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1369: KingPedro of Castile who employed Abraham ibn Zaral as his physician was beheadedby his rival and brother, Henry of Trastamara marking the end of their civilwar for control of the kingdom. Henry “was as hostile to the Jews as Pedro hadbeen friendly. His long-cherished hatred of his brother burst forth when a Jewnamed Jacob, an intimate of the king, praised the latter excessively to Henry.In his fury he stabbed the Jew with a dagger. Pedro would have revenged himselfon Henry forthwith, but his courtiers restrained him by force. Henry savedhimself by a hasty flight. This was the immediate cause of the civil war whichbrought untold suffering upon the Jews of the country. . He was as hostile tothe Jews as Pedro had been friendly. His long-cherished hatred of his brotherburst forth when a Jew named Jacob, an intimate of the king, praised the latterexcessively to Henry. In his fury he stabbed the Jew with a dagger. Pedro wouldhave revenged himself on Henry forthwith, but his courtiers restrained him byforce. Henry saved himself by a hasty flight. This was the immediate cause ofthe civil war which brought untold suffering upon the Jews of the country.During their struggle for control, Henry continuously depicted Peter as "Kingof the Jews," and had some success in taking advantage of popularCastilian resentment towards the Jews. During his reign, “Henry of Trastamarainstigated pogroms beginning a period of anti-Jewish riots and forcedconversion] in Castile that lasted approximately from 1370 to 1390.”
1475: Trent(Italy) was the scene of one of the more notorious ritual murder libels. AFranciscan monk, Bernardinus of Feltre, had recently arrived and beganpreaching Lent sermons against the Jews. A week before Easter a boy by the nameof Simon drowned in the river Adige. The monk charged the Jews with using thebody for its blood. The body washed up a few days later near the house of a Jewwho brought it to the Bishop Honderbach. Seventeen Jews were tortured for overtwo weeks. Some confessed while being tortured and 6 Jews were burnt. Two morewere strangled. A temporary hiatus was called by Pope Sixtus IV, but after fiveyears the trial was reopened, and 5 more Jews were executed. The papal inquestagreed with the trial, Simon was beatified, and all Jews were expelled for 300years. The trial served as the basis for anti-Semitic writings for hundreds ofyears. Only in 1965 was Simon de –beatified
1490: Thefirst dated edition of Maimonides' “Mishneh Torah” was published. Maimonideswas born in Cordova, Spain in 1135. His family fled as one group of Moslemrulers replaced another. Eventually he settled in Egypt where he was adistinguished physician for the ruling Moslems as well as head of the Egyptiancommunity. According to one source he provided medical advice for both Saladinand Richard the Lionhearted. He died in 1204 and is buried in Tiberias inIsrael. Simply put, the Mishneh Torah was "an orderly restructuring of theentire legal literature of the Talmud." The Mishneh Torah (Repetition ofthe Law) is "one of the most distinguished codes of Jewish law...”
1555: PopeJulius III passed away. Despite opposition, Julius allowed Jewish refugees fromSpain settle in Ancona in northeast Italy. He spoke out against the blood libeland opposed baptism of Jewish children without the approval of their parents.At the same time, he was unable to stand up to the power of the InquisitorGeneral from the Holy Office and he acquiesced in the burning of numerouscopies of the Talmud and other Jewish books.
1556: Paul IVissued the Papal Bull “Dudum postquam”
1712(15th ofAdar II): Rabbi Zevi Hirsch Koidonover, the Wilna born “son of Rabbi AaronSamuel Kaidanover and a pupil of Rabbi Joseph ben Judah Jeidel” who “with hiswhole family, was thrown into prison on account of a base denunciation, and wasforced to languish in chains for years until he was pardoned” after which hemoved to Frankfurt where he authored of Kav ha-Yashar passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9132-kaidanover-zebi-hirsch
1714: DukeFerdinand expelled the Jews from Courland
1732: InNiederwiesen, Germany, Hindle and Moses Levi gave birth to Philip Moses FaistRosenheim the husband of Dreile Schwiezer and the father of Samuel, Moses,Simon, Hindle and Abraham Rosenheim.
1766: In LowerSaxony, Germany, wealthy tobacco merchant and philanthropist Isaac Jacob Gans,the “son of Jacob Salomon Gans and Freude Katz Gans and his wife Pesse PaulineLeah Gans gave birth to Abraham Isaak Gans,
1758(13thof Adar II, 5518): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim
1769(14thof Adar II, 5529) Purim
1777(14thof Adar II, 5537) Purim
1780:Birthdate of German native Loeb Feigenbaum, the husband of Ida Bach with whomhe had nine children.
1784: ReverendGershom Mendes Seixas returned to New York City from Connecticut and took uphis position as “Minister.” He returned while New York City was evacuated bythe British, and most of the members of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagoguewere in the safety of Connecticut and Philadelphia. Seixas was very patrioticand was thanked by President George Washington at one time. Seixas instituted arecital of a prayer for the government in English, it having been always readin Spanish prior to this time.
1796(13thof Adar II, 5556): Fast of Esther; erev Purim
1796: InJebenhausen, Germany, Marget Isaac and Aron Abraham Arnold gave birth to JosephAron Arnold, the husand of Therese Kaufman with whom he had seven children.
1799(16thof Adar II, Parashat Tzav
1801: TsarPaul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampledto death in his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle. Paul’s reign was acomparatively short one, starting in 1796 with the death of his motherCatherine the Great. The shortness of his time on the throne was a good thingfor the Jews of Russia. In 1799, Paul sent one of his closest advisors, GabrielDerhavin to Belorssia. Derhavin decided that the problems in that part of therealm, as well as the rest of Russia were caused by the Jews “who wereirredeemably corrupt.” He was planning on urging the Czar to move most of theJews to the “frontier territories or drive them from the empire altogether.”These and other harsh measures would have become the law of the land if Paulhad not been killed and replaced by his comparatively more enlightened son,Alexander I.
1806: Racheland Moses David Friedman gave birth to Zanwel Friedman.
1807(13th ofAdar II, 5567): Ta’anit Esther is observed as Parliament is acting to abolishthe Atlantic slave trade.
1811(27thof Adar, 5571): Shabbat HaChoesh
1811:Birthdate of German medical doctor Carl Friedrich Stahl.
1814: SarahMayes, the daughter of Esther Etting and David Barrack Hays married BenjaminEtting Hays today.
1816(23rdof Adar, 5576): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei; Shabbat Parah observed as the 14thCongress of the United States was meeting during its first session.
1818: InCharleston, SC, Isaac and Rachel Mordecai Harby gave birth Dr. Samuel Harby,the editor of the New Orleans Bee, husband of Frances Levy Harby and the fatherof Octavia Rachel Harby Pollock.
1819: Today “theliberal Burschenschaft student Karl Ludwig Sand murdered the conservativewriter August von Kotzebue” which provided the excuse for Metternich to callfor a meeting of Austrian ministers which led to the passage of the “CarlsbadDecrees,” a package of reactionary rules which were passed during “The Hep-Hep riots which were pogroms against Ashkenazi Jews, thatbegan in the Kingdom of Bavaria, during the period of Jewish emancipation inthe German Confederation.”
1820: AbrahamWiesel Gompertz, the father of Harriet Gompertz was buried today.
1821: TheGeneral Council of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Portugal whose primaryvictims were Jews and Muslims which had been established in 1536 was disbandedtoday
1822: In St.Thomas, Virgin Island, Sarah Cohen Naar and Judge David Naar gave birth toSarah Miriam Biaz, the wife of Abraham Baiz and “ mother of Leita Naar; SarahBaiz; Jacob Baiz Naar; Nanette Hannah Seixas; Rachel Baiz; David Naar Baiz;Joseph Levi Baiz; Moses Baiz; Isaac Baiz; Samuel Baiz; Zipporah Baiz; EstherBaiz; Rebecca Naar and Moses D'Azevedo Naar” who was living in Brooklyn when hedied in 1900.
1826: InPhiladelphia, PA, Abraham Arnold, the German born son of Marget Isaac and AronAbraham Arnold married Maria Abrahams, the daughter of Roseanna Linderman andLevi Abrahams,
1827: MarcusDe Vries married Kaat Van Rook
1827: RabbiDavid Aaron de Sola, the Amsterdam born son of Rafael Aron (v. Haim David) deSola and Sara v. Isaac Namias Torres who was the first rabbi to preach a sermonin English at Bevis Marks Synagogue and his wife Rebecca de Sola gave birth toIsaac de Sola
1830: One dayafter he had passed away, Trespole Myers was buried today at the “Brompton(Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1831:Eighty-eight-year-old Christian-Hebraist Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi passedaway.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12896-rossi-giovanni-bernardo-de
1833(3rdof Nisan, 5593): Vayikra
1836:Birthdate of German native Gertrude Hyman Felsenthal, the wife of HermanFelsenthal with whom she had six children – Eli, Judith, Flora, Hannah andEmily.
1836:Birthdate of Norfolk, VA, and University of Virginia and University of Berlineducated Crawford Howell Toy, the American Christian Orientalist who “becameHancock professor of Hebrew and Oriental languages at Harvard University andwas the author of "The Religion of Israel" (and "Judaism andChristianity"
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14467-toy-crawford-howell
1837:Birthdate of Joseph Wieniawski, Russian pianist and composer.
1845(14thof Adar, 5605): Purim is observed for the first time during the presidency ofJames K. Polk.
1846: In NewYork, Moses and Esther Lazarus gave birth to Josephine Lazarus.
1847: SamuelJoans married Esther Cashmore, the daughter of Moshe Kashman at the GreatSynagogue.
1848: InManchester, UK, Charles Sydney Grundy and his wife gave birth to Englishdramatist Sydney Grundy who combined with Edward Solomon to produce two comicoperas – “The Vicar of Bray” and “Pochoantas” - and produced “An Old Jew” atthe Garrick in 1894, five years before Zangwill’s “Children of the Ghetto.
1849(29thof Adar, 5609): Fifty-four-year-old Hananeel de Castro, the husband of Deborahde Jacob Mendes da Costa who was the President of the Board of Deputies ofBritish Jews at the time of the Damascus Blood Libel in 1840 passed away today.
1853: InPribram, Bohemia, Markus Saphir, the Bohemian born son of Joseph Saphir and hiswife Anna Saphir gave birth to Theresia Saphir
1853: Whiledelivering a speech welcoming Father Gavazzi, the celebrated Roman patriot andorator to the United States, Reverend Dowling pointed out a peculiarity of theAmerican experience. “This government, alone of all others, never persecuted orendeavored to persecute Jews.”
1854: InLouisville, KY, Adolph and Frederick Brandeis gave birth to Alfred Brandeis,the husband of Jennie Brandeis and brother to Louis D. Brandeis, the firstJewish Justice to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1855:Birthdate of Sherman, CT native and Columbia University Professor SociologyFranklin Henry Giddings who 1907 told a group attending a lecture at thePeople’s Institute in Cooper Union that he favors “the recent movement by theJews to keep Christian ceremonies out of the public schools” and that while “hefavored the Zionist movement, he feared that could it not be made attractive tothe Jews to be successful.
1856(16thof Adar II, 5616): Purim Meshulash
1856: InPhiladelphia, Isaac and Henriette Kohn gave birth to Sophie Kohn who becameSophie Pfaelzer when she married Philadelphia jeweler Morris Moses Pfaelzer.
1859: In NewYork City, Kathie Steinhardt and Solomon J. Spiegelberg gave birth to civilengineer turned stock broker Isaac Newton Spiegelberg, the husband of StellaFriedlander and member of the NYSE and the brokerage firm of Chase andSeligsberg who was a member of Temple Eamnu-El in New York.
1861: “TheHebrew Son” is scheduled to be performed at the Winter Garden Theatre in NYC.
1862: InHungary, “Pauline and Dr. Jacob Jacques Heinrich Hirschfeld” gave birth toAdele Amalie Hirschfeld who became Adele Amalie Schmidt when she married AugustSchmidt.
1862: Duringthe American Civil War, Judah P. Benjamin completed his short stint as “acting”Secretary War. Benjamin continued to serve as Secretary of State.
1862:Eighty-one-year-old Count Karl Robert Nesselrode, the Russian foreign ministerwho successfully thwarted the plan of Jacques Isaac Altaras to settle 40,000Russian-Jewish families in Algeria passed away today.
1863:According to “The Books of the Week” column published today, Scribner’s haspublished "Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church, -- Part 1,Abraham to Samuel" by Arthur Penryn Stanley, D.D., Regius Professor ofEcclesiastical History in the University of Oxford, and Canon of Christ Church.According to this Stanley “the roots of the Jewish Church must be sought deepin the Patriarchal Age, its prelude commencing with the Call of Abraham, thenfrom the time it takes determinate shape and recognized status with the Exodus,the first great period extends to the absorption of the ancient and primitiveconstitution in the new institutions of the Monarchy. This “period is generallycalled by the name of the Theocracy; its great characters are Abraham, Mosesand Samuel. It embraces the first revelation of the Mosaic Religion, and thefirst foundation of the Jewish Church and polity." Two future volumes willcontinue to describe the history of the Jews up to Roman times. The secondvolume will describe the period of the Monarchy. The third will describe theperiod “from the Captivity to the destruction of the Jewish Capital and Stateby the Emperor Titus.”
1864(15th ofAdar II, 5624): Shushan Purim
1864: “Purim:Our Jewish Citizens in Their Glory” published today reported that PurimAssociation has given their “third Grand Fancy Dress Ball, at the Academy ofMusic. The Association was formed in 1862 by nine young men of the Jewishfaith, its first ball was given at Irving Hall in 1862, its second at theAcademy of Music in 1863, and its third at the same hall last evening. Thefestival of Purim is one of the oldest and most important festivals recognizedby the Jews, commemorating, as it does, one of the most important events intheir history as a nation. It was instituted by Queen Esther and by Mordecaiabout the year 510 B.C. and commemorates the remarkable deliverance of thechildren of Israel from the tyranny and machinations of Haman, who was PrimeMinister to King Ahasuerus, who reigned from India unto Ethiopia, over ahundred and twenty-seven provinces. Mordecai had been carried captive fromJerusalem, and with him the fair and beautiful maiden Hadassah or Esther, whomMordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.Esther being exceedingly beautiful and pleasing found favor in the eyes of KingAhasuerus, who married her and made her his Queen. About this time Haman wasappointed to the high position of Prime Minister to the King, and he demandedand received homage from all except the Jew Mordecai, who not only refused topay homage, but also refused to give any reason why he would not. Haman, highlyincensed at the conduct of Mordecai, ordered made a gallows of extraordinaryheight, on which to hang him for the insult be had offered to one in highoffice and favored by the King. Queen Esther, hearing of this, informed theKing of the relation which existed between her and Mordecai, and also of thegreat benefit Mordecai had done the King some time previous in informing of twomen in his confidence, Bigthana and Teresh, who sought to lay violent handsupon the King and kill him. The King remembering all these things and theiniquity, or Haman, ordered him hanged upon the gallows erected for Mordecai,placed Mordecai in the position held by Haman, made him chief over the house ofHaman, and released the children of Israel from bondage. This was celebrated bygreat rejoicing all over the land and, in every way the joy and happinees ofthe people was exhibited. From that to the present the festival of thisdeliverance of the Jews has been celebrated by the most extravagant expressionsof happiness, calling upon each other at their houses, in every dress and guisewhich could possibly add merriment or joy to the occasion, and using everymeans they could devise for the utmost enjoyment and celebration of this greatand happy event. Of late years their number has so increased that time wouldnot allow them to visit all the friends they wished, nor would their houseshold all the friends they wished to entertain. To obviate this difficulty, nineyoung gentlemen on the Jewish faith, in the year 1862, organized the"Purim Association," the object of which was to collect all theparties together for the general enjoyment of the festival, and that allfriends might meet. Thus far they have been particularly fortunate nothing hasoccurred to mar their pleasure, and they have also by this means been enabledto do a great deal of good. Last year they presented to the Orphan Asylum andother charitable institutions a handsome sum, and this year they intend, first,to present to the Sanitary Fair a good round sum, and then take care of thecharitable institutions, as is their custom. The officers of the association,who have been and are working hard and steadily for the promotion of thissociety and its good influence, and to whom, in a great measure, the success ofthe ball is due, are as follows: M.H. Moses, President; Jos. A. Levy,Vice-President; A.H. Schutz, Treasurer. The hall was crowded with a mostbrilliant assemblage, who entered into the enjoyments of the occasion with azest seldom equaled; the costumes were very rich and beautiful; the diamondsworn by the ladies magnificent and in brilliancy almost rivaled the bright eyesof their fail owners. Among the best of the characters represented were thoseof Mrs. Partington, Lucretia Borgia, Penobscot Squaw, Chippewa Chief, and Joanof Arc, several beauties of the Court of Charles H., the Duke of Buckingham,Faust, a Priest, and several Jewish maidens. Merriment reigned supreme withinthe hall. Wives, well-disguised, teased their liege lords almost todistraction; sweethearts by sly winks and actions, drove their devoted loversalmost frantic; husbands thinking they were not known or noticed, paid sweetcompliments to fair maidens only to be rapped over the knuckles for notreserving them for their wives, and staid old bachelors and maidens enteredinto the spirit of the fun in a manner which fairly astonished themselves. TwoBands gave constant music, to which the feet of the merry dancers kept time. Attwelve o'clock they unmasked and then what surprise was created. Husbands foundthey had been flirting all the evening with their own wives; lovers had beenconfidentially extolling the beauties of their sweethearts to their-sweetheartsthemselves; old maids had been telling old bachelors how disagreeable theythought that class of men to be, and old bachelors had been sympathizing,perhaps, with the old maids themselves, upon the unhappy condition of theseunfortunate ladies. The mistakes, however, were speedily and amicably settled,and after the excellent supper prepared by the caterer, M.S. Cohen, had beenfully enjoyed, were entirely forgotten.” New York Mayor Charles Gunther wasamong the dignitaries who attended the event.
1865: InPhiladelphia, Joseph and Louisa Berg gave birth to Hart O. Berg, “a pioneer inthe manufacture of machine guns, submarines, automobiles and airplanes” whomarried the former Lena Willets and was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honorby France in 1901.
1865:Birthdate of Posen born and Columbia trained physician Henry Heiman who hadcome to the United States in 1880.
1866: JamesDisraeli who resided in Cromwell Place wrote his will today.
1867:Birthdate of Arthur Bornstein, the native of Breslau, Germany who was a dentistby training but whose real passion was writing as can be seen by the volumes ofshort stories he published starting in 1894.
1867: InVienna, Dr. Michael Reiner and Agnes Reiner gave birth to Dr. Maximilian MaxReiner, the husband of Paula Reiner and the father of Herbert and HeinrichReiner.
1867: In ZabnoGalicia, Solomon and Rosa Malter gave birth to Henry Malter, the husband ofBertha Freund and the holder of Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg who wasthe professor of medieval philosophy andArabic at the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, rabbi of the Sheerith IsraelCongregation of Cincinnati and Professor of Rabbinical Literature at DropsieCollege
1868(15th ofAdar II, 5624): Shushan Purim
1868: InCardiff, Esther Lyons, “18 year old Jewess” who was running away from herfamily “knocked on the door of Croome Villa, Roath, the home of the ReverendNathanial Thomas, minister of the Baptist Tabernacle” in what would be thefirst act of a cause celeb that would sour relations between Jews and Baptistsin South Wales “for years to come.{
1868: TheUniversity of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Actis signed into law. Today the University of California at Berkley hasapproximately 3000 Jewish students out of a student population totalingapproximately 24,000. The school offers ten Jewish studies courses and a Majorin the field.
1869: In NewYork City, Henry and Clara (Mayer) Hahn gave birth to German and Bohemiantrained violinist and composer Frederick E. Hahn the first violinist with theBoston Symphony Orchestra from 1892 to 1896, the founder and leader of the HahnString Quartet and the founder and director of the Hahn Conservatory of Musicwho was a member of Mikveh Israel Congregation in Philadelphia.
1869: In Pila,Sieradz, Poland, Szaja Pilichowski and his wife gave birth to painter LeopoldPilichowski.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0016_0_15770.html
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Pilichowski_Leopold
1869: RosettaMoses, the daughter of Martha and Joseph Jonas and the husband Dr. MontefioreMoses gave birth to Walter Jonas Moses.
1869: In NewYork City, Clara Mayer and Henry Hahn gave birth to Eastburn Academy and Leipzig,Germany trained violin soloist and composer , “the winner of 1stprize for violin solo playing in 1890 at Leipzig and first violinist with theBoston Symphony Orchestra who was founder of the Hahn String Quartet and theHahn Conservatory of music before become the president of the Zeekwer-HahnPhiladelphia Musical Academy,
1870: JayGould appeared before the New York State Senate Railroad Committee and that hisopponents were being financed by “Jewish bankers” from London. (“Robber Baron”Jay Gould was attempting to use anti-British and anti-Jewish prejudice todeflect attacks on his unscrupulous business tactics when dealing with the ErieRailroad.)
1870: HermanW. Hellman, who in 1866 sold out his interest in a book and stationary businessand then went into business for himself “sold his entire stock and fixtures toHarris and Jacoby” and left for a trip to Europe.
1871(1st ofNisan, 5631): Rosh Chodesh Nisan observed on the same day that President “Grantformally requested legislative action “to deal with the menace of KKK “in aspecial message to Congress.
1872:“Persecution of Jews In Romania” published today the reporter compared theattacks on the Jews with the suffering “in England in the days of Isaac ofYork” and calls upon the European Powers to intervene on behalf of the Jews ifthe government of Romania will not stop the attacks on its Jewish citizens.
1872: Thisevening, as Jews celebrated Purim, synagogues in New York “were all crowded” asthey listened to the unique musical narrative of the story of Esther. “Inthe…strictly Orthodox synagogues such as those on Chrystie and Allen Streets,the audience stamped their feet or struck the ground with the heavy stickswhenever the detested name of Haman was pronounced.”
1873: In Ibbenbüren,Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Johanna Rosenthal, the German born daughter ofAbraham Bendix Weinberg and Frieda Sophia Weinberg and her husband LeffmannRosenthal gave birth to Alfred Rosenthal who passed away during the same monththat Hiter came to power.
1876: TheYoung Men’s Hebrew Association will host its final “entertainment of theseason” this evening at the Standard Hall in New York City.
1877: IsaacArtom “was elected senator of the kingdom” today making him “the first Jew tosit in the Italian legislative body.”
1878: InMonaco Jewish court photographer Ignaz Schrecker and his wife Eleonore vonClossmann gave birth to Austrian composer and conductor Franz Schreker.
1879: It wasreported today that 800,000 Philadelphians are served by 564 houses of worshipincluding 9 synagogues.
1879: Dr.Henry S. Jacobs will deliver a lecture this evening at the Norfolk StreetSynagogue sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Union.
1880: InRussia an editorial entitled “The Yid is Coming” is published in theanti-Semitic journal Novoe Vermie.
1881:Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Lubny, Russia. This would not be the first orthe last time that death would strike the Jews of Lubny which is actuallylocated in the Ukraine, In 1648 during the horror known as the ChmielnickiMassacres, thousands of Jews died at Lubny and other nearby towns. In Octoberof 1941, the Nazis massacred the Jewish population as the German armies sweptacross the Ukraine. The rioting in 1881 probably was a mini-pogrom sparked bythe killing of Czar Alexander II "at the hand of revolutionary bombthrowers." They presaged a series of such riots that would sweep much ofRussia during the Spring and Summer of 1881.
1882: InErlangen, Bavaria, mathematician Max Noether and Ida Amalia Kaufman gave birthto mathematician Amalie Emmy Noether.
https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/noether.htm
1882: In PapaHungary, the former Sophie Hirsch, the youngest daughter of Rabbi ShamshonRaphael Hirsch and “Rabbi Shlomo (Solomon) Zalman a talmid of the Ksav Sofer”gave birth to Joseph Bruer, the husband of Rika Eisenmann of Antwerp,granddaughter of Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins, the Rosh Yeshiva of TorahLenranstalt, the rabbi of the Klaus Synagogue in Frankfurt, and after fleeingthe Nazis, the founder and leader of Khal Adath Yeshurun, the WashingtonHeights congregation established to meet the needs of the large German-Jewishcommunity that had been created due to the rise of Hitler.
1883(14th ofAdar II, 5643): Purim
1886(16thof Adar II, 5646): Eighty-two-year-old Bina Oppenheimer, the daughter of Davidand Schiele Kahn and the wife of Lob Oppenheimer passed away today in New YorkCity.
1886:Birthdate of Austrian native Benjamin Waxelbaum and the husband of DorothyWaxelbaum who in 1893 came to the United States where he became a “publishers’representative with offices at 180 East Broadway in New York, worked for 14years as the advertising manager of New York Jewish Morning Journal and becamea founding partner in Keilson and Waxelbaum
1886:Secretary Taylor of the American Yacht Club called the members together in aspecial meeting this evening to listen to a lecture by the popular Sephardicraconteur Mr. R.J. de Cordova on "The New York Stock Exchange."Instead of of lecture, Mr. de Cordova amused the "twoscore members"of the club humorous rhyming story about a stock broker in search of a richwife, the daughter of a Pennsylvania farmer made rich by the discovery ofpetroleum on his farm and "a rejected bucolic lover" who happilymarries the maiden after she loses her fortune while pursuing an extravaganturban lifestyle.
1887:Birthdate of Sidney Hillman. Sidney Hillman was a major figure in the Americanlabor movement and became a leading advisor to President Franklin DelanoRoosevelt. He was President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, oneof the two major unions in the garment industry from 1915 until his death in1946. An untiring champion of the working class and the underprivileged,Hillman was a founder of the Congress of Industrial Organization, the CIO.Unfortunately, with the passage of time, we have lost a sense of appreciationfor the improvement in the American way of life wrought by Hillman and similargiants of the American labor movement, many of whom were Jewish.
1887(27th ofAdar): Seventy-year-old Posen born Rabbi Eliezer Landshuth, author of Amudeiha-Avodah passed away today at Berlin.
http://newspaperslibrary.org/articles/eng/Leser_Landshuth
1888: Anattorney in Kovno, gave birth to Bundist and Russian Revolutionary Leon Savidzh,a French army veteran of the Battle of the Marne and starting in 1915 a residentthe United States where he “wrote under such pen names as: A. Nitsuts, L. S.,and Yoysef Levin. In 1918 he published a series of sketches” graduated fromColumbia University Law School, became in the Zionist movement and theDemocratic Party.
https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/2610/Savidzh-Leon-March-23-1888
1889:Birthdate of Lithuanian native Florence R. Dolowitz, the Hunter Collegegraduate and mathematics teacher who founded the Women’s American ORT whileraising two children – Grace and David – with her husband Alexander Dolowitz,passed away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/dolowitz-florence
1890: “ArtNotes” published today described the ten illustrations of “The Merchant ofVenice” by Edwin Abbey that will appear in the April edition of Harpermagazine. They include “the figure ofPortia exhorting the Jew” to show mercy and a “frontpiece” showing the DucalPalace “with the Jew demonstrating why he does not love Christians.”
1890: The lateSolomon Adler bequeathed $500 to both the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Mount SinaiHospital and $250 to each of the following: Montefiore Home for ChronicInvalids, the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews and the Hebrew ShelteringGuardian Society of New York.
1891(13thof Adar II, 5651): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim
1891: AliceGoldmark, the niece of composer Karl Goldmark, married Louis Brandeis at herparent’s home in New York City and the moved “ to Boston’s Beacon Hilldistrict” where their two daughters – Susan and Elizabeth – were born.
1891: “TheBaron de Hirsch Club” published today described the accomplishments of thenewly formed social club. Among theseventy-five charter members are Dr. Leon Sherurg, Elias Gluskin, MortonBritton, John W. Jacobus, William Bellamy, Louis Henderson and M.J. Rosinski
1892:Twenty-four-year-old Abraham Gussow, the Russian born of son of Herman Gossow,was the founder of A. Gussow and Company, on of “the largest manufacturers ofwomen’s underwear in New York and a president of the Cotton Garment Associationtoday married Emma Iserlson with whom he had five children – Pansy, Minnie,Anna, Isidore and Alfred.
1892: It wasreported today that after the claim of Adolf Grube for 1,600,000 rubles hasbeen satisfied J.E. Guenxburg will only have 14 million rubles in his accountswith which to satisfy the rest of his creditors.
1893(6thof Nisan, 5653): Seventy-six-year-old Adolf Fischoff, the doctor turnedAustrian political leader and author passed away today.
http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6153-fischhof-adolf
1893: Max Juddof Missouri has been nominated to serve as Consul General at Vienna. Judd, anative of Austria, came to the United States as a child and has lived in St.Louis for the last twenty-five years. Aman of “well and fine education” “his appointment is the result of the almostuniversal request of the people of” St. Louis which speaks well of Judd and theregard in which the Jews of Missouri are held by the general population.
1893: W.H.Helm of Dumfries and his wife gave birth Sir Alexander Knox Helm, the UnitedKingdom’s first ambassador to Israel.
1893: A caseinvolving the seizure by police of liquor which members of Boston’s AdathIsrael’s congregation claimed was intended for use on Passover began making itsway through the court system. The Jews claim that the vice president of thecongregation was holding the liquor for his co-religionists which he will bedistributing during Passover. The police claim that this is a ruse and ismerely a way for the Jews to get around local liquor ordinances.
1893: Kosherslaughtering was prohibited in Saxony, which is in a part of Germany thatMartin Luther had dominated during his rise to power. Some claim that the banwas part of the anti-cruelty to animal movement, but this claim has a veryhollow sound to it considering what else was going on in the society.
1895: EdwinEinstein, a New York Republican, was appointed to serve as Dock Commissionertoday by a mayor who was a Democrat.
1895: It wasreported today that the bazaar held recently by the ladies of Temple Emanuel inBirmingham raised nearly one thousanddollars .
1895: InBudapest, the House of Magnates rejected the clause of the Religious FreedomBill that gave Jews equal rights with the Christians by a vote of 117 to 111.
1896:Birthdate of Jacob “Jake” Friedman, the native of Bridgeport, CT who in 1926played “end” in three games for the Hartford Blues, an NFL team that existedfor only year.
1896:Congregation B’nai Shalom which held services on “Sabbath and holidays,”included a Ladies Hebrew Association as an “auxiliary society” and was servedby Rabbi Max Lewinthal was founded in Brookhaven, Mississippi today.
1896: InLithuania, Rose Fiensinger and Louis Sachs gave birth to Chicago clothingmanufacturer Morris Benard Sachs, the father of Rhoda, Zenia and Morris Sachsand founder of the Amateur Hour radio show
1896: “What IsA Christian Nation?” published today described the views of Dr. Gustav Gottheilwho “claims that the so-called Christian nations are not so in fact and thatthe Jews are, from the ethical standpoint, the true Christian nation.” A Christian nation would make the Sermon onthe Mount the basis for its Constitution entailing “the returning of good forevil, the breathing of a blessing upon those who curse us, the rendering ofgood for evil.” (Editor’s note –This view should provide food for thought forthose who claim the U.S. is a “Christian nation.”)
1897: Mrs.Rebecca Kohut gave a talk today on “The Training of Children in Reverence inJewish Homes” at the Manhattan Congregational Church.
1897:Birthdate of Jackson, MS native and Millsap College graduate Julian B.Feibelman, the Hebrew Union College trained rabbi who was the long-time leaderof Temple Sinai in New Orleans where he could be seen striding up St. CharlesAvenue in spats sometimes accompanied by his wife, the former May Anna Fellman.
1897: Oscar S.Straus, the former U.S. Minister to Turkey who has just returned to the UnitedStates said that he had met with Baroness de Hirsch while in Europe but did notcare to discuss the details of continued financial assistance for immigrantsfrom Europe who will be settling in the Western Hemisphere.
1897: One dayafter he had passed away, 36-year-old Julius Pearl, the son of Haskel andMiriam Pearl was buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.
1899:Birthdate of Russian native and Washington, DC automobile dealer Joseph Chernerthe husband of Ruth Cherner who was a major financial contributor to Israelduring the early days of the Jewish State,
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/04/18/84884426.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1899(12thof Nisan, 5659): Fast of the First Born
1899: Dr.Joseph Silverman delivered a lecture on the “Longevity of the Hebrews.”
1899(12thof Nisan, 5659): Twenty-eight-year-old Sergeant Morris J. Cohen, the New Jerseyresident serving with the 20th Kansas Regiment “was killed today inan engagement at Calcoocan, Philippine Islands.
1899: It wasreported today that during the month of February the United Hebrew Charitieshad received 2,815 applications for assistance which covered 9,377individuals. Jobs were found for 477applicants while over 1,800 people were seen by either a doctor or anurse. The charity raised over $17,000during February and spent almost $13,000 in providing aid to the needy.
1900:Birthdate of Erich Seligman Fromm, the German born American psychoanalyst
http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell9.htm
1901(23rdof Nisan, 5661): Parashat Vayikra
1901: It wasreported today that General Louis Botha, the leader of the Boers, was“generally in favor of the terms of the settlement” he was “greatly concernedabout the position Jewish capitalist would occupy in the country and” he “wastold that Jews and Christians would enjoy equal rights,” with “no distinctionbeing made in the matter of concessions.
1901: Theformer Annie Pauline Alberts and Phillip Sihisky who were married by RabbiDavid Shane at the Sons of Israel Synagogue in Camden are “on a bridal tour”after which they will return to Camden, the home of the bride’s father IsaacAlberts.
1902(14th ofAdar II, 5662): Purim
1902: Russiannative and Philadelphian Dora (Weinstein) Aronoff and her husband Isaac Aronoffgave birth to Ida Aronoff
1903:According to a report filed today by the St. Petersburg correspondent of theLondon Times, “the four points on which reforms are required in Russia –education, local government, peasant’s rights and finances – the Czar’smanifesto is worthless” and “and the manifesto obviously did not apply to theJews…”1904: “Hamilton Odell, the referee appointed to determine whatinstitution should be paid the reside of the estate of the late SimonGoldenberg upon the death of his widow Mary Goldenberg reported to the SupremeCourt” in New York today “in favor of the Hebrew Technical Institute.”
1903: It wasreported today that Dr. Joseph Silverman of Temple Emanu-El had said that “itis certainly high time that a more liberal form of government should beinaugurated in Russia, the land of ignorance and poverty, of politicalcorruption and bribery, of social religious oppression and persecution, ofintolerance and bigotry, the land where it has been said that more deaths haveoccurred in recent years than in all Napoleonic wars.”
1904:“Hamilton Odell, the referee appointed to determine to what institution shouldbe paid the residue of the estate of the late Simon Goldenberg upon the deathof the widow, Mary Goldenberg, reported to the Supreme today in favor of theHebrew Technical Institute.
1905:Penultimate session of the convention of the Constitution Grand Lodge of theIndependent Order of B’nai B’rith meeting in New Orleans.
1905: JuliusLoeb, the Frankfurt-on-Main bon son of Minna Cahn and Adolf Loeb and VicePresident and Treasurer of the American Metal Company who was a trustee of theHebrew Orphan Asylum and the Central Synagouge married Hilda Neuberger today inNew York.
1906: In NewYork, Carrie Wasserman gave birth to Edith Lee Wasserman who became Edith LeeKamsler when she married Charles Albert Kamsler.
1907: In NewYork this evening, enough poor Jews presented their tickets which could beexchanged for 10 pounds of Matzoth and 5 pounds of floor to the store onAttorney Street, that 20,000 pounds of matzoth and 10,000 pounds of Matzahfloor were needed to meet the demand.
1907(8thof Nisan, 5667): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol
1907:Birthdate of Solomon “Sol” Furth, the Brooklyn born track star nicknamed“Happy” who competed in the 1932 Olympics.
1907: Today,in Paris, Dr. Max Nordau told a meeting of French Zionists “that it wasnecessary to immediately prepare for the next Zionist Congress” and that theyneed “to organize the plans for the future of the Zionist movement.”
1907:Birthdate of Latvia native Moses Cyrus Weiler, the HUC trained rabbi referredto as “an unsung hero of the struggle for black emancipation in South Africa.
http://www.unitedsisterhood.org.za/index.php/about-us/rabbi-moses-cyrus-weiler
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0215/ms0215.html
1907: When “asmall boy with red brick hair” presented his ticket entitling him to 10 poundsof Matzah and 5 pounds of Matzah flour, he was told that “these matzoth areonly provided for person of true Hebraic faith.” The lad replied, “Me name isMickey O’Brien, but sure me mother needs the matzoth. We’re most staring and ifit’ll do any good I’ll be an Irish Hebrew.” The lad got his matzoth and flour.[It was not unusual for non-Jews to show up for when free food was passed outat Passover time. The Jews did not seem to mind apparently remembering thewords of the Haggadah inviting the poor to come and join us in eating at theSeder.]
1908(20th ofAdar II, 5668): Seventy-two-year-old Nathan Stix, the German born son ofDeborah Cohen and Solomon Stix who in 1861 at Cincinnati, OH married RickaIglauer with whom who had six children, passed away today after which he wasburied at the Walnut Hills Jewish Cemetery in Evanston, OH.
1908: It wasreported today that “for the ninth time in two months” an attempt has been madeby unfriendly Chinese tongs to burn the tenement at 42 Division Street which isoccupied by Jews as well as Chinese.
1909: “Theunions of Jewish choristers, musicians, ushers and bill posters in the eastside theatres order a strike” today “of their members in the Thalia Theatre,involving about eighty persons against a notice of a reduction in wages.”
1910:Birthdate of Avraham Givelber, the secretary of the Polish branch of HeHalutz(The Pioneer), “Jewish youth movement that trained young people foragricultural work in Israel” who joined Kibbutz Afek when he made Aliyah in1941 and “who was appointed Deputy Speaker of the Knesset while serving as anMK from 1974 to 1977.
https://main.knesset.gov.il/en/MK/APPS/mk/mk-personal-details/337
1910(12thof Adar II, 5670): Hume, Germany native Joseph Brandestein, the San Franciscotobacco and cigar merchant and leader in the Jewish community as can be seen byhis service to the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Mt. Zion Hospital Associationand Congregation Emanu-El who married Jane Rosenbaum with whom he had elevenchildren including Max, Manfred and Edward passed away today.
http://www.jmaw.org/brandenstein-jewish-san-francisco/
1911(23rd ofAdar, 5671): Daniel Abramovich Chwolson passed away.
1912(5thof Nisan, 5672): Ninety-year-old communal worker Hezekiah Kohn passed awaytoday in New York.
1913(14thof Adar II, 5673): Purim
1913:Eighty-year-old Civil War veteran Adam Mayer passed away today in New Orleans.
1913: Dr.George Gershon Jacob Gordon, the Minneapolis born on of Abraham Bear Gordon andSarah Beulah (Shub) Beulah Gordon and his wife Sophie Gordon gave birth to Bonny Selz, thewife of Joseph Selz.
1914:Birthdate of Spencer Bernard Witty, the native of Waccabuc, NY who with hisfour brothers Frederic, Ephraim and Arthur, and a cousin, Irving expanded thebusiness created by their grandfather David Witty into a “chain” of six storethat sold classy, high-end clothing for men.
1914: It was reported from St. Petersburg“that as …Passover approaches more blood ritual allegations are beingcirculated.” In Uman, in the Ukraine, reports are circulating “that a Christianboy, Anton Zummer, who was working in a bakery at a machine for makingmatzoth…had his hand thrust in the machinery by the Jewish boys and lost alarge quantity of blood which went to the making of the bread…Another reportspeaks of the finding of an 8-year old boy’s body under a railway bridged atKovel…with the head, neck and chest pierced with wounds.” [This is the sameUman that is the burial site of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov which Jews visit eachyear at Rosh Hashanah.]
1915: TheUnited Hebrew Community has sent out an appeal for more funds to so it candistribute matzoth and other food to the poor Jews of the Lower East Sidebefore the beginning of Passover. Moses H. Phillips, President of the HebrewCommunity said that the demand is greater this year than in years past and atleast 90,000 pounds of food will be needed to feed the needy. The United HebrewCommunity is only one of several Jewish organizations that will be distributingfood at Passover time to their less fortunate co-religionists.
1915: AdelphiCollege and NYU alum Milton M. Adler, the New York City born son of RebeccaBamberger and David Adler and Treasurer and General Manage of the EssexSpecialty Company as well as the executive director of the WilliamsburgY.M.H.A. married Florine Wolf today in Newark, NJ.
1915: The fundof the American Jewish Relief Committee has collected $579,996. 53 as of today.
1915: The ZionMule Corps, consisting of Jewish volunteers from Palestine, was formed to servewith the British Army. This was the first Palestinian Jewish military unitattached to a regular army in the modern times. The unit was organized underthe command of Joseph Trumpeldor, an early military hero of the future state ofIsrael and Vladimir Jabotinsky who would become leader of what was known as theRevisionist Movement, forerunner of today's Likud part. The united foughtagainst the Turks who were allies of the British. The success of the Zion MuleCorps paved the way for the Jewish Legion which was formed in 1918.
1915:Sixty-six-year-old “Judge Leonard S. Roan of the Court of Appeals of Georgiabefore whom Leo M. Franks was convicted and by whom he was sentenced to deathon August 16, 1913 for the murder of…Mary Phagan” passed away today.
1915:According to family legend, today, in Brooklyn “Louis and Sarah Rabinowitz,Yiddish-speaking immigrants from Russia” gave birth to Jacob Rabinowitz whogained fame as producer and talent-maven Jack Rollins. (As reported by RobertD. McFadden)
1916: In St.Louis, at Rabbi Masliansky and Rabbi Abranowitz told those attending “a reliefmeeting” at “B’nai Emuno Synagogue” about “the sufferings of the Jews in thewar zones” “more than $1,000 was raised through the sale of certificatesbearing the recent proclamation of President Wilson naming a Jewish ReliefDay.”
1916(18thof Adar II, 5676): Seventy-two-year-old Colonel Felix Rosenberg, the Civil Warveteran who “came to Cleveland after the Civil War, was a brevet colonel in theSpanish-American War” and the “editor of Town Topics, a weekly publicationdevoted to local high society news” passed away today in Cleveland.
1917(29thof Adar, 5677): Fred Lazarus, the Wurtenburg, Germany born son of Ameliaand Simon Lazarus, and husband of Rose Eichberg who with was the “F” in F. andR. Lazarus Company passed away today in Columbus, OH.
https://www.columbusmonthly.com/news/20190603/from-archives-end-of-lazarus-dynasty
1917: As oftoday, it was reported that the People’s and Central Relief Committees areraising funds for the relief of Jews in war-torn Europe along with the AmericanJewish Relief Committee led by Henry Morgenthau, Louis Marshall and HerbertLehman.
1917: TheUnited States Ambassador to Russia today sent a cablegram to the StateDepartment stating, “that the new Russian Government had taken its firstimportant step toward the emancipation of the Jews by removing the educationrestrictions previously imposed under the old regime.”
1917: In aletter to the British and French Ambassadors to the United States, OscarStraus, Chairman of the Public Service Commission expressed the opinion that“the great majority of the Jewish citizens of the United States are pro-Allyand not pro-German.”
1917:Birthdate of Yevgeny Khaldei the Soviet born Jewish World War II combatphotographer whose work included one of the most famous of that genre showing aSoviet soldier raising a flag over the Reichstag as the Red Army triumphed in the Battle of Berlin. According to some reports Khaldei patternedthe picture after the one of the flag raising over Iowa Jima, another iconic WWII photo taken by a Jewish photographer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reichstag_flag_original.jpg
1918(10thof Nisan, 5678): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol
1918:Fifty-eight-year-old Clara Mitnick Massell, the Russian born wife of Raphael M.Massell and the mother of Benjamin, Levi, Samuel, Rebie and Jacob Massellpassed away today after which she was buried in the Oakland Cemetery inAtlanta, GA.
1918: RabbiSamuel Schulman is scheduled to deliver the sermon this morning at TempleBeth-El on-5th Avenue.
1918: RabbiKrass is scheduled to deliver a sermon “A Lesson from The Copperhead” atCentral Synagogue.
1918: RabbiEnelow is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Basic Doctrines of ReformJudaism” at Temple Emanu-El.
1918: RabbiM.H. Harris is scheduled to deliver a sermon “The Great Sabbath” this morningat Temple Israel of Harlem
1918: Today’sissue of The Publisher’s Weeklyincluded Jewish Fairy Stories by Gerald Friedlander and illustrated byBeatrice Hirschfeld among its listings.
https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Fairy-Tales-Gerald-Friedlander/dp/0486419827
1919: BenitoMussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy. The ashes ofthe First World War were not even cool yet when the seeds for World War II andthe Holocaust were being planted.
1919:Birthdate of Marvin “Mickey” Rottner the Chicago native who played guard forthe Loyola University basketball team from 1939 to 1942 after which he playedprofessional basketball from 1945 to 1948.
1919:Birthdate of Henry Foner, the native of Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhoodwho was a decorated veteran of the United States Army whose labor organizingactivity included serving as president of the Joint Board of Fur, Leather andMachine Workers Union.
http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_254/
http://ilgwu.ilr.cornell.edu/archives/oralhistories/henryfoner.html
1920: “Posterdisplayed at Damascus, where the Syrian Congress proclaimed the independence ofthat country declared: ‘In spite of himself the Moslem is brother to theChristian and the Jew.”
1920: It wasreported today that Henry Morgenthau, the former Ambassador to Turkey and allyof President Wilson, is the leading candidate to become the Ambassador toMexico.
1921(13thof Adar II, 5681): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim
1921: Today isthe second day of “The Palestine Bazar” organized by the Manchester Branch ofthe Jewish National Fund Commission for England
1921: TheRabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary held commencement ceremonies today.
1921: KH-UIAwas registered as a British limited company, whose members, together with theChairman of the Board of Directors, were chosen by the WZO's Executive Board.KH-UIA's founders included such luminaries as Chaim Weizmann, Aharon, and IsaacNaidich. The first Directors were Barth Berthold Feiwel, Georg Halpern,Vladimir Jabotinsky, Shlomo Kaplansky, Shemaryahu Levin, Issac Naidich, IsraelM. Sieff (later Lord Sieff) and Hillel Zlatopolsky.
1921:Accompanied by Sir Herbert Samuel and T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)Winston Churchill left Egypt for Palestine to begin his projected four weeklong fact finding tour.
1922(23rdof Adar, 5682): Eighty-one-year-old Harav Moshe Nachum Wallenstein who was bornin Pupa, Hungary, in 1841 and moved to Israel in 1864 where he served thecommunity as a rabbi passed away today.
1922: InPittsburgh, PA, Louis and Elsie Alpern gave birth to Morton Alpern who gainedfame as comedian Marty Allen.(As reported by Peter Keepnews)
1923:Yorkshire native Gertrude Berger and Albert Halson gave birth to Dennis CharlesHalson who passed away before he reached the age of two months.
1923: “LouisMarshall was the guest of honor at a dinner given by the Brooklyn Federation ofJewish Charities at which campaign plans of the Charities were discussed.” (Asreported by JTA)
1924(17th ofAdar II, 5684): Moses Cattaui Pashe, President of the Jewish Kehillah of Cairo,Egypt passed away.
1925: It wasreported today that the newly elected officers of the New York branch of theUnited Synagogue of America are President Sol Mutterperl; Vice Presidents, LeoJ. Goldberger, Alfred Goldfarb, Jacob Monsky, Hyman J. Reit, Albert Rosenblatt,Morris Stern and Harris Sussman; Secretary, Rabbi Samuel M. Cohn; andTreasurer, Joseph Durst.
1926: Mrs.Jacob H. Schiff, the Honorary Chairman of the Women’s Division of the UnitedJewish Campaign of New York hosted a tea at her Fifth Avenue home for “thewomen who are organizing teams of workers for the campaign to raise six milliondollars that will start in April.
1926:Birthdate of Norman Clifford ‘Norm” Mager whose accomplishments with the CCNYand the Baltimore Bullets of the NBA were over-shadowed by his involvement inthe point shaving scandal.
1927: InDetroit, anti-Semite and automobile manufacturer Henry Ford and his Dearborn Independent was an importantpoint today in the trial of Aaron Sapiro’s libel suit…when Judge Raymond banneda series of letters” that proved Mr. Ford and his weekly newspaper had beenwarned of the “falsity of the articles which are the basis for this trial.
1928(2ndof Nisan, 5688): Forty-four-year-old grocery store owner John Peykel who cameto Sheboygan, WI thirty years ago and who was a member of Ahavas Sholum congregationand of Davis Lodge, B’nai B’rith passed away today.
1928:Birthdate of Mortimier H. Rydell, the multi-talented New York known as MarkRydell whose accomplishments including directing one of the greatest westernsever made – The Cowboys in which John Wayne actually acts instead of justportraying John Wayne.
1929(11thof Adar, 5689): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor
1929: A weekafter being “named to the three-man Secretariat at the helm of the CommunistParty and assuming the post of Executive Secretary.” Benjamin Gitlow, the sonof Katherine and Lewis Albert Gitlow who were Jewish immigrants to the UnitedStates from the Russian Empire, “boarded an ocean liner for Moscow as part of a10-person delegation seeking to appeal the Comintern's decision to expel JayLovestone , the son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants Emma Liebstein and BarnetLibstein, a rabbi turned “shammas,” from the Communist Party.”
1929:Birthdate of author James Maxwell whose works include “The Night Everything WasSimple” in which “Zionist plans for Palestine are viewed with approval” and“Village Incident” and “Strictly From the Mississippi” in which “the Jewishcharacters are presented sympathetically.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/03/25/94941819.pdf
1930: ““TheAdministrative Committee of the enlarged Jewish Agency is meeting in Londontoday.
1930: The front page of the New York Times sports section featured a picture of Penn StateBoxer David Stoop knocking out his opponent as Penn State Universitysuccessfully defended its intercollegiate title.
http://images.rarenewspapers.com/ebayimgs/3.90.2015/image078.jpg
1931: InWarsaw, Mordechai Bernstein, a journalist and “the former Zelda Goldin, aseamstress and Spanish teacher” gave birth to Masha Bernstein who survived theHolocaust and Siberia to gain fame as Masha Leon, “the society columnist forThe Forward.” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1932(15thof Adar II, 5692): Shushan Purim
1932(15thof Adar II, 5692): Sixty-five-year-old Boris Schatz, the Lithuanian bornsculptor who became known as the "father of Israeli art," founded theBezalel School in Jerusalem passed away today.
http://www.schatz.co.il/en/boris
1933: Hitler“told the Reichstag today that Positive Christianity was the "unshakeablefoundation of the moral and ethical life of our people” and promised not tothreaten the churches or the institutions of the Republic if granted plenarypowers.”
1933: “TheEnabling Act of 1933 a law that gave theGerman Cabinet – most importantly, the Chancellor – the power to make andenforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or President Paul vonHindenburg” went to effect today as Hitler and the Nazis legally eliminateddemocracy in what had been called the Weimar Republic.
1933: TheJewish War Veterans (JWS) launched a boycott of German goods in the UnitedStates today making it the first organization in the U.S. to launch such aneconomic action
1933:Birthdate of Shlomo Ofek the native of Poland who perished aboard the SubmarineDakar in 1968.
1933:Birthdate of Abraham “Abe” Cohen who after playing football and wrestling atthe University of Tennessee, Chattanooga went to play professional football forthe CFL Hamilton Tiger Cats and one season for the newly minted AFL BostonPatriots in 1960.
1934(6thof Nisan, 5694): Birthdate of Chappaqua, NY native Victor Guinzburg, the“developer of a formula for treating rubber for gas masks.”
1934: In whathas to be one of the biggest lies of this period, “Hans Frank, the NaziCommissioner said at a police meeting today” that “overzealous anti-Semiteswill be relentlessly curbed.
1934: It wasreported today “that a number ‘non-Christian’ doctors have been informed” thattheir contracts will not be renewed which is consistent with the anti-Semiticgovernment in Vienna to reduce the number of Jewish doctors and to impoverishthe Jewish community.
1935(20thof Adar I, 5695) Parashat Ki Tisa
1935: Thelower house voted to accept the New Constitution which Jewish leaderscomplained about because “Jews will be left without representation in the nextparliament if the proportional vote is not restored.”
1935: Speakingbefore the Union of American Hebrew Congregation, Jacob W. Mack of Cincinnatisaid that “Jewish unity and self-help: were the “only present strength andfuture hope” of the Jewish people.
1936: DariusPaul Dassault was promoted to the rank of Division General (général dedivision) in the French Army.
1936: InHackensack, NJ, “the Board of Education voted unanimously at its meetingtonight not ban the ‘Merchant of Venice’ from the second year high schoolEnglish course because of complaints” voiced “by Rabbi Irving Silman of theHackensack Hebrew Institute.”
1936: JackSinger and Harry Kovner were elected co-captains of next year's City Collegebasketball team, according to an announcement made today by the, facultyathletic manager.
1936: “DavidJ. Schweitzer, vice chairman of the American Jewish Joint DistributionCommittee outlined the problems facing the committee which is engaged in a$3,500,000 drive in this county, $1,500,000 of which” is supposed to come fromNew York,
1937: Two daysafter he had passed away funeral services were held today forsixty-four-year-old British born historian and Zionist leader Jacob De Haas inhis home where per his request Rabbi David De Sola Pool of the Spanish andPortuguese Synagogue officiated at a simple, private ceremony followed byburial at Cypress Hills Cemetery in Queens, NY.
http://www.amazon.com/History-Of-Palestine-Thousand-Years/dp/1406709301
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/03/22/94345411.pdf
1937: It wasreported today that sixty-four-year-old Jacob de Haas one of the last survivingfounding fathers of the Zionist movement had passed away
1937: TheFrench Fascist, led by “La Cagoule” were thwarted in their attempt to overthrowthe Third Republic when Leon Blum’s Popular Front government avoided a vote of“no confidence.”
1938: In NewYork, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland delivered his first address asnational chairman of the United Palestine Appeal. After being introduced byLouis Nizer, associate chairman of the division and chairman of the Film Boardof Trade, Rabbi Silver asked a luncheon meeting of more than 100 theatrical andmotion picture executives to support the drive to raise $4,500,000 to supportZionist activities. He gave a glowing account of the progress that had been increating a Jewish Homeland. He spoke specifically about the challenges createdby the worsening situation in Europe and the efforts that have been to settlerefugees, especially those from Germany, in Eretz Israel. Silver equated theZionist work in Palestine with the fight against the rise of totalitarianism.
1938. RabbiAbba Hillel Silver spoke to a meeting of the Long Island Conference forPalestine at the Jamaica Jewish Center this evening. The more than 1,000attendees representing thirty-four communities in Queens, Nassau and Suffolkcounties adopted a resolution agreeing to raise $75,000 for the UnitedPalestine Appeal.
1938:“Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife,” a romantic comedy directed and produced by ErnstLubitsch and a screenplay co-authored by William Wilder was released today inthe United States.
1938: InParis, Adam and Pauline Kaufman gave birth to Michael Kaufman a “foreigncorrespondent, reporter and columnist for The New York Times who chronicleddespotic regimes in Europe and Africa, the fall of Communism and the changingAmerican scene for four decades.”
1939: Erich Maria Remarque, the author of AllQuiet on the Western Front whose books were burned by the Nazis arrived inNew York today and “said he had come here to study America, learn the languageand write a book dealing with the persecution of the Jews”
1939: “Elevenmembers of the old and prosperous Italian Fornari family,” including forty yearold Raffaele, his wife Celesete and their two children Vitoria and Alberto,“that traces its history in Rome back for 300 years arrived yesterday on theItalian liner Rex as refugees from the recent anti-Semitic edicts of theFascist party.”
1940: TheAll-India-Muslim League called for a Muslim homeland in the Indiansub-continent. The British response would be to partition India into a Hindustate of India and a Moslem state, Pakistan. The demands of the by the Muslimsliving in India were part of a wave of Muslim nationalism that had beensweeping the lands of North Africa and the Middle East since the start of the20th century. The conflict in Palestine should be viewed within that context.The similarity of the British response in Palestine and India (Partition) isalso worth noting.
1940: DavidSamuel Margoliouth, the Oxford University Professor whose father Ezekiel hadconverted from Judaism to Anglicanism passed away today.
1941: “Anelaborate German "show trial," to be held after the war in an effortto reveal a world-wide Jewish-Masonic plot to kill many high Nazi leaders, isbeing organized by Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Gestapo [secret police], itwas reported in Vichy tonight.”
1941: It wasannounced today that “representatives of Jewish organizations in forty-eightcities and twenty-six states have associated themselves with the Jewish sectionof the Interfaith Committee for Aid to Democracies.
1942: Of theapproximately 4,000 remaining Jews in Lublin, Poland 2,500 were massacred andthe rest of them were deported to Majdanek for extermination. At the start ofthe war, 40,000 of the 125,000 inhabitants of Lublin had been Jewish.
1942:Birthdate of Yevhen Lapinsky who played on the Soviet Union Volleyball Teamthat won the Gold Medal at the Olympics in 1968.
1943 (16th ofAdar II, 5703): Twenty-nine Jewish orphans at La Rose Orphanage in Les Accates,France, as well as Alice Salomon, the guardian who refused to leave them twomonths before, were gassed at the Sobibor death camp. The Alice Salomonmentioned here is not to be confused with the famed German intellectual whofled Nazi Germany before World War II and passed away in New York in 1948. Atthe same time, one must wonder who says Kaddish for this otherwise unknownbrave soul and the 29 youngsters who were in her care.
1943: TheGestapo arrested Henri Krasucki, his mother and other members of the Frenchresistance.
1943: InFrance, 4000 Jews were deported from Marseilles, interned briefly at Drancy,France, and then deported to Sobibór
1943: TheArchbishop of Canterbury William Temple stood up in front of the House of Lordsin London and pleaded with the British government to help the Jews of Europe."We at this moment have upon us a tremendous responsibility," hesaid. "We stand at the bar of history, of humanity, and of God." Eversince news of Hitler's plan to annihilate the Jews of Europe reached the publicin late 1942, British church leaders and members of Parliament had beenagitating for something to be done. Temple's plea marked the culmination of theclamoring.
1944: BritishMajor-General Orde Wingate died in airplane crash while fighting the Japanesein Burma during World War II. ”Wingate was an unconventional person in manyrespects. Among his other unique qualities was that he was an officer in theBritish Army, who, while serving in Palestine during the 1930's supported theJewish cause. Then Captain Wingate served in Israel from 1936 until 1939. Bornin 1903 to a religious Christian family and a firm believer in the Bible, OrdeWingate passionately embraced the prophetic vision of Jewish redemption and theJews' ultimate return to Eretz Yisrael. During his service in Eretz Yisrael, heworked to help realize that ideal. The son of a British officer, Wingate wasborn in India, received a military education, and was commissioned in 1923. Heserved in India and then in the Sudan, where he studied Arabic and Semitics,and acquired a familiarity with the Middle East. Wingate was recognized as atalented officer, and by 1936 he had earned the rank of captain. That same yearhe was transferred to Eretz Yisrael, and served there for the next three years.Wingate arrived in Eretz Yisrael as an intelligence officer at a time whensmall bands of Arab rioters were regularly attacking both the British and theJews. To counter this offensive, Wingate organized and trained “Special NightSquads,” comprised primarily of Haganah fighters, which were successfullyemployed throughout the Yishuv. Their tactics were based on the strategicprinciples of surprise, mobility, and night attacks and they served effectivelyboth as defensive and offensive units, successfully pre-empting and resistingArab attacks. Wingate maintained good contacts with the heads of the Yishuv andthe Haganah. He learned Hebrew, and he demonstrated his ardent belief that theJews were entitled to their homeland in Eretz Yisrael. He also recognized theneed for a working military force, and he dreamed of heading the army of thefuture Jewish state. Because of his efforts and support, he was called in theYishuv “ha-yedid,” the friend. Wingate's intense support for the Zionistviewpoint, however, was controversial, and in 1939 the British succumbed toArab pressure and transferred Wingate from Eretz Yisrael. His passport wasstamped with the restriction that he not be allowed to re-enter the country.His personal involvement with the Zionist cause was thus curtailed, but many ofthose he trained became heads of the Palmach and, later, the Israel DefenseForces Wingate returned briefly to Great Britain, but, recognized for hismilitary talent, he was transferred to further active duty. In 1941 he led theforce in Ethiopia against the Italians and was a major figure in liberating thecountry. He then worked in Burma, organizing and training the Chindits, aspecial jungle unit that operated behind Japanese lines. Wingate was killed inan airplane crash in Burma in 1944 and is buried in Arlington National Cemeteryin Virginia. Wingate's friendship for the Yishuv and his contributions to itsdefense has been recognized through the several places in Israel named for him,including the College of Physical Education near Netanya."
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/wingate.html
http://www.zionism-israel.com/bio/Charles_Orde_Wingate.htm
1944: AtIoannina in Greece, 1,860 Jews were seized by the Nazis and deported toAuschwitz.
1944:Birthdate of Michael Laurence Nyman the native Stratford, London themulti-talented musician who has done it all from concert pianist, to composingmovie scores and to the creation of operas.
1945: InBuffalo, Elmer and Mollie Milch gave birth to Yale Phi Beta Kappa graduateDavid Sanford Milch the husband of Rita Stern, the screenwriter and televisionproducer who created “NYPD Blue” with Steven Bocho.
1945:Forty-three-year-old Elisabeth de Rothschild, the Catholic wife of BaronPhilippe de Rothschild was murdered today at Ravensbruck concentration camp.
1945: It wasreported that the police and the District Attorney's office are still seeking to solve the mystery surrounding the fatalstabbing of Samuel Zuckerman, 50 years old, outside the doorway of his sixthfloor home in the Euclid Apartments, 2345 Broadway, early yesterday, when hewas summoned to answer a telephone call and that the police had questioned45-year-old Dorothy Zuckerman his wife of six months, his daughter Helen Meyer,her husband Private Leo Myer and his brother Leo Zuckerman about the murderwithout gaining any additional information.
1946(20thof Adar II, 5706): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Parah
1946: TheAmerican Joint Distribution Committee announced today in Paris that it “hasarranged to prove 1,866,000 pounds of unleavened bread to Jewish communities innearly every country” in Euopre.
1947: Theexecutive committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine ended its deliberationstoday. The committee has been meeting in Jerusalem to plan tactics for theupcoming special session of the United Nations being held to deal with theissue of Palestine.
1947: Birthdateof classical pianist Yoheved Kaplinsky, the native of Tel Aviv who became aprofessor of music at Julliard.
1948: “TheSearch” a “film directed by Fred Zinnemann which tells the story of a youngAuschwitz survivor and his mother who search for each other across post-WorldWar II Europe” was released today.
1948: DavidBen-Gurion “cabled the United States State Department a warning that he and hiscolleagues would with all of their strength oppose any postponement of Jewishindependence.” The U.S. State Department, the body that had done so much tokeep Jews from getting to the United States during the Hitler period, was busytrying to sabotage President Truman’s support of partition and the creation ofa Jewish state.
1949(23rdof Adar,5709): Rabbi Louis M. Epstein the Lithuanian bon son of Rebecca Mehleand Rabbi Ezriel Epstein, the husband of Minnie Hannah Winner, the holder ofearned degrees from JTS, Columbia and Harvard and President of JTS from 1921 to1925 who began leading Kehillath Israel in 1925 and was the author of “TheJewish Marriage Contract” passed away today.
1949:“Detective Story” a three act play by Sidney Kingsley opened on Broadway at theHudson Theatre.
1949: Israeland Lebanon signed an armistice agreement. Israeli troops withdrew from bordertowns they had occupied during the fighting. Lebanon would not become a majorarea of operations until decades later when the PLO was thrown out of Jordanand took refuge in Lebanon.
1949: In anattempt to break the deadlock between Israel and Transjordan over the shape ofthe border between the two states, Yigael Yadin, Walter Eytan, Moshe Dayan andYehoshafat Harkabi (future director of Israeli Military Intelligence) went tomeet King Abdullah at his villa in Shuneh Yigal. Yadin’s flawless recitation ofa poem in Arabic served as an icebreaker. Despite initial setbacks, the twosides would reach an understanding that night.
1950: “The newLatin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Msgr. Alberto Gori, paid his first official visitto Israel today. He met the diplomatic corps and senior officers of the ForeignAffairs, Interior and Religious Affairs Ministries at a reception in Jaffa.”
1951(15thof Adar II, 5711): Shushan Purim
1951(15th ofAdar II, 5711): Michael H. Cardozo Jr. of 163 East Eighty-first Street, veteranattorney, passed away today in his office at 115 Broadway at the age 70. He wasa cousin of the late Associate Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo of the United StatesSupreme Court.
1951: Afterpremiering in New York City and Los Angeles, “Royal Wedding, the Alan JayLerner musical comedy directed by Stanley Donen was released throughout therest of the United States today.
1954:Mathematician Jacob Bronowski, the father of Lisa Jardine, “delivered his ownConway Memorial Lecture today.”
1956(11thof Nisan, 5716): Cantor and composerIsaac Hirshow, (aka Yitzak Gershov, the Russian born son of Simon Gershov )“the first person to obtain a Bachelor of Music degree at the University ofGlasgow and of the cantor at the ChevraKadisha synagogue in the Gorbals area of Glasgow” before moving to GarnethillSynagogue in 1925, where he served for the next thirty years passed away todayafter which he “was interred at Garnethill Hebrew Burial Ground.”
1956: New YorkState Supreme Court Justice Henry Epstein officiated at the wedding of actressRita Gam, to Yale Graduate and WW II Marine Corps veteran “Thomas H. Guinzburg,the son of Harold K. Guinzburg, publisher of the Viking Press” today.
1957: TheUniversity of North Carolina led by Lennie Rosenbluth won the NCCA Men’sDivision I Basketball Tournament in Kansas City, MO.
1959(13thof Adar II, 5719): Fast Esther; Erev Purim
1959: “Stars”a movie directed by Konrad Wolf that “tellsthe story of a Nazi officer who falls in love with a Greek Jewish girl whileescorting Jewish prisoners through Bulgaria to a concentration camp was releasedin Bulgaria today.
1959(13thof Adar II, 5719): Sixty-seven Sam Born, the Russian born American “candyman”who founded Just Born Company, maker of such sweet treats as Peeps passed awaytoday.
1960: CaroleKing and Gerry Goffin, the grandson of Russian-Jewish furrier gave birthsinger-songwriter Louis Goffin who along with her sister began her musicalcareer by providing vocals for the song "Nightingale", on her motherCarole King's album Wrap Around Joy, which was released in 1974.
1960:Seventy-eight-year-old Franklin Pierce Adams, the Chicago born son of Moses andClara Schlossberg Adams and writer known simply as F.P.A. who was a member ofthe famous Algonquin Round Table passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/03/25/105423068.pdf
1962: AbrahamEllstein’s only opera, “The Golem” which he created with his wife Sylvia Reganpremiered today at the New York City Opera a year and a day before he passedaway under the baton of Julius Rudel who had fled his native Austria when theNazis took over.
1962: ArthurFiedler and his wife visited the Marshal Space Flight Center today.
1962: In itsreview of the Broadway musical “I Can Get It for You Wholesale,” The New York Times proclaimed "Theevening's find is Barbara Streisand, a girl with an oafish expression, a loudirascible voice and an arpeggiated laugh. Miss Streisand is a naturalcomedienne" By the time Streisand made her Broadway debut in “I Can Get Itfor You Wholesale,” she had already developed a loyal following as a singer. Inperformances at the Lion Club, one of New York City's premier gay clubs, and inother clubs around the country, the young Streisand developed her trademarkoutsider persona, impromptu one-liners, and theatrical delivery that broughtaudiences to their feet. Streisand's performance as Miss Marmelstein in I CanGet It for You Wholesale was so successful that the role was expanded for her,with new songs added. Despite national acclaim for her performance, she wasconsidered too Jewish, too eccentric, too unattractive, and too marked by herBrooklyn upbringing for a record contract. When Columbia Records finallyreleased The Barbra Streisand Album in 1964, however, it remained on the chartsfor eighteen months. Streisand's movie debut in Funny Girl four years later, inthe Oscar-winning role of comedian Fanny Brice, cemented her place among thestars of American theatre and film.
1963: Duke’sArt Heyman was named the outstanding player at the 1963 NCC Men’s Division IBasketball tournament which came to a close today
1963: RolfHochhuth's "Der Stellvertreter" (The Deputy), premiered in Berlin.The Catholic Church was outraged at the portrayal of Pius XII as beingcomplicit in the murder of the Jews of Europe.
1964(10th ofNisan, 5724): Actor Peter Lorre passed away passed away at the age of 59. BornLadislav (László) Löwenstein in what was then the Hungarian part of theAustro-Hungarian Empire, Lorre gained fame as a character actor with parts insuch films as Casablanca and Arsenic and Old Lace. In the 1930’s he played thetitle character in the Mr. Motto detective films.
http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/wiki/The_Times_(25/Mar/1964)_-_Obituary:_Peter_Lorre
1968(23rdof Adar, 5728) Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudi
1969:Birthdate of Donte Phillip Spector, one of three children adopted by PhilSpector and his second wife.
1970(15thof Adar II, 5730): Shushan Purim
1970:Birthdate of Justin Craig Duberman, the native of New Haven who after growingup in Highland Park Illinois went on to play ice hockey for the University ofNorth Dakota and made it to the NFL as a right wing for the PittsburghPenguins.
1970: Funeralservices are scheduled to be held today for seventy-two-year-old CornellUniversity Phi Beta Kappa graduateMurray Graham, the husband of the former Eleanor Kahn who rose frombeing a sales clerk at Macy’s to be being a senior vice president for theretail giant and who “was suporter of the Conference of Christians and Jews,the Greater New York Fund, the United Jewish Appeal, the Red Cross, theSalvation Army and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies.
1971: NBCbroadcast the final episode of “Julia,” the ground-breaking sitcom created bySavannah native Hal Kanter, co-starring Ezra Stone and with music by ElmerBernstein.
1972 (8th ofNisan, 5732): Rabbi Chaim Meir Hager, who had been revered as Vizhnitzer Rebbefor 35 years, passed away in Israel tonight.
1972: InParis, “a psychoanalyst whose parents were Holocaust survivors from Poland andRussia” and his wife, a child therapist gave birth to author and actress JudithGodreche, the wife of French actor Danny Boon.
1973: CBSbroadcast the last episode of daytime soap opera “Love Is a Many SplendoredThing” created by Chicago native Irna Phillips.
1974(23rdpf Adar. 5734): Shabbat HaChodesh
1974: SenatorTed Kennedy arrived in Moscow today where he spoke with Brezhnev about theMiddle East and immigration, two topics of importance to Jews in the UnitedStates and Israel.
1974: “”LeonidZabelishensky was released from prison today.”
1975: In“Major Book on Holocaust” published today, Gerald F. Lieberman described thenegotiations that are “under way between Israel and an American company for thepublication of The Diary of Adam Czerniakow,” a document that a leading Jewishscholar in Brooklyn College termed of major importance in understanding thenear destruction of European Jewry under the Nazis.
1978: Thefirst UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the BlueLine. The Blue Line was a demarcation between Israeli and PLO forces.
1979(24th ofAdar, 5739): One person was murdered and 13 more injured in a terrorist bombingat Zion Square in Jerusalem.
1979: AbrahamDavid Sofaer began serving as Judge of the United States District Court for theSouthern District of New York,
1980: In “TheTwo Faces of Israel’s Masada: Glory and Tragedy,” Carmia Borek describes thevarying view of this famous Jewish landmark.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FB061EFA395C11728DDDAA0A94DB405B8084F1D3
1980: Birthdateof Asaf Avidan an Israeli folk/rock musician known for his breakthrough debutalbum, "The Reckoning", which was created with a group of backupmusicians under the name "Asaf Avidan and the Mojos". The albumreceived positive critical reviews and earned Avidan a nomination for BestIsraeli Artist at the upcoming MTV Europe Awards.
1980: Releasedate in the United States for “Christ Stopped at Eboli” (Italian: Cristo si èfermato a Eboli), a 1979 film adaptation of the book of the same name by CarloLevi.
1981(17thof Adar II, 5741): Ninety-five-year-old German born American Chess championEdward Lasker who had been trained as an engineer and was a close friend offellow chess champion and distant relative Emanuel Lasker passed away today inNew York.
https://worldchesshof.org/hof-inductee/edward-lasker
1981: ShimonPeres said in Tel Aviv today his party would make an effort to negotiate thefuture status of Jerusalem with Saudi Arabia and would look seriously at thepossibility of peace with the Saudis.
1983(9thof Nisan, 5743): Eighty-four-year-old Rabbi Saul Lieberman passed away.
http://www.joshyuter.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Saul-Lieberman-and-the-Orthodox-31.pdf
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/slieberman.html
1985: Jewishsinger Billy Joel wed supermodel Christie Brinkley
1986(12th ofAdar II, 5746): Twenty days after celebrating his 91st birthday, RabbiMoshe Feinstein passed away.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/feinstein-rabbi-moses
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/25/obituaries/thousands-mourn-talmudic-scholar.html
1987(22ndof Adar, 5747): Eighty-five-year-old Morton Minsky, the last of the Minskybrothers, passed away today.
1987: CBSbroadcast the first episode of the long running soap opera “The Bold and theBeautiful” which would feature Tracey E. Bregman in the role of “LaurenFenmore.”
1988: InWellington, NZ, Israel national football team defeated Chinese Taipei, nine tonothing.
1988(5th ofNisan, 5748): Fifty-eight year old “Jim Jacobs, a boxing historian and aco-manager of Mike Tyson, the heavyweight champion” passed away today.
1989: InPhiladelphia, Dr. Richard Cohen, who played tennis for the University ofPennsylvania and played professional tennis for two years and his wife gavebirth to professional tennis player Julia Cohen, the sister of All-Americantennis player Josh Cohen.
1989: StanleyPons and Martin Fleischmann (who was a Jewish refugee from Nazi Europe)announced that they had unlocked the mystery of cold fusion at the Universityof Utah.
1990(26thof Adar, 5750): Sixty-five-year-old Rabbi Eli Chaim Carlebach, the Berlin bornon of Paula (Pesse) Cohn and Hartwig Naftali Carelbach, the twin brother ofShlomo Carlebach, the husband of Hadassah Schneerson, and son-in-law ofSchneour Zalman Schneerson, the first cousin to the father of the MenachemMendel Schneerson who along with his brother was one of the leader ofCongregation Kehilath Jacob, the so-called Carlebach Shul, passed away today inNew York
1990: Releasedate of “Pretty Woman” the comedy filmed under executive produce Laura Ziskinand co-starring Jason Alexander (born Jay Scott Greenspan).
1991(8thof Nisan, 5751): Dr. Samuel Garrow Werlin, the Pearland, TX born son of Jacob BaerWerlin and Sarah Chaya Childs and the husband of Marcelle M. Werlin passedtoday after which he was buried in the Beth-El Plot of the Greenwood MemorialPark, in Ft. Worth, TX.
1991(8thof Nisan, 5751): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol
1991: It wasreported today that “Israel's foreign debt rose by $260 million in 1990, to$24.1 billion, reversing a decline since 1987…”
1991:“Congress today approved but modified the revocation of $55 million in aid toJordan and a ban on military sales to allies who failed to fulfill theirpledges of financial assistance for the Persian Gulf war.”
1992:“Broadway Bound” a made for television movie based on Neil Simon’s playco-starring Jonathan Silverman, featuring Jerry Orbach and Michele Lee and withmusic by David Shire was broadcast for the first time tonight.
1993: JudithKaye began serving as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
1993: A thirdrevival of “3 Men On A Horse” a play co-authored by George Abbott with a castthat included Tony Randall, Jack Klugman and Jerry Stiller began previews atthe Lyceum Theatre.
1994(11th ofNisan, 5754): Victor Lashchiver, employed as a guard at the Income Tax officesin East Jerusalem, was shot and killed by terrorists near Damascus Gate on hisway to work. The Popular Front claimed responsibility for the attack.
1994: “Abovethe Rim,” “a sports film co-written, stored and directed by Jeff Pollack” wasreleased in the United States today.
1995: “How toSucceed in Business Without Really Trying with music and lyrics by FrankLoesser and book co-authored by Abe Burrows opened on Broadway at the RichardRodgers Theatre.
1995(21st ofAdar II, 5755): Author and screenwriter Irving Shulman passed away at the ageof 81.
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-03-28/news/mn-47894_1_irving-shulman
1997(14th ofAdar II, 5757): Purim
1997: The New York Times featured reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including"The Vulnerable Observer Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart" by RuthBehar and "The Journey Home Jewish Women and the American Century" byJoyce Antler. Among the more than 50 Jewish women chronicled in this tome are:Sonya Abuza, an overweight immigrant in Hartford who had been deserted by herhusband, later became famous as a ''Gypsy of the footlights'' named SophieTucker. Henrietta Szold, the eldest of five daughters of a distinguishedBaltimore rabbi, established Hadassah, the largest women's Zionist group in theworld, in 1912. Ruth Gruber, who at 20 was declared the youngest person in theworld to hold a doctorate, flew a secret mission for President Franklin D.Roosevelt during World War II to help 1,000 refugees find asylum in Oswego,N.Y. Goldie Mabovich Meyerson was born in Kiev, was raised and married inMilwaukee, then moved to Palestine in 1921, where, known as Golda Meir, shebecame Prime Minister of Israel. In this unique volume, Joyce Antler, whoteaches American studies at Brandeis University, blends history, anecdote andbiography to emphasize the achievement of these women, who attempted to satisfyfamily, God and their own dreams at the same time. The book illuminates theirstruggles for identity as well as the sexism and anti-Semitism theyencountered.
1998(25thof Adar, 5758): Eighty-one-year-old American poet Hilda Morely and cousin ofIsaiah Berlin passed away today.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/hilda-morley
1999: EmanuelZisman left The Third Way and continued serving as independent MK.
1999(6thof Nisan, 5759): Sculptor and “resident artist” artist and teacher at ReedCollege in Oregon Martha Gold Littman, the daughter of Austrian writer, theatrecritic, journalist, art collector, and dealer Alfred Gold and the formerMargarethe Zadek and the estranged wife of Frederick Littman with whom “she hadher fist solo show in 1940” passed away today.
2000: Duringhis meeting with President Ezer Weizman, Pope John Paul II “blessed the stateof Israel” after which he visited Yad Vashem.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/events/pope/john_paul/
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/events/pope/john_paul/speech.asp
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/events/pope/john_paul/portrait.asp
2001(28thof Adar, 5761): Eighty-seven-year-old Janice Levin, the art collector andphilanthropist whose husband attorney Philip J. Levin passed away in 1971,passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/27/nyregion/janice-levin-87-philanthropist-of-the-arts.html
2002(10thof Nisan, 5762): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol
2002(10thof Nisan, 5762): Seventy-three-year-old Oscar Winning set designer RichardSylbert passed away today.
2003(19th ofAdar II, 5763): Fritz Spiegl the Austrian-born musician, journalist,broadcaster, humorist and collector who fled to England in 1939 to escape theNazis passed away today.
2003: The New York Times featured reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of interest to Jewish readers includingRegarding "The Pain of Others" by Susan Sontag and "Ending theVietnam War: A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication From theVietnam War" by Henry Kissinger.
2004: PoliceCommissioner Raymond W. Kelly said the New York Department had increaseduniformed and plainclothes patrols at synagogues and in predominately Jewishneighborhoods following an attack on Sheik Ahmed Yasssin, a founder of Hamas,in Gaza City.
2005: MarchMadness, the popular name for the national American collegiate basketballchampion competition took on a Jewish twist. A sixteen year old feud wasreignited by comments made by Deon Thomas a professional basketball player forMaccabi Tel Aviv about University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Coach Bruce Pearl,whose skill at bringing his unheralded hoopsters to the Sweet Sixteen may markhim as the next Red Auerbach.
2005: TheEnsemble for the Romantic Century presented Fanny Mendelssohn: Out of HerBrother’s Shadow, a theatrical concert featuring the music of Fanny Mendelssohnat the Jewish Museum in New York.
2005(12thof Adar II, 5765): Seventy-three-year-old Naftali Halberstam “the grand rabbiof the Bobov Chasidic Sect” passed away today.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2005(12thof Adar II, 5765): Eighty-five-year-old award winning British actor DavidKossoff passed away today in Hatfield, Hertforshire, England.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1486283/David-Kossoff.html
2006: JudithMartin, known professionally as “Miss Manners” today “was a special guestcorrespondent on The Colbert Report, giving her analysis of the manners withwhich the White House Press Corps spoke to the President.”
2007(4th ofNisan, 5767: Paul J. Cohen, American mathematician, and winner of the FieldsMedal, passed away.
2007: TalFriedman sang with “The Krayot” band in Tel Aiv today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tal_Friedman_23032007.jpg
2007: Aninternational conference for Jewish theater professionals, artists, andaficionados hosted by The Association for Jewish Theatre in conjunction withthe Jewish Theatre of Austria comes to an end.
2008: Anexhibition organized by guest curator Murray Zimiles entitled “Gilded Lions andJeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel has its last showing at theAmerican Folk Art Museum.
2008: The Sunday New YorkTimes booksection featured a review of "Liberty Of Conscience: In Defense ofAmerica’s Tradition of Religious Equality" by Martha C. Nussbaum.
2008: The Washington Post book section featured areview of Mark Evanier’s "Kirby: King of Comics" that describes thelife and times of Jack Kirby, the son of Austrian Jewish immigrants who hadsuch an impact on the comic book genre including the creation of The FantasticFour, The Hulk and Captain America.
2008(7thof Nissan, 5778): In Paris, 85 year old Holocaust survivor was murderedallegedly by Yacine Mihoub and Alex Carrimbacus who shouted “Allah Akbar” asthey stabbed her.
2008: Aspilots began undergoing tests for cancer, a team of technical personnel fromthe Israel Air Force flew to Fort Worth, Texas, for consultations with theirAmerican counterparts and Lockheed Martin concerning the recent discovery ofcarcinogenic material in an Israeli F-16I.
2008(16th ofAdar II, 5768): Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum, an ultra-Orthodox educator and innovatorwho created a series of dial-in phone lines with lectures on sacred texts, diedtoday at the age of 68 http://forward.com/articles/13039/rabbi-eli-teitelbaum-dial-a-daf-creator--/
2009: AtRutgers University, Professor Martin Bunzl, director of the Program in JewishCulture and Society, University of Illinois at Urbana delivers a lecture onIsrael, Islamophobia, and the Right Wing in Europe entitled “The NewPhilo-Semitism.”
2009: Sports Illustrated magazine reported onthe recent death of 86 year old Bill Davidson who amassed a fortune in theglass business owner the Detroit Pistons for 35 years and free spendingphilanthropists. The magazine also noted that Davidson had run track atMichigan and “was a charter member of the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
2009: The AvivString Quartet, founded in Israel in 1997, performs at Cornell College in MountVernon, Iowa.
2009: In theon-going saga of what was once the country’s leading kosher slaughteringoperation four companies bid for the assets of Agriprocessors in an auctionthat began today. The bidding ended this evening night with offers reaching ashigh as $5.5 million.
2010: TheAIPAC Policy Conference comes to a close.
2010: The NewYork Times Knowledge Network and the Israeli Consulate are scheduled to team uptogether to present the opening night of a weeklong event entitled The NewIsraeli Cuisine in which participants will take a tour through the fascinatingevolution of Israel's culinary scene. A melting pot of more than 60 differentethnicities - from India to Morocco to Argentina - Israeli cuisine is one ofthe world's fastest emerging kitchens.
2010: TheTemple Mount Human Rights Group has scheduled a gathering for today in front ofthe Mashbir department store in Jerusalem. The theme of the gathering is,"The time has come for our liberation - to be a free people on ourmountain" which plays on the chorus of the national anthem Hatikvah, whichtalks about the Jews being "a free people in our land". The groupwill call for freedom of religion for all groups on the Temple Mount, includingthe Jews. The group's chairman, Yehuda Glick, says the state, in response tothe Supreme Court, determined there was no preventing freedom of religion atthe site but was concerned about the security consequences. He added, "Wewill come with lambs and goats and demand that we be allowed to offer a Pesachsacrifice on the Temple Mount.
2010: The Presidentof the United States and the Prime Minister of Israel met this evening inWashington, D.C.
2010: The UKexpelled an Israeli diplomat owing to claims that an embassy official from thatcountry forged passports, and David Miliband gave a public warning againsttravel to Israel because of identity theft concerns
2010: AsGerman authorities pursue suspected Nazi war criminals to the last, a court inAachen convicted an 88-year-old former SS soldier today on charges of killingthree Dutch civilians in reprisal for attacks by Dutch resistance fighters in1944. The case against the former soldier, Heinrich Boere, who is now astateless person, was depicted by German analysts as one of the last major warcrimes trials.
2010: Theex-convict who killed a Canadian Jewish leader in Barbados last year wassentenced to 10 years in prison. Curtis Joel Foster, 25, was sentenced today ina Barbados court for killing Terry Schwarzfeld, who had just started her termas president of Canadian Hadassah WIZO and was executive director of Ottawa'slargest synagogue, Agudath Israel.
2011: The75-minute dramatic oratorio, “From the Fire,” is scheduled to be presented inNew York City to mark the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fireand bring attention to contemporary examples of unsafe working conditions.
2011: KathrynGleason, a professor of Archaeology and Landscape Architecture at Cornell, whohas excavated at Herod's tomb and other sites in Israel is scheduled to delivera lecture at the 92nd St Y entitled “Archaeology In Israel: Herod's World .”
2011: Today acommittee of the Knesset is scheduled to debate whether J Street issufficiently "committed" to Israel to be called a pro-Israelorganization.
2011: “Tworockets exploded in Beersheba this morning, and ten mortar shells fell in theSha'ar Hanegev and Eshkol Regional Councils
2011: Seventy-nine-year-oldactress Elizabeth Taylor who converted to Judaism in 1959, had two Jewishhusbands (producer Mike Todd and crooner Eddie Fisher) and was such an ardentsupporter of Israel and Jewish causes such as the right of Soviet Jews toemigrate, that her films were “were banned by Muslim countries throughout theMiddle East and Africa” passed away today.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/23/local/la-me-elizabeth-taylorlong-20110324
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/mar/23/elizabeth-taylor-obituary
2011(17, AdarII, 5771): “One woman died and 50 were injured after an explosion took place ata bus station in central Jerusalem this afternoon.
2011: It wasreported today that “The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is trying to identifymore than 1,000 children in photos that date from when they were scatteredacross Europe at the end of World War II and taken in by relief agencies. Themuseum’s “Remember Me” project seeks the public’s help in identifying 1,100children among tens of thousands who were uprooted by the war. The museum isposting the pictures, which are part of its collections, online and plans topublish many of the images in newspapers and online forums. Museum officialshope to learn who the children are, what happened to them and help reconnectthem to relatives who may also have been scattered. The museum says the numberof Holocaust survivors is dwindling with time.” (Associated Press)
2011(17thof Adar II, 5771): Famed defense attorney Leonard I. Weinglass passed awaytoday at the age of 77. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/us/25weinglass.html
2012:“Gripsholm,” a movie about Berlin cabaret life in the inter-war years featuringthe life of a German-Jewish publisher as the leading character, is scheduled tobe shown in Atlanta, GA.
2012: “Remembranceand “Ahead of Time” are schedule to be shown at the NoVA International JewishFilm Festival in Fairfax, VA.
2012: As apart of the movement started by National Day of Unplugging Jews will begin aweekend complying with the Sabbath Manifesto.
2013:Barak Obama is scheduled to return to the United States after completing hisfirst trip to Israel since being elected President.
2013:Violinist Vadim Gluzman and pianist Agnela Yoffe are scheduled to perform atthe High School of Fashion Industries.
2013(12thof Nisan, 5773): Shabbat HaGadol
2013:“After the Houston Astros put him on waivers,” today “the Oakland A’s picked upNate Freiman, “the 26-year-old first baseman, who dominated opposing pitchersduring Team Israel’s World Baseball Classic bid last year and who hit .278 forHouston during Spring Training, with 1 HR, two doubles, no walks and 7 whiffsin 36 at-bats.
2013(12thof Nisan, 5773): Ninety-three-year-old Canadian born American bodybuilder JoeWeider who along with his brother carved a special niche in the worldcompetitive bodybuilding passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/sports/joe-weider-founder-of-a-bodybuilding-empire-dies-at-93.html
2013:The worsening crisis in Syria necessitated restoring relations with Turkey,Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu wrote on his Facebook page this evening,explaining the reasoning to his apology to Ankara over the death of nineTurkish activists on board a Gaza-bound flotilla.
2013: US Secretary of State John Kerry begannitty-gritty efforts at re-starting talks between Israel and the Palestinianswith a late-night meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
2013:An IDF jeep on patrol near the Syrian border was hit by gunfire this evening.The IDF said the shots were fired from Syria, and that it was "checkingthe circumstances surrounding the incident."
2014:Maestro Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra are scheduled toreturn to Miami, for a concert featuring Bruckner’s Symphony No.8 in C minorwhich is being dedicated in memory of Dr. Shulamit Katzman, who was a devotedsupporter of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
2014:A youth center in Jönköping in southern Sweden is vandalized with anti-Semiticslurs, including “Jewish pigs,” “you’ll burn in hell,” and swastikas.
2014:“Billionaire diamond magnate Lev Leviev” one of the “most successful BukharianJews” and “Israeli philanthropist” was photographed today “writing in a Torahscroll wit Rabbi Eliyahu Yaakov and defense minister Moshe Yaalon.”
2014:Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman is scheduled to perform his only New Yorkrecital at 8 p.m.
2014:The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “Jewish Poetry Now:Celebrating the Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry”
2014:In New Orleans, the Jewish Children’s Regional Service (one of America’spremiere provider of social services for the Jewish community) is scheduled tohold its Annual Meeting this morning at the Uptown Jewish Community Center.
2014:In Springfield, VA, Congregation AdatReyim is scheduled to host Robert H. Gillette, author of The Virginia Plan thatdescribed the plan of department store own William B. Thalhiemer’s plan to rescue the students of Gross BreesenInstitute and create “a safe haven on Burkeville, VA farm.
2014:“The Jewish Cardinal” with “Moses on the Mesa” are scheduled to be shown at theNorthern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.
2014:“The Zigzag Kid” is scheduled to be the last picture shown at this year’sHouston Jewish Film Festival.
2014:The Tulane University Jewish Studies Department under the Chair of ProfessorBrian Horowitz is scheduled to host a lecture “Tortosa” presented by DavidGoldstein
2014:“The mystery of where Islamist hackers got phone numbers and email addresses tosend threatening text and email messages grew today, when it emerged that adatabase belonging to the IsraelDefense magazine and web site had been hackedover the weekend.” (As reported by David Shamah)
2014:“The Foreign Ministry’s Workers Union today declared a full-blown generalstrike, shutting down the ministry’s headquarters in Jerusalem and all Israeliembassies and consulates across the world.´(As reported by Raphael Ahren)
2014:“Art Spiegelman’s Co-Mix: A Retrospective,” is scheduled to come to a close atThe Jewish Museum in New York City
2015:“Touchdown Israel – Tackle Football in the Holyland” is scheduled to be sown atthe Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival
2015:Dr. Tom Barton is scheduled to deliver a lecture on the Battle Over Jews inMedieval Spain” in Carlsbad, CA.
2016:The Jews in the American South is scheduled to stop in Beaufort, SouthCarolina, for a visit to Beth Israel Congregation – formerly Orthodox, now“all-inclusive” – to talk with community members about maintaining religioustraditions and Jewish identity in a small town.
2016:The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to present “France, JewishIdentity and the Holocaust: Yellow Stars of Tolerance and Cojot.”
2016:YIVO is scheduled to present “Mixed-Sex Dancing in Yiddish Culture.”
2016:Hadassah Humanitarian Mission to Cuba is scheduled to begin today.
2016:“Next Stop” a “play that follows two Israelis humorously navigating theconfusion of dating life in New York City” is scheduled to open at the BroadwayComedy Club.
2016(13thof Adar II, 5776): Fast of Esther; in the evening read the Megillah – for moresee
2017:The ten-day Israel Culinary Trip to Israel sponsored by the Streicker Center isscheduled to begin today.
2017:“A months long wave of bomb threats against Jewish institutions in the UnitedStates that prompted evacuations, heightened security and fears of risinganti-Semitism gave way to an unexpected twist” today when a Jewish 18 year oldwho holds dual Israeli and American citizenship who reported has a brain tumorwas arrested and “His father was ordered held for eight days on suspicion thathe might have been aware of the threats…”
2017:Today “The Republican-led Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's pick to beU.S. ambassador to Israel, ignoring objections from Democrats that DavidFriedman lacked the temperament for such an important diplomatic post.”
2017:The American Society for Jewish Music is scheduled to present “Your New House:Wedding Songs, Gender and Memory in an Indian Jewish Community.”
2017:The Leo Baeck Institute is scheduled to host George Prochnik speaking on“Stranger in a Strange Land – Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem.
2018(7thof Nisan, 5778): Eighty-six-year-old Lawrence K. Grossman, the former Presidentof PB and head of NBC news passed away today. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
2018:Daylight saving time begins at 2:00 A.M in Israel
2018:A Hebrew language performance of the Israeli play “Scoop” is scheduled to takeplace this evening at the Roy Arias Theatre in New York City.
2018:Liquidation sales of “Toys R Us; the chain founded by Charles Lazarus begantoday.
2018:This morning, the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host ascreening of “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story.”
2018: BowTie theatres in Hartford and NewHaven, CT. are scheduled to host screenings of “Itzhak,” a film about the lifeof violinist Itzhak Perlman.
2019(16thof Adar II, 5779): Parashat Tzav;
2019(16thof Adar II, 5779): Eighty-two-year-old Larry Cohen, the Manhattan born sonrealtor Irving Cohen and Carolyn Cohen, the prolific movie and televisiondirector, producer and screenwriter (as reported by Neil Genzlinger) passedaway today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/obituaries/larry-cohen-dead.html
2019:The Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the “East Coast USpremiere” of “The Bird Catcher” which tells the tale of Jews fleeing the Nazisin Norway.
2019:In Jerusalem, the Bible Lands Museum is scheduled to host the last day of itsspecial gallery displays designed to celebrate Purim.
2019:The Bloomfield Science Museum is scheduled to host the final day of “MirrorImage – A Purim of Mirrors and Reflections.
2019:The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is schedule to host “RunningBreathless: An Untold Story of WWII and the Holocaust.
https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/MAMTAKOGUL0319
2020:Tikvah is scheduled to host Webcast with Caroline Glick on “The New Arab Blocand the Future of Israeli Sovereignty.”
2020:The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to host an on-line version of“Explaining Exodus: Building a House of God – with Rabbi Joseph Dweck.”
2020):27th of Adar, 5780): Eighty-eighty-year-old Yale trained attorneyand “legal crusader” Stanley Sporkin, the Philadelphia born of the former EthelWeiner and Court of Common Pleas Judges Maurice Sporkin and the husband of JudyImber with whom he had three children “who, as the chief enforcement officer atthe Securities and Exchange Commission, held American corporations accountablefor making illicit campaign contributions in the United States and for bribingpublic officials abroad,” passed away today in Rockville, MD (As reported bySam Roberts)
2020:The 2nd Jewish Africa Conference and Morocco Trip which wasscheduled to begin today has been canceled due to the Pandemic.
2020:“#inthistogether: Jewish Unity in History With Natan Sharansky” is scheduled tobe presented on-line today at noon, eastern time.
https://www.jewishboston.com/events/inthistogether-jewish-unity-in-history-with-natan-sharansky/
2021:Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to present online “Leaving Egypt: PassoverPrep.”
2021:The Boston-Area Jewish Education Program is scheduled to present online, the“Great BJEP Matazah Bake” during which attendees will “learn the history ofthis 18-minute bake as they return to their roots like the Israelites in Egypt,now with running water and electricity, to say the very least.”
2021:The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “One Night At A Time”during which
AriannaHuffington and Marina Khidekel will discuss the insights gained while writing YourTime to Thrive.
2021:The Jewish Community Center of the North Shore is scheduled to present online“Nafshi Yeshovev: What Lifts My Spirit – An Exploration of Text, Poetry, Musicand More” with Rabbi Michael Ragozin.
2021:Paul George Feinman, the Columbia grad and University of Minnesota trainedattorney completed his service as an Associate Judge of the New York Court ofAppeals.
2021:Today, “Joseph Samuels gave a lecture titled “The Farhud Massacre & theJews of Baghdad: Through the Eyes of A Child Survivor” as part of the HolocaustLecture Series.
2021:As Israelis go to the polls for the fourth time in two years, Prime MinisterNetanyahu will see if he can “remain in power while on trial on corruptioncharges.”
2022:“Today we expressIowa’s enduring support for the State of Israel and our categorical rejectionof anti-Semitism,” Reynolds said in a statement as she signed a bill that “buildson an existing section of the state code that prohibited it from investing in“companies that boycott Israel,” by expanding the definition of a “company” toinclude subsidiaries and parent companies.”
2022:UK Jewish Film is scheduled to host a screening of “Cinema Sabaya,” the winnerof Best Israeli First Feature at The Jerusalem Film Festival in 2021
2022:Governor Reynolds of Iowa signed a bill that “calls for the state to adopt theInternational Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism indiscrimination and anti-bias training.”
2023:Prime Minister Netanyahu is scheduled to begin his visit to the United Kingdom.
2023:YIVO is scheduled to host “an evening of Yiddish music celebrating the memoryof Musicologist, song collector, and writer Chana Mlotek, the longtime YIVOMusic Archivist, who played a key role in crafting the historical memory ofYiddish songs in our time.”
2023:Rabbi Uri Pilichowski, the Zionist Education Initiative Senior Educator, NefeshB’Nefesh, is scheduled to deliver the final lecture on “Zionism Today.”
2023:In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah is scheduled to hold its monthly BoardMeeting.
2023:The Jewish Museum in London is scheduled to host its Virtual Teachers CPD thatexplores what it really means to be Jewish and how best to teach an authenticand inclusive Judaism in your classrooms.
2023:In Coralville, IA, Congregation Agudas Achim is scheduled to host a seniorsget-together including a presentation from Alan Weinstein.
2023:JWA Booktalk is scheduled to host Loolwa Khazzoom, editor of The FlyingCamel, a book of essays on identity by women of North African and MiddleEastern Jewish heritage, recently reissued celebrating the book's 20thanniversary.
2023:The Belzberg Program in Israel Studies at the University of Calgary and theSchusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University in collaboration withthe American Sefardi Federation, Centro Sefarad Israel, and the InternationalNetwork for Jewish Thought present “How Do Judeo-Spanish Proverbs and TalesCommunicate with Us and How Do We Communicate With Them?”
2023:At 2 a.m. tomorrow morning Israelis are scheduled to move their clocks forwardby one hour.
2023(1stof Nisan, 5783): Rosh Chodesh Nisan
2024:Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by David Herman on “JewishWriters and the Holocaust: '60s and '70s.”
2024:Temple Emanu-El scheduled is to host a “Mardi Gras Masquerade Purim Party wherethe celebrations of Shushan meet the revelry of the French Quarter!”
2024:Temple Judea, is scheduled to “celebrate Havdalah with Rabbi David Azoulay –from Congregation Yozma in Modi’in Israel.”
2024:In Columbus, OH, Jacob Levin, the world’s greatest grandson and a real mensch,is scheduled to daven Kriyat Hatorah at Tifereth Israel.
2024:The LGBTQIA+ group is scheduled to host a queer Purim party on Saturday, at9:30 p.m. (after the Megillah reading) at Studio 13 in Iowa City
2024:The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host a Toscanini Quartet, Ensemble inResidence and Friends
2024(13thof Adar II, 5784): Shabbat Zachor
2024(13thof Adar II, 5784) In the evening read the Megillah
2024:In Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah is scheduled to host an in-person only PurimService and Megillah Reading for which “costumes are encouraged.”
2024: As March23rd begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages beginday 169 in captivity.(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so weare just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
2025:The EldridgeStreet Museum is scheduled to host the concert “The Borscht Belt—Remains ofAmerica’s Jewish Vacationland”
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2025: In NewJersey, the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County is scheduled to host partof two of the two-part series “The Role of Jews in the U.S. Military” a lectureby David Mallach, the Chair of the Society for the Advancement of Education inJerusalem.
2025: InAtlanta, The Breman is scheduled to host “Mazel, Yiddish classics with abackbeat.”
2025: TheIsraeli Film Festival is scheduled to continue for a second day at the Weitzman
2025: The Museumof Jewish Heritage in partnership with the American Sephardi Federation arescheduled to present the “Spring Equinox Festival.”
2025: The firstin the online lecture series in “Apartment in Berlin: Residence, Literature andthe Passing Life in the Footsteps of Agnon and before him
with Prof.Galili Shachar is scheduled to take place.
2025: Thefinal performance of “Parade” is scheduled to take place at the Emerson ColonialTheatre.
2025: “TheMaccabeats: A Musical Celebration of Israel,” a fund raiser for the HaroldGreen Jewish Theatre Company is scheduled to take place in Canada.
2025: “Marom 2025:Cultivating Jewish Minds in an Age of Distraction,” a program for professional andlay leaders is scheduled to open in Miami, FL.
2025: The OldBroadway Synagogue in Manhattan is scheduled to host “The Magic of Kelzmer Flute”with Adrianne Greenbaum and Pete Rushchefsky
2025: As March23rd begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of ant-Semitism sweeps across theglobe, the reality is that the remaining Hamas held hostages begin day 534 incaptivity (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover sowe are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
