This Day, January 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 9
638: As a
result of the Sixth Council of Toledo that began today “King Chintilla decreed
that only Catholics were permitted to live in Visigothic Spain.”
681: Erwig,
the Visigoth King of what is now Spain convened the 12th Council of
Toledo…
638: As a
result of the Sixth Council of Toledo that began today “King Chintilla decreed
that only Catholics were permitted to live in Visigothic Spain.”
681: Erwig,
the Visigoth King of what is now Spain convened the 12th Council of
Toledo which would enact a variety of measures detrimental to the Jews living
in Iberia.
1144: Pope
Celestine II ordered the clergy to support the Knights Templar who seemed “to
have had a complex relationship with the Jews” meaning “they certainly were not
anti-Semitic – or no more than most people of the time” and were landlords to
many Jewish merchants, fellow money lenders (though operating differently) to
kings and princes and in England which meant they were responsible for holding
the taxes levied specifically on Jews” – a reality that “could have created
some antagonism between the Jews and Templars.” (As described by Tony McMahon)
https://thetemplarknight.com/2011/09/18/the-templars-the-jews-and-blood-libel/
1180: Philip Augustus (the new king of
1317:
Coronation of Phillip V (Phillip the Tall) during whose reign thousands of Jews were killed in
what is called “the Shepherd’s Crusade.”
1324: Explorer Marco Polo passed away. Marco Polo
told of meeting Chinese Jews in his 1286 journey to China.
1349: On an island in the
1522:
Adrian VI, who as Adrian of Utrecht, headed the Inquisition from 1517 to 1522,
was elected Pope today.
1554:
Birthdate of Pope Gregory XV. Gregory strongly supported the censorship of Hebrew books
by the Catholic Church. During his papacy, the Roman Inquisition appointed
three different men to serve as “expurgators of Hebrew books.
1570: The
Inquisition was established in Peru.
1765:
Birthdate of Sarah Barnett, the daughter of Nathan Barnett.
1769(1st
of Shevat, 5529): Rosh Chodesh Shevat
1779:
During the American Revolution, Lewis Bush, a Jewish Philadelphia, became a 1st
Lieutenant of the 6th Pennsylvania Battalion.
1781: In
Bachau, Germany, Judith Essinger and Hirsch Naphtali Wallersteiner gave birth
to Salomon Wallersteiner, the husband of Rosina Maendle and the father of
Karoline, Jacob, Minna, Judith ahd Herman Wallersteiner.
1788:
1796(28th
of Tevet, 5556): Parashat Vaera
1796(28th
of Tevet, 5556): Thirty-three-year-old Judith Myers Mordecai, the New York born
daughter of Myer and Elkah Myers and the wife of Jacob Mordecai whom she
married in 1784 and a teacher at Mordecai’s Female Academy passed away today in
Warrenton, NC which paved the way for her sister Rebecca to marry her widowed
husband.
1797: In
Germany, Hindle Rosenheim and Matthes Gutmann gave birth Madel Gutmann, the
wife of Sandel Arnold.
1810 (4th
of Shevat, 5570): Rabbi Abraham of Kalisk passed away. Born in 1741, he was a
controversial figure in the 3rd generation of Chassidic leaders. In his youth,
he was a study partner of Rabbi Elijah "the Gaon of Vilna", who led
the initial opposition against Chassidism; but later Rabbi Abraham himself
joined the forbidden kat ("sect", as the Chassidic movement
was derisively called by its opponents) and became a disciple of Rabbi DovBer,
the Maggid of Mezeritch, the successor to Chassidism's founder, Rabbi Israel
Baal Shem Tov. After Rabbi DovBer's passing in 1772, much of the opposition to
Chassidism was directed against Rabbi Abraham's disciples, who, more than any
other group within the movement, mocked the intellectual elitism of the
establishment's scholars and communal leaders; even Rabbi Abraham's own colleagues
were dismayed by the "antics" of some of his disciples. In 1777,
Rabbi Abraham joined the first Chassidic "aliyah", in which a group
of more than 300 Chassidim led by Rabbi Menachem Mendel of
1812
Birthdate of Liebmann Adler the German born rabbi who began serving as the
leader of Chicago’s Ḳehillath Anshe Ma'arabh ("Congregation of the Men of
the West") in 1861.
1816: In
Middlesex, Mary and David Hart gave birth to Esther Hart.
1818:
Birthdate of French sculptor and photographer Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon.
1819: Adeline
Helbert, the London born daughter of Lydia and Levia Barnet Cohen and her
husband John Israel Helbert gave birth to Lydia Helbert the wife of Ruggiero de
Montfort-Laurito who passed away in Napoli, Italy at the age of 88.
1821:
Birthdate of Senator William Sharon who left $5,000 to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum
in San Francisco when he passed away.
1824(9th
of Shevat, 5584): Seventy-two-year-old Abraham Benjamin Cohen, the Dutch born
son of Eva Jacob Cohen and Benjamin Jonas Cohen and he husband of Elisabeth
Gompertz and Eva Gompertz passed away today in Tours, France.
1826:
Heinrich Heine wrote today, "I am hated alike by Jew and Christian,"
"I regret very deeply that I had myself baptized. I do not see that I have
been the better for it since. On the contrary, I have known nothing but
misfortunes and mischances."
1827(10th
of Tevet, 5587):Asara B’Tevet
1827:
Birthdate of Bohemian native Abraham Lederer, a driving force in improving
Jewish education as can be seen his co-founding a “Jewish normal school” and
the “Jewish National Teachers’ Association.”
1832: Eighty-eight-year-old
“Moshe Yehuda bar Samuel” was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish
Cemetery.”
1832(7th
of Shevat, 5592): Thirty-eight-year-old Gela Weil, the German born daughter of
Regina Wassermann and Loew Isaac Weil, the wife of Isaac Jacob Bamberger and
the mother of Sara, Elkan, David, Aaron and Moses Bamberger passed away today.
1839:
Birthdate of Cairo native Yaqub Sanu, “an Egyptian Jewish journalist,
nationalist activist and playwright: who used the pen name “Abu Naddara” and
was known as James Sanua.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13186-sanua-james
1841(16th
of Tevet, 5601): Seventy-six-year-old Solomon Levy, the husband of Rebecca Eve
Hendricks and the father of Hayman, Julia and Augusta Levy passed away today.
1843:
Birthdate of Elizabeth Rose Cohen,
oldest sister of famed musician Frederic Hymen Cowen.
1846: Four days after she was buried, 67-year-old Hannah (Solomons) Levy,
the wife of David Levy with whom she had had eight children, was buried today
at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1848: Francis Arthur Goldsmid, the son of Frederick David Goldsmid and
Caroline Samuel, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1851: In Cayuga County, New York, District Attorney Theodore M. Pomeroy
began presenting the state’s case in the trial of John Baham who is accused of
murdering Nathan Adler, a Jewish peddler from Syracuse.
1856: Myer Jacobs married Matilda Nathan today.
1856: Sara Isaac Monis and Isaac Mozes Pereira Mendoza gave birth to
Moses Isaac Pereira Mendoza.
1861: Birthdate of Manchester, England, native Caroline Franc the wife of
German born Justus Heyn.
1861: Mississippi which had significant Jewish communities in Natchez and
Vicksburg became the second state to adopt an official declaration for
secession which provided defense of slavery as one of the reasons for this
action.
1862: Philadelphian Leopold Hoffman began a three-year enlistment with
Company C of the 113th Regiment of the Twelfth Cavalry where he rose
from the rank of Private to Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant.
1863: Lazarus Powell, the Senator from Kentucky who opposed Lincoln’s
policies, delivered “a major speech on the Senate floor” calling for a
resolution condemning General Grant, even though the General Order No. 11 had
already been withdrawn and no Jews had actually been expelled as a result of
it.
1863(18th of Tevet, 5623): Julius Lettman, died today of
wounds fighting for the Union at the Battle of Stones River in Murfreesboro. He
was buried at the Temple Cemetery in Nashville, TN the nine acres of which
remain the primary place of interment for the Temple Congregation Ohabai
Sholom—the city’s oldest.
http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/six-feet-under/Content?oid=1195026
1864: In Germany, Nathan Baruch Rothschild, the “son of Esther and Baruch
Loew Rothschild” and his wife Sophie Rothschild gave birth to Bernhard
Rothschild
1869: La Périchole, “an opéra bouffe in three acts by Jacques Offenbach”
was performed in New York City for the first time today.
1870: In
Cincinnati, OH, Raphael and Caroline Brerman Strauss gave birth Joseph Strauss,
the husband of Ethelyn Annette Strauss with whom he raised their son Richard
and who the the Chief Engineer for the construction of
1870: It
was reported today that The Jewish Messenger is now in its fourteenth
year of publication.
1872: In
New York, Sigmund and Louise Mannheimer gave birth to University of Cincinnati
graduate Jennie Mannheimer who gained fame as Jane Manner, the director of the
Cincinnati School of Expression and director of the Drama Department of the
Cincinnati College of Music “who spent more than a half century in seeking to
improve the speech of Americans” and who was the sister of Edna B. Manner, Leo
Manneimer and Eugene Mannheimer, a rabbi in Des Moines, IA.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0259/ms0259.html
1873:
Emperor Napoleon III of France passed away. Jews played an open role in French
society during the time dominated by Napoleon. Achille Fould served as minister
and political advisor to the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte. During the debate about the nature of the
monetary system that took place during Napoleon’s reign the Pireire brothers
(Sephardic Jews) favored paper money while
Alphonse de Rothschild defended preservation of France's bimetallism system. In
1870, Napoleon’s French government granted the Jews of Algeria French
citizenship. Among his mistresses was Elisa Rachel
Felix, better known as Mademoiselle Rachel, the young Jewess who was one of the
most prominent performers of her time. But Napoleon’s greatest impact on
the Jewish people would be indirect. His
foolish war with Prussia resulted in the emergence of the German Empire,
created the anger that would lead to World War I that then led to World War II.
1873: At the request of the Grant Administration, Abraham de
Sola delivered opening prayer at the House of Representatives. [For some strange reason we remember Grant’s
unfortunate Order #10 while overlooking items like this.]
1873:
Birthdate of Chaim Nachman Bialik. Born in a Ukrainian village,
fatherless at the age of seven, raised by a strict Orthodox grandfather, Bialik
became the father of Modern Hebrew poetry. While Herzl, Ben-Gurion and
others were busy creating Zionism in the political sphere, Bialik was one of
those giving birth to the Zionist dream in the field of culture. When he
began writing his poetry in Hebrew, it was still a language of the Bible - the
holy tongue not to be used in modern parlance. Bialik used Hebrew to
express modern feelings and emotions, yet always tied back to his Jewish roots.
He is variously described as the "poet laureate of the Jewish national
movement" and "
Bialik in his own words:
"Reading
a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil."
"Each
people has as much heaven over its head as it has land under its feet."
"Say
this when you mourn for me:
There was
man -- and look, he is no more.
He died
before his time.
The music
of his life suddenly stopped.
A
pity! There was another song in him.
Now it is
lost forever."
1875:
Birthdate of Breslau native and WW I German Army veteran Dr. Max Cohn the
roentgenologist who settled in Chicago in 1934.
1877: Laws adopted
today concerning universal military service in Russia contained “special
regulations concerning the treatment of Jews.”
1878: During the
Russo-Turkish War, the fourth and final stage of the Battle of Shipka Pass
ended with a Russian victory. According
to three Russian Generals the Jewish soldiers demonstrated “dauntless
courage…at the Shipka Pass. According to them, “in one instance, a call for
twenty-five men to engage in a forlorn hope was answered by thirteen Jewish
soldiers.”
1878: Ephraim
Engelander married Fanny Harris today at the Great Synagogue.
1879: In Paris,
American circus performer Edward de Forest and his wife, the former Juliette
Arnold gavie birth to Maurice Arnold de Forest, who along with his younger
brother Raymond would be adopted “by the millionaire Baroness Clara de Hirsch,
née Bischoffsheim, wife of Jewish banker and philanthropist Baron Maurice de
Hirsch de Gereuth, and given the surname de Forest-Bischoffsheim.”
1881: In New York City,
Fannie Stern and Leopold Friedenberg gave birth to CCNY graduate and Columbia
trained attorney and author Albert Marx Friedenberg who was the editor of The
Jewish Home, the New York correspondent of the Jewish Comment and the author of
several “monographs that appeared in the publications of the American Jewish
Historical Society.”
https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Albert-M-Marx-18-Friedenberg/dp/1371309825
1882: In Moscow, Jacob
Samson Zim and the former Miriam Ratner gave birth to award winning American
painter, sculptor and etch Marco Zim, the husband of Minnie Orlo Cohen.
1884: The Hebrew
Technical Institute “was incorporated today by Leo Schlesinger, Gustavus A.
Goldsmith, James H. Hoffman, Solomon Woolf, Jacob Korn, Otto Moses and Manuel
A. Kursheedt.”
1886: Birthdate of Ida
Kaganovich the native of Russia who as Ida Cohen Rosenthal became a co-founder
of Maiden Form, the first company to make modern bras.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/jan/09/1886/ida-cohen-rosenthal
http://www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/doodles/innov_rosenthal.htm
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/197610
1887: President Hoffman
presided over the annual meeting of the Hebrew Technical Institute which was
held today at Temple Emanuel.
1887: Birthdate of Lithuanian
born Adolph Coblenz, who served as the Rabbi for Chizuk Amuno Congregation in
Baltimore from 1920 to 1947
1889: Approximately 300
children from the Hebrew Orphan Asylum are scheduled to see a performance of
“Little Lord Fauntleroy” thanks to the generosity of Mr. Sanger who manages the
Broadway Theatre.
1890: Birthdate of
Berlin native Kurt Tucholsky, the German Jewish author who converted to
Christianity.
http://www.dw.com/en/kurt-tucholsky-enigmatic-author-and-satirist/a-16179470
1890: In New York City,
Henry Scheuer, the “son of Henrietta and Emanuel Scheuer” and his wife “Sarah
Schuer gave birth to “Bella Scheuer.”
1891: It was reported
today that annual meeting of those supporting the Hebrew Technical Institute
will be held in New York City next week.
1891: Birthdate of Joe
Welling, the Chicago lightweight with a record of 26-18-5.
1892: In St. Louis, MO,
“Albert and Elvine (Schaefer) Aschaffenburg” gave birth to Cornell University
trained mechanical engineer E. Lysle Aschaffenburg, who lived and worked in the
Pontchartrain Hotel on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans which he made a
landmark in the city’s elegant Garden District. (Editor’s note –I discovered
that the restaurant there was outstanding and at the same time affordable for a
struggling Tulane student)
1893: In Winnsboro, LA,
Aaron Landauer, the German born son of Sarah and Salomon Levi Landauer, and his
wife Henriette Landuaer gave birth to Bessie Myers, the wife of NN Myers.
1893: It was reported
today that 88.61% of the 3,159 patients who were admitted to Mt. Sinai Hospital
last year were “treated gratuitously” meaning that only 11.39% were “pay
patients.” The hospital has treated 43,674
patients since its founding. (more for 2014)
1893: It was reported
that the Boy’s Yorkville Charitable Society, an organization started by a group
of Jewish boys ranging in age from 11 to 15 had raised $160 through their
various activities in 1892 which they had divided among various groups dedicated
to helping the needy.
1894: Secretary
Nathanial S. Rosenau was quoted today as saying that the work of the United
Hebrew Charities “has a multiplicity of ends.”
To meet these ends requires having “a corps of mid-wives,” “25
physicians who give free treatment and free medicines” and seven clerks for an
employment bureau that is “constantly busy” having found for employment for
“500 persons in November and December.”
1894: In New York,
German Jewish immigrants Lillian Hecht and Jacob Leo Markel, gave birth to
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Lester Markel, the husband of Meta Edman, the
father of magazine editor Helen (Markel) Stewart and the grandfather of writer
Mark L. Stewart.
1894: It was reported
today that the United Hebrew Charities is one of the agencies that will share
in the proceeds from an upcoming benefit concert to be held at the Metropolitan
Opera House.
1895: It was reported
today that claims that the Pale has been abolished are “premature.”
1896(23rd of
Tevet, 5656): Eighty-three-year-old Aaron Bachrach the Baltimore businessman
who in 1839 married Augusta Straus Bachrach with whom had six children
including Decatur, Illinois clothing merchant Henry Bachrach passed away today
after which he was buried in the Jewish
Cemetery at Bloomington, Illinois.
1896: It was reported
today that the Young Folk’s League of the Hebrew Asylum will hold its first
social activity of the season next week.
1896: Adolph Wachs, a
member of the Chicago and New York Mercantile Exchanges and the Philadelphia
Produce Exchange who was the Austrian born sone of Moses and Fanny Wachs
married Dora Share today in Philadelphia, PA.
1897: In Kansas City,
KS, Rae Turk and Manuel Hurwitz gave birth to University of Missouri graduate
and University of Michigan trained attorney Bernard T. Hurwitz, the husband of
Ruth Devorah Taxman and assistant attorney general of Missouri who bean serving
as the first assistant prosecuting attorney for Jackson County, MO in 1924.
1898: At the conclusion
of the 14th annual meeting of the Hebrew Technical Institute which
was held on the top floor of the Tuxedo Building at 59th and
Madison, “it was announced that Mrs. Esther Herman” had given the school an
unconditional gift of $10,000.
1898: “The dedication
of the new home for the Young Men’s Hebrew Association at 861 Lexington Avenue
which was a gift of Jacob H. Schiff took place this afternoon.”
1898: It was reported
today that a corner lot on First Avenue in New York has been purchased for the
use of an unidentified Jewish charitable institution.
1898: The band from the
Hebrew Orphan Asylum is scheduled to perform at ball sponsored by the Ladies
Aid Society at Congregation Ansche Chesed.
1898: It was reported
today that J. Earnest G. Yalden, the Superintendent of the Bard de Hirsch Trade
School in New York City presented diplomas to forty graduates of the school
1899: It was reported
today that “the Court of Cassation” which is the court of last resort in
France, “is convinced that Dreyfus was justly condemned.”
1899: Seven days after
she had passed away Julia Baroness de Stern, the daughter of Aaron Goldsmid and
Sophia Salomons and wife of “Herman Baron de Stern” with whom she had had four
children – Alfred, Herbert, Emily and Laura – was buried today at the “Balls
Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1899: Mrs. Esther
Wallenstein, President of the Hebrew Infant Asylum filed a complaint at the
Morrisania Police Court charging John Buchanan and Paul Beneson with trespass
and disorderly conduct at the asylum’s building one 162nd Street and
Eagle Avenue
1899: Philadelphia,
Bertha Bamberger and Louis J. Goodman gave birth to University of Pennsylvania
graduate Nathan Goodman the author of books about Benjamin Franklin and
“teacher of American History at Central High School in Philadelphia who was the
husband of the former Julia Nusbaum with whom he had one daughter, Susan.
1899: It was reported
today Professor Richard Gottheil of Columbia University delivered a lecture
entitled “Palestine” at a recent function hosted by the Young Ladies’ and
Gentlemen’s League of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society
1899: Birthdate of
Philadelphia, PA native and University of Pennsylvania radiologist, Dr, Jacob
Gershon-Cohen who served “on the faculties of the University of Pennsylvania
and Temple University medical schools” and who “was known as the developer of
mammography.”
1899: It was reported
today that supporters of the Hebrew Technical Institute had raised $50,501.87
during the past year to support the institution. Jacob H. Schiff made a special contribution
of $5,000 which will help to meet the needs of boys who would have had to leave
school because of their impoverished circumstances.
1900: In the Czech
Republic, Emilie and Julius Zentner gave birth to Irma Kohn, the wife of Leo
Kohn and the mother of Harry Kohn who was deported to Lodz in 1941 and died in
the Holocaust.
1900: Arthur Balfour,
Conservative leader of the House of Commons, who gain fame as the author of The
Balfour Declaration, today acknowledged Britain's reverses in the Boer War,
1901: German born
Arkansan Jacob Trieber who had been nominated by President McKinley was
confirmed today as Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Arkansas, reportedly making him the first Jew to have gone through
the entire nomination and confirmation process for a federal judgeship.
1901(18th of Tevet, 5661): Eighty-four-year-old “German-French
statistician and economist” Maurice Block passed away today.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Block,_Maurice
1901: Birthdate of Timișoara, Austria–Hungary native Samuel Zauber, “a
Romanian association football player who was on the Romanian national football
team for the first ever FIFA World Cup in 1930.”
1902(1st of Shevat, 5662): Rosh Chodesh Shevat
1902: Birthdate of Rudolph Bing
manager of the New York Metropolitan Opera.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary--sir-rudolf-bing-1237367.html
1903: Theatrical agent
William Morris and his wife Emman gave birth Ruth Morris White, the wife of
author of William Chapman White who “became an actress, a vice president of the
William Morris Agency and a writer for King Features Syndicate.”
1903(10th of Tevet,
5663): Asara B'Tevet
1903(10th of
Tevet, 5663): Seventy-four-year-old Mayer Oppenheimer, the German born son of
Johanna Cahn Oppenheimer, the husband of Babette Oppenheimer and the father of
Arthur, Moses, Edgar, Leon and Oscar Oppenheimer passed away today in San
Francisco after which he was bured at the Home of Peace Cemetery and Emanu-El
Mausoleum in Colma, CA.
1903(10th of Tevet,
5663): Baron Henry de Worms (Lord Pirbright) passed away today. Born in London in 1840, he was “third son of
Solomon Benedict de Worms, a baron of the Austrian empire. He was educated at
King's College, London, and became a barrister in 1863. As Baron Henry de Worms
he sat in the House of Commons as Conservative member for Greenwich from 1880
to 1885, and for the East Toxteth division of Liverpool from 1885 to 1895, when
he was created a peer. He was parliamentary secretary to the Board of Trade in
1885 and 1886 and from 1886 to 1888, and under-secretary of state for the
colonies from 1888 to 1892. In 1888 he was president of the International
Conference on Sugar Bounties, and as plenipotentiary signed the abolition
treaty for Great Britain. He became a member of the Privy Council in the same
year. He was a royal commissioner of the Patriotic Fund, and one of the royal
commissioners of the French Exhibition of 1900. His works include:
"England's Policy in the East" (London, 1876), "Handbook to the
Eastern Question" (5th ed., London, 1877), "The Austro-Hungarian
Empire" (2d ed., London, 1877), "Memoirs of Count Beust" (ib.
1887).In 1864 he married Fanny, daughter of Baron von Tedesco of Vienna, and in
1887, after her death, Sarah, daughter of Sir Benjamin Samuel Phillips.” (As
reported by the Jewish Encyclopedia)
1904(21st of
Tevet, 5664): Parashat Shemot
1904: The New York Times featured a review of
Zionism and Anti-Semitism by Max Nordau, Officer d' Academie, France,
and Gustav Gotthell, Ph.D.
1905: “At a meeting of
the Jewish Historical Society of England, held at the Jews College, Guilford
Street, London, a paper was read by Lucien Wolf on the Disraeli family.”
1906: It was reported
today that public meeting in London had adopted two resolutions one of which
was “proposed by the Bishop of Ripon” which expressed “the judgment that the
outrages in Russia were an offense to civilization and a disgrace to humanity”
and the other of which was “offered by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of
Westminster” expressing “the hope that the Russian Jews might have rights in
their country equal with their Christian fellow-subjects.”
1906: At today’s meeting of the directors of the
Sanitarium for Hebrew Children, Jacob H. Schiff contributed ten thousand
dollars toward the construction of a new building.
1906: It was reported
today that during his maiden speech in the U.S.Senate which was devoted to the
policy concerning Santo Domingo, Senator Isidor Rayner digressed to express his
support for “granting aid to the persecuted Jews in Russia” for which he
“received applause and congratulations of Senators from both sides of the
chamber.”
1907: Birthdate of
Chicago native Harry Eugene Richman who played Guard for Central High School,
the University of Illinois and the Chicago Bears.
1908(5th of Shevat, 5668): Abraham Goldfaden died at the
age of 67. Born in 1840 in what was then part
of the Russian Empire, Golfaden was a driving force in the Yiddish theatre
during its golden period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He
was an author, composer (yes, there were musicals), director and producer.
He worked in several countries in
1908: In
1909(16th
of Tevet, 5669): Parashat Vayechi
1909(16th
of Tevet, 5669): Gabriel Bamberger, the German born son of Mayer and Dina
Bamberger and the wife of Lina Wohl Bamberger passed away today in Chicago.
(Some sources show 1903)
1909:
CCNY’s basketball team led by Ira Streusand and Jacob Goldman defeated Lehigh.
(As reported by Bob Wechsler.
1910: New York City
Mayor William Jay Gaynor is scheduled to be one of the honorary pallbearers at
today’s funeral for seventy-seven-year-old Moses May, the Strasburg born
butcher and founder of an “extensive wholesale meat depot” headquartered in
Williamsburg who was President of the Broadway Trust Company and the President
of the Bushwick Savings Bank in Brooklyn as well as one of the founders of the
Hebrew Orphan Asylum in Brooklyn and the President of Beth Elhoim in
Williamsburg.
1910: New York City
Mayor William Jay Gaynor is scheduled to be one of the honorary pallbearers at
today’s funeral for seventy-seven-year-old Moses May, the Strasburg born
butcher and founder of an “extensive wholesale meat depot” headquartered in
Williamsburg who was President of the Broadway Trust Company and the President
of the Bushwick Savings Bank in Brooklyn as well as one of the founders of the
Hebrew Orphan Asylum in Brooklyn and the President of Beth Elhoim in
Williamsburg.
1910:
“Proof That The Bible Is Authentic” published today provides a complete review
of Amurru, the Home of the Northern Semites: A Study Showing That The
Religion and Culture of Israel Are Not of Babylonian Origin by Professor
Albert T. Clay, professor of Semitic philology and archaeology at the
University of Pennsylvania.
1911:
“Jewish Benefits Net $5,500” published today reported that on the same night
that a benefit performance held at the New York Theatre raise $3,500 for the
National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives in Denver Colorado a benefit being
held at the Republic Theatre raised $2,000 for Temple Anshe Chesed.
1912: Rabbi
Silber of Congregation Ahave Sholom is scheduled to address this year’s first
meeting of the Ladies’ Society of the Maimonides Kosher Hospital at the Palace
Theatre on Blue Island Avenue.
1913: Birthdate of Richard M. Nixon.
As the leader of the Right Wing of the Republican Party, Nixon was not
popular with most Jewish voters. While
he did have Jews working for him (William Safire, Leonard Garment and Henry
Kissinger) Nixon’s anti-Semitic comments are a matter of public record. From the point of view of many of his Jewish
opponents Nixon’s saving grace came when he came to the aid of
1913:
Birthdate of Peter Hüppeler a member of the anti-Nazi resistance organization
known as the Ehrenfeld Group who was hung for his efforts at the age of 31.
1914: Today
at an auction in New York, George D. Smith paid $52.50 for the only copy known
to exist of The Wonderful and Most Deplorable History of the Later Times of the
Jews by Joseph Ben Gordon which was published in London in 178
1914: Rufus
Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, The second practising Jew to be a member of the
British cabinet, became a “Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal.
1915:
“Concession To Poor Jews” published today described reports from the Ottoman
Empire, that the government will temporarily waive the fees usually paid by
those seeking citizenship to make it easier for foreign Jews to become Turkish
citizens.”
1915: A
cable sent from Alexandria, Egypt today by Kaplan, Levontin and Gluskin stated
“United States battleship Tennessee and Italian steams have brought 1,500 more
expelled destitute Jews from Palestine, also a number of American Jewish
refugees. More help urgently required,
also funds to repatriate Americans.”
1915: In
Brooklyn, “Yiddish novelist David Ignatoff and his wife gave birth to Daniel
Ignatoff, the “husband of Rose Razel Shoshanna Jaffe and WW II veteran who
served as “a civilian employee with the United States Military Government in
German from 1946 to 1950” and for 12 years as “director of the budget service
department of the Large Cities Budgeting Conference of the Council of Jewish
Federations.
1915:
Birthdate of Montreal native Harold Cooper, the Canadian WW II veteran and
McGill trained architect.
1915:
Seventy-two-year-old anti-Semitic Hungarian politician and lawyer Győző Istóczy
who during the Tiszaeszlár blood libel in 1882 “proposed the expulsion of the
Jews in the House of Representatives” passed away today.
1915: “Jews
In Russia Oppressed” published today provides a summary the statement from the
Foreign Committee of the General Jewish Workmen’s Society in Russia “denying
that conditions” for Russian Jews “have improved” charging “that conditions
continue as before the war, and that no relief whatever has been given even to
those the Jews who are fighting in the armies of the Czar.”
1916: Thirty-one-year-old Dr.
Benjamin Berger, the son of Herman and Sarah (Hubschman) Berger, an “instructor
in dermatology and urology at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College”
and “chief of clinic in dermatology at Beth Israel Hospital” while being
“actively affiliated with numerous Jewish charitable and educational
institutions” married Victoria Brand today.
1916: Eighty-two-year-old
Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham, a British press lord whose power stemmed
from his ownership of the Daily Telegraph, a paper bought by his father Joseph
Moses Levy, passed away today.
1916: It
was reported today that President Wilson has decided to accept the proposal by
Congressman Adolph J. Sabath of Illinois and Congressman Henry M. Goldfogle to
designate a day in January “as the date for collecting funds for the relief of
suffering Jews in Europe.”
1916: In
Chicago, the Knights of Zion Convention is scheduled to host a meeting of
“junior organizations” that will contain “features” of interest “to the juniors
and to the adults.”
1916: It
was reported today that “the remarkable collection of works relating to Hebrew
and Rabbinic literature that was gathered to by the late Dr. Alexander Kohut
has been donated to Yale University by his son George Alexander Kohut, as a
memorial to the famous preacher, author, scholar and Orientalist.”
1917:
Today, in anticipation of the Jacob Schiff’s 70th birthday
celebration which will take place tomorrow “the Executive Committee of the
Rabbi Jacob Joseph School…sent a message to congratulations to Mr. Schiff in
the name of the 5,000 members and 700 pupils” signed by the President, Julius
J. Dukas.
1917:
British forces defeated the Turks at the Battle of Rafa on the border between
1917: J.
Walter Freiberg, Max B. May and Lipman submitted an “Amended Report of
Committee on Revision Laws” to the “Executive Board of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations.”
1918:
“Colonels who are to work under the direction of Felix M. Warburg, the
President of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies
in the campaign for 50,000 members and a fund of $4,500,000 which starts” on
January 14th met their with
their captains today and provided them with “instructions regarding their part
in the drive.”
1918:
“Behind Walls” by Henri Nathansen had its first performance in the United
States at the German Irving Place Theatre in New York City. The drama which was originally walled “Hinter
Mauren” revolves around the marriage between a Jew and a Gentile. Nathansen is a Dane.
1919: Rabbi
Hyman Gerson Enelow who served “as a member of the Overseas Commission of the
Jewish Welfare Board, which went to France in July, 1918” wrote today that
“aside from his J.W.B. work, I am interested in a new effort knowns as the
Comrades-In-Service” which “is an effort to capitalize the sense of fellowship
the war has created” for which he was “preparing a syllabus of lectures on
‘Comradeship in American Life.’”
1920: The
Jewish Youth Organizations of Germany convened a conference “leading Christians
and Jews to discuss the present” outburst of anti-Semitism.
1920: The
Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Society, the Ladies’ Auxiliary Society of
the Montefiore Home and the Ladies’ Benevolent Society of Shaaray Tefila are
among the organizations scheduled to participate in a “Joint Memorial Service
in memory of the late Frances A. Cohen at the West End Synagogue.?
1921: “With
the approval pf the Secretary for Foreign Affairs” and at the invitation of
Field Marshall Allenby, Herbert Samuel “proceeded to Palestine with a view to
advising on questions of administration and finance.”
1921:
Birthdate of Holocaust survivor and leading gymnast Agnes Keleti who “won 10
Olympic medals in gymnastics, including five golds, for Hungary in the 1950s
before defecting and emigrating to Israel.”
http://www.kveller.com/agnes-keleti-the-95-year-old-holocaust-survivor-olympic-gymnast/
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/keleti-agnes
1921: In
Chicago, Samuel Barab and Leah Yablunky gave birth to composer, pianist and
cellist Seymour Barab, the younger brother of Oscar Barab.
http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/remembering-seymour-barab/
1922:
Birthdate of Hans-Josef Gumperz, the native of Hattingen, Germany who fled the
Nazis and gained fame as linguist John Joseph Gumperz.
1922: Sir Edgar Speyer issued a
statement responding to the report and rebutting the Home Office's Certificates
of Naturalization (Revocation) Committee’s interpretation of the facts. He
stated that he had been advised of the committee's investigation in 1919 and,
after considerable delay by the Home Office, had persuaded it to carry out an
investigation in America into allegations made against his conduct there. These
investigations, he stated, had demonstrated that the allegations were false,
but, after he returned to Britain for the formal hearing in 1921, a further
series of allegations were presented regarding his business transactions.
Speyer stated that the issues involved were of a trivial nature and were
similar to those encountered by other British banks which had traded without
censure. He stated that "the whole thing is neither more nor less than the
culmination of years of political persecution. The Home Secretary simply dared
not give me the vindication to which I was entitled." He challenged the
government to publish the evidence presented, and "to point to a strip of
material evidence that would induce any fair-minded man to support the
monstrous conclusions of this report.
1923: CCNY
graduate, NYU Law School trained attorney and Republican party activist Samuel
A. Berger, the Czechoslovakia born son of Regina Herz and Adolph Berger who was
a member of the Federation of Jewish Charities and Temple Beth-El married
Katherine Beatrice Pulaski today.
1923(21st
of Tevet, 5683): Forty-three-year-old Vladmir Medem who chose a life that
reversed the choice that reversed, in a practical way, to reverse his father’s
decision to convert to Christianity by learning Yiddish and being active in the
Jewish Labor Bund passed away after which he was “buried at the Mount Carmel
Cemetery in Queens, NY.
https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Medem_Vladimir_Davidovich
1923: One
day after he had passed away, 32-year-old Louis Freeman, the Russian born son
of Rhoda and Abraham Simon Freeman was buried today at the “Belfast Jewish
Cemetery in Northern Ireland.”
1923: In New
York, U.S. Attorney David Siegel and his wife gave birth to Rensselaer Polytechnic graduate and mathematician, engineer
and physicist Keeve M Siegel, the husband of Ruth Siegel with whom he had two
son, David and Leigh, who was chairman and CEO of KMS Industries passed away
today.
https://aadl.org/sites/default/files/aa_news/aa_news_clippings-obituaries-p00081.jpg
1924: Thirty-nine-year-old
CCNY graduate and NYU trained attorney Albert Cohen, the Justice of the New
York State Supreme Court and New York City born son of Sigmund and Netty
(Newman) Cohen
who served
as the chairman of the Bronx Drive for Relief of Jewish War Suffers during WW I
and who was the father of Roy Cohn, the infamous lawyer who worked for Joe
McCarthy married Dora G. Marcus today.
1925:
Birthdate of Gurion Joseph Hyman, a “Canadian Jewish Anthropologist, Linguist,
Pharmacist, Composer, Artist, and Translator. Primary contributions have been
(a) liturgical compositions for the Passover Haggadah and Sabbath prayer
service, (b) translations into English as well as the setting to music of
several internationally acclaimed Yiddish poets, (c) an (ongoing) project to
write an etymological dictionary of Yiddish, and (d) proprietor of the second
branch of Hyman's Book and Art Shoppe.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurion_Hyman
1925: In Sulzburg,
Germany, businessman Joseph Block and the former Toni Baum, both of whom died
in concentration camps gave birth to “Erich Bloch, who helped develop the IBM
mainframe computer that, more than any other machine, propelled the world into the
digital age, and who then shepherded the internet into broader use as director
of the National Science Foundation…”
(As reported by Sam
Roberts)
1926(23rd
of Tevet, 5686): Parashat Shemo
1926(23rd
of Tevet, 5686): Eighty-eight-year-old NYU Law School trained attorney,
Democrat political leader and New York State Supreme Court Judge David
Leventritt, the Winnsboro, SC born son of Betty Goldberg and George M.
Leventritt passed away today at the St. Regis in New York and whose funeral was
conducted by rabbis Nathan Krass, Joseph Silverman and Hyman G. Enlow.
1926:
Birthdate of Steven H. Scheuer, the native of New York who became a noted “film
and television historian and critic” and whose talented siblings included New
York Congressman James H. Scheuer, Walter Scheuer, an investor and film producer,
Richard Scheuer, a scholar and philanthropist and Amy Scheuer Cohen
1927: “The
Sunday Symphonic Society, founded and directed by Josiah Zuro gave the first of
its free Sunday noon concerts of this season at the Hampden Theatre” today.
1927:
1927: In
New York City, Jack D. Tarcher, an advertising executive, and Mary (Braeger)
Tarcher, an attorney gave birth to Judith Tarcher who married Steve Krantz and
became Judith Krantz the name under which she is known as one of the most
prolific authors of her time whose works included Scruples, I'll Take
Manhattan, Princess Daisy and Dazzle.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/krantz-judith
1928:
Jewish immigrants Samuel and Dena Sachs gave birth to Louis Sachs, who followed
in his father’s footsteps by graduating from Washington University in St. Louis
and then going to work for Sachs Electric Co. before striking out on his to
become chairman of Sachs Properties which earned him the sobriquet of the
“father of modern Chesterfield” Missouri.
1928: In
New York City, Mary (Braeger), a Lithuanian-born attorney, and Jack D. Tarcher,
an advertising executive gave birth to Wellesley College graduate Judith
Bluma-Gittel Tacher who gained fame as author Judith Krantz whose autobiography
was Sex and Shopping: The Confessions of a Nice Jewish Girl.
1928:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held this morning for Mrs. Blanche Lewy
Joseph, the Hunter College graduate and Vice President of the Women’s
Association of Congregation Rodeph Shalom who was the wife of former State
Senator Irving J. Joseph.
1929: In
Antwerp, diamond merchant Morris Grosbard and the former Rose Tenenbaum gave
birth to Tony Award nominated director and producer Israel “Ulu” Grosbard
http://www.filmreference.com/film/83/Ulu-Grosbard.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/arts/music/ulu-grosbard-broadway-and-film-director-dies-at-83.html
1930:
“There is no need for American Jewry to be pessimistic over the future of
Palestine, declared Major Daniel Hopkin, Labor member of the English
Parliament, who arrived in New York today after spending three months in the
Holy Land, investigating conditions there.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1930/01/10/94229444.html?pageNumber=6
1931: In
Philadelphia, PA, realtor Albert Segal and Fannie Segal gave birth to Joseph
Myron Segal graduate of Wharton, the entrepreneur who gave us the “Franklin
Mint” and QVC Shopping Network. (As reported by Katharine Q. Seelye)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/25/business/joseph-segel-dead.html
1931:
Premiere of “Her Majesty the Barmaid,” a German comedy directed and produced by
Joe May with Otto Walburg playing the role of “Othmar von Wellington.”
1931: It
was reported that a jury trying to answer the questions as to “whether or not
Horowitz Brothers and Margareten, Inc., of New York City and B. Manishewitz
Company of Ohio constituted a combination in restraint of trade as charge by
Rabbi Moses Weinberger, Inc.” was deadlocked with seven votes for the plaintiff
and four for the respondent.
1932: Hyman
Ginsberg led the Geneva basketball team to victory over the West Virginia
Mountaineers.
1933: Henry
Horner became the 28th Governor of Illinois today and the first
Jewish Governor the state known as “the land of Lincoln.”
1933: It
was reported today that “the creation of a special educational fund for the
benefit of Jewish educational institutions by a small levy on religions
articles such as candles and matzoth” could offset the effect of “the
diminution of voluntary contributions.”
1934(22nd
of Tevet, 5694): Fifty-nine-year-old Yale graduate Sidney Cecil Born, the New
York City born song of Simon and Cecilia Lichctenstadter Borg and husband of
Madeline Beer Borg with whom he had two daughters who was a “senior member of
his father’s banking firm Simon Borg and Company passed away today.
1934:
Berlin lawyer and WW I veteran “Max Naumann, the “founder of Verband
nationaldeutscher Juden (League of National German Jews),” today “argued
for “drawing a sharp distinction between
"good" Jews like him and "bad" Jews like those immigrating
from Eastern Europe.”
1935: The
newly appointed national “kosher butcher’s code authority” whose members
included New Yorkers “Charles Cohen, Emil Horn, Oscar Sitlanick, Isidore
Molmud, Morris Harris, Abraham Avreen and Isidore Bitkin as well as “Hyman
Schulman of Boston, David Goldberg of New Jersey, Isidore Aseann of Baltimore
and David Solomon of Philadelphia” is scheduled to “meet at the Hotel
Pennsylvania this morning…”
1935:
“Irving J. Joseph, lawyer and former State Senator was awarded the Mr. Peter J.
Schweltzer Medal for Distinguished Service today at the Home of the Daughters
of Jacob” in the Bronx.
1935:
Temple Rodeph Sholom Men’s Club is scheduled to host a lecture by Nathan
Goldstein on “The Second Maccabiad.”
1936: The
list of newly elected officers of the Jewish Conciliation Court of America
published today included Dr. Israel Goldstein, President; Mrs. Rebeckah Hohut,
Jacob Panken and Rabbi Moses H. Hyam, Vice Presidents; Louis Richman, Executive
Secretary and Simon Bergman, Mark Eisner, Geroge Frankenthaler, Judge Jonah J.
Goldstein, Samuel Levy, Judge Jacob Panken, Isidor S. Schweitzer, Julius
Schwarz, Max D. Steuer and Sol Tekulsky, Directors.
1936: It
was reported today that more than 61,000 Jews from Europe “were absorbed in
Palestine in 1935.”
1936: Sir
Herbert Samuel and Simon Marks who are sailing on “special mission to the
United States in connection with the increasing difficulties of the Jews in
Germany” next week authorized a statement saying that “the object of the
mission to the United States is exploratory” and that “the delegation will seek
to take counsel with all sections of those interested in America with a view to
the preparation of a scheme to promote the emigration of Jews from Germany”
which includes assisting the emigrants in starting new enterprises and finding
occupations “in their new homes.”
1936: As
part of the ongoing celebration of her 75th birthday, Henrietta
Szold “received New York’s official greeting” today “from Mayor La Guardia” who
addressed her as “a distinguished citizen of the world” who “was a pioneer in
the movement of educating immigrants” which has led to them “holding places of
responsibility in the business, industrial, financial, scientific and
governmental worlds.”
1937(26th
of Tevet, 5697): Parashat Vaera
1937: On
Shabbat, Rabbi Samuel Goldenson is scheduled to give the sermon this morning at
Temple Emanu-El
1937: At
the West End Synagogue, Rabbi Hyman Schachtel is scheduled to deliver a sermon
on “The Place of Youth in the Synagogue.
1937: Rabbi
William F. Rosenblum is scheduled to deliver the sermon this morning at Temple
Israel.
1937: On
Shabbat, Rabbi Jonah B. Wise is scheduled to deliver the sermon at the Central
Synagogue.
1937:
Birthdate of Handball Champion Paul Haber.
https://www.ushandball.org/index.php/about/national-champions/108-bios/371-paul-haber
1937: “The
Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Rights, Inc.” today opened “its
active campaign to boycott the proposed heavyweight championship bout between
James J. Braddock and Max Schmeling” the leading boxer in Nazi Germany.
1938: In Rochester,
NY, at a meeting of up-state New York Jews, Leon Gellman, the national
president of Mizrachi “announced ‘a fight to the bitter end’ against the
partition proposal, declaring that world Jewry” holds Great Britain to honor
the promises made in the Balfour Declaratio.
1938: The Palestine Post reported on various
shooting incidents in
1938: This
morning at Temple Rodeph Sholom, Mrs. Samuel W. Halprin, the former national
president of Hadassah, said “Al of German Jewry knows that whether Hitler stays
or not they are doomed as a group in Germany.
1938: In
“Palestine Modernized” published today George Brandt describes Tel Aviv as
being the “most spectacular of the modern achievements in Palestine.” With a
population of well over 100,000 “the world’s newest city is also its most
modern.” As Brandt “rode through Tel
Aviv’s well-paved streets” he “felt as though” he “were in the world of Well’s
‘Things To Come.’” He concludes that
“the greatest enemy of young reborn Palestine is the desert.
1939: Payne
Henry Ratner, who suffered anti-Semitic attacks during last year’s election
because his father was Jewish, was sworn in today as the Governor of Kansas.
1939: As of
today, “many Jews who have lost their jobs as a result of the Nazi campaign
have turned to snow sweeping in Vienna” have “asked for night-hour assignments
because they did not wish their former non-Jewish colleagues to see them
working on the streets.”
1939:
Associate Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, the 82 year old member of the Supreme
Court who has been serving on the bench since 1916, “was absent from the bench
today and confined to his home with the grippe.”
1939:
Sergio Spadoni of Libero, Italy was expelled by the Fascist Party in Italy “for
giving through untimely expressions obvious signs of exaggerated sympathy for
Jews” and “Mario Schivi, one of the leaders of the” Fascists in Trieste “was
expelled from the party for “connection with an affair involving a Jew. (Editor’s note: So much for claims that
Mussolini and his Fascists were not anti-Semites)
1940: A
throng of 2,500 people attended the funeral of State Supreme Court Justice
Alfred Fankenthaler which was held this afternoon at Temple Emanu-El in New
York City. Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson and
Cantor Moshe Rudinow officiated at the service.
Senator Robert Wagener delivered the eulogy. New York Mayor Fiorello
LaGuardia and former Governor Al Smith, who were honorary pallbearers, were
among the many dignitaries who attended the service.
1940: At a
luncheon hosted by the American Booksellers Association, Lillian Hellman said,
“I am a writer and I am also a Jew. I want to be quite sure that I can continue
to be a writer and if I want to say that greed is bad or persecution is worse,
I can do so without being branded by the malice of people who make a living by
that malice. I also want to be able to go on saying that I am a Jew without
being afraid of being called names or end in a prison camp or be forbidden to
walk the street at night.”
1941(10th
of Tevet, 5701): Asara B'Tevet
1941: The
Jews of Warsaw were forbidden to greet a German in public.
1941: Six thousand Jews exterminated in a pogrom in
1941: Nazi
police break into a house in the Warsaw Ghetto, force the women inside to
undress, and prod their breasts and genitals with pistols.
1941: Adolf
Hitler officially abandoned the planned invasion of Great Britain. This meant that the Jews of Great Britain
would be spared the horrors of the Holocaust.
Unfortunately for the Jews of the Soviet Union, this meant that the
Nazis would turn their time and attention to the invasion of that country which
would take place in June of 1941.
1942: The Nazis deported 1,000 Jews from Theresienstadt and sent them to
1942: The Nazis took 1,000 Jews
from Klodaw to Chelmno and gassed them to death.
1943(3rd of Shevat, 5703): Parashat Vaera
1943(3rd of Shevat, 5703): Seventy-four-year-old Salomon
Birnbaum, the Vienna born son of Carl Karoly Birnbaum and Sofie Zsofia Birnbaum
and husband of Valerie Birnbaum died today at the Gtheresienstadt Ghetto.
1943: Jews in the
1943: Germans apprehend, torture, and kill 20-year-old Jewish
partisan Emma Radova.
1943: The British magazine New Statesman urges that Jewish
refugees be allowed at least temporarily into all nations, including 40,000
more into
1943: In
1944: “A meeting to stimulate interest in extending aid to Jews in
occupied countries and sending food to children in Europe was held” today “under
the auspices of the Flushing Peace Society” where attendees heard several
speakers including Miss Jane Evans, executive director of the National
Federation of Temple Sisterhoods.
1944: It was reported today that “the establishment of a special $250,000
building fund for children’s institutions in Palestine has been undertaken by
the Pioneer Women’s Organization…”
1945: A letter was to Rabbi Eliyahu Mordechai Wolkowski inviting “him to
a meeting at Rabi Herzog’s home to discuss ‘establishing a fast day and days of…lamentations
or millions of our brothers…’”
https://blog.nli.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/letter3-scaled.jpg
1945: “Welterweight Maxi Berger of Montreal” gained his 14th
consecutive victory at the Broadway Arena in Brooklyn. (As reported by Bob
Wechsler)
1946: Undersecretary Giustino Arpesani was pictured congratulating
Professor David Prato on taking over the duties of Rome’s Chief Rabbi.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/01/09/issue.html
1946: “United States Military Government authorities said today that they
would take ‘immediate temporary measures’ to provide food and shelter for about
five hundred Polish Jewish refugees who have infiltrated into the American
sector of Berlin.”
1947: “Street Scene” an opera based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play of
the same name by Elmer Rice with music by Kurt Weill opened at the Adelphi
Theatre.
1947: In New York City, “H. Robert Greenhouse, a physician and professor
of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and the former Dorothy Greenlick gave
birth to Radcliff and Yale educated Pulitzer Prize journalist Linda Joyce
Greenhous, who covered the Supreme Court for the New York Times for nearly
thirty years and who married Eugene R. Fidell in 1982 and who raised their
daughter Hannah Margalit Fidell, “the film director, producer and
screenwriter.”
1948: As the siege of
1949: Today, twenty-nine year arranger and composer Sid Ramin, the son of
Ezra Ramin and the former Beatrice D. Salamoff married Gloria Briet the mother
of their son Ronald “Ron” Ramin.
1950: The government of
1951: University of South Carolina trained attorney Solomon Blatt, Sr,
the Blackville, SC son of Russian Jewish immigrants Nathan and Molly Blatt
began serving as the 54th Speaker of the South Carolina House of
Representatives.
1951 In the Negev, founding of Kfar Yeruham which became the modern town
of Yerhum in 1962. “Yeruham is the site of Tel Rahma, dating back to the 10th
century BCE. On the outskirts of Yeruham is an ancient well, Be'er Rahma (באר רחמה). Some archeologists have
identified it as the well where the biblical Hagar drew water for her son
Ishmael.”
1951: Shlomo Zalaman Shragai, a member of the National Religious Party
was chosen as Mayor of Jerusalem. This
marked the end of the public career of Daniel Auster, “who was known as the
‘first Hebrew mayor of
1953: Lavrentiy Beria, the Chief of the NKVD pushed to have the “Doctors’
Plot” an imaginary conspiracy of Jewish doctors to murder Soviet leaders made
public to cover his own political problems.
1953: The Jerusalem Post reported extensively
on the bitter dispute raging between the Mapai and Mapam factions at Kibbutz
Ein Harod. Members of the respective parties came to blows and only police
arrival saved the kibbutz, already suffering from economic demise, from
extensive damage. Henry Byroade, of the U.S. State Department, invited all Arab
states to join the newly created Anglo-American Mediterranean Defense Alliance.
1954: In
Canada, Richard David Messing, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Messing, is
scheduled to celebrate his Bar Mitzvah at Adath Israel Synagogue.
1955: In
Cardiff, Wales, founding of the Penylan Congregation on Ty Gwyn Road.
1956: Abigail
Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column appeared for the first time
1957: Jacob
K. Javits completed his term as New York State Attorney General.
1957: Louis
J. Lefkowitz began serving as New York State Attorney General.
1957: In
case of Jew follows Jew, Jacob K. Javits begins serving as U.S. Senator filling
the seat that had been held by Herbert H. Lehman. Javits was a Republican. Lehman was a
Democrat.
1957:
British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigned, citing health reasons. The real reason
1959(29th
of 5719): Eighty-one-year-old Dr. Adler Fleisher, “one of the most influential
and important musical philanthropists of the 20th century” who established the
Symphony Club in 1909” passed away today.
https://libwww.freelibrary.org/assets/pdf/fleisher/Canadian-Composers.pdf
1959: New
York Mayor Wagner is scheduled to be one of the pallbearers at the funeral of
“former Justice Albert Cohn”, the husband of Dora Marcus Cohn and the father of
McCarthy Committee Counsel Roy Cohn which is being held at the Park Avenue
Synagogue in Manhattan.
1961: Fifty-three-year-old
Estonian native Samuel H. Shapiro, the University of Illinois trained attorney
and Brother of AEPi began serving as the 38th Lieutenant Governor of
Illinois today.
1961: Emily
Greene Balch passed away. Balch was the
first Quaker to win the Noble Prize for Peace.
She won in 1946. One of those who
nominated her was Judah Magnes of Hebrew University in
1963: Art
Modell, the Jewish owner of the Cleveland Browns, fired coaching legend Paul
Brown today.
1965(6th
of Shevat, 5725): Parshat Bo
1965(6th
of Shevat, 5725: Sixty-one-year-old Hunter graduate and University and Bellevue
Hospital Medical College trained physician Lena Levine, the Brooklyn born
daughter of Sophie and Morris Levine, the gynecologist, psychiatrist, and
pioneer of the birth control movement, who married Dr. Louis Ferber in 1929
passed away today.
1965(6th
of Shevat, 5725): Fifty-three-year-old Harry C. Friedman passed away today.
1965: The
version of “This Diamond Ring” a song written by Al Kooper and Irwin Levine
recorded by Jerry Lewis and the Playboys was ranked #101 by Billboard while the
Sammy Ambrose version ranked #117 in an unusual dual listing on the pop charts.
1966: “The
Mad Show” a musical revue based on Mad Magazine with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
and music by Stephen Sondheim opened off-Broadway at the New Theatre with a
cast that included Linda Lavin.
1967(27th
of Tevet, 5727): Forty-two-year-old Barbara Levine Jacobi the daughter of
Isadore and Rose Levine and the wife of Peter Jacobi who is not to be confused
with the textile artist of the same name, passed away today after which she was
buried at the B’nai Zion Jewish Cemetery in La Porte, IN.
1970:
Terrorists hijacked a TWA plane traveling from Paris to Beirut
1970:
Birthdate of Jeff Kent who “played center at the University of Rhode Island
from 1988 to 1992” before playing with “Maccabi Netanya and Maccabi Rishon Le
Zion as well as the Israeli National Team.
1972(22nd
of Tevet, 5732): Eighty-one year old Hanoch Albeck, the son of Shalom Albeck,
the father of Professors Michael Albeck and Shalom Albeck and the father in law
of Yoseph Aryeh Bachach z”l, who was “one of the foremost scholars of the
Mishna”, a professor of Talmud at Hebrew University in Jerusalem passed away
today
1972(22nd
of Tevet, 5732): Seventy-eight-year-old Samuel “Sam” Rabinovitz, the Lithuanian
born son of Sholem Moshe Rabinovitz and Chaya-Leah Levy and husband of Esther
Hannah Callner passed away today in Chicago.
1972: Herb
Klein began serving as a member of the New Jersey General Assembly from the 35th
Legislative District.
1973: Four
Arab terrorists were arrested in Cyprus thwarting a planned attack on ships
scheduled to arrive in Haifa.
1974: The
National Council of Jewish Women pledged to work to help Syrian Jewry, calling
1975:
Birthdate of Konstantin Gessen the native of Moscow who moved to the United
States in with his in 1981 who gained fame of novelist and journalist Keith A.
Gessen whose first novel All the Sad Young Literary Men was published in
2008.
1976: Eight
people were injured in a bombing at a supermarket in Jerusalem.
1976: Herb
Klein completed his service as a member of the New Jersey General Assembly from
the 35th Legislative District.
1977: NBC
is scheduled to broadcast a three-hour long made for television movie based on
the Raid-on-Entebbe starting at approximately 8 pm eastern time following the
completion of the Super Bowl. Peter
Finch will play Prime Minister Rabin and Yaphet Kotto will play President Amin.
1978: The
Jerusalem Post reported that Prime Minister Menachem Begin warned
1979: The Supreme Court rendered a decision in
Duren v. Missouri, the last case which Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued before the
High Court.
1982: A revival of Arthur Miller’s “The Price”
starring Joseph Buloff is scheduled to open today
1983: In Santa Clara County, Barbara Booth
Ellison and Oracle Corporation co-founder Larry Ellison who “is of Italian and
Jewish Heritage” gave birth to film producer David Ellison, “the founder of Skydance
Media” and the sister of movie producer Margaret Ellison.
1984: ABC premiered “Something About Amelia”
the Emmy award winning made for television film produced by Leonard Goldberg.
1989: Baron MIshcon (Victor Mishcon) began
serving as Shadow Lord Chancellor
1990 (12th of Tevet, 5750): Shlomo Pines passed away. Born
in 1908, he was a scholar of Jewish and Islamic philosophy, best known for his
English translation of Maimonides' Guide to the Perplexed.
1991: Egyptian newspapers reported today that
President Hosni Mubarak warned Israel this week to stay out of the conflict,
saying he would revise his policies on the crisis if Israel became embroiled. Mr. Mubarak's comments reflected
worries in many Arab countries that Israeli military involvement could transform
the crisis into an Arab-Israeli dispute, splintering the anti-Iraqi Arab
coalition. Egypt is the only Arab country formally at peace with Israel.
"We will not permit an Israeli involvement, or a military involvement in
the gulf crisis," the Egyptian leader told a gathering of writers and
intellectuals, according to newspaper reports and people at the gathering.
"I do not think Israel would get involved, but if it did, Egypt would take
a different position."
1991: Stephen M. Saland began serving as “a
member of the New York State Senate” today.
1992: The French weekly Paris Match
reported today that the second and final autopsy on the body of Robert Maxwell
showed numerous bruises, indicating that the British publisher was probably
beaten before his death. But that conclusion was disputed by one of the
pathologists who conducted the autopsy in Israel. declined to say how they had
obtained a copy of the recording made in the forensic institute in Tel Aviv.
1992: In “For Young Readers, Picasso Not
Bunnies” published today, Trish Hall describes the wacky, wonderful world of
Maira Kalman, the Tel Aviv native who has become a popular children's book author and illustrator whose
fans include a growing number of adults.
1992: Conservative columnist William Safire’s
wrote a column entitled “Strongly Condemn” in which he took issue with the
increasingly hostile policy the Bush is administration is pursuing towards the
state of Israel.
1993: After 76 performances, the curtain came
down on the London production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Assassins” which had
opened at the Donmar Warehouse in October of 1992.
1995: Gonen Segev replaced Moshe Shahal as
Minister for Energy and Water Resources.
1995(8th of Shevat, 5655):
Fifty-nine year old Monte H. Goldman “a real estate developer, civic leader and
philanthropist from Oklahoma City passed away today in Aspen, Colorado.
1996: “The first Truman Capote Lifetime
Achievement Award in Literary Criticism, worth $100,000 and given by the
author's estate, was awarded today to Alfred Kazin” who “helped make American
literature a subject of serious study with his first book, On Native Grounds,
published in 1942…”
1996: Tony Bullimore, who was clinging to “a
rigid-hulled inflatable boat” from the capsized Exide Challenger, was rescued
by crew members of the HMAS Adelaide.
Bullimore was a Sephardic-Jewish yachtsman born at Bristol before the start of
WW II.
1997: Opening day of the Red Sea International Music
Festival. In what the sponsors call a
move to foster peace in the Middle East, the Festival, for the first time will
take place, in both Israel and Jordan.
1999: NFL referee Jerry Markbreit “worked his
final game today” when the San Francisco 49ers came to Atlanta to play the
Falcons. (As reported by Bob Wechsler)
2000: In “N.J. Vines; Not Your Grandmother’s
Kosher Wine” published today Howard G. Goldberg described the upscaling of
Jewish wine consumption that had begun the classic “sweet Mnischewitz.”
2001: Richard “Lewis visited The Howard Stern
Show to promote his book The Other Great Depression, which described his
recovery from alcoholism.”
2001: “A previously undisclosed letter mailed
from New York” today “to the west Los Angeles Police Station titled ‘Possible
motive for Susan Berman murder’ said Berman suspected Robert Durst was involved
in his wife’s disappearance and specified that Durst was planning to visit
Berman in late December’ of 2000,” the month and year in which the daughter of
the Jewish mobster David Berman was murdered.
2002: “Susie Orbach: Why fat is still a feminist issue” published
today provides a review of On Eating
2003: Amid reports of illegal activity by Prime Minister Sharon
coming on the eve of Israeli election Haaretz is scheduled to publish a report
today stating that Likud, which had once been projected to win 40 of the 120
seats in the election for Parliament on Jan. 28, now seems likely to win only
27, while the Labor Party could get 24.
2003: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel has rebuffed Prime
Minister Tony Blair's personal appeal to reconsider Israel's decision to keep
Palestinian negotiators from attending a British-sponsored conference in London
next week, officials said today.
2003: Tonight, Prime Minister Sharon held a
nationally televised news conference to assert that he was a victim of an ‘attempt
to seize power through lies.'' About 10 minutes into his speech, the chairman
of the Central Elections Committee, Mishael Cheshin, ordered Israel's three
television channels and two radio stations to halt their broadcasts.
2004(15th of Tevet, 5764): Seventy-nine-year-old Nissim
Ezekiel, an Indian born “Jewish poet, playwright, editor and art critic” who
was a major cultural force in post-colonial India passed away today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2004/mar/09/guardianobituaries.india
.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissim_Ezekiel
2004: In “Survival Strategy” published today
Tibor Fischer reviews Nine Suitcases by Béla Zsolt, “Hungary’s finest
contribution to Holocaust writing” which “is not a book for the squeamish.”
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/jan/10/biography.highereducation1
2005: The New York
Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperback edition of
And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder
of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank by Steve Oney.
2006: The Wolf Foundation announced today that an
American, an Israeli and an Italian will receive prestigious Wolf Prizes this
year. The prize which is to be awarded in a Jerusalem ceremony in May will be
shared by Ada Yonath, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in
Rehovot, and George Feher, a professor at the University of California, San
Diego, the foundation said in a statement. Also, Italian artist Michelangelo
Pistoletto will receive the 2007 Wolf Prize in the arts. Each prize is worth $100,000.
Yonath, 67, was awarded the prize for her work in understanding the production
of proteins. "Her work paves the way to dealing with the crucial issue of
drug activity and resistance mechanisms," the statement said. Feher, 82,
is to receive the award for his research on photosynthesis, "revealing the
basic principles of light energy conversion in biology." Pistoletto, 73,
will be honored for "his ability to come up with new possibilities and to
encourage the application of imagination to artistic and social change."
His work with various media establishes "a system for communication
between art and every other human activity." The Israel-based foundation
was established by Ricardo Wolf, a German-born inventor, diplomat and
philanthropist who spent the last years of his life as
2006 (9 Tevet):
Yahrzeit of Ezra Hasofer and Nechemia.
2006 (9 Tevet):
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Ezra HaNavi, Tosafist, Kabbalist, Teacher of the Ramban.
2007: An 18-month long
U.S. tour of Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot began today.
2008: George W. Bush made his first trip to
2008: The first episode “The Jewish Americans”
airs on PBS. The three episode series
traces the history of the Jews in America starts with the arrival of the first
23 Sephardic Jews in New Amsterdam in 1654 and “ends with Maisyahu, the
Chasidic hip-hop star, one of about six million Jews in America today.”
2009: Lillian Hellman’s “The Little Foxes”
opens at the Shattered Globe Theatre.
2009: Dutch Jews are scheduled to hold a rally
at
2009: After a relatively quiet night, Palestinians in Gaza
resumed rocket fire on the western Negev this morning.
2010(23rd of Tevet, 5770): Jews all
over the world begin reading Shemot, the Book of Exodus.
2010(23rd of Tevet, 5770): Sixty-four-year-old
Israeli filmmaker Nadav Levitan and the husband of singer Chava Alberstein
passed away today at Petah Tikva
2010: Adas Israel hosts the Winter Swing Dance featuring Swing
Speak and a free dance lesson with Tom and Debra of www.gottaswing.com,
Washington, DC's most popular swing dance instruction & Promotion Company.
2010: “The Kosher Cheerleader” starring Sandy
Wolshin, the former Oakland Raider Cheerleader who converted to Orthodox
Judaism, in an autobiographical one woman show opens in Phoenix, AZ.
2011: The Greater Washington Forum on Israeli
Arab Issues is scheduled to present a program entitled “Arab Citizens of Israel
-- Challenges and Opportunities: A Community Education Day” at the Washington
DCJCC.
2011: In Iowa City, the Sisterhood of Agudas
Achim is scheduled to host a Wine and Tapas Party complete with an auction and
door prize.
2011: Israeli choreographer Deganit
Shemy is scheduled to bring together a group of colleagues for an afternoon of
solos and an excerpt of Shemy's recent work at the 92nd Street Y in
NYC.
2011(4th of
Shevat, 5771): Fifty-nine year old “Debbie
Friedman, a singer and songwriter whose work — which married traditional Jewish
texts to contemporary folk-infused melodies — is credited with helping give
ancient liturgy broad appeal to late-20th-century worshippers, died on today in
Mission Viejo, Calif.”(As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/arts/music/11friedman.html?_r=0
http://www.debbiefriedman.com/
2011:
Israeli bulldozers demolished the Shepherd Hotel today. It had originally been
built in the 1930s as a villa for Haj Amin al-Husseini, then the grand mufti of
Jerusalem, who notoriously aligned himself with Hitler. The building, which has
sentimental value to some Arabs, was removed as plans were being carried out to
building a new housing project in the eastern section of Jerusalem.
2011:
According to reports published today, “Rabbi Stephanie Aaron, who in 2007 officiated at the
wedding of Ms. Giffords and Capt. Mark E. Kelly and who leads Congregation
Chaverim in Tucson, said the congresswoman had never expressed any concern
about her safety.”
2011:
Prosecutors accused Jared Lee Loughner…of five serious federal charges today
including the attempted assassination of a member of Congress, for his role in
a shooting incident that left 20 people wounded, six of them fatally, yesterday
morning. According to court documents
filed in the United States District Court in Phoenix, the authorities seized
evidence from Mr. Loughner’s home showing that he had planned to kill
Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona’s only Jewish member of the House of
Representatives. Ms. Giffords, a Democrat, remained in critical condition at
University Medical Center in Tucson today. Her doctors said she was able to
respond to simple commands, and they described themselves as “cautiously
optimistic.”
2011: More than 100 people crowded
into a special healing service Sunday morning for Representative Gabrielle
Giffords at Congregation Chaverim, where she was married three years ago, for a
tearful ceremony. Ms. Giffords’s rabbi, friends and admirers gathered to pray
for a swift recovery and to honor a woman many described as an inspiration.
2011: A US Department of Homeland
Security memorandum reportedly notes the fact that Congresswoman Gabrielle
Giffords is a Jew may have a factor in the motives of the Arizona
congresswoman's alleged assailant.
2011(4th
of Shevat, 5771): Benny Hesse, 67, director of a chevra kadisha (communal
burial society) in Haifa for more than 20 years, was shot to death outside his
home today by several attackers in a killing that some have speculated may have
been related to internal disputes among burial groups over allocation of burial
plots. Burial society organizations throughout Israel held a brief strike two
days later in protest of the shooting. Hesse managed Haifa's Ashkenazi burial
society, taking over the position from his father. Hesse had been commander of
an Israeli army burial unit and had retired as a lieutenant colonel. Science
and Technology Minister Daniel Hershkowitz, a Haifa resident and friend of
Hesse, described him as "level-headed, humorous and kind." Friends
told Israeli media that Hesse was accepted by different religious groups in
Haifa, but he lost an eye in an acid attack in 2006 and his house was set on
fire. Rabbi Yisrael Rosenthal, chairman of burial groups in Haifa, said Hesse
had cleaned up corruption in Haifa, which angered some. "The problem is
that all is lawless in this country," Rosenthal said. This is what he
tried to prevent, and maybe that's the reason this all happened."
2011:
“Episodes” “a British/American sitcom created by David Crane” who also wrote
the scripts premiered today on Showtime in the United States.
2012: The Ronen Shmueli
Jazz Quintet is scheduled to perform at Beit Avi Chai.
2012: Cecile Kuznitz is
scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled “The History of YIVO” that “will
consider YIVO’s educational initiatives such as the Aspirantur, Pro-aspirantur,
and teacher training courses in Vilna, as well as efforts to transplant them to
New York in the wake of the Holocaust.”
2012: MK Anastassia
Michaeli (Yisrael Beiteinu) poured a cup of water on her colleague MK Raleb
Majadele (Labor) during an argument at a heated Knesset Education Committee
debate this morning..
2012: Jack Lew, an
Orthodox Jew who currently serves as director of the Office of Management and
Budget has been named White House Chief of Staff by President Obama, replacing
William Daley.
2012: In “The Songs
Remain the Same but Broadway Heirs Call the Shots” published today, Patrick
Healy described the controversy surrounding a revival of “Porgy and Bess.”
2013: In Los Angeles,
Temple Beth Am is scheduled to host “Israel Elections 2013” which will examine
the “parties and the players” as well as the “issues and opinions” surrounding
Israel’s general upcoming Knesset elections.
2013: Opening night of
the New York Jewish Film Festival.
2013: A signing
ceremony creating a brain research center under the auspices of the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem and the Max Planck Society is scheduled to take place
today the Giva Ram campus in Jerusalem.
2013: “Lies in the
Closet” is scheduled to shown at the Jerusalem Jewish Festival.
2013: At long last, the
much-anticipated snow arrived in Jerusalem today after days of heavy rains and
fierce winds that caused power outages and widespread flooding.
2014: “When Jews Were
Funny” and “Lonely Planet” are scheduled to be shown at the New York Jewish
Film Festival.
2014: In a statement
made today, Bond rating agency Moody’s “announced it was dropping Yeshiva
University’s rating to B1 from Baa2, saying that it might fall farther in the
future.” (As reported by Josh Nathan-Kazis.
2014: It was announced
that Jewish American fashion designer, Marc Jacobs's new Spring-Summer
collection would feature actress/singer Miley Cyrus photographed by David Sims.
2014: “Blancanieves” is
scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival.
2014: The Illinois
Holocaust Museum & Education Center is scheduled to host the opening of
“Helen Suzman: Fighter for Human Rights,” an exhibition that highlights her
career as an opponent of apartheid and her “enduring friendship with the late
Nelson Mandela.”
2014: The 129 Modern
Language Association Annual Convention is scheduled to open today in Chicago
where it will discuss moves to enforce BDS aimed at Israel (Editor’s Note
-Boycott, sanctions, divestiture is considered by some to be pure anti-Semitism
since similar moves have not been made against Russia, China or Turkey which
has occupied a portion of Cyprus since its invasion in 1974.)
2014: Today Haaretz and The Times of Israel reported that Archaeologists from Ariel
University and the Israel Antiquities Authority have begun excavating “Tel
Rumeida, a site believed to be the location of biblical Hebron which lies in
the heart of the modern-day divided city.” (As reported by Yifa Yaakov)
2014: Today, “a Tel
Aviv-based civil rights organization warned the American Studies Association
against boycotting Israeli professors and academic institutions, threatening to
sue the association if it adopted the “unlawful” boycott resolution.” (As reported
by Yifa Yaakov)
2014: “In today’s
unsurprising news, it turns out that the 350,000 Jewish 18-26- year-olds who
have come on free ten-day Birthright trips to Israel have spent a lot of money
in Israel. Now thanks to a report from the accounting firm Ernst & Young,
we know just how much: $825 million. If you subtract Israeli government
contributions to the program, the net economic benefit is still a whopping $635
million.” (As reported by Ben Sales)
2015: The 92nd
Street Y is scheduled to host “Fridays at Noon: Out of Israel – Israeli
Choreographers.”
2015: The OHALAH
Shabbaton is scheduled to begin at Broomfield, CO.
2015: “Farewell Herr
Schwarz” is scheduled to open at the Quad Theater in New York City.
2015: In New York,
the Caffe Vivaldi is scheduled to host Israeli Jazz Showcase Night featuring
four Israeli bands.
2015: The Palestinian
Ministry of Agriculture in the Gaza Strip said today that the coastal enclave
will be allowed to import citrus fruits from Israel starting January 11, 2015.
2015: “Some 30
terrified shoppers at the kosher supermarket Hypercacher Alimentation Générale
in Paris’s Porte-de-Vinnences hid in a freezing cold storage room underground
for hours today as a gunman and his wife-accomplice stormed the grocery store
amid a hail of gunfire. The terrorists killed two people in the initial attack,
then two more, according to witnesses, and held several more people captive
including women and children.
2015: Twenty-four-year-old
Lassana Bathily, a Muslim from Mali and an employee of a kosher market in Paris
“may have saved have save the lives of 15 customer” when he told the customers
to hide in the store’s basement freezer, and after closing the freezer’s door
served as a lookout until the police had killed the gunman.
2015: Tony Blinken, the New York born son of Judith (Frehm)
and Donald M. Blinken, the former United States Ambassador to Hungary and
nephew of Donald M. Blinken, “the former ambassador to Brazil began servings as
the 18th United States Deputy Secretary of State.
2015: Snow continues to
blanket Israel.
2015(18th of
Tevet, 5775): “Amedy Coulibaly, the Islamist gunman who allegedly killed four
people and held others hostage before he was killed by French security forces
at a kosher store in Paris today, reportedly told a French journalist at the
height of the siege that he had deliberately chosen to target Jews.” The four Jews killed today were Yohan Cohen
22, Yoav Hattab 21, Philipe Barham, in his 40’s and Francois-Michel Saada in
his 60’s.
2015(18th of
Tevet, 5775): Eighty-eight-year-old movie producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. passed
away today. (As reported by Brooks Barnes)
2016: Idan Sharabi's
new piece, “Til 120, Again,” is scheduled to be performed by Belinda McGuire
Dance Projects at The Actor’s Fund Arts Center.
2016: Those attending
the Texas Jewish Historical Society Winter Board Meeting in Galveston are
scheduled to visit the Scottish Rite Temple, the site of the first Temple B’nai
Israel
2016(28th of
Tevet, 5776): Shabbat Va-ayrah
2016(28th of
Tevet, 5776): On the Jewish calendar yahrzeit of Rabbi David Nieto.
http://www.aish.com/dijh/Tevet_28.html
2017: An exhibition “New Children’s
Exhibition: We All Need Peace” is scheduled to come to a close at the Illinois
Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
2017(11th of
Tevet, 5777): Ninety-one year old Zygmunt Bauman, Holocaust survivor, WW II
veteran author of Modernity and the Holocaust and husband of Janine (Lewinson) Bauman with
whom he had three daughters, passed away today
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jan/15/zygmunt-bauman-obituary
https://baumaninstitute.leeds.ac.uk/about/
2017: Former Navy Seal
and Republican Eric Robert Greitens assumed office today as the 56th
Governor of Missouri.
2017: Jason Kander
completed four years of services the 39th Secretary State of
Missouri today.
2017: “Bomb threats
were called in at no fewer than 16 Jewish community centers in at least seven
US states today, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of students and staff.”
2017: Hundreds of
people, but “not a single government minister” attend today’s funerals for Lt.
Yael Yekutiel, Lt. Shir Hajaj, 2nd Lt. Erez Orbach and 2nd
Lt. Shira Tzur who killed by a truck
driven by a Palestinian terrorist.
2017: “Berlin’s
Brandenburg Gate was lit with the Israeli flag tonight in a show of solidarity
following a terror attack in Jerusalem yesterday in which four IDF soldiers
were killed.”
2017: The Center for
Jewish History is scheduled to host a tour of “Odessa: Babel, Ladyzhensky and
the Soul of City” a new exhibition that “explore the vital creative character
and dramatic social context of pre- and post-revolutionary Odessa, Ukraine (formerly
Russia) through the work of two of the city's most important artists - the
writer Isaac Babel and the painter Yefim Ladyzhensky.”
2018: “Channel 2” aired
the recording of a conversation in between some young men, including 26-year-old
Yair Netanyahu talking about “money borrowed to pay a stripper, a late-night
search for a prostitute” and a “$20 billion deal.” (As reported by Cleve R.
Wootson, Jr.)
2018: The YIVO
Institute is scheduled to host lecture on Jewish food by Michael Wex, author of
Rhapsody in Schmaltz on “Schmaltz: Jewish Cooking Past, Present and
Future.”
2018: In New Orleans,
Francine Klagsbrun, author of more than a dozen books is scheduled to talk
about her newest work, Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel as
part of The Cathy and Morris Bart Jewish Cultural Arts Series
2018: A firebomb was
thrown at the historic El Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian Island of Djerba
today.
2018(22nd of
Tevet, 5778): Thirty-five-year-old Raziel Shevah, a father of six, succumbed to
his wounds after being rushed to hospital having been shot in the neck by at
least one terrorist who sprayed his vehicle with bullets in a drive-by shooting
near Havat Gilad (As reported by YNET)
2018: “Canvey: The
Promised Land,” a BBC documentary that shows “how strictly Orthodox pioneer
Jews from north London have relocated to Canvey Island, one of five most
pro-Brexit wards in Britain” is scheduled to be broadcast tonight.
2019: “Toman,”
“Brussels Transit” and Promised at Dawn” are scheduled to be shown on the
opening day of the New York Jewish Film Festival.
2019: In Washington,
DC, The Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum is scheduled to host the
move of its synagogue down F Street, NW so it can “eventually settle on the
site of the new museum.
2019: The YIVO
Institute is scheduled to present German historian Christoph Dieckmann’s
lecture on “Beyond Simple Myths: History and Memory of the Shoah in Eastern
Europe.”
2019: As she continues
to from her “lung cancer surgery at home,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg's first absence from the bench” is expected to continue into a
third day.
2019: As National Security advisor John Bolton
returns from the Middle East, he has left a trail of anger in Turkey and
confusion among other allies including the Israelis as to what United States
policy is in the region, especially as it pertains to Syria in light of the
apparently conflicting utterances and tweets by President Trump.
2019: American
filmmaker Yaniv “Nev” Schulman, the brother of actor Ariel Schulman, and his
wife Laura gave birth to their second child, Beau Bobby Bruce.
2019: Today during his
announcement that “New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is the winner of the
$1 million Genesis Prize, the so-called Jewish Nobel” “Genesis Prize chairman
and co-founder Stan Polovets called the Jewish-American NFL owner and businessman
“one of the world’s most generous philanthropists whose charitable giving
reflects the Jewish value of tikkun olam – repairing the world” which would
indicate that he is either unaware of or discounts Mr. Kraft’s problems with
authorities in Florida and such episodes as “deflatgate.”
2020: In Middleton, MA,
The North Suburban Jewish Community Center is scheduled to present “Sip, Snack
and Paint.”
2020: YIVO is scheduled
to host “Yevgenia M. Albats, a former member of the Presidium of the Russian
Jewish Congress, a current member of its Public Council, a prominent Russian
journalist and an academic, currently a distinguished fellow at the University
of Michigan in Ann Arbor, in a discussion Jewish life in today’s Russia.”
2020: In Philadelphia,
WHYY and the National Museum of American History are scheduled to host an
advanced screening of “Finding Your Roots” during which “Henry Louis Gates Jr.
digs into the ancestry of Terry Gross, Jeff Goldblum and Marc Maron.”
2020: The Gateways
Organization Gala Event hosted by Shlomo Reichmann and honoring Lena Goldenberg
and Eliana Goodman this evening.
2020:
“Pianist/composer/arranger and Yamaha artist Tamir Hendelman is scheduled to
lead a quintet of top Israeli-American jazz musicians from Los Angeles and New
York in an evening of dynamic and lyrical jazz interpretations of traditional
and modern Israeli songs, music by fellow Israeli jazz artists and their own
original compositions.”
2020: The San Mateo
(CA) Public Library is scheduled to host a talk by Marty Brounstein, the author
Two Among the Righteous Few: A Story of Courage In The Holocaust.
https://www.martyabrounstein.com/
2021(25th
of Tevet, 5781): Parashat Shemot; f
2021: Jon Osoff is
scheduled to celebrate Shabbat for the first time as the Senator-elect from
Georgia.
2021: In Columbus,
OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to a Torah Talk as a “Shabbat Warmup”
preceding regularly scheduled Zoomed Shabbat Services.
2021: In Cleveland,
Temple Emanu El is scheduled to host via zoom “one of seven scheduled Family
Shabbat sessions.
2021: Israelis are
scheduled to be observing Shabbat under the country’s third lockdown.
2021: In Jerusalem,
the Abraham Hostel is scheduled to host a Hummus Workshop and Dinner.
2022: The New
York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including Winter
Recipes From the Collective by Louise Gluck, Hitler’s
American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War by Brendan Simms and Charlie
Laderman, Chasing History: A Kid In a Newsroom by Carl Bernstein and the recently
released paperback edition of Munich: The Edge of War by Robert Harris as well as a
retrospective on the works of Israeli graphic novelist Rutu Modan.
2022: The exhibition
“Afterlives :Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art” is scheduled to come to
an at the Jewish Museum
https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/afterlives-recovering-the-lost-stories-of-looted-art
2022: “Beginning today,
foreign nationals from non-red countries will be able to enter Israel without
the need for special permission for the first time since the end of November,
provided that they are fully vaccinated under the Health Ministry’s criteria
(inoculated twice within the previous six months, vaccinated with a booster,
recovered with one shot, or recovered within six months, as demonstrated by an
electronic recovery certificate).” (As reported by Rossella Tercatin)
2022: The Jewish
Museum of London is scheduled to host “Tremendous Trees,” its celebration of Tu
B’Shevat,
2022:
“The Spy Behind Home Plate” is scheduled to be shown at the Beth El of Fort
Worth Film Fest.
2023:
Layah Lipsker is scheduled to lead Women’s Philanthropy through a celebration of community, self, and Judaism
by way of her unique teaching style for Spark—the celebration of Israel’s 75th
anniversary.
2023:
Maggid Eli Ramer, Rabbi Mychal Copeland and drash coordinator Kay Magilavy of
Sha’ar Zahav are scheduled to present a workshop on how to write and present a
Torah teaching.
2023: The Israeli American Council of New England is scheduled
to host its third “Act & Impact” session entitled “Confronting Anti-Zionism
and Israel Hatred” which “will explore the rise in antisemitism on college
campuses and its correlation with anti-Zionism.”
2024:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold on “Hollywood
and Antisemitism.”
2024:
In New Orleans, the Oscar J. Tolmas Charitable Trust is scheduled to sponsor “Federation-JNOLA
Trivia Night pitting young professionals from JNOLA and Temple Sinai against
one another.
2024:
Benjamin Till is scheduled to hold one-on-one discussions with filmmakers
interested in “applying for the Pears Short Film Fund at UK Jewish Film…”
2024:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host “The Jewish Gangsters of
Lower Manhattan,” a virtual tour with historian and educator Bradley Shaw,
which will tell the story of organized crime in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries in New York City, from robbed and torched pushcarts, to
illegal whiskey and drugs and “will not only profile the very famous like Meyer
Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, and Arnold Rothstein, but the lesser known personalities
like “Dopey” Benny Fein, “Big” Jack Zelig, “Lepke” Buchalter and the notorious
Samuel “Red” Levine” as well.
2024:
The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Center is scheduled to present “Lady Esther as
she reads from Sir Martin’s books and a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
lecture, bringing the unique insight of an expert on both Churchill and the
Holocaust.
2024: As January 9th begins in Israel,
the Hamas held hostages begin day 95 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.)
