacks. After WW II, he served as the Athletic
Director and Football Coach for Brandeis University
http://michigantoday.umich.edu/04/Fall04/story.html?passing
1983: The PLO exchanged 6 Israeli
prisoners for 4,500 Arabs held by the government of Israel. This would not be the last of such
numerically disproportionate trades in which the Israelis would engage.
1984: On BBC One and BBC HD, today
was the original network release of “Four Days in July” written and directed by
Mike Leigh
https://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/maurice-podoloff/
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/26/sports/maurice-podoloff-dead-at-95-was-first-nba-president.html
1986: The original production of “Smile” “a musical with music by Marvin
Hamlisch and book and lyrics by Howard Ashman opened on Broadway today at the
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
1986: Susan Sontag’s short story
“The Way We Live Now” which “remains a significant text on the AIDS epidemic”
was “published today in The New Yorker.
1986: In a letter written today
“explore Laurens van der post, after a visit to the Gulf with Princess Diana”
Prince Charles “implied that the ‘influx of foreign, European Jews’ to Israel
was to blame for fueling the Israeli-Arab conflict, and lamented that US
presidents were unwilling to take on the American ‘Jewish lobby.’”
1987(3rd of Kislev,
5748): Eighty-one-year-old Polish born Moses Feld, the husband of Karola Feld
passed away after which he was buried at Södra Judiska Begravningsplatsen in
Sweden.
1989(26th of Cheshvan,
5750): Seventy-seven year old Leonard Boudin the son of Jewish
immigrants Clara (Hessner) and Joseph Boudin who was the St. John’s Law School
trained civil liberties attorney whose clients included baby-doctor Benjamin
Spock and Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame who was the husband of poet
Jean Roisman and nephew of equally famous and controversial attorney Louis
Boudin passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/26/obituaries/leonard-boudin-civil-liberties-lawyer-dies-at-77.html
1990(7th of Kislev,
5751): Parashat Vayetzei
1990(7th of Kislev,
5751): Eighty-two year old Brooklyn native, Robert “Buck” Halpern who
“played guard at the City College of New York from 1926-1928” and “then played
as a guard in the NFL with the Staten Island Stapletons in 1930” passed away
today.
1993: “Josh and S.A.M.” a comedy
produced by Martin Brest in which Noah Fleiss made his film debut was released
in the United States today.
1994 Paul Grosz, president of the
Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien, opened library at the Jewish Museum in
Vienna.
1994(21st of Kislev,
5755): Fifty-one year old David Patton Garfield who “became a successful
cameraman and film editor” after he decided not to follow in the acting
footsteps of his father John Garfield passed away today in Los Angeles.
1995(1st of Kislev,
5756): Rosh Chodesh KIslev
1995(1st of Kislev,
5756): Ninety-five year old Dr. Moses Paulson, professor emeritus of
gastroenterology at the Johns Hopkins medical school and an expert on digestive
diseases, passed away today.
1997: As part of the process in
which Zypora Frank, a Polish Jewess, learned that her family had owned part of
the land on which the Auschwitz death camp stood, and where most of her
mother's family perished she went to visit Auschwitz today. And there, in the
records of the village that the Poles called Oswiecim, she found her
grandfather's property -- now hers and her brother's. Fifteen square miles of
what became the Auschwitz death camp had been his tile factory.
1999(15th of Kislev, 5760): David
Kessler, the man most responsible for making the Jewish Chronicle the
most respected Jewish weekly in the world passed away. He achieved this by dint
of his unwavering desire for fairness, his belief that all sections of a
community must be given a fair hearing, his insistence on total independence,
accuracy, economic stability and the need for accepting modern progress. As
chairman and managing director for 50 years of the newspaper, in which he and
his family held the majority of shares, Kessler was able to ensure, at times
after a struggle, that it followed his principles.
1999: American-Jewish
economist Joseph E. Stiglitz announced
that he would resign as the World Bank's chief economist after using the
position for nearly three years to raise pointed questions about the
effectiveness of conventional approaches to helping poor countries".
1999: Eight days after it had
premiered, “End of Days” directed by Peter Hyams who also served as the
cinematographer was released in the United States toda.
2000(25th of Chehsvan,
5761): Maj. Sharon Arameh, 25, of Ashkelon was killed by Palestinian sniper
fire in fighting near Neve Dekalim in the Gaza Strip.
2000(25th of Cheshvan,
5761): Ariel Jeraffi, 40, of Petah Tikva, a civilian employed by the IDF, was
killed by Palestinian fire as he travelled near Otzarin in the West Bank
2000(25th of Cheshvan,
5761): Ariel Jeraffi, 40, of Petah Tikva, a civilian employed by the IDF, was
killed by Palestinian fire as he travelled near Otzarin in the West Bank.
2001(9th of Kislev,
5762): Eighty-three year old Jacob Landau, the Philadelphia native whose works
can be found in in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, and the National Gallery
past away today.
http://nt.gmnews.com/news/2002-01-09/Front_page/027.html
2002: The New York Times
book section features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of
special Jewish interest including A Moral Reckoning The Role of the Catholic
Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair by Daniel
Jonah Goldhagen, The Punch by John Feinstein, Take on the Street:
What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You to Know: What You Can Do
to Fight Back by Arthur Levitt, Rising to the Light: A Portrait
of Bruno Bettelheim by Theron Raines and The Pity of It All: A History
of Jews in Germany, 1743-1933 by Amos Elon.
2022: “Synagogue Sesquicentennial”
published today described plans for the celebration of the 150th
anniversary of Temple B’nai Abraham of Livingston, the oldest Jewish
Congregation in New Jersey which was “established in 1853 by émigrés from
Poland, the Sons of Abraham who first met in Newark at the Bank Street home of
its founding member, a merchant named Abraham Newman.”
2002: The government adopts
Resolution 2793 which provides the criteria for The Israel Antiquities
Authority and the Old Acre Development Company, in cooperation with the Israel
Lands Administration, to begin a rehabilitation and conservation project in Old
Acre. The area where the work is to be done is called Block 10 and is located
in the northwestern part of the city and represents the first of its kind
effort in Acre since the creation of the modern state of Israel.
2002(19th of Kislev,
5763): Eighty-year old Richard S. Lazarus who was ranked as one of the “one
hundred most eminent psychologists of the 20th century” passed away
today.
https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/12/04_lazarus.html
2003(29th of Cheshvan, 5764):
Rabbi Abraham Karp, a pulpit rabbi in
Rochester, N.Y., and prominent scholar in American Jewish history, passed away
today at the age of 82. Rabbi Karp, who served as spiritual leader of Temple
Beth El in Rochester from 1956 to 1972, was a professor of history and religion
at the University of Rochester until he retired in 1991 and was named professor
emeritus of Jewish studies. He moved that year to New York, becoming adjunct
professor of American Jewish history at the Jewish Theological Seminary of
2004: “Book Adds Layers of
Complexity to the Schindler Legend published today provides a lengthy review of
Professor David M. Crowe’s Oskar Schindler: The Untold Account of His Life,
Wartime Activities and the True Story Behind the List, “an authoritative
new biography of Oskar Schindler, the German businessman who saved more than
1,000 Jews from the Nazis, clashes sharply with his idealized portrayal in the
Oscar-winning 1993 Steven Spielberg movie "Schindler's List" and the
1982 historical novel by Thomas Keneally that inspired it.”
2004: “Israel confirmed today that
it would allow international observers to monitor the Palestinian presidential
election on Jan. 9, as the Palestinians had requested.”
2005: The Israeli bobsled team,
a.k.a. the “Frozen Chosen” has chosen to defrost this year away from the
slopes. In just two full seasons of competition, they had catapulted themselves
into the elite ranks of the sport, and have already taken part in two World
Championships. Teams members expressed
extreme disappointed at not being able to represent Israel at the upcoming
Winter Olympics. The decision was based on a number of factors, including the
realization that no support would be forthcoming from the Israeli Olympic
committee and changes in the family situations of most of the team members. The
team has already prepared complete four year plan, in order to begin preparing
the Israel Bobsled Federation for the 2010 Winter Olympics to be held in Vancouver,
Canada. The development of winter sports
may seem a little strange for a country that of as arid with a Mediterranean
climate. However, the Israeli bobsled team takes its place alongside the
Israeli hockey team as proof of the broadening cultural scope of Israel and its
citizens.
2006: The Jewish Daily Forward
featured an interview with Rabbi Menachem Mendel Gershowitz. The 26 year old Lubavitcher is the leader of
the 5 Chabad Rabbis serving the needs of Kazakhstan’s 25,000 Jews. Rabbi
Gershowitz stated that the treatment of the Jews of Kazakhstan bears no
relationship to the images appearing in Sasha Cohen’s hit film “Borat.” “He is hoping that the movie never
finds its way to Kazakhstan, as he fears it could hurt the warm relationship
that the Kazakh president has with the Jewish community - and with Israel. ‘If
he will think that the Jews are against him, and don’t like what he does, we
will get the result,’ he said.”
2007: After two months, the first
major UK production of “Parade,” a “musical that dramatizes the 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank”
came to a close today.
2007: Mark Dreyfus became a member
of the Australian Parliament for the Division of Isaacs in the suburbs of
Melbourne which was named after Sir Isaac Isaacs.
2007: In Jerusalem, as part of the International Oud Festival, Ladino
singers Janet and Jak Esim close the musical event with a blend of
Judeo-Spanish melodies and song.
2007: “David and Bat Sheba,” a new production of the COMPAS Dance Company
premiers at Merkaz Habama, Ganei Tikva, Israel.
2007:
A mild earthquake registering 4.1 on the Richter scale was felt
in central Israel shortly after midnight between Friday and Saturday, days
after a 4.2 tremor struck the northern Dead Sea earlier this week. Police said
they had received no reports of injuries or damage. Reports of the quake were
recorded, among other places, in Ra'anana, Tel Aviv, Petah Tikva, Rehovot and
Jerusalem, Army Radio reported. Seismology experts said the epicenter of the
earthquake was east of the city of Ramle, Israel Radio reported Saturday
morning.
2008: As part of Works &
Process at the Guggenheim in New York, a performance John Zorn’s Shir Ha-Shirim. Scored for five female
voices and two narrators, Shir Ha-Shirim is John Zorn’s lush and sensitive
setting of the Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s—perhaps the world’s first
erotic verse. This romantic and lyrical project evokes feelings of love,
eroticism, and spirituality and features a specially-commissioned dance work.
2008:
Sports Illustrated magazine featured
a “Jewish Triple Header” with stories about Rena Glickman, the Jewish
grandmother recognized as the “mother of woman’s judo,” charges of insider
trading leveled by the S.E.C. against Maverick’s owner Mark Cuban and plans by
Lew Wolff to move the Oakland A’s to Fremont, CA where he has promised Bob
Wasserman, the town’s Jewish mayor, he will be building a $500 million baseball
stadium using his own money.
2008;
Empire poultry which has already expanded its Turkey production to meet the
demands of the Thanksgiving holiday reportedly is to begin “increasing its
production of poultry today by 50%, thus putting about 100,000 more chickens on
the market each week.”
2008: The
United States Department of Agriculture is now verifying and certifying
“numerous” claims by livestock and poultry sellers for nonpayment, according to
a court motion filed today by a U.S. attorney in New York. In an unusual
action, the United States district attorney for the Eastern District of New
York is asking a New York bankruptcy judge to send Agriprocessors’ bankruptcy
case to Iowa. Criminal and regulatory actions in Iowa against the Postville
kosher meat processor were one of the reasons he offered for moving the case.
Under the Packers and Stockyard Act, Agriprocessors must meet strict payment
schedules for the purchase of livestock and poultry from local sellers.
2008: A human resources worker facing federal charges for allegedly helping
illegal immigrants get jobs at Agriprocessors Inc. plant in Postville has
pleaded not guilty. Karina Freund had already pleaded not guilty to a charge of
harboring illegal immigrants after being arrested in September. A federal
indictment also charged her with conspiracy to harbor undocumented immigrants.
2008: “The Jerusalem Foundation launched Jerusalem 2010, a campaign
celebrating 150 years of British involvement in Jerusalem, at a special private
event at London's Bevis Marks Synagogue. Sir Martin Gilbert, official
biographer of Winston Churchill and author of the History of Jerusalem in the
19th Century, gave an address on 150 years of Britain and Jerusalem
2009: In “N.F.L. Head Injury Study Leaders Quit” published today “Pulitzer
Prize nominated” New York Timesman Alan Schwarz continued his long-running
coverage of the effect “of concussions among football players of all ages.”
2009: The British commission of inquiry chaired by Sir John Chilicot that
was to examine the British role in the Iraq War which included Sir Martin
Gilbert began its inquiry today,
2009: Today, “Sports
Illustrated published
an article about Rena Glickman, AKA Rusty Kanokogi, recounting the lengths to
which she went to excel in women’s judo: flattening her breasts with Ace
bandages, wrestling under a male alias, and winning a championship only to
surrender her title when it was learned she was a woman.”
https://jwa.org/thisweek/nov/24/2008/rusty-kanokogi
2009: The oldest complete Spanish Torah scroll will be up for sale at
Sotheby's Judaica auction today.
2009: In a program entitled “Above and Beyond attendees at the Washington
DCJCC Learn over Lunch examine “The Origin of Ethics and Piety Out of the Pages
of the Jewish Legal Tradition.”
2009(7 Kislev, 5770): Eighty-five year old Abe Pollin “the owner of the
N.B.A.’s Washington Wizards, who built the sports arena that revitalized
downtown Washington and was known for his wide-ranging philanthropy, passed
away. (As reported by Richard Goldstein)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/sports/basketball/25pollin.html?_r=0
2010: The Yeshiva Beth Yehudah Annual Dinner is scheduled to take place at
the Detroit Renaissance in Detroit, Michigan.
2010:
Holocaust survivors of Greek extraction will soon have their Greek citizenship
restored in an expedited process, the country’s Deputy Foreign Minister
Dimitrios Dollis, who accompanied Prime Minister George Papandreou on his
official visit to Israel in late July, told The Jerusalem Post today.
2010(17th of Kislev, 5771): Joel Daner, a West Orange, NJ man who
devoted his life to Jewish communal service, died today at Saint Barnabas
Medical Center in Livingston, a few days after his 72nd birthday. He had been
suffering from cancer for several years.
2010: Jonah Lerner and his wife Sarah Liebowitz bought the Shulman House
(built of for photographer Julius Schulman) for $2, 250,000.
2011: The Euro-Asian Jewish Congress is scheduled to meet today at the King
David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem where it is to elect businessman Vadim Shulman
to be its new president
2011: Family and friends gather to celebrate the birthday of Bill Gasway,
husband, father, grandfather, recent Bar Mitzvah and pillar of the Cedar Rapids
Jewish community.
2011: Congressmen Ted Deutsch (D-FLA) and Steve Israel (D-NY) have asked US
Comptroller-General Gene Dodaro to investigate the Palestinian Authority’s use
of American funding, three weeks after MK Moshe Matalon (Israel Beiteinu) sent
a letter informing the budget committees of the US Senate and House of
Representatives of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s policy to
pay murderers released from Israeli prisons $5,000 and build them new homes.
2011: A group of Palestinians and Iranians protested today against former
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as he was speaking to members of the Jewish
community at a synagogue in Bochum, Germany.
2012:
Millinery Center Synagogue is scheduled to present “The Controversial, The
Amazing, and The Mystical Ideas in Judaism"
2012:
East Midwood Jewish Center, a conservative synagogue, in Brooklyn is scheduled
to host a benefit concert for the displaced victims of Hurricane Sandy this
evening.
2012:
Several armed groups belonging to Fatah in the Gaza Strip claimed today that
they had also fired various types of rockets and missiles at Israel during
Operation Pillar of Defense.
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=293297
2012:
Senior Hamas figure Mahmoud al-Zahar said today that Iran will increase the
military and economic aid to Gazan groups because of the victory Hamas claims
against Israel in Operation Pillar of Defense.
2013:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The State of Israel: ‘My Promised Land’ by Ari Shavit.
2013:
The 55th Venice Biennale International art festival which includes a
Vatican exhibit “Creation, Un-Creation, Re-Creation” based on the first 11
chapters of Bereshit is scheduled to come to an end today. (As reported by JTA)
2013(21st
of Kislev, 5774): Eight-seven year old Mathew Bucksbaum, the native of
Marshalltown, Iowa who went to become a successful realtor and mall developer
passed away today,\.
2013:
The Alexandria Kleztet is scheduled to perform in Camp Springs, MD.
2013:
The JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to Maurice Sendak’s “Pincus and the
Pig” – “a Jewish version of Peter and the Wolf.”
2013:
At Temple Sinai in New Orleans, Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman is scheduled to deliver
a lecture “Law or Love? What Are We All About?” as part of the Murray Blackman
Memorial Weekend. (As reported by the Crescent City Jewish News)
2013:
President Shimon Peres issued a special statement in which he addressed the
deal signed last night between the P5+1 and Iran in Geneva.
2013:
Prime Minister Netanyahu made the following remarks at the Cabinet Meeting in
response to the agreement signed by the P5+1 and Iran. "What was achieved
last night in Geneva is not an historic agreement; it is an historic mistake.
Today the world has become a much more dangerous place because the most
dangerous regime in the world has taken a significant step toward attaining the
most dangerous weapon in the world. For the first time, the world's leading
powers have agreed to uranium enrichment in Iran while ignoring the UN Security
Council decisions that they themselves led.
2014:
In Melbourne, “The Last Mentsch and “Gett, the Trial of Vivian Amsalem” are
scheduled to be shown at the Jewish International Film Festival.
2014(2nd
of Kislev): Yarhrzeit of Rabbi Aharon Kotler, the Lithuanian born American
rabbi who worked to persuade Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau to work to
save the Jews of Europe and founded the Yeshiva at Lakewood, NJ.
2014:
“Coalition leaders decided today to delay a vote on the controversial “Jewish
state” bill by one week, as ministers vowed to continue to oppose the measure
even if it meant their jobs.” (As reported by Spencer Ho)
2014:
An officer sustained minor injuries this evening when “an Arab man driving a
stolen car ran over him in Kikar Adam near Binyamin before fleeing the scene,
security forces said tonight. (As reported by Ido Ben Porat, Cynthia Blank)
2014:
Ira Glass appeared on the Here's The Thing podcast.
2014;
“Israeli journalist and author Israel Zamir, the only son of Nobel laureate
Isaac Bashevis Singer is scheduled to be buried at Kibbutz Beit Alfa, “his home
for 77 years.”
2015:
Director Steven Spielberg, Israeli violinist Itzhak Perlman, singer Barbra
Streisand, and playwright Stephen Sondheim are among those scheduled to be
presented with the 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony today.
2015: The U.S.-led peacekeeper force in the insurgency-wracked
Sinai will remain unchanged after Egypt and Israel rebuffed proposals to trim
it by about a fifth, an Egyptian official said today
2015: Eighty-three year old Rita Berkowitz, a native of Romania
who made Aliyah in 1951 “won the third annual Miss Holocaust Survivors Beauty
Pageant in Haifa” today.
2015(12th of Kislev, 5776): Ninety-one year old attorney M.
Roland Nachman, the Montgomery, Alabama born son of a prominent department
store owner, “who opposed The New York Times in a libel case that resulted in a
landmark Supreme Court decision establishing greater leeway for newspapers and
individuals to criticize government officials and other public figures” passed
away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
2015:
A memorial evening to honor Sir Martin Gilbert, of blessed memory, is scheduled
to be held this evening in Central London.
2016:
Wildfires which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attributed to “natural and
unnatural” causes “raged through central and northern Israel for a third day today,
devouring forests, damaging homes and prompting the evacuation of thousands of
people.”
2016:
As we sit down to celebrate Thanksgiving we pause to remember the 8th
anniversary of the Mumbai Massacre which occurred on Thanksgiving in 2008 and
counted among its victims Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29; Rebbetzin Rivka
Holtzberg, 28; Bentzion Kruman, 26; Rabbi Leibish Teitelbaum, 37; Yoheved
Orpaz, 62 and Norma Shvarzblat Rabinovich, 50.
2016:
Start of Jewish Book Month http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/about/jewish-book-month.html
In 2016, Jewish Book Month begins on November 24 and ends
on December 24. The Jewish Book Council is the driving force behind
Jewish Book Month. According to the Jewish Book Council “It is the only
organization in the American Jewish community exclusively committed to
promoting and advocating for Jewish literature. The Council serves as a
catalyst for the writing, publication, distribution, reading and public
awareness of books reflecting the rich variety of Jewish experience.”
What is a Jewish Book? Obviously our
traditional texts such as the Bible, the Talmud, Prayer books, and Rabbinic
commentaries (ancient as well as modern) are Jewish Books. Then there are
books by Jewish authors about Jewish topics such as Jewish history, Jewish customs,
Jewish cooking and Jewish people (fiction as well as non-fiction). They
too would obviously qualify as Jewish books. But what about books by
Jewish authors about topics that are not Jewish. For example, Leon Uris
was a Jewish author who wrote Exodus, a novel about the creation of the
modern state of Israel. Obviously this would be a Jewish Book. But
what about Battle Cry a novel Uris wrote about Marines fighting in the
South Pacific? Is this a Jewish Book? What about books by
non-Jewish authors about Jewish topics? John Hersey is not Jewish.
He wrote The Wall, one of the first and finest novels about the plight
of the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto? Is The Wall a Jewish Book?
While the answers to these questions are open to discussion, for our purposes
any book by a Jewish author or on a “Jewish topic” will be considered a Jewish
Book. After all, why limit your choices, when there is so much out there
waiting to fill your intellectual appetites?
2017:
Today, “Health Minister Yaakov Litzman informed Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu that he is stepping down after the government signed a deal for
ongoing infrastructure work on rail lines to continue this Shabbat.”
2017(6th
of Kislev, 5778): Eighty-four year old Rabbi Neil Gillman, the son of Ernest
and Rebecca Gillman who was “one of the premiere theologians of the
Conservative movement” passed away today.
(As reported by Joseph Berger)
2017: The Oxford Jewish Society book club is scheduled to
discuss Duties of the Heart this evening before services and the Shabbat
dinner.
2017: Today, “The Trump administration backtracked on its
decision to order the Palestinians’ office in Washington to close, instead
saying it would merely impose limitations on the office that it expected would
be lifted after 90 days.
2017:
Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to
contemplate Jewish books and the lives of authors such as Leo Rosten whose
works included The Joys of Yiddish continues today.
2018(16th
of Kislev, 5779): Shabbat Va-yishlach;
2018:
In further testament to the vitality of small community Jewish Life, in
Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host the baby naming during
Shabbat morning services of Mila Rose O’Neill.
2018:
The American Sephardi Federation and Chassida Shmella are scheduled to host the
second day of an “authentic Ethiopian Jewish weekend.”
2019:
The UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “The Operative,”
“Leona” and “Solomon and Gaenor.”
2019:
In San Francisco, the Church of the Advent is scheduled to host “Roses and
Almonds” with Tres Hermanicas and Aquila which includes a mix of “centuries-old
Sephardic music.”
2019:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy and Tehran
Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey by Mikhal Dekel
2019:
Following last night’s demonstrations in Haifa and Bialik in favor of
Netanyahu, Israelis will see if there are more of the same today in response to
the Prime Minister’s call for his supporters to take to the streets.
2019:
“Alti Rodal is scheduled to provide a multi-media overview of the long history
of Jews on Ukrainian lands and their interactions with Ukrainians, and others,
in the context of empires and changing political regimes, times of crisis, and
centuries of co-existence and cross-cultural fertilization in music, language,
folk art, folklore, literature, and cuisine” at the Jewish Community Library in
San Francisco.
2019:
The Center for Jewish History and the Jewish Genealogical are scheduled to host
Mikhal Dekel, a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the City
College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Rifkind
Center for Humanities and the Arts who is the author of Tehran Children: A
Holocaust Refugee Odyssey as she talks about “One of the Greates Untold
Stories of WW II: A Decade-Long Quest After My Father and A Quarter Million
Other Holocaust Refugees.”
2020:
B’nai Jeshurun’s librarian, Dr. Rafi Simon is scheduled to host a reading “rendezvous
in celebration of Jewish Book Month.”
2020:
“Halleluya – The Nighttime Show In The City of David” is scheduled to begin at
8:15 pm.
2020:
The B’nai Jershurun Congregation is scheduled to host via Zoom the Men’s Club
Happy Hour where attendees “discuss topics of current interest along with a
little comedy on the side.”
2020:
The Jewish Book Club hosted via zoom by L’Chaim Events is scheduled to begin at
11:00 AM.
2021:
Temple Beth Elohim is scheduled to present “Storytime With Bubbe and Zayde.”
2021:
In Jerusalem, Professor Shalom Sabar is scheduled to lecture on “The Chronicles
of the Channukah Lamp.
2021:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a webinar “Study the Bible – Know What
is in it and What is Not” with Rabbi Jeremy Rosen.
2021: Benny Gantz is scheduled to continue the
first ever visit of an Israeli Defense Minister to Morocco.
2022:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to be closed today for Thanksgiving.
2022(30th
of Cheshvan, 5783) Rosh Chodesh Kislev
2022:
(30th of Cheshvan, 5783): Shiva for
Sixteen year old Givat Shaul who was murdered yesterday in a bombing at
bus stop in Jerusalem.
2022:
All decent people pray for the “perfect healing of the thirteen people” injured
in a bombing at a bus stop in Jerusalem.
2022:
In the wake of yesterday’s bombing that murdered and wounded innocent civilians
in Jerusalem, as Jews sit down to celebrate Thanksgiving, they cannot help but
remember the terrorist attack on the Chabad House in Mumbai in 2008 which also
coincided with Thanksgiving.
2022:
The Bernard Betel Centre is scheduled to host its inaugural Tribute Event
fundraiser honoring Dr. Eileen de Villa, the Medical Officer of Health for the
City of Toronto.
2022: In the United States – Thanksgiving observed by Jews
as it has been since 1863 when at the Wooster Street Synagogue Thanksgiving Day
services were held at 3 o'clock, embracing the usual afternoon prayers,
conducted by Rabbi S.M. Isaacs the Prayer for the Government and appropriate
hymns, after which an address was delivered by Meyer S. Isaacs, the Rabbi’s son
who “commenced with a reference to the peculiar significance of the present day
of thanksgiving, observed as it was by all Americans, wherever resident, in
response to the recommendation of the Executive” and who “closed with a fervent
prayer for the continuance of Divine favor to the land, and its speedy
restoration to peace and prosperity.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/do-jews-celebrate-thanksgiving
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/is-thanksgiving-kosher/
2023:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host an admission free day so
that visitors can explore its exhibits including “I’ll Have What She’s Having:
The Jewish Deli.”
https://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/exhibitions/ill-have-what-shes-having-the-jewish-deli/
2023:
As November 24 begins in Israel, all decent people mourn the death of 25
year-old Shani Gabay who was thought to
be a hostage but now has been identified as one of those murdered and a ceasefire
is scheduled to start this morning in exchange for the release of 13 women and
children, while the rest of the Hamas held hostages begin day 49 in captivity.
(Editor’s
note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just
providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
