This Day, February 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
February 3
19(12th of
Adar, 3779): Dedication of the Temple built by King Herod the Great at
Jerusalem
1112: Ramon
Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes
of those two states. According to archaeological e…
February 3
19(12th of
Adar, 3779): Dedication of the Temple built by King Herod the Great at
Jerusalem
1112: Ramon
Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes
of those two states. According to archaeological evidence, Jews had been
living in both Barcelona and Provence since the first century of the Common
Era. “The earliest documentary evidence for the presence of Jews living in
Provence dates from the middle of the fifth century in Arles. They were to be
found in large numbers in Marseilles at the close of the sixth century.”
The Jewish population in certain parts of Provence would grow in the 14th
century when the Jews who had been expelled from France found refuge in
Provence which at that time was independent from France. A group of these
refugees would be referred to as the Pope’s Jews. Berenguer would pass away in
1131 the same year that Sheshet Benveniste, the “philosopher, physician,
diplomatist, Talmudist and poet” who become the leader of the Barcelona Jewish
community until his death in 1210 was born.
1451: Sultan
Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire. He conquered
Constantinople in 1453. The oppressed Jews were relieved to see him occupy the
city. He allowed Jews from today's Greek Islands and Crete to settle in
Istanbul. Mehmed II’s declaration read as follows: "Listen sons of the
Hebrew who live in my country...May all of you who desire come to
Constantinople and may the rest of your people find here a shelter".
Mehmed II invited the Ashkenazi Jews of Transylvania and Slovakia to settle in
the Ottoman Empire. The synagogues Ahrida, Karaferya, Yanbol and Cuhadji which
were damaged due to a fire were repaired on his order. Based on surviving
documents, the Sultan employed at least five Jewish doctors as palace
physicians.
1468: Johannes
Gutenberg, father of modern printing, passed away. Gutenberg was not
Jewish. But the invention of the printing press was a boon to Jewish
study and culture. The people of the book had much easier access to the
World of Books.
1676: A
document bearing today’s date contained the charter of privileges granted to
the Jews of Vizhainy by King John III.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14721-vizhainy-vizhuny-vizan-vizany
1679.
Birthdate of Isaac Lampronti, the native of Ferrara and the great-grandson of
Constantinople native Samuel Lampronti who became a rabbi and physician “best
known as author of the rabbinic encyclopedia Paħad Yitzħak.
1735(22nd
of Shevat, 5495): Joseph Juda Loeb Guggenheim, the Frankfurt born son of Meir
Schaul Guggenheim and Mrs Marem Meir Schaul Guggenheim, the usband of Frumet
Guggenheim and Eliche Goldschmidt-Hameln and father of Simon Wolf Guggenheim;
Miriam Sara Sinzheim; Abraham Ben Joseph Guggenheim; Moses Joseph Guggenheim;
Hajle Guggenheim; and Marum Guggenhei passed away today at Frankfurt am Main.
1738: Today,
Joseph Oppenheimer, the finance minister who was arrested after the sudden
death of Prince Karl of Wurttembeg who turned down a pardon on the condition
that he be baptized prepared to meet his death in “the presence of the lector
and some Jews.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11740-oppenheimer-joseph-suss
1740: Charles
de Bourbon, King of Naples, invited the Jews to return to Sicily in hopes that
this would restore flagging trade and commerce industries. Approximately 20
families heeded the call but due in part to an inhospitable welcome by the
local community, most soon left.
1747: A deed
dated with today’s date conveyed a half-acre of land in the Township of
Lancaster, Pennsylvania from Thomas Cookson to Isaac Nunus Ricus and Joseph
Simons "in trust for the society of Jews settled in and about Lancaster,
to have and use the same as a burying-ground." “At this time there were
about ten Jewish families at Lancaster, including Joseph Simon, Joseph Solomon,
and Isaac Cohen, a physician.” The deed is the earliest record of Jewish
settlement in Lancaster which was an early and important settlement during the
Colonial and post-Revolutionary period of American history.
1749:
Sicily invited Jews to return to the island ending a three-hundred-year
ban. The Sicilians believed that the Jews would restore trade to the
island and improve its diminished economic conditions.
1760(16th of
Shevat): Rabbi Jonah Nabon, the son of Hanun Nabon part of a distinguished
Turkish and Jerusalemite family that included Rabbi Ephraim ben Aron Nabon who
died at Constinople in 1735 and Rabbi Isaac Nabon son of Judah Nabon and the
author of Nepah ba-Kessef passed away today
1761(29th of
Shevat): Eliezer ben Samuel Avila, the nephew of Talmudist Chaim ben
Moses ibn Attar and the rabbi at Rabat Morocco who authored Ozen Shemuel passed
away.
1769:
Birthdate of Baden native Michael Herzog, the husband of Sara Herzog and the
father of Minette Herzog.
1770(8th
of Shevat, 5530): Abraham ben Uri Shraga passed away today in London. (However,
his tombstone says he died on Sunday, 9th of Shevat which would have
been February 4)
1780: Jacob
Pinto, the son of Abraham and Sarah Pinto and Abigail Pinto, his second wife,
gave birth to Sarah Pinto.
1781(8th
of Shevat, 5541): Parashat Bo
1781: Israel
Isaac Israel, the London born son of Isaac and Henrietta Chaya Israel and his
wife Rebecca Pearl Israel gave birth to Coleman Israel who died at the age of
seven.
1781(8th
of Shevat, 5541): Bilhah Levy, the daughter of Benjamin Levy passed away today
at Newport.
1781: During
the American Revolution British Admiral George Bridges Rodney seized St.
Eustatius which would set the stage for the worst outbreak of anti-Semitism
during the war. Instead, Rodney assigned a sizable part of his naval force to protect
the convoy. Rodney's occupation of Statia began on February 3rd, 1781. Already,
in a report of March 5, 1781, General Vaughan advised Rodney against attempting
to keep the island. Rodney did not follow Vaughan's advice. Professing to be
ailing, but evidently swayed more by consolidating the riches gained than with
geopolitics, he departed for England, leaving a garrison of 670 men behind on
decimated Statia, and assigned a naval contingent to protect them.
1784:
Birthdate of Baltimore, MD native Samuel Abrahams, the son of Isaac Abrahams.
1786:
Birthdate of Whilhelm Gesenius author of two books “of particular interest to
English-speaking students of Hebrew – “a Latin work, the Lexicon Manuale
Hebraicum et Chaldaicum in Veteris Testamenti Libros, and a corresponding issue
of the German work, Hebräisches und Chaldäisches Handwörterbuch über das Alte
Testament” – which were the forerunner of the Brown Driver Biggs lexicon
1802(1st
of Adar I, 5562): Rosh Chodesh Adar I
1802(1st
of Adar 1, 5562): Seventy-five-year-old the third child of Isaac and Beila Levy
passed away today in Baltimore, MD.
1807(25th of
Shevat): Meir Posner of Danzig, the rabbi of the Schottland Congregation in
Danzig and the author of Bet Meir a commentary on the Shulchan Aruk
passed away
1809:
In Hamburg, Germany the banker Abraham Mendelssohn, the son of the German
Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and Lea Salomon, a member of the Itzig
family and a sister of Jakob Salomon Bartholdy gave birth to Felix Mendelssohn
the famous composer who was not Jewish and that is what makes him significant
in terms of Jewish History. His grandfather was Moses Mendelssohn, the
founder of Reform Judaism. Felix was baptized and raised as a Protestant.
His detractors point out that he wrote oratorios for the Church instead of
music for the synagogue. Others see him clinging to a vestige of his
Jewish roots in choosing to write an oratorio called Elijah and
setting Psalm 100 to music. Ironically, the German composer Richard
Wagner cited Mendelssohn when he attacked the Jewish influence on German
music. Hitler and the Nazis were not the first Germans to see the Jews as
a race for whom conversion to Christianity was not a solution to "the
Jewish Problem." Regardless of any sentimental attachments Moses Mendelssohn
may have felt for the faith of his grandfather, he died in 1847 as a
Protestant. The Jewish line of Mendelssohn had disappeared.
http://www.biography.com/people/felix-mendelssohn-40373
1810: In
Chrast, Leopold and Theresia Frankl gave birth to Ludwig August von Frankl, the
Bohemian born Austrian author and poet.
1816(4th
of Shevat, 5776): Parashat Bo
1816(4th of
Shevat, 5776): Rabbi David ben Mordecai of Brody, author of Yefe Einayim passed
away today.
1816(4th
of Shevat, 5776): Forty-one-year-old Yitlah Hays, the New York born daughter of
Michael Solomon Hays and the wife of Mark Salomon passed away today.
1819: Forty-three-year-old
Aaron Judah, the New York born son of Samuel Judah married Rachel Gomez today.
1821: The
government of the grand duchy of Baden asked Aron Chorin, a Hungarian rabbi who
was an advocate for Reform “for his opinion about the duties of a rabbi, and
about the reforms in the Austrian states. Chorin answered by writing Iggeret Elasaf, or
Letter of an African Rabbi to His Colleagues in Europe, which was published by
M. I. Landau (Prague, 1826). In it he stated that the Torah comprised religious
truths and religious laws, the latter partly applicable only in Palestine,
partly obligatory everywhere. These may be temporarily suspended, but not
entirely abolished, by a competent authority, such as a synod. Only ordinances
and precautionary laws which are of human origin may be abrogated in conformity
with the circumstances of the time. As for mere customs and usages (minhagim),
the government, after having consulted Jewish men of knowledge, may modify or
abolish them; but in no other way may it interfere with religious affairs.
Chorin also pleaded for the establishment of consistories, schools, a theological
seminary, and for the promotion of agriculture and professions among the Jews.
Some of these ideas he carried out in his own congregation, which included a
great number of mechanics. He succeeded in founding a school and introducing
liturgical reforms into the synagogue; even an organ was installed at his
instance. He permitted the eating of rice and pulse during the days of
Passover. To his theory of a synod regulating and modifying Jewish laws and
customs, Chorin always adhered. In his Treue Bote (Prague, 1831) he declared
himself against the transfer of the Sabbath to Sunday, but expressed the
opinion that, considering the requirements of our time, synods might mitigate
the severity of the Sabbatical laws, especially in regard to traveling and
writing.
1825(15th
of Shevat, 5585): Tu B’Shevat observed for the last time during the presidency
of James Monroe.
1826: In
Mikuloc, Moses Spitzer and his wife gave birth to Viennese mathematician Simon
Spitzer.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13979-spitzer-simon
1830: The
sovereignty of Greece was confirmed in a London Protocol marking the end of the
Greek War of Independence which had raged from 1821 until 1829. “By supporting
the Ottoman Empire, the Jews curried disfavor with the Christian Orthodox
Greeks. Thousands of Jews were massacred alongside the Ottoman Turks. The
Jewish communities of Mistras, Tripolis, Kalamata and Patras were completely
destroyed. A few survivors moved north to areas still under Ottoman
rule.” The Jewish Community of Thessaloniki dated from the 17th
century and would become one of the largest Jewish communities as Greece
developed its national identity during the rest of the 19th century.
1830:
Birthdate of Lord Salisbury, who became an ally of Benjamin Disraeli and who as
Foreign Secretary represented the UK at the Congress of Berlin where he worked
to make sure that Romania honored its commitment to give equal rights of
citizenship to the newly created kingdom.
1832: Seventy-seven year old George Crabbe, the “English poet, surgeon and clergyman” who described
“the Jews of London in the most uncomplimentary terms” and who claimed that the
Jews are a people “ whose common Ties are gone,/ Who mix’d with every Race, are
lost in none” helping to perpetuate the anti-Semitic trope of the Jews being
“the eternal other” passed away today.
1833: In
Posen, Prussia, Dr. Siegmund Zabulon Dembitz and Francesca Whele gave birth to
Lewis N. Dembitz the Louisville, KY, lawyer and husband of Wilhelmina Wehle who
helped to nominate Abraham Lincoln at the 1860 Republican National Convention
who may be best known for being the uncle of Louis Dembitz Brandeis, the first
Jewish Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/dembitz-lewis-naphtali
http://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00007010
1834: In
London, England Dr. Many and Hannah Emanuel gave birth to Louis Manly Emanuel,
the 1860 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School who served
with the 88th Regiment of the Union Army from the Peninsula Campaign
to the surrender at Appomattox and died prematurely after the war due to the
deterioration of his health brought on by his military service.
1834: The
Baptist State Convention of North Carolina establishes the Wake Forest Manual
Labor Institute, today known as Wake Forest University. Based on recent
statistics, there are 80 Jewish students among the 4,000 undergraduate student
body. The school offers 21 Jewish studies courses. Jewish students
use the Hillel at UNC in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
1836: Edward
Levy Green married Amelia Hart at the Great Synagogue today.
1838: In
Canterbury, Hannah Barnard and Nathan Jacobs gave birth to Maurice Jacobs.
1838: “Surgeon
and educationalist Dr Joshua Van Oven, the London born son of Abraham van Oven,
a “Dutch Jew of Spanish origin who had settled in Lond in 1759 after qualifying
as surgeon at Liden,” the husband of Elizabeth Goodman and the father of
Barnard, “a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons” who was active in the
London Jewish community, a proponent of what became the Jews’ Hospital in Mile
End and active member of the Liverpool Hebrew Congregation passed away today after
which he was one of the “first to be buried at Deane Road.
https://matt-houghton.squarespace.com/dr-joshua-van-oven-1766-1838
1839(19th
of Shevat, 5599): Fifty-seven-year-old Bordeaux born Rachel Mendez who came to
New York in 1794 and was married to Aaron Soria passed away today.
1841(12th
of Shevat, 5601): M.H. Landauer, the son of Cantor Elias Landauer, who served
as the Rabbi of Braunsbach and who wrote several works on the Kabala and Zohar
passed away today.
1842(23rd of
Shevat): Abraham Stern an inventor of mechanical calculators and one of the few
it not the only Jewish member of the Warsaw Society of Friends passed away. He
is buried at the Bródno Jewish Cemetery which “was opened in 1780 by Szmul
Zbytkower, a Polish Jewish merchant and financier, who donated the land for
that purpose.”
1843: Today’s
edition of The Voice of Jacob provided information about London
financier Levi Salomons who had passed away in January of 1843.
1844: Abraham
Bendix Weinberg, the German born son of Bendix Aron Weinberg and Sara Moses
Weinberg and his first wife Fiekchen Sophia Weinberg gave birth to Elise
Eikolz, the wife of Heinrich Wilhelm Eikholz
1846: In Hőgyész,
Hungary,Zvi (Armin) Hirsch Goitein, the Hungarian bon son of Rabbi Baruch
Bendit Goitein and Hani Johanna Goitein and his wife Szali (Sara) Sarolta
Goitein gave birth to Verona/ Fani Rubin-Friedenthal, the wife of Rafael
Friedenthal and Adolf Rubin.
1846:
Philadelphian Jefferson H. Nones, who would serve “gallantly” at the Siege of
Puebla during the war with Mexico, completed his training as a Midshipman in
the U.S. Navy.
1848: In
London, Adelaid Cohen and Aaron Salomons gave birth to their second daughter,
Gertrude Salomons.
1848: The
German version of “Elijah” “an oratorio written by Felix Mendelssohn” that
depicts events described in the Book of Kings about the Israelite Prophet which
had “premiered in 1846 at the Birmingham Festival” premiered today in Leipzig
“a few months at the composer’s death.
1849:
Birthdate of Nahida Ruth (nee Sturmhofel) Lazarus, the Berlin born author of
The Jewish Woman who converted to Judaism after the death of her first husband
Max Remy and who then married Professor Mortiz Lazarus.
1851: Caroline
Davis and Levy Jacobs gave birth to Blanche Jacobs,
1851:
Brigadier General James Totten and his wife gave birth to Charles A.L. Totten
the graduate of West Point and Yale University professor who “engaged in a
genealogical exercise, attempting to prove the Davidic ancestry of the British
royal family” and who supported “the project of restoring Palestine to the
Jews…through the medium of an international conference.”
1853: Today,
Hyam Joseph, one of the earliest Jewish settlers of the Sandwich Islands, sent
a letter with a business order to San Francisco, CA
1854: In
"American Slavery" published today, Henry Ward Beecher draws a
distinction between slavery as practiced among Abraham and the Jews and
American Slavery. "Hebrew slavery admitted that a slave was a man with all
appropriate human responsibilities and made ample provision for his civil and
religious instruction." American slavery stands upon the fundamental
idea that a slave is chattel, not a man; and it makes teaching him to read a
penitentiary offense." Beecher was the father of Harriet Beecher Stowe,
the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Slave owners and their supporters used
the Bible as one of their defenses for that "peculiar institution"
saying that if slavery was acceptable in the Bible it was acceptable
today. People like Beecher, who knew their Bible and something of ancient
Israelite culture quickly challenged this bogus comparison.
1855(15th
of Shevat, 5615): Parashat Beshlach; Tu B’Shevat
1856: In
Middlesex, Caroline Benjamin and Isaiah Simmons gave birth to David Simmons.
1858:
"The Last Moments of Rachel” published today quotes a letter from French
author Mario Uchard to dramatist Victorien Sardou in which he described the
final days and death of Rachel Félix the Alsatian born Jewess better known as
Mademoiselle Rachel, the famous French actress.
1860: Today's
review of "Oliver Twist," the dramatic version of Charles Dickens
novel of the same name reported that "the most salient triumph of the
play, however, it must be said, is won by" Mr. J.W. Wallack, Jr.,
"who makes Fagin the Jew the fearful, odious and miserable creature that
Dickens, working then in the May-time of his genius, summoned into being. The
scene in which the wretched Fagin's driveling despair at the advance of death
is painted by Mr. Wallack rises far above the level of melodrama. It is
eloquent with the results of close and sincere study, vivified by the intense
light of a quick and vigorous imagination." [Dickens' "Fagan" is
seen by some of being symptomatic of 19th century British anti-Semitism.]
1860: It was
reported that today that “The Vienna Gazette has published an Imperial
decree, enacting that the testimony of Jews, in future shall be regarded of the
same value as that of Christians. The measure is considered preliminary to
according them full civil and political rights. "
1862: During
the Civil War, Captain Leopold Meyer of Philadelphia began his service with
Company C of the 113th Regiment of the 12th Cavalry of
the Union Army.
1863: During
the Civil War,” a fishing smack, containing three Jews,” was seized tonight on
Lake Pontchartrain as it made its way to Ponchatoula, a Louisiana town still
held by the Confederates. The boat contained “a large quantity of medicines for
the rebels” and letters from forty or fifty leading citizens in New-Orleans
which were addressed to persons of authority in the Confederate Government.
1865: In
Amsterdam, Jozef Israëls, “one of the most respected painters of the Hague
School, and Aleida Schaap,” gave brith to Dutch painter Isaac Israëls who was
also a popular and award winning painter whose subjects included
Magaretha Gertrud Zelle, better known as the German spy Mata Hari
1865: During
the Civil War, the 27th Ohio Infantry including Jacob C. Cohen
arrived at Salkehatchie Swamp, SC, as Sherman’s Army pursued the Rebels under
Johnston trying to reach Robert E. Lee.
1866(18th of
Shevat, 5626): Joseph Bach passed away in Budapest. Born in 1784, he was a
Hungarian rabbi. After I. N. Mannheimer, he was the first German preacher of a
Jewish congregation in Austria-Hungary.mIn Alt-Ofen, his birthplace, he began
to ground himself early in life in the study of the Talmud. Without the aid of
a teacher, he studied several foreign languages; after which he attended the
University of Prague, remaining there 12 years. Then he returned to his hometown,
where he married the daughter of a wealthy family, and settled down as a
merchant. It was not long, however, before he lost his entire fortune and was
left penniless. Destitute of the means of subsistence, he was constrained to
accept a situation as teacher. In 1827, despite having never studied
homiletics, and had never heard or read a sermon, he was appointed first
preacher at the newly organized synagogue of Pest, where he officiated for over
thirty years. Many of his sermons have been published. An autobiography, with a
preface by Kayserling, was published by his son in Budapest.
1867: In
London, Amelia Joseph and John Aaron Cohen gave birth to Eveline Leah Cohen,
the wife of Louis Solomon and the mother of Eunice, John and Vera Solomon.
1869: Two days
after he had passed away, Amsterdam native Abraham Van Minden, the husband of
Esther Levy and the father of Helena, Solomon and Mary Anne Van Minden, was
buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1869:
Birthdate of Ludwig Lesser, the Berlin native who’s fame as an award-winning
landscape did not keep him from having to flee to Sweden with his son Richard
in 1939 after the Nazis came to power.
1871: In
Pilsen, Rabbi Heinemann Vogelstein, a leader of the Reform movement in Germany
and Rosa Kobrak gave birth to industrialist Ludwig Vogelstein, the husband of
Edith I. Littenberg and Vice President
of the World Union Progressive Judaism, which in keeping with his leadership in
the Reform movement, an opponent of Zionism who was first vice president and
general manager o the Consolidated Lithograph Corporation, President of Vice Reality
Corporation and Director of the Tobacco Merchants Association while sein as a
trustee of Temple Israel in Far Rockaway, NY and director of the Vacation Camp
of New York, a project of the Guild For the Jewish Blind.
1871: Three
days after she had passed away, Rachel (Joseph) Phillips, the wife of Frederick
Phillips, was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1872: In New
York, Sarah and Max Harris gave birth to self-educated theatrical producer Sam
H. Harris and husband of Alice Nolan best known for his years of collaboration
with George M. Cohan and Irving Berlin who was also responsible for building
what became the Sam H. Harris Theatre and the Music Box Theatre.
1872: Salomon
Jacobs, a Jewish peddler, was sentenced to six months in the penitentiary for
picking the pocket of sewing girl in New York City.
1874: In
Allegheny, PA, Daniel and Amellia Stein gave birth to American modernist writer
Gertrude Stein.
https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/gertrude-stein
1875: It was
reported today that the committee that has been investigating the management of
the Hebrew Benevolent Asylum has concluded that Mr. Meyer Stern and his
colleagues were guilty of the charges made against them. While the committee
has no legal standing, its investigation has resulted in putting an end to the
practices of which they were accused.
1875: Julius
and Elsie Wiltschek gave birth to Gisele Elizabeth Wiltschek who became Gisele
Wallenstein when she married Henry Wallenstein,
1876: The
trial of Pesach N. Rubenstein, a Polish Jew charged with the murder of his
cousin Sara Alexander, was scheduled to resume today.
1876: In New
York, 21-year-old Therese Schiff (Loeb) and Jacob Henry Schiff gave birth to
Frieda Fanny Schiff who became Frieda Warburg when she married Felix Warburg in
1895.
1878:
Birthdate of Enrico Curiel who may have been a relative of Italian physicist
Eugenio Curiel.
1878:
“Ceremonies of Judaism: Their Meaning and Observance,” a lengthy article that
described the ceremonial practices of the Jewish people including their
Biblical origins was published in the New York Times. [One could hardly imagine
an article like this appearing in a major European daily.]
1879: In New
York, the Controller appeared at today’s meeting of the Board of Apportionment
and reported that the Hebrew Ladies’ Benevolent Association was one of the
charities that had made application to receive a portion of the excise moneys
collected in 1878.
1879: Gertrude
Lowy, the daughter of Deborah and Israel Lindenthal and wife of Albert Lowy
with whom she had had eight children was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road
Jewish Cemetery.”
1879: In
Cherokee, Iowa, James Maxwell Gillette and Clara V. Gillette gave birth Guy
Gillette, the United States Senator from Iowa who became an outspoken supporter
of the Zionist cause and served as President of the American League for a Free
Palestine. [In those days, references to Palestine were Jewish, not Arab.
I am still researching the path that led a person from the small northwest Iowa
town of Cherokee to support the creation of the state of Israel especially when
you consider that in Iowa, unlike some of other states, there was no “Jewish
vote” of any major importance.]
1881: Two days
after he had passed away, 65-year-old David Judah Alberga, the husband of
Henrietta Delgado and the father of Theresa and Eugene Alberga was buried today
at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1881(4th
of Adar I): Fifty-year-old Gottfried “Godfrey” Oppenheimer, the German son Johanna
Cahn and Salomon Oppenheimer and the brother of Mayer Oppenheimer Oppenheimer
(born Carl Oppenheimer), David Oppenheimer, and Isaac Oppenheimer passed away
today in Vancouver after which he was buried in the Congregation Emanu-El
Cemetery.
1882: In
Shreveport, LA, Rosa Simmons and Simon Herold gave birth to Tulane Medical
School trained surgeon and pathologist Arthur Anselm Herold, the husband of Eda
Loeb who after 1919 limited his practice to internal medicine in Shreveport
where he was chairman of the Southern District of the United Jewish Campaign in
1926 and president of B’nai Zion Congregation.
1882: In
Henderson County, KY, Morris and Lina Kahn Baldauf gave birth to Cora B.
Baldauf Fohs, the wife of Julius Fohs whom she married in 1908.
1884:
Birthdate of Hanover, Germany native Selma Mayer who gained fame as “Schwester
Selma” the head nurse at Shaare Zedek Hospital for fifty years where she began
working in 1902 when it was founded by Dr. Moshe Wallach.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/mair-selma
1885: In
Modena, Italian merchant Salvatore Donati whose family traces its origins to
back to the 16th century and his wife gave birth to banker,
philanthropist and diplomat Angelo Donati who played a key role in rescuing
Jews during WW II.
1887: Famed
explorer Henry M. Stanley, the man who “found” Dr. Livingston, left Cairo to
day so that he could join the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition and assume his role
as active leader. Emin Pasah had been into a German family who named him Isaak
Eduard Schnitzer.
1880: It was
reported today that the Russian government is planning to change the law so
that Jews have the same rights of other citizens as part of measures to be
enacted as part of the Silver Anniversary of the Czar’s coming to the throne.
1880: The
German Women’s Society for Aiding Poor and Sick Widows and Orphans held their
annual meeting this afternoon at Steinway Hall. Originally, the
organization had been limited to Lutheran members. By the time of this meeting
membership had been opened to include Jews as well as members of other
Christian denominations.
1885:
Birthdate of Modena, Italy native Angeolo Donati, the banker, philanthropist
and diplomat who saved “Jews from Nazi persecution in Italian-occupied France.”
1888: In Grodno,of
Yossel Avnet (Avnetvajnt) and Toibe Leah Fainsod gave birth to future New York resident
Charles Avnet, the husband of Helen Dorfman and Rose Dorfman.
1890: “The
Jews of France” published today cites claims in Fiagro and Gaulois that
anti-Semitism in France is based on a belief that Republican Government favors
the Jews and that the Rothschids were responsible for the “ruin of the Union
General.”
1890: Two days
after he had passed away, 62-year-old Prussian born Philip Falk, the husband of
Sarah Falk with whom he had had six children, was buried today at the “Balls
Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1891: In
Paris, France, Albert Lazard and Camille Lazard gave birth to Jacques Michel
Adolphe Lazard the husband of Georgette Lazard.
1891: It was
reported today that 160 Jewish families from Russia are scheduled to arrive in
the Twin Cities this week. They are planning on forming an agricultural
colony that has the financial backing of Baron Hirsch.
1891: Sarah
Bernhardt and her company are scheduled to open their four week-long “American
season at the Garden Theatre” this evening with a performance of “La Tosca”
which “will be followed by performances of “Cleopatra,” “Theodora,” “Fedora”
and “Jeanne d’Arc.”
1892: Russia
closed down Yeshiva of Volozhin.
1893: The will
of the late Simon Davidson, a retired Jewish merchant whose home had been on
East 56th Street in Manhattan was filed for probate today.
1894(27th
of Shevat, 5654): Parashat Mishpatim
1894(27th
of Shevat, 5654): “The Belzer Rabbi, Yehoshua Rokeach, the eldest son of Rabbi
Sholem Rokeach, the founder of the Belzer Dynasty,” who “after his father’s
death in 1855 maintained the Belz Dynasty for forty years” passed away today.
(As reported by Joseph Margoshes)
1894:
Birthdate of Gertrud "Trude" Kiesler (née Lichtwitz) the mother of
actress Hedy Lamarr.
1894: A group
of unemployed Jews clashed with police outside of St. Paul’s Cathedral in
London today.
1894: In
Pennsylvania, Mendel S. Salsburg, the son of Arthur and Sarah Salsburg and his
wife Rachel Naomi Salsburg gave birth to Sara “Sally” Salsburg.
1895:
“Russia’s Jewish Problem” published today provides a detailed review of The
Russian Jews; Extermination or Emancipation by Leo Errera. (He was a
Belgian born Jewish botanist who works on anti-Semitism “under the pseudonym
"Un vieux juif” which is German for "an old Jew"
1895(9th
of Shevat, 5655): Seventy-two-year-old Rotterdam native Hendrina Speelman Litt,
the wife Milwaukee clothing store owner Isaac Jonke Litt whom she married in 1844
and mother of Jacob and Mary Ann Witt passed away today after which she was buried
in the Spring Hill Cemetery in Milwaukee, WI.
1895:
Birthdate of Breslau native Kurt Peiser, who in 1907 came to the United States
where after earning his college degrees “served as executive director of Jewish
federation and welfare funds successively in Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Detroit and
Philadelphia” and who helped to “set up relief programs in North Africa” during
WW II after the Allies had driven the Italians and Nazis back across the
Mediterranean Sea.
1895: Samuel
Somers, the son of Lawrence and Rebecca Somers was buried today at the “West
Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1895:
Birthdate of Breslau native Kurt Peiser who in 1907 came to the United States
where he earned AB and MA from the University of Michigan after which “he served
as executive director of Jewish federation and welfare funds successively in
Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Detroit and Philadelphia” and as a worker for the Joint
Distribution Committee during World War II setting up relief programs in North
Africa. (He is not to confused with the
painter who had the same name)
1896: In North
Dakota, Max Rabinovich and Pearl Hartstein gave birth to Joseph Rabinovich.
1896: In
Berlin, movie producer Jules Greenbaum and Emma Karstein gave birth to
cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum.
https://dbpedia.org/page/Mutz_Greenbaum
1897: It was
reported today that Sam Franko, one of the five Franko children, part of a New
Orleans Jewish family that during the Civil War, fled to Germany where they
“honed their musical skills” conducted “the second concert of the third season
of the American Symphony Orchestra at Chickering Hall.
1898: It was
reported today that a decision will not be made for at least week in “the libel
suit brought by Joseph Reinach against Henri Rochefort who charged Mousier
Reinach with intending to prove Alfred Dreyfus’s innocence by means of forged
documents.” The judicial proceedings took place for spectators who quickly
turned into a mob of jeering anti-Semites.
1899: It was
reported today Israel Zangwell is expected to speak at the opening session of
the Hebrew Fair which will be held at the Tuxedo.
1899: In New
York, founding the Yiddish daily the Jewish Abend-Post.
1899: Philip
Stern was promoted from 1st Lieutenant in the 5th U.S.
Volunteer Infantry to the rank of Captain today.
1900(4th
of Adar I, 5660): Parashat Terumah
1900(4th
of Adar I, 5660): Forty-seven-year-old Paul Aaron Calmann-Lévy, the son of
Kalmus Calmann Lévy and Pauline Levy and the husband of Dorothée Calmann-Levy
passed away today in Paris.
1901: Herzl
sets out on a journey to London and Paris that will last until the 15th
of the month.
1901: The
Huvra Synagogue in Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter was the scene of a standing room
only memorial service for Queen Victoria led by Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Samuel
Salant.
1902: Fort Worth, Texas resident Israel Nathan Mehl, the
Lithuanian born son of Rachel and Solomon Isaac Mehl who was an assistant
editor of the Jewish Monitor of Fort Worth and longtime president of the Hebrew
Relief Society passed away today married Annie Jacobs with whom he had two sons
– Abraham and Milton.
1902: In
London Suzannah and Herbert Bentwich gave birth to Joseph Bentwich who made
Aliyah in 1924 when he began teaching the Herzilya Hebrew Gymnasium and who spent
almost three decades at the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa as a teacher and
principal. He passed away in 1982.
1903(6th
of Shevat, 5663): Professor Frederick Kitziger, the noted musician and
“composer of seven volumes of hymns, many of which are well known in the Jewish
synagogues…” and the organist at Touro Synagogue passed away today in New
Orleans.
https://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/frederick-kitziger/
1904: “Jewish
Emigration to America” published today reported that “a dispatch from Gomel
(Government of Moghilev)” said that “Jewish emigration to America is steadily
increasing” as can be see seen by the recent departure of three hundred
families which included “artisans as well as wealthy Hebrew householders.”
1904: Herzl
telegraphs back that he can take up the British proposal of new territory in
Nandi only after the most careful investigation.
1905: It was
reported today, that at a meeting of the Library Committee of the New York
State Board of Regen when Librarian Melvil Dewey of Dewey Decimal fame was
confronted by “representative of the signers of a petition for his removal as
Director of the State Library because of “The policy of the Lake Placid Club,
which he and his wife hold control of excluding Jews and other religious and
ethnic groups” Dewey “said he really had very friendly feeling towards Jewish
and that he regarded them a very bright and progressive people.”
1906: The
Jewish Socialist-Territorialist Labor Party of America was organized today with
offices on East Broadway in New York City.
1906: “Letters
from Gomel appearing in the newspapers declare unanimously that the anti-Jewish
outrages in that town were perpetrated with the open connivance of the
authorities” and cited “numerous instances…of soldiers blackmailing unfortunate
Jews who were seeking to save the remnants of their movable property.”
1906: The
American Jewish Committee was formed. It was headed by Judge Mayer Sulzberger,
a leader in the fight for liberal immigration laws. Its aims included the
protection of civil and religious rights of Jews all over the world. Among its
founders were Dr. Cyrus Adler, Louis Marshall and Jacob H. Shiff.
1907:
Birthdate of author James Michener who was not Jewish but whose novel, The
Source, is one of the least painful ways to gain an overview of Jewish
History.
1907: Dr.
Stephen S. Wise is scheduled to deliver an address on “Shall the Pulpit Be
Free” at the second in “a series of meetings looking to the completion of his
plans for the founding of a free synagogue.”
1908(1st
of Adar I, 5668): Rosh Chodesh Adar I
1909: In
Paris, two Alsatian Jews – Saolomea and Dr. Bernard Weil gave birth to French
mystic and Resistance fighter Simone Weil.
1910(24th
of Shevat, 5670): Sixty-three-year-old Josephine Lazarus, author of The
Spirit of Judaism passed away.
1911(5th
of Shevat, 5671): Sixty-five old Kaskil Casper, the husband of Sophie Newman
Casper, the Nevada City “clothing merchant” who “was granted a franchise by the
City Council in December 1891 to light the city with a Heisler incandescent
system passed away today.
1912(15th
of Shevat, 5672): As the Jews celebrate the New Year of the Trees, American
politicians begin to gear up for a New Political Year – the presidential
elections of 1912.
1913:
Birthdate of Milton Lipson, a lawyer and investigator who, as a Secret Service
agent from 1938 to 1946, was a personal bodyguard for Presidents Roosevelt and
Truman.
1913: The two
day “annual convention of District Grand Lodge No. 1 of the B’nai B’rith” which
included a dinner at Delmonico’s where Jacob Furth of St. Louis addressed the
attendees, a ball at Sherry’s and the election of Dr. Joseph Silverman of
Temple Emanu-El as the President came to an end in New York.
1913: The New
Jersey Conference of Charities and Corrections of which Newark, NJ Rabbi
Solomon Foster served as a member of the Executive Committee continued meeting
for a second day in Plainfield, NJ today.
1913: The
Independent Order of the Sons of Benjamin held its “twenty-second annual
convention” today in New York City which was attended by Grand Master, Richard
Cohn’ First Deputy Grand Master, Julius Gumpert and Second Deputy Grand Master,
Jacob Hyman of Boston.
1913: The
Junior Auxiliary of the Mothers’ Aid of the Chicago Lying-in Hospital and
Dispensary is scheduled to be held in the Vestry of Rooms of Isaiah Temple this
afternoon.
1914: It was
reported today that “all restrictions on the length of sojourn to be permitted
in Russia to Jewish physicians who wish to attend the Twelfth International
Ophthalmological Congress in St. Petersburg” that will run from July 28 to
August 2, 1914.
1915: Among
those listed today as contributors to the American Jewish Relief Committee were
the Ladies Benevolent Society, Albany, GA; Temple De Hirsch, Seattle,
Washington; the House of Israel, Hot Springs, AR; Adath Moshe, Athens, GA;
Temple Israel Ladies, Wilmington, NC and the Hebrew Drama Club, Columbus, Ohio.
1915: Ottoman
forces attempt to cross the Suez Canal but are repelled by the British. The
Turks then turn towards Beersheba in Palestine after suffering near 2000
casualties.
1915:
In what would prove to be one of the opening rounds in the battle for the
control of Palestine, Turkish troops arrive at the Suez Canal after having
marched 130 miles through the Sinai Peninsula.
1916:
The American Jewish Relief Committee announced today that it has received “to
date” contributions in cash and pledges totaling $2,112,048.71.
1916:
Funeral services are scheduled to beheld today for German born New York City
baking company executive Max Oscher, the husband of Emma Oscher and the father
of Dora Geiser and Sidney M. Oscher.
1916:
“In an interview” today the “President of the American Tariff Reform League
stated that the organization…was entirely in accord with the sentiments
expressed by Jacob Schiff in a speech before the Reform Club” in which he
declared “war will never cease until we have worldwide free trade and the only
way to render preparedness unnecessary is to the Custom Houses and the tariff
walls and have international free trade.:
1916:
It was reported today that the American Jewish Relief Committee had received
the following contributions from committees throughout the United States and
Canada including $305 from the Calgary Committee and $1,000 from the Des Moines
Committee as well as $250 from the Staunton Christian Churches.
1917:
The response of Felix Warburg, the chairman of the Joint Distribution
Committee, to Germany’s announcement of a return to unrestricted submarine
warfare published today, read, in part “Germanys note to the United States
announcing a ruthless submarine warfare against neutral and other ships has
stopped negotiations begun by the Joint Distribution Committee for the Relief
of Jewish War Sufferers and which had for its object the sending of the German
liners interned here to Syria and Belgium”
1917: During
the second to the last year of World War I, British troops occupied Baghdad.
After suffering heavily by forced conscription, torture and extortion by the
Turkish ruled government, local Jews celebrated their freedom by declaring it a
holiday (Yom Ness). Their freedom lasted until 1929 when the British granted
independence to Iraq and all Zionist activities were prohibited.
1917:
Birthdate of William Frankel, the son of Isaac Frankel, the beadle of an
Orthodox London Synagogue, who became editor of the “Jewish Chronicle,” a
British weekly newspaper.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/apr/25/pressandpublishing.religion
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/20/AR2008042002077.html
1918: Five
days after she had passed away Kate (Fairbanks) Greenland, the wife of
Frederick Greenland was buried today the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”
1918: The
Jewish Press Bureau reported from Stockholm “that the Dutch Zionist Federation
has published a protest against the non-participation of a Jewish
representative in the Brest-Litvosk peace negotiations” despite the fact that
“the rights of millions of Jews as a national minority are being decided
there.”
1918: In
the Bronx, Jacob Gottlieb, a bicycle repairman and Anna Siegel Gottlieb gave
birth to Joseph Abraham Gottlieb who gained fame as Joey Bishop whose career
spans the entire spectrum of a Jewish comic's life - Vaudeville, Burlesque, the
Catskills, Las Vegas, Movies, and Television. Many remember him as one of
ABC's attempts to imitate the popular Johnny Carson Show. The shows only
lasting contribution was introducing Regis Philburn to America. His other
claim to fame was being part of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack which included another
famous Jewish entertainer, Sammie Davis, Jr.
1918: Colonel
Josiah Wedgwood, a Member of Parliament visiting the United States on
Government business today “urged that no obstacles be put in the path of the
Palestine restoration movement” saying that “the Jewish State should include
all of the territory of twelve tribes ”stretching from Dan to Beersheba
1919: Today,
Chaim Weizmann, the leader of the Zionist delegation, presented the case for a
Jewish homeland together with a map of the proposed entity. The statement
supported the creation of a mandate entrusted to Britain and described the
Jewish historical connection with the area. It also declared that the proposed
borders and resources were “essential for the necessary economic foundation of
the country” including “the control of its rivers and their headwaters”.
1919: It was
reported today that Herman Bernstein, “who has just returned from Siberia” is
no longer editor of the American Hebrew having been replaced by Isaac Landman.
1920: In Wilmington,
DE, Mary Epstein and Philip Heimlich, the grandchildren of Jewish immigrants gave
birth to Cornell Medical College trained physician and medical researcher Henry
Heimlich the WW II Navy veteran, husband of Jane Murray and son-in-law of dance
king Arthur Murray who was the creator of Heimlich Maneuver and the Heimlich
Chest Valve, commonly known as the “flutter valve.”
1920(14th of
Shevat, 5680): In New York, Rabbi Isaac C. Noot passed away at the age of 80.
1920(14th
of Shevat, 5680): In her 57th year, Lena Reich, the wife of Bernard
Rech and the mother of Mrs. Louis E. Beiber passed away today in New Rochelle,
NY.
1920(14th
of Shevat, 5680): Mae Reichman, the wife of Samuel Reichman and the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Goldberger passed away today in New York.
1921: Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise officiated at the marriage of Arthur M. Schwartz and Rosaline
Steifel at St. Regis Hotel “followed by a wedding breakfast for about 40
guests.”
1921: Dr.
Bernard Drachman officiated at the wedding of William Freiber and Regine Weiss,
“the niece of Charles M. and Henrietta H. Fergess” at the Hotel McAlpin.
1921(25th
of Shevat, 5681): Fifty-six-year-old Ukrainian born son of Heinrich and Julia
Zach, Max Zach, the orchestra conductor who began his career playing Viola with
Boston Symphony Orchestra before moving on to lead the Boston Pops and husband
of Blach Going with whom he had three children Leon, Phillip and Eleanor,
passed away today.
http://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1801277
1921: In
Washington, DC, Samuel Zallman Alpher and Rose Raise Alher gave birth to Ralph
Ahser Alpher the physics professor at Union College, mathematician and provider
of the model for the Big Bang Theory which was the subject of his 1948 Ph.D.
dissertation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/18/us/18alpher.html
1921: In the
Bronx, jewelry salesman Milton Kalish and his wife, the former Helen Rosenfeld
gave birth to Austin Kalish script writer today. (As reported by Anita Gates)
1922:
Residents of Bridgeport, CT heard a broadcast carried by WDY and KDKA that
included the singing of Eddie Cantor in one of his first, if not his first
venture, into the world of Radio.
1922: “Masters
of the Sea” a “silent adventure film directed by Alexander Korda” produced by
Arnold Pressburger and co-starring his wife Maria was released in Austria
today.
1923: After
having divorced his first wife, the former Helen Rosenberg, Henry Guggenheim,
the Long Branch, NJ born son of Daniel and Florence Schloss Guggenheim and
founder of Newsday which “grew into the largest suburban daily newspaper in the
United States married Caroline (Morton) Potter today.
1924:
Birthdate of famed timpanist and baton maker Richard Samuel Horowitz, the Bronx
native who was the son of “a cellist in silent-picture orchestras and movie
theatre projectionist “and a “violin and piano teacher.” (As reported by
Margalit Fox)
1924: “The
Marriage Circle” a silent film directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch was
released today in the United States.
1924: In
Austin, TX, Rabbi Nathan Emanuel Barasch and Agnes Beatrice Barasch gave birth
to Stanely Jerome Barasch, the husband of Agnes Beatrice Barasch.
1924: In the
back of their dress shop in East Harlem, Daniel and Fanny Gelb gave birth to
“Timesman” Arthur Neal Gelb. (As reported by Sam Roberts.)
1925: In
Chicago, Irene (née Marks) and Nathan Berman gave birth Sheldon Berman who
gained fame as comedian Shelly Berman who was part of a group of early
monologists who along with Mort Sahl and Bob Newhart, created a golden age of stand-up
comedy. Berman's specialties included a "series of neurotic
schlemiels" and "benign Lenny Bruce characters." He also
appeared in a few short-lived comedy series.
1926:
Birthdate of Vivien Wax Nearing, the New York attorney who dethroned Charles
Van Doren as champion on “Twenty-One” the popular quiz show on NBC. She
survived as champion for four weeks. Ms Nearing was one of fourteen
contestants who were exposed for cheating during subsequent investigations into
the quiz show scandal.
1927:
“According to the annual report of the Jewish Agricultural Society made public
today by Gabriel Davidson, the society’s general manager, “Jewish farmers in
the United States are making steady progress” as can be seen by the fact that
“the Jewish farm population in the United States grown from 1,000 in 1900 to
75,000 in 1927” and that “one million acres are being farmed by Jews and the
value of their real and personal property is more than $100,000,000.”
1928: When
Albert D. “Dolly” Stark was “added to the National League umpiring staff”
today, he became the first Jew to serve as an umpire in the Major Leagues in
modern times.
1929:
According to Martin E. Popkin, “a consulting engineer who has specialized in
the men’s clothing and textile industries and its problems,” “the clothing
industry is now passing through a radical transition from its traditional craft
stage of production to the status of a large-scale producing industry in which
scientific organization, control and technology will dominate.”
1930: William
Howard Taft, whom B’nai B’rith gave “a gold medal for trying to improve the
lives of Russian Jews” and who was an outspoken critic of Henry Ford’s
anti-Semitism, completed his service as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme
Court.
1930: “Never
Trust a Woman,” a musical directed by Max Reichman, who would be forced to flee
when the Nazis came to power because he was Jewish, was released in Germany
today
1930: The day
after her funeral, a memorial service is scheduled to be held for Lady Reading,
the wife of Lord Reading to whom King George and Queen Mary had sent “a message
of sympathy and condolence.”1931: In Brooklyn, Arthur Levitt, Sr. and his wife
gave birth to Arthur Levitt, Jr. who served as Chairman of the S.E.C. from 1993
to 2001.
1931: It was
reported today that the Zionist Executive Committee has sent a message of
condolence to the family of the Reverend William H. Hechler who has just passed
away at the age of 86. Hechler was a Protestant minister who was an early
supporter of Zionism and the work of Theodor Herzl.
1932: In
Brooklyn, Russian-Jewish immigrant Ada Rubenstein and Sam Rubenstein, a crime
reporter for the New York Herald Tribune gave birth to University of
Pennsylvania graduate and St. John’s University trained attorney Howard Joseph
Rubenstein, husband of Amy Forman with whom head four children – Roni, David,
Richad, and Steven –- and son-in-law of restauranteur Sol Forman, the owner of
Pete Luger Steak House who was the president and founder of Rubenstein
Associates, which has been described as the most influential public relations
organization in New York City.”
1932:
Birthdate of Maria Itkina, the native of Roslavl the track star who competed in
the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics.
http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/it/mariya-itkina-1.html
1932: Among
those sailing tonight for Europe on the North German Lloyd for Bremen are
editorial writer Walter Lippmann and Viennese composer Oskar Straus and his
wife.
1933:
Influential art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen, “was raised to the peerage as Baron
Duveen.” He was the oldest child of Sir Joseph Joel Duveen, the Dutch
born Jew who had settled in England where established a firm that dealt in the
trading of antiquities.
1934: “The
anti-Semitic ‘Prophecy’ attributed to Benjamin Franklin” that has been
distributed in Germany was actually first published today in Liberation, “the
organ of the Silver Shirts, a secret Fascist body headed by William Dudley
Pelley” founded in Asheville, NC
1934(18th
of Shevat, 5694): Parashat Yitro
1934: At
Temple Israel, Rabbi William F. Rosenblum is scheduled to deliver a sermon at
services this morning on “If You Wrote the Ten Commandments.”
1934: In
Brooklyn, Louis J. Gribetz is scheduled to deliver a speech on “Political
Aspects of Present Day Palestine” at a Zionist student rally.
1934: In the
Bronx, at the Congregation of Israel, Dr. Samuel Benjamin is scheduled to
deliver a talk this afternoon, in Yiddish on “Jews by Compulsion.
1934: This
evening the United Jewish Socialist Labor Party is scheduled to host a
symposium on “What do the Opponents of the Histadruth want?”
1934: Jesuit
Father M. Barbera reviewed Alfred Rosenberg's Der Mythus des 20.
Jahrhunderts (The Myth of the Twentieth Century) for La Civiltà
Cattolica. The book, published in Germany in 1930, had strongly endorsed
Article 24 of the Nazi Party Program of 1920, which said that the party
"stands for a new `positive Christianity.'" This new cult would
abolish the "Jewish" Old Testament, purge the New Testament of
humanitarian and pacifist themes, and create a German church anchored in blood,
race, and soil. The party program and the book itself constituted a direct
challenge to Catholics and Protestants alike, and Father Barbera was not
delicate in his response. Because of the book's emphasis on the superiority of
the pure "Aryan" race and its distortions of Christian history and
teachings, he unequivocally rejected it as a "subversion of the very
foundations of Religion and the Christian State." He did not mention
Rosenberg's anti-Semitism.
1935(30th
of Shevat, 5695): Rosh Chodesh Adar I
1935: The
filing of seven additional registration statements under the Securities Act of
1933 announced today by the SEC included a filing by the Palestine Economic
Corporation of New York City which is seeking to issue 15,000 shares of $100
par value common stock at $100 a share.”
1936: The
Federal Council of Churches of Christ hosted a luncheon at the Aldine Club at
which Sir Herbert Samuel and Viscount Bearsted made a plea to Catholic,
Protestant and Jewish clergyman for support in financing the emigration of
young Jews from Germany.
1936: The
English-Speaking Union hosted a reception for Sir Herbert Samuel, the former
British Home Secretary, during which he urged cooperation between the United
States and Great Britain “to promote world peace and liberty.”
1936:
Celebration of Samuel D. Levy’s 25th anniversary as Judge of
Children’s Court.
1936:
Celebration of the 60th birthday of Frieda Warburg, the wife of
Felix Warburg the daughter of Therese Loeb and Jacob Schiff and the mother of
Carol Rothschild and Fredrick, Gerald and Edward Warburg.
1927: “Thirsty
Soil,” with set designs by Louis Bromberg opened at Broadway at the 48th
Street Theatre today.
1937(22nd
of Shevat, 5697): Frederick W. Marks, the Schenectady, NY native and former
partner in David Marks and Sons, a firm founded by his father, who went from a
career in wholsesale cothing in 1904 to a successful career in New York real
estate while raising two sons, Lawrence and Frederick, Jr with his wife passed
away today.
1937: It was
reported today the Richard Walter Darre, the Reich Minister of Agriculture has
written The Pig Murder, a book that “deals with the killing of 9,000,000
pigs in 1915” which he says was part of a Jewish plot to destroy the basis of
the German self-nourishment system” and to aid in the allied blockade that was
so harmful to the German war effort.
1938: In
Bucharest, “Foreign Minister Istrate Micescu told the cabinet council that he
had scored a success over the Jews in Geneva” where the League of Nations had
given Rumania “a free hand to carry out revision of Jews’ citizenship” and said
that it will not consider any complaints brought by Jews against that
government until Rumania has “put forth its explanations.
1938: It was
reported today that while Great Britain is broadcasting messages in Arabic
designed to counteract “Mussolini’s persistent anti-British propaganda and to
bring about peace in Palestine between Arabs and Jews” Sir Oswald Mosley, the
English fascist leader is among those sending anti-Jewish literature to Arabs
and to British officials in Palestine with intention of exacerbating tensions
in the Holy Land.
1938: The
Palestine Post reported that the third British soldier was killed in the
battle near Jenin. While more than 50 Arab terrorists were killed, the number
of their wounded could not be estimated. In Safed Arabs refused to attend the
funeral of an Arab policeman branded as a traitor and murdered by Arab
terrorists. The Palestine government approved the Post's suggestion that both
Arab and Jewish buses should be of the same color, to make them
indistinguishable and less prone to Arab terrorist snipers.
1939: “The
British Government accepted an offer by President Roosevelt’s Advisory
Committee on Refugees to send an expert commission to investigate the
possibilities” settling Jewish refugees in British Guiana
1939: “A large
number of prominent Finish citizens of all parties started a nation-wide
collection” to raise funds to support the destitute refugees from Central
Europe, most of whom are Jews from Germany “who have sought temporary refuge in
Finland.
1939: In
Budapest, The Dohány Street Synagogue “was bombed by the Hungarian pro-Nazi
Arrow Cross Party” today after which it was “used as base for German Radio and
a stable during WW II.”
1939:
“Honolulu,” a Burns and Allen film directed by Edward Buzzell and with music by
Franz Waxman was released today in the United States.
1940(24th
of Shevat, 5700): Eighty-two-year-old librettist Viktor Léon whose best known
work was the operetta “The Merry Widow” passed away today
http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou01714
1941: Esther
"Etty" Hillesum, young Jewish women whose diaries about life in
Holland under Nazi occupation were published posthumously, went to serve as
"model" to the psycho-chirologist Julius Spier, at the Courbetstraat
27 in Amsterdam.
1941(6th
of Shevat, 5701): Sixty-one year old Hart Blumenthal,
the Philadelphia born son of David and Eva Blumenthal who was a trustee of the
Jewish Publication Society, chairman of the Keneseth Israel Free Library and a
noted collector of Lincolniana” who with
his wife Ida Ratwitch raised Walter Hart Blumenthal, the Clinton, IA native
precocious enough to the University of Pennsylvania at the age of 16
before going on to a career as an author passed away today.
http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/ead/ead.html?id=EAD_upenn_rbml_PUSpMsColl1104
1941: “Taste
Without Tears” published today describes the lives of “the Emily Posts of domestic art” and authors of Art in Everyday Life
Vetta Goldstein, the Gladstone, Michigan born daughter of Dora Jacobson and
Samuel Goldstein who attended the N.Y. School of Fine and Applied Art and began
teaching art at the University of Minnesota in 1914 and her sister Harriet
Goldstein.
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,765234,00.html
1941:
Birthdate of Toronto native and “Canadian historian of the Holocaust” Michel
Robert Marrus the author of such works as Vichy France and the Jews and “one of
three Jewish scholars appointed to the International Catholic-Jewish Historical
Commission to investigate the role of the Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust.”
1942(16th
of Shevat, 5702): Seventy-one-year-old who had transported from Pilsen to
Terezin was murdered there today.
1942: It was
reported today that according to Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, “fifteen thousand
Palestine Jews are serving with British forces in many theatres of the war.”
1942: Today, Mrs.
Mary K. Simkhovitch, director of the Greenwich House Settlement, told members
of the Women's Organization of the Free Synagogue, meeting at Synagogue House,
40 West Sixty-eighth Street, that women “should inject into their lives a
greater degree of self-discipline” that they could “maintain normal lives.
1943: U.S.
premiere of “Air Force,” a film based on a real event that took place in WW II
produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack Warner and staring John Garfield and
featuring George Tobias, playing a role for which, he was born – a Jew from
Brooklyn serving in the crew of a B-17
1943: Leon
Blum “wrote to a friend, one Madame Camel: “I received your package from Noch.
The ham hock was wonderful. I haven’t yet eaten the prunes, but I know the
species and look forward to eating them. … The household routine remains the
same, except that occasionally new guards appear from outside.”
1943: After
visits from René Bousquet, the secretary-general of the Vichy police and the
man responsible for the July 1942 roundup of French Jews, and the no less
redoubtable Colonel Helmut Knochen of the SS, representing Himmler, today Leon
Blum was removed from Bourrassol by German troops.
1943:
Eva-Marie Buch, who “worked for the Schutze-Boysen-Harnack resistance group
(The Red Orchestra)” “was sentenced to death by the People’s Court.”
1943(28th of
Shevat, 5703): The Allied troopship S.S. Dorchester was torpedoed by a
German sub and went down with a loss of 600 lives. As it sank, four chaplains
calmly ministered to the needs of their comrades-in-arms and gave up their
lifejackets to shipmates, thereby perishing in the icy waters. The bravery of
Rabbi Alexander Goode, Father John Washington, Rev. Clark Poling (Dutch
Reformed), and Rev. George Lansing Fox (Methodist) led Congress afterward to
mark February 3rd as "Four Chaplains Day.
"https://www.legion.org/sitesearch?s=four+chaplains and
1944: The
67th train in eighteen months left Drancy for Birkenau. Upon their arrival 985
of the 1,214 deportees were gassed: of them 184 where children under 18 year of
age.
1944: Two
weeks after his wife Elizabeth had become a United States citizen, Hungarian
born photographer André Kertész became a U.S. citizen today.
1944: Sydney
Shumelson, a 29-year-old junior officer with the Royal Canadian Air Force
(RCAF), was part of a Buffalo Beaufighter Squadron that successfully attacked a
Nazi convoy off the coast of Norway. On the way back, Shumelson engaged in a
running dogfight with a Messerschmitt for which he was awarded the
Distinguished Service Order. “Six months later, Sydney participated in another
sortie in which he and his comrades sunk two heavily defended warships in the
Bay of Biscay. As a result of his service, he received the Distinguished Flying
Cross and became the highest decorated Canadian Jewish serviceman in World War
II.”
1944: “The
Fighting Sullivans” a WW II biopic about five brothers from Waterloo, IA,
produced by Sam Jaffe was released in the United States today.
1945: Colonel
Robert “Rosie” Rosenthal led the entire Third Division, an armada of 1,000
B-17’s, on a raid on Berlin.
1946: The
Royal Air Force reported that “six uniformed men held up an RAF medical
rehabilitation unit in Tel Aviv tonight and stole eighteen weapons.”
1946: Seventy-nine-year-old
English novelist Edward Phillips Oppenheim who was incorrectly “widely
perceived as Jewish and was termed ‘the greatest Jewish writer since Isaiah’”
passed away today.
1946: In
Jerusalem, “police and military authorities announced today that the curfew
that had barred pedestrians from streets in Jewish quarters would be lifted
tomorrow. The curfew has been in effect for sixteen nights.
1946: Among
the 12,000 Canadian military personnel who arrived at Pier 90 in New York
aboard The Big Bess was comedian Lou Herman of Toronto who performed in Italy
and Northern Europe “with his rifle on the alert, never sure when an enemy
attack might be made.”
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/06/20/specials/auster-solitude.html
1947: “An
outline of the extent to which Britain is prepared to go to meet Zionist
demands for an independent state in Palestine will be submitted to leaders of
the Jewish Agency for Palestine tomorrow, Foreign Secretary Bevin told the
agency's spokesmen here today.”
1948:
“Twenty-five members of the Blockade Runners of Haganah, a recently formed
organization of former crew members who ran the British blockade off Palestine,
picketed today from noon until 2 P.M. in front of 630 Fifth Avenue, where the
British visa office is located on the thirty-fifth floor.
1948: It was
reported today that the Mufti of Jerusalem flew from Cairo to Damascus to
attend an upcoming meeting of the Arab League where a date will be set for the
“Arab volunteer to open an offensive in Palestine.” (Editor’s note – this is
months before the declaration of the end of the mandate and hardly a popular
uprising of the local population. Aren’t
facts a bummer)
1949: The
Provisional State Council which acted as the legislature for the state of
Israel until the election of the first Knesset held its last meeting today.
1949: “The
Bribe,” an American crime film directed by Robert Z. Leonard, produced by
Pandro S. Berman and filmed by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg was released
in the United States today.
1950: Morton
Gould and his wife gave birth to their third child and first daughter Abby.
1951(27th
of Shevat, 5711): Parashat Mishpatim
1951(27th
of Shevat, 5711): Seventy-one-year-old Freeport, Illinois born “newspaper
reporter, edito, publicity man, screen writer, author, Collector of Customs in
Los Angles and President of the Los Anglese Commission, Alfred A. Cohen “who
wrote the “The Jazz Singer,” the first full length talking motion picture,
passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/02/05/86968833.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1951:
President Harry S. Truman dedicated a chapel in the honor of “The Four
Chaplains” in Philadelphia. The chapel was moved to the Philadelphia
Naval Shipyard in 2001 and after being repaired in 2004 was renamed “The Chapel
of the Four Chaplains.”
1952: In Mt.
Vernon, NY, Lillian Vernon and Samuel Hochberg gave birth to their first son
LGBT activist Fred Philip Hochberg, who in a very Jewish pattern was named for
an uncle who died at Normandy and who served as “president and CEO of the
Lillian Vernon Corporation” before serving in several government positions
including Chairman and President of the Export-Import Bank under President
Obama.
1953: The
Jerusalem Post reported on the Ministry of Labor plans to develop
communications and queries, expand irrigation and agriculture and move people
from towns to villages all of which should help in lowering the unemployment
rate and hasten the closing of the transit camps for recent immigrants.
1953: The
Jerusalem Post reported that Arab states had dropped their plans for a
boycott of Germany after the Bonn government has ratified the Israeli
Reparations Treaty.
1953: After having
premiered in London, “Thunder In The East,” with a script whose authors
included Jo Swerling and George Tabori was released in New York today.
1953: The
Jerusalem Post reported that Czechoslovakia and Hungary joined the Soviet
Union in spreading false anti-Semitic accusations and started identifying and
purging their Jewish officials.
1954: The IDF
officially began employing “a new doctrine of combining armored and motorized
infantry units” developed by Yitzhak Pundak who was promoted the rank of
Brigadier General.
1955(11th
of Shevat, 5715): Seventy-five-year-old NYU trained lawyer and Democratic Party
leader Julius Miller the former New York State Supreme Court Judge and
Manhattan Borough President passed away today.
1956(21st
of Shevat, 5716): Fifty-one year old Dr. Kurt Stern. “one of the world’s
foremost biochemists” passed away today in St. Mary’s Hospital in London.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/stern-kurt-gunter
1958(13th of
Shevat): Benzion Katz passed away
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Katz_Bentsiyon
1959(25th of
Shevat, 5719): Joseph Pearlman passed away.
1959: “One
thousand person attended a funeral service” today “for Dr. Jonah B. Wise the
rabbi of the Central Synagogue and a leader of Reform Judaism” which was opened
by Rabbi David J. Seligson with a reading of the twenty-third psalm.
1959(25th
of Shevat, 5719): Eighty-two-year-old Oscar William Oppenheimer, the “son of
Moses and Julia Oppenheimer,” the “husband of Claude Siesel” with whom he had
two children – Louise and James – passed away today in Pittsburgh, PA and
President of the Steel Drum Company passed away today in Pittsburgh.
1960: “The
Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond” a crime biopic that “marked the film debut of
Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Friesen), produced by Milton Sperling, with
music by Leonard Rosenman was released today in the United States by Warner
Brothers
1962: The
premier run of “No Strings” with music and lyrics by Richard Rogers came to a
close at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit.
1965(1st
of Adar I, 5725): Rosh Chodesh Adar I
1965(1st
of Adar, 1, 5725): Ninety-two-year-old Giuseppe Levi “an Italian anatomist and
histologist” who “was a pioneer of in vitro studies of cultured cells” passed
away today.
1968(4th
of Shevat, 5728): Parashat Bo
1968(4th of Shevat, 5728):
Seventy-three-year-old Jacob Albert “Jake” Pitler, the son of Russian Jewish
immigrants Frederick and Yetta Pitler and the husband of Henrietta L. Pitler
whose two-year career with Pittsburgh Pirates was followed by lengthy career as
a coach with the Brooklyn Dodgers that included being on the 1955 team that won
Brooklyn’s only World Championship passed away today.
http://jewishbaseballmuseum.com/player/jake-pitler/
1970: The
funeral for Bella Bergoffen, the widow of Samuel Bergoffen is scheduled to take
place this afternoon at Riverside Chapel
1970: The
funeral for Dorothy Horowitz Gerber, the widow of Newcomb Germer is scheduled
to take placed at the Higgins Home for Funerals followed by internment at the
Children of Israel Cemetery in South Plainfield, NJ
1971:
Birthdate of Tobias Jacob "Toby" Moskowitz “an American financial
economist and a professor at the University Of Chicago Booth School Of
Business. He was the winner of the 2007 American Finance Association (AFA)
Fischer Black Prize, which is awarded biennially to the top finance scholar
under the age of 40 in years when one is deemed deserving.”
1971(8th
of Shevat, 5731): Sixty-nine-year-old Latvian born psychotherapist and author
Asya L. Kadis, the widow of textile manufacture Max Kadis passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/05/archives/tlsa-l-kadis-psychiatrist-group-therapy-expert-dead.html
1973: Judge
Justine Wise Polier retired from the New York Family Court after 38 years spent
trying to use the bench to assist children and redress discrimination.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/feb/03/1973/justine-wise-polier
https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/bernard-botein/
1974: After
only 65 performances a Broadway revival Adler and Ross’ “The Pajama Game”
co-starring Hal Linden, closed today.
1974: The
Syrian Foreign Minister announced that his country was carrying out a
‘continued and real war of attrition’ that aim of which was to keep ‘Israel’s
reserves on active duty and paralyzing its economy.’
1975(22nd
of Shevat, 5735): Fifty-three-old “Eli M. Black, chairman of the billion‐dollar United Brands Company, which has vast interests in
bananas and meatpacking and other enterprises, plunged to his death at 8 A. M. today
from the 44th floor of the Pan Am Building.” (As reported by Peter Kihss)
1975(22nd
of Shevat, 5735): Eighty-eight-year-old Russian born American character actor
Michael Mark whose career spanned almost 40 years passed away today.
http://www.classic-monsters.com/michael-mark/
1976: In Oman,
Elspeth Reid and Brian Fisher gave birth to actress Isla Lang Fisher who
converted to Judaism before marrying Sacha Baron Cohen.
1977:
Birthdate of American born sprint canoer Rami Zur, who “competed for Israel at
the 2000 Summer Olympics.”
1978: “The One
and Only” a “comedy starring Henry Winkler, directed by Carl Reiner, produced
by David V. Picker, starring Henry Winkler and Gene Saks and filmed by
cinematographer Victor J. Kemper was released in the United States today.
1978: The
Jerusalem Post reported that mercury was found in Spanish oranges as a
poisoning scare cut into sales of Israeli citrus in Europe. In the third week
of their almost total strike, Israeli seamen threatened to wreck their ships to
prevent their sale, as threatened by the Zim management. The US was
contemplating a package deal: a joint sale of American jet fighters to Israel,
Egypt and Saudi Arabia. 1985: Physicist Frank Oppenheimer, younger brother of
Robert Oppenheimer, and veteran of the Manhattan Project, passed away.
1980(16th
of Shevat, 5740): Seventy-three-year-old Gilbert J. Pincus, a doorman who was
known as "the Mayor of 52d Street" during the Swing Era, passed away
today after being hit by a truck three weeks ago.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/02/07/112095351.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1981: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today for eighty-five-year-old Russian born
violinist Mischa Mischaoff, who in 1921 came to the United States where he
changed his name from the original Fischberg and where he served as
concertmaster for many symphony orchestras including the NBC Symphony under
Arturo Toscanni and who raised two sons, Paul and Mathew, with his wife
Hortense who passed away two days ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/03/obituaries/mischa-mischakoff.html
1986: In
Harrisburg, PA, the large plant owned by TRW (the R stands for Simon Ramo)
burned to the ground in an eight-alarm fire.
1988(15th
of Shevat, 5748): Tu B’Shevat
1988: In
Yorkton, Saskatchewan Rick and Carol Schwartz gave birth to Mandi Jocelyn
Schwartz the Yale hockey player whose struggle with leukemia would inspire
thousands of people to volunteer to be bone marrow donors.” (As reported
by Thomas Kaplan)
1988: Defense
Minister Yitzhak Rabin visited Nablus today and found the streets deserted
except for his own soldiers. He chatted with them in the narrow twisting
streets. Some residents could be seen peeking at the minister through the slats
of their closed shutters as he walked with bodyguards, a squad of soldiers and
an entourage of journalists. ''I more than believe that we are going to put an
end to it,'' he said of the protests. ''When, I don't know.''
1989: “Wicked
Stepmother,” a comedy featuring Lionel Stander and Tom Bosley and “written,
produced and directed by Larry Cohen” was released in the United States today.
1989(28th
of Shevat, 5749): Seventy-three year old Academy Award winning American movie
music orchestra leader, composer and arranger Lionel Newman, passed away
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/33578/LIONEL-NEWMAN-DIES.html?pg=all
1991: After a
long and angry debate, the Israeli Cabinet today voted to accept as a new
member of the Government a small right-wing party that advocates expelling all
the Palestinians from the occupied territories. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
pushed through the appointment of the Moledet Party -- the Hebrew name means
homeland -- over the opposition of senior members of his Government to expand
his coalition to 66 seats in the 120-seat Parliament. That is considered a safe
governing majority. No longer will any but the very largest of the minor
parties have the power to bring the Government down. Several of the most senior
members of the Government -- the Ministers of Justice, Health, Finance, Defense
and Foreign Affairs -- voted against the new coalition agreement or abstained,
participants at the meeting said. Vote totals from the closed meeting were not
disclosed. In several cases, dissenting ministers said they considered the
Moledet Party to be racist. And they openly worried that the move would jeopardize
Israel's new-found international standing as a result of its military restraint
in the face of Iraqi missile attacks.
1991:
The army announced that it had decided to begin large-scale distribution of gas
masks to Palestinians in the West Bank.
1991: Mayor
David N. Dinkins arrived in Tel Aviv “today from New York City for a lightning
visit to show solidarity with Israel. His Israeli hosts wasted no time pressing
a gas mask kit into his hands, and then whisked him away for a discussion on
chemical weapons with Israel's Foreign Minister. Israeli officials who greeted
Mr. Dinkins in the first rush of meetings during his 24-hour visit had nothing
but praise for the Mayor. From the President down, Israelis were pleased with
Mr. Dinkins's decision to come here at a time when air-raid sirens are wailing
almost every night. But that was in direct contrast to the feelings of some of
Mr. Dinkins's black constituents. In New York, some black leaders have accused
him of using the trip to bolster his popularity among Jewish voters while
neglecting the problems of his black supporters. While Mr. Dinkins's visit to
Israel has been praised by Jewish leaders in New York, some blacks have
objected to the trip because they believe it may align the Mayor too closely with
supporters of the Persian Gulf war and could make him appear too hawkish,
particularly among blacks who in some opinion polls have been shown to lag
considerably behind whites in support of the war. Since the hastily arranged
trip was announced 10 days ago, Mr. Dinkins has repeatedly tried to deflect the
criticism by characterizing the visit as a humanitarian gesture of support for
Israel at a time of great adversity. But aides who came with Mr. Dinkins
acknowledged that, along with the show of solidarity, the Mayor's visit was
intended as a modest, if early, pitch for Jewish votes in the 1993 election.
This appears to be at least part of the reason that Mr. Dinkins has not
scheduled any meetings with Palestinians during his trip, though virtually all
visiting American politicians make a point of meeting with prominent Arabs. The
Mayor's aides said Mr. Dinkins wanted only to express sympathy for Israel and
not to take on larger political issues. Such visible support for Israel could
be useful if Andrew J. Stein, the City Council President, who could be expected
to have wide Jewish support, decides to run against Mr. Dinkins. After being
fitted for a gas mask in the airport arrival lounge, Mr. Dinkins, looking weary
from his long flight, said: "Wisdom and prudence dictate that we learn how
to put on a gas mask. But I'm not afraid. I'm 63, and God has been good to me
and taken care of me over the years."
1992: Ezer
Weizman, the former Israeli Defense Minister and air force commander who became
an ardent advocate of peace with the Arabs, announced his retirement from
politics today, warning that the Government was leading the country toward war.
An architect of the 1978 Camp David peace accords with Egypt and an outspoken
supporter of talks with the Palestine Liberation Organization, Mr. Weizman said
he was leaving public life because he could no longer influence national
policy. Addressing Parliament, Mr. Weizman, who is 67 years old, said he was
resigning as a member of Parliament from the Labor Party. "After serious
consideration I have decided to resign my post in the Knesset and to leave
political life," he said. "I leave concerned for the fate and image
of the State of Israel in the years ahead. I am troubled by the grave feeling
that the path we are taking does not lead to peace, but to an impasse behind
which is the horror of war." Farewell May Not Be Final Mr. Weizman said
later that he felt he could "no longer contribute" to peace efforts.
Acquaintances said he had become disillusioned by the Government's conduct of
Arab-Israeli negotiations and by what he saw as the inability of his own party
to present credible policy alternatives. While he insisted that he was
abandoning parliamentary politics, Mr. Weizman did not rule out a proposal by
some legislators that he serve as President, a mostly ceremonial post. His
uncle, Chaim Weizman, became Israel's first President in 1948.
1992(29th of
Shevat, 5752: Eighty –five-year-old “Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar” Theodore H.
Gaster passed away today.
http://articles.philly.com/1992-02-08/news/26040942_1_dead-sea-scrolls-jewish-sect-ancient-texts
1993: U.S.
premiere of “The Century Club” the cinematic treatment of the play by the same
name about three Jewish widows in Pittsburgh produced by Philip Rose, with
music by Elmer Bernstein and co-starring Lanie Kazan.
1995: “In the Month
of Madness” a horror film featuring David Warner and Frances Bay was released
in the United States today.
1995(3rd
of Adar I, 5755): Seventy-one-year-old author Jack Sendak, the brother of
Maurice Sendak and the son of Philip Sendak passed away today. (As reported by
Wolfgang Saxon)
1997: Newly
installed U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced the uncovering
of her Jewish origins.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/feb/03/1997/madeleine-albright
1997: During
fiscal 1997 which ended today women's apparel accounted for 32 percent of
Younkers's sales, men's apparel for 16 percent, home furnishings for 16 percent,
and cosmetics for 11 percent. In an example of the oft repeated tale, Younker’s
traced its origins to a general store started by Lipman, Samuel and Marcus
Younker at Keokuk, IA, from which the brothers put the merchandize on backpacks
and walked the roads selling to local farms.
Herman Younker “joined them in 1874 and
opened a 1,320-square-foot dry goods store in Des Moines on their behalf with a
$6,000 grubstake.”
1999(17th of Shevat, 5759): Eighty-five-year-old
Ben “Red” Kramer the Long Island University basketball all-star who won the
Haggarty Award which “is given to the best men’s basketball player in the New
York City metropolitan area” passed away today.
2000: The U.S.
Senate voted 89-4 to confirm Alan Greenspan for a fourth term as chairman of
the Federal Reserve.
2001: “God’s
Ghostwriters” published today provides a complete review of The Bible
Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its
Sacred Texts by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman.
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/04/books/god-s-ghostwriters.html?searchResultPosition=3
2002: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Shouting Fire: Civil
Liberties in a Turbulent Age by Alan M. Dershowitz
2002: Robert
Kraft’s New England Patriots defeated the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI in
New Orleans.
2003: Today
actress Lana Clarkson was found in the Pyrenees Castle, the Alhambra, CA,
mansion of musician Phil Spector whose immigrant Jewish grandfather arrived in
the United States “with the surname Spekter.”
2004: “Nasser
al-Kidwa, head of the Palestinian observer mission, criticized the Israeli
ambassador, Dan Gillerman, for having accused Secretary General Kofi Annan of
showing bias against Israel in his response to the suicide bombing in Jerusalem
that killed 10 and wounded 50.”
2005(24th
of Shevat, 5765): Eighty-one-year-old landscape architect Karl Linn the
German-Jewish born son of Henriette (Henny) Rosenthal and the step-son of Josef
Lin, the Chief Librarian of the Jewish Community Center in Berlin who fled to
Palestine when the Nazis came to power and who studied to be a psychologist
before turning to landscaping passed away today/
https://archives.ced.berkeley.edu/collections/linn-karl
2006(5th
of Shevat, 5766): Actor Al Lewis, best known for his role as Grandpa on the
television show “The Munsters” passed away.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/nyregion/al-lewis-95-dies-portrayed-grandpa-on-the-munsters.html
https://www.biography.com/people/al-lewis-162967
2006: “Rick
Moranis performed "Press Pound" on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and
discussed the development of his music career.”
2007: ט"ו
בשבט or Tu
B’Shevat and Shabbat Shirah. In Cedar Rapids a special Tu B’Shevat and
Tailgating Kiddush celebrating the New Year of the Tree’s and Sunday’s Super
Bowl.
2008: “Camille
Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country” closes at the Jewish Museum of New
York.
2008: The
Sunday New York Times book section featured a review of Artists in
Exile: How Refugees From Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the
American Performing Arts by Joseph Horowitz, Swimming in a Sea of
Death David Rieff’s account of his mother’s (Susan Sontag) final illness
and Eli Gottlieb’s second novel, Now You See Him.
2008: The
Sunday Washington Post book section featured a review of They Knew
They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons by Jacob Heilbrunn and Liberal
Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left From Mussolini to the Politics
of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg.
2008: Super
Bowl Sunday: In Super Bowl XLII, the New York Giants take on the New England
Patriots who are owned by Jewish businessman and philanthropist Robert Kraft.
2009: Dr. Avi
Bitzur, Israel's Director General of the Ministry, "gave details of the
new Israeli campaign for compensation of seized property and assists as at a
panel entitled 'A Matter of Historic Justice: Jewish Refugees From Arab
Countries,' held at the Ninth Annual Herzliya Conference.
2009: The Yale
Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism presents the second
annual Professor William Prusoff Honorary Lecture, "1948 as Jihad"
featuring Professor Benny Morris of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
2009: German
Chancellor Angela Merkel issued a stern rebuke today to Pope Benedict XVI,
accusing the Vatican of giving "the impression that Holocaust denial might
be tolerated" by welcoming a disgraced bishop back into the church.
2009: Palestinian militants fired a long-range rocket
from Gaza into the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon today and Israel retaliated
with airstrikes against smuggling tunnels and a Hamas outpost in southern Gaza,
as Egyptian-brokered talks for a sustainable cease-fire continued in Cairo with
no obvious progress
2010: The 10th
Annual Herzliya Conference is scheduled to come to a close.
2010: Maggie
Anton, author of the trilogy about Rashi’s Daughters is scheduled to speak at
Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak Park, Michigan.
2010: The
Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is schedule to present “Taste of
Israel: Ethnic Cooking at its Best” featuring six Israeli women from the
Partnership Community of Beit Shemesh-Mateh Yehuda who will be at the JCCNV to
cook foods from different origins including Morocco, Iraq, India, Kurdistan,
Persia and Egypt.
2010: Elie
Wiesel told Haaretz today that he is using his ties with world leaders
and heads of state and appearing at international conferences to warn of
Ahmadinejad's intentions. More than 40 Nobel Prize winners from various
countries have added their signatures to a full-page ad denouncing Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that is due to be published in The New York Times
and International Herald Tribune in the next few days. The ad, initiated by
1986 Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel, condemns Iran's severe human rights
violations and warns that Iran's nuclear program is a danger to humanity. The
ad is part of Wiesel's worldwide campaign to raise awareness of the threat he
says Ahmadinejad poses to world peace. "Governments must stop Ahmadinejad and
put him on trial at the International Court of Justice in The Hague on charges
of open incitement for genocide," he said. Wiesel blasted Judge Richard
Goldstone, saying his report on the Israeli offensive in Gaza was "a crime
against the Jewish people." Wiesel, who was deported from his hometown of
Sighet in Transylvania to Auschwitz, is demanding Hungary open its
Nazi-occupation era archives. This would expose the extent of the Hungarian
police and army's persecution of the Jews, he said.
2010: The
daily Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace reported today that Vandals have defiled a
Jewish cemetery in the city of Strasbourg with swastikas and anti-Semitic
slogans. The swastikas were smeared on about 20 tombstones, while the
German phrase 'Juden Raus' (Jews, get out) was scrawled elsewhere in the
cemetery. Representative Council of Jewish Organizations in France, which
reported the incident, told France Info radio that the vandalism appeared
related to the ceremonies being held Wednesday in Europe to commemorate the
65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp at the
end of World War II.
2011: The
Center for Jewish History and Leo Baeck Institute is scheduled to present:
“Chamber Music of Schubert, Bach, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff and Zaretsky”
performed by the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble.
2011:
Professor Jean Seaton is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled “Reporting the
Holocaust - As it was Happening” at the Wiener Library in London, UK.
2011: Rep.
Gabrielle Giffords, who is recovering from a bullet shot into her brain, will
not be attending this year’s National Prayer Breakfast which is scheduled to
take place today. Congresswoman Giffords had invited her rabbi, Stephanie Aaron
of Congregation Chaverim, to attend the event with her.
2011: Police
officers stumbled on a large stash of jugs and coins dating back from the
Second Temple era in the Galilee village of Mazara today, during an arms raid.
2011: Rabbi
Steven Kushner officiated at the funeral of Mitchell Reuben Perlmeter at
Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield, N.J. Perlmeter who passed away two days ago at
the age of 17 was the son of two rabbis.
2012: IDF
Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen Benny Gantz ordered a full inquiry into the incident
that saw a soldier with the 188th Armored Brigade accidently left behind in the
Palestinian village of Budrus.
2012(10th
of Shevat, 5772): Seventy-year-old Zalman King, actor turned film maker, passed
away today.
2012:
"The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumour and it will be removed,"
Teheran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said today. Khamenei addressed thousands of
worshipers attending a Tehran University prayer service marking the Fajr
celebration. The crowd met the statement by chanting "Death to
Israel."
2012: Rabbi
Alexander Goode, Reverend George Fox (Methodist), Reverend Clark Poling (Dutch
Reformed) and Father John Washington (Roman Catholic) are remembered on Four
Chaplain Day.
2012: In Cedar
Rapids, Temple Judah is scheduled to host another of its fabulously popular
Friday Night Musical Shabbats
2012: Rabbi
Arnold Resnicoff is scheduled to speak at Friday night services at Washington
Hebrew Congregation as part of the commemoration of Four Chaplains Day.
2013: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperback
edition of The Lion Is In by Delia Ephron
2013: As part
of the Temple Judah 90th anniversary celebration, historian Mark
Hunter is scheduled to deliver an illustrated talk on the history of the Cedar
Rapids Jewish Community.
2013: Rebekka
Helford and Bruce Bierman are scheduled to lead the music and dancing at the
Klezmer Jam Session and Dance hosted by The Talking Stick in Venice, CA.
2013: Final
performance of “Not By Bread Alone” is scheduled to take place at the Skirball.
2013: Today
marks the 70th anniversary of the sinking of the Dorchester, a U.S. Army
transport ship, torpedoed by a German U-boat during World War II. During the
sinking 4 chaplains, including Rabbi Alexander Goode sacrificed their lives to
save others answering in the affirmative to the age old question of “Am I my
brother’s keeper.” (Special thanks to the Jewish Historical Society of Greater
Washington for assembling so much valuable information about this event)
2013: Today,
Israel’s army chief landed in the United States for talks with his American
counterpart, amid tension with Syria following a reported Israel airstrike
there last week. He arrived as Israel’s defense minister insisted that Israel
“means what it says” about preventing advanced weaponry being moved into
Lebanon as Bashar Assad’s regime in Damascus loses control. (As reported by
Michal Shmulovich)
2013: As
Americans watch the Super Bowl, this is the story of the commercial you will
not see.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/refaelis-super-bowl-kiss-censored/
2014: An
exhibit at La Galeria at Boricua College in Washington Heights featuring works
from “Intermarriage” is scheduled to close today.
2014: The
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a panel discussion on “Iranian
Jewish Identity.”
2014: The UK
Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to “Lea and Daria,” a film about two Croatian
“Shirley Temples
2014:
According to reports first published today by Haaretz “Israel has offered
Turkey twenty million dollars in compensation to the families of those killed
and wounded in its 21o raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla.”
2014(3rd
of Adar I, 5774): Eighty-seven-year-old Arthur Ortenberg, the husband and
business partner of Liz Claiborne passed away today, (As reported by Doulas
Martin)
2014(3rd
of Adar I, 5774): Sixty-four year old American born Professor Barry Rubin who
was a “columnist and well-known expert on terrorism and the Middle East passed
away today.(As reported by Stuart Winer)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/barry-rubin-columnist-and-mideast-expert-dies-at-64/
2014(3rd
of Adar I, 5774): Ninety-two-year-old Professor Ezra Zohar, the physician who
helped to found the School of Medicine at Tel Ave University passed away tody.
http://www.jewishpost.com/archives/news/dr-ezra-zohar-is-israel-uncle-sams-concubine.html
2014(3rd
of Adar I, 5774): Twenty-one-year-old Captain Tal Nahman was “killed today due
to friendly fire near Gaza.”2015: “Ze’eva Cohen: Creating a Life in Dance” is
scheduled to be shown at the Lincoln Center.
2015(15th
of Shevat, 5775): This evening seventy-eight-year-old Sir Martin Gilbert, the
official biographer of Winston Churchill and author of 80 books who wrote
meaningful history with the style of a novelist passed away today after an
extended illness during which he was lovingly cared for by his wife, Lady
Esther Gilbert.
2015(14th
of Shevat, 5774): Seventy-five-year-old theatre director Ike Schambelan, who
created opportunities for “challenged” actors and actresses passed away today.
(As reported by Bruce Weber)
2015: In
Washington, DC, the Historic 6th & I Synagogue is scheduled to
host a Tu B’Shvat Seder “featuring local soured snacks and dessert.”
2015:
French-Israeli journalist Jonathan-Simon Sellem today “was invited at The
Algemeiner Gala in New-York City, to receive a prize as one of the 2014 Top-100
people influencing positively Jewish life.
2015: At the
Center for Jewish History Gina B. Nahal is scheduled to discuss her new novel, The
Luminous Heart of Jonah S., about the experience of the Iranian Jewish
community in the United States.
2016(24th of
Shevat, 5776): Three terrorists murdered 19-year-old Hadar Cohen, an Israeli
security officer who was “interfering” with their apparent attempt to launch an
attack on shoppers in and around the Damascus gate in Jerusalem.
2016: Rabbi
Yosef Greenberg, the Chabad-Lubavitch from Anchorage, Alaska invoked the seven
Noahide Commandments when he 19offered the opening prayer at the United States
Senate in which he “prayed for the United States to lead in the fight against
terrorism worldwide.”
2016:
Professor Michael Walzer is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Secular
Revolutions and Religious Counter-Revolutions: The Case of Zionism” at Kol
Shalom Congregation.
2016: “Pinchas
Zukerman and the Zukerman Trio” are scheduled to appear the Kaufman Concert
Hall.
2016:
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust is scheduled to host an
“Artist Talk Anika Smulovitz” in conjunction with “Pointing the Way” an
“exhibit about ceremonial Torah pointers.
2017: Funeral
services are scheduled to today at Chicago’s Emanuel Congregation for Rabbi
Herman Schaalman.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/ct-herman-schaalman-obit-met-20170201-story.html
2016: In “Gay
Congregation Celebrates Its Identity With New Home in Manhattan” published
today David W. Dunlap described the growth of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah.
2017: This
afternoon, UKJF is scheduled to sponsor a screening of “Through the Wall,” Rama
Burshtein’s comedic look at love in the Hasidic community of Tel Aviv.
2017: The
Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host Friday night services and
a Shabbat dinner followed by Rabbi Michael Rosenfeld-Schueler’s chavruta
session.
2018: The Oxford
University Jewish Society is scheduled to continue Parent’s Shabbat that
includes a Pirke Avot study session following Shabbat Luncheon.
2018:
Yiddishkayt is scheduled to host the “West Coast premiere of ‘Art Is My
Weapon,’ the inspiring cabaret showcasing the life and work of Dutch-Jewish
anti-fascist performer Lin Jaldati at Genghis Cohen in Los Angeles.
2018(18th
of Shevat, 5778): Parashat Yitro – including the revelation at Sinai, one of
the most universally known of all Biblical stories;
2018(18th
of Shevat, 5778): Bogalusa, LA native and Tulane School of Social work, Sara
Benson Stone, the philanthropist and wife of Saul stone with whom she had four
children – David, Richard, Harvey and Carol – passed away today at the age of
102.
https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/article_2b6cb56a-095f-11e8-8634-3bf63a73513b.html
2019: On the
secular calendar, fourth anniversary of historian Sir Martin Gilbert – always
missed and never forgotten.
https://www.martingilbert.com/
2019: Robert
Kraft’s New England Patriots are scheduled to meet the Los Angeles Rams, a team
once owned by Carroll Rosenbloom in Super Bowl LIII.
https://jewishjournal.com/news/los_angeles/181298/
2019: The New
York Times reviewed books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Zuck: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by
Roger McNamee, Antisemitism: Here and Now by Deborah E. Lipstadt and
Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts by Jill
Abramson
2019: The
Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA is scheduled to host a screening "Angel
Wagenstein: Art is a Weapon"
http://support.yiddishbookcenter.org/site/Calendar?id=7771&view=Detail
2019: The
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “a staged reading” this
afternoon of “Out of the Depths,” an original play by Chaim Potok.
2019: The
Jewish Museum of London is scheduled to host a rehearsed reading by Diane
Samuels of “Kindersport” which had been previously been shown in the West End
and which “explores the trauma and hope of the Kindertransport through the lens
of mother/daughter relationships.”
2019: Limmud
Helsinki and Limmud FSU St. Petersburg are both scheduled to come to an end
today.
2019: Four
Chaplains Day, marking the 76th anniversary of the sinking of
U.S.A.T. Dorchester and the courage of the four chaplains -- Rabbi Alexander D.
Goode, the Rev. George L. Fox, a Methodist Minister, the Rev. Clark V. Poling
of the Reformed Church in America, and the Rev. John P. Washington, a Roman
Catholic priest.”
https://medium.com/@CarlBuhler/four-chaplains-day-february-3-2019-d168ad447fff
2020: In
Berkeley, CA, Urban Adamah is scheduled to host “Nature Tales of Joy and
Wonder” during which “Rabbis Arthur Waskow and Phyllis Berman join
rituaist-feminist Starhawk to share Jewish stories of earth, sky and ocean.”
2020: In New
Orleans, at Tulane University “Zionism Then and Now,” a symposium organized by
Dr. Brian Professor, a professor in the Jewish Studies Department is scheduled
to come to an end.
2020: In
Lafayette, CA, Temple Isaiah is scheduled to host “Battle for Religious Freedom
in Israel” during which “Jewish scholar and activist Yael Yechieli-Persico
talks about tensions between religion and state.”
2020: In
Cincinnati, OH, The Mayerson JCC Jewish and Israeli Film Festival is scheduled
to host a screening of “The Spy Behind Home Plate.”
2020: Iowa is
scheduled to host its political caucuses tonight which on the Democrat side
include two possible Jewish candidates and on the Republican side, an incumbent
President with a Jewish daughter, son-in-law and numerous supporters including
Prime Minister Netanyahu who has turned his position into a virtual adjunct of
the Republican Party.
2020: Rabbi
Alexander D. Goode, the Rev. George L. Fox, a Methodist Minister, the Rev.
Clark V. Poling of the Reformed Church in America, and the Rev. John P.
Washington, a Roman Catholic priest -- the ot “Four Chaplains” -- are scheduled
to be honored today, which is a feast day “on the liturgical calendar of the
Episcopal Church in the United States of America.”
2021: In Columbus, OH, Congregation Tiftereth
Israel is scheduled to offer two study opportunities with virtual meetings of
the “Short Story Group” and “The Heart of the Torah” sessions where essays on
the upcoming Torah portion are discussed.
2021: The Highgate United Synagogue Book Club
is scheduled to discuss Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan.
2021: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is
scheduled to re-open to the public today.
2021: The Berkley Center for Jewish Studies is
scheduled to present “Ode to Energy: Einstein, Feynman and Oppenheimer” during
which Sonoma State professor Anne Goldman, author of “Stargazing in the Atomic
Age,” will talk about Jewish physicists of the mid-20th century and their role
in creating the atom bomb.
2021: The London School of Jewish Studies is
scheduled to host Rav Avida Tabory as he continues his exploration into the
halachic (Jewish law) response to historical events in modern Israel” and Karen
Miller Jackson as she begins a study session on sections of Tractate Pesachim.”
2021: The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is
scheduled to present “New Works Wednesdays” with Nadia Sabri who will have a
discussion with book contributors Abdou Filaly Ansary, Vanessa Paloma Elbaz,
and Brahim El Guabli.
2021: The Aquarian Minyan is scheduled to
present “The Store of a German Jewish Refugee during which “Psychologist Joan
Schwartz will about her mother, Eva, from Trier, Germany, and other relatives
who fled the Holocaust and immigrated to California.”
2021: The Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to present “Jewish Ruptures, Mourning and Belonging” during which
“Sharon Musher, author of Promised Lands: Hadassah Kaplan, Zionism, and the
Making of American Jewish Women and David Slucki, author of Sing This at My
Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons, who will discuss with Natalia Aleksiun
their grandparents’ and parents’ turbulent life trajectories before, during,
and after the war in New York, Europe, British Palestine, and Australia.
2021: The Jewish Community Center of the North
Shore is scheduled to present, online, “Science, Spirit and Self: Men’s Health
and Wellbeing.”
2022: The Jewish Arts Collaborative is
scheduled to present online, “How the Town Chelm Came to Be,” the first episode
in The Tales of Chelm series.
2022: The Oshman Family JCC and the Tucson JCC
are scheduled to present online “Power of Song” during which Arielle Korman,
co-founding executive director of Ammud: Jews of Color Torah Academy, shares
how songwriting has helped her explore and learn about Judaism as a Filipina
Jew.”
2022: The American Jewish Historical Society is
scheduled to present a discussion with Daniel Walber on “Jews In America Opera:
From Importers to Innovators.”
2022:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to present LGBTQ + Life And Death
Under The State,” a lecture by Laurie Marhoefer in which she explores “how the
Nazi state reacted to lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender people.”
2022:
JWA is scheduled to host a booktalk with Ariella Elovic, author of Cheeky:
A Head to Toe Memoir, “a graphic memoir that asks: how can the author learn
not to see herself as a never-finished DIY project, but to accept and even love
the physical attributes society taught her to hide?”
2022:
The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University is scheduled
to present “A Day of Blood and Valor”: Tensions in 1960s Israel.
2022: Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s first to
the Bahraini capital, a surprise twenty-four long mission, is scheduled to come
to an end today.
2022: CNN begins its first full day without the
leadership of Jeff Zucker who unexpectedly resigned yesterday over a previously
undisclosed “consensual relationship” with a senior executive who reported
directly to him.
2023: Congregation B’nai Torah of Sudbury is
scheduled to present online Rabbi Dr. Lisa Eiduson and cantorial student intern
Rachel Rubinstein for Shabbat Shira—the Sabbath of song, because this is the
week that we read or chant the section of the Torah known as “Miriam’s Song at
the Sea,” as it is found in the “Book of Exodus.”
2023: At Tulane, a conference led by Dr. Brian Horowitz on
“Zionism, Then and Now Zionist thought and practice in Eastern Europe before
and after the founding of the State of Israel” is scheduled to end today.
2023: In Metairie, LA, Shir Chadash Conservative
Congregation of is scheduled to present a discussion of the Ethics of Altering
the Human Genome as part of the “Davening, Dinner and Discussion series.”
2023: According to the weather forecast, Israel
is scheduled to get a respite from the wintry blasts that have been hitting the
country since January 30.
2023: “Unity Through Understanding Day: an ADL
experience for high school sophomores” is scheduled to take place in New
Orleans.
2023: Kan Kol Hamusika is scheduled to
broadcast a concert featuring Rona Shrira, Contra Alto – Winner of the 2022
Aviv competitions, America Israel Cultural Foundation, Rafael Skorka, Piano and
Alona Milner, Piano - winner of the Ministry of Culture Prize at the Kan Voice
of Music Young Artists Competition 2021-2022
2023: Let It Be Morning which swept the Ophirs (Israeli
Academy of Film and Television Awards) in 2021, winning seven awards, including
best director and screenplay for Eran Kolirin, and best actor and actress,
respectively, for Palestinian co-stars Alex Bakri and Juna Suleiman is
scheduled to open at the Quad Cities Cinema.
2023: The Scholar in Residence weekend with Dr.
Michal Raucher, the Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers is
scheduled to begin this evening at Tifereth Israel in Columbus, OH with a Shabbat
Dinner and Lecture: "Abortion According to the Rabbis: What do Jewish
Texts Teach Us about Abortion?"
2023: In Pleasanton, CA, Chabad of Tri-Valley
is scheduled to host a “Tu B’Shevat Community Dinner,” which includes a meal
featuring the fruits of Israel will include roasted figs, olive chicken,
mushroom-barley soup, kofta-stuffed dates, pomegranate mousse and date truffles
followed by after-dinner speaker Israeli author Doron Kornbluth.
2023: Eightieth anniversary of the sinking of
the Dorchester and the selfless bravery of the Four Chaplains.
2024: 2024: In another lecture in the online lecture series "The Other Side of the Wall", scheduled to be hosted Agnon House, participants “will talk with Dr. Yahil Zaban about neighbors in children's stories through a study of two masterpieces - "Apartment for Rent" and "Coward in the Closet."
2024 (24th of Shevat, 5784): Parashat Yitro;
For more https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2024: In Columbus, OH, as part of the Scholar-in-Residence
Weekend at Congregation Tifereth Israel, where the theme is “Jewish Voices and
the Supreme Court in 2024” Dahlia Lithwick is scheduled to deliver the sermon,
followed by a Kiddush Discussion on "What Ruth Bader Ginsburg Taught me
About Repairing the World: Jewish Values, the Constitution and Justice in a
Conflicted World" and evening discussion with Judge Rachel Bloomekatz.
2024: As February 3rd begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day 120 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.)
