This Day, January 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January
11
66(28th
of Tevet, 3826): The Sanhedrin elected Joseph ben Gorion and the High Priest
Anan as the administrative heads of the government of Judea replacing King
Agrippa
314:
Militades, who was the Pope when Constantine and Licinius issued t…
January 11
66(28th
of Tevet, 3826): The Sanhedrin elected Joseph ben Gorion and the High Priest
Anan as the administrative heads of the government of Judea replacing King
Agrippa
314:
Militades, who was the Pope when Constantine and Licinius issued the Edict of
Toleration which effectively recognized Christianity as the official religion
of the Roman Empire, passed away.
347:
Birthdate of Theodosius I the last emperor to rule both the western and eastern
portion of the Roman Empire. As powerful as Theodosius may appeared to be, he
was no match for the rising power of the Christian church leaders. When a
bishop had incited a group of his followers to burn down a synagogue,
Theodosius ordered the bishop to pay for re-building the Jewish house of
worship. But Ambrose, the Bishop of Milan, overruled the Emperor contending,
according to one source, that Christian money should not be used to pay for
Jewish things.
630:
As Islam begins its march into North Africa, East Asia and parts of Europe with
all that that will mean to the Jewish people for the next millennium and half,
Mohammed conquers Mecca.
1313:
The Council of Zamora (Spain) made a ruling which was allegedly based on a
ruling by Pope Clement V, in which he allowed the Christians to legally deny
accruing any interest on loans from Jews.
1654:
One day after he passed away on what was his 74th birthday, David
Nieto, the Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue community in London
was buried today in the Velho Sephardic Cemetery.
1728:
One day after he had passed away David Nieto, “the Haham of the Spanish and
Portuguese Jewish community and the father of Isaac Nieto, his successor, was
buried today at the “Velho Sephardic Cemetery.”
1755:
In Charles, a city on Nevis, an island in the West Indies, James A. Hamilton
and Rachel Facuett Lavien gave birth to Alexander Hamilton, aide to General
George Washington, ardent Federalist and the 1st United States Secretary of the
Treasury. Although the facts are a little murky, it would appear that
Hamilton’s mother was Jewish. She had
left her husband, Johann Michael Lavien, a Jewish planter before she began her
affair with Hamilton was a married man.
Since Hamilton was born out of wedlock, he could not go to school at the
school run by the Church of England.
Instead, he attended classes at a Jewish private school. If Hamilton’s mother was indeed Jewish and
not just a woman married to a Jew, he would be Jewish according to Halachah.
Hamilton never identified himself as a Jew and lived his life in New York as a
Christian.
1771:
Sixty-six-year-old Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens the author of Lettres Juives (The Jewish Spy)
in which “ he chose to couch his religious and social criticism in the form of
an exchange of letters between three Jews who combined a general education with
loyalty to Jewish tradition” passed away today.
1775:
Francis Salvador of South Carolina became the first Jew to be elected to a
state legislature. An ardent patriot, Salvador lost his life and his hair while
fighting the Cherokees who were allies of the British.
1787:
William Herschel discovered the Uranian moons Titania and Oberon. Herschel’s
ethnic origins are part of an oft told tale among Germans of this period.
William Herschel was the son of German Jew named Isaac Herschel. Isaac married
a Christian woman and the children, including William, were raised as
Christians.
1791:
Birthdate of Myer Jacobs a “surveyor of customs and a Colonel in the 12th
South Carolina Regiment who was the husband of Rebecca Jacobs and the father of
Adeline ((Jacobs) Emanel
1792:
Mordecai Davis married Sarah Jacobs today at the Great Synagogue.
1796:
One day after she had passed away, Keila Fuerth, the wife of Simon Fuerth, was
buried today at the “Alderney Road (Globe Rd) Jewish Cemetery.”
1796:
In Amsterdam, Esther Aron Hollander and Simon Zeligman Nathan Dentz gave birth
to Elizabeth Nathan Dentz, the wife of Samson Jacob Abas and mother of Rosette,
Esther, Sara, Jacques and Simon Abas.
1799:
A state of siege was declared in Jerusalem, as Napoleon approached Gaza and
Jaffa.
1805:
In Cuneo, Piedmont, Solomon Jehiel Raphael ha-Kohen and his wife gave birth to
Italian rabbi and educator Lelio (Hillel) Della Torre who was raised by his
uncle Rabbi Sabbatai Elhanan Treves because his father passed away when he was
two years old.
1805:
Birthdate of Lewis Feuchtwanger, the German born American chemist who was the
husband of Augusta Levy with whom he had five children.
1808:
Birthdate of novelist Abraham Mapu.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Mapu_Avraham
1816(10th
of Tevet, 5576): Asara B’Tevet observed on the same day that former President
Thomas Jefferson wrote to former President John Adams that he agreed with
Adams’ conclusion that during the 18tth century “the sciences and arts, manners
and moral, advanced to a higher degree than the world had ever seen before…”
1818:
Fanny Joseph, the wife of Reuben Joseph and the mother of Judah, Joseph and
Simon Joseph was buried today in the United Kingdom.
1819:
In Bridgetown, Barbados, Esther Hannah (Montefiore) Levi and Isaac gave birth
to Jacob Isaac Levi Montefiore. His brothers were Edward Levi Montefiore and
George Levi Montefiore. In 1835, he moved to Sydney, Australia, assumed his
mother’s name and became a successful merchant and investment banker. He passed away at Norwood, London in 1885.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/montefiore-jacob-levi-4225
1824:
Hayman Levy, the son of Solomon and Rebecca Eve Levy and his wife Almeria Levy
gave birth to Rosalie Alice Salomon.
1835(10th
of Tevet, 5595): Asara B’Tevet while the HMS Beagle is “anchored off the Chonos
Archipelago on her second voyage with Charles Darwin, author of Origin of the
Species, on board.
1838:
In Bavaria, Seligmann Pinchas Luchs, the son of Moses and Marianne Marie Luchs
and his wife Judith Marx Luchs gave birth to Maier Loeb Luchs
1841(18th
of Tevet, 5601): Seventy-six-year-old Abraham Oppenheimer, the husband of Reina
(Rachel) Oppenheimer passed away in his hometown of Gemdem, Darmstadt, Hesse,
Germany.
1843:
Moses Angel, the headmaster at the Jews’ Free School (JFS) married Rebekah
Godfrey with whom he had six children – three boys and three girls.
1846:
Two days after he was murdered at Seward’s Café, 59-year-old Simon Levy was
buried at “the Westomount Cemetery” on the Isle of Jersey.
1846(13th
of Tevet, 5606): Forty-two-year-old German physician and publisher Johann Jacob
(Joseph Isidor) Sachs passed away today at Nordhausen.
1849:
Birthdate of Dr. Oskar Lassar famed German dermatologist. He also developed a
public bath house system designed to give improve the hygiene of the less
fortunate.
1856:
Jesse and Henriette Seligman gave birth to Harvard rower
Theodor
David Seligman, the husband of Florence Walston.
1857: Birthdate of Fritza Michael who was buried in
Edinburgh, Scotland when she passed away.
1859: Birthdate of Lord George Nathaniel Curzon of
two members of the British Cabinet who were opposed to the Balfour Declaration;
the other was a Jew, Edwin Samuel Monatgue. In the end, Curzon did vote to
accept the declaration. In the 1920’s Curzon served as Foreign Secretary. He
negotiated the agreement that resulted in Egypt gaining her independence. He
also oversaw the division of the British Mandate in Palestine which resulted in
the creation of the Kingdom of Jordan on the land east of Jordan River. Some
Jewish leaders decried this as an illegal act.
When partition was later proposed for the land west of the Jordan, many
opposed it saying that Curzon’s earlier partition had already given the Arabs
their state. For a time, Winston
Churchill was one of those who made that argument.
1859:
In Germany, Joseph and Caroline Carla Evalina Elkan gave birth to Herz Elkan,
the husband of Rosa Elkan who was murdered at Theresienstadt.
1860:
Two factions clashed today at a contentious meeting of the shareholders of the
Great Eastern that took place today at the London Tavern in the UK. One faction was led by the Chairman, a man
named Campbell. The other was led by
Simon Magnus, a English Jew who had made his fortune in the coal industry.
1861(29th
of Tevet, 5621): Seventy-three-old Salomon Levie Goudsmit, the Dutch born Son
of Levie Emanuel Goudsmit and Magdalena Hartog Goudsmit and husband of
Geertruida Abraham van Raalte and Aleida Leentje Abraham van Raalte passed away
today in the Netherlands.
1861:
“Michael Heilprin’s Anti-Slavery Editorial” which was published today began by
saying that on January 4th, Rabbi Raphall had preached a sermon on
Slavery and the Bible…”
http://www.jewish-history.com/civilwar/heilprin.html
1863(1st
of Tevet, 5624): Rosh Chodesh Tevet; Sixth Day of Chanukah
1863:
As Jews prepared to kindle the seventh Chanukah candle Union forces under
General Sherman took on the Confederates 3 miles below Arkansas Post in what
would turn out to be a two day battle while off the coast of Galveston, TX, the
heavily armed CSS Alabama sank the USS Hatteras, a steamer belonging to the
United States Navy.
1864:
In New York, Frederick Loeser, the founder of Frederick Loeser and Company, and
his wife gave birth to Charles Alexander Loeser, the Harvard graduate and
husband of pianist of Olga Lebert Kaufman who created one of the great
collections of “early Renaissance art furniture” while living in Florence.
http://museicivicifiorentini.comune.fi.it/en/palazzovecchio/donazione_loeser02.htm
https://izi.travel/en/ce5e-biography-of-charles-loeser/en
1867:
On his 23rd birthday, Harry Yates Satterlee, who while serving as
the first Episcopal Bishop of Washington DC delivered a sermon in which he
said, “The Jews are preserving the home and family better than we Christians
are doing” and that while “I do not know how to account for this, but I do know
it to be fact” was ordained today as a Priest in the Episcopal Church.
1867:
In Rochester, NY, Caroline Wile and Max Brickner gave birth to University of
Rochester graduate and Columbia University trained gynecologist and
obstetrician Samuel M. Brickner, the husband of Josphine Hays and author of
articles in the “American Journal of Obstetrics” who was the “adjunct
gynecologist at Mt. Sinai Hospital and the Good Samaritan Dispensary in New
York City.
1868:
In New York, Bertha Przylubska and Henry Perez Fridenberg gave birth to
Columbia graduate and Stassburg University trained surgeon Percy Henry Perez
Fridenberg, the husband of Louise T. Fletcher who was an associate professor of
ophthalmology at NYU and visiting surgeon at Jewish Memorial Hospital and Mt.
Sinai Hospital.
1869:
In Washington, DC, Simon and Caroline (Hahn) Wolf gave birth to John Hopkins
undergrad and George Washington University trained attorney Adolph Wolf Grant,
the longest servicing Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico and
husband of Marian Sweet.
1873:
“The Persecuted Hebrews” published today described efforts by the government of
the United States to ameliorate the suffering of the Jews of Romania. Among other things the U.S. Ambassador in
Vienna has enlisted the help of the Austrian government in an attempt to
pressure the Prince of Romania to improve the conditions of the Jews living in
Moldavia and Wallachia.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9900E7D71439EF34BC4952DFB7668388669FDE
1873:
Birthdate of Meretz, Vilna native Isaac Harris, who in 1884 moved to the United
States where earned his law degree at Boston University where he was active in
the Zionist movement.
1876:
In New South Wales, Australia, Rebecca Levy and Judah Cohen gave birth to Byron
George Cullen.
1881:
In Georgetown, SC, “Louis Seigman Ehrich” and “Cornelia C. Sampson Ehrich” gave
birth Dr. William Seigman Ehrich, who for most of his career “was a surgeon at
Evansville State Hospital.”
http://archives.library.cofc.edu/inventories/mss1054.html
1882:
The London Times published the first of two articles that had been “smuggled
over the Lithuanian border” that described the pogroms taking place in Russia.
1884:
“Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, a brilliant pianist who emerged in the young,
male-dominated American concert world of the 1880s” made “her American debut as
a professional” today “with Chicago’s Beethoven Society.”
1885:
Rabbi Lazare Eliezer Wogue, who was “chair of Jewish theology at the Ecole
Centale Rabbinque at Metz” “was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor” today.
1888(27th
of Tevet, 5648): Prominent Jewish businessman Jacob Magnus passed away. He was buried in Balls Pond Jewish Cemetery,
Islington, Middlesex, England.
1887:
In Brooklyn, Dinah Judith Hyman Blumenthal and Jacob Hersh Blumenthal gave
birth to “architect and engineer” Maurice Blumenthal, who played “a major role in
the digging of the tunnels of the Pennsylvania Railroad under the East and
Hudson rivers and Holland Tunnel and who was the husband of Miriam Slote
Blumenthal with whom he had three children – Pauline, Beulah and Jacqueline.
1888(27th
of Tevet, 5648): Sixty-four-year-old Joshua be Aaron Zeitlin “the scholar and
philanthropist’ who was awarded a medal by Czar Alexander for his services a
contractor for the Russian Army during the Russo-Turkish War passed away today.
1888:
In South Carolina, Frank R. Fisher married May Helen Valentine today.
1888:
In Brooklyn, Dinah Judith Hyman Blumenthal and Jacob Hersh Blumenthal gave
birth to Maurice Blumenthal “an architect and engineer in New York City who
helped to design and build many NYC buildings” while raising three children –
Pauline, Beulah and Jacqueline – with his wife Miriam Slote Blumenthal whom he
married in 1913.
1890:
It was reported today that during December, the Unite Hebrew Charities provided
assistance to 3,578 people who belonged to 778 families in the amount of
$3,381.50 while giving $210 to “87 transients.” (More for 2014)
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F10913FD3F5F10738DDDA80994D9405B8085F0D3
1890(19th
of Tevet, 5650): Parashat Shemot
1890:
It was reported today that Jacob Schiff has given ten thousand dollars “to
Harvard University for the establishment of a museum for the study of the
literature, history and remains of the Semitic people” (When Harvard decided to
change its admission policies because it had too many Jews, it did not return
the funds because it had too much Jewish money)
1891:
The 8th annual meeting of the patrons and members of the Hebrew
Technical Institute was held this morning at 10:30 at 34 Stuyvesant Street
where it was reported that 150 students are now attending the school which
began with only 28 students.
1891(2nd
of Shevat, 5651): Seventy-two-year-old Shmuel Yosef Fin; a/k/a
Samuel
Joseph Fuenn also known as Rashi Fuenn (רש״י פין) and Rashif (רשי״ף), “a
Lithuanian Hebrew writer, scholar, printer, and editor passed away today. He
was a leading figure of the eastern European Haskalah, and an early member of
Ḥovevei Zion who was the father of University of St. Petersburg trained
physician Dr. Benajmin Isaac Fueen.”
1891:
It was reported today that many of the famous 19th century scholars
“were very unhappy at school.” This
included Heinrich Heine who according the “Reisebilder, “used to pray to a big
crucifix ‘O Thou, Poor Deity, if it be possible grant that I may remember the
irregular verbs.”
1892:
It was reported today that Baron de Hirsch refused to accept payment from the
North American Review for an article he had written for the July edition and
had instructed the editor, Lloyd S. Price to send the check for $250 to the
Hebrew Technical Institute.
1892:
Simon Borg, Sol B. Solomon and Abraham Herrman continue to serve as trustees
the Hebrew Technical Institute even though their terms were supposed to end
yesterday because a fight over the by-laws prevented elections from taking
place.
1893:
A large house and saloon belonging to David Sampson, a Jewish resident of
Elizabeth, NJ, burned down today.
1893(23rd
of Tevet, 5653): Fifty-seven-year-old Viennese born lawyer and author Daniel
Spitzer passed away today.
1893:
Commissioner Adolph L. Sanger “was chosen President of the School Board” in New
York today. A native of Baton Rouge, Sanger was a graduate of CCNY and Columbia
and had served as President of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.
1894:
It was reported today that Henry Pereira Mendes, the rabbi at Shearith Israel
who was shot two years ago by a Jew named Joseph Misrachee has been threatened by an unnamed “mendicant
who boasted that he was “one of Mizrachee’s fellows.” The police take the
threat so seriously that they have assigned detectives to find the man who made
approached the rabbi.
1894:
In Baltimore, Rabbi Tobias Schonfarber officiated at the marriage of Mrs. Ida
McKenna and Jacob G. Schonfarber, the editor of The Journal of the Knights of Labor.
1895:
Birthdate of New York native Abraham Wolf Binder, the professor at the New York
Jewish Institute of Religion who served as music director of the Free Synagogue
from 1926 until his death 40 years later during which he time he wrote and
composed a wide variety of religious and secular music.
http://www.594.com/tributes/binder/aw.html
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0765/ms0765.html
1895:
As part of the Dreyfus Affair, Major Ferdinand Esterhazy faces a court-martial
where he is confronted by Colonel Georges Picquart who offers indisputable
evidence of Esterhazy’s guilt and Dreyfus’ innocence. As had happened
previously when Picquart had presented his evidence to the deputy chief of
staff, the court attacks Picquart and disregards his testimony.
1896:
It was reported today that “the United Hebrew Trades and Halevy Singing
Society” were among the organization who took part at ceremonies memorializing
the late champion of Russian freedom Sergey Mikhaylovich Stepnyak-Kravchinsky
1896:
Based on information that first appeared in the Philadelphia Ledger, it was
reported today that Dr. Paul Haupt, a professor at Johns Hopkins University
delivered a lecture “under the auspices of the Gratz College Trustees at Mickve
Israel” on the subject of “The Site of Paradise and the Babylonian Nimrod
Epic.”
1897:
Birthdate of Rudzin, Russia native and husband of Rebecca Russoff, Hyman
Solokov who lived in England from 1901 to 1907 and then moved to Winnipeg where
during WW I he joined the Jewish Legion serving as a signaler until demobilized
in October 1919 after which he pursued a career in journalism and the law.
1897:
In New York City, Lillie and Herman C. Cohn, Sr. gave birth to Ruth Cohen who
became Ruth Wallerstein when she married Morton Ludwig Wallerstein, the native
of Richmond, VA and “a partner in the law firm of Wallerstein, Goode and
Dobbins.
1897:
It was reported today that during the 13 years of its existence the Hebrew
Technical Institute in New York “has graduated 239 students” all of whom but
five are still alive. Approximately 75%
of the graduates are employed in some kind of “mechanical occupation” which
consistent with the kind of training offered by the Institute. (More for 2014)
1898:
It was reported that the late Rudolph Hertzog was unpopular with German Jews
because he refused to employ his co-religionists in his dry goods stores.
1898:
After overcoming considerable opposition because of his origins, Herman P.
Faust, a converted Jew will be ordained as Presbyterian minister.
1898:
Anti-Semitic riots broke out in Paris after Ferdinand Esterhazy was
acquitted by a secret French Military
Court of charges that he, and not Dreyfus, was the spy who had sold military
secrets to the Germans.
1899:
It was reported today that in the deposition that had been cabled from Cayenne
to Paris by Alfred Dreyfus, the convicted Captain denied that he had ever made
a confession “to a Republican Guard or Gendarme’ including Captain
Lebrun-Renault and Colonel du Paty de Calm.
He has “always declared that his innocence would be proved in two or
three years.
1899:
It was reported today that “the Dreyfus affair has…entered one of its bitterest
chapters” when Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire, the President of the Court of
Cassation (France’s court of final appeals) discredited his colleagues as
having conspired with the Dreyfusards in making their upcoming decision on the
Captain’s final appeal. He thought they
were going to overturn the conviction, a move that he opposed as an
“antidreyfusard” who sought to become leader of the French right wing.
1900:
Seth Low, the President of Columbia University presided over a meeting tonight
that was making plans for the upcoming Ecumenical Conference on Foreign
Missions that will include delegates from Palestine.
1901(20th
of Tevet, 5661): Seventy-year-old German native Louis M. Hellman who in 1846
came to the United States where he became “a very successful wine merchant” and
married Clementine Lange Hellman after being married to Lena Hellman passed
away today after which he was buried in the New Mount Sinai Cemetery in Affton,
MO.
1901:
A bill is being prepared that will provide for “a single Commissioner to the
replace of the present State of Board of Charites” that contains members of all
the leading denominates including Catholics and Jews which has been seen as a
way of avoiding religious discrimination in the distribution of funds.
1902(3rd
of Shevat, 5662): Parashat Vaera
1902:
Ceremonies marking the 25th anniversary of anniversary of Dr,
Frederick de Sola Mendes serving as the Rabbi at Shaary Tefillah (later called
The West End Synagogue) are scheduled to come to an end this evening with a
concert and speeches by several dignitaries including the President of the
congregation.
1902:
Jewey Cooke won the English Gold & Silver Belt lightweight boxing
competition in London. (As reported by Bob Wechsler)
1902:
In Belfast, Joseph Morris Cohen and Lillian Rubin Cohen gave birth to Pauline
Cohen who became Pauline Singer after she married Gabe Singer,
1902:
The proposal to replace the State Board Charities, which includes Jews and
Catholics as well as Protestants so that there have been no quarrels over the
disbursement of New York State’s charity funds, with a single Commissioner has
reportedly been opposed by those who fear that this change will lead to charges
of favoritism along sectarian lines.
1903:
Birthdate of Lemberg native Jako Rosenfeld the survivor of Dachau and
Buchenwald who found refuge in the Shanghai which led him to serving with Mao’s
People’s Liberation Army where he was “known as General Luo.”
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3330950,00.html
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/journey-of-an-austrian-jew-in-southern-china-jakob-rosenfeld/
1904:
In Limerick, Ireland, after “Father John Creagh, a Redemptorist, gave a sermon
attacking Jews” the Jews living on Colooney Street closed their shops and
“remained locked in their homes” as the “menacing mobs” moved through the
Jewish neighborhood.
1904:
Birthdate of New York City native Alexander Samalman the editor of several
science fiction publications.
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?16329
http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/samalman_alexander
1905
(5th of Shevat): Chasdic Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter passed away in Góra
Kalwaria, Poland. He was born in Warsaw in 1847. When he was young his father
died, so that when it came time to lead the Ger Hasidic dynasty, he was
under-age, and he refused the mantle of leadership for many years. Eventually
his followers succeeded in gaining his assent for him to become their leader as
Rebbe. Thus he succeeded his grandfather, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter, as the
second Rebbe of the Ger dynasty of Chasidic Judaism. He was a prodigious
scholar and his work the Sfas Emes (or Sfat Emet) deals with the legalistic
Talmud, the ethics of Midrash, and mysticism of the Zohar. During the
Russo-Japanese War many of his young followers were drafted into the Russian
Army and sent to the battlefields in Manchuria. Alter was very worried over
these devotees and would constantly write to them. It began to be detrimental
to his health. He was only 57 when he passed away. He was succeeded by his son
Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter. Following the Holocaust, the Ger dynasty became
a large movement in Israel.
1906:
It was reported today that during a raid by fifty revolutionaries at Livenhoff,
two Jewish merchants were kidnapped and held until “a heavy ransom” was paid
for their release.
1907:
Birthdate of Pierre Mendes France French political leader who was Prime
Minister of France during the Fourth Republic
https://spartacus-educational.com/FRmendes.htm
1908:
In the Bronx, two Russian-Jewish immigrants gave birth to Lionel Jay Stander,
the gravelly voiced actor who had a career in movies, radio, theatre and
television where young viewers might best remember him as the butler on the
television hit “Hart to Hart” but whose career suffered because his labor
activism and the infamous Blacklist.
1909:
“Immigration Row in Hebrew Societies” published today described how “Jacob
Schiff, the most liberal patron of the Sheltering Home Association openly
“attacked the management of the Immigrant Aid Society” over a “circular
received by those who are identified with the Sheltering Home Association” that
claimed the “Association was sailing under false colors” and that the
Association “was receiving credit and financial support for work which really
being done by the Immigrant Society.”
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.
1911:
Birthdate of Berlin native Brunhilde Pomsel who went from being “a stenographer
for a Jewish lawyer” to serving as “the personal stenographer for Joseph
Goebbels.”
1912:
Morris Hillquit debated fellow Socialist “Big Bill” Haywood at New York City’s
Cooper Union. Haywood, who had no qualms
about violent action, claimed that Hilliquit had betrayed the “class struggle”
by helping the garment workers negotiate a contract with their employers.
1912:
Blanche Bloom is scheduled to provide the entertainment at this afternoon’s
meeting of the Deborah and Deborah Junior Society in the Sinai Vestry Rooms in
Chicago.
1912:
“It was estimated that approximately $10,000 was raised at “the charity ball
given” tonight “at the Coliseum” by the Federated Orthodox Jewish Charities
which was attended by “three thousand Chicago Jews.”
1912:
The Russian consul in New York City refused to grant a visa to Jewish
journalist Herman Bernstein.
1913(3rd
of Shevat, 5673): Parashat Bo
1913:
It was reported today “that a year’s grace has been granted by the authorities
to 200” Jewish businessmen “who were affect by a recent government circular
forbidding Jews of a certain category to trade in Kiev” and the “the Minister
of Education has authorized the opening” in Kiev “of four Hebrew schools after”
opposing such a move for a long time.
1914:
The senior Bishop of the Episcopal Church, the Right Rev. Dr. Daniel S. Tuttle,
preaching in Trinity Church” today “devoted part of his sermon to praise of the
Jews and to the debt of Christians to the Jewish race in the civilization and
uplift of mankind” saying the “Christ, His mother, the shepherds” and “the
apostles all…were Jews” and the Jews were “the keepers of early civilization”
and “early wisdom.”
1915:
In Oklahoma City, OK, University of Michigan trained physician Dr. Casriel J.
Fishman, the Vilna born son of Michael and Mattie Goldstein Fishman and his
wife Miriam Goldman Fishman gave birth to Harriet Fishman, the future wife of
Emil Nathan, Jr. and Paul Kalter Weil.
1915:
Dr. Shmaryahu Levin, a former member of the Russian Duma now living in the
United States today “advocated a national loan to save the Jewish nation saying
“that unless immediate steps are taken to save the Jews in Russian and Austria,
this war will wipe them out.”
1915:
“Jews The Chief Sufferers” published today carried a summary of the belief of
Rabbi David de Sola Pool that “if Poland should receive her freedom” they
“would be in a worse position than they are now” and that “their lot will be
equally hard if Poland” becomes part of Germany.
1915:
As of today, the American Jewish Relief Committee has raised nearly $300,000
for relief work from contributors all over the country including the J.P.
Morgan & Co.
1916(6th
of Shevat, 5676): Ninety-year-old merchant Morris Einstein of Chicago passed
away today.
1916:
“The possibilities in the field of Jewish evangelization were discussed by a
hundred Christian leaders representing societies that have established more
than 50,000 churches” in the United States.
1916:
“The American Jewish Relief Committee authorized” today “the distribution of
almost a half million dollars to the Jews suffering from the war” including
$100,000 for the general relief of the Jews in Russia.
1916:
It was announced that “the campaign of organizing braches of industries as
collecting units” for the American Jewish Relief Committee “was progressing
favorably.”
1916:
It was reported today that Abraham Isaac "Abe" Shiplacoff, the
Socialist New York Assemblyman has introduced legislation aimed at getting
President Wilson to get the “belligerent nations” to improve their treatment of
the Jews in Europe.
1917:
As of today, the fund totaling between $30,000 and $40,000 “which the Central
Conference of American Rabbis has raised in the last twenty years” for the
purpose of providing pensions for “for superannuated rabbis” has grown by one
hundred thousand dollars thanks to a contribution in that sum made by Jacob H.
Schiff in honor of his recent birthday.
1918:
Birthdate of composer Albert Weisser.
1918:
It was reported today that the “population of Berlin is dived, roughly into
three classes” including “the middle class which loves Ludendorff because he
gives high posts in the army to Jews…” (Editor’s note – this contemporaneous
comment stands at odds with Ludendorff being one of the prime originators of
the “stabbed in the myth back” and his consorting with Hitler in 1923)
1919:
Private Hyman Rosenberg, the Leeds born son of Morris and Rebecca Rosenberg and
husband of Annie Rosenberg whom he had married at New Briggate Synagogue in
1915 and who joined the Army in 1916 was discharged today after having served
with the 9th Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry.
1919:
Romania’s Jewish population grew today when it annexed Transylvania. Romania
promised that it would grant full emancipation to its Jewish population at the
time of the annexation. The changes were
met with opposition by the National Christian Defense League and riots by
right-wing students.
1920:
It was reported today that “last week’s contributions to the Central Committee
for the Relief of Jews Suffering through the War amounted to $34,700.”
1920:
Today “Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the head of the Jewish Administration Commission,
who has just returned from Palestine” said “the present situation there is
favorable for Jewish immigration” and that he believed “that this year 30,000
Jews” …will be transported to Palestine.
1921:
A month before assuming his responsibilities at the Colonial Office, Winston
Churchill “was in Paris where he discussed” Middle East policy with French
President Alexandre Millerand, “who criticized Britain’s support for a Jewish
National Home.”
1921:
In Budapest, Helene Peto, “a Vienna-born homemaker and Emil Peto, a commodities
broker gave birth to Judith Marianne Peto who gained fame as Judith Lieber, the
luxury handbag doyenne who “was the first woman to become an apprentice and
then master in the Hungarian handbag guild. She survived World War II in hiding
and met her husband—an American soldier—on the streets of Budapest. A GI Bride,
she moved to the United States and began working as a pattern maker and later
foreman at a handbag company before launching her own company in 1963. Lieber's
small firm quickly grew, and she soon opened a factory to produce her designs.
Today, Lieber's handbags, still made in the United States by skilled artisans,
are cherished by celebrities and collectors alike. In 1953, throngs of guests
and reporters turned out to see the Judith Lieber bag carried by Maimie
Eisenhower at her husband's inauguration; every first lady since Nancy Reagan
has carried one. Although she retired from designing handbags in 1998, many of
her most famous lines, including the classic beaded Chatelaine, are still in
production. Her bags have been featured in numerous art exhibitions and are
included in the collections of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, New York's
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington,
D.C., among others.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/leiber-judith
1922:
Insulin was first administered to a human patient with diabetes in Toronto,
Canada. The study of the pancreas and the function of insulin took place over
many decades and took the efforts of numerous scientists. As you would imagine
some of these were Jewish. Two of these were Oscar Minkowski who played a key
role in establishing the relationship between the pancreas and diabetes and
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow who received the 1977 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the
development of the radioimmunoassay for insulin.
1922:
Twenty-seven-year-old WW I combat veteran and Ohio State graduate, Bernard A.
Bergman, the Chillicothe, OH born son of E.L. and Carrie Bergman who went from
being the managing editor of the Jewish Tribune to working as publicist for
several Jewish organizations including the United Palestine Foundation married
Suzanne Weledinger today.
1922:
Release date for “Foolish Wives” billed as Hollywood’s “first million-dollar
move” written, directed and co-starring Erich von Stroheim, co-produced by
Irving Thalberg and Carl Laemmie with music by Sigmund Romberg.
1922:
Birthdate of Lawrence Garfinkel, an epidemiologist with the American Cancer
Society who helped design landmark studies that linked smoking to lung cancer.
(As reported by Denise Grady)
1923:
In Witten, Germany, “Heinrich Nolte, a primary school headmaster, and the
former Anna Bruns” gave birth to “Ernst Nolte, a German revisionist historian
who broke academic taboos by equating Nazism with Bolshevism and who was
denounced as an apologist for Hitler and even the Holocaust.” (As reported by
Sam Roberts)
1924:
In a move that would severely limit Jewish immigration to the United States,
today, the Immigration Committee of the U.S. House of Representative voted for
a measuring restricting “immigration to this country to a basis of 2 per cent
of the foreign citizens of each country here in 1890 with an annual minimum quota
of 200 for each nation.”
1924:
Jack Bernstein, a product of the Lower East Side fought a 15 round draw with
future World Lightweight Champion Sammy Mandell.
1925:
A concert of Jewish Music “under the direction of Lazare Saminksy with
Gottfried H. Federlein at the organ” is scheduled to be given this evening at
Temple Emanu-El.
1925:
“Jews to Dedicate College Dormitory” published today described plans for the
upcoming dedication of the new dormitory at Hebrew Union College which will be
attended by “several thousand women from all parts of the United States” which
is only fitting since “the dormitory is the gift of Jewish women who carried
through the entire financial task of erecting it.”
1926:
Louis Marshall declared tonight that reports that whoever said has promised
twenty million dollars a year from the “creation of a rival Jewish national
home in the Crimea” “is a candidate for the lunatic asylum.”
1926:
Rabbis Nathan Krass, Joseph Silverman and Hyman G.
Enlow are scheduled to officiate at the funeral of 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 who had passed away on January 9th at the St. Regis in New York.
1927:
Birthdate of Gerald Gold, the Brooklyn native who as an editor for the New York Times “helped supervise the
herculean task of combing through a secret 2.5-million-word Defense Department
history of the Vietnam War, later known as the Pentagon Papers, to produce
articles showing that officials had lied about the war…” (As reported by Douglas
Martin)
1927(8th
of Shevat, 5687): Eighty-nine-year-old Laura Mordecai, the daughter Sarah Ann
Hays and West Point graduate Alfred Mordecai and the sister of West Point
graduate, General Alfred Mordecai, Jr. passed away today.
1927:
In New York, at the Sigmund Schwartz Undertaking Rooms, “two thousand friends
and former associates of Sam Paul” attended his funeral where Dr. Edward
Lissman of Riverside Temple delivered the eulogy
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A04E4DB1E3FE733A25751C1A9679C946695D6CF
1927:
“Two thousand friends and former associates of Sam Paul, the east side gambler,
politician and philanthropist attended his funeral” today at Sigmund Schwartz’s
undertaking rooms where Dr. Edward Lissman conducted the services and
“eulogized him as a friend of the poor who good deeds far outweighed his evil
deeds after which hundreds of people accompanied the body to Mount Hebron
Cemetery in Queens.
1927(8th
of Shevat, 5687): Fifty-five year old Benjamin Samuel Faudel-{jo;o[s, the son
of Helen Levy and George Faudel Philips passed away today.
1928:
The Boston Transcript reported that
27-year-old Albert “Dolly” Stark the freshman basketball coach at Dartmouth who
umpired more than 50 college games last year and has umpired in the Eastern
League “will be named as National League umpire” later this month. (Editor’s
Note – No mention was made of he fact that Stark was the first major league
umpire in the modern era)
http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/82284678
1928:
Birthdate of David Wolper “an award-winning movie and television producer best
known for the groundbreaking mini-series Roots.”
1929:
Birthdate of Rafael "Raful" Eitan, the native of Afula who became
Chief of Staff of the IDF, an MK and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel.
1930:
Max Posnack scored seven points to lead St. John’s to victory over CCNY. (As
reported by Bob Wechsler)
1930:
“The Kibitzer” a comedy with a screenplay co-authored by Sam Mintz, Edward G.
Robinson, Viola Brothers Shore and Jo Swerling was released today in the United
States.1931: In New York City. Dorothy Belle (née Feiner) and Richard Rodgers,
the noted composer gave birth to Mary Rodger the author of children’s books who
wrote songs with lyricist Sammy Cahn.
1931:
Governor Franklin Roosevelt and Mayor Jimmy Walker were among the dignitaries
who expressed their sense of loss when informed that Nathan Straus had passed
away today.
-year-old
Abraham Benveniste, the former head of the Alliance Israelite in Turkey, Tunis
and Palestine” passed away today in Istanbul where “he was also the head of the
schools maintained by the Jewish community in Turkey.”
1932:
It was reported today that the Federation of Polish Jews in America is
withdrawing from the Polish-Jewish Good Will Committee because the “the Polish
Government is doing nothing to improve the situation of the Jews” and that to
remain a member would creating a misleading impression for those not acquainted
with the situation.
1933:
“A constitutional amendment vesting in Congress the authority to regulate hours
and conditions of labor and control all natural resources was proposed to a
Senate Judiciary subcommittee today by Hyman Aaron of New York City, who spoke
for the major engineering societies.”
1933:
John S. Cohen who was raised in the Episcopalian faith of his mother Ellen
Gobert Wright and not in the faith of his Jewish father, Philip Lawrence Cohen
completed his service as a United States from Georgia.
1933:
In Hamburg, Germany, the Altona Confession was issued by area pastors. In light
of the confusing political situation and the developing Nazi influence on the
State Church, it offered Scriptural guidelines for those seeking lead a
Christian life.
1932(3rd
of Shevat, 5692): Seventy-three
1934(24th
of Tevet, 5694): R' Yekusiel Yehuda Greenwald, the son of Zisel and Rabbi Moshe
Greenwald and the husband of Rachel Greenwald and Tzipra Greenwald, passed away
today.
1934:
In New York, funeral services are scheduled to be held at Temple Emanu-El for 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 and who was a “senior
member of his father’s banking firm Simon Borg and Company followed by
interment at Salem Fields Cemetery in Cypress Hills.
1935:
“Romance In Manhattan” a comedy starring Francis Lederer was released today in
the United States.
1935:
Hakibbutz Hadati, the religious kibbutz movement was founded. Actually, the
movement was styled after the moshav, which allowed for ownership of private
property. It was affiliated with the HaPoel Ha Mizrachi movement, the religious
Zionist Labor Organization. Its idea was to combine religious life and labor in
a communal agricultural settlement the first being Tirat Tzvi
1935:
“The Night Is Young” produced by Harry Rapf based on a story by Vicki Baum was
released today in the United States.
1936:
“The London Times, editorially
referring to the League” of Nations “refugees report, emphasizes that public
charity…can no long cope with the increasing distress of Jewish exiles and that
land must be found unless the large numbers afflicted are to remain homeless.”
1936:
Today in Warsaw, “the court of appeals upheld the sentence of four anti-Semites
to five and a half years each for the murder of a Warsaw Jew during an
anti-Jewish riot in June, 1934.
1936:
Nobel prize winner Max Plank addressed today’s celebration of the silver
jubilee of the founding of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of
Science during which "he paid tribute to the late Professor Fritz Haber, the
Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the synthetic nitrate process that enabled
Germany to carry on during the war, but whom the National Socialist anti-Jewish
campaign drove into exile and suicide and to the late Franz von Mendelssohn,
another Jew who was the society’s treasurer until his death in June of 1935.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F00815FA3455147B93C0A8178AD85F428385F9
1937:
The American Jewish Committee reported that in Rumania ‘the anti-Jewish faction
has been gaining ground and is coming ‘closer and closer to victory’” thanks,
in part, to the propaganda conducted by German Nazi Agents.
1938:
Today, “in a move dictated both by humane considerations and a desire to strip
the ‘unitarian’ Vargras Government of every possible appearance of Nazism or
Fascism, Brazilian authorities have suspended deportation order that would have
returned 800 to 1,000 Jewish immigrants who ae illegally in” Brazil.
1938(9th
of Shevat, 5698): Sixty-nine year old
Baron Anthony Denis Maurice George de Worms, the noted English philatelist who
was the son of George de Worms and Louisa de Samuel and the husband of Louisa
Matilda Goldsmidt with whom he had three children – Charles, George and Violet
Henrietta de Worms -- passed away today.
1939:
Official figures published tonight show that there are 250,000 refugees on
Czech soil of whom 20,000 are Jewish and 15,000 are Sudeten Jews.
1940(1st
of Shevat, 5700): Rosh Chodesh Shevat
1940:
“The Synagogue Council of America in a statement issued” today “by Dr. David de
Sola Pool, its president, voiced "profound appreciation" of President
Roosevelt's peace message to the Pope and other religious leaders and expressed
the hope that it would find "an echo in hearts filled with sorrow because
of war.”
1940:
“Rigid enforcement of the 8 o’clock curfew decree for Jews in the
Bohemia-Moravia Protectorate began” today “when the police raided restaurants
and coffee houses arresting all the Jews they found there or on the streets”
while “Gestapo agents converged on special rooms set aside for Jews in
restaurants and coffee houses.”
1941(12th
of Tevet, 5701): Parashat Vayechi
1941(12th
of Tevet, 5701): Seventy-two-year-old chess champion Emanuel Lasker passed away
today in New York City
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=19149
http://www.chesscorner.com/worldchamps/lasker/lasker.htm
1941:
According to ruling of the Italian Ministry of the Interior published today,
Jews, including the “so-called discriminated Jews who have special privileges
because of army or party services in the past,” “are forbidden to take part in
any branch of the of the customs administration.”
1942:
The Nazis seized 1,500 Jews in Vienna and sent them by train to Riga.
1942:
Birthdate of Lewis Katz, the native Camden, NJ whose accomplishment included
co-ownership of The Philadelphia Inquirer.
1942:
The Los Angeles Times reported that “Charles A. Levine, the ex-junk dealer who
claimed the now-obscured fame of being the first trans-Atlantic airplane
passenger in 1927, was jailed in New York on a Los Angeles indictment of
conspiring to smuggle a German alien into the United States.”
http://www.jewishmag.com/123mag/jewish-aviators/jewish-aviators.htm
1943:
The Höfle Telegram was sent by SS-Sturmbannführer Hermann Höfle to
SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann in Berlin listing 1,274,166 total
arrivals to the four camps of Aktion Reinhard through the end of 1942, as well
as the total arrivals by camp for the last two weeks of 1942.
1943:
In Brooklyn Sol Zimtoh, the owner of a dry-cleaning store and insurance
salesman and the former Ruth Sadowsky gave birth Yale University trained
attorney Peter Leonard Zimroth “a corporate lawyer and former prosecutor, Mr.
Zimroth was appointed in 2013 by Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of Federal District
Court in New York to oversee reforms in the police department’s boundless
stop-question-and-frisk crime-control strategy.” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.biography&personid=39785
1943:
Birthdate of Steven Neil Posner, the Baltimore native “who with his father,
Victor, was caught up in a major corporate raiding case that led to the
convictions of Ivan F. Boesky and Michael R. Milken.”
1943(5th
of Shevat, 5703): Forty-six-year-old public relations adviser Louis Popkin who
had worked in the campaigns of Governor Herbert Lehman and served as publicity
director for the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies
as well as directing the publicity for fund-raising appeals by Beth Israel
Hospital and the Jewish federation of St. Louis passed away today.
1943(5th
of Shevat, 5703): City College of New York graduate and humor poet Arthur
Guiterman, the Vienna born son of Louisa Wolf and Alexander Guiterman and the husband
of Louisa Wolf and editor of both the Woman’s Home Companion and the Literary
Digest who was a cofounder of the Poetry Society of America passed away today.
https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/guiterman-arthur
1944:
“Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner said today that he had been particularly impressed
by the good care taken of American soldiers in all the theatres he had visited,
including India, the Persian Gulf and the Middle East…Rabbi Brickner is
administrative chairman of the Committee examining religious activities on
behalf of the military as well a member of the National Jewish Welfare Board.”
Brickner shared with his religious counterparts “the task of making a survey of
the morale” of America’s fighting men and women.
1944(15th
of Tevet, 5704): Sixty-seven year old Hermann Struck the German born Jewish
artist who won the Iron Cross First Class for his service in the Kaiser’s Army
during the World War and who made Aliyah in 1922 where he taught at the Bezalel
Academy and helped to establish the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, passed away today
in Haifa/
1944:
The Nazis established the Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp.
1945:
The deportations of Jews from Hungary to Austria have ended. In Budapest,
120,000 Jews await in protected housing for the arrival of the Red Army.
Hungarian Fascist Nyilas thugs entered "protected" Jewish houses
throughout Budapest, murdering dozens of residents. A gang of eight Nyilas
enter one of the houses and kills 15 men, 26 women and one child. Another group
surrounds the Jewish hospital, torturing and killing 95 patients.
1946(9th
of Shevat, 5706): Sixty-seven-year-old University of Cincinnati graduate and
HUC trained rabbi, Jacob S. Raisin, the Minsk born son of Aaron Rasin and the
husband of Jane Lazarus Raisin and father of Aaron, Mordenai and Rachel Raisin
who served Congregation Gemiluth Chesed in Port Gibson, MS before eventually
leading Congregation Beth Elohim in Charleston, SC passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/01/12/88331351.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1946:
While testifying before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine,
Professor Albert Einstein said that Great Britain is “unfit for further
administration of her mandate over Palestine,” that a UN trusteeship should be
established to administer Palestine and that “the great majority of Jewish
refugees in Europe should be settled in Palestine.”
1947(19th
of Tevet, 5707): Parashat Shemot
1947(19th
of Tevet, 5705): Eighty-five-year-old-Rabbi Simon Isaac Finkelstein, the
Lithuanian born son of Judah Tsvi Finkelstein and Feyge Rive Finkelstein and
“husband of Esther Finklestein and Hannah Basha Finkelstein” passed away today
in Brooklyn.
1947:
It was reported today that “The Crimson Key” with a script by Irving Elman will
Sol M. “Wurtzel’s first 1947 production for Twentieth Century-Fox release.”
1947:
This evening at the Waldorf Astoria, “Herbert H. Lehman, the former Governor of
New York and former Director-General of the United Nations Relief and
Rehabilitation Administration” praised Dr. Joseph C. Hyman, the executive vice
chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee “for his extraordinary devotion”
at dinner honoring Hyman “on completing twenty-five years of service with that
organization which is the major American agency assisting Jewish survivors
abroad.”
1947:
In “The Arabs Mobilize” published today Edward P. Morgan provides a snapshot of
the preparation for battle taking place in Palestine.
http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/1947_British-Palestine_Unrest_pdf
1948:
Tonight, “Dr. Emanuel Neumann, president of the Zionist Organization of America
argued that arms and equipment be made available ‘at once to the embattled and
beleaguered Jews of Palestine, legally, openly and through United Nations
channels.’”
1948:
Maurice Fischer, the Jewish Agency Representative in Paris sent a telegram
demanding that the negotiations with the French over allowing them to see
secret British documents recently seized by the Haganah be held in Paris and
not in Jerusalem.
1949:
It was learned today during a front-line visit by Gene Currivan that “during
the recent Negev battle Israeli patrols penetrated deeply into the Sinai
Peninsula and reached Egyptian airfields only eighty miles from the Suez
Canal.”
1949:
The American Jewish Committee charged today that “seventy-five thousand Jewish
residents of Egypt have been the victims of a "general reign of
terror" for the last eight months…”
1950:
“Resolutions urging the Senate to ratify the United Nations Genocide Treaty and
adopt the Celler Displaced Persons Bill were unanimously adopted” today “by the
2,000 delegates at the thirtieth annual convention of the Federation of Jewish
Women’s Organizations” meeting at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel
1951(4th
of Shevat, 5711): Nineteen-year-old Morris Meshulam, the U.S. Army Corporal who
had been captured while fighting against overwhelming odds from attacking
Chinese forces “died today either from severe malnutrition or injuries that he
received during the battle.”
1952:
Cento piccole mamme (One Hundred Littles Mums) a “melodrama” film co-directed
by Léonide Moguy was released today in Italy.
1953:
Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Berg announced the engagement of their daughter Carole
Elayne to Robert Zachary Leventhal.
1953:
Murry Levine of Brooklyn announced the engagement of his daughter Maxine to
Richard S. Orens.
1955. David Jerome Oppenheim an American clarinetist,
and classical music and television producer and the husband of Judy Holiday attended
Canadian pianist Glenn Gould's New York debut after which he signed him to a
contract for Columbia Records.
1956:
Birthdate of Israel Yinon, the native of Kfar Saba who became an
“internationally acclaimed conductor.”
1956:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held today at Temple Emanu-El for
77-year-old for Mrs. Madelin B. Borg, the widow of investment banker Sidney C.
Borg who was a founder of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies for which she
created its women’s division which she led as chairperson for 27 years.
1957(9th
of Shevat, 5717): Fifty-two-year-old New York City native Morris J. Kandel, the
“founder and president of the Bonded Fil Storage Company of New York and the
husband of Celia Kandel with whom he had two daughters – Phyllis and Joan –
passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/01/13/91650643.pdf
1957:
In Savannah, GA, an expanded structure designed to replace the original
Mordecai Sheftall Memorial space was dedicated at Mickve Israel.
1957(9th
of Shevat, 5717): Eighty-six-year-old Rose Sutro the older sister of
Ottilie Sutro with whom she formed “one of the first recognized duo-piano
teams” passed away today.
1958:
A two-day conference on labor relations held in honor of the late Harry A.
Shulman came to an end at Yale Law School where he was the Dean.
1960:
Boris Segal directed “The Emperor’s Clothes” on tonight’s broadcast of The Play
of the Week.
1961:
The Egoz, a small boat leased by the Mossad to smuggle Jews from Morocco to
Gibraltar, capsized. All forty-four of
the olim drowned, half were children.
After the Egoz disaster, the Jewish Agency and the Mossad worked with
threatened Moroccan communities to rescue the children first. In Operation Mural, 530 Moroccan Jewish
children were sent by their families on an ostensible holiday in
Switzerland—and, from there, flown to Israel. (As reported by Diana Muir
Appelbaum)
1962:
Sir Gilbert Mackereth passed away. While serving as a British diplomat in Syria
he sought to limit the number of Jews entering Palestine when in 1937 he called
for an “increase in border patrol” along the Syrian border “due to the high
numbers of Jewish immigrants fleeing Hitler’s Germany.
1962:
CBS broadcast the first episode of “Tell It To Groucho” starring Groucho Marx.
1962(6th
of Shevat, 5722): Seventy-seven-year-old book designer and collector Elmer
Adler who “began collecting books and prints while working at his family's
clothing firm in Rochester, New York” and then moved on to New York where “he
established Pynson Printers” and “began publishing The Colophon, A Book Collectors’ Quarterly” after which he created
“a Department of Graphic Arts at Princeton University” passed away today.
https://rbsc.princeton.edu/collections/elmer-adler-papers
http://research.frick.org/directoryweb/browserecord2.php?-action=browse&-recid=7369
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/01/12/87312449.pdf
1964:
“A Child Is Waiting” based on novel by Abby Mann who also wrote the script,
produced by Stanley Kramer and with music by Ernest Gold was released today in
the United States.
1964(26th
of Tevet, 5724): Parashat Vaera
1964(26th
of Tevet,5724): Seventy-one-year-old Myrtle Goldsmith, the Charleston, SC born daughter
of Fannie Triest Goldsmith and Isaac Alexander Goldsmith passed away today
after she was buried in the Temple Israel Cemetery at Hastings-on-Hudson, NY.
1965:
Morton Halperin and Ina Young gave birth to Mark E. Halperin, American political analyst for Time
magazine and Time.com. and the co-author of Game Change
1966: “The Books Today” list included Jewish
Life in the Ukraine: A Family Saga by Michael Charnofsky with a preface by
Harry Lang.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/books/NNL_ALEPH001004484/NLI
1967: Birthdate of Quebec native Ronnie
Stern “who played in the National Hockey League for 12 seasons with the
Vancouver Canucks, Calgary Flames, and San Jose Sharks.”
1968(10th
of Tevet, 5728): Assara B’Tevet
1968(10th
of Tevet, 5728): Eighty-one-year-old Ben Adler, the husband of Blanche Adler
and the father of Morris and Frances Adler passed away today in Albany, GA.
1968(10th
of Tevet, 5728): Moshe Zvi Segal an eminent Israeli rabbi, linguist and
Talmudic scholar passed away. Segal was born in Lithuania in 1876. In 1896, he
moved with his family to Scotland and subsequently to London. He was ordained
as a rabbi in 1902 and later obtained a degree from Oxford University. He
emigrated to the then British Mandate of Palestine in 1926. In 1936 (jointly
with Raphael Patai) and again in 1950, Segal was awarded the Bialik Prize for
Jewish Thought. In 1954, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for Jewish studies.
1969(21st
of Tevet, 5729): Parashat Shemot
1969(21st
of Tevet, 5729): Seventy-one-year-old Arthur Nathaniel Phillips, the Brooklyn
born son of Michael and Sarah Newman Phillips, the husband of Rose Lieberman
Phillips and the father of Carolyn Phillips Maslansky passed away today after
which he was buried at the Temple Israel Memorial Park in Minneapolis.
1969:
At the George Abbot Theatre, final performance of “The Golden Rainbow”
co-produced by Ira Bernstein, co-starring Steve Lawrence and for which Karl
Bernstein served as Press Representative.
1969:
“A bomb planted in the rear wall of Congregation Shaare Tikvah, Temple Hills,
Maryland severely damaged the kitchen, social hall, and classrooms, with
damages estimated at $200,000.”
1969:
In Hollywood, Kenneth Edwin Richards and Kathleen Mary Richards (nee Dugan)
gave birth to actress and philanthropist Kyle Egan Richards who converted to
Modern Orthodox Judaism when she married her second husband, real estate agent
Mauricio Umansky in 1996, the son of Estella Sneider.
1971(14th
of Tevet, 5731): Eighty-two-year-old “English classical pianist” Irene Scharrer
passed away today.
http://www.pianosage.net/Scharrer.PDF
1971(14th
of Tevet, 5731): Seventy-six-year-old lawyer and New York Politician Philip M.
Kleinfeld who retired from the bench last year passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9901E7D61F38E53BBC4A52DFB766838A669EDE
1971:
Israel's population reached 3,000,000.
1972(24th
of Tevet, 5732): Seventy-five-year-old 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 passed away today.
1972:
In New York City, the former Penny Levy, a Jewish social worker and “Charles D.
Peet, Jr., a Quaker corporate lawyer gave birth to actress Amanda Peet, the
great-granddaughter of Manhattan Borough President Samuel Levy and “theatrical
impresario” Samuel Roxy Rothafel.
1972:
East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh. East Pakistan had gained its independence from
Pakistan as a result of war between India and Pakistan. “The major general who
masterminded and spearheaded India’s offensive, and who accepted Pakistan’s
surrender, was Jack Frederick Ralph Jacob, the scion of an old Jewish family
from Calcutta.” There are no definite numbers available as to the size of the
current Jewish population of Bangladesh due to a fear of persecution.
1974:
ABC aired the 112th and final episode of the populate comedy-drama
“Room 222” created by James L Brooks with theme music created by Jerry
Goldsmith.
1974:
The United States tour of the Leningrad Kirov Ballet Theatre “was called in
part because of public protests over Soviet refusal to allow Valery and Galina
Panov to leave for Israel.”
1975:
CBS broadcast “The 2000 Year Old Man,” an “animated television special” written
by Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, who also provided the vocalizations
1976:
Stephen Sondheim’s “Pacific Overtures” opened on Broadway at the Winter Garden
Theatre.
1977:
Bollingen Prize is awarded to David Ignatow, the Brooklyn born New Yorker who
has published sixteen volumes of poetry and three prose collections. Included
in these are Poems, The Gentle Weightlifter, Say Pardon, Figures of the Human,
Earth Hard: Selected Poems, Rescue the Dead, Poems: 1934-1969, Facing the Tree,
Selected Poems-1975, Tread the Dark, Whisper to the Earth, Leaving the Door
Open, Shadowing the Ground, Despite the Plainness of the Day: Love Poems-1991,
Against the Evidence, and I Have a Name. He has taught at Columbia, the New
School for Social Research, the University of Kentucky, the University of
Kansas, York College of the City University of New York, New York University,
and Vassar College. At various times he has worked as an editor for the
American Poetry Review and Beloit Poetry Journal. The National Institute of
Arts and Letters has presented to Mr. Ignatow an award "for a lifetime of
creative effort." His work has been recognized also with the Bollingen
Prize, two Guggenheim fellowships, the Wallace Stevens fellowship from Yale University,
the Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, the Poetry Society of America's Shelly
Memorial Award, and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is
president emeritus of the Poetry Society of America and a member of the
executive board of the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association. Ignatow passed away
in 1997.
1977:
France set off an international uproar by releasing Abu Daoud, a Palestinian
suspected of involvement in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich
Olympics
1978(3rd
of Shevat, 5738): Eighty-four-year-old criminal defense attorney Samuel Simon
Leibowitz who was most famous for his defense of the “Scottsboro Boys” passed
away today.
1981(6th
of Shevat, 5741); Seventy-four-year-old New York born WW II infantry combat
veteran and holder of a Ph. D from Columbia Harry Louis Levy, the former
classics professor at Hunter, “the former vice chancellor of the City
University of New York” and “visiting professor of classical studies at Duke”
who was the husband of “the former Ernestine Friedl and the father of English
professor Charles S. Levy and Ann L. Lathrop passed away today.
1982:
The New York Times includes a review of The Dean’s December. It
is Saul Bellow’s ninth novel and his first since he won the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1976.
1983(26th
of Tevet, 5743): Seventy-seven-year-old Harold L. Steinfeld, the son of Martha
Levy and Maurice Steinfeld passed away in Alameda, CA.
1984:
Religious women of many backgrounds gathered for a Women of Faith conference
sponsored by the American Jewish Committee. “The three-day conference was
sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and brought together 100 Protestant,
Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Jewish women. Those in attendance shared
personal stories of bias and exclusion within their churches and synagogues and
searched for new ways to empower women within communities of faith, linking the
struggles of women for parity in religious settings to the broader feminist
struggle for economic and political justice. The conference reflected two
important and growing trends. On the one hand, many of the women found that
their faith influenced their thinking as feminists and their commitment to
broad social change. At the same time, they brought their critical feminist
thought to both their understanding and practice of religion. As women began to
look critically at religion through feminist lenses, they insisted—not always
successfully—that communities of faith adopt a less hierarchical, more
egalitarian approach and advocated for the views and needs of women to be
addressed. According to conference organizer Inge Gabel, many women in fact
became more involved in religion because of their feminist social activism. She
explained, "It isn't just that women are dealing with emotions, but we
have something just as important to say intellectually, theologically,
politically, and morally." (Jewish Women’s Archives)
1984:
Birthdate of Oshri Cohen, the Israeli actor who starred in “Beaufort.”
1986:
In an article published today famous chef Marian Buros described the
delicatessen started by Arnold Reuben as “the quintessential New York
restaurant" decorated with "Italian marble, gold-leaf ceiling, lots
of walnut paneling and dark red leather seats.”
1986:
Sir Malcolm Leslie Rifkind began serving as Secretary of State for Scotland.
1987:
The complexities of life in Israel will be the focus of a five-part film series
starting today entitled ''A Lens on Israel: Society Through Its Cinema'' at the
92d Street Y. Sunday's film is ''Again, Forever'' and deals with political
corruption during the 1977 elections. The guest speaker, who will lead a
discussion after the 1984 film, is Yael Dayan, the daughter of Moshe Dayan and
the author of ''My Father, His Daughter.'' Admission to Sunday's film, which
will be shown at 7:30 P.M., is $7. A subscription to the entire series is $30.
Other movies to be shown on successive Sundays include ''Dead End Street''
(1982), about a prostitute in Tel Aviv; ''Kazablan'' (1973), a musical that
addresses the tensions among Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews; ''Paratroopers''
(1976), which focuses on the values and attitudes of the Israeli army, and
''Smile of the Goat'' (1985), the story of a shattered friendship between an
Israeli soldier and an Arab patriarch. The Y is at 92d Street and Lexington
Avenue. To order tickets, the number is 996-1100.
1988:
Israeli television reported tonight that a Palestinian was shot dead in the
Khan Yunis refugee district in the Gaza Strip as he tried to grab a soldier's
rifle. He was identified by the Palestine Press Service, an Arab-run news
agency, as Mustafa Youssef Khadir, 20 years old.
1988(21st
of Tevet, 5748): Eighty-nine-year-old Nobel Prize winning nuclear physicist
Isidor Isaac Rabi passed away He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1944.
According to Rabbi Fred Davidow, The Healer of Shattered Hearts: A Jewish
View of God by David Wolpe contains the following story about Rabi.
"The renowned physicist I. I. Rabi was once asked to name the most
significant intellectual influence in his life. The interviewer expected to
hear "Einstein" or perhaps "Newton." "My mother,"
Rabi replied instantly. For each day, he explained, when he would come home
from cheder ..., his pious mother would say to him, 'So Isaac, did you ask any
good questions today?' From her, said Rabi, he learned that the key to wisdom
is to ask good questions."
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1944/rabi-facts.html
1989:
The High Court has overturned an Israeli military censor's ban for the first
time, allowing the publication of criticism of the head of the Mossad
intelligence agency. In its ruling today, the court said the Tel Aviv weekly
Ha'ircould print an article questioning the competence of the Mossad chief,
whose name is barred from publication. A Ha'ir journalist, Aluf Ben, 24 years
old, said his article, which is to be published Friday, criticized Mossad's
role in the Iran-contra arms scandal and the Pollard spy affair, in which an
American naval analyst passed American secrets to Israel. The article, which
has been banned since August, also blames the Mossad chief for the discovery of
Israeli-faked British passports in West Germany and the expulsion of Mossad
agents from Britain last year, Mr. Ben said. The evening newspaper Maariv
printed more criticism of the agency's director, but some other newspapers said
their reports had been censored. Mossad Chief to Retire The Mossad chief is to
retire soon after six years at his post. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's office
denied any link between the retirement and publication of the article. Ben said
the Mossad director was appointed hastily in 1982 as a stopgap during Israel's
invasion of Lebanon, when the proposed new chief was killed in an ambush there.
Asked how the court verdict could change his decisions to bar news items, the
military censor, Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Shani, said, ''The only thing I can say is
that censorship will obey the court.''
1990:
According to reporter Michael Wines, following the invasion of Panama, U.S.
officials are still trying to understand the role Mike Harari, a 62-year-old
retired agent of the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, played under the
role of General Noriega. “Mr. Harari is variously rumored to have been an
Israeli spy, a gun-runner, or a military adviser to General Noriega. But Mr.
Harari, who was rarely seen in public when General Noriega was in power has
insisted that he is none of the above, but simply an ordinary businessman. Some
Americans and Panamanians describe Mr. Harari as one of General Noriega's
closest associates - a man who placed the general's daughters in an Israeli
kibbutz one summer, who managed some of the general's business ventures and who
used his Israeli Government contacts to entertain and protect his powerful
friend. Mr. Harari was born in Tel Aviv. He joined the Haganah, the Jewish
militia that preceded the Israeli Army, at the age of 18 in 1945, three years
before Israel's independence. After a stint in Rome in which he helped to
smuggle Jews into Palestine, he began a career as a counterintelligence
specialist for Mossad, the Israeli spy agency. Mr. Harari is reported to have
helped in the planning and execution of Israel's successful strike at Uganda's
Entebbe airport in 1976, which freed 105 Israelis held hostage by Palestinian
terrorists who had hijacked their plane. Prime Minister Golda Meir also
assigned him to head a hit squad that located and assassinated the Palestinian terrorists
who massacred 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. That group
completed its task, but not before the commandos misidentified a Moroccan
waiter in a restaurant in Norway as one of the Black September killers and
gunned him down before horrified diners. Six commandos were imprisoned in
Norway; a 1988 report said that Mr. Harari was dispatched to Mossad's Mexico
City station until the furor died down. While based in Mexico he visited Panama
and became friends with Gen. Omar Torrijos Herrera, then Panama's leader, and
his intelligence chief, Lieutenant Colonel Noriega. When General Noriega seized
power and elevated his rank after General Torrijos died in a mysterious plane
accident in 1981, the friendship between the two men blossomed. Mr. Harari has
said he retired from Mossad in 1980 to enter private business. In recent years
he has shuttled between Israel, Panama and other Central American nations, and
he once arranged a trip by General Noriega to Israel, where the general bought
at least one house. Mr. Harari also arranged for Panamanian counterterrorist
commandos to receive training in Israel, Mr. Stone said. The commandos also
served as an elite security detail for the general. In turn, Mr. Harari reaped
some profits of his own. At Mr. Harari's apparent behest, Mr. Stone said,
General Noriega shifted a contract to service Panamanian aircraft in the United
States from a longtime supplier to a Miami business owned by an Israeli
aviation company. He also negotiated a sale of Israeli-made radar and
air-traffic control equipment to Panama's military, he said. According to one
official, Mr. Harari was nicknamed ''Mr. Sixty Percent'' for the large
commissions he made on the deals he brokered. General Noriega also made Mr.
Harari his honorary consul and commercial attache in Israel.
1992:
Paul Simon opens a tour in South Africa. This was his first appearance in South
Africa after the boycott of the formerly white supremacist government had
ended. Simon played a key role in bringing certain types of African music to
Western audiences.
1992:
Journalist Amnon Dankner published a biography of Dahn Ben-Amotz
1993:
Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Buffalo NY (WKBW).
1933:
Birthdate of Parisian native Flora Cross, the daughter of journalist Joseph
Cross, whose noted roles included that of “Eliza” in the “Bee Season.
1994:
“First Impressions” published today described the first meeting between
Benjamin Disraeli and his future wife Mrs. Wyndham Lewis whom he described as
“a pretty little woman, a flirt and a rattle, indeed gifted with volubility I
should think unequalled and of which I can convey no idea” who “told me she
liked silent, melancholy men.”'
1995(10th
of Shevat, 5755): Eighty-five-year-old Russian-born American violinist Josef
Gingold passed away today.
1995(10th
of Shevat, 5755): Eighty-three year old Anna Weiner, the Pennsylvania born
daughter of Louis Lazarus and wife of Myer Weiner passed away today after which
she was buried at Mount Sharon Cemetery in Springfield, PA.
1995:
Robert Rubin completed his service as Director of the National Economic Council
and began serving as the 70th Secretary of the Treasury.
1997:
On the third day of, the Red Sea International Music Festival, the festival
returns to Eilat where the opera chorus performs an “a capella” concert at 11
A.M. At 9 P.M. attendees are treated to an orchestral concert entitled ''Romeo
and Juliet in Music'' with the Berlioz symphony and the Prokofiev ballet suite.
1998:
The New York Times featured a review of the paperback edition of Don’t
Call It Night by Amos Oz; translated by Nicholas de Lange. “Not
surprisingly, the author's latest novel is set in his native Israel, but it is
not a landscape of political turmoil and terrorism that he surveys, but one of
discordant domesticity between two middle-aged lovers.”
2000:
On his return from West Virginia, Prime Minister Ehud Barak tonight broke the
silence that governed the closed-door negotiations with Syria to say that the
peace talks had reached a ''decisive stage'' in which both sides would have to
make difficult decisions
2000:
“Titus,” the soundtrack for the motion picture of the same name, written by
Elliot Goldenthal was released today in the United States by Sony.
2001:
As the attempt to control cell phone usage in such places as churches and
restaurants heats up Gil Israeli, the chief executive of NetLine, located in
Tel Aviv, is quoted as saying that a sign saying ''No Cell Phones'' does not go
far enough. Mobile phones have become such a public nuisance, he said, that a
technological fix is required. His solution is the C-Guard Cellular Firewall, a
cell phone jammer developed by his company about two-and-a-half years ago.
2001:
In the following letter-to the editor of the Wall Street Journal the
leaders of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs take issue with a column by
Ira Stoll that “attacks” Rabbi Yitz Greenberg and U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Council.
On
behalf of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), which represents 13
national and 123 local Jewish community relations and public affairs
organizations throughout the United States, we want to express our dismay over
Ira Stoll’s op-ed in the December 29 edition attacking Rabbi Yitz Greenberg.
Any reasonable person who has read the full text of Rabbi Greenberg’s speech
given last November at the United Jewish Communities’ General Assembly in
Chicago -- which provided the selective quotes that formed the basis for Mr.
Stoll’s attack -- will conclude that the op-ed is a blatant distortion of
reality. Rather than accusing Israeli soldiers and policemen of using excessive
force in responding to the recent Palestinian violence, Rabbi Greenberg,
Chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, actually praises them for
their restraint under extraordinarily difficult circumstances. He notes that in
a small number of cases there may have been an overreaction and that Israeli
officials are properly investigating them. Rabbi Greenberg, who has had a long
and illustrious career supporting Israel and the Jewish people, was simply
doing in this speech what he has been doing for decades -- providing our
community with a thoughtful, loving analysis of the dilemmas Israel faces in
exercising power in one of the world’s toughest neighborhoods. Mr. Stoll also
unfairly attacks the Council that administers the Holocaust Museum. While no
institution is beyond criticism, we believe that overall this important
institution has done an outstanding job of educating Americans and its many
visitors from abroad about the history of the Holocaust and current human
rights concerns. We are confident that under Rabbi Greenberg’s inspired
leadership the Museum will continue to serve this important function.
Sincerely,
Chairperson
Leonard A. Cole,
Executive
Vice Chairperson Hannah Rosenthal
2002:
In “When Jews Found a Place Among European Artists,” published today Grace
Glueck provides a fascinating trip through the world of Jewish art as she
reviews an exhibition at the New York’s Jewish Museum, ''The Emergence of
Jewish Artists in 19th-Century Europe.''
2002:
“Orange County” a comedy directed by Jake Kasdan, produced by Scott Rudin and
starring Jack Black was released today in the United States.
2003(8th
of Shevat, 5763): Parashat Bo
2003(8th
of Shevat, 5763): In what were described as the “deadliest attacks against
Israel in ten months, in “near simultaneous attacks,” two Palestinians bombers
“blew themselves up in a crowded Tel Aviv neighborhood killing 200 people and
injuring” another 100 victims.
2004:
The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The Battle For Rome The
Germans, the Allies, the Partisans, and the Pope, September 1943-June 1944
by Robert Katz (author of Black Sabbath, a Holocaust study of the
deportation of the Jews of Rome) and The Doctor’s Plague: Germs, Childbed
Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis by Sherwin B. Nuland.
2004:
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel said today that he saw no risk that
Palestinians could undermine Israel's Jewish identity by gaining a demographic
majority, dismissing a reason pressed by some members of his Likud faction for
a swift exit from some of the occupied territories
2005:
While delivering a speech opposing the disengagement plan from Gaza, Effi Eitam
called Prime Minister Sharon a “refuser of democracy.”
2006:
The New York Times described the struggle of F Line Bagels to remain
open despite attempts by the MTA to stop the owners from selling what has been
a traditionally New York Jewish delight in an atmosphere that resembles a
sanitized version of a subway station.
2006:
Senator Barak Obama visits a remote Israeli town with Chicago ties.
2006:
The Nation published Elizabeth Holtzman's essay calling for the
impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush for authorizing "the
wiretapping of hundreds, possibly thousands, of Americans, in violation of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act."
2007:
The free newspaper Israeli which is poised on the brink of closure
published its last edition. Israeli is a Hebrew language daily with a
press run of 150,000 copies that is handed out free at such locations as bus
and train stations, as well as malls and other business centers.
2007:
Ruth Dayan was awarded the Partner of Peace Award by the Neve Shalom/Wahat
al-Salam community, a cooperative village of Jews and Arabs mid-way between
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
2007:
The Baltimore Jewish community bade farewell to Morton “Sonny” Plant at his
funeral held at Chizuk Amuno Congregation.
2007:
Representative James “Jim” McGorvern introduced a House Resolution to Reverend
Waitstill Sharp and Marsha Sharp for their recognition by Yad Vashem “as
Righteous Among the Nations for their heroic efforts to save Jews during the
Holocaust.”
2008:
Today's edition of the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles published a
detailed report about The Spinka Financial Controversy alongside a number of
subsidiary articles.
2008:
In New York City, the 92nd Street “Y” presents “Desert Soul Music” featuring
Matt Turk and Basya Schechter, the founder of the neo-Chasidic world music band
Pharaoh’s Daughter..
2009:
In Irvine, CA, Volley Ball Team USA tries out as part of the 18th Maccabiah
Games.
2009:
BBC Four was devoted to a "Maureen Lipman Night
2009:
The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The Letters of Allen Ginsberg,
edited by Bill Morgan, The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary
Snyder edited by Bill Morgan and The Journey by H.G. Adler.
2009:
The Washington Post featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or
of special interest to Jewish readers including Sashenka, Simon Montefiore's
first novel and With Wings Like Eagles by Michael Korda.
2009:
A pro-Israel rally was held at Lincolnwood Jewish Congregation this afternoon
to respond to the spate of hate crimes and support Operation Cast Lead in the
Gaza Strip.
2009:
Israel's "Waltz with Bashir" won the Golden Globe for best foreign
language film.
2009:
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered a moving eulogy today at the
military funeral of a Jewish soldier killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. At
the request of the slain soldier's family, donning a yarmulke, Rudd delivered a
euology, telling almost 2,000 mourners at Melbourne's Lyndhurst Jewish Cemetery
that Pvt. Gregory Sher's death was not in vain
2009:
JTA reported that As Good As Anybody by Richard Michelson and illustrated by
Raul Colon, a book that traces the lives and friendship of the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel won the Sydney Taylor Award
for Young Readers which is an award for Jewish children's literature.
2010:
The Oy!hoo Music Festival, which is designed to bring together established, new
and emerging artist in the Jewish and Israeli music scene in New York City is
scheduled to take place at The City Winery in New York City.
2010:
The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) is scheduled to
conduct a walking tour for English speakers living in Jerusalem of Montefiore's
Windmill and the Yemin Moshe neighborhood.
2010: The U.S. Army
will double the value of emergency military equipment it stockpiles on Israeli
soil, and Israel will be allowed to use the U.S. ordnance in the event of a
military emergency, according to a report in today’s issue of the U.S. weekly Defense
News.
2010: A leading
pro-Israel congressman hosted a business meeting in his offices between Israeli
officials and a defense contractor in which he profitably invested. Rep. Gary
Ackerman (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Middle
East subcommittee, told the New York Daily News, which published the
revelation today that he did not profit in any way from the meeting between
Alan Magerman, the founder of Xenonics, and two Israeli officials.
2010: Remains of a
prehistoric Tel Aviv building, which is the earliest ever discovered in the
area and estimated to be 7,800-8,400 years' old, have been unearthed in an
archaeological excavation, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced today.
2010: Miep Gies, the
office secretary who defied the Nazi occupiers to hide Anne Frank and her
family for two years and saved the teenager's diary, passed away today at the
age of 100
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/12/miep-gies-anne-frank
2010: Game Change:
Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime a book
by political journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin about the 2008 United
States presidential election was released in the United States today.
2011: The 92nd
Street Y is scheduled to present a program entitled “Undoing the Inquisition”
featuring Rabbi Juan Mejia.
2011: The Historic 6th
& I Synagogue in Washington, DC, is scheduled to host “Food for Thought:
Digesting Ethics, Mysticism and Philosophy with Rabbi Yosef Edelstein of
MesorahDC.
2011: A senior Islamic
Jihad militant was killed today by an Israel Air Force missile while he was
driving a motorcycle in the southern Gaza Strip, according to local Palestinian
officials.
2011: Debbie Friedman
was eulogized at her funeral today by friends, rabbis, and fellow musicians,
both in words and through the songs she composed and sang, which transformed
Jewish worship in synagogues and summer camps.
2011: The Los Angeles
City Council adjourned its meeting in memory of Friedman, whom Councilmember
Paul Koretz eulogized saying "Anyone who has ever attended a liberal
Jewish synagogue or summer camp or youth group event has been touched by Debbie
Friedman. He added: "She was always ahead of the curve -- be it in songs
for lifecycle events, Jewish feminist music, or interfaith spirituality. May
her memory -- and her music -- be a blessing."
2011: The Jewish Book
Council announced today that “When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic
Struggle To Save Soviet Jewry,” Gal Beckerman’s comprehensive history of the
popular movement to save Soviet Jews in the latter half of the 20th century is
the winner of the Jewish Book of the Year Award
2011: Today, the
Jerusalem Post published the following list of notables who passed away in
2010:
Theodore "Ted" Sorensen, 82, was President John F.
Kennedy's speechwriter, a longtime adviser and a ghostwriter of Kennedy's
"Profiles in Courage."
Daniel "Danny the Red" Bensaid, 63, a French philosopher
and former student radical who was a leader in the student revolt in Paris in
1968, was described as France's leading "Marxist public intellectual"
upon his death.
Ruth Proskauer Smith, 102, was an abortion rights pioneer.
Harry Schwarz, 85, was a South African anti-apartheid activist who was his
country's ambassador to the United States during the transition from apartheid
to the Mandela government. He also was a leader of South Africa's Jewish Board
of Deputies, and he worked with Israeli leaders to ensure the safety and future
of South African Jewry. Schwarz told his own story as part of a museum exhibit
of German refugees in South Africa.
David Kimche, 82, was a founding father of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency
and a spy who worked undercover in Africa and with the Christian Phalangists in
Lebanon before Israel's 1982 war there.
Dov Shilansky, 86, was a former Speaker of the Knesset.
Tony Curtis, 85, actor and artist, was born in the Bronx as Bernard Schwartz. A
major sex symbol on the big screen from the 1950s on, Curtis helped finance the
rebuilding of the Great Synagogue in Budapest in honor of his Hungarian roots.
Tom Bosley, 83, was probably best known as Richie Cunningham's dad, Howard, on
the sitcom "Happy Days." The Jewish Exponent published a piece on
Bosley in 2006 when he appeared in a stage production of "On Golden
Pond" in Philadelphia.
Zelda Rubinstein, 76, a diminutive (4-foot-3) actress who won a science fiction
film award for her role in "Poltergeist" in 1982, was an activist for
"little people."
Harold Gould, 86, was best known for his role as the father of Rhoda
Morgenstern in the TV sitcoms "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and
"Rhoda." Gould, who held a doctorate in theater, taught for four
years at the University of California, Riverside, before turning to acting. He
appeared in dozens of TV shows and movies, including "The Sting."
Gould was originally cast as Howard Cunningham in "Happy Days."
Maury Chaykin, 61, known for portraying detective Nero Wolfe on TV, had film
roles in "Dances With Wolves," "WarGames" and "My
Cousin Vinny."
Steve Landesberg, 74, an actor, comedian and voice actor, was best known for
his work on TV's "Barney Miller."
Bud Greenspan, 84, who was best known for his production of documentaries about
the Olympics, was called a "trailblazing filmmaker" by The Los
Angeles Times.
Irvin Kershner, 87, a film director, was most noted for "The Empire
Strikes Back," the 1980 sequel to the original "Star Wars" film.
Ingrid Pitt, 73, a Holocaust survivor, was an actress in horror films in the
1960s and 1970s.
Eddie Fisher, 82, was a pre-rock-era pop singer. He was married to actress
Debbie Reynolds, but left her, scandalously, for actress Elizabeth Taylor -- a
move that cost him his "Coke Time" TV series and a recording contract
in 1959. Fisher made the first commercial recording of "Sunrise,
Sunset" from "Fiddler on the Roof."
Mitch Miller, 99, a record company executive and conductor who became famous
for his 1960s TV show "Sing Along With Mitch," (video clip here) was
known for speaking derisively about rock and roll. He passed on signing
contracts with Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly.
Malcolm McLaren, 64, was a rock and punk music impresario and performer who was
most noted for managing the Sex Pistols, a seminal British punk band in the
1970s. London's The Telegraph ran an extensive obituary and photographs after
his death.
Doug Fieger, 57, was co-founder of the power pop band The Knack and writer of
the 1979 hit song "My Sharona."
David Soyer, 87, was founding cellist of the Guarnieri String Quartet, one of
the modern era's most celebrated chamber music ensembles.
David Deckelbaum, 71, a Canadian/Israeli folk musician from the group "The
Taverners," was described by the Israeli daily Haaretz as an "iconic
banjoist" on the folk music scene in Israel. Click here to see a video of
Deckelbaum and the Taverners on Israeli television.
Daniel Schorr, 93, was an award-winning journalist whose name appeared on Richard
Nixon's "enemies list" and who angered both government officials and
his employers for being a stickler for journalistic ethics and the protection
of sources. Schorr spent many years as a commentator for National Public Radio.
The station produced a lovely package of stories, audio clips and tributes
about Schorr after his death.
Harvey Pekar, 69, was a cartoonist best known for his autobiographical comic
series, "American Splendor." His life was the subject of a 2003 film
with the same title, starring actor Paul Giamatti as Pekar and featuring a
cameo by Pekar himself.
J.D. Salinger, 91, was one of the 20th century's most celebrated and reclusive
American authors. Salinger's 1951 novel, "The Catcher in the Rye,"
still sells a quarter-million copies a year. The New York Times critic Michiko
Kakutani said Salinger "domesticated the innovations of the great
modernists" and presaged the work of writers such as Philip Roth and Saul
Bellow.
Erich Segal, 72, was an author and professor whose novel (and later film),
"Love Story," became a touchstone of youthful romance in the 1970s.
The film's signature line, "Love means never having to say you're
sorry," was 13th on the American Film Institute's list of top 100 movie
quotes. Segal, the son of a rabbi, also produced scholarly works in the fields
of Greek and Latin literature.
Abraham Sutzkever, 96, was an acclaimed Yiddish poet who was considered one of
the great poets of the Holocaust. Born in the Russian Empire, he was a partisan
during World War II and spent more than 50 years in Israel, writing what
Israeli scholar Miriam Trin called some of the greatest poetry of the 20th
century. However, he was largely unknown in Israel because he wrote in Yiddish.
Shmuel Katz, 83, was a well-known Israeli caricaturist and illustrator of
children's books. Haaretz said Katz, an Austrian Holocaust survivor who
immigrated to Israel in 1948, drew some of Israel's "best-loved"
children's books.
David Slivka, 95, who once famously made a death mask of his friend Welsh poet
Dylan Thomas, was a sculptor and painter. The New York Times described
Slivka as "one of the last living members of the New York school of
Abstract Expressionists." His paintings and sculptures are in the
permanent collections of many major museums, including the Smithsonian's
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Brooklyn Museum.
Martin Ginsburg, 78, was an internationally renowned taxation law
expert and law professor, as well as the husband of Supreme Court Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg.
Howard
Zinn, 87, was a radical historian and author of, among other titles, "A
Peoples History of the United States."
Adam Max Cohen, 38, was an associate professor of English at the University of
Massachusetts Dartmouth. A Shakespeare scholar, he wrote about how the
illiteracy caused by his terminal brain tumor enabled him to gain new insights
into appreciating Shakespeare's plays as performance art, and not only as great
literature.
Martin Grossman, 45, was executed in Florida 26 years after his conviction for
the murder of a Florida wildlife officer. The Orthodox world campaigned to keep
Grossman from execution.
Rosa Rein of Switzerland, who was believed to be the world’s oldest Jew and the
oldest Swiss citizen, died in February, just weeks before her 113th birthday.
Mark Madoff, 46, was an American businessman and son of the infamous Bernard
Madoff.
Miep Gies, 100, was a non-Jewish Dutch woman who enabled Anne Frank and her
family to hide, and who later discovered and preserved Frank's diary. She was
honored by many organizations in later years, including the Yad Vashem
Holocaust memorial organization in Israel.
http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=203071
2012: ‘The Bintel Brief
Exhibit’ is scheduled to open at the Sixth and I synagogue in Washington, D.C.,
2012: “400 Miles to
Freedom,” the untold story of the 1984 exodus of co-director Avishai Mekonen
and his secluded Jewish community from the mountains of Northern Ethiopia is
scheduled to be the opening feauture at the New York Jewish Film Festival.
2012: Yeshiva
University Museum is scheduled to present: Curator’s Tour: Old and the New:
Mark Podwal’s Textiles for the Altneuschul in Prague
2012: “The Cantor’s
Son” is scheduled to be shown at the Yiddish Film Series/ Fundación Marcelino
Botín in Santander, Spain
2012: The leading
French newspaper Le Figaro reported today that Israeli Mossad agents are
recruiting and training Iranian dissidents from Iraq’s Kurdish region to work
against the regime in Tehran. Quoting a security source in Baghdad, Le Figaro
reported that members of the Israeli intelligence agency
2012: An explosive
thrown through the window of a New Jersey synagogue and residence is being
treated as attempted murder, the Bergen County prosecutor said. The latest in a
string of attacks that have hit the county's synagogues recently took place
this morning at Congregation Beth El in Rutherford.
2013: The Studio Opera
Singers of the Israel Opera are scheduled to perform at the Eden-Tamir Music
Center.
2013: “Nor In Tel Aviv”
is scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival.
2013: In London, The
Wiener Library is scheduled to present a lecture by Naomi Shepherd will
described how Wilfrid Israel used his personal fortune and the resources of his
firm to rescue “thousands of Jews from Nazi persecution from the 1930’s until
his death in 1943.”
2013: New election
polls headlined today by the Hebrew-language dailies Yedioth Ahronoth and
Maariv echoed several trends first revealed in The Times of Israel’s major
opinion poll published earlier this week. The headline in Maariv blared that
“25% of the public are still undecided” on whom to vote for in the January 22
general elections and added that most of those who have yet to make up their
minds come from the center-left bloc.
2013: Medical sources
in Gaza said today that IDF gunfire killed one Palestinian and injured another
east of the Jabaliya refugee camp near the border, AFP reported. The IDF
Spokesman's Office stated that dozens of Palestinian rioters approached the
Gaza border fence this afternoon and did not heed IDF warnings to desist.
2013(29th of
Tevet, 5773): Oscar Straus II Chairman Emeritus of the Daniel and Florence
Guggenheim Foundation, and the Fred Lavanburg Foundation passed away today. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestar/obituary.aspx?pid=162300264#fbLoggedOut
http://www.theirregular.com/news/2013-01-16/Obituaries/Oscar_S_Straus_II.html
2013(29th of
Tevet, 5773): Twenty-six-year-old programmer Aaron Swartz “was found dead”
today. (As reported by John Schwartz)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/technology/aaron-swartz-internet-activist-dies-at-26.html?hpw&_r=0
2014: The New York
Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to
show “The Jewish Cardinal” and “The Congress”
2014: The 92nd
Street Y is scheduled to host a Saturday night dance party as part of its
inaugural “Out of Israel” Dance Festival.
2014: “Nadine Animato”
Theater Dance Company which was established in 2009 by choreographer Nadine
Bommer in Rishon Lezion, Israel is scheduled to perform at the City Center.
2014(10th of
Shevat): Yarhrzeit of Rabbi Joseph Isaac Sneersohn
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/110174/jewish/Rabbi-Yosef-Yitzchak-Schneersohn.htm
2014(10th of Shevat, 5774: Ariel Sharon passed away.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/01/10/world/middleeast/sharon_timeline.html#/#time130_4321
2015: The New York
Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including CHINA 1945: Mao’s Revolution and America’s
Fateful Choice by Richard Bernstein and the recently published paperback
editions of The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit
of SS Doctor Aribet Heim by Nicholas Kulish and Souad Mekhennet and My Mistake:
A Memoir by Daniel Menaker
2015: “Fragile” an exhibition by Tel Aviv native Tal Eshed
is scheduled to open at the Klemens & Tanja Grunert Gallery.
2015: The OHALAH Conference is scheduled to open in
Broomfield, CO.
2015: “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acceded
today to the request of the families of the victims of the terrorist attack at
the Jewish supermarket in Paris and instructed all relevant government
officials to assist in bringing them for burial in Israel.” (JTA)
2015: French President Francois Hollande, Prime
Minister Manuel VAlls and former Nicolas Sarkozy were among those who attended
the memorial ceremony at the Grand Synagogue in Paris where Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu was the featured speaker.
2015: A photo taken today of the solidarity march in
Paris included the only female leader in the front row – German chancellor
Angela Merkel – except for the one used by “the ultra-Orthodox Jewish newspaper
haMevaser” which had removed the images of all “female leaders.”
2015: The Center For Jewish History is scheduled to
host a memorial marking the 5th anniversary of the death of Mina
Bern who when she died at the age of 99 was one of the last surviving stars “of
the interwar European Stage.”
2015: “Hagai Levi, the Israeli creator of the
Hebrew-language drama “BeTipul” and the producer of its US counterpart, “In
Treatment,” was awarded a best television drama Golden Globe tonight for his
latest series, “The Affair.”
2015: Anne Cohen identifies “9 Jews To Look Out For
at The Golden Globes.”
http://blogs.forward.com/the-shmooze/212161/-jews-to-look-out-for-at-the-golden-globes/
2016:
The Cornelia Street Café is scheduled to host an “Israeli Jazz Fest” featuring
the Gadi Lehavi Band.
2016:
Police captured a suspected 28-year-old female terrorist from the Israeli town
of Taibe this evening in Nahariya “following a manhunt that put the country’s
northern coast on edge.”
2016:
Binyamen Amsalem, a Jewish teacher, “sustained light injuries to his when a man
wielding a machete attacked him” outside of “a synagogue in Marseille this
morning.
2016(1st
of Shevat, 5776): Rosh Chodesh Shevat
2016:
Iranian born Yeshiva University graduate Anna Kaplan today announced that she
would run for the seat in the United States House of Representatives for New
York's 3rd congressional district being vacated by retiring congressman Steve
Israel.”
2016:
“Farewell Herr Schwartz is scheduled to be shown at the JCC in Manhattan.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/family-mystery-spurs-israeli-filmmaker-to-dig-up-holocaust-past/
2017:
The Agudas Achim Book Group is scheduled to discuss Moses, a Human Life.
2017:
“Moon in the 12th House” and “Doing Jewish: A From Ghana with Kol
Nidre #3” are scheduled to be show at the opening of the New York Jewish Film
Festival.
2017:
“It was announced today that Allen Weisselberg would serve as a trustee at the
Trump Organization alongside the President’s two older sons while Donald Trump
serves as President of the United States.”
2018:
In Memphis, Temple Israel is scheduled to host the opening rehearsal for its
“Beatles Purim Review” led by the multi-talented Abbie Strauss.
2018:
At a time when over 100,000 Palestinians “currently work in Israel,” “a top
general said today” that “the government is likely to approve 7,500 additional
permits for Palestinians to work in Israel.”
2018:
“Three Palestinian sisters, aged 23, 18 and 15, were arrested this afternoon in
a Hebron checkpoint after IDF Border Police officers found out they were
carrying a knife.”
2018:
YIVO is scheduled to host the first session of “Radical Jewish Culture” during
which John Zorn and Anthony Coleman explore and reflect upon the origins,
development, present, and future of Radical Jewish Music.”
2018:
“Editions Gallimard announced today the suspension of its plan to publish three
Holocuast-era essays by the author Louis-Ferdinand” which are described as
“anti-Semitic screeds.” (JTA)
2018:
As part of its MLK observance, the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education
Center is scheduled to present a lecture by Dr. Daniel L. Haulman on the
history of the Tuskegee Airmen.
2019:
The Malpaso Dance Company is scheduled perform Tabula Rasa, “a hard-driving
work by Israeli choreographer Ohad Narin” is scheduled to be performed at The
Joyce Theatre.
2019:
The Sutro Baths which had been developed by “self-made millionaire Adolph
Sutro” which are part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area are just one
of the federal facilities impacted by shutdown which is scheduled to continue
today.
2019:
In Jerusalem, the Abraham Hostel is scheduled to host “an art celebration with
a collective of artist and musicians of all walks of life” today.
2019:
In a testament to the vibrancy of “small town American Jewry, Mya Witt is
scheduled to begin the celebration of her Bat Mitzvah weekend at Agudas Achim,
in Coralville, IA.
2020:
In Redwood City, CA, at Congregation Beth Jacob “North Peninsula Jewish
community scholar-in-residence Rabbi Michael Berenbaum is scheduled to lecture
on anti-Semitism, eroding values, Jewish responses and how anti-Semitism
differs around the world.”
2020:
Proposition, “a group video exhibition featuring Ben Hagari, showcased in a
screening room along with a selection of associated props, costumes, sculptures
and other related materials from these videos in the adjoining gallery space”
is scheduled to close today.
2020:
Regardless of where they are weather is an issue for Jews including those in
northern Israel dealing with record rainfall and those in eastern Iowa where
Agudas Achim canceled services due to the first winter ice and snowstorm of the
year.
2020(14th
of Tevet, 5780): Parashat Vayechi
2021:
In London, the Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a “virtual visit” during
which participants can “explore the highlights of the Jewish museum’s galleries
and discover the history of this museum’s collection that includes “the oldest
Hanukah lamp made in Britain.”
2021:
In Pepper Pike, OH, B’nai Jeshurun Congregation is scheduled to host via Zoom Parshat
HaShavua with Prof. Doron Kalir, CSU, during which attendees “will discuss the weekly
Torah portion from a liberal viewpoint” while examining the “implications of
the text for today's community and the meaning of emunah (faith) in the 21st
century
2021:
The Consulates General of Israel in Los Angeles and New York are scheduled to
host the first session of “InFocus Israeli Cinema” part of “a series of online
screenings, panels and industry meetings highlighting Israeli excellence in the
entertainment industry.”
2021:
In Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Temple Judea is scheduled to host a virtual morning
minyan in “loving memory of Debbie Friedman.”
2021:
The Illinois Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a “virtual
exhibition tour” of “Nortorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader
Ginsburg.”
2021:
Following this weekend’s violent attack on Lt. Col Ayub Kayuf, Israelis can now
add “settler violence” to a list of challenges facing the country including the
Pandemic, Iranian saber-rattling and terrorist attacks from Gaza.
2022:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold on “The
Extraordinaery sammuel Oppenheimer and Samson Wertheimer.”
2022:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to a virtual lunch and learn during
which Barbar and Jim Wojcik discuss Bud’s Jacket: An American Flyer Evades the
Nazis in Occupied France which tells the tale about her uncle’s exploits during
WW II.
2022:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen on
“Challenging Conversations: Sex Abuse in the Charedi World.
2022:
“The Band’s Visit,” “an award-winning musical set in Israel is scheduled to
open at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco, “omicron permitting.”
2023:
Case Western Reserve University is scheduled to host a lecture by Steve Klein,
the Senior Editor of the Haaretz English Edition on “Emerging Communities in
Modern Jewry.”
2013:
S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation is scheduled to present a talk by Koret
Israel Economic Development Funds vice president of operations Chagit
Rubinstein as he discusses ways to create a more stable, equitable and
integrated social structure in Israel.
2013:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present live on zoom “A
Yemenite Jerusalem Power Couple: The Story of Rabbi and Rabbanit Kapach”
2023:
The Jewish Discovery Institute is scheduled to present the first lecture on
Pathways to Judaism “an intensive 20-session “Introduction to Judaism” program
suitable for those considering conversion and those who are “Jewcurious.”
2023:
JWI is scheduled to present via Zoom a special training for advocates on JWI’s
new financial literacy curriculum for survivors of domestic abuse.”
2023:
YIVO is scheduled to present live on zoom a lecture by Alan E. Steinweis and
Jonathan Brent on “Legitimizing Genocide: Science, Scholarship and the
Complicity of the Academy.”
2023:
JLeaders, Jewish Silicon Valley, Hillel of S.V., Jewish High Tech Community,
Oshman Family JCC and others are scheduled to present a Jewish Leadership Forum
with CEO of National Council of Jewish Women Sheila Katz and Rabbi Danya
Ruttenberg discussing the powerful intersection of leadership and justice.
2023:
Based on previously published reports, as of December 31, there were nearly
75,000 “new Israelis” that being the number who made Aliyah in 2022 which was
the largest such number in over two decades. As reported by Judah Ari Gross)
2023:
The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College is scheduled to
present, online a lecture by Emma Polyakov, the author of The Nun in the
Synagogue: Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel.
2024(1st
of Shevat, 5784): Rosh Chodesh Shevat
2024:
Lockdown University is scheduled to present a lecture by Trudy Gold on “The USA
and the Rise of Nazism.”
2024:
The New York Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of the restoration
of a rarely shown domestic melodrama from 1939, “Mothers of Today.”
2024:
As part of the Women in the Torah series, Rabbi Rose Durbin is scheduled to
discuss, “25 Years of the Red Tent – Hearing Women’s Missing Voices."
2024:
As part of the Cathy and Morris Bart Jewish Cultural Art Series, the Jewish
Community Center in New Orleans is scheduled to host screenings of “Dead Sea
Guardians.”
https://deadseaguardians.org/the-film/
2024:
The Miami Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to begin today.
2024:
The JWA Book Talks series offers a conversation with Jennifer Rosen, author of Once
We Are Home, which is “based on the true stories of Jewish children stolen
during World War II.
2024:
The Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum is scheduled to host “Story
Time.”
2024: The Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to present Gary Pokrassa and Joel Spector, Director of Data
Acquisition and Metric Record Projects, respectively, at the JewishGen Ukraine
Research Division, l discussing the origin and method of Alex Krakovsky’s data
acquisition and provide an overview of the contents of his site containing the
Krakovsky Documents.
2024: As January 11th begins in Israel,
the Hamas held hostages begin day 97 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.)