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314: In his quest toconsolidate his power, Constantine I, the man who will become the firstChristian Roman Emperor defeats his rival Licinius at the Battle of Cibalae.Constantine will officially transform the Roman Empire into an anti-Semiticentity.
705: “The reign of theUmayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik” during Abi Isa “a self-proclaimed Jewish prophet”preached his message in Persia, came to an end today.
1075: Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of Croatia.At this point Roman Catholicism was the dominant religion of Croatia. But the King did have Jewish subjects. Someof them might have been able to trace their ancestry to the 3rdcentury when Jews first arrived in the Balkan principality. Others may have part of the legendary Khazarswho lived in the region in the 10th century.
1408: The city of Jassy(Hungarian) or Yas (Yiddish) is mentioned in business correspondence betweenPrince Alexander the Good (Alexandru cel Bun) and merchants from Lviv then apart of Poland. The Romanian city of Yas would become a center of Jewish settlementas well as the site of the largest massacre of Jews in Romania in World War II.
1533(19th ofTishrei, 5294): Chol HaMoed Sukkoth
1573: In what wouldprove to a turning point in the Eighty Years War, the Dutch score their firstvictory when the Spanish siege of the Dutch city of Alkmaar comes to anend. The war would last until 1648. When it was over, the independence of theNetherlands would be a reality. TheDutch Republic would provide a haven for European Jews, especially thosefleeing Spain and its inquisition.
1576: The Sultanordered 1,000 wealthy Jews to move from Safed to Cyprus. The Jews would berequested to take with them their possessions and riches. The firman orderingthe moved utilized wording which warned the Turks that they would be severely punished if they accepted bribesfrom the Jews to have their names removed from the list. A year later another 500 Jewish familieswould be forced to move from Safed to Cyprus.Population movements like this were not unusual in the OttomanEmpire. It was the Sultan’s way ofencouraging economic development throughout the empire.
1600: San Marino, asmall patch of land on the Italian peninsula that “claims to be the oldestsurviving sovereign state and constitutional republic in the world” adopted awritten constitution. According to surviving documents, Jews have lived theresince 14th century and Jews were living there when the constitutionwas adopted since “measures and resolutions regarding the Jews and their tradeswere repeatedly passed by the government in the sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies.”
1712: The Frenchprivateer Jauques Cassard attacked Suriname” and while the Jews in thesettlement of Jodensavana fought valiantly against the French, they wereeventually overrun, and forced to pay a very heavy tribute. (As reported by www.jewishhistory.org)
1713: Birthdate ofYechezkel ben Yehuda Landau who would gain fame as an expert on Halachah,Jewish ritual law and who was the father of Samuel Landau, the “chief dayyan ofPrague.”
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/111912/jewish/Rabbi-Ezkiel-Landau.htm
https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/landau_yehezkel_ben_yehudah
1753(10th ofTishrei, 5514): Yom Kippur observed for the first time after the Jewish Naturalisation Act of 1753, known as “the JewsBill,” which allowed Jews to become naturalized citizens of Great Britain andwhich was repealed in 1754 following a frenzy of popular anti-Semitism thatincluded the murder of Jonas Levi.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/29777655
https://www.jstor.org/stable/30053433
1762(21st ofTishrei, 5523): Hoshana Rabba
1762: Mordecai Sheftallmarried Frances Hart in Charleston, SC today.
1763: Birthdate ofMichael Josephs (Myer Königsberg) the native of Konigsberg who met MosesMendelssohn which studying Talmud in Berlin after which he moved to Londonwhere he pursued a business career while writing articles for "HebrewReview," the "Voice of Jacob," and the "JewishChronicle."
1764: In Philadelphia,Rachel Solomon and Ley Marks gave birth to Miriam Marks, the husband ofBenjamin Abraham Nones with whom she had twelve children.
1765(23rd ofTishrei, 5526): Simchat Torah
1767(15th ofTishrei, 5528): Sukkoth
1768(27th ofTishrei, 5529): Parashat Bereshit read as the Sultan Mustafa III leads theOttoman Empire in its war with Russia.
1770(19th ofTishrei, 5531): Fifth Day of Sukkoth observed as the first British soldiercharged in the Boston Massacre went on trial.
1775(14th ofTishrei, 5536): Erev Sukkoth
1778(17th ofTishrei, 5539): Third Day of Sukkoth observed during the American Revolutionwhen Count Pulaski arrived at Tuckerton, NJ where he found that his force of 50was confronting 200 British soldiers.
1778: Sir Henry Johnson,the future husband of loyalist Jewess “RebeccaFranks, daughter of David Franks of Philadelphia” was promoted to the rank ofLt. Colonel of the 17th Regiment.
1780(9th ofTishrei, 5541): A week after Major John Andre is hung as a spy marking the endto Benedict Arnold’s treason, an event that unfairly implicated his Jewishaide-de-camp, Colonel Franks, Jews heard Kol Nidre.
1781: Birthdate ofAbraham David, the brother of Jonas Daniel Meijer, the first Jewish lawyer inthe Netherlands.
1784(23rd ofTishrei, 5545): Simchat Torah observed on the same day that Dutch forces facedoff against those from the Holy Roman Empire in what was known as The KettleWar, a one day affair during which only one shot was fired.
1786(16th ofTishrei, 5547): Second Day of Sukkoth observed on the same day that “foundingfather” Benjamin Franklin wrote to Thomas Jefferson, whom he had encouraged toactually write the Declaration of Independence that he has been chosen to be amember of the “Philosophical Soceity.”
1791(10th of Tishrei,5552): For the first time in history, Jews in France observe Yom Kippur asequal citizens having been “emancipated” on September 28 of this year.
1792(22nd ofTishrei, 5533): Shmini Atzeret observed on the same day that the Marquise deLafayette wrote to President Washington describing his desperate situationduring the current phase of the “French Revolution.
1794: “Goody” Cohen,the daughter of Jacob Raphael Cohen, the “Hazan of Mikveh Israel” who hadwalked “arm-in-arm with two Christian ministers on July 4, 1788, in celebrationof Pennsylvania’s ratification of the U.S. Constitution” today married Henry Phillips.
1796(6th ofTishrei, 5557): Parashat Vayeilich; Shabbat Shuvah observed for the last timeduring the presidency of George Washington.
1798(28th of Tishrei, 5559): New York City merchantJosiah Ellis passed away today.
1799(9th ofTishrei, 5560): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre is chanted for the last time in the18th century.
1800(19th ofTishrei, 5561): Fifth Day of Sukkoth observed for the last time during thePresidency of John Adams, the last Federalist to be elected President.
1801(1st of Cheshvan,5562): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan observed for the first time during the presidencyof Thomas Jefferson.
1803(22nd ofTishrei, 5564): Shabbat and Shmini Atzeret observed on the same day that Lewisleaves to meet Clark in a meeting that was a first step towards their famousexpedition of exploration.
1805(15th ofTishrei, 5566): Sukkoth observed as Lewis and Clark continue their westwardtrek to what is now the State of Washington
1810(10th ofTishrei, 5571): Yom Kippur observed on the same day that marked the birthof James Wilson Marshall an Americancarpenter and sawmill operator, who reported the finding of gold at Coloma onthe American River in California on January 24, 1848 which provided the impetusfor the California Gold Rush.
1811: In Prussia, Davidand Gisella Zittella Cohen gave birth to future Philadelphian Myer Davi Cohen,the husband of Judith Simha Cohen and the “father of Jacob da SilvaSolis-Cohen; Leon da Silva Solis-Cohen; Charity Solis Cohen; Isabel EmanuelCohen; David Solis Cohen; Zitella Esther Cohen; Salome Solis Bernstein; Solomonda Silva Solis-Cohen, M.D. and Isaac Leeser Cohen.”
1813(14th ofTishrei, 5574): Erev Sukkot
1814(24th ofTishrei, 5575): Parashat Bereshit read for the last time during the War of1812.
1816(16th ofTishrei, 5577): Second Day of Sukkoth observed during what was known as the“Year Without a Summer.”
1820(30th ofTishrei, 5581): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1820(30th ofTishrei, 5581: Forty-year-old Sarah Judah, the wife of Lizer Joseph, mother ofEleanor Joseph and mother-in-law of Israel Solomons, passed away today inGeorgetown, SC.
1821: In Rawicz,Germany, Jewish cloth merchant Heimann Strassman and Judith Guhrauer gave birthto Dr. Wolfgang Strassman
1821: Abraham Isaacsmarried Elizabeth Benjamin at the Great Synagogue today.
1822(23rd ofTishrei, 5583): Simchat Torah
1823: In New York City,Esther Seixas, the daughter of Zipporah Levy and Benjamin Medes Seixas marriedNaphtali Phillips with whom she had four children – Reuben, Rachel, Sarah andZipporah.
1824(16th ofTishrei, 5585): Second Day of Sukkoth observed for the last time during thePresidency of James Monroe.
1826: At “Klingen, nearLandua, Rhenish Palatine, Samuel Weis and Agatha Levy gave birth to Julius Weisthe husband of Carrie Mayer who moved to New Orleans where he was “director ofthe Jewish Widows’ and Orphans’ Home” and “president of the Hebrew EducationalSociety, Touro Infirmary and Benevolent Association and Temple Sinai.
1827(17th ofTishrei, 5588); Third Day of Sukkoth on the same day that “in Navarino Bay(modern Pylos), on the west coast of the Peloponnese peninsula, in the IonianSea. Allied forces from Britain, France, and Russia decisively defeated Ottomanand Egyptian forces which were trying to suppress the Greeks, thereby makingGreek independence much more likely.”
1828(29th ofElul, 5588): Erev Rosh Hashana
1828: George Solomonsmarried Rosetta Solomon at the Hambro Synagogue today.
1831(1st ofCheshvan, 5592): Parashat Noach; Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1831(1st ofCheshvan, 5592): Forty-three-year-old, the Baltimore born son of Philip M.Russell and husband of Sarah de Lyon passed away today while living in Savannahwhere he had lived since 1803.
1835(15th ofTishrei, 5596): First Day of Sukkoth observedas Mexican forces move to put down the rebellion in Texas.
1836: Birthdate of JohnPhillips, the native of Birmingham, England, the husband of Leah Mosely andson-in-law of Lewin Mosley, who represented Ladywood Ward in the City Counciland served as President of the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation.
1836:In Woodville,Mississippi, Edward Warren Moïse and the former Priscilla Lopez “both of whomwere from prominent Charleston, SC families” who “had moved to Mississippi soDr. Moise could practice medicine” gave birth to their eldest daughter CeciliaWoodville Moise who with her sister Cecilia moved to New Orleans in 1840 whereher father practiced law and she lived until her death in 1921 at the age of84.
1837(9th ofTishrei, 5598): For the first time during the Presidency of Martin Van Buren,Kol Nidre is chanted.
1838(19th ofTishrei, 5599): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1838: Birthdate of Alsace,France native Charles Weill, the husband of Emilie Kahn Weill with whom he hadten children.
1838:In Silesia, Prussia, Simon Baruch Schefftel, who was a successful merchant inPosen and the author of “a large Hebrew commentary on the Targum Onkelos whichwas published posthumously by his son-in-law Joseph Perles and who was the sonof Alexander Baruch Schefftel and Roeschen Schefftel, and his wife Henriette (Gitel) Schefftel gavebirth to Julius Schefftel
1838: In Great Britain,Frederick Goldsmid and his wife Caroline Samuel gave birth to barrister SirJulian Goldsmid, MP, Vice-Chancellor of London University and husband ofVirginia Philipson with whom he had five children – Violet, Edith, Margherita,Beatrice and Mau.
1840: In Laurel, VA, BavarianJewish immigrants Solomon Lovenstein and “the former Mary Wasserman” gave birthto Confederate Army veteran and long-time Virgina State Senator WilliamLovenstein, the husband of Dora Wasserman with whom he had nine children --Solomon(b. 1875) and daughters Irene (b. 1864), Rosa (b. 1866), Flora (b. 1868),Hattie (b. 1870), Stella (b. 1872), Miriam (b. 1877) and Etta (b. 1879) – who “remainsone of the highest ranking Jewish politicians in Virginia history.”
1841(23rd ofTishrei, 5602): Simchat Torah
1842: Birthdate ofBaton Rouge, LA native and Columbia trained attorney Adolph Lewis Sanger, theacting Mayor of New York “during the reception of the Statue of Liberty in 1886and “a leader of B’nai B’rith” who was also “president of the Board ofDelegates of American Israelites, and vice-president of the Union of AmericanHebrew Congregations.”
1845: The SephardicSynagogue of Kingston, Jamaica celebrated taking possession of a new SeferTorah." The service was conducted by the Isaac Lopes, who served as rabbifor the congregation.
1846(18th ofTishrei, 5607): Fourth Day of Sukkoth observed as American forces failed totake San Pedro and were forced to retreat during the Mexican American War.
1847: Joseph and RosinaLeopold Lebensburger gave birth to future Dayton, OH resident of MyereLebensburger.
1848: On the day afterYom Kippur Joseph Wile, Samuel Marks, Joseph Katz, Gabriel Wile, MeyerRothschild, Henry Levi, Jacob Altman, Joseph Altman, A. Adler, Elias Wolff,Abram Weinberg, and Jacob Gans met in Rochester, NY and formed CongregationBerith Kodesh.
1849: Isabelle Harris andSamuel Lyons Moss who were married in 1838 gave birth to New Orleans native MayMoss.
1851: “Europe” publishedtoday told the story of Jewish con artist working in the British Isles. “An oldJew” had advertised in an English country town,” that among other wondrousthings he would get into a quart bottle. At the appointed time his room wasfilled with eager spectators. He came on the stage, and after a deal ofpreparation, did nothing he had promised. ‘A swindle! A swindle !’ cried one ofthe cheated company, who had paid his shilling to the door-keeper” who by thenhad disappeared. “Amid the noise, theJew came forward, and with imperturbable gravity said, ‘Ladies and Gentlemen;it is a svindle and vat then?’”
1853(6th ofTishrei, 5614): Shabbat Shuva observed for the first time during the presidencyof Franklin Pierce.
1854(16th ofTishrei, 5615): Second Day of Sukkoth observed on the same day that BrighamYoung addressed the LDS (Mormon) General Conference.
1856(9th ofTishrei, 5617): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre chanted for the last time during thepresidency of Franklin Pierce.
1857(20th ofTishrei, 5618): Sixth Day of Sukkot
1857: In the RecordersOffice, Nathan Levins testifies against Israel Steinhardt in a case brought byLevins claiming that Steinhard robbed him of 940 pounds in English Sterlingnotes. Steinhard then has a chance to rebut Levins’ claims. The story is a tale that takes the courtacross Europe and involves a variety of convoluted transactions. The story is even harder to understandbecause neither party speaks English nor testimony has to be translated. Apparently the 20 Jews attending the hearingwere not affected by the language barrier since, like the plaintiff anddefendant they came from Germany or Hungary.The case was continued until tomorrow.
1859(10th ofTishrei, 5620): Yom Kippur
1861: Louis Bachcompleted his service with Company D of the 27th Regiment.
1862(14th ofTishrei, 5623): Erev Sukkoth
1862: During the CivilWar, in Kentucky, Union forces defeat the Confederates at the Battle ofPerryville which means the family of future Supreme Court Justice Louis D.Brandeis who supported Abraham Lincoln’s candidacy will continue to live underthe Stars and Stripes.
1862: Brooklyn Backsthe President" published today described the support being given Mr.Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The speech by James S. Wadsworthdemonstrates how deeply the story of the Exodus from Egypt inspired theAbolitionist Movement showing once again the important role that Jewish idealsand idioms have played in man’s march towards freedom. General Wadsworth toldthe crowd that “In ancient times, when the Hebrews, escaping out of the houseof bondage, stood upon the shores of the Red Sea, with the hosts of Pharaohhovering on their rear, conservatism shrunk back and feared to wet its sandalsin the angry waves. But the Book of Books tells us that the Lord said untoMoses, "Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward!" Theyobeyed, and Pharaoh and his hosts sank like lead in the waters. The age ofmiracles is past. In our country, vox populi, vox Dei. Our great causeconfronts a sea of difficulties, before which timid souls stand appalled. But,the Proclamation reveals to us the land of promise, the Canaan beyond thefloods. Let the people, the vox Dei, say unto the President, ‘Abraham, speakunto the armies of the Union that they go forward!’”
1865(18th ofTishrei, 5626): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1865(18th ofTishrei, 5626): Fifty-three year old Moravian born violinist and composerHeinrich Wilhelm Ernst passed away in Nice.
1865: Fifteen-year-oldMary Ann Cohen, the Dutch born daughter of a rabbi who settled in Londonmarried Isaac Magnin at the Great Synagogue of London and as Marry Ann Magningained fame the co-founder of San Francisco’s I. Magnin, the high enddepartment store.
1866: Birthdate ofKovno native and Boston resident Wolf Berger who in 1884 came to the UnitedStates where he became the “sole owner of the Boston Wrapper ManufacturingCompany” and the husband of Dora Warshawsky with whom he had four children –Carlton, Jason, Robert and Robert – while serving as a director of theSheltering Home and the Hebrew Immigrant Society and President of Congregationof Beth Israel.
1867(9th ofTishrei, 5628): Erev Yom Kippur
1868: Oswald Hönigsmannwho “represented the city of Brody in the Galician Diet delivered a speechtoday in behalf of the emancipation of the Jews” which helped bring a victoryfor Franz Smolka’s effort to gain full civil rights for the Jews.
1869(3rd ofCheshvan, 5630): Löb Günzburger the “Son of David Günzburger and JudithGünzburger, the husband of Sara Günzburger and father of Sophie Günzburger;Rebekka Günzburger; Karolina Günzburger; Judith Weil; Regina Raichel Weil;Karoline Weil, II; Abraham Günzburger; Simon Günzburger; Israel Günzburger;Eduard Günzburger; David Günzburger; Klara Grumbacher and Johanna Bodenheimer(Günzburger)” passed away today in Kippenheim, Germany
1869: President Franklin Pierce passed away. Pierce was one of those forgettablemediocrities who served in the White House in the decade before the Civil War.His record of dealing with Jews is limited and mixed. FranklinPierce was the first and maybe the only President whose name appears onthe charter of a synagogue. Pierce signed the Act of Congress in 1857 thatamended the laws of the District of Columbia to enable the incorporation of thecity's first synagogue, the Washington Hebrew Congregation. Washington Hebrew Congregation is one of theoldest and largest Reform Congregations in the Washington MetropolitanArea. But two years before, in Novemberof 1855, Pierce signed a treaty with Switzerland that had been ratified by theSenate. The treaty allowed the Swissgovernment to discriminated again American citizens who were Jews so that thetreatment of American Jews would be consistent with the treatment of Swiss Jewsby their government.
1870(9th ofTishrei, 5541): Erev Yom Kippur
1870: In Poitiers,journalist Henri-Alfred Vierne and Marie Josephine Gervaz gave birth composerLouis Vierne whose student included Belarusian born Jewish composer IsadoreFreed.
1871(23rd ofTishrei, 5632): Simchat Torah
1871: The Great Chicago Fire made its impact felt in the area settled by Jews of German origins.It was referred to by some as The Golden Ghetto. This was in contrast to the area whereeastern European and Russian Jews settled which was known as just TheGhetto. This area suffered a fair amountof damage in the less famous Fire of 1874.
1872: in Wołpa, GrodnoGovernorate, Russian Empire, Rabbi Yehoshua Falk Kahanovitch and his wife,Chana Minces (née Goldin) gave birth to Yisrael Yitzchak Hakohen, the husbandof Chiah Rachel Goldin with whom he had eight children, who gained fame as IsraelIsaac Kahanovtich. “the Chief Rabbi of Winnipeg and Western Canada.”
https://www.manitoba.ca/chc/hrb/plaques/plaq0602.html?print
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/kahanovitch-israel-isaac
1873: It was reportedtoday that the Jews of Cleveland, Ohio have raised $800 which they have sent toShreveport, LA and Memphis, TN to help those suffering from the current YellowFever Epidemic.
1875(9th ofTishrei 5636): Erev Yom Kippur
1876(20th ofTishrei, 5637): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1876: In Philadelphia,Ida Marie Fleisher and Benjamin W. Fleisher, Jr gave birth to “industrialist” ArthurAdler Fleisher.
1877: It was reportedtoday that Dr. De Sola Mendez is scheduled to give a lecture on “Young America”at an upcoming meeting of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.
1878: In Philadelphia,Morris Moses Pflazer, the German born son of “Karoline and Marx MordechaiPfaelzer and his wife “Sophie Pfalzer” gave birth to “Henrietta (Hettie)Pfaelzer” who became Henrietta Stern when she married Horace Stern, theUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School graduate and Chief Justice of the SupremeCourt of Pennsylvania.
1879(21st ofTishrei, 5640): Hoshana Raba
1879(21st ofTishrei, 5640): Fifty-three-year-old Henry/Hartog Bernard Hass, the Arnhem bornson of Christina and Benjamin Philip Haas and the husband of Sarah Haas passedway today in Ridgewood, Queen, New York
1879: Sir George Grey,who hired Samuel Joseph, an Anglo-Jew from London as his interpreter” completeda two year term as Prime Minister of New Zealand.
1881(15th ofTishrei, 5642): Sukkoth
1881: In Baltimore, MDMoses and Helen Rosenbaum Pels gave birth to Johns Hopkins University traineddermatologist Dr. Isaac Rosenbaum Pels, the husband of the former MargaretRiggs Black and the father of H. Patricia Pels and John Marshall Pels.
1882: It was reportedtoday that sometime in the first two weeks of November, Edward Harrigan’s newplay, “Mordecai Lyons” will premiere at the Theatre Comique. The play tells the story of a Jewish fatherwho forces her to marry a man not of her choosing. The play is “both humorous and dramatic” andportrays a father who loves a daughter who has been touched by misfortune.
1882: “Romance of theJews” published today provides a detailed review of The Jews of Barnow,a collection of stories by Karl Emil Franzos.
1882: “Songs of aSemite” published today provides a detailed review of Songs of a Semite: TheDance to Death and Other Poems by Emma Lazarus.
1883: Birthdate ofNobel Prize winner, Otto Heinrich Warburg, the son of Emil Warburg who wasrelated to the famous family of Jewish financier. However, Warburg’s father had converted toChristianity as a result of an undisclosed family dispute.
1883: Birthdate of RockIsland, IL native Irma Julia Kohn who gained fame as painter Irma Rene Koen.
https://irmarenekoen.wordpress.com/
1886: It was reportedtoday that Kaiser Wilhelm has sent the Sultan of Morocco a gift – 12 volumes ofthe Talmud in Hebrew. (I have no idea why the German Emperor would send theMuslim monarch such a gift.)
1886(9th of Tishrei,5647): Erev Yom Kippur
1886: “Yom Kippur”published today opens with the following “From sunset this evening untiltomorrow at sunset there will be observed by some seven or eight millionIsraelites scatter all over the globe the…solemn festival of Yom Kippur or Dayof Atonement.” In describing the history and customs of the day, J.S. Moorecontends that “there is no other religion…that has a similar festival. The great object is…that one a year one dayout of the 365 shall be set apart for no other purposed than to commune withGod, confess the errors of life and perchance resolve to amend them.”
1886:“Veteran Rosenberg’s Death” published today described the life and death ofJoseph Rosenberg, the 102-year-old Jewish citizen of New Orleans who was buriedyesterday. A native of Baden, Germany,he served with Napoleon’s French Army when he captured Moscow. He came to the Crescent City in 1852 where heraised a family that included 3 daughters.
1886:“A Suicide in the Tombs” published today described how Solomon Goldberg, aPolish Jew, being held in the jail was able to hide a knife from authoritieswhich he then used to kill himself.
1886:It was reported today that Emperor of Germany has sent the Sultan of Morocco 12volumes of the Talmud, in Hebrew, as a gift. (I cannot find a reason for this)
1886:Theatre receipts were considerably less tonight than normal because the Jewishpatrons were observing “the Jewish fast of Yom Kippur.”
1887:In New York City Josephine Morgenthau and Henry Morgenthau, Sr. gave birth toAlma Morgenthau.
1887:In New York City, Bettie Schwab and Sigmund Hochstadter gave birth to School ofMines trained engineer and Columbia trained chemist Irving Hochstadter, thehusband of Balance Sanders and owner of and director of HoschstadterLaboratories.
1888:“Eating The Old Mare” published today described a dinner hosted by Dr. Rush S.Huidekeper, Chief of the Veterinary School of the University of Pennsylvaniaduring which he told his guests that “the only beef that is properly inspectedis that eaten by the” Jews, “which is killed according to their rules.”
1889:Members of Ahavath Chesed met tonight “and voted to all they could” to helpraise money for the establishment of a “Jewish Cooper Union.” At the same meeting, “a delegation from theYoung Men Hebrew’s Association” pledged their support for this endeavor.
1889(13thof Tishrei, 5650): Seventy-four-year-old Georgetown, SC native Lizar Solomons,the husband of Perla Sheftall Solomons, the father of Cecilia Solomons Abrahamsand father-in-;aw of Edmund H. Abrahams passed away today after which he wasburied in Savannah, GA.
1889:In Cortland, NY, Abraham H. Jachles of Binghamton, NY marred Emily J. Klein ofWalterboro, SC.
1890:“An Impossible Shekel” published today described the discovery of coin whichthe owner claims to be a shekel from the time of Simon the Macabee which isimpossible because it has markings including a Star of Bethlehem, that werenever used on the genuine coins which made of silver and copper while this oneis make of gold, bronze and platinum.
1890:Birthdate of Lithuanian native Samuel Goodman “Sam” Hoffenstein, an Americannewspaperman and husband of Edith Morgan who moved to Los Angeles where hepursued a successful career as a screenwriter.
http://www.filmreference.com/Writers-and-Production-Artists-Ha-Ja/Hoffenstein-Samuel.html
1890:At today’s annual meeting of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society OrphanAsylum Mrs. Philip J. Joachimsen was elected President.
1890:Today, twenty-four-year-old Louis Schlesinger, the Newark born son of Alexanderand Fannie Schlesinger who among things was the managing agent of the UnionBuilding Company, married Sophie Levy the mother of his two sons, Joel L.Schlesinger and Princeton University trained attorney Alexander Schlesinger.
1891:August Belmont received a telegram today in Louisville, KY telling him that thehome he and his family were renting in New York had burned down to which he replied,“that he would come to New York at once.”
1891:“A dispatch from the St. Petersburg to the New York Daily News says that theUnited States Immigration Commissioners who have been visiting Russia” wereimpressed the conditions of suffering under which the Jews of Russia wereliving.
1891:At Rochester (NY) University, President Hill addressed the Query Club, “aliterary club composed largely of young people from Temple Bortih Kodesh” onthe subject of “Higher Education.”
1891(6thof Tishrei, 5652): Seventy-two-year-old Dr. Jacob Eduard Polak “the pioneer ofmodern medicine in Iran” who served as personal physician to the Shah passedaway today.
http://www.ams.ac.ir/AIM/0582/0020.pdf
1892:A fire that started in the rooms of Moritz Feinman, spread to the rest of thetenement at 100 Suffolk Street which drove the nearly 100 residents all of whomwere Jewish out into the street.
1892:In New York, Jewish Americans begin the observance of Columbus Day which marksthe 400th anniversary of the discovery of the New World.
1892:At Park East Synagogue Rabbi Bernard Drachman delivered a sermon entitled“Israel’s Debt of Gratitude to Columbus and America.
1893: In the electionsfor the Reichstag, “the Anti-Semites” are running against the Conservatives andNational Liberals in seven districts of which they “may capture four.”
1893: Birthdate of AdaFishman who made aliyah in 1912, played an active role in the development ofpre-State Palestine and as Ada Maimon was a member of the first Knesset.
1894: “The east sideHebrew Anarchists have completed preparations to burlesque the fast of YomKippur” which begins tomorrow evening, with an evening that will includedancing, singing and a speech by anarchist Emma Goldman at the Clarendon Hall.
1894: “Dental surgeonand businessman Dr. Hugo Ascher and Minna Luise Ascher gave birth to CharlotteHedwig the younger sister of painter Fritz Ascher a protégé of Max Liebermann.
1895(20th ofTishrei,5656): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1895: German bornAmerican-Jewish inventor/businessman, Emil Berliner founded the BerlinerGramophone Company which was to produce “flat gramophone records” or what wouldbe called phonograph records. Hedesigned the disc model which replaced Edison’s cylinders.
1895: Birthdate offuture Laborite MP and death penalty foe, Sydney Silverman.
1895: The ExecutiveCommittee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis is scheduled to meetthis morning in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1896: In Hungary,Solomon Shlomo Zalman Margaretten and Katherine Nachama Nachumah KateMargaretten gave birth to “Dr. Fred Frederick M. Margaretten,” the husband ofMiriam Margaretten
1896: In Oregon, JosephSimon was elected to the U.S. Senate, making him the first Jew to represent theBeaver State in the Upper Chamber of Congress.
1896: It is reportedtoday that the Sultan is demanding a payment of $220,000 from the Grand Rabbifollowing rioting in Hasskeuy.
1897: Birthdate ofKovno native Oscar Straus Caplan, a “Judge in Chicago’s Municipal Courts formore than a quarter of century and after retirement “a part-time instructor atthe University of Miami Law School who was the husband of Sarah Caplan and the fatherof Mitchell Caplan.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/01/21/97650531.pdf
1897: “Care of RussianJews” published today includes a denial by prominent Jewish leaders includingOscar S. Strauss and Jacob Schiff that “the Baroness de Hirsch has givendirections” to end the financing of schemes to send Russian Jews to Argentinaand “has ordered that the balance of the funds…be devoted to the establishmentof technical and industrial schools in Russia.”
1898(22nd ofTishrei, 5669): Shemini Atzeret
1898: Forty-seven-year-oldGerman born, Portland, Oregon attorney Joseph Simon began serving as the UnitedStates Senator from Oregon today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-simon
1898: In response tothe announcement by Ismail Bey, the Civil Governor of Crete that Turkish troopsare being withdrawn from the island as demanded by Great Britain, Russia,France and Italy, Jews, Christians and Moslems are crowding aboard steamers leavingCrete.
1898: “Gladstone”published today provided a review of The Story of Gladstone’s Life byJustin McCarthy includes chapters on “the long with duel with Disraeli in theHouse of Common” and his “advocacy of the admissions of Jews to Parliament.”
1899: In Odessa, Tzviand Myriam Dostrovsky gave birth to Yaakov Dostrovsky, a member of the BritishArmy’s Jewish Legion during WW I and an engineering student at the University ofGhen who gained fame as Yaakov Dori, the first chief of staff of the IDF and Presidentof the Technion and father of Yerachmiel Dori, a commander of the IDF'sEngineering Corps. - Etana Padan, a biochemist and a professor of microbialecology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Zvi Dori, a ChemistryProfessor at the Technion and the founder of the first Israeli Science Museum(Technoda).
1900(15th ofTishrei, 5661): Sukkoth
1900:Birthdate of Serge Ivan Chermayeff, “a Russian born, British architect,industrial designer, writer, and co-founder of several architectural societies,including the American Society of Planners and Architects.”
1900: Herzl met withthe Austro-Hungarian Prime Minister, Ernest von Koerber.
1901(25th ofTishrei): On the Jewish calendar, yahrzeit Chasidic leader Rabbi Levi Isaac ofBerdichev who passed away in 1809.
1902: Twodays after he had passed away, eighty-three-year-old Austrian Rabbi JacobJacques Heinrich Hirschfeld, the son “Marie and Emanuel Isak Hirschfeld” andthe husband of Pauline Hirschfeld was buried today in Vienna.
1902: Birthdate ofArthur Harold Babitsky, the native of Omaha, Nebraska who gained fame as award winningDisney animator Art Babbit who worked on such classics as “Snow White and theSeven Dwarts” and “Fantasia.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-03-07/news/mn-3376_1_arthur-babbitt
1903(17th ofTishrei, 5664): Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
1903: In Cincinnati,OH, Theodore Mack and Pauline Mack, the Cincinnati born daughter of Joseph andHannah Sachs, gave birth to Henry Mack.
1903: InSan Francisco, having gained approval for the building of a new sanctuary therabbi and officers of Congregation Sherith Israel gathered this morning for agroundbreaking ceremony.
1904: Birthdate ofMinsk native Sol Joseph Taishoff, the Washington, DC raised “editor andcofounder of Broadcasting magazine.
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/16/obituaries/no-headline-086151.html
1904: Edmonton, Albertawas incorporated as a city today. Jews had been living there for more than adecade. The first Jews, Abraham and Rebecca Cristall - came to what was then anunincorporated community in 1893. Georgeand Rose Cristall were the first Jews born in the town. By the time ofincorporation there were 17 Jews living in what would become Alberta’s capitalcity.
1904: Prince Albert,Saskatchewan was incorporated as a city. By this time two colonies had beenestablished by Baron Hirsch’s Jewish Colonization Society – the second of whichwas called Hirsch, Saskatchewan founded in 1892. Among the Jews who had come toSaskatchewan and left before the incorporation of Prince Albert were Ekiel andMindel Bronfman of Seagram’s Whiskey fame. Two years after the incorporation,Jewish immigrants from Lithuania would establish The Edinbridge Hebrew Colony,another of the settlements created by the Jewish Colonization Society
http://www.niedermayer.ca/~ral/history/#SEC2
1905: Founding of theSociety for domestic art and industry in Palestine.
1905: Arthur Lehman andAdele Lewisohn gave birth to NYU trained attorney Helen Lehman Buttenwieser,the wife of attorney Benjamin Buttenwieser and “Legal Aid’s first women chair”who “fought to protect children in the foster care system.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/buttenwieser-helen-lehman
1905(9th ofTishrei, 5666): Erev Yom Kippur
1905: In London, “TheFast of the Day of Atonement commences at 5:20 p.m. with synagogue servicescommencing at 5:45 p.m”.
1906(19th ofTishrei, 5667): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1906: It was reportedtoday that the race for New York’s 9th Congressional District lookslike a case of Jew versus Jew versus Jew as Socialist Morris Hilliquist,Republican Charles S. Adler and Democrat Henry M. Goldfogle compete against oneanother in the district on the Lower East Side.
1907: The TennesseeVolunteers coached by Izzy Levene defeated the football team from the TennesseeMilitary Institute in the school’s first game of the season
1907: Today King EdwardVII’s private secretary wrote to Nathaniel Mayer, known as “Natty” the firstLord Rothschild who was an Executor of Benjamin Disraeli’s estate concerning“letters of a very confidential and family nature that may been written by thelate Queen Victoria to Lord Beaconsfield between 1874 and 1880.”
1908: Mr. and Mr.William E. Dodd gave birth to Martha Dodd who accompanied her father to hisposting as FDR’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany. A romantic figure, she finally became awareof the danger presented by the Nazi regime
1908: In New York AnnaGrossman and Joseph Schlossberg gave birth to cultural anthropologist andholder of a Ph.D. from Columbia, Ruth Landes a co-founder of the AmalgamatedClothing Workers of America and a mentee of Franz Boas
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/landes-ruth-schlossberg
1909(23rd ofTishrei, 5670): Simchat Torah
1909(23rd ofTishrei, 5670): After having been taken to the hospital two weeks ago, fifty-two-yearGalicia born poet, author and Zionist Naphtali Herz Imber who had first visited Palestine at the age of16 and is best known “as the author ‘Hatikvah,’ the Zionist National hymn”passed away today in New York.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/10/08/101900180.pdf
1910(5th ofTishrei, 5671) Shabbat Shuva
1911: Birthdate ofCzech jazz musician Karel Vlach who had “a day job as a traveling salesman forJewish notions firm until the German occupation made it untenable” and whoplayed with several Jewish musicians including Fritz Weiss before the war whenWeiss was ultimately shipped to his death at Auschwitz.
1912(27th of Tishrei, 5673): Dr. Morris Loeb, Professorof Chemistry and Columbia, a noted scientist and philanthropist and the husbandof Eda K. Loeb passed away today in New York City.
1912: In NewHaven, Yale Medical School graduate Dr.Maxwell Lear, the Russian born son of Fannie Freedman and Samuel Lear marriedIda H. Avrutin, the daughter of Hyman and Rachel Avrutin after which they gavebirth to their daughter Pearl Sylvia in 1913.
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ctnhvbio/Lear_Maxwell.html
1912: In Elmira, NY, founding of the Hebrew Institute.
1912: The First Balkan War began today which when itended would find the 60,000 Jews living in Salonika going from Ottoman rule toGreek rule – a reality that caused concern among the Jews which would lead tothe Greek government, in 1917 becoming one of the first supporters of theBalfour Declaration.
1912: In New York, Joseph (Yussel) Lubarsky, theUkrainian born so Israel and Devorah (Dora) Lubarsky and his wife BerthaLubarsky gave birth to Pearl Greenwald.
1913(7th of Tishrei, 5674): Seventeen-year-oldSchore Feitelsohn passed away today.
1914(18th of Tishrei, 5675): Fourth Day ofSukkoth observed as German 9th Army makes it way to the VistulaRiver where it will confront four Russian Armes.
1915: It was announced today that “Catholics, Protestantsand Jews have joined at Columbia University’s Teacher College in a co-operativeunion to be known as the Students’ Religious Organization.”
1915: It was reported today that “Djemal Pasha isespecially annoyed because of the Zion Mule Corps which consists of volunteersfrom among the Jewish refugees from Palestine who are engaged in transport workat Gallipoli.
1915: It was reported today that “Djemal Pasha hasannounced he will extirpate Zionism root and branch and that not a single Jewwill be allowed to re-enter Palestine.”
1915: It was reported today “about five hundred Jewishwomen are confined at the Bella Vista Hotel at Jaffa” where they are suffering“much privation.”
1916(11th of Tishrei, 5677): In New York,retired realtor Samuel Hirsch, the husband of Eugenia Hirsch, whose estate wasappraised at $774, 928 passed away today.
1916: It was reported today that an exhaustive report“purports to show that the (Russian) military censor was in definite alliancewith the anti-Semitic press and took every” opportunity “to fan the flames ofracial antagonism and hatred by having the Jew proclaimed as an enemy ofRussia, more to be feared even than the German invader…so that every attempt toreveal the truth about the Jewish solider, his bravery, his fortitude, hisunselfishness, the suffering of his helpless wife and children was systematicallysuppressed.”
1917(22nd of Tishrei, 5678): Shemini Atzeret
1917: In Frankfurt an der Oder, Siegfried and FriedaNuemann gave birth to Gerhard Neumann, who served with the fabled “FlyingTigers” during WW II, became a leading aviation designer and General Electricexecutive and earned the Daniel Guggenheim Medal in 1979
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Neumann_Museum
1917: In making public plans for an antiPacifist campaignin New York this week, the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy announcedtoday that on the East Side the fight would be led by the Jewish SocialistLeague and issued a proclamation by the League to all Jews in America.
1917: It was reported today that there are more than50,000 Jewish soldiers serving in the U.S. Army, “a percentage far in excess ofthe ratio of Jews to the general population.
1918: Birthdate of Arthur Mendelowitz, the native ofSighetu Marmației who survived Auschwitz, joined Mosad and gained fame as AmosManor the Director of Shin Bet.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3433999,00.html
http://www.shabak.gov.il/English/History/heads/Pages/AmosManor.aspx
1918: After having undertaken the mission to break throughthe lines, Private Abraham Krotoshinsky led the 77th relief forcethat rescued the so-called Lost Battalion.
1918: During World War I, in France, on the Western FrontU.S. Army Corporal Samuel Sampler charged an enemy bunker that was inflictingsevere causalities and using hand-grenades neutralized the enemy positionallowing the unit to continue his advance.He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his action.
1919(14th of Tishrei, 5680): Erev Sukkoth
1919: In New York, Hyman and Sophie Shemin Davis gavebirth to Sadie Davis who married Morris (Murray) Altman and as Sadie Altman wasthe mother of Robert and Nathaniel Altman.
1920: Today’s Issue of the American Hebrew is scheduled to be devoted to the “various phasesof” the late Jacob “Schiff’s life and activities.”
1920: Harry H. Schlact was “appointed special assistantcommissioner of immigration” today.
1920: Rabbi Wise and Judge Elkus are scheduled to speakat the exercises marking the installation of Hebrew Union College graduateMaxwell Silver as the Rabbi of the Flushing Division of the Free Synagogue.
1921(6th of Tishrei, 5682): Shabbat Shuva
1921(6th of Tishrei,5682): Rabbi JosephWasserman, who came to New York City in 1890 and was “active in the HebrewSheltering Guardian Society” passed away today.
1922: “Colonel J.C. Wedgewood, MP who is in the UnitedStates to take part in the campaign for the Palestine Foundation Fund receivedan official welcome tonight from the 1,000 men and women and officialsinterested in the Zionist because who accorded him an enthusiastic greeting inthe grand ballroom of the Hotel Astor.
1923: In Notting Hill, London, “merchant banker EllisArthur Franklin” and the former Muriel Francis Waley, gave birth to Oxfordeducated, decorated WW II veteran Collin Ellis Franklin the bibliographer andcollector of rare books who was the brother of biophysicist Rosalind Franklinand the grand-nephew of Viscount, Sir Herbert Sameul.
1923: Following a summer marked by economic setbacks inthe Soviet Union, the uncovering of secret groups within the Communist Partyand failure of a Communist revolution in German, Leon Trotsky “sent a letter tothe Central Committee and Control Commission which “attributed these” setbacks“to a lack of Intra-Party Democracy. (Editor’s note – This was part of whatwould become a fight between Trotsky and Stalin for control of the Party andthe Soviet Union; a fight that would end with Stalin having Trotsky murdered in1940.)
1924(10th of Tishrei, 5685): Yom Kippur
1924: While speaking in the lower house of the HungarianParliament, Dr. Bela Fabian, a Jewish deputy described the power of theanti-Semitic Association of Awakening Magyars, some of whose members had justbeen acquitted in case where they had been charged “in the bombing a charity ofa charity ball organized by the Jewish Women of Csongrad in which severalpeople were killed.”
1924: In Cape Town, Albert Kramer, the South African bornson of Karel Lodewyk Kramer and Anna Maria Elizabeth Kramer and his wife ElizabethFrancis Kramer gave birth to Stanley Albert Louis Kramer
1925: At Forbes Field, The Washington Senators, withBuddy Myer at 2nd base lost the second game of the World Series tothe Pirates.
1925: “Jane, Our Stranger,” starring Anton Ascher as “Marcel”premiered on Broadway at the Cort Theatre.
1925: Birthdate of NYU basketball star Sidney Tanenbaumwho “won the 1947 Bar Kochba Award, which honored him as the best JewishAmerican athlete.”
1926: The New YorkTimes reported that Jews in Palestine have called upon the Britishgovernment not to let Arabs be the ones to repair Rachel’s Tomb.
1927: With Jewisheditor Herman Bermstein acting as interpreter Mordachai Golinkin, conductor ofthe Palestine Opera and former director of the Petrograd Opera, told reportersat the Ansonia Hotel how he, his wife, Lea, lyric soprano, and G. Giorini, dramatictenor, had been detained on Ellis Island for three days. Golinkin had nothingbut praise for the way in which he was treated during the internment andexpressed a desire to return to the Island to give a concert. Golinkin is in this country to raise $200,000to build an opera house in Palestine.Nathan Struas and Herman Bernstein “were greatly impressed by theartistic merits” of Golinikin’s productions in Israel which have includedperformances of Fause and Aida in Hebrew.
1927(12th ofTishrei, 5688): Judith Solis-Cohen passed away.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/solis-cohen-judith
1927: In Bahía Blanca,Argentina, were Máxima (Vapniarsky) and Lázaro Milstein, a Jewish Ukrainianimmigrant gave birth to biochemist César Milstein who “shared the Nobel Prizein Physiology or Medicine in 1984”
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1984/milstein-bio.html
1927: In Omaha,Nebraska, Jacob Lipsey, a Jewish immigrant from Russia who “own a wholesaledpoultry and meat market” and “the former Molly Brick” gave birth to StanfordLipsey, the Pulitzer Prize winning publisher and friend of Warren Buffet.
1927: “Shootin’ Irons,”an “oater” produced by B.P. Schulberg with a script co-authored by Sam Mintzwas released today in the United States.
1928(24th of Tishrei,5689): Silent screen comedian Larry Semon reportedly passed away. Semondirected, wrote and starred in the silent screen version the Wizard of Oz.There are those who contend that this is not the date of Semon’s death.According to them, Semon was in financial trouble, and he faked his death toget away from his creditors. However,they have not been able to come up with alternative date for his death.
1928: Hungarian bornJoseph Szigeti, one more in a long line of Jewish virtuoso violinists, performedin the début of Alfredo Casella's Violin Concerto. one more in a long line ofJewish virtuoso violinists.
1928: Several peoplewere injured today and three were arrested in “a clash between Hebraist andpartisans of the Yiddish language” at Tel Aviv.“The occasion for the clash was a celebration by the Poale Zion Club commemoratingthe 20th anniversary of the Czernowitz Conference, where Yiddish was proclaimedas ‘a national language’ of the Jewish people.” G’dud Magginei Ha’saf-fah “ayouth organization ‘for the protection of the Hebrew language’ was responsiblefor the attack. Among the injured was M.Wescher, a Poale Zion leader and member of the Tel Aviv Municipal Council.
1929: In Los Angeles, BerthaFreshman Todd and “movie producer and cinema pioneer Mike Todd of Cinerama famegave birth movie producer Michael Henry Todd, Jr., the stepson of ElizabethTaylor and co-author of A Valuable Property, a biography about his famousfather.
1929: “The Jewishpopulation of the United States is placed at 4,228,029 in the Jewish Year Bookof 1929, the 31st number of the annual published by JPS issuedtoday.
1929 Birthdate of BronxHigh School of Science, Arthur Bernard Bisguier who became an InternationalGrandmaster in 1957, the same year in which he played Bobby Fischer at the U.S.Open in Cleveland
1929: William CurtisCohen, the son of “Hyman Cohen, a dealer in hides and furs in New Bern, NC” whowas last seen with two classmates from Duke University disappeared today inRichmond, VA.
1930: In Pittsfield,MA, Harry and Ruth Klein Kaufman gave birth to Donald Kaufman, the VicePresident of KB Toys who was responsible for creating “one of the largest andmost valuable collections of antique toy cars and trucks in the world.”
1930(16th ofTishrei, 5691): Second Day of Sukkoth
1930: This evening, theNYU medical school is scheduled to sponsor this evening’s concert by opera starSophie Breslau at Carnegie Hall which is “for the benefit of the NYU gymnasiumfund” and dedicated to the memory of Miss Breslau’s father, the late Dr. AbelBrasulau, an alumnus of the NYU medical college.”
1931: Berlin Alexanderplatz: die GeschichteFranz Biberkopfs (Berlin Alexanderplatz: the story of FranzBiberkopfs) with a script co-authored by Bruno Alfred Döblin premieredtoday.
1931: The Habima Theater opened in Tel Aviv. Founded by Nahum Zemach in1917 in Moscow, Habima (Hebrew word meaning “the stage”) was one of the firstHebrew language theatre groups. Thegroup left the Soviet Union in 1926 and went on tour before finally settling inTel Aviv. Habima was designated as thenational theatre in 1958.
1931: Birthdate of TelAviv native and Julliard School graduate Sara Lipovitz who gained fame as SaraKishon the wife of Ephraim Kishon whom she married in 1959 and with she foundedthe Kishon Gallery while raising two children Amir and Renana Kishon
1931(27th of Tishrei,5692): General Sir John Monash, who was the highest-ranking Jewish officer toserve in the Australian Army during theWorld War I and who served with distinction at Gallipoli and on the WesternFront passed away.
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P11013307
1932(8th ofTishrei, 5693): Shabbat Shuva
1932: In Brooklyn,electrical engineer Irwin Appel and the former Lillian Sender gave birth toKenneth Ira Appel, a “mathematician who harnessed computer” (As reported byDennis Overbye)
1933(18th ofTishrei, 5694): Fourth Day of Sukkoth observed for the first time during thepresidency of FDR.
1933(18th ofTishrei, 5694): Sixty-four-year-old Morris Hillquit, the Riga born son ofBenjamin Hillquit who in 1884 came to the United States where he became aleading labor leader and co-founded the Socialist Party of America passed awayjust after midnight.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Morris-Hillquit
https://spartacus-educational.com/USAhillquit.htm
1934: “The honorarydegree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, was conferred on Dr. AlbertEinstein this afternoon at the formal opening exercises of Yeshiva College forthe academic year 1934-1935, in the presence of a distinguished audience, includingGovernor Herbert H. Lehman.”
1935: At a time whenanti-Semitism was exploding across Europe America showed another face as“fifty-five judges including Protestants and Jews accepted the invitation offormer Mayor John P. O’Brien to attend the 8th annual ‘Red Mass” tobe held this morning at St. Andrew’s under the auspices of the Guild ofCatholic Lawyers.
1936: Birthdate of RonaBurstein, who gained fame as Hollywood gossip columnist Rona Barrett
1936: Abraham Kaiser, aJew living in Duisburg, Germany was sentenced by a National Socialist tribunalto one and a half years imprisonment “for writing to a friend in America aletter that contained uncomplimentary remarks about Chancellor Hitler and theNational Socialist party.”
1936: It was reportedtoday that “a nationwide unofficial army was being formed by a WPA group to‘fight reds’ and quoted” “Wilbert Eldred, a middle-aged employee in theProcurement Division of the Unite States Treasury Department” “as saying thatthe ‘growing influence of Reds and Jews was menacing the country.’”
1937: Broadcast of thefirst episode of “Grand Central Station,” a dramatic radio anthology producedby Himan Brown.
1937:The Palestine Post reported that the Franco-Luxembourg-German borderswere closed to Jews. All trains arriving at the border were searched and Jewswere turned back. Jews seeking to return to Germany were also turned back. InGermany Jews were called to police stations and asked point-blank when theywere going to emigrate, or they would face serious consequences.
1937: “Stage Door,” thefilm version of the play by Edna Ferber and George Kaufman and produced byPandro S. Berman premiered today in New York.
1937: “Lance Spy”directed by Gregory Ratoff, co-starring Peter Lorre and featuring Luther Adler,Fritz Feld, Joseph Schildkraut and Maurice Moscovith was released in the UnitedStates today.
1938:The Slovak Peoples' Party establishes Hlinkova Garda(Hlinka Guard), an anti-Semitic militia that will collaborate with the Germans.
1938: “The Fabulous Invalid” a play witha script by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart and for which Oscar Levant served“replacement conductor premiered on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre.
1938: Jewish composer David Rose marriedMartha Raye
1939: A new Nazi–Soviet agreement wasreached by an exchange of letters between Vyacheslav Molotov and the GermanAmbassador
1939: Birthdate of Harvey Pekar, the sonof Jewish immigrants from Poland, whose autobiographical comic book “AmericanSplendor” would “a cult following for its unvarnished stories of a depressed,aggrieved Everyman negotiating daily life in Cleveland” and would become “ thebasis for a critically acclaimed 2003 film.”
1939:The Nazis ordered to the establishment of a Ghetto in Piotrkow, Poland. Thiswas the first of a series of ghettos and camps planned by Heydrich.
1939: “The reportedplan of Chancellor Hitler to establish a Jewish State in Polish territory wascondemned” today “by the annual conference of the Order of the Sons of Zion.”
1939: The Nazisorchestrated a pogrom against the Jews of Lodz.
1939: “Writer SeesNazis Leaving No Choice” provided a summary of the views of Anne O’HareMcCormick of the editorial staff of TheNew York Times on Hitler’s peace proposals most of which she dismissedexcept for his proposal of “setting up some sort of a Jewish state in Poland –a Hitler homeland for the Jews” which she said “is at least interesting.
1939: Hitler declaredthat Będzin would be among the Polish territories annexed by Germany whichmarked the start of the resettlement of 30,000 Jews from other communities inthe Polish city.
1939: Germanyannexed Western Poland marking the next level of the downward spiral that wouldcome to be known as the Final Solution.
1939: At the annualconference of the Order of the Sons Of Zion a resolution was adopting termingHitler’s reported plan to establish a Jewish State in Polish territory “ahypocritical scheme fraught with the gravest of dangers to European Jewry.”
1939: Pastor John HayesHolmes of the Community Church delivered a sermon giving reasons for the UnitedStates to remain neutral based in part on the unworthiness of the government ofPoland “a place where Jews were a little more miserable than in Germany.”
1939: The NBC Blueradio network broadcast the first episode of “The Colgate Sports Newsreel,”starring Bill Stern.
1940: “They Knew What TheyWanted,” the film version of the play by the same name directed by Garson Kanin,the Rochester, NY born Jew and with music by Alfred Newman the New Haven, CTson of Russian Jewish immigrants premiered in San Francisco.
1940: Dr. Louis L.Mann, the rabbi of Temple Sinai, is scheduled to officiate at the funeral ofHenry Horner, the Governor of Illinois. Follow the funeral, the Governor willbe interred at Mount Mayriv Cemetery in a grave next to his mother.
1941(17th of Tishrei, 5702:Third Day of Sukkoth
1941(17th ofTishrei, 5702): Fifty-four year old Koblenz born, Chicago raised Gustav GersonKahn, known as “Gus Kahn” the lyricist for such “standards” as “Yes Sir, That’sMy Baby,” “It Had to Be You” and “Dream a Little Dream of Me” who went on tocreate musicals in Hollywood while being married to Grace Kahn with whom he hadone son, Donald, passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/10/09/105163577.pdf
1941: “The Auschwitz IIextermination camp, better known as Auschwitz-Birkenau” was founded today.
1941(17th ofTishrei, 5702): Fifty-four-year-old lyricist Gus Kahn who wrote an untoldnumber of hit songs during the 1920’s and 1930’s and was the father ofsongwriter Donald Kahn passed away today.
1941(17th ofTishrei, 5702:The Vitebsk (Belorussia) Ghetto isliquidated; more than 16,000 Jews are killed.
1941: “The prosecutor, Gaston Cassagneau,handed Leon Blum an “additional indictment” that included a lengthy critique ofthe Popular Front and ended with these words: “Because the unjustifiableweakness of M. Léon Blum’s government compromised both production in the shortrun and the moral state of the producers, he betrayed the duties of hisoffice.”
1941: “49th Parallel,” aBritish war movie based on an original story by Emeric Pressburger who wrotethe screenplay and starring Leslie Howard premiered in London today.
1942: The USS Drum, the ship on whichMaruice Rindskopf spent all of World War II, contacted a convoy of fourfreighters, and defying the air cover guarding the ships, sank one of the cargoships before bombs forced her deep.
1943(9th of Tishrei, 5704):Erev YomKippur
1943: This morning, one day after he hadpassed funeral services are scheduled to be held for sixty-four year oldLithuanian native Ephraim Caplan, the “religious editor of the Jewish MorningJournal,” long-time director of the Jewish National Fund of America andPresident of the Council for Orthodox Jewish Education who was the husband ofEva Caplan with whom he had one daughter, Martha and “three sons, Dr. LeonCaplan, Dr. Joseph Caplan” and Saul Caplan who served with the U.S. Army in WWII, followed by burial in Mount Judah Cemetery.
1943(9th of Tishrei, 5704)::Three thousand Italianprisoners of war are murdered by the SS and Ukrainian guards at La Risiera diSan Sabba, Italy, south of Trieste. Of 1,920 Jews in Trieste, 620 are murderedby the SS.
1943(9th of Tishrei,5704): On the eve of the Jewish Day of Atonement, several thousand ill or weakJewish men are gassed at Auschwitz.
1943:Sixty-four year old Lithuanian native Ephraim Caplan, the “religious editor ofthe Jewish Morning Journal,” long-time director of the Jewish National Fund ofAmerica and President of the Council for Orthodox Jewish Education who was thehusband of Eva Caplan with whom he had one daughter, Martha and “three sons,Dr. Leon Caplan, Dr. Joseph Caplan” and Saul Caplan who served with the U.S.Army in WW II, was buried today at the Mt. Judah Cemetery in Queens .”
1943:Today, “the Jewish Welfare Board published a pamphlet ‘for Jews in the ArmedForces of the United States,’ recounting the stories of scores of individualfighting men of the Jewish faith – from Pearl to the beginning of the campaignin Sicily.” (JTA)
1943: Birthdate of R.L.Stine. Born Robert Lewis Stine, theauthor is known for his science fiction works.
1944(21st of Tishrei,5705): Hoshana Rabbah
1944: The Gestapo beganarresting members of the anti-Nazi Ehrenfeld Group.
1945(1st of Cheshvan,5706): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1945(1st of Cheshvan,5706): Seventy-six-year-old author, Felix Salten, born Siegmund Salzmann at Pest (what would be Budapest), best known as thecreator of Bambi who fled the Nazis which meant spent the last years of hislife in Switzerland and who in 1901 marriedOttilie Metzl with whom he had two children – Paul and Anna -- passedaway today.
1945: As part of the protest against British treatment of the Jews inPalestine and those trying to reach Palestine Rabbis throughout Palestine arescheduled to add Psalm XX which beings “Let the King hear us when we call” tothe daily prayer service.
1945: As part of the protest against British policy in Palestine, 50,000Jews attended a rally in Tel Aviv and tens of thousands more attended a rallyat Edison Hall in Jerusalem where they demanded an end to the White Paper.
1945: In an attempt to spare European Jewish refugees another winter indisplaced person camps, Zionist leaders spent two and half hours with the newColonial Secretary, Arthur Creech Jones, discussing ways to improveBritish-Jewish relations” in Palestine.
1945: In a sign of Jewish frustration with the continued Britishenforcement of the White Paper, the Stern Gang reportedly resorted to a newwave of violence tonight with attacks that resulted in the death of two Britishsoldiers and the wounding of scores of others.
1945: “The Seventh Veil” a melodrama with a score by Benjamin Frankel wasreleased today in the UK.
1946(15th of Tishrei, 5710): Shabbat and Sukkoth
1946: “Fortified by President Truman's statement on Palestine, Zionistleaders will go to the Colonial Office today with specific proposals, includinga request for increased Jewish immigration, for restoring calm in the HolyLand.”
1947: “A fund-raising campaign drive for $50,000 to aid the first medicalschool in Palestine was started” today “ by the New York Sephardic Community”which help “build a pathology museum at the Hebrew University-Hadassah MedicalSchool on Mt. Scopus.”
1948(5th of Tishrei, 5709): Eighty-seven-year-old New Yorknative and CCNY grad Albert Ulmann, an author and member of the New York StockExchange passed away today.
1948: In Egypt, “the issuance of export and import licenses to Jewishmerchants was forbidden.”
1948: Birthdate of Dublin, Ireland, native Jacqueline Acer, the wife ofRabbi Larry Tabick whom she married in 1975 and who gained fame as JackqulineHazel “Jackie” Tabick, “Britain’s first female rabbi and first woman to serveas “covenor of the Movement for Reform Judaism’s Beit Din.
1948: A group of settlers from Hungary founded Kibbutz Ga’aton in thehill country east of Nahariya. According to some it is named for the Ga’atonRiver which flows nearby. According toothers, it is named for a town thought to have existed in the area before theBabylonian exile. Regardless, thekibbutz fell under immediate attack from Arabs shooting from the surroundinghills.
1949: The curtain came down temporarily on “Lend an Ear” a musical revuefeaturing sketches by Joseph Stein ending its run at the Broadhurst Theatre soit could move to the Schubert Theatre.
1950: The Third Maccabiah, the first one to be held in the state ofIsrael, came to an end today.
1951: “The third government of Israel was formed by David Ben-Gurion.
1952(19th of Tishrei, 5713): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1952: “The Four Poster” the film version of the play produced by StanleyKramer, directed by Irving Reis with music by Dimitri Tiomkin and co-starringLili Palmer was released today in the United States.
1952: In Chicago, Ruth Ellen (née Reich) and Allen Zwick gave birth toHarvard graduate and director/screenwriter/producer Edward Zwick who directedsuch gems as Glory and Legends of the Fall but shared in the Oscar for thefluffy “Shakespeare in Love.”
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that DovShilansky, Gavriel Lichtman, a taxi driver, and Ya'acov Lotan, a regularcontributor to the Herut newspaper, were remanded by police in connection withthe attempt to sabotage the Israel-German reparations agreement by bombing oneof the Foreign Ministry buildings in Jerusalem's Hakirya.
1953(29thof Tishrei, 5714): Seventy-nine-year-old Junction City, Kansas native SaulHenry Ganz, the “president and Treasurer of D. Lisner and Company, wholesalersand importers of jewelry,” the husband of Ruth Ganza and the father of Paul andVictor Ganz passed away today.
1953: ABC broadcast thefirst episode of “Where’s Raymond” a sitcom produced by Stanley Shapiro.
1955(22nd ofTishrei, 5716): Shmini Atzeret
1956: In Game 5 of the1956, Don Larsen of the New York Yankees pitched the fall classics firstperfect game while playing against the Brooklyn Dodgers which meant that a lotof Jews were either sad or happy since each of these team had a disproportionallylarge Jewish fan base. (Editor’s note –Although living in Washington I was an ardent Dodger fan while my older sisterand younger brother rooted for the Bronx Bombers)
1956: Today sportsbroadcaster Bob Wolff provided the radio play by play of Game 5 of the 1956World Series in which Yankee Don Larsen pitched a perfect game against theBrooklyn Dodgers.
1959: LADodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series. The Dodgers team featured two Jewish playerswho were brothers – the pitcher Larry Sherry and the catcher Norm Sherry. Larry Sherry was a rookie who appeared as arelief pitcher in all four of the Dodgers’ victories.
1961: “Actors Joyce andByrne Piven gave birth to movie director Shira Piven, the sister of actorJeremey Piven.
1961(28th ofTishrei, 5722): Seventy-two-year-old Israeli jurist and first President of theSupreme Court of Israel Moshe Smoira, the Konigsberg born son Leise and Perel andveteran of the Imperial German Army who was the husband of Esther Horovitz withwhom he had a daughter of Michal, the husband of Supreme Court judge Haim Cohn.
1962(10th ofTishrei, 5723): Yom Kippur
1963(20th ofTishrei, 5724): Sixth Day of Sukkot
1964(2nd ofCheshvan, 5725): Seventy-one-year-old Viennese born film producer IsadoreGoldsmith who continued his career in Great Britain after the Nazis came topower and was the husband of novelist Vera Caspary passed away today in Putney,VT.
1964: “Outrage,” awestern film directed by Martin Ritt, with a script by Michael Kanin andstarring Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Edward G. Robinson, William Shatner andHoward Da Silva (so many Jews) was released today in the United States by MGM.
1966: Birthdate ofMemphis native David Frank Kustoff, the University of Memphis alum andRepublican political leader who served as a United States Attorney beforetaking office as “the member of the United States House of Representatives forTennessee’s 8th congressional district” in 2017 and is the husbandof fellow attorney Roberta Kustoff with whom he “has two children.
1966(24th ofTishrei, 5727): One day after Simchat Torah, the cycle begins again – ParashatBereshit
1966(24th ofTishrei, 5727): Seventy-eight-year-old Ukrainian born cellist and composer GdalSaleski passed away today in Los Angeles.
1967: Joseph Brodsky, avictim of anti-Semitism who was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and wonthe Nobel Prize for leadership and painter Marina Basmanova gave birth to theirson Andrei whom Brodsky registered under Marina’s name to spare him attacks bythe authorities.
1969: In New York CityVladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy, the son of pianist David Ashkenazi and his wife Þórunn Jóhannsdóttir, gavebirth to Icelandic clarinetist Dimitri Thor Ashkenazy
1969: “The Monitors” asci-fi comedy starring Avery Schreiber and Larry Storch and featuring AdamArkin, Alan Arkin and Stubby Kaye was released in the United States today.
1969(27th ofTishrei, 5730): Sixty-seven-year-old Dr. Joseph Quincy Jonas, the New York bornson of Goldie and John J. Jonas the husband of Irene Jonas passed away today.
1970: Funeral servicesare scheduled to be held today at the Riverside for sixty-five-year-old Harvardgraduate Alan D. Gruskin, the husband Mary Gruskin with whom he had two sons –Richard and Robert – who was founder and director, since 1932, of MidtownGalleries.
1972(30th of Tishrei, 5733): Rosh ChodeshCheshvan
1972(30th of Tishrei, 5733): Sixty-seven-year-oldMargaret G. Arnstein, the dean of the Yale University School of Nursing and theformer chief of nursing for the United States Public Health Service” passedaway today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/margaret-arnstein
1973: During the Yom Kippur War, twoIsraeli attempts to reach the east bank of the Suez were beaten back byEgyptian soldiers equipped with Soviet supplied anti-tank weapons. IDF forces facing Syria were more successful. Although outnumbered, the IDF forces haltedthe advance of the Syrians into Israel and by the end of the day have driventhem back to the 1967 Armistice Lines and beyond.
1973: During the Yom Kippur War, GabiAmir's armored brigade attacks Egyptian occupied positions on the Israeli sideof the Suez Canal, in hope of driving them away. The attack fails, and over 150Israeli tanks are destroyed.
1973: Buoyed by initial Egyptian andSyrian military success, numerous Moslem and Arab states offered aid andsupport to the aggressors. The Algerianssent squadrons of planes. The King ofMorocco called on soldiers in his army to volunteer to fight with theEgyptians. Idi Amin ordered all Ugandanofficers in Egypt to join in the fight.And the Prime Minister of Bangladesh sent telegrams stating the his 75million countrymen supported the Egyptians and the Syrians “in your justcause”
1973: Israelis were alarmed by news fromthe front, which was fragmentary and not good.Their fears were heightened when a civil defense spokesperson urgedIsraelis who did not have a shelter to start digging one and that those who hadsmall shelter should enlarge them. Theonly good news was Australian volunteers were arriving to perform the work ofcivilians who had been mobilized and that American Jews had already raised $100million for the Israeli war effort.
1973: After touring both battle fronts,Maj. Gen. Haim Bar-Lev and Minister Yigal Allon reported to Prime Minister Meirthis evening that the Israeli forces' situation is beginning to improve, whilethe enemy forces are beginning to suffer serious damage."What theyachieved today as compared to yesterday is enormous," Allon said."The front was breached yesterday. If the Syrians had been more daring,they'd have made significant gains."Bar-Lev explained the Egyptian andSyrian successes as being partly due to technological superiority. "Bothhave the new Soviet tank plus infrared," he said. "They have anadvantage there. On the first night we were surprised; we only knew they had itin theory ... Today we know about it and take it into account."
1973: The 17th Battalion ofthe Golani Brigade moved up the slopes of Mt. Hermon in the opening round ofthe Second Battle of Mount Hermon.
1973: Tonight, the Israeli missile boatsrepeated their success of last night off the Egyptian coast, with threeEgyptian missile boats sunk and no Israeli vessel hit. For the remainder of thewar, neither the Syrian nor Egyptian fleets would venture out again, enablingmore than 100 freighters carrying vital supplies to safely reach Israel, whichwas in the throes of a brutal, two-front ground war.
1973: Kobi Hayun, Micahel Dvir, ShabtaiBen-Shua, Yoram Peled and Boaz Lerner all made it safely back to Israeli lineswhen their F-4E Phantom Jets were shot down Syrian SAM’s or Egyptian Anti-Aircraft fire.
1973: Yoram Shachar was taken prisonerafter his F-4E Phantom Jet was shot down by a Syrian Surface to Air Missile.
1973: As the Vale of Tears Battle enteredits third day the outmanned and outgunned 7th Brigade fought offattacks by the 7th Infantry Division, the 3rd ArmoredDivision and the Assad Republican Guards which by the end of the day left theIsraelis with at least fifty dead, untold more wounded and less than 45 workingtanks but the IDF continued to blunt the Syrian advance.
1974(22nd of Tishrei, 5735):Shmini Atzert
1974(22nd of Tishrei, 5735): Seventy-seven-year-oldNew York City native and Columbia Journalism School graduate Alexander Hermanwho worked as a reporter for the New York Tribune and as Sunday editor of TheNewark Ledger before joining the National Container where he became a vicepresident while raising two children – Pat and John – with his wife, the formerFlorence Rogatz Herman passed away today.
1974: NBC broadcast “Where Have All thePeople Gone?” a sci-fi thriller writtenby Sandor Stern and co-starring Verna Bloom.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gilbert-susan-brandeis
1975: “Hearts of the West” a comedydirected by Howard Zieff and co-starring Alan Arkin was released in the UnitedStates today.
1976: Paramount releases “Marathon Man,”the movie version of the book by William Goldman starring Dustin Hoffman.
1977: White supremacist Joseph P.Franklin shot and killed three people outside of a suburban St. Louis synagogueincluding Gerald Gordon.
1978(7th of Tishrei, 5739): Seventy-six-year-oldEliyahu Sasson, the native of Damascus who made Aliyah in 1927 who filledseveral ambassadorial positions, served as an MK and cabinet minister passedaway today.
1979(17th of Tishrei, 5740)Third Day of Sukkoth
1979(17th of Tishrei, 5740):Seventy-three-year-old DePaul Music School trained violinist and concert master Sol Turner, theRussian born son of Lena Roseman and Charles Turner and husband of EvelynTurner with whom he had three children – Richard, Carole and Lynne – passedaway today.
1979: In a case of “poetic justice” “twoPalestinian terrorists were injured attempting to plant a bomb near the Tomb ofthe Patriarchs.”
1980(28th of Tishrei, 5741): Seventy-three-year-oldDavid I. Arkin, an innocent victim of the McCarthy Red witch hunt and thefather of actor Alan Arkin whose most famous musical effort was the song “Blackand White” which celebrated the 1954 Supreme Court Decision that put an end tothe legal prop for racially segregated schools passed away today.
1981(10th of Tishrei, 5742): Yom Kippur
1981(10th of Tishrei, 5742): Heinz Kohutan Austrian-born American psychoanalyst best known for his development of Selfpsychology, an influential school of thought withinpsychodynamic/psychoanalytic theory which helped transform the modern practiceof analytic and dynamic treatment approaches passed away.
1981 ABC broadcast the first episode ofTaxi’s Fourth Season directed by James Burrows.
1983: “MyFavorite Year,” a comedy directed by Richard Benjamin, produced by MichaelGruskoff and featuring Bill Macy, Lainie Kazan, Selma Diamond, Adolph Green andLou Jacobi was released in the United States today.
1984: “TheBurning Bed,” a made for television of the novel of the same name directed byRobert Greenwald and produced by Jon Avnet and Steve Tisch was released todayby NBC.
1985(23rdof Tishrei, 5746): Simchat Torah
1985: Today, onthe island of Djerba, a Tunisian police officer who had” allegedly “lost abrother” in the attack on the PLO headquarters at Hammam Chott, Tunisia, “firedinto a synagogue during Simchat Torah services, killing three people
1985: “AnEnglish-language production of LesMisérables” which was a product of a collaboration of Alain Boublil andClaude-Michel Schönberg premiered in London at The Royal Shakespeare Company’sBarbican Theatre.
1985: The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrenderedafter the ship arrived in Port Said, Egypt. Before surrendering, the hijackersthrew Leon Klinghoffer, a wheel-chairbound passenger, over the side of the boat.
1986: TheProvidence Journal "Navy Rabbi To Join Iceland Team: Russian immigrant'sgrandson picked to lead staff services,” a story about the role of Rabbi ArnoldE. Resnicoff, the U.S. Navy Chaplain sent to Iceland to lead services duringthe meetings laying the groundwork for the Reagan-Gorbachev Summit.
1987(15thof Tishrei, 5748): Sukkoth
1988: “JamieSue Gangel, a network television correspondent for NBC News, and Daniel Silva,a writer and producer for CNN, both in Washington, were married today at theMayflower Hotel.”
1988: NBCbroadcast the first episode of season four of Golden Girls, a sitcom starringBeatrice Arthur and Estelle Getty with theme music by Andrew Gold.
1988: NBCbroadcast the first episode of the sitcom created by “Empty Nest” created by Susan Harris (née Spivak).
1989(9th of Tishrei, 5750):Kol Nidre
1990: Israelipolice kill 17 Palestinian rioters. The riots occurred at the Temple Mount andwere part of the orchestrated violence against Israelis now known as the FirstIntifada. For those of you who likesymmetry or have a sense of irony, the Second version of this organized terrorwould begin in the same place at the same time of the year when Arafat rejectedBarak’s peace offer.
1991: Birthdate ofsinger and actor Kobi Marimi, the Mizrachi native of Ramat Gan who “studied inthe Nissan Nativ Acting Studio” after serving in the IDF.
1992: In Palm Springs,CA, Dr. Joseph Hurwitz is scheduled to officiate at the funeral of Eighty-seven-year-oldHarold Oscar Pressman, the New York born son of Peter and Rose SchlessPressman, a former deputy district attorney in Los Angles and the husband offormer model Helen Woodhouse Pressman whom he married in 1939, passed away inPalm Springs, CA after which he will be buried at the Beth Ola Cemetery inHollywood, CA.
1992: Willy Brandt, former Chancellor of Germany,passed away. The winner of the NobelPeace Prize had opposed the Nazis when he was a youth living in Germany. In 1970, Brandt made a highly emotional visitto Warsaw where he fell to his knees in front of the Memorial to the WarsawGhetto Uprising. This silent act of contrition spoke volumes to the world aboutthe new Germany and the willingness take responsibility for its past. Inwriting about the trip Brandt said, “An unusual burden accompanied me on my wayto Warsaw. Nowhere else had a people suffered as in Poland. The machine-like annihilation of Polish Jewryrepresented a heightening of bloodthirstiness that no one had held possible. On my way to Warsaw [I carried with me] thememory of the fight to the death of the Warsaw ghetto.” As moving as these words were then, they areeven more so now as another generation of leaders has risen filled withinclination to minimize their personal pasts and the Jewish element that madethe Holocaust unique.
1993: Edward Rothsteingives a less than an enthusiastic review of Ezra Laderman’s “Marilyn” which was“a City Opera commission” that “opened a world-premiere festival in honor ofthe company’s 50th anniversary.”
1993: Seventy-five-year-oldRobert Constant Moses, a native of Phillip, SD, a graduate of Beloit HighSchool who was a WW II veteran, a draftsman at Barber Coleman and the father ofNancy Margulis, who became a pillar of the Cedar Rapids Jewish community, waslaid to rest today at the Mt. Tabor Cemetery.
1993: “Mr. Jones,” aromantic drama written by Eric Roth was released in the United States today byTriStar Pictures.
1993: “Gettysburg” amassive Civil War epic co-produced by Robert Katz, featuring John Rothman andwith a memorable score by Randy Edelman was released today in the UnitedStates.
1994: In a letterwritten today to Sir Martin Gilbert, fourteen and half year-old Hirsch Dorbianwrote that he had been “among the thousands of prisoners liberated by theBritish in the camp at Neustadt earlier that month and that on VE Day, May 8,1945, “was spent by him in a clean and white bed for the first time threeyears.
1997(7th of Tishrei, 5758): American architect Bertrand Goldberg best known for theMarina City complex in Chicago, Illinois, the tallest residential concretebuildings in the world at the time of completion passed away.
1998(17th ofTishrei, 5759): Fourth of Sukkot
1998(17th ofTishrei, 5759): Eighty-five-year-old German born rabbi Curtis E. Cassel (bornKurth Kassell) who was rabbi at the synagogue in Frankfurt an der Oder insuccession to Ignaz Maybaum and, after coming to Britain and serving in theRoyal Pioneer Corps, became minister at Glasgow Reform Synagogue from 1944 to1948[1] and second minister at West London Synagogue from 1948 to 1957 and from1957 to 1977 was rabbi of theProgressive Jewish Congregation in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) passedtoday after which he was buried at Golders Green Jewish Cemetery.
1999: “The Last Day” anOscar winning documentary that ‘tell the story of five Hungarian Jews duringthe Holocaust” was released today in the United Kingdom.
2000(9th ofTishrei, 5671): Erev Yom Kippur
2000: The Sunday New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authorsand/or on topics related to Judaism including Quarrel & Quandry: Essaysby Cynthia Ozick, Einstein InLove: A Scientific Romance by Dennis Overbye, Dream Catcher: A Memoir by Margaret A. Salinger and The Second Coming of Steve Jobsby Alan Deutschman
2000: In an articleentitled “Flash Point: Temple Mount is Holy Ground; Muslims Must RecognizeShrine’s Importance to Judaism” Aron U Raskas of the Baltimore Sun wrote“Ten days ago, former defense minister had the good fortune to be able to dothat which Jews dispersed for centuries in the diaspora could only hope, dreamand pray for: On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year - the liturgy ofwhich is replete with recollections of [Abraham]'s selfless act on the TempleMount and with prayers for a restoration of the divine presence to this site -Sharon dared to peacefully tread upon this hallowed Jewish ground. The secondlesson is that, even after seven years of delusional thinking by PollyannaishIsraelis, the Palestinian people and their leaders are completely unwilling torecognize the Jewish legacy of the Temple Mount, the historic connection ofJews to that place and their inalienable right to worship on that holy ground.”
2001: Forbes publishedan article entitled “Riklis Driving” that described how Meshulam Riklis drainedassets from Dylex Limited, one of Canada’s largest retailers and funneled theminto other companies he controlled.
2001(21st ofTishrei, 5762): Hoshana Rabah
2001(21st ofTishrei, 5762): Isidore A. Becker, the husband of Adele Becker, who was anactive member of the UJA Federation of New York and the Fifth Avenue Synagogue,passed away today.
2002: “Fighting betweenthe Palestinian Authority and Hamas increased fears of a civil war” between theArab factions.
2003: “Faced withdozens of warnings of possible new Palestinian attacks, Israel orderedadditional troops to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip today and maintainedtough restrictions on Palestinian movements in those areas.:
2004(23rd of Tishrei,5765): Simchat Torah
2004: Haaretz reported that at least thirty-fivepeople were killed and over 100 injured in three separate attacks on holidayresorts in the Sinai Desert that were packed with Israelis celebrating theholiday of Sukkoth.
2004: Fiamma Nirensteinwas an official speaker at the Boston Conference of on 'Anti-Semitism, thePress and Europe'.
2004: “Friday NightLights” the movie version of FridayNight Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H. G. Bissinger, ,directed byPeter Berg who wrote the screenplay along with David Aaron Cohen and producedby Brian Grazer was released in the United States today.
2005(5th of Tishrei,5766): Shabbat Shauvah is observed by Jews all over the world.
2005: Award winningsinger-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist Leonard Cohen sued KelleyLynch, alleging that she had misappropriated over US $5 million from Cohen'sretirement fund leaving only $150,000.”
2005: Hundreds of Jewslit candles and prayed near the Babi Yar ravine, where the Nazis killed tens ofthousands of Ukrainian Jews during World War II, as Jewish leaders expressedconcern over recent anti-Semitic acts in the former Soviet republic.
2005: Jonathan Mandellof Chicago took a photograph of a Hebrew inscription in the Cathedral ofMonreale which is a testimony to the 1400 years of Jewish settlements inSicily.
http://dieli.net/SicilyPage/JewishSicily/JewishTraces.html#inscription
2005: Thanks to Katrina, Rita, OPEC, etal, Americans are confronted with paying record high prices of gasoline andnatural gas. Now, American Jews face anadditional financial threat. Accordingto The Jerusalem Post, people will bepaying record high prices for their lulavs this year. Following Egyptian movesto limit the export of Lulavs, one Israeli importer has “cornered the market”by surreptitiously importing 250,000 Lulavs.Because of his almost complete control of the limited supply, Avi Belaliis charging wholesalers five dollars for an item that usually costs onedollar.
2006(16th of Tishrei, 5767):Second Day of Sukkoth
2006: TheWashington Post featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including Primo Levi’s Auschwitz Reportand Daniel Mendelsohn’s The Lost: ASearch for Six of Six Million and an essay written by Elie Wiesel under thetitle “Why Memory?”
2006: The Sunday New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics related toJudaism including The ShakespeareWars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups by Ron Rosenbaum and Five Germanys I Have Known by Fritz Stern.
2006: TheIsraeli Interior Ministry ruled that Valery Dubinin, who had made Aliyah fromthe Ukraine seven and half years ago, is not a Jew. This case is newsworthy because the InteriorMinistry was overruling the Petah Tikva Rabbinical Court which had provideddocuments attesting to his Jewishness.
2006(16th ofTishrei, 5767): Second Day Sukkoth; since the first of Sukkoth fell on Shabbatthis is the first time, blessings are recited over the Lulav and Etrog.
2006: Serviceswill be held today at the Society for the Advancement of Judaism to honor thememory of Selma Judith Levy Toback.
2007: Shelley Cohn, the formerExecutive Director of the Arizona Commission on the Arts, is the recipient ofthe Actor Equity Association's 2007Arizona Theatre Service Award. The award was presented to Ms. Cohn at the Union'smembership meeting at the Phoenix Theatre
2007: TimeMagazine features an article about Jerry Seinfeld entitled “Jerry SeinfeldGoes Back to Work” and reviews of The Coldest Winter by David Halberstamand Exit Ghosts by Phillip Roth.
2008(9th ofTishrei, 5769: Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre is chanted.
2008: A riot in Acre shattered the Yom Kippur calm on Wednesday night ashundreds of the city's Arab residents vandalized Jewish-owned property.
2009: In New Haven, Yale University presents adouble-header with an address by Tzipi Livni, former Foreign Minister, Member of Knesset and head of theKadima party, will speak as a Chubb Fellow and a talk by Brandon Friedman,Research Fellow at the Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University,entitled "Iran: Ideology and Foreign Policy"
2009: In New Britain, CT, Ethan Bronner, the New York Times' Israel Bureau Chief delivers a talk entitled "Israel &Palestine: What Happens in 2009?" at Central Connecticut State University,during which he examines what has happened, and what to expect.
2009: As tensions flare once again over a Jerusalem holy site claimed byIsrael and Palestinians as their own, one of the most influential leaders ofIsrael's religious community told the president today that Jews should not makepilgrimages to the Temple Mount so as not to evoke global outrage."According to halacha (Jewish religious law), it is forbidden to ascend toTemple Mount," Rabbi Yosef Sholom Elyashiv is quoted by Israel Radio astelling President Shimon Peres
2009: Romania unveiled a monument in memory of 300,000 Jews and Gypsieskilled during the Holocaust in the country, which at times in the past haddenied that the extermination even occurred..
2009: In San Francisco, “Torah scribe Julie Seltzerbegan work on a Sefer Torah.”
http://jwa.org/thisweek/oct/08/2009/julie-seltzer
2010(30th of Tishrei, 5771): RoshChodesh Cheshvan
2010(30th of Tishrei, 5771): Eighty-twoChicago born, Yale educated James Emanuel “Jim” Fuchs the winner of bronzemedals in shot put at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics passed away today inNew York.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/sports/18fuchs.html
2010: The 92Y Resource Center for Jewish Diversity and the Ethiopian Jewishcommunity in New York are scheduled to co-host a festive and authenticEthiopian Shabbat dinner.
2010: The Telegraph (UK) reported that ProfessorMary Beard of Cambridge University has condemned the appointment of historianand presenter Simon Schama as the Coalition Government's new history tsar.
2011(10th of Tishrei, 5772): Yom Kippur
2011(10th of Tishrei): In a tribute todiversity and inclusion, congregants at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids will beable to attend either a Reform or Traditional Yom Kippur Service. The Traditional Service is rooted in Beth Jacob- a synagogue founded 105 years ago.Temple Judah is preparing to celebrate its 90th anniversary.When one considers the fate of Jewry in many of America’s small cities andtowns, this is quite an accomplishment.
2011: Kenny G. (Kenneth Bruce Gorelick) appearedtonight on “Saturday Night Live with his soprano sax.”
2011(10th of Tishrei, 5772): Eighty-two-year-oldAllen “Al” Davis who played a major role in re-shaping the National FootballLeague as the owner and general manager of the Oakland Raiders and as thecommissioner of the AFL passed away today.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-al-davis-20111009-story.html
2011: Hours after far-right-wing graffiti was reported to police in Muslimand Christian cemeteries in Jaffa, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a synagoguein the area today.
2012(22nd of Tishrei, 5753): SheminiAtzeret
2012(22nd of Tishrei, 5763): One hundred-year-oldEda Mirsky Mann, the mother of Erica Jong passed away today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/erica-jongs-mother-eda-mirsky-mann-dead-at-100/
2012: In the United States, observance of ColumbusDay which means, for once, the Jewish and Gentile worlds will be celebratingholidays on the same day, even though they are of a completely differentnature.
2012: The Alexandria Kletztet is scheduled to playat the Simchat Torah service for Congregation Etz Hayim in Arlington, VA.
2012: Palestinianterrorists in the Gaza Strip fired more than 30 rockets and mortars — with someIsraeli media outlets reporting over 50 rockets — into southern Israel earlythis morning, causing damage to a residential building
2013: The Charles E. Smith Life Communities whichseeks “to fulfill Jewish values by providing a continuum of quality servicesfor elders and their families” is scheduled to sponsor “An Evening with TonyKornheiser” at Woodmont Country Club.
2013: Under the leadership of Ed Miliband, Labor MPLuciana Berger began serving as “Shadow Minister for Public Health” today.
2013: The Consulate General of Israel in New Yorkco-hosts this evening’s scheduled screening of “Blues by the beach.”
http://bluesbythebeachfilm.com/
2013: A staged reading of the new play “StealingHome: The Mystery of Moe Berg” is scheduled to be performed today by member ofthe Actors Studio in New York.
2013: Howard Epstein completed his service as amember of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly “representing the provincial ridingof Halifax Chedbucto.”
2013: In Washington, DC, Mark Cohen, author ofOverweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allen Sherman is scheduled tospeak at The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival
2013: Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts andSciences “announced the full list of nations that had submitted a movie forconsideration for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film including“Yuval Adler’s “Bethlehem,” which explores a difficult relationship between aShin Bet agent and a Palestinian teenager and “Transit,” a Philippine filmabout foreign workers in Israel. (As reported by Debra Kamin)
2013: Eighty-year-old Holocaust survivor FrançoisEnglert, a Sackler Professor by Special Appointment in the School of Physicsand Astronomy at Tel Aviv University won the 2013 Nobel Prize
2014(14th of Tishrei, 5775): Erev Sukkoth
2014: The Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary JewishLife at the University of Connecticut is scheduled to sponsor a noontime“Yiddish Tish”.
2014: Friends and family celebrate the birthday of authorNoam Friedlander the daughter of Evelyn Friedlander and Rabbi AlbertFriedlander
2014: SukkahPDX, an annualjuried outdoor design competition held in Portland, OR, at the Oregon JewishMuseum and Center for Holocaust Education in partnership with Mittleman JewishCommunity Center is scheduled to begin today.
2014: The Lunar Eclipse featuring a Blood Moon will bevisible throughout much of the United States today. (As reported by Edmond J.Rodman)
2014: “Argentiniananti-terror police today arrested a man suspected of planning to attack aJewish community center in Buenos Aires.”
2015:The Jewish Museum of London is scheduled to host “Books at Lunchtime” where aWaterstones Camden bookseller “will share what's new, what's hot, and readextracts from recommended books and bestsellers.
2015:The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host “Fresh Jews and FreshJuice.”
2015:JCC Manhattan is scheduled to host an evening with “Vertigo, Israel’s top dancecompany” where “choreographer Noa Wertheim will talk about her artisticprocess, including the creation of the group's eco art village outside ofJerusalem.”
2015: Eva Moskowitz will not be running for Mayorof New York saying today “that she wanted to redouble her focus on her charterschool network…and the task of creating ‘transformation change’ in education.”
2015:During an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN, “Republican presidential hopefulBen Carson…said fewer people would have been killed by the Nazis had beenarmed” in an apparent attempt to blame “gun control for the extent of theHolocaust.”
2015:“Junun” a film that “dcouments the making of the album of the same name by theIsraeli composer Shye Ben” was released today at the New York Film Festival
2015:The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “A Special EveningCommemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Murder of Leon Klinghoffer Aboard theAchille Lauro.”
2015(25thof Tishrei, 5776): Ninety-year-old Henry Krystal who survived the Holocaust tobecome a Professor of Psychiatry at Michigan State University passed awaytoday.
2016(6thof Tishrei, 5777): Shabbat Shuva
2016(6thof Tishrei, 5777): Eighty-six-year-old “Emmy Award-winning documentarian”Morton Silverstein passed away today.
2016(6thof Tishrei, 5777): Ninety-six-year-old Peter Allen, who introduced the Saturdayafternoon broadcasts from the Met passed away today.
2016(6thof Tishrei, 5777): Eight-four-year-old Professor Jacob Neusner, the prolificand ground-breaking Biblical scholar passed away today in Rhinebeck, NY.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jacob-neusner-renowned-jewish-scholar-dies-at-84/
2016: SERET DC. “a celebration of contemporaryIsraeli cinema is scheduled to host a screening of
“Abulele.”
2016:Today’s session of “German Iowa and the Global Midwest” is scheduled topresent: Tobias Brinkmann speaking on "Small Town Stopover: JewishImmigrants from Central Europe in the Rural Midwest 1850-80"; Kit Belgum:speaking on “German and Jewish: Civic Connections in Nineteenth-CenturyIowa" and Jeannette Gabriel speaking on "We Were German Too: FindingJewish Women's Voices in Iowa's German Past"
2016:“Exposed” a “six-week contemporary dance and physical theatre featuring Israeliand local artists” is scheduled to open in the Metro Atlanta, GA Area today.
2016:“Keeping Up with the Jones,” a spy-spoof featuring Gal Gadot premiered in LosAngeles today.
2016:The 15th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, named in honor ofLublin born violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski is scheduled to begintoday.
2016:As those living on the southeast coast of the United States deal with HurricaneMathew “many synagogues are shuttering for Shabbat” including “Temple Emanuellocated on the barrier islands of Palm Beach which has cancelled Shabbatmorning services.”
2017:The New York Times features reviewsof books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt andthe recently published paperback edition of The Gustav Sonata by RoseTremain.
2017(18th of Tishrei, 5778): Sukkoth Chol Ha’moed
2017:Edith Schumer, a native of Stockstadt, Germany, who “was one of the “1,000children,” a group of approximately 1,400 German Jewish children who wereallowed to come unaccompanied to the United States via an organized rescueeffort that occurred nine months prior to the start of World War II” isscheduled to speak at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
2017:Author and architectural historian Clare Lise Kelly is scheduled conduct a tourthat will explore the Montgomery County work of Cohen, Haft & Associates, aleading modernist architecture firm in the D.C. area whose projects haveincluded several Jewish-owned buildings, such as B'nai Israel Congregation andthe Charles E. Smith Life Communities campus
2018:Yemen Blues and Lara Bello are scheduled to perform this evening at theAmerican Sephardi Music Festival at the Center for Jewish History.
2018:In Jerusalem, Mercaz Hatarbuyot is scheduled to host an evening Klezmer, Jazzand Classical Music featuring “virtuoso clarinetist Ira Goyfeld” and “concertpianist Eliah Zabaly,” the winner of the “1st Prize of the ParisNational Conservatory of Music.”
2018:Today is the deadline for submitting applications for a fellowship “at theFrankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.”
2019(9th of Tishrei, 5780): Erev Yom Kippur;
2019:“According to the regulations in force among Orthodox Jews, marriages may notbe solemnized today because it is “the day preceding the Fast of Atonement.”
2019:The Wilderness Torah is scheduled to host the first of a “Two-day Yom KippurRetreat” beginning with a trip to the mikveh and a pre-fast meal.
2020:The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host “Against All Odds’: ArmedResistance in Auschwitz”
2020(20thof Tishrei, 5781): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
2020:Professor Marc Dollinger, Assistant Professor Gabriel Winant and activistCarlyn Cowen are scheduled to discuss “1960s: Leftist Professionals” as part ofthe Webinar Series: Jews, Class and History.
2020:The Israeli Film Festival is scheduled to host a virtual screening of“Ma’abarot,” that presents “a stark and direct examination of the transit campsthat were used to handle the surge of immigrants in post-World War II Israel.”
2020:Temple Judea in Palms Beach Gardens, FL is scheduled to host a livestreammorning minyan with Cantorial Soloist Abbie Strauss.
2020:The Peninsula JCC is scheduled to present Political scientist StevenWindmueller giving “a nonpartisan analysis of the role Jews play and continueto play in U.S. politics.”
2020”The National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to host “CriticalConversation Starters: Charlottesville and the Case Against White Supremacy.”
2020:The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “The Spells She Casts – AliceHoffman.”
2020:Israelis and Jews around the world are among those mourning the death EitanHaber who passed away yesterday.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/Syu9TvsIw
2021:Kan Kol Hamuiska is scheduled to broads “Early Music from Ein Kerem” featuringan ensemble that includes Noam Schuss, Tali Goldberg, baroque violins; AmosBoasson, baroque viola; Marina Minkin, harpsichord and Myrna Herzog, viola dagamba.
2021:In Columbus, OH, at Tifereth Israel, Rabbi Hillel Skolnik is scheduled to leada special “Blessing of the Pets” in the congregations parking lot.
2021:The Jewish Film Festival at the Jacob Burns Film Center is scheduled to hostthe final screening of “The Auschwitz Report” and “The Starry Sky Above theRoman Ghetto.”
2022:New York’s IFC Center is scheduled to host a screening of “Last Flight Home”which premiered yesterday and is a documentary that chronicles the final weeksof Eli Timoner the “former airline executive and public fundraiser for Miami’sJewish Federation” and stroke victim whose rabbi is his daughter Rachel andwhose chronicler is her sister, director Ondi Timoner.
2022:The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to open its 54th concertseason with “A Celebration of Strings.”
2022(13thof Tishrei,5783): Ha’azinu (Give Ear)
2023:The Museum of the Jewish People and IGRA are scheduled host “the Israelipremier of the new film Fioretta.”
2023:In Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah is scheduled to resume Religious School today.
2023:The Museum at Eldridge Street is schooled to host the first session of“Eldridge Arts and Learning: Stain Glass.”
2023:The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host an on-site performance of “ARecovered Voice – The Clarinet Music of Hans Gal.
2023:Agnon House is scheduled to host the first of four online lectures by ProfessorAdamiel Kosman on “Human Encounters: Stories about the ‘Other’ and the‘Stranger.’”
2023:Israel remains in a state of lockdown following yesterday’s murderous attack byPalestinian terrorists who have massacred hundreds of civilians while woundingthousands more.
2023(23rd Tishrei, 5754): Simchat Torah
2024:JDC is scheduled to host “Israel at War: One Year Later.”
2024:Curator Ilana Burstein Benson is scheduled to host a guided tour of “Tapestriesby Shoshana Comet: From Survival to Strength.”
2024;The Plaza Jewish Community Chapel and the Museum at Eldridge Street arescheduled to host “a virtual discussion with Executive Vice President of PlazaJewish Community Chapel, Stephanie Garry, bereavement counselor, end-of-lifedoula, and hospice social worker, Amber Keinan, and Senior Rabbi of TempleShaaray Tefila, Rabbi Joel Mosbacher about the emotional and spiritualresponsibility of saying Yizkor, the Memorial Prayer, for loved ones.”
2024:Lockdown University is scheduled to host “Ollie Anisfeld in Conversation withLee Yaron Author of "10/7: 100 Human Stories".
2024:JNOLA is scheduled to host its Rosh Hashana Toast at the Wrong Iron on historicToulouse Street
2024:As October 8th begins in the Middle East, Israel is confronted with fighting afour-front-war following the attacks from Iran. (Editor’s note: this situationis too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as ofthe posting at midnight Israeli time)
2024:As October 8th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism thathas included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New Yorksubway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas heldhostages begin day 367 in captivity while Jerusalem braces for more rocketattacks by Hezbollah (Editor’s note:this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing asnapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
